Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	angel_n	appear_v	earth_n	2,033	5	5.4662	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90360	Englands monarchy asserted, and proved to be the freest state, and the best common-wealth throughout the world. With a word to the present authority, and His Excellency General Monck.	Peirce, Edmund, Sir, d. 1667.	1660 (1660)	Wing P1061; Thomason E1016_16; ESTC R203179	12,318	16

such care and provision should be had and taken for such a sort and such an Interest That the consideration thereof should any way obstruct and hinder that firm and lasting settlement which concerns so many millions of persons of all sorts sexes qualities and conditions and which is so woven into and concentered in our Laws and the very vital part of them and of all our liberties freedoms and happinesse which began likewise with the first natives of this Island the Brittains and continued amongst us for so many centuries of years and recieved its approbation by so many Ages and Generations of our Fore-fathers and Ancestors and rendred us a famous and flourishing People and Nation throughout the whole Christian World Nor need either of these sort of men be at all doubtful neither what ver vain and empty jealousies and fears they have to the contrary But upon such a just and righteous settlement of a firm and lasting peace the wisdom of the Nation may and no doubt but will find out a way and means That not a man of-them shall be a penny damnified in their purchases and acquisitions of any sort or kind whatsoever And yet both Crown and Church have a fitting and full patrimony too which when it comes to that may with as much ease be demolished to any capable understanding as this expression thereof is here set down to be read and perused And if this be so as to them which clearly and without all controversie may and that without much difficulty be done and no mans property intrencht upon nor the publick body of the nation at all prejudiced or damnified And the Church controversies by a national and legal Synod convened in due form appeased quieted and setled so as no truly tender Christian conscience may at all be imposed upon But have that due evangelical liberty which may in any kind by the most sacred holy Writ be allowed And further it is supposed no sober Christian will desire what should hinder if the work were once strenuously faithfully and impartially set upon But that yet we might hope for so much mercy from Heaven as that after all these tempestuous stormy violences rending wasting and consuming divisions doleful and deplorable miseries and calamities which have so long and so fiercely raved and raged amongst us The Almighties hand may close up all our breaches and we enjoy the blessed and happy benefit of a well established firm and lasting peace It is likewise hoped that there is nothing premised in this paper which may in any kind give offence to any now in place and power either as to matters civil or to that worthy and noble military General by whose power prudence much of our miseries have bin already released and in whom it is by most believed there is such a generous and publick Ayre and Spirit for the good and welfare of the Church and Nation that however the mindes of some pious sober and judicious persons are much flatted and dejected by severall particulars which have passed and become publick yet he being extricated and quitted from the poysonous intoxications of some very viperous Spirits and the subtle and crafty insinuations of others who though not altogether so bad yet much corrupted and misled by selfeish Interest and Faction He will upon due deliberation seriously set his heart and thoughts upon the furtherance and advanceing that and that onely which may best conduce to the firme and lasting settlement of the peace and quiet of a torn tattered and tyred people whom he found plunged and weltring in their own wretched and deplorable miseries and calamities And as he hath had the honour to serve faithfully the conjunct interest of his Soveraigne and the Nation in his former imployments so he will not be now induced to sever them upon any cause specious shew or pretence whatsoever For be it what it will be that is insisted upon to move him to affect such a partition and separation come it cloathed in what shape or colour soever it will or can come he may rest assuredly certain that it comes not without its speciall designe upon himselfe which if not avoided in the end will be his undoubted utter ruine and destruction let him bring it Ad lydium lapidem to the true Touch-stone either of Religion Law Justice Equity or Policy and try it by either of these or all these together and see how empty light vaine false and counterfeit it will prove in all its shews and pretences It is known well enough that there are some persons and perhaps from too many of them he hath no few corrupt whispers who are so fixed and rivited to a desire of accomplishing their own covetous and ambitious ends though by meanes never so vile and ruinous to others And are by selfe-guilt so filled with rankour envy and malice against that person which by all Law of God Nature and the Land should be sacred to them That it is verily believed that if an Angel or Seraphin from Heaven should appear to perswade them to their duty in that particular they like their seat and footing so well upon earth and are so taken with the rule and domination which they fansie they have floating in their own empty brains and have so set up their heart hopes and faith upon it that even such a message from Heaven it selfe should not prevaile upon them These men let him please to avoid and shun as to their whispers and Councels as he would some noysome and hideous poyson and hearken to the sober deliberations of the solid judicious and truly not hypocritically pious and moderate And indeed next to Almighty God and his Sacred Word consult but his own Soul and Conscience which he hath professed stands cleer and impartial to all Interests and Factions in this great businesse of the Nation And let not the Publick Genius and Inclination nay the hearty and earnest declared desire and longing for of the Nobility Gentry and Commonalty of all sorts and from all parts and places thereof be despicable to him or slighted by him but as he professeth his endeavours for the publick settlement so let him declining all private junctoes be directed therein by publick advertisement It is the whole People and Nations that must be obliged let the whole People and Nations therefore freely be heard should they desire in point of Government were it now in their choice that which were not fit for them if they be not hearkened to they cannot be engaged For as no man hath wrong with his consent so certainly none in such case can be obliged against it The generall and publick desires of the whole Nation in this particular is known very well nor is it doubted but he will make good what he hath professed and serve their publick true interest and not the private corrupt interest and ends of some few Many Millions there be on the one side and some petty inconsiderable number not worth naming on the other Generall Peace and a firm and lasting settlement and happinesse on the one side Warre and distracting confusions and in the end general ruine and destruction on the other Many other particulars may be hinted to him but as he is noble and prudent so it is verily expected and earnestly hoped we shall finde answerable effects thereof every way from him and such as shall crown him with Riches and honour in this life and eternall joy and happinesse in that which is to come FINIS