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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	church_n	government_n	kingdom_n	3,695	5	5.8013	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92927	The Army anatomized: or, A brief & plain display of the humble, honest and religious actings of the General Sir Tho. Fairfax, and his army of saints, toward the good of the King and Parliament, and the whole kingdom, since the famous victory, at Naseby, June 14. 1645. Occasioned upon the serious consideration of 4 Scripture-properties of every true saint and Christian soldier. 1. Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you ('tis our Saviors own Golden-Rule) even so do ye unto them. Mat. 7. 12. 2. Not to do any evil (a general Rule, which admits of no exception, either in Kings, or in Commanders) that good may come thereof. Rom. 3.8. 3. To abstain from every appearance of evil; much more from every apparent evil. 2 Thes. 5. 22. 4. Do violence, or wrong, to no man; neither accuse any man falsly. Luke 3.14. Now, how Sir Tho. Fairfax's army of saints and Christian soldiers have performed all these, or any of these, shal be faithfully and plainly declared, in 20. following observations. / By a loyal lover of peace and truth; but a hearty contemner of sedition and schism.	Loyal lover of peace and truth.	1647 (1647)	Wing S2600; Thomason E419_6; ESTC R203539	29,584	39

any Acts imposing any penalties upon men or women for not coming to Church or for meetings elswhere that is in private Comers Houses Shops Cellars or Barns for prayer or other religious duties exercises or ordinances that is of any kind whatsoever whether Heretral Seditious Idolatrosu Plasphemous yea or Trayterous too if upon pretence of Religion for there 's no exception of any one of these in that or any other the Proposals whereby men may thus run head long to hel by authority and no man dare to molest or stay them O most abominable and desperately accursed Proposal hateful to God and men I have read of Alphonsus King of Aragon a famous Prince who hearing a Gentleman in his Court pleading against Learning and especially that it was unfit for Courtly Lords and Gentlemen to be trained up in literature or to be learned Schollars he in high indignation thereat cryed out presently That it was the Voyce of an Ox not of a man And certainly whosoever that has the least spark of piety or grace and reads or hears of this most hellish Proposal must needs most pathetically cry out in extream abhorrency thereof O the voyce of some accursed Turk or apostate Julian not of a Saint or professed Christian Yet thus you see how like most insolent and arrogant Rebels to God and all Goodness to Religion and the whole Realm this Army of Saints dares do or desire any thing to be done be it ever so destructive to Christanity or Civil Policy their desires they must have granted per fas aut nofas what care they being Saints and Conquerors of All. Hence then I conceive any man may clearly conclude that If monstrous Pride and gross Impiety Be signs of Saints These then are Saints most high Ninthly But for the yet more subtile corroboration and strengthning of their wicked design of an Vniversal Toleration the General the Councel of War and Agitators having thus as is aforesaid felt the pulses of the people in many places as they rambled up and down to be all for Peace and Freedom from Taxations and that almost upon any conditions they do first most illegally accuse 11. of the most loyal active and faithful Presbyterian Members of the House of Commons and nothing wil please them but a present expulsion of them out of the Parliament though the Parliament Voted they could not either in Law or Conscience do it as Complotters or Contrivers of a Second or New War the grand Anvil whereon now they must hammer and hatch all their subsequent mischievous plots thus by the very name of a Second War so opposite and odious to desired peace to render those worthy Gentlemen and all that in this sort they must now hereafter have to do with all the more odious and contemptible to all people both in City and Country Whereas 't is most apparent to God and the rightly intelligent whole Kingdom that the Army it self was the only rise and original cause of all our fears and jealousies of a Second War by their so bold and rebellious refusal to disband at the Parliaments just Command thereof as also upon their most notorious denial to be lessened in their numbers yea though it were for the most necessitous helping of the poor gasping and dying Kingdom of Ireland then in most sad distresses as aforesaid Thus Pride and Malice and Impiety Are ne'er without deep strains of Policy Now therefore in the tenth and next place They began to quarrel with the City of London also which had been O impious ingratitude even their principal Foster-Fathers as I may wel say both in making them an Army at the first and also in maintaining them in no smal measure all along ever since they were first New medelld to this very day And the ground of this their quarrel must be their secret complotting also with those 11. worthy Members of Parliament for the advancing and setting forward of the foresaid Second War and to this end their procuring of an unjust power says the Army from the Parliament for the alteration and managing of their own City Militia thereby to place and displace to put in or put out whom they pleased and that thereupon they had thrust out of their Militia divers precious deserving men says the Army men without all exception and most worthy to be confided in whereas indeed they were known Schismaticks some of them preachers yea some of them countenancing Paul Bests abominable blasphemies most of them desperate Enemies to our Covenant and Reformation of Religion as to the point of the power of godliness and of Presbyterian Church Government and these men say they were thus put out the better to carry on the wicked Design for so they now termed it of a Second War in the City against the Army and so consequently against the whole Kingdom and that the City also secretly listed Soldiers and conspired with the 11. accused Members and others to occasion a fresh effusion of blood in the Kingdom And thus by this abominable lying Engine I say of a Second War which now they cry out of in all their Letters Declarations and Remonstrances to the Parliament and people hereby as I said before to cry down all just defence against the Armies intended All-overtopping-power and thus to cry up more and more their own most crafty design of over-mastering all others that durst indevor to oppose or resist them with their stil continued and strongly embodied Army and yet which me thinks is a most strange madness in men to beleeve in all this they must be accounted the only men of peace in the Kingdom and the chief protectors of a Free Parliament in its power and priviledges and of the peoples Hereditary Liberties Whereas indeed the clean contrary is most evidently true in them they themselves mainly and only intending nothing less than a Second or New War in case they may not have their will of the Parliament in all their Demands especially in the point of a Vniversal Toleration and Liberty of Conscience for al men in all religions they being thus I say in a strong ready body of an Army And having also for a most strong confirmation of the truth of all these premises brought all their Artillery from Oxford dayly listing Soldiers of all sorts Cavaliers and others possessing themselves most strongly of all our most considerable Holds Forts and Castles And thus I say most evidently resolving to fight with all that oppose them and to get into their power by force what they cannot by fraud and hypocrisie And thus the poor City of London hath hatcht up a bird to pick out her eyes or like the Country-man in the apologue reviv'd a Snake to infest and infect his whole House as afterward we shal yet more apparently perceive and shew you in a yet more fit place If ever Any Schismaticks indeed In black Ingratitude do All exceed Eleventhly For the more exquisitely ripening of their design they now