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cause_n	king_n	land_n	law_n	2,527	5	4.8406	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61230	To the representatives of the people and nation of England assembled at Westminster at their session begun Octob. 20, 1696 : grace, wisdom, and understanding be communicated forth unto and multiplied amongst ye.	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.	1696 (1696)	Wing S5148; ESTC R23658	4,288	4

To the Representatives of the People and Nation of England Assembled at Westminster at their Session begun Octob. 20. 1696. Grace Wisdom and Vnderstanding be Communicated forth unto and Multiplied amongst Ye THE Patience and Long-suffering of God doth seem to wait by giving ye opportunity after opportunity thus to Assemble your selves at this Return of each Year of your Rebellion to know what is in your Hearts to prove ye not only once or twice but time after time that in case ye should still Refuse and Rebel your Sin may become more exceeding sinful and your Condemnation may be more just and deserved Whether ye will at length do according to his Commandments or no. And particularly that his Commandment in Isa 1.17 Relieve the Oppressed In the Margin of the Bible it is Righten which signifies to set right again So that herein ye should obey the Law and Commandment of God as to Relieve Righten and set right again your Oppressed K. James This same Commandment is general indefinite and comprehensive So that it extends to all Persons of all Generations and Countries from the Highest to the lowest that have been or shall be oppressed Again there is another Commandment of God To execute true Judgment between Man and Man Ezek. 18.8 and so throughly execute judgment between a Man and his Neighbour Jer. 7.5 If ye would once obey this then ye should adjust the Matter between Him aforenamed and the P. of Orange according to the Instructions of Wisdom Justice Judgment and Equity Prov. 1.3 If Ye would do this in a Parliamentary and Peaceable way by bringing the Cause to a Re-hearing and then by making a righteous and impartial Decision and Determination of this Great Case laying aside in Ye severally all Malice and Guile and Hypocrisies and all Evil-speakings and Revenge The wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God vengeance belongeth unto me I will recompence saith the Lord and all Covetousness and Fear and indirect ends and Purposes of your own This doing would forthwith staunch and put a stop to that Issue of Blood which hath been running on the Sea and Land these seven years And then King James would not be tempted nor yet led aside for sometimes a good and righteous Cause may be endeavoured to be carried on by evil and wrong Means through the ignorance of wicked Instruments hereby Satan the invisible Enemy of Mankind acting at the bottom of all this with yet greater Subtlety and Deceiveableness to render the same more perplex intricate and hard to be understood To use such foolish violent and sinful Methods to seek to Re-instate Himself into these Kingdoms Which are not agreeable unto the Law of God who is the God of Peace and not of Confusion nor yet consistent with the Gospel which doth not allow to hurt nor to destroy Isa 11.19 But corrupt Nature is prone and liable to make use of such Fot consider the thing simply and abstractedly If any of Ye were Dispossessed of your Right Freehold and Property by a forcible Entry made thereupon in which case the Law doth preserve the Right all the mean while unto the True Owner and Proprietor and Ye could not possibly recover it again any other way for either there was not Law or it was corrupted or the Judges would not admit that particular Case to an Hearing Would Ye not then try to get a like or greater Number of Armed Men and endeavour to get your Estates again by Force as you were Dispossessed by Force A man in his corrupt Nature as King James doth seem to be therein would do thus But a true regenerate and sanctified Christian would not but rather take wrong and suffer himself to be defrauded and sit down contented with the Loss rather than use Force and Violence which is sin and evil to regain it Yet here He may Assert his Right in words only Every one can imagine that it would be a sad World if there was no Law nor Legal Decision of things for then all Property would be unhinged and a Gap would be presently opened to the Hurt and Murder of one another and to all sort of Theft Robbery Violence and Evil. So by the like proportion and truth of things it may be Conceived and surely Reasoned He that is unjust in the Least is unjust-also in much Luk. 16.10 What is unjust and unreasonable in a less Matter is unjust and unreasonable also in a Greater Matter And as we can readily conceive what would be the Inconveniences Mischiefs and Evils if there was no Justice nor Law in private Cases From hence also we may know the very Reason why our Land is moved and divided and because of the Sores thereof it shaketh By Swearing and Lying and Killing and Stealing and Committing Adultery they break out and Blood toucheth blood Hos 4.2 And why there is no Peace in our Borders Because in reference to the King who of Right was and ought still to be the Governour thereof Judgment is turned away backward and Justice standeth afar off for Truth is fallen in the street and Equity cannot enter Isa 59.14 For what true Reason can be assign'd why His Cause and Case should not be brought to a Rehearing and Impartial Trial as it is allowed to every Common person when all Things are not fully Alledged on both sides That Act of the Convention was in no wise a full and impartial Trial For Qui statuit aliquid parte in audita alterâ aequum licet statuerit haùd aequus fuerit a fortiori si statuerit iniquum And even now all their subsequent Acts can no more make wrong right than they can make crooked straight for they cannot alter the nature of things Indeed they may bind and transfer one's Property where is a Consent of all Parties But yet again they may for they are not infallible Decree unrighteous Decrees against which a wo is pronounced in Isa 10.1 As so they did in the instance here mentioned in taking away the Right of their King contrary to their former Oaths of Allegiance and giving it unto a Stranger Your selves the Representatives of the People of this Nation and Ye being their Superintendents and an Higher Authority than they would not approve it but rather Ye would be apt to call them to account if either the Judges would not judge Causes at all or if they were corrupt in their Judgments for then they are primarily and originally Occasional of all that Evil and Mischief which is done and committed when people go about to Redress themselves inasmuch as they would not have done so if they could have had Remedy at Law Now with what Judgment Ye judge Ye shall be judged Here ye are to remember and bring it to mind O ye Transgressors That there is one Higher than ye even the invisible God And the Lord saw it and it displeased him that there was no Judgment Isa 59.15 Even so it may be truly supposed as