Selected quad for the lemma: child_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
child_n	city_n	family_n	tribe_n	2,199	5	10.5672	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45518	The nations claim of native right Wherein the gross and extreme defection and injustice of the court martial, and of all courts; the destructive abuse of the law, and pressing necessity, that the nation speedily unite (as one man) for an agreement in righteousness, is by particular example, and an appeal to the general councel of the army, and by several considerations cleerly demonstrated and proved. Secondly, the nullity of order, matter, and form of a free people is asserted, and proved by scripture: and how (to persons, families, people, and churches) right order, matter, and form may be attained. Thirdly, a brief pourtraict of a right government of the nation, and agreement of the people; and how such government and agreement may be with ease attained; a new representative freely elected: the laws rectified: the poor relieved: and the peoples, and armies, and every particular persons just interests (in peace with truth) satisfied, is proposed to the nation. By Thom. Harbye, late Quarter-master in the Regiment late	Harby, Thomas.	1650 (1650)	Wing H684; ESTC R216528	94,995	134

was done to him and not redressed was done only to him and his private family yet all Israel was gathered together as one man unto the Lord at Mispeh and sent men throughout the Tribe of Benjamine to convince it and to be convinced what that wrong was and to redress it and to move Benjamine to joyn with them unto the Lord for redress of it But that Tribe harkned not and was therefore destroyed 600 excepted man woman and child with their cattel and their Cities were fired and God owned that Action The wrong done to the Levites family was vile and wicked yet in it self a private wrong but in Benjamine that did not redress it a Nation sin derived upon it by that Tribe from one wrong done to one single private family Nation sins properly are these wrongs trespassesr or sins that are committed by or against the major part of a Nation There were Egypts sins for which God judged that Nation Israels sins for which that People perished by Sword Famine and captivity Babels sins for which that Kingdom was translated And these are this Nations sins which will destroy it if the people of it do not vigorously stir up and call upon one another to joyn as one man to redress all wrongs and to satisfie all just Interests They that stir up and provoke the people and their Trustees to do Justice equal and impartial are looked upon as Disturbers and Traytors but they indeed ●upport the Nation and to that end must persevere in the same faithful discharge of their duties to God the Nation and themselves if they fail the Nation falls Sins political and universal are of like nature for which many Cities were and the world in a Type was and shall be in the anti-type destroyed If the Nation or part of it or the people whether few or many shall stir up one another to joyn as one man to pursue the Peace of the Nation by an Agreement in Righteousness to free themselves and it from their Nation sins All such so joyning shall be gethered together unto the Lord the Rock of their and this Nations deliverance as all Israel was gathered together as one man unto the Lord at Mispeh All Israel that were not gathered together with Israel as one man unto the Lord at Mispeh to free themselves and Nation from their Nation sin to wit the inhabitants of Jaoesh Gillead were all men women and children except 400 utterly destroyed So all in this Nation that shall not stir up and call upon the people and upon one another to joyn in an Agreement in Righteousness for the paace of the Nation and to free it and themselves from their Nation sins shall therein divide and scatter themselves from the Lord the rock of their and this Nations deliverance and be more guilty of and lyable to their own utter ruin and destruction then the men of Jabesh Gillead were because there can be no compare betwixt a Nation sin derived from a private family and a Nation sin derived from a Nation It is likewise just with God and men That all they of the Nation that sit still as the men of Jabesh Gillead did or that hinder the Nations deliverance from their and its sins and destruction that call not upon the people to joyn unto the Lord as one man in order to these ends or hinder others from calling upon them of that shall harden their hearts that are called upon That they that will not help forward but hinder Redress of wrongs and satisfaction of just Interests that will not help forward or shall hinder the causing of a new Representative and that will not help forward or that shall hinder an Agreement of the Nation in Righteousness should answer and satisfie for these wrongs and damages that bloud shed and these outrages and barbarous cruelties which are caused by their oppositions and obstructions in these relations All Israel fled and fell twice before Benjamine and Benjamine slew 40000 of them and the reason of it is conceived was Because Israel was not so circumspect and diligent to discharge all faithfulness of duty to one another in exciting and calling upon one another and because they did not