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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bring_v	lord_n	people_n	2,163	5	4.6392	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B23122	For the King and Council, these	Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1660 (1660)	Wing F1822	4,905	8

FOR THE KING AND HIS COUNCIL THESE OH King CHARLES our desire is that thou mayest live for ever in the fear of God and thy Council we beseech thee and thy Council to read these following Lines and in tender Bowels and Compassion to read them over for we write in love and compassion to your souls and for your good And this consider we are above four hundred imprisoned in about this City of men women from their Families in close Holes and Prisons besides in the Countrey Gaols above ten hundred And this we desire that our Meetings may not be broken up but that all may come to a fair Tryal that our innocency may be cleared Oh! how have you given us up who are innocent to be butchered who wrong no man nor lift up a hand against any man neither against you nor your Souldiers But oh how have you let all men that have neither reason nor mercy nor distinction upon us which we are known all along by all the Powers before you to have been trodden upon by them as sheep for the slaughter and now we are bruised stoned prisoned men and women knocked down trodden down in the streets and dirt crumbled in our mouths the simple innocent and harmless that envies no man upon the earth cannot pass up and down in the streets And it s known that our Principle is and hath been not to revenge our selves it 's known that them that you have numbred us amongst who never denyed the bearing of Sword nor outward Weapons but whose Principle is to avenge themselves Oh that you should make no more distinction and should have no more consideration For it's Sin and Wickedness and Filthiness that we have alwayes declared against that brings people to Ryots and Plots and tumultuous Meetings Therefore oh that the innocent should be numbred amongst such even we who seek the peace of all people and the good of all men and the Lord God Almighty judge for us betwixt us and them that we are numbred amongst and plead our Cause for we are given up to all the wild people in thy Dominions that have neither mercy nor manhood but lost the state of very Nobility for we have been a People known in all thy Dominions and in all thy Islands about it and in many other Nations to whom the Lord hath made many to go out of this Nation where they have had their passage amongst the heads of other Nations and had liberty to preach the Gospel so that many have through the Gospel been turned to God yea the very Heathens And now that we should be reckoned amongst a people whose Principle is to fight and swear upon occasion and to avenge themselves which astonishes all them which know it I believe your own consciences tell you that we are harmless and would do you no harm nor hurt but wish your good Therefore how can you now make us amends and clear your selves in the sight of God for bringing guilt of the innocent upon you who are in God's hand to whom we do commit our selves our souls and cause and innocency and if we be thus wronged the Lord is our Helper and we know we are in his hand therefore can we give our backs to the smiter and our cheeks and hair to them that will smite and pluck it off But oh how we are grieved for you who hath thus numbred us and given us up to be a prey to the Wicked and are put in your Declaration to be amongst the Plotters and Fighters so that in all parts without Mercy or Compassion of Men or Women young or old with Swords and Pistols Clubs and Staves Dirt and Stones they fall upon us yea before Thy Declaration came out against us but now the wicked rejoices But oh our sorrow and grief is for your own selves though we do suffer on every hand and many of our friends are made a prey upon by armed men drawn out of houses and taken up in the streets to get money of them under a pretence as taking of them up in suspition and making thy Name for a cover and for money might many have their liberty This is for the liberty of all bad people now to spoil and to make havock and to make a gain upon the Innocent Oh that we should be thus sold and oh that violent men without mercy and compassion and distinction you should put the Sword into their hands Therefore who should order the multitude who should order the rude people who should give understanding to the placing of Souldiers and distinguish unto them what they should lay the Sword upon but you that have the Authority Vengeance is the Lords and he will repay it we cannot revenge our selves though by your Declaration we are published as amongst the Plotters to all Nations but the Lord shall plead our Cause to whom we commend our selves and to the hearts of all People our Innocency appears who trieth us Therefore our desire is let all the Prisoners be brought forth to a Tryal out of their Holes and Dungeons And all that lye in the Common-wealths Name before you For there is a Testimony that we have been sufferers by the Powers before you for that is for your honor to do Justice and let Justice be done and let the Offenders be punished and let the Guiltless be set free And now we must not meet to Worship God neither must we meet together to Edifie one another according to the Apostles Doctrine and stir up the gift in one another they that feared the Lord spoke often together as you may read in Malachy but this is forbidden wee must not meet And did not the Council forbid the Apostles to speak any more in the Name of Jesus and did not they preach up and down from house to house and had not they Meetings in several houses And did not Paul preach together two years in his own hired house in the seat of the Emperor at Rome And now if you suspect us or have jealousie of us which you need not let men come in all our Meetings without violence and see our Order and manner of our speaking in our Meetings For it cannot be said that we have forfeited our liberties which was given unto Tender Consciences so as to be numbred amongst them that are Fighters Therefore take not away the Liberty that You have given to Tender Consciences that cannot defend themselves with outward Weapons For they that Fight and Kill and rise up with Carnal Weapons and plot and rise up against Brethren to kill they cannot be said to love Enemies Therefore expose us not to all Kingdoms upon the Earth nor number us among the Plotters when many of us are to go into many Kingdoms and parts of the World to declare the Everlasting Truth and Gospel which is no disgrace to thy Kingdom and Family that there should be a family of Prophets in it of the most High GOD But if