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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	king_n	law_n	liberty_n	6,707	5	6.5575	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83944	England know thy drivers, and their driver: or, Democritus natu minimus laughing at the epidemical phrensie of his own nation being so overwhelmed in iniquity, and stupidity, and so hoodwinked by the snares, and slights of its artificial, and pernitious drivers, that it discerneth not in their subtile machinations the indignation of the cheif [sic], omniscient, and omnipotent driver. Whereby England may bee advertised to avoid, and beat back the smart-lash of some of those drivers upon themselves, to whom it is most proper, and thereby may appease the wrath of the cheif [sic] driver.		1647 (1647)	Wing E2934; Thomason E402_20; Thomason E410_8; ESTC R201829	4,250	8

ENGLAND Know thy Drivers and their Driver OR DEMOCRITUS NATU MINIMUS Laughing at the epidemical Phrensie of his own Nation being so overwhelmed in Iniquity and Stupidity and so hoodwinked by the snares and slights of its artificial and pernitious Drivers that it discerneth not in their subtile machinations the indignation of the cheif omniscient and omnipotent Driver Whereby ENGLAND may bee advertised to avoid and beat back the Smart-Lash of some of those Drivers upon themselves to whom it is most proper and thereby may appease the wrath of the cheif Driver Proverbs 16. 4 5 6. The Lord hath made al things for his own sake yea even the wicked for the day of evil Al that are proud in heart are an abomination to the Lord though hand joyn in hand hee shal not bee unpunished By mercy and truth iniquity shal bee forgiven Iames 2. 14. For there shal bee judgement merciles to him that sheweth no mercy and mercy rejoyceth against judgement LONDON Printed for J. L. 1647. ENGLAND Know thy Drivers and their Driver c. DEMOCCITVS a Philosopher living in a City called Abdera in the time of Hypocrates a learned Physitian frequently accustomed to repaire to the concourses and meetings of the Abderites and profusely to laugh at their madnes Democritus juntor a learned both Divine and Philosopher in this present age writ an elaborate and copious Tract called The Anatomy of Melancholy therein demonstrating the Causes Symptomes and proper Cures thereof Now in the third place commeth Democritus naru minimus neither Philosopher nor Divine but a cri●call observer of Times and Persons and a diligent searcher of holy Scriptures one who as a calm humble and charitable Christian would gladly bee his Countries Physitian and for that cause will endeavour though hee be for his labour esteemed a mad man as Democritus was by the Abderites to laugh his Nation out of its Epidemicall phrensie But if our English Abderites take pitty on mee and send some wise and earned Hypocrates to cure me I am confident after hee hath read this Paper hee will vindicate mee and conclude that they themselves are sicke of a Phrensie If Democritus had lived in our age hee needed not have gone among the vulgar multitude to have made himself mery hee might have gone into the Court into the Capitoll and beheld the disturbers of the Parliament and violaters of the Covenant made with and before GOD into the Synod and beheld the Brethren dissenting among the griping Committees if there bee such among the holy anarchicall confused Libertines wheresoever incorporate or not incorporate in the Kingdome in the very streets hee might behold Drunkards and Men and Women attired like Anticks and Stage-players and have too much cause of laughter He might see hypocritical Zelots professing to be religious Hee might behold men luke-warme in religion whom GOD hath threat'ned to spew out of his mouth Hee might see superstitious Idolaters bewitched with Antichristianisme Hee might see some of the Angels of the Churches forsaking their first love ready to returne to the Onions of Egypt Hee might see many Ahabs thirsting after Naboths their neighbours Pastures and fields and houses Hee might see despightfull Furies broaching bitter quarrels amongst Christians hee might see Blasphemers of God prophaners of his Sabboths Fornicators Adulterers lascivious riotous Prodigals He might see Envious men Backbiters Detractors breakers of Promises detainers of Laborers wages uncharitable cruell Oppressors perfidious and treacherous Friends Hee might see Demetrius and the Craftsmen for the Temple of Diana's seeke their owne gaine crying and beating downe works of Piety Mercy and Charity Hee might see our distracted Divisions and Factions arising meerly out of Pride and singularity the daughter of Covetousnesse which is Idolatry one emulating to bee Paul another to be Cephas a third to bee Apollo every one of them affecting fame and popularity and striving to effect Parity that each might gather unto himself multitudes of Disciples and so procure much Contribution to the Saints thereby to make the coffers and treasurie of the Saints himselfe opulent He might heretofore have seen the hands of corrupt Iudges and Magistrates full of Bribes ready to receive a payre of shoots a basket of Chickens a morsell of Bread to pervert Iustice and as on the bench so at the bar false unfaithfull pleaders siding hyred perjured aretopagites and witnesses But let them stand or fall to their own Master What are all these to our subject those artificiall drivers that have gotten a Smart-Lash to drive a whole host of men with counterfeit pretences of a wonderfull spirit raised for Iustice and Righteousnesse and by them to drive a Parliament and a whole Nation even against God and Christ those unclean spirits like Frogs comming out of the mouth of the Dragon of the beast of the false Prophet who were and are the spirits of Devils working miracles to go unto the Kings of the earth and of the whole World to gather them to the battaile of the great day of God Almighty mentioned in the Revelations 16. 13 14. Who had well nigh driven three Kingdomes to perdition by the extirpation and subversion of Religion Law and the liberty of the Subject and their due right by the ancient established Lawes of the Nation not that imaginary fantasticall Vtopian pretended Christian liberty framed out of the singularity and pride of some spiritually high-minded men puffed up with the spirit of Peter who having undertaken to dye with Christ did not only fall into a sleep when Christ required him to watch one houre but also denyed and forswore his Master Christ three times before the cock crowed once These are the second artificiall drivers who drive to the same end of Englands confusion with the first but by severall wayes like Sampsons foxes tyed by the tayles But before I tell these second drivers why I laugh at them I will end with the first Those unclean Spirits like Frogs working miracles have manifested to the world in these our dayes the exquisite with incomparable policy contrived plots and Treasons first in their secret and clandestine practises to butcher and murder many of our late severall Kings and Princes secondly in the twinkling of an eye so soon as a little piece of Paper would be burned to have destroyed all the Nobility and chief Gentry of our Nation and to have consumed by fire or ●umbled or mouldred into dust all the memorable records and antiquities preserved for the honour of our Nation thirdly in contempt of our strict capital and fatall Lawes against them in creeping into the highest and most eminent places in the Kingdome both Ecclesiasticall and Civill thereby annulling our Lawes and introducing an arbitrary power and rule of government at their ripened opportunities to have exalted the supremacy of that Dragon beast and false Prophet out of whose mouth they came and without any noise or power to oppose them to have changed our new as they terme it true reformed