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truth_n	believe_v	great_a	world_n	2,360	5	4.4184	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70679	The case and trial of Capt. Robert Norwood, now prisoner in New-gate, truely and impartially stated, and published for satisfaction of my allied friends, and very many others desirous thereof. Together with some observations upon the law and its professors, very worthy a most serious consideration. Both which, (with a brief answer, by way of postscript, to a secret calumny charged upon me) are here presented to the view and judgement of the whole nation: which, if duly considered, with the shrot [sic] discourse annexed, will clearly discover where England's death and life lies.	Norwood, Robert, Captain.	1652 (1652)	Wing N1380A; ESTC R25970	18,744	26

said That every wise man hath his end I say too If his end be true and that his end and way be one and the same else he is no a wise man or acts not in wisdom If that I would have desire or seek be just and right I neither care nor fear who sees or knows it I must and will say Whatsoever man or men judge me a Plotter or Designer they are themselves deeply guilty and from that guilt ises that his suspicion He who stands firm in himself whose deeds and actings have been and are in truth fears not the greatest or suddenest approaches of the highest light I will give them and all men these two Reasons which may strongly induce them to believe the contrary First I never did neither do I desire Greatness in the world Secondly I never did nor do I desire Popularity For I well know them both and what their natural tendencies are Though many things of high if not of highest concernment to this Nation have come thorow my hands as is known to many yet have I seldom or never appeared in them Verily I have had as many opportunities and advantages cast upon me for my particular advancement as most men and many have judged me of as answerable parts It 's true I had once and but once in all these Troubles thoughts of enjoying my self quietly in peace and rest without any more medling or looking upon the present state and course of things and so of building unto my self a nest here and to that end did my heart and hand exceed perhaps its due bounds But God met me and fell upon me with blowe upon blowe I ever did and do still desire a private life above all and have again endeavoured it though in a very mean condition comparatively but I must not be my own carver I have I do and that upon the duest most serious and most deliberate advices thoughts and consultations in and with my self judge and determine neither poverty nor riches to be the best the surest and safest condition therefore the most desirable The Lord who knows my heart knows it was unfeigned love to the Nation its common good common weal or weal common not to my private or particular self hath drawn me forth in and unto all my publike actings Had I sought advantages to and for my self I could not have missed them but in stead thereof I have spent my self my time and estate without any satisfaction What I was at first I am the same still There seemed to me in the beginning of these times to be a very free upright ingenuous innocent conjunction of hearts and spirits for a real common good for Liberty and Freedom in truth for Reformation in all things according to the Rule of Truth real and not verbal formal or notional onely and this indeed was the end of all our Covenants and Engagements which shall yet be brought to pass and accomplished which shall yet stand for and against And this continued until the corrupt private and particular interests of some in Authority with the Clergie and by their instigations rent and tore in pieces making that which in a true rational grammatical sence is one entire union in it self looking onely one way to look as many several ways as their several interests foolish fancies led them to imagine even as they do the Scriptures and all things else Union speaking death to them their subsistences being in and by dividings and divisions I must deal plainly with the Actors and Officers of and in this State as I have formerly with those in the late King's time Your actings your ways and workings are not sutable to nor agreeable with Principles of honour and honesty peace and safety either in reference to your selves or the Commonwealth but directly destructive to both Have you brought Salvation Liberty and Freedom to your selves Know you cannot enjoy these without them your All lies wrapped up in them though not theirs in you Look to it I intreat you Should I say otherwise I should be found a Flatterer Lyer and Dissembler and for ever unworthy to have respect from or be admitted to the meanest Trust or Service in or to any Prince or State whatsoever ROBERT NORWOOD FINIS Reader in stead of Judge Nicols read Judge Warberton

