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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	know_v	lord_n	soul_n	7,158	5	4.8741	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44842	The real cause of the nations bondage and slavery here demonstrated and the way of their freedome from their sore and hard bondage asserted presented unto the Parliament ... / from one that hath seen the corruption ... Richard Hubberthorn.	Hubberthorn, Richard, 1628-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3228; ESTC R34471	6,259	9

may have its free course and be glorified And that great oppression of Tithes which lyes heavy upon the whole Nation which God raised up his Spirit in the Army once to testifie against may be taken away that what was then pretended may be now fulfilled and the people eased of their oppressions which they have long felt the burthen of and groaned under that so as a free people they may be delivered from that bondage and the Law may be disannulled by which that bondage is imposed upon them So this will beget love in the nation and all persecution cruelty and bitterness will cease and every one may freely and quietly enjoy the fruit of his own labour then with much freedom and chearfulness will every one Minister of his substance unto all necessary uses knowing that the earth and the fulness of it is the Lords and when this universal love and free Spirit is begotten among people then will Righteousness establish the Nation and that will be brought forth which many sincere hearts and tender Consciences hath waited for several years and many have been even almost weary and faint in their minds in waiting for that which they once had a lively sight of and hopes to enjoy in the Lords Promise of Liberty and Freedom opened in their understandings ten years since insomuch that some have been ready to tempt God and say that he was slack concerning his Promise and some for want of long patience hath left off expecting that which they once believed and hoped for but God is reviving the hopes of the contrite ones and in them that had said there was no hope in them is he renewing strength to believe that God will give Judges as at the first and Councellors as at the beginning the Judges at the first were not to Judge for gifts nor for rewards nor the Priests was not to preach for hire nor the Prophets were not to Divine for money but the Judges did Minister Justice freely between man and man and the Priests did Minister the Law freely which was added upon all transgression so in those dayes here were no Priests that troubled the Courts Judges nor Councellors with Addresses Petitions or Complaints for maintenance no suing at the Law no Imprisoning mens persons for wages nor no spoiling of mens goods and there was not such delayes in executeing judgement upon transgressors as is now for the Judges sat in the gate and executed judgement speedily upon the offender cleansed the land of evil doers and so every one was to wait on his Ministry which he had received from the Lord and are to do so now if they do it unto the Lord he that judgeth for God is not to respect any mans person in judgement and he that hath the word of the Kingdom is to Minister it freely and then the people will Minister their carnal things freely to every one that hath need so that whereas even from the Priest to the people al hath been given to covetousness strife debate every one now will be given to love and freenesse one to another for he that hath spiritual things will Minister them freely and he that hath carnal things will Minister them freely and so will all come from under the execution of the Law and from all strife and contention Another great oppression wherein iniquity is upheld by a Law is in the Ministration of the Law between man and man it not being done frely so not as in the begining HE that doth Minister the Law let him do it freely for the Lord and for righteousnesse sake and let him be as one of the Judges in the beginning and as one of the councellors whose eyes were not blinded with gifts and rewards and so it will come to be a free nation and then every man will not seek his own but every one anothers good then will pure love spring up to one another one will seek to preserve and save another and not devour destroy one another about earthly things as now they do so Christs spirit will be found among all sorts of people Ministers of the Law Ministers of the Gospel and subjects of the nation which were to save mens lives not to destroy them and then the Scriptures which cannot be broken will be fulfilled and peace will be extended as a river and righteousnesse as a mighty stream For it is this spirit which I have mentioned in Lawyer Priests which did not Minister freely but for covetous ends hath made merchandize of peoples souls and estates that hath broken the peace of this Nation as many hath had a deep experience even when the Army was in its first purity and zeal for God and his truth that spirit did creep into their councels and corrupted them and did creep into Parliaments and corrupted them and when there was any appearance of a Monarchy or government arising in that Nation that spirit crept into every high Court and corrupted it so that whole Nations are corrupted with that spirit so that till that spirit be purged out there is not like to be a free Nation or a free people for it was that spirit which brought Israel into bondage which was once a free Nation and not in bondage to any man while the Judges judged freely and the Priest preached freely and the Prophets prophesied freely without mony or without price then was Israel a free Nation and a free people and the glory of all Nations but when the Judges judged for giftes and rewards and the Priests preached for hire and the Prophets divined for money then they became as corrupt as the Nations of the Gentiles round about them and then they came into bondage and captivity and then profainnesse went forth from the Priests into all the earth as it doth from those in England which are in the same state now see that sin and covetousnesse is a reproach to any people as Salomon saith Prov. 14. 23. and it is that which brings them into bondage from being a free people now if none may Minister the Law but those that do it freely as unto the Lord and as his Ministers then that covetous self-seeking spirit will be purged out in Judges Councellors Lawyers Attorneys and Solicitors which would devour the creation to spend upon their own lusts that seeks for great places to inrich themselves and destroy others so that equity Law and Justice is lost and the free Ministration of it in this Nation so that in many cases a man had better suffer himself to be defrauded then to seek to the Law for Justice the administration of it is become so corrupt and the law is so perverted by them that a man is not suffered to plead his own cause but is forced to hire a Lawyer or an Attorney and men are not suffered to bear a true and faithful witnesse nor to have the truth and justnesse of their cause confirmed by the mouth of two