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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	know_v	spirit_n	word_n	8,791	5	4.5134	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94277	The Scotch souldiers speech concerning the Kings coronation-oath.	Montrose, James Graham, Marquis of, 1612-1650, attributed name.	1647 (1647)	Wing S963; Thomason E387_2; ESTC R201491	10,572	18

both in Church ●nd State which he is sworne and hath so often deeply protested and declared to maintaine Good God! what shall we say to this whether shall we cause our shame to slye to whom shall we appeale for excuses shall we ascend up into heaven for them Loe there we shall find all the Saints and Angels of God who continually behold the face of their heavenly Father detesting those new doctrines of forcing the Kings conscience contrary to his Oath as such whereof all the Patriarches and Prophets and Martyrs of God were formerly ignorant Shall we appeale unto men behold Ireland conquered our owne Country up in Armes the greatest part of the Nobility and Gentry and all the heads of the Universities together with the learned part of the Clergie of England detesting our actions with as much abomination as ever the Egyptians hated the profession of Shepherds and if we had put the case at the election of the Parliament members if the King will not contrary to his Oath taken at his Coronation consent to the pulling down of Episcopacy and alteration of the Church Government whether or no it be the Subjects minds by force of Armes to compell him thereunto contrary to his Oath and conscience all people would have been ready to stone us as not thinking it possible that such horrid impieties should enter into the hearts or thoughts of the great Councell of the kingdome and certainly if we had ingenuously confessed the truth at first without the cloake of a thorough Reformation or of fetching evill Councellers from the King we should never have raised so great a power and if we look beyond the Seas we are accounted the shame of Christians and the scorn of Christianity yea even all Protestant Churches when they are really informed against what principles we have proceeded will hate and detest our actions shall we ransacke the sacred Scriptures I have shewed you before against what divine precepts we have proceeded but behold there indeed the pure fountaines of living water blundred and abused for the justification of our cause when one shall tell us that we may fight against our King because it is written Thou shalt binde their Kings in chaines and their Nobles with linckes of Iron Another blaspheming the King with horrid slanders shall conclude that Tophet was prepared of old yea for the King it was prepared And a third as though he would fore-prophecye of the Kings destruction saith though Jeconiah were the signet upon my right hand yet will I plucke him from thence Are not these horrid things such as would make a dumbe man speake and a wise man dumbe with horrour and amazement If fellow Souldiers you intend to be ruled by the Scripture let me put you a Scripture-case in Sauls seeking to make havocke of the Gibeonites contrary to the Oath given them you may observe how this Oath was obtained by fraud and a lye that it was expresly against the Covenant of Promise given to Abraham Isaac and Jacob and afterwards to Moses Aaron and the people that it was given rashly without asking counsell of God and to a people by Nation heathens by Religion Idolaters and by condition vassals to be drawers of water and hewers of wood that what Saul did was at the least 300 yeares after the Oath given in which time that Oath may seeme to some to be antiquated and that he did it in zeale to the people of Israel But what the successe the bloud of the men shed by reason of this perjury cryed aloud to heaven for vengeance Gods eares were opened to their cries he punisheth the whole Land with Famine and would not be paci●ied but with the hanging up of almost all Sauls Posterity are not these things written for our instruction and what judgements thinke we shall attend us if we force the King to violate that Oath which his Majestie tooke by the Lawes of the Kingdome for the preservation of Gods and the Churches Rights shall we then looke within us and there make boasts of the Spirit but if Gods Word be the tryall of the Spirit that Spirit which is repugnant to the Word of God cannot be the Spirit of God Gods Spirit comes to us in Truth not in Perjury in meeknesse in the forme of a Dove not of an Eagle or with Vultures tallons to steale flesh from the Altar and we know this to be the difference between the spirit of Truth and the spirit of Errour that Truth desireth nothing but the armes of righteousnesse the armes of Prayer and teares and the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God to fight for the profession hereof against their lawfull Kings the Doctrines of setting Kingdome against Kingdome and Nation against Nation by forreigne Wars and of setting the Father against the Son and the Son against the Father by civill dissentions are the Doctrines of those false Christs who shall deceive many and are reserved for the worst of times to be maintained by the worst of men who by their boasting of the Spirit fill the Church with Heresies and Schismes the Kingdome with Rebellion and the world with confusion shall we plead the Votes and Orders of the Parliament of England or the Nationall Covenant what were this but under pretence of pulling downe Popery to set up Idolatry and to lay aside all the Lawes of God for the Covenant and for the Votes and Orders of the Houses but if the Covenant be to maintaine Religion and the Kings honour we shall then truly performe the Covenant in both when we detest those Doctrines and actions that dishonour God and the King by accursed Perjury and that were a Covenant with hell that should covenant to force the King to forsweare himselfe But tell me I pray you is it the Votes and Orders of the Houses and the Covenant or the Commandements of God that shall justifie or condemne us the last day shall we plead the Lawes of England but I pray you what Lawes can be of force to mate themselves against the Lawes of God and what Lawes of the Kingdome were ever produced to justifie the raising of a Militia and the calling in of Forraine ayde and joyning in Covenants thereby to force the Kings violation of his Coronation Oath Againe if we beleeve them that are professed in those Lawes they lay this as a maxime that no Law Statute or Custome which is either against the Law of God or Principles of Nature can be of any validity or force but are voyd and null in Law they say further that therefore this Oath was by the Fundamentall Lawes and constitutions of the Kingdome presented to his Majesty of purpose to bind his conscience to preserve the Ecclesiasticall Rights for the comfort and encouragement of true Piety and Learning that as the Lawes and Statutes of Articuli Cleri and other recordes should bind the hands of the subjects so this Oath should binde the conscience of the King from