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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
parliament_n	act_n	king_n	title_n	3,788	5	7.4113	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87932	A letter from a noble-man of this kingdome, (now in armes for his King and countrey) to the Lord Say, seriously inviting him to his allegeance.	Noble-man of this kingdome.; Saye and Sele, William Fiennes, Viscount, 1582-1662.	1648 (1648)	Wing L1419; Thomason E453_12; ESTC R202815	2,301	6

A LETTER FROM A NOBLE-MAN Of this Kingdome Now in Armes for his King and Countrey To the Lord SAY seriously inviting him to his Allegeance July 18th LONDON Printed in the yeare 1648. A Letter from a Noble man of this Kingdome now in Armes for his King and Country to the Lord Say seriously inviting him to his Allegeance BEcause I know my Lord you are wise and capable of conviction and for that you are noble by extraction whereunto I also pretend I cannot doubt of your kind acceptance of a Letter which shall accent Truth and breathe Love were you a Plebeian beleeve it and Phlegmatick I would not spend either time or paper to reduce you to a fond understanding Deeply Right Honourable prudent men erre and there is no such irremediable defection from Vertue and Religion as when a sapient head hath occasionally slipt from truth so unwilling is humane nature to confesse an error Which to doe Divinity accounts it most honourable most truly Religious Is it that specious pretence of Gods Cause which led you on these 7 yeers into horrid Rebellion against your naturall Prince meriting better things at your hands even by personall favours Does the Law seem to afford a chasme or riffe wherein to hide the guilt without immediate repentance inexpiable Does it by any inversion seeme to justifie your transactions Or does which is most probable a sweet ambience of supereminent liberty and command over your fellow Subjects subjecting them to despoticall and Arbitrary Votes illaqueate your understanding Verily Sir one of these three or all must undeniably be granted to be ground to every prospective Epicle appear to be the foundation whereupon so unhappily hitherto the artificiall Babell you have raised is laid I desquire them respectively I will examine them impartially I am a Gent. a Christian a Protestant a man qualifi'd even for an Ordinance of Parliament Nay truly to speak no lesse a lover of your naturall endowments then admiring your advised wickednesse Pardon that biting truth which your hodiernall perpetrations and guilt hath wrung from me your amazed friend Gods Cause can be concentred in nothing but in Religion What offers our second Solomon hath made for the establish of the Soul of the world need I tell you Discipline is a shell no art can make it analogically comparate to dogmaticall truth not adequate unto it no Scripture susceptible of such a stretch that it can be justly asserted it is necessarily enjoyned to be identicall in all polities it is necessary but in spene may admit of alteration T is not that hath made you burn with zeal we know you are of a more plausible conscience How the seme of our Law will statuminate will justifie you I would you would discover and send me and all Lawyers away with conviction Hath an English Prince a natural and politick capacity inseparably joyned None denies it Is it high Treason to maintain our Soveraign ought to be obeyed rather out of a respect unto His politick capacity then His natural Raise the means of the conscious speuers they have signed it with their blood Else may Rebellion be made a justifiable trade and His Majesty properly enstiled the King of Devills These are not noble Lords the adle issue of a melancholy brain but subuxt with rights reason use it rightly and see your slips Stawell was fined for his Delinquence against the Parligment for levying War against the King he stands indicted strange contradictions no whimsey of virtually trasmitted power from His Majesty unto His Subjects wil vindicate that device from being rightly honoured with the title of the most absolute peice of senselesse iniquity in the world Are you a fraid to trust the King Greater security then an act of Parliament you can never have fight on till doomsday which I guesse by the Symtomes of maritime aspects to be approximant and ready to shew her face But there is a sweet covenant whose sanction must be regarded as to eradication of the hierarchy which the King denies because inconsistant with damnable sacriledge the main cause which makes scarlet gown men arch up their eye-brows on Thanksgiving-days for Victories for air for the Eccho of the vain rumurst for shedding innocent blood and deep depopulating England the late jem and Ormusium of the universe their is the knack of interest and in that I fear your honour hopes to share suspend a while your judgement in the covenants sene till it be defined what scene it will bear in malis promissis rescinde fidem is a gloden rule excellent Aphorisme I tell you once more our Law can protect it self without a Sword England will bleed her vitall breath and never close her orifice of necessities till our excellent Law be suffered to inchannell it self rightly to the ocean of Honour Who sees not with what cables she is made to retaine some vessells and how easily she lets goe the other flat bottomed Barges of our unhappinesse How is he constrayned to yelp ruine to wisely qualified and religious how smoothly she utters Placentia to the hellish Caterpillars of this our Isle There is not the least shadow of Law on your side there must then be still behind Execrable in Morall Policy that other presumption strongly fortify'd with vehement probability since that your Lordship and others hath to long in grosse and wallowed in the Royall Bath of Sovereignty Is it possible a few transient howers of impety in this Tabernacle in this subterlunary habitation can transport such a star of humane reason beyond its due course dares it encounter with Charles-Waine and unhinge Religion Lawes make common Equity a foolery doe such actions as were never exemplify'd since this Island lost the name of Olbion Must Religion upon Machiavillian principles be collaterally respected and premised as worthy some animadvertence because she hath a quality to harnesse high shoes unto the carriages of Hell watraved aymes See see thou great ingrosser of Policy those paths which conduct to thy future happinesse our immediate tranquillity so humane for t is thy miseries thou dost see what opportunity is yet left by heavens indulgence unto thee to return and ingremiate thy selfe with him who will forgive thee Whose Vertues whose Religion hath startled Europe and begot just obloqui upon our Nation for abusing Soveraignty for subiecting Piety it self in abstruce to the whistle of contemptible villany I burst with griefe what remedy t is thy soule I love t is thy actions I abhor which should I comprobate that God which for our great sins hath unchained Hels Bandogs these seven years elapsed last would expunge my name out of the Book of Life Be not I conjure you any longer so desperate an enemy to your owne Eternity FINIS