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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	david_n	king_n	saul_n	1,839	5	10.0881	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55721	Hadadrimmon, sive, Threnodia anglicana ob regicidium a sermon on Davids humiliation for cutting off the royal robe, and detestation of cutting off the royal head of the Lords anointed : preached Jan. 30, 1660, being a solemn fast for the horrid murther of King Charles I of glorious memory, at Westbury, in the county of Wilts. / by John Paradise ...	Paradise, John.	1661 (1661)	Wing P327; ESTC R13634	47,214	58

a Nation forbearance is no acquirtance The Lord avenged the slaughter of the Gibeonites by Saul many years after the commission thereof 2 Sam. 21.1 2. 2 Chron. 35.25 even in the Reign of David with three years famine on Israel Those words They spake of Josiah in their lamentations unto this day do denote the continuation of their sorrow for him a long time after his death Secondly notwithstanding this sin was contrived and actually committed but by few and detested by the majority of the Nation yet I fear mosst of the people of England have contracted the guilt thereof upon these two grounds 1. Because they did not rise up as one man with an unanimous resolution to rescue their captived Sovereign out of the hands of those roaring Lyons and destroying Bears which devoured him even as all Israel did to rescue their beloved Jonathan who cried out shall Jonathan Dy God forbid as the Lord liveth there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground This should have been Englands voice resolution and indeavour in behalf of their King Causae non impedientes are numbered by Phylosophers among moral efficient causes Qui non prohibet quod potest jubet 2. For defect of sufficient humiliation General insensiblenesse renders a sin national as well as common practice I doubt Eng. sorrow hath not been proportionable to the degree of Englands sin Sins that have been buried a long time in the grave of oblivion may revive in their punishment It was a pious desire of a Reverend Divine that a National fast might be solemnly observed for the innocent blood of Holy Martyrs shed in Queen Maryes Reign Achan only took of the accursed thing and yet it is said Josh 7. ve 6. 11. all Israel sinned and committed a trespasse before the Lord And all Israel suffered for the sin of Achan Beloved the murder of King Charles may be an Achan in England to bring down the curse of God upon it unlesse we acquit our selves by serious humiliation from the guilt thereof All the righteous blood shed upon the earth from the blood of Righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias slain between the Temple and the Altar is charged by Christ on the Pharisees If the blood of Abel might justly be imputed to a people that never had finger in it 4000. years after it was shed Much more may that innocent Royal blood which was shed but 12 years since be a Moth and a Canker to England unlesse we offer up the Sacrifice of a broken and contrite heart unto the Lord. Wherefore let us hang our harps upon the Willowes and mourn when we remember King Charles the first as the Israelites sate down by the rivers of Babylon Psa 137.1 2. and wept when they remembred Zion Let us breath out our sorrow in the words of the Prophet Jeremiahs Lamentations for the captivity of Zedechiah The breath of our nostrels the anointed of the Lord was taken in their pits Lam. 4.20 of whom we said under the shadow of his wings we shall live and flourish Naturalists relate that the hard Adamant it self being bathed in the blood of a Goat will be softned and dissolved So were your hearts of a Rock-like Flint-like Adamantine nature yet methinks being bathed in the blood of a King they should be dissolved into tears of Godly sorrow O cursed Ax that at one blow cut off the head of three Kingdomes and left them as Dead carkasses O Glorious Prince with what Kisses of dissimulation did English Judasses betray thee How was thy sacred person in imitation of our blessed Saviour who was crowned with Thorns spit on scourged buffeted reviled exposed to scorn and ignomy How were thy Nobles and Peeres who were wont to attend thy royal Person Exchanged for Jaylors thy Palace for a prison thy Throne for a scaffold and a Block Did not the adversaries of King Charles cry out Execution Execution as the Jews against Christ Crucifie him Crucifie him Finally his royal head was cut off with a cruel Ax as the blessed heart of Christ was pierced with a cruel Spear Was not this the most monstrous and barbarous act the most bloody tragedy of all tragedies that ever were acted since the crucifying of the Son of God for a company of abjects not only to abuse vilifie their Sovereign with the opprobrious names of malefactor Traytor and the like but also to arraigne condemn and execute him Had they touched only his royall robes it had been a violation of their duty but they devested themselves of christianity Loyalty yea Humanity it self and cut off his royall head Hear O Heavens give Ear O Earth gather blacknesse and be astonished for a great evil hath been committed amongst us O Sun in thy race throughout the whole world even the most barbarous corners thereof didst thou ever take notice of a more inhumane murder O that we had some Jeremiah with Eyes as water and an head as a fountain of teares to lament the death and sing the obsequies of our Mattyred King yea to write a book of lamentations for him as he did for the captivity of King Zedechiah Again from Davide humiliation for and intention in smiting Sauls Robe compared together Observe That a good intention doth not justify an evil Observ and disloyal action Davids designe was to procure a testimony of his innocency that Saul beholding the skirt of his robe in Davids hand might be fully convinced that David had no design against his life then which he could never have proposed a better end to himself next to the glory of God and salvation of his soul and yet being conscious of ataxy in his action his heart smites him for it An Act for the matter and substance thereof Lawfull may for Defect of a right modification a good end be but splendidum peccatum but it is impossible that an act materially evil should be rectified by the best end aimed at therein A garment of good cloath may be marred in the making but a good garment can never be made of bad cloath The prevention of evil doth not justify the commission of evil in order thereunto Lots desire to prevent Sodomy did not authorize him to permit Adultery by prostituting his daughters to the lust of the Sodomites Herod was not to be excused when he rushed on the Rock of murther in beheading John the Baptist at the request of his Dancing minion to avoid the sands of perjury Math. 14.10 Neither doth the attainment of the greatest good change the nature of an evil action The preservation of Lots posterity did not excuse his Daughters incest nor the procurement of the blessing Rebekahs treachery and Jacobs lying The Lord smote Uzzah that he died for touching the Ark though out of an in ention to keep it from falling when the Oxen stumbled 1 Chro. 13.9.10 Joh. 16.2 Phil. 3. Christ tells his Disciples that the time