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cause_n	call_v	lord_n	time_n	2,016	5	3.3947	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85251	A few words to the people of England, who have had a day of visitation, not to slight time but prize it, least ye perish.	Fell, Christopher.; Howgill, Francis, 1618-1659. A warning to all the rulers in these nations.; Howgill, Francis, 1618-1659. A warning to all the world.; T. W. (Thomas Wooddrove). A lamentation over all England.	1655 (1655)	Wing F840; ESTC R206651	13,069	16

A few words to the people of England who have had a day of visitation not to slight time but prize it least ye perish O England England many precious days of visitation hath the Lord thy God let thee see Oh that thou hadst but known it the Lord thy God hath been very gracious unto thee O England above manny Nations of a long time he that created the Heavens and formed the Earth hath made manifest his love unto thee to that in the conscience of thee thou people of England I speak who am also a witness of the Lords dealings with thee I am the light of the world said Jesus Christ which hath lightned every one that comes into the world with which light O people of England thou hast seen the deceits that people in thee and other Nations have lived in and by that in thy conscience O people of England who was of late but little in thy own eyes hast thou seen the deceits of them that were in Authority before thee both the Bishops and their Prelates and their Prelaticall Authority and the persecutions they used over the people of God and their usurped Authority they used over tender consciences that then were living in thee thou wast not ignorant nor it was not unknown to thee O thou people of England how the Bishops with their Prelaticall Authority and usurped power did fine imprison banish and lay wast thy people O England who for conscience sake could not bow down to his Idolatrous worships as thou then rightly calledst it And O people of England it was not hid from thine eyes neither was thou ignorant how others who were called civil Governours and had the Authority of Majestracy in thee O England did usurpe Authority over mens persons estates and consciences And to thee O people of England it was discovered what corruptions those and all other in Authority lived in that then were heads of the Nation and then thou couldest have cryed The Judges judge for reward the Prophets Prophesie falsly the Priests beare rule by their means and my people love to have it so but what will ye doe in the end thereof was not this thy cry in that day when thou wast in distresse O people of England to that in thy conscience I speak Was it not a griefe to thee when thou wast kept low yea the griefe of thine heart to see people persecuted mocked and imprisoned or banished under names and titles given them by their enemies wherewith to cover their bloody enterprises and I call that in thy conscience to witnesse if thou didst not languish under their tyranny in those days and how many prayers and tears hath it cost some and how much imprisonment others and how much banishment others and in these thy languishing days of sorrow hast thou with tears and prayers and with hands lifted up entreated the Lord that he would be pleased to pull down that Authority which did then usurpe and bear rule over tender consciences in this Nation and them that did uphold it and how many vows promises and ingagements didst thou make in thy lownes and distress if ever the Lord would give thee power and strength to overthrow the Tyrants that then bare rule and if ever the Lord would bring those Tyrants and their laws into thy hands thou wouldest utterly destroy persecution out of England for ever and make England a free Nation was not this thy ingagement and promise O people of England when thou wast under and in distresse to that in thy conscience I speak O that thou wouldst give it leave to answer me that thou mightest come to see where thou hast been and repent for here thou wast that in thy conscience will witnesse for ever And now O people of England the Lord God by whose hands the Heaven and the Earth was made hath granted thy request to the full the Lord hath not been slack but hath given thee what in tendernesse thou didst desire What darest thou charge the Lord with that he hath witholden from thee which in freenesse in thy days of sorrow thou did desire the Lord hath brought under thy feet the necks of them that did oppresse thee and the Lord hath brought into thy power their Authority and their Laws and subdued them all under thee to the full request of that which then breathed under did desire to that which condemns the d sobedient doe I speak which is an eternall witnesse to thy face before the Lord how thou hast performed thy Covenant which thou madest with the Lord in the day of thy calamity Consider take heed to that in thy conscience return the living witnesse for God will not be mocked with words nor shews to the light of Christ in thy conscience look and it will let thee see that the same Laws which thou in thy adversity and lownesse didst promise to pull downe are standing still are not oppressive Laws to compell men to pay Tithes to the maintaining of coveteous hirelings and tithe-mongers standing in as great force as ever and many of their outward estates spoyled by these oppressive Laws which thou promised to take away and this is not done by an enemy of thine but even by thee who didst professe to be faithfull in performing thy Vowes to the Lord Thou faire professing people of England who hast made so many faire promises to take away oppressions to the light of Christ in thee I speak which will witnesse me and condemn thee for holding up these things which thou promised to the Lord thou wouldst pull down except thou repent with speed and let the light in thy conscience judge if these persecuting Laws under names and titles be not standing yet in as great force and power as ever they were in thy fore-fathers days which the Lord by thy hand hath destroyed and thou dost now exceed thy fore-fathers in persecuting the innocent under names and brands which thou dost put upon them that the truth may appeare odious and that persecutions done by thee may be supposed to be punishing of errours as thy fore-fathers ever did as at this day is plainely made manifest in many places of thy Land O faire promising people of England and many people tender and dear to the Lord in in many a Town and City of thy Nation is imprisoned without any Law or cause at all nay not so much as Queen Mary the Papists Law to alledge against them was there ever such things done by thy fore-fathers which I have destroyed before thee hast thou allready forgotten that the Lord pleaded the cause of the innocent with thy fore-fathers and overthrew them O call to remembrance what the Lord hath done to thy Predecessors in former time who persecuted the innocent and tender hearted ones who hardned their necks and would not regard the counsell of the Lord which was and is the light in all consciences which light once shone in thy conscience by which thou sawest them which lived in