Selected quad for the lemma: scripture_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
scripture_n	according_a	holy_a	truth_n	2,392	5	5.1254	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35699	Denus petition to the Lord General Cromwell with his Protestation and engagement : also, his description of the house of God and original priesthood : whereunto is annexed The ministerial duty and The personal reign of the saints.	Denus.	1651 (1651)	Wing D1068A; ESTC R26116	23,636	34

iniquity with our God nor respect of persons nor taking of gifts and he charged them saying Thus shall ye do in the fear of the Lord faithfully and with a perfect heart and what cause soever shall come to you betwixt blood and blood betwixt law and commandment statute and judgement let them not trespasse against the Lord. Look upon this all ye that have contrary to this holy Law which is the written word of God given so long since to judge the earth this word of Sion shall throw down all your witchcrafts of Jesabel and your night-Spels of subtilty for ye have not judged according to the holy word of God Some may say Woe to you Judges Lawyers and Juries for destroying the declaration and truth of Gods word changing it into your own forms and not proving all Causes by Scripture all your legal rudiments must fall at the appearing of Sions glory and shall cause all your Rivers in Egypt to dry up for his word and the Saints must judge the earth and your unstable justice shall fall and come to nothing when the word of God shall be every mans true testimony to restore and to redresse to bring again and to reduce to settle all things to their ancient Oiginal which have been so long traduced from their place And without all question the godly of the people shall govern meaning the remnant of the Tribes out of Sion For I will cleanse your bloud I am the Lord that shall rore from thence and utter my voice and the earth shall shake but I will be the hope and heritage of Jacob He will be jealous for his land and have pity by his redeemed that they may have justice from God out of Sion And I cannot see how any other law can be warrantable but onely this word of God and to deny all mens mixture which are but ordinances of men and legal 1 Cor. 6.1 Dare any of you having a matter against another go to law before the unjust and not before the Saints As if he should say will you bring your selves within the danger of the cursed laws of the Gentiles And in Vers 2. he saith Know you not the saints shall judge the world and we shall judge Angels much more the things that pertain to this life Joel 3.2 the Lord saith He will plead with all nations for the heritage of his people saying behold I will raise them out of the place where ye have sold them And elsewhere he saith I will restore unto you the years the Locusts have eaten the Canker-worm the Caterpiller and Palmer-worm which I have sent amongst you As if hee should say I will take away all the devourers that have led you captive which have seduced the simple carying on causes in Latin and in an unknown tongue This is not that law which the Apostle James declareth in his second Chapter saying So walk and so speak as you may be judged by the law of liberty which is Sion to try all your actions by and so to be justified by Gospel truths which is contrary to the laws of men And wicked men ought not to bear sway for God will have a community to communicate justice to all according as truth shall guide them to this law of liberty and Gospel freedom and not by mens ordinances that must fall For mercy shall rejoyce over judgement and shall glory over all oppression We cannot finde by either law or Gospel that men should die by any outward act of theft but the ancient records of God manifest only restitution and if the person be not able to restore then be a servant or slave to the person whom hee hath offended The Lord saith He that killeth with the sword shall die by the sword shewing that by murther bloud shall touch bloud it were good if legal cruelty were restrained as yet it hath not but in short time provided by our God we shall have truth established in our borders with mercy and justice to remain in our streets it hath been a long time mixed with Wormwood by rigorous and cruel laws being enacted that any malitious man that would swear against another man whether it were right or wrong as many times by way of supposition not considering the danger of an oath or whether it be right or wrong the Oath being passed the Jurie presently findeth it the plaintiffe having no way to prove the wrong done but his own Oath by an inditement under the King to prove the theft making the King his grand witness which hath been an intollerable mark of the beast and all ye Jury-men may be ashamed and cover your mouths for all the bloudy Verdicts you have given up look to it for God will call you to an accompt for all your works in that you have set the King to prove mens actions which hath been a lying testimony when the King hath been far distant from the Bench ye corrupt Judges and simple Jury-men it hath evidently appeared by some that hath been wrongfully and hastily put to death a miserable spectacle before your eys and this is a fin that will lye heavie upon Judge and Jury-men when ye shall take the King for a witness as if he were present to prove the felony this is a high principle for a knave to work his will to prove the felony done to the Plaintiff but draw the Curtain there the King hath something else to do then to come and prove your unjust act A miserable heathenish law and Turkish the Turk can but demand a mans life and what is it else to do in this We see plainly the King may be enriched by such a law as for bringing in either to himself or some other Lord of a Mannor felons goods which freedom they have purchased from him that is gone And this law cannot be satisfied with mans life but wife and children must be utterly undone and all taken from them by the lord of felons goods O down with this Babylon I wonder the world doth not violently pull her down for they cannot be contented to take the things that were stoln which is all they can have but they will have all then all shall be mine so that the thing is although he never stole before and the fact be of small value yet he must lose his sweet life and die as a dog which is a base inhumane and salvage cruelty Turkish and not Christian-like the just God and Lord Jehovah will surely confound such doings Some have been by relation prepared for the ladder and yet by accident the right theef hath been taken and for the same fact hath suffered death a heavie thing it is unto that Jurie that shall censure a man to death by an indictment under his own pretence by an indictment in the Kings name yet we do not justifie theft but that it should be lawfully proved as all other trespasses be under two witnesses every truth shall be established for one witnesse which