Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	ambassador_n	great_a	king_n	826	5	3.7001	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30536	A message to the present rulers of England whether committee of safety, (so called) councell of officers, or others whatsoever : delivered unto them by an ambassadour from the only right heire of the government, whose right alone it is to rule : and by special authority and commission from him, this is sent unto them, that they may hear, and fear, and learn wisdom, and may deliver up the proper right of the only King unto him, that they may be blessed, but on the conrray dependeth their destruction / by Edward Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing B6015; ESTC R14580	13,686	20

A MESSAGE TO THE PRESENT RULERS OF England A MESSAGE TO THE PRESENT RULERS OF England Whether COMMITTEE of SAFETY so called Councell of Officers or Others whatsoever Delivered unto them by an Ambassadour from the only Right Heire of the Government whose Right alone it is to Rule And by special Authority and Commission from him this is sent unto them that they may hear and fear and learn Wisdom and may deliver up the proper Right of the only King unto him that they may be blessed but on the contrary dependeth their destruction By EDWARD BURROUGH London Printed for Giles Calvert at the black Spread-Eagle near the West-End of Pauls 1659. THese things were upon me to deliver even by speech and word of mouth to the present men in power that they might be warned lest they perish But no way being made for me so to do I have written what was upon me even as short as possibly I could and in as little Compasse as might be having hinted at things which might more largely bin spoken to and I order this to be printed and given to their particular hands with speed E. B. To the present Rulers of England A MESSAGE to you all by an Ambassadour from the Lord God The Great and Mighty King And Iesus Christ the only Prince of Peace and Righteousnesse whose Right alone it is to Rule over us in our Nation and not Anothers In his Name and Authority I am come unto you FRiends My Master is a High and Mighty and powerful Prince and very Honourable And fear reverence respect and subjection belongs to him alone from you and all mankinde he is wise and understanding and of great strength And his dominion is from everlasting to everlasting And he can do whatsoever he will in Heaven and Earth for he rules with his Iron Rod over the World and whatsoever he saith it is done for his Word is an everlasting Command If he say to a man Live it is so and if he say to him Die It cometh to passe and if he give peace to a man or a Nation none can make War and if he make War with a person or in a Nation no man is able to make Peace For why he hath all power in his hand and to him all Judgement and Authority is given he is the Sonne of the living God the everlasting Creator he was and is and is to come his eye beholdeth all things and his Arme compasseth Heaven and Earth and what his purpose is he hath alwayes and will ever bring it to passe if he set up Rulers they must rule and if he pull them down none can hinder whom he will he honoureth and if it be his pleasure he bringeth men to shame if he break a Nation down none can build it up and if he confound Powers and Authorities in the Kingdomes of men they all fall as withered grasse before him Behold ye men he is so great and mighty and of so great Authority that whatsoever he saith it is done and whatsoever he willeth it cometh to passe and none is able to resist him and overcome his power when his pleasure is to accomplish a work By him all things are that be and all things live that hath life and through him all things moveth and of his fulnesse every creature in Heaven and Earth receiveth and this my Master is altogether honourable in birth and otherwise and altogether mighty in all his works he is just and merciful full of goodnesse righteousnesse and truth and all vertue dwells in him and his Judgment and Mercy his Authority and Meeknesse and his wrath and his Love they are Companions And what are ye before him or how shall ye be able to resist him or to turn backward what his purpose is concerning you and this Nation for ye have no being nor breath without him Behold ye men ye are verily as the dust before the winde so are ye to him soon blown away and your place not found as the Grasse before the Mower so are ye before him soon cut down and withered and your beauty utterly extinguished as a Potters vessel under an iron Rod even so are you to him he can immediately break you never to be bound up as a drop to the Fountain so are you to him soon dried up and made nothing wherefore ye men ye mortal creatures ye ignorant persons sons of a transgressor ye dust and ashes for thus you are in comparison of him this mighty Prince Hearken to his Message which cometh to you from him Hear and fear and be not stout-hearted against the Lord God that is about to speak unto you As for this little Island of England wherein your present place and being is it is an Island which the Lord hath shewed great favour unto in ages past and in this present time and I must tell you he hath a purpose of love towards it and to honour it in the view of the world though through great tribulations and he hath an intent of great good unto it For he hath a seed a precious seed in it scattered abroad and he hath a people that feares his Name and hath walked in his wayes and he hath made them and elected them and what they are it is by him that he may dwell among them and have the whole Government over them all yea he hath a speedy purpose verity concerning this Nation and he will purifie it in Judgment and refine its inhabitants through the fire of tribulations that it may be pleasant to him and fit to do his Will he hath a purpose to work some great thing in it I must tell you as he hath said unto me so to do he will have his Name exalted and reverenced in this Island and his terrour shall be sent out of it through the world and his branch from it shall spread over the earth he doth purpose in his season to take it into his own hand and to sway the Government therof with his own Scepter and to set up Righteousnesse alone and to overthrow all oppressions and oppressors and the Kingdoms of this world must become the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christis True it is such hath bin the coming to passe of time and of things for many Ages by-past that my Master hath bin as it were banished from the Nation and hath not bin suffered to enjoy his Right but hath bin expelled even as it were by the force of Satan and Antichrist who hath long usurped Authority over the inhabitants of this Nation and in my Masters absence lamentable injustice cruelty unmercifulnesse tyranny and oppression hath bin exercised upon the inhabitants and the poor creatures hath bin held in great slavery by their Rulers that have ruled by the Dragons power and bin kept in great blindnesse and ignorance and under great oppression both in body and spirit by Antichristian Teachers for this many years even while the great King hath bin absent and