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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	holy_a	lord_n	world_n	7,078	5	4.3901	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91361	Englands remonstrance. Or, a word in the ear to the scattered, discontented members of the late Parliament. Shewing, that self-seekers are self-losers; and that no member ought to feather his own nest, but freely permit every bird to enjoy his own feathers, and every honest man to sit under his own vine, and enjoy the fruits thereof. Likewise, a word to the present assembly at Westminster, and the councel of state at White Hall, in order to their present power, rule, government; and the peoples rights, liberties, and priviledges. By Robert Purnel.	Purnell, Robert, d. 1666.	1653 (1653)	Wing P4233; Thomason E719_3; ESTC R207191	6,447	8

not many of you hereafter say as Philip the third of Spain whose life was free from gross evils yet being in the Agony of Death fear struck into him and these words burst out O would to God I had never Reigned Oh that I had lived a solitary life with God and not opprest the people What doth all mine Honour profit me but that I have so much the more torment in my Death the day of my Account is very near And let all men know that the overflowing of Sin and the overflowing of Oppression causeth the overflowing of Vengeance Abused Opportunity will most certainly turn inro Fury for Gods long forbearance 〈…〉 the day is at hand when he will pay neglig●●● men and women for mispending precious time and for the abuse of Old and New mercies in the day of Account Mens Actions are all or will be in Print and shall one day be read aloud in the ears of all the world that all the righteour Nation that shal enter in may say Amen to that righteous sentence that Christ shall passe upon all those that had a prize put into their hands to mind his Glory and to unload his people of their heavy burthens that the oppressed might go free but they had no mind to it as in the Proverbs but in stead thereof sought great things for themselves as in Jeremy 45. 5. Nay though Moses and Aaron two choice Champions did lead and Govern Israel for a long time notwithstanding many dangers and difficulties yet they were at last shut out of Canaan because they did not sanctifie the Lord in their hearts at the water of Meribah Deut. 32. 15. Num. 14. 15. For ye were disobdient to my Word in the strife of the Assembly A Word of Advice to the present Supream Authority of England c. Most Noble and Honoured Sirs WHom God even the God of the spirits of all flesh hath intrusted at present with the highest places not onely in the field but also in the seat of Justice the prayers of the Godly for you are that the Lord would rather make you gracious and inwardly holy then outwardly happy and give you a spirit of d●vine wisdom and valour suitable to the work in hand that ye may improve the present opportunity that is put into your hands for the glory of God that gave it you consider that the presence of God is in the midst of you the prayers of the Saints and servants of God are continually poured out for you the eys of the people are upon you all expecting some great things to be done by you yea and the other parts of the world look upon you as if they intended if you go on in any way of righteousnesse to follow you it will be a glory for the English nation to give a blessed example to all the people of the earth to free themselves from Tyranny and Slavery If a worm might be thought worthy to advise you then give me leave to tell you there is but one thing in the main that God and his people do expect from you viz. that you would eye the Lord Jesus in all your actings and advance his Kingdom as much as in you lies and if this be uppermost in your hearts first in your thoughts and constant in your purposes so as you do in your judgements prefer and in your wills deliberately mind the glory of God the advancement of the Kingdom of his dear son by the assistance of his holy spirit then shall the work of the Lord prosper in your hands and the day shall be light before you and his footsteps that are not yet known shall be discovered unto you and ye shall see your work before you Christ was once humbled that we might be exalted let him be now exalted that we may be humbled by him Although he be willing to give you grace yet his glory he will not give to any other let it be a comfort to you that he hath exalted you in the heart of his people although you are a table-talk and a by-word and a scorn in the hearts of his enemies Well would you stand your selves now others are fallen and not onely keep but also add to the honor which God hath given you then make it your business to exalt the Kingdom of Christ not onely in your selves but also in the neighbouring nations and remember that the rock of ages pulleth down some to the end that others might not exalt themselves when they are in power for the Lord hath decreed to stain the pride of all earthly honour and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth that so all flesh might be humbled and the Lord alone exalted Therefore seek you not great things for your selves as many of those before you did lest you be also laid aside and no eye pity you Provide no more for your selves then you have I beseech you but to seek the honour of Christ and the freedom of the Saints and these nations wherein your own freedomes and safeties are involved Consider that the Lord hath hitherto made you friends to some of his people and a terror to their and his enemies and our prayer to the Lord is that he would teach you as once he did good Nehemiah to do many years hard service freely because the payments were heavy on their brethren Nehem. 