Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	certain_a	great_a	king_n	2,693	5	3.5200	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64195	A preter-plvperfect spick and span new nocturnall, or Mercuries weekly night-newes wherein the publique faith is published and the banquet of Oxford mice described.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1643 (1643)	Wing T498; ESTC R690	12,385	21

desired to be satisfied ●●wne● his kinde of Publique Faith is and how farre 〈◊〉 powe● 〈◊〉 it may extend To which most sawcy and treacherous 〈…〉 lea●ed and worthy Welwisher to the Lowest Uppermost House replied as followeth My small Friend quoth he I will tell thee briefly what this new Publique Faith is it is called Publique because it is common to all and hath communitie in all and to take away waste and consume all it is Generall Catholique and Universall not peculiar to any man particular not private to any person there is no man hath any proprietie in it more than he hath in his goods and lands as at this time the case is so that it is neither Thine nor Mine but every mans it hath absolute power to borrow money and to force unbelieving people to be exceeding desperate Creditours and whosoever is so wickedly minded as to presume to deny or delay what the Publique Faith demands such refractory persons must be robb'd of all they have sometimes some have been so bold as to call it plundering but instead of the word stealing there is a pretty nickname given to it called Seasing for this strange Faith hath that invisibilitie in it not onely to tolerate Thiefts and Rapines but to allow Burglaries Fellonies Murders Rebellions and some parcels of Treasons to be no breach of Lawes and to lay all unruly persons in prison as will not be contented quietly without grumbling to be rifled and undone It hath likewise power with the fame extorted or stolne goods or monies taken to raise War to transforme Colliers into Captaines Broken Merchants to Colonells trade fallen Tapsters into Tyrannicall Rodomontadoes and these brave Man-divells shall be the Leaders of such Troops of unresistable unconquerable Mirmidones that shall inforce all men to the obedience of the Publike faith This Faith is neither Protestant Lutheran Calvinist Papist or any kinde of Christian Faith The Turke hath no faith to follow it or the Moores to follow it it is a faith that is full of workes whereby it is notoriously meritorius and commonly it doth no harme to bad men for it leaves them to the judgement of another world it onely by afflictions tries the vertuous strength of their patience as do desire peace and to be obedient to their Sovereigne and would willingly live quietly in such manner as God and the Lawes of this Kingdome grounded and derived on and from Gods Word hath established for the government and tranquilitie both of Church and State such men as these and none else but such as these are opprest rifled ransacked imprisoned masacred and beggered by the mightie meanes of the Publique Faith for it all the Goales in England were searched I mean such Goales as are under the high and mightie command of the Publique Faith all those that lie in those Gaoles are laid there by that Faiths command for no other faults but for being true Protestants and loyall Subjects to their Soveraigne on the contrary there is not any Anabaptist Brownist Schismaticke Seperatist or Rebell in any trouble or prison under the command of the Publique Faith And whereas of it selfe it hath not power except by direction of legal Statutes Ordinances joyned and protected by regal power and Authorietie yet it assumes or presumes to take to it selfe and make of it selfe what Power it list either regal or legal what shal most advance the selfe will of it selfe it is so potent as it can maintain it selfe in magnificent pompe by forcible borrowing and withall it is so just as to pay double with emptie promises it can turne Orthodox prayer and preaching into pedlary prating also Libels Lyurnals and scandalous railing Pamphlets are not onely tolerated by the Publique Faith but all and worse than all this hath been countenanced and encouraged by exalting the insulting swarme of mechanicke or trencher Pulpiteers that what betwixt the medley of their seditious gallimaufrey hotch-potch doctrine and the meer froathie inventions compiled and dispersed in great Volumes for pence a piece it is most certain that God hath not escaped blasphemie or the King calumnie the people unspeakable miserie the estate obloquie and the whole Kingdome infamie to the most contemptible scorne of all Nations The Publique Faith can frame and devise Navies of shippes Armies of men and amunition and Letters and Messages from the Kings of Denmarke France and Spain of which Letters those Kings never knew and those Shippes Armies and Armes are invisible or like Castles in the ayre this Faith can also invent supposed Battailes Fights and triumphant Victories where never stroke was strook or blow given and it can command Bels to be rung Bonefires to be inflamed and publique Thankesgiving in Churches and proclaim it selfe victorious when it is most miserably and bravely beaten and that it killed seven hundred with the losse of two men and one boy and halfe a Horse whereby the credulous seduced people have their giddy braines tost to and fro from Jealousies to Feares from Feares to Hopes and from Hopes to lend and give Money as if they were mad and in so laying out their Money they deservedly purchase their miserie Moreover this Faith cannot be perswaded by any meanes to endure or abide a King especially if he be a good one or will not be such an one as this Faith would make him but if he do but claime his right or stand upon lawfull termes for his Royall and just Priviledge and Prerogative if he be so unruly that he will not be ruled by this Publique Faith he must then be robb'd and plundered of all that ever he hath or at least of as much as this Faith can lay hold on for it hath power with the Kings Amunition Armes Shippes Money Revenue Townes Houses Castles or any thing that is the Kings in the Kings name to shoot bullets against the King and fight against the King for the preservation and service of the King Thus the Publique Faith hath surpassed Pharaoh's Magicians in Legerdemain it hath trasform'd our Land into the Isle of Guls temporally and old England into New England spiritually It hath made mens wealths and alleageance crimes and causes of their losse of estates and lives it hath put down all Spirituall Courts so that there is no punishment for the sweet sin of Lecherie whereby Fornication Adulterie Bigamie Poligamie and Incest with brasen uncontrolled fronts make whores knaves cuckolds bawdes bastards thieves and beggars by the hundreds so that if this world lasts and this geer go forward we shall have Plato's Common-wealth here and concerning our wives we shall all turne to be Nicholaitans by which brave unbridled Libertie Hey down derry Downing Roome for an Hackney Presbyterean that whilest his wife lay sicke got the Nurse and the Maidservant both with childe but some satisfaction was made for the Wife died he married the Nurse concerning the other plumpe Girle some course was taken but all 's one for that the Parish is big