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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	john_n	sin_n	transgression_n	6,343	5	10.8416	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67637	Suspiria Ecclesiae & reipublica Anglicanae The sighs of the Church and common-wealth of England, or, An exhortation to humiliation with a help thereunto, setting forth the great corruptions and mseries [sic] of this present church and state with the remedies that are to be applyed thereunto / by Thomas Warmstry.	Warmstry, Thomas, 1610-1665.	1648 (1648)	Wing W891; ESTC R27115	155,583	724

with the vertues and Clemency of his Person adorned the greatnesse and dignity of his office When the Throne and the Scepter of lawful and just power armed as it were with coelestiall lightning and strengthned with the sinew of the Divine authority from whence it was orderly derived and received as a Ray of that majesty and Authority which is in God himselfe summoning the Consciences of men unto obedience in the vertue and force of the divine Ordinance yeelded protection unto the lives and liberties of the People security unto Religion and divine worship solidity unto the Peace and Vnity of this Church and nation and was like a Cherubim and a flaming sword against the invasions of Violence Injustice and Oppression Iustice was dispensed in the right Channells being derived from the proper Fountaine the Lawes which are it were the life-bloud of a nation ranne freely without such obstructions they now meet with through all the veines and vessels of this lody and yeelded unto each Member its equall and just supply at least in so good a measure and manner as was sufficient to preserve the Body in good liking and prosperity and though the secret Briberies and partiabities of some inferiour instruments of Government caused some smaller distempers in this kinde yet they were such as might have had easie cures and did not at all destroy the constitution of the body Wee were governed by authenticall and certaine Rules and were not subject unto Mushrome Ordinances those abortive issues of the wombe of Sedition those unformed lumps and dead motions of a diseased and dropsie state begotten by no legitimate Father but by the Incubus of a rebellious people and Army There was then no professed and ordinary infliction of punishments without any offences going before them no offences then without their precedent Lawes to give the lye to the Blessed Apostles who tell us that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That sinne is the transgression of the Law 1 Iohn 3.4 And againe By the Law is the knowledge of sinne Rom. 3.20 And againe where no law is there is notransgression Rom. 4.15 Then Iustice was administred in the right method there went a faire hearing before cndemnation and the sentence of the law was the Vsher to Execution It was managed by the right and genuine instruments enabled by authentical Commissions from the supreame Magistrate the force and vertue whereof was like a lively sap dispensed from the Royall Root into those severall Branches of Government which made them beare the fruits of Peace and lustice and safety to the people The motion of Rule was like a naturall motion derived from the head unto the members by those legall Officers which were as the Nerves and Sinewes of this body propagated from thence into the severall Regions and parts thereof And the Scales and weights and the mensures of justice were the same unto all sorts without any open or professed inequality when the eyes of the Iudges were fixed not on the Persons but their Causes without such diversification of the sacred inviolable rules of right as now according to the severall inclinations of parties and interests There was not then as now one measure for a Cavalier to yeeld him nothing though his case bee never so cleare and just and another for a Parliamenteer to yeeld any thing he will stand for though his pretences and colours bee never so weake Men were not then wracked and goard between the two horns of that unreasonable Dilemma nor crushed to peeces in the presse of that Pharaohtick and unconscionable oppression under which the poore loyall party many of them suffer at this day and many more would suffer were it not for the mercy of some good men that they have to deale with and such whose hearts God hath made tender towards them in these hard times to bee laid open to have all their debts exacted with all severity by their Creditors and in the mean time to be utterly disabled for the recovery of their owne or the enjoyment of their estates Whereby they should be furnished to pay that which is required of them which is much worse than to require men to make Bricke without straw It was not so with us heretofore But now the Ornament and Defence of the Royall Crowne is cast downe and that gracious and pious Prince that adorned it is now sent away from the Throne of his Majesty to bee the ornament of a Iaile or Prison of whom wee may say more truely than he of Socrates Carolus carcerem intravit ignominiam loco detracturus King Charles by being so long a Prisoner hath taken away the ignorminy and reproach of imprisonment and I might perhaps be pardoned if I should say that it may be lookt upon hereafter rather as a reward than as a punishment and truly it may bee considered by those that are the Authors thereof that it is no good way of Reformation to bring the Prisons into too much credit unlesse they meane to set up their owne trade by it and to encourage men to rob and steale and to murder on purpose that they may have the reward of a Iayle or Prison But to goe on now in stead of a just and legall Authority that awfull Bond that layes hold upon the very soule an illegall and usurped power is set up which a rectified Conscience so farre disclaimes that it accounts it a sin to submit unto it and there is like to be little peace or setled order in that rule where obedience it selfe is a transgression Strength and outward force may prevaile for a while and make slaves mor than subjects of a people it may binde their carkasses but it is Authority that rules the heart and that is none where it is not just The great comfort and encouragement of every duty unto man is when it strikes through them unto God This is it that doth at once secure and sanctifie and sweeten our performances Where Intrusion and usurpation is there all these are wanting unto the soule What hope then is there that an usurped Dominion should either recover or maintaine a setled concord in this Nation where it is opposed by so many branches of just Interests against it and cannot in any likelihood be held up but by great oppressions of the people which must needs make the yoake thereof too irkesome to bee borne either with long Peace or Patience The Laws of the Kingdome are obstructed and intercepted those true conceptions are stifled and destroyed by the adulterate superfaetations of Ordinances The Great and once awfull and venerable Court of Parliament that was the wombe of our wholsome Laws is degenerated into Factions and become the Seminary of Sedition and instead of being the great Counsell of the King is become his enemy and whilst that which was ordained for the Physick of the Kingdome is enforced upon us for a perpetuall Diet as it usually falls out it is become mortall unto the body and in stead