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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	affection_n	love_n	love_v	1,882	5	6.6827	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46900	Three sermons preached the first in Richmond Church, August 17. 1690. on the most happy accession of Their Majesties, King William and Queen Mary to the Crown. The second in Mortlake Chuch in Surrey March 3. 1694. on the death of our late most gracious soveraign lady the Queen, of blessed memory. The third in Mortlake Church, April 16. 1696. being the day of Thanksgiving unto Almighty God, for discovering and disappointing the horrid and barbarous conspiracy to assassinate His most gracious Majesty's royal person: and for delivering this kingdom from an invasion, intended by the French. By Christopher Johnson, M.A. and school-master of Richmond in Surrey. Printed to prevent mistakes concerning the author.	Johnson, Christopher, b. 1657 or 8.	1696 (1696)	Wing J770BA; ESTC R216574	43,561	66

hath done great things for us whereof we rejoice And this affirm we in defiance of all who deny Him or his Providence whether in Thought or in Act or be it by both And for all this may we fear Him may we love Him above all things in Heaven and in Earth May all our Hearts all our Souls our Minds and our Strength have a full share in this Affection towards God and so by the Operation of every Faculty and Power in us proper thereto may we take our fill in loving Him that as He hath loved us so the love of Him may dwell plenteously in us To excite us the more to our Duty of Love and Praise Adoration and Thanksgiving it is requisite that we consider what and how great the Blessing is wherein consists the Salvation wrought so lately in our Land And of the Blessing of God now upon us and His Salvation vouchsafed unto us none can be ignorant forasmuch as all know that God Almighty has manifested his Providence his Power and Mercy towards His Most Excellent Majesty and His People by laying open the Depths of Satan and the secret Intentions of wicked Men that He has Discovered and Delivered the King from an Horrid and Barbarous Conspiracy of Papists and other Trayterous Persons to Assassinate and Murder His Royal Person and the Kingdom from an Intended Invasion by the greatest Enemies to its and all Europe's Repose the French By which great Deliverance the King 's Royal Person is saved from Destruction His Government Secured and this Realm Freed from that Total Subversion of its Religion Laws and Liberties which if God had not thus mercifully interposed would have been the Fate of it Lo this is the Blessing and it is very great this is the Salvation we now give thanks for and it is wonderful Here is repeated Mercy and Goodness to an unwise and foolish People who have ill requited God with Ingratitude for His former Loving-kindnesses But as we now meditate on His Mercy so may we with Rivers of Tears in our Eyes think of the other Method God so lately used to reduce us unto a right Sense of our selves by the Deplorable Loss of that most Virtuous and Pious Princess the Queen of Blessed Memory who fell by a heavy stroke alas To us it was God punishing us for our many Provocations our Incorrigible and Undutiful Behaviour to Him that He might melt us thereby into Sorrow and Repentance that He might force us to humble our selves with Weeping and Fasting and to cloath our Souls with Mourning Attire when the thick Cloud of his Anger overspread these Nations by Her Death And now again He invites us to Him in love for lo the Bright Beams of His Mercy shining every where He hath called us this Day out of the Houses of Mourning into those of Joy He hath put a new Song into our Mouths even a Thanksgiving unto our God for the Safety of our Most Serene and Illustrious Monarch KING WILLIAM the Father of our Country the Great Joy and Hope and Support of many Nations the most Heroick and Noble Patron and Assertor of ours and all Europe's Liberties by whose Crown falling from His Head and so the Glory departing again from us God might have laid us with Bleeding Hearts in Dust and Ashes have heaped upon us all the Mischiefs that the Rage and Madness of our Incensed Enemies could bring who would have number'd their Merits by the quantities of our Blood they should have caused to run in our Streets when the more of us they had killed the more Service to God they would have boasted that they had done like that Duke D'Alva who assumed much Glory and Honour to himself for the Slaughter he made of many Thousand Protestants or Hereticks by such Men of Blood falsly so called But O that Men would praise the Lord for his Goodness and declare the Wonders he doeth for us the Children of Men when by a Miracle of Mercy we are saved from that Wo and Destruction which otherwise would at this time have been raging by Fire and Sword in these Islands with Apparent Danger of Ruin and Desolation upon all the Confederate Countries by that Ambitious Prince who has hunted after the Precious Life of our KING that he might Subdue the Nations to the Rod of his Power and tread them under his Feet But behold the Justice of the Lord as well as his Mercy in the King's Salvation For what had Men to do to take God's Prerogative out of His Hands and to number the King's Moments of Life by the time they should set a Fatal period thereto So long as God hath bound up his Soul in the Bundle of Life and may it be I pray God for many Years even to a good Old Age those who have to do with the Stool of Wickedness may sit thereon long enough Plotting and Contriving his Death thus imagining or framing Mischief by their own Wicked Counsels as a Law or Decree written like but more Cruel than those of Draco said to be in Blood and yet shall not be able to prevail with all the Powers of Hell on their side For no Sorcery no Divination no Inchantment no Conspiracy or Weapon form'd against this Mighty Defender of our Faith and of the Liberties of Europe can prosper so long as the Lord is on our side so long as He is the Rock of our Salvation and He will not leave us nor forsake us if we do not leave Him first O therefore draw we near unto Him in Faith and full Assurance of His continual Favour and keep we from every wicked thing from Atheism of the Mind from Atheism of the Will and the Act From Profaneness in our Hearts in our Words and in our Deeds Let us Religiously observe this Day with an holy Joy that it may be acceptable unto the Lord. Let no vain Oaths cause the Land to mourn nor any other Sin of our Souls or Bodies pollute this Day And let us observe every Lord's Day with greater distinction from other Days than we have hitherto done And so may we now turn unto the Lord and prosper May we wash off all Stains and Blemishes of past Ingratitude and be thankful for evermore hereafter And then will we say unto the Grand Enemy of Europe The Virgin Isa 37.22 the Daughter of Zion hath despised thee and laughed thee to scorn the Daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her Head at thee Then the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against the Church of England for her Faith is Built on a Rock and He who is truly the Defender thereof shall stand by Her with Power from God to preserve Her as He hath promised to do to His utmost To our Consolation then be it spoken That Great Deliverance giveth God unto His King that he is a Tower of Salvation unto him and sheweth Mercy unto His Anointed Wherefore will we rejoice and sing triumphantly The Lord liveth and blessed be