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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	add_v	life_n	write_v	2,999	5	5.9232	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89258	A leaf pull'd from the tree of life: medicinall for the healing of Englands divisions. Or, A glimpse of the excellency of a kingly government. Proving it to be 1. Most Godly. 2. Most Christianlike. 3. Most ancient. 4. Most safe for the people. Written out of love and good will to the peace and tranquility of the three nations, of England, Scotland, and Ireland. By John Moore.	Moore, John, of Wechicombe, near Dunster, Somerset.	1660 (1660)	Wing M2560; Thomason E1026_7; ESTC R208755	14,530	23

tongues have uttered perversness wherein few or none call for Justice and scarcely any plead for truth where the Cockatrice Eggs are hatcht and the Spiders Web woven and in whose hands is nothing else but the act of violence where their feet run to evil making haste to shed innocent blood whose paths are full of wasting and destruction where they fast for strife and debate where they do not loose the bands of wickedness nor undo the heavy burthens nor let the oppressed go free nor break any yoke where none seek for peace neither will they be acquainted with the ways thereof Where they are seeking them out new ways as if they intended to serve a strange God where judgement ss turned away backward and justice standeth a far off Where truth is fallen in the street and equity cannot enter Where they grinde the faces of the poor and sell the needy for a pair of shoes Where the people have used oppression and exercised Robbery by a Law Where the sins of Sodom are rife for this was the sin of Sodom Pride Fulness of bread and abundance of Idleness was found in her neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy Where the Governours prize their own Ordinances above the Ordinances of God and the Subjects thrreof more afraid to violate the former then profane the latter Ah sinfull Nation laden with such iniqui●ies as these the head whereof is sick and the heart thereof faint and from the sole of the foot even to the head there is little or no soundness or solidity in it but ful of wounds and bruises and putrifying sores of division which to this day are not yet closed with the balm of Repentance and returning to God nor bound up with the white Fillet of peace nor mollified with the pretious men of unfained love This even this is Englands state but what is the reason that we are so full of divisions that the heart of England pants and beats and is so out of frame and order so disquieted within her self is it hence because the foundation of government is out of course and if such foundations be destroyed or be out of course What can even the righteous themselves do but sit down by the waters of confusion and weep or else consider whether there be not a way for them to return to such a foundation of government which may be instrumentall for their deliverance from confusion the healing of their devisions the obtaining of their peace without which we shall never reap the true benefit of any mercy which made the Poet excellently sing forth this Verse Sit pax cum lignis Si vis ut a●diat ignis Let peace blow thy fire If warmth thou de●ire But then the Question will be what that Foundation of goverment is tha● is most likely to effect it why truely the question is soon answered and 't is this that government which hath it's foundation in the holy Scriptures to which the Patriarchs Prophets and Apostles have submitted to the law and to the Testiomony for whatsoever is not according to that word is full of darknesse and confusion I once heard a godly and a reverend Divine Mr. Newton of Taunton deliver this doctrine in the P●lpit that the Scripture God is our God and in this case answerable to that I say let the Scripture government be our government for if the Scripture be the only and sufficient ground of Faith and rule of life for the eternall peace and welfare of the soul there is certainly a sufficiency in it for the ground and rule of government pertaining to the body so that we need not go beyond the Scriptures to look us out a new form of government or new Titles for governors except we are willing to continue war in our gates the Scripture saith that when the people chose them new Gods which I understand by the context of the words to be governours who in Scripture are called Gods then was warre in their gates even of civill warrs and bloody divisions Now this is as clear as the Sun at noon-day Jud. 5.7 8 to every sober-minded Christian that is not drunk with self-Interest not overcome with a spirit of Giddinesse that the foundation of goverment which is commended to us by God in the Scripture did and was to rest and reside in a single person known by the Names or Titles of Kings and Judges and to contradict the perpetuation of it untill Christ himself come there is not one line in the whole Bible as I remember and I believe I have read the Bible over threescore times and as the Apostle saith that he that keeps the whole Law and failsin one point is guilty of all so if wee own the Scripture as the ground of faith and rule of life in some things and renounce it in other having no command for it we must unavoidably be guilty of sliting the whole for the Scripture was not given in old time by will of man nor is it to be altered or chang'd by mans will nor any thing to be added to it or taken from it upon pain that every one that shall so do shall have his name blotted out of the Book of Life and for an addition all the plagues that are written in the same book inflicted on him if ever we would then enjoy our peace our lives libereties and estates our wives and children with tranquility joy and comfort it must be by a chearfull submission to such a foundation of government which God in his wisdome hath appointed and thought meet for us and made obvious to our eye in his sacred records let then the exhortation Jer. 6. 16. which the Prophet Jeremiah hath spoken to us in the name of the Lord be acceptable to us Who bids us to stand in the ways and see and ask for the old paths where is the good way and walk therein and we shall find rest for our souls Let us consider and examine whether it be not better though we should be loosers by it to imitate the servants of God of old and walke in their steps paths then for our own ends to dance after the pipe of the covetous drunken swinish slovenly Dutch and the lustfull adulterous Venetian where under the government of the one all manner of intollerable blasphemies are tollerated and under the dominion of the other most abominable beastlinesse countenanc't yea rather let us set our eyes to behold have our ears often to hearken to our minds bent to contemplate our hearts to ponder our lips to speak of our hands to lay hold of and our feet to tread in the paths of such a goverment which hath these properties attending it First most Godly Secondly most Christianlike Thirdly most antient Fourthly most safe for the people Now the govenrment of a single person is most godly for these reasons following First because it was brought forth in time and establisht in the Nations according to