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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	great_a	prince_n	2,569	5	5.3743	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10110	The consolations of David, breefly applied to Queene Elizabeth in a sermon preached in Oxford the 17. of Nouember. By Iohn Prime, 1588.	Prime, John, 1550-1596.	1588 (1588)	STC 20368; ESTC S101191	11,314	32

dispitefully reproched of his eldest brethren afterward Saul enuieth Shimy raileth Absalon rebelleth Achitophell conspireth c. These were vallies of vehement distresses briefelye these with diuers others as you may reade collected and quoted By D. Rainoldes 1586. I pray you doe in a Sermon of thanks giuing at the apprehension of traitours to wit Ballard and Babington and their complices But you wil say how saith Dauid he wold not feare did he not flye dissemble who he was Or if he fled as no doubt he did from the speare of Saule was it not for feare Feare is a quality incident to all flesh in this the like naturall affections Feare a fixed mind the cōstant mene is hardly obtaned What Dauid did is not denied it is granted y● as else when so namely he greatly fered 1. Sam. 20. whē he fled to Achis his gods enemy whē he said in a shiuering perplexity Surely ther is scāt a strid betwixt me death In this Psalme I take it is rather vouched not what the Prophet alwaies performed but what in duety must be performed and what Dauids purpose was to endeuour vnto for the time to come For after so many pledges of Gods infinite goodnes vnder the guidaunce of his rodde and stay of his shepe-hooke godwilling he would not feare and this is the groūd-worke of his affiance Peter in the gospell by our Sauiour in consideration of infirmity thorough feare denying his maister Mat. 26. is willed after his conuersion by that fauorable aspect of our sauiour to confirme his brethren to traine thē in constancy for verely god requireth setled minds resolute men confirmed brethren So vpon occasions past Dauid found it true that he should not haue bene heretofore at any time and therfore professeth that for the time to come he would be no Marigold-seruaunt of God to open with the Sun and shut with the dewe to serue him in calmer times only and at a neede to shute neck out of coller fearefully and faithlesly to slippe a side or shrinke away Newters reproued Good people in all hartlesse imperfectiones marke I pray you that they who feare euery mist that ariseth or cloude that appeareth who are like the Mulberie tree that neuer shuteth foorth or sheweth it selfe till all hard weather be past who like standers by and lookers on Neuters and internimisters who like Metuis Suffetius dare not venture vpon nor enter into nor indeuour any good action of greatest duetie to God Prince or Countrie till all be sure in one side are vtterly reprooued by this ensample If the cause bee Gods if the quarrell bee necessary if thy calling suteable if it bee a crosse that God layeth vpon thee in a matter of faith and trueth and requisite offices appertayning to pietie and charity though it be a vale of daungers Loe Dauid professeth he cannot he will not yeelde he will not feare much lesse dispaire and houer a loofe or let all alone as men amazed and astonished in their feminine affections Peter of whom before hearing that the sheepeheard should be smitten Peter and the shepe scattered into sundry vallies of imminent daunger notwithstanding bosteth himselfe that he forsooth hee would not forsake his maister and though the rest flie hee alone would endure the combate and not relente at all The sheepheard is smitten and the flocke indeede is scattered the rest flye Peter more then flyeth Presumption performeth little for he denieth and more then feareth for he of all the rest forsweareth his maister And so it fareth euer when men cōparingly set out themselues as Giantes in theyr own conceites though it be in causes of best account Yet in the ende they come shorte of theyr reckoning But Dauid buildeth vpon a surer rocke then on himselfe In so many his exceeding daungers hee will not feare Why the Lord is his sheep-heard no Idoll or absent sheepehearde but ready to helpe and able to succour In the boke of Genesis this was Iacobs comfort continually in all his viages Iacob whether frō Canaan into Mesopotamia or from Mesopotamia into Canaan to and fro still Loe the Lord was with him In the six and fortith Chapter he is willed to repaire into Aegipt and expresly forbidden to feare and the reason was God himselfe would goe downe with him and conduct him thither preserue him there And for that as children which ride on reedes are soone ouertaken in their folly so olde men may become children againe and rest ouer much in ordinary hopes liable to sense and probable in reason God willeth Iacob in effect to forsake such vaine cogitations for cheefe releefe in the vsage as of his own experienced yeres his sons place fauour with the prince the like and only commandeth Fear not Iacob I wil be with thee And good cause and why should Iacob or Iosua in the first of Iosua or Gedeon in the sixt of Iudges or Moses before these the 4. of Exodus or any of vs all after them feare if God be with vs as he wil be Matth. 28 With his to the end of the world If God be with vs who can be against vs effectually against vs to our finall destruction If God be with vs what can we want he that walketh in the sun doth he lack light He who walketh with God by his conuersation as Enoc did and with whom God walketh by his speciall grace for there is a speciall respecte betwixte the grace of God and a gratious life what is there or what can there be wanting By the grace of God we are that we are and his grace in his is not in vain In his light we see light in his strength we are more than conquerors ghostly euer euer bodily if it bee for the good of the sufferer and for the glorie of god for whose cause and in whose presence and by whose wisedome we suffer and hold out Gods prouidence is known but vnto gods own children The true meditation whereof deer brethren to the carelesse godles man is as a riddle or a clasped booke or sealed letters which are brought by the carier hādled of many but are read of none nor vnderstoode of anie saue of him that of him that openeth them and conceaueth the purport of them and meaning of the sender Iob the holy man in his losse of goods Iob. death of children personall extremities wiues cursed motions and to those vnwise inferences and conclusions of his friendes replyeth at one time Naked I came into the world at another time The Lord gaue and the Lord hath taken away at another to his Wife ô folish woman to his friendes ô ye Physicions of no valu But euer resolutly that euen in death he knew that he hadde a liuing redeemer and so thorough faith controuling his some impatiencie recognizeth that God the redeemer of al his was also in speciall