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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	earth_n	heaven_n	world_n	16,198	5	4.4190	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93714	Certain weighty considerations humbly tendered and submitted to the consideration of such of the members of the High Court of Justice for tryal of the King, as they shall be presented unto. There being onely one hundred of the copies appointed to be printed for that purpose By Josuah Sprigge.	Sprigg, Joshua, 1618-1684.	1649 (1649)	Wing S5071; Thomason E540_13; ESTC R203649	8,196	15

in both sides that devided us first f●om God our root and then from one another in subordination to the Lord. And we ought not to do any other justice upon him then we shall submit to be done by him upon us which is onely the just and equal settling of our distinct Interests we being both in the transgression that caused the war meritoriously for as for the immediate acting of it I look upon it rather as the judgement of God upon our sin then the sin it self which went long before 3 That the King being supposed in the Law to be an Infant and to act alwayes by his Instruments and Officers of State both in judging what is right and wrong and in executing if inquisition be made for the acting this war upon the People it seems much more equall to be made among those his evill Counsellours and Instruments without whom he could have decreed nothing as Right or Law nor have executed any purpose of war in his heart for his supposed rights And if by the liberty of Conferring honour and greatnesse on Subjects he hath been enabled to have such powerfull influence on them as to create evill Instruments for any purpose that power may be considered and deposited in safer custodie till the kingdom shall find their Princes worthy of it 4 Not onely did his Judges and Privie Counsellors and evill Instruments about him that were not of either House Parliament but also divers Lords and Members of both Houses of Parliament concur to the betraying of the Kings Conscience to the leavying and prosecuting the warre and if it was not the mercy of God to him to enable him to distinguish between these evill Counsellours and th●se that dissented He is the object of pitty in himselfe as he was th●reby the Actor of our misery 5. To execute the King for what he did in prosecuion of the War so undertaken wherein he h●zarded his Person and put his Cause to the decision of bat●ell and especially in a Treaty and after so many invitations to a composure is to shed the blood of War in Peace which is condemned by an authen●ick pen in the like case though the manner of the execution vary and seems no way consistent with the honour of the Faith of the Nation that was g●ven him in severall Treaties 9 That he being a Prisoner of warre and wholly in our power to regulate the exercise of his prerogative as may make it wholsom to the Nation we are upon all the advantage that may be desired to shew generosity and it seems both unsouldierly and unmanly not to be able to give him h●s life at least and a distrusting of God who if he shall despise this goodnes of the Lord towards him can goe beyond him again wherein he shall deal proudly 7 All the power of Arms being now in the hands of that party in the Kingdome that are commonly reputed more famous for their Religion and tendernesse O let him not be cryed down by you who should be able to bring forth the mercy of the great God to sinners if not you that have found mercy Let not your way wherin you walke in a difference from the more carelesse sort of professor be written to generations in this bloody Letter To this I shall adde that if God have appeared yet and come forth to you no otherwise then as upon Mount Sina there are some standing and walking amongst you daily that have seen him upon Mount Sion and have found such mercy that they are able to shew as great mercy as this that is now askt for the King and if you have it not you must give them leave to say That might their Votes be heard No man should fall in Israel this day for doe we not now know that the Lord Jesus hath obtained the Kingdome this day in their hearts and is bringing forth his new Heavens and his new Earth wherein righteousnesse shall dwell yea they see his footsteps taking hold of the world to set up a new Administration of Justice and every thing for with the sword of his mouth ●ill he slay the wicked he is so comming in his People as shall cloath them with terrour to their enemies that they shall not need the Sword of man to defend them but the majestie and brightnesse of the Lord cloa●hing their Persons shall judge and reprove the world ei●her into love and union with them or in●o subjection under them To this administration that is holy pure and gracious and not in letter but in spirit not in forme but in power have all former dark and earthly administrations hitherto served and till th●s we groan and are afflicted under the manifold and wofull miscarriages of all Administrators in the dark and in the letter onely And in the in●erest of ●he glory of this Image and appearance of God to be made forth among men in this first hands●ll of saving the King as well as out of tend●rnesse to ●he justice of the thing doe I plead thus I have not spoken all this as forgetting or unsensible of the great and high provocations of the King in the late horrid War as well as his former miscarriages in Government if the Lord intend mercy to his soule He will accuse and judge himself more then I can or is meet to detain you by and the world shall hear of his unfaigned sorrow and repentance as it hath been fild with the story of his sins but this I know through the Lords mercy and confesse I am one with him that is my flesh is in al the wickednes he hath done and out of my own heart must I coppy forth my accusation against him and so let every one think that judges another 1 If it be objected this plea may be against all Execution of justice though for the horridst facts as murther c. I answer no the Case is farre different between the Exercise of an unlawfull act by no authority as in the case of Theeves and murderers by the high way and the abuse of a lawfull authority as the King did in his misdeeds This latter Crime is aggravated towards God but not so lyable to the stroake of man Or if a divorse may be made between that person and the exercise of that authority he hath so abused which I leave to others to judge it s not so clear that it should be expiated with the losse of life because the person offended not but the King and not the King but his instruments I speak not as to the Lord. 2 If it be objected that blood is required by the law of God for blood I answer first for blood shed in war we finde no account exacted in the case of Abner 2 Sam. 3. but Abners blood avenged on Joah by Davids appointment after Solomon had the Kingdome 2 Nor for bloodshed in Peace is there an indispensable necessitie of making expiation by blood for though I am not of their minde that think it not lawfull or Christian like to shed blood in any Case for any Crime yet I think it not to be indispensably charged upon the maigstrate to shed blood for blood but there may be divers causes to over rule it The execution of Justice being for the Comonwealth and not the Common-wealth for the execution of Justice and therefore the Magistrate hath power to save and remit capitall Crimes as well as to punish them when it is for the Common-wealth Nay thirdly I conceive that whensoever blood may be spared that is those evils may be avoided and those advantages obtained without shedding of blood it ought to be spared And that the Kingdome cannot be settled and the like mischiefes prevented so farre as in man for the future without shedding of the Kings blood doth not appear to me nor I dare say to many more as the probability of as great evils to ensue from home from abroad which God prevent by taking away the Kings life able to ballance the security we promise our selves thereby is evident to all men Therefore pollicie cals not for this piece of Justice And for that conceit of a Sacrifice to God it is legall and Jewish having nothing in it of the light and grace of the Gospel much lesse suitable to the elevation of these times it s to deny the sacrifice of Christ then which there is no other but the sacrifice of praise and of a broken and contrite Spirit which is also his May wee beg the life of the King wee may be thought to run a great hazard should he come again to be a scourge to the Kingdome but the love of God that comes forth in us to save him will provide better things in him Wee have travaild of him once already by our Prayers it may be we must travaile of him a second time Wee are content He that is without sin let him throw the first stone Finis