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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	faith_n	prove_v	2,195	5	5.8788	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67701	A letter to Mr. Speaker Lenthall shewing that it were better to comply with His Maiesties offers and desires of peace, then to pursue the destruction of this land in the continuance of this unnatural warre.	Warwick, Philip, Sir, 1609-1683.	1646 (1646)	Wing W992; ESTC R33564	7,292	12

A LETTER To Mr SPEAKER LENTHALL SHEWING THAT IT WERE BETTER TO COMPLY WITH HIS MAIESTIES OFFERS AND DESIRES OF PEACE Then to pursue the Destruction of this Land in the continuance of this unnaturall WARRE Printed in Yeare 1646. SIR AS cleane Creatures were esteemed only those that chew'd the Cudde so is it amongst men sure I am did not too many men in this age like the Horse rush into the battell not consider what it is they are doing they could not have raised nor continued this unnaturall Warre as they do You sit amongst that Party as a Moderator therefore I direct this to you to thinke upon I was one of those that conceived your late great successe promised some quiet I cannot say Peace to this miserable Kingdom especially when I read His Majesties gracious Message to the two Houses But now I perceive you are a people that have Fretium in manu The oportunity but not the heart to lay hold on the occasion to still this storme The sad thoughts therefore of a Mourner for this Nation and of a constant friend to you if you be at leasure for such stuffe read in what followes The first thing that came in my view was from whence we were fallen Here I may say I saw a very great Glory but like a wordly pompe my after thoughts soone clouded it I lookt upon a lawfull King set in the glorious Throne of His Ancestors in His owne Person of eminent virtue mastered by no bad inclination but like him that S. Paul saies seeks the mastery was temperate it all things 1. Cor. 9. 25. Nay when his Enemies were to wound him they were forc'd to do it through other's sides and complain of ill Counsellors that they might as much as in them lay make him an ill King And yet when some of those Counsellors that had the envy of three Nations upon them were to be condemned it could not be by the Lawes in being but an extorted new Bill or an unheard of Ordinance of Parliament that must cut their thread of Life And as these few dyed thus so the rest survived not accused of Bribery Oppression c. but questioned for opinions in Law so as sure the Subject that was thus ruled was little opprest it s fear'd our plenty made us collect our hard ships by Reasoning not Sence which former times complain'd of God knowes there is a great difference betwixt Speculative Evills which may happen and Practicall or Sensitive which men doe feele Besides what Government there that may not have somewhat said against it Doe you not remember the plenty and splendor the Jewes possest in Solomons time And yet in his Sonnes but marke it was because God meant to visit a Declaration must come out 1. King 12. Your Father laid heavy burdens upon us I am sure they brought one upon themselves for they never had a good King after and were led into Captivity and never came out which was not the lot of Judah which clove to Rehoboam Solomons Sonne Doe you not call to mind what was written of good King Asa one charactered like his forefather David c and yet the words are 2. Chron. 16.10 Asa oppressed some of the People in his time Doe you say the World is not Round because there are some irregular Mountaines Doe you not say no Individuall Person is perfect in all things Is it not a received opinion he is best that hath least faults not he that hath none And must we then look for this perfection in Government only or cast off all obeaience True it is we can say there was illegall Ship mony but converted to publick use we must acknowledge for give me leave to make a large Parenthesis and rell you never a penny of that mony came to the Kings private Nay he spent besides it on the Navy 40 or 50000l per Annum of his owne Revenues There were many Monopolies its true but in the hands of most of those men that have raised their hands against their King since and pursued Him to save themselves But enough of this Next I saw as hopefull an Issue attending the Throne and securing the succession of it as ever this Kingdome was blest with And I cannot doubt what ever threatens but they were borne for the happinesse of this Nation and to possesse the Splendor of their owne Birth-rights And sure where Ingratitude dwells not the Royall Person that brought such fruit cannot want her due reverence Then I looktupon the Profession of the Christian Religion in this Church A Considerative man must acknowledge it Apostolick and Primitive It wore Christs seamlesse garment more then any Church in the World for the Rule of her Faith was the Word of God and that in difficult places understood which God knowes though they be many yet concern few persons for their is enough without dispute that if beleeved and practised shall make private men sase as expounded from the Primitive times She proved not her truth by her opposition to either Romanist Hereticke or Schismaticke thought it not sufficient argument to prove she was true because another was false for she was acquainted that most commonly too warme disputants are often as distant from truth as they are differing from each others opinion Her Common Service or Liturgy which She imposed on none for their Private Devotion but prescribed for the Vniformity of the publicke was Systeme of all Practicall Divinity and She made the Life of Christ the Calendar of her yeare for so did it busy her Disciples that in every one year of their lives they commemorated all their Saviour did in his The matter and words of it were all Scripture phrases or sence and such as without all Controversie have been understood so by the learned Men of all differing professions untill a sort of Enthusiasts questioned some few but by them misunderstood passages herein So as it may be said God was served in this Land in Truth Vnity Decency and Honour And as this blessed Reformation was made by the Prince and Clergy with the marke of Authority and not the brand of Tumult so it was admitted in to and confirmed so by the Lawes of the Land that those that will overthrow the Church must ravell the whole Common-wealth and if it be possible make us more miserable them we are at present For the Lawes of this Land when I consider how absolute a Monarch the King was Power of making Warre and Peace Issuing Commissions of Lievtenancy argument enough to whom the Sword was entrusted Granting all Pardons and Dispensations Coyning Mony and Calling and Dissolving Parliaments c. I could not but admire the wisdome of our Ancestors who had procured from their Kings such restrictions as that though they could not be denied to have the single Power to all the former purposes invested in them alone yet could they not have the free use of some of them without the generall Concurrence of