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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	know_v	speak_v	4,329	5	4.2546	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87205	A declaration of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. For the undeceiving of deluded and seduced people, which may be satisfactory to all that doe not wilfully shut their eyes against the light. In answer to certaine late declarations and acts framed by the Irish popish prelates and clergy in a conventicle at Clonmae-Noise. Licensed by the secretary of the army.	Ireland. Lord Lieutenant (1650 : Ireton); Ireton, Henry, 1611-1651.	1650 (1650)	Wing I1031; Thomason E596_6; ESTC R15772	11,563	16

Warre and venture lives and all upon such a ground as this But if God be pleased to unveile you of your sheeps clothing that they may see how they have been deluded and by whom I shall exceedingly rejoyce and indeed for their sakes onely have I given you these competent Characters if God shall so blesse it for their good And now for them I doe particularly declare what they may expect at my hands in this point wherein you will easily perceive that as I neither have nor shall flatter you so shall I neither goe about to delude them with specious pretences as you have ever done First therefore I shall not where I have Power and the Lord is pleased to blesse me suffer the exercise of the Masse where I can take notice of it nor suffer you that are Papists where I can find you seducing the People or by any overt act violating the Lawes established but if you come in my hands I shall cause to be inflicted the punishments appointed by the Lawes to use your own Tearme secundum gravitatem delicti upon you and to reduce things to their former state on this behalfe As for the People what thoughts they have in matters of Religion in their owne breasts I cannot reach but thinke it my duty if they walke honestly and peaceably not to cause them in the least to sulfer for the same but shall endeavour to walke patiently and in love towards them to see if at any time it shall please God to give them another or a better minde And all men under the power of England within this Dominion are hereby required and enjoyned strictly and religiously to doe the same To the second which is the distruction of the Lives of the Inhabitants of this Nation To make it good that this is designed they give not one reason which is either because they have none to give or else for that they believe the people will receive every thing for truth they say which they have too well taught them and God knows the People are too apt to doe But I will a little helpe them They speake indeed of rooting out the Commons and also by way of consequent that the extirpating of the Catholique Religion is not to be effected without the Massacring destroying or banishing the Catholique Inhabitants which how an allogicall an Argument this is I shall easily make appeare by and by Alas the Generality of the Inhabitants are poore Laytie as you call them and Ignorant of the grounds of the Catholique Religion Are these then so interwoven with your Church Interest as that the absence of them makes your Catholique Religion fall to the ground We know you thinke not so you reckon your selves and your selves only the pillers and supporters thereof and these as far as they have the exercise of club Law and like the Asse you ride on obey your commands But concerning these relation of your Religion enough hath been spoken in another place only you love to mix things for your advantage But to your Logick here is your Argument The Design is to extirpate the Catholique Religion But this is not to be done but by the massacring banishing or otherwise destroying the Catholique Inhabitants Ergo it is designed to Massacre banish and destroy the Catholique inhabitants To prove this no concluding Argument but yet well enough agreeing with your learning I give you this Dilemma by which it will apear That whither your Religion be true or false this will not follow If your Religion be the true Religion yet it a Nation may degenerate from the True Religion and apostatiz as too many have done through the seducements of your Roman Church then it will not follow that men must be massacred banished or otherwise destroyed necessarily no not as to the Change of the true Religion in a Nation or Country Only this argument doth wonderfully well agree with your principles and practice you having chiefly made use of fire and sword in all the changes in Religion that you have made in the world If it be change of your Catholique Religion so called it will not follow because there may be found out another means then Massacring destruction and banishment to wit the word of God which is able to convert a means that you as little know as practice which indeed you deprive the People of Together with humanity good life equall and honest dealing with men of a different opinion which we desire to exercise towards this poore people if you by your wicked Councell make them not uncapable to receive it by putting them into blood And therefore by this also your false and twisted dealing may be a little discovered But wel your words are Massacre destroy and banish good now give us an instance of one man since my comming into Ireland not in armes massacred destroyed or banished concerning the two first of which justice hath not been done or endeavoured to be done But for the other of banishment I must now speak unto the People whom you would delude and whom this most concernes that they may know in this also what to expect at my hands The Question is of the destruction of life or of that which is but little inferiour to it to wit banishment I shall not willingly take or suffer to be taken away the life of any man not in arms but by the Triall to which the People of this Nation are subject by Law for offences against the same And as for the banishment it hath not hitherto been inflicted upon any but such who being in Arms upon the Terms they were taken might justly have been put to death as those instanced in their declaraion to be sent to the Tobacco Islands And therefore I do declare that If the people be ready to run to Arms by the instigation of their clargy or otherwise such as God by his providence shal give into my hands may expect that or worse measure from me but not otherwise Thirdly to that of the ruine of their fortune you instance in the act of subsctiption whereby the estates of the Inhabitants of this nation are sold so as there remaineth now no more but to put the purchasers in possession and that for this cause are the forces drawn out of England And that you might carry the Interest farre to engage the common sort of People with you you further say to them that the moderate usage exercised to them is to no other end but to our private advantage and for the better support of our Army intending at the close of our Conquest as you terme it to roote out the Commons also and to plant the land with Collonies to be brought hither out of England This consisting of divers parts will aske distinct Answers And first to the act of Subscription It 's true there is such an act and it was a just one For when by your execrable Massacre and Rebellion you had not onely raised a bloudy warre to