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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	kindness_n	lord_n	love_a	1,686	5	9.5041	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88267	The upright mans vindication: or, An epistle writ by John Lilburn Gent. prisoner in Newgate, August 1. 1653. Unto his friends and late neighbors, and acquaintance at Theobalds in Hartford-shire, and thereabouts in the several towns adjoyning; occasioned by Major William Packers calumniating, and groundlesly reproaching the said Mr John Lilburn.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1653 (1653)	Wing L2197; Thomason E708_22; ESTC R202736	33,340	35

The Upright Mans Vindication OR An Epistle writ by JOHN LILBURN Gent. Prisoner in Newgate August 1. 1653. Unto his Friends and late Neighbors and Acquaintance at Theobalds in Hartford shire and thereabouts in the several Towns adjoyning Occasioned by Major William Packers calumniating and groundlesly reproaching the said Mr John Lilburn Gentlemen and Christian Friends IT is the saying of Solomon who therein was guided by the infallible Spirit of God That a good name is better then precious Ointment Eccles 7.1 And that a good name is rather to be chosen then great riches Prov. 22.1 And that a good report maketh the bones fat In which consideration give me leave to appeal to all the unbiassed and understanding people amongst your selves that knew me and observed my walkings and actings while I lived amongst you for a justification of my integrity uprightnesse meeknesse gentlenesse and single-hearted walking amongst you to be really so far as man was able to judge to be such as it became one that owned and sensibly injoyed by faith the choicest of spirituall Union and communion with the Lord of life and glory and groundedly expected looked and longed for a blessed immortality with the Lord of life and glory when this fading or earthly house or tabernacle of mine shal be dissolved And that believed and declared that the grace of God in particular had appeared to my soul for that end to teach me to deny ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and to live soberly and godly in this present evil world abstaining as much as in me a poor frail man lies from the very appearance of evil and in all my actions to the utmost of my power and ability to let my light really and indeed and in truth so shine before and among men that as Christ himself saith they seeing my good works might glorifie my father which is in heaven and to do to all men as I would they should do to me which as to men is the onely or principal badge or mark of a true Christian indeed and not in the least to do evil that good may come thereby I say you know my walking while I was with you to be in sincerity peace meekness and uprightness and in the demonstrations of true love and friendship as became a Christian which made me willing many times in publike in prayer amongst you largely to spend some time effectually to declare unto you that infinitness of fulness faithfulness truth and loving kindness that I had found in the Lord of Hosts the Lord Jehovah my long enjoyed and long experienced enjoyed Rock of Salvation who I often truly told you is and was long since largely become my sensible lot portion joy and rejoycing and was the onely single good that the soul of a Beleever could glory and rejoyce in all earthly delights of riches honour greatness pleasure and all relations whatsoever in comparison of him were but fading vanities fly-blown cobweb moth-eaten contents and delights And yet in the midst of all these Declarations of mine amongst you of the goodness and kindness of the Lord Almighty manifested unto my soul nothing at the same time was more frequent and common amongst my great potent and seeming religious adversaries then with confidence to brand me for an Athiest a denyer of God and the Scripture Just as Major William Packer a great seeming-religious man amongst you now doth both to several of you and others as my certain Intelligence from some amongst your selves by Letters c. inform me brand for an hypocrite an apostate and a great combining enemy with the Nations enemies beyond the seas against its welfare peace and freedom which although they be things my soul detests and abhors as I do the divel and although I am confident no honest man in the world that really and experimentally knows me can really in the least beleeve these things spoke against me to be true or that there is any other ground or reason to report them then the Machiavilian devises of guilded pretended religious men by craft cunning deceit cruelty policy and shedding of bloud got into great places and power which they would keep in their own hands arbitrarily by will and pleasure to destroy all the lives liberties and properties of all the honestest and quick-sighted people of England at their pleasure Yet notwithstanding I judge my self obliged in duty and conscience to my self and the Nations welfare to make an Apology unto you to open your eyes to see clearly through those foggy dark mists that the said Major Packer would cunningly cast before your eys for the keeping of his rich and great place and interest up that hath raised him from the Dunghil or a mean condition to be one of the arbitrary and cruel Lords or unjust Task masters of the people of England And I shal begin the said Apology with the inserting here my honest Addres from Calis which the world for the reason declared in the 38 P. of my late printed Trial never saw the true Copy of which said Address thus followeth For the Honourable the Councel of State sitting at White Hall in London these present MAy it please you to vouchsafe me liberty to acquaint you that being at Calis by the means of our last Tuesday Post I saw and read a print●ed address unto you made by some honest and well-minded people of Colchester as I have cause to judge them by those honest though somewhat too general things that they desire of you in their said address by which I perceive you are a kinde of a setled power in Engl. unto whom by that as the very first paper I have seen of that nature I apprehend the honest and national people of England expect great matters from you in reference to your assisting in the setling in a rational security of their laws liberties and freedoms the dear purchased and true price of all the late bloud and mony shed and spent in the late wars In which regard I am imboldened my self by these lines to make this address unto you although I must truly acquaint you that upon my wifes comming to Bridges in Flanders to me and fully informing me that General Cromwel and Major General Harrison with other Marshal men had by force and violence dissolved the Parliament for their wicked unrighteous and unjust actions and being very confident that they never did an action nor could of more injustice and unrighteousness then their voting to banishment of me without ground or cause and thereby also robbing me of my estate and of all the comforts of this life in which tyrannical Votes or sentence I dare avow it and upon my life in particulars maintain it they have dealt more cruelly more unjustly more illegally more unrighteously and more harshly with me then ever they dealt with the most professed enemy that they have had in England Scotland or Ireland in arms against them or any that they have supposed did aid assist or abet those