excite and call upon the men of Jabesh Gillead to hearken and to joyn with them as one man unto the Lord to free their Nation and themselves from their Nation sin Fourthly That joynt endeavours of Agreement be made with ●ll wisdom of meekness and faithfulness the Reasons are 1 Because wisdom without meekness is but appearence without substance 2 Because there is not nor can be any effectual means of this Nations deliverance but by Addresses in wisdom with meekness 3 Because Gods Message unto Pharoah was meek and when neither the cryes of Israel nor the endeavours of their Elders nor Aarons eloquence could deliver them Moses sent with a meek Message did deliver them and left not a hoof behind him of all that appertained unto Israel 4 Because as Nadab and Abihu that offered strange fire we●● destroyed by fire from Heaven so all wisdom of zeal without sobriety and meekness hinders our deliverance and as strange fire which God accepts not destroyes those that endeavour it 〈◊〉 such means 5 Moses Gods Messenger was faithful according to th● command of God in all his house and delivered no Message t● Pharoah and his servants nor to the Israelites but what God commanded He did all possible good to the Egyptians and purchased their deliverance from many grievous plagues which the● brought upon themselves neither did he nor the Israelites la● their hands upon the life of Pharoah or of any of his servants except when violently assayled wherein the Law of Nature a●● all Laws of God and Nations require present resistance And i● this case only when an Egyptian and an Israelite strove togeth●● Moses slew the Egyptian So Gods Messengers sent to deliv●● his free-born from bondage are faithful according to the command of God in all his house They earnestly endeavour ● preserve and deliver their oppressors from all plagues and destructions and from the bloudy guilt of their sins and to preserve and deliver the oppressed from the destruction and mise● of their oppressions They delivered no Message to their a● Israels unjust murderers and oppressors but what God commanded Their Message and Gods command is only that whi●●● the just Laws of the Land Equity require This Message th●● must deliver to both Egyptians and Israelites oppressors a● oppressed And if God command them to smite the Rivers a● Waters and turn them into Bloud they must do it They lay 〈◊〉 their hands upon the life of any Egyptian or other by wrong● or oppressing them in word or in deed neither do they unjustly assayl or resist any except when they or any other are violently and unjustly assayled and in this God commands them ● make what they can for their own safety present resistance that is All Laws of nature God and

Rents and Divisions I am free in Spirit that being convinced in Conscience that this and much more and that Charge is true I had been guilty of betraying my Faith and Trust had I not made Discovery of it and for this cause for Conscience sake because I will not nor can against my Conscience betray my Faith and deny the Truth am I censured to be Cashiered Naboth was stoned to death yet not without testimony of two witnesses though men of Belial I am deprived of the price of my bloud for seven yeers faithful service and in it of the Symbol and Staff of my native and acquisite support and maintenance because I will not nor in Conscience can reject the Record of God witnessing the Truth being Plaintiffe my self having no witness for me nor against me that I saw intending none nor any Tryal then and at that time but to desire assistance of the Court to order a right way that my proofs and witness might be received and examined not doubting but to make good the Charge having the liberty of requisite and lawful time and means to do it Jotham put his Life in his hand to hazard it that he might discharge his Trust to the men of Sechem and Milo that they might not be destroyed saying Harken to me you men of Sechem that God may harken unto you yet they did not harken and therefore were destroyed Man Woman and Child and their City was sown with Salt All Israel put their Lives in their hands to hazard them that they might discharge their Faith and Trust to Benjamin that they might harken to do righteous judgment and not be destroyed but they did not harken and therefore were destroyed Man Woman and Child and they that did not oppose them and help to destroy them were likewise destroyed Not I but many of us not once but many times have put our Lives in our hands to hazard them that we might discharge our Faith and Trust to several Representatives in our many humble Addresses to them That they might do righteous judgment and not be destroyed but they have not harkned And I am free in Spirit and in Conscience convicted That this hath been and is the only main Cause of all the War Bloud and Destruction upon this Nation and will be the Destruction of the Army and it if God do not encline the said Representatives hearts and Yours to harken to do righteous judgment that God may harken to You and this Nation To harken is better then fatt of Rams but suddain haste of rash Censure in Judgement to judge any thing before the time or any man unheard is to disobey and reject the Voice of God and hath no concord with that soft and still voice which is of God