Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	earth_n	heaven_n	holy_a	15,787	5	4.9891	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79907	The voice of truth, uttered forth against the unreasonablenes, rudenes, and deboistnes of the rulers, teachers and people of the island Barbados. Through one, who hath suffered by them, for the testimony of a good conscience, and the word of God, known by the name of Thomas Clark.	Clark, Thomas.	1661 (1661)	Wing C4562A; ESTC R171379	7,419	13

that manner several stood beating me with their Staves as I was told after I was recovered and when my sences were come unto me it was laid upon me to speak to the People in Love to shew them the Evil they had done and desired that the Lord might not lay it to their charge for which several of them fell upon me again and beat me and punched me with their Sticks very much and so continued following of me for a good space on my way This was also done in the sight of Magistrates and several others Officers that were there who had Power to have prevented it but did not but rather strengthened the People I pray God it be not laid to their charge Also by Matthew Gray Priest of the same Parish sometimes after upon the Day the King was Proclaimed came Drunk to a Tavern over against my house and I looking out at my Chamber-window he seeing me called to me and held up his Horse Whip shaking at me and said Tom you must come no more to my Church for now said he we have got a King and so set Boys and other Rude People to stone me in at my Window and also several Persons with their Guns who shot at me by which I received some injury at which he rejoyced and leaped and skipped about the Roome and further endeavoured in my hearing what he could to get the People to pull down my house and more I was informed that he bid some to fire my house but before he came the People were quiet and offered me no wrong Also Thomas Manwaring Priest at Speights Town came into the house of Anthony Long where I was about some business he behaving himself much contrary to a Minister of the Gospel in vain words and unseemly behaviour I told him that he being a man that took upon him to be a Teacher of People ought not to do such things but rather reprove them upon which he calling me Quaking Logger-head and Rascal and many such like words and told me he would have a Law made to cut off my Ears I told him I had not done any thing worthy thereof and he being filled with Envy went away Railing and Raging at me without a cause after which he promised to give me and some other Friends a meeting but never did though I and my Friends waited some time upon it Afterward he sent me a Note wherein he writ that provided I would come alone by my self without any other with me to Richard Cluffs house and also to come in such a frame of Spirit as might induce him to hear me then he might Discourse with me and afterwards I carryed a Letter to his house which was written to him by two Friends but when I came there he refused to speak with me and also to receive the Letter which I sent in to him but he returned it again by his Clerk who gave it me and told me that his Master would have nothing to do with me nor yet with my Papers and soon after the said Manwaring writ me a Letter in which was these words viz. Thomas I am sorry if the Zeal of thy Spirit be to quick for thy Discretion and that a Cudgel must beat that out of thee which the Devil hath blown in And subscribed his name Thomas Manwaring Also Francis Smith Priest of Thomas Parish being an aged man I meeting him upon the Road very drunk I told him It was high time for him to forsake those Works of Darkness His answer was that it was high time for me to become a Rogue and a Whelp All this with much more that might be mentioned have I suffered besides the Sufferings which I have born with the rest of Friends by Cruel Mockings Scoffings Stonings and Cruel Threatnings which hath deeply been cast upon us both in our houses on the high wayes and other Places as we have passed quietly upon our honest occasions all which we have born patiently without rendering Evil for Evil And these things have been laid before some of you yet no redresse have we had neither is any amongst you that have laid these our Sufferings to heart nor at all reproved any of the Evil Doers for any of these things which have been the Cause of these our Cruel Sufferings but have rather strengthned them therein Notwithstanding the King set forth a good and wholsome Proclamation for the punishment of the Evil Doers which thing you put not in Execution whereby all honest sober People do see that you do not only cast the Righteous Law of God behind your Backs but also the Just Act of the King Therefore all ye Rulers Judges and Justices and all other Officers under you in this Island of what sort soever Consider what you have done and what you are doing and lay these things to heart and Dread him who is a Dreadfull and Terrible God and is Mighty in Majesty and Power he it is that Pleadeth our Cause for us and taketh notice of all your Actions whatsoever you do or suffer to be done against us be they done never so secretly and will in no wise let the guilty go free but a Day you shall know and assuredly will come upon you that not one of you shall in any wise escape his hand in which Day the Holy God the Righteous Judge of Heaven and Earth will awake his Living Witness in every of your Consciences then you shall see and know that the Lord hath Regard to his People whom you have caused to suffer under you by Cruelty and Oppression and then will he present to your open views the Cryes and Groans of the oppressed and all that have unjustly suffered under you and then shall you read before you as in a Book our Sufferings and our Burthens which you have so heavily laid upon us which we have patiently born in this the day thereof and these things in Love and Tenderness have been laid before you that you might not be Ignorant of them which thing hath been slighted by you and would not be convinced of the Evil thereof but have rather replyed with hard speechs and great Threatnings given forth by some of you against the Innocent and Beloved of the Lord though despised of men and forsaken and then shall all our Sufferings which you have suffered to be done against us be removed from us and we eased and you troubled and so it must be that which hath caused our trouble must become your shame and this will be our Joy that we have suffered for the Testimony of a good Conscience and then that which is our Joy will be your greatest Sorrow and the more you desire to be at ease the more will your Sorrow encrease for verily now is the Lord making enquiry among you and hath considered the Cry of his Suffering Seed throughout this Island and the Groans and Sights and Tears are now beheld and are entered into the Ears of the Lord God of

