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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
blood_n	bread_n	sacrifice_n	wine_n	9,076	5	7.9626	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90972	Tyrants and protectors set forth in their colours. Or, The difference between good and bad magistrates; in several characters, instances and examples of both. / By J.P.	Price, John, Citizen of London.	1654 (1654)	Wing P3349; Thomason E738_18; ESTC R203206	41,217	58

where the Prince and the Prophet Anglicè the * Civil and Ecclesiastical Tyrants had their Seats and their Seas the Cities Towns Countries were the most debauch'd parts of the whole Nation 5. He will rule all and be ruled by none he throws away the bonds of Nature Reason and Religion and acts by his pride pleasure and passion No not by God Nature Reason Law Exod. 5. 2. Pharaoh said Who is the Lord that I should obey his voyce and let Israel go I know not the Lord neither will I let Israel go Pride compasseth them about like a chain violence covereth them as a garment Psal. 73 6. Taking pleasure in their pride and cruelty until their pride bring them low Prov. 29. 23. Their greatness and gallantry makes them swell and look loftily Is not this great Babel that I have built for the house of my Kingdom by the might of my power and for the honour of my Majesty said proud Nebuchadnezzar but God pluckt down his plumes and stain'd all his glory and sent him to school amongst wilde beasts that he might learn better manners then to vye it thus with the great God of Heaven Earth Sea the R●ign and Ruine the pride and punishment of Tyrus Eze. 28. 27. because his heart was lift●d up he said I am a God but God threatened to darken his br●gh●ness to shame his glory and to bring him to the pit I might instance likewise in Herod who glittering in his shining garb as Josephus hath it assuming the honour of God was ungodded yea unman'd by the basest of vermin The time would fail to speak to B●n●adad Rabshecha Zenacherib Antiochus Nicanor of Alexander the Great of Nero of Bajazet the great Turkish Emperor with many others whose pride insolency and haughtiness brought the wheel o● Gods wrath so exempla●lry upon them that they are made some in sacred and others in other Histories perpetual monuments of Gods most fearful indignation amongst whom may we not bring the late King of England of bleeding memory whose stubbornness resoluteness and unruleableness by Parliaments Councels or the wisest of his people brought him to ruine because they would not suffer him to command like a God without contradiction He acted so like a Devil murth●ring and massacring his people with fire and sword until the wrath of the Lord broke out upon him like a Lion from the thicke●s devouring him by the hands of his own people to the h●rror and amazement of all the Princes round about his Will was his Reason and his Reason his Will and both his downfall 6. His Commonwealth is a common woe where his p●or Subjects as in a great Bridewell receive their work and their wages their labour and their lashes their stripes and stipends as his meer discretion and the will of his Beadles Where a Tyrant rules the Estates Lives and Liberties of the People are not theirs but his not at theirs but at his commands Cato calls them Fures publicos p●bl●q●e T●ieves another Latrones cum privilegio R●bb●s by authority the very Scabs of a Nation Isai. 5. 7. He looked for Judgment but behold Oppression or a Scab for Righteousness but behold a Cry Like that of the poor Subjects of Phalaris whose delight it was to see and hear their tortures and screeches as John Maria Duke of Millane who took pleasure to throw his people to be torn in pieces by fierce Mastives With the Spaniard it is sin to enquire into Religion and punishable by a perpetual cruel Inquisition With the French it is crime enough in the poor Husbandman to wear good clothes of his own getting eat good meat of his own breeding it is meat for his Master and his Attendants too good for him The great Turk hath his Bow strings to strangle his Subj●cts at their pleasure whose commands must be obeyed though they be to require whom he pleaseth to throw themselves headlong and break them into pieces down steep Rocks and Clifts lest a worse thing if worse may be should befall them 7. In stead of punishing offences he arms Offenders whereby he becomes the greatest Traytor Murtherer and Thief violating the greatest Trusts of the Liberties Lives and Livelyhoods of the People As God hath his good Angels to do his Will viz. secure and defend protect and preserve his people and the Devil his evil Angels for contrary service even so Tyrants which are Satans first-born have their Angels or Messengers viz. whole Troops Regiments and Armies to execute their cursed Commands as Herod had his armed men sent out to destroy poor Innocents all Histories recording the cruelty of Tyrants mention their numerous and armed Agents their swift M●ssengers and Executioners of fury who are commonly the scum filth and froth of the Nation hence it was that when the late King set up his Standard against his Parliament and People the vilest basest and worst of the Nation did flow in unto him whereof God made a great Sacrifice unto his Justice and Indignation by their utter ruine and destruction 8. He eats up the people like bread and drinks their blood like sweet wine commanding all as if he made all though he mars all making his Creators his creatures his Makers his meat his Lords his Loons All men naturally are born free made at first to command and not to obey and so lived until from the Spring of Adams transgression they fell among themselves to do violence and wrong and foreseeing that such courses must needs tend to common destruction they agreed by common consent to bind each other from mutual injury and because a mutual faith was not sufficient unto mutual peace therefore they ordained Authority by mutual consent and betrusted some therewith to restrain by force and punishment the violation of common right which Trustees were not so made to b● their Lords and Masters but D●pu●ies and Commissioners to execute that Justice which else every man by the b●nd of Nature and Covenant must have executed for himself and for another and why any man should have lordship or authority over others but for this common end is not imaginable Rulers were made by the people not the people by them they were made for the people not the people for them they are each particular mans Lord by their own consent for each mans peace but they are servants to the whole for the good of all no man●s bound to the Ruler in any matter of common prejudice but he i● bound to them all in common preservation the whole owe not their lives to any though never ●o great on Earth the greatest oweth his li●e to the whole and is made great by God and man for service and not for Lordship sake wh●n such Trustees turn Tyrants what are th●y but the grea●est Traytors Is not Treason the betraying of just Trust● the greater the T●ust the greater the Treason the worse the T●aytor What greater Trust then that of Governmen● which being once vo●un●●r●ly