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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	bishop_n	king_n	year_n	10,666	5	5.0630	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97094	The bloody proiect, or a discovery of the new designe, in the present war. Being a perfect narrative of the present proceedings of the severall grandee factions, for the prevention of a just peace, and promoting of a causelesse warre, to the destruction of the King, Parliament & people. Whereunto is annexed several expedients for an happy accommodation tending to the satisfaction of all parties, without the further effusion of blood. / By W.P. Gent.	Walwyn, William, 1600-1681.	1648 (1648)	Wing W681; Thomason E460_4; ESTC R3843	10,073	16

War to kill and sley men but upon a lawfull call and invitation from the Supream Authority or Law-making power Now if the Supream Authority of this Nation were never yet so plainly declared as that you understand certainly where it is and who are invested therewith you have then had no Warrant for what you have done nor have any Plea in Law for your Indempnity as some of all Parties have lately found to their costs And that this point of Supream Authority was ever certainly stated is absolutely denyed for according to the common supposition it is 3. Estates which till within these few yeares were ever taken to b● 1. Lords Spirituall 2. Lords Temporall 3. The Commons in Parliament assembled Now if these three were essentiall and equall as all former Times seem to allow How could the Lords Temporall and the Commons cast out the Lords Spirituall For by the same rule the Lords Spirituall and Lords Temporall might have cast out the Commons but the casting out the Bishops hath both answered the question and ended the controversie Since when the supream Authority is pretended to rest in the King Lords and Commons and if so when did the King assent to your Proceedings in this War which all the art in the world will not perswade him to be for him but against him and to ruine him and his Or when did the Parliament assent to the proceedings of you that joyned with the King in the late war pretendedly raised for the defence of Religion the priviledges of Parliament and Liberty of the Subject and if the supream power reside in all three King Lords and Commons how can the King justly do any thing without the consent of the Lords and Commons or the Lords and Commons without the King May not the King and Lords as justly proceed to make Laws War or Peace without the Commons as they without the King If they are not equal which of them are supream and declared and proved by convincing reason so to be If any that you are to observe If none what have you done what can you lawfully do That there should be either three or two distinct Estates equally supream is an absurd nullity in government for admit two of them agree and not the third then there can be no proceedings or determination and if there be but two as is now pretended in Lords and Commons whose Ordinances have served how justly judge you to make War and confiscate mens estates admit they agree not then also nothing can be done which in Government is ridiculous to imagine besides it is now a known case that their Ordinances are not pleadable against the Laws and give no Indempnity which were they the known supream Authority could not but be effectual That the King single and alone is the supream Authority himself never pretended to it claiming only a negative voyce in the Law-making Power by which rule nothing can be done without him then which nothing is more unreasonable The Lords also never pretended to more then an equal share with the Commons which in effect is a negative voyce and as unreasonable as in the King And when the Commons have been by Petitioners stiled the supream authority they have punished the Petitioners and disclaimed the supream Authority and as two years since so very lately they have voted that the Kingdom shall be governed by King Lords and Commons which is a riddle that no man understands for who knoweth what appertains to the King what to the Lords or what to the House of Commons It is all out as uncertain as at first and if the trumpet give an uncertain sound who shall prepare himself for the battel If by all your endeavors you cannot prevail to have the supream Authority declared and proved how can you lawfully fight or upon what grounds with a good conscience can you engage your selves or perswade others to engage in killing and slaying of men And if you should have the supream Authority rationally proved and declared to be in the Commons distinct from any other as being the sole Representative of the people you must note that you are a free people and are not to be pressed or enforced to serve in Wars like horses and bruit beasts but are to use the understanding God hath given you in judging of the Cause for defence whereof they desire you to fight for it is not sufficient to fight by lawful authority but you must be sure to fight for what is just Lawful authority being sometimes mistaken and many times so perverted and corrupted as to command the killing and imprisoning men for doing that which is just and commendable and for opposing what is unjust and destructive Therefore as you are to forbear till you see the supream Authority distinctly and rationally stated so also you are not to engage till the Cause be expresly declared lest after your next engagement you are as fa● to seek of a just cause as now you are and after you have prevailed in stead of finding your selves and your associates freemen you find your selves more enslaved then you were formerly For by experience you now find you may be made slaves as effectually by Parliament as by any other kind of Government why then persist you to divide and fall into Factions to kill and slay men for you know not what to advance the honor and interest of you know not whom the King Parliament great men in the City and Army can do nothing without you to disturb the Peace of the Nation upon you therefore both Soldiers and People who fight pay and disburse your estates is to be charged all the evil that hath been done if you on all hands had not been and were not so hasty to engage for the advancement or Interests to the prejudice of the Nation it is very likely we had not only escaped those late bloody turmoils that have happened among us but also might prevent greater threatned dangers which like an inundation begin to break in upon us And if you now stop not your Consciences will be loaded with all that is to come which threatneth far worse then what is past Therefore if ye are either men or Christians hold your hands till you know what you fight for and be sure that you have the truth of Freedom in it or never medle but desist and let who will both fight and pay Certainly there is none so vile considering what hath been said that will again incur the guilt of murtherers and fight before the Cause be plainly stated and published and if that were done as it ought to be possibly it may be attained without fighting and might have been all this while the difference not being so great as was imagined Besides where is the man that would fight against the supream Authority and a just Cause and certainly there is none of you whether Royalists Presbyterians or Independents so wicked as to desire to kill men without 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