Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	day_n	heart_n	let_v	11,687	5	4.3587	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B23179	A fevv plain words to be considered by those of the army, or others that would have a Parliament that is chosen by the voyces of the people, to govern the three nations. Wherein is shewed unto them according to the Scriptures of truth, that a Parliament so chosen, are not like to govern for God, and the good of his people. Also something to the other part of the army, and the new committee, who turned out, or ownes the turning out of the late Parliament. / From a lover of the truth of God, and all his creatures, George Fox the younger.	Fox, George, d. 1661.	1659 (1659)	Wing F2002; Interim Tract Supplement Guide 4152.f.19[11]; ESTC R40973	6,162	10

custome of England to call and chuse many wise men after the flesh many mighty and noble men so called to be Parliament men that so we see the calling chusing of Parliaments in England hath bin exactly contrary to Gods calling chusing Read 1 Cor. 1.26 therefore such Parliaments are not like to act for God the good of his people but against them But that which God hath called and chosen shall confound and bring to nought the wise and the mighty and the noble things so called of the world and this the Lord will bring to pass that so no flesh may glory in his presence Read 1 Cor. 1.27 28 29. And likewise the chusing of Parliament men according to the custom of England which is called its Birth-right stands in respect of persons and not in equality for the rich covetous oppressing men who oppresseth the poor they have the only power to chuse Law-makers and they will chuse to be sure such as will uphold them in their oppression and the poor man that is oppressed though he have no power allowed him to chuse yet he must be subject to the Lawes which they make who are his oppressors or else he is accounted a Rebell so what right think ye is the oppressed like to have when his oppressors chuse the men that are to be Judges of his cause and thus the rich men oppress the poor and draw them before their Judgment feats as they did in james his dayes James 2.6 These things being considered ye may see the unequalnesse and partiality that hath been in chusing of Parliaments according to Englands custom and how unlike it is that a Parliament so chosen should make England a free Nation seeing the great oppressors of the land viz. Priests and Lawyers and the great wicked covetous persecuting men are so much concerned in the chusing them so that if Parliaments so chosen should continue the people of the Lord are not like to be set free from their oppression though Parliaments and Rulers have been made to do many good things by a power which many of them scarce knew but the Lord hath a further thing yet to do in the Nations then either Protectors or Parliaments would submit unto therefore the Lord hath thrown them by but they had first a day of tryal given them and now is the Lord trying others and if they will not do his work in breaking every yoke and letting the oppressed go free God will assuredly break them with a greater destruction then came upon those before them Therefore let your moderation be known unto all men for the Lord is at hand and thirst not after blood lest the Lord give ye blood to drink and we know that Kings and Protectors and Parliaments have made fair pretences and have given themselves fine titles and have pleaded that they had a just right to and a necessity for their authority and sought to get into the affections of the people by smooth words and large promises to carry on their own design but their hearts were not right before the Lord and therefore he broke them and their titles and know that the people that fear God they matter not titles and high names but they look for righteous actions to be brought forth many sees that a Parliament that was chose by the most voyces of the outwardly rich people were not like to act righteously and therefore they are willing to wait to see what the Lord will do by others and we see that people have been in great blindness in contending for Parliaments so chosen so let this wisdom be learned and lived in which is better then the strength of fools who oft perish in their passion and folly And now friends in the Army and Committee that have turned out the Parliament dread ye the Lord God and mind the equall just noble principle of God in you which hath stirred against tyranny and oppression and make it not your business to declare onely for freedom as some before you did and did not the thing they declared for but in the fear and wisdom of the Lord go ye on to act for the good of all his creatures and seek not your own honours but singly do the same both for your friends and enemies that you would have them do for you if they were in authority as ye are and untill ye come to this ye are not like to prosper the Lord abhorreth the lying flattering double deceitful tongue and heart and the people also have been wearied with fair words because the actions have been wanting that should have accompanied the said words Remember how you have cryed out against the oppression of a forced maintenance for teachers and now ye are