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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	word_n	work_n	zealous_a	48	3	8.4198	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45518	The nations claim of native right Wherein the gross and extreme defection and injustice of the court martial, and of all courts; the destructive abuse of the law, and pressing necessity, that the nation speedily unite (as one man) for an agreement in righteousness, is by particular example, and an appeal to the general councel of the army, and by several considerations cleerly demonstrated and proved. Secondly, the nullity of order, matter, and form of a free people is asserted, and proved by scripture: and how (to persons, families, people, and churches) right order, matter, and form may be attained. Thirdly, a brief pourtraict of a right government of the nation, and agreement of the people; and how such government and agreement may be with ease attained; a new representative freely elected: the laws rectified: the poor relieved: and the peoples, and armies, and every particular persons just interests (in peace with truth) satisfied, is proposed to the nation. By Thom. Harbye, late Quarter-master in the Regiment late	Harby, Thomas.	1650 (1650)	Wing H684; ESTC R216528	94,995	134

are dis-inabled to discharge their Places or to do service By this means the Faith of the Nation is grossely abused and perfidiously infringed and broken and the Nation made guilty of defrauding and of oppressing its preservers guilty of most unnatural cruelty and injustice guilty of re-involving it self into this last new War wherein it was brought to the very brink of extremity to be utterly lost and destroyed By these means they are guilty of causing all the Treasure that hath been spent and all the Bloud that hath been spilt in this Nation to establish righteousness to be spent and spilt to no purpose or to establish oppression and unrighteousness By this means they make themselves and the Nation guilty of all the scarcity famine poverty persecutions cruelties bloudshed oppressions and sicknesses thereof ensuing which have been caused by this last War and yet these causes are not taken away and the means are not yet removed By these means they unjustly imbitter the conscientious and honest party and exasperate others and kill and murder them for being justly imbittered and exasperated They Level the object of their wicked and unjust Jealousies and Fears their real and best and most faithful friends suppor●ers and preservers by aspersing and slandering them falsely as the men of Belial did Naboth to destroy them They Level them by with-holding straw their due pay the slender pittance and fuel of their lives and beings Howbeit these the true Israel the free born of God the object of Chams sons cursed fears and of their desires to Level and Destroy them have ever been under God their causeless persecutors levellers and oppressors preservers and the freers of them from all plagues and destruction at all times and they themselves the greatest oppressors persecutors levellers and destroyers of their own supporters and preservers but indeed of themselves that ever were in the world Lastly Pharoah and his servants were set upon their wicked purpose to oppress level and destroy Israel by believing the lying words and works of Sorcerers So these are set upon their wicked purpose to oppress level and destroy the true Israel by harkening to real Sorcerers and seducers The Sorcerers of Egypt resisted Moses sent to deliver Abrahams free born from Egyptian bondage These resist the true Moses Christ sent to deliver the true Israel the free born of God from real misery and bondage in body and Spirit The works of God by Moses were true Miracles real Righteousness and types of true Righteousness For example The Egyptians thirsting the bloud of their supposed Levellers but real Supporters drowned their Males in rivers therfore all rivers and waters of Egypt were turned to bloud that they and their cattel could drink no water but bloud and this work of God by Moses was a work of true Righteousness and a type of a more perfect righteousnes of the true Moses Christ 2 The Fishes which in these rivers are more various and monstrous then in any rivers in the world fed upon the flesh and bloud of the Israelites new born infants therefore in a type of Justice the fishes had rivers of bloud given them and nothing but bloud to drink and feed upon therefore the fish died and the rivers stank 3 The Egyptians regarded not the just Petitions cryes and complaints of the afflicted Israelites nor the pitious cryes of their perishing Male children whom they drown'd in the rivers therefore Frogs a helpless naked and unarmed also a clamorous and crying creature came up out of the Rivers into their houses and bed-chambers and covered their Land as it were so many millions of witnesses attesting to their faces and with loud voyces proclaiming their bloudy cruelties and