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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	jesus_n	lord_n	spirit_n	7,577	5	4.8812	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85688	Vox cœli, containing maxims of pious policy: wherein severall cases of conscience are briefly discussed; as I. In what subject the supream power of a nation doth reside. II. What is the extent of that power, and in what causes it doth appear, with the due restrictions and limitations thereof according to the Gospell. III. What obedience is due unto that power from all persons, superiour and inferiour, with other cases of great weight, very necessary to reconcile our late differences judiciously stated and impartially ballanced in the scale of the sanctuary. / By Enoch Grey minist	Grey, Enoch.	1649 (1649)	Wing G1968; Thomason E565_20; ESTC R202336	50,311	67

darke corners of England pity and remember those whose soules cry aloud for bread who inhabit the shadow of death unto whom Jesus Christ is no more known then unto poor Indians who have no love unto no delight in knowledge nay who deride the means of grace who have been your enemies hitherto but such as have been Christs Papists and Atheists improve your power which God hath given you over them to gain their souls to the knowledge and love of the truth and wayes of Jesus Christ False Religion hath been carried on by fire and faggot by force and strength but pure Religion by the arm of God by the spirit of the Lords mouth speaking from heaven by contemptible instruments against the strongest opposition without the help of the Princes and Monarchs of this world nay against all their fiery opposition and fierce persecution by the travells of a few poor Fishermen Some may question the authority and dispute the Call of such but those who are truly judicious and humbly pious can distinguish between the subject and the adjunct such persons being throughly manifest unto God and to the consciences of good men It is the grand design of Satan it ever was ever will be if has cannot pluck these 〈…〉 to darken the light in heaven to prejudice that divine 〈…〉 that powerfull operation which the word should find ●o the hearts of the hearers by some pretended error in the person in the Call This plot as old as N●a● was 〈◊〉 one thousand six hundred years agone and then carried on 〈…〉 on purpose to prejudice the work in the very time of Reformation They questioned the Call of John to his Ministery of the Lord J. Christ to his They despised the Person contemned the power of the Apostle Paul even those who were his children begotten by his Ministry to whom he had been throughly made manifest in all things such as had formerly received him as an Angell of God yea as Christ Jesus who would ha●● plucked o●t their eyes to have done him good yet these even these injured the Apostle stood in a kind of enmity and opposition unto him vilified his Ministry prefer'd a weak ye●● corrupt Ministry beyond that which the Lord had 〈◊〉 blessed and sanctified to the converting and saving of theirs with the soules of many others Verily every man at his 〈◊〉 state is altogether vanity 2. Justice is the support of Religion Is not this to know mee saith the Lord to doe judgement and justice to judge the cause of the poore and needy The neglect of justice is punished with the greatest judgments from heaven procur●th certaine and sudden misery after the fairest hopes of mercy 〈…〉 sun-set even at noon day and is numbred amongst the might● sins of a Nation which the Lord will not pardon when 〈◊〉 is a cry in the hearts in the families of the oppressed this cry is loud in the cares of God if the yoke of cares of griefs by the losse of the estates of the lives of oppressed ones ●f the heavy burthens pressing the minds oppressing the families of poor men be not broke off speedily this hastneth the desolation the devastation of great families and of Nations also a● honor no parts no power can secure the greatest from Divine justice or from humane hatred in case of such neglect If 〈◊〉 be tyrannicall the Souldier shall do that justice for an oppressed people which they could never obtain from Sycophantical Royallists if States abuse their power betray their trust the same God hath ordained the same nod for 〈…〉 which renders the persons the actions of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 honourable in the hearts in the eyes of God of good 〈…〉 procures a Nation mercy and peace ● sp●●dy a 〈◊〉 establishment to the greatest prosperity thereof to all 〈◊〉 1. Justice Restrictive in restraining the exorbitant power of some in calling others to due account intrusted with the affairs of the publick The Romans not only oft changed their Magistrates but instigated the people to accuse such 〈◊〉 they found perfidious and self-seeking in their Offices whereby their Common wealth flourished Queen Elizabeth when her great Officers of State at any time complained that it was to her dishonour to hear and receive so many accusations against her great Counsellors of State as she did they tending to their discouragement because to their disparagement she replyed that she was Queen of the small aswell as of the great and therefore she would hear the meanest subject and if the charge were unjust she would censure the accus●r i● just ●he would not protect the greatest from justice Samuel when the people 〈◊〉 discontent with Aristocracy and do●ted upon Monarchy they would have a King and Judges no longer he instigated all men that could justly do it to accuse him of injustice 〈…〉 the Lord and before the King a singular example of 〈◊〉 and justice a president to all persons at all times in all place● to act so righteously that they stand ●l●er before God in their consciences and against the censures of the wholeworld 2. Justice Vindictive in punishing the nocent and not permitting the guilty to goe free justice must be impartiall without respect to persons even the highest acts of vi●diction justice● It is said of Levi that he regarded neither father no● mother nor brethren nor children and the blessing of peace w●● upon him What should I speak of the act of 〈◊〉 of Samuel upon Agag K. of 〈◊〉 of Jeb●jadab upon 〈◊〉 Jebijad●● it the declining State of Judah fals upon an act very irregular yet in that case truly justifiable he contri●●● the deposition of 〈◊〉 Infinuates to that and into the ●ffections of the Souldiers and to strengthen himself he ingageth them in this design 〈◊〉 proclaimes a new King in the Kings minority modells the 〈◊〉 swears the people to submission to those Laws enacted by ●●●self makes a decree that whosoever should break into the ranges should dy although it were the Queen and accordingly commanded her execution in the Royall City near to the Court the place of her sin ordained to be the place of her suffering before all the people yet this was not without blessing and successe from heaven saith the Text the neglect of 〈◊〉 upon B●nhadad King of Assyria brought a sword upon Aba● the neglect thereof upon the house of Saul by the Princes of Iuda● procured three years famine upon Israel the want of impartiall justice imboidens the wicked in sin disheartens the godly in rightcousnesse As justice must be impartiall in respect of persons so of ●●ses criminall or civill administred with due respect to the truth of the Cause to the justification of the righteous to the condemnation of the wicked a more gratefull service to God then sacrifice It is recorded by Solomon to be the character of a person very ignoble to respect persons in judgment for a 〈◊〉 of bread