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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	great_a	king_n	people_n	13,648	5	4.7769	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40962	An expedient for the king, or, King Charls his peace-offering, sacrificed at the altar of peace, for a safe and well-grounded peace the welfare and happiness of all in generall, and every subject in particular, of his kingdom of England Behold! all ye that passe by, stand stil, and see the wonderful salvation of the Lord, which he hath wrought for the people of this kingdom, by his servant King Charls : Blessed are the peace-makers for they shall be called the children of God : Aske of the King, and he shal give you not stones, for bread, nor scorpions, for fish / studied and published for the honour of the King, and his posterity, and the universall happiness of the whole kingdom of England, by Richard Farrar, Esq.	Farrar, Richard, Esq.	1648 (1648)	Wing F520; ESTC R8687	30,129	43

PREROGATIVE a little paring off some superfluous part of it will prove Balm from Gilead to heal the whole Nation of the most Epidemical disease that ever yet seized this poor dying Kingdom Sir I shall not need to court you to what you are so willing nor to inforce this argument had I never so much Elocution as God knows and Your Majesty doth find I have none I wish Your Majesties People were all of my belief concerning Your Mercy and Justice I flatter not I wish the flattery of a Prince were high Treason and so punished and may my soul never enter into rest if I beleeve not that Your Majesty will grant more if more with Reason and Religion may be desired then I have too too audaciously presumed to press in my following Propositions Sir It was said in the beginning of this Parliament by M. Pym if I mistake not that the Parliament would make You a glorious King and who knows whether your Majesty when you were in the head of Your Army at Edg Hill or else where had not some hopes to make Your self a glorious King And I have been told that this Army would have perswaded You when time was that they also would make You a glorious King Sir You have failed in Your hopes They in their promises and who knows whether what Your Majesty hoped and sought for and They promised and performed not may not yet be done another and a better way if at least You will be pleased to take him for your guide who hath hitherto so miraculously preserved you and I hope ever wil I say Sir taking God for Your guide all may be made good and may yet be brought to pass by Your self not by fighting any more to the hazard of Your Royal Person and the Persons of your Princely Issue and of Your Nobility and the destruction of Your loving Subjects but by extending and really performing of those two God-like Acts of Mercy and Justice without partiality to all Your People And this is Via Regia indeed and well becoming the Majesty of King Charls And now Sir behold how wonderful the ways of God are contrary to the ways of men past finding out till himself discover them You have long layen under the Cross restraint to a King is a great Cross were there no more in it You are not free I dare not say you are a Captive and yet Your Person with the power that God hath given You over Your self and the Grace he hath endued you with to serve him must suddenly come forth to the redemption of Your Subjects out of their Captivity Captives in their native Country under their fellow Subjects or they are lost lost for ever In this Abyss of Exigency no Expedient can be found to save Your People but the presence of Your sacred Person armed with Mercy and Justice Mercy and Justice to your People and Justice against Your self nor could You so easily do it as I beleeve had not God thus fitted prepared and quallified You by the Cross whereby You have obtained a fellow-feeling of the miseries of Your Subjects David said of himself It was well for me that I was afflicted Great Sir Let Your Engagements and Promises to Your People for the time to come in Your perfecting of this blessed Peace be like the Laws of the Medes and Persians irrevocable And so God shall bless You and Your Posterity for ever So much of good towards his People so much of honor to himself no King ever had in his Power to act as Your Majesty now hath by the saving of the effusion of so much innocent blood and perhaps the Kingdom from utter ruin God I doubt not will give Your Maiesty a heart to make a right use of it And now Sir I will presume to set down what Acts of Grace You were pleased to pass this Parliament in Anno. 1640 c. First Your Majesty put down Monopolies Secondly You put down the Star-Chamber Thirdly You disannulled the High Commission Court Fourthly You consented to the outing of Bishops from the House of Peers Fiftly You Regulated the Councell Table Sixthly you granted the Trieniall Parliament Seventhly You condescended to the continuation of this until dissolved by the consent of both Houses c. This was the Peace-Offering Your Maiesty then sacrificed for the good of your People May it please Your Majestie as a second Peace-Offering to your People to grant these following Propositions 1. THat you will not break any Priviledg of Parliament and therefore it were fit that the particular Priviledges were set down that so the King may not intrench upon them in the least 2. That your Maiesty wil not diminish or intrench upon the liberty of the Subiect but hold your self strictly to the Laws of the Land 3. That your Maiesty will not extend your Prerogative in the least beyond the due bounds granted to your Predecessors or to the prejudice of the Persons of your Subiects or the known Laws of the Land To which end you desire the particulars and extent of it to be set down and agreed upon that so you may the better perform it 4. That you will grant nothing to any Person out of your Revenue and this for your Posterities sake that so by your own good husbandry you may be the better inabled to reward those you desire 5. That you will answer no Petition for matter of profit to any Petitioner but first that you will refer it to two Judges of the Law to certifie you the legallity of it and that no Subiect or the Crown be any way prejudiced by it and if your Maiesty be abused in it the Judg to be highly punished and if he dye before the discovery his estate to satisfie it to the Crown 6. That your Maiesty will protect the person of no Subject for debt but only your menial servants and yet not his Goods or Estates neither but all things except his person to be liable to the Law 7. That your Majesty will give no protection to any person for above 6. moneths but not for-their Goods or Estates at all 8. That your Majesty will demolish all Forts and Castles the Parliament shall desire within the Kingdom of England 9. That your Majesty ingage your self That if you shall assist any forraign Prince you shall do it out of your own purse and power not constraining any Subiect or pressing them any way but what they shall willingly do of their own accord 10. That your Majesty wil levy nothing by Tax or any way contrary to the known Laws of the Kingdom but what shall be ordained by Act of Parliament 11. That your Majesty will confirm the Charter of London and all Corporations in the Kingdom that shall desire it not prejudicial to the Universal good of the Kingdom 12. That your Majesty will sit one day every Term if you be in the Town in every Court of Justice at Westminster and then to hear the Causes