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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	house_n	king_n	time_n	12,858	5	3.5925	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B04134	Cum bono deo. A remonstrance to the Godly party. Two maine quæries, which stand much usefull fo these our times. ... And a vindication of both. / By Andrew Logie sometime Arch-Deane of Aberdene; Penned by the author, ann. 1654, and printed 1661.	Logie, Andrew.	1661 (1661)	Wing L2840; ESTC R180013	29,338	52

quietnesse fourty years in his dayes Let me pose these so tender-conscienced men if in the 20 of Deut. 5.6.7.8 verses where the Martiall Law is set downe they do finde this exception of Malignancy so much as in the parallel of it Certes Too vehement a Purgation of the Body proves for common well dangerous for thus the Vitall spirits become exhausted and quite spent I pray you will yee finde a Church or Army onely Electorum This were to seek Patriam in via and to confound viatores and compraehensores voyagers and cōprehensors In the field of the Militant-Church upon earth we will not faill to finde still tares cockle and darnell amidst the best Corne or Wheat till the day of the great separation When the Lords People went fourth to Battell were they not promiscuously without any instituted Purgation a new and unheard of in Gods Word piece of policie brought on our stage gathered as one man from Dan to Beersheba with the land of Gilead unto the Lord in Mizpeh Iudg. 20.1 Nay and is not this called A Calling of all generally without our new modelled Limitations II. Sam. 17.11 Was not the numbering of the People for Warre instituted and taken from their ability to carry Armes and skill in handling them and not from any new found out qualifications Reade we not Sauls practise admitting all the men of Israel and Judah without difference to go forth with him in the case of Jabesh-gilead commended of God and seconded with a blessing I. Sam. 11. In the time of the Judges when the people fell away from the Lord to or by Idolatrie did not these very Idolaeters fight the Lords Battels and carry the victory Nay and the very Judges themselves who fought the Lords battels stood not free under whose conduct the people of God obtained many notable deliverances as was presently instanced in the person of Gideon Who was more bloudy and wicked then Joab and yet fought the Lords battels Nay and did not David oversee him in a seeming prudentiall way for his time though he gave a speciall command to his son Solomon against him I. Kings 2. Did not Abner make a bloudy warre against David and yet he did not cease frō hence to make use of him Wer not these men who were with David when he fled from SAUL Outlaws Male-contents Now forbore he to make his best vse of these Malignants to speak in the language of Babel Nay Did he not welcome Simei who had formerly cursed him stood his most cruell Enemy in the time of his adversity and that notwithstanding of Abisha's instancie to the contrary I wish wee should propose before our eyes Davids practise and example who was called a man according to Gods owne heart for our safer direction and better regulation of our Comportment here Spectemus hanc Cynosuram Now David sent to Zadok and Abiathar the priests to rebuke the negligēce of the Eleders of Judah to bring againe the King to his house whereas the people contested and strove here in forewardnes and that from an argument taken from his interest in them their attingency to him sciz That they were his Brethren his flesh his bones Nay and he sent thē to Amasa who had been a Ring-leader in a present rebellion with Absalom against him willing them to make use of this same argument with him Nay and promising fairely to make him Captaine in Ioabs stead which he accordingly performed did not God second this with a succesfull blessing Did he not bow all the hearts of the men of Iudah as of one man II. Sam. 19.11.12.13.14 vers To apply here home Why might not or may not our KING use the same policie even to reclaime and win in the hearts of these who had been Ring-leaders in a known and open Rebellion against him farre more to make use of His loyall subjects May I not frō hence thus safely argue reason Do not all in whom he hath a-like common interest stand justly liable in to the same common duty What wisdome or prudence were it in a common Combustion and Conflagration to debarre seclude any from contributing their ayd assistance for quenching and extinguishing the same Let me pose them here if these whom they so odiously traduce under the name of Malignants had or have no part or right in their KING that they might be so farre neglected as that neither their advice nor assistance should be sought or called for for his safety and preservation 2. Sam. 19.43 I would gladly understand the reason of difference here why these whom they are pleased to traduce under such odious nomenclatures as Malignants and Engagers whereas adhuc sub judice lis sit whether the Engagers for their KING or these for the Common Enemy may yea and justly should be holden and accounted true and reall Malignants Why I say these were admitted ad omnia interiora sacra ad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the participation of the sacred Symbols in the Sacrament and yet denied admission into the bosom of an Army alleadged raised for the good of the wholl kingdome in common wherein they have their just interest Is there greater Religion to be shewed here in This then in that Other May it not justly fear me That as Ieroboā made religion subservient to his by-ends whereas hee made the two golden Calves and set the one in Dan and the other in Bethel yea made a Temple where Altars were built for Idolatry or an house of high places and made Priests of the lowest of the People with our pious and zealous Reformers to day Which were not of the sons of Levi pretending one thing The Ease of the people but intending another To keepe the hearts of the People that they should not turne back againe unto their Lord even to Rehaboam King of Judah I. King 12. That it did so go and fare with thē here that they made Relegion but tributary and subservient to their own by-ends for may it not now clearely be seen That their Pretenses or pretexts and their Reall intentions have never reciprocated and retro-commeated That returned Answere of Vriah to David bidding him go downe to his house II. Sam. 11. Whereas the Ark and Israel and Iudah were sojourning in tents and his Lord Ioab and the servants of his Lord were encamped in open fields that it was not time to him to go down to his house may prove much usefull and subservient to the Purpose in hand for was it time I pray you for any Subjects promiscuously when KING and Kingdome PRINCE and Subject all stood in danger a cōmon Enemy infesting the Land to sit the Charge not answere the Call or for any to withdraw or with-hold their aide and assistance in so pressing an exigence or yet for the Ministery to open their mouths so wide against a present so necessarie just expedition I could be easily no lesse justly adduced induced to believe