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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	set_v	spirit_n	worship_n	4,124	5	8.6355	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93094	The famers fam'd or An answer, to two seditious pamphlets, the one intituled The just man in bonds, the other A pearle in a dunghill, written in the behalfe of that notorious lyar, and libeller John Lilburne. Also a full reply, with a confutation of certaine objections devised by the trayterous author of a seditious and unparraled [sic] libell, intituled A remonstrance of many thousand citizens, and other free borne people of England, to their owne House of Commons, &c. Wherein the wickednesse of the authors, and their abettors, the destructive courses of the sectaries, and their adherors is amply discovered. So that all (not wilfully blind) may cleerely see, that they are men stirred up by mans enemie, the Devill, as to ruine themselves, so this poore nation, that yet lies bedrid of her wounds lately received. And ought to be avoided as serpents, to be contemned as abjects, and to be delivered over to Satan, as blasphemers and reprobates. / Written by S. Shepheard.	Sheppard, S. (Samuel)	1646 (1646)	Wing S3163; Thomason E349_5; ESTC R201022	25,285	34

of the just man ●n bonds TROUBLE-HOUSE CONFORMITTE is cryed up for the Reasons aforesaid and no other The Imprisonment of Lilburn you must know is a sore corrasive to the Pamphleter as erst to his ‖ Predecessor and therefore he also will have a fling at the House of Lords thus And why presume yee O yee Lords thus against us set forth your merit before the people and say for this good it is that wee will Reigne over you Remember your selves or shall we remember you which of you before this Parliament minded any thing so much as your Pleasures Playes Masques Huntings Feastings Gaming 's with the Appurtenances If you owed any man money or abused any man what Law was to be had against you what Patents and Projects did you suppresse or so much as move against nay had not an hand in What fearfull enemies were you to Ship-money to the proceedings of the High Commission Star Chamber and Councell Board indeed your goodnesse was unexpressible and undiscernible before this Parliament The audacious and impudent Pamphleter not considering the Lords * Thou shalt ●ot speak evill of the Ruler of ●y people commādement chargeth the honourable House of Peeres with an heap of known falsities he taketh in hand to shew that before this Parliament began they were no other then persons giving themselves over wholly to pleasure and that they plaid Rex over the people doing with them as they listed that in stead of suppressing they caused to be extorted those unknowne vast lones of money levied by the terme of Ship-money that they were the upholders of those tyrannizing Courts the High Commi●●ion the lively Effigies of the Spanish Inquisition Star-Chamber and Counsell board c. It is knowne to all men not wilfully blinde for there is a sort of men that see and will not such is this our Pamphleter and his Complices that the Lords in generall I meane those now assembled in Parliament were ere this Parliament was thought on men renowned through the world men singularly vertuous men fearing God and eschewing evill and what though they beheld Masques do not all wise men know that a Morall Masque is profitable to see and though to the unlearned who may refraine the sight of them they seem Riddles and Nulls yet to the knowing who are able to explaine the sense and meaning and to crack the shell they finde a sweet and pleasant kernell and whereas you taxe the use of Hawking Hunting and such like Princely sports it were a sin for them to refraine but to use them no sin at all the whole scope of their Intentions using the said Games being for the Recreation of their bodies by which they become lively and are more apt and able to serve their Maker and to manage the Publike Affaires to which the Lord hath called them And it is also very well known that the Lords now Assembled in Parliament were the happy Instruments of procuring a grant for a Parliament their Inventions in so doing wholly out of zeale towards God and love to their Countrey that the worship of the one then too much corrupted might be purified and refined and the burthens under which the other groaned to be taken off and is this their Reward ô yee unstable ungratefull and giddy Sectaries whose tongues are set on fire of hell to maligne and vilifie those that are the most upright and for whom ye ought to blesse the Lord as being part of those Instruments to get for you with the hazzard of their lives and states the worship of God according to the purity thereof that Liberty and Freedome which your Forefathers have sighing wished for but could never attaine but oh the wickednesse wilfulness and pride of heart that is in some that they rather then lose one jot of their new fancied Liberty indeed a slavery would they duly consider it chuse to be guilty both of their owne and an whole Nations fall Besides are there not Thousands whose * The Royall party vanquisht Persons live in hope to see the second part of the destruction of Germany acted in England And that the hatred now betwixt the Independents and Presbyterians will prove as fatall as whilome that bloudy * The occasion whereof was two German Brethren the one whereof mantained the Popes honour to be above the Emperors the other averred the Emperours dignity exceeded the Popes whereupon they fought and the one slew the other Their quarrell was spread through out all Italy Diffention betwixt the Guelfes and Gibellines the enormities that attend DISSENTION the most excellent Poet VIRGIL admirably describeth where he maketh Iuno seake to Alecto Aeneidos lib. 7. saying Tu potes unanimes armare in Praelia Fratres Atque odiis versare Domos tu verbera tectis Funereasque inferre faces tibi nomina mille Mille nocendi Artes Faecundum concute pectus Disjice compositam pacem fere crimina Belli Arma velit poscatque simul rapiatque juventus Englished Thou canst beloved Brethren force to jarre And overturne whole Families by War And cast from house to house combustious fire Take thee a thousand shapes false names acquire And thou a thousand Fallacies canst use Then search thy ful swolne breast turne to abuse Their Peace agreed on sow tho● seeds of Ill Their youthes doe long each others bloud to spill c. But we have yet more of the devills language who no doubt Dictated to the Pamphleter as hee hath often done to Lilburne and his complices and it is worth your observation that Satan by his Delusions maketh them to bee the props and stayes of his now tottering Kingdome for he perceiveth and gnasheth his teeth for ire that the power of those whose Innovations set up caused many thousands to fall who ere they could recover themselves were plunged in the depth of Abysse and that now the spirit of truth so prevaileth that Gods true worship is like to be erected according to the originall purity He now therefore the power of Hell assisting him tryeth all the wayes to hinder and impede so glorious a worke he therefore hath dispatched his Agents abroad giving them commission to enter into the hearts of all void of the Spirit of grace and to cause them both by writing and speaking to calumniate and as farre as in them lyeth make odible the persons of those who are the chiefest Instruments of Gods glory and then without doubt their Persons hated their Performances will not be acceptable this will cause contention and Divide Impera according to Machiavil Divide and prevaile But thou that rulest Behemoth who laughest at the strength of man put thy hook in his nostrills and save thy people by thy strong Arme. Now the Pamphleter citeth an Adage comparatively It was wont to be said when a thing was spoyl'd that the Bishops foot had been in it and if the Lords mend not it will be said so of them and justly too It was wont to be said