Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

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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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93663	Christophilos. The true Christian subiect decyphered in a sermon preached at Saint Pauls London, on the seventh of August, Anno 1642. By Benjamin Spencer, Minister of St. Thomas Parish in Southwarke.	Spencer, Benjamin, b. 1595?	1642 (1642)	Wing S4943; Thomason E123_7	16,848	32

him who intended so to carry Tamberlin Nor Perillus thought not that he should have roared first in his brazen Bull. Thirdly Wee know not how long it may last for it may reach so farre as I know even to hell for who knows whe● it will end 1 Sam. 10 26. Isaiah 30 33. We know that Tophet is ordained of old yea for evill Kings it is prepared and I believe not leffe for evill subjects if they be such Tophets such fooles to bee led aside Deut. 1.1 or such Achitophels such kinsmen to fooles as that they neither feare God Romans 13. nor the King for Saint Paul tells us that such receive to themselves damnation If we would avoyd the penalty then avoyd the finne otherwise it will fall upon us Upon them that feares neither God nor King which is meere Atheisme and Libertisme mixed together or God without the King which is to make a shew of godlinesse and deny the power of it 2 Tim. 3.5 to keepe a forme of piety in the first Table and deface it in the second Or that feare the King without God which is to love the praise of man more than the praise of God Or that feare God before the King which is meere flattery if not Idolatry Prov. 28.21 and such men will transgresse for a piece of bread Therefore let us avoyd all these and feare GOD not without the King For if GOD said Amen to Davids Curse on the Mountaines of Gilboa as Saint Ambrose observes Amb. in Lib. off Aruerunt montes maledicto prophetico after Sauls death upon them they dried away and the grasse did not thrive there how much more will the imprecations of good men take effect upon those who regard not these precept It cost Absolom the hanging and Achitophell an halter of his own purchasing Ioab his life after hee had taken sanctuary Abiathar his Priest-hood The Citie of Abell a seige and it might have proved a sacking if there had not been one woman in it wiser than all the men Sheba his head and Sichem an utter ruine even to the sowing of salt upon it to season all posterity Coreh and his company such a ruine as who knoweth how farre it went even to the lowest pit so farre as we know Besides all this it is wise counsell Wise Counsell For it is spoken to the wise It is such as wise men useth to give and take Of which wee may say as the Angell said in the Revelation Here is wisedome Let him that readeth it consider Rivel 13.18 It is not spoken to fooles whom if we bray in a Morter yet will not be the wiser But to those that either are wise and judicative and this may make wiser or those that are wise optative in wish seekers for wisedome Or those that thinke themselves wise and are onely wise supposative and are the great active braines and stirring spirits and by that meanes would be thought wise Let none of these refuse this honest counsell this holy advice Nor those that are the stickling malignant spirits who thinke themselves wiser than King Parliament or the whole State b●side let not them refuse it but let them remember to be subject not only to the King but to those that are sent of him For in them they are subject to him If they be or would be wise let them not strive to divide the body from he head and make the State like the Serpent called Amph soena who had an head at either end Rom. 14.19 which by diversity of attraction bred distraction and so broke the body a sunder in the middest And let us all study in the feare of God the thing which belongs to peace that there be no breaking in nor leading out nor no complaining in our streets Psalme 144.14 I speake as to wise men judge you what I sa● saith Paul And here the only wise God and the wisest King speaks though the weakest preacher Cape tu quod suum for wisedome quod tuum for duty remitte quod meum for infirmity sake or in charity at least And let us all pray for the King to God and for all that are in authority That God would give the King his judgements and his Righteousn sse to the Kings Son that whensoever we looke how he reigneth wee may remember also by whom hee reigneth In whose strength Let the King rejoyce O Lord Psalme 21.2 Pro. 20.28 and make him exceeding glad of thy salvation Mercy and truth preserve the King and let his Throne be established by mercy that by his m●ckenesse and vertue and the wisd●me of his great Councell the Parliament meeting together thy people may bee comforted and thy inheritance blessed in this world with the Truth of the Gospell in peace and obtaine at l●st those heavenly places appointed for them i● Iesus Christ to whom together with the father and the Holy Spirit three persons and one only true God be given all honour and glory for ever Amen FINIS ERRATA In the Epistle Dediatory Red for read PAge 5. line 25. leave out him or p. 10. l. 31. after baptized read with water by Saint Iohn Baptist but also page 11. l. 10. read pitcher for picture p. 15. l. 10. leave out and p. 19. leave out must p. 22. line 31. read that feare the King afore God page 23. line 24. reade Indicative