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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	day_n	lord_n	see_v	3,711	5	3.5921	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51402	To the supream authoritie (under God) of the common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland the commons in Parliament assembled / the true and faithfull testimony of William Morris, a late member of the army in Ireland.	Morris, William, member of the army in Ireland.	1659 (1659)	Wing M2813; ESTC R13520	8,390	14

TO THE Supream Authoritie VNDER GOD OF THE COMMON-WEALTH Of England Scotland and Ireland THE COMMONS in PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED The true and faithfull Testimony of William Morris a late Member of the Army in IRELAND When the wicked rise men hide themselves but when they perish the righteous increase The fear of the Lord prolongeth dayes but the years of the wicked shall be shortened The memory of the just is blessed but the name of the wicked shall rot LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1659. To the supream authority under God of the Common-Wealth of England Scotland and Ireland the Commons assemblies in Parliament THe Lord Almighty whose Name is Holy whose power no creature is able to resist hath heard the cry of the afflicted and the cruelly oppressed Innocent for his names sake he hath beheld and hath not ceased turning and overturning persons and powers until he hath once more returned the desperate forlorn and sinking concernments of all the Godly in the Nations into your bosoms their tossed tumbled torn and tottering intrest is once more imported into your harbour And indeed the revival of your prestine Authority begins to appear like the resurrection of the just before whom all the contrary is and must be judged and condemned and this is seen and felt even by outward observation already in Ireland O how do the scandalous and persecuting Magistrates the greedy hirelings and blind-guides the prophane and blood-thirsty people even all the cursed bryars thorns and brambles of all sorts which of late have sprung up and flourished under the shadow of Henry Cromwell these four years by-past in this Nation now begin to droop to hang the head and wither as if their end which is to be burnt were near at hand And now that the Lord hath once more put a price into your hands and given you another precious oppertunity wherby you may be more serviceable then ever to the interest of his beloved Son who is come forth a light into the World and after a long and dark night of Apostacie hath arisen and is arising and coming in thousands of his saints as it is written of him who are gathered gathering and to be gathered in this the day of his glorious appearance out of the Aegyptian bondage of the mercenary hirelings and soul-starving pastors out of all opinions forms and practises professing or prophane into the glorious liberty of the Sons of God and into the unity of the eternal spirit that therein they might have fellowship with the Father and the Son Beware that you turn not the edge of your authority against his Royal seed who saith touch not mine annointed and do my Prophets no harm yea those that touch them touch the apple of his own eye and Kings hath he rebuked for their sakes and brought down the mighty before them And as in former ages and Generations so in this present hath his mighty arm been stretched out whereby he hath wrought deliverance for his chosen and redeemed his heritage and the loftinesse of man hath he bowed down who took pleasure in unrighteousnesse in transgressing and lying against the Lord and departing from the way of God fasting for strife and debate and that they might smite with the fist of wickednesse conceiving and uttering from the heart words of deceit and falshood yet covering all over with pretence of reformation and settlement until judgement was turned away backward justice stood afar off truth was fallen in the streets and equity could not enter for the wicked were set in high places the proud were called happie the greedy hirelings and soul devouring blind guides the plundering parish Priests exalted against the Lord and against his truth and upheld in their false Doctrines and cruel oppressions b a Law And he that reproved in the gate was hated and he that spake uprightly was abhorred and he that departed from inequity was made a prey and many of the faithful in the Nations for their Testimony against the crying atominations of the times and for tender conscience sake towards God were thrust into prisons holes and corners and otherwise persecuted and cruelly intreated and this was the true state of the-case until the oppression of the innocent and the cry of iniquity was exceeding great and the Lord harkened and heard it and looking down from the habitation of his holinesse and his glory he saw it and it greatly displeased him and his zeal and his strength and the sounding of his bowels and his mercies towards them were not restrained and after long waiting and often warning and things growing worse and worse at last his wrath break forth and there was no remedy and his purpose he established and his decree was sealed that although that Ruler had been as the Signet upon his right hand yet would he pluck him off and rend the goverment from him and from his house as formerly he did the government of his people from Saul when he departed from him and so by his own right Arm made way for you by overturning him that neither Argument nor Arts nor Arms could overcome And now seeing it is not by your might nor by your power but by the wonder-working hand of God alone you are restored Be you warned from the Lord God Almighty that you take heed of drinking in the murderous Cain-like spirit of the greedy and mercenary hirelings who teach for hire and Divine for sums of mony tythes and other customes established by the Pope whose God is their belly whose glory is their shame who mind earthly things whose sacrifice the Lord abhorreth and it is an abomination to him I say take heed of drinking in that spirit for it is the wine of fornication which they will be presenting to you in a golden cup of glorious and shining pretences to external holiness formality and lip Religion but it is the cup of the Whores ebomination wherewith the Princes and Rulers of the earth earth have been made drunk in all ages to this very day by that persecuting generation who have made themselves even drunk with the blood and rich spoil of Saints And as ever you expect the presence of the Lord with you or his blessing upon your Government beware that ye neither do nor cause nor consent to any act of crueltie against any sort of people in the Nations who have hungering and breathing desires after the clearest and most manifest enjoyments of Jesus Christ and who are come to see the deceit of the hirelings and blind guides and for tender conscience sake cannot pay towards their maintainance And especially the Lords most tenderly affected and beloved friends the seed of faithful Abraham according to the spirit who greatly fear and tremble at his powerful word and are by the scorners of this generation called Quakers but know you this assuredly that amongst those people your greatest and most powerful interest truly stands and upon your well or