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kingdom_n	king_n	lord_n	procure_v	2,852	5	9.9719	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88759	The free mans plea for freedom, against the arbitrarie unwarrantable actions and proceedings of the apostate associates, commonly called by others, Levellers. VVherein is briefly discovered how unsutable they walke to common right and freedom, being more arbitrarie and tyrannicall then any they oppose, wanting only a power to exercise their crueltie. / By R.L. a member of the army.	R. L.	1648 (1648)	Wing L54; Thomason E443_10; ESTC R204716	10,769	15

Courtisies from a man they will not hurt him but will admit of much familiaritie with him and I have some time heard that the favour of a Lyon may be won by courtesies By the way you may take notice of that common story of the traveller loosing his way in the wildernesse found a Lion who had caught a thorn in his foot which he pulled forth for which courtesie the cruell beast was so gratefull as to become his protectour till he brought him past all danger and how unworthily ungratefull many of you have been and still are to particular persons and whole societies of men who hath made your condition their own who hath and do still tender many of you as pieces of their own flesh whose hearts and affections desires your good as their own who would joyfully live or die in any righteous cause with you if y●● would prosecute it only in a righteous way and put more trust in God in the use of lawfull meanes and lesse in your own subt●●ty and craftinesse yet these are the men whom the sharpest of your arrowes are shot against whose blood you lie in waite for as a Lion doth for his prey it being your meat and drink to heare and devise falshoods against them to speak and print evill of them that they may justly take up that complaint against you which David used against some such ungratefull friends of his Psal 35.12 False witnesses did rise up they laid to my charge things that I knew not they have rewarded me evill for good so in Psal 109.4 For my love they are my adversaries and they have rewarded me evill for good and hatred for my good will and as you are naturally ungratefull so are you as eminently malicious and revengefull which is another principall branch of tyranny I never being able to finde the least inclination in many of you to put up or forgive the least personall wrong or injury but rather to rest unsatisfied as a bear robbed of her whelps to be revenged and have full reparations and as you are thus ungratefull malicious and revengefull so are you as ambitious proud and haughty esteeming highly of your selves in your own things he being a man not worth the calling a fellow-commoner that hath not exalted his arrogant resolute pride and haughtinesse above his sence reason and judgement that hath not resolved to maintaine any cause with resolution if he be once ingaged in it be it good or bad that is not able to speak great swelling words and look mighty big looks in the face of any Authority he comes before though for the most scandalous offence that can be committed and if these be your vertues the best part of you what kind of things are the worst can we expect from such a corrupt fountaine as this wholsome waters Doe men gather grapes of thornes and figs of thistles Matth. 7.16 Sirs be not deceived God will not be mocked For wherein thou judgest another thou condemnest thy selfe for thou that judgest doest the same things Rom. 2.1 Thou hypocrite first cast the beame out of thine owne eye and then shalt thou see clearely to cast out the mote out of thy brothers eye Matth. 7.5 A POSTSCRIPT To those private souldiers of the Armie which hath been deceived by these mens delusions FEllow Souldiers I having had the happinesse to be a spectator of those great things God hath done for you and by you I am invited by that affection and duty I owe and beare to you to represent these things to your consideration well knowing there is not only a spirit of zeale but of judgement in many of you able to discerne betwixt good and evill while you acted in the way of God to accomplish the worke of God God then dwelt among you his glory was upon you you were then a comfort to your friends and a terrour to your enemies but if you forsake his way he will owne you no longer in his worke Will you doe wickedly for God and talke deceitfully for him Job 13.7 Let not men which make lies their refuge falshood and deceit their strength be our leaders into evill wayes for when the blinde lead the blinde then both fall into the ditch and how wilfully blinde those men have been which hath endeavoured to lead you into irregular wayes to the great dishonour of that God who hath so much honoured you is visible What is become of the great designe your Officers had to advance the kings Interest and thereby procure their owne greatnesse Is Lord Generall Cromwell made Earle of Essex yet or Captaine Generall Ireton Field Marshall Generall of Ireland Is the King at White-Hall yet without giving satisfaction to the Kingdom is the Armie or any part of it disbanded without sufficient indemnitie present pay and security for Arreares Doe but review those delusive lying pamphlets intituled Putneys projects a Call to the Armie an Alarm to the Head-quarters the grand designe c. And take notice with what confidence and boldnesse they accused the Parliament and Armie in generall with many particular men who hath been eminently faithfull to the Kingdomes Interest of treachery and basenesse of spirit declining their principles c. and all grounded upon their under hand compliance with the King their carrying on His Designes by private conferences with Him c. All which suggestions doth plainly appeare to all that hath not willingly given up themselves to beleeve lies to be false and scandalous slanders yet these and such like are the only truths that pretended infallible spirit revealed to these men at the time of the Randezvouzing at Ware and did I not yet discover the same spirit raging in the same men with as much boldnesse and confidence as if they had never been the authour of all these lies I should have forborne any testimony against them and rather have judged what they then did might proceed from rashnesse or mistake and not done plotting or designingly but it hath since appeared the contrary they continuing to this very day by the same evill meanes to prosecute the same things which is to set you one against another and every man else against you all endeavouring to make you odious to the Kingdome and the Parliament and your Officers odious to you First they Print petitions in the name of the People and make you whom God hath used to be the instruments of their deliverance the cause of all their oppression and miseries c●●ing out of oppression violence taxes free-quarter c. all which they charge equally upon you as you are an Armie making the miscarriage of one man among a thousand to reflect upon all on purpose to render you odious making you the cause of the decay of trading and of that deareness and scarcity that is in the Kingdome as if they would have the Kingdome rise and cut your throats to save your victuals and make corne cheape and yet when the Parliament is using all possible meanes to pay you off and disband you and the Generall with your officers using the utmost of their interest to obtaine honourable and satisfactory conditions for you both Parliament and Generall indeavouring to their utmost to ease the Kingdome of their burdens and requite you for your faithfull services then are they of another minde then are they sending their Emissaries among you to stirre you up to disobedience telling of you you ought not to divide nor suffer your selves to be divided nor disbanded c. so what they would have you to doe is worth your enquiring after for they would not have the Countrey either pay you nor give you victuals neither would they have you to disband nor suffer your selves to be disbanded they have only left you these two things to chuse one either to continue in your warfare upon your own charges or else to live upon the spoile and ruine of the Kingdome the former I feare you cannot doe and the latter I am confident your soules abhorre to thinke therefore consider God hath placed you under men that have preferred your wel fare and safety above their owne they trampled upon great gifts and high places and were willing to stand with you nay to fall with you rather then to stand themselves and see you fall and therefore let it never be said that an Armie of men so principled so regulated whom God hath so honoured under the conduct of men so eminently faithfull honourable and successefull should be disobliged from their obedience by false and scandalous suggestions of men wh● make it their businesse to vent their rage and their passion against all that are not approvers of their disputable if not evil actions And since you have found the power and presence of God so visible among you while you every one acted in the same place God hath called you to in the worke he laid before you Waite upon God there still It was the counsell Moses gave the people in the greatest straight that ever they were in to stand still and see the salvation of the Lord and they did take his counsell and God did save them and by the same hand ruined their enemies And if you doe waite for the salvation of the Lord in the use of lawfull meanes he is able and faithfull to doe you good and to make the sea of all those dangers and difficulties that stand before you to become a wall on the right hand and on the left unto you and to make those things you most feare to be most subservient unto his end which is his glory and to your ends which I hope is the settlement of this poore distracted Kingdome in a safe and well-grounded Peace Which that you may be instrumentall in is the constant prayers and earnest desires of your faithfull servant R. L. FINIS