Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	heart_n	lord_n	sincerity_n	1,662	5	9.7763	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77287	True excellency of God and his testimonies, and our nationall lawes against titular excellency. Or, A letter to the General his excellency Thomas Lord Fairfax, with a complaint and charg against tyrannicall Whitchcock the Governour of Winsor for arbitrarily, designingly and maliciously walking contrary to the Scriptures of God, and the laws and liberties of the people. / From Captain VVilliam Bray at his un-Christian indurance there.	Bray, William, 17th cent.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4315; Thomason E571_32; ESTC R206130	11,419	8

gods Tyrants cannot abide Law and Settlement and their cruelty is their ruine Just Authority is to lift up the afflicted and oppressed and by their authority to bridle domesticall wrong to strengthen the diseased to heal that which is sick to binde up that which is broken to bring again that which is driven away to seek that which is lost and not with force and crueltie to rule Ezek. 34.4 Therefore I do in the name of the Lord of Hosts and the most excellent God the God of Justice and Mercy demand Freedom from my illegall Bonds and reparations therefore to the honour of the Lords Justice the acknowledging of his name and to the keeping of your Faith and the honour of our Laws and Liberties and lay you self at the foot of God Scriptures and Laws And to this end and purpose that the Lord may be acknowledged in Judgment I do propose that M. Cook your Orator against the King may be made Judge betwixt us and may have an Oath given him of impartiall Judgment without fear favor or affection and that you may choose any whom you will so many to so many of my friends of the Army or out to be my Antagonist in a publick audience and writers on both sides and I wil engage to prove the dealings with me are illegal barbarous and Tyrannical contrary to the Laws of God and Nature the nation the scripture your own declarations the declarations of Parliament and all the Capital obligations of justice and mercy that ever I heard of in the world And though you have given him lately much worldly estate and honour yet I will trust the Lord with the innnocency and splendor of my cause and I hope the Lord will make righteousnesse in his Spirit Supream to all honour glory and safety according to his own word● so I rest From my illegall cruel arbitrary imprisonment under an unnaturall and unholy Ty●ant in Windsor Castle The Lord his weake and unworthy servant and in the peoples cause William Bray My Dedication and Supplication to God my Maker and Father OH Lord Thou who art indeed excellent t●e great Commander of all the world who turnest all thing upside down who hast the hearts of all men in thy hand and canst make the greatest persecutors and affl●cting powers of darknesse stoop to thee Oh Lord my God and Father great are my enemies one who is called Excellency But oh Lord it is thou alone art Excellency faith●uln●ss● and truth and the others are Crowel Ireton H●s●●rig Harrison and Whitchcock under those Tyrannicall hand I am my cause is the cause of thy people the generall cause of Justice and Freedom Thou knowest the sincerity of my spirit oh Lord my enemie● are in great honour and power by the peoples blood labours and treasure If it be thy holy will let them acknowledg thee God of the whole earth whose name and power hath made great changes in the world Let them in ther conversations acknowledge the Scriptures and testimonies of thy selfe the laws and liberties of thy people without respect of persons If not oh Lord put a hook in their nostrils and a bridle in their jaws that they may not use wicked and crafty policy and the treasure of thy people make them destroy one another against their laws and liberties Uniteth people that are sincere to thee and one to another in righteousnesse and judgement make up thy J●wels and shew some w●● or other some evident testimony of love to thy people against the bloody designs of thine and their enemies under what cloak or forme soever they appear in the world keep me stedfast unto thy self against a●l the bloody intentions of my close politick and mighty enemies and l●t thy name and honour be ex●lted as indeed it is whether in persecution or freedom And if oh Lord they have such murtherous thoughts towards me as O Lord thou knowest their actions are hitherunto wicked enough and if they bring forth the wickedest and extreamest into action O Lord let me continue constant in thy strength unto the de●th and make me willingly to imbrace my condition and give testimony to thy self and to the testimonies of thy self in Scripture in spirit in my own heart the testimony of my enemies themselves and the enemies of our Lawes and Liberties Purge me also O Lord oh purge me whilst I am in this mortality and let me dye before I die So prayes thy weak servant and one of thy sons in my cruel bondage as to men and freedom as to thee Whilest th' Authour striveth for his Countries good An under-Tyrant thirsteth for his blood His Gaoler Whi●chcock arbitrarily Heapeth upon him greater Tyranny Our deer-bought Freedom now 's not worth a straw Let all men judg when Whitchcock's will 's a Law FINIS