Selected quad for the lemma: saint_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	day_n	lord_n	sabbath_n	3,982	5	9.9491	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84179	The evill spirit conjur'd, and cast out of the Parliament		1653 (1653)	Wing E3555B; ESTC R225958	12,767	54

are in good hands and we may no wayes doubt but those who have so well begun will not be wanting to the perfectioning of them FINIS To the Supreme Authority of this Common-wealth of England The Honourable Court of Parliament now sitting The humble Petition of several of the Godly party in the County of Salop Sheweth THat we cannot omit the acknowledgment of all those various Providences God hath made his people in this Nation partakers of in owning our Armies and making them both formidable to and victorious over our Enemies at Sea and Land in staining the glory of the proud dedegrading unprofitable men from their stations and planting you in their room whose beginnings begin to revive our hopes That our Lord Iesus Christ will yet have in England men executing judgement and speaking the truth Certainly if you go on we doubt not but the children that are to be born will have cause to call you blessed as the repairers of our Breaches the restorers of paths to dwel in and you will render your selves of more worth and value than thousands so that your precedency of Honour and Grace will transcend your predecessors and in all probability God will establish you as so many Luminaries in your stations to shine more and more unto the day of our deliverance In hopes whereof as also of your real inclinations to hearken to the desires of the meanest Saint and of those that wish well to Truth Peace amongst the other large endeavours of others we have taken the liberty of presenting the small mite of our Proposals which we hope will be looked at amongst the thousand of Israel 1. That as God hath trusted you in a special manner with the guarding of the Truth and Gospel you will have a special eye to the propagation thereof And because there ar many idle ignorant scandalous malignant Ministers permitted that endeavour the subversion thereof as apears to many of the dear Saints of Christ to the great grief of their spirits We humbly desire that some speedy course may be taken for the ejection of such men and the setling of those that are fit and faithful for so great a work and that those may not be suffered as Preachers thereof who hate to see it prosper and stand like the Red Dragon ready to devour the child Grace as soon as born 2. That notwithstanding the sufferings of many of the People and the great deliverances vouchsafed them yet they scarcely know them as by the effects of them in any encouragement they have yet received more than the most notorious and bitterest of your Enemies It is proposed that you will have a special regard to your friends above your enemies Had the late King prevailed his friends had received large rewards as appears by his own Ingagements you and yours threatned with total destruction Oh then why should you not countenance your friends as well as your enemies theirs we hope you will not tread in the paths of your predecessors to reward evil for good but will give the right child to the right mother and suffer those now to rejoyce with you who have formerly mourned with you and will still while you are for God live and die with you 3 Because we hear many Souldiers complain who have ventured their lives from the beginning and want imployment since their willing submission to former commands of Disbanding we humbly propose That a deep inspection may be made in your Army for the ejection of those that would not be listed for you so long as they could find an Army with which to fight against you and the number may be made up again by those who have been your constant friends 4. That whereas many men by their fawning flatteries lie at your doors out of sinister ends to beg for places we desire that none may be admitted to any place of trust either in the Army or Common-wealth but such as are known to you for men of fidelity and integrity or else commended to you by the Certificate of five or six of your Friends that so things may be carried on more by the publick spirit of the Saints than the private spirit of any whatsoever 5. That whereas we hear many of our Nation saying to you as the children of Israel to Rehoboam take away our burthens take away our taxations we further propose That the burthen of Contribution may be laid upon those who have been the grand Incendiaries and Contrivers of the War we mean the Cavaliers it being unjust as we humbly conceive that they should cut out the work and we bear the burthen they double the tale of Brick and we do the Task O let the right child have the right Mother it will make them more willing to sit still 6. That whereas many take liberty of keeping Wakes setting up Morice Dances and other prophane Sports against which there is no particular Law we humbly desire some positive Rules may be framed for suppressing thereof 7. In regard it it generally observed that the foul Sins of Adultery and Fornication are too frequently unpunished more than before the day of our deliverance for which our Enemies reproach us sich the Act only limits the punishment to the testimony of two Witnesses that a mock may not be made of such foul sins We desire a way may be found and some special Law instituted for the punishmet thereof 8. That in regard of the freedom given to Saints in their several Churches and meetings on the Lords day is abused so that Papists and other prophane persons take liberty of contemning the Sabbath and publick Ordinances and spend the day vainly and idly in their houses or else walking in the Fields we propose That some special course may be taken of restraint that the freedom of the Saints may not be turned to the prophanation of the Lords Day 9. That the Excize may be taken away in the oppressive manner of farming it that poor people may not be bought and sold in this Nation as too frequently they are and some raise vast estates by the bargain 10. That the poor which dayly swarm in England both in City and Country begging in the Highways and at our houses to the great dishonour and prejudice of the Nation may in some due way be provided for and not suffered to wander as Vagabonds upon the face of the earth And your Petitioners shall pray c. Animadversions ON THE PETITION THere is nothing more specious than the name of Reformation and nothing less than the thing it self I mean that which the vulgar magnifie and cry up so much the disease of mens minds rather than of the Times untill their Imagination fools them into a real malady and never lets them recover afterwards the Itch of Good Times and the Ulcer of Ill most pernicious to Kingdoms and Commonwealths as alwayes Enemy to present Government Every one who would trouble the State taking it for their pretext till