Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	act_n	parliament_n	year_n	3,743	5	4.9359	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57305	Oh ye heads of the nation who are set in the supream authority thereof, and are at this time assembled in Parliament hear ye the word of the Lord, as it came unto me the sixth day of the fifth moneth of this present year, concerning you / by Ambr. Rigg.	Rigge, Ambrose, 1635?-1705.	1659 (1659)	Wing R1487; ESTC R9222	5,766	10

OH YE HEADS OF THE NATION Who are set in the SVPREAM AVTHORITY Thereof and are at this time Assembled in PARLIAMENT Hear ye the Word of the Lord as it came unto me the sixth day of the fifth Moneth of this present year concerning you By AMBR. RIGG LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1659. THE Lord God Almighty of heaven and earth who reigns on high by his power and strength whose mercy endures for ever Hath now so loved the world that he hath sent his onely begotten Son out of his own bosom for a light into the world that whosoever will receive believe and follow him shall not perish but have everlasting life Now it being the good pleasure of his heavenly will first to visit these three Nations of England Scotland and Ireland and to send his Son into them to seek and search out his sheep according to his promise made of old Ezek. 34. and to gather them from the mouthes of the Idol dumb shepherds that hath made a prey upon them which work is already begun and many are gathered by his right hand into his Covenant of life and are taught of him and established in his righteousness against whom no weapon formed shall ever prosper for whose sake the imediate hand of Gods eternal power hath been often seen to be stretched forth against his and their enemies in divers manner of wayes who would not let his Seed go free to offer to him a sacrifice in righteousness but laid heavy burthens upon his people which they have long groaned under and their oppressors were often warned as Pharaoh was by Moses before Gods judgement came upon them but when they still stopped their ears and hardened their hearts from hearing the cry of the oppressed then did the Seed cry unto the Lord whose complaint he hath heard and for its sake hath mightily appeared again and again and hath rebuked and overturned Protectors Counsels and Parliaments that he might bring to passe his noble acts which he promised to perform in the dayes of old by the mouthes of his servants the Prophets so let your ears be open if you do intend to stand And them which he hath called and chosen in these three Nations of England Scotland and Ireland within this late years hath not been wanting to lay before Protector and Parliament who then had the power in their hands the grievous cruel yoke of bondage which they were held under by the seed of evil doers viz. Priests and Lawyers who had power given from them to lay more grievous burthens upon the chosen of God then all the oppressors that ever was read of before except the blood suckers in Queen Maries dayes yea the Priests under a colour of Law from Protector and Parliament hath far exceeded all the false Prophets that ever was heard of before them in cruelty tyrany and oppression the which cannot be paralell'd which I hope you who now fits at the Sterne of these Nations are not ignorant of therefore did the Lord suddenly appear even when Protector Parliament and Priest had joyned together to take Counsel against the Lord and his anointed and in a short time rebuked and overturned them and their Counsels who stopped their ears at the cry of the oppressed and would not regard the chosen of the Lord whom he sent often to them to try their hearts and to warn them in love and tenderness while the power was in their hands to take off the oppression and exactions from his people but when they had refused time after time the Lord scattered them as chaff and dashed all their glory in one day by bringing to nought all their Counsels which was not right in his sight and all this hath been done by his right hand for the establishing of righteousness in the land and for the preservation of his chosen ones whom the gates of hell shall not prevail against Theresore now be awakened and warned all you unto whom the government of these Nations is now committed let the dread and fear of God be upon every one of you with whom there is no respect of persons or taking of gifts take heed oh take heed how you tread in the steps of them that are gone before for know assuredly that God will not passe by that in you which he hath condemned in them before you therefore hath God chosen you to try your hearts also whether they be right in his sight which if they so be found he will blesse and prosper you in whatsoever you take in hand and your enemies shall dread before you and shall not be able to gainsay nor withstand you but all their Counsels and plottings against you shall be suddenly confounded and the Lord will crown you with dominion over all your enemies So let this suffice you oh ye Princes of England remove violence and spoil and take the exactions from the people of God and fear not man whose breath is in his nostrils for the earth is filled with violence and grievous spoilers is and hath been in the Land who hath not spared the flock of God yea they who have reproved sin in the gate hath been greatly made a prey upon by them who are inwardly rávening wolves Now if these things be not removed by you who now hath power in your hands the Lord remove you and overturn you as he hath done them before you for a short work in the earth will the Lord now make and will overturn overturn all till he come to reign whose right it is who will break every yoke from every neck and relieve the oppressed for besides many great oppressions in this Land the oppression of Tythe is the most cruel and Antichristian especially to them that professes to live under the Gospel what a violence and spoil hath been in this Land within this few years by upholding that oppression how hath the ravening wolves made a prey upon the Lambs of Christ who for conscience sake could not uphold that cruel oppression of Tythe which all the Priests in England is never able to prove by Scripture that ever Tythe was due to the Ministers of the Gospel by the Law of God for within this late dayes I had a meeting with some of the highest of them and it was desired of me and several hundreds of the free born people of England that they would prove by Scripture that Tythe was due to the Ministers of the Gospel by the Law of God and Tythe should be payed unto them without any further ado but this they were not able to do but laid aside the Scripture and the Law of God and fled to the powers of the earth saying that it was confirmed by so many Parliaments from age to age and so it was become a custome this is the Priests plea when they have no Scripture to uphold their Autichristian practices which the Lords hand is against they make the Parliaments a cloak