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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	life_n	spirit_n	worship_v	1,905	5	8.8109	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60652	Some clear truths particularly demonstrated unto the King and council, and both houses of Parliament with all judges, justices, merchants, and shipmasters, why the innocent and peaceable people, called Quakers, ought not to be banished out of their native land, or any other way exposed to sufferings : also, the law described in its nature and end : with a postscript to all honest, sober, and impartial jurors / by W.S.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1664 (1664)	Wing S4329; ESTC R16013	8,498	14

SOME Clear TRUTHS PARTICULARLY Demonstrated unto the KING and COUNCIL and both Houses of PARLIAMENT with all Judges Justices Merchants and Ship-masters why the Innocent and Peaceable People called QUAKERS ought not to be banished out of their Native Land or any other way exposed to Sufferings ALSO The LAW described in its Nature and End With a Postscript to all honest sober and impartial JURORS By W. S. Printed at London in the Year 1664. Some clear Truths particularly demonstrated unto the King and Council and both Houses of Parliament with all Judges Justices Merchants and Ship-Masters why the Innocent and Peaceable People called Quakers ought not to be Banished out of their Native Land or any other way be exposed to Sufferings 1. BEcause they are People that believe in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ and are regenerated into the Nature of Christianity and their life answereth the same in all Godliness and Honesty 2. Because they worship the Living God in Spirit and Truth and are of a tender Conscience towards God and all men 3. Because their Principle and Practice was never proved erronious by sound Doctrine neither doth the late Act disallow it in the ground for four may meet besides the Family and the number is but a circumstance and not the matter And it is not a Christian practice to Banish men for being in Error that are really so muchless such as cannot be proved erronious 4. Because Nature abhorreth such unkindness and is afflicted with such hard dealings for Nature is outwardly friendly to her own generation 5. Because they have not at any time forfeited their Just Liberty as Englishmen by contriving any Plots or Insurrections against the present Government as experience all along hath shewed 6. Because they have a right in the Kings Word and Promises concerning Liberty unto tender Consciences for they have lived peaceably which was the only Exception to make his Word and Promises void and that they have kept and not broken 7. Because they are an Harmless People and give no just occasion of offence unto any neither can any true proof be given against them concerning any evil committed or done by them 8. Because they are a Serviceable People in their places ready to do good upon all occasions and unto all persons and do not abuse the Creation in vanity and excess 9. Because they are good Examples in Righteousness and a sweet Savour in their Generation by following that which is good 10. Because they do not transgress any Just Law neither give any Just occasion for any Law to be made or executed against them neither can any Law that is for the punishment of Evil-doers justly take hold upon them 11. Because they never acted nor intended any such things as in the late Act is expressed and against which it only provideth neither can any misdemeanor be justly laid to their charge 12. Because their outward dealings amongst men are just and equal and in all things free from variance and strife 13. Because they do not wrong any mans Person or Estate and are Free-born Englishmen which Magna Charta preserveth in their outward Liberty 14. Because many Families will be left outwardly distressed and the Nation distracted and disordered 15. And chiefly Because the Lord God of Heaven and Earth is grieved and vexed with it and the prosecution of it will kindle his Wrath in a high degree Now let these Truths be well considered and the heat of Violence stayed for there is no just cause given by us why it should be so done unto us and we are very clear in the sight of God that we have not forfeited our Just Liberty in our Native Land but have as good Right to continue and abide therein as any People whatsoever and there is not any thing can be truly said otherwise of us but things are wrested that are prosecuted against us and our Cause is presented after another manner than what it is in it self And divers things are charged upon us from bare suppositions and many of you know it and thereby we are exposed to hard Sentences by men when we can appeal to God with clear consciences in those cases wherein men render us Offenders For we are not a willful stuborn People neither do we any way seek the subversion of the Government or the harm of any mans person upon the Earth these are only suppositions by our Judges and Accusers and no supposition is a good ground to proceed against us in a matter of such high concernment for our not submitting to the Requirings of men in cases of Conscience is onely in obedience to the Doctrine and Command or Christ Jesus And our Testimony is in Meekness and Fear and not in willfulness and stubornness and we are wronged when such Reproaches are cast upon us though such as fit to be our Judges have their liberty to speak and to interrupt our answers And what would you have from us that you have not to give you better assurance of our Allegiance to the King Can any thing more evidently demonstrate it than our peaceableness A thousand Oaths imposed if we could swear at all would not be so binding unto our Consciences as the Love of God in which we live and by which we are constrained to live peaceably for it bindeth our consciences into peace and maketh us subject unto Christ as Supream and unto the King in his Civil Government for what can more clearly manfest our Subjection to his Kingly Power than our willingness to render unto him our Tax and Tribute and having these things rendered by us you may conclude that it is enough and as much as you are reasonably to expect from us and it doth sufficiently clear us from all supposition concerning our seeking to subvert the Government and herein we manifest our subjection to the King in living peaceably and giving him that which is his due But the Rule and Government of our Consciences we cannot give into his hand nor into the hand of any man for that is peculiar unto Christ Jesus and he alone hath the preheminence in our Consciences and no man ought to call his Power in question nor to punish us for obeying his Doctrine and Commands for by Faith in his Doctrine and Commands we live and we dare not make Shipwrack of it but in his Love are constrained to keep it and his Reward is our unspeakable Joy Very much of this nature hath been published in tenderness of heart for your good and therefore I shall not at this time be large for I know that Love Patience and Meekness must prevail And the Lord God hath abundantly furnished and adorned his Children with the virtues of those heavenly Graces in which they stand as so many Innocents that think no ill and their behaviour and holy Conversation may even overcome you to be pittiful and merciful towards them and also to be in love with them which you would assuredly be if you