Selected quad for the lemma: justice_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	king_n	law_n	parliament_n	8,718	5	6.8422	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76118	The sea-mans diall, or, The mariners card: directing unto the safe port of Christian obedience. And shewing the reasons which moved the authour, a sea commander, to returne unto his loyalty, and the service of the Soveraigne. As it was sent in a letter to a private friend, to be published from him unto the seamen; and is by this friend thus intituled: and dedicated unto the consideration, and commended unto the practise of all honest true hearted sea-men of England.	Batten, William, Sir, d. 1667.	1648 (1648)	Wing B1153; Thomason E459_14	4,990	8

THE SEA-MANS DIALL OR THE MARINERS CARD Directing unto the safe Port of CHRISTIAN OBEDIENCE And shewing the reasons which moved the Authour A Sea Commander to returne unto his Loyalty and the service of his Soveraigne As it was sent in a Letter to a private Friend to be published from him unto the Seamen and is by this Friend thus intituled And Dedicated unto the consideration and commended unto the practise of all honest true hearted Sea-men of England Printed in the Yeare 1648. The Seamans Diall c. Gentlemen and deare fellow Seamen I Would no wayes have you to wonder that notwithstanding the Oathes I have taken and the ingagements I have made together with my credit and the trust the Parliament put in me I should neverthelesse leave the Parliament and now betake my selfe unto the service of my Soveraigne gracious King Charles in which I am resolved to live and dye For my Oathes the Solemne League and Covenant binde us unto the preservation of Religion and Liberties and to maintaine and defend the Kings Person and Authority Concerning Religion since wee tooke the Covenant that is almost quite lost and that which ought to be but One is now increased into so many that the Religion of these times is like unto a Common-Queane that hath borne a Childe unto every Whoremaster in the Parish and hath as many names and sirnames for her Bastards as she hath had Fornicators for their Fathers and therefore is it that since wee left the old Protestant Religion of the Church of England which King Charles well maintained Anabaptists Brownists Famelists Erastians Quakers Shakers Independents and many more Sects which are unworthy the naming are so ripe amongst us because wee have left our first love and our first faith and are gone almost every one as the Scripture sayes a whoring after our owne inventions so that the truth and life of Religion is even quite lost in us and you know fellow seamen that there was never so much cunning and cozening and such deceipt in trade amongst us as since these holy professors began to increase Besides how for our wavering and ficklenesse in Religion are we marked and pointed at beyond the Seas And no marvell wee are become a scorne unto others if wee consider how much worse and more corrupt wee are growne in our manners for since this new preaching and praying came amongst us I see no amendment in our lives onely our professors can sinne with more secresie and cunning and doe allow that unto themselves under some name in Religion which they condemne in others whoring and cheating and lying and dissembling being no faults in these men when they will openly raile at the merriments or drunkenesse which I doe not excuse of other men as though Almighty God and they say so too would see no sinne in these Saints and you may observe this sort of men much more ambitious and coveteous then other men are You see that our old honest preaching which gave us instruction for our conversation towards God and man and to lead our lives in all honesty and godlinesse of living is turned into rayling against the King and the Bishops and the Cavaliers and our old government in Church and Common-wealth under which God did much more blesse us then now yea not onely the Ministers but every other man preaches amongst us and men that cannot well read will be expounding the Scriptures though St. Paul says there are many things in them hard to be understood And since the booke of Common-prayer which I have heard the Martyrs of the Protestant Religion gathered together was suppressed every man prayeth and prates as he pleaseth and men are become more confident and familiar with God and be much lesse humble then ever the Saints or Christ himselfe were in their prayers set downe unto us in the Scripture praying for nothing but what may please them or for a blessing upon the plots of the Parliament yet these who doe thus destroy Religion are wee see the men whom the Parliament principally encourage which sure cannot be thought the preservation of Religion according unto the Covenant For our liberties though I cannot I praise God much complaine my selfe yet I have heard ten times more stories of the oppression of the Subjects since the Parliament sate then in the whole Reigne of King James and King Charles yet wee know how many worthy Commanders and Seamen have been put out of their places and cast into prison as Stradling Kettleby Ashly and others unto the utter undoing of their wives and children without any examination or offence proved but meerely for suspition that they loved the King were plainely see there is no Law but the will of the Parliament and whereas before it was lawfull to sue the King himselfe in any of the Courts now a Parliament man must not be toucht And who can say that ever he could get any justice against a Parliament man by a Petition unto the Houses In the Covenant wee have sworne to defend the Kings Person and Authority yet wee know that he hath been long kept so straight a Prisoner that the meanest Subject would have thought himselfe very much wronged to have been kept so long in prison without a hearing for the Kings Authority the very name of that is scarce left us when it is become a great fault to pray for the King or to drinke unto his health although Gods word bids us pray for Kings 1 Tim. 2.2 And if the least signe of duty and well wishing unto him can be discovered it is proofe enough to put a man out of any place of profit or trust You see how wel the Parliament have maintained the Kings Authority when that they have voted that no further Addresses be made unto him and when the Army have in their Declaration told us That they are resolved to settle the government without a King and against him and against all that take part with him which is the same thing as to say That they will have no King at all to raigne over them There can be no man so silly sure as to thinke that the Parliament or Army ever thinke to have a King when they will not proceed against Rolph who hath three witnesses to prove against him a designe to take away the Kings life by the perswasion of the Army because no doubt many of both Houses had their hands with him in the plot For the Covenant though I could have been well contented that I had never taken it I believe I have kept it better in leaving the Parliament then I should have done by staying in their service for they have put downe both Religion and the King and broken the Covenant in every point but in pulling downe the Prelates and that it must be thought was to get the Bishops Lands for themselves for Popery wee see they passe not much of it The Covenant was for the preservation of Religion and liberties