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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	law_n	sin_n	transgression_n	4,002	5	11.2412	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65876	The path of the just cleared, and cruelty and tyranny laid open, or, A few words to you priests, and magistrates of this nation, (who say we deny the Scriptures, and that we are antichrists and deceivers, and that we deny the Word of God) wherein your oppression and tyranny is laid open, which by you is unjustly acted against the servants of the Living God, who by the world which hate the light of Christ, are in derision called Quakers : wherein also is something declared both to judges and justices ... : also the ground and cause of the imprisonment of George Whitehead and John Harwood ... / from the spirit of the Living God in me, whose name in the flesh is George Whitehead ... ; also a paper against the sin of idleness ...	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.; Harwood, John. To all you rulers, gentry, priests, and people.	1655 (1655)	Wing W1944; ESTC R206645	17,128	27

that to your selves which belongs to God and this is He vvho reigns over the house of Iacob and is greater then Abraham Let the heathens bovv to him vvho hath redeemed us out of the heathenish nature for he wil break the limits of the heathen and dash them to peices and all your limits who live in envy and rage in the heathenish nature and plead for their customs and would limit the righteous to walk in their steps and to bow to your proud flesh for as I live saith the Lord every knee shall bow to me and every Tongue shall confess unto god as you may read Rom. 13. 11. Isai. 45. 23. Phil. 2. 10. Therefore bow to the Lord of hosts and let proud flesh stoop before him who seeks honour to your selves which belongs to God Fear before the Lord and tremble at which Name every knee shall bow and every tongue confess to the glory of God Then examine what will be the end of your Earthly glory whose honour must be laid in the dust who seeks your own glory and not the glory of God whose honour and glory we seek and not the honor of man and therfore we cannot stoop nor bow to your pride nor conform to your vanities which are acted in your wills contrary to the pure Law of God which respects no mans person and here you act for your own ends and punish the servants of the Lord who for his sake cannot submit to your deceit and heathenish vanities you act contrary to the Law of God and the Law of the Nation and for the Lords sake act not neither were you sent of God to this end therefore accuse us not for contempt of Authority neither say that we are not subject to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake for to every Ordinance of man which are for the Lords sake we are subject whether it be to supream or unto Governors as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and for the praise of them that do well But you who are sent to judge of Causes between man and man according to the truth and equity by an outward Law which takes hold upon transgression and now execute power upon them who by the Law of the Spirit of life are made free from the Law of sin and death and so would usurp Authority over the consciences of the people of the Lord whose consciences is exercised by the Light of Christ which condemns the World with its deeds and so you go beyond your limits to judg in things pertaining to God who is Judge and Law-giver and so here you act in frowardness contrary to the Light of Christ in you and so would lord it over Gods heritage and here let the Rulers among the heathen which Christ spoke of condemn your practices who said the Kings of the Gentiles exercised Authority over them but ye would exercise Lordship over us who are not Heathens but Christians Therefore ye Magistrates of this Nation see whom you are acting for and what order is set up by you and whose glory it is you seek and who it is that you seek to exercise Authority over for when the Judgments of God comes upon you for acting in your wills and in your cruelty against the innocent you will witness them to be Just by that of God in your consciences and your Just reward And know that in as much as you persecute them whom Christ hath sent you persecute Christ therefore now while the Lord doth not speedily execute his Judgments upon you consider your wayes and see what you act and whom you act for as you will it eternally answer The ground of John Harwoods my imprisonment that Innocency may be cleared and the wicked bear their burthens UPon the 30 day of the 5th month being the 2d day of the week I my two Bretheren Jo Harwood Richard Clayton passing through a town called Bury in Suffolk about 5 Miles from Halstead in Essex where we were at a meeting the firstday before in the feare and service of the Lord and passing by the steeple house in the said Bury Richard Clayton was moved to set up a paper upon the steeple house door and John Harwood I passing on a litle before and seeing some people of the said Bury coming to Richard Clayton where he was seting up the paper and so we passed back to them who stayed him and were about him reading the paper who could find nothing contrary to Scriprure in it so John Harwood and I being to speake a few words to the people there present in the name of the Lord exhorted them to turne to the Lord from the vanities wickednesses they lived in which several of them was made to confess the truth of which was declared to them and the mouths of many who were in rage were stopped and so we passing from the people there present there came a Constable called Richard Hum who stayed us and said he had a warrant to stay us so we demanded to see his warrant but he had none to shew but said he had order from the Justice so carried us two before Harbert Pellam called Justice of peace in the said Bury whose office is for Essex so first I was carried before him and he examined me then John Harwood of our names and country and abode where we had been and what money we had when we came out of our own countryes which we answered as we were moved and had freedom and many other vain questions he asked in his b●sie vain Light mind which were not worth mentioning and when I was moved to speak a few words concerning his rage filthiness which he uttered forth he said he sent not for me to preach but he could lay no transgression nor the breach of any known Law to our charge but in his fury rage sent us by the Constable some others with him to one Thomas Walgrave who is called Justice of peace at Smalbridg in Suffolk about half a mile from the said Bury whose office is for Suffolk so when we came before the said Walgrave we were carried into the house they first examined Richard Clayton of his name and country and where he had been and what was the cause of his coming into that country and who sent him which he answered as he was moved and some other vain Questions were asked him when he had examined him he then examined me of my name country and where I was born and how long I had been acquainted with Richard Clayton and where I first met with him which I answered according to my freedom some other vain needless Questions were asked not worth mentioning so he could lay nothing to our charge concerning the breach of any Law we being free born English men and not Chargeable to any so then John Harwood was brought before him and Richard Clayton I commanded