and in which God is What I have oft done to divers of you I do at this time to all of you that is I put my Life in my hand to hazard it that I may discharge my Faith and Trust to your Honors and I must be free in discharge of it Josephs Brethren brought his Coat rent torn and bloudy to his Father and said See is this thy Sons Coat or no I set before your Honors eyes and the Al-seeing eye of God this Coat miserably rent and torn of a deep Crimson died red dipt in Bloud but whether it is or ought to be mine or mine in such sort I humbly enquire If I humbly seeking right and Redresse of the greatest wrongs must receive seven fold and that by those men and that means from whom and by which only Redress can be had I humbly enquire whether this is your Sons Coat or no If because I bear the Record of God the testimony of a good Conscience witnessing to me that the things in that Charge and this Confession are true I am deprived of the price of my bloud for seven years faithful service and of the fruits of all my hopes by that service whether is this your Sons Coat or no If I have heretofore oft and now hazarded my Life to divers Representatives in free discharge of my Faith and Trust for their and this Nations safety and if only for this very cause I must perish and be destroyed and that even by those for whom I have hazarded my own Life to preserve them from being destroyed whether is this your Sons Coat or no If I have discharged my Trust to the State and you with as much simplicity of Spirit and integrity of heart as any as little seeking private unjust ends profits or preferments as any as free from corrupting adulation and destructive fawnings of betraying flatteries as any And if I am exposed to most unjust sufferings more then any and must be by the only remedy more then any remediless whether is this your Sons Coat or no If your Honors say it is my Coat your Sons Crimson Coat and that I must wear it I accept it with all meekness and submission and humbly resign my Place and Life at the feet of this Honorable Councel But if I may receive at the hand of this Honorable Councel my own proper Coat clean washed from Bloud entire and not rent and torn that is I your Honors will admit me all due administration of Right and Justice viz. Alegal Tryal by proof of Witness and demonstration of Reason against whatsoever be can alleadge or object If your Honors please to Authorize with power and to appoint Two men of approved fidelity whom I on my part shall chuse in our own Regiment as he may have the same Liberty to chuse Two for him in the same Regiment that best know this business to examine Witnesses and to decide the business if not to order and prepare it that it may be Reported to this Honorable Councel which was my humble Desire in all my Addresses as the only best and safist expedient for Truth and Peace and to prevent the extream hazard of the Army by dashings of men contrary minded in Councels If your Honors please to appoint the said men to examine and to report to your honors my exceeding many grievances in other Relations and to grant I may have effectual Redress of them If you will grant me the price of my Life my due Pay repeal the Sentence of the said Court and refrain the members of it from having any suffrage or vote in this Councel or any other against me until the Truth do appear Your Honors in so doing and by harkning to do so to every man that God may harken to you and this Nation shall begin a good work to stay the Sword of the destroying Angel which hitherto hath been drawn and is imminent upon the Army and Nation I must freely as from God discharge this one Duty more of Faith and Trust to your Honors in which I do not barely mind your Honors but I humbly request and beseech your Honors to retain this circumspect care with and amongst you That Courts of Justice

life in anti-type and truth shall then bring forth and not till then its first fruits of righteousness of life and freedom when the order of its mansions that is the prefigured mystical families there shall be compleated and full The righteousness which is now and hath bin is the righteousness of false appearance covetousness and filthy corruptions of bondage born and begotten by and for base designes and ends the off-spring of illegitimacy and seed of incest conceived like Moah and Ammon in the heat and zeal of blind and empty profession and bloudy hypocrisie the fruit of perfideous trechery and deceit If any righteousness of life and freedom hath bin or is that Righteousness or they that produce it have or hath bin or is the first fruits to God and the Lamb but the Text is express That the sealed Tribes or Families of Israel shall be the first fruits to God and the Lamb There was no righteousness of deliverance from the curse of destruction bondage and death of Adams sin in a type until those creatures that were saved the shadow of the free people of God came as it were by their families into the Ark after their kind and there hath not bin any perfect but dead spurious and illegitimate righteousness no righteousness of deliverance life and freedom from real destruction sin and death nor shall be any until the free people come into the true Ark by their anti-typical Tribes and Families and possess their proper mansions in