Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	blood_n	lord_n	shed_v	1,770	5	9.8115	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94178	A loyall subjects beliefe, expressed in a letter to Master Stephen Marshall, Minister of Finchingfield in Essex, from Edward Symmons a neighbour minister, occasioned by a conference betwixt them. With the answer to his objections for resisting the Kings personall will by force of armes. And, the allegation of some reasons why the authors conscience cannot concurre in this way of resistance with some of his brethren.	Symmons, Edward.	1643 (1643)	Wing S6345; Thomason E103_6; ESTC R212787	94,533	112

almost as good be failing in all I must pray as they do either not mentioning the King at all or speake of him in a defameing way I must preach as they do and cry Cursed be the Parent that diswades his Child Cursed be the wife that withholds her Husband Cursed be the Master that hinders his servant from going to this warre to helpe the Lord against the mighty that is to say against the King for so I must interpret it yea I must turne my pulpit into mount Eball and curse with Bell Booke and Candle with the great curse and the little curse with Meroz Curse the most bitter Curse under the name of Malignants that is to say Devills and enemies to God and truth all persons of what ranke soever that have set their hands to the petition for peace I must argue that the King is not an absolute God therefore he is mortall and may be resisted He shall dy like a man and therefore we may fight against him though my conscience did never yet learne such Logick And then too in stead of Gods word I must tell some fearfull tales of the Cavaliers how bloudy they be in their actions and how blasphemous in their expressions to fright and imbitter the good womens spirits that so they may solicite their Husbands to be more liberall of their purses in maintaining the warre against them and then I must to comfort them again and further to incourage them relate some valiant exploits done by some of Gods poore ROUNDHEADS accordingly as they say they are scoffingly termed affirming all to be as true as God is in heaven thus must I beautify and adorne my sermons or else they will not be worth a rush nor shall I be free from being suspected But Sir nobis non licet esse tam disertis qui musas colimus sacratiores I dare not in that place relate any thing as matter of faith but what I know is in Gods word or grounded thereupon Nay and further yet I must not onely follow thus but also approve of what ever injury and wrong is done by others of that side to those whom my Conscience thinks to be Honest and Conscionable men I must allow of all rifling plundering robbing and stealing and commend the actors though never so vile in life and carriage as friends to the good cause I must delight to see reverend grave and aged Divines for preaching obedience haled from their Churches flockes and families to prisons and insulted over and shamefully abused by the basest men even as the Christians were by those bloudy wretches under the Heathen Emperours and as the Martyrs were in Queene Maries daies I must joy to beare that they are turned out of meanes and maintainance unheard and perhaps unseene only upon the bare information of some malicious and beastly drunkard whom the same Minister hath formerly indeavoured to reclaime from sinne and I must laugh when I heare they are hunted and pursued as the Indians were by the Spaniards Doggs in the fields and Highwaies by the ungodly Soldiers with swords and Polaxes unhorsed and forced to betake themselves to woods to hide themselves though I know them to be Godly learned holy and unblameable yet I must deny such my knowledge and conclude of them as some did of Christ that they are justly smitten of God even because they are not of our opinion and I must beleeve all the rude people that are imployed to do this mischeife and delight therein to be very zealous for God and worthy of thanks for their care of the cause And I must also rejoyce to see noble worshipfull and gallant Gentlemen that have borne the office of Magistracy with Honour many yeares who have spent themselves and their estates to do their Country service fetch'd from their houses by the rabble of men and haled to prison spoiled of their goods or forced to fly from place to place only for their Conscience sake because they beleeve that according to Gods Command they are bound to love and Honour their Soveraigne and not to joyne in a mortall resistance against him these things and many such like must I approve on which Sir I professe I cannot I dare not I had rather loose my life then my Conscience Nay Sir let mee adde one thing more if I should imitate my Brethren and humour the people in this their heady way I should but like the foole in the Gospell build upon a Sandy foundation for vulgus est mobile you know they that cry Kill the King today will upon better information cry hang up the Seditious Preachers to morrow when they come home lamed from the Battaile and frustrate of all their expectations or have well payed with their purses for their ungodly and inconsiderate undertakings who doe we thinke they will cry out upon but on those that provoked them to the businesse even the Ministers that promised Heaven and assurance of Victory and rich spoiles out of the estates of Delinquents whom shall the desolate widow curse that hath lost her husband in the Battaile or the fatherlesse childe that hath lost his parent or the childlesse old man that hath lost the staffe of his age in the Warre against his Soveraigne who hath preserved him and his hitherto in safety under the arme of his protection but onely the Ministers that scared them with the curses of God if they did not yeild them up to that service The Lord in mercy deliver me from the curse of the aged the fatherlesse and the widow Sir it hath beene observed of some that being maimed have with much difficulty returned from Edge-hill Battaile where if their Soveraignes fatherly bowels had not yearned with pitty towards them when they were taken in regard of their simplicity they had beene hanged according to their merits when they have come for reliefe to the rich of the Parish discovering their wounds they have beene sleighted with this Answer Who bad you goe Who bad you goe now whom shall these poore afflicted cry out upon but on the Preachers whose seducing tongues wrought most upon their ignorance and good meaning And alas should I be thus cruell to impoverish men to lame their bodies to defile their soules to undoe them every way the Lord keepe me from doing such a thing When Abigail disswaded David from slaughtering Nabal and his family she used this Argument Ne sit in singultum cordis Domini mei in posterum lest it be a corrosive to my Lords spirit afterward and I professe unto you I do beleeve that had I beene at Edge hill as some Ministers were against his Majestie all the bloud that was there shed would roare continually night and day in my conscience but the Lord I hope will ever preserve the soule of his poore Minister from the hearing of so hideous a cry Nay Sir may it not be imagined that all the bloud that hath beene shed throughout the Land in this unchristian and unnaturall Warre