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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	eternal_a	life_n	soul_n	14,602	5	5.1897	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28855	Gods goodnesse in crowning the King declared in a sermon in the church of Kingston upon Hull, on the happy day of the coronation of His Sacred Majesty Charls the Second, April the 23d, 1661 / by Edward Boteler ...	Boteler, Edward, d. 1670.	1662 (1662)	Wing B3801; ESTC R19494	30,533	78

his thousands and David his ten thousands Particularly the Victory which this and the foregoing Psalm referre to and which is the blessing celebrated was that of David's Armies against the forces of the children of Ammon with the Auxiliaries of Syria under the command of their Captain General Shobach Of which you have a full account 2 Sam. 10. and of which more afterwards 2. Vivacity Length of dayes Of which Vers 4. He asked life of thee and thou gavest it him even length of dayes for ever and ever Some victories cost dear are bought with the life of a King or General and are little less than the undoing of the Conquerors they lose by winning God sometimes takes his people from the possession of blessings even when they are entring upon them He did so with his servant Moses whom he cut off in the very confines of Canaan Deut. 34.4 I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes but thou shalt not go over thither He did so with the illustrious hopeful and most lamented the late Duke of GLOCESTER that immortal blossome not to be mentioned without a preface of sadness who saw but enjoyed little of the happiness of his royal Brothers His most excellent Majesties Restauration But the King's blessings are lengthened with his life He hath victory and life to use and improve it 1 King 3.11 God hath given him the life of his enemies and his own life too Which are two of the four most eligible blessings so accounted by God himself who best knows the worth of his own blessings in his comprobation of Solomons choice 1 Kings 3.11 Life is that blessing in Wisdom's right-hand which taketh place of riches and honor It is the greatest of earthly blessings Facito debilem pede facito debilem manu vita dum superest benè est Men will hold it upon hard terms they are loth to part with it even when the dayes are come they have no pleasure in them Eccl. 12.1 All look on it as their All Kings most of all They are most commonly at a heighth of outward glory full of blessings and they desire nothing so much as life to enjoy them We read of but one life lengthened in Scripture and it was a Kings 2 King 20 6. Dan. 2.4 Ch. 3.9 And the Caldeans looked on it as the best piece of Courtship that they could use to Nebuchadnezzar O King live for ever There is nothing so much a blessing to a King on this side the Kingdom of Heaven as his life And have not we cause to remember to remember with eternal thankfulness how God gave our most Dread Soveraign his life gave it him at Worcester even then when a thousand deaths look'd him in the face to take it away When the proud waters were ready to go over his soul Psal 124.5 When the insulting enemy said God hath forsaken him Psal 71.11 persecute him take him for there is none to deliver him even then did his mighty hand and stretched-out arm take Rebellion rampant by the throat Psal 22.20 and delivered his soul from the sword his darling his only one according to the Hebrew from the power of the dog Psal 113 8. That he might set him with Princes even with the Princes of his people Isa 55.3 That he might give him those sure mercies of David His Throne shall be as the Sun before me Psal 89.36 37. It shall be established for ever as the Moon and as a faithful witness in Heaven But of that more anon Vivacity that 's the second of those blessings the people here own with thankfulness for their King 3. Safety Ver. 5. His glory is great in thy salvation And in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice Ver. 1. God chargeth his providence in a more peculiar manner with Kings Touch not mine Anointed It is a great blessing to have our blessings secured to us Fear of losing lessens a blessing How low ran the rate of earthly blessings among us during the late times of trouble when men knew not how to secure them from the hands of Rapine nor free them from those artificial and finer kinds of violence which were in use among us It is the blessing of our blessings when they are made safe to us And we are then happy when we are fortified by the strength of God and made impregnable by the power of the most high There 's no security like Omnipotency and those Walls must needs be inexpugnable which are made up of his Salvation That 's the King's condition here Lord thou hast sospitated his person and established his Throne and secured his Kingdom Psal 5 11 12. His glory is great in thy salvation And therefore Let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice let them ever shout for joy because thou defendest them let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee For thou Lord wilt bless the righteous with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield Be that enough for the first expression which here heightens the mercy of the Kings Conservation In benedictionibus With blessings 2. Those blessings are of goodness The blessings of goodness In benedictionibus dulcedinis the vulgar Latin renders it With the blessings of sweetness and delight Blessings that will gratifie the desires of his soul and go down with a relish Psal 34.8 He shall taste and see how good the Lord is He shall not only have blessings of defence but delight mercies not only for necessity but complacency God shall gild his deliverance with the light of his countenance and sweeten his enjoyments with the experiences of his love Thou preventest him with the sweetest of blessings In benedictionibus bonitatis in St. Hierom's words with the blessings of goodness And that goodness seems to have a double reference either to the cause or kind of blessings 1. To the cause Thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness That is Thy goodness is the cause and ground the fountain and foundation of all his blessings 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the word which the Seventy two Interpreters use in this place speaks benignity and blessings of good-will Lord all the Kings blessings are the out-lets of thy goodness That is the living and inexhaustible fountain from whence do flow all those streams which make glad the people of God The spring of Love is in God's own self His bowels made the first motion of good to us Thou art good Psal 119.68 and dost good The goodness derived to us is from a primitive goodness in himself It is meerly and solely from his goodness that we have any good Alas had we no goods but what the purchase of our own merits brought in Ch. 3.17 we should be but like that conceited Phanatick Church in the Revelations say it may be We are rich and increased in goods and have need of nothing when indeed we are wretched and miserable