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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	court_n	king_n	parliament_n	2,759	5	6.7580	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55727	Tandem bona causa triumphet, or, Scotlands late misery bewailed, and the honour and loyalty of this ancient kingdom, asserted in a sermon preached before His Majesties High Commissioner, and the Honourable Parliament of the kingdom of Scotland, at Edinburgh the 17 day of February, 1661 / by Mr. John Paterson, Minister of the Gospel at Aberdene.	Paterson, John, 1604?-1679.; Paradise, John.	1661 (1661)	Wing P328; ESTC R17861	15,450	27

thing from him you shall not oppresse one another Secondly A Land or City may be defiled with Violence when that which is justly due to any Person is unjustly violently or falsely detained from them Jam. 5. Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped your harvest which is detained by you by fraud cryeth It is Violence and Oppression and so is all Vnrighteousnesse Mal. 3. I will be a swift witnesse against these who oppresse the hireling in his wages Thirdly A Land or City may be defiled with Violence and Oppression when too heavy and insupportable Bnrthens Taxes and Impositions are laid on it which it cannot bear without sighs and groans and this may be not only the fault of the Supream Powers but even of inferiour Powers and Rulers of a Land by an unjust and unequal dividing and laying on of publick Taxes and Burthens when the poorer sort of people are taxed and rated beyond not only their power but beyond their due proportion and the richer sort spared to take the burthen of the Rich and to lay it on the Poor is a horrible Violence in the sight of JEHOVAH Fourthly A Land or City may be defiled with Violence and Oppression by perverting or delaying of Justice when the Poor the Widow and the Fatherlesse are born down in Judgement in their just and righteous Cause by the Richer sort whether it be by Money Friendship or Money Isa 1. Every one loveth gifts and followeth rewards they judge not the fatherlesse nor doth the cause of the widow come before them To delay or pervert Justice is horrible Iniquity and Violence Fifthly A Land may be defiled with Violence and Oppression by Ingrossers and Monopolizers Sixthly A Land may be defiled with Violence by Sacriledge when people maketh a prey of holy things of those things which are devoted and consecrated to GOD to his Church to the Poor to Pious uses these are they who devour holy things Psal 83. Let us take to our selves the houses of God in possession These are Sacrilegious Oppressors and their sin is Sacrilegious Violence They deal with the Church as Dyonisius dealt with Iupiter Olympus he took from that Idol a Garment of massie Gold which Hero had dedicated of the Spoils of Carthage saying It was too heavy for Summer and too cold for Winter and put a Garment of VVool about the Statue saying This is fit for both seasons of the year Lastly A Land may be defiled with Violence by imposing and tyrannizing over mens Consciences and that is the saddest oppression of all when force and violence is done to the Conscience I mean in point of mens judgement when they are content to submit and conform in their practise especially in things which are in themselves but meerly problematick and disputable and which may be holden pro or contra without any hazard or losse of Salvation or of a good Conscience matters where●nent Pious and Learned Orthodox Divines are not agreed among themselves VVhen such things are imposed upon mens Consciences as necessary and Fundamental Truths this is horrible Violence As to the Vniversality or Overspreading of these sins amongst the Iews both Country and City were defiled with Blood and Violence And as to the height of these Sins The land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence Time forceth me to passe these two Particulars Now I come to apply the Text and what I have said on it in reference to the Iews to this Land wherein we live And I shall apply it God willing in these Considerations First What our condition was of late we were in a chain under a base Bondage and Slavery Secondly Who were the makers of that chain Thirdly The causes wherefore GOD suffered us to come under such a sad chain of bondage Fourthly I shall in a word exhort all Ranks to Repentance for our accession to the making of this chain Fifthly I shall tell you that we have great cause to blesse GOD for breaking this chain And lastly With all submission and reverence to the KING his Commissioner's GRACE and this High Court of PARLIAMENT I shall make bold to say that GOD is calling at your hands to make a fourfold chain 1. As to our condition of late these many years by gone we were in a chain we were brought and kept for many years under a most base Slavery and Bondage we were Slaves to Slaves we were in a chain in all these respects whereof I spoke in the Explication of the Text. First In a chain because we were restrained and deprived of our National Liberty a yoke of Tyranny and Vsurpation was fast wreathed about our Necks we had not power to act in any of our Publick Interests or Concernments all our Civil Power and Authority taken away yea the Fountain of Power under GOD taken away the KING himself our Parliaments razed to the foundation our Civil and Criminal Courts made to run out of the right Channel into a strang and new fancied Commonwealth Strangers ruled over us and some temporizing Complyers of our own Land were larg worse than Sir angers such as our Sequestrators We were in a chain also in reference to our Church State our Church Judicatories interrupted hindered to proceed in their just and lawful Businesses the General Affembly raised by Sword-men a just judgement on the Church for our too much medling in Sword matters so we were in a chain for want of our native Liberty and Freedom Secondly We were in a chain because our condition was sad and comfortlesse we might have weep'd as the Jews did in their captivity when they sate by the Rivers of Babylon And I am sure there was not any that had a true Scots heart in their Breast or the spirit of a man within them or the true fear of GOD in their Hearts none in Scotland except sorne unnatural Monsters and Treacherous active Compliers but it pierced their hearts through to be chained in such a base Bondage as we were in for many years Tell me what Honest Godly or Loyal heart in Scotland could cease from bleeding when they heard of that Woful Cruel Bloody Treacherous Vnparalelled and eternally to be Anathematized blow in striking off that most Pious Glorious Innocent Sweet KINGS Head the best KING amongst the sons of men O Bloody Traitors Traitors that plotted it acted it or allowed it So we were in a chain for our condition was sad and comfortlesse Thirdly We were in a chain because our condition was Reproachful and Disgraceful We were but a laughing-stock to our Conquerours the object of their contempt and scorn they did in effect but Jeer us even the civilest of them and they had no other cause for they might have easily perceived the one half of us cutting the others Throat I know not if any Story of Scotland holds out that ever this Land was brought under a more disgraceful and contemptible condition Fourthly We were in a chain these many