Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	goodness_n	lord_n	mercy_n	3,985	5	6.6454	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77284	To the Generall his eccellency Thomas Lord Fairefax a servant to the high and mighty, and most excellent God, and to the nation. Written by Captain VVilliam Bray. From his captivity in VVinsor Castle.	Bray, William, 17th cent.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4309; Thomason E552_6; ESTC R205716	4,260	9

Expression But Sir I delivered a second appeale unto the house to shew the illegality and unchristianesse of their commitment I could not have it read The world cannot but in common reason see this vile in the presence of God and just men And truly Sir you neede not aske who shall be Judge Mr. Solliciter Cooke sheweth in King Charles his case there are indemonstrable principles principles of nature ingraven in any mans heart and written in such legible Characters that hee that runs may read and there is nothing but Corruption and interests is the bloody interposer and obstructer thereof or of an equall distribution of righteousnesse And as for my just principles confessed indeed also by the Parliament so that I am not left without witnesses in its primtite and masculine constitution and divers times in their necessities of the people and also by the Army in their declarations I had rather bee torne limbe from limbe by wild Horses and chopped as Herbes for the Pot as the Tyrants of old did then lay the Testimonies of God principles of righteousnesse the glory of any nation at the foot of any flesh alive And if I must be butchered masiacred or destroyed bee kept from a legall hearing be kept from the free and uninterrupted society of my friends and the free declaring of my selfe in order to my cause which is the depth of Tyranny the will of the most high be done and if possible I could if I must be forceibly murthered by any of my fellow Souldiers I would stand and see the bloud runne forth with delight for my Country till I had none left to support my Carkasse and if I may not have impartiall judgement and righteousnesse amongst men I shall leave my cause to him who will not bee satisfied with this answer that you are in the head of an Army and have power to tyrannize over mee obstruct my right and destroy mee in my tender yeares and liberties and before whom when hee enters into judgement with all flesh this will not justifie you that you shall say that such particular persons had a private influence upon you to abuse you or bee an occasion of your destroying any man in life liberty or estate contrary unto reason or righteousnesse And now I addresse unto you in more particular manner from the Lord of Hoasts the God of Armies the God of Justice and righteousnesse the King the Governour of the world the everlasting God the Judge the Law-giver who hath told mee perfectly in the Conscience by his spirituall and certaine testimony that fithence you have overturned the face of all authorities under a notion of righteousnesse and Justice that the Lord will require all the innocent blood oppressions and cruelties from the day of the death of the late King at your hands and at the hands of Lievtenant Generall Cromwell and and Commissary Generall Ireton in an especiall manner and others that have pretended to Impartiall righteousnesse in the House of Commons and the Lord hath inforced my spirit to tell you so and declare it to you divers times in my enjoyments of my God in my bonds and the Lord hath ingaged himselfe to mee in my Cause and will stand by mee and hath commanded me to tell you that I am in his name and for this his Nations sake to demand reparations to for my unrighteous imprisonment and freedome for it and that I may have a freespeedy and judicial hearing of my cause and that I may have the liberty of the choice of halfe of those men of the House that I shall deeme are impartiall and unbrased and not corrupt men for the hearing and triall of the businesse and that the hearing may be open and publique in the sight of the Sunne and that the obligation of impartiall righteousnesse may bee upon them according to the nature of just judgement and that there bee writers on both sides to take exactly what is sayd on the behalfe of the Common-weale the Army and my owne right and every one in one another And the Lord hath ingaged himselfe for mee and I know the Lord will support me and carry me forth to make it appeare against you or any of those that have seduced you to destroy me and under me even him that was the chiefe author of the Declarations of the Army and the Lord will assist mee to make it appeare that the actions and dealings with mee are contrary to the law of nature in creation The fundamentall Lawes of England the solemne Declarations of the Parliament and Army the Scriptures and contrary to the glorious light of the most high in the Spirit so I leave you to the Lord of righteousnesse justice goodnesse and mercy who hath profest a care of Sparrowes and the haires of a mans head and doe subscribe my selfe in faithfulnesse and truth From my captivity slavery and arbitrary imprisonment as to men though I have freedome joy and aboundance of consolation as to God in Windsor Castle Your Excellencies reall Servant if you are faithfull to the most excellent just and impartiall God in the Nations freedomes WILLIAM BRAY.