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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	believe_v	body_n	life_n	6,305	5	4.8360	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67438	The Irish colours folded, or, The Irish Roman-Catholick's reply to the (pretended) English Protestants answer to the letter desiring a just and mercifall regard of the Roman Catholicks of Ireland (which answer is entitled The Irish colours displayed), addressed (as that answer and letter have been) to His Grace the Lord Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant General, and General Governour of that kingdome.	Walsh, Peter, 1618?-1688.; Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688.	1662 (1662)	Wing W635; ESTC R17831	23,083	36

would instruct your Grace by these examples of Gods confounding evil Counsels whom I know to need no such antidotes against the poison of this Writer but that I might convince or confound him I know your Grace desires rather I should minde your self those Maximes or Precepts and Examples too that may confirm you in a resolution to be throughly vertuous to be exactly just and benignly merciful being Justice and Mercy are the Vertues above all others must be most proper to your great charge then such as fortifie against the Vices opposite from which you are by Nature and Education wholly estranged My Lord I shall then to that purpose call to your memory in the first place three passages of holy Scripture The first is a Maxime of the ho●y Ghost by the mouth of the wisest King or man amongst the children of men and you may read it in the sixteenth Chapter of Solomons Proverbs Justitia firmatur solium It is an abomination to Kings to commit wickedness for the throne is established by righteousnesse My Lord even that very Throne for which you have undergone so many labours hardships and hazards these twenty yeares past for the fixing of which you are now to undertake the greatest charge that can be laid upon you and the most difficult to perform wil be established by doing justice The second is an admonition of the same Holy Spirit even to your self by the month of Jesus the Son of Syrach Noli quaerere fieri Iudex nisi justitia valeas irrumpere iniquitatem ne forte extimescas faciem potentis p●nas scand lum in aequitate tua Ecclesiastic 7. Seek not to be judge if you have not the power to break thorow all iniquity lest any time you feare the person of the Mighty and lay a stumbling-block in the way of your uprightnesse I confesse my Lord this Text imports a seeking and that according the literal rigour of that first word it is onely against such and therefore insomuch not properly applicable to your Grace But you know my Lord as well by natural reason as by forty clear passages of Holy Bible the duty of doing justice is nothing lesse incumbent on Judges or Governours that by injunction or command they undergo their charge it being evident that none may tye our conscience to act unrighteously and that contrariwise by that very command to accept the charge the obligation to be just is the greater if this may admit of any encrease Which is the reason I averre the wise man speaks even in this very passage directly to your Grace advising you either to have sufficient power and a vertuous constant resolution to beat down trample under foot all obstacles even that regard of the Powerful or Mighty which might otherwise hinder you from doing justice indifferently to all persons in your great charge or certainly to lay down at his Majesty's feet your Commission least otherwise it might be a scandall to you an occasion to lose the favour of Heaven and the repute you have hitherto preserved so entire on earth as hereditary to your Noble House Family And yet I alledg not this passage as having the least fear of your being hereafter unjust or the least hopes that any man living is so fit for that charge as your self under our gracious Soveraigne in the present conjuncture nor so desired of all the different parties in that Nation but that I would minde you of it as very usefull against this man of sin who would have you buoy up one Interest wholly that is the strong and prevalent and sink utterly the other against all Divine and Humane Laws The third passage and very consequent to this is a question which it seems to me I hear God himself demanding of you here by his afflicted Prophet Job 40. c. Si habes brachium sicut Deus voce simili tonas Have you the arm of God or can you thunder with a voice like his My Lord if this Arm and this Voice has been ever yet necessary to any man going to command a Countrey of iron and ire a people that have not these many yeares distinguished betwixt Might and Right so many different parties and as opposite one to another in their demands and their interests as East and West the South and North are it must be to your Grace And therefore my good Lord it is but your duty to beg of God in humble prayer that he will give you both in that proportion and respect any mortal can and one of your Place ought to have them to overcome so many difficulties and oppositions which lye before you In the next place my Lord I shall mind your Grace of what you know your self already That you shall behold under your Government a very great number of simple poor innocent and most afflicted creatures if any such be in the whole world And that you are to think that God hath principally created you and hitherto preserved you amidst so many dangers and now at last inspired our gracious King to send you for them And therefore that your greatest care must be to open to them your heart with an amorous compassion extend to them the bowels of your charity stretch out affectionately to them your helpfull hands take their requests lend ear to their cryes cause their affaires to be speedily dispatched not drawing them along in delayes which may devoure them strengthen your arm against those that oppresse them redeem the prey out of the Lions throat and the Harpie's talons For this it is my Lord that Kings Princes States and Governours are made To actions of this kind it is that God promiseth all the blessings of Heaven and admirations of earth For this sort of processes are Crownes of Glory prepared By this means a man diveth into the bottom of the heart and good opinion of people This is the cause that one hath so many souls and lives at command as there are men who the more sweetly breath aire by the liberality wherewith they are obliged And believe it my Lord your Greatnesse before God will not be to multiply titles of Honour and Command which yet have followed you still as the shadow doth the body and were most deservedly and most justly put upon you by His most Sacred Majesty that now is and by his Father of glorious memory nor will be to cover the earth with Armies and make rivers of blood and to raise up mountaines of dead bodies but to doe justice to a poor Orphan to wipe away the teares of a forlorn Widow to steep in Oyle as the Scripture speaketh the yoke of people which live on gall and wormwood who sigh under necessities almost unsupportable to the most savage who daily charge eares with complaints altars with vowes for their deliverance who cry for your Grace at this time as the Fathers of the old Testament did for the Messiah or as the unborn children of that very Nation are