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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	adventure_v	city_n	great_a	32	3	2.1265	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40962	An expedient for the king, or, King Charls his peace-offering, sacrificed at the altar of peace, for a safe and well-grounded peace the welfare and happiness of all in generall, and every subject in particular, of his kingdom of England Behold! all ye that passe by, stand stil, and see the wonderful salvation of the Lord, which he hath wrought for the people of this kingdom, by his servant King Charls : Blessed are the peace-makers for they shall be called the children of God : Aske of the King, and he shal give you not stones, for bread, nor scorpions, for fish / studied and published for the honour of the King, and his posterity, and the universall happiness of the whole kingdom of England, by Richard Farrar, Esq.	Farrar, Richard, Esq.	1648 (1648)	Wing F520; ESTC R8687	30,129	43

blood of another by War Who is My Lord Your Excellencies most humble Servant Richard Farrar TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE Lord Major The Right Worshipfull the Aldermen the Worshipfull the Common Counsel and every Free-man of the Citie of LONDON THis great M●tropolis of yours lifts not up her head so high but that having so boldly adventured upon the Clemency of his Sacred Majestie the patience of the two Honorable houses of Parliament the Freedom of my speech to the Clergy the high priests Scribes and Pharisees of this Kingdom and the hazard of distasting the Army An Army and such an Army as hath made your proud walls shake at the very sight of it and for ought I know or you eith●r the earth-quake 〈◊〉 yet past I may presume to crie aloud in your gates and to proclaim in your streets that if any citie in the Christian world had need to be summoned to Self-Denyall It is this great citie whose Inhabitants were grown so proud with prosperity that they said in their hearts 〈◊〉 least and too much exprest it in their words and actions a Babylon did Revel. 18. 7. Shee said in her heart I sit a Queen I am no widow ●nd shall see no sorrow therefore shall her 〈…〉 c. And did not you eight or ten years since sit as a Queen in your bed of State and rest but lo Almighty God brought war into your gates and the sword into your Stately Palaces and your young men felt it you made but a sport of it at the first you courted the sons of Mars and you discovered all your wealth unto them as Hezekiah did to those that were sent from Babylon read the place the 20. Chapter of the second of Kings beginning at the 1● verse untill the 20. I pray God it have no allusion in time to your citie and now after seven years Apprenticeship are you not weary would you not be made free Remember those dayes of peace when every man did eat of his own vine and sate under his own fig-tree did you make good use of it no you grew wanton with ease and proud with folly and therefore God sent war amongst you your hearts were alwayes various from the wayes of God and therefore God suffered you to be diversly minded to make way for your destruction and now at last for your wickednesse hath suffered the spirit of giddinesse and divisions to be even in the midst of your citie yea in every corner of it and it is just with you for you were so far from Self-Denyall that you denyed your selves nothing you had a mind to I passe by the excesse of pride in apparell like Princes rather then Apprentises and for Gluttony and Luxury the world could not match you I say nothing of your Epicurisme every way with your neglect of the poor that dayly beg'd at your doors I speak not this to all I am confident God hath a Remnant in this Citie who serve him most faithfully and who are not onely free from those sins but dayly lament them in others who stand in the Gap and for whose sake this Citie hath stood so long and doth yet stand Great hath been your Diana of profit and you have sacrificed so long at her shryne out of hope or fear that if God open not your eyes and that you suddenly repent your destruction is at hand Go into Self-Denyall or you shall have no peace lay aside all private and self-interests that of the Publicke Faith disbursements for Ireland Bishops Lands Excise Custome house c. and repent nor upbraid your for wardnesse at the first to help on the work had it been holy and pious The end shews plain now and it did long since appear you did it for your own ends it was fear or hope of profit put you on not the Zeal of Gods Glory the Honor of the King or the good of the kingdom I speak not this to all but to the most and chiefly to those whose private interests engage them now so hotly in the progresse of a war that the whole Kingdom is in hazard of utter Ruine look into your own hearts and say how true or false I speak if true make good use of it that is repent and amend and that not with cast down looks but humble hearts You petition for Peace it is well so you did once for War God forgive you but do you desire and pray that God will give you Peaceful minds one towards the other Do you endevor it Have you not like the rest of the world Peace in your mouths War in your hearts I wish I could forget that not many years since you cryed one day Hosanna and Crucifig the next If so you cannot 〈◊〉 deceive not your selves nor be you deceived by others that misguide you pray to God to open your eyes you are blind your wealth blinds you you cannot see where your safety lies Not in your selves not in your strength that is already proved not in your wealth you do but hoord it up for others unless God give you open and repentant hearts your safety lies in your Self-Denial and in your suffering not your doing away with all warlike and bloody designs you will be lost here and for ever by them add not to your former evils blood to blood there is no ill so great which you are not guilty of you have done like the rest of the Kingdom or rather you were their example You have sought your own and not the things of God nay you have fought for them more then once And now it is just with God to leave you a prey to your enemies Yet let me tell you your greatest enemies are not only within your walls but within your own brests It is your Treachery to God and to some body else hath betrayed you to hourly fears You look down to the earth you grovel there lift up your heads lift up your hands too but chiefly lift up your hearts to God from whom alone must come your salvation Do all you can for Peace in a godly way not by plots and strife We must not do ill that good may come of it This City hath a great account to give when God shall make inquisition for blood There is no worldly Counsel meer worldly can do you good God alone must do it by turning your hearts to him and to your lawful King and in your love to your fellow Subjects but add no more blood to blood The Militia of good consciences is better and safer for you then al your Arms or the Army if it were yours in the day of Trouble you will find it so If there be any means or power in you by Prayers to God Petitions to men or the opening of your purses in a peaceful way to procure Peace forbear not to do it Sero sapient Phryges Do it and that quickly for Gods sake for the Kings sake for your own sake for the whole Kingdoms sake