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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	according_a	allegiance_n	great_a	16	3	2.0729	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33417	Certain letters written to severall persons	Capel of Hadham, Arthur Capel, Baron, 1610?-1649.; Morley, George, 1597-1684.	1654 (1654)	Wing C465; ESTC R22646	20,606	50

Certain LETTERS Written to severall PERSONS Anno Dom. 1654. SIR THe sad and desperate condition his Majestyes sacred person is in hath filled me with much greater anxiety and disquietness then hath been usuall to me since these unhappy times And it is not often that I think of any thing else but what may or ought to be done in order to the preservation of it as a Christian as a Subject For I believe both dutyes are inseparably conjoyned in this occasion The inquisition after this led me into the consideration of Gods dispensation of times and seasons and that as those are not to be neglected wherein there is freedom for our active-duty so neither these wherein there is appearance of little else remaining save only for others to be encouraged and revived by the passive And truly I doubt not but the divine goodness will act for our good ends by our Christian readiness for sufferings And as it is thus with times so also it is with persons some are rather or more decently qualifyed for this then that at least to give example and authority to it These cogitations drew from me the considerations herein inclosed which I have addressed to because I assure my self much of your gentleness I have already communicated them to a very learned reverend and pious but I will not adventure much further in it untill I have also your sense of the expediency of the thing For neither to the reputation of the matter untill it be maturely considered of nor to any person would I be cause of inconvenience And indeed if it be so well encouraged by your self and such others of like reputation as it is by Him it will become me afterward to be silent as I conceive for I have a better Heart then a Head for this business I professe I have a jealous eye upon the Scots and Presbyterians who I doubt not would make malicious advantages upon any colourable defect of our Clergy I shall adde this that those of my profession are not idle but are confident and vigilant And truly it were a vile shame for us of all qualifications if this excellent Prince should be lost and we not able to excuse our selves that no means was left unattempted for his preservation Whom I beseech God to comfort and defend To whose protection I also leave you c. Feb. 11. 1647. POST-SCRIPT I Think it gives weight and encouragement to this proceeding both his Majesties late excellent Declaration to his Subjects as also the Resolution of the Houses to exhibit theirs to the people I heartily wish this were timely fitted for this conjuncture The Considerations inclosed THe streight durance his Majestyes sacred person is held under the late Declaration of the Army with which the Commons have concurred to act without and against the King puts it past all scruple that the flagitious and execrable resolution of these men hath engaged them past retiring and which is yet worse that they cannot but proceed to the deepest and utmost villanyes and impietyes There is not less question of this then of what ought to succeed it which is that their impudence must be encountred with a Christian courage zeal and resolution superiour to it otherwise 't is a doubt not to be slighted that these men and too many others seduced by them will have a seeming cause to believe themselves that Theologicall truths are more controversiall then those Astronomicall or Astrologicall wherein lines and Images are only fictioned to make Schemes for Sciences and Discourse I am not altogether free of this scruple though it looks so stupendiously irreligious Will not the whole frame of Christian verity be shaken if not subverted in this Nation when this so great a truth in it shall not be vigorously averred That an established Magistracy is Gods immediate Minister and ought not cannot with Christian profession be deposed by those that owe obedience and allegiance to it I am fully perswaded that it is so necessary a truth that were it tyed to the stake and the flames about it even there ought we to offer our selves to vindicate it and contend for it or else adieu Christian-Protestant profession The seed of the Church was Suffering And shall it be lost for want of suffering after it is grown to such a perfection The ancient Patterns must be imitated if we expect the same benediction should preserve to us what was so piously and gloriously planted by them I think I mistake not my measure this errour amongst men lyes not in the brain but in the heart therefore Instructions want not but strenuous Examples of Christian zeale which I perswade my self will most daunt them For those believe what they want of us in truth they supply in pertinacity All this considered is it not now seasonable I believe it was not so till now but because the reasons are so obvious I will not trouble you with them for a considerable number of our learned'st gravest and most pious Divines though they exceed not the number of 20 they will be enough in a grave and sober manner for those tart reprehensions of which every day there wants not store suite not the weight of this business being rather movings of spleen then sanctity to present unto the Houses That a Government established is Gods immediate Minister and That an attempt to depose it is an high impiety against God and his known truth plainly and expresly taught us in the holy Scriptures That his Majesty is indubitably Gods Vicegerent over us and that this allegiance we owe unto Him we have attested by the oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance That not any of his Subjects can stretch forth their hands against Him and be guiltless That they demand according to the practice of the holyest Christians in all ages a time and place to prove this great truth they now assert by evidence out of the Scripture and if this be not allowed them then to declare they refuse not to seal it by Martyrdome I do very readily acknowledge that the qúalifications for so great an ingagement ought to be weighty and serious and that to rush into Martyrdome as long as God hath left us any justifiable humane means may want as much of true Christian piety as it may seem of prudence God hath engaged our nature to many and severall dutyes and functions and each hath its severall lawes and rules proper whereby they are so set on work that each may attain their due and proper ends nor is the greatest means alwayes best when there are others though lesse yet fitter But if I mistake not ventum est usque ad Triarios we must bring up the Reserve God hath in his just judgements upon our Estates and Persons permitted all our temporall endeavours to be dissipated and frustrated we may say Our Van and our Battel are routed but if the courage of this our reserve fails us not I hope we shall rally our selves again about it by