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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	david_n	lord_n	saul_n	2,776	5	9.6848	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66771	The prisoners plea, humbly offered in a remonstrance with a petition annexed, to the commons of England in Parliament assembled / by George Wither ; falsely charged to have composed a lybel against the said commons, and therefore now prisoner in Nemgate ; it combineth also many interjections not to be defined, as	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1661 (1661)	Wing W3180; ESTC R12459	31,803	62

Pestilence and Famines both Spiritual and Temporal Let us take heed of it And since Bloodshed is the principal crime for which the Judgement already begun is feared will increase and for the expiation whereof some satisfaction must be made to witness the truth of our Repentance though it be not in our Power to make satisfaction for the least Transgression let us all be so cautious to search into the whole matter and to find out every Circumstance of our Duties that we add not Sin to Sin Blood to Blood and suppose we do well when we have done more wickedly by an hypocritical misapplication or an ignorant search Or least in place of true Christian Oblations we offer up the abominations of the Heathen who sacrificed the Innocent Children of their Enemies to appease the Ghosts of their slaughtered Princes or do like them who offered the Fruits of their Body to Molech for the sins of their Souls Or lest we think as many have done we do God or our Country good service when we have oppressed or slain or banished those who worship him not as we do even those for whose sakes we are hitherto preserved by him in whose sight the Blood of the meanest of his Saints is more precious then the Blood of the greatest King who hath not aswell a Saintship as Kingship For the Expiation therefore of our Blood-guiltiness so far forth as it will be requirable to testifie the sincerity of our Contrition and Repentance plenary satisfaction as I said before not being in our Power we must effectually and speedily prosecute the means which are but two in chief The one is the washing away of wilful Bloodshed with the blood of malicious Murtherers by Executing Justice The other is by Mercy in pardoning those who have shed Blood causually ignorautly and without any apparant malice And this Justice and Mercy must be dispensed without partiality rashness malice or by-respect to our selves or to any other That we be not deceived in the Persons who are to be the Objects of this Justice and Mercy we must be very wary least we incur the curse pronounced against them who Justifie the wicked and condemn the Innocent so in stead of being rendred acceptable become abominable unto the Lord For the World is so full of deceitful Juglings that she can make that which is Righteous and Holy appear to be unrighteous and prophane wrap up Suparlative Impietie in such a Mystery that it shall seem the Perfection of Holiness make Traytors and Murtherers appear to be Saints and Martyrs true Saints and Martyrs to be reputed Murtherers and Traytors and bring them to the greatest outward shame and suffering Therefore to prevent these Falacies we must by the example of David seek of God to be rightly informed not onely as touching the true Cause of the Plagues that are feared or lie upon us but also for the Principal Offenders for if we seek but to men to humane Lawes and reason and to what our own hearts will Dictate there is so much falsehood in all these being usually swayed by Self-Intrests that we may easily be deceived If inquiry had been made in Davids time touching the Famine afore mentioned of that part of the People then of Sauls Faction who were the Murtherers for whose Bloodshed that Plague was inflicted they probably would have answered that it was for the bloodiness of Davids house and of his confederates who had Trayterously disinherited the true apparent Heir of the Kingdom Anoynted and made King by Gods own appointment with consent of all the People and that his Blood-guiltiness was manifest by a long Rebellious warfare against the house of Saul his Lawful Soveraign If the same question should have been then asked of Davids Party it is likely they would have said that Saul and his partakers were the Murtherers by shedding blood in opposing him to whom God had translated the Kingdom from Saul for his disobedience and conferred it on David by the same Anointing by the same Prophet who inaugurated Saul and in regard the Kingdom was also confirmed upon David by consent of the same People If the Priests in these dayes had been consulted with all they perhaps would have thought and said that it had been for the Blood of those Priests of the Lord which were barbarously Butchered by Saul rather then for the blood of the Gibeonites and it may be they and many other who usually Judge according to common appearances would have thought that Famine had been inflicted for the blood of Abner Ishbosheth Amasa Ammon Uriah and many other as well as for the blood of the said Priests But the Judgement came not forth at that time for any of these It was not absolutely for shedding of meer Innocent blood nor for Blood Royal or esteemed Sacred no not for the blood of a King but for Blood shed by a King and for no such precious blood as the blood of Israelites or Friends or Free Subjects but for the Blood of slaves of whom little account was made and for breach of an Oath and a Covenant to and with despised Persons though contracted Illegally yea contrary to Gods expresse command with a People whom they were to have destroyed and though it had been fraudulently and surreptiously procured which Exemplary Judgement was executed and left upon record to make it known to all Nations and Generations how abominable it is to God when men violate the Lawes of Humane Society though out of a pretended Zeal to the welfare of his own People and that he will sooner dispence with an Oath and Covenant made ignorantly contrary to his own expresse command then with violation thereof in such a case when it is once made and that neither length of time or Pious or Politick pretences can incline him to leave it unpunished This hints unto us that which will be very considerable at this present by you and by all this Nation as touching that Bloodshed into which God is making inquisition concerning which we are to make inquity of God himself by the Urim and Thummim of his Word as also by impartially examining our own Consciences lest the false Witnesses which the World self intrest may suborn corrupt our Judgements For if we ask of our meer Courtiers or Fawning Parasites who think there is more Divinity in the blood of Kings then of other men whose Bloodshed is at this time punishable by Famine they as I conceive will tell us that it is onely for the Blood of the late King which I believe not though there lies a blood-guiltiness for that on very many If we ask of the Prelates they peradventure will add thereto the blood of the late Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and the violence done to their Hyerachie If we ask the rest of the Clergy they wil cast in the blood of those Ministers of the Gospel who have been slain by the Sword are destroyed by Oppression The Peers will say it is