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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bring_v	fruit_n	good_a	2,614	5	4.5284	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36272	A sermon preached before the King, Aug. 14, 1666 being the day of thanksgiving for the late victory at sea / by J. Dolben ...	Dolben, John, 1625-1686.	1666 (1666)	Wing D1833; ESTC R15031	13,657	34

stanza of a Psalm otherwise then in general terms so David could not satisfie himself but by crowding in all the general words and Appellatives which plain or figurative speech afforded 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theodoret. in Locum accompanying doubtless every several word with a proper distinct act of Devotion a new heat and flame of love and zeal so that all together like the Milky way they seem one Celestial fire but are many That we may see how well such a full acknowledgment would become us how well all these Names and Titles attributed by David to God would sound in our mouths if we would ascribe them with Davids Devotion and Affection Give me leave to look back not so far as he does to the whole life of a Man but to that new Epocha of our lives the new Birth and Restauration of all things to us Methinks that should be remembred every Thanksgiving-day without which we should never have had any Thanksgiving day at all Consider then in what condition we were this time seven years when the last Effort we could make or Project for the recovery of our Country was miserably defeated Shall I say by the Treachery of some the folly and cowardize of others or rather by the good Providence of God who designed to shew us the vanity of all our contrivances and the impossibility of our being saved by any other means then the miraculous interposition of his help and thereby make us humble enough for such a Deliverance You cannot but remember That we did not then draw our Breath otherwise then Precariously and at the mercy of impotent Fanatical and now enraged Tyrants from whose Principles as well as malice nothing was to be expected but Robberies Massacres and Desolations private mischiefs and publick Ruine Men that could not possibly agree to establish themselves and besides that they conspired to undo all but themselves their very disagreement had they designed nothing towards it must necessarily have destroyed the Nation Who would have expected that through this black Cloud a comfortable light and day of Salvation should dawne and break upon us within a few Months Who durst hope or almost Pray in so deep a despair that out of this horrid Chaos a World of Beauty and Order should arise so soon and we be surprised as in a dream with a perfect rescue from all we feared and a quiet enjoyment of whatsoever we could wish This was clearly the Work of God and God alone a meer miracle of Mercy wrought in despight of so much actual force at home so much Councel of all States and Princes abroad and the yet more dangerous oppositions of our own Provocations perversly and insolently contending against Gods goodness and making it far more reasonable for us to look for a hand upon the Wall writing a visible inreversible sentence of extirpation then secretly and powerfully working our deliverance behind it And therefore were there nothing else in our case we must confess that this alone hath filled all the expressions of David in my Text and we shall think our selves bound for ever to celebrate our Good God as our Refuge and Defence our Deliverer the Horn of our Salvation and our High Tower c. TO come close and home to our present business When the impudent injustice of our Neighbours made this War necessary we soon saw we should be engaged to contend with the most powerful enemies in the World without the assistance of any friend And perhaps this little world of ours were it unanimous and entire vigorously exerting all its force might be able to defend it self against so much of the greater But we are full of Caprice and humorous Emulations and Piques which trouble and discountenance and worse things which hinder and obstruct Publick Enterprises The infirmities of some and the wickedness of others weaken our hands and make us little more then half our selves One sort do no good and others all the harm they can So desperately mad are they Liv. l. 2. that like Appius his Legions they would rather be destroyed by any Enemy then live to see their Prince have the honour of saving and defending them These things shame us and disadvantage our Cause but they exalt the Glory of God and make his help afforded us more conspicuous For notwithstanding all this He gave us the last year a glorious Victory which brought forth good fruit and great effects And this year he hath not been wanting to us In the First Fight he brought us off without dishonour nay perhaps with more honour the circumstances of the Battle considered then a full Victory could have challenged had we been evenly matched And your Enemies Behaviour then will teach you how to value the Victory you have now Lord how did they insult and brave it all over Europe How unable were they to govern themselves when they pretended to have mastered us If Bonefires and Dutch Wit French Brags and some English Despondence could have conquer'd us we had been utterly undone But now behold how the Scene is changed we have seen our Conquerors fairly beaten and they who lately told the World that the narrow Seas were become as subject to them as their own Ditches and talked as if like Xerxes they would bridle and fetter the Captive Ocean are shamefully fled like him broken and shatter'd through those very Seas and left them to the possession of their ancient rightful owners And now their countenance is alter'd with their fortune Heretofore they were like the Grecian Wrastler who being thrown would spring up nimbly from the ground and confidently aver that he had given his adversary the fall Now they are more ingenuous and modest but not more quiet their Rants and Huffs are exercised among themselves And having by a calm escaped an imminent ruine at Sea they are shaken by Tempests and Storms at Land Revilings and accusations fly like Broadsides among their great Captains and the wise men cannot make the valiant ones agree which of them contributed most to their being beaten That all this hath been done for us and in a time while the devouring Pestilence rageth in our bowels and kills far more at home then our Enemies can abroad That the spreading Contagion which hath seized all quarters of our Land hath been restrained from hindring our great business either in the Fleet the Court or this City is of the wonderful goodness of God who though he will chastise will not destroy us though he take us into his own hand to correct us for our amendment yet suffers us not to fall into the hands of Man but both in Judgment and Mercy approves himself our Strength our Deliverer the horn of our Salvation and our high Tower and all this to try us by one experiment more whether when we have found him as good to us as he was to David we will be as thankful to him as David was Love him Trust in him Praise him