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death_n	daughter_n	king_n	queen_n	4,187	5	7.0732	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54843	The law and equity of the gospel, or, The goodness of our Lord as a legislator delivered first from the pulpit in two plain sermons, and now repeated from the press with others tending to the same end ... by Thomas Pierce ...	Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691.	1686 (1686)	Wing P2185; ESTC R38205	304,742	736

by Snatches but that the Residue of his Time might be wholly God's Many others might here be nam'd Seven at least I am sure who eas'd themselves as being weary of the Great Seal of England in order to their advancement unto far greater things in a World to come And thô it cannot be deny'd but that being Persons of most incorruptible Integrity they might safely have continued in their Great Iudicatures on Earth without the danger of being cast in the Court of Heaven yet they resolv'd to take the Way which they thought the surest as knowing it better to make it easy than meerly possible to be sav'd For they consider'd what they well knew as well by Scripture as by Reason as well by History as by Experience as well by other men's Experience as by their own that thô it is not quite impossible yet'tis a difficult thing on Earth for the very same man to be Great and Innocent to be a Favourite both of This and the other World to fare as deliciously as Dives all his Days here below and yet at last to lye with Lazarus in Abraham's Bosom I am sure Sir Thomas Randolph thought it a thing so rare and difficult to be a man of much Publick and Secular Business and at the same Time to be fit to dye that by Letters he exhorted his intimate Friend Sir Francis Walsingham to bid adieu to all the Wiles of a Principal Secretary of State as He himself had newly done to all the Frauds or an Embassadour for the Number of his Embassies had been no less than Eighteen and to prepare himself by a penitent and private life for the life to come An Admonition very seasonable in regard of Both Persons concerned in it Walsingham to whom and Randolph himself by whom 't was given For they had long liv'd together as eminent Ministers of State and neither of them liv'd long from after the time of This Advice Nor did the one outlive the other above a Month or two at most What induced Queen Mary the Royal Sister of Charles the Fifth to quit her Government of Belgium in Exchange for a private and quiet Life 't is very easy to conjecture but hard to tell Perhaps 't was chiefly out of Reverence to the Example of her Brother as 't was done the same Day wherein He laid down his Empire and Crown of Spain and even wept out of Compassion to his poor Brother and his Son Philip whose feeble Shoulders were now to sink under two such Loads to wit the Kingdom of Spain and the German Empire I say whatever was Her Inducement to do a thing above the Rate of her Sex and Breeding sure we are that Queen Etheldred was wholly induced by her Devotion to forsake the Pomps and Pleasures she might have liv'd in all her days as the Daughter of one King the Widow of another and the Wife of a Third had she not thought it an happier choice to live retiredly in an Abby which she had built and indow'd and was the Abbess of till her Death And not to mention Queen Christina of Sweden or Bambas of Spain unless it be thus by a Paralipsis no fewer than Nine of our own Saxon Kings within the Space of Two hundred years did freely relinquish their Crowns and Kingdoms To which I add That when Ionadab impos'd That strict Command upon his Sons to drink no Wine to build no House to sow no Seed to plant no Vineyard and all their days to dwell in Tents in little despicable Huts by the River Iordan He did not only so command them to shew his Dominion and his Will or only to exercise their Obedience and Self-denial But because he did esteem it the safest state and condition to help enable them for an Innocent and Pious Life § 21. Another Use of This Text is with a Distinction to contradict it We must not seek Great Things for our selves because we must Not Great Things because the Greatest For what can be Greater than a Kingdom and what so Great Kingdom as the Kingdom of God to the seeking of which our Lord excites us Matth. 6. 33. So by St. Paul we are commanded to seek those things that are above Col. 3. 1. Not above us here on Earth but above every thing that is Earthy Nor are we only to seek God's Kingdom thô vastly Great But what is infinitely Greater we are to seek God himself who is The Great Rewarder of Them that diligently seek him and The Rewarder of None besides Heb. 11. 6. Thus the Dehortative Seek not is strongly inforced and urged on by a vehement Exhortation Seek Those Things that are Above Seek the Greatest Things imaginable and Seek them for your selves too Ye have not here a continuing City and therefore Seek one to come For what says the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews The life we have is worth Nothing compar'd with That we hope for Which being yet hid with Christ in God we must seek and seek on till we find it out Some things are Great which are not Good and some are Good but not Great But These are the Good and Great Things which alone are worth seeking and which we are not only allow'd but bid and bound to seek after In comparison with These The Life which is hid with Christ in God The Kingdom of God and God Himself we ought to slight the arrant Nothingness of the Things here below which by a pitiful Catachresis the World calls Great and as devoutly seeks after as after an Heaven upon Earth So every Hillock is a Great thing with a Community of Emmets wherewith 't is Peopled thô 't is not determin'd by Philosophers whether like Bees they are a Kingdom or like some other Insects a Commonwealth But yet as Great as That Hillock does seem to Them we know 't is no bigger in respect of all the Earth than All the Earth in respect of Heaven And yet so it is notwithstanding their littleness and their contemptibility we do no more excel Them in point of Quantity and Strength than they do us in the good Qualities of Peace and Prudence For all Communities of Emmets are still at Agreement among Themselves are never indanger'd much less destroy'd by any Intestine or Homebred either Divisions or Insurrections Whereas We have a Kingdom so sadly divided against It self that wicked men hope and wise men fear and there is ground for a suspicion it cannot long stand § 22. Now to shew the Real Littleness the Prophet Esa calls it the Nothingness of the Great Things below being weighed in the Ballance with Those Above It will not probably be amiss to put them Both into the Scales that so we may see how much the later weigh down the former First the Great Things below are but figuratively such and secundum quid somewhat Great in Appearance but not indeed or only Great in their relation to what is very much less and