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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	jesus_n	patience_n	temperance_n	1,484	5	11.2902	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48094	A Letter from the officers at Whitehall to the officers under Generall Monck in Scotland with the answer of Generall Monck and his officers thereunto : wherein with plainness and sinceritie, they endeavour to set before them the evil of their doings.	Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of, 1608-1670.	1659 (1659)	Wing L1535A; ESTC R37972	5,189	9

A LETTER FROM THE Officers at Whitehall TO THE Officers under Generall MONCK in Scotland With the ANSWER Of Generall MONCK and his Officers thereunto Wherein with plainness and sinceritie they endeavour to set before them the Evil of their doings Printed at Edinburgh by Christopher Higgins in Harts Close over against the Throne Church and reprinted in London 1659. A Letter from the Officers at Whitehall to the Officers under Generall Monck in Scotland sent by Captain Deane Dear Brethren and Fellow Souldiers WE most heartily wish Grace and Truth to be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord And also we desire the God and Father of all Grace to adde to your Faith Vertue and to Vertue Knowledge and to Knowledge Temperance and to Temperance Godlinesse and to Godlinesse Brotherly-kindnesse to brotherly kindness Charity Dear Brethren We cannot but be deeply affected afflicted in our own spirits to consider of your dissatisfaction with us upon mistaken grounds You have known us these many years to be your faithfull Brethren that durst do nothing that is sinfull And we may affirm with plainnesse honesty and simplicity of heart we have done nothing in the late Revolution but that which the Providence of the most wise God prepared to our hands led us out unto without so much as one half hours time to design or resolve to take that course we were necessitated unto Since which most of such persons that were not clear in the present and sudden Action have made their acknowledgement of their full satisfaction and we are mutually reconciled and they are received and tendered by us as affectionate Brethren And for a more full Narrative of the providential Grounds and graduall Steps that led us to that work yet with a king hearts and as an Answer to your Queeries signed in your Name by William Clerk Secretary bearing date the 22. instant We refer you to a Book Intituled The Armies Plea And also The Armies Declaration relation thereunto being had we hope will give you satisfaction Loving Brethren What have we done that you are offended We are not conscious that any thing is acted by us upon the publick Theater but that which we judge is acceptable to God And what we have done hath proceeded from uprightnesse of heart and for the glory of God the good of his Interest Cause and People in these Nations Nothing lesse then these worthy ends could have caused us to adventure our All that is dear to us for your and their sakes And after such a hazard our Brethren to look shy upon us yea such with whom we have lived and conversed together prayed fought and jeoparded our lives together And witnesses together of the glory of the most High God in the high places of the field Yea we that are of one Society of one Family and Houshold that none hitherto through the grace of God could disunite us now to be at a distance with us is the greatest wound to us which is unexpressable If it had been from our Enemies we could have born it Oh but they are the wounds of the house of our Friends And all this arising without dealing brotherly with us and without so much as sending to know the providentiall grounds that led us to these Undertakings And likewise your and our unhappiness hath been possibly by misinformations received by those who have corresponded with the principal occasioners of this Breach However we are censured by you we shall we hope carry Christianly and Brotherly towards you and exercise our selves in the Doctrine of our Saviour If any be overtaken in a fault restore such a one in the spirit of mecknesse knowing also we are subject to like temptations And we ought to p●●y and pray for one another and forgive one another even as God for Christs sake hath forgiven us We hope the fear of God will guide you so that you may do nothing to grieve Him and his little Flock and rejoyce the common Enemy abroad and at home nor give them advantages to make a prey of these poor Nations VVhat can you propound to your selves If you are for good things So are we If for a Free-State and Commonwealth So are we If against a single person So are we If for Reformation So are we If for godlinesse and the nations to be exalted in Righteousnesse So are we Why do we differ in the form and way to it Oh dear friends if you should precipitately engage into a War and should Conquer your Brethren Would not the consequence be a Conquest over your selves and all the good People of the Land And if they are gone certainly if you retain your old Principles you would not desire to live long after them Precious Brathren We commend unto you that place of Scripture Josh 1.14.15 We shall with our bended knees implore the God of Heaven and King of Saints to guide you and perswade you as holy Noah said in another case Gen. 9.27 God shall perswade Japhet to dwell in the tents of Shem. Finally Brethren farewell Be of good comfort Let us be of one mind live in peace and the God of love and peace shall be with you and us We remain Your most affectionate Brethren and Fellow-Souldiers Dear Friends We hope to hear in your Answer to this that all our dear Friends n●w in Bonds are at Liberty and that the Lord hath ●atisfied your hearts to acquiesce in his pre●ent Dispensations so as we may not expose each other to further Inconveniency A Return of the Generall and Officers in Scotland to the aforesaid Letter of the Officers at Whitehall Dear Brethren and Fellow Souldiers in the Lord IN the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ We return you our most hearty wishes and prayers That Grace and Truth and Peace also might be multiplied unto you And that to your Faith and your Vertue and your Knowledge and your Temperance and your Godlinesse and your brotherly Kindnesse and your Charity might be added Patience and Meeknesse and Humility and Self-deniall Great are the thoughts of our hearts for the divisions in Reuben and we are as you expresse it deeply affected and afflicted in our own spirits when we consider what cause we have to be dissatisfied with you our dear Brethren you with whom we have lived and conversed together with whom we have prayed and fought and jeoparded our lives together with whom we have taken sweet Counsell and walked together in the House of God as Friends But we cannot conceal from you that our Affection and Affliction of spirit is much increased by the Letter you sent us by Captain Deane and by the Bookes you referred us to in that Letter We had before some small indeed our onely hopes that there might be some mistake between us but alas We cannot but now think since we find you have no more to say for your selves that Our fears were but too true and the Causes of