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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	david_n	king_n	saul_n	5,115	5	10.1244	5	false

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A71286	A sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons at their late solemne monethly fast Januarie 29th, 1644 wherein these foure necessary considerations are plainly proved and demonstrated out of the holy Scriptures, viz ... / by George Walker ...	Walker, George, 1581?-1651.	1645 (1645)	Wing W364; ESTC R6426	39,735	52

utterly burnt with fire in the same place 2 Sam. 23.6 7. The great God who hath so often and wonderfully preserved You heretofore from the secret treachery and open furie of these wicked men bee still your shield and your defence and make his great worke to prosper in your hands So prayeth Your humble and hearty though weak and unworthy Servant in the Lords Work GEORGE WALKER A Sermon Preached before the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemne monethly Fast Januarie 29th 1644. PSALME 58.9 Before your Pots can feele the Thornes hee shall take them away as with a whirlewinde both living and in his wrath Or thus according to the Hebrew Text Before they shall feele your sharp pricks O Bramble he will take away everie one of them as with a Tempest or whirle-winde as well the green as the drie IT is one of the Proverbiall sayings of the wise King Solomon that if a Ruler hearken to lyes all his servants that is Officers and Ministers Meshart●● are wicked His Father David in the dayes of the reigne of the wicked Tyrant Sam had still experience of this to his grief For after that God had rejected Saul for his disobedience from being King over Israel and had declared his purpose to him by Samuel an evill spirit of fury jealousie and tyranny came upon him and made him looke upon his faithfull servant David with an evill eye of envie and suspition so that hee hated him to the death and all good men who did love and favour him for his upright dealing and his eares were open to hearken to all lyes slanders and false reports which wicked flattering Courtiers or other 〈◊〉 ●●formers would bring against him Hereby it came to passe that D●●g the Edomite and Cush the Benjamite and many others even a whole band of wicked men like unto them came to be chiefe Counsellors of State Officers and Iudges about Saul chiefe executioners of his unjust and cruell commands and held the chiefe places of Iudicature under him David and all the good people who had relation to him and favoured him were sore afflicted oppressed and persecuted by this wicked Band But the Lord his God unto whom he had continuall recourse by prayer did comfort him inwardly and revealed to him by his Spirit that though he suffered him to be persecuted yet he would not destroy him by these wicked instruments but would preserve him from feeling the evill which they intended which was to cut him off And hereupon he doth compose this golden Propheticall Psalme the Title whereof is Thou wilt not destroy and a golden Psalme of David for the chiefe Musician In which First he doth as it were face to face direct his speech to this wicked band and doth chide and rebuke them in the two first Verses saying Doe ye● 〈…〉 speak●●●ghteousnesse ô band or Congregation The word in the originall signifies first and properly a sheafe of Corne or herbes and flowers bound together in a bundle and metaphorically a Band of souldiers or of theeves and robbers combined together in a bond or league Doe yee judge uprightly ô yee sons of men yea in heart yee work wickednesse you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth That is under pretence of holding the scales of justice in your hands you weigh out ●o Gods people wrongs injuries and violent oppression Secondly he proclaimes to the world their inward and habituated malice and iniquity in the third fourth and fift verses The wicked saith he are estranged that is alienated from God and all goodnesse even from the wombe they goe astray as soone as they are borne speaking lyes That is by custome and continuall practice of their naturally inbred malice they get a habit of lying and falsehood and increase their wickednesse their poyson that is of spite and malice is like the poyson of a Serpent they are like the deafe Adder that stoppeth her eares which refuseth to hearken to the voyce of the charmers charming never so wisely That is they harden their hearts and stop their eares against all just reproofes wise Counsels wholesome admonitions charming and alluring perswasions Thirdly hee breaks out into a Propheticall imprecation in which he doth by way of wishing foretell Gods just proceeding against them in judgement severall wayes as first that though they be armed with power and weapons of cruelty as Lyons are with sharp and strong teeth yet God will break their power and their strongest weapons in their hands as if one should breake the teeth of Lyons in their mouthes and dash out their great jaw teeth verse 6. Secondly as waters which runne continually melt and passe away so shall they vanish and when they attempt to wound or slay the innocent their purposes and endeavours shall be frustrate like Arrowes cut in pieces as they are flying out of the bow verse 7. Thirdly They shall be consumed as a Snayle that melteth away and as the untimely birth of a woman which never seeth the light of the Sun so shall they never come to see the light of Gods savour nor any true blessing ver. 8. Thus far he proceeds by way of Imprication But in the fourth place here in my Text he turnes his Speech again to that cursed crew and band of wicked Counsellors and comparing them to that great Bramble or Bryar which is in the Hebrew called Atad and in Greek Cynosbatos That is the Dog-bryar and of all Brambles is most full of sharp hooked pricks some hardned and dryed with heat of Sunne so that they rend and teare where they catch hold and others though very sharpe yet are more green weake and tender He tells them that before Gods people shal feell the utmost extremity of their malice and furie or before they can fasten on them the mischiefe they intend the Lord will destroy scatter and take them away all and everie one as with a storm or whirle-winde as well the young and greene as the old dryed and hardned in their malice and crueltie Fiftly in the tenth verse he comforteth the Church of God with a Prophesie of victorie and triumph which the righteous shall obtaine over these persecuting enemies The righteous saith he even everie righteous man shall rejoyce when hee seeth the vengeance he shall wash his feet in the bloud of the wicked Lastly he sheweth what shall be the end and issue of all both of the destruction of the wicked in the very height of their persecutions and in the heat of their rage and fury against the Church and also of the deliverance of the righteous and of their victory joy and triumph over them namely this That the world shall see and earthly men shall say Verily there is a reward for the righteous verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth That is all shall turne to the glory of God at last and the men of the world shall acknowledge that nothing comes to passe on