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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	earl_n	lord_n	warwick_n	3,681	5	12.0313	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85462	Simplicities defence against seven-headed policy. Or, innocency vindicated, being unjustly accused, and sorely censured by that seven-headed church-government united in New-England: or, that servant so imperious in his masters absence revived, and now thus re-acting in Nevv-England. Or, the combate of the united colonies, not onely against some of the natives and subjects but against the authority also of the kingdom of England, ... Wherein is declared an act of a great people and country of the Indians in those parts, ... in their voluntary submission and subjection unto the protection and government of Old England ... Imprimatur, Aug. 3d. 1646. Diligently perused, approved, and licensed to the presse, according to order by publike authority.	Gorton, Samuel, 1592 or 3-1677.	1646 (1646)	Wing G1308; Thomason E360_16; ESTC R18590	106,374	127

with thee doe but keepe my Charge The nations shall come forth at once yea at one birth Truth in the change of one reneweth all the earth Else were not perfect good in every one erect Nor sinne were full through th'fall that great defect If change of one were not a world renew'd What Nation then not brought in and subdu'd When truth is publisht though but unto one Imbrac't receiv'd oh happy State of man All Gentile Jewels brought in who can want The world 's in darkenesse else could ne're be scant But Hypocrites cannot this thing digest In places times and persons they seek wealth and rest And see not how the mighty Lord above Hath cast his skirt o're Ruth yea fild her lap in love Of whom comes Christ that world of Gods goodwill What can she want that heaven or earth doth fill All keepe their stations attend as they have done Neglect no homage or service to the Son All bring their vertues treasures and their glory Centring them all in him a world of Princely Dowry Then walke through Sea or Land by friends or foes Let prisons fast hard irons thee inclose All take thy part yea plead thy cause for thee The world vents its malice in Christs love thou art free The Spirit of this world by these things comes to light Its pomp and glory which earst did shine so bright Appears grosse darknesse unto Christian eyes Down comes its Kingdome up goes its plaints and cryes Helpe Sword and Gun else doth our Kingdome fall Court fire Gangrena we tast worm-wood and gall No marvell for Christ in his native kind Set forth declar'd unto a carnall mind Appears as odious unto such a wight As sinne to him in whom is found the light What sentence shall be given then by sons of men When truth appears if power were found in them No power but that of darknesse then let us to them ascribe What 's in the Church's our Lords all unto them deny'd Take heed yee Judg of Blasphemies aright For Light discerns the darknesse hath no sight If Light and Candlesticke you know not how t' make one Suspend your judgement all your skill is gone And let the Judge of all his Circuit passe apace Who comes not to destroy such is his grace And let that man his own destruction be Who breaks that faith with God cannot be peec'd by thee Cease then your prosecutions seek yee to doe good Save life in any in Church wayes spill not blood In Christ if you consider the Covenant of God You le find that all compulsion is nought but that Nim-rod S. G. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE the Earl of Warwick Lord High Admirall of ENGLAND and Governour in chiefe of the English Plantations in America and upon the coasts thereof and to the rest of that Honourable Committee joyned in Commission with his Excellencie For the wel ordering government and safety of Forrain Plantations RIGHT HONORABLE ACcording to the Fame we have heard of you so have we found in you a spirit of tendernesse and compassion towards the oppressed which ever springs from the courage and fortitude of a heart resolute to suppresse the Oppressor be his power and policie what it may whilst men unsensible of the cause of the Needy ever stand in readinesse to side with the strongest partie and so as occasion serves to become one with the cruell venting the same spirit which for advantage can easily transform it selfe so as if power comply with the just mans cause the vizard of hypocrisie is soon put on by such either to become dumb silent or else to speak so as may best advantage it selfe let the cause be what it will Your wisdom and noble care in those weighty affairs committed to your trust commands and binds us over to make a more particular and full relation then formerly we have done of what hath passed betwixt some other Colonies in NEVV-ENGLAND and our selves that if it be possible to find any leisure hours in a crowd of so great imployments your Honours might be pleased to take a more full view of things in the mean time we stand humbly ingaged as we have done and ever shall in any service that what we are or have can tender to the honour and peace of our Native Countrey or to any true-hearted well-Wisher thereof and if no other service we can may be acceptable yet of this imployment none shall prevent us whilst our God gives us hearts daily to pray for you Your Honours most humble Servants the Inhabitants of Shaw-omet whose names are often expressed in this Narration THE EPISTLE TO THE READER COURTEOUS READER DOe not thinke that we delight to lay open the infirmitie and weaknesse of men except our weaknesses and infirmities as the Son of God sustained them any further nor to other end but as they serve to discover and lay open that one spirit of the God of this world which now works effectually in the children of disobedience which spirit in all its severall wayes of operation may be gathered up and centred in that son of perdition yea in that seven-headed and ten horned beast whose power and policie like unto that deluge in the old world hath so long overspread the face of the earth swallowing up in death every living thing that hath its motion upon the earth after or according to the flesh Nor can any be offended justly with us no not our adversaries themselves for making this true Narration of things that have passed amongst us of which this Treatice truly speaks For actions performed wherein men have cause to glory the further they spread the more satisfactory to the agen●s nor are actions of such publick nature seldom performed but to such end and purpose for if they be good they ought no● only to be reall and essentiall in them amongst whom they are acted and done but also presidentiall and exemplary unto others where ever the Fame of them may come and if they be evill then a whorish Fore-head must needs accompany them being done in the light of the Sun and then can no wise man be offended that a way-marke is cast up to give notice of such desperate and dangerous wayes unlesse himselfe be of the same spirit and is about or else waits for an opportunity for the like design Thou art intreated therefore not to looke upon this Treatise as simply matter of History but as matter of mysterie also For as it was acted to make manifest the operations and workings of a differing spirit to that end it is published also so that if it be narrowly looked into not only a savour of that mysterie of iniquity will appeare which alwayes works effectually to the same end and purpose namely to extinguish and put out the light of divine truth Wheresoever or in whomsoveer it appears but thou wilt find some Foot-steps also of that great mysterie of God whose bright beams of light where ever made