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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	church_n	king_n	supremacy_n	1,454	5	10.5536	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67232	An assize-sermon preached in the cathedral-church of St. Peter in York, March the 8th, 1685/6, before the Right Honourable Sir Edward Nevill and Sir Henry Bedingfield ... by Christopher Wyvill ...	Wyvill, Christopher, 1651?-1711.	1686 (1686)	Wing W3783; ESTC R15591	17,063	36

are the true Sons of it who can never be unfaithful to Him so long as they are true to it to dissent from which Church either on the one hand or on the other will be a lessening of the number of the Kings fast friends We cannot turn to the Church of Rome without denying a part of the King 's governing Power that is His Supremacy in all Causes and over all Persons within his own Dominions We cannot side with the Phanaticks but we must hold Seditious Principles and Doctrines destructive of Government such as are Dominion is founded in Grace the King is major singulis but minór universis the King may be resisted and deposed if he doth not govern as the People would have him the safety of the People is the Supreme Law which if taken in a good sence may be true but otherwise is false and dangerous and many the like pernicious Opinions which are to be found in Buchanan's jus regni apud Scotos and Baxter's Holy Common-wealth and in several of the Non-conformists Writings all which the Church of England abhors and condemns And therefore let not the specious insinuations of the one Party nor the pretended zeal of the other prevail with us to forsake the best constituted Church that is at this day in the whole Christian World let it be seen to all the World that we can be true at the same time both to our Church and our King 6. And lastly that God may be graciously inclin'd to bless the King and the King's Dominions let us make it our business to lead religious and holy lives without which we cannot expect that either He or we shall prosper Let us often consider these places of Scripture and lay them seriously to our hearts If ye will fear the Lord and serve Him and obey his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the Lord then shall both ye and the King that reigneth over you continue following the Lord your God but if ye shall still do wickedly ye shall be consumed both ye and your King And again Righteousness exalteth a Nation but sin is a reproach to any People Again Take away the wicked from before the King and his Throne shall be established in righteousness From all which places and many others of the like nature we may plainly see how much publick evil a wicked conversation may be the cause of how much publick good a Godly life may promote We are generally too apt to impute the ill success and miscarriage of things to the wrong measures of our Governours to the ill management of the King or the ill advice of his Councellors little in the mean time considering how much the grievousness of our sins may be the cause of them whereby God is provoked to take vengeance on us in that way who oftentimes punisheth a wicked People by withdrawing from their King the grace and conduct of his Holy Spirit by blasting his good endeavours by suffering him to incur great misery and trouble What can we imagine was the cause that moved God to visit this Land with a long unnatural civil War that provoked him to suffer so great a breach to arise betwixt the King and his People till they had ruin'd themselves and their King by their own hands what I say can we think to have been the cause of it but the crying sins of the Nation so true is that saying of Saint James Whence come Wars and fightings amongst you come they not hence even of the lusts that war in your members And may we not fear that that great impiety that prodigious licentiousness that vile profaneness that horrid blasphemy that scandalous neglect of God's publick worship which are great sins now too rife amongst us may if not timely repented and amended of bring down upon us the like heavy judgments how justly may that of Isaiah be laid to our charge Ah sinful Nation a People laden with iniquity a Seed of evil doers Children that are corrupters they have forsaken the Lord they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to Anger they have gone away backward And is this the way to do the King service Is this the means whereby to express our loyalty to him and to obtain the blessing of God upon Him No surely if we love the King and would have Him reign prosperously over us we must then make a thorough reformation of our lives and become good Christians that we may be good Subjects We can hardly do a greater disservice to the King than by living unanswerably to the Rules of our holy Religion They are the intemperate and the debaucht Persons the common horrid swearers and the great neglecters of the publick worship of God that let them boast never so much of their Loyalty are the greatest enemies the King hath forasmuch as through their sins God may be provoked to punish Him Wherefore let us all begin to repent and amend our lives and then we may hope that God will bless Him and us Let us have the fear of God before our eyes and then we shall be the better enabled to Honour the King Then we may reasonably expect that things will succeed well both in Church and State when our conversation is as it becometh the Gospel of Christ. Let us therefore fear the Lord and serve him in truth with all our heart for consider how great things God hath done for us For a farther encouragement to all which let us often reflect upon the Glories and Happiness of the Kingdom of Heaven where all good Subjects that have faithfully served God and the King shall be rewarded with eternal felicity where no Rebels without severe and sincere repentance shall ever come where all good Kings for an earthly Diadem shall receive an immarcessible Crown of Glory and be for ever happy in the beatifick vision and fruition of the King of Kings To which most glorious Kingdom God of his infinite mercy bring our King with all his Subjects through the Merits of the King of Glory to whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost three Persons and one God be ascribed by you and by me and by all our Fellow-creatures all Honour Glory and Power both now and for evermore Amen FINIS Jud● 7. 6. 18. 1. 19. 1. 21. 25. Josh. 24. 31. ii Kings 18. 31. Act. 19. 38. Rom. 13. 3 4. Judg. 2. 19. Prov. 20. 8. Prov. 20. 26. Act. 24. 2 3. 1 Tim. 2. 2. Luke 22. 25. Lament 5. 16. 2 Sam. 21. 17. Lament 4. 20. Psal. 126. 1. Psal. 126. 2. Lament 4. 20. 1 Kings 10. 8 9. 1 Sam. 12. 14. 1 Sam. 12. 25. Prov. 14. 34. Prov. 25. 5. Jam. 4. 1. Isai. 1. 4. 1 Pet. 2. 17. Philip. 1. 27. 1 Sam. 12. 24.