Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	great_a	king_n	5,512	5	3.6764	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30526	Good counsel and advice rejected by disobedient men and the dayes of Oliver Cromwells visitation passed over, and also of Richard Cromwel his son ...	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1659 (1659)	Wing B6006; ESTC R14571	52,431	64

believe without any further knowledge that daily advantage they seek against thee by subtil conspiracies and secret plottings of maliciousnesse in their evil hearts seeking by all means if it be possible how to be avenged and not sliping any advantage how to revenge themselves and the cause of their King and of these scattered under thy Government is not a few but rather the greater number who thus stands in affections to thee with no better purpose of good towards thee then to destroy thee by any means if it were in their power and to take away thy Name in reproach such is the cruelty and desperatenesse of some of them their own lives are not dear unto them to take away thine I have felt the strength of their rage against thee which carries them above sence or fear to forego any danger that they might see their desired end of thee their malice towards thee is so seated in their wrathful hearts that it cannot easily be quenched I know the Lord hath cursed them and their endeavours to this day and thou hast had dominion and power given thee of God to bruise them and to break them to pieces and what thou hast done unto their King should not be reckoned against thee by the Lord if now thou wert faithful to what he requireth of thee for because of the wickednesse of that generation which was grown to the full did the Lord raise thee up as a plague upon them because of their unrighteousnesse oppression and tyranny and they were made as slaves and bondmen under thy power and without the Lord can they not at any time do any thing against thee but what and if for thy wickednesse in the sight of God he should make them instruments in his hand to accomplish his wrath upon thee even like as he made thee once his instrument to overthrow them and such hath been the Lords doings even to overthrow his enemies one by the other and to use the wicked as a rod in his hand to break them one against another like potsherds and by that which comes to passe in these Nations thou seems no lesse then to tread in their steps and in a measure already goes on in their way in oppressing through Tyranny or suffering it the people of God whose cause the Lord will assuredly plead against thee one day who now suffers under thee in patience and who can tell the purpose of the Lord or what he may bring to passe concerning this thing in raising up the wicked to be a plague to wickednesse and in suffering the oppressors to overthrow oppressions this is by me in love to thee in sencerity declared and by thee with soberness and in the fear of God it is to be considered Again there is another people scattered through all these Dominions who is not thy friends nor wishers well unto thee or thy Government who secretly murmures against thee and envies thee and even seekes God against thee and thy Government which they judge to be not according to God and bowes not to it in love though they are forced to submit for a time hoping continually if not hatching other wayes of Rule and Government to the overthrow of thee and thine and these are more honest and upright and just in the sight of the Lord then the former and indeed they are not nor their purposes accursed of the Lord for many of them have been sufferers and faithfully served their Nation with perfect purpose of freedom to the Lords People and they have at this day perfect zeal for God and for his wayes though not altogether according to knowledge yet some of them are not far from the Kingdom of God though they seek it not wholly in the right way nor looks onely with a single eye yet doth not the Lord hate them altogether because of their integrity towards him and zeal for him who some of them have suffered imprisonment for truth and righousness sake as they have wholly thought and their suffering hath not been altogether slighted by the Lord and these are they known by name of the fifth Monarchy of whom there is more then a few with them that wishes well unto them who will rise up for them rather then for thee many of whom propounds well in their minds though they have not power to effect it because their intent is not altogether according to the Lord yet are many of them free from that whereof thy self is guilty and some of them are cast out and wholly rejected without any just cause as they suppose and these things have grieved their spirits and not onely kindled their rage and envy but moved their sincerity and honesty against thee wherefore they are not thy friends but rather thy enemies and would not stand by thee or with thee in thy need but rather I suppose would arm themselves against thee and thy power who highly charges thee as they suppose justly too with unfaithfulness and such like for they see that is not accomplished which hath been promised by thee but the contrary even one finger is become as heavy as was once the loynes and their spirits are grieved against thee for such causes and who knowes but that the Lord may take the occasion to trie thee and prove thee by them for their hearts are high against thee and thy Government and that upon good ground as they sincerely think Again there is through thy Dominions a People gathered and gathering dayly by multitudes who are called and chosen of him and faithful to him who hath owned him above all things and whom he hath owned and will own in the sight of the whole world and will encrease them to a numberless number according to his promise and even those the Lord is making many who are redeeming out of the world into the Government and Kingdom of Jesus Christ and these thou knowest are great and grievous sufferers by many hard and cruel oppressions from those who are in authority in thy Government even unjust imprisonment and fines and burthensome taxations in many things hard to be expressed and they undergo grievous persecutions under thy Government and wholly unjustly in the sight of God and also are cast out of all power and place in it and almost out of all subjects priviledge too many of them being counted as vile amongst men though they are not so in the sight of the Lord Justice and righteousness and true Judgement they cannot have in all these Nations not from thy self nor subservant Judges of whom hardly can their cause be heard but are deprived of their proper right and of subjects freedom in Judicatories and exposed to all wrong that may be by unjust men through unjust Judgement and these things are not unknown to thee and therefore art thou inexcusable in the sight of the Lord and guiltie of their sufferings in his presence who hath power to prevent it but doth it not and these thus suffering in thy Government

