Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	edward_n	king_n	prisoner_n	3,115	5	8.4781	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85072	A brief historical relation of the empire of Russia, and of its original growth out of 24 great dukedomes, into one entire empire, since the yeer 1514. Humbly presented to the view and serious perusal of all true-hearted English-men, that love and honour the peace and happiness of this their native country. / By J.F.	J. F.	1654 (1654)	Wing F28; Thomason E1485_2; ESTC R22889	20,403	58

This will assuredly bring glory to God honour to his Highness and tranquillity to the Nation it will enforce as in other Countries honesty and plain-dealing from all men and all Petifogging deceitful subtil oppressive persons now shrowded under the Norman Law will vanish and the words Peace Quietness and Industry will be written over every mans door Such noble acts will revive the memory of Alfred that just king of England who punished and hanged Four and fourty County-Judges in one yeer for oppressing the people by false Judgement and of Edward the fourth who caused Fifteen Gaolers to be hanged in one yeer for exacting money from prisoners and defrauding them of the King's allowance of 4 d. per diem And of Henry the fourth who caused Two and twenty Projectors and six Aldermen of London to be hanged at the then-place of Execution within London-walls and buried under the Gallows where since the Church is built and the place called Alderman-bury to this day It was the usual saying of that famous and just Emperour Borice That Prince or Ruler is most happie and safe that liveth least to himself and most to the honour of God and the peoples good over whom God hath placed him and whose legal and just power is the bounds of his will whose olive-branch of wisdom springeth from his heart bloometh on his tongue and beareth fruit in his actions which will always direct him not to refuse counsel good cheap lest remiss security cause him to buy repentance too dear Thus having through my real hearty affection and well-wishes to his Highness well-being and love to my Countries freedom peace and tranquillity digressed from my intended Historical Subject and being desirous not to weary the Reader but to draw to an end I do again in the close become a most humble and earnest suitor to his Higness in the name and by the mercies of Jesus Christ to let judgement run down as water and justice as a mighty stream that so Mercy may embrace him on every side and cause him to continue in assured love and favour both with God and man enjoying the good things of this Land in peace internal and external with abundance of glory to God and honour to himself and posterity Not giving ear to the feigned words of some self-seeking persons who having a shew of godliness yet deny the power thereof do Babel-like endeavour to rear up to themselves everlasting tabernacles and cry out The Temple of the Lord The Temple of the Lord The Law the Law Whereas the true Temple of the Lord is this To amend their covetous ways and their unjust oppressive doings To execute judgement between a man and his neighbour and not to oppress the poor the widow the fatherless nor the stranger but to let all the oppressed enslaved go free Nor to think by tything Mint and Cummin to fulfil the law of God as those several hypocrites the Doctors Lawyers Scribes and Pharisees did against whom in stead of a blessing there stands upon record for ever sundry terrible Woes denounced by him who is King of kings and Lord of life and glory and who assuredly will by the sacred Rule of impartial justice judge them according to their works There is a Word which is clothed with death the Lord grant it be not found in the heritage of Jacob. Sometimes to abide in the shade produceth more quiet to a poor man then to have the bright beams of the Princes favour to break forth upon him for then Malice is forthwith enraged Wrath like a Fury assaulteth and Revenge like a Crocodile when seeming to weep over him destroys him most in his credit life and good name never ceasing both by himself and all those by him seasoned for his ends to traduce and backbite him daily thereby rendering him odious to the best of men Like those subtil Serpentine generation of men who by lyes and slanders and by the power of some by them then seasoned for the work defrauded me of my right which by his Highness favour was most freely conferred on me and who also since have notceased to traduce backbite and slander me to those in high place and Authority hoping thereby to make their deeds of darkness to resemble the light and truth in the fight of his Highness and others But to all such shadows of Christians I shall say but this That their Consciences if they have any cannot but testifie to their faces that they have done me much wrong The Lord rebuke them for it And this I was told long since that if his Highness had not appeared so vigorously for me in that and another business since that I had neither undergone those calumnies and reproaches nor had my endeavours proved so fruitless as hitherto they have done to me This duely weighed it cannot but be positively concluded That although those slanderous and reproachful arrows were shot at the lowe shrub yet the venome of them was intended to hit the tall Cedar which by his branches of favour was pleased to shelter the lowe shrub For at that very instant time the better to set a face of credit upon their slanders and to carry on their designe of defeating me of my right they by their instruments divulged it abroad in the City and to divers Parliament-men that I had forswore my self three times in one day before his Highness and the Councel and that they had adjudged me to stand in the Pillory at the Exchange This was related with such a face of truth as that divers of my friends were happily deceived in going to the Exchange to be spectators of it Whereas the real truth is that I was never called before his Highness nor Councel to swear at any time for any matter cause or thing whatsoever for the truth whereof I humbly appeal to his Highness and to the honorable Councel most humbly praying for justice on these traducers and satisfaction for these injuries most wrongfully sustained But not resting in the centre of these their calumnies they or their instruments do still persist by under-hand plottings to accomplish my destruction and by raising of a lye against me rob me of my livelyhood and at the same time in a most secret manner spread a rumour in the City that I should conspire against my Lord Protector 's life A thing so horrid so detestable to my soul and so far from the thoughts of my heart as the Crystalline Sphere can possibly be in distance from the earth And this clearly appeareth by my constancie from the beginning to the cause of God faithfulness to his Highness and services performed for the State The first was my discovery of the late King's intention to surprise Hull and Plymouth by private Letters sent out of Holland to Sir Harbottle Grimston and Mr. Samuel Vassel then members of Parliament by means whereof the Parliament and Nation were preserved from the universal ruine determined in 1641. The second was my discovery