Selected quad for the lemma: hand_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	good_a	lord_n	time_n	5,857	5	3.5743	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44842	The real cause of the nations bondage and slavery here demonstrated and the way of their freedome from their sore and hard bondage asserted presented unto the Parliament ... / from one that hath seen the corruption ... Richard Hubberthorn.	Hubberthorn, Richard, 1628-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3228; ESTC R34471	6,259	9

or three witnesses without swearing and so people is still kept in bondage by deceit and oppression from having the liberty of their pure consciences and so neither Law Judges nor Councellors are now as at the beginning nor such as ought to be in a free Common-wealth Now whereas in your late proceedings it is ordered and granted that every one shall have their free liberty first as an English man secondly as a Christian which liberty hitherto we have not enjoyed for as English men we have not had our just liberty in the Nation first as concerning the Law secondly as concerning the Worship of God for in this our own nation and in our own Counties where we have been well known and also just and true and of good report and no evil justly laid to our charge have we been shamefully abused whipped stoned prisoned and both our bodies and goods spoiled accounted as vagrants and not permitted as English men to have the liberty of the Law because we as Christians could not transgresse the commandment of Christ which saith swear not at all so that if we may have our liberty as English men then not to be persecuted in our own countrey as vagrants where we are known to be no such persons and from hence let a true t●●●●mony in yea or nay be taken in our law without an oath 〈◊〉 he that can take liberty to swear and so to break Christs c●●mand will take liberty to lye also And secondly if we 〈◊〉 injoy our liberty as Christians then we are not to be force● 〈◊〉 a law to maintain the Anti-christian ministers nor to be fo●… to swear contrary to Christs command and also that act 〈◊〉 Law is to be abolished which is to persecute any for trave●… on the first day of the week yea when many of that day 〈◊〉 but travelled to the worship of God hath been imprisoned some their horses taken from them never yet had them ag●… and this is contrary to the Christians liberty for the Chr●●●●ans and the disciples of Christ in the primative time tra●…led upon that day and Christ himself travelled upon that 〈◊〉 as you may read in Luke 24. 15. where two of the Disciples ●…veled from Jerusalem to a village called Emaus and 〈◊〉 being risen from the dead travelled with them which was 〈◊〉 Jerusalem about 60 furlongs and that same day they trave●… back again from Emaus to Jerusalem verse 33. which in 〈◊〉 is about 15 miles and if they had travelled other 15 miles 〈◊〉 it was but the Christians liberty and no law to the contr●●● so let that be repealed which binds and limits us from 〈◊〉 the Christians liberty and from walking as they walked And let not any magistrate be incouraged by you to ●…ny cruelty or persecution from his will upon any for the ●…ercise of their consciences in the fear of God in obedie●… to his will for the day of your tryal is come and the 〈◊〉 which will make all things manifest and every work of 〈◊〉 sort it is An opportunity hath been put into the hands of many to 〈◊〉 for God who had no heart to improve it but hath impro●… their own interest for their own ambition and God hath 〈◊〉 them as a reproach and a by-word among the people 〈◊〉 have sought their own and not anothers good and have bused the power put into their hands therefore you that 〈◊〉 not yet lost your day nor time redeem it least the Lord 〈◊〉 you by also as not fit to do his work as he hath done 〈◊〉 THE END