Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	good_a	lord_n	people_n	4,014	5	4.8063	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30536	A message to the present rulers of England whether committee of safety, (so called) councell of officers, or others whatsoever : delivered unto them by an ambassadour from the only right heire of the government, whose right alone it is to rule : and by special authority and commission from him, this is sent unto them, that they may hear, and fear, and learn wisdom, and may deliver up the proper right of the only King unto him, that they may be blessed, but on the conrray dependeth their destruction / by Edward Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing B6015; ESTC R14580	13,686	20

he overthrew that oppressing power of Kings Lords and Bishops both in Church and Civill State and brought some Tyrants and Oppressors to just execution for their wickednesse and in a great measure he did deliver the people of this Nation in many things and there was a part of reformation wrought and much pretended and looked for and all this came to passe through him and my Lord did accomplish it however the instruments by which he wrought proved deceitfull and became oppressors as others before them and though there was in this Nation a day of great troubles and warrs and contention and great strife and the wasting of much blood and earthly treasure and none of these things I must tell you fell without the ordering of my Masters hand yet so it was and came to pass that after this Nation was restored to peace though much unrighteousnesse and Injustice was removed yet there was much also left behinde and men that he had used as instruments in his hand in a good work and to whom he had given wisdom and understanding and appeared in much mercy and in great deliverance yet they even turned to seeke themselves and became corrupted in the spoyles of their Enemies and when peace and plenty abounded the Lord was forgotten again and then the Land fell under oppressors and began again to cry out for freedom even when other horns of the first Beast sprang up and went one each of them after his fellow and though one horne hath striven to break another yet after one hath bin cast down another hath risen and made an Image to the first and ruled and reigned by the same Spirit and Authority derived from the Dragons power in cruelty and oppression and made Lawes and executed them to the dishonour of the Lord and to the great oppression of his people and to the filling of this Island with Injustice and cruelty even from one generation to another untill this day and thus up and down hath times and seasons bin altered power and Authority changed and altered Statuts Lawes and Decrees changeable and alterable for as the iniquity of one power was filled up that was cast down and another had its day till the measure of the first was also finished that he might partake of the same judgments and in all these over-turnings breakings down and over-throwings the very hand of my Lord hath bin though secretly and not discerned yet his power hath brought about and suffered all these things to come to pass and who shall charge him with Injustice or who shall say what hast thou don or why hast thou don it for as I have said he is a high and mighty Prince and can do whatsoever he will and he is the Supream Power and Authority which Rules and Reignes in and over all the Kingdomes of men and what though he hath used wicked men as an instrument to accomplish his work and made the wicked his Rod and even brought it to pass that one wickednesse should destroy another and one oppressor break down another and the Kingdom of Antichrist confound its self yet what of all these things all flesh must bee silent before him and all people and the whole Earth must be subject unto him for the Government and Dominion over Heaven and Earth are his and all Power and Dominion belongs to him alone and all Judgment is in his hand to bring to pass whatsoever he will and by whomsoever as he pleaseth But now my Friends though I would not be tedious to you yet must I tell you the truth and faithfully deliver the Lords Message unto you and as concerning this last overturning there was something of the hand of my Lord in it and hee can and will bring forth his own work and praise by it and it shall be for the good of all his people that waites upon him though there was much ambition and corrupted ends in the Instruments and neither part were perfectly single to the Lord in their proceedings but their work was tasted with the false Idolatrous spirit of self-seeking Yet notwithstanding the Lord may bring forth his Government and his pleasant Plant through and beyond all this even out of another Root which yet appears not among either of them and Righteousnesse may arise in the Nation contrary to both of them out of another stem and he will set up his Kingdom and in the mean time leave one Potsheard of the Earth to break another And as for you that now sits on the Throne and beares Rule whether Committee of Safety so called chiefly though it is not without my Master for he hath the knowledge of it at least yet you are not the onely men of his Choice truly called of him to the place of Government neither is your Government the Government of the Lamb neither must it be for ever established by him its foundation is not blessed nor can its building be prosperous For why alas it is but another Horn of that fourth Beast that hath been made to Rule over the world and upon the earth for many Generations and it is but hitherto a very little refined from the last and is of the last even as the eight was of the seventh spoken of by that servant Rev. 17.11 and it may also make warr with the Lamb and his followers for a little season and it may have a small measure of injustice and persecution to bring forth in the Land even till the words of God be fulfilled and his Kingdom be fully come the way of which is but yet a preparing by all these overturnings and this your present Government Originally is leavened with the spirit of the old Dragon that hath killed the Saints and drunk their blood and how should the Lord establish it Nay your Kingdom may prove but small and little and full of uproars and troubles and little peace and satisfaction and establishment in it to your selves nor the people under you but confusion will attend it and feare will compasse it about Though this I must tell you as you are men you have your day of Trial what you will do as many others have had before you and something you may and ought to do if but to make the Whore the false Church more naked and to scourge her more than some others have done and indeed my Lord requires something more of you as such to do then others before you could do and you have a price put into your hands which you may improve to the Lords honor and to the Nations good and to our own happinesse which if you be faithfull to the Lord to do what he requires of you and if you become meek and humble men and fear his name and deny your selves and not seek your own honours nor any earthly advantage to your selves if you do thus then My Lord will shew Mercie to you and you shall not suddenly fall before your enemies though many may rise up against you