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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	church_n	discipline_n	government_n	3,314	5	6.9877	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44735	Mercurius hibernicus, or, A discourse of the late insurrection in Ireland displaying (1) the true causes of it ..., (2) the course that was taken to suppresse it, (3) the reasons that drew on a cessation of arms, and other compliances since : as also, touching those auxiliaries which are transported thence to serve in the present warre.	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1644 (1644)	Wing H3094; ESTC R5988	10,893	34

misapplied those moneys and mis-imployed those men which were levyed with His Majesties royall assent for the reduction of Ireland They who set afoot that most sanguinary designe of extirpating at least of enslaving a whole ancient Nation who were planted there by the hand of Providence from the beginning They who hindred His Majesties transfretation thither to take cognizance of his own affairs and expose the countenance of His own royall person for composing of things They They may be said to be the true causes of that unavoidable necessity and as the heathen Poet sings The Gods themselves cannot resist Necessity which enforced His Majesty to capitulate with the Irish and assent to a Cessation It was the saying of one of the bravest Roman Emperours and it was often used by Henry the Great of France Her Majesties Father That he had rather save the life of one loyall Subject then kill a hundred Enemies It may well be thought that one of the prevalentst inducements that moved His Majesty besides those formerly mentioned to condescend to this Irish Cessation was a sense he had of the effusion of his owne poor Subjects blood the hazard of the utter extirpation of the Protestants there and a totall irrecoverable losse of that Kingdome as was advertised both in the petition of the Protestants themselves the relation of the Committee imployed thither to that purpose and the expresse letters of the Lord Justices and Counsell there To prove now that this Cessation of Arms in Ireland was more honourable and fuller of Piety Prudence and Necessity then either the Pacification or Peace with the Scot I hope these few ensuing arguments above divers others which cannot be inserted here in regard of the fore intended brevity of this Discourse will serve the turne 1. Imprimis When the Pacification was made with Scotland His Majesty was there personally present attended on by the floure of His English Nobility Gentry and Servants and the enemy was hard by ready to face Him At the concluding of the Irish Cessation His Majesty was not there personally present but it was agitated and agreed on by his Commissioner and it hath been held alwayes lesse dishonourable for a King to capitulate in this kind with his owne Subjects by his Deputy then in his owne person for the further off he is the lesse reflects upon him 2. Upon the Pacification and Peace with Scotland there was an Amnestia a generall pardon and an abolition of all by-passed offences published there were honours and offices conferred upon the chiefest sticklers in the War At the Cessation in Ireland there was no such thing 3. When the Pacification and Peace was made with the Scots there was mony given unto Them as it is too well knowne But upon the setling of this Cessation the Irish gave His Majesty a considerable summe as an argument of their submission and gratitude besides the maintainance of some of his Garrisons in the interim and so much partly in poynt of honour 4. At the concluding of the Pacification and Peace with Scotland there was a vigorous fresh unfoiled English Army afoot and in perfect equipage there wanted neither Ammunition Armes Money Cloaths Victuals or any thing that might put heart into the Souldier and elevate his spirits But the Protestant Army in Ireland had not any of all these in any competent proportion but were ready to perish though there had been no other enemy then hunger and cold And this implies a farre greater necessity for the said Cessation 5. In Ireland there was imminent danger of an instant losse of the whole Kingdome and consequently the utter subversion of the Protestant Religion there as was certified both to King Parliament by sundry letters petitions which stand upon record There was no such danger in the affairs of Scotland either in respect of Religion or Kingdome therefore there was more piety shown in preserving the one and prudence in preserving the other in Ireland by plucking both as it were out of the very jawes of destruction by the said Cessation We know that in the Medley of mundane casualties of two evils the least is to be chosen and a small inconvenience is to be borne withall to prevent a greater If one make research into the French Story he will find that many kinds of Pacifications and Suspensions of Armes were covenanted twixt that King and some of his Subjects trenching farre more upon regall dignity then this in Ireland The Spaniard was forced to declare the Hollanders Free-states before they could be brought to treat of a truce And now the Catalans screw him up almost to as high conditions But what need I rove abroad so far It is well known nor is it out of the memory of man that in Ireland it selfe there have been Cessations all circumstances well weighed more prejudiciall to Majesty then this But that which I heare murmured at most as the effect of this Cessation is the transport of some of those Souldiers to England for recruting His Majesties Armies though the greatest number of them be perfect and rigid Protestants and were those whom our Parliament it selfe imployed against the Irish But put case they were all Papists must His Majesty therefore be held a Favourer of popery The late King of France might have been said as well to have been a Favourer of Protestants because in all his wars he imployed Them most of any in places of greatest trust against the House of Austria whereas all the World knows that he perfectly hated them in the generall and one of the reaches of policy he had was to spend and waste them in the warres Was it ever knowne but a Soveraigne Prince might use the bodies strength of his own naturall-born Subjects and Liege men for his owne defence When His person hath been sought and aimed at in open field by small and great shot and all other Engines of hostility and violence When he is in danger to be surprized or besieged in that place where he keeps his Court When all the flowers of his Crowne his royall prerogatives which are descended upō him from so many successive progenitors are like to be plucked off and trampled under foot When there is a visible plot to alter and overturn that Religion he was born baptized bred in When he is in danger to be forced to infringe that solemn Sacramentall Oath he took at his Coronation to maintain the said Religion with the Rights Rites of the holy Anglican Church which some brain-sick Scismaticks would transform to a Kirk and her Discipline to some chimericall forme of government they know not what Francis the first and other Christian Princes made use of the Turke upon lesse occasions and if one may make use of a Horse or any other bruit animall or any inanimat Engine or Instrument for his owne defence against man much more may man be used against man much more may one rationall Creature be usd against