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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	drink_v	eat_v	let_v	15,915	5	5.9494	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39921	Primitiae regiminis Davidici, or, The first fruits of Davids government vowed to God before, and offered at his actual admission thereunto / represented in a sermon at the assises held at Reading for the county of Berks, Feb. 28, 1653 by Simon Ford.	Ford, Simon, 1619?-1699.	1654 (1654)	Wing F1496; ESTC R26139	19,580	42

Bench at Assizes and general Sessions but appoint frequent and standing Privy Sessions to rectifie publique disorders in the Countrey upon the place to put downe Ale-houses the Devils Vniversities where men proceed Graduates in all manner of wickednesse to suppresse Drunkennesse Swearing Sabbath-breaking and when inferiour Officers present such offenders before you doe not tell them by your sleight entertainment of them that you are of Gallio's minde and care for none of those things I have heard some Officers complaine of late that they are discouraged in that part of their office they are zealous in taking hold of such offenders and when they come to the Justice he releaseth them He that having your power does not cut off these offenders horns wears them yea and will push with them also in time I never knew any Magistrate indulging any sin but either he was guilty of it himselfe or more then ordinarily inclined to it had he sutable opportunity And you Grand Inquest-men I am somewhat ignorant of your particular Function but I conceive one main part of your businesse is to make presentment of those grievances wherein the Countrey whom you represent needs redresse And I hope you will not forget two things which I thinke to be of great concernment the one is want of Church-Government without which Civill Government cannot be long preserved in a Christian Common-wealth Church-levelling and State-levelling are twins onely like Jacob and Esau the one rough and hairy and not so apt to be dandled and made much of by the Magistrate who usually is tender in such things as concern publique peace but the other a more sweet babe which under the notion of tendernesse of Conscience and Christian Liberty hath been the fondling of former Governours untill it had almost proved a Jacob a Supplanter indeed by exchanging the voice of Jacob for the hands of Esau The other is Liberty of Prophecying through the indulgence of former Powers grown to such an height that every whipping-boy when he he hath gotten an Heretical notion or two by the end hath impudence enough to intrude into any Pulpit to vent it or else to draw aside poor silly souls into corners and infect them there without controll And some of them though they usurpe the place of the Cleargy yet if they should fall into your hands would not be capable of the priviledge of the Clergy and hang for not being able to read Friends for Gods sake for the Gospels sake for your poor souls sake for your near relations sake some of whom are in perpetuall danger of being poisoned till your superiours as the voice of all that love the welfare of Jerusalem in the County that nothing is so intolerable as a boundlesse Toleration You of both Juries take heed to your Oaths and Consciences and remember that he that condemneth Prov. 17. 15. the righteous and he that acquitteth the wicked are both an abomination to the Lord. If any silly Cattel come before you doe not gratifie a malicious prosecutor by saying their eares are horns but where you finde horns indeed and those lifted up and such as have used to push in time past you know the Law of God as well as man allowes you to return such guilty I had almost forgotten you Gentlemen of the Gown and 't is a wonder I should when I spoke of Levelling I honour your profession and therefore I will presume to adventure a little good counsell to your acceptance without any other fee then the testimony of a good Conscience in the discharge of my duty You know that Law is the Sanctuary of a free subject for Gods sake do not you be guilty of turning it into an Inquisition-house where poor mens cases are so long stretched out upon the rack of needlesse delayes till both their purse-strings and heert-strings crack Surely there is an evill report abroad concerning some of you that you betray the priviledges of this Sanctuary which makes many an honest man rather run all hazards then flye thither for refuge ' Its said some of you are like indented Pictures which if you look on them severall wayes present you with severall faces in one Table such as can take on both hands of one to speak and of another to hold their peace or as bad to say nothing to the purpose As Juries should not by verdict so neither should Lawyers by pleading turn eares into horns and horns into eares represent a man or cause otherwise then they are I know not to whom to recommend the care of the Prison but to you all I know it is the Sheriffes Prison but I know not how farre his power extends in the things that I am to move in order to its reformation At most Sheriffs are annuall and can take order but for their yeare but you my Lord and the Bench may reform for perpetuity For my part I looke upon Goals as they are usually furnished with Keepers as Houses of Infection and loosenesse rather then houses as they should be of correction and restraint I assure you it hath sadded my soule to heare when I have come in and out to see prisoners the poore Felons in the Dungeon raunting and roaring as if they were resolved to walk by the Epicures principles Let us eat and drink for to morrow we shall 1 Cor. 15 32. die And I feare scarce any one comes within those walls but he is made ten times more the child of the Devill then he was before O that you my Lord and the Bench would take some course that those poore creatures that have not long to live may be made fit to die that they might be Catechized and Preached to I heare there are places where the Prisons have a Preacher appointed and allowed upon the Sheriffes accounts For God sake my Lord and Gentlemen let something be done herein that those you condemn to the Gallows may not be sent to the Devil too Lastly you of the Countrey that have businesse with the Court look to it take heed of malice perjury and revenge You that go to Law with one another if for trifles let fall your suits the charges you put any one to in a vexatious suit is so much money pickt out of his purse and it may be so much necessary sustenance pluckt out of his poore wives and childrens bellies if for matters of moment and your cause be just yet use mercy charity and moderation Lastly let us all beseech the Lord who is the Judge of Judges as well as King of Kings and Lord of Lords that he will be with ours in the Judgement that so to close my Sermon with the close of my Psalm all the horns of the wicked may be out off but the horns of the righteous may be exalted FINIS