oppressions As the naked and unarmed condition and helpless innocence of the new born infants cast into these Rivers was remonstrant to the eyes of the Egyptians in this creature so these creatures were a type of the helpless and miserably naked and stript poor 4 The Egyptians did eate up the afflicted poor of the Land like bread and did grind them to dust therefore the dust of Egypt a type also of the poor was turned into Lice and did eate the flesh of the Egyptians Where the peoples Representatives oppress and destroy the people of God the plague of Frogs follows and innumerable helpless and naked poor cover the Land and fill the houses and bed-chambers of their oppressors with loud clamours petitions cryes and complaints If oppressors will not hear the cryes of the people of God nor of their miserable murdered male children nor the cryes of the poor the plague of Lice follows and the dust of Egypt the poor of the Land turned into Lice eate the flesh of their oppressors Their corruption and cruel oppression bred them and they must feed them These plagues and all the rest were not upon Abrahams free-born the Israelites but upon the Egyptians their oppressors And these plagues in the truth and substance will not fall upon those that in sincerity seek Freedom from Bondage but upon their oppressors that seek to enslave level and destroy them These and all the Miracles which God wrought by Moses were true Miracles and likewise works of real Justice and types of true Righteousness tending to deliver Israel from the most bloudy and cruel bondage and oppressions that ever were But the lying miracles of the Magicians and Sorcerers were false and imposterous works tending to harden Pharoahs and his servants hearts in their wicked purpose to oppress and destroy their own preservers afflicted and oppressed Israel 5 The lying miracles of the Magicians and Sorcerers which they wrought before Pharoah and his servants falsely shaddowed forth the true Miracles of Moses and were miracles in shew not in substance seemingly not indeed in appearance but not in truth 6 The words and works of Pharoah and his servants by be lieving the lying words and works of Magicians and Sorcerers became like theirs falsely shaddowing forth the true words and works of Moses and were just and true words and works it shew not in substance seemingly not indeed in appearance bu● not in truth For Pharoah and his servants were willing to le●● Israel go seemingly but did indeed enslave and suppress them They repented and were sorry for all the evils they did to Israel seemingly but indeed endeavoured to oppress level and destro● them They were mighty forward that Israel should go out fre● seemingly but did indeed pursue them to destroy them and 〈◊〉 take all that was theirs So the words and works of those that seek to level and destro● the free born and the words and works of their heart-hardenin● Sorcerers and seducers are sorceries falsely shaddowing forth th● true works of Righteousness wrought by the true Moses Chris● and his members and are just and righteous in shew not 〈◊〉 substance seemingly not indeed in appearance but not in trut● They are forward to promote Justice and favour just me seemingly but indeed oppose Justice

empty functions which they call duties whereof just consideration might be had in their due respects and as some filled spunge with vineger and gave it to Christ so they sacrifice these empty spunges or take and fill them with all filth and defilement of oppression and wickedness and offer them up to God these sacrifices without salt of sincerity or substance of truth are their owne righteousness which is extrem wickedness and in this their own righteousness they are very zealous they are also forward to execute true righteousness so far as it conduceth to the satisfying of their own lusts or advanceth their own designes and unjust ends But for pure religion and undefiled and perfect righteousness without respect to their own corrupt ends and interests they will not once see it nor looke towards it their love to true righteousness is cold that is indeed dead or dying for coldness is as contrary to life as light to darkness therefore the original sourse and cause of life in the people of God being cold and dying all its effects the whole body of true righteousness in them is dying and dissolving they are slippery as ice brittle as glasse you may put your life in their hands and be sure they will deceive you ask not their counsel in any thing for they can give none nor receive any but carp at without cause those men and that means wherein and in whom their own safety most consists 't is dangerous to advise them for they can give no advice but to destroy themselves nor take any but to destroy those that give it Moses advised two striving Israelites to agree and he that was in fault betrayed him and in him all Israel and questioned him for his life for which cause he was forced to flee from Aegypt to Midian so if any faithfully advise the