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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
church_n	epistle_n	paul_n	timothy_n	2,910	5	10.4803	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96682	God save the King: or Pious and loyal joy, the subjects duty, for their soveraign's safety. Opened in a sermon at Aldermanbury, upon the 30 of May, being the day after his Majesties most happy, joyfull and triumphant entrance into London. By Anthony Walker, minister of the Gospell at Fyfield in Essex.	Walker, Anthony, d. 1692.	1660 (1660)	Wing W303; Thomason E1030_5; ESTC R203980	25,087	44

that he may live an everlasting life The Reasons why we must freely and cordially joyne in this pious Apprecation that the King may live or be saved in all those Respects are 1. The command of God 1 Tim. 2.1 2. I exhort therefore that first of all supplications prayers intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men For Kings and all that are in authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour 2. The fifth Commandement doth lay necessity upon us and woe be to us if we be found wanting He is our publick father Pater patriae our Countries father and it is one chief part of the Tribute of honour we owe to our superiours our humblest and our heartiest prayers 3. The example of the best and choicest of Gods servants alwayes making conscience of this duty even to and for bad Kings Nero was King when St. Paul wrote his Epistle to Timothy Jehojedah and his sons very good men and Prophets of God begat the cry they cryed God save the King The Church and people of God even when in Babilon prayed for the peace of it and after their return did offer sacrifice for the life of the King and of his sons And the mutes and discontented persons at Saul's inauguration are branded with a character of infamy sons of Belial who despised him and brought him no present 1 Sam. 10.27 4. It is but an equitable retaliation The King is loaded with the burden of cares for your safety and preservation a Throne is not so soft a seat as most men judge it a thorne is its lively Anagram you only see the shining outside of a Crown but feel not the harsher lining of its inside nor the pressing weightinesse with which it loads as well as adorns if you did you would envy lesse and pray and pitty more and indeed if your burden bow him down there is all reason you support and stay him up and by your prayers prop up his hands as Aaron and Hur did those of Moses that they may be steady in the management of your concernments I come now to the third aspect of the words as they look upon the King directly and fix the accent upon his name and Title As they are debita attostatio fidelitatis a due and bounden attestation and a vowed acknowledgement of their allegiance and subjection to him as their King jubilo suo se spontaneus regni sui subditos profitenter And here we have the third Observation T is very usefull and convenient that upon the setting up of rightfull Kings the subjects do freely and readily witnesse and manifest their due and just allegiance and fidelity As other Kingdomes are the shadowes of Christs Kingdome so his is the great pattern and best example of other Kingdomes now of his it is said that his people are willing in the day of his power and so should other subjects be a willing people readily yielding their obedience in all lawfull things as Davids did Psal 18.44 Assoon as they hear of me they shall obey me the strangers shall submit themselves unto me We must be subject not for wrath but for conscience sake not grudgingly nor of necessity not because we must but because we will yea because it is Gods will we should And indeed that we thus do is of great concernment to Princes to the Publike and to each particular man First To the Prince It contributes much to his ease and honour and makes him a King indeed when he knows he rules his people not against their wills when he needs no guard against his people but contrariwise Amor civium est pro satellitio their love is his security and shield and they bare him as he bears his Crown not as a load but Ornament Secondly T is much for the advantage of the publick as to security and peace and for prevention of commotions and confusions in the State As many women loose their chastity by forfeiting their modesty for did they give evidence as grave and sober matrons of a pious and resolved purity the most debaucht and profligate ruffian would not have impudence enough to attempt them but lightnesse and loose wearing of the vaile of modesty imboldens to that onset which ends too often in a surrender And thus it is with people their wavering and unresolved obedience encourages seditious and turbulent designers upon publick peace and gives them but too too pregnant hopes of too too good successe in those vile and dangerous attempts from which they would with utterest dispair desist if people were as they ought to be determin'd fixed and established in resolved and just obedience to their Rightfull and undoubted Princes Thirdly 'T is much for the peace and private good of each particular man both as all single Interests are involved and bound up in that of the publick peace and safety and farther because subjects are rarely made the Butt of their Princes displeasure till they give some cause of jealousie and in a sort necessitate some frowns for his personall or nationall security and prevention of some teeming mischief And for these and the like reasons it hath been and still is the prudent and laudable custome of all nations to testifie their willing subjection at the inauguration of their Kings the Nobles by some signall act of homage as by explicite oath by bending of the knee by touching the Crowne or Scepter by kissing of their Prince to which the Psalmist alludes Psal 2. Kisse the Son lest he be angry osculo sc subjectionis or some such like action and all the people to attest their concurrence with them in such demonstrations of their duty by hearty and reiterated acclamations like to this God save the King I will now put these three together and give the result of them they rejoyce they attest their allegiance and they do both these in a pious and pertinent religious forme of prayer Whence their ariseth this fourth Observation That the best rejoycing is Religious rejoycing made sweet and savory with the name of God or thus We need not borrow of profanesse to pay our debt of thankfulnesse to God and allegiance to the King That 's good melody Christs which is so in heaven which jarrs not nor sounds harsh in the holy ears of God that harmony which makes no discord with piety but 't is sad mirth which grieves the holy Spirit and very treasonable allegiance which casts off obedience to the King of Kings There is a threefold rejoycing Civill rejoycing religious rejoycing and prophane rejoycing the first is lawfull the second is necessary but the third is neither lawfull nor necessary but very abominable and hatefull to a blessed God and burdensome and grievous to all sober and honest men I may say of it Jam. 4.16 All such rejoycings are evill And indeed the mingling so much prophanesse with some mens