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land_n	day_n	rest_n	sabbath_n	1,873	5	10.2726	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77280	Innocency and the blood of the slain souldiers, and people, mightily complaining, and crying out to the Lord, and the people of the land, against those forty knights and burgesses, or thereabouts, that sit in the House of Commons. For the violation of our capital fundamental laws and liberties, and those capital obligations mentioned in this my letter, in capital letters. Or a letter to an eight yeers speaker of the House of Commons. / By Cap. William Bray, from his indurance, illegal, un-Christian, and cruel gaol in Windsor Castle.	Bray, William, 17th cent.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4304; Thomason E568_12; ESTC R206251	25,812	21

God And do not you divide if you deal unjustly The Kings Fast was on a Friday and he dealt unjustly the Parliaments Fast on a Wednesday and now you have changed the Fast a day neerer to the Kings If your injustice be the same what materiall difference between a Thursday and a Friday Fast Doth not Arbitrariness and injustice cause division The Psalmist saith Ps 85.10 Righteousness and Peace doth kiss each other and not Tyranny and peace or policy and peace Z●ch 8 16 17 19 Execute ye the Judgment of truth and peace love the truth and peace Isay 58 4 5 6. Zach. 7 5 6. When ye fasted and mourned the fifth and s v●n●h mon●th even those s●venty years did yee at all fast unto me and when ye d●d ●at and wh●n y● did d●ink d●d you not eat for your selves and drink to your selves Oh Lord arise and judge between thy people and the Grandees of the peoples Army and Parliament and oh Lord convert them if it be thy will and let them not be any longer as if th●y were supream to Iustice and Freedome and let them be that in deed which they have been often in word Sir Let me tell you I have observed your Ordinance for observation of the Sabbath also but this is also delusive to the people if you do not rest from wickedness arbitrariness and cruelty according to the constitution and end of authority both by God and the people for the Sabbath signifies a rest to the people of God What is a Magistrates keeping a Fast or a Sabbath once a moneth or a seventh day of a week if he acts arbit●ariness illegally and cruelly contrary to the Laws of God Nature and the Land six of the seven Those three Students and only three that I have read of Trinity Colledg in Cambridge that writ in your justification of your proceedings against the King say That when any man or men through depraved principles of tyranny usurp over Conscience naturall or civill Rights he loseth the notion of a Magistrate because he goes contrary to the end of Government of the fundamentall Laws of safety to the people and when Res Publica comes to be Res Privata it ceaseth to be a Commonwealth and is then tyranny Again I desire you to consider that the part of the Solemn Oath and Covenant which you have taken which relates to the Rights Freedoms and Laws of the people is just unanswerable irrevokable essentiall substantiall and binding though the person of the King and Lords be taken away by you do you intend to King it and Lord it over our Laws and Liberties Psal 15.1.4 Lord who shall abide in thy Tabernacl● he that swoareth to his own hurt and changeth not But you have sworn the good and not hurt of the people and your own good and not hurt in it but if you leave the good of the people and consequently your own true honor and good and act Arbitrarily and unfaithfully you leave peace of conscience to your selves and peace and satisfaction to the people I should be glad for the peoples sakes and your sakes if you can be free from the guilt of Perjury in the sight of the Lord and the people that are impartial Good Iosiah rent his cloaths when the Book of the Law was found and when the Ordinances were not kept and it was the Wisdom Justice and Honor of the Parliament in their Primitive constitutions for which they had the incomparable love of the people before they did divide and subdivide into faction and parties to inquire into the just Laws of the Nation and into the highest Reason for inlargement of our freedoms and complained against the King for exceeding the just limits of Honor and Law but how shall the people be assured of the perfection of Freedom by these men when those just and righteous Laws of God and Nature and the Nation formerly and already made as Laws and wrung from Polititians Tyrants Conquerors Vsurpers and contended for this eight or nine years unto precious blood are so much violated Truly Mr. Speaker let me tell you we shall never have peace untill Authority come to lay down Interest and to act as Magistracie as Authority What do Interests tend to and meer power but to murder and destruction and to make a Nation miserable though one man great full of war and to make a second Germany of England Interests tend to nothing but to this viz. Suppose an Independent it may be murdered to day or unjustly dealt withall to his ruine and the Inquisition for the Innocent blood may be is secured by an Interest A Presbyterian it may be murdered to morrow and the murder it may be secured by an Interest had an Episcopal also who though he hath it may be justly paid his Fine and Composition for his Delinquencie and is in Law and Reason excluded as to matter of Power according to the Judgments of Parliaments and a just Agreement of the people because he hath used it against the peoples Laws and Liberties yet he cannot have personal Justice in futurity according to Law and Reason because of Interests and so a Nation is in the rode way to destruction and then every Interest it may be endevors being enraged to revenge the murder and injustice because they cannot have legal or judicial Judgment and so all Interests are slaves to one Interest and all are engaged against one as well as may be one against another if any such thing is up called Interest and act above contrary unto and without LAW And truly Mr Speak●r let me tell you as I have already proved and shall prove by Law Reason and Ch●istianity Those fourty Gentlemen in the House or thereabouts have committed me illegally partially and interessedly contrary to CAPITAL Obligations of God to man man to God and mankinde common undeniable indisput●ble and binding Principles of NATURE LAW REASON SCRIPTU●ES DECLARATIONS upon DECLARATIONS IMPRECATIONS OATHS COVENANTS CONSCIENCE INGAGEMENTS VICTORIES VICTORIES AGREEMENTS FASTS HONOR the very name of PARLIAMENTS * Sabbaths Magistrates Gov●●nment Wounds Bloodshed BLOOD BLOOD both of friends and enemies rendring a PARLIAMENT out of zeal for Justice The blood of the KING declared to stand in the way of the peoples RIGHTS FREEDOM JVSTICE MERCY Just Laws are made to batter down all the walls of unmercifulness arbitrariness and cruelty and to justifie Freedom and the force of a Nation should be to maintain the just Laws and Liberties of the people the contrary is Cruelty and Murther You have made the late KING a notable spectacle amongst the rarest examples of worldly fragility and this was declared and pretended to be for acting contrary to the R●ghts of the people which engaged him unto abundance of blood for his own safety though his extravagancies in Government and Arbitrariness amongst the people might have been composed certainly if his end had not been to carry on an absolute domination over the peoples Laws Liberties and