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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
state_n	church_n	peace_n	unity_n	1,654	5	9.0086	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65765	The happines of peace and vnitie dedicated to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, and humbly presented to the Honorable House of Commons, for their incouragement to the perfection of that good worke of peace and vnion in the church and state / by E.W. Gent.	E. W., Gent.	1641 (1641)	Wing W18; ESTC R2666	5,320	14

THE HAPPINES OF PEACE AND VNITIE DEDICATED TO THE KINGS most Excellent MAIESTIE And humbly presented to the Honorable House of Commons for their incouragement to the perfection of that good worke of Peace and Vnion in the Church and State By E. W. Gent. ECCLES 4.9 10 11 12. Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labour For if they fall the one will lift up his fellow but woe to him that is alone when he falleth for he hath not another to help him up Againe if two lie together then have they heate but how can one be warme alone And if one prevaile against him two shall withstand him and a threefold cord is not easily broken Printed in the Yeare 1641. THE HAPPINES OF PEACE AND VNITIE Dedicated to the KINGS most Excellent MAIESTIE SIR BEsides my sorrowes which pressed me very sore and remaineth still upon me the troubles and griefe that fell upon me for the lamentable breaches in the Church and State and for your sacred Majestie and hopefull off-spring filled up my sorrowes and in my thoughts I was grieved that those feares and desolations fell out in your dayes I confesse charitie suspects not and the best minds thinks the least hurt and the freer a man is from vice in himselfe the more charitable he is of others and this is that which hath proved formerly prejudiciall to your Majestie But had your Majestie been the first or the best that had been misled misinformed or ill rewarded it would be an hard thing to command patience but griefe is asswaged either by precedents or examples It is true of late dayes your Majestie being misinformed against some of your best Subjects your Majestie thought to have dealt with them as Joseph thought to have dealt with Marie and so put them away farre from you but with Marie they travailing as it were with childe and that that which they travailed withall might not appeare an illegitimate but remaine innocent the onely wise God sent as it were an Angell unto you I meane your late Petitioners at York to let you see that like Marie they being contracted unto you in love they have not as yet defiled their marriage bed but remaine like Marie faithfull to their head and Soveraigne And your Majestie having beene formerly seduced by false opinions from others against them I hope you will now be reduced unto them and by them by true perswasions and that you may be so the onely wise God that gave your Majestie your being and so knew you better than your selfe hath dealt with your Majestie as he did with Adam in paradice and so hath provided you a meet helper when with Adam you thought no need of it nor desired it and your Majestie yeelding as Adam did in sparing a superfluous rib for to make him a meet helper will become a great gainer for your Majestie shall nor onely lose those who may be well spared but you will gaine to your selfe and your posteritie a meet helper that will indeavour by all lawfull means to ease you of many burdens that otherwise might have laine heavie upon you and this helper is many members of that body whereof your Majestie is become the head and considering their paines and labour in love you should doe them injustice if you should suffer any to accuse them I hope there is none or will be none neare you if neare you yet dares not to ingrosse your favours any more to their owne advantage whereby your good Subjects may be bereaved of those benefits that ought to be common to all as for your Commons they goe not about to steale your favours but to purchase them legally and are become unto you as Abrahams servant was to his Master who would not either eate or drinke untill he had done his Masters busines and I dare say if your Commons as your late Monopolists and others had or did seeke themselves or their owne advantages more then the good of King and Kingdome they would have beene wearied after so much labour before now but methinkes I see your Commons following the counsell of God Gen. 3.23 24. and God having brought your Majestie and them together they now say as Adam said Let us be but one and that it may be so they are willing not onely for a time to be separated from their lawfull and domestick imployments but even to for sake all and run many hazards to cleave onely to your Majestie in a solemne contract wherefore to make up the contract methinkes I see you to them as Rebecca was to the servant of Abraham who asking water made haste and drew water for his Camels also It may be to make up this match you must with Isaac part with something that was formerly neare unto you and who will not be contented to spare a part to save the rest being done it will prove to your Majestie as comfortable and welcome as Rebecca was into Isaacks tent and the Text saith And Isaac brought her into his Mother Sarahs tent and took Rebecca and she became his wife and he loved her and Isaac was comforted after his Mothers death This happie match being made it would not onely refresh your people but make glad your heart in time of feares and dangers It is true there are many that have brought your Majestie into troubles and feared dangers and the more too blame they for leaving your Majestie having brought you into them It is true there are many with Orpha seeing your troubles have left you but your Commons like Ruth are resolved to stick close unto you and will indeavour to helpe you out of them if with David you will be advised by them who blessed God for the seasonable counsell of a woman when he was upon a desperate designe judge then of their loves and affections to your Majestie by yours to them and then tell me whether they doe not truely love you doubtles yes accounting their lives not deare unto them so that they may but finish their work with joy and so accomplish their good ends concerning you and I doubt not but that I speak it in the name of many and in truth by your late yeelding and free expression you have stollen me from my selfe yea and am now wounded within me and like Moses who was wounded in himselfe and could hardly indure to look upon God when he descended in mercy It is true there is nothing ingageth a soule to God or a subject to a King as the appearance of love this made Moses to say How dreadfull is thy place O God and this is that which hath stollen me from my selfe so that now I am no more my owne but yours yea by this returne of yours to your people you will winne them to obedience with kindnesse and by doing so you will make good that which you were sent for whose care ought to be imployed for the good of your Subjects knowing that their love is