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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	accept_v	according_a	act_n	49	3	5.5113	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87615	Quæries proposd for the agitators in the Army (or their assistants elsewhere, who are intrusted, or do intermeddle in those high matters of peace and warre) more than foure moneths ago, and now published in pursuit of satisfaction, and with intent of profit towards all, and the state.	Jackson, Richard, 1621-1677.	1647 (1647)	Wing J87; Thomason E412_22; ESTC R202648	13,122	18

of Power and Authority to act over us and to execute vengeance upon your Opponents Seeing you have no more appearance of the best Politie than had the Authour of Plain English who having imbated the People with seditious Passages hath for some yeares space brought us to play at Blinde man Bufle almost to the bane of the Body Politicke In which Tragical Passages Wherein alwayes Ne majestatis ledentem maneat Pena majestas vertenda Iure enim semil violato secundo at tertio id violandum quod ne nisi violetur id ol●m laesum tur p● habeatur infame c. some of you siding with you or assistant unto you are coceited by the more sagacious have slily acted their parts not onely by framing and promoting a rooting Petition striking altogether at alteration but often after that by courting the Parliament according to the sense and inclination of those Members who intended perchance to imploy the Sectaries as we do outcast persons in execution who yet patronize the Parliament in every particular during the dread of the Cavaliers whose bitter hostility at that time united their mindes and divided intention endeavouring to make all their adversaries extremely odious and as some assert to imbitter mens mindes against His Majesty more than was either just or reasonable making account thereby to imbarque the Parliament in such disadvantage that according to the common maxime of Policy usual in such cases they could never returne dry-shod Nor to their ends have they omitted by partial reasons savouring of poor smattering in Apostolical Scriptures in the common peril to reconcile the Protestant to the Puritan not sparing by calumnious reproaches against the best and honestest of the Episcopal Preachers to sacrifice unto the spite and envie of the People as unto wicked spirits ever ready to accept of such offerings nor did they neglect upon any oportunity to move and urge the Parliament more powerfully by the propensity of some flexible parties to vote and act according to the emergency of occasion hoping not onely to draw them into contradictions but also so farre to intrench upon the standing Lawes as might gradatim induce them to trample up on them in fear of absolute condemnation by them and at the worst afford sufficient matter to fetch them over perchance sometimes against their affections to approve and promote further designes maugre the reluctancy of plain men and common people as they call them who grew still more distasted with the smart and trouble of alteration And then upon appearance of popular disaffection towards the Parliament like cunning Oratours they dandle them with words as the onely people jealous of their honour flattering their persons with parasitical apologies and attributions as soothing their authority as never guilty of the least injury to any just interest either at home or abroad watchfully keeping in the mean space a catalogue of all these actions votes and ordinances which in my conceit are onely justifiable either by supreme reason of state in resistance of dangerous innovation or else by a certain aime at a known just and intaxable constitution as so many steps of discent towards their designe howsoever obscure hazzardous or destructive so that all they do is under condition that those at the helme shall steer according to the cunning and direction of such as themselves who stand like Masters on the quarter-deck and onely looking on will needs understand more than the gamesters And when they distelish their doings they urge against them these very votes and actions which were perchance obtained if not extorted by their own instance and importunity talking against them as the worst of Tratours now apostatising from the publike in refusing to act for and according to their purpose who call themselves the godly honest and wel-affected the good and pretious of the land unto whose interest and satisfaction the ease and estates of all other men must in some kinde or other be alwayes subordinate which clew of discourse or consideration might have carried our selfe gainsaying Observatour out of that Labyrinth of Court Logicke wherein he lost himselfe to exclamation and astonishment for that some Lords and Commons have served the Designe of such as these whilest they onely aimed at their own and that such as these were so forward in promoting their desires because they were so vehemently affected to their own was the strongest ingredient in Mr. Pyms magical incantation which carried on the businesse in contempt of the most mercurial spirits stupifying those vigilant wits and terrifying those resolute hearts amongst the Royalists maugre the Kings Authority the Commons oppression and the majority of such a people who were perchance incapable of any such furious motive as is the burning love of novelty with eager appetite towards alteration But who so shall seriously consider the variation of such One while making the Parliament the supreme power of this Nation unto whom as the highest Authority by the peoples deputation the General and the Army as servants of the people are under pain of Treason to be in all things responsible another while clamouring against it as a den of thieves or nest of Traitours who have lost all the essence of Authority reteining nothing but the meer name unto which no obedience is due but absolute withdrawing of trust under pain of being thought partakers with the murderers he I say whoever shall observe them sometime magnifying and applauding then again reproaching and threatning the same Parliament as if it must go and come be high or low base or honourable according to the the interest of their businesse shall evidently see that for all their clinging to or closing with the House of Commons they will be found unto the Parliament in a small space no other than as the Ivie that ruines the wall that it imbraceth But to speak unto your selves more particularly if neither your hearts nor braines have any thing in readinesse to hold out in way of resolution to the like honest and necessary inquisition than all your ingagements will hardly appear any other than conspiracy against the State as a meer combination of some silly humorists carried on against arbitrary power by the blindnesse of their own selfewill to satisfie the spite of an eager minde and revengeful malice nor shall your pretence for the publique be otherwise interpreted than as that of the Apostolical Purse-bearer who grudging his Lord and Master the honour and pleasure of so good and sweet an ointment handsomely covered his envie and covetousnesse under professed affection of charity to the poor for the still sad experience of smal reality towards the publike hath occasioned sundry persons to conceive that such kind of flourishes are but studied pretences which may serve as a stalking horse to some amongst you who are esntinally aiming at ther owne hidden ends making vse of you and others as aptest instruments for such intent and having neither care nor fear of burning others houses to