Selected quad for the lemma: church_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
church_n	earth_n	heaven_n	militant_a	4,766	5	11.7120	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33058	A form of prayer with thanksgiving to be used yearly on the fifth day of November for the happy deliverance of King James I and the three estates of the realm from the most traiterous and bloody intended massacre by gun-powder : and also for the happy arrival of His present Majesty on this day for the deliverance of our church and nation / by Their Majesties special command.	Church of England.	1690 (1690)	Wing C4178; ESTC R38744	4,655	11

and Laws We most humbly praise and magnifie thy most glorious Name for thy unspeakable goodness towards us expressed in both these Acts of thy mercy We confess it has been of thy mercy alone that we are not consumed For our sins have cried to Heaven against us and our iniquities justly called for vengeance upon us But thou hast not dealt with us after our sins nor rewarded us after our iniquities nor given us over as we deserved to be a prey to our Enemies but hast in mercy delivered us from their malice and preserved us from death and destruction Let the consideration of this thy repeated goodness O Lord work in us true repentance that iniquity may not be our ruine And increase in us more and more a lively faith and love fruitful in all holy obedience that thou mayst still continue thy favour with the light of thy Gospel to us and our posterity for evermore and that for thy dear Sons sake Iesus Christ our only Mediatour and Advocate Amen ¶ Instead of the Prayer in time of War and Tumults shall be used this Prayer following O Lord who didst this day discover the Snares of death that were laid for us and didst wonderfully deliver us from the same Be thou still our mighty Protector and scatter our Enemies that delight in blood Infatuate and defeat their Counsels abate their Pride asswage their Malice and confound their Devices Strengthen the hands of our gracious Sovereigns King WILLIAM and Queen MARY and all that are put in Authority under them with Iudgment and Iustice to cut off all such workers of iniquity as turn Religion into Rebellion and Faith into Faction that they may never prevail against us or triumph in the ruine of thy Church among us But that our gracious Sovereigns and their Realms being preserved in thy true Religion and by thy merciful goodness protected in the same we may all duly serve thee and give thee thanks in thy holy Congregation through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Communion-Service ¶ Instead of the Collect for the day shall this which followeth be used ETernal God and our most mighty Protector we thy unworthy Servants do humbly present our selves before thy Majesty acknowledging thy Power Wisdom and Goodness in Preserving the King and the Three Estates of this Realm assembled in Parliament from the Destruction this Day intended against them Make us we beseech thee truly thankful for this and for all other thy great Mercies towards us particularly for making this Day again Memorable by a fresh Instance of thy Loving-kindness towards us We bless thee for giving his Majesty that now is a safe Arrival here and for making all Opposition fall before him till he became our King and Governour Continue we beseech thee to Protect and Defend him the Queen and all the Royal Family from all Treasons and Conspiracies Preserve them in thy Faith Fear and Love Prosper their Reign with long Happiness here on Earth and Crown them with everlasting Glory hereafter through Iesus Christ our only Saviour and Redeemer Amen ¶ The Epistle Rom. xiii 1. LEt every soul be subject unto the higher powers For there is no power but of God the powers that be are ordained of God Whosoever therefore resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation For rulers are not a terrour to good works but to the evil Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power do that which is good and thou shalt have praise of the same For he is the minister of God to thee for good But if thou do that which is evil be afraid for he heareth not the sword in vain for he is the minister of God a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil Wherefore ye must needs be subject not only for wrath but also for conscience sake For for this cause pay you tribute also for they are Gods ministers attending continually upon this very thing Render therefore to all their dues tribute to whom tribute is due custom to whom custom fear to whom fear honour to whom honour ¶ The Gospel St. Luke ix 51. ANd it came to pass when the time was come that he should be received up he stedfastly set his face to go to Ierusalem And sent messengers before his face and they went and entred into a village of the Samaritanes to make ready for him And they did not receive him because his face was as though he would go to Ierusalem And when his disciples Iames and Iohn saw this they said Lord wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven and consume them even as Elias did But he turned and rebuked them and said Ye know not what manner of Spirit ye are of For the Son of man is not come to destroy mens lives but to save them And they went to another village ¶ After the Creed if there be no Sermon shall be read one of the six Homilies against Rebellion ¶ This Sentence is to be read at the Offertory WHatsoever ye would that men should do to you do ye even so to them for this is the law and the prophets 8. Matth. vii 12. ¶ After the Prayer for the Church Militant this following Prayer is to be used O God whose Name is Excellent in all the Earth and thy Glory above the Heavens who on this Day didst miraculously preserve our Church and State from the secret Contrivance and hellish Malice of Popish Conspirators and on this Day also didst begin to give us a mighty Deliverance from the open Tyranny and Oppression of the same Cruel and Blood-thirsty Enemies We bless and adore thy glorious Majesty as for the Former so for this thy Late marvellous Loving kindness to our Church and Nation in the Preservation of our Religion and Liberties And we humbly pray that the devout Sense of this thy repeated Mercy may renew and increase in us a Spirit of Love and Thankfulness to thee its only Author a Spirit of peaceable Submission and Obedience to our Gracious Sovereign whom thou madest the blessed Instrument of it and a Spirit of fervent Zeal for our holy Religion which now again thou hast so wonderfully Rescued and Established a Blessing to us and our Posterity And this we beg for Iesus Christ his sake Amen FINIS