Selected quad for the lemma: peace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	county_n	justice_n	session_n	5,221	5	10.3826	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56996	The Remonstrance of the suffering people called Quakers clearing their innocency from the many false aspersions, slanders and suggestions, which are lately come abroad in the nation causlesly [sic] upon them.		1665 (1665)	Wing R1016; ESTC R4321	11,537	18

towards God and also towards all men and to serve the Lord in our generation and to do good unto all men as much as in us lies and to study Peace and Quietness minding every one our particular Calling whereunto God hath called us that we might adorn the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ by a holy and blameless Converlation by which we have received remission of Sins and are remitted unto God yet notwithstanding great hath been the enmity that hath been raised up against us and great hath been the out-cryes of many and much the hatred though we can say in a clear Conscience with David without a cause And great have been our Sufferings this many years insomuch as we may say truly Long Furrows have been plowed upon our backs and we have had all manner of Evil spoken of us but we bless and magnify the Lord not for evil doing but falsly yea falsly for the Name sake of Christ though we have been slanderously and fasly reported from time to time by the the Time-serving-Ministers of Antichrist who have alwayes * Witness that their Address to Richard called Protector flattered the Powers of the world and stirred them up against us by false suggestions flatterings and daubing insinuations because we have discovered their Deceit and our Conversation hath been more blameless than theirs they have prevailed so far as to raise up unbelief in peoples hearts and to set the Rulers of the Earth against us as much as in them lay to our utter ruine and extirpation in this life as ever Haman did against the Jews But seeing the adversary of mankind hath prevailed so far with many to hear receive and believe the many false slanderous reports of us and to publish them abroad and seeing that traps are laid for us and snares for our feet both to ensnare our Consciences and to the ruine of our Estates to bring us into bonds to the separating us from our Wives and Children to confiscation of our Estates to Banishment of us our of our Naive Country to seek our bread among strangers to the rendring of us odious unto all to the making of us Slaves and Bond-men and sell us to any for a thing of nought to make People believe we are not subject unto Authority that we disobey the Laws of the Nation which are just that we plot Mischief against the Government that we are ready to side with a Forreign Enemy to bring the Nation again into a Civil War that we hold correspondency with Forreign Enemies that we annimate one another in Sedition and Rebellion and that the principal end of all our Meetings and Conventicles so called is to confirm one another in Malice against the Government And that we make Collections for the support of a Party who are listed to appear in any desperate undertaking That we have designed the very time That we are industrious and dextrous and spread abroad our intelligence to stir us Strife and Commotion and to disturb the publick Peace of the Nation And this greatly reflects upon us and not only upon us but the everlasting Truth of Christ Jesus which we profess which if these things were true we were not fit to live in a Nation but to suffer according to our demerits And seeing two Acts are chiefly made against us for the suppressing of our Innocent and Peaceable Meetings whereby diverse thousands are and have been and are like to be in bonds only we say for the Worship of God and keeping Faith and a good Conscience yet how great severity hath been used against us God knows and many good People in the Nation also Notwithstanding as though this had not been enough yet our Sufferings are augmented and Affliction unto Affliction by a Letter lately sent by some Chief Magistrate of England as we are enformed to the Nobility and Justices of the several Counties which is read in some places in the publick Sessions in which though we be not particularly nominated in that Letter yet many of those things contained in it are imputed unto us and the Justices of Peace and others take it for granted And so our Miseries Bonds and Sufferings are augmented time after time which if the Lord by his eternal Power doth not change the minds of them that are bent against us we are like to be destroyed as men from having a being amongst the rest of our Neighbours and Country-men Therefore all these things considered We are necessitated to declare our Innocency unto all and to clear the truth of such things wherein some are jealous of us and to speak the truth from our hearts and Consciences as before the Living God the Judge of the quick and the dead who in his day will render unto every one according to his works and also before his holy Angels and all just men and to all the Potentates Nobility Rulers Magistrates Justices of Peace and to all People in this Nation and to all the whole World and to every particular Person where this may come and according to the truth of this our Testimony we desire the Lord may judge us and we never to expect his Blessing upon us if we do it not with all sincerity of heart and uprightness before him First of all We cannot but testify unto all with boldness That we love the King's person and desire his good in that which pertains to this life and that which is to come and that his Throne may be established in Righteousness that we under him may live a Godly Honest and Peaceable life serving God in our generation and doing that which is acceptable in his sight and that which becomes true Members of this Kingdom that it might be preserved in Righteousness and Peace 2. We utterly deny all such as not to be of us and did never neither can nor shall ever own such to be of us who plot or contrive any Sedition Rebellion Insurrection or Misdemeanor against the Peace of the Nation to embroil it again into Wars we utterly do deny all such things from our hearts and also every individual person that hath doth or may act any thing conducing to such a mischievous end and deny all desperate persons and their designs who wish or deny all desperate persons and their designs who wish or desire in their hearts evil to the King or to any of his Magistrates or that act any thing conducing unto War for the hurt of the Nation in general or any particular men therein 3. We utterly deny all such Councils whether few or many and their confederacies who hold any correspondency with any forreign Enemy or domestick if any such there are have been or shall be and likewise any such Order as any person or persons shall send abroad in any part of the Nation to the disquieting or disturbing the Peace of the Nation as is mentioned in that Letter 4. We utterly deny such as have provided any Arms or listed any men if any