Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	duke_n	great_a	king_n	6,693	5	3.8621	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89586	The song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lambe: opened in a sermon preached to the Honorable House of Commons, at their late solemne day of thanksgiving, Iune 15. 1643. for the discovery of a dangerous, desperate, and bloudy designe, tending to the utter subversion of the Parliament, and of the famous city of London. / By Stephen Marshall, B.D. and Pastor of Finchingfield in Essex. Published by order of that House.	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1643 (1643)	Wing M789; Thomason E56_5; ESTC R16053	30,483	54

The particular instances are too many to be related in a Sermon I shall mention onely some few things which as so many continued threads have run through this whole peece of his workmanship first in the greatnesse and wonderfulnesse secondly in the truth and righteousnesse of them First these works have been great and wonderfull for the kinde When the Antichristian Empire which at first was contrived with that wisedome and underpropped with that strength ruling even the souls and consciences of men and had prevailed so farre that all the Kings and States of the World were so drunken with the Whores Cup that they not onely kissed her well-favoured face but as so many brute beasts lay at her foot-stooll prostituting all their power and strength unto the Beast and under her command making warre even against the Lamb himself and helping to drink the bloud of his Saints none daring to question the truth or rather divinity of her Commands so that she could glorifie her self and say in her heart I sit as a Queen and shall see no sorrow now that suddenly it should be put into the hearts of most of the Europaean States to hate this Whore to endeavour to make her desolate and naked to eat her flesh and burn her with fire how great and marvellous doth this speak the work for the kinde of it Who but the Lord God Almighty could do this It is certainly the Lords doing and must be marvellous in our eyes Secondly if we consider the time which our Lord Christ was pleased to make choyce of for the effecting these great works they will appear yet more wonderfull even when his Church was at the lowest when he saw that their power was gone and there was none shut up or left when the enemy was come in like a flood and no man to lift up a standard against him when he saw that there was no helper even then put he on righteousnesse as a breast-plate and an helmet of salvation upon his head and the garments of vengeance for his cloathing Who can be ignorant of these things who knows not the low condition of Germany when Luther first appeared though onely against the notorious abuse of the Popes Indulgences and other luxuriant branches of his Tyrannicall usurpation insomuch that a Bishop wishing him well yet despairing of successe counselled him as the Story reports after this manner Frater frater abi in Cellam dic Miserere mei Deus To thy beads Frier thou wilt do no good in this work For the people of Germany were at that time so bewitched with the sorceries of the Whore and so enthralled to her power that as that proud Cardinall too confidently boasted they were ready at the Popes command for the redemption of their souls to have eaten grasse and hay more pecudum after the manner of brute Beasts And was not the Church in other Countries as low namely at the first appearing of Zuinglins and Oecolampadius in Helvetia of Calvin Viret and Farell in France Cranmer Latimer Ridley especially Bilney and Tyndall in England Hamilton Wischart Knox and others in Scotland at that time when in a word the whole Church might have taken up that complaint Ezek. 37. 11. Our bones are dried our hope is lost we are cut off for our parts then did our Lord Christ open their graves and cause them to come up out of their graves and made them live and stand up upon their feet an exceeding great army this also must needs be acknowledged to be the work of the Lord God Almighty who is wonderfull in counsell and excellent in working And as the kinde and time so thirdly the consideration of the meanes and instruments renders them yet more wonderfull to effect great things by weak meanes is an argument of great power and strength That the walls of Iericho should fall at the blast of trumpets of rams horns that a Cake of barley bread tumbling into the hoast of Midian should come unto a tent and smite it and overturn it that the tent should lie along that Gideon and three hundred men with lamps and empty pitchers should overthrow the whole hoast of Midian who came as grashoppers for multitude they and their Camels being without number that a woman should compasse a man a weak woman subdue a mighty man these are New things as the phrase there is Behold the Lord hath created a new thing in the earth a woman shall compasse a man c. And yet this you shall see was no new but Gods usuall and constant course which he takes in this work pouring out these Vialls of his wrath upon this potent enemy by the ministery of most weak and contemptible instruments pulling his Church out of the dungeon of Superstition by old cast clouts and rotten rags as once Ebedmelech the Ethiopian did the Prophet Ieremie Was not Luther a poor Monk and other priests and shavelins newly crept out of their superstitious Cells the first Engineers that battered the walls of this great Babylon who were they but the poorer meaner sort of people that at the first joyned with the Ministers to raise the building of Reformation few of the Princes and Nobles putting their necks to the work of the Lord or if any did yet the Divine Providence so ordered it that either they were suddenly taken off as the Duke of Saxony and Landgrave of Hessen by imprisonment or immaturely taken away as Edward the sixth by death or more miraculously preserved as Queen Elizabeth a woman in England and King Iames a childe in the beginning of Reformation in Scotland and although in the progresse of the work many Kings and Princes have stood up as nursing Fathers yet still we may observe that the greatest things have been done by them from whom least could be expected as not to trouble you with more instances the almost incredible and strange proceedings of the late victorious King of Sweden will abundantly testifie who as a contemptible Prince crossing the Baltick-sea entred Germany with not above five or six thousand men and a very small sum of Mony and yet in as little time had before his death almost brought to nothing that mighty House of Austria thought by many to be the Sun giving light and influence to the Antichristian world upon which the fourth Viall was to be poured out I might I say give you many other instances this may suffice God will you may be confident in time make all the world know that this great Image this great Antichristian Oppressour shall be broken in pieces by a Stone cut out of the Mountains without hands without humane help Fourthly and lastly and above all the manner of his working proves them most wonderfull For if we observe but the goings of this King of Saints if we trace him in his footsteps in this great work of execution upon his enemies marching before his people travelling in the

