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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	able_a	great_a	king_n	1,544	5	3.5126	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02675	Brittaines hallelujah or A sermon of thanksgiving for the happy pacification in Brittaine preached in the English church at Hamburch before his excellency the right honorable Sir Thomas Rovve Lord Ambassador Extraordinary for his Mayesty of Greate Brittaine in Germany, &c. And to the vvorshipfull & famous Society of Merchant Adventurers & some cavelliers of Scotland By Ma. Harris Batchelour in Divinity, fellovv of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge & chaplaine to his excellency.	Harris, Malachi, 1606 or 7-1684.	1639 (1639)	STC 12807; ESTC S119822	18,712	32

also Can there be greater evills on this side Hell then these And may not a faire Deliverance out of all these be counted greate things That is the First greate for the Substance ● for its Circumst And 2ly as greate for the Circumstances and manner of bringing it about Had they bin able to have made any Head or Resistance themselvs the matter had not bin so greate A violent Revolt from vnder an Enemy is not so greately strange in the vvorld But vvhat could a company of poore forlorne vnarmed Captives doe a gainst so mighty a Potentate Or had they had some good able Freinds abroad to send them in succours for their rescue it had bin something Forraine supplies have done greate matters in this kinde But alas they vvere the object of contempt Derision to the vvhole vvorld Or had they els any good Freinds at Court vvho being sett vpon the vantage ground of greate favour might have ventured to sollicite the king in their b●halfe there had bin some shadovv of hope But alas vvhat freindes vvere such contemptible vvretches like to make Or vvhat Courtier durst vouchsafe an eare to such a motion vvhich seemed to classh against all lavves and rules of State-policy Or lastly had the king himselfe bin a vvorshiper of the true God Religion might have svvayed him tovvards a propitions Inclination But as for him He vvas an absolute Idolater and so not only a stranger but an enemy to their Religion Which vvay shall this desighne be compasse'd vvho shall roule avvay these so many and so greate stones thus vvedged one in another Noe Povver in themselves noe hopes from any Freind at home or abroad noe thinking of dealing vvith the king himselfe yet God vndertakes it and it shall not faile of taking effect Cyrus himself shall be moved to doe it and that voluntarily and spontaneously that peremptorily resolutely maugre all suggestions counsells to the contrary that magnificently and munificently He shall enable them vvith all the force of Diplomaticall letters and decrees furnish them vvith all accommodations vvhatsoever Verily such mighty things Ps 118. 16. could not have bin brought to passe but by the right Hand of the Lord vvhich hath the preeminence Doubtles it vvas the Lords doing 2. The Benefactor And this mindes me of the second Particular The Benefactor the Lord. The Lord hath done c. His name vvas vvritten vpon the Fact in such capital lettets that the blinde Heathen could see and reade it The Lord hath done greate things for them sayd they And it is not perhaps vnvvorthy your observation that in this their Doxologicall acknovvledgment they hit vpon the Tetragrammaton Jehovah for so the Hebrevv hath it in that their verse v. 2. They attributed nothing of this to Fortune or chance or any false God or to any second cause but expressly pronounce it done by the Lord Jehovah Digitus Dei It is the finger of the Lord cryed out the Heathenish Aegyptians and among them the most Divelish Magicians Yea and Brachiū Dei it vvas the out stretched arme of the Lord that all the nations felt vvhen Israel is to passe into Canaan And novv I have mentioned Israels passage into Canaan let that one Instance serve for a Demonstration in this matter For their removing out of Aegypt vvho must be their Spokesman but stammering Moses but obnoxious Moses for it vvere strange if the Eminency of the man a famous Courtier and his suddaine flight out of the Land should not recall that Fact into the mindes of some of his Cooetaneans yet this man must be the man I passe over the Categories of those vvonders done in Aegipt Looke vve upon the Transcendency of Gods povver and providence novv they are on their vvay Doe they vvant a Guide for their vvay God him selfe goeth before them in fire Doe they vvant a Shelter His cloude is spread over them for a covering Doe they vvant vvay the Sea it selfe shall make it and at once be a streete and a vvall vnto them Doe they vvant bread Heaven it selfe shall raine dovvne Angells foode Doe they vvant meate to their bread The very vvind shall become their Cater and bring them vvhole drifts of Quailes into their tents Doe they vvant drinke to both The Rock it selfe shall be their Sellar and yeild it them in abundance Doe they vvant Change of Apparrell Their cloaths shall not vveare olde on their backs Doe they vvant counsell and advise God Himselfe vvill be their oracle from bevveene the Cherubims Doe they vvant a Lavv Himselfe vvil sitt vpon the Bench on mount Sinai and give them their charge in Person and vvrite it vpon tables vvith his ovvne fingers Are they resisted by Enemys God himselfe dischargeth volleys of haile stones vpon their heads and braines them to their hands Are they to sitt before Jerico The Tovvnevvalls of themselvs shall fall dovvne flatt before them Is Joshuah to pitch a Battaile The Sun must stand still to see him have the Victory O the greate and mighty things the Lord did for Israel I cannot have vvhile so much as to vnclaspe any more volumnes vvherein are recorded Gods strange doings for his Church in all ages It susticeth that a Devoute Bishop hath folded you dovvne some fevv leaves B. Hall in that booke vvhich is most knovvne I hope to the most God doth use to appeare so for his Church that he sticks not to put it among his Titles Royall nay makes it his Cognomen sayth Petrarch the God of Abraham and of his seede vvhich in the Apostles exposition is the vvhole household of the faithfull the Church 3. The Beneficed And this calls me to the third and last Particular the Receiver of the Benefit the delivered The Church For vs sayth the Text. The Lord hath done greate things for vs. And vvhat vvere vve might Sion say vvho vvere glad to lick the dust of the feete of our Enemys that the Lord of Heaven Earth should looke so graciously vpon vs The meanenes of the Receiver argueth the magnificence of the Giver Who am I that the Mother of my Lord should visit me It vvas a true and religious complement of devout Elizabeth The best of men are but the children of dust and grand-children of nothing And yet for the Lord to doe greate things for vs this yet greatens those greate things Was it be cause vve vvere his Church It vvas his super-abounding grace to select vs out of others as it vvas our greater gracelesnes above all others so to provoke Him as to force him to throvve vs into Captivity Or vvas it because our Humiliation in that disconsolate condicion did move him to so greate compassion Alas there vvas choice of Nations vvhom he might have taken in our roome that might have proved farre more faithfull then vve had bin for the one halfe of those favours vve had enioyed Or vvas it for his Covenants sake vvith our Fore-fathers Alas vve had forfeited