Selected quad for the lemma: judgement_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	according_a	conscience_n	law_n	1,864	5	5.1678	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86665	The immediate call to the ministry of the Gospel, witnessed by the spirit: vvith a true declaration of the persecution and suffering of Richard Hubberthorne, James Parnell, Ann Blayling, by Will. Pickering, who is Mayor of Cambridge. Also an answer to divers letters and mittimusses, against the said prisoners, answered; by them who are sufferers for the truth, and for the testimony of Jesus, Richard Hubberthorn, James Parnell.	Hubberthorn, Richard, 1628-1662.; Parnell, James, 1637?-1656.	1654 (1654)	Wing H3225; Thomason E812_13; ESTC R207636	16,317	15

they might keep the peace which all the world hath broken by disobedience to the light of Christ in the conscience and so for declaring the truth and publishing it forth in writing publickly is imprisoned and no breach of the Law proved against him and so they both remain in prison under this pretence of bringing in sureties for good behaviour when as they are not guilty nor no mis-behaviour proved against them but all who suffer as Christians in the obedience to the will of God need not be ashamed And under the same tyranny and law made in the will of man doe I now suffer onely because that at the command of Will Pickering Mayor of Cambridge I did not goe out of the Town to fulfill his will and so have disobeyed the command of the Lord did he send me to the dungeon and commanded the Jaylor that none should be suffered to come to me nor bring any thing unto me nor that I should have any thing but what I earned and since I was first cast into this hole there is severall reproaches and 〈◊〉 and false accusations cast upon me and the rest of my brethren and I am not suffered to have my accusors face to face that the law may take hold upon the guilty and that the truth might be cleared and my accusors known for since I was first put into this place there are three several papers of lies and slanders published forth by Will Pickering Mayor under his own hand the first dated August 23. the second Aug. 28. the third Aug. 29. 1. Accusation That we are idle wandering persons and rogues living upon poor silly people which some of them are now kept by the parish themselves I answer this Accusation is false for from the Lord are we sent to declare against all deceipt and unrighteousnesse of men and against all those who lay heavie burthens upon the poor by deceipt and oppression and against all who live in pride and idlenesse and fulnesse of bread by whom the creation is devoured and many made poor by your meanes and you who are rich who live at ease and in pleasure you live upon the labours of the poor and lay heavie burthens upon them grievous to be born and you may the poor complain of but they who doe receive our testimony there is the heavie burthens taken off and the poor is cased and whosoever do receive the truth in the love of it which we freely declare from the Lord and hath this worlds good he cannot see the poor in need nor want nor beg their bread but the truth where it is received opens the bowels of compassion and takes off oppression and the heavie burthen which the poor groans under but we are not chargeable nor our Gospel not to the rich nor to the poor neither doth any who have received us complain nor is chargeable to the parish is neither kept nor maintained by it Therefore in the presence of the living God I doe charge thee to cease from falsly accusing the innocent who can neither prove us to be rogues nor deceivers as the fruit of our ministery shall bear witnesse in them who have received it who can witnesse that they are led out of much deceipt and ungodlinesse which before they lived in and we have not been burthensome nor chargeable unto them through idlenesse God is our witnesse we have coveted no mans gold nor silver nor meat nor drink nor apparell and here we are falsly accused for the Name of Christ and for the Gospel sake which we freely doe declare as we have freely received it 2. Accusation The Mayor saith that the Law makes idle wandering persons to be rogues those that will not work if they have not any thing of their own to live upon those that use deceipt full wayes to get maintenance by these by the Laws of the Land are all rogues and such are these in my judgement and in my soul and conscience I am troubled that I have done no more to them then I have done to rid the Town of them I answer here thou hast shewed thy judgement and made it manifest that this persecuting will is thy law and hast acted contrary which thou hast here declared to be the Law of the Land concerning rogues who doth keep us here in prison in the dungeon under the pretence of rogues and hath not proved any of these things against us which thou sayest makes rogues not to be idle wandering persons nor hast not proved us to have nothing of our own to live upon nor hast not proved that we have used any deceiptful wayes to get maintenance by and here by the Lawes of the Land we are cleared who are not guilty of any of those things ●…d so the Lawes of the Land will take hold upon thee and all our accusers who hath imprisoned us for rogues when there is no witnesse against us to prove the breach of any Law of the Land for by the Law of justice and equity we desire to be judged And thou who sayest in thy soul and conscience thou art troubled that thou hast done no more to us then thou hast done that in thy conscience shall witnesse against thee for what thou hast already done and will let thee see that thou hast acted contrary to that in the conscience the light of Christ and that in thy conscience will condemn thee and hast acted contrary to the Law of the Land as by that in thy conscience thou shalt be judged which will let thee see that thou art not a doer of the Law of God nor a Minister of the Law of the Nation but a maker of lawes according to thy judgements and acting them upon the righteous whom the Law was not made for that thou mayest rid the Town of those who come to witnesse the Law of God to be fulfilled in them and to establish righteousnesse in the earth and to bring people from under the transgression of all Lawes to witnesse one Law giver Jesus Christ who is our Law giver 3 Accusation The Mayor saith that one of us told him when he desired him to goe out of the Town that he would not for he was sent to destroy the Town I answer this Accusation is false for there was not such a word spoken neither can any such thing be proved for we came not to destroy men lives but to saye them and to preach Jesus Christ the Saviour of the world and doe speak from the Lord to that in the conscience of every one the light of Christ which will let every one in particular see that his destruction is of himself and by the light of Christ unto which we are made manifest in every mans conscience are we cleared from all such slanders and reproaches which are falsly cast upon us for the Name of Christ who was reproached as we are and his reproaches we bear daily and are not ashamed of as the Scripture saith which by us is