Sabbath who is ready on the Seat of Judgement and is Mighty in Majesty and Power and whose Countenance is Dreadful to the Wicked and Oppressors cannot stand before him Yea verily this I say unto you ye Bryers and Thorns for so ye are before him he is a consuming Fire who will assuredly burn you up except you speedily Repent and depart from the Evil of your doings else overturned and destroyed you shall be as some that are gone before you for verily his Controversie is against you and you have wearied the Lord greatly in his long-sufferings and forbearing with you inasmuch as he hath given you a Day to Repent in and you Repented not and have sent his Servants and Messengers from far to Declare amongst you and ye hearkned not and hath tendered his Son unto you and ye received him not and though he hath long cryed unto you ye have not hearkned at all neither have ye had regard unto his Voice but have grieved his Holy Spirit and have slighted his Messengers and done much wrong to his Prophets and for these things is the Wrath of the Lord kindled against you and his sore Indignation is ready to be poured forth upon you for verily again I say unto you that the Crying Sins that have been Committed in this Land Oh ye Rulers are again brought into Remembrance before the Lord God Almighty and cry loudly Day and Night for Vengeance because ye have been careless and do not yet Repent for these things but are greedy and eager many of you to afflict and punish the Innocent without a Cause who hath in Dear Love and Tender Pitty to your Precious Souls warned you of these things that you might Repent and turn unto the Lord while there is yet help for you whereby you might escape his Wrath that is coming upon you and for so doing have we been accounted by you as Fools and made men and those that do Wickedly are accounted Wise among you and such do you Honour as your Counsellors but thus saith the Lord Wo to him that takes Counsel but not of me for what ever that man doth his Work shall not Prosper Therefore ye Rulers come forth of your Worldly Wisdom which is Foolishness with God by which Wisdom the wise Men of the Earth ever took Counsel against the Lord and against his People to do them hurt as well in Ages Past as now for then by their Wisdom they set themselves against Christ and put him to Death and by their Wisdom they Exalted themselves above him and in their Wisdom they withstood the Apostles and Banishod him out of their Coasts and in their Wisdom they suffered much Violence to be done unto them by Cruel Mockings Scornings Reviling Stocking and Imprisoning them even as you have done and suffered to be done unto us this they did and suffered to be done unto the Apostles notwithstanding all their Learning and Wisdom And thus they went on and made great havock of the Church and People of God in divers Places and those things the Apostles laid before them being sufferers under them as we have laid our sufferings before you who have been and yet are fufferers under you And thus the Rulers and People ran on in their own Wisdom in the Apostles times crying against them they were a Dangerous People and there were many that followed after them and that Paul he turned the World upside down and if they were suffered to go on the Romans would come upon them and take their Places and their Nation from them This was their Cry then and the same is your Cry now against us and thus you have raised False and Evil reports of us under a pretence of an Insurrection made in England by a party of Bloody men and have added to it our Friends as though they had had a hand in that Bloody Plot which is a very contrary thing for Christ Jesus he came not to destroy mens lives but to save them and him we take for our Example Who said All that use the Sword shall perish by the Sword Mat. 26.52 And this we say unto you that we have put off our Swords and cast aside all Carnal Weapons never to make use of them more and the Lord hath given us Spirituall Weapons with which we make War not with the Persons of any men but with the Man of Sin that dwelleth in them and with Spirituall Wickedness that sitteth in the high Places this also was the Apostles Warfare and this also is our Warfare and our Weapons are but one and we are all of one mind of one heart and one Spirit and we live in Love one with another and desire to do good unto all men and here we are brought out of the Strife and out of Contention out of Envy and Malice and so we are far from Oppression and shedding of Blood we live out of Falshood and Lying speaking the Truth from our heart so that we have no Swearing amongst us nor need of going to Law and herein we do the thing that is well pleasing to God and we have no Condemnation for it and this is that we labour for to bring People to out of the Evil Doing into the Well doing out of Envy and Strife into Love and Unitie that all may be brought into the same with us to live in Love and Peace and Quietness and live in the Enjoyment of Gods Precious Presence for Evermore and this is that our Souls long for that it might be well with every Soul upon the Earth Therefore know this O ye Rulers and Magistrates this is the thing the Lord requireth to be done that ye forthwith stand up and put forth the Sword of Justice with speed and let true Judgement be Executed throughout the Land that the Heathen may fall before you that the Innocent may no longer be punished and let the guilty go free Therefore ye Rulers once more I say unto you be ye wise in this your Day which is far spent for yet a little while will the Lord spare you to try you to see whether you will hearken hereunto or not and if ye resist and still go on in Rebelling against the Lord then suddain Destruction cometh in which Day you will find no help in the Earth And this was upon me from the Lord to lay before you which I have done in Love and Tenderness unto you and in Faithfulness to my Maker that whether you will hear or forbear I have cleared my Conscience before the Lord. Who am one that truely desires the good of you all that you all may be partakers of Gods Precious Mercy even as I am my Bonds onely excepted which I wrongfully suffer by you THOMAS CLARK Written in the Common Prison in Barbados 11th 2d Month. 1661. THE END