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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	adversary_n	hand_n	lord_n	1,184	5	3.6502	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85350	Good nevves from all quarters of the kingdome; particularly from Gloucester. The more strange for the noveltie; first printed, and at that time when the adversary was storming that citie; and yet more strange, for its antiquitie, because assured us by a word, more stable than the earth or heaven; and by a letter of ancient date, sent to Hezekiah King of Judah. Wee have the same assurance also touching a strange destruction to the wicked, specially to those princes all, who have filled the land with bloud, that those shall not dye the common death, nor be visited after the visitation of all men, because they have done more wickedly then ever any princes before them. ... Published for the comfort of all the Godly, in all the quarters of the world, by speciall licence from their Court-booke, September 12. 1643.		1643 (1643)	Wing G1054; Thomason E250_9; Thomason E250_10; ESTC R212532	20,215	10

they To day or to morrow within a very few houres we will goe into such a Citie called Gloucester and kennell there for they are dogges continue there this Winter where we will whore and drab and curse and blaspheme God damne us and shed bloud to our power so proudly they said so they will doe such a good will they have and so headlong it carries them Now heare what the Lord will doe The Lord who does cast abroad the rage of his wrath beholds every man that is proud and abaseth him Job 40. does confound daring attempts horrid rage and cursed blasphemy decks himselfe with Majestie and excellency for the very purpose to resist to set himselfe in Battle-Array against the Proud James 4.6 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He will shew himselfe glorious in power now the Right hand of the Lord will dash in pieces the enemy Wee know the Lord has done it though we had heard nothing touching that matter for God does resist the proud the God of Hoasts sets Himselfe in Battle-Array against such haughty Persons The loftie lookes of man shall be humbled and the haughtinesse of Men shall be bowed downe saith the Lord Isa 2.11 and as He saith so He has done And He alone shall be exalted in that day Wee will give now all that is due unto man to his courage to his faithfulnesse but we must ascribe Salvation to our God He has marched valiantly He saw there was none to helpe Therefore His Arme brought Salvation He has repayed fury to his Adversaries recompences to His Enemies In whom the Church does trust He will yet deliver He will goe on to shew favour to compleat His victories He will take the matter into his owne hands He will doe as his Adversaries said in their pride they would doe The Lord will pursue He will overtake He will divide the spoyle These Balaams now are Posting to another place and they Boast still what they will doe there They will doe to as they have done to Bristoll and as they would have done to Gloucester So they will do they have a good will unto it but God has them in his chaine and has put a hooke in their nostrells and a Bridle into their mouths and He will send his men of warre after them carryed-on upon the wing of Prayer put up from all the corners of the world and all his people there carried also upon the wing of Faith The Church hopes her people will not make Idolls of men any more then they shall be broken in pieces no more Shee hopes that her people are if not fit yet fitting for deliverance and her Adversaries rotten-ripe for destruction if their iniquities not yet ful yet filling up to the brim now they have reproached the Lord now their mouths are so wide open to utter blasphemies surely the Church sees now their day is coming It is at hand But shee has resolved all touching that matter into Gods will shee referres all to his time If he will make more breaches upon her she is humbled and can accept of her punishment for she knowes the time is coming even the set-time when her Lord will make mak up his Jewells and Build the Tabernacle of David which is fallen And how ever the Lord may deale with her for the present it is His Prerogative Royall to deal with her as he pleaseth but mercy pleaseth him If He suffer His people to be longer tossed-up and downe like a Grashopper it is to settle them the faster upon the Rock They know God is Master of the end What ever the Premises are he makes the Conclusion So they have concluded and this is their confidence What they loose in the world they shall gaine in Heaven All their losses here shall be their Advantages here and there What they misse of here below they shall finde abundantly recompenced in Christ above as their sufferings are their consolations shall be In the meane time they as was said limit not the Holy One of Israel They leave him to His owne will worke and time They have resolved their will into His good Pleasure His will be done Amen Hitherto He has done all things well even when He broke His Armies to pieces He made them up again with advantage two for one Who would distrust this God Surely the Church will not They will not forsake their confidence They have Prayed and they have been heard still and they will pray evermore and are assured that when things are lower then yet they are or like to be their Prayers will wheel-up all again and turne the Scene contrary to all expectation but the godly mans The cause is Gods cause the mannagers of it His people God will maintaine his owne cause and spare his People according to the greatnes of His mercy Amen and Amen I must adde here Whereas it is cleared now what a mightie Instrument Prayer is how prevailing a weapon ever-more And that it is the Churches weapon whereby she turnes and wheeles about things when they seeme to be gone quite fallen and desperately lost When this is cleared This must not be concluded That this is the Churches onely weapon shee must not use the Sword Master Calvin Cal Instit li. 4. ca. 20. sect 24 25. c. who has said as much I beleeve as any man in the world touching the sacred Majesty of Kings and obedience due unto them When he has said all as much as can be said and yet no more but what we all say who speake by the Booke of God he adjoynes De privatis hominibus semper loquor Sect. 34. All that I have spoken touching obedience to Kings or suffering from their hands is spoken to private men I doe not meane the Ephori who curbed the Lacedemonian power nor the Tribunes who righted the Romane People when their Consuls did them wrong c. Nor the Parliament in England And there he has these words Si regibus impotenter grassantibus conniveant eorū dissimulationē nefarid perfidia non carere affirmo 32 If the Parliament there or any where shall winke at the Kings exorbitancy crushing the poore and grinding the faces of the needy If so Then doe the Parliament deale treacherously They betray the poore of the flocke and the trust of the Kingdome There is but one Section more and but a word out of it which will stop their mouths who flap us in the mouth with this still That they have sworn obedience to their King You must ever except this here sayes Master Calvin If it does not crosse the Rule and Gods command That you may satisfie men you must not be so fool-hardy as to incurre the displeasure of God the God of Gods and Lord of Lords Calvin has a little more but too much for me to set downe here I would rather Kings did read it for it highly concerns them even above their Crown Three lines more must be added they

