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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	confess_v	iniquity_n	transgression_n	3,164	5	9.8837	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74924	A Faithfull searching home vvord, intended for the view of the remaining members of the former old Parliament in the time of their late second sitting at Westminster. Shewing the reasonableness and justness of their first dissolution, as also the dangerous rock they formerly split upon, that so they might learn to beware for the future: But being a second time dissolved upon the like account, as so many fruitless trees twic dead plucked up by the roots. It is now presented to the officers of the army as another looking-glass wherein they may plainly see, how woefully they also have dissembled, dealt treacherously, deceitfully and wickedly both with God and man, in having so greatly apostatized from, rejected, trodden under foot, persecuted, Judas-like betrayed, and as it were crucified and kept down in the grave (as the soldiers formerly did Christ) that blessed cause and those good principles, they once so highly pretended to own ... Together with an other seasonable word by way of counsel and proposal to the aforesaid officers of the armies of England, Scotland, and Ireland. All which, is also to be seen, and read of all men loving righteousness, that thereby they may (with the army) better know how to chuse the good, refute the evil, and rightly steer their course, and bend their spirits in the future, for the exaltation of Christ, his cause, and interest, and against all the apostacy and treachery, though never so refined, that may further appear in this gloomy, dark, overturning day.		1659 (1659)	Wing F285; Thomason E774_1; ESTC R207286	59,601	45

done to the Lawyers National Clergy Cardinal Mazarine and other corrupt Interests in the Nation and it is to be fear'd that to please and keep the rude multitude quiet that so you may go on in your way or to draw trade to the City you suffer wicked Stage-Playes which were once supprest to be in use again if a right spirit of Magistracy were among you these things would not date to shew themselves but these practises will not cure you of your wound no more then King Jareb and the Assyrian cured them For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion and as a young lion to the House of Judah even I will tear and go away I will take away and none shall rescue him I will go and return to my place till they acknowledge their offence and seek my face in their affliction they will seek me early Hosea 5. These with many other Scriptures of this nature doth witness the truth of what hath been asserted wherefore it concerns you to consider and to look about you Sixthly And if yet the Lord shall so far love own and honour you as to change your spirits and cause you willingly to stoop to this then their and your next work and oh that it were so now is to endeavour all you can according to your former declared principles denying your selves in your kindred and relations if not rightly qualified to let no man pass into any command or place of trust in the Army Navy or Commonwealth but faithfull persons fearing God and of approved integrity and have love to all the Saints that so wickedness may be supprest and punished righteousness encouraged and the Lord engaged to be present with bless and prosper you in all your future undertakings for the preservation and advancement of his Cause and people as in former dayes Your thus maintaining purity love and unity between persons both in the Civil and Military Power and being as it were of one heart and soul upon the account of righteousness and in a spirit of self-denyal meekness and zeal growing up together in every day and generation in the light spirit and things relating to the Cause and Work of Christ in the world towards the forementioned perfection that shall be in the Saints in the latter dayes according to Micah 4.2 Isa 32.1 2. will so revive the Cause and encourage the former honest lively spirit that seemed to be among you and through grace is yet alive in a Little Remnant or else we had been as Sodom as will not onely cause the Lord to be in the midst of us but also to rejoyce over us with joy and singing and to rest in his love as he will more eminently do over his faithfull people in the latter dayes Zeph. 3.17 and cause our terrour upon our enemies to be greater then ever it was before and surely honest men may think it is high time for you who have power in your hands and profess to be Saints and to be now as ever equally endeared to the good Old Cause throughly to deny your selves and not suffer the Cause and the Nation to be lost and ruined for want of a little honesty but rather to be doing what you possibly can do to bring things into the posture that hath been laid before you for that it so plainly appears both by the Scriptures and the late Revolutions and outgoings of the Lord in the midst of us together with the present fearfulness that hath possest you and according to Isa 33.14 shall more eminently fall upon the Sinners and Hypocrites that pretend to be of Zion in the latter dayes there is nothing less then your hearkening unto and following the forementioned counsel that hath been given you will save you and the Nation from the further ruine and destruction that is coming upon you And for your encouragement that the Lord will receive you graciously and pass by all that you have done against him in case it be in the purpose of your hearts in reality thus to come unto him consider that he stiles himself The Lord the Lord God merciful and gracious long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth keeping mercy for thousands forgiving iniquity transgression and sin and will by no means clear the guilty c. Exod. 34.6 7. Also the case of the Prodigal who went from his Father and came not again till all was spent and he brought to eat husks and so must return or perish as soon as ever it was in his heart and accordingly did so to arise and go to his Father and acknowledge his sin unto him the Text sayes Luke 15.20 But when he was yet a great way off his father saw him and had compassion and run and fell on his neck and kissed him and instead of upbraiding and punishing him commands the best Robe be put on him a gold Ring on his hand and shooes on his feet as also the fatted Calf to be killed to eat drink and be merry and if you return as he did I hope you will finde no elder Brethren to repine at it And so David Psal 32.3 4 5 6. Sayes he When I kept silence my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long for day and night thy hand was heavy upon me my moisture was turn'd into the drought of summer I acknowledged my sin unto thee and mine iniquity have I not hid Now this is that I minde sayes he I said I will confess my transgression unto the Lord and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin for this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found When Josephs Brethren acknowledged the evil they did unto him and begged pardon for the same instead of being revenged upon them it is said And Joseph wept when they spake unto him and said Fear you not I will nourish you and your little ones and he comforted them and spake kindely to them Gen. 50.17 21. Now if there be so much pitty and compassion in men to those that trespass against them there is so in the Lord much more Also Jer. 3.22 and Hosea 14 4.5 6 7. I will heal their back-slidings I will love them freely for mine anger is turned away from him I will be as the dew unto Israel he shall grow as the Lilly his Branches shall spread and his beauty shall be as the Olive-tree and his smell as Lebanon They that dwell under his shaddow shall return revive as the corn and grow as the vine c. These among other Scriptures shews the readiness that is in the Lord to forgive the iniquities of and to be gracious to a repenting returning and back-sliding people and oh that this goodness of his might powerfully and kindely work upon your hearts to acknowledge your iniquity deny your self-interests and to return unto him But if notwithstanding all that I have said I trust in faithfulness to the Lord and you you shall yet continue to go