5. 14. 18. That you may say as that servant of Christ did to the glory of God and the shame of the former self-seeking powers ver 15 but the former Governours that had been before me were chargeable unto the people and had taken of them their bread and wine besides 40 shekles of silver but so did not I saith the good man because of the fear of the Lord. I have but a few things more to beg as upon my bended knees and with weeping eys which if you will but hear and grant it may make much for the glory of God the honour of the three nations and the comfort of your own souls 1. The first thing is that you would set some time and persons apart to hear and receive the private Petitions of poor widows and fatherless so much neglected by the former power for they have poured out their complaints in the midst of their wants and their cry came up before the Lord before the dissolving the late Parliament Consider I request you that the earth is the Lords and all that is therein and not our Storehouse and you are at present his Stewards wherefore as in Prov. 3. 27. With hold not good from them to whom it is due when it is in the power of thine hand to do it So shall you in the end be able to say with Iob that you have not withhold the poor from their desire nor caused the eys of the widow and fatherlesse to sail nor seen any perish for want of cloathing nor seen any poor in the streets without covering I could almost say to you

as Abraham did once to the Lord Gen. 18. 27. behold now I have taken upon me to speak which am but dust and ashes I would beg leave to present a few more things to your consideration 2. The next thing is that when you make inquisition for Wolves prophecied of by Christ and his Apostles Matth. 7 15. compared with Acts. 20 19. That come to us insheeps cloathing that you would not do as the late Parliament did to stop the wolves mouth in one town and let him go and devour in another if he be adjudged unfit to bite or devour in one place let him be held as unfit in another lest you should do in effect as they did put out the fire Canne and send it to Marlbrough or indeavour to stop the Plague at Bristol by sending the infected persons to London 3. The next thing that I would beg of you for this poor nation is that whereas the last power did promise much and perform little be you more like God I both humbly and earnestly request you by promising less then you intend to perform that you may in very deed appear to be like him He promised the children of Israel onely the land of Canaan but besides that he gave them two other Kingdomes which he did never promise to give them and to Zacharias Luk. 1. 20. he promised to give him his speech again at the birth of the child but besides that he gave him the spirit of Prophecy so that as Paul saith he cau do abundantly above all that we are able to ask or think And you that say ye abide in him ought so to walk as ye have him for an example see Eph. 3. 20. 1 John 2. 6. 4. The next thing that I would beg of you Most Honorable Senators is this that you would indeavour to unite all the Saints sound in the faith to an union in the spirit of love Though England be but as a garden to the whole world and the people in it but a handfull and scarce one of twenty of this handfull Godly men yet were these few Saints united by the blessed spirit so as their hearts might agree together as touching any thing they ought to ask and were so well affected to lift up one voice and one heart according to the will of God they would have the thing they ask for so as nothing should be too hard for them to do all the world could not stand before them nor undermine them for they would be wise in the Lords wisedome and strong in him and in the power of his might Shall Herod and Pilate agree Turks and Pagans Beares and Lyons agree Tygers and Wolves agree and shall not Saints agree if the Saints were but but once united Antichrist would soon be destroyed Oh! let not our Supream power under God be angry and I will speak but this once Oh! let me then say as once Mordecai did to Hester Hester 4. 14. If thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time then shall deliverance arise from another place or power but thou and thy fathers house shall be destroyed and who knoweth whether thou art come to the Kingdome for such a time as this And under Correction let me tell you the work is the Lords and if you will not carry it on he will lay you aside with shame and raise up those that he will own and blesse And whereas most of the Godly people in England are crying to God mightly for you to purge out self-seeking and to plant a spirit of government in you and to furnish you with natural and spiritual abilities suitable to the work that lieth before you but if you begin to flag as the former power did and so let the work stick in the birth and every one minding his own things and not the things of Jesus Christ Then let me tell you that all the Lords people in England and the other nations will be praying to him and wrestling with him and give him no rest night nor day till the Lord turn you also out of doors and bring in those that he will own and blesse FINIS