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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	life_n	speak_v	word_n	4,493	5	4.1347	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56421	A Parliamenter's petition to the army, the present supreme authority of England		1659 (1659)	Wing P510; ESTC R14795	14,455	15

A PARLIAMENTER'S PETITION TO THE ARMY The present Supreme Authority OF ENGLAND High and Mighty Masters IT hath been in every bodies mouth The Parliament were your drudges that you were twice or thrice about to discard them since they sat last No doubt they spake it most of them as they would have it Well you have broken this Parliament yea you have broken your selves and us too yee have turned all topsie turvie 'T is true of you These are they that have turned the world upside down you have made England Scotland Ireland a Chaos without-form and void and I doubt your Omnipotency will never speak the word for such a creation as any honest man shall say when he hath looked upon it that it is very good You may pardon me since you have put all out of Order if you have disordered my thoughts so that I observe no method when all is without any method among us I tell you this action is the most faithless senslesse bootlesse ruinous action that ever appeared upon the Stage of the world the most false hearted and traitorous the most ridiculous and insignificant the most rash and fruitlesse the most dangerous and destructive adventure that ever men took in hand Oh my soul enter not thou into their secrets nor let any honest men say a confederacy with them let them associate themselves they shall be broken to pieces God will find them out in due time I beseech you what do you mean are ye Christians and yet will not be men to passe by all former Obligations did you not the other day bewail your Apostasie that you had wandred from your GOOD OLD CAVSE did you not tell us You took shame to your selves and remembred from whence you were fallen and repented and would do your first workes and therefore finding that God blessed you all along till you forced the Long Parliament but after that made you labour as in the fire and no good came of all your after actions therefore you assured them that now they should sit freely and you would strengthen their hands and be their servants Is not all this truth in these very words or to this effect and much more if I had leasure to repeat but it is fresh in every bodies mouths and minds though you have forgot it and are you not past shame now must we bewail your Apostacy now as fearing since you are fallen away after being enlightned it will be hard to restore you again to repentance especially since ye have tasted of the powers of this world But besides this did you not every Mothers child of you Officers did you nor take your Commissions from the Parliament one by one promise your obedience Yes that most faithful and gifted Brother Colonel Packer promised when he received his Commission at Mr. Speakers hands that he would not only promise them to be faithful and obedient but they should see by his actions that he would be a true servant to them and the Common-wealth Yea Lambert himself was the greatest stickler for the Parliament God forgive him for what ends I know not and yet these men Act like as they had given the Parliaments Commissions and trurn them out whom they just now promised so seriously to obey a Turk a Heathen would have scorned this falshood and basenesse What not 〈◊〉 faithful to our trust O faithlesse and perverse Generation Add to this that flattering and insinuating Petition and Representations but the other day wherein they so sadly bemoan themselves that the Parliament should so sharpely rebuke their humble servants their faithful servants that meant nothing but to petition in a peaceable manner where they artificially conceal their intentions for a General only desire that Fleetwoods Commission may be renewed other things they Petition for we understand what your Petitioning signifies some to insinuate into the favour of the Militia others to secure the Government of the Nation in the hands of the Officers of the Army it is so in the effect and the most Saint-like promise all to be well-meaning then to be servants to the Parliament and the most sweet expressions imaginable But we have tryed them that say they are Saints they are the faithful Servants of the Common-wealth but are not and have sound them Lyars Who Lambert put the Northern Brigade to petition for a General no such matter he perswaded them good man all he could against it yes I 'le warrant you And yet the Fift Monarcky-men the Mad ones of them think now Christs Kingdom goes on amain and flock down in Shoals to Walling ford-house to make way for Christs coming who may be coming for ought that I know as he saith When the Son of Man comes shall be find faith upon the earth Upon my word these were fit to live and raign with Christ a thousand years who cannot keep Faith an hundred dayes Let me say with the Psalmist Help Lord for the Godly man ceaseth for the faithful fail among the Children of men they speak vanity every one with his neighbour with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak 'T is a most senselesse ridiculous and insignificant action you pleasure your Enemies and make your selves and us the whole Nation a scorn a derision and a Proverb in the earth I formerly have been dealing with a Malignant Impostor whose whole businesse was nothing else but to make you break the Parliament to serve his designs for I tell you they fear their Wisdome more then your Power Are the Cavaliers your friends are ye bewitched to believe them and to slight your old true friends I thought I needed not to say much to answer that treacherous Cavalier it was enough to tell you whose was the plot to preswade you to break the Parliament ye are cheated into a belief of his imposture Ah me are ye not proud of your wisdome Whose is this Invention who put you upon this exploit Oh sad Will you please your enemies and grieve your friends Know him or them that put you upon this gross piece of folly and avoid them We that put you upon calling back this Parliament and encouraged you in the day of your straights and told every body we met how honest the Army would be now they understood themselves that they would stand by the Parliament while they did settle the Nation upon the foundations of righteousnesse and truth We even we are laughed to scorn and I must speak to you in the words of Joab ye have shamed this day the faces of all your servants that have saved your lives that have saved your credits which should be as dear as life and that have appeared for you in the day of your distresse in that you love your Enemies and bate your friends for you have declared this day that you regard neither Princes nor Servants for this day I perceive that it pleaseth you well though all we dye so Absalom live We know not how to