tried and have power given you to break that oppression down which some of you I say have desired others to do therefore abuse not your power but leave the people free to maintain their own Teachers mark The Ministers that Christ sends forth they have no need of you in this particular as to provide food and raiment for them for their heavenly Father knowes that they have need of those things and provides it for them without an outward Law to compell it that so they lack not any thing and that Teacher that will not consent to this he serveth not the Lord Jesus but his own belly and that is his God and such a one can never profit the people and mark if ye should take away tythes command by a Law any other maintenance from us for Teachers that would be the same Tyranny and oppression in the nature and ground of it that tithes were and we must bear our testimony against it also and our lives or estates or both must yet suffer therefore if ye do thus you leave us in the same bondage as before And let Lawes be provided that are righteous just and equall according to that of God in the conscience and let such be impowred to execute them that will hear and determine causes freely according to righteousness and let causes of difference between man and man be heard in every County and when by plain proof of 2 or 3 witnesses without transgressing Christs doctrine it come to be manifested who have done the wrong then let the executioners of the Law be impowred to cause the party or parties to restore for the wrong that is done according to equity that so this abominable oppression about the Law Lawyers may be broken down and thunder down all ungodly gaming 's and showes whereby the foolish wilde people are cheated of their monies and spends away their precious time to the dishonour of the pure God And let the people of the Lord have their liberty to speak his word freely where and when his spirit leads them and gives them utterance and let the Law take hold on such as would wrong any mans person or estate And let the dread of the Lord be upon your spirits and wait in his light to receive his wisdom that therein you may be ordered in the particular and in it order all things to his glory and that ye may remove all that which is standing which is contrary to the will of God And meddle not to establish Religion and Teachers by an outward Law for verily if ye do ye will be broken Let that alone to Christ whose work it is Consider all that went before you of late years that would be medling with such things the Lord broke them to pieces and they were warned in their day as ye are now And let not your many victories which ye have obtained nor your being preserved in so many overturnings wherein ye have been made Instrumental nor your strength courage nor wisdom puff ye up for thus saith the Lord God even as earthen vessels are in the hands of a Potter who have power to dash them one against another until they be broken or to break them in pieces with another thing that appears more weake then they even so are you in my hand saith the Lord and I can confound your wisdom and take away your courage and smite you with faintness and dauntedness of spirit in the twinkling of an eye therefore seek not your selves for if you do your day shall be but short Remember you of the Army had power once before to have acted for the good of your Nation but the subtilty in some who sought themselves whom God hath since blasted beguiled you and mark some of you sold your power for Commissions and others for nothing but flattering words and so betrayed your own integrity and the cause of your Country and now you have power again do not abuse it serve not the lusts nor the self-interest of any man or men whatsoever but serve the Lord and your Generation faithfully mark if you consent to deceit and make an agreement with death through fear or any self-end whatsoever God will break that agreement and bring shame upon you for it And Friends there is a lofty proud self-seeking spirit yet amongst many of you which if you cease not from it will be the cause of your destruction and truly if you provoke the Lord to break you it will be more heavie terrible then the breaking of those that were before you therefore let the Lord be minded and linger not about things but be valiant and act faithfully for the just liberty of all without respect of persons and let revenge be forgotten and this will overcome your enemies and make you truly honourable in the hearts of all people This is your day prise it And let your deeds make it manifest to the people that you have not sought your selves in this which you have done but the general good of all and then you will need the fewer words to prove your enemies lyars who have accused you to be self-seekers And now woe is coming both upon Teachers Rulers and people that are in the good words but out of the good deeds and life and the Eternal God who is the light will break shatter confound and over-turn untill the good life come up and be set on the top of all and now the name of truth only will be too narrow a covering for it is the nature of truth it self that will be able to cover and to be a sure hiding-place in this the day of the wrath of the Lamb. THE END