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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	england_n	king_n	orange_n	3,749	5	10.1866	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47971	A Letter formerly sent to Dr. Tillotson, and for want of an answer made publick, and now reprinted with the said doctor's letter to the Lord Russel a little before his execution.	Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.	1690 (1690)	Wing L1362; ESTC R41462	7,018	10

us see how many of the Commandments are broken Has not Mammon been made a God and a Crown an Idol to which the P. of Orange and his Adherents have sacrific'd the Lives of many thousands of Men as well as the Reputation of our Religion besides a vast Treasure tho' it is not fit to be named after the other two Immolations Have they not taken God's Name in when they consecrated to the Preservation of Religion the Injuries and Violations of it of which they have been guilty I do not know whether you are a strict Sabbatarian I believe not and will acknowlege I am none but I think the Nation grosly perverts the ends of Humiliations and Fastings and appointed Days for God's Worship whilst they pray to God to prosper any immoral Enterprize For God's sake and the sake of your Soul and the sake of your Queen's Soul study the fifth Commandment tho' the performance of it has the promise of length of d●ys in this Life the breach of it if any Religion be true will plunge her into Miseries of a longer duration She has partaken with Thieves and Liars against her own Father She is a Receiver of what has been by them from him wrongfully taken away unless it can be proved that the Crown of England is Elective the Kings of it punishable and deposable If this is right you know Sir all our Law-books are in the wrong for they say The King can do none That he is not accountable to the People collectively or representatively and that the Monarchy of England is Hereditary This is all in the Original Contract of our Statute-Books and Law Cases Sir You know these things you cannot plead ignorance nor can you believe Abdication You know the treatment the King had from the P. of Orange and his own Subjects and cannot believe he voluntarily resigned Are not then our Judges our Juries our Fleets and our Armies guilty of Murther in opposing King James 's Return Don't your Queen list so many Assassins whilst she Commissions them for that pu●p●se Is it not as unlawful to steal a Crown as a Trifle And till they have recanted all the false Accusations which were countenanced by the Prince of Orange and his Princess and were instrumental towards the getting of these Crowns do they not violate the Ninth Commandment as well as covet their Neighbours their Fathers Goods The Civil and Natural Obligations the Prince and Princess of Orange have to King James aggravate their Crime and if it were not almost levity to say so here I would add as another aggravation their having coveted too many of King James's Servants The King of England does every thing by his Officers they are impeachable they are punishable The King who we always said was not so is dethron'd whilst those are imploy'd in this Government who were the Disgraces and Instruments of the last But I don't intend a Libel and therefore will not enter into an Account of such Matters I will neither give the present Ministers their Characters nor shew how little as meer Men and Subjects we are the better for the Change But I fear whoever reflects without heat or byass upon what I have said will find we have lost at least Nine of the Ten Commandments which is exceeding Popery in our Index Expurgatorius with a witness But to come to your more particular Case I beseech you to publish some Discourse if you can clear things to demonstrate either your Repentance of what you writ to my Lord Russel or the Reasons that make that and what you now do consistent and that you with the usual solidity with which you treat upon other Subjects justifie the Proce●dings and explain the Title of K. William I know no body has a stronger and clearer Head and if you have Truth on your side you can write unanswerable God's Glory the Reputation of the Protestant Religion is at stake your own good Name calls for it and more especially because you have accepted a most Reverend and Devout Man's Archbishoprick a Man that has given Testimony how unalterably he is a Protestant a Sufferer formerly for the Laws and Church of England a Sufferer for those very Principles upon which that Letter to my Lord Russel was writ for those very Principles which you disputed for when he was about to Communicate when he had so short a time to live nay you remembred him of even upon the Scaffold with the dreadful Commination of Eternal Wo. Really Sir if there be any Truth if there be any Virtue if there be any Religion What shall we say to these Things What will you say to them You must be at the pains to clear this Matter that we may not believe the Boundaries of Right and Wrong the Measures of Violence and Justice quite taken away that we may not be tempted to Speculative and from thence to Practical Atheism This Change has made many sober Men Sceptical and gon farth●r towards eradicating all the Notions of a Deity than all the Labours of Hobbs and Epicurus and your part in it has I must confess more stagger'd me than any one Thing else I have been ready to suspect that Religion it self was a Cheat and that it was a defect in my Understanding that I could not see through it for I think if I can know my right Hand from my left our prese●t Government stands upon Foundations that contradict all those Discourses which you as well as others have lent to Passive Obedience The excessive Value I have for you for your Knowledge your Judgment y●ur largeness of Spirit your Moderation and many other great Qualities that ●ave signaliz●d your Name once made you one of the greatest Ornaments of the Christian Church one of the greatest Exemplars of sound Morality and all that Philosophers call Virtue make what seems to me an Apostacy from what you Preached and Writ pretended to believe and would have others to belive shake me so violently in the first Credenda of Religion that I beseech you if you think it necessary upon no other account that you will publish such a Discourse at least for the Satisfaction of mine and the Consciences of many others who I can assure you of my own knowledge lie under the same Scruples with my self have the same Scruples in relation to the Government and the same Temptations to question Religion it self upon your account It is the interest of the Government to satisfie such Men and if you think that we ought particularly and privately to apply our selves to you our Number is so great that it would be too constant a trouble for any one Man to undergo nor can we safely debate a point of this Nature nor can you expect Men should trust themselves under the Protection of your Honour whilst they think you have in the Face of the World so grosly Prevaricated both from that and what ought to be a Principle of a higher Nature the dictates of