when they are layed before you for you do not relieve the oppressed neither doth remove oppressors as you ought to do and as the Lord requireth of you what hath the abundance of this worlds glory and its treasure quite overcome and stollen away your hearts wholly from all sence and feeling of the unjust sufferings of your brethren who have in times past as faithfully as your selves served their Nation with their lives and estates to the purchasing of this peace and freedom out of the hands of tyrants and such may now justly claim the benefit of this peace and freedom and to have a part with you therein even by birth-right and by purchase and also by promise from some of your selves but alas while they have waited for it and thought peaceably to enjoy the same under you are many of them entrapped into as great bondage as ever if not more woful and unjust and they are unjustly imprisoned and unreasonably fined and every way oppressively dealt withall and are even spoiled in their persons and estates their lives often in danger being through great injustice become a prey to their very enemies who now takes occasion to revenge their former cause because of their faithfulness for the Commonwealth against them and all this is done while you look on and no way shewing your dislike to these things wch strengtheneth greatly the hands of evil doers to add to the bonds of the afflicted yet are you without excuse for you are not wholly ignorant of these things for the knowledge of them hath often been layed at your doors yea and the very cry of these oppressions and cruelties reacheth through the whole Land to the wounding deeply of all people that fears God to know so great injustice and oppression brought forth upon the innocent and faithful people by some so far entrusted as having the Law committed to them which they pervert and turns Judgement backwards and the greater is the wound because you who have power to stop and prevent these things should no more regard to set at liberty the unjust sufferers and to render Judgement upon those as thus perverts true Justice by whom the Land is filled with violence whereby the name of the Lord is greatly dishonoured and the Government greatly reproached in many parts of the world why because the faithful subjects cannot enjoy their birth-right priviledge as they ought according to the Law of God and man for their equals yea their inferiours have exalted themselves above and are become oppressors of the free born people divers ways doth these hainous oppressions cruelties abound upon the innocent and not for evil doing but for the exercise of their pure consciences towards God for many hath been taken travelling on the high way and some out of peaceable meetings and some out of their Innes and friends houses and by some wicked men in authority without shewing just cause therefore have just innocent men been whipped or stocked or imprisoned or other cruelties done unto them and yet the transgression of no just Law truely charged against them neither have been convicted of any evil doing but they have suffered wholly innocently onely through the malice and will and pleasure of their enemies who have taken occasion without any just offence at all to stock and whip and imprison many of the true and faithful subjects and this hath not been done in secret but openly in many parts of this Nation and you have had information of these things that you should have been awakened to true Justice Judgment and this the Lord requireth of you though the guiltless sufferers have born all these things without complaining yet ought you to have Judged justly according to their deeds such as caused such cruelty and unjust sufferings that for time to come the like might not have been brought forth but the free subjects might live in Peace and rejoice under the Government and all perverters of Judgment and Justice might stand in awe and be afraid so should you be a praise to ages after you and likewise many who are at this present remaining in prisons in divers parts of this land some upon one false accusation and evil surmizing and some upon another for a good conscience sake the cause of whom hath often bin laid before you which seemed for the present to have some entrance upon you yet little is brought forth by you as ought to be in that cause for though none of any such doth complain unto you who have and doth unjustly suffer yet the Lord doth require you to set the oppressed and falsely imprisoned at liberty and to bring true Judgment forth upon their persecutors also there is another suffering great and grievous growing upon many if it be not prevented many faithful and approved men are dispossessed of their freedom which truly belongeth to them by the law of God and man in divers Cities and corporations because for conscience sake they cannot swear by kissing the book and laying the hand upon it according to the vain tradition in such causes formerly used though to deal justly towards God and man in their craft and science they are bound by the Law of God yet because they will not swear and so break Christs Commands are they threatned and their windows shut up and dis-priviledged of their trading whereby they should maintain themselves and families in the Creation and this one thing tendeth to the destruction of many as in this world and no little hurt will thereby grow to the whole Nation in a generation of time and it is required of you by the Lord to prevent these sufferings though many can forgo their own freedom in this world and their lives also rather then break the least Command of Christ and thus are many faithful people made a very prey to their enemies and in divers manners it is brought forth upon them for many also suffers deeply in the house of correction for reproving sin and others are grievously spoil'd in their estates because for conscience sake they cannot pay to maintain a professed Minister or uphold a Steeple-house for it is a common thing for a Priest to take or have it done four or five times so much by distress as any way he can prove a pretended due and many other sufferings there are which are only for conscience sake as because some cannot put off a hat to a Magistrate or the like which gives an ill savour to the Government in which they are acted without reproof Ah my Friends be awakened to Justice and true Judgment to relieve such unjust sufferers and to throw down all such hainous oppressions and oppressors that the Lord may yet make you and your Government blessed after his long suffering to you which hath been great for Justice and true Judgement in a Government is the happiness thereof and the foundation for a long continuance and on the contrary cruelty and injustice and oppression being brought