Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	death_n	life_n	see_v	10,547	5	3.5363	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58257	England's petition to the two houses assembled in Parliament, or, An Humble petition of the distressed and almost destroyed subjects of England to the two houses, containing (in the judgment of the wise) the very sense of all the truehearted of the kingdom ... / N.R.	N. R.	1643 (1643)	Wing R54; ESTC R33935	6,941	10

Souldiers the Nobles most of them the Heart the Learned and Religious Clergy the Armes and Hands the valiant and well skill'd Souldiers have not most of these deserted you And wee are sure if this be not the Major part it is the Melior and that 's better And for the Common inferior parts we would fain know how many are agents in your Cause are not all things done by ten or twelve Sticklers whilest all the rest more for feare of the rod then for love to the Cause God knowes sit with their finger in their mouthes and say and doe just nothing I but there are a world of Papists and other Malignants in His Majesties Army and 't were a wonder if they should sight for the Protestant Religion It were indeed but no wonder at all that they should seek to defend themselves being persecuted this nature teacheth Papists as well as Protestants as for the Protestant Religion we never yet heard it called into question His Majesty hath with so many Promises Protestations and Execrations upon Himselfe Children vowed the preservation of It that we doe not so much as feare any alteration of It. But whilest you fear the bringing in of Popery blame us not we beseech you to fear likewise whilest we see no contradiction appeare to Prins Burtons with innumerable other anonomicall Seditious Trayterous and Blaspheamous Pamphlets sold openly and read and sung under your very Noses the introduction of Atheisme Rebellion and all kind of Prophanenesse Nobles and Gentlemen many of both your Houses did sit a long time with you after the King had left you but after they descried your wayes discovered your Plots your plots are then discovered as well as others and took notice of your Close proceedings How you delude the People with vain hopes How you hire men with large rewards to come posting in when you mean to goe a begging for another summe all besmear'd with dirt and mire from such and such places I pray Sa●… with such newes as will please the people when as they have never stirred foot out of Town when they descerned how you transported the Wealth of the Land whilest your Souldiers starve How you aime altogether at your own ends not caring for the Distraction and Destruction of the Kingdom How whilest to please the people you pretend to beat down Popery you set up Prophanesse and open a door to Libertinisme and Licentiousnesse How Loose and Luxurious how Blaspheamous Atheisticall many of your selves are they then thought it high time to look about them and to come out of Babell least they should be consumed with you in all your sinnes Oh that the Lord would make it your Case and glorify His mercy on you and us in making known to you the things concerning our Peace and not His justice in hardning you to destruction That it may be never read in our Chronicle by the Generations to come that England had a 〈…〉 that sought the desolation of the King and Kingdom But although you will not suffer His Majesty to be your King yet know there is a King and a Iudge above yo●● before whom you must very shortly stand give an account of that trust which we have reposed in you We desire you in the presence of God to thinke and thinke seriously and think again and again how sad it will be to have all this blood cha●ged upon your soules Can you think of this with comfort when you are dying 〈◊〉 those few stickling Counsellors which have put you on then bring you as safely o● Your Greatnesse may despise what we say and cast a way our Petition i●p●ison us who had a hand in it if you can catch us count us your Enemies because we are the Kings friends and tell you the truth speak as dying men in the sorrow of our soules but you cannot so put by Divine Iustice nor quiet conscience at the last As true as the Lord liveth before whom you stand you will one day know that Blasphemers Whoremasters Schismaticks and Traitors are not Gods friends nor doe they fight His cause but plain dealers who do assure you the way you take tends to the utter ruine desolation of your selves Kingdom And can your Hearts 〈…〉 can your Hands be strong in the day the Lord will reckon with you for this 〈◊〉 People whose charge you have taken out of His Majesties Hands Oh suppos● that you heard the blood of this People already spilt crying in your eares and saw the many thousands yet living a life worse then death lying in their sorrowes at your feet crying for Pitty Help Oh Help or we loose our Liberties Lawes 〈◊〉 and Religion Help that your selves who have in this time horded up men 〈◊〉 Estates come not to want and Beggery help as ever you would have God help you in the day of Death and Iudgement when your selves shall cry for help and pitty help that Redemption come not some other way that we be not all destroy●d by some Forraign Nation The Lord God of our hopes who hath for our sinne● most justly afflicted us in You give you all discerning eyes holy and tender hea●● to yeeld to the Petition of His Majesties distressed Subjects to concurre with His Majesty and the rest of your Assembly that God and man may forget your Mistakings that His Majesty may be once again a Blessed Prince yea the blessedest 〈◊〉 raigned in our Land the Terrour of all His reall Enemies the joy of His 〈◊〉 and the Glory of Posterity Such shall be the Daily and hearty Prayer of Your Fellow-Subjects throughout th● whole Kingdome