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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nation_n	cup_n	drink_v	fornication_n	1,286	5	11.0334	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96744	A cordial confection, to strengthen their hearts whose courage begins to fail, by the armies late dissolving the Parliament. It is wrapt up in an epistolary discourse, occasionally written to Mr. Ro. Hamon, merchant, by Geo. Wither, Esq; about a week after the said Parliament was dissolved; and is thus communicated by a copy thereof, as very pertinent to these distracted times, and tending to preservation of the common-peace. for (other things of publick concernment, being inter-woven) it truly states the peoples cause (in plain expressions, suitable to the vulgar capacities) and frees it from many scandals. It contains an expedient, (hitherto not heeded, or neglected) whereby Charles Stuart may be settled in peace, if he please: whereby, we may have a better Parliament then we lost, or ever had: whereby, our armies may be kept constant to order, whilst they are needful, and in a short time quite disbanded: whereby, the peoples just freedoms may be recovered and perpetuated: whereby, not onely these nations, but all Christendome also, may be established in a righteous peace; and it hath neither destructive inlet, outlet, or false bottom.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1659 (1659)	Wing W3151; Thomason E763_13; ESTC R207097	68,046	43

Government 1. That all persons whosoever pretending right to a Supremacy over these Nations were to be for ever excluded 2. That no other single person or number of men great or small should have a Perpetual Soveraignly but be sometimes reducible to a condition of Subjection 3. That none should govern Arbitrarily but by positive Laws except in extraordinary emergent necessities so long time onely as the necessity should require it by their Judgement and Assent who are competent Judges of that necessity 4. That no mans Propriety should be infringed but in the like necessity and that recompence should be made out of the Publick Purse as soon as may be after the necessity is removed to every one then damnified thereby 5. That the Peoples Trustees may have election of all Publick Officers and GOD have his choyce by lot out of those Elections 6. That GOD 's Throne in the Consciences of men may be usurped by no humane Power and that no man or men impowered under pretence of Conscience or otherwise may enjoy any Liberty or Priviledge contrary to the Moral Laws of GOD or the Law of Nature or destructive to humane society or to the giving any Forraign Power or Person a Jurisdiction within this Commonwealth or to the obstructing of Common Right and Justice 7. That whosoever will not submit and subscribe to those Fundamentals when it is required shall be as an excommunicated person having no benefit of the Laws or Protection by the said Government and suffer as a Traytor if by act or word he wilfully infringe them Such Contemplations as these relating to our future Government I long since had and here and there hinted them in Publick and Private expressions to some in Authority and though they were then little regarded I hear that some of them are lately taken into Consideration and I might have added more perhaps as considerable as those if I had not perceived that my Overtures had been sleighted by them who saw they obstructed what was designed for their private advantages But why this Generation which pretendeth much to the gifts of the Spirit that shall be vouchsafed to his Children in the last Ages of the world should be so averse from those Cautions Forewarnings Tenders and Expedients by me exhibited I conceive not unless it be out of Self-wil and Pride of Heart Why may not GOD if he so please save this Commonwealth by a poor mans Expedient that is not very wise as well as he did heretofore save a City by a poor wise man that was as little regarded Some indeed have been pleased to ask my Advice with seeming seriousness as if they thought it might be pertinent to their well-being as the Jews did some of their approved Prophets pretending Conformity therein but when they perceived it was not consistent with their own D●signes and Self-ends they wholly waved it as those did If to have Evidences of my being rightly informed by a measure of Divine Grace and by what hath succeeded on my Pre-conjectures there have been some such evidences on my part If Education may be a means of informing me I was educated in our Universities and Inns of Court If to be a Souldier may ought qualifie me I was a Commander in our first Army so conformable to the Precept given to Souldiers by John Baptist in resting content with my pay that I have not been malevolently discontented though nigh 1700 l. made due to me by an Ordinance of Parliament hath been kept from me almost 17 years without receiving either the Principal or Interest though 700 l. thereof was money lent and for which I have paid interest ever since and though I may possibly be kept without it 17 years longer longer If Manifestations of my good Affection to the Common Safety and Welfare may make my offers considerable I have contributed without compulsion the adventuring of my Estate and Life If my Religion be of any concernment I am a Christian and a Protestant If my Conversation be pertinent who can object ought against it or lay any thing to my charge If a competency of Estate be requisite to gain esteem I wanted not that until I was deprived thereof by Oppression and by the want of Justice and Mercy in other men If to have conversed with Books and to have observed long time the manners of men and to have heeded the Constitution of our present times and Affairs may be any thing helpful to inform me what may be now expedient I have had those helps also Nay if to be poor ignorant contemn'd meanly gifted and of a low and obscure condition are such qualifications as make men in these days most capable of illumination and of that knowledge whereby they may best serve their Country in giving good advice I am in all these respects as likely to be that way serviceable as any of those Huntsmen Falconers Taylors Tinkers Coblers Plow-men Brewers or Dray men which are now or have been heretofore Officers of the Army Members of Parliament of Committees of Safety or Counsellors of State And if I had the volubility of tongue which is in some Ignorance enough to make me confidently speak Non-sence and many words to little purpose the shamelessness of a Whore the Conscience of an Hypocrite and the valour of an English Mastiff to flye upon any dangerous attempt without fear or wit and but that advantage which two or three Officers of the Army have at this present I should not think it a hard matter if GOD as one of the Royal Party once said stood neuter and as our Affairs now stand to make my self a King or a Protector or something equivalent either before next March or else before Spain and France had complemented themselves into a firm and lasting Reconcilement as near to a conclusion as they now think it to be Though I have hitherto publickly contributed my endeavours in vain yet I will privately as I do now employ my Talent to preserve the Common Peace in hope to bring in by a more acceptable hand those things which I conceive pertinent to consideration and which will be a means to stir abler Instruments to become active toward establishing such a Righteous Government as is yet possible or at least to prevent some of those mischiefs which Anarchy threatens For if all the Premises were duly considered by those whom they concern and what Results may rationally be deduced from them they would discover an Expedient and the onely Expedient now loft if they be capable of any wherein they themselves may be active by which these Nations Charles Stuart our Governours that are or may be and all the Princes of Europe may be happy make all their Subjects and Neighbours partakers of the same happiness and escape that Doom which they are in danger to undergo with that Scarlet Whore by whose Cup of Fornications they have been made drunk I will declare without respect of persons what that Expediont is though I