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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

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44829	England's lamentation, or Her sad estate lamented as also a call to the heads and rulers, and all sorts to repentance, and shewing them the cause why so many disasters, and the judgements of God which are in the earth, and also a way how to remove the same, with an answer to some objections. Through the servant of the Lord, S.H.	Hubbersty, Stephen, 1632?-1711.	1665 (1665)	Wing H3213; ESTC R215979	8,829	14

unrighteousness which you have purchased unto your selves who hath despised both warning and reproofe Oh England England that thou wouldst see the cause of the Judgment of God in the Earth and remove the same thou mightest yet be happy for I know God is as yet striving as I may say with some of thy Inhabitants that if by any means they may return Oh I have a word from God in my heart oh that the King and the Councel might lay it to heart and that is this that if any would perswade thee and thy Nobles that we who are called Quakers is the cause of the Judgment of God in the Earth I say unto thee in the name of the Lord believe them not so to stir thee up against us to afflict us the Lord hath not spoken by them for that spirit mark that in all ages which stirred up to persecute even from Cain to this day was not the spirit of Christ but the spirit of enmity which God will overthrow So King Charles hearken not to their spirit but to the spirit of God in thy heart which will tell thee if thou be serious thou should love enemies and not kill them in this cause but we are thy friends and seeks thy peace and welfare in that which is everlasting and shews thee and all the World the cause and the way how to remove Gods hand and sore Visitation off thee and the Land that is to say to loose the bands of wickedness Isa 58.6 and to let the oppressed go free this were the only way for thee O King and all thy subordinate Ministers to obtain to perfect peace with God and to curb all sin and licentiousness lying swearing pride drunkenness and adultery with many more before named because of which the Land mourns But wo and alass there is one thing that we must require of thee and the Nation and that will tend to thy peace and the peace of all men and that is Liberty of Conscience towards God in matters of Religion or relating thereunto how canst thou and the Nation O King deny us of this superlative privilege which is allowed by Christ and the Apostle who said in matters of Religion Rom. 14.5 as every one was perswaded in his own heart so to walk and did not preach up persecution and to kill mens lives that 's of another spirit then of Christs who came to save mens lives but left it to the Lord that he might perswade them that were in error the error of their wayes c. and so we request it of thee O King and the Heads of this Nation as you will all answer it at the dreadful day of Gods Judgments to reverse that law of yours which you have made for the persecution of them of tender Consciences and for banishing those whom God hath loved with an everlasting love who cannot deny their God for the wrath of men and for meeting together in the publick Worship to worship the Lord in the beauty of Holiness Joh. 1.21 22 23 24 for the which so many and hainous offences have been committed against us charged upon us yet I say the God of Heaven bears us witness and the Testimony of God in all hearts that we are clear and innocent and we contain'd for nought but the truth and we are subject to Magistracy which would be charged against us for not being subject but we are either in doing or in suffering and I never knew a Quaker that lifted up his hand against any man though as I said before we have been stamped upon as the mire in the streets and so let none say we are not subject for in that we cannot do what man requires of us I say we are subject in suffering the wrath of the wicked and the Angel of Gods Heavenly presence hath been and still is with us to carry his chosen on in all sufferings for his names sake untill the suffering of his seed be full and then we know that God will plead our cause and it is at hand and so I say to make laws to banish men for Worshipping of God in the Spirit and praying and singing in the Spirit which is the publick Worship set up by Christ himself John 4. and to pretend the same your selves and to kill and banish them who are in the life of the Scriptures of the Saints that spoke them forth this is an error indeed And hear O ye Nations this thing and especially thee O England who should have been the glory of them all how unmercifully hast thou used the Messengers of the most High and what laws hath come out of thee against my people saith the Lord so that God is beginning to plead with thee O England even above all other Nations because of thy wicked laws against the servants of the most High whom God hath loved with an everlasting love and on whom his Heavenly Countenance shines and is his onely Jewels and as dear to him as the apple of his eye And is this your end and purpose and to throw Men and Women even into infected Prisons for Meeting together in the fear of God and to worship him oh shame and hard heartedness was ever the like in any Nation hath the like been heard of surely God will require it at your hands Oh consider these things and weighty causes for God will judge righteously and in the day of Gods Righteous Judgments we shall be clear and this in short in a word from God unto you If you persist on to do your work of persecution and do not desist from nor change that law which you have made against us you shall utterly fall the Lord hath spoken it and thus the cause is truly stated why the Judgments of the Lord is in the Earth and if you O ye Heads and Rulers would remove the cause the effect might cease which sin and persecution for good Conscience sake is the great cause not only naturally in puting people where the Plague is but supernaturally to remove the wrath of the Almighty Oh therefore be wise O ye Kings Psal 2.10 11 12. and be ye instructed O ye Judges of the Earth serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with trembling kiss the Son least he be angry with you and you perish from the right way for if his wrath be but kindled a little blessed are all they that put their trust in him And oh call in that unrighteous Decree that it may never be heard of in other Nations that a Christian Magistrate should persecute and banish and as it were kill his subjects for their Conscience sake towards the Lord and this of a truth from the Lord is the way to procure the blessing and remove the curse which so long as the contrary is lived in no blessing can surely attend the Nation but God will find all the evil doers out of the earth and so God almighty keep and preserve all his