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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	henry_n	king_n	royal_a	2,649	5	8.1052	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85282	The fifth of November, or, The popish and schismaticall rebells. With their horrid plots, fair pretences, & bloudy practices, weighed one against another: and in opposition unto both two things asserted. 1 That the supreame authority of establishing, reforming, and vindicating religion is placed in the King. 2 That religion is not to be established or reform'd in bloud.		1644 (1644)	Wing F891A; Thomason E43_8; ESTC R23274	14,141	27

The fifth of November OR The POPISH and SCHISMATICALL REBELLS With their horrid Plots fair Pretences bloudy Practices weighed one against another AND In Opposition unto both Two things asserted 1 That the supreame Authority of establishing reforming and vindicating Religion is placed in the King 2 That Religion is not to be established or reform'd in bloud 1 CHRON. 22.7 8 9 10. And David said to Solomon My Son as for me it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of the Lord my God But the word of the Lord came to me saying thou hast shed bloud abundantly and hast made great wars thou shalt not build an house unto my name because thou hast shed much bloud upon the earth in my sight Behold a son shal be born unto thee who shal be a man of rest and I wil give him rest from all his enemies round about for his name shal be Solomon and I wil give peace and quietnes unto Israel in his daies He shal build an house for my name 1 KINGS 6.7 So there was neither hammer nor axe nor any toole of Iron heard in the house while it was in building OXFORD Printed for H. Hall and W. Webb 1644. To the Popish Rebell To the Schismaticall Rebell I Take the boldnesse for the present to put you both together for I need not be at the charge of a several glasse to represent you If you will take the paines to look upon one anothers eyes you may therein discover your own pictures I know the comparison will be odious to you both you think that none but a blind man would father this resemblance Herein you are like two women equally famed for their deformity yet cannot endure to be told they are of the same complexion Why should you be angry that I take notice of your reconciliation when all the world that runs not a madding with you see you shake hands together I have read of waters that run unmixt in the same channel What communion is grown betwixt you I know not but your course speaks you both to have drawn and drunk at the same fountain Neither of you commits a wickednesse so lewd or broaches an Errour so grosse and palpable but can doth pretend an infallibility to warrant it The Oracles of holy men inspired were never uttered w●th more confidence and zeale then your blasphemies against both God and King and both of you by murdering such as are faithfull to their Church and Soveraigne climb the ladder to your pretended martyrdome You have divorced that couple which the Son of God came from Heaven to knit together and instead of Mercy Truth which were sweetly met together instead of righteousnes peace which were wont most lovingly to kisse each other your execrable practices have from time to time bin ready to betray us to those fatall meetings wherein bloud toucheth bloud Though you be together by the eares in other matters you are together by the hearts in treason and rebellion and your design is as good as that which procured the atonement of Herod and Pontius Pilate Since Lisymachus Nicanor did congratulate your offer of the right hand of fellowship in the treachery how strangely have you younger brethren been encouraged What a progresse have you made since you walkt by the staffe of his instructions Me thinks the holy leagues are entred upon the Stage of England to play those parts over here which they did in France in the time of the third Henry The same designs are here cloathed with the same pretences Their intent was saith the Historian to incroach upon the King to leave him nothing but a vain shadow of Royal authority under the conduction and direction of their tyrannie to make their way to this devilish design the fairer they cast scandalous aspersions upon all the Kings actions to render them odious and intolerable And lest the smooth glasse of peace should represent things in their true proportions undeceive the people the waters must be kept troubled to make them appeare on the Kings part crooked and distorted The people are stirred up to oppose the Kings edicts of peace and desires of accommodation In the interim the Leaguers goe on pretending they were for God for the honour and increase of Religion the utter extirpation of Heresie to preserve the estate and Crown of the King and to maintain the rights priviledges of the Subject yet they swore obedience to the General appointed without yea against the Kings commandement and engaged their lives honours estates to adhere unto him and all that would not associate in this holy league were persecuted as enemies to God rebels to the state perturbators of the publike good I beseech you what difference does the late Covenant bear to distinguish it from that holy League Are they not as much alike as a bond is like an obligation Do not therefore allow that in your selves which you abominate in one another but take notice from one anothers practices how pernitious and detestable those principles are that your severall sides do build upon His Holines can give no better dispensatiō for murder or rebellion then John of Leyden and what is treason in subjects that dissent in other matters from you is a crime of the same complexion in your selves though your Assembly of Divines joyne with the remnant of your Members to Vote it otherwise Therefore let me expostulate with you in the language of the Historian What think you to do O you Covenanters and Leaguers for God for the faith for the King You undertake Arms for God who desires nothing but peace You publish Rebellion he commands obedience you trouble the rest and quietnesse of a Christian King God willeth us to endure at the hand of a Prince although he be a Pagan you doe it for God whose name you call upon and deny the power you do it for God who detects your actions and knows your thoughts you do it for God that will confound al those that breed confusiō among the people you undertake wars for religion and nothing hinders that more then wars you fight for holines and yet you authorize blasphemies plant Atheisme impiety and despising of devotion in all places you march under pretence of the Churches cause and yet spoile the Clergie and destroy the Churches c. You say t●s for the King it it be where are his Commissions if for his service where are his cōmandements If for him why do you it without him If for his obedience wherfore do you adhere to the head of that league covenant which is made against him can you serve two Masters be bound by one oath to two contraries c. Know you not that all bearing of Arms is treason without the Kings authority That the Subject cannot make any league without the Prince c. Pardon me I beseech you saith he Nobles Princes Prelats Lords Gentlemen if I tel you