Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	hear_v	pray_v	prayer_n	3,315	5	6.6995	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70216	Prayers of intercession for their use who mourn in secret, for the publick calamities of this nation. with an anniversary prayer for the 30th of January. Very necessary and useful in private families, as well as in congregations. / By Jo. Huit, D.D.	Hewit, John, 1614-1658.	1659 (1659)	Wing H1636; ESTC R202447	32,791	58

and they who have divided his Inheritance triumphing over him But thou O Lord how long shall bloody Designs and Rebellious Imaginations prosper Shall not the Judge of the whole Earth do right Or hast thou forgot to be gracious and shut up thy tender Mercy in Displeasure O no thou art the same God who in the midst of Judgment remembreth Mercy Thine Arm is not shortned that thou canst not save nor thine Ears heavy that thou canst not hear Arise thou O God arise let the World see that thou art the Father of the Fatherless and Helper of them to right that suffer wrong Shew it O Lord especially at this time in multiplying all thy Comforts on our distressed King And as thou hast strangely and wonderfully delivered him from those who so eagerly hunted after his Life so let it appear to the World that thou hast not done this to make him the more miserable or to continue him in the condition of an Exile but rather that thou hast reserved him for faithfuller Hands and fairer Opportunities and more prosperous Successes And though this were not the time nor this the means by which thou hadst designed to restore the Kingdom to him yet that thou hast not yet forsaken him but that he is still in thy Care still under the Shadow of thy Wings who alone art able to do more for him than we can pray for and gloriously to bring him back again by ways we cannot think of In the mean time O Lord whilst thou thinkest fit to keep him under the sharpness of this Discipline teach him to kiss the Hand that chastens him and humbly to submit his Earthly Crown to thy divine Will and Pleasure as knowing that thou canst either restore him that when it seems good to thee or give a Crown infinitely more glorious which no Man can take from him Lord he is more precious to thee than he can be possibly to us dispose of him therefore in the Multitude of thy Mercies and let thy holy Spirit take so full Possession of him and Guidance that among all the Difficulties of his most perplexed Affairs he may constantly continue his Duty towards thee and live and dye thy faithful Servant in Jesus Christ Amen A LITANY of Intercession Preparatory Ejaculations to precede the LITANY O That thou wouldest hear me O God! that thou wouldest so prepare my Heart that thou mayest hear me That thou wouldest hear me yet once more though I am but Dust and Ashes That thou wouldest hear me for all those whom by the bonds of Duty of Charity or Affection I am bound to pray for O Lord hear my Prayers And let my Cry come unto thee The LITANY THat it may please thee O God to bless the whole Catholick-Church of thy Son Christ and as it hath been planted in his Death and watered with his Blood so it may be still nourished by his Sacraments and governed by his Word that the Uncharitableness of Men may not make the Rents and Divisions of it wider and that howsoever we may differ in the Superstructions the Foundation of Christian Faith may never be cast down O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to look compassionately on this persecuted Part of thy Church now driven from thy publick Altars into Corners and secret Closets that thy Protection may be over us where-ever we shall be scattered and a Remnant preserved amongst us by whom thy Name may be glorified and thy Sacraments administred and the Souls of thy Servants kept up upright in the midst of a corrupting and of a corrupted Generation O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to be gracious to Him who was once designed by thee to be the Nursing Father of this thy Church but for the Sins both of Priests and People is now cast out as an unprofitable Branch and that in thy due time thou wouldst deal with him according to the Innocency of his Person and Justice of his Cause O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to comfort him in the sadness of his Spirit and guide him in the Perplexities of his Mind and support him in streights and necessities of his Fortunes To raise him Friends abroad to convert or confound the Hearts of his Enemies at home To do some mighty Thing for him which I in particular know not how to pray for and by the secret Windings and powerful workings of thy Providence to make the Stone which these foolish Builders have refused the head stone of the corner O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to preserve him with an unspotted Soul and an unshaken Faith and that no Splendor of any Earthly Crown may so dazzle him as to make him forget either himself or thee or to do any unworthy thing to lose that Heavenly Crown which thou hast prepared for him and nothing but his Sins is able to keep from him O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to shew mercy to the Queen his Mother the Dukes his Brethren in exile with him and the rest of that scattered and oppressed Family to guide them with thy Counsels to defend them by thy Power to provide for them in thy mercy and to make them in their several ways Instruments of thy Glory and our Happiness O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to deal graciously with that Remnant of the loyal Nobility and all others of that ruined Side who have chosen rather to suffer in thy Cause than to participate with the Sins of a more successful Party O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to spread the wings of thy Protection over all those whom thou hast made near or dear unto me to preserve them safe in Body and Soul from the Snares of their Enemies and the Iniquities of the times that no Sin may lay waste their Consciences nor Evil come near their Dwellings O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to recompence all those whom thou hast raised to be Instruments of any good to me such as have taken care of my Soul and instructed me in the way to Heaven such as have counselled me when I have gone astray supplyed me in my wants comforted me in my heaviness and have had that high Charity for me as to reprove me when I have sinned O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to let the Day spring from on high shine upon all those that sit in Darkness and in the shadow of Death who either do not know thy Name or knowing it are carried by strong Delusions into the ways of Error and false Perswasion O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to confirm those who as yet stand fast on the Foundations of thy holy Truth that neither the Persecution of the Church