Selected quad for the lemma: state_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
state_n	king_n	peace_n	treaty_n	1,942	5	9.1567	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97191	A warning, or, a word of advice to the City of London, and to the whole Kingdome of England, concerning the armies intentions and actions; / by him who is a lover of righteousnesse and peace; and at present a member of the army, very vsefull and considerable.	Him who is a lover of righteousnesse and peace.	1648 (1648)	Wing W925; Thomason E474_6; ESTC R205357	4,333	8

A Warning or A word of Advice to the City OF LONDON And to the whole Kingdome OF ENGLAND concerning the Armies Intentions and Actions BY Him who is a Lover of Righteousnesse and Peace and at present a member of the Army very Vsefull and Considerable Printed at London for Giles Calvert near Ludgate 1648. A Word of Advice to the City of LONDON and to the whole Kingdome of England concerning the Armies intentions and actions by him who is a lover of Righteousnesse and Peace and at present a member of the Army very usefull and considerable OH the Citie of London and the Kingdome of England What mercies hast thou enjoyed or rather what mercy have you not both abused How may thy freinds and true lovers stand weeping over thee and saying Oh the great metropolitaine Citie the Kingdome of England hadst thou known the things which belong to thy peace but now they are hid from thine eies I say hadst thou known thou hadst not necessitated an Armie which generally hath used to be furthest from Righteousnesse Justice and equitie to doe that for thee which thou thy self shouldest have looked after oh thou great Citie thy sinnes are many thy provocations great thy temptations increasing within thee to oppose thine own good thine own peace And now I shall tell thee that the Armies intentions art and their actions will be for thine and the Kingdomes good peace welfare be you but passive seeing that through your neglect if not contrary activenesse you have compelled them to be active they intend not your trouble impoverishing or ruine but first that Justice may be impartially administred without respect of persons without which they judge there can be no establishment either of righteousnesse or true and lasting peace that which your selves long after and be yee assured it s not the plunder of your City nor the decay or decrease of your trade that is intended but rather that you might be settled in a more free way of liberty in your tradings Secondly That this way be effected viz. the execution of Justice they intend onely to question those both in Parliament and City which have been the obstructours of it that so they may be expunged from any farther power in betraying their trust as of late in wheeling round so fast into an unitie with those whom formerly they opposed as the great occasioners of our trouble and miseries Thirdly That by this means the Justice of God may be taken off the Kingdome which is not like to be untill justice be executed for God is a just God and will make inquisition for blood and blood cryeth for blood and it s far better justice take hold of a few if God so please then of many thousands as must be expected if justice be not executed for believe it the way of the Treatie is the high way of ruine even to those who cry it up work it and manage it and you will finde the Army to be in the hands of God your saviours in delivering you from it This is that others see although you see it not and that which you cry up as the onely way of Peace and Libertie others see it to be the high way of bondage and ruine give them therefore Libertie to save you with feare pulling you out of the fire c. Fourthly That they might once see this poore bleeding and dying Kingdome delivered from its oppressions and burdens and established in its just Rights and Freedomes and this is that which God will effect whatever shall say him nay although at present to many the remedie seems worse then the disease yet the end shall be glorious Object But perhaps you will say this is that which belongs to the Parliament and we are to look to them and to acquies in what they doe they being chosen for that end Answ. It s true it properly belongs to them indeed but they betraying their trust in making peace with men of blood contrary to Law and Religion contrary to the Law of Nature or of God they are to be questioned by those for whom they are imployed For if we will allow of Arbitrary Will and Power in the Parliament as good in the King as good an unlimitted power were in the hands of one as of many for this is a truth confest by all that the Parliament are servants of State unto the People and I hope the servant may be questioned by his Master if he betray his Trust and that wilfully too as a great part of this Parliament hath done in Voting and carrying on a Treaty of Peace with the Enemies of Peace and that not onely ignorantly but wilfully contrary to the mindes of those who trusted them as appears in their rejecting of all Petitions from all Counties who Petitioned them the contrary and secondly in their not freeing the Kingdome from burdens but rather increasing of them Object But those Petitions came not from the major party in the City and Counties to the Parliament Answ. True for the major party are such as have betrayed their interest in the Parliament in fighting against them and are not to have any Vote in the choice of them and so are not to be looked upon as within the liberty of propounding grievances or judging the actions of those whose ruine they have so long d●sired they are capable to receive government from them but not govern or vote in governing therefore the Parliament is proper to the honest wel affected party that have stood by them and with them in all difficulties and they it is who are ca●led to have an eye to their Parliaments proceedings and they it is who have Petitioned their Parliament time after time but could not be heard and now their eyes are greatly upon the Army waiting what God will doe by the Army for them the Army being the Kingdomes servants as well as the Parliament the Army being in the hands of God the only visible power in and of the Kingdome by whom the enemy is subdued upon whom the eyes of all those who expect Righteousnesse and Justice are for the accomplishment of it and therefore I must tell you that if the Army should altogether be silent they should likewise be perfideous and traytors to that trust reposed in them betraying both the Lives and Liberties of themselves and friends into the hands of implacable and murtherous men Secondly I answer that the Army is very tender of a Parliamentary power and intend not to act things themselves but to see those who have betrayed their trust purged forth that so there may be a free course of Justice in a lawfull Parliamentary way Object But it s reported that the Army are Levellers and intend to make all things common Answ. It s very false and untrue raised by those who are enemies to truth and peace its true they desire to levell all powers which are contrary to and against God and this is that assure your selves the great God will