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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
parliament_n	king_n	law_n	peer_n	3,558	5	10.1638	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84168	An apology for the royal party: written in a letter to a person of the late Councel of State. / By a lover of peace and of his country. With a touch at the pretended plea for the army.	Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.	1659 (1659)	Wing E3482; Thomason E763_11; ESTC R209831	14,277	16

irreligious Principles is at last constrained to acknowledg your open and prodigious violations strang and illegall actions as in termes it confesses of taking up armes raising and forming Armies against the King fighting against his person imprisoning impeaching arraigning trying and executing him banishing his Children abolishing Bishops Deans and Chapters taking away Kingly Government and the House of Lords breaking the crowns selling the Jewells Plate Goods Houses and Lands belonging unto the Kings of this Nation erecting extraordinary High-Courts of Justice and therein impeaching araigning condemning and executing many pretended notorious Enemies to the publique peace when the lawes in being and the ordinary Courts of Justice could not reach them by strange and unknown practises in this Nation and not at all justifiable by any known lawes and statutes but by certain diabolicall principles of late distilled into some persons of the Army and which he would intitle to the whole who abating some of their Commanders that have sucked the sweet of this doctrine had them never so much as entred into their thoughts nor could they be so depraved though they were Masters only of the Light of nature to direct them For Common sense will tell them that whoever are our lawfull superiours and invested with the supream Authority either by their own vertue or the peoples due election have then a just right to challeng submission to their precepts and that we acquiesce in their determinations since there is in nature no other expedient to preserve us from everlasting confusion But it is the height of all impertinency to conceive that those which are a part of themselves and can in so great a body have no other interests should fall into such exorbitabitant contradiction to their own good as a child of four years old would not be guilty of and as this Phamphleter wildly suggests in pp. 6. 11. 27. c. did they steer their course by the known lawes of the Land and as obedient Subjects should do who without the King and his Peers are but the Carcass of a Parliament as destitute of the Soul which should informe and give it being But if so small a handfull of men as appeared in the Palace-Yard without consent of a quarter of the English Army much lesse of the tenthousandth part of the free people that are not clad in red shall disturb and alter a Government when it thinkes fit to set aside a few imperious officers who plainly seek themselves and derive their Commissions from a superiour to whom they swear obedience I mean not here the Rumpe who shall ever hope or live to see any government established in these miserably abused Nations For I dare report my self to the ingenuity of the very Souldiers themselves if they who have effected all these changes by your wretched instigations and blind pretences imagine themselves the people of this Nation but as a very small portion of them compared to the whole and who are maintained by them to recover and protect the Civill Government according to the good old lawes of the Land not such as they themselves shall invente from day to day or as the interests of some few persons may engage them But if the essential end of Rulers be the common peace and their Laws obliging as they become relative restore us then to those under which we lived with so much sweetnesse and tranquility as no age in the world no government under Heaven could ever pretend the like And if the people as you declare are to be the Judges of it summon them together in a Free Parliament according to its legal Constitution or make a universal Balott and then let it appear if Collonel Lambert and half a dozen Officers with all their seduced Partizans make so much as a single Cypher to the Summe Total And this shall be enough to answer those devious Principles set down in the Porch of that specious Edifice which being erected upon the Sand will like the rest that has been daubed with untempered mortar sink also at the next high winde that blowes upon it But I am glad it is at last avowed upon what pretexts that late pretended Parliament have pleaded on the behalf of themselves and party their discharge from all the former Protestations Engagements solemn Vows Covenants with hands as you say lift up to the most high God as also their Oaths and Allegiance c. because I shall not in this discourse be charged with slandering of them and that the whole World may detest the Actions of such perfidious Infidels with whom nothing sacred has remained inviolable But there is yet a piece of Artifice behinde of no less consequence then the former and that is a seeking to perswade the present Armie that They were the men who first engaged thus solemnly to destroy the Government under which they were born and reduce it to this miserable condition whereas it is well known by such as converse daily with them that there is hardly one of ten amongst them who was then in Arms and that it was the Zelots under Essex Manchester Waller and the succeeding Generals who were the persons of whose perfidiousness he makes so much use of and that the present Army consist of a far more ingenuous spirit and might in one moment vindicate this aspersion make their conditions with all advantage and these nations the most happy people upon the Earth as it cannot be despaired but they will one day do when by the goodness of Almighty God they shall perfectly discern through the mist which you have cast upon their eyes lest they should discover the Imposture of these Egyptian Sorcerers But now he comes next to glorifie the late Northern Expedition and because it should look more dreadful he reckons up a horrible Plot of the poor Cavaliers conspiring with Sir Geo. Booth whereas God knows 't was a thing wholly mannaged by some of their own party whom the Rump had disobliged and that could have no other effect then to shew the judgements of God upon so many as it involved under a Calamity which their former Actions had deserved though under the pretence of it and because there was want of prey many innocent persons were seized upon and imprisoned with them And now Sir if after all this injustice and impiety on your parts you have prosecuted that with the extreamest madness which you esteemed criminal in your enemies viz. To arrogate the supream power to a single person condemn men without Law execute and proscribe them with as little Imprest for your Service violate your Parliaments dispense with your solemn Oaths in summe to mingle Earth and Heaven by your unarbitrary proceedings All which not only your printed books this pretended plea but your Actions have abundantly declared have you not justified the Royal party and pronounced them the only honest men which have appeared upon the stage in Characters as plain that he which runs may read whilst yet you persecute