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	law_n	rule_n	2,715	5	7.2240	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32916	The Church-lurcher unkennelled, or, The true stating of the case betwixt sequestred ministers and those that dispossessed them		1666 (1666)	Wing C3996; ESTC R23705	4,472	8

comparison should be fathered on so reverend and worthy a person as Mr. Baxter We appeal to him and others Learned and godly of the Presbyterian Brethren Whether they do not know many sequestred Ministers no less learned and godly then their Ejectors Nay let them say if they do not know where Learned and godly men have been put out and boys and self-seeking Temporizers have been put in But this is the Question Whether those Lights which the Law of the Land set up in the Candlesticks or those Williams-with thewispe that violence and usurpation conjured up have the best claim to the Candlesticks The Question is not Whether or no an hopeful Reformation shall be made blank and voided But Whether Oppression shall prevail under the name of Reformation For many of us can profess in the presence of God That our prayers to him and our endeavours with men have been frequent and sincere to this effect That the Nation might be reformed from ignorance and prophaness and Sectarianisme and be made a Body of intelligent serious and united Christians And if any amongst us strive to hinder that work wee 'l joyn in reading from Mount Ebal that curse against such Let the great Master lay them aside as vessess in which he hath no pleasure Here therefore we adjure our Brethren who own the knowledge and conscience of what is just and equal not to labour further by clamour and importunity and false imputations to hinder his Sacred Majesty and this his happy Parliament from hearkening to our just Suits and the cryes of our impoverished Wives and Children and the groans and desires of our scattered slocks whose eyes hearts are generally toward us their lawful Pastours Our Desires are not to obstruct the way of any that have been in our Livings if deserving men from such preferments or imployments as they may lawfully pursue And we confess there are many of them of such eminency for Parts and Piety Moderation that they are much likelyer to be exalted to the highest Spheres in the Church then most of us a●● And we see it and rejoyce in it blessing God from the bottome of our hearts for so prudent and pious a Prince that his Majesties favours lye in common for Brethren both of the Presbyterian and Episcopal Judgment But this we ask not only for our own sakes but that the Ministry be not blamed and that a stumbled block may not be laid in the way of worldlings who plead Ministers leaping upon other mens thresholds to the hardening of themselves and that the mouths of our common Adversarys may be stopped give us up our Rights shew that you did but take the charge of the slocks till the rightful Shepherds were again free to look to them and stop the further progress of that jealousie that is already entred into the heads of some both your and our betters That the Presbyterian Ministers manifest such discontents and spirit their prayers and preaching with the former pretences of fears and jealousies not because of their distances from the Episcopal in point of Church Order but for fear they should by Law be compelled to forgoe the sweet Morsels of sequestred Living We are sure many of you abhor from any thing that may give rise to this Suspiicion and for those that do otherwise the Lord will judge them POST SCRIPT VVHereas the late Saturday Petition of some in sequest●ed Livings to the Parliament hath suggested their sufferings for his Majesty at Worcester and in the Loyal attempts of Sir George Booth and request That in the general ●oy of the King●om they may n●● be sa●ed by being left to be procee●ed against by a course of Law We hereafter to make it goo● that for one whom the● can produce who suffered for his Majesty there were twenty of them in sequest●ed Livings who sent horse and men to Cromwell at Worcester and to Lambert in Cheshire Nay amongst those that subscribed that Petition may we but know their Names we question not but to find many offenders of that foot mark And it is evident enough both to his Majesty ●nd the Parliament that they are the men who by their preaching at present have conjured up the old Devil of fea●s and Jealousies and would chuse rather to imbroil us again in a Civil War than part with their-not-their Livings And we wonder they can plead fo pitty to themselves who would know no pitty to their poor Brethren We can instance where some of them have run down two or three or four Ministers into beggary by procuring one sequestred Living and passing from that to another of better value and so onwards reckoning no more of undoing their ejected Brethren and their Familys then Boys would do to pluck down Birds-nests one after another and some of them have caused us to be sequestred and ejected without Summons and all we had to be ceased on even to our Boo●● and wearing Apparrel much of which they bought of 〈…〉 ators at a low and inconsiderable value and have to this day refused to relieve our Families with one penny of fifths And we no less wonder that they are not ashamed to own that they have been so far from being a Law to themselves that they are afraid to stand to the Judgment of the Law of the Land But we hope our just and noble Patriots will not lay before their ●osterity the stumbling-block of such an evil example That men should be continued in what they had unjustly gotten le●st they should be sadned when all others who have walked according to Rule are rejoyced that Justice as well as our King is 〈◊〉 from exile FINIS