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	just_a	law_n	2,761	5	4.7834	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30550	To the Parliament of the common-wealth of England who are in place of authority to do justice, and in present power to ease the oppressed nation from its bonds : councel and advice unto you / from a friend that seeks after truth and righteousness from you ...	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing B6039; ESTC R36304	6,296	8

TO THE PARLIAMENT of the Common-wealth of ENGLAND who are in place of Authority to do Justice and in present power to ease the oppressed Nation from its Bonds Councel and Advice unto you from a Friend that seeks after Truth and Righteousness from you and alwayes faithfully desires the Nations good and that the Government thereof may be established upon a Just and Equal and Right Foundation that the Lord God may possess his Right and all men their Right in our Land and that men of Truth and sound Judgement may be set to Judge the people in outward things and the Exercise of good Conscience in Faith and Worship left unto God that Blessings and Mercies true Freedom Peace and Vnity may run down as a stream in the Land of our nativity and that all the contrary may be cast out and removed far away from us and for this Cause these things following do I propound unto you that you may read and consider to the end that Righteousness alone may be established in the Nation both in the Foundation and Practice of Government FOR as much as this Nation the Land of our Native inheritance as we are members of it hath long been held under great bondage and captivity and the free-born people have born the heavy yokes of tyranny and oppression both in respect of the foundation of Government and also in respect of practice thereof for not onely the practice but also the very foundation of Government and the choosing of Governours also hath been out of course and not rightly laid nor established in Righteousness by reason of that darkness that hath been over all people in the dayes of the reign of Antichrist whose kingdome and government hath been in dominion in all Nations ever since the falling away from the Faith once delivered to the Apostles and then came the earth to be subjected under the tyranny and oppression of that fourth Beast Dan. 7. And while thus it hath been in our Nation that our Kings have attained to the Throne of Government hereditarily and by succession of Birth and our Parliaments and Rulers have attained to the place of Judgement over us by such a way of traditional choise as hath been the custom in our forefathers dayes that knew no better being in the dayes of Apostacy great ignorance themselves and thus it hath continued for many Ages whereby the Inhabitants have been alwayes suffering under and lyable to great oppressions vexations being subjected under such a Government falling as aforesaid from Parents to Children after the manner of the Heathen Nations and being subjected to such Laws made and executed by men not truly called and ordained of God thereunto insomuch that nothing hath been perceived nor intended by men of the hand of the Lord and of his good Spirit in the calling of our Kings and choosing of our Rulers but these things have com'd to pass and been after the Traditions of men and not after the Order and Councel of the Lord God And our Nation hath been under the bonds of slavery in this respect even because men have governed that ought not and while the great and rich men hath been set to rule over the poor and while men for earthly honour and for riches sake in birth and breeding have claimed to be Princes over us successively and to be chosen our Rulers according to custom without respect to their vertue and goodness and without true calling from the Lord or any certain Testimony from him and thus it hath continued for many ages because of which the free born people hath deeply suffered the cruel oppressions of proud and ambitious and self-seeking men who hath long ruled for themselves and not for the Lord and have com'd into the place of Authority over us otherwise then by appointment and right calling from the Lord as I have said and thus the Government of our Nation hath been out of course and not as the Lord requireth it even until this day while great darkness hath remained upon the hearts of the people which hath so blinded them that they have not known their own bondage nor yet how to be redeemed into perfect liberty while they have subjected themselves through ignorance to be ruled by such men as had no right from God to that place of Rule and Government But now in as much as the Lord God our deliverer hath begun to appear for the freedom of the Nations and hath shewed us the captivity and bondage which our forefathers have lived under and we our selves been subject and lyable too by reason of the Government standing in a single person successively and we being forced to live under the Authority of such men as had no right from God thereunto as I have said And now our eyes are opened to behold better things and we are in good expectations that the Lord will suddenly so appear as to free us from future oppressions in this respect for we look for a New Earth as well as for a New Heaven according to the Lords promise to us which is to be fulfilled in these latter dayes and that we shall have Judges as at the first and Councellors as at the beginning and that all our bonds of oppression shall be broken that have lain upon us by unjust men who have made Laws and executed them for us without true calling to such a work And the Lord alone will appear to be the King and Judge and Law-giver over all and will commit the giving forth and execution of good Laws into the power of faithful and just men ordained of God who will Judge for him altogether and not for man neither will be perverted by earthly honour and riches but will regard the Cause of the Poor and the Afflicted and these things we are waiting for to be brought to pass in their season and the hand of the Lord will accomplish it if not by you then even contrary to you Wherefore I am moved in Spirit and in love to you and to this Nation to lay it before you and to desire it of you in whose hands the Liberties of this Nation yet remaineth that you will so prepare and allow the Foundation of Government in this Nation that the Lord may be the chooser of our Rulers to give and to execute righteous Laws for us and that men that fears God and hates covetousness and every evil way that Just men and Righteous men men of Truth and uprightness men of humility and soberness men that are Constant to good Principles and such whom the Lord hath blessed with the Spirit of sound Judgement and with understanding who may truly discern of Causes and equally Judge thereof men that are for the Just freedom of all and for the General good of all and men that in all things will seek the glory of the Lord be they rich or poor high or low in birth or breeding yet let such be Rulers among us and Judge this