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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	speak_v	think_v	word_n	4,073	5	4.0677	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78129	The crafts-mens craft. Or The wiles of the discoverers. In abusing and incensing authority and the people against innocent and harmlesse men, by false accusations, and sophistical suggestions: viz. because they are not formalists they are atheists: because not superstitious, therefore irreligious: because they are against tyranny and oppression, therefore they are against government, magistracy, and laws: because for good and equal laws, therefore for no order or distinctions, and for equalling mens estates, &c. and these delusions are here cleerly manifested. / By H.B.	H. B.	1649 (1649)	Wing B73; Thomason E561_11; ESTC R206018	15,340	15

judge it best that they be remited and forgotten by both I speak without commission but I think not without reason and a due regard to both If words have bin high from some of us the provocations considered and that their speeches have not bin altogether causless considering likewise that the men so speaking have spent themselves for their Country and cannot in truth be said to have other ends than its Freedom and Safety having never either kept the Tract or used the means to make themselves great or rich but slighted both which is no small badge of their Integrity These things considered I say it will be no bad advice I believe Recepini canere to found a Retreat and bethink our selves of the impossibility of a perfect ●in on unless there be some Rem●ssion of all hands of the dangers of our differences in case the enemy ever appear again and of many other particulars that might be urged but tha● some will be apt to surmise that this proceeds from the apprehension of our present condition and not from a desire of peace and strengthning the Nation by a good and well joynted union However it has ever bin counted good advice to the wisest States to stint and moderate their fortunes and in greatest successes rather to look backward than forward and rather to stop the current of dangers ensuing than to follow the stream of that Victory by which they may be more encreased 'T is Tacitus advice Securitati potius quam potentiae consulere to consult rather our Security than propose the increase and inlargement of power This Advice haply will be dis-relisht and who can help it However 't is given But we urge against Martial Law and so endeavor the breaking of the Army For how can an Army subsist without Discipline and where is Discipline if there be no Martial Law Answ. That what the Law is express against that we may urge against But the Law is express against Martial law in time of peace Ergo Our Ancestors it seems knew very well the rigor and severity of that Law that aptness of its being extended beyond the camp a chlamyde ad Togam from the Sould●er to the Citizen and many other inconveniences of it and therefore have expresly provided against it exercise in times of Peace And cer●ainly other men ought not to plead for that the Law provides against Nor ought our Desires to be so slighted and condemned that are grounded upon express Law And whereas the Discoverers urge that we have made hurly-burlies and therefore by our own Arguments it may be exercised now We answer First That he is mistaken in his major and takes that for granted which we laterly disclaim and is in it self false 2. That allowing it to be true yet our pleas against Martial Law were before the hurly-burlies 3. His conseque●ce is very infirm For the meaning of Times of Peace is according to Sir Edw. Cook When the Courts of Justice are open in whom is to be had Iustice against all Faults and Offences Some other Excursion and Expostulations are made hereupon by the Discoverers which we onely desire may be read we conceive there needs no answer For the remaining part of their Book 't is spent in confuta●ion of the first and second part of Englands New Chains Disco●ered In doing whereof I command their wisdoms for caving out the most and most considerable parts thereof as ●ut 〈◊〉 f●othy and impertinent passages they have as safe a combat of this a● he that fenc'd with the ●ree and need not fear any steping from beh●nd it T is a hands●m predicament we are in be●ng made Traytors for holding our peace for what can't Art and Sophistry do and we should hardly scape he la●n or Treason if in this case we should speak 'T is a meritorious work indeed and a gloriou● conquest fir●t to hold our hands and then to buf●et us To ●ag and then re●●●e us Howe●er we had thought these times and men pretend●ng to Freedom wou●d never have found fault with some things therein which have from the b●gini●g of these Distractions bin justified by the ablest and most ingenuous men But when is it a better time to condemn th●ngs good then when no man dares appear in their justification I wish some other way might be found to unt●ngle tho●e chains Non respondendo sed ar●ndo not by an●wer●ng but doing Herodian The Ey● are Credulous when the Ears are not The Paper will remain and when compar'd with the An●●ers in the Di●coverer disgusts I fear and dis-●at●sfactions will continue as finding that the Childs Shoe cannot cover the mans foot The things desired are generally confest to be good but the season is dislik●t and haply the expression For the last let the strong bear with the weak For the first T is not good to be overmuch fixt and peremptory Let assurance be given that they shall a● a better reason be done and see whether that will not satisfie Consider however that e●ght yeers waiting may beget some impatience and on the other side that they that have waited eight yeers may tarry a little longer Thus it will become us all one sort and another to be indeed rather umpires than parties to press for those things that are desired not as engaged men or as particularly concern'd but as Agents or Factors for the Common wea●th not with heat but reason not with reviling but perswas●on The one makes parties and sets us at variance the other begets Love and Concord a●d will make it appear one to an●ther though I would have it be in reality and not onely in appearance that though we may differ in the way yet we really intend one anothers good I pray God in the first place to incline my heart exactly to fol●ow this Councel and I think it will be needful also for all and every one of all parties and above all things to intend un●on for as the Discoverer observes M Walw●n well know That by Concord the least things encrease By Discord the greatest come to nothing And though it 's said of us that we follow the rule of Divine Impera Devide and Reigne yet all impart●al men cannot but impute the following of that cursed maxime to any rather than to us For we not onely have declin'd all means of rule having never put our selves forward or bin eager in the pursuit of Offices but our principles also do so bound all Officers to Express Rules Limits and Accounts as that the gain will not much over-po●●e the labor and we could wish it at that pass and questionless it would be so were it not for the large Revenue opportunity of corruption c. that instead of hunting after them men should rather desire to dec●ine them and that the discharge thereof should be taken as a Favor and acceptable Service to the Common-wealth Other Scandals there are dispersed through the Book but because they are here●o●ore answe●ed by us we shall not need to say any thing particularly to them but refer the Reader to the Manifestation the Fountain of Slander opened the Charit● of Church men desiring onely that notice be taken that where answers be given as in that slander against M. Walwyn of perswading the Woman to make away with her self the answers are not considered and disprov●d but the slanders afresh reported as if satisfaction were not desired but rather slighted as a means to prevent the intended work of making us odious And so we have done with the first part of the Discoverers onely we shall make one observation that what our party principally stick● to they altogether decline viz. Our Mani●estation and the Agreement By the one unjust Aspersions are wip'd on and we manifest what we are not By the other we evidence to all the World what we are and what we seek for Other papers are personal and concern haply this or that man as they have bin by occasion and provocation necessitated from them but these do more generally concern us all and are own●d by the Party And therefore it will do better hereafter that men make not excursions a causa ad non causam from the cause to the accident● In the last we say we center and acquiesce especially in a constant and frequent Representative and shall even judge it our duties to press for the Establishment thereof And so till the Second part of the Discoverers we shall take respite desiring that they may well consider the evil effects which have proceeded from Officious mens incensing and mis-guiding Authority And that Ahassuerus had never bin so violent against the Jews but for the instigations of Haman Nor Paul●s Compan●ons suffered so much at Macedonia but for the Covetousness of Demetrius and his Crafts-men FINIS