Selected quad for the lemma: master_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	lord_n	servant_n	service_n	5,597	5	7.0128	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65857	The conscientious cause of the sufferers, called Quakers pleaded and expostulated with their oppressors in this nation of England, and particularly in and about the city of London : and those in power that go about to transport, banish, or suppress them for their meetings, innocently informed, and impartially cautioned, from the innocent and oppressed seed of God, which herein calls for justice and equity, and utterly exclaims against severity and persecution for matters of conscience or religion : wherein first and principally is shewed, the use and end of the publick assemblies of the said sufferers, in answer to several objections against them, 1. with respect to their conscientiousness, as it being their duty to meet, 2. with respect to their innocency and peaceable deportment both to the nation and government therein / by G.W.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1664 (1664)	Wing W1918; ESTC R20036	11,816	16

this the manner of the present proceedings against us or such as are reckoned to be in Error and Heresie that instead of suffering them to dispute or to have those things fairly discust wherein they are by the Bishops and Clergy deemed erroneous and Hereticks from the Church of England their mouths must be stopt and they cast into Holes and Prisons some from their Ecclesiastical censures and proceedings in their Spiritual Courts so called against them after they have excommunicated men and procured those called Significavier's and Writs of Capias against'them And others are imprisoned and proceeded against in their Temporal Courts some to a Praemunire others sentenced to Transportation or Banishment as if they were Thieves or Felons that deserved death and not to return within the time limited upon pain of being proceeded against as Felons and Murderers and many of them taken by Souldiers and Armed-men out of their Peaceable Meetings and haled to Prisons and thus the Innocent are made a prey upon And what do such severe and unchristian-like proceedings against us tend to where both Bishops Priests Rulers Officers and so both the Spiritual and Temporal Ecclesiastical and Civil so called and the Military Forces also are thus severely at work against us but to destroy us if the Lord did not sustain us And moreover It was said in the Law of God to Israel of old Thou shalt not do injury to a stranger neither oppress him ye shall not trouble any Widow nor Fatherless-Child if thou vex or trouble such and so he call and cry unto me I will surely hear his cry saith the Lord then shall my Wrath be kindled and I will kill you c. See Exod. 22. 21 22 23 24. Now mark if God would hear the cry of the Stranger Widdow and Fatherless that were wronged and oppressed and be avenged on their Oppressors what will become of you that have a hand against us if you go on oppressing your Neighbours or those of your own Nation who are Free-born English-people And if you go on to separate and and banish Innocent men from their Wives and Children and so by that means you make them Widdows and Fatherless and expose them to ruine outwardly How will you answer this before the Righteous God of Heaven and Earth who will assuredly hear their Cry against you yea God will hear them even as they are his creatures that cry and groan under the Oppression and Injury done them for Justice at his hand being that they ought to have their liberty and interest in the Creation as well as your selves or others of their fellow creatures and then will the Just God bring Wo upon all that decree or act unrighteously to keep back the poor from Judgment and to take away Judgment or Right from his People that Widdows may be their prey and that they may spoile the Fatherless Isa. 10. And then what will ye do in the day of Visitation and Destruction to whom will ye flee for help and where will ye leave your glory ver 3. Will your joyning hand in hand or your forces together secure you from the stroak of Gods Justice No sure for if you go on without Repentance mark the end of these harsh severe cruel proceedings And mark the end of Oppressors and of the Wicked whose Rod and Scepter the Lord will break See Isa. 14. as that of the King of Babel the Oppressor for whom Hell beneath was moved to meet him and whose Pomp and sound of his Viols was brought down to the grave that worms might cover him Or that Lucifer who said he would ascend into Heaven and exalt his Throne above the Stars of God as such now in effect say who in a Lucifer-like spirit would rule over the Consciences of God's People and so set themselves above them who are his Stars which he hath fixed in the Firmament of his Power but he who thus exalted and presumed was to be brought down to the Grave and to the sides of the Pit who opened not the house of his Prisoners and he was to be cast out as an abominable branch for he had destroyed his Land and slain his People he was of the seed of the wicked which was never to be renowned Mark these things and consider your wayes and actions and what they tend to And if they who did not visit nor minister to Christ in Prison in that they did not visit those that believed in him were to depart into everlasting fire Mat. 25. What will become of you that imprison Christ in his Members inasmuch as you do it to his little ones that believe in him which he that shall offend any of them he had better never have been born And where will you hide your selves or flee for refuge in the great day of the Lamb's Wrath which assuredly will come upon them that make War against him and his Followers When the Kings of the Earth and the Great men and Rich men and the chief Captains and Mighty Men and every Bond-man and every Free-man shall hide themselves in Dens and in the Rocks of the Mountains and say to the Mountains and Rocks Fall on us and hide us from the presence of him that sits on the Throne Rev. 6. Then both the Masters and Servants or Bond-men in this work of Persecution and oppressing and injuring their-fellow creatures will not be able to clear nor excuse themselves before the Lord God nor the subordinate Ministers or Officers saying they do their Superiors or Kings service in what they do acquit them from the reward which they must have from the Righteous God according to their deeds who have had many Informations and Warnings in which the Spirit of the Lord God hath striven with this Nation but will not alwaies Which had not these things been laid upon me thereby I had not sent them forth Part of this was written in the 7th month 1664. in Southwark THE END