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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bring_v	evil_a	good_a	2,402	5	3.7029	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34529	Eye-salve for English-men, and an alarvm to the Londoners wherein is contained the summary of Romes late designes against England, and the present plots and enterprizes in hand against London, so many as hath yet come to the knowledge of the author : together with the opening of an effectual door, to the happiness of this nation : whereunto is annexed a postscript containing reasons and motives to his Highness and the present power in being, to grant us s[u]ch a committee which hath been long promised, and much longer desired and sought for / composed for the view of His Highness, and all the people of England, by Jeffrey Corbet ...	Corbet, Jeffrey.	1654 (1654)	Wing C6244; ESTC R39395	24,070	29

freed the nation from the tyranny of the Gentlemen of the long Robe notwithstanding that God calleth for it his people hath prayed and s●ught it at thy hands both by writing and by word of m●uth Oh my Lor 〈…〉 ●b●●eech you consider what a cloud of witnesses w●l come in against you consider i● I say before it be too late for ●ss●redly if you wil not do that work for which hee hath brought thee unto this place ●ssuredly he wil suddenly lay thee ●side I beseech you consider that God hath put power into your hands to establish I ●stice and righteousness in this nation and if there be a principle within you why is it not don I do profess it maketh me to tremble to think how unanswerable it is both before God and man And the late King did think himself as far from being questioned by man as you can yet you see what is become of him I beseech you remember that it is God that ordreth the spirits of men it is he that subdueth the hears of the people unto Kings and Governors and it is he that raiseth the spirits of the people against them when they do not govern in and for the Lord and I do not know any ty or rule in all the Scriptures no not in the neerest relations that requireth obedience but in the Lord then if magistrates and governors wil cast aside the wil and law of God and act in and for their own wils and by the corrupt Antichristian laws which were divised by covetous men with the help of the Devil to inrich themselves by the ruin of many thousand families widows and fatherless I say if they do act and command and govern in their own wils and by a Law which is so directly opposi●e to the wil and law of God than no wonder though there be so much murmurring and complaining in our streets so much plotting contriving the ruin and destruction of our governors for the thing is of God though the evil and bloody intention in them is from the devil and their own lusts because they cannot set up Antichrist and establish iniquity and all ungodliness by a law that so they might live according to their own lusts this I say is of the devil yet I say the thing is of god and that for most righteous ends to make governors afraid to act in their own wils and by corrupt Antichristian laws for hath not god promised that if our ways pleaseth him he wil make our enemies at peace with us then my lord what conclusion can be drawn when not only our enemies but our frends are at variance with us and have sought our destructions the Lord sayd to one if thou dost wel shalt thou not be excepted yes thou shal● be excepted with god and excepted with man then my lord who can hurt thee who will plot any evil against the nay wil not all bless thee and bless god for thee that ever he brought such a man to rule over us but my Lord if thou doest evil sin lieth at thy dore and certainly if sin once lye there Judgment wil not be long absent I mean judgment 〈…〉 h a witness for it is a Iudgment to have the people ready to rebel and to rise up against thee but when it cometh with a witness it wil take effect to the sweeping of thee and thine off from the land of the living therefore my Lord I beseech thee lay it to heart what wil neither real mercies bestowed upon thee nor iudgments threatned and shaken over thee awake thee though timely discovered to preserve thee whereby god showeth thee how he could have cut thee off but this he doth to make further trial of thee to see if thou wil● be awakened and driven out of thy own wil to Act in the wil and Law of thy god that so he might be a shield and a buckler unto thee and unite the hearts of the people unto thee Oh my Lord ' I beseech the return to thy god and be safe make him thy stability by establishing iustice iudgment and righteousness in this Nation Oh! that thou woludst thus try God and once in thy life keep a true fast by breaking the bands of wickedness by taking off every burthen and letting the oppressed go free Oh ' I say that thou wouldest thus try god and see if he wil not open the windows of heaven and power down abundantly blessings of all sorts both upon thee and thine this whole nation then wil the people bless thee and when ever they do see thy face they wil make the heavens to ring with their acclamations and strong cries which they wil send up to heaven for thee it wil make the hearts of the widows and fatherless to si●g in them for ioy I beseech you consider of the greatness of the good which wil come by it for it wil discover much more evil than I have or is fit to mention in a publike way it wil procure far greater good to this nation then my pen is able to express for it wil do the greatest part of your work to your hands and it wil be done on free-cost for they wil act without any sallery so that the work will be done without any trouble to you or charge to the people Oh how wil this unite the hearts of the people unto you and it wil remove your desperate enemies far from you which now are in your bosom I beseech you be no longer deluded by the Lawyers to think that they wil regulate the Law see justice done to the oppressed of the nation for is it not their trade to oppress by their delatory proceedings putting fair glosses upon foul causes making good seem to be evil and evil seem to be good whereby they do bring more detriment to the nation than all the cheaters pick-pockets Highway-robbers or all the charge of the whole Army is it possible that any which do live by the corrupt practise of the Law should see the evil thereof so long as the gain thereof is as a gift which the Spirit saith doth blind the eys of the wife and these are wise men they are wise to do evil but to do good they have no heart I speak for the generality of them I include not all for I do know a few and but very few of them of whom I have better hopes but it i● an easier work to make ten 〈◊〉 Laws out of the Scriptures than to reforme the old which is so ful frought with corrupt juggles and deceitful tricks to make one shut beget ten others but ●ethinks I do see the lawyers the traytors and the tyrants flo●king about my Lord 〈◊〉 him that these men cannot de●ermin things according to J 〈…〉 ce because they are ignorant of the Law to which 〈◊〉 answer that they are men that are very wel instructed in the Law of right 〈…〉 usness which is the Law that must do