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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	absolute_a	according_a	act_n	15	3	4.9229	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75365	Animadvertions upon the Kings answer, read at the Common-Hall, Ianu: 13, 1642. Published as a caveat to the common-wealth, Jan. 24.		1643 (1643)	Wing A3207; Thomason E86_4; ESTC R8852	5,629	8

ANIMADVERTIONS Upon the KINGS ANSWER Read at the Common-Hall Ianu 13. 1642. Published as a Caveat to the Common-wealth Jan. 24. IN this great contention now producted into mutuall Hostility such hath been the the Serpentine policy of the Fomenters therof that it hath bin carried about with such cunning and deceit taking vantage upon every occasion to render the rationality of the Kingdome the Iudgment Votes and Ordinances of Parliament contemptible and destructive to the Common-wealth that their way is as the way of a Serpent upon a rock beyond delineation yet in part we may observe their subtility tanquam anguis in herba clad in royall Rethorick vel rectus venit tortuosus vel Leonem agit savit vel draconem agit fallit Sometimes in menacing Proclamations sometimes in gracious and perswasive pardons c. Thus royalty is abus'd and made a stalking horse to pernicious ends as to the griefe of each loyall Subject to the Primitive constitution or royality of this Kingdome consistant of of three co-ordinates a King and two Houses of Parliament meeting in one Centure of power as the three Essentialls in the Deitie indivisible yet distinct may be observed in His Majesties Answer to the City Petition for whereas his Highnesse is humbly supplicated for the safety of this City and Kingdom to return to the Parliament the Basis of the peoples safety and foundadation of regality wherein those many prosperous by-past years His Majestie hath been invested but instead of speaking comfortable words unto His people of Personall unity with His royalty nothing but contempt is virtually cast upon the very foundation of His Office ascribing in His apprehension all Love Duty and loyalty thereto and to His Person to none other but to the inveterate enemies of both according to the Kingdoms judgment and their own practise which doth strike at the very essence of the Kingly Office contract betwixt King and people to divert it to an Arbitrary usurpation which is no lesse tyrannicall than wilfull wherewith if the City would side they should not want renewed marks of his favour For at first observe He greets them with His good opinion of it That He doth not entertaine any mis-apprehension of the love and loyally thereof whereof the greatest part he conceives is full But what part is this is it not the same the Wisedom of the State which is best sensible of its own enormities adjudgeth its enemies If so his Majesty in his bosom hugs a Serpent for his safety which I believe He desires as He conceives to be the greatest part therein pursuing His own ruine but I hope the Lord will strengthen the hands of the lesser and prosper their worke that they may vindicate His Highnesse and the Kingdoms safety from that serpentine brood who hatch Cockatrice egges and weave the spiders webbe he that eateth of their egges oh the infelicity of His Majesties appetite dyeth and that which is crushed breaketh forth into a Viper their works are the workes of iniquity and the act of violence is in their hands c. they have made them crooked paths whosoever goeth therein shall not know Peace And whereas his Majesty pretends He was driven from His Parliament by Tumults Contrived by some principle Members of the City c. This often recited PLEA is much to be admired to come from His Majesty for 't is not unknown that the morrow after the greatest of those Tumults he went to London with an ordinary retinue which if common reason may judge argues His Majesty was not so sore terrified and affrighted with feare of his safety as this Answer imports unlesse madnesse be ascribed to his Majesty to expose his person indefensible upon the exorbitant fury of a multitude against whose person he pretends they were maliciously invected and most trayterously bent but it is manifest to the contrary for they went in a petitionary way no Law being to hinder or prevent Petitioners and if any extraordinary resort were for any other end it was not in the least for the offence of the Kings person as is pretended but meerly for a loyall presentation of their lives and persons in the defence of the two Houses of Parliament then greatly endangered oppressed and possessed with great feares and jealousies this was the worst end however unhappily misconstrued that they had Therefore His Majesties Accusation of some principle Members who are he sayes well knowne since c. Vanishes into nothing or rather a meer cavill to wheell about the now affected unhappy design To proceed His Majesty in His Answer goes on thus But His Majesty desires His good Subjects of London seriously to consider what confidence His Majesty can have of security there whilst the Laws of the Land are so notoriously despised and trampled under foot and the wholsome government of that City heretofore so famous over all the world is now submitted to the Arbitrary power of a few desperate persons of no reputation but for malice and disloyalty to Him c. Observe in the former clause lie commended the City for Love Duty and Loyalty c. to him and in the very sequell condemnes them of malice and disloyalty to him which grosse contradiction I wonder his Councell did not see before it was sealed up for probation whereof observe His Majesty askes what security he can have here whil'st the Laws of the Land are so notoriously despised and trampled under foot and the government submitted to an arbitrary power of a few desperate persons for malice and disloyalty to him and yet before of that City by whom those persons were elected to their Offices even the Lord Major principally aim'd at he saith He doth not entertaine any mis-apprehension of their love and loyalty to him Therefore if these first words of his Majesty may stand absolute how is the government thereof committed or submitted to them for malice and disloyalty to him if committed or submitted as he stiles it to those persons by them who are full of love duty and loyalty to him And whereas He Titles it Arbitrary how can that be Arbitrary either in institution or execution which hath the free choice and consent of the Major part in both according to the rationality of the Kingdom and property of the City and doth act and move ad motum primi mobilis subjecting to the rationality of the Kingdome the Laws and Ordinances of Parliament Now arbitrary government to this is absolutely repugnant for the one admits of the Peoples choice and consent the other denyes both and compells without either And further His Majesty proceeds to possesse the world with an apprehension of their malice and disloyalty by taking up arms against his consent and expresse commands the making of collection c. 'T is true it is against his personall Commands as withdrawn voluntarily from the station of highest power for according to the fundamentall constitution of this Monarchy being a triunall mixture of three