Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	great_a	heart_n	know_v	6,098	5	3.5329	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76022	A declaration of the Commander in Chief of the forces in Scotland, also another declaration of the officers of the Army in Scotland to the Churches of Christ in the three nations, together with three letters from the Lord General Monck, Commander in Chief of the forces in Scotland, and one of the commissioners by Act of Parliament for the government of the Army of this Commonwealth, viz. 1. To Mr. Speaker, 2. To the Lord Fleetwood, 3. To the Lord Lambert.	Scotland. Army.; Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of, 1608-1670.	1659 (1659)	Wing A884A; Thomason E1000_18; ESTC R207842	4,900	8

A DECLARATION Of the Commander in Chief of the Forces in SCOTLAND Also another DECLARATION Of the Officers of the ARMY in SCOTLAND To the Churches of Christ in the three NATIONS Together with Three LETTERS from the Lord General MONCK Commander in Chief of the Forces in Scotland and one of the Commissioners by Act of Parliament for the Government of the Army of this Commonwealth VIZ. 1. To Mr. SPEAKER 2. To the Lord FLEETWOOD 3. To the Lord LAMBERT EDINBVRGH Printed by Christopher Higgins in Harts Close over against the Trone Church 1659. A DECLARATION OF THE COMMANDER in Chief of the Forces in SCOTLAND HAving to the great grief of our hearts been informed of a most unhappy difference lately fallen out betwixt the Parliament and some Officers of the Army at London which hath occasioned the displacing of sundry of the said Officers And also the in interruption of the Members of Parliament in the discharge of their Duty We therefore having earnestly besought the LORD to direct us in this great and weighty Affair wherein the Liberty and Peace of these Nations and the Interest of the Godly and Faithfull therein is so nearly concerned do finde it our duty to Declare and we do hereby Declare That we shall use our Christian endeavours to the utmost for the begetting of a Right understanding and Reconciliation betwixt the Parliament and the said Officers of the Army And we do also Declare That we shall through the strength of God assert and maintain the Freedom and Pr●viledges of the present Parliament the so often and lately acknowledged Supream Authority of these Nations and not suffer the Members thereof to be illegally interrupted or molested in the discharge of their Duties And we do solemnly avow to all the world that our only intention in doing this is to preserve the Rights of our Country and to protect and encourage all the Godly and Faithfull therein according to our Declaration to the Churches lately emitted and published and likewise to establish the Peace of these Nations and the Government of a Free-State or Commonwealth To which we stand obliged by several Vows and Engagements made before GOD and many Witnesses And as we have within us the Testimony of sincere hearts and unbyassed consciences to encourage us in these our Vndertakings so we doubt not of the concurrent assistance of all the unprejudiced Faithfull in the Land for whose sakes principally we are drawn forth to this Engagement And we therefore invite all our Brethren of the Arnw and of the Militia and all others that professe love to GGD and His People and to their own and their Posterities Liberties to come and give us their chearfull aid in this Work whereunto the Lord hath called us lest they be made a Prey to the Lusts of Men and then bewail the losse of this opportunity which God hath put into their hands Signed in the Name and by the Consent of the Commander in Chief and the Officers of the Army in Scotland WILLIAM CLARK Secretary A Declaration of the Officers of the Army in Scotland to the Churches of Christ in the three Nations ALL the great works the Lord Jesus hath been doing in these three poor Nations hath been to make his Churches in them a glory that he might establish Jerusalem a praise in the Earth and we are confident his heart will never be at rest nor his providences shortned till upon this Glory he creates a defence and that so strong that the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it the establishing of his Churches we conceive to stand upon a double foundation Truth and Peace the Defence he will create upon it is his own presence with them in Christ and the instruments in his hand which he has raised to be a shelter to them in the worst of times Of this latter we may speak it to the praise of free-grace that no persons in their capacity have been more instrumental in the hand of God then the Army through whose faithful endeavours for Christ and his Ordinances and the Liberties of his people God has been pleased to redeem the precious priviledges of his Saints upon whose account all other Rights are only valuable from mixture in their Ordinances from unjust and Antiscriptural usurpation upon their consciences to a State of Freedom to professe and practice any thing that is warranted by the word though diversly interpreted according to that measure of the spirit which Jesus Christ the head is pleased to dispense The prosecution of which while God gives us an oppertunity to serve our Generation we must still hold forth to be the principle and practise of the Army however different they may seem in the wayes they pitch upon to promote it The blessing also that has followed it though it is not the alone motive to make us at this time declare it to you because we know Christs work is wages let it be sucess'd how he pleases by sowing in tears or reaping in joy Yet it is enough to encourage us as to the issue let it be what it will the work carrying in it acceptance with him whom we would onely please and engagements of your selves as to your prayers coincident with the end of all his glory which the Churches are to hold forth in all ages In order to this we doe as in the omnicient eye of our dear Lord Jesus who walks in the midst of you declare First That we own and assert the Authority of this present Parliament which is now through sad mistakes and misapprehensions interrupted and principally because We do jude that a well regulated Common-wealth is the safest Government to secure the just Liberties of all the Churches of Christ though in differing forms and to ballance the Lamented and circumstantial differences whose wounds are yet bleeding in the great scale of Christian and spiritual Love and as far as we know our own hearts the security it may give to our civil rights as men are dear to us onely as they relate to this most desired and promised unity amongst Gods people though very divers in their judgements Secondly That to this end if the Lord again please out of reserved mercy to his poor Churches to unite the Parliament and Army together We do declare that we shall assert it as the undoubted right of the Churches and humbly represent it to the Parliament as our great request that an impartial and just countenance according to the Word and the nature of their Priviledges may be afforded to all that may encourage the Ministry of the Churches and that may hedge about the flock of Christ that they may feed quietly in all Godliness and this with the largest allowance that Gods word will admit of both to Pastors and people in what way soever constituted and congregated Thirdly As further conducing to this end We do professe our selves to be persons that would follow Truth in Love and therefore can readily and heartily allow