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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	earth_n	see_v	world_n	12,890	5	4.5277	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89759	A pathway unto England's perfect settlement; and its centre and foundation of rest and peace, discovered by Capt. Robert Norwood. In this discourse you have cleared and proved, I. What government in its true and proper nature is; and the common errour thereof rectified. ... VI. That the laws, ordinances, &c. of our forefathers, are the onely rulers and governours of the English nation; ... VII. That neither parliaments, or any other, have any right, power, or authority to change, alter, suppress, or suspend the same; ... And in the conclusion, the nature of contracts, and the governments thereupon, made manifest and cleared.	Norwood, Robert, Captain.	1653 (1653)	Wing N1383; Thomason E702_16; ESTC R203007	38,577	71

but consider and go down into himself before he make any progress forth from or out of himself which thing alone would prevent most if not all our Quarrels and Disputes Thirdly I would intreat when we do dispute or enquire which word I had rather always use that we consider for what it is we dispute or enquire I know all men will presently answer and say It is for the Truth that is thou meanest to finde out and discover the Truth not to defend the Truth It were no small dishonour blot or blemish unto Truth to beg a Champion to defend it for it is strong enough to defend it self as you have it confessed by the King People Princes Captains and Governours of an hundred and seven and twenty Provinces in dispute of what was strongest Whether Kings Wine Women or Truth and Truth carried it And the Truth it self bears witness full and clear unto it self it is a Sun needs therefore nothing but a hand barely to hold it forth But it is to finde out and discover the Truth Thou do'st well if thou do'st it soberly quietly and stilly with meekness and moderation of spirit otherwise we shall raise such a dust such clouds foggs and mists as will darken the eyes of our Understanding that we shall not be able to judge of colours nor to finde our way which for certain we have lost witness our daily disputes questionings and enquiries Wherefore being now upon our enquiry I again pray that we may walk gently and easily being as strangers in a strange land and God is to be seen found and known in each step we take In calmness there is clearness and so I hope we shall finde our way the better and the sooner These three things being taken along with us we will hope that the Lord who is our light will meet us and direct us for it is written He is nigh unto them that fear him and that He will be found of those that seek after him It is light we want that is doubtless and nothing else can shew or bring us into our way again that is as certain It is then verily worth our seeking and happie shall we be in finding It is written in a certain place In thy light shall we see light To that light therefore I desire we may all look and again by a still soft and gentle motion to make our return even to the Beginning of days and see how we there stand In the first of Genesis we have it thus In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth and the heavens was without form and void and darkness was upon the deep And the Spirit of God moved upon the waters Then God said Let there be light and there was light and God saw the light that it was good And God separated the light from the darkness and the light he called Day and the darkness he called Night And in vers 16. it is said God made two great lights the greater light to rule the day and the less light to rule the night and that he set them in the firmament of heaven to shine upon the earth and to rule in the day and in the night and to separate the light from the darkness There we finde that the first word God gave forth when all things were in a Chaos or confusion was Light Let there be light and there was light This then was as appears the first Creation going forth or manifestation of God as the Scriptures testific John in his first Chapter witnesseth the same thing In the beginning saith he was that Word And Moses saith In the beginning God So then in God was this Word as John afterwards hath it That Word saith he was with God and that Word was God the same was in the beginning with God All things were made by it and without it was made nothing that was made In it saith he was life and the life was the light of men and that the light shineth in the darkness though the darkness comprehends it not And that he was in the world and that the world was made by him though the world knew it not Moses saith the same thing for saith he The earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the deep Until the Spirit of God moved upon the waters and then God said Let there be light and there was light So that it appears the first word of God was Light and that light was Life John also calls it The first begotten of God and so Moses The Spirit of God moved upon the waters And the first product was Light Paul in his Epistle to the Colossians calls it The image of the invisible God and The first begotten of every creature By him saith he were all things created which are in heaven and which are in earth things visible and invisible All things saith he were created by him and for him Thus you see that the first thing in which by which or through which God made the world was Light that was the first that first in which by which and through which all things were made by that self-same must they be ruled and governed as we shall see anon and that first was and is light Light therefore as it appears was the first going forth of God in and towards the Creation of the world or that true image or pattern of himself in by and after which he made or made manifest the world and himself in the world for that is one main inherent property or intrinse nature and quality of light to make manifest even those things which are not As it is written God calleth the things that are as if they were not and the things that are not as if they were Now that for which I produce these Scriptures is that if it may be we may discover and get a true understanding and knowledge of that we call Rule or Government what it is For we are very apt to mis-understand and give an untrue interpretation not onely of other mens words but our own also Let us therefore a little consider by the things that are as we finde them in the beginning It is said as is before quoted that God made two great lights and and set them in the Firmament of the Heaven to shine upon the earth and to Rule in the day and in the night Now what the nature and property of their Rule and Government is we finde and see day by day First Light we see is diffusive it diffuses it self throughout the whole circumference of the Heavens and shineth as it is written upon the earth both upon the good and the bad upon the just and the unjust it giveth so much of it self into every vessel as it is capable to receive so swallowing up casting out or destroying the darkness and the death Secondly It is very attractive nothing more nay nothing so much so strongly and yet so sweetly attracteth as the Light doth

