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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	father_n	holy_a	jesus_n	13,652	5	5.8822	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85837	Publick good without private interest, or, A compendious remonstrance of the present sad state and condition of the English colonie of Virginea [sic] with a modest declaration of the severall causes ... why it hath not prospered better hitherto ... / humbly presented to His Highness the Lord Protectour, by a person zealously devoted, to the more effectual propagating of the Gospel in that nation ...	Gatford, Lionel, d. 1665.	1657 (1657)	Wing G337; ESTC R43857	30,958	46

life to be offended at the exercise of my Ministry nor any just cause to any by the exercise of my Ministry to be offended with my person And as in my preaching the gospel I have carefully and faithfully indeavoured with that great exemplar of Preachers Saint Paul 1 Epist Thes cap. 2. v. 3 4. to speak nothing of deceit or impuritie or guile but as I have been allowed of God to be put in trust with the Gospel Act. 24.16 so I have spoken not as pleasing men but God which tryeth our hearts So I have with the same holy Apostle in all things else and in this particular business in hand exercised my self to have allwaies a conscience void of offence toward God and toward man But if I have unwittingly said or done ought that does justly offend any sober knowing man as who lives and does not in many things offend both against God and man I shall upon my knowledge of it meekly acknowledge it and humbly crave Gods and his pardon of it as I shall also freely forgive any that shall through weakness or ignorance take an offence at me or at any of my words or actions when there is no offence given Wherefore I earnestly beseech you that are my friends and all others that are friends to the publick good of others that Phil. 2. if there be any Consolation in Christ to be wished by you unto me if any comfort of love to be expected by me from you if any fellowship of the Spirit betwixt you and me if any bowels of mercy towards that poor Colonie which I appear for and towards those miserable heathen Indians that I long after yom would instead of quarrelling me or this my undertaking fulfil my joy conceived at the hope of succeding in this great work and be like minded with me towards it having the same love both to the reforming and purging those Church members of Christ the English Christians and to the incorporating into Christs Church the Heathen aliens their Indian neighbours And so being of one accord and of one mind let nothing be done by any of us through strife or vain glory but in lowliness of minde let us each esteem other better than themselves and look not every man on his own things but every man also on the things of others And thus the same minde will be in us which was also in Christ Iesus and we shall in him conquer all oppositions difficulties and seeming impossibilities yea be more than conquerours through him that loveth us To whom with the Father and Holy Spirit be all the Glory and honour of this and all other my actions and undertakings A compendious Remonstrance of the present sad state and condition of the English Colony in Virginea THat Virginea is a most fertile soil and abounding with allmost all things necessary and usefull for man even above the most of nations and that it is capable of producing any thing to introduce trading to and from all other parts of the world and would if well imployed and improved by the Planters exceedingly advance the Manufacture of this Nation by taking off from hence and consuming there very great quantities of all sorts yearly in regard of the multitude of its inhabitants both Planters and Natives That it is also a Country which by the reason of the vastness thereof and the Natives former readiness to part with such portions of their right and interest therein unto the English upon very reasonable terms as they can upon all just occasions fairly desire and to live with them and amongst them so far as they may in wisedom and prudence be admitted may in all probability afford very peaceable pleasurable prositable and every way comfortable habitation and other requisites for the greatest Colonie that ever yet the sun shone upon And above all other advantages that the Native people thereof are very inclinable at least did profess so to be till they were much scandalized by the wicked lives and very much abused and oppressed by the unjust dealings of the Planters to receive and embrace the Gospel and to submit to the English government are all things so well known to your Highness or may soon be by what hath been already published by som that have lived amongst them and will be farther attested by others that doe most constantly reside there and are ready and willing to give your Highness a more particular assurance thereof if they be required so to doe That it would be superfluous as well as too too tedious to give you any farther relation thereof But that a Colonie Planted in such a Country 60 yeares since or more and that by Christians and those of the same Nation and profession of faith with us should in all this time make so litle very litle profit or benefit of such a land in respect of what it would yield if well husbanded and be so far from increasing the trade thither and from thence that at this present it is much worse than it was many years since and which is a grand shame and dishonour both to our Nation and to our Religion instead of converting or civilizing any one of the Natvesi so as to retain that civility or profession of Christianity in due perseverance they give them all too just occasion to be scandalized at the very name of Christianity and to abhor and detest their Government as well as manners This your humble Remonstrant presumes is neither known to your Highness nor will scarce be credited by you at the first hearing But if your Highness will vouchsafe to make a strict inquiry into and examination of such particulars as may evince and evidence the truth of all those foul errors gross miscarriages and crying crimes whereby the said Plantation is brought not only to a very low and despicable condition but very neer its period and utter ruine Your humble Remonstrant will upon your command furnish your Highness to your full satisfaction as he doth for the present suggest some of the cheifest of them and begs your pardon for presuming to offer with them his own submissive conceptions for their redress The Errors miscariages crimes whereby not only the good and prosperity of the Colonie or Plantation in Virginea is retarded and hindred but the Colonie or Plantation it self is very likely to be speedily ruined may be reduced to these four heads 1. The Errors committed by those that transmit persons over into the Colonie 2. The miscariages of the Planters there both towards the Indians and amongst themselves especially in their Planting and setling 3. The injuries and overfights chargeable upon the Traders thither 4. The great neglect and contempt of Gods ordinances worship and service throughout the whole Plantation I. The Errors committed by those that transmit persons over thither are principally these 1. They seldome make choise of good sufficient Governors who as they ought to be able men such as fear God men