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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	devil_n	father_n	lie_n	3,415	5	9.0726	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83723	Ansvver to a letter written out of the country, to Master John Pym, Esquire, one of the worthy members of the House of Commons.		1643 (1643)	Wing E26; Thomason E246_24; ESTC R5074	7,372	8

An ANSVVER TO A LETTER Written out of the country to Master John Pym Esquire one of the worthy Members of The House of Commons LONDON Printed Anno Dom. 164● An answer to a Letter written out of the countrey to Master Iohn Pym Esquire THough R. E. I am not acquainted with you yet have I often perused your Diabolicall forgeries the bitternesse of your complaints the invective poison couched in your speeches and the treacherous calumnies written in your Letters wondring that a Papist dare be so saucie to invent such untruths against the State knowing the Lawes to condemne such Pharisees as treasonable My intent at this time is not to search out the rancour of your poyson further then it lies couched in your Letter out of the countrey forged as to Master Iohn Pym Esquire which might rather have been justly entituled a calumnious Pamphlet forged of purpose to abuse him You may well say it was written out of the countrey 1 because by forreigne spirit of the Church of Rome an abortive in ours But 2 because it came from Hell the Devill is the father of lies he presented you a fit instrument for his purpose with it because of your Popish education and you have been obedient herein you say he is one of the worthy Members of the House of Commons Herein the Devill appeares like an Angell of truth you say he is one of the worthy members is such a one a fit subject for you to jeare taunt and abuse as if he were so base a vassall as your self a right Popish trick your Letter beares date Feb. 1. a time remarkable for upon this very day L. Sergius Catilina conspired the destruction of Rome as you have done of England but what was the event of it M. Cicero prevented his conspiracie and caused him to receive his due reward 691 Salust And so I doubt not but God will by some Cicero or other discover yours and bring you to the barre of justice for your labour But to come to the view of your forged Letter it self I find your Letter or rather calumnious Pamphlet to begin thus Sir I shall not need to tell you with what tendernesse of care I have hitherto observed your commands concerning the dispersing of those bookes you sent me It is true we are too well acquainted how tender you have been and carefull to stirre for the Popes honours sake and to this purpose have perused those bookes Remonstrances and Declarations which have proceeded from the High Court of Parliament which have been too much and too saucily abused by such turbulēt factious spirits neither do I wonder that your own conscience whispers treason to your selfe because you know so well your own guilt so lightly condemne your self with their just censures You say you find your Arts now to failt I hope you will in convenient time for doe not think that you can still vaile your black art of consecrating of traytours to act your desperate designes your art of conjuring with Bulls and Breves your arts of treason and treacherous conspiracies which your old men have re●●●●ed 〈◊〉 King Iames said once in the Parliament House By their first drinking i● liqour upon a certain shamefastnesse to bethought curious and your young men through evill education that have never been brought up but upon such venome in place of wholesome nutriment King Iames speech March 19. 1603. And indeed the practises of the Popish Armies in the North at this day are such that I hope the English Protestants will have so much understanding to preserve their own security that where you were wont to find a willingnesse you will be n●w to seek a receit I● the next place you seem to dissemble the matter and indeed to mingle your poysoned pills with Sugar that the bait may the better allure us to swallow it it is true enough that the malignant party have infused such Principles as begin to shake the whole fabrick by which they have laboured to divide the King from his Parliament to lessen his honour by vailing his throne there exalted by dissolution of Parliaments by destruction of the Lawes and Liberties of the subject and indeed by overthrowing all Religion and turning the peace of the Kingdome to a confused Chaos and so to crosse and hinder that happy building which the Parliament on their behalf have endeavoured with so much industry In some things you have spoken true to give the Devill his due From a right understanding alwayes proceedes a right judgement Therefore is it that the Parliament rightly understanding the dangerous designes you daily practise doth bind us to assist them resting satisfied in their judgements and accordingly to proceed against you and your designes It is our misery that you have those to deale withall that want the first and so are ignorant of the misery you bring them by being so forward in the latter whose sufferings have payed too deare already since your Rhetoricke hath prevailed above the wholesome counsell and advice of the Parliament You say you are no longer able to restrain their you would have said your own rash judgement of Master Pym and many other worthy members of the Houses accusing them as the prime instruments of your misery you may well call it rash judgement indeed as a Spanish Embassadour once said G●ndomor by name at his return declaring what dissaffection he had raised in England against Parliaments Whatsoever project we list to attempt saith he enters safely at that eare whilst their policie lies asleep So have too many at this day been seduced by such wicked practises to labour that the wise policies of the High Court of Parliament may be lulled asleep in a tempest whilst we and all we have are drowned in the deluge The ordinary or rather extraordinary calumnies you write of are too frequently used indeed the more it is to be lamented for it is easie to be discerned how the want of right understanding doth corrupt such judgements as are so discerned by you As 1 to say Have we at all mended our condition this Parliament I answer that it was much bettered by their suppressing of Monopolies preventing of injustice in many Courts and beginning a Reformation in Religion Indeed your Popish hopes were not bettered but our hopes were and our condition found it out so till evill counsell stopt their proceedings by raising a dissaffection in the Kings Majestie towards them which hath caused so much distractiō bloudshed ever since so that may we say indeed 2 Are we not fallen almost into termes of absolute ruine since Papists are permitted to bear Arms against us do we not see our estates not onely takē away without but against Law by plundering and pillaging the dayly practice of the Popish Cavaliers insulting over the lives of the Protestants in the North by wofull experience have found But whereas you taxe the proceedings of the the High Court of Parliament in the raising of money to