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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	day_n	keep_v	work_n	10,814	5	6.0759	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B05302	An act appointing a fast throughout the whole kingdom of Scotland	Scotland. Privy Council.; Gibson, Alexander, Sir, d. 1693.; Scotland. Sovereign (1649-1685 : Charles II)	1675 (1675)	Wing S1398A; ESTC R182974	1,393	1

AN ACT Appointing a FAST throughout the vvhole Kingdom OF SCOTLAND CHARLES by the Grace of God King of Great Brittain France and Ireland Defender of the Faith To all and sundry Our Lieges and Subjects whom it effeirs Greeting Forasmuch as the Almighty God in His most Wise and Righteous Providence after the sinfull abuse of His most signal mercies of the blessed Gospel of Our Own and Our Subjects wonderfull Deliverance from the Yoke of Usurpation and Bondage by the almost Miraculous Restauration of Us to the exercise of Our Government and of the long and mercifull Continuance of Our despised Peace and Plenty Doth by His Warnings and Judgements incumbent and impendent manifestly discover His Anger and Displeasure against the grievous Sins of this Kingdom and particularly by the sad and pinching dearth whereby many indigent persons and families are reduced to a starving condition and by the long and threatning Drought the Lord in His Righteous Judgement having so long bound up the Clouds making the Heavens Brass and the Earth Iron thereby threatning Our Subjects of this Kingdom with the breaking of the Staff of their Bread and with the dreadful plague of Famine Which Dispensation doth with a loud voice call upon all ranks of people for speedy and true Repentance and the National expression hereof by deep Mourning and solemn Fasting and Humiliation Therefore We with Advice and Consent of the Lords of Our Privy Council do Ordain a day of Publick and Solemn Fasting and Humiliation to be keeped and observed by all the people of this Kingdom in the several Paroches thereof Strictly Commanding and Requiring them upon that day to cease from all the Works of their ordinary Callings and to repair to their respective Paroch Churches and there make solemn Confession of their Sins and implore the Divine Mercy for the Land by Praying Mourning Fasting and such other Devotions as are requisite and usual upon such dayes of Publick Humiliation And more particularly Humbly to Confess and Mourn for the great Neglect and Contempt of and Disobedience to the Blessed Gospel and the Ordinances thereof and the great and lamentable increase and prevalency of Atheism Profaneness and Irreligion which is thereby occasioned and for the sinfull undervaluing of the great Blessing of Peace so long enjoyed by Our Subjects under Our Government By all which and many other crying Sins the Lords Jealousie and Anger are kindled and His hand is stretched out against this Kingdom threatning the Destruction of the Fruits of the Ground the necessarie Provision for the Life of Man and Beast that by serious Mourning for and sincere and hearty turning from these provoking Sins the Lord may graciously pardon them and repent Him of the evil seemingly determined by Him and most righteously deserved by us and may open the Clouds and grant the latter Rain in its due season and measure reserving for us the appointed weeks of the Harvest And for this end and purpose We with Advice foresaid do seriously recommend to and require the Arch-Bishops and Bishops to be carefull that this Fast be duely observed by the Ministers in their respective Diocesses as followes To the Arch-Bishops of St. Andrews and Glasgow the Bishops of Edinburgh Dunkell Brechin and Dumblane to cause it to be intimated in the several Paroch Kirks of their Diocies upon Sunday the twenty fifth and observed on Wednesday the twenty eighth of July instant and the remanent Bishops whose Diocies are more remote to cause it to be intimated on Sunday the first of August and to be observed the fourth of Angust next And as to such Ministers who by reason of their distance from Edinburgh cannot be so soon advertised that they celebrate this Fast upon the next convenient Wednesday thereafter Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh the fifteenth day of July and of Our Reign the twenty seventh year one thousand six hundred and seventy five years Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii Al. Gibson Cl. S ti Concilii God save the King EDINBURGH Printed by Andrew Anderson Printer to the King 's most Excellent MAJESTY Anno 1675.