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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	church_n	day_n	sabbath_n	20,024	5	9.8526	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39701	Animadversions on a petition delivered to the honourable House of Parliament by several of the godly party in the county of Salop in vindication of the present government of the commonwealth, the prudent conduct of the army, and the liberties of the people / by R.F.	Flecknoe, Richard, d. 1678?	1653 (1653)	Wing F1208; ESTC R9352	10,479	41

ANIMADVERSIONS ON A PETITION Delivered to the Honourable HOUSE of PARLIAMENT By several of the Godly party in the County of Salop In vindication of the present Government of the Common-wealth the prudent Conduct of the Army and the Liberties of the People By R. F. Printed in the Year 1653. To the Supreme Authority of this Common-wealth of England The Honourable Court of Parliament now sitting The humble Petition of several of the Godly party in the County of Salop Sheweth THat we cannot omit the acknowledgment of all those various Providences God hath made his people in this Nation partakers of in owning our Armies and making them both formidable to and victorious over our Enemies at Sea and Land in staining the glory of the proud dedegrading unprofitable men from their stations and planting you in their room whose beginnings begin to revive our hopes That our Lord Iesus Christ will yet have in England men executing judgement and speaking the truth Certainly i● you go on we doubt not but the children that are to be born wil● have cause to call you blessed as the repairers of our Breaches the restorers of paths to dwel in and yo● will render your selves of mor● worth and value than thousands so that your precedency of Honou● and Grace will transcend your predecessors and in all probability God will establish you as so man● Luminaries in your stations to shin● more and more unto the day of ou● deliverance In hopes whereof a● also of your real inclinations t● hearken to the desires of the me●nest Saint and o● those that wi●● well to Truth Peace amongst the other large endeavours of other we have taken the liberty of presenting the small mite of our Proposals which we hope will be look● at amongst the thousand of Israel 1. That as God hath trusted you in a special manner with the guardi●g o● the Truth and Gospel you will have a special eye to the propagation thereof And because there ar many idle ignorant scandalous malignant Ministers permitted that endeavour the subversion thereof as appears to many of the dear Saints of Christ to the great grief of their spirit● We humbly desire that some speedy course may be taken for the ejection of such men and the setling of those that are fit and faithful for so great a work and that those may not be suffered as Preachers thereof who hate to see it prosper and stand like the Red Dragon ready to devour the child Grace as soon as born 2. That notwithstanding the sufferings of many of the People and the great deliverances vouchsafed them yet they scarcely know them as by the effects of them in any encouragement they have yet received more than the most notorious and bitterest of your Enemies It is proposed that you will have a special regard to your friends above your enemies Had the late King prevailed his friends had received large rewards as appears by his own Ingagements you and yours threatned with total destruction Oh then why should you not countenance your friends as well as your enemies theirs we hope you will not tread in the paths of your predecessors to reward evil for good but will give the right child to the right mother and suffer those now to rejoyce with you who have formerly mourned with you and will still while you are for God live and die with you 3 Because we hear many Souldiers complain who have ventured their lives from the beginning and want imployment since their willing submission to former commands of Disbanding we humbly propose That a deep inspection may be made in your Army for the ejection of those that would not be listed for you so long as they could find an Army with which to fight against you and the number may be made up again by those who have been your constant ●riends 4. That whereas many men by their f●wning flatteries lie at your doors out of sinister ends to beg ●or places we desire that none may be admitted to any place of trust either in the Army or Common-wealth but such as are known to you for men of fidelity and integrity or else commended to you by the Certificate of five or six of your Friends that so things may be carried on more by the publick spirit of the Saints than the private spirit of any whatsoever 5. That whereas we hear many of our Nation saying to you as the children of Israel to Rehobo●m take away our burthens take away our taxations we further propose That the burthen of Contribution may be laid upon those who have been the grand Incendiaries and Contrivers of the War we mean the Cavaliers it being unjust as we humbly conceive that they should cut out the work and we bear the burthen they double the tale of Brick and we do the Task O let the right child have the right Mother it will make them more willing to sit still 6. That whereas many take liberty of keeping Wakes setting up Morice Dances and other prophane Sports against which there is no particular Law we humbly desire some positive Rules may be framed for suppressing thereof 7. In regard it it generally observed that the foul Sins of Adultery and Fornication are too frequently unpunished more than before the day of our deliverance for which our Enemies reproach us sith the Act only limits the punishment to the testimony of two Witnesses that a mock may not be made of ●uch soul sins We desire a way may be found and some special Law instituted for the punishment ther●of 8. That in regard of the freedom given to Saints in their several Churches and meetings on the Lords day is abused so that Papists and other prophane persons take liberty of contemning the Sabbath and publick Ordinances and spend the day vainly and idly in their houses or else walking in the Fields we propose That some special course may be taken of restraint that the freedom of the Saints may not be turned to the prophanation of the Lords Day 9. That the Excize may be taken away in the oppressive manner of farming it that poor people may not be bought and sold in this Nation as too frequently they are and some raise vast estates by the bargain 10. That the poor which dayly swarm in England both in City and Country begging in the Highways and at our houses to the great dishonour and prejudice of the Nation may in some due way be provided for and not suffered to wander as Vagabonds upon the face of the earth And your Petitioners shall pray c. Animadversions ON THE PETITION THere is nothing more sp●●i●us than the name of Refo●mation and nothing less than the 〈◊〉 it self I mean that which th●●●lgar magnifie and cry up so much the disease of m●ns minds rather than of the Times ●ntill their Imagination fools them into a real malady ●nd never lets them recover afterwards the Itch of Good Times and the Ulcer of Ill