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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
A96749	Furor-Poeticus (i.e.) propheticus. A poetick-phrensie. Some, (probably) will call it so: thus named, therefore, let it go. It is the result of a private-musing, occasioned by a publike report in the country, of the Parliaments restauration by General George Moncke, in February 1659. and meditated soon after the said General's arrival in London, in dorso pagi, recubans sub tegmine fagi: / by G.W. Esq;	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1660 (1660)	Wing W3159; Thomason E1818_2; ESTC R13545	23,933	48

hands with superstition And Sanctity dissembled with Ambition They shall so plague each other that if ten Of honest and true-hearted English men Be left in ev'ry thousand and together Knit in true Charity fast to each other They shall be a RESERVE to make this Nation More prosp'rous in another Generation I would have said before this year be gone If I had now seen Justice better done Or any probability perceiv'd That what I should declare would be believ'd But peradventure 't is a day too late This day on any terms to promise that Which yet expected is by some of them Who have the means neglected and the time For Charles those great advantages hath won By what hath been omitted and miss-done Which I long since foresaw that though his Pow'r MONCK shall employ for us nor his nor our Nor both united nor a Parliament Established with full and free consent Of all the People if by penitence GOD reconciled be unto that Prince Can at this present make the scale so even Vnless our peace be likewise made in heaven But that there will be ten for one at least To weigh him out his claimed Interest And force us those conditions to receive Which he himself shall pleased be to give For our great Wars confusions and dissenting Will frustrate so endeavours of preventing Our fears and setling true peace in that way Whereby we for a settlement assay That he by whom lost hopes reviv'd became May accidentally without just blame Through breach of trust make way to bring him in Who hitherto hath most opposed bin For that which cures where one distemper lies Kills where are complicated maladies Or else at least produceth an effect Much differing from what we did expect If still both Parties be the same they were They rather shall encrease confusions here Than qualifie them and for ought that yet To me appeareth likely to beget A better hope nought Reason offers us But this GOD grant it prove no worse than thus If he be qualifi'd as now some say He is and as for ought I know he may That will be then effected which few thought Could have here whilst they liv'd to pass been brought And if to GOD he reconciled be Why not to men Or wherefore not to me Who never was for self-respects to him An Adversary or a friend to them Who were his Enemies for being so But as he was or seem'd to be a Foe To GOD and Justice If he be not such Why should I doubt his favour Or fear much His wrath For doubtless if he be upright He then in honest men will take delight Yea peradventure may have need of one To do such services as I have done Without regarding greatly what men shall Be pleased or displeased there withall And if he be a Tyrant I know why He will have greater cause to fear than I. If her who with her Cup of fornications Hath long made drunk the Kings of many Nations He hath not pledg'd in secret nor so long Drunk her inchantments that they are too strong To be expell'd there may be perfect cures For all meer natural distemp'ratures Whereby he from Impostures may depart To own what GOD hath written in his heart And then it will be evidently seen Which way he might a glorious King have been Who now is none and what the Parliament Which promised to make him such then meant For he that governs men must righteous be And there is no such glorious King as he When King and People are confin'd by Laws Neither the Princes nor the Peoples Cause Can be infring'd and questionless if he Inclin'd to such a condescention be This would when both sides thereunto submit Good will to men and peace on earth beget And both GOD's Justice and his Mercy too It would illustrate if it might be so For GOD's Long-suff'ring doth abide for ever And Judgements very seldom times or never Are past by such an absolute Decree As by Repentance not revers'd to be Nor doth he look that man's Repentance should Proportion with his Deviations hold Since his Free Grace a standing help supplies To make amends for those deficiencies Manasses guilty of sins most abhorr'd Was cast out of his Kingdom and restor'd Yea and this Parliament whose Crimes are more Ten times than his were twice shut out of doore Yet now in grace again God grant they may Take heed of falling the third time away For GOD will then perhaps the second time As he did of the rest make proof of him What he will do is known to him alone Because he only knows what will be done By them to whom Conditions are declar'd With threatnings and a promised reward As they shall be neglected or fulfill'd Or men are either well or evill-will'd For they the Devil 's not GOD's Prophets are Who absolutely either peace or war Or shame or honour poverty or wealth Or life or death or sicknesses or health Shall promise unto them who have transgress'd Without conditions tacite or express'd And they are Fools abus'd by ill suggestions Who tempt men by demanding of such questions Yet GOD sometimes indulgently complies With us ev'n in our curiosities And other while unsought for giveth hints To prove us by conditional events Among some other things made signes to me When here a setled Government should be My Britains Genius hath long since recorded A signal previous one which is thus worded Brit. Genius Pag. 100. A King shall willingly himself un-king And thereby grow far greater than before c. This in the meaning might have twice ere this Fulfill'd have been and once in Terminis If Pride self-will and frowardness of mind Had not by false lights made true Reason blind And if that he whom it will most concern Shall now GOD's visitation-time discern Not letting opportunities depart By suff'ring vain hopes to obdure his heart When GOD shall on his soul begin to strike A call to penitence Manasseth-like But meekly comes and laies revenge aside All self-will animosities and pride It shall have such effects the self-same hour On these three Nations by a secret pow'r As will so change them too that ere the Sun Is at his next height and through Cancer run It will amaze the World their Foes confound Make some believe all things are wheeling round Or think that Revolution drawing near Which must conclude the great Platonick-year And good to many Realms 't will pre-divine Betwixt the Tropicks on both sides the Line This doubless will by no man be withstood Who seeks his own weal in the common good And doth not either strive to have possession Of other mens concernments by oppression Or is displeas'd with ev'ry Government Save that which his own wisdom shall invent If this may be vouchsaf'd or any thing Which might appear to have a modelling By GOD's and Natures Laws I am so far From Jonah's frowardness when GOD did spare Great Niniveh that though it quite dissented From all