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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
A77870	A vindication of the ministers of the Gospel in, and about London, from the unjust aspersions cast upon their former actings for the Parliament, as if they had promoted the bringing of the King to capitall punishment With a short exhortation to their people to keep close to their covenant-ingagement.	Burges, Cornelius, 1589?-1665.	1649 (1649)	Wing B5690A; Thomason E540_11; ESTC R205758	4,953	14

A VINDICATION OF THE Ministers of the Gospel in and about London from the unjust Aspersions cast upon their former Actings for the Parliament as if they had promoted the bringing of the KING to Capitall punishment WITH A short Exhortation to their People to keep close to their Covenant-Ingagement Isaiah 62.1 For Zions sake I will not hold my peace and for Ierusalems sake I will not rest untill the righteousnesse thereof go forth as brightnesse and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth Prov. 24. 21 22. My son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change For their calamity shall rise suddenly and who knoweth the ruine of them both LONDON Printed by A. M. for Th. Vnderhill at the Bible in Woodstreet 1648. A VINDICATION OF THE MINISTERS OF THE GOSPEL in and about London from the unjust Aspersions cast upon their former Actings for the Parliament as if they had promoted the bringing of the KING to Capitall punishment IT cannot be unknown how much we and other Ministers of this City and Kingdom that faithfully adhered to the Parliament have injuriously smarted under the scourge of evil tongues and pens ever since the first eruption of the unhappy differences and unnaturall warre between the King and Parliament for our obedience to the Commands and Orders of the Honourable Houses in their contests with his Majesty and conflicts with his Armies We are not ignorant of the over-busie entermedlings of Prelates and their party heretofore in over-ruling civil affairs to the great endangering of Kingdoms and of this in particular when private interests ambitious designes revenge or other sinister ends engaged them beyond their sphere Howbeit it cannot reasonably as we conceive be denied that Ministers as subjects being bound to obey the Laws and to preserve the Liberties of the Kingdom and having an interest in them and the happinesse of them as well as others may and ought without incurring the just censure due to busie-bodies and incendiaries to appear for preserving the Laws and Liberties of that Common-wealth whereof they are members especially in our case when it was declared by the Parliament that all was at stake and in danger to be lost No nor as Ministers ought they to hold their peace in a time wherein the sins of Rulers and Magistrates as well as others have so far provoked God as to kindle the fire of his wrath against his people And yet for this alone the faithfull servants of God have in all ages through the malice of Satan and his instruments been traduced as Arch-incendiaries when only their accusers are indeed guilty of both laying the train and of putting fire to it to blow up a Kingdom An Ahab and his sycophants think none so fit to bear the odium of being the grand Troubler of Israel as Elijah Thus the popish device was to charge the Gun-powder Treason had it taken effect upon the Puritans And if you beleeve Tertullus even a Paul is a pestilent fellow a mover of sedition throughout the world a ringleader of a sect and what not but what he is Yea Christ himself though a friend to Monarchy even of heathenish Rome is proclaimed an enemy to Caesar to open a way to his destruction by their malice who never cared for the interest of Caesar Wherefore although with us who have had experience of like usage it be a small thing to be thus judged of men when we regard only our own particular persons For if they call the master of the house Beel-zebub how much more those of his houshold yet when we consider how much it concerns the honour of our Master and the good of all to preserve our ministeriall function immaculate our good names being in that relation as needfull to others as a good conscience to our selves we dare not but stand by and assert the integrity of our hearts and the innocency of all our actings in reference to the King and Kingdome for which we are so much calumniated and traduced This we are compelled to at this time because there are many who very confidently yet most unjustly charge us to have been formerly instrumentall toward the taking away the life of the King And because also there are others who in their scurrilous Pasquils and Libels as well as with their virulent tongues present us to the world as a bloudy seditious sect and traiterous obstructors of what all the godly people of the Kingdome doe earnestly desire for establishing of Religion and Peace in that we stick at the Execution of the King while yet we are as they falsly affirm content to have him convicted and condemned all which we must and do from our hearts disclaim before the whole world For when we did first engage with the Parliament which we did not till called thereunto we did it with loyall hearts and affection towards the King and his posterity Not intending the least hurt to his Person but to stop his party from doing further hurt to the Kingdome not to bring his Majesty to justice as some now speak but to put him into a better capacity to doe justice To remove the wicked from before him that his throne might be established in righteousnesse not to dethrone and destroy him which we much fear is the ready way to the destruction of all his Kingdomes That which put on any of us at first to appear for the Parliament was The Propositions and Orders of the Lords and Commons in Parliament Jun. 10. 1642. for bringing in of money and plate c. wherein they assured us that whatsoever should be brought in thereupon should not be at all employed upon any other occasion then to maintain The Protestant Religion The Kings Authority his Person in his royall dignity the free course of justice the Laws of the Land the Peace of the Kingdome and the Priviledges of Parliament against any force which shall oppose them And in this we were daily confirmed and encouraged more and more by their many subsequent declarations and protestations which we held our selves bound to beleeve knowing many of them to be godly and conscientious men of Publike spirits zealously promoting the common good and labouring to free this Kingdome from tyranny and slavery which some evill instruments about the King endeavoured to bring upon the Nation As for the present actings at Westminster since the time that so many of the Members were by force secluded divers imprisoned and others thereupon withdrew from the house of Commons and there not being that conjunction of the two Houses as heretofore we are wholly unsatisfied therein because we conceive them to be so farre from being warranted by sufficient Authority as that in our apprehensions they tend to an actuall alteration if not subversion of that which the honourable House of Commons in their Declaration of April 17. 1646. have taught us to call the Fundamentall constitution and government of this Kingdome which they therein