Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	faith_n	godliness_n	temperance_n	4,219	5	11.6041	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95005	A true copy of a message sent to General Monck from severall officers of the Army, October twenty nine, 1659	Lambert, John, 1619-1683.	1659 (1659)	Wing T2626; Thomason 669.f.22[1]; ESTC R211313	1,908	1

A TRVE COPY of a MESSAGE SENT TO GENERAL MONCK FROM Severall Officers of the Army October twenty nine 1659. Dear Brethren and Fellow-Souldiers WEE most heartily wish Grace and Truth to be multiplyed to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord and also we desire the God and Father of all Grace to and to your Faith Vertue and to Vertue Knowledge and to Knowledge Temperance and to Temperance Godliness and to Godliness Brotherly-kindness and to Brotherly-kindness Charity Dear Brethren We cannot but be deeply affected and afflicted in our own spirits to consider of your dis-satisfactions with us upon mistaken grounds You have known us these many years to be your faithful Brethren that durst do nothing that is sinful and we may affirm with plainness honesty and simplicity of heart we have done nothing in the late Revolution bnt that which the providence of the most wise God prepared to our hands and led us out to without so much as one half hours time to design or resolve to take take that course we are necessitated unto since which most of such persons that were not clear in the presenr and suddain action have made their acknowledgment of their full satisfaction and were mutually reconciled and they are received and tendered by us affectionate Brethren And for a more full Narrative of the providential grounds and gradual steps that led us to the Work yet with aking hearts and as answer to your Queries signed in your name by VVilliam Clark Secretary bearing date the 22 instant We refer you to a Book entituled The Armies Plea and also The Armies Declaration relation thereto being had we hope will give you satisfaction Loving Brethren What have we done that you are offended we are not conscious that any thing is acted by us upon the publick Theater but that which we judge is acceptable to God and that we have done hath proceeded from uprightness of heart and for the glory of God the good of his Interest Cause and People in these Nations nothing lesse then these worthy Ends could have caused us to adventure our All that is dear to us for yours and their sakes and after such a hazard our brethren to look shie upon us yea such with whom we have lived and conversed together prayed fought and jeoparded our lives together and witnesses together of the glory of the most high God in the high places of the fields yea we that are of one society of one Family and Houshold that none hitherto through the grace of God could dis-unite us now to be at a distance with us is the greatest wound to us which is unexpressable If it had been from our enemies we could have born it Oh! but they are the wounds of the house of our friends and all this arising without first dealing brotherly with us and without so much as sending to know the providential grounds that led us to these undertakings And likewise your and our unhappyness hath been possibly by mis-informations received by those who have corresponded with the principal occasioners of this breach here However We are censured by you we shall we hope carry it Christianly and brotherly towards you and exercise our selves in the doctrine of our Saviour If any be overraken in a fault restore such a one with the spirit of meekness knowing also we are subject to like temptations and we ought to pitty and pray for one another and forgive one another even as God for Christs sake hath forgiven you We hope the fear of God will guide you so that you may do nothing to grieve him and his little flock and reioyce the common enemy abroad and at home nor give them advantages to make a prey upon these Nations What can you propound to your selves if you are for good things so are we if for a Free State and Common-wealth so are we if against a Single person so are we if for Reformation so are we if for godliness and the Nations to be exalted in Righteousness so are we Why do we differ in the form and way to it Oh dear friends if you should precipitately engage into a war and should conquer your Brethren would not the consequence be a conquest over your selves and all the good people of the Land And if they are gone certainly if you retain your old principles you will not desire to live long after them Precious Brethren we oommend unto you that place o●…uture Joshua 1. 14 15. We shall with onr bended knees implore the God of Heaven and King of Saints to guide you and perf●… as holy Noah said in another case Gen. 9. 7. God shall perswade Japheth to dwell in the Tents of Sem. Finally Brethren ●… be of good comfort let us be of one mind live in Peace and the God of Love and Peace shall be with you and us W●… Your most affectionate Brethren and fellow-Souldiers John Lambert John Disbrow James Berry Tho. Kelsey Hierom Sankey VVill. Stane Samuel Clark John Hewson Daniel Axtel Rich. Ashfield John Biscoe ●…dward Salmon William Packer 〈◊〉 Allen ●…ard Creed ●…bert Hope Robert Swallow VVilliam Simmons VVilliam Gough Daniel Kingswell John Duckenfield Dear friend we hope to hear in your Answer to this that all our dear Friends now in Bonds are at Liberty and that the Lord hath satisfied your hearts to Acquiesce in his present dispensations so as we may not expose each other to further inconveniency