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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	england_n	king_n	lord_n	4,602	5	4.1139	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88950	King Charles the II. his restitution. The best cure for Englands confusion; or A most soveraigne salve for healing the sores of the three nations. Being an alarme to the nobility, gentry, clergie, and commonalty to bend and lend their hearts, heads and hands unanimously for the speedy and peaceable restitution of their liedge, lord and King to his crown and dignity, and recovery of their native countrey from ruine and slavery; by certain prophecies and texts of holy truth properly applicable, and ever paralel to the present times and occasions in the nations. By Ed. Mat. a cordiall lover of his King and country.	Mathews, Edward, of London.	1660 (1660)	Wing M1288D; Thomason E1019_8; ESTC R202946	3,884	8

c. Their own sheephards spare them not A just judgment upon them that spared not their milde and gentle Ruler therefore oppressing Hypocrites are set over them who have the name of God in their mouths but in their doings deny God attributing their gain to Gods blessing which cometh of the spoile of their brethren and for those and such like accounts have daies set apart for publick thanksgiving The Children of Israell saith the Prophet Hosea shall remain many daies without a KING and without a Prince and without an Offering and without an Ephod and without Teraphim c. Hosea 3.4 signifying that they should have neither Religion nor Policy Ecclesiasticall nor Civill Government and their Idolls wherein they trusted should be destroyed as the margent renders it Hath not this prophesy had full accomplishment in England hath not that Beautifull and flourishing Government both in Church and State setled and famous throughout Christendome been not for many daies onely but many years broken and interrupted and the Idolized Parliament the cause thereof and many other dolefull breaches in the Nations often also dissolved and now totally determined and infamously branded with an odious name of unfavoury reproach and their pillars of power their arm of flesh shrunk up and like Jeroboams hand withered most of their principall Officers cashier'd c. who seeth not the hand of God herein none but digitus dei hath done this The Prophet proceeds in the next verse to prescribe a cure for this confusion vers 5. Afterward shall the Children of Israell returne convert and seek the Lord their God and David their King and shall feare the Lord and his Goodnesse in latter daies The accomplishment hereof is at hand The Lord hath touched the hearts of the People and now after they have tasted the bitter fruit arising and growing from the root of Rebellion which beareth nought but the wormwood of woe wretchedness and the gall of grief and oppression they feel and find the want of their gracious KING and of an happy Government under him and resolve to returne from Rebellion and call home their banished and restore their lawfull KING CHARLES the most renouned Prince in Christendom to his rightfull Throne and Dominion The same Prophet proceeds cap. 10. to shew how the great disposer in whose hands are the hearts of both King People hath changed the Subjects hearts so that in stead of their former crucifige's they are now ready to receive their King with Hosannahs and Allelviahs and to make Recantation of their rebellion their heart is divided and now are they found faulty for now they shall say we have no King because we feared not the Lord is not our condition correspondent to Israels in that respect may we not say truly that the want of the fear of God hath been the cause we have so long wanted our Kin g behold saith the Lord the voice of the cry of the people is not the Lord in Zion Jer. 8.19 in England Is not her King in her why have they provoked me to anger intimating that as an argument of his displeasure hath nor the Government been toss'd and tumbled from hand to hand and none stands still remaines unsetled Hath not the Lord divided the hearts of the people and still continues a spirit of division among them that they shall not unite untill he come whose right it is to rule these Nations Set up what Governors or Goverment you can with all your turning devises contrive to resist your true King there is a mene mene c. ordained for prevention of all your designes The hand writing on the wall shall set you on shaking so that all your powers and policys shall fall and fail a tremor cordis shall possesse you trembling of soul shall cerify you and God shall blast all those unjust enterprises that tend to the resistance of the Kings restitution with a triple defeate and disappointment According to that of the Prophet Ezek. 21.27 I will overturn overturn overturn and it shall be no more untill he come whose right it is and I will give it him But hereof more in the next this being but the first of seven stars which by divine assistance shall be set forth to shine as bright beams and illustrious rayes of the Sun like glory of this right Royall Plant of Renown FINIS