people of God to agree in righteousness they are the first that will betray and destroy them and it is their best safety that are faithful amongst them to flee from them as Moses did and not come neere them for they will betray and destroy both them and themselves such are the violent evils and effects of slavery the furnaces of base and slavish bondage separate as fire separtes gold from drosse or oare all vertues from the people of God and deprives them of wisdom prudence and reason This imbased the Israelits spirits and made them slavish and wicked Num. 14.12.10 But it separates occasionally the dross from their gold that are his people indeed as in Moses Caleb and Ioshuah and makes them more compact and refined yet the people of God have a great noyse of a name as Sardis had that she lived and was dead Laodicea that was most fallen from her love to true righteousness boasted more than all the other six Churches that she was rich and increased with goods and needed nothing but knew not that she was wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked So the people of God are rich and increased in the riches of their own righteousness that is in Babels scarlet sins and apostasies the eyes of their faith look back like Lots wife to her Sorcerers they are fallen or falling from God and from all love unto true righteousness and have imbraced a righteousness of their own a righteousness contrary to true righteousness of their own fansies and deceitful hearts as the Iewes and Churches of Sardis and Laodicea did which is an immediate fore-runer of sure destruction to the people of God as it was to them without their vigourous and speedy care to prevent it which they may and must endevour but can hardly do it without being transient or passing into another body The people of God are so far from supporting her by their righteousness that their sins are the chifest cause of her fall and they most guilty of her sins she is fallen from truth and righteousness and they from faith towards her and themselves she is wholely putrified and corrupted and they her salt have lost ●ts savour she was a City of defence they her watch-men but she is surpriz'd and become a habitation of divels and they did not warn her but betray her they have seen as the Prophets of Israel did foolish things for her and themselves have not discovered their own and her iniquity but have loved vaine visions and flattering divinations Ezek. 12.24 Lam. 2.14 They have betrayed her and themselves by suffering their hearts to be deceived and hardned by her Sorcerers she hath committed main crying sins and they like the men of Iabish Gilead have sitten still and have not gathered themselves together as one man unto the Lord to convince her and to free her and themselves from these sins and have thereby dyed her sins in a scarlet dye upon their own spirits she had not fallen had not they fallen her power to stand was in them and their righteousness and they have dissolved and destroyed her and their own power to stand they have drawn one another and those that have bin farthful amongst them to unite and engage in righteousnesse for her and their own support and then have apostated perfideously and broken their faith to God and Man leaving these that were faithfull that in Conscience could not betray their faith and revolt as sacrifices to the yron teeth of her tyranny and oppression They have been forward to condemn them themselves for their faithfulnesse and have seen her grind and destroy them whiles they stood and lookt on as those Parents that offered their children to Molech The blood of those that have been most faithfull and their perfideous infringement of their just faith to God and Man will be required at their hands if they do not vigourously and faithfully quit themselves Therefore they are so far from supporting her by their righteousnesse that their wickednesse and guilt of blood and their slothfull unfaithfulnesse hath polluted her and their sins are the cause of her fall Fourteenthly The People of God cannot support her or themselves and therefore must come out of her because they are divided and scattered The Israelites because straw was not allowed were scattered over all Egypt The cause is the same here Gods people are Pharaohs Brickills those in Egypt burnt with fire these in the fire and rage of slavery and food maintains their lives as straw did their fires Pharaoh denyed Israel straw afflicted them with burdens and hard bondage and all their service wherein their Task-masters made them serve was with rigour The oppressors of Gods people deny them straw afflict them with burdens and hard bondage and all their service wherein they make them to serve is with rigour Israels oppressors kept back Straw but these both straw and corn they kept back fuel these food and raiment they kept back that straw which was the Egyptians but these keep back that Straw that food and raiment which belongs to Israel and if they would eat straw or if straw