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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	life_n	lord_n	power_n	8,674	5	4.5803	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11792	The proiector Teaching a direct, sure, and ready vvay to restore the decayes of the Church and state both in honour and revenue. Deliuered in a sermon before the iudges in Norvvich, at summer assises there holden, anno 1620. By Thomas Scot Batchelor in Diuinity.	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.	1623 (1623)	STC 22081; ESTC S116987	26,622	45

assisteth our prayers our meditations our devotions teaching vs to call thee Father and leading vs into every truth daily resisting forvs our profest enemy Sathan giving vs wisdome to discover his treacherie and discerne him for an adversarie daily renueth in vs thine image conforming vs by degrees to the rules of thy lawe making vs wise and beautifull and loving and iust and holy in part by inspiration instruction and affliction by the humble and patient sufferance of worldly wisdome to beguile and flowte vs of corporall beautie to contemne and deface vs of carnall love to reiect and scorne vs of politique justice to persecute and martyr vs of superstitious and ydolatrous holinesse to shun and abhorre vs of devillish Atheisme to deride and abuse vs whilest wee know and rest assured that thou who workest all things for the best for thine elect thy poore distressed and dispersed little flocke beholdest all this and laughest to scorne the foolish imaginations of mans hart and in the meane time securest vs of thy love by infallible testimonies and teachest vs in every estate to be contented knowing that thou who orderest all things according to thine owne good will and pleasure and takest care for Lillies to cloth them for Ravens to feed them for Sparrowes to house them that madest an Arke for preservation of fowles and beasts and creeping things that numbrest the hayres of our heads and wilt not loose one of them wilt much lesse loose one of vs or let Sathan snatch vs out of thy hand whom thou hast made with such care and purchased at so deere a rate but wilt at thy good time cause all things worke together for our best So that wee Rom. 8. are perswaded Neither death nor life nor Angels nor principalities nor povvers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shal be able to separate vs from thy love vvhich is in Christ IESVS our Lord. In assurance of which love wee comend vnto thee not only our selves but all that have written their names vpon the crosse of thy Sonne especially our Sovereigne the King of great Brittaine whom thou hast honored with the style of Defender of the Faith and to this end made Antichrist like Balaam and Caiphas prophecie his owne overthrow in conferring that title O Lord as thou hast honored him with it and enabled him towards the performing of that duty more then others annoynting him vvith the oyle of Science above his fellovves so inflame his heart with true zeale and courage and strengthen his hand with true constancy that he may still appeare worthy of it in the eyes of all men Mat. 4. Blesse the Prince and remember where he is in a wildernesse of temptations as thine owne Sonne was from whence none but thy divine hand can bring him off safe Let it be thy glory 1. Cor. 1. 27. by babes and sucklings to confound those mightie Potentates and the more Superstition and Idolatrie he beholds the more let him abhorre it now calling to minde the truth which he hath heard and wisely conferring all things together so worke that his constancy may shewe it is only ignorance that holds them in Idolatrie and that our Princes are too learned and religious for their Priests to subvert Keepe him O Lord safe for vs and returne him in thy good time safe to vs and hasten that time O Lord wee beseech thee thereby to free our panting hearts from feare Blesse the King and Queene of Bohemia and their royal Yssue restore to them what they haue lost what Sathan ānd his associates the Sabeans and Chaldeans or men more cursed and cruell haue taken away from them and as thou didst make the Iob. ● latter end of Iob more happie then his beginning so verifie it in these thy servants that their example may be brought as a president in future ages to prove that truth by experience which the Psalmist wils vs to observe in the course of our pilgrimage Marke the perfect man and behold the vpright for the after-end of that Psalm 37. 37. man is peace Blesse the Nobilitie and teach them to know wherein true Nobilitie consisteth and then to doe as they know Blesse those Councellours that counsell for thy truth If Achitophell be in Davids Court give David grace to know his Oracle and thine asunder and bring his wicked councell vpon his owne wretched pate for the ruine of himselfe and his house Give him no wisdome to set his house in order who would disorder thine Regard not him and his State who would with subtilty ouerthrow that State which thou hast guarded for thy selfe so long Blesse the Clergie those laborers that labour for thee open their mouthes yet wider fill their harts yet fuller of spirit even with thy Spirit discover Doeg and Demas and Diotrephes and 3. Io. ● thrust them out of thy fold and let the world know they are wolves Blesse the Magistracie teach them only to comaund what thou comaundest at least teach them even for conscience sake to doe and comand nothing against thy comand which thou wouldst not have done Blesse the people and teach them to obey for conscience sake Act. 4. 1● and withall wisely to know where and how it is better to obey thee then man Blesse the whole State with vnitie and continue verity amongst them and restore to them that prosperity which their sinnes have provoked thee to take away which stands at the doore readie to depart except their repentance cals it backe Turne thy face towards them and turne their hearts towards thee and turne the expectation and endevour of their enemies and thine to shame follie and confusion That the heathen may not Psal 79. 1● say vvhere is novv their God FINIS