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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	see_v	4,869	5	3.5371	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77543	Britains king revived: or, a seasonable warning to the kingdom of Scotland assembled in Parliament, upon the first of January, 1660. By Scotlands true friend.	Scotlands true friend.	1660 (1660)	Wing B4811A; ESTC R223959	9,797	17

portion was on the one and other side and before the holy portion and the possession of the city Ezek. 45.7 and 48.21 In those days when every man followed the lust of his eyes and the abominations of his heart there was no King in Israel Judg. 17.6 The Law and Testimony is given to the King to govern the Lords people thereby Deut. 17.19 20. 2 King 11.12 And the people in that Government do owe to him obedience and loyalty And the manner of his kingdom is told to the people by Samuel the Prophet and laid up before the Lord as Judge for justice and punishment in case of the peoples disloyalty and disobedience 1 Sam. 10.25 The King is Custos utriusque Tabulae to Moses the Governour of Israel were the two Tables of the Law delivered and he onely called up to the mount of God when Aaron and Hur and the Elders of Israel were at a distance from him Exod. 22.2 14. And when the Book of the Law was found by Hilkiah the High-priest in the days of Josiah it was sent to the King for observance and government of the people by the same 2 King 22.8 10. This Religious mistake betwixt the Tribes is reconciled and cleared by their candid fair and large declaration That the building of their Altar great to see to was not done to rebel against the Lord and their Brethren nor to impose upon them but for a witness of their zeal to his glory and interest for themselves and generations after them in the true worship of his Name not to innovate and bring in a strange Religion but rather not to estrange themselves and posterity from the true Religion It was not done in rebellion against Authority nor in transgression against the God of Israel but with loyalty to the Governour albeit not consulted with by them therein and in their zeal to follow the Lord Not to debord from the Laws and Ordinances of God but that the border of Jordan which bounded them from the earthly Canaan of the ten Tribes might not divide them from the heavenly Canaan Now let Scotland trace the steps of this unadvised religious procedure and mistake and close their Tragical dispensations these many years past in a Comical Loyal Christian and peaceable Conclusion and fair Declaration to their Brethren of England and all Reformed Churches in the world and their lawful righteous Prince and Governour that all of them may say and perceive this day that the Lord is amongst them and hath delivered them out of the hand of the Lord because that Scotland hath not committed this trespass and saved them from the zealous wrath and revenging hand of the Lords Anointed because that they have not intended rebellion against him These twenty years past and upwards Scotland hath helped their Brethren in England and other Nations against the manners of the Canaanites of suspected Heresie Popery and Idolatrous Will-worship once and again have they gone over Jordan to them armed leaving their wives children and flocks behinde them and with their weapons in the one hand and their tools in the other hand labored to build the walls of Jerusalem by a just Reformation against their common enemy that man of sin and the Beast of Rome and their Emissaries and that work being done and setled by the many gracious Concessions and Indulgences of the late King of ever-blessed memory to both Nations and Scotland sent home again to their tents and the land of their possession with a blessing of friendly assistance to their losses Anno 1641 and resentment of their just charges and expences Anno 1646. albeit to say the truth more then the half thereof be yet in remainder unsatisfied Yet after their return they build a great Altar to see to by their new fears of alteration of former transactions Anno 1642. and 1643. and a League and Covenant with their Brethren in England and Ireland the same year without the approbation and consent of the late King their valorous wise couragious Joshua is proposed and agreed upon which in the judgment of many of the other Brethren was an imposing of the two Tribes and a half upon the ten Tribes and a building of that Altar upon the border of their Canaan not so significant of the Principles of true Religion as occasioning a jealousie and mis-understanding between them and their lawful Liege-Lord and King in their loyalty to him and his posterity as may witness the suspicion of forsaking of his Royal Person at Neweastle Anno 1646. and in Anno 1648. during his restraint at the Isle of Wight This Altar of League and Covenant was great to see to great in the eyes of God by the fruit of his grace upon the spirits of men if done sincerely and universally by all with the approbation of the Supreme Magistrate terrible in the sight of Satan and hell and all wickedness if successful amongst the Nations in life and conversation by that grace specious and full of lustre for Unity and Uniformity of Truth Worship and Government if uprightly intended with consent aforesaid without self-interest unbyassed ends of covetousness and ambition without hypocrisie It was long and painful in building with great sufferings in life and estate and costly with infinite treasure of Publike Faith from many honest men in their integrity of heart and innocencie of hands to God and Royal authority over them Yet as all these circumstances are no true characters of a good Cause so neither are they symptomes of a bad Cause where sincerity and candidness of heart with the grace of self-denial are in the work Now that Scotland is this day delivered out of the hands of her enemies the worst of men to whom the Lord had sold her these ten years past in the fierceness of his anger and by her most righteous Kings return from the wilderness for the fins of his people to the glory of his Throne and magnificence of his Kingdom with the seeking of his Lords and Counsellors unto him Is also by his most gracious goodness restored to her ancient Liberties and Priviledges of a free Nation and that babes and children are no more her Counsellors and Judges but a free Parliament granted to her of her own Nobles and heads of Israel and that her Prince with the advice of her brethren in England hath sent his Commissioner to her for her better settlement and establishing of his Kingdom there Let her now plead her cause with him in all submissive humility and uprightness of heart and clear to her King the cause and reason of building this her great Altar of League and Covenant to see to whether or not in transgression against the Lord and rebellion against his Anointed Is the suspected iniquity and jealousie of her former National Covenant 1638 too little in the balance of his Royal judgement and all Reformed Churches abroad but at this day also by the League and Covenant she must again bring jealousie