stand praying in the Synagogues have the cheifest places in the assemblies and the greetings in the Markets and lay heavy burthens upon the people and devour widdows houses and so here the cause of the widdows and opressed you do not judg therfore the Lord may justly say of you as he said of that people which he had set in a fruitful place when I Looked for Judgment behold oppression therefore repetn of your cruelty and undo the heavy burthens and let the oppressed goe free for if you still refuse and rebel against the Lord which is a God of truth and equity he will cut you off and give you your portion among all the oppressors and persecuters whom the Lord in his indignation cut off the Lord of hosts hath spoken it and what will ye do in the end of your persecution when the Lord calls you to an account will not the Lord avenge his quarrel upon Sions oppressors and ease him of his enemies Therefore remember you are warned lest you are pertakers of the plagues who go on in persecution and oppression who pervert true Judgment and despise equity and so have your portion with the workers of iniquity So to the light in all your consciences I speak which loves equity and true Judgment and is the condemnation of all the practices before mentioned which are contrary to it And the condemnation of all them that live in them by which light are witnessed who walk in the light and to it we are manifest whether you heare or forbear A few words to you both Judges and Justices so called that say we contemne Magistracy and are not subiect to Authority and Government because we cannot put off our hats nor bow to you when we are called before you THe Powers that are ordained of God who are sent of him for the punishment of transgressors and for the encouragment of them that do well these we own and are subiect to them for conscience sake knowing that such are not a terror to good works but to evil for such execute the law in righteousnes upon them who are guilty of the transgression of it for because of trangression the Law is added there the Law is executed in its place and in righteousness and so those that execute the Law in its place they are for the establishment of righteousness and peace and contrary to the Law of Justice equity dare not act in their own wills nor for their own ends and herein they seek not themselves nor their own glory nor honour but the glory and honour of God who is honoured and glorified among them who act in truth and righteousnesse and love the Lord and to them our souls are subject But you who act in cruelty and persecution as before mentioned who execute your law upon the innocent you do not encourage them that do well but encourage them that do ill and strengthen the hands of evil doers and make strong the bands of wickedness who indite and fine and imprison those who cannot for conscience sake bow to your wills nor put off their Hats to satisfie your corrupt wills wherein you are seeking your own honour and not the honour of God and because that many cannot for conscience sake act these heathenish customs to satisfie your vain minds and your fleshly exaltations wherein you act in pride and high-mindedness therfore by you many are fined and endited and imprisoned contrary to any Just Law and contrary to the Law of the Nation and no such vain custome can you prove that ever any of the Saints did act when they were brought from vanities to serve the Living God But the world and the conformities and fashions of the World they were brought to deny and by the same Spirit are we brought to deny all these heathenish practices and to witness against the World who live in them and because we witness against the World that the deeds thereof are evil therefore we are hated and by the World suffer and here ye Magistrates who plead for these things and cause the innocent to suffer for denying them you act in the costumes of the world contrary to the Light of Christ which condemns the World with its deeds and sayes that we contemn Magistracy and Authority because we cannot stoop to your wills in these customes here you falsly accuse us for Authority we do not contemn for by the Spirit of the Living God whereby we are Transformed by the renuing of our minds we do deny the conformities of the world as the Apostle said Be not ye conformed unto this World and the same Apostle did not contemn Authority but said Let every soule be subject to the higher powers and Rulers are not a terror to good workes but to evil but he speakes not of pulling off the hat nor bowing neither gives he liberty to any of you to persecute and imprison them who cannot for conscience sake bow to your wills nor put off their hatts for he was imprisoned and persecuted and did suffer by that generation you are in who suffered stripes tumults and imprisonment and many perils of his sufferings are we pertakers and the cloak that you have for these vanities will not hide you for you say that though you have no written Law of the Nation for puling off hats nor Scripture to prove it yet you say that it is the custome of the Nation as bowing c and that the very heathens do bow and that the Egyptians bowed I answer so is drunkenness and Lying and Swearing persecution and fighting and Quarreling accustomed in this Nation which many that act in go unpunished which the righteous Law of God takes hold upon but the righteous Law of God speaks not of puting off a hat therefore be ashamed of your actings and be ashamed of your customs who makes a Custome a Law to act in envy and cruelty against the servants of the Lord And when you alledge that Jacob bowed to Esau and called him Lord and that Abraham bowed to Seth who was a Heathen I answer that which was acted by them when they bowed was not a command to you and that you might seek honour one of another who profess your selvs to be Believers and Christians to imitate these heathenish customs though for a time Jacob and Abraham bowed and Jacob called Esau Lord who was the elder but when the elder was made to serve the younger he was not Lord but servant and so out of Esaus state and the Heathenish nature we are redeemed and the one Lord who is the true God we witness so out of the many gods and many Lords which are in the World vve are redeemed and hovv can ye believe and seek honour one of another for the true God is no respecter of persons and he that respects persons commits sin and so by you that seek eye-service and honour one another is not the Lord honoured But ye seek