Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	law_n	lord_n	word_n	3,240	5	4.1297	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B05951	Because that to many people, I have seemed to falsify my word and promise,	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.	1693 (1693)	Wing S5108; ESTC R228917	4,306	5

did at the very same moment to the Spirit of my 〈◊〉 For the Vow of a Woman or Wife shall not bind her if her Father or her Husband doth disallow the 〈◊〉 much more all those Promises made unto Men shall no further oblige than saving our Duty to the 〈◊〉 God over all ●nd though in Probability if ye had known as much before hand ye would have still kept me Captive and let me go as now upon my giving this Notice hereof Ye will be apt to relapse me into the same or a 〈◊〉 Condition Yet I should have all along and I am still to commit my Cause unto God with only warn●… 〈◊〉 all of thus much before hand viz. seeing that all which I have done as Relating to publick Affairs ●…dy Reproof of Transgression and exhorting People to come again into the way of God's Commandments 〈◊〉 set his Laws before Mankind and I do Publish his eternal Truth I do nothing more beyond or besides 〈◊〉 which again I do not out of mine own Head but only from of the Statute Book of the Lord God If 〈◊〉 think that I deserve to be imprisoned for this Doing and ye will be instrumental to Confine me God will ●…e that ye and the other People do deserve Damnation for not obeying those his Laws and Commandments which from out of the same Book of Scriptures I have set before Ye and Them And ye will re●…e yet greater Condemnation and be beaten with more stripes for your thus doing towards me his Crea●…e who was sent and employed by him in the Ministration of his Word and Truth This ye will be likely 〈◊〉 find severally as soon as your Breath is out of your Nostrils and your Souls are departed from your Bo●…es God will proportion his Punishment and Recompence according to the number of the days in the ●…ch ye have already or shall yet hold me in adversity and according to what ever degree or manner of Persecution ye have already or shall use yet towards me Though I will most strictly observe that part of my Engagement as never to come again within the Gates of White-Hall or Kensington-House unless I am sent for Yet I would again appear boldly in Person But what ye lately did towards me was a meer Act of Violence viz. such as was neither Law nor Reason for ●…t only Gotten Power and the Will of Men. It was so done meerly because ye were stronger and it could be so done If I may use such a trivial Similitude It was like a Company of Boys who did take one of their Fellows and bind him Hand and Foot and lock him up in a Room by force Which what sometimes they do for once out of Novelty and Play Ye did it for several Days and Weeks successively with me and this ●…s called the Government of Reasonable or rather unreasonable Men and herein I may lawfully use those necessary and prudential Preventives in keeping out of your way If by the Words of God's Grace and Truth I might be somewhat instrumental to bring that to Right which is now overturn'd already and to settle Peace in your Consciences who now live in fear and doubt until ye miscarry to all Eternity unless ye come to Repentance and Restitution then I shall neither harm nor disturb ye And if ye would refrain from hurting my outward Person ye would have less guilt in the mean while and less punishment in the World to come which we are all just entring into To this end is the inclosed Written Paper sent unto ye The Words whereof whether stifled or published will be for some Witness and Testimony By reason of my poor wretched Condition and also Mr. Robert Stephens hath given such strict Orders from ye to the several Printers against doing any thing for me That the will of Man is of more force in this World than the Command of God as to the going forth and publication of his Eternal Truth I do doubt and am afraid that I shall never get it printed and yet blessed be God who performeth all things for me it afterwards was printed and is Entituled A Word to both Houses of Parliament and to the Privy Council However ye may Order it to be Printed or a sufficient Number of Copies of to be Transcribed I send it on Purpose that those Lives might be 〈◊〉 which are now going to be lost in their Invasion of a foreigh Country for 't is 〈◊〉 sits at the Council Board who do cause contrive and carry on the War those many Men Ships and Horses may be turned about according to the Orders of ye who sit at the Helm whithersoever the present Governours list Follow Peace and Righteousness and true Holiness for there is no other under Heaven whereby ye may be saved and in the mean while Farew●… FINIS