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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	ordinance_n	power_n	resist_v	4,907	5	10.4011	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78448	A word to Londons provinciall assembly. Or, a view of some passages in the ministers late vindication of their government. To which is added a vindication of the Covenant against all intruders and opposers. / By Nehemia Cent:.	Cent, Nehemiah.	1649 (1649)	Wing C1670; Thomason E586_1; ESTC R206271	50,385	55

power nay what is there said further He that resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God nay he that so doth shall receive damnation What will you say and how will you answer it before the Lord at the last day and how can you answer Conscience at present when it gripes you with it what can I say why I should not receive damnation if I continue still in this condition especially when you think you made use of it to make others troublesome and may not that text be applied to you Ezek. 17.14 15.18 19. He that hath broken the Covenant shall he prosper he shall not prosper the Lord shew you in mercy how much and how often you have broken the Covenant and doe still especially you crying so as you doe against those that so doe and doe you not heare the voice within Shall I prosper I shall not I cannot it is the Lord that hath spoken it and I my selfe have applied it to others and say further surely the Kingdome hath no cause to say We blesse you in the name of the Lord or the blessing of the Lord be upon you nor to bid you good speed in this you have done wherein you have done so manie evill deeds but to follow your counsell that you give others against the Armie that so we may not be partakers with you in those evill deeds and that in Jude doth come fully upon you for you have spoken evill of dignities and have despised their dominion and therefore all that text belongeth to you and have you not run after the error of Balaam and I wish it be not for a reward and therefore persisting may you not feare you shall perish in the gaine-saying of Corah and also have not you followed and so may apply that text to your selves for have not you cried out the Parliament and Armie have taken too much upon them and is not this act of yours in gathering together so many of you is it not against the Lord while you gather together against them that are acting for the Lord and may not that text in the same sence you apply it to others be applied to your selves while you goe on in the same way and there were a considerable companie of them eminent men and famous in the Congregation and would not you be thought to be so and are not there manie of you in this and you have in some sence exceeded them for they did but speake against Moses and Aaron but you have not only spoken but written and caused it to be printed that so it might be sent all over the world and therefore consider how fitly that text Rom. 1.32 Are not you the men that have done such things that have condemned that in others that you doe your selves and therefore we cannot but thinke that you apprehend it to be a vertue and doe not you delight in them that doe as you have done and if so then aske your Consciences if you be not the men that have done things worthy of death and also that Rom. 2.13 And thinkest thou oh man that judgest and doest the same things that thou shalt escape the Judgement of God but you have done that you have judged others for as contemning powers and Magistrates and vers 2.6 11. we are sure the Judgement of God is according to truth to them that doe such things who will render to everie one according to his workes and there is no respect of persons with God except it be you that have more meanes by your parts gifts and places God will looke for more from your hands as is said of Corazin and Bethsaida in another kinde and may not that text in Ecclesiastes be applied to you because sentence against an evill worke is not executed therefore the hearts of the children of men are set in them to doe evil You have spoken largely before and no body opposed you and now you have not only spoken but written and so the world may take notice of it and is no● this a great evill And further I beseech you to consider if you have not mis-applyed those Texts 1 Samuel 14.4 and 1 Samuel 26.8 9. and Job 13.7 For wherein have they done wickedly for God or have not you done so and that flying Rowle you speak of may it not be more truly applyed to you then to them as hath been formerly said who have been breakers of that Solemne Oath and Covenant And although you have not done violence to the Parliament and Armie in their persons yet have you not offered violence to their names witnesse what is in Print in Mr. Prices book in answer to your Letter And have not you accused them falslie that have laid so many false things to their charge as is formerlie shewed And it were to bee desired you would be as wel content with your wages as they have bin consider if they have not gon beyond you in being so content as they have been for they have not only been content with their wages but they have been content to be without their wages which if it had been your case it is to be feared the Citie and Countrie should have heard of it by you as injustice and justlie you might have don so but where or when have you spoken for this on their behalf although it hath bin the cause of many evills as discontents discouragement in the Souldier and oppression of manie by free Quarter and so to raise up the spirits of the Countrie to hate them and despise them whom they have so much cause to esteem and honour for what they have so faithfully done in defending the Countrie and offending their enemies and if the labourer be worthie of his hire for a daies worke when he may worke without danger is not he much more that goes in danger of his life ev●rie daie and houre in defence of his Countrie and the Cause of God especiallie and yet it seemes that you have not taken so much notice of it as you should because you have spoken no more in their behalfe and may you not fear if you persist in your way still that which is said in Numb 32.23 You have sinned your sin will find you out And whereas you say you have beene threatned if you persist in stirring up sedition among the people the Lord helpe you to consider if it be not so But whereas you say your bewayling their sins before God is accounted so it may be feared you speak against your own consciences in saying so if you speake not against conscience you speake against charity I intreat you aske conscience if you think that hee that you say threatned you did thinke that bewayling of sinne before God bee sedition But it may be in that time when you say you bewayle your sinnes before the Lord and among your bewaylings you might have some or many seditious expressions or expressions tending to Sedition And I beseech you aske conscience