1.17 to 20. 5. These persons thus called together having more light faith and communion with God then formerly they had in the work of the latter dayes and that they are called unto as I conceive they have and laying Jesus Christ the Foundation on which they intend to Build as also consulting with and managing all their Affairs according to the Scriptures as is their judgement founded upon the same Deut. 17 18 19 20. Deut. 4.6 7 8. 2 Tim. 3.16 and not onely theirs but of most of the Friends of the Cause as also assented to by your selves and all the Great Lawyers and all others present at the * Sir Thomas Widdrington having presented your Protector with a Robe afterwards delivered him a Bible and among other expressions said It is a Book of Books and besides other things it conteins in it both Precepts and Examples for good Government Alexander so highly valued the Books of his Master Aristotle and other great Princes other Books that they have laid them every night under their Pillows these are all but Legends and Romances to this one Book a Book to be had alwayes in remembrance I finde it said in part of this Book which I shall desire to read and it is this Deut 17.18 19 20. And it shall be when he sitteth upon the Throne of his Kingdom that he shall write a Copy of this Law in a Book out of that which is before the Priestt and Levites and it shall be with him and he shall read therein all the dayes of his life that he may learn to fear the Lord his God and to keep all the words of this Law and those statutes to do them that his heart be not lifted up above his Brothren and that he turn not aside from the Commandment to the right hand or to the left to the end he may prolong his dayes in his Kingdom he and his Children in the midst of Israel In which words you acknowledge that the Scriptures ought to be the foundation of both the Government and Laws of this Nation which though after this you decline from and therein adde Apostacy to Apostacy yet do justifie all others that shall go on therein and proceed according to Scripture Quualifications for the choice of Rulers according to Exod. 18.21 Hosea 11.12 Speech made by Sir Thomas Widdrington then Speaker of your Petition and Advice Parliament at the second Inauguration of your late General in the Protectorall Government is the duty of all Gods Magistrates to do Having also the concernments and welfare of the Nation upon their hearts more then their own will I hope whilest they are Sitting carry it so self-denyingly graciously and uprightly and with such tenderness towards all fearing the Lord esteeming none because of this or that judgement further then their sincerity and faithfulness to the Cause and Interest of Christ appears and will endeavour to do all things both at home and in other Nations so for the honour of him who is their and our Judge King and Lawgiver as also your own and the Nations real good and likewise with the approbation and consent of the faithful Friends of the Cause to carefully provide for the future well Government of the Nation by the hands of other faithfull Persons against they rise as you will have no occasion if your hearts be sincere and upright with God indeed and have grace to deny your selves to maintain any enmity in your spirits towards them so as to despise reject and turn them out as you did before but will rather encourage rejoyce in and bless God for them And whatsoever your politique shifts and devices may be to avoid it hither you must come at last for without this be done let the foundation you lay as to future Governments and the Persons you call to build thereon in the outward appearance be never so pure or so much for Christ yet it is and you will finde it so but a false Conception a Bed too short a Covering too narrow a Plaister that though it may skin over will not thorowly heal the wound that your Apostacy and treacherous dealing with your Principles hath made upon you for the first foremenoned Cause of the Lords displeasure against you must be taken away or else no sound cure can be expected neither indeed would such as are faithful had they a true understanding of things and did seriously weigh and consider what hath been already and might further be said in this business dare to come in and assist you till this work were done for fear lest the House that in the simplicity of their hearts they would be building should fall upon their heads and the Lords thus dealing with you is no other then according to the usual method he goes in in matters of this nature Prov. 28.13 He that covereth his sin shall not prosper but he that confesseth and forsaketh his sin shall have mercy Remember what became of Cain who retain'd his wicked spirit after he slew his Brother Abel Gen. 4. to verse 14. Of the Ongregation of Israel who out of such a spirit as you are acted by would have stoned Caleb and Joshua for opposing their going back into Egypt and pressing them to go on the Canaan Numb 14.23.32.43 Of Corah Dathan and Abiram and the two hundred and fifty famous renowned Princes of the Congregation and the people joyning with them in opposing the spirit of the Lord in Moses and Aaron upon the account with the former and how all these remaining in the wickedness of their spirits in opposition to the spirit of the work of the Lord in his little Remnant in that day must not prosper but their Carkasses fall in the wilderness dye of the Plague fall before their enemy the ground open and swallow Korah and his company up alive Numbers 16.2.31 32. Josephs Brethren who out of the wickedness and enmity of their spirits towards him cunningly endeavoured all they could to make him away and sold him into Egypt must lay aside their enmity and own and acknowledge their iniquity therein to him and beg pardon for the same or else no peace or prosperity for them could be expected Gen. 50.17 to 21. Ephraim and Israel having committed whoredom Begot strange Children Revolted from and Dealt treacherously against the Lord as you have done and the Lord having rebuked them and threatned that they should fall in their iniquity that he would be as a moth and rottenness to them as he hath hitherto been to you yet they went on and the Text sayes would not frame their doings to turn unto their God because the spirit of whoredoms was in the midst of them as it is with you but instead of returning to the Lord in a right manner as to the very thing wherein they had displeased him It is said When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah saw his wound then went Ephraim to the Assyrian and sent to King Jareb as you have