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authority_n	law_n	people_n	power_n	6,970	5	5.1237	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96820	A plaine, and good advice to the Parliament-men, and officers of the army, of the common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Given forth in the name, authority, and by the command of the Lord of Host, for them to read, and consider ...	Wollrich, Humphry, 1633?-1707.	1659 (1659)	Wing W3297; ESTC R224336	4,817	1

Controversie with you for these things are done and ye suffer them which ought not to be suffered among you who have before the Lord Engaged to take off all Oppression which was in your Power They are most grievously oppressed being constrained to pay ten shillings and six pence a week for a poor bed so that the By-fees and such things are utterly ruined and made altogether unable either to pay depts or to redeem themselves out of perpetuall slavery and this is suffered by you in whose days we had cause given us by your large promises to hope that true Judgement and Justices should have streamed down our streets Therefore Friends before it be too late consider whether this is to performe that which your mouths have uttered when ye were in trouble and distress But if you do not throughly amend your wayes and your doings the Lord will not long suffer you who will not suffer the Lamb to rule amongst you yet the Lord standeth in the Congregation of the Mighty yea he judgeth amongst the Gods Therefore thus saith the Lord God to you that rule this oppressed people break all oppressing Lawes and fears not the faces of man But let my Son come out of Spirituall Egypt and let him rule in your hearts and let every Soul in AUTHORITY be subject to the Higher Power and so in Christ Gods Power and Gods Wisdom ye shall rule and prevaile as Princes with God and men and so when Christ the King of Righteousnesse raines in you he shall scatter the wicked and as chaff shall they be before you and your memoriall shall not rott but your names shall be had in everlasting remembrance and you shall be as oyntment poured out and the Lord shall command his Strength for you and your hearts shall be as the heart of a Lion and the everlasting God shall be your refuge and you shall be strengthned by the Arme of the Mighty God of Jacob. But friends this is the plain truth to you all that so long as the spirit in you is grieved ye will grieve it in others and so long as he is oppressed in you ye will oppress his heritage and make the heart of the righteous sad Therefore ye must all come to the measure of his Spirit which he hath given every one of you to profit withall and ye shall with it see and truly discerne how many Popish unprofitable and wicked Lawes are yet in force and how do ye grant liberty when we and our goods are spoiled to repair an Idol-Temple and maintain a false Ministry which God never sent but were made at Oxford and Cambridge in the wills of men therefore how long shall the Lord warn you that ye do not compell us to drink any longer of the Whors Cup Rev. 17. which hath made all Nations Multitudes and all the Kings of the earth Drunke with the wine of her Fornication To you this is the word of the Lord Hate the Whore the Beast and the false Prophet and lay her desolate and give not your strength to them any longer for if ye go on thus to turne the Sword against his people your strength which he hath commanded for you he will Speedily take away and ye shall be weak as water ye your mighty men shall be as women and feare in your hearts shall surprise you and God shall confound you as he hath done the persecutors that went before you and all your wisdom and strength shall be to destroy one another and you that have been warned so often by the Lord in his people but like Pharoh to this day have not broken the bands of oppression notwithstanding all Gods goodnesse to you and your promises of reformation to him O friends with my soul I desire you do not forget him dayes without number that hath in your loe condition so often remembred you there is a witness in you that the Lord stood by you ye Commanders of the Army remember who stood by you in Scotland and many a time in England hath the Lord raised up his power in you and your Souls have troden downe strength and a secret hand and inward confidence ye have felt and deliverance hath come ye knew not how your selves Thus the Lord hath been a Father to you when ye were fatherlesse and comfortlesse yea when almost all the Priests in England and Scotland were preaching you downe and as one man joyning together against you these flatterers are now fed by you with the bread of others that did never thus act and like Baals Prophets which did eat at Jesabells Table they are crying persecute and prosper Therefore in the Name and Athority of the Lord God of Host this is a charge to you all let Jesabells Priests eat at Jesabells Table or who will set meat before them but do not force impison and compell my people to maintaine them any longer as ye have long done but let them be left free in their spirits and consciences to maintaine whom they in their hearts do believe it is their Duty And again in the name and feare of the Lord I lay it upon you that ye break all wicked Lawes and customs in your prisons and let no more perish for want of bread or not paying of fees when they have nothing to pay And when I consider how many of the Lords Servants have been moved of the Lord to write to you to warne you of these things and of all the persecution that hath been and still is in England and all parts of your dominions yea this very day of your Thanksgiving how violently we were abused before your eyes and none stood up amongst you in the Lords behalfe to say so much as Pilate did What evil hath these men done and though we were moved of the Lord and came in his name and Authority to speake yet ye suffer us to be beaten and carried to Newgate before your eyes and few so moderate as to hearken but cry away with them after I had spoken a few words and so condemned me being Innocent in the sight of God and good men I say considering this I was unwilling to write neverthelesse I being moved of the Lord to write I am obedient and I told you Magistrates then that unless ye would quiet the people which pulled me down while I was speaking I could not be cleare of you in the sight of the Lord. H. Wollrich From Newgate the 6 day of the 8 Moneth