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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
war_n	army_n	country_n	king_n	2,873	5	3.4385	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87156	Plain dealing: or, The countreymans doleful complaint and faithful watchword, to the statesmen of the times, whether in the Parliament or Army. Wherein is set down, the rise, nature, and species of right government, with the corruption thereof in former, and this our generation, to this present time. / By Edward Harrison of Keensworth in Hertfordshire, sometimes preacher to Col: Harrison's regiment.	Harrison, Edward, of Keensworth in Hertfordshire.	1649 (1649)	Wing H889; Thomason E554_22; ESTC R13821	12,317	16

English Nation by the King and his Clergy under the specious pretences of Legal Prerogative in Civil and decent Vniformity in Spiritual is so fresh in all mens memories that it were needless to trouble the Reader with the story of it whereto though the generallity of the people Issachar like were willing to subject themselves yet the iniquity and unrighteousness of our Tyrants being full the Lord hearing and granting the Prayers and Tears of his People as sometimes the Israelites stirred up some heroick Spirits to withstand the Usurpation of those in power and to give a check to their furious proceedings which opposition meeting with a resolved and hard-hearted Pharaoh was the cause of Englands misery and desolation as to its outward glory riches and plenty though through the Lords goodness his People have had their sufferings abundantly made up by the accession of Light Liberty and Spiritual acquaintance with themselves Wars confusions and shaking earthly foundations being the forerunners of Gods design of doing his work his strange work even destroying his Enemies and delivering his People in England which design of his that the mercy when enjoyed might be the more prized his name the more advanced his People the better prepared for it and that the less of man might appear in it he was pleased to carry on as to humane apprehensions foully abscurely by contrary instruments principles means and ways through many obstructions intermissions hopes and fears as by sad experience we have found the Wisdom and special Providence of our God being very admirable in his constant Counterworkings of our Statsemen in their Linsey-Woolsey Reformations as may be thus briefly demonstrated When this Parliament was by necessity in the Tyrants part summoned and called the Members thereof came with resolution to free themselves and the people of those notorious burthens wherewith they had been formerly sorely crushed viz. Ship-money High Commission Court Star-Chamber to bring those whom they counted evil Counsellors to Justice to abolish Episcopacy to revive the constant Succession of Parliaments and in order thereto to obtain the Militia into their own hands which in those times of the dawning of the day was all the Liberty they pretended to aym at which particulars all gained the King continuing his Negative Voice power of adding whom and as many as he would to the House of Lords and of bestowing places of Honor and Profit upon whom he pleased and thereby an opportunity of gaining the Major part of both Houses to his party And lastly setting up a proud Formal and bloody Presbytery in the room of Episcopacy had not amounted to the least dram of true Liberty yet even some of those things were vigorously opposed which caused a bloody War and after that all the forenamed particulars were by Conquest given in to the Parliaments Possession Wise men quickly saw how little all the glorious Liberty so vigorously contended for availed them the Parliament making their little fingers heavier then the Kings loyns introducing more oppressions upon the Consciences Estates and Liberties of the People then they had formerly taken away the Houses contending against the Kings unlimited Prerogative exercise as destructive a Power themselves that of the Lords being as bad as the Star-Chamber or Councel Table and that of the Commons in conjunction with their Synod not much better then the High Commission Court persecuting the faithful of the Land under the notion of Sectaries as formerly they had been in the other Court under the name of Puritans And in order to the compleating of their intended Reformation not according to the Word of God but in compliance with the Scotish Tradition right or wrong a Covenant was imposed for the finding out and crushing of all such conscientious and discerning men out of the Army of the Earl of Essex and all other publique employments as could not dance after the Scotish Pipes These designs the Lord ordered for good Thus First He provided an Asylum a place of refuge for the conscientious dissenters in the Army under Manchester and Cromwel Secondly He suffered the remainder the dross and scum of Essex's Army to moulder away and notwithstanding many great and chargeable recruits to lose ground not performing any memorable service at last gave them up as a prey to the enemy in Cornwal Thirdly He honored the despised Dissenters made them Victorious in the North and gave them favor in the sight of the People Lastly He caused the wheel to turn upon his Peoples Enemies by the new Model wherein the formal prophane and loose Covenanters were left out and the Religious and faithful Worthies put into their rooms whom he quickly made instrumental in subduing the Royalists to the great terror of their Enemies open and secret at Oxford and Sion Colledge The next Plot was the disbanding of that Schismatical Army the only block in their way to the setting up their Presbytery with Fire and Sword under the pretence of the relief of Ireland which occasioned the disbanding of Eleven of the chief contrivers out of the House of Commons and the imprisoning the Major and divers Aldermen of the City This design thus failing they Court the Riff-Raff in the City and Countrey to Petition the House in behalf of the King and Presbytery a goodly pair and against the Army and invited all the Cavaliers in Scotland to set up Church Government in England according to the Covenant whence proceeded our last dangerous and bloody War But through the Lords wonderful goodness to his People who worketh all things for good to them their Designs produced no other effects save onely the Kings and the Lords righteous Execution the extirpation of the House of Lords the purgation of the House of Commons and a glorious opportunity for freeing of this Nation from all its oppressors and oppressions by the laying of a foundation of Liberty Peace and Satisfaction to all serious men of all parties How happy were ENGLAND were mens Designs of inflaving it here at an end How gladly should I here break off and praise the Lord for his goodness to England But alas the Countrey-mans heart is as full of grief and his eyes as full of tears as ever he cryes out he is deceived his expectation frustrated and his Liberty betrayed he takes up Davids complaint it is not an open Enemy that enslaves him not damme Cavaliers not rigid envious and surly Presbyters but Religious and godly friends that have Prayed Declared Remonstrated and fought together for Freedom with them that with their Swords have cut in sunder the Chains of other Tyrants and yet now are become the greatest Tyrants over their brethren themselves which when he can refrain from sighing and sobbing he in his broken and rustick language thus expatiates All the forms of Government being corrupted and abused the LAWS and Administration perverted and the PEOPLES LIBERTIES betrayed it was promised that a new foundation should be layed by an AGREEMENT OF THE