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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	defence_n	endeavour_v	great_a	62	3	2.0924	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92927	The Army anatomized: or, A brief & plain display of the humble, honest and religious actings of the General Sir Tho. Fairfax, and his army of saints, toward the good of the King and Parliament, and the whole kingdom, since the famous victory, at Naseby, June 14. 1645. Occasioned upon the serious consideration of 4 Scripture-properties of every true saint and Christian soldier. 1. Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you ('tis our Saviors own Golden-Rule) even so do ye unto them. Mat. 7. 12. 2. Not to do any evil (a general Rule, which admits of no exception, either in Kings, or in Commanders) that good may come thereof. Rom. 3.8. 3. To abstain from every appearance of evil; much more from every apparent evil. 2 Thes. 5. 22. 4. Do violence, or wrong, to no man; neither accuse any man falsly. Luke 3.14. Now, how Sir Tho. Fairfax's army of saints and Christian soldiers have performed all these, or any of these, shal be faithfully and plainly declared, in 20. following observations. / By a loyal lover of peace and truth; but a hearty contemner of sedition and schism.	Loyal lover of peace and truth.	1647 (1647)	Wing S2600; Thomason E419_6; ESTC R203539	29,584	39

which for a little season they had done And notwithstanding the City of Londons now choosing out and sending Commissioners to treat with the Army for to such a height it was now grown as if the City and Army had been two distinct advers Parties to keep a supposed and pretended fair correspondency between them for peaceable conclusions yet the Army grown now to a high pitch of power and now therefore more apt especially by their active Agitators to pick quarrels both with the Parliament their Parents and Masters and with the City their Foster-Fathers if their licentious humors of Pride and Schism were crost ever so little holding themselves much affronted and stil much discontented that the aforesaid 11. accused Members were not yet put out of the House of Commons though most unlawful to be done that so the Schismatical Party in that House might carry on their grand Design of an accursed Toleration with the fuller and freer concurrence of Votes and Suffrages when once it was ripe enough to be discust and s●and in the House And because also the City of London would not consent to alter the power of their Militia nor lie altogether idle secure and supine from making some just preparations for the defence of their often and highly menaced and threatned City to be plundered burned and made a prey to this Army of Saints which defence God knows at best was very little and inconsiderable but especially by occasion of a Petition and Engagement whereinto divers most honest and religious peaceable Citizens Seamen and Apprentices of London and the parts about it only by reason of the Armies often and insolent threats and formidable preparations for war and frequent incroachments and approachings neer unto their City had entred into to stand to their Covenant which above all this Army of sweet Saints could not endure made with God and the three Kingdoms to endevor with their lives and fortunes the defence of their true Religion City and Liberties to preserve the Kings person and dignity now in great danger in both he being in the Armies wicked custody and to bring his Majesty to the City and Parliament for the perfecting of a happy and wel-grounded Peace and Truth ●ogether and all these upon such terms and conditions as the Commissioners of the Parliaments of both Kingdoms of England and Scotland should see most fit and salubrious for the best good of all the three Kingdoms and this Petition and Engagement they purposed according to their honest and orderly custom of proceeding in these kinds to present to their Common Councel with their humble and peaceable desires that the Lord Maior Aldermen and Common Councel if they liked and allowed thereof would be pleased in all their names and then joyntly of the whole City to present the same to the Par. for their ratification and establishment of their desires therein But the Army instantly having private intelligence thereof by some false brethren even whiles this business was but in the Embrio of it with all possible speed posts away their most imperious Demands rather indeed Commands to the Parliament forthwith to suppress this desperate and dangerous yea this bloody and treasonable design as thus they most craftly and frightingly termed it and upon this to change the City Militia which was done all in one day and to cal the Contrivers and Actors therein and main Abettors thereof into severe question as traiterous fomentors of a Second or New War because indeed such a just defence as this was like to prove and would as they justly feared mightily impede yea utterly break the neck of the Armies grand Design or else they with all their Martial power must of necessity come up presently and compel and inforce it Besides to aggravate their accusations against the City the Army had gotten perfect intelligence that about or somewhat before this time the Lord Maior Aldermen and Citizens of London had sent Letters and subscribed them with their names into Kent c. to crave those their neighbors assistance to help to defend the City if force were made against it by the Army which it seems became a foul offence in the City and most worthy to be severely punisht 〈◊〉 Treasonable Design against the Army just as if a man his house being in danger of fire to be burned down or of theeves and robbers coming to assault him in his house should send forth presently to his neighbors to ayd and assist him against those dangers and just fears of his and for this cause the theeves and robbers should make a sore complaint of him how they were wronged thereby and procure the Master of the house and his Servants or associates to be punished for thus endevoring to save and preserve their house and goods from rapine and ruine If ever now Sea Saints turn'd Sinons vile A Parliament and City to beguile Hereupon in the fifteenth place the Parliament being now apparently forced by the 〈◊〉 of this overpowering Army together with the help of the Independents and Secturies in the House of Commons voted all those that were Author of and Actor in the said Petition and Engagement though but intended to be Traitors and to be proceeded against with the lost of their lives undestates And presently painted and published an Ordinance of Parliament to have them all 〈…〉 all over the City by Drum and Trumpet At which most strange proceedings of the Army and Parliament the City in general being mightily discontented presently sent the Lord Maior Aldermen and Common Councel of London to petition the Parliament for a present removal of divers grievance● and chiefly for an instant revocation or repealing of that conceived unjust Ordinance aforesaid But especially very many Apprentices of London and young men with divers others mixed mong them went also the same day to Westminster in a tumult●ous manner as the Army called it though multitudes petitioning make not a tumult but have been very much countenanced and encouraged yea and approved of by a Declaration of the Parliaments formerly s●t forth But therein also the honest Citizen were most wickedly abused by many Cavaliers Malignants y●● and Sectaries too who mixed themselves among the honestly young men the more to abuse them and their work but all of them unarmed thus urging the Parliament for the instant nullifying of the said Ordinance and so much the more vehemently they urged the immediate performance hereof because they then 〈◊〉 nay heard for certain a present adjournment of the Parliament was resolved on and therefore they pressed the more mightily upon Both Houses of Parliament whiles they were yet ●● sitting with earnest cries and intreaties to all that past in or out for the nulling of that severe and as they humbly conceived most unjust Ordinance of Parliament against them only for action as they conceived and in their consciences were assured according to their Covenant which their desires being at last though indeed with much ado