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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	great_a	king_n	kingdom_n	4,596	5	5.5955	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84911	Every mans right: or, Englands perspective-glasse. Wherein may be seen, every mans case, face, birthright, and just liberty. Whereunto is added; the copie of a letter written by a prisoner in the Fleet, unto a worthy member of the House of Commons; expressing the necessitie of justice, and the illegality of imprisonment of men for debt. Composed (primarily) for the meridian of London and VVestminster, and may prove very profitable, to inlighten the eyes of all the commons of England, in this year of our long-expected reformation, and suppressions of injustice, tyranny, and oppression, anno 1646.	Freize, James.	1646 (1646)	Wing F2197A; Thomason E340_2; ESTC R200865	10,378	18

the People of God for Bond men and Bond women unto you But are there not with you even with you sinnes against the Lord your God And because we have not from the first sought the Lord after a due order and in the true practice and faithfull execution of Justice Judgement and mercy Therefore hath the Lord God made this breach upon us as at this day to the Kingdomes woe The neglect of Justice Judgment and mercie and the practise of the contrary by the Israelites informed the Lord to become an enemy unto them to swallow them up by his judgments of Plague Pestilence Famine and the Sword and also to destroy all their strong holds and places of habytation in the Land and to increase unto them Mourning Lamentation and Woe and can we who are guilty of the same transgressions if not more being but wild branches of that Olive tree presume to receive more favours from the hand of that most just God then those his peculiar chosen people the Israelites Certainly no For what measure ye mete unto the poor afflicted and oppressed shall be measured to you again Oh that there were some just Jehoshaphat to give som speedy and strict charge for the due execution of justice between man and man in a free current without respect of persons and without the taking of Fees Gifts alias Bribes and otherwise stiled New-years gifts The 2 d. of Chron. 19.5 6 7 9.10 verses Or that there were in that honourable Assembly some undaunted zealous Nehemiah to stand up for the birth-right and just liberty of his brethren according to the true intent of his being called to that place of trust to inforce justice to take its free current without respect of persons or the wages of Balaam in despight of all wicked abhominable opposers of the same Nehem. 5.5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. verses And I wish also from my heart that the 58 and 59. Chapters of Isaiah the 58. Psalme the 6. of Jeremiah and the 22. of Ezekiel were truly looked into piously considered and well weighed by all the Inhabitants of the Land from the highest euen to the lowest of them and that they might open their mouthes in the cause of the oppressed and such as are appointed by cruelty and tyranny for destruction that they might open their mouthes and judge righteousnesse and plead the cause of the poor and needy I will say no more for this present but onely from my poor oppressed and afflicted soul most earnestly and uncessantly wish and pray for the prosperity of Sion and the peace and flourishing state of this Kingdome Beseeching you also in the bowels of compassion to think upon your afflicted oppressed and long-imprisoned Brethren to cast your eyes upon these inclosed papers Intituled An Appeal to Heaven and the other called A Declaration and appeal to all the free-born People of England and then as the Lord shall direct you to prove a Moses for our delivery out of this Egyptian bondage of unjust imprisonment which is the most earnest and humble sute of him who is and will be Your assured friend in the Lord to serve you in what he may to his power JAMES FRES● From my chamber of close imprisonment in the Fleet since the 11 of Febr. 1645. contrary to the Subjects liberty and the Parliaments own vote in the ease of Sir Rich. Wiseman and others complaining of their close imprisonment in the year 1641. this 〈◊〉 of April 1646. Woe unto that Kingdome and people where the wicked walke on every side without controul and the vilest men are exalted to places of eminencie and trust Isai 10.1 2 3 4. that they may oppresse and do violence with both hands yea that they may the more effectually exercise their cruel tyranny of injustice and oppression without let or hindrance upon the poore the needy the afflicted oppressed and long imprisoned in especiall upon such as honour love and feare God and most earnestly wish the peace and prosperity of this Kingdome some such as these have been brought to most untimely ends by Jaylor and their substitutes others quite lamed by their Iron fetters others of them have surfered unjustly most cruel and heavie afflictions in severall prison houses and denns of cruelty from some eminently supports Jaylors and their cruel substitutes yet hitherto none of these oppressed Christians have been righted but rather discouraged from seeking any redresse their severall Articles exibited against Jaylors extreamly slighted and themselves still exposed to the inhumane rage and unlimited crueltie of these Jaylors and their hellish substitutes to be by them if not murthered yet beaten abused reviled daily and starved to death and decreppit by Irons for instance the prisons of the Kings Bench the Fleete and Newgate Behould they tread upon the poore they afflict the needy they murther the innocent and crush the prisoners under their feet before the face of the most high not regarding the Lord of Hosts nor his Power nor his Justice nor his Judgements although he hath divided them in setting the Prince against the people the Father against the Sonne and one friend against another and hath set the sword as a destroyer of them all yet they still provoke the Lord of Hosts the God of Justice unto wrath and indignation against themselves by neglecting the due execution of Justice Judgements and mercy in a free current without respect of persons and the wages of Balaam intituled Fees Nowyeers-gifts and Bribes It seemeth 〈◊〉 Riddle not only to me but also to many thousands in the Kingdome that the greatest Contest betweene King and Parliament being for the Liberty of the subiect and hath been the cause of so much efusian of Christion blood for almost 5. yeers together the Peers of the Realme constantly enjoying the same and yet the commonalty hitherto most unjustly debarred of the same and still inslaved as formerly unto the arbitrary will and power of a few mercinarie Lawyers whose profession and gayne inslaves them to the will and disposition of the very worst and skum of men and women and ingages them as hirelings to maintaine their cause at any barre of justice so called for the price of iniquity I meane for their fee of ten or twenty shillings be the cause never so bace and unjust so by them mayntained It is therefore to be considered whether it be agreeable to justice and the freedome and prosperity of this Nacion that the prosperity and flourishing state of a few Lawyers Atturneys Jaylours and their adherents should be preserved before the just liberty peace and well being of this whole Nation and their posterities and whether it savour of Christianity or any Charity to inslave your brethren to their works and unjust wills to coope them up as a bird in a cage in your prison houses and not to provide for their subsistence there or for their determinate time of delivery from thence but expose them to the oppression of their