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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	know_v	spirit_n	worship_v	6,337	5	9.5072	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81980	The word of the Lord to all rulers, governors, and magistrates of England, to try themselves by what spirit and power they rule by. That they may come to know, whether they rule by the power of Jesus Christ ... : With a warning to them, that they hearken not unto the priests of England, by whom they have so long bin deceived, even by that lying spirit that is gone out into the mouthes of all the false prophets ... : Also it may be profitable for all men, that they may come to see the difference between the true power that every soule is to be subject unto for conscience sake towards God and that powerthat is not to be obeyed for conscience sake: but rather suffer according to the will of God. : VVith some quæries put forth concerning the groundof all true power, and government, which is from that power that every soule is to be subject to for the Lords sake, and not that which is set up in, and by the will of man. / This I have written in the word of the Lord God, as I was commanded by the Lord, on the sixteenth day of the sixth moneth, about the eighth houre of the day ... Known to men by the name of, Thomas Davenport.	Davenport, Thomas.	1675 (1675)	Wing D373A; ESTC R174439	7,717	11

Authority among men by reason of their greatnesse in the world and not for their understanding wisedom and the fear of my name are they set up above their Brethren not in the Lord but the things of the world therefore to conclude that they stand in my power and are therefore to Rule and Govern the rest of their Brethren Nay unlesse they from my power in them Rule for me the which ye will not doe if ye pleade not the cause of the poor and needy strangers Widows and fatherlesse set open the Gates to the Prisoners and let the oppressed goe free taking off the heavy burthens and yoak● that have been put upon the neckes of the poor Seek the good and not the evill hate the evill and love the good and establish judgement in the Gate that the spoyled may be strengthened against the strong and mighty that judgement may run down as water and righteousnesse as a mighty stream And can these things be done while these abominations stands untaken down as namely Law Priesthood Temple Tythes Worldly Honour as bowing to men and respecting their Persons contrary to my Law the maintenance of which being imposed upon the Consciences of my people sons and daughters whom I have set free from all impositions of men that are contrary to my pure Law in them and my Covenant established with them to walk before me in truth and righteousnesse wherein they are to Worship me even in spirit and in truth as is made known unto them in the spirit of my Son whom I have given unto them for an everlasting Covenant ●hat cannot be broken And now unlesse my Servants Sons and Daughters break Covenant with me cannot submit to such things as are by you imposed on them Therefore O ye Magistrates how doe you Rule for me when you goe about to force my people to break Covenant with me Was it not the practise of the Heathen and wicked Rulers that knew not my name and power by which they should have Ruled to compell my Servants Sons and Daughters to have denied my Name as Pharaoh Nebuchadnezzar and the Jewes and others who persecuted me as the Scriptures my Servants have spoken forth by the moving of my spirit in them have declared of And come now O ye Magistrates and try your selves what spirit and power ye have been led by Now if you have been led by my spirit then are ye my Sons but see whether it have not been by a lying spirit which is gone forth into the mouthes of all the salfe Prophets and see whether they have not prevailed to perswade you to hearken unto them whom I have determined a consumption and an utter destruction to come upon them and to strip them of all their coverings that the shame of their nakednesse may appear unto all men yet for all this shall not your guilt be taken away from you if you turn not to me saith the Lord because you have been warned by my Servants from my mouth of their deceit and have not turned from them but still you have hearkened to them to continue the yoake upon the necks of my people whom I have determined to deliver by my mighty hand and an outstretched arme as I did deliver my servants of old out of the hands of Pharaoh that cruell oppressor even so will I now deliver my servants sons and daughters for my hand is not shortned that it cannot save saith the Lord neither mine Eare heavy that it cannot heare as before I have heard the cryes of my people And now have I heard their cryes that are come before me and am now comming to deliver them that write upon my Name Therefore consider these things betime lest ye become such as I the Lord have destroyed from before my Face for their disobedience saith the Lord God Quaeries Quae. 1. WHether there be any Power Rule and Government to be set up and imposed upon men but onely that Power and Authority Rule and Government that every Soule is to be subject unto for Conscience sake towards God 2. Whether that Power Authority Rule and Government which men have invented to themselves to maintain their own outward fleshly carnall Priviledges and to bring the poor into subjection unto their own wills be the power that every Soule should be subject unto for Conscience sake 3. Whether Jesus Christ be not the true ground of all Power Rule and Authority that every Soule is to be subject unto being that all Power both in Heaven and Earth is given unto him to Rule and Governe the Nations And whether the Rule and Government be not onely upon his shoulders which is the endlesse Power Rule Authority and Government of whose Dominion there is no end 4. Whether ever any in the Power and Authority of God did ever persecute the Servants of the Lord or did uphold any that were their persecutors but such as Pharaoh who was out of the power and authority of God and rejected it who knew not the Lord saying Who is the Lord that I should obey him And whether it be not the power of the World which are the powers of darknesse that persecutes the righteous Seed And whether such as persecute and such as tollerate persecution be not all of one Seed and be not in the enmity against God even such as are borne after the flesh 5. Whether there be any Rulers and Magistrates that are in the just power and authority to Rule and Governe but such as are in the power and authority of God And whether there be any in the power of God but such as are the Minister of God for good even to execute wrath upon them that doth evill and for the prayse of him that doth well And whether this be not the power onely that every Soule is to be subject unto And if any Rule not thus Whether he beare not the Sword in vaine 6. Whether those be Rulers and Ministers for God that are out of the power of the Lord and are set up by those that are out of the power of the Lord themselves and that Rules for themselves and not for the Lord to maintaine their worldly Lusts Riches and Honour who are made Rulers by Men not for truths sake as they are men fearing the Lord but for the Worlds sake even because they are Rich and Great in this present World and to maintain the Worlds Interests 7. Whether hath not the Lord shewed unto man what is Good that is to keep Judgement to doe Justice and to love Mercy and to Walke with God And can ever this be done even Iudgement kept Iustice done Mercy Truth and Righteousnesse loved but Gifts and Rewards taken and mens persons respected and the Cause of the poor and needy not pleaded till Iudges Iustices and Rulers be as at the first I who are men fearing God hating Covetousnesse and dealing uprightly 8. And whether that of God in all your Consciences doth not beare witnesse to the truth of all these things and that generally Rulers Governours and Magistrates in their Rule and Government are turned from truth and righteousnesse and whether they ought not to turne out from the Power of darkenesse into the Power of the living God to Rule and Governe for the Lord God of Heaven and Earth Unto whom every Knee must bow and every Tongue confesse and to whom every one must give an account of himselfe of the things done in the Body whether they be good or bad And so in the light all is left without excuse FINIS