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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	ass_n	daughter_n	zion_n	22	3	9.1864	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63914	The praise of humility a sermon preached upon the 20th of March 1687 : being Palm-Sunday, at the Guild-Hall-chappel, London / by John Turner ...	Turner, John, b. 1649 or 50.	1687 (1687)	Wing T3314; ESTC R10525	16,061	42

yet Humility considers Wisely that all Men have not neither indeed can have the same Capacity the same Strength and Vivacity of Wit and Judgment the same Opportunities the same Education the same Apprehensions and the same notions of things and therefore admits a difference without a disagreement And this I am sure of it would be a blessed change if Humility could take the place and do the Office of Ecclesiastical censures so as to make them useless and needless for the future and so put an end to those severities of Law which as all other punishments in other matters can be justified by nothing but only that they are necessary because mad men run Opinion into Faction and Faction into Riot and Rebellion And I dread to think how thin and depopulate the Kingdom of Heaven will be and the Jerusalem which is above a City almost without Inhabitants and a Kingdom without Subjects notwithstanding all our pretences to Salvation and our annexing it to this or that Communion if none but the Poor in Spirit shall obtain it if none but the Humble and the Charitable Man shall be Saved Humility would not only prove a blessed Instrument of Ecclesiastical peace but also of Civil too if it could but gain Credit and Reputation among us for Humility never complains before it is hurt nay Humility for the sake and for the good of her Country rather than make a broil and a disturbance in it can suffer her self to be hurt without complaining she neither thinks nor does nor apprehends any ill she is a Friend to all and therefore thinks all to be a Friend to her she sees no Fantastic and visionary Dangers she is troubled with no imaginary Jealousies and Fears she cannot discern Apparitions in the Air nor Monsters in the Earth nor Whales portending calamities in the Water but she puts her first Trust in God and her next in the King and she believes that all things will work together for good to them that walk like her and do their duty She neither pries into the Cabinets of Princes nor censures the transactions of State nor raises false Reports to create an ill Opinion of her Governors in the People neither doth she foment or encourage them when they are raised Humility resolves let what will come to pass to be quiet and submit because she considers that the Hand of the King is as the Finger of God who doth whatsoever pleaseth him both in Heaven and Earth by whom Kings Reign and Princes decree Justice Humility is a peaceable and resigning Vertue and wherever she hath a Temple in any English Breast there the King hath a Faithful and Obedient Subject But that which makes most of all for the commendation of Humility is that our blessed Savaiour who was God incarnate and who suffered so many indignities and reproaches from the worst of Men who humbled himself even to the Death the ignominious and painful Death of the Cross for our sakes hath given us so great a pattern and example of it learn of me saith he for I am meek and lowly in Heart and ye shall find rest unto your Souls And on this very day when he entred into Jerusalem with Acclamations and Hosanna's though the People mistook him for a Triumphant Prince and thought their Victorious Messias was a coming yet it was indeed no more then the Triumph of Humility over the Scorn and Malice of his Enemies it was but a Prologue to his approaching Crucifixion which was in truth his last and greatest Conquest wherein he Triumpht over Death and Hell and so the Prophet Zachary and out of him the Evangelist St. Matthew hath described the matter Rejoyce greatly O Daughter of Zion shout O Daughter of Jerusalem behold thy King cometh unto thee he is just and having Salvation lowly and riding upon an Ass and upon a Colt the foal of an Ass and if so great an Example as this the Example of God putting on human Shape almost on purpose that he might set a pattern of Obedience and Humility to us will not encourage and recommend the Practice of it I know not what will for I have nothing else to say but that Humility is Humility that is that a Vertue so transcendently excellent and great can be compared to nothing but it self FINIS ERATA Pag. 23. line 2. for design read down