Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	day_n	let_v	lord_n	6,053	5	3.9499	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76714	A mite of affection, manifested in 31. proposals, offered to all the sober and free-born people within this common-wealth; tending and tendred unto them for a settlement in this the day and hour of the vvorlds distraction and confusion.	Billing, Edward, 1623-1686.; Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662, attributed name.	1659 (1659)	Wing B2902; Thomason E1001_5; ESTC R204877	8,763	15

before mentioned do not sit and continue above three Moneths that so there may be a speedy and effectual settlement of this Commonwealth in these high and scarcely to be parraleled ovetrurnings and distractions 28. That any person residing within this Commonwealth to wit within England Ireland and Scotland have free leave to Port transport transmit or any otherwise to exchange traffique and Trade betwixt Port and Port Haven and Haven or any other usual Landing place whatsoever backward and forward within any or either of the three Nations as to him or them shall seem meet without paying for any such goods whatsoever so transported backward or forward as Foreign and let the three Nations in this matter be equally alike That so the long-talkt-on-common-weale may no longer continue to be a particular Wealth And that the three Nations be justly united that God the Father of mercy and Justice whose righteous soul is grieved with oppression may take delight to dwell in the midst of us 29. That the first Parliament agree upon such Fundamental Laws for the durable settlement of this Commonwealth that it shall be exclusion for any person that shall be afterwards Elected and sit as a Member of Parliament to move the alteration of the same wherefore let the first qualifications be good that none hereafter but good men may be a admitted 30. That no person whatsoever hold or possess any manner of civil imployment belonging to the publick longer then one year without being Elected or appointed anew and giving a compleat accompt for his last years trust to such as shall by the peoples Representatives in Parliament be appointed to examine and receive the same that so every man may taste of subjection as well as Rule and that any person in publike trust who shall be found any wayes to defraud the Commonwealth shall be forthwith dismised of his imployment as a publick Thief and likewise be forced to restore four-fold and for ever made incapable of being admitted into any publick place of trust either Miliary or civil whatsoever 31. That any person who shall commit any sin by trespassing or otherwise doing violence to any and call that his or their Liberty or conscience shall be punished as an evil doer Alwayes provided and it is hereby intended that no man or woman be ensnared in any thing which the Just Law of God written in the heart shall lead unto but have free Liberty to speak for or declare the truth according to the example of blessed Jesus and the holy-men in season and out of season in any place time or season whatsoever and that none be hereby ensnared about any thing which is upon their consciences to do for the Lord by declaring against false worship and false worshippers Their set dayes times and places whatsoever and let him that keeps a day keep it to the Lord but let none be forced to observe the precepts or traditions of men as to their set dayes times places and worships for which Christ nor his Apostles have left no example and he who worships the living God must do it in spirit and truth and not by outward observations neither is the holy One tyed to any place time or season whatsoever and that people who in their vain imaginations think to limit or surcumscribe the holy One to or from any place time or season whatsoever fool themselves for if the Disciples be there he will come in though the doors be shut or secured by an outward Law and they gladly receive him or any of his and blessed is he who comes in his Name as also those who are not offended at him though his visage be more mar'd then any mans and his shape uncomly to the Vultrous eye E. B. Post-script ANd this I recommend to all the sober and free-born people of this Commonwealth as a testimony I bear to my Country and unto every Individial person in it this being an essay towards its speedy firm and future settlement on such a bases as may fully answer the just and righteous principle of God in every mans conscience unto which I leave it and as it leads any to add to the furtherance of this good intended work it will be acceptable to me and unto all the upright hearted on the earth Wherefore let not this slip out of any of your minds as a tale that 's told but let every one mind the good work of his generation And do not joyn with Moab Amon and Amelek least ye perish in this the day of the Lord THE END