Love Love in truth Names and Shews and Forms will not do it but Love in Life Love in Power The reason is nothing is truely wise but it and it 's better then Wisdom or it 's Wisdoms excellencie or the excellencie of Wisdom is Love and therefore saith Christ of himself Behold a wiser then Solomon is here Hence Christ is said to come out of the bosome of the Father because he is the Father's Love or the love of or rather in the Father And hence is he said to be the Saviour of the world because nothing but love either will or can save it because nothing else can in truth work righteousness but it nothing else being truely righteous or righteousness in truth but it Brethren be not deceived it 's not the sufferings it 's not the blood it 's not the death of Christ slain at Jerusalem will save you as witnesseth the Scriptures this is the Saviour or Salvation that great Salvation God sent into the world therefore when he comes he brings this Command with him namely Love one another and saith as the truth is that under that is comprehended all And you must know God or Christ and his Commands are himself Now I say as before it hath been said that Light or Truth is come into the world or hath received its resurrection though not as yet its ascension in and over the world but as men then did so men now do love darkness more then light why because their deeds are evil and this therefore is the condemnation Brethren it 's undeniably true that he which doth or that which is Truth willingly and readily comes unto the light at least if it may have liberty so to do And on the contrary it is as certain that he which doth or that which is evil as much a voids and shuns the light Brethren the days of your ignorance God hath hither to winked at but now he willeth that all men should come to the knowledge of the truth Wherefore Brethren let me in love in the bowels of love of mercy and compassion intreat and beseech you And I do earnestly intreat you all of and in the Nation of all ranks qualities states and conditions you of the Clergie you the professors of the Law I beseech you again and again to consider All unrighteousness is sin all sin is weakness weakness bringeth forth death Why O why then will you die Behold death lies at the very door of this Nation Consider is any thing called for but your unrighteousness which will certainly be your death What is it you are to part with is it any thing but that which will evidently and eminently be your destruction Consider all things must die must pass away but Love but Charity and they or that abides for ever that is God that is Christ to whom or to which when the whole man is in the same Love subjected and united then indeed is it properly said to be saved or to be in a condition of salvation when that true light which is life or life which is light that wisdom which is pure and unspotted of the world free from all flesh and fleshliness yet living in flesh but not flesh that is he or it which is not touched with Humanity even the alone-wisdom of the eternal Deity in himself which when he or it shall arise in his or its own pure light life and strength in us and we in the sight of the loveliness beauty and excellencie thereof are in our selves in our earthly selfish fleshly carnal or worldliness subjected and united in love thereunto then from thence in the light life power and strength thereof shall we act in the Righteousness of or rather in Love unto All Verily I cannot but abhor the Doctrine and Principles of most Christians and I profess before all the world they are Principles and Doctrines of devils and the very bane of or unto all Godliness and Honesty wholly destructive to the true Scripture which hath and must have its union with and so its life subsistence existence and consistence in the light and truth it self the very form shadow or outside of things being set up worshipped adored received trusted unto and rested in in stead of the light life power and truth it self I will give you a very late example or president just now brought to my hand by an honest Gentleman which was of an Officer belonging to the Excise-Office London who having wickedly forsworn himself and being reproved for it readily replied that Christ died for perjured persons And to say the very truth it is that we all wipe our mouthes with We sin by oppression by injustice by deceit or by other carnal fleshly sensual and devilish actings why Christ died for sinners we lay all upon the back of a poor weak man like our selves dying at Jerusalem and this also the Clergie when men are upon their death-beds stop into their mouthes with some of their bread and wine perhaps also and then all 's well they must to heaven without dispute O Rome Rome Rome My dear Country-men you of this Nation I speak unto you all for whom and whose true and real peace and happiness I could God is my witness from my very soul I speak it with much more chearfulness and readiness of spirit be offered up a sacrifice in the fire then to be freed and delivered from my present bonds and imprisonment O that I could deliver you from the present and those future sorer evils that are coming upon you except repentance indeed prevents them Brethren you may easily see where your salvation lies who or what your salvation is There is no salvation but in union with Light and Life no salvation but in Christ the Righteousness and Wisdom of the Father wherefore in Isaiah he is called the Wonderful Counseller and so the Prince of peace whose Kingdom must be established with judgement and justice He is there also called The mighty God and The everlasting Father In Isai. 42. 6 I have saith the text called thee in righteousness So that you see there is no peace no salvation no rest but in Union no Union but in Righteousness no Righteousness but in Love your inward or inmost salvation lieth here and your outward utmost or outmost salvation lieth here also If the outmost figures stand and hold in Union Communion each with other according to and in proportion with the inmost light and life receiving their strength and subsistence from thence then are they safe or saved Thus One operating into Three and Three operating again into One is the life of all and every one which speaks the wisdom love and righteousness of or in the Father which is the onely and alone Saviour or Salvation and that is Union He who died at Jerusalem I say my brethren is not the Christ is not the Saviour the Scriptures point you unto I deny not but that he or that which is the life and light