truth and substance The people of God absolute free and their righteousness shall be equally legitimate in relation to God their father and in relation to the new policy or City their mother descending which shall be free And they and their righteousness shall be perfect as their heavenly father is perfect and as their mother descending from God out of heaven shall be perfect Perfect not of the essence of God but after the pattern and image of the mind of God as the Tabernacle was the figure of that pattern in the Mount and as the Rain-bow is the Image of the Sun so they shall be created and formed by the free Spirit of life in Christ after the Image of God For the Creator Former and Inhabitant is not the creature thing formed or house Howbeit God shall dwell in them more fully The perfection of a free people and of their righteousness consists in an impress intermediate and express act of Life and Freedom but the last gives their and its denomination and being and the first two without the third are properly the righteousness of bondage This perfect righteousness of a Free people is a commutative three-fold righteousness of deliverance from evil in evil and out of evil of bondage a figure of this righteousness was in Moses his visiting of his brethren three times the first time he went forth he seeing an Egyptian and an Israelite at strife slew the Egyptian and freed the Israelite in a Type from evil of bondage The second time he went forth he seeing two Israelites at strife sought to reconcile and unite them and so to releive and support them in the evil of bondage These actions were properly the righteousness of bondage for Moses was then in bondage and therefore it inslaved him and them and hazarded his life much more for which cause he fled and left them forty yeers Men may not be faithful indeed nor do impress or intense works of Freedom in bondage but extremely hazard their lives or estates they their righteousnes must be corupt by constraint or they must act if strictly faithful single For the people of God in bondage having no order nor unity deceive and betray each other Moses in his first visit acted but with one Israelite and delivered him and that one betrayed him The second time he acted but with two and one of them betrayed him and he fled for his life such are the perfidious treacheries deceits of the righteousness of bondage but Moses did not desist but sent came the third time and Freed Israel and their intire beings out of bondage all Israel therein joyned with him and this his and their joynt work was the proper righteousness of Freedom in a Type To avert evils of bondage in bondage or relieve and support those that groan under the rigour of it and rest so being works of bondage strengthens the power and rage of it and depresseth all means of deliverance So Moses did and fled for his life and left all Israel desperately helpless and worse inslaved than ever Ahimelech relieved David with the shew-bread and Goliahs Sword which was a very just and good work yet it occasioned that Ahimelech and all the Preists of the Lord and their City were cut off and destroyed man woman and child such are the violent evils of the bondage of corruption that the best and most perfect righteousness of bondage causeth through corruption the worst evils and effects because corruption of the best things is the most destructive corruption that can be It s the greatest and most desparate hazard of utter ruine to a mans life or estate to be conscientious and exactly faithful in bondage Also performances of impress and intense acts of righteousness in bondage without the express act of the righteousness of Freedom out of bondage is dead and imperfect righteousness and meer impostury which deceives and hardens like the works of Pharaohs Sorcerers all mens hearts in vanities and corruptions of bondage For whiles they follow and mind sorceries and deceits imperfect righteousness of relief or support in bondage they dream not nor once think of any legitimate or perfect righteousness of Life and Freedom out of bondage These rotten deceits destroy or hazard as in Moses and the Priests of the the Lord their Lives Families and Estates for the righteousness of relief and support in bondage and not of Freedom out of it rouseth up the power and rigour of it as a sleepy lyon to destroy them he that pricks a sleepy lyon must also kill him or be sure to be destroyed This corruption of bondage under which the Creation groans and travels in pain to be delivered out of it is briefly this The Creation was at first subservient to bruit beasts till man a figure of the Creatures Freedom was made the head of all creatures and thus far the creature was not properly subjected unto vanity under bondage of corruption Satan and the serpent the parents of all corruption of bondage sin and death co-inspired into the spirit of man the corrupt nature of bruit beasts from the bruit beast the serpent the mother of sin in a type and of fallen Angels from Satan the Father of sin and filthy corruptions of bondage So the spirit of man the head of the Creation became bruitish and divelish and then the creature was properly subjected unto vanity and bondage of corruption The corruption of bruitishness in man did corrupt and darken the Image of