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	law_n	word_n	11,415	5	4.4659	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60652	Some clear truths particularly demonstrated unto the King and council, and both houses of Parliament with all judges, justices, merchants, and shipmasters, why the innocent and peaceable people, called Quakers, ought not to be banished out of their native land, or any other way exposed to sufferings : also, the law described in its nature and end : with a postscript to all honest, sober, and impartial jurors / by W.S.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1664 (1664)	Wing S4329; ESTC R16013	8,498	14

had a right knowledge of them Oh it is a Christian and a Manly-state to be in Love for therein was Man created And though the Fall hath Separated yet by Christ Jesus every true Believer is again restored and therein are we disposed towards the whole Creation And what ever may come to pass concerning us outwardly yet in Love we shall remain inwardly and in Love lye down in Peace which no man hath power to give us nor to take away from us And so it is desired that every one of you concerned may seriously consider this short Presentation of our Innocent Cause and let the Just Witness of God in your consciences determine the matter and then we shall not be deprived of our Just Liberties and Birthrights nor of the outward comfort of our near Relations then we shall not be forced from our tender Wives and Children and leave them mourning and weeping behind us not thereunto constrained for any evil done by us but in the kindly affectionated nature of unfeigned Love in which we are bound together and ought not by any man to be parted or put asunder and it lieth contrary to the nature of Love to part and separate outward Relations after such a manner And if you will but receive the counsel of Gods Witness that Principle which pleadeth in your consciences on our behalf it will determine the matter equally and then we shall not be found worthy to be deprived of our Right Liberty and outward Comfort but shall be found worthy to sit in peace with our Families and follow our honest Callings and so continue serviceable in our Generation within our Native Land And that will free your consciences of much vexation and trouble which otherwise will come upon you for if you proceed to prosecute the matter unto the end the Cry of the Widows and Fatherless will so eccho in the Nation as to be a continual Terror unto you nay thousands will make a doleful Lamentation on the behalf of their honest Neighbours and Friends Oh let not such a Lamentation be taken up in England as to have a poor destitute Wife mourning and weeping for want of her Husband and poor young tender Children mourning and weeping for want of their Parents and one Neighbour and Friend mourning and weeping for want of another and you the cause of it this will be a heavy burden upon you and a terror in your consciences if you do occasion it for there are many tender hearts in England though some be grown into hardness and in hardness sit rejoycing rather than pitying but the Lord seeth and knoweth the secrets of all hearts and the hardest of hearts he will break and fill with sorrow O do not cause these things to come to pass by any of your means lest you draw upon your selves a burden too heavy to be born but let Pitty and Mercy stop the violence of Fury and Cruelty that instead of Mourning there may be Joy and instead of Heaviness there may be Gladness and that will give you ease in your own consciences and peace in the latter end Which is desired that ye all may walk worthy to know fulfilled for the Power of the Lord God will break all that stands against it and that is his Living WORD By a True Friend unto all Native Englishmen The 13th day of the 8th month 1664. W. S. The LAW described in its Nature and End THat which may be properly and truly called Law is that which standeth in Mercy Justice and Equity and by its Power and Force preserveth People in safety as to their Life Liberty and Estate that where any Wrong or Injury is offered or done by one man unto another there Justice and Right may be done in Mercy and Equity for relief of the Grieved For every thing that is instituted in its proper place hath also its proper Object unto which it pointeth as to the End for which it is instituted and divers Cases and Sentences might be asserted out of the old Law which answereth this very End which being Law in its self as being instituted for the preservation and well-being of all Free-born English-men and its power yet standing and continuing in force and also being counted the Foundation upon which all ensuing Acts ought to stand and so to be compleat and perfect in one Body if any thing be Enacted that cannot be settled upon this Foundation or united to this Body which is counted the Body of the Law it cannot properly and truly be called Law but is rather holden for Error so that the Foundation or Body of the Law standeth as a Rule unto all future and succeeding Ages that they may be directed in their Acts and Institutions wherein they are concerned For if it was not so there could be no Error but it appeareth that there may be an Error and so consequently a Rule that is erred from when an Error is committed and the Error must needs be this When any thing is enacted or executed that cannot be united to the Foundation or Body of the Law For if the Body of the Law stand in Mercy Justice and Equity to the preservation and safety of Life Liberty and Estate and future Ages do enact against such as do not wrong any man in Life Liberty or Estate such an Act cannot be united to the Foundation or Body of the Law And it appeareth that the Body of the Law is so intirely composed in Mercy Justice and Equity that no future Age could yet find it defective but have allowed it to be good and right in its Institution so that it standeth and remaineth in its power and force and is generally accounted the Rule to walk by for the good Government of all People And as it remaineth in force so there is nothing to be enacted and counted for Law but that which will clearly unite to its Body in Mercy Justice and Equity whereby all People may have their outward Rights and Priviledges preserved unto them and that is also agreeable to the Rational Part in Man because it answereth that which would not be exposed unto danger for it is a thing generally concluded That Reason is the Mother of Law forasmuch as no unreasonable Act or Deed should be done by one man against another and so the Law is powerful to keep the unreasonable part in subjection and when it is transgressed to inflict equal Punishment upon Offenders and hereby it becomes a terrour to evil-doers and a praise to them that do well because it sheweth Mercy Justice and Equity unto the Wronged by righting their Wrongs and therein is the Terrour unto the One and the Praise unto the Other Now if any Act be instituted that doth not answer this End then it is not reasonable in the ground and consequently no Law for it is improper to call that Law which is unreasonable being that Reason is generally accounted the Mother of Law and whatsoever Act doth erre from the