Selected quad for the lemma: law_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	forbid_v	know_v	sin_n	6,464	5	5.7703	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66791	A triple paradox affixed to a counter-mure raised against the furious batteries of restraint, slander and poverty, the three grand engines of the world, the flesh, and the devil / by major George Wither ...	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1661 (1661)	Wing W3202; ESTC R12397	41,069	82

men erre and one way or another Occasion what mis-happens to each other I cannot but be sensible of that Which may bee mine and ev'ry mans estate CROFTON's a Prisoner and some say must dye Yet I from none can learn the reason why If his declaring for the COVENANT Be all his Crime a reason I shall want To satisfie mee by what Law wee shall Conclude that his Offence is Capital Or how that can imputed be for sin Which by no Law hath yet forbidden been GOD bless the King and State and so mens reason Preserve that we may once know Truth from Treason Lest we at last be brought into a snare And be uncertain when we Traitors are For though it safely might bee justifi'd That rather than GOD Men should be obey'd Such may not be their own Friends who condemn That man who pleaded both for GOD and them And to the hazzard of his life persists In vindicating their Joynt-Interests To no mans disadvantage except those Who are to GOD and Men apparent foes Mee thinks it is great pity that a man Who to GOD King and Church both may and can Be serviceable and who doth profess His Judgement in meer conscientiousness Without design'd contempt unto the State Or purposing a mutinous debate And never gave just cause to be suspected He was to either of them disaffected But unto both of them good service did When they of Faithful Servants had most need And hath but done his duty to oppose Those Harpies which to all Good men are foes Should by mistake or by mis-information As one who had deserved no compassion A Sufferer with Malefactors be Because hee sees not what he cannot see Or else because he cannot credit give To what he findes no reason to beleeve For who will care for life where Prelacy Attains to such a height of Tyranny That it inslaves both Soul and Body too And where of what we should beleeve and do No certainty can by their LIGHT be known Nor leave obtain'd to make use of our own Though voluntarily the King ingag'd To let the Conscience be so priviledg'd And Mercy in some other things did show Whereof the Prelacy will not allow Whether the COVENANT by right or wrong Were made or burnt it doth not now belong To private men to question For when dooms Are past in Parliament the Case then comes Before GOD's Judgement-Seat and woe to them Who that which hee approves of shall condemn Till therefore he thence answers their appeal Wise men their private thinkings will conceal And him implore to whom referr'd it is To right what 's wrong and pardon what 's amiss What Fame reports by Crofton to be done I singly and sincerely musing on Do finde by that whereof inform'd I am That hee more merited reward than blame Unless that wherein other men have err'd Without his fault may be to him transferr'd The Covenant hee took but did not make it Nor forced any one to take or break it But in his place alone the same maintain'd To his own hazzard as it appertain'd Unto the honour peace and preservation Both of the Royal persons and the Nation As he thought it oblig'd and as it stood In force relating to the Will of GOD And no jot further unless wee suppose Hee err'd in pressing it to bar out those Who have been still are and will be agen Foes unto GOD to Kings and Common men As soon as they themselves enabled finde To do the work for which they were design'd For that which CROFTON most insisted on As purpos'd by the Covenant to be done Is an exploding of the Hierarchy Brought in by Antichristian-Prelacy To whose support his Oath cannot extend Who CHRIST's Faith is obliged to defend And if that be a fault GOD mee forgive For therein I resolve to dye and live The stress of his Case as appears to mee Lies there if hee of ought else guilty bee I leave him to excuse himself for never Saw I his face nor shall perhaps for ever But hee 's in durance and I fain would do As in his Case I would bee done unto And peradventure it will needful bee That some ere long should do as much for mee There are besides those actings which do fall Within the duties of our Common-call Some having so peculiar Relation To GOD's Designments in our Generation That they not onely do the force abate Of what is call'd The Reason of the State But of those Precepts also at sometimes Whose violations are most hainous Crimes In any other case as may appear By many proofs which I will now forbear GOD doth a Generation-work design For ev'ry man These are a part of mine And I had rather dye ten deaths for one Than take ten lives to let it bee undone Till that is done mee Lord vouchsafe to keep And David like then let mee fall asleep Act. 13. 36.