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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	great_a	king_n	people_n	9,166	5	4.4099	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03495	A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, March the 24. 1624. By Barten Holyday, now archdeacon of Oxford	Holyday, Barten, 1593-1661.	1626 (1626)	STC 13616; ESTC S104171	18,049	67

growth and fruit is not more manifest then an easie vnitie in their juyce But if you would by a neere instruction see the obedience of the creatures it disioyned to returne to vnitie you may from your selues instruct your selues and when mans bodie fals-off from his soule in that one dis-vnion behold two vnions and nature hastning to its first similitude You may see the body put-on an humble corruption and be content to returne to as vnfeigned dust as that which is the food and curse of the Serpent or that into which euery beast must bee confounded that if the ashes of Alexander and his Bucephalus had beene put in one vrne Aristotle himselfe could not haue distinguished them either by Philosophy or by flattery You may likewise by the eye of the soule see the soule at its separation so refined by similitude into spirit that it is readie to mistake it selfe for an angell as if its knowledge were at the same time perfected and deluded Nor will it onely imitate the likenesse but also the office of an angel and shal at last be sent vpon a message to its owne body which it will take vp as an angell will take vp both the body and soule But because the soule can ascend higher by contemplation then it can by essence it may behold the beginning of vnitie in all things by beholding him who is the beginning of all things In whom wee may see an vnitie in a diuision and shew the Mathematician a mysticall possibility of the diuiding of a point whiles wee may behold God not multiplyed and yet diuided into persons Now though man be not capable of the mysterie yet he is of the instruction and may with as much case as delight vnderstand that God is so delighted with vnitie that it is alwayes either his nature or his worke It was the same wisdome which dispensed Adam into Nations and contracted them againe into the houshold of an Arke God created angels in multitude but hee made man in vnitie hee gaue excellence to them but to man Supremacie the chiefe of angels being in heauen but a subject but the chiefe of men being on earth a King And though an angell bee more like to God for purity yet man is more like him for production An angell can more subtilly vnderstand his owne likenesse but a man more powerfully can also partly beget his owne likenesse being made a Deputie Creator and therefore he is a King because he is a father A kingdome by nature is but an enlarged family and the first King begot his owne subjects and a father by the Romane Law had once as just power to execute his sonne as to preserue him The Law of God which commands our obedience to a King commands it for him by the title of a father Adam was by God and Nature the King of Mankind and Nature would haue deliuered this kingdome to his first borne Nor had it beene a mistake Nature saw just cause why he should haue succeeded though it did not see a juster cause why hee should not succeed and though the Diuine justice changed the person yet it changed not the Law It did interrupt it but not abrogate it and therefore the Royalty goes still with the Eldership Thus he that was the first King was before his people and this agrees with the course of nature by whose instruction wee know that in the method of euery birth which is not peruerse the head is elder then the body As then both angels and man tooke their beginning from one God so all other men tooke their beginning from one man And God hath not onely honoured this vnity in succession but also preserued it by succession So some Kings supply birth right by victory and some by election though to elect a King be as much newes to nature as to adopt a Father and it did first arise from necessitie and conueniency in families whom the blessing of multitude had dispers'd and mixt And though it were often among the Gentiles continued by faction and by the Iewes at first entertayned by Fancy yet God in the Wisedome of his diuine indulgence did grant their desire and chastize it giuing them a King by choice but it was also by his owne choice he did not in the election commend election but Monarchie which makes families so wise as to become a Nation nay which makes Nations so wise as to become a Nation and by the witty happinesse of vnity to prooue one to be stronger then two It is as great a difficulty as a blessing for brethren to liue in one Nation and friendship but it is as great a wonder as a blessing when Nations become brethren and are distinguished rather by number then affection Abraham and Lot were almost brethren and yet they were diuided that they might not be diuided Iacob and Esau were brethren and though one wombe could contayne them one Countrey could not but Iacob must flie Esau is as ready to hunt Him as Venison But Cain was at that diuision with Abel that the same world could not hold thē both and yet hee kild him for he knew not what it was about Gods fauour but not for it Thus experience can hardly find vnion there where reason would thinke it hard to find a diuision Vnion is the happinesse of man and the accusation it being more entertayned by inferiour creatures which rather possesse it then enjoy it then it is by man who likewise doth more vnderstand it then enjoy it And yet it is a blessing not so excellent for the raritie as for the increase it being by nature of that thrift and cunning that it growes in goodnesse by growing in greatnesse and from number receiues excellence The vnion of families into a Citie as it doth conquer affections vnto peace so it selfe is conquered into a perfection by a greater vnion The vnion of Cities into a kingdome tries the goodnesse of a King but the vnion of kingdomes tries his wisdome the simplicitie of justice beeing enough to manage one kingdome but two will require the mysterie of wisdome When Nature vnites people into a kingdom it doth but work by an humble safety but when it vnites kingdomes it workes by the transcendent power of loue and glory this excellent vnion being as much the delight as the imitation of Nature So that although it arise sometimes by accident from causes lesse naturall as from pride and force yet the diuine wisdome hath in all ages condemned and rectified such vnion still suffering a great part of the world by a happy rashnesse to runne it selfe into Empires In each of which mee thinkes we may obserue some eminent and distinct blessing which attends and honours the vnion of Nations If you will wipe-off the dust of antiquity from the Chronicles of the Assyrians you may in that vnion of Nations sufficiently discerne the blessing of peace witnesse their plantations wherein they more employed the trowell then the sword Witnesse