Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	according_a	holy_a	scripture_n	2,400	5	5.5262	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76714	A mite of affection, manifested in 31. proposals, offered to all the sober and free-born people within this common-wealth; tending and tendred unto them for a settlement in this the day and hour of the vvorlds distraction and confusion.	Billing, Edward, 1623-1686.; Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662, attributed name.	1659 (1659)	Wing B2902; Thomason E1001_5; ESTC R204877	8,763	15

A MITE OF AFFECTION Manifested in 31. PROPOSALS Offered to all the Sober and Free-born People within this Common-wealth Tending and tendred unto them for a Settlement in this the day and hour of the VVorlds Distraction and Confusion Yet a little while and the light is with ye but the Night cometh shortly wherein no man can work LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1659. A MITE of AFFECTION manifested in 31. Proposals offered to all Sober and Free-born People within this Common-wealth Tending and tendred unto them for a Settlement in this the day and hour of the worlds Distraction and Confusion _1 FIrst that the Magistrate have no Coersive power whatsoever in matters of Religion Faith or Worship but that all persons within the Dominions of this Common-wealth professing Faith in Christ Jesus shall have full and free Liberty of the Exercise of his or their consciences in matters of Faith towards God to all intents without any restriction whatsoever though of different perswasions as aforesaid and that none be secluded from peaceably inhabiting within the dominions of this Common-wealth who believe in the Eternal and Ever-living God And that no person shall upon any pretence whatsoever be imprisoned or undergoe any manner of punishment for the exercise of their conscience towards God And that all such as are so imprisoned be forthwith released and freely set at liberty And that no person or persons whatsoever within this Common-wealth be forced or constrained by any Law made or to be made by any power pretence or pretences whatsoever to uphold or pay towards the maintenance of any Minister publick or private Preacher in any kind whatsoever but that every one be left to his own liberty therein to do as seemeth him good and not to be forced to pay to any person whom he neither hires hears nor sets at work knowing this to be equal in the sight of God and just men 2. Secondly That none be compelled to swear or take an Oath against their conscience it being contrary to the expresse command of Christ who saith swear not at all but that the same punishment be inflicted on him that shall speak falsely cozen cheat or bear false witnesse in any case whatsoever as if he sware falsely proportioning his punishment that shall do so as he thought to have punished the other by his false Testimony and Witnesse which is equal the Law being for the lawlesse and disobedient 3. That no person or persons within the Dominions of this Common-wealth who are not subservient to a foreign State nor have forfeited their Liberty by Delinquency or having a hand in any of the late Plots or Rebellions against the Common-weealth be secluded from any publick trust or place of trust either in Parliament Councel Army or other Judicatures or place of Trust whatsoever within the Dominions of this Common-wealth 4. Fourthly That no person or persons whatsoever who have persecuted any for their conscience or committed any to prison for their conscience shall be capable of electing or being elected into any place of Trust within the dominions of this Common-wealth till a farther manifestation be given of his or their good affection towards the people of God and equall and just Liberty of every individual person though of different perswasions within the Dominions of this Common-wealth 5. Fifthly That no person or persons whatsoever be tryed for Life Limb Liberty or Estate but by a Jury of twelve men of the Neighbour-hood or others who shall well know each other reserving the right of just exception against any Judge Jury-man or Witnesse if any justly can be made And that no person or persons whatsoever now residing or happening to be within the Dominions of this Common-wealth shall be condemned to death or adjudged to pay any Mulct Fine or undergoe any penalty or corporal punishment or suffer any prejudice whatsoever but by known and lawful witnesses being produced face to face or any other way destroyed in priviledge Liberty or Estate but by witnesses as aforesaid the which is according to the Declaration of the holy men of God recorded in the Scripture of Truth 6. Sixthly That all servile Tenures or Copy-holds within this Common-wealth being the badge or yoke of the Conquest be thorowly considered and made consistent with the well being of a firm Common-wealth due regard being had to every mans just propriety 7. Seventhly that no person whatsoever within this Common-wealth nor the Dominions thereof be put to death for Theft but be forced to labour with their own hands till such time that he or she so offending the just Law of God and man hath restored to the party wronged 2 3 or 4. fold or otherwise sold for their Theft till satisfaction be made to the person wronged as aforesaid But he that spills mans blood by man let his blood be spilt 8. That the whole Law and all proceedings in Law whatsoever within this Common-wealth be forthwith removed into each County Wapentake Hundred or Town commonly called Parishes and that all unrighteous Patents given forth by the late Kings and others who have called themselves Rulers of this Common-wealth be forthwith called in repealed and made void And that there be one and the same just Laws holding and Tenure made and given forth to all the people residing within this Common-wealth and to the end that they may be truly known to every individual person let the Law be printed that every one may know that Law which he is to be subject to to the intent that no man may be condemned by a Law he neither knowes nor ever heard of nor understands neither indeed can he when as it lyes in the brest of other men And further that so much of that Law may be read to every person called or summoned before any Judicature as concerns the person or persons so summoned as aforesaid 9. That Courts of Record be firmly setled in each County within this Common-wealth with honest Judges empowered finally to hear and determine of all Causes that shall arise within each County respectively within this Common-wealth it being for the benefit and good of the faithful Denizens within this Common-wealth And likewise that all manner of Bonds Bills Obligations Leases Deeds Bequeathments Assignments Deeds of Gift Donations Wills and Testaments Contracts Bargains and Sales of Lands Tenements Seising and Seizures Mortgages Pledges Pawns or other dispositions transactions whatsoever from five pounds downwards to 5. shillings if the party or parties borrowing and lending contracting Leasing selling or any otherwise bargaining as is aforesaid or can be said shall desire the same to twenty thousand pounds and upwards without limitation be recorded in each County That is to say in the Court to be erected and is hereby declared fit to be erected to wit one in the Shire Town of each County Hundred Ryding Wapentack and also that two persons be appointed to be forthwith in each