Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	law_n	life_n	power_n	7,129	5	5.5274	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83995	Englands remembrancers. Or, a word in season to all English men about their elections of the members for the approaching Parliament.		1656 (1656)	Wing E3037; Thomason E884_5; ESTC R207311	7,427	8

they may under God involve you in bloud and Confusion or settle you in peace and Happinesse you are now to choose those that are to choose for you all the Rules of your civil lives and conversations they are to judge wherein you shall be bound and wherein free The Rules and Lawes you have already are in their power to alter saving to you your naturall Rights and what new lawes they judge necessary you are to be bound by them you are to choose those that are to supervise the Administration of all Justice amongst you so that in truth you are now to provide for all righteousnhsse amongst men wherein the Glory of God and the Honour of the profession of Christianity is so much concern'd And in a word you are now to choose those whom you trust with your persons your lives your estates your wives and children and your countrey If you have any value for any of these and love to justice and the Honour of God and love to your dearest Countrey and tendernesse to your wives and children or your own bloud or any love to your trades peace and safety you are seriously to mind this election and to take heed how you choose and whom you choose and to do it conscionably as in the sight of God and not as men-pleasers Take heed that no vile corrupt motive bias or incline your minds in your Election Let not any Dependance you have upon any man for personall profit and advantage move you let not friendship or relation of any kind whatsoever make you recede from the pure and noble principles of free-born English men Let not the greatest power or pompe of any man make you admire him or incline your minds to trust him Let not hopes of favour or countenance of any man allure you sell not your selves and posterity and countrey at such low prices as these Neither let the threats or terrour of any man nor yet the clashing of the souldiers Armes affright you out of your Impartiall judgements and Integrity in your choice and we beseech you lay aside all personall prejudice against any sort of men and agree together to have nothing in your eyes in your Elections but the worth and fitnesse of the persons for so great a trust as you are to repose in them And enquire after these ensuing Qualifications First that they be such men as Jethro counselled Moses to choose men fearing God and haring coverousnesse and lovers of righteousnesse and truth Exod. 18.21 Secondly that they be men of judgement and wisedome having a sence of and able to look into the true causes of all our Countries mise●●es distractions and burthens and by Gods help to contrive the best means of our ease and settlement in freedome and peace Thirdly that they be men of courage and fortitude despising danger and hazard for the common good such as think not their lives too dear to venture for righteousnesse sake men of cowardly mean spirits will sell themselves and you for slaves if any man of power boldly attempt to be a tyrant over you Fourthly that they be men of uprightnesse and integrity in their lives such as sear not good laws but love them how can evil doers to whom good laws are a terrour be instrumentall to make such laws such as are faith breakers and falsifiers of their trusts proud and arbitrary oppressours of others or despisers of the laws such can never heartily endeavour that justice should be done on such offendours and without that you can never enjoy freedome or safety Fifthly that they be full of mercie love and goodnesse to all men full of the bowells of Christ taking compassion of such as are out of the way not malic ous cruell or blocdy whose hands and hearts are readie to thirst for the bloud of such as are not of their minds though men more righteous then themselves Sixthly that they be men of meek humble and sober minds not proud or ambitious nor passionate such will easily degene ate into tyrants or be readie to share in tyranny Seventhly That they be men of publick enlarged minds and hearts who know they are not born for themselves but to give glory to God in righteousnesse in their generation such as cannot be satisfied unlesse they be doing good to othe●s not men of private mean spirits who m●nd not how the nation fares if it be well with them such will be readie to betray you to save themselves Eighthly That they be men equally concerned with you in all they shall advise about or enact whose interest is bound up in yours and must share equallie in all your common burthens opp essions and losses not such as live upon the publick purse or any of their adherents whose gain is your losse and whose pomp and greatnesse must be founded in your oppressions and ruines Ninthly that they be men of sound experience in publick affairs and well affected with the worth of our good old cause and well read in the deceipts of this age and such of whose faithfulnesse you have had some tryall seek out we say dear Christian friends and Countrey-men for men thus fitted by God for publick trust and meet and advise together how you may find out men so qualified and then acquaint each other with your knowledge you have of them and lend such in your stead to the Grand Assembly and then pray for them and stand by them and take every affront done to them as done to the whole nation and to every one of you in particular and then without doubt if God shall please to humble the nation for the sins which have brought us under all our miseries the mighty God will so blesse all those endeavours that tend to the advancing of righteousnesse truth and justice that the voice of Tyranny and Oppression will be no more heard amongst us your liberties will be vindicated your Grievances and burthens eas'd the Honour of our Countrey that now lieth in the dust among all nations will be again restored your trades reviv'd peace and plenty returned and the Generations yet unborn will have cause to blesse God for such an Assembly and what shall we say more to you dear Christians and Countrymen Do not the teares of the widow and the cryes of the fatherlesse speak do not your imprisoned friends speak do not your banished neighbours speak do not your infringed rights speak do not your invaded properties speak do not your gasping liberties speak do not your often affronted Representatives which have been trod upon with scorn speak Witnesse Jamaica do not your incumbred estates speak do not the bloud of many thousands speak some slain with the sword and others killed with hunger do not the cries of your poor brethren the honest Sea men the wall and bulwark of our Nation against forreiners who have so freely venturd their lives upon all just accounts and calls and are now most barbarously forced from their wives and children to serve the ambitious and fruitlesse designes of one man do not all your ruines at home and abroad by land and sea speak to you Surely they have loud voices surely they do daily cry in your cares Help help or England perishes FINIS