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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	become_v	life_n	sin_n	4,944	5	4.5763	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30425	A sermon preached in the chappel of St. James's, before His Highness the Prince of Orange, the 23d of December, 1688 by Gilbert Burnet ...	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1689 (1689)	Wing B5881; ESTC R22905	14,041	40

by us without any other Reflection but that of talking about it as we do concerning all other Revolutions In a word as this is the Lord 's doing and marvellous in it self so it ought to be so in our eyes for it is certainly so in the eyes of all the World besides We ought to make such pauses in thinking on it as may lead us up to adore and admire the great Author of it in this his doing 1 st We ought in a most profound prostration to magnify the goodness of God to us in it to him belongs the Glory of it for his hand has wrought this Salvation for us Some may mention their Chariots and some their Horses but we ought only to mention the name of the Lord our God. It will not at all derogate from the Honour of our Great Deliverer to consider him as the Instrument whom God has so highly exalted in bringing about so great a work by his means and so to direct our Homage and Adoration to the Original of this and all our other Blessings And God has imployed an Instrument in●it who desires that the acknowledgments may be wholly made to that Eternal Purpose that brings about all its Designs in so Sovereign a manner This is indeed in all its parts above the skill and wisdom of Man and therefore let us offer up the whole honour of it to God and when that is done this will lead us best of all to pay all the due returns of gratitude and esteem to Him whom God has now blessed for the second time with the greatest honour that can fall on a mortal Man that he seems born to be the great Blessing of the Age. His first appearance in the World carried with it a Deliverance to those happy Provinces for happy they were from the time that they came under His protection We that saw their Peace and Plenty and the Order and Justice that reign'd among them and the sense that they have of that Conduct that procures it saw an earnest of those Blessings that seem to be before us And indeed the passion that they all expressed at His leaving them was to us the truest Indication of the joy and confidence with which we ought to receive Him here and of the hopes that we may promise our selves under so glorious a Protection Let us therefore ponder all these Providences of God so as to admire them not only in a lazy and silent wonder but in those true acts of Praise and Adoration by which our souls and all that is within us may be stirred up to bless the Lord and not to forget any one of all those benefits which he has bestowed on us upon this occasion in which he has redeemed our life from destruction and crowned us with his loving-kindness and tender mercies 2 dly If this Work of God does possess us with that veneration which is due to it we ought not to stop the course of it till it has had its full effect nor to daub matters by slight and palliating remedies We see now before us the most glorious beginning of a noble Change of the whole face of Affairs both with relation to Religion and the Peace of Europe that we could have wisht for It is so far beyond our hopes that we durst scarce let our wishes go so far we may if we are not wanting to our selves and to the Conjuncture before us hope to see that which may be according to the Prophetick style termed a new Heavens and a new Earth But if a Spirit of jealousy and murmuring of impatience and faction and of returning back to that out of which God has so signally extricated us grows up so that instead of reaping the fruits that we have now in prospect we have not Souls big enough nor Hearts good enough to carry this on to perfection then we may justly fear our being delivered up to all those Evils from which we will not be healed But if on the other hand we raise our minds above every narrowness of thought and all partial regards and consider matters with such a naked impartiality as becomes Christians Protestants and Englishmen and provide such Remedies as are requisite then we may hope to see this blessed morning to grow up to a perfect day In a word life and death are before us and blessing and cursing Those who chuse life and every thing that leads to it secure a blessing to themselves and entail it on their Posterity but if we chuse death rather than life there is no help for it such persons secure a curse to themselves and do what in them lies to entail it on their Posterity and there is scarce any indication more certain of the Sins of a Nation being grown up to that height that it must be destroyed than the Miscarriage of so great a Deliverance as God has wrought for us which will be an eternal Blot on the Wisdom of the Nation since in that Case the Figure of our Saviour must be justly applied to us We have piped to you but you have not danced or these other words of his O Jerusalem Jerusalem how often would I have gathered thee under my wings as the hen gathereth her brood but thou wouldest not Or that of the Prophet That while Children were in the Womb there was not strength to bring forth 3 dly But if we will carry on and perfect this marvellous Work of God we must study to be such that God may not repent him of the good which he seems to have prepared for us While we are under such a happy Influence of Heaven we must not raise up such an Interposition between it and us as may not only make us lose this happy opportunity but turn it to a Curse by the ill use we may make of it We have not forgot the Criminal Excesses of the year Sixty and how that great Revolution that seemed to promise all that a Nation that had been so long tossed with wars and changes of Government could wish for was so unsuccessful but instead of the Nations receiving that with those Acknowledgments that were due for such a Blessing how did all People as it were conspire to defeat the ends of Providence in it The excesses of Rioting and Drunkenness and the Disorders of all sorts grew not only to be practiced but gloried in as if those Abominations had been the proper distinctions of a Loyal man a Virtuous man looked out of Countenance if he could not go in to the madness of the time and because the high Professions of Religion in the former times had been a disguise to many ill Designs men not only laid aside all the Decencies of Religion but began to think it a piece of breeding to decry it as an Imposture This went so far that perhaps in no Nation under Heaven did Men treat the Religion which they professed so familiary as we did and those who were not concerned any further in