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	truth_n	word_n	1,678	5	4.0059	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52167	The covenant acknowledged by an English Covenanter, and the manifested wants of the common prayer, or divine service, formerly used, thought the fittest for publique worship by one vvhose hearty desires are presented to all the lovers of peace and truth in these nations, and shall be the prayers of a wel-wisher to both, and a very much obliged servant to all the promoters of this just cause, E.M., Mason.	E. M., Mason.	1660 (1660)	Wing M913; ESTC R7635	12,716	22

so about that such a poor Mushrome as my unworthy self should be at all thought on for such affairs when divers of more knowing worth degree and fitness were forgotten But thus being put into the traces and my dull senses lasht by divers able mens disputes about our Nationall and City-priviledges and hearing Mr. Barbone a justing those members in these words now sitting to be the Parliament of England and the same men that acted there the last Summer and were so by the City and Nation acknowledged and the Taxes then leavyed by them gathered by us and why not now being the same Parliament of England now sitting it was a wonder to him being lasht as I said before and this Gentlemans words so touching my galled Conscience began to winch and being prest by its discharge I like blind Bayard said My Lord Mayor The Gentleman that spake last concerning the Parliament of England as he calls the Gentlemen now sitting surely mistakes the sense of this Court for truly my Lord I am perswaded there is never a Member here but honours the Parliament of England and will lay their hands under their feet and sacrifice thier lives and estates to do them service and we honour these that now are set at the Stern as men of worth and quality But my Lord we cannot say by these Gentlemen though by us once freely chosen because they were d●ssolved by the late Kings death as by Law hath been undeniably proved but my Lord divers of these did desert their Trust that we reposed in them and went to the Army and brought in Oliver the great Oppressor to invade our Rights and with his and their Adherents by force secluded most of our Trustees and were themselves also dissolved so by him and his Complices though they acted with and for him a long time and now my Lord your Honour and all us well know that the same force that pull'd down great Olivers Son set up these that now sit by the Lord Lamberts assistance and by his force were the third time dissolved and now by the strength of an Army are again set in power to act as our Representatives although not new elected or chosen by us according to our Laws and English Birth-rights as hath been throughly debated in this Court by divers worthy Citizens of able knowing judgments that intended no hurt to these Gentlemen that now sit but the right and good of all the Nation and themselves My Lord this that hath now been plainly said is truth and Truth seeks no corners nor these Gentlemen a Parliament by us chosen The substance of these words was offered at the Guild-hall in the Council of the Commons February 8. 1659. when the Army was new come to London The next Friday being the 10. of the same Moneth the Gates of the City were broken down and our Posts and Chains pluckt up and divers of our Members sent Prisoners to the Tower and our sorrowful hearts overwhelmed with grief dreading the fearful issue following yet trusting still in God our alone great Deliverer who comforting our drooping hearts by his gracious appearance in a merciful measure for us on Saturday the II. of the same Moneth on which night was great joy expressed by many of the younger sort by Bonfires in every eminent street and I doubt not but the elder sort both Laymen and Divines sacrificed divers humble Prayers and hearty thanks to the most high God our whole deliverer whose heavenly smiles did then graciously glimmer upon us his poor distressed creatures whose holy Name be eternally praised by all that fear him whose goodness we hope will now perfect our now new begun joy I have lived to see our Moses and Aaron the defenders of our Faith and Church with their friends and adherents suffer and I may yet live to see the Troublers of our Peace and Church with their Corah Dathan and all their Abiramists overwhelmed or as I desire converted Then let not our Faith fail us but stand still and see how our God will deliver us and remember when his servants the distressed Sons of Jacob were at the brink of the Sea and Egypts Host fiercely pursuing and Israels fainting spirits sinking and their doubtful thoughts breaking out into doleful expressions Because there were no graves in Egypt hast thou brought us forth to die in this wilderness Therefore take courage dear Brethren of this City and the bottomless sea of our distrusts may become walls to our fainting spirits and our selves though going through these troubled seas in this night of our afflictions we may yet stand upon the shore of safety by the power of our God and see these furious Conjurers and Pharaoh-like Task-masters floating upon the deep waters of Despair helpless for it is the same Jehovah who saved Israel that will deliver us and be confident the Arke of his Truth which we trust in will tumble down the Dagon of their Injustice let them set it up never so often and let us belive with faithful Abraham that The Judge of all the earth will do right I have been also often grieved to hear and see such a dull and negligent garb of Publick Worship as is now used in divers Churches Over that reverential form of Publick Worship was that I had the happiness to see before these times of Trouble and Confusion which if at all offensive to any might by skilful Workmen have been handsomelier mended than by such self-conceited Bunglers thus ill-favour'dly patcht up and pestered with Sectaries of all kind of colours as if they intended to make it like my Lord Husons Fool But the holy Scripture saith When the blind lead the blind we must needs fall into the distressed ditch of our confused Fopperies The good Lord give us grace to return and humbly beg mercy through the merits of our dear Saviour whose offended Father we have most egregiously provoked to displeasure before his fierce deserved warth break in upon us and seek our God in sincerity by humiliation and true imitation of the Ninevites unfeigned Fasts and lay by our hypocritical vizards with which we have so long deceived the Nation and our selves and walk no more by Sathans Dark-lanthorns but revive the former pure lights that shewed us the right wayes to Unity in perfect forms of divine Worship which teacheth us to pray for the Governors his goodness will be pleased to set over us and for one another that our Church and State may once again flourish in unity and concord with due respect to tender Consciences that are not factious And then it were but equity if rightly considered in my weak apprehension for to suffer us that would joyn together in the praising of the Almighty glory with our interlocutory voices in acknowledging and humbly confessing our manifold sins before the great God of Heaven and earth Angels and Men in his publick fit-to-be-done Worship and because it best suits with our Consciences and the rules