Selected quad for the lemma: justice_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	church_n	peace_n	zion_n	23	3	9.4204	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85161	The Scot arraigned, and at the bar of justice, reason, and religion, convinced, convicted, and condemned of a most horrid and odious conspiracy and rebellion against the native liberty and birth-right of the Church and free state of England. / By R.F.	R. F.	1651 (1651)	Wing F53; Thomason E632_10; ESTC R206459	4,838	15

The Scot Arraigned AND At the Bar of Justice Reason and Religion Convinced Convicted and Condemned of a most horrid and odious Conspiracy and Rebellion against the Native Liberty and Birth-right of the Church and Free State of ENGLAND By R. F. LONDON Printed by JAMES MOXON 1651. The Scot Arraigned AND At the Bar of Justice Reason and Religion Convinced Convicted and Condemned of a most horrid and odious Conspiracy and Rebellion against the Native Liberties and Birth-right of the Church and Free State of England LAw is but the best Reason and Justice the life and actuating soul of that dead and pretious letter in whose observance and free Administration the welfare felicity and peace of all Kingdoms States and Republiques are involv'd and wrapp'd up for were man left only to the disposition of his own depraved Will he were of all Creatures most miserable That therefore the influx of this evill may be prevented the immediate hand of God and the diligent care of humane Policy through the generall parts of the whole world have injoyn'd and prescribed wholsome Lawes as well for the subduing of this natural propension of flesh and blood as also for the preservation of the publique weale and prosperity This is the sole bliss of a people and this the real Liberty of the Subject when a man may enjoy his own Properties and Right without wrong or molestation under the protection of a just and Legal Goverment Since therefore it has pleased Almighty God amongst many of his exceeding mercies to this poor Nation to make us a Civil people and to enlarge that bounty to give us religious just and honest Laws nay more to redeem us from the slavery of Tyranny into a free State and to crown all these with the inestimable blessing of the plenteous dispensation of his holy Word and Gospel how zealously coragiously and in duty should we endeavor to discover and prevent all Treasons and Conspiracies which may undermine and deprive us of these invaluable Jewels for they are the very foundation and sinewes of our peace enjoyments and common society Amongst many other fears which we may justly be sensible of as tending to the eversion and demolishing of these publike Rights and participations we shall here discover an apparent enemie a malignant envious pack of indigent contemptuous wretches not only inveying and backbiting against the glorious arival of our happiness but by an open hostility uniustly violently and inhumanely endeavoring and ploting the invasion of our birthrights and the ruine of the Church and therefore without any further preamble I shall here make audience and at a Conscientious and legall hearing indite and make proofe against that wretched Criminal the Kingdom of Scotland A faction scituate in the rubbish of Christendome now actually in armes against the State and Liberties of the free borne people of England and therefore I desire God in mercy to shew his Justice upon them whose bloudy purposes and determination speak them no less then the troublers of Israell and the disquieters of the peace of Sion Not to run them up through all the forepast periurious and damnable practices of their beggerly mutinous progenitors for that were to begin an endless series of villany and treachery I shall only prosecute them in the productions of this present age and there I question not but to find matter enough to propagate their Just odium to all posterity Warr is a thing to be undertaken seriously advisedly and upon sound grounds in regard it traffiques in the pretious life of man whose bloud must be required by a strict and righteous God and concernes no less then the high moment and interest of a whole Common-wealth All other triviall and sinister ends and undertakings be they never so well burnish'd with plausible pretences be they never so well back'd with Magnanimity and earthly power yet are they dishonest dishonourable and disconsonant to the Law of God and Nature Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you even so do you unto them If the Lord has said thou shalt not Covet Much more has he enjoyn'd thee from force of Armes to wrong thy neighbour yet these Unchristian Machiavells whose misery is their matter laying a side the injunctions of Religion the secret Convictions of reason and the open perswasions of Common Civillity out of a greedy mizing desire after the enjoyment of our goods and for tunes have hurried themselves into a posture of war to enforce an interest of superintendency over us a free people and all forsooth through the Colour of their young Novice and the old Slobberd greazy account of the quondam quiddity which must dwindle away and returne to its dust O Magister Artis Ingeniique largitor venter How wittily base these juggling Jockies would faine render themselves A gang of snaky headed Pedlars which to keep their hands in action and from a servile ignoble Covetousness to satisfie the Cries of their empty souls out of the meanes and properties of other men would needs twist themselves into a seeming Concernment in the managing and governing of us by whom notwithstanding their French League they do in Charity breath But Mr Iockie by your nimbleness his leave what have you to do out of your own bounds to enforce and constrain a superiour people then your self to the slavery of your yoke and Kirk modell because the sins of our Nation unhappily once provoked God to punish us as he threatned the Israelites by a foolish people and to give us over a while to the miserable succession of Scotch Tyranny now that he has redeemed us by his mighty Arme and mercy into the blessed estate of our present Condition upon that shallow account will you Res angusta domi instigate your mercenary spirits to renew our oppressions and reinstall your beggery with the pretended Crown and Scepter of England hold Coach-man Pharaoh may look bigg and ask in pride who is the Lord that I should serve him yet notwithstanding when the fullness of time for the deliverance of Iacob is come had the Chariots of Egypt bin as numerous as the mountaines of Scotland and all in flamed with the maddest zeale of your fiery ●resbyters yet you know what did and would have become of them and in theirs the sequel of your own destiny T is true you have declared highly against our Liberty and Goverment and like bold Beauchamps have seconded your words with your swords and therefore in so Palpable a case as this I shall need no other proofe then your own professions to affirme you Conspirators and traytors against the State and Common-wealth of England For whosoever shall attempt by sinister meanes or open violence to overthrow the foundations of our Liberty and by conpulsion vi armis to subject us a free born people to the bondage of an arbitrary will I dare and must proclaim them Traytors and dangerously malignant enemies to the peace and Publique weale of this Nation For it is