and their very souls bless and pray for us Verily if this thing be but done all is done and then will peace and joy health strength life and salvation break forth mightily upon us and the glory of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords will rest upon us walk continually with us and before us and no fear shall or can come nigh us the Heavens would then give down their rain and the earth which begins to be burnt up give forth its fatness Verily I am not in jest in this matter it is a business of the highest concernment to the Nation that can be and as the Lord God who made Heaven and earth lives before whom and in whose presence I now stand I do more earnestly beg this thing of every one whom it doth concern then I would or could do for my own life and the lives of all the particular neerest and dearest relations I have in the world And I beseech you think not that I am in some foolish pang or passion or that these expressions arise from a melancholy discontented minde and spirit no they are the words of soberness and words that proceed from the very heart and soul where verily these things lye deeply rooted I am my self upon all accounts whatsoever and I know what I speak in that which I have spoken Oh that I could but see some begin to move this way Surely they would be met and seconded by many I hope by all Verily there is no way to save and secure your selves and estates but this To ask mercy and pardon of the Lord and your brethren to make satisfaction and restitution wherein you have done amiss and it is good honourable and commendable in the sight of God and man and surely Englishmen are not I am sure were not in times past hard of reconciliation Verily I hope we shall all be found men of such nobleness of minde men of such honour men of so great and magnanimous spirits that we shall reckon and account it much besides and below our selves to be overcome with or by any injuries wrongs or affronts as we call them whatsoever but I trust we shall be found men of such and so great minds and spirits that we can easily and readily swallow up and drown them all in our own breasts and bosoms there to be buried so as never to rise any more Why Oh why may we not say to the greatest and worst of our enemies Live Oh come and let us again like brethren live and live together even we and our forefathers we in them they in us both all altogether in the Laws Ordinances Customs and Constitutions they have ordained appointed and commanded to us and all generations after us for ever for which so much blood of our forefathers hath been shed so many and so great hazards and adventures by them run so much witnessed to and contested for by many noble worthy true Englishmen and for which such and so great a hazard and adventure hath now again been run such may I not say as it were a Sea of blood shed and exceeding vast treasure spent for the defence or securing thereof and our selves therein This was the end this is the end and I trust none will be deceived of it but that all of all parties or interests whatsoever or howsoever now may I not say unhappily distinguished shall really and truly finde have it and know it so Wherefore I beg and beg again again and again that we may all now as one man joyn together for ever so to secure those the Laws Ordinances Customs and Constitutions of our forefathers and our selves and posteritie for ever hereafter in them that both our selves and ours may live in peace rest and happiness for ever after and no man or men whatsoever may once so much as dare to offer or attempt the least interruption alteration breach or violation thereof for he who touches them touches our lives wrapped up in them Verily it is greatly the honour nobility and excellency of a man to pass by offences and injuries Have we not broken one anothers heads and arms in breaking the Ordinances of our forefathers even broke one another almost quite in pieces Why let us piece and reconcile again like Englishmen for ever hereafter and away with those low base beggerly vile unworthy mercenary or mechanick-spirited men as we call them who are so far from this honour excellency and dignity of men or Englishmen that they have unworthily injured wronged oppressed cheated stoln robbed to satisfic their vain empty fond foolish appetites lusts pleasures We may not call these Englishmen untill they repent and return those who have been so far from saving and keeping whole preserving and protecting the Faith of the English Nation according to their power that they have as much as in them lay extreamly and most perfidioufly violated the same in all cases and upon all accounts whatsoever Which think you is the more noble honourable gallant excellent man he that thus injures wrongs and oppresses another man or he who bears swallows up buries and overcomes such oppressions wrongs and injuries Arise thou man Oh thou man of glory of excellency and of beauty thou Oh thou man of power of dignity and of strength and come and stand forth in the midst of us to save us and deliver us for we are nigh unto perishing He even he who cannot be moved with or by any thing or all things from his glory his dignity his excellency strength and stedfastness Come Oh come we who have been oppressed injured and wronged we will freely forgive it and forget it it shall no more be thought of by us but we will bury it for ever we will not so much reproach our selves and our Maker we will not so debase our selves nor defile our houses habitations and temples as to keep or harbour in them the low base vile contemptible unworthy dealings of other men towrds us and by us No we will surely retain our honour our glory our excellency and dignity unspotted unstained and undefiled we will so far as we are able forgive it also for our fathers friends and relations onely we beg pray and beseech for your own sakes that you will not let any thing lye upon your own score and accounts which is in your own power to remedy and help for you are of ourselves we are a body a Commonwealth and it is the Common-weal or Common-good that we defire and seek of which we hope you will continue members and can any member of the body be in danger and we not sensible Lord how can it be hence it is we so love and pity you Oh why should a farther breach be made amongst us He who hath the Wedge of Gold or the Babylonish Garment let it be done away if you have that which you cannot say with a perfect and upright heart in the fight of the Sun is justly duely truly honestly faithfully