Fathers will in reference and submission thereunto And it is their confidence 1 Joh. 5.14 that their Father heareth them And if they know this That they are heard in whatsoever they aske then they know they have the Petitions they desire of Him We must marke this with all observation it will resolve us fully in all that follows Thus and thus it has fallen out to the Church in the North thus in the South and so in the West and is not all this a great disheartning to a praying People No The contrary rather all this puts heart into them makes their prayer more lively and servent It is with these servants as it was with their Master the Lord Christ the sharper the Agony Luke 22.44 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the more earnestly intended stretched out are the prayers But I will answer first to our Common Prayers whereto we exspect so present answer for we must note that I am to speake here specially to those that pray in Prayer are the poore of the flock a destitute people in the enemies account whom the Lord appearing in his Glory Psal 102.16,17 as now he does and he will be more glorious every day does heare alwayes even to their will and weal both whereof anon To our more common Prayers first for we pray now And doe we expect that God should come-off roundly with us and answer all at the first Have wee come-off roundly with him in point of obedience and good service I beleeve the most upright amongst us cannot say Yes Well then and doe we looke that God should turn to us the face presently and Answer us in every thing when we have been so narrow-mouth'd in asking so straight-hearted in beleeving so slack in obeying turning the back upon God so long and perhaps yet longer even at this present time Regarding iniquitie in our hearts even now when we would have God regard our Prayers And would we be regarded Expect we that God should regard our Prayers now Wee might expect rather that God should strike us dead upon our knees and that He has not done it should be matter of wonder and praise both Has not God waited when man would turn and will not man be content to wait patiently when God will turn to him Surely they who Pray in Prayer James 5.17 indeed are a Praying People these are a waiting People They can continue on their knees or sit downe astonished not wondring that God do's not answer them in every thing but rather that God do's answer them in any thing when they looke into themselves and upon prayer as a prayer onely and no more but a dutie which they have formed by their owne strength And yet God is the hearer of Prayers has heard their Prayers and given a gracious return to them from time to time so as they can say they never sought God in vaine To look no further back now than into these three yeares by-past up to this present day What wonderfull Providences Marveilous rescues from the mouth of the Lyon and paw of the shee Beare Admirable deliverances strange discoveries What were all these but Naptalies all the child the fruit of my wrastling does these praying People say ●b But what will they say to these particulars These discomfitures in the North and these in the South and West What will they say to Bristoll where was their God then These mad-men will goe neare to say these are their Naptalies too the fruit of their wrestlings of their groanes and strong cryes Ans Yes indeed they will say so and be confident in what they say though their eares are too chaste to heare these Blasphemies I will begin where the Rimer begins with the North and so goe compasse and yet end presently That bright Starre there the Lord Fairfax hath shone gloriously does shine notwithstanding all the forces of New-Castle all the fraud treachery of the Father and the Sonne to force out that light yet that light doth shine and its lustre is set-forth by all this force and fraud and thereby made more glorious And what is all this but a Naptali the fruit of the Churches wrastling with their God for and in behalfe of his servants there and here We must not passe over lightly how gloriously God has been and is seen in the North an bearer of Prayers there and here How has the Lord bent the hearts inclined the soule of the people to his Cause What favour has He shewen his destitute people in the eyes one of another England lifted up the hand to the most High God for Scotland now Scotland for England They will joyne hand in hand To stand fast in one Spirit with one minde striving together for the Faith of the Gospel They will stand-up knit together all as one man against common Adversaries the Devill and his Hierarchy with his Brutish Pastors Two onely there were in the Assembly of Ministers who withstood this Covenant a proud man and as proud a Novice neither of them cleared in Judgement touching Popery and Prelacy twins by all that has been written done these foure I had almost said foure hundred yeares I will say fourescore we know them and we hope they know now themselves what spirit they be of The one a man of contention The other a childe who will learne to hold his tongue till he has learnt how to speake Pacata Britannia est England and Scotland these twaine once are one now sweetly composed in their God as a Citie Compact and at unitie with it selfe for they are in Covenant with their God and each with other I am as thou art my people as thy people 2 Chro. 18.3 All will stick together as one man to withstand this common Adversary What shall I say of this The tongue of an Angel cannot utter it But it is a Naptali the fruit of the Churches strong wrastling Thus has God don in the North as wonderfully in the South How has he got himselfe a Name made his Servant there a man of renowne even the Man of his Right hand But then indeed for I must speak all yet nothing to dishearten Prayer or to the Mans dishonour We fooles we cannot have a glorious Instrument but we must dote upon it We cannot have an excellent man to stand up for us but we will make a god of him The Lord God of gods saw this our folly and was angry and so when we would make man an Idol God would breake him to pieces And what is all this A Naptali a fruit of the Churches wrastling we shall see it more cleare anon But this is cleare now for now we are taught a great lesson To cease from man Isa 2.22 and To cleave to God There-on to bottom our selves and place our confidence And Bristoll too the impoverishing of that and doing more the forcing of that Citie so as never Citie has been so forced