greatnesse of his strength we finde him leading them in uncouth wayes which they knew not and wayes which to them seemed unpassable His way hath been in the sea and his pathes in the great waters and his footsteps were not known yet still leading his people like a flock sometimes removing mountains our of their way making them flow down at his presence sometimes skipping over them sometimes his way hath been in the whirl-winde and in the great storm yet always working in such wayes and in such a manner as that first his own people have thought he could intend nothing but their ruin as Ionah did when cast into the Sea and swallowed up by the Whale an unlikely way of deliverance and in such wayes secondly as to the enemy have ever seemed most advantagious to their own purposes and destructive to the Church God suffering them to lay the Plot for their own ruin to dig a pit for their own destruction and making the ways by them intended for the Churches ruin to be the greatest meanes of their deliverance as fully and clearly as Hamans Plot proved the exaltation of the Iews and Mordecai and the ruine and destruction of himself and family a Volume might be filled with instances of this kinde The device of Charles the fifth to disinherit the Duke of Saxony to keep the Landgrave of Hessen in perpetuall imprisonment thereby intending utter ruine to the Protestant party in Germany was the very occasion of the confederacy of Smalcald which almost drove Charles out of Germany and established the Protestant party in the liberty of their religion The Massacre in France in which were destroyed within the space of thirty dayes as the Historian reports it above seventy thousand Protestant souls proved ye know a means within a short space to double and treble if not quadruple their numbers in that Kingdom and procured them publike Edicts and Cautionary Towns for the liberty and security of their Religion which before they had not The cruelty and tyranny of the Spaniards in the Netherlands one of whose Deputies Duke D'Alva boasted that he put to death six and thirty thousand Hugenots and Protestants hath been the greatest meanes to prevent the swelling of his intended Monarchy and increase the freedom and strength of the Protestant party not onely in the five United Provinces but in all these parts of Europe Who that hath read the Scottish Story is ignorant that the Archbishop of St. Andrews cruell burning of Mr. George Wischart conferred much to the Reformation of that whole Kingdom The time would fail me to tell you of the desperate Conspiracies of the Priests and Jesuits in England all the time of Queen Elizabeth of the Powder-treason and their unwearied Machinations in other States and Churches and how constantly the Lord hath turned them all to the advantage of his Church and to bring ruine and destruction upon the contrivers of them And if any of you have not had time or means to observe these things in Story your eyes cannot but see them all fulfilled in Christs late and present dealings with our selves and our brethren of Scotland For them what great things hath the Lord lately done and by what very weak means hardly the fifth part of the Nobility as I have heard appearing for them the greater part openly opposing them scarse one fourth part of the Kingdom owning the Cause how often were they at their wits end when some unexpected door was opened to them And were not all their works wrought for them by the rage cruelty and cunning of their enemies Were not the book of Service and the book of Canons sent and obtruded upon them from England the occasion of their late mercies was not the tyrannie of a few of their Prelats a means to unburden them of their whole Prelacy and when they were as much shut up in straits as the Israelites at the Red-sea and knew not over-night what would become of them the next morning then constantly some absurd desperate Plot or other of their enemies brake out which gave them an out-gate to escape And even so hath God dealt with England his work amongst us is of the very same warp and woof The great mercies which we enjoy the great deliverances we have lately received from what a high hand have they come to what a very dead low ebbe were we brought Our liberty almost swallowed up and turned into slavery our Religion into Popery and Arminianisme and even then God remembred us in our low estate and by what instruments becommeth me not to speak much in your own presence Your selves know how sinfull and all the Kingdom how mean and contemptible in the eyes of your adversaries they looking upon you as Sanballat and his company did upon Nehemiah and his builders and with like scorn uttering the same reproaches What do these feeble Iews will they fortifie themselves will they make an end in a day will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish even that which they build if a fox go up he shall even break down their stone wall And well may you take up the builders complaint Hear O our God for we are despised and yet by such despised broken vessells hath the Lord hitherto delivered us And which is still more wonderfull to the glory of God be it spoken our greatest deliverances have been more promoted by the cunning treachery and violence of the enemy then by the foresight vigilancy and strength of our best friends The Prelates late Canons and Oath purposely contrived for the perpetuating of their Hierarchy and their other treacherous and malicious endeavours against the State joyning with the Papists and with them labouring to turn all into confusion rather then suffering the least abatement of their former pride and tyranny have helped thus farre towards the taking them away both root and branch The multitudes of calumnies and reproaches cast upon the Parliaments just proceedings slighting their Authority slandering their intentions misinterpreting their actions have they not through the goodnesse of Him who preserveth them from the strife of tongi been an occasion of making their Authority Priviledges intentions actions clear as the Sun at noon day And to instance no further this late bloudy and mischievous Design in which this Honorable Senate this famous Citie and with them our lives religion laws and liberties had undoubtedly been made a prey to their mercilesse rage and fury the Lord hath not onely brought to light without any foresight or watchfulnesse of yours but made those that were the contrivers to be the discoverers their own evidence and confession being the thread which lets you into the depths and labyrinths of those counsels which they had digged deep to hide if possible even from the eyes of God himself and thereby giving you a great opportunity the Lord in mercy teach you to improve it to advance the glory of his Name for