Selected quad for the lemma: end_n

Word A Word B Word C Word D Occurrence Frequency Band MI MI Band Prominent
end_n lord_n time_n world_n 5,090 5 4.5497 4 true
View all documents for the selected quad

Text snippets containing the quad

ID Title Author Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) STC Words Pages
A88067 The Levellers institutions for a good people, and a good Parliament, according to this their present declaration, and the gallant rights and Christian priviledges of this nation. Together with their summons to all gallant common souldiers serving under the Excellent Fairfax, and faithful Cromwell, to stand to their colours. 1648 (1648) Wing L1801; Thomason E474_4; ESTC R205355 1,851 8

There is 1 snippet containing the selected quad. | View lemmatised text

The LEVELLERS INSTITVTIONS FOR A GOOD PEOPLE AND A GOOD PARLIAMENT According to this their present Declaration and the Gallant Rights and Christian Priviledges of this NATION Together with their Summons to all gallant common Souldiers serving under the Excellent FAIRFAX and faithful CROMWELL to stand to their Colours London Printed for W. B. in the Yeer MDCXLVIII The Levellers Institutions for a good People and a good Parliament c. The first Institution TO all true cordial English Souls inhabitant or dispersed through Europe Asia Affrica and America To Jew and Gentile Free-born and Slave to whom these our ●nstitutions shall come Greeting Be it by these Presents made known published and declared That We the legitimate Princes of the Earth Justice Freedom and Honesty having for a time times and half a time by the Tyranny of unjust Monarchs and Arbitrary Lords been forcibly exiled and from our Native Rights debarred are now at the time of the end come down into the World to chastise Injustice to settle Peace and to reassume the Scepter in our own hands as our proper due against Emperors Kings Armies Councels mauger Men and Divels Commanding all other Princes to lay down their Scepters at our feet and Greatnesse to come under the command of Goodness for this is the first Fundamental Right of the Sea-Green Order Secondly Be it next declared That We intend to advance our Royal Standard first in England this present yeer of King Jesus 1648 and this by Commission from God our King and the Parliament of Heaven unalterably uncontroulably and have for that purpose made choice of the deep Sea-green for our Flag and Colours and do hereby ordain and authorize it to be worn as the lively badge of Constancy Sufferance and Valour in grain the cognizance of Justice and the mark of Freedom and Deliverance Thirdly Be it by us ordered That whatsoever noble heart shall abhor the yoak of Prerogative-pleasure the Chains of Slavery and Tyranny by Princes the Agents and cruel Instruments of Princes Whosoever shall detest the Arbitrary Power and Voice Negative Whosoever shall abominare the self-wil'd pomp and dominion of Lords temporal and spiritual the jugling of bribed Judges the devilish inextriable mares of the Law-Courts and their petty-fogging sitting Dogs Pleaders Officers of Court Attorneys Solicitors perjured Sergeants Bayliffs Undersheriffs with all their quirks demurs and quillets Whosoever is seeing and sensible of the late bloody Plots and still raging designs of Antichristian Christians Whosoever groans under the present Extortions unequal Taxes unjust Levies inevitable Monopolies new Charters Plunders and avarice of Committees bondage of Prison under inhumane Gaolers oppression of Landlords all Wardships all Hardship● Let them upon sight hereof take up the Cross and follow Christ their King take up our Colours and follow us their Leaders and in so doing the Sea-green shall be the badg of their warrant and protection Fourthly be it hereby instituted That every one so wearing our Colours in hatband cuff garment hilt bridle mayn or sail in relation to Equity Freedom and Honesty shall from henceforth according to our noble Order be intitled the Freeborn Assistant of Justice but according to the Order of King Charles Levellers his is new ours is old Fifthly be it further instituted That every Champion of the Sea-green Order shall vow a sacred vow in all his prayers and endevors to level first the mountain of his own hart pride ambition avarice self-hopes self-ends self-revenge for this is the true level of the internall Antichrist Sixthly it is decreed That every such Assistant of Justice shall fearlesly resolve promise assent to his utmost power to level to the earth all the unequal knobbiness and uneven risings of injustice pomp tyranny and oppression as the very causes of this War and things abominated in the eyes of an angry God Saints and Angels be it in Prince Peer Prelate Judg Magistrate and that without difference or exception of persons parties Religions relations titles dignities indifferently and indistinctly for this is the Level of the external Antichrist So help him Christ and the three Machabean Princes Next it is hereby concluded That Honesty among the Levellers shall be counted for the best Policy and Simplicity shall bear up the Buckler against a whole Junto of Machavil and politicks Woodbee Be it also hereby known to all the gallant common Souldiers serving under the excellent Fairfax and faithfull Crumwell That however their Grandee-Masters have ill repaid their labors yet we their Captains have from time to time carefully inrolled their valor sufferings scorns nakedness and losses in the Register of Equity man by man and do by these presents ingage our Honors for a full requital far above Indempnity with money bays and thanks according to the degrees of each mans desert in War provided that the said Souldier go on as he hath begun stand to our Colours and appear at our Summons according to the Rights of the SEA GREEN ORDER Lastly be it enacted and Declared That whosoever shall jeer baffle or vilifie our Colours or reproach the Wearer shall be censured an Anti Leveller a Malignant Revolter Grandee Creature or Dammee Varlet and to be registred by the SEA-GREEN Scout in the Roll of Justice and Revenge but whoever shall constantly and habitually affect us and our Colours shall be admitted into our favor whether gallant Cavalier or valiant Reformadoe Signed by Captain Mordocai Love-Right Secretary-General to the three Machabean Princes and the noble State of Levellers FINIS