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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
war_n	great_a	king_n	scot_n	2,247	5	9.2324	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85121	A plain-dealing, and plain-meaning sermon, preach't in the parish church of St. Nicholas, Bristol, April. 6. 1660. Being the day appointed by the Parliament for publique fasting and humiliation for the sins of the nation, &c. Together with a prefatory epistle, and subsequent vindication both of the sermon, and author. Wherein (besides an apology for home and plain-preaching) you have something offered to allay the heat of thier stomacks, and to temper the tongues of those, who (being ignorant in scripture) reproach and revile Presbytery and Presbyters. With some hints at Satans subtlety, and the mischief of those people, who brand zeal for God and truth (in free, home, and faithfull preaching) with the reproachful names of anger, passion, and railing.	Farmer, Ralph.	1660 (1660)	Wing F443; Thomason E1025_5; ESTC R208684	39,155	50

times and were able make observation know it If you don 't others do And are not these grounds of unsettlement And upon a special solemn Fast such a one as this especially wherein we sought to God for establishment and settlement would it not be proper that these things and such the like might and should have been remembred and mentioned the more to consternate our spirits and promote our humiliation But you see I did not I lightly past it over in Generals Oh! But you said since those three eminent persons professors of those three most noble Professions Divinity Law and Physicke suffered upon the Pillory like Rogues and Cutpurses in such an opprobrious and disgraceful manner That the K. and his party never prospered did I say so and did I not say true Did not their Cause go every day backward I say their Cause the King and Bishops for they I meant I put them both together There is a saying In nomine Domini incipit omne malum And every man that was acquainted with the Transactions of those Times cannot but acknowledge that that was the source of all our miseries So dangerous a thing is it for Clergy-men to leave their Calling and turn Courtiers Men whose riches lie in their heads will be alwayes tampering 'T is good therefore they be kept to their proper businesse For say was it not a pretence of conformity and uniformity in Religion that began all our quarrell Not that I think an Vniformity an evil what ever others say but rather a good and by all good wayes to be endeavoured and I suppose till then we shall not be well setled And sure the quarrell began there I could wish the settlement began there For upon true judgement I speak it though it be a shame and a matter of sadnesse Most of the troubles and combustions in Civil States have been either begun or fomented by men of our profession I mean of the Clergy and was it not so with us Our first War intended was it not against the Scots and wherefore was it who began it Was it not called generally Bellum Episcopale the Bishops War I put the King and Bishops together with respect to this The Bishop could not begin a War I mean arm the people without a King And the Bishop having so great a power and influence upon the King prevail'd with him to raise Armes against them the Scots And the immediate Prodromus and forerunner of this War was it not the most horrid and reproachful standing of these eminent persons upon the Pillory I do professe the persons and every thing considered it was the saddest sight next to the Kings beheading that ever especially for many generations was seen in England I saw not the latter but I did the former And I well remember Mr. Burtons words when upon the Pillory Marke it says he little do we know what this dry tree pointing to the Pillory may bring forth And speedily after the next news from Scotland was If the Englishman loose his lugg the Scot would lose his cragg meaning against the rage and tyranny of the Bishop For having dealt thus barbarously with these three so eminent persons he then thought the terrour thereof would have daunted and cowed the Scottish Nation when as this did but heighten their indignation and raise greater opposition against him Yea but were not the Scots too blame in this matter It may be so but I know it not for I am not acquainted with the Laws Rights and Constitutions of their Kingdom and therfore I say no more to it But I ask this question Was their not entertaining Episcopal Government and the Service-book a sufficient ground to embroil two Nations two Christian Nations in War to shed the blood one of another And if for conformities sake with England Scotland must have a Service-Book why could not our own English Service-Book serve the turn but there must be divers alterations more conform to Romes language then in our own Liturgie of which Mr. Prins Book to that purpose can give you information But the Scots abhorrid it as Swines flesh and it would not down with them And no doubt could they have been beaten into it to have dined on it we should have been forced to have supt on it with them But hereupon on goes the War against them And how well this Holy War was like to succeed you may guess by the beginning for even those rude and ignorant Souldiers who were led against the Scots to kill them into conformity in our own Countrey as they past along towards Scotland in despight of their Commanders broke into divers Churches pull'd down and burnt the rails about the Communion Table and tore the Surplices and the Common-Prayer Books These things were notorious not done in a corner It would be too much beyond my de sign to mention all that followed Plain it was nothing prospered after And is this now such a hainous offence to say so Or was it not rather a matter to be acknowledged as a sin to be confest and for which deeply to be humbled and to repent of I might have mentioned the cruel usage of Dr. Layfield who at the instigation of the Bishop after a long imprisonment in the Fleet was whipt from thence to Westminister where raw as he was he stood upon the Pillory his nostrils slit and burnt in the cheeks or forehead But did I charge this evil or any other upon the King as the cause either of his or our suffering Nay did I not disclaim that bold presumption in the words even immediately foregoing saying Whether's sins were greater ours or our Princes God the Judge best knows For what am I that I should step into his chair This I concluded on and I think none can deny it If our sins had not been universal the judgement would not have been so general And I do profess I dare not judge the Kings sins to be greater then the peoples because he drank deeper in the judgement But if I had charged the sin of the King upon himself or his Father why should these men pretend to be so angry it would not have been to reproach him or triumph over him but to have been humbled with him and for him as well as for our selves for our pardon reformation and amendment So that I hope this is not to speak against the King or his coming in And I suppose they will not shew themselves my Reproachers I mean so ignorant or sottish as to say That I spake against the King or his coming in by telling them that their Wickedness might be a means to destroy both him and them For which I quoted that place 1 Sam. 12.19 and so on Much less did I speak against the King in advising them to be more careful to bring King Jesus into their hearts then King Charls to the Throne and telling them That they may be undone with him yea and by him both temporally and