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cause_n	good_a	great_a	know_v	5,049	5	3.5427	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55771	Eye-salve for England, or, The grand trappan detected in a plain and faithful narrative of the horrid and unheard-of designs of some justices and deputy-lieutenants in Lancashire treacherously to ensnare the lives and estates of many persons of quality in that county, as also, in the counties of York and Chester / by Evan Price ...	Price, Evan.	1667 (1667)	Wing P3332; ESTC R9214	10,406	15

And that he knew no way better to get a discovery of them both in Lancashire and Cheshire than to labour with the said Evan Price who being poor might by a good reward be brought to discover these and more having been so imployed amongst them which if he would then get the Judges to assure him of pardon and any reward he would desire If by this means they prevailed not then get some trusty friend that could act his part with a Phanaticks tongue to go to him as from Capt. Hogsons Wife Mr. Marsdens Wife his Brother Gamaliel and David Lombies Wife and Mr. Roots Wife and Joshua Bailey and his Wife with description of the place of their habitation and in case they could not get one that knew them and the place of their abode with certain tokens from them then to condole and lament his condition and perswade him to endure and so get what he could from him that way then leave this following Declaration with him and presently seize him therewith and so procure him to make a discovery to save his own neck The Declaration word for word was as followeth A Door of Hope opened in the Valley of Achor ●●e Title for the Mourners of Sion out of the North sent abroad to revive the Prisoners of Hope and awaken the dead Witnesses of the Lamb to prepare themselves to meet him in his Remnant on Mount Sion in judgment against the Mount of Esau and mystical Babylon the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth VVHereas several thousands of us 〈◊〉 Pre●●●e poor low worms and despised servants of our Lord King JESUS after earnest seeking of the face of our God by prayer supplications and conferences together with the Word and Prophecies of the Scripture as we were able in an obscure manner to understand the Lord's mind and our own duties especially the Work of our Day and Generation we are by inward compulsion of the Spirit of God we trust carried on to declare and make known our hearts so far as at present we are able to the Lords people and all others in the three Nations that love the Name of God Truth Peace their own posterity and the welfare of their Country That we are deeply affected with ●ounds and incensed at the daily Blasphemies which we hear against the Name of God his Son Gospel Tabernacle and those who worship therein At the most horrible-wickedness unheard-of openly committed in the Land and countenanced by those in Authority if not tolerated by Law yea much of it openly in Stage-Plays acted besides the common sins of Adultery Drunkenness Swearing Stealing and what not At the common Superstitious and Idolatrous wayes of Worship set up in the Nations with compulsion of the free-born Natives to complyance therewith and the sad Sufferings of such as for Conscience-sake towards God cannot by Imprisonments Excommunications Confiscations of Goods and Banishment from Countries and Relations At the loud cryes not only of the Saints in most Prisons of the Nation but also of the Innocent Blood of our dear Christian Brethren and natural Friends Neighbours and Relations unjustly taken away under pretence of Plots and Treasons like Naboth ensnared by the like trappanning-spirit as Jezebel used so that these as the Souls under the Altar do cry for vengeance in our ears to revenge their blood that the violence done to their flesh may be upon Babylon At the lamentable cryes of the Poor of the Land for want of Imployment through the decay of Trading by means of Excise Customs Monthly-Taxes Poll-money Chimney-money Gift-money and Subsidy-money all which is laid out in abundance but nothing brought in as if the curse which the Prophet speaks of were upon it or 't were put into bags with holes Hag. 1.6 Mal. 2.2 6. The swarming-in of Jesuites Priests and outlandish Papists to infect the minds of our Neighbours and in time to cut our throats if the Lord in mercy do not timely prevent them so invading our Country with such Idolatry as cost the Nation so much Blood and Treasure to extirpate and stopping the mouths of almost all godly Protestant able Ministers especially such as cannot in conscience comply with the Popes Canons in our Episcopal Devotions thereby making way for Antichrist the Pope if not at last to bring in the Turks upon us yet to bring us back into Romes Jurisdiction there to meet him and mock the Lord Jesus that gave himself for us And now though we cannot say that we are sufficiently sensible and humbled for our own sins which made way for these abominations yet in measure we desire to take shame † † O that there w●● such an● heart in them Deut 5 29 to our selves especially such of us as have defiled our garments in chusing of us new gods by being instrumental to bring these things to pass by our backslidings and revolts from the Lord to help the wicked and ungodly as Jehosaphat did Ahab 2 Chron. 19.2 and weaken the hands of our godly Brethren who in the wisdom of the Spirit foresaw the event and gave us warning betimes but now we desire no longer to abound in sinfull compliance as to stand by and behold our Brethren carried captives left we our selves be the first that may justly follow after Obad. 10.11 But we beg the Lord to abound in pardoning grace and give us hearts to manifest repentance by our returns to and zeal for the Lord and to help the Poor and Needy against the Mighty and not delight our selves in our own fulness and their miseries any longer but quit our selves like men seeing there is no remedy but death and destruction threatned or at least to live in a worse condition than slavery for such as desire to live morally in the Nation much more godly in Christ Jesus And we being taught by Grace and Nature to use all lawful means to defend our Lives Liberties Relations and Estates also satisfied from the Word of God that the use of Temporal Weapons of War is a lawful means of God's own institution in its time and that by the use thereof in the hands of Saints as one means the Kingdoms of this world must fall before they become the Kingdoms of our Lord of his Christ and having seen the Lord own them so evidently already We declare our selves of a ready mind when the Lord shall form and call us out thereby to hazard our lives and all that is or may be dear or near unto us for the reviving of the Good Old Cause And though we be perswaded we need not use Arguments to our Brethren who are called chosen and faithful in the Nation for assistance herein for we know they love not their lives unto the death but will follow the Lamb through the greatest difficulties Yet to our civil Neighbours and dear Country-men that would rather dye like Men than live worse than Slaves in their own native Land as many do who want