Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	sir_n	thomas_n	walter_n	10,236	5	11.2571	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41424	A cry of the just against oppression	Goodaire, Thomas, d. 1693.	1660 (1660)	Wing G1087; ESTC R28246	9,147	10

direction I have passed through Warwick-shire Worcester-shire Hereford shire Glocester shire and part of Northampton-shire and so into Oxford-shire to visit the people of God and to confirm and build them up in the most holy faith which all the world that lieth in wickednesse is enemies to at present and to turn people from their evill wayes to the light of Christ which shines in their hearts which whosoever believes in it and obeys it it will give them the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ And in all my passing through these Counties before-mentioned I was not staid nor questioned before I came to Chadlinton in Oxford-shire to one Benjamin Staples house who is now prisoner with me and the same night that I lodged at his house the Constable of the Town with some others came about the middle of the night to search his house having a Warrant from those called Justices to apprehend all Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars and especially one Ludlow and the Constable finding me in Bed charged the man of the house to see me forth coming in the morning which he did and in the morning the Constable had me to Chippin-Norton before the Commissioners and I came before one which is called Sir William Walter and another which is called Sir Thomas Feniston and the man of the house went along with me and they asked my name and what businesse I had in that Country I told them my name and what my businesse was that I was directed by the Lord to come into those parts to turn people from darknesse to light and from the power of Satan to God but that answer did not satisfie them and so they tendred the Oath of Allegiance both to me and the man of the house that was with me I told them I could not swear for Conscience sake and the other friend said the same and I shewed the reason why we could not because Christ and the Apostle hath forbid it and saith swear not at all but in all your Communication let your yea be yea and your nay nay for whatsoever is more is evil and the Apostle saith My Brethren above all things swear not at all neither by heaven nor by the earth nor by any other oath but let your yea be yea and nay nay lest you fall into condemnation and I told them further that I loved the King and his friends and all mens persons and should never plot nor make insurrections nor take up a carnal weapon against any man nor against any government and this I promised in the presence of the Lord and before them and many others but nothing would satisfie them that could be spoken except we would swear which the aforesaid William Walter pressed often for us to do or else we must go to prison and so we could not neither can we swear for or against any for Conscience sake it being contrary to Christs command but shall chuse rather to suffer then disobey Christ and so they caused each of us a Mittemus to be made and sent us forth-with to Oxford goal where we now are and this is the onely cause for which we are imprisoned and so cruelly dealt withall by the Jaylor his Wife and Son which is as followeth Upon the 15. day of the 7. Month called by the world September we was brought to the common goal at Oxford and delivered up to Henry Tharpe which is now Jaylor and presently after we came in he commanded his Son to put Irons upon me which he did upon both my legs as they do upon Thieves and Murderers and one of the Irons was so strait that it hurt my leg and put me to much pain and one friend desired the Jaylor to let them be taken off and wider put on if he would put on any he answered if I would give money for taking them off and putting on others I might have it done but I could not for Conscience sake give money for so doing because I have done nothing whereby I deserve to have any lions put upon me for it was done in wrath and envy and not for any just cause and so I chuse rather to suffer then satisfie that covetous mind and shortly after the Irons was put on they put me and the other friend into a stinking room where was nothing neither to sit down nor lie upon but the cold floor and one friend asked the Jaylor if he would suffer a little straw to be brought into the room for us to lye down upon but he would not suffer it and except we would give four shillings eight pence every week for our lodging onely we could have no other place and so we chose rather to suffer this hard ship then to uphold such great oppression and when they could not prevail with us to give them so much money as is before mentioned for our lodging then the Jaylors wise was full of wrath and envy and pushed me to and fro and abused me both by words and actions and there are some other friends which are prisoners now and hath been above two years for Conscience sake because they cannot pay Tythes which Christ came to end and the Jaylors Son is so very wicked and cruel that he strikes them with his hands and kicked one of them with his foot and abuseth both them and us very much with his evil tongue calling us Dogs and Devils and many more wicked words which we bear and suffer patiently for Christs sake and we shall not render evill for evill but take all things patiently which is done unto us knowing of a Truth that they that are thus cruell against us without a cause are led and guided by the same Spirit that murdered Christ Jesus the Lord of Glory because he testified and declared against the world that their deeds was evill therefore they hated him and sought false witnesse against him and mocked and abused him and afterward put him to death and the servants of the Lord are not greater then their Master for if they called the Master of the house Belzebub and many other wicked names what will they not do to them of his houshold and all that follows Christ for their example and comes to live a holy godly and harmlesse life must expect to suffer persecution by this wicked and perverse generation for they that walked after the flesh in all ages ever hated and persecuted them that walked after the Spirit even so it is with this generation as it was formerly but blessed be the Name of our God that gives us patience and counts us worthy to suffer for his Names sake for he hath not called us onely to believe but also to suffer with him and he that denyes to suffer with him and for his sake shall never reign with him Now hearken O ye Rulers of the earth what the Spirit of Truth saith unto you through his Servant King Parliament and Counsel if