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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	evil_a	good_a	see_v	2,875	5	3.5208	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81897	The Parliaments commission: delivered in a sermon, upon Nehemiah chap. 2 vers. 19, 20. / By J. Durham.	Durham, James, 1622-1658.	1643 (1643)	Wing D2821; Thomason E246_10; ESTC R3805	10,053	8

Jewes withall is Rebellion falling from the King and setting up a Kingdome amongst themselves When Elias exhorted Achab and the people to return unto the Lord Achab saith unto him Art thou he that troubleth Israel nay said the Prophet It is thou and thy fathers house rebuking him and teaching truth was counted troubling of the commonwealth and the King What was the cause that King Saul and his flatterers hated poor David so much and so cruelly sought his death but that the people sung after that Goliah was slain that Saul had killed a thousand and David his ten thousand which was as much to say as they thought that David was a mightier man than Saul and meeter to be King Daniel set open his windowes and contrary to the Kings commandement prayed thrice a day unto the living Lord Dan. 6. and therefore was accused of disobedience to the King and cast to the lions den to be devoured of them The Israelites in Egypt Exod. 1. when God blessed them and increased them to a great people were accused that they waxed so many and wealthy that they would rebell against the King and therefore to keep them under were oppressed by the task-masters and set to make brick for their buildings When our Lord and Master Christ Iesus was born the wisemen asked where the King of the Iewes was Herod was mad and killed all the children of two yeares old and under Mat. 2. lest any of them should come to be King and put him down When our Saviour Christ said His Kingdome was not of this world then said Pilate Thou art a King then whereupon the Jewes took occasion to accuse him of treason and said Every one that maketh himselfe a King speaketh against the Emperour for we have no King but the Emperour The Apostles were accused that they had troubled the commonwealth by preaching Christ and filled Ierusalem with their doctrine contrary to the commandement of the Priests and Elders Iason was drawn out of his house for lodging Paul being accused that he had troubled the world and disobeyed the Emperour When S. Paul had preached Christ in Athens He was accused for troubling the state by teaching his new doctrine thus ever the building of Gods house by preaching of the Gospell hath been charged with rebellion disobedience to Princes and troubling of the common-wealth and peace But good men have not been dismaid at such big words but with good courage have proceeded in their work having the testimony of a good conscience that they be not guilty of any such thing 20 And I answered This was the first push but not the worst that they had to discourage them from proceeding in this building and not unlike but it made some afraid to hear such big words and so great matters laid to their charge by men of such authority as they were But as they were not ashamed so unjustly to accuse Gods people so Nehemiah steppeth forth as boldly answereth for them all and defendeth their doings A worthy example for all those that be in authority to follow they have not the sword committed to them in vain they ought to defend both by word and deed in their weldoings those that be committed unto them Their duty is not to suffer Gods enemies to invade or hurt slander or blaspheme those that they have charge over but draw the sword if need be to drive away such wolves and punish such wicked tongues It is not as we commonly say when any danger or persecution ariseth for the doctrine or that the Ministers are untruly reported of let the Preachers defend it it is their duty and vocation we are not learned it belongeth not to us our care is for the common-wealth only Religious Magistrates will neither do so nor say so they will not suffer as much as in them lieth the Church Religion doctrine nor the Ministers to be evill spoken of reviled defaced nor over-run They be mouthes to speak for Gods people as Moyses was unto Pharaoh they be hands to fight for them they be Rulers to defend the good and punish the evill Iephthe when the Ammunites fought against Israel Iudg. 11. defended the cause in disputation by words and after in battell with the sword The good King Ezechias 2 King 18. when he received the blasphemous message and letters from Rabshakeh against God his Temple people and Religion he seeketh by all means to defend them all and encourage the people not to fall away from their God in that great danger When Holophernes railed on God and his people Achior and Iudeth defend them and she cutteth off his head When the great Giant Golias 1 Sam. 14. reviled the people of God and provoked them to sight with him hand to hand if they durst for the victory none was found that durst doe it but poore David who with no weapons but his sling and a few stones killed that lusty champion and delivered his people When Dathan Chorah and Abiram with their fellowes railed against Moses and Aaron Gods true Ministers Numb. 16. Moses committing the revenge of it to the Lord warned the people to depart from their company lest they perished with them by that strange death and straight wayes the earth opened and swallowed up them and their goods and tents where they dwelt quicke into hell nay women were not spared for Miriam Moses sister was smitten with a leprosie for railing on Moses her brother Gods lievtenant over them As the Magistrate therefore both with word and sword must defend Gods cause his Religion Temple People Ministers and Doctrine so must the Preacher and those that be learned with their paines prayer preaching and all other meanes that they can yea if our goods or lives were required for the defence of it no state of men ought to refuse it For this end are we born and live to glorifie our God and set forth his praise for this purpose are all things given us and therefore must not be spared but spent and bestowed when his glory requireth I or this cause Esaias the Prophet gave his body to be sawen in sunder with a saw of iron for this cause Ieremiah was cast into a dungeon of mire and filth Ier. 38. Daniel into the Lions den Saint Paul pleadeth his cause oft in chaines at Ierusalem and at Rome afore Festus Felix and Agrippa and our Lord and Master Christ Iesus afore Annas Caiaphas Pilate and Herod Iohn Baptist lost his head for this quarrell and no good men will think any thing too dear to spend in Christs cause For this cause Tertullian Irenaeus Iustinus Athanasius Chrysostom Nazianzen writ great books against the heathens which railed on our Religion What infinite numbers of Martyrs have stood stoutly and given their lives in the same quarrel he that hath seen any learning can bttter tell where to begin then where to make an end of reckoning the number is so infinite and our late daies have given sufficient proof thereof