Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	know_v	love_v	see_v	15,121	5	3.6465	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34920	To all you Protestant persecutors, whether magistrates, priests or people, this is for you to reade	R. C. (Richard Crane)	1660 (1660)	Wing C6817; ESTC R28577	3,987	1

To all you PROTESTANT PERSECUTORS whether Magistrates Priests or People this is for you to reade GOD Eternal who hath formed us given us breath and brought us forth hath said unto us Live He it is we serve fear and obey Therefore hear and give heed unto what shal be here said unto you from us who this day suffer under your cruel hands in your Prisons and nasty holes in and about this City of London Known be it unto you we neither have nor do deserve such cruel and inhumane usage at your hands for not any of you can justly charge us with evil neither have we wronged any man in his Propriety or Estate whereby the Creation in any kind hath suffered detriment or loss neither have we impaired any mans Reputation or taken his Good-name from him but have lived in all Godliness and Honesty and have kept a Conscience void of offence both in the sight of God and man And forasmuch as we are persecuted Imprisoned and evil-intreated by the men of this Generation who call themselves Protestants and cover themselves under that name to hide their Cruelty but it is manifest to the World that Persecution in Jews Heathens Turks Papists and Protestants is one and the same the Spirit is but one in all which persecute and the Protestant that banisheth is one in spirit with the Papist that burns and the Papist is one with the Heathen that kills and the Heathen is one with the Jew that crucifies and all one with Cain that Murtherer And think ye that we who are of this Nation born Free as either your selves or your seed must be exposed to vassalage in strange Countries and there to languish the rest of our dayes we have to spend and seek our sustenance among strangers what is it because there is not graves in England that we must undergo your cruel penalty of Banishment and is it a light thing to lacerate tear and rend whole Families in pieces without any pity shewn either to Age or Sex the Husband from Wife the Wife from Husband the Children from Parents and the Parents from Children O! pitiless and merciless Generation was there ever such a thing done in this Nation of England Search your Records of Persecution and see if a president be found in all of them for this And is any thing so blind as Persecution What to cut off a Limb of this Nation of England for nothing else but for the sake of your National Prayer called Common and because we cannot for conscience-sake joyn with you in it we must be destroyed Is this the Charity that your National Religion is grounded upon and would you have us joyn to that Nay nay in vain is your imposition on Conscience And think not to work Conformity by coersive means we who suffer under your will in your cruel Goals do in God's Dread and Fear declare that the True Christians never used any other force but Perswasion and we do further declare that whosoever they are though they be called or bear the name Christians whether a Man a People or a Nation and go about to compel Conscience in matters of Religion they are Antichrist and out of Christ's the Apostles and True Christians Order and Practice for their Force was Perswasion and no other And as to you who are Ministers of that heterogeneal and unnatural Law lately made and put in Execution against us we say and declare in God's Fear well would it be with you in this thing if moderation both in words and actions did attend your work in hand and not to lay a heavier load of Sufferings upon the Innocent than the severity of the Law inflicts But behold the Barbarities and inhumane Cruelties and unparallel'd Actions of * Richard Brown's carriage towards the People called Quakers at the Bull and Mouth one who is a Chief Minister of our sad afflictions at our Meeting at the Bull and Mouth what pulling off the hair what smiting on the face kicking and spurning with his feet on the legs and body and pinching on the arms besides the many scurilous words Blaspheming God's Holy Truth in irronical and scoffing terms do the Innocent People called Quakers suffer by his bloody hands both Men Women and Children to the amazement of the Spectators and some of the Magistrates have themselves cried out upon his Cruelty And let all moderate People judge of this mans actions and whether he be not more fit to minister Conformity to Dogs than men and whether such Ministers of Justice make not a Government by such actions loathsome and abominable to Wise Men and a scorn to Fools I leave to all that are wise in heart to judge And that our Neighbours amongst whom we live and have commerce must be compelled on pain of Imprisonment to take us by the throat for our Conscience to God knowing no evil at all by us certainly this is deplorable and to be lamented of all in whom the Fear of God and the Sence of his Living Power is not quite extinct that a Generation of men who never received a greater † Their Miraculous Restauration Mercy even from Adam to this day as many of themselves have confessed should thus requite and retaliate God infinit for his love in that thing It is the very grief of our souls to see things thus run retrograde but we have no helper on Earth and God Eternal who beholds our unjust sufferings is our Judge whom we love fear and obey and we do appeal to him for Justice knowing right well our Persecutors do neither can do any thing but by his permission and they have no power over us except it be given them and our Integrity in God we hold fast and we are assured our patience in him shall out-live and bring to an end all the Cruelties of men whatsoever though they may be permitted to heat the Furnace yet seven times hotter And you that are the primum Mobile or the first Cause of this cruel Persecution who stir up and whet on the Magistrate to accomplish your intended purposes and to fulfil your malicious wills when we certainly and infallibly know they would not intermeddle in such matters most of them having no inclination thereunto unless spurred on and stirred up by your selves hear and give good heed unto this Parable In a strange Land there was a high way which led from a City and in that way was seen two † The Priest and Magistrate men travelling and after them followed great numbers of people of all sorts and in travelling on these two Companions met a certain poor Travellor who was journying towards that City and one of them said unto him Whither art thou travelling the poor man answered Unto the City Then he said unto him Thou must go back again with us The poor man said I must go on my way unto the City for there is my Habitation and my Rest and I have come very far and have