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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	king_n	lord_n	people_n	3,378	5	4.9550	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25205	Duty and interest united in prayer and praise for kings and all that are in authority from I Tim. II. 1,2 : being a sermon preach'd at Westminster upon the late day of thanksgiving, Sept. 8, 1695 / by V.A.	Alsop, Vincent, 1629 or 30-1703.	1695 (1695)	Wing A2908; ESTC R27733	27,230	36

and thus he pointed to David as the person whom in due season the People were to set over themselves For tho God had designed the person and anointed him by Samuel in token of that Designation yet the Right of the People was left entire unto them 2 Sam. 2. 4. The men of Judah came and there they anointed David King over the house of Judah Which Title as David owned so he asse●ts pleads and adheres to it in his controversy with the house of Saul v. 7. The house of Judah have anointed me King over them And there 's no doubt but if a People wanted a King they would thankfully own the condesention of God that he would direct them to a fit person whom they might advance to the Throne But in ordinary cases when we cannot expect an immediate Revelation to de●ermine the point we must look upon the person to be of the divine Designation whom all circumstances considered God has qualified for gove●nment in general and adapted to the genius and temper of the Nation in particular over whom he is to reign Now what could he more articulately the voice of God in our case than this He was a Prince and Protestant born such a one the Nation gr●aned for train'd up to War from his youth such a one we wanted to revive the Military Courage of the Nation almost choaked with luxury and riot through the effeminacy of the two last reigns one whose Interest led him to espouse the betrayed Cause and Interest of the Land against a haughty Prince who had swallow'd up a considerable part of Europe and daily gap'd to devour the rest Now it being clear that we wanted a Prince and as clear that we wanted such a Prince and still as clear that God offered us such a one as we wanted what could the Nation do in their general Convention but set up such a one as the Lord did choose Let us therefore return our thanks to our God who graciously offered who disposed the hearts of the people unanimously to accept the offer of God and then so powerfully inclined the Princes heart to accept our offer tho he foresaw the Crown of England was alternately flowred with Lillies and Crosses and he that would wear our Crown of Gold must also wear one of Thorns But as we have cause of Praise so have we of Prayer too In the grand Charter of Israel to set a King over them there are some special clauses to which both King and People will do well to attend 1. That the person whom they should set over them be one of their Brethren v. 15. Thou mayst not set a stranger over thee To this Proviso our Convention had a religious respect judging him that is of a strange Religion that has espoused a foreign int●rest and whose heart is an Alien to the good and prosperity of the People and who had introduced a foreign power to be really a stranger tho locally born within the King●om and him that shall own the Cause of our Religion the true Interest of the People to be a Denizon tho he had been born in the remotest parts of the earth 2. We have here a Law prescribed to the King himself v. 18. That when he sits upon the throne of the kingdom he shall write him a Copy of this Law in a Book and it shall be with him and he shall read therein all the days of his life that he may learn to fear the Lord his God to keep all the words of this Law that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren He must still remember that as the people have lifted him up above them yet he is under God still Regum timendorum in proprios Greges Reg●s in ipsos Imperium est Iovis This Law of the Lord in which the King is commanded to read and walk afford us a Distinction which some men tinctured with an arbitrary spirit either will not understand or would confound 1. There is the Law of all Kings 2. The way of some Kings 1. There is the Law of all Kings o● that Law which the King of Kings has prescribed subor●i●ate Kings to govern themselves and their people by That they trust in God and not to an arm of flesh that they make the Word of God their Rule that their hearts be not lifted up above their brethren And unto this divine Law we pray that our King that all Kings and all that are in Authority may give deference 2. There is the way of some Kings not that in which they ought to walk but which some of them too many are persuaded to tread 1 S●m 8. 11 This will be the manner of your King c. Not what righteously he ought to be but what eventually may be Blessed therefore be our God that we have known Laws that we know what we may ex●ect from our King that he knows what he may expect fr●m us that there may be a mutual confidence between us that the King bre●k not in upon our Properties that we 〈◊〉 not in upon his 〈◊〉 that the Laws of the Land are to determine and 〈◊〉 all matters between us that the King may rule and we obey in the Fear of the Lord and God even our God shall give us his b●●ssing § 2. 〈◊〉 our most enlarged Praises be offered unto God on the 〈…〉 that in the mid●t of those many dangers to 〈◊〉 he has ●een exposed yet the Divine Providence has 〈◊〉 over his 〈◊〉 Ballets are imp●●tial things the Sword 〈◊〉 one as well as a●other the C●●non is no Respecter of 〈◊〉 and ●et when many have fallen on his right hand many on the left the fatal stroke has no● come nigh him W● cannot forget what a wound God gave us this last year in the pe●son of o●r most excellent most gracious Queen none can touch that tender point but o●r wounds bleed afresh Tears may be wiped from our eyes but the Fountain flows grief to this day we cannot reflect upon that dreadful stroke which astonisht three Kingdoms but our hearts tremble at the thought that if the blow had been repeated in the person of his Majesty and our wound opened before it was well healed we must have bled to death Bless we God therefore that Providence in preserving our King has not preserved only three Kingdoms but almost all Europe And let us mingle our Prayers with our Thanksgivings that the same watchful and faithful eye of Providence would superintend his person still that Praises may succeed Prayers and Prayers follow Praises in an uninterrupted succession which that the one may be successful and the other acceptable let us be advised that we mix not our sins with either § 3. We have special matter of Thanksgiving administred to us that God has attended the Arms of the Confederates with unexpected sure with undeserved successes this Summer This i● the duty of the Text and of the Day which we have the more reason