meanes when you that are Teachers of others in it and professe your selves so to be doe so manifestly disgrace those that seeke to maintaine it in the most pure manner and plead for those that would throw it downe and that you should be turned from what you were in the beginning of the Parliament and if it doe not make Religion stinke yet there is cause the faces of Gods people should be covered with shame for your miscarriages in this thing and our hearts filled with sorrow and griefe and the Government of the Parliament and the courage and faithfulnesse of the Army by you is sought to be laid in the dust and so have made them contemptible And let it be considered if your cause may not be compared to Caine and Balaam yea whither it will not suite with Corah and his company for they rebelled against Moses and Aaron in their acting for God and have not you done the like against the godly Party in Parliament and Kingdome which may appeare by what hath been formerly said and in that sence may you not be called Rebels And may it not be more truly said of you in your acting in this paper that you act the parts of Jesabels while you seeke under pretence of the Covenant to cast filth upon the Parliament and Army stirring up the people to slight if not to contemne and rebell against them and so be a meanes to hinder all that good they have laboured and endeavoured to procure if not stirre up to another warre And may it not be further said you doe that which you condemne in others when you condemne others for breaking the Covenant and yet you doe it your selves and condemne others for not obeying the Parliament and you doe not obey it your selves nay contemne it or slight it at the best and condemne others for resisting the powers and you doe it your selves c. And may it not be truly said of you that the time was you did think they did exceeding evill that did not goe out to warre against the enemies of the Kingdome and bring them to triall if not destroy them and now you are against them that so doe And aske Conscience if you have not slighted providence when it hath so wonderfully appeared to the just offence of many a godly heart and therefore much more against that that hath declared himselfe so wonderfully for us witnesse your not taking notice of them and that when you have been injoyned to doe it by the highest Authority in the Kingdome and also slighted the successes formerly you have kept dayes of Thanksgiving for providences and successes but now you slight both although they be as great if not greater then ever before And whereas you tax them for being led by the impulse of spirit it may be truly said in this you were not led by the Spirit of God for that is pure and peaceable but it is to be feared you are led by the contrary spirit in this or by your owne spirit at the best and if any evill should have befalne you by this your acting it might truly have been said it had been contracted by your owne miscarriages and may it not be truly said of you that you were beautifull when you acted for God in the beginning of the Warres but now you are cut of his waies and therefore you may feare he and his will forsake you or at least he will suffer contempt to be brought upon you And may we not admire to heare you say they were acting freely for that which was Covenanted for untill the Armie came and forced them was it Covenanted that all should be brought againe into the old Channell or into a worse condition then they were before the Warres began as hath been formerly spoken to and therefore consider who may looke for the flying Roll and who are to be accounted busie-bodies in other mens matters and therefore the Lord give every of you a heart to consider that the mouth of the Cannon may not be turned against your selves I meane those charges you have laid upon them and which is more those Scriptures which should be as Cannons indeed which we should not stand against but fall before them when they come against us especially those or the most of them which you have brought against them as I have hinted before for if these things be thus have not all the people of God cause especially the Ministers that have not offended as you have done to crie aloud and shew you your transgressions and your sinne and consider if they doe hold their peace whether they doe not make themselves guilty of your sins and if we must not have fellowship with the unfruitfull workes of darknesse I beseech you consider what hath been said and see if you have not bin such in this act and if we are bidden to abstaine from all appearance of evill how much more from reall evill and if you consider what hath been said you will see yours reall as well in this and therefore it must follow that the people of God must abstaine from you and have no fellowship with you while you act in this manner and if we must not meddle with them that are subject to change then by what hath been said we must not meddle with you for have not you changed when you crie out against what you formerly cryed out for and crie downe that which formerly you have cryed up and if we must withdraw from every Brother that walkes disorderly then we beseech you see if you be not the men by what hath been said and by what your selves have said and what your selves can say who know more of the secrets of your owne hearts then any other man or men but the fruits we may judge by your owne instance I take it and that may most prevaile with you if it be as your selves say it is disorderly not to be subject to Principalities and obey Magistrates if you be not the men consider besides all your expressions in prayer those daies of Humiliation and those daies of Thanksgiving that have been commanded of late may sufficiently declare to all that have been neare you Nay hath it not further appeared when you have gone about to cast an odium upon them not only in our owne Land but in all others so far as in you lyes by your causing it to be put in print and you have further shewed it by doing the like upon their proceedings and upon the Armie which they have set up and as is in print by giving them unseemly termes and reproachfull all which your selves cannot endure and doe you thinke your selves better then they and is not this the way to bring them into contempt and is it not against that text you bring in the Romans 13.1 2. Let every soule be subiect to the higher powers for there is no power but of God and is not the Parliament a power and is not the Armie a