Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	apostle_n	jesus_n	lord_n	2,259	5	3.2631	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84012	The English banner of truth displayed: or, The state of this present engagement against Scotland. Wherein is soberly discuss'd the lawfulness and necessity of the engagement. The high aggravations of it, as to the Scots. The groundlesness of those of the Presbyteries coniunction with the Scots and malignants, either from religion, their former state-principles, or the demeanour of those those [sic] in authority towards them. Also, a brief series of transactions, whereby it appears that those of the Presbytery have continually endeavoured the disturbing of the peace of the nation, ... and are the ground of this third war now with the Scots and malignants. Together with some occasional assertions; that the laying aside of some members of Parliament, the proceedings against the late King, the changings of the government, is sutable unto the end of all our engagements ... / By a friend to the Commonwealth of England.	Friend to the Commonwealth of England.	1650 (1650)	Wing E3081; Thomason E608_12; ESTC R201940	14,208	16

Apostles that they ever took the Authorities of the world to enforce Religion nor called for fire from Heaven upon such as refused except those to whom Christ said You known not of what Spirit you are nor that they intermeddled in setting Nations on fire if they were not received Luk. 9.54.55 or that mixt themselves in these hum●ne affaires Therefore for the Presbyter in England to Design and Leavy war to plot and conspire to betray and give up their own Nation into the hands of strangers and men of desperate Spirits whose mercies are cruelties and which may end in the des●owring and ra●shment of Matrons and Virgins the ripping up of women with child the dashing of little ones against the Wals the blood and ruine of a Nation their own Nation and all that is dear in it because every thing is not enforced as Doctrine which they lay down because what they propose as the external part of a Kirk is not coercively enjoyned upon all men themselves not being Apostles or able to demonstrate the truth of their assertions from the Scriptures or Apostolical infall●bility hath no ground at all from Christ o● his Apostles but the very contrary is judged by the Scriptures It is evident that such minde their own L●sts and not the Lord Jesus to whom they pretend and therefore when they suffer it will be as evil doers not for the Gospel 2. Then for their State-principle I mean the cause of their first Engagement against the King Was it not because it was contrary to the Law of Nature the safety of the People that one man should be above the Law and dispose of the lives and estates of the Nation as he pleased and when the Parliament desired redress in many grievances to raise Arms against them and tear the very bowels of the Nations and put all upon the hazard rather then to be limited in his unsatiable Will And were not those Gentlemen some of the first the most zealous in Parliament Pulpits and Armies against him and his party and rejoyced that they had a life or estate to lose or engage against him Or could any thing be imagined to express their detestation of him and his party more then came from their Pulpits P●ns and Swords or are any to this day so severe against his party in Sequestrations c. And is not the Cause still the same the same cruel bloody tyrannical principles and parties to be opposed whom if God should permit to have the day would execute such horrid villanies murthers massacres that the Sun never saw and would not rest whilst the face of honesty were remaining in the Nation or indeed this any longer a People Are they converted nay are they not rather heightned in all malicious bloodiness imaginable and will let these men taste of the Cup as deep as others and herein be more miserable to see their friends destroyed before them Why then or upon what ground do the Presbyters after that God hath delivered that King and his party into our hands a first a second a third time in England Scotland and Ireland hath brandished his sword and given it a charge against them to their overthrow and made th●m the destruction of those that joyned to them as well as witnessed from heaven against them in the most signal manner that ever was in the world Why then do they now strike in with that Interest and joyn with those and forraign people to put their Country their Religion their Wives and Children their Lives and Liberties and all that is dear in the world after all our preservations into utter destructions Oh consider this and lay it to heart lest you become ●uilty of the blood of your friends your selves and that which hath been committed by this party lest you fall with transgressors and God tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver you Hath any thing been done that is not according to our first Principle and that unavoidable Necessity enforced us Could it be safe after all to leave such a dangerous President on Record as a King unpunished that had endeavoured to bring his Will thorow the Blood of a Nation and the Liberties thereof and had appealed to God to determine the Quarrel by the sword Or were it just to do so to destroy the Servant and excuse the Master that gave the ●mmand and to leave the honest party unsecured after all their sufferings Did not you fight against him in the Feild and was not this as much as cutting off his head at White-Hall onely you mist your Execution but that tooke And when some of us being unsatisfied whether we should kill the King if we met him in a Charge and went to many of you to be resolved Viz. Mr. Calamy Mr Case Mr. Love Mr. Ash c. did not you tell us that we might lawfully kill him How comes now your Judgment to be altered Can the power of Godlinesse be safe amongst these men Can you love their company and joyn with their actions If you say 't was but a party of men did this and that it was not according to the Covenant Did not those that you looke upon betray their trusts and fall into compliance with him contrary to their duty and to the hazard of the Nation Must all be lost because some are unfaithfull And should not they doe justice whose hearts God hath kept upright and called to performe it because others neglected it and would not doe it Was there not a necessity in these things And for the Covenant were you to protect him otherwise then it consists with Religion and the safety of the People Was it not according to Religion that he that sheddeth mans bloud by man should his bloud be shed And could his comming in with a Negative voice and his opportunities thereby to obtaine in a short time all his ends be safe for the Liberties of the People especially there being no conviction upon him or any remorse for his former Actions And was it not a part of the Covenant to bring Delinquents to punishment Was not he one the Chiefe the Principall Or are Covenants of that nature any otherwise then Externall serving onely whilst the end viz. the safety and good of the People is cleare and perspicuous are they any longer binding then the Equitie of them remanies and the Powers that made them so understand it Besides are Constitutions to be perpetuall Hath not and doth not God make many changes in the world and as the good of the people is more brought to light should not Constitutions beare that in their foreheads The safety of the People ought to forme Constitutions and not old Constitutions to determine the safety of the people nor ought every defect to cause an alteration but where necessity enforceth especially where the former proves destructive are not the Laws changed upon this account To what end serves all the discoveries of good in the world if