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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
state_n	affair_n	king_n	send_v	1,107	5	5.3945	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05611	The ansvver of Iohn Bastwick, Doctor of Phisicke, to the exceptions made against his Letany by a learned gentleman which is annexed to the Letany it selfe, as articles superadditionall against the prelats. In the vvhich there is, a full, demonstration and proof of the reall absence of Christ in the sacrament of the Lords Supper, with the vanity and impiety of the consecreation of temples churches and chapples, also the necessity of the perpetuall motion and circulation of worship if men be bound to bow the knees at the name of Iesus. This is to follow the Letany as a second part thereof.; Litany. Part 2	Bastwick, John, 1593-1654.	1637 (1637)	STC 1573; ESTC S104507	58,802	32

been imployed in matters of state and that often and in all these places where I euer liued I carryed my self as a Christian and had the repute of them all for an honest man and haue the publicke testimonyes of all places where I dwelt both for my honesty and learning and my bonds are famous now at Rome it self to my knowledg and in all the Christian world And all men that know any thing know also that I suffer not as an euill doer they stand all in wonderfull expectation what will be the issue of this businesse for it astonisheth thē to see that I should be put in prison for writing a booke against the Pope in defence of Regality and because it had nothing but scripture in it Now in this expectation of theirs I heare the Prelats are plotting new mischiefe against mee and haue desired power and greater assistance from the King for the prosecuting of mee more seuerely yet as if they had not enough before and withall that the Nobility joyne with them for the censuring of mee in the star-chamber for the cutting of my eares and worse but I hoope his Maiestie and the honorable Lords will more seriously looke into the businesse which if they doe I am confident they shall neuer find mee a delinquent but to haue deserued better from King and state then any Prelat in England euer did or can doe But by the way Let mee tell you thus much that whatsoeuer the Prelates pretend of seruice and loue to the King and Nobles they will in the conclusion deale with them as Polyphemus dealt with Vlisses his soldiers when he had got them in Antro first sayes Vlisses I will deuoure these meaning the common soldiers and after I will come to thee And euen so the Prelats when they haue deuoured the commons and them they stile by the name of Puritans they will also deuoure those graet vlisses and Heroes and this is as true as the Sunshines at none day They haue made prety beginnings of that good worke allready if men could see it and they and their creatures haue the breeding of all their children and the tutoring of them at home and abroad and all their whole endeauour is that the Lords and Peeres of the kingdome may be acquaynted with no solid learning and that which concernes either Religion or Gouernment but that they may haue some complementall way of Courtship for entertayment and be fit for pleasure onely and this say the Prelats is enough for Lords so that if any of the Lords creepe into the knowledg either of religion or of states matters it is through their owne ingenuity and industry and sore against the Prelats liking And hence it is that such misery at this day is in this kingdome that there is not one of forty of the Lords that vnderstandeth to the purpose an ordinary Latin author which is but the bark of learning so that by this meanes they are depriued of an excellent way of instruction and all this not through their owne default who otherwise are as witty and ingenious as any men but through their tutors and that indeed is their onely study to keepe Princes and Nobles ignorant and take them vp with pleasure that they may get the gouernment into their owne hands and be thought onely fit to manage state affayres to the infinit dishonour of the Nobility yea Kings themselues who if they would but set themselues a little to their studyes and looke into matters of Religion and state they would find little need of such cattle as Prelats are either in Church or state or if their were they would send them home to preach as Ministers should nay they would command them to follow that calling of preaching and leaue state-affayres to them King Iames in his Apology to Christian Princes sayes that Churchmen medling with state-affayres are the frogs that came out of the bottomlesse pit that corrupt and spoyle all things And truely till the Kings and Princes of the earth shall dismisse that crew from their Courts or send them about their owne callings they can neuer promise vnto themselues their Crownes and dignities any enduring security all which-things I will make so euidently appeare in my Anatomy of the Prelats as there is neuer Boy of eight yeares old but shall see it and I hope by that good work to doe such seruice and so good an office to all Christian Kings and to all Common wealths to the whole Church of God and to the generations of men that loue peace and syncerity as the very memory of mee the miserablest now of creatures shall be gratefull to all posterity to the worlds end But this shall be reserued till the sentence of the star-chamber is passed For I desire to print the whole passage of that Court against mee as I haue done of the high Comission that all the world may see how little I haue deserued such censures as I haue and shall vndergoe and how well I haue merited both from Church and state and when the Censure of the starre-chamber against me shall come out with the Anatomy of the Prelats you all men will then see whether the Prelats are not braue statesmen or no. But that I may notwrong any mā I must intreat your fauour in one thing I know you are an eminent man haue many freinds in the Court I shall therefore desire of You this kindnes that whatsoeuer speeches either the kings Attorney or Sollicitor or any other shall make in my absence against mee that it may be taken in short hand and sent mee forth with that I may translate it into Latin as it commeth with my answer to it and replication so that I may haue Bill and answer and all things ready for the presse at the day of my Censure and that at that day there may likewise be as many as possible can gather speeches that may take their declamations from their mouthes seuerally for I resolue to translate them all into Latine and to coment vpon them what Lords soeuer they be And I doubt not but to make it the famousest story that euer was agitated in any Court of iudicature since Paul appeared before Nero. But it is time now to draw to an end I heare that the Attorney vniuersall with the Kings Sollicitor are now a coming to examine mee and intend speedily to haue my eares I am onely sory I haue no more eares nor liues to lose for the houour of God my King and Religion but what should I greiue that I haue no more liues and eares to lose I know God accepteth of the least things so they be insyncerity offered vnto him to whose gratious perseruation I commend you and thinke this for the present sufficient to haue answered to your exceptions against my Letany and for the auoyding of others misinterpretings of my honest intentions Fare you well Your for euer in Limbo Patrum IOHN BASTVVICK Heare ends the second part of my Letany the other SIX are to Follow