Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	king_n	life_n	son_n	6,489	5	5.0532	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66945	A plot to disseize God of his right defeated, and the contrivers punished discovered in a sermon preached in the Cathedral of S. Paul, on the 15th of September, 1661, before the Right Honorable Sir Richard Browne, Knight and Baronet, Lord Mayor of the city of London / by Tho. Wood ...	Wood, Thomas, 17th cent.	1661 (1661)	Wing W3411; ESTC R9249	18,398	28

the most fit but as the Power so the continual Exercise of it was only in God From Moses to Samuel about five hundred years they had still rulers when they had any of his appointment In all that time we read not of a Son succeeding his Father But heaven according to several Exigencies singled them out several men of several Tribes and Families of proportionable Abilities to sit at the Helm of the State During the Life of Samuel they require a King like other Nations but a King still of Gods choosing not their own They have Saul and he hath a Son both good and valiant yet he in his Life time perceives the Kingdome destined to a Stranger The Father indeed storms at it but the Son seems well content and though after both their Deaths Abner sets another Son of Sauls upon the Throne yet the cause thrives not the whole Kingdome at length devolves unto David So that if Jonathan or Sauls other Son had no wrong neither had here Adonijah And if God had not limited himself by an after assurance to David he might have dealt with him and his posterity as he did with Saul and his given the Kingdome to any Israelite now however he hath his whole off-spring to choose in and might without the least injustice have fastned upon any issue of his aswell as Solomon So that as St. Augustine in another case Huic fit misericordia illi non injuria God was favourable to Solomon did no injury to Adonijah Considering then that the Common-wealth of Israel was so constituted at the Beginning and had so continued many hundred years that none could pretend to the Principality by Filiation and therefore at this time fell not under the Cognizance of that Law of Primogeniture which God surceasing his claim suffer'd it to do in the Ages following Considering too that as the right of Election was in God so he had continually all along exercis'd the power of it without interruption for Joab and Abiathar boldly to undertake the pointing out of a Supreme Magistrate without his special Warrant and Commission nay to set up one when he had appointed another was a Presumption worthy the Vengeance inflicted upon them afterwards For we find and I thought not fit to conclude without this Note they paid deerly for it and so shall all those sooner or later that attempt upon any of Gods Reservations they had better been out of Employment then have had such Wages The one loseth his Life the other his Office and Heaven is to be admir'd for the Certainty and Justice of its Dispensations in both Joab had before committed divers Murthers and so powerful he was in the State that Vengeance by the hand of the present Magistrate durst not seize on him This Action of his Springing from the same root pays those old Scores and as he had shed mans blood so by man is his Blood powred forth Abiathar was of the house of Eli against whom we have Two several prophetical Denunciations 1 Sam. Chap. 2 3. and this his Stickling for and Siding with Adonijah here causeth his Removal from the Priesthood and so we see those Predictions likewise made good by their accomplishment And this consideration well sifted would the Time and the Space allotted for this exercise bear it would afford us fresh matter of Contemplation and Discourse about the certain yet secret ways of Providence First How the wise Disposer of all things turns many times mans greatest Shame into his own greatest Glory Secondly How our very Sins though Traitors to us their Owners prove Trusty Executioners of the Almighties purposes and our wickedst Actions so over-ordered as they become the Instrumental Examples of Heavens Justice But these will fall more fitly into some Texts in the Second Chapter To the only wise and powerful Trinity Three persons One God be ascribed c. Amen FINIS