Selected quad for the lemma: state_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
state_n	lord_n	say_a	unite_a	1,066	5	10.8816	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79540	A Christian and brotherly exhortation to peace: directed unto the soverain states of England, and the United Provinces of the Netherlands. And to the people of both nations. Translated out of the French copie, sent by a lover of peace from beyond sea.	Lover of peace from beyond sea.	1653 (1653)	Wing C3938; Thomason E725_14; ESTC R206769	13,829	21

A Christian and Brotherly EXHORTATION TO PEACE Directed unto the Soverain States of ENGLAND and the United Provinces of the NETHERLANDS And to the People of both NATIONS Translated out of the French Copie sent by a Lover of Peace from beyond Sea LONDON Printed for Richard Wodenothe in Leaden-hall-street To The Illustrious Sovereign States of ENGLAND and the United Provinces of the NETHERLANDS And to the People of both the said NATIONS I Could wish my Lords and beloved Brethren that my tongue might be untied and loosed to as good a purpose for your Peace and Reconciliation as that in time past was of a dumb man for the saving of his Father Though I am not affected with the same naturall fright and amazement as that was which did untie his tongue in an instant Yet I dare assure you that the affection which I bear for your Peace and Reconciliation is no lesse then that of a childe for the life of his Father And this is that which doth obliege me to conjure you to consider whether those differences of yours can be pleasing unto him that hath freed you from the captivity and Kingdome of death and darknesse into which you were plunged and hath gathered you unto his holy Jerusalem received you into his Covenant united you unto himself and his with an everlasting and indissoluble bond or whether it be not contrary unto his will Do you believe that he hath gathered you together and united you with those whom he hath enlightened and to whom he caused the light of the Gospel to shine that you should unite your selves afterward with them that follow after the Beast that have given up their Kingdome unto it and are yet under the power of death and darknesse If you be alive what communion can you have with the dead and with those that make war with the Spouse and with the truth of him that hath raised you by his Spirit of life Can you believe that he hath delivered you from the hand of the Babylonians that you should re-unite your selves again with them Or that he made you go out of Babylon that you should make peace with those that maintain the Crimes and uphold the Dominion thereof Are you not of those to whom the Lord hath said Apoc. 12. Go out from Babylon my people Are you not of those that have received the Testimony of the Witnesses which their King hath slain and whom the Lord hath raised to shew unto you his will How can you then unite your selves and make peace with those that accuse them and make war against them Remember you not the violence and cruelties they have exercised against you and yours in the preceding age to bring you into subjection and bondage Have you forgotten the Army which they called the Invincible which they had designed for your destruction Are they not the very same who seeing that they could not prevail against you by open force and remembring that a short truce of twelve years failed but a very little of having undone you conceived that a deceitful peace would make an end of you and that according to the advice which sometimes Balaam gave unto Balaak of uniting himself with the children of Israel to divide them from God and to provoke his anger and jealousie against them it would be a means to bring their design to passe Do you believe that it is for your good and not much rather for their own Interest that they have sued for a peace with you which is so deceitfull Are you still so blinde as not to see that they minde nothing else but how they may divide you from your Brethren and ancient Allies Have they not been your enemies by hindering you to entertain more advantagious confederacies And you may sufficiently understand by the good offices which they perform unto you at this present what their thoughts have been towards you when they have sought peace at your hands Oh if you could but have hearkened unto the advice which was given you concerning it a little before you came to a conclusion you would now be at peace with your Brethren and would be perhaps far from those troublesome Neighbours which do so often disturbe you How much blood and treasure would you have spared Your people which have been but languishing all this while in regard of the flourishing condition they were in heretofore would as yet possesse a glorious prosperity And you also Sirs who do lend them your hands do you not consider the good offices which they do unto those who peradventure have most contributed to maintain them in a good part of their Estates which have been shaken Do you not know that they are of those who do not think themselves obliegd to keep faith unto you and that they cannot suffer any of their subjects to make profession of your Religion without putting them to cruell deaths Can you hope that when they shall see their advantages and the occasion of advancing their affairs they will deal with you otherwise then they have dealt with your fathers and at this present do deal with your brethren notwithstanding all the benefit and advantages they have received from them By what Policy can you be united unto those which do think you to be Gods enemies and are perswaded that he doth command them to make war against you and would be content with the losse of Kingdomes and millions of men to have you all utterly rooted out with all those of your Religion How can you give assistance for the taking of Places even the strongest upon your Borders and thus insensibly to weaken and to block up your selves Do you not think that they may turn about and make peace with your Neighbours Do you not know that thousands of Babylonians do most pas●ionately desire it and that already many do endeavour on all sides to bring them to a Re-union to the end that they may fall upon you promising to themselves nothing else then to divide the spoil which they will get of you and of your brethren Do you not perceive that there be many discontented and interes●ed amongst you which do yet pant and long after Monarchie Can you be ignorant that the Interest of Kings doth obliege them to give them all possible assistance and do you not call to minde the hatred which you have brought upon you and the jealousies which you give to all and which have drawn upon you mighty enemies You know but too well that there be many of yours which do not yield unto your Government but by power and constraint that your Ecclesiastical Politick and Military States do consist of ill-affected persons that are full of discontents and emulation which do wait only but for an opportunity that they may safely discover themselves Do you not remember both of you that there be still some Princes that had the Supream Power over you which will never be forgotten by them Remember therefore that upon the