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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	good_a	king_n	people_n	13,375	5	4.9419	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96743	Carmen expostulatorium: or, A timely expostulation vvith those both of the City of London, and the present armie, vvho have either endeavoured to ingage these kingdoms in a second warre; or neglected the prevention thereof. Intended, for averting (if it may be possible) of that generall destruction thereby threatened; and to that purpose, hastily (upon the immergent occasion) published. / By Geo. VVither.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1647 (1647)	Wing W3149; Thomason E401_10; ESTC R201776	13,426	24

our Army now to bee So jealous of-each other as we see But ev'n selfe-love and pride which you and they Pursue in others Or because each day You more and more in manners grow like them Whose guiltinesse you raile at and condemn For most of those who in these times pretend To Reformation do but seem to mend Their neighbours faults that they thereby to make Themselves and Fortunes may occasion take Yea zealouslie they labour to remove And punish Tyrants But it may from love And not from hate of Tyrannie arise That they remove those men who tyrannize For it is done perhaps that in the roome Of Tyrants they like Tyrants may become Else 't were not possible that we should see Suppressed Tyrants ev'rie day to be Out-vi'd by their Successors and out-gone By those who blamed most what they have done 'T is not because you seek the publike good That you renew this War For letting-blood Especially now when the Dog-starre reignes So neare the heart and in those master-veines Now likely to be op'ned seemes to me Not Physicke but true butcherie to be 'T is not for GOD that you do now promove This Quarrell For you know that GOD is Love And when he doth ingage you in a warre It alwaies evidently doth appeare How it conduceth to the preservation Of amity and union in a Nation And that we cannot otherwise avoid The having of those Freedomes quite destroid By which we should conserve it But in this Your quarrell no such thing apparent is 'T is not because one Party doth incline Unto a differing forme of Discipline Which t'other side dislikes from whence arose This Quarrell though from thence it partly flowes For prudence wheresoever love remaines In any measure tempers or restraines From all extremes as you by those may see Who moderate in either Partie bee And firm to principles which do preserve The essence of our Faith And they observe That your contentions rather do arise From fleshly lusts and carnall vanities Then from that zeale pretended and there 's none Will doubt it if you wilfullie go on In bloud-sned and indeavour not for grace To make your fury give discretion place 'T is not the fallings or the imperfections Of your opinions but of your affections Which heightens discords and a will to please Back-sliding Demas and Diotrophes Which hath surpriz'd you 'T is a disregard Of Justice in chastisements and reward And that respect of persons which each side Is guilty of if both bee not beli'd For if by simptomes I the truth may gather The City and the Army too had rather Adventure their safe being by deniall Of yeelding up their minions to triall Then to permit that Justice shall proceed Impartially Both are it seems agreed What ever their well-willers do propose To save their Malefactors though they lose Themselves and all their Tribe as for that crime The Benjamites once did in former time And which more aggravates ev'n thus they do Though they have seen the King for doing so Set halfe beside his Throne And though they see This Parliament indangered to bee Ev'n for the selfe-same fault So hard a thing It is ev'n for the best of men to bring Their wills and their affections to submit To justice though they cannot fly from it But they will still be trying to avoid Her just injunctions till they bee destroi'd And hence hence chieflie floweth all those factions Those mischiefs discords and all those distractions That are among us And he that assayes To shew them the disorder of their wayes And their unsafenesse though with no intent But their and your destruction to prevent Or when he minds them of it though he spares Their persons And the matter so prepares By couching it in generalls that they Who are to blame correct their errours may Without disgrace yet they return him still Unkindnesses at least for his good will Deprive him of his freedome or estate Eclipse his credit or his person hate Or at the best regard what he hath spoke No more then doth a Starue or a block And ten to one when some of those doe hear These motives unto peace they will go near To question it before Authoritie As if I had enfeebled much thereby The peoples hands The Jewes to this effect In such a case did spightfully object Against the life of Ieremie but he Who sav'd him then will do the like for mee Oh! let the Citie Let our Army too Consider wisely what they have to do And that among the best are imperfections Which call to us for brotherly affections To cover them and helps to cure them rather Then Instruments to seek or Armes to gather To spoile each other 'T is our Ignorances And want of love and meeknesse which advances Our spleenes against our brethren We so long Have at each other bitter-speakings flung And shot the Arrowes of revising words That they provoke us to unsheath our swords And execute before it doth appeare Which partie is to blame and which is cleare Or whether any cause may be perceived Why both though guilty may not be reprieved Their party or their single interest Doth oft so biasse men from what is best For them to practise And vain policy In outward seeming doth appeare so nigh To blamelesse prudence that it drawes them on To thinke injustice warrantable done Or that at least it warrants them to think They at injustice in their own may wink Especially if they conceive it may From anie good designe take strength away And this false principle and wrong proceed Made thereupon much injurie doth breed This makes the Presbyterian-Party mad That anie of their side though nev'r so bad Should question'd be This also blinds them so From seeing what it doth invite them to That it hath rend'red them much willinger To hazzard all by a renewing-war Then leave them to that triall which perchance Would cleare them And their innocence advance This maketh manie on the other side As partiall and unable to abide That their partakers should with ought be charged Whereas had their impeachments been inlarged With such of their own party who by fame Proclaimed are to be no lesse to blame Then some accused And of whose offence They might have got as good intelligence It had prevented all those jealousies Which from their seeming partialities Have lately sprung and which will be removed When they who so advised have improved Their counsell into practise As e're this It had been done but that you know there is A Remora in most things and that some To all good motions opposites become Had they as I presume they mean to do Cast resolutely off all leaning to That which their party doth denominate And only sought the setling of the State According to the Lawes and how to bring An Union 'twixt the people and the King By bringing all indifferently to bide Th' impartiall Test by which they should be tri'd It had before this day a period