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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	word_n	world_n	year_n	369	4	4.3593	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57714	De venenis, or, A discourse of poysons their names, natures, & vertues : with their several symptomes, prognosticks, and antidotes / by W.R., M.D.; De venenis	Ramesey, William, 1627-1675 or 6.	1663 (1663)	Wing R204; ESTC R21071	116,727	326

DE VENENIS OR A Discourse OF POYSONS THEIR Names Natures Vertues With their several SYMPTOMES PROGNOSTICKS and ANTIDOTES BY W. R. M. D. LONDON Printed for Samuel Speed at the Rain-bow in Fleet-street near the Inner Temple-gate 1663. TO THE Most High and Mighty MONARCH The Kings most Excellent Majesty CHARLES The SECOND By the especiall Grace and most singularly miraculous providence of GOD King of England Scotland France and Ireland with the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging Defender of the Faith c. May it please your Majesty SVch are the froward perverse Humours and Spirits of most Men with whom we Convers and live in these apostatizeing times and last dayes described by the * And in 2 Pet. 2.10 12 13. Apostles 2 Tim. 3.4 5. That truth it self may not be spoken without passing under the severest censures their Depraved Phansies and Imaginations can suggest unto them Yet having that within me which is a continuall Feast And which is sufficiently able to Arm and Defend me from the sharpest Arrow their malicious Tongues can shoot and sputter against me I shall not forbear to testifie my joy and congratulate your Majesty's most miraculous Restauration by this my Dedication notwithstanding thereby I shall only discover a will to desire having no skill to deserve the least Countenance from your Majesty And having no better a Praesent at presant nor other way to manifest that Loyalty which hath for many years kept me under a Cloud I thought better bestow a mite thē nothing at all not that I presume I can add in the least to your Majesty's Vertues or merit by all that I can do or have done or said I am sufficently sensible that when I have done and suffered to the utmost it is but my Duty and if your Majesty shall so far Condescend as to take the smallest Cognisance thereof I must ever brag and boast of superlative favour and greatest honour that so mean a shrub and unworthy a subject as my self can possibly be capable of And for such as weigh me in the false Ballance of their own Judgements to think other thē my words Declare or take me to swim down the stream of Flattery and Time-servingnesse with the major part of the World which my Soul ever abhorred that for secular ends and their own advantage turn as the Weather-Cook upon a Steeple wrong themselves more then me who to my familiar acquaintance was ever known to be firm and true to that of Prov. 24.21 Manger all the Temptations which years of Calamities could force upon me Witnesse my last Dedications to my Quadripartite Intituled Astrologie Restored Published Anno 1653. At which time every one did what seemed good in his own eyes there being no King in England Though at that same time there arose such a thing as the Phrantick people and the giddy part of the world esteemed equivolent to Sacred Majesty verifying that Parable of Jotham Judg. 9. verse 14. and 15. especally whereby your poor subjects have been so scratch't and claw'd that your Majesty can hardly know them they are so strangely metamorphosed Nobility layed aside and he that ran might read Prov. 28.2 in the very frame of our Government And that in Psalm 12.8 was found true in all our streets But blessed be the wise Disposer of all things that hath given us some hopes of a blessing upon our Land since we may boast of the next words Eccles 10.17 more then any people in Christiandome no King for so many hundred of years in Europe nay I think I may safely say in the whole world is lineally Descended from Nobles nay Kings As ours Let us therfore remember that truth 1 Sam. 15.23 And to follow the Command of the HOLY-GHOST Eccle. 10.20 That Job's Reprehension Job 34.18 may never rise up against us more For since there is no Power but of GOD Rom. 13.12 3. v. 5. 1 Pet. 2.13 And therefore we are injoyned to be obedient much more is our ingagement thereunto when there is so apparent an Hand of Divine Providence Justice Goodness most singularly and miraculously shown in the Restauration and establishing of your Majesty over us even in a time when there was in all Human Probability no hopes that so we might see the Finger of the LORD and that it was he only that could redeem us out of the Egyptian Bondage and Slavery we groaned under And by such * For in humaine Reason Fleetwood who was Generall and Commanded all the Forces should have imployed them for his Brother Rich. P. Establishment his ends being bound up also in his then for the pulling of him down Which was the ●ui●e of both unlikely means By the strugling and striving of a few Ambitious Spirits that were blinded therewith so that they knew not where their own safety lay was this happy birth occasioned And which is most of all without the least Bloodshed This is † Psal 118 23. Matth. 21.42 marvellous in our * And not to be paralel'd in any story Sacred or prophane Which miraculous providēce me thinks should silence quiet the Tongues and Spirits of all Rebbells eyes and should be for a perpetuall joy unto us And Certainly GOD doth never worke any extraordinary worke but to some extraordinary end which we have as much reason to expect as any people under heaven if our sins and wantonnesse under so great mercies prevent not For we see and know that since the rising of so glorious a Sun as your Majesty in our Hemisphere all the mists of Disorder Confusion Discord and Trouble which over spread us And those dark and horrid fears of perpetuall Warr Dissention Desolation and Destruction as Mists and Foggs upon the Soules and Spirits of good Men are wholly Dissipated and Dispersed So that we hope to have Peace and Righteousness upon their true and Right Basis to all Generations setled And as we doubt but it will be your Princely care in these more weighty matters So we can no less then daily expect a Rectification of other abuses And a perfect Cure of other evills which are Epidemically Reigning among us As to trouble your Majesty but with the mention of * Allthough we might mind your Majesty of an Infinite many more Yet we shall only hint at one which makes divers of your Majesty's suffering Subjects Servāts sick at the very Heart That they must be still equally sufferers now ūder your Majesty's Just Power and Government as formerly under Oppressours Because Mammon the God of the World is not their friend so much as such who have been your Majesties Enemies And therefore their interest in friends as friends go now is as slender And allthough I for my own part can plead no merit Loyalty being my Duty Yet if your Majesty would be pleased to take notice of such who have been wholly ruined by the fall of your Majesty's Father of Glorious Memory as I have beē for one to whom