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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	holy_a	read_v	scripture_n	8,342	5	5.9261	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65741	Thysia 'aineseōs, or A thank-offering to the Lord for the happy recal of our dread soveraign Charles, by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. to his kingdoms and people. God save King Charles the II.	White, Henry, 1593 or 4-1661.	1660 (1660)	Wing W1771A; ESTC R219453	15,508	23

ΘΥΣΊΑ ἈΙΝΈΣΕΩΣ OR A THANK-OFFERING To the LORD For the happy Recal of Our dread SOVERAIGN CHARLES BY The Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. to His Kingdoms and People Delivered in a Sermon at Rougham in Suffolk May 24 1660. A day as we heard set apart for that purpose God save King CHARLES the II. LONDON Printed for William Frankling Book-seller at Norwich in the Year 1660. To the worshipful JEFFERY BURWEL OF ROUGHAM in the County of Suffolk Esq SIR You having heard a Sermon publickly delivered on the 24 of May 1660 a day set apart as we heard for thanksgiving to God for the happy recal of his Majesty King CHARLES to his Kingdomes and people were pleased to request a copy thereof which I not knowing how to deny to a Gentleman so well deserving and so much of him who hath no greater ambition then to be responsal to that goodness which in this age is grown so rare a dainty In obsequiousness to your demand I have here made that a Present to your Eye which you formerly tasted by the Eare not expecting that the Pen should express the lively Energy of the Voice yet as Pictures sometimes please where the lively Motions are not found so my hope is you will favourably accept in writing what you approved when vocally delivered The danger of fawning we are not ignorant of the breath of palpon's is infectious a taint to the receiver treasonable in the speaker Yet may we not refuse to give just praise thereby to avoid the suspicion of Parasitisme Your religious minde is manifest in your actions in your publick attendances and private duties exemplar in both to your neighbors abroad to your family at home Your love to distressed Ministers in the late stormy times though you had not a Cave to hide them in yet you wanted not an House to entertain them nor a munificent hand to relieve their necessities which howsoever they be resented by some will be no less then Aromates in heaven Your cordial and constant loyalty to his MAjESTY hath been sufficiently known to those that know you and as much may be said of your sincere affection to the Church of England which speak for you to all not misled in a distracted and confused generation What these might do with others I know not they are strong motives to me to prize your worth and prosecute your person with respect May it please you to accept what I have done and what my desire is to do to serve you that shall more oblige him who is and resolves to be Sir Yours in all humble observance and daily Oratour at the throne of grace HEN. WHITE A THANK-OFFERING TO the LORD for the KINGS happy return to his People MATTH 21.42 Jesus saith unto them Did you never read in the Scriptures The stone which the builders refused the same is become the head of the corner This is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes THis is manifest to all that these words are a reply of Christ to some men concerning something formerly discoursed by the knowledge whereof we are lighted into the present business In his preaching our Savior had proposed the parable of the vineyard from vers 33. and so on In which he had presented the immense bounty and benignity of God towards the Jews his unwearied patience and expectance of fruit his great care of continual supply by sending messenger after messenger and last of all his Son to whom all reverence was due and ready submission supposed but we finde in them unparallel'd insolency horrid cruelty and detestable ingratitude in beating and butchering the servants by a continued course in wickedness murthering the Son the true and lawful heir of the vineyard not for any evil that he had done but that they might get the inheritance to themselves They dispossessed him that they might take possession made him away that they might make way to their own advancement Too sad a story for this joyful day nor would I have soured your thoughts with the least remembrance of it did not the dependence of the present words exact it at my hands In the 40. verse our LORD doth rather ask a sentence then pronounce one as choosing rather to make them their own Judges then to judge them When the Lord therefore of the vineyard cometh what will he do unto those husbandmen To this they roundly answer verse 41. He will miserably destroy those wicked men c Full little thinking that they were concerned in it but taking it as a business remote they spake plainly that if God were just he would not suffer so great iniquity to go unpunished and though he came late yet he would smite sure at last returning the full measure of their demerits upon their heads Evil they were and evil punishment they must look for to be handled as severely by divine justice as their inhumane wickedness required So favorable are men in their own case so loth to be found guilty so ready to put it off so forward to lay it home to others whilest they hope the blow shall not hit them In the words of the Text we have Christs return to them by which they might understand that they were meant in all that had been said the very men who had acted so great villany and were yet to act more Did you never read in the Scriptures The stone which the builders refused c. The words are cited out of the 118. Psalm vers 22 23. They are Erotematical or Interrogatory The Interrogation is not simple but figurate and hath here the force of an Asseveration You have read the Scriptures and in them these words also He doth not question what he had a desire to know but speaketh as of a thing known to them as men studied John 5.39 well versed in holy Writ not to seek in that book in which they sought Eternal life His speach is directed to the Jews men within the pale and Pomery of the Church who acknowledged the Scripture to be 2 Tim. 3.16 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 given by divine inspiration and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of it self creditable and unquestionable These men no more doubted of the divine authority thereof then of the Divinity it self They were fully perswaded that God spake here whose Authority is Supreme from which there is no Appeal It was enough to them there needed no more the evidence of the Word had with them the force of all arguments they could no more refuse to submit to this then to refuse their God It is in vain to quarrel or dispute in a case determined by the great Moderator of heaven and earth There we search but having found it there we look no further in this we acquiesce In the words we have two parts 1. An Instance The stone which the builders refused the same is become the head of the corner 2. An