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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	clothe_v	crown_n	shame_n	982	5	9.2881	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29527	Prayer and praise, a two-fold tribute to be payed by all loyal subjects to their supream and subordinate soveraign a subject entred upon April 23, 1661, being the day of the solemn inauguration of King Charles the II and finished the Lord's Day following / as it was delivered to the Church of God at Great Yarmouth by John Brinsley ...	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1661 (1661)	Wing B4724; ESTC R35787	29,831	38

and a Thess. ● 1 A●d again if that Epistle be his Heb● 13.18 Pray for u● Where this Tribute is duly payed other Trib●●● wilt no● b● with holde● The praying Christian is consciencio●● and so will not with h●ld from any man that which is his d●e which if he should he cannot expect that his prayers should be heard And this is a Tribute that all may pay They who have no other Presents to bring to their Prince no Gold of Ophir or S●eba to present him with which is here said to be given to King Solomon yet they may have this Frankincense and Mirrh the sweet Odors of their prayers to put up unto God on his behalf Now such as they have let them give as Peter said to that poor Cripple lying at the beautiful Gate of the Temple begging an Alms of him Acts 3.6 Silver and Gold have I none but such as I have I give thee a better gift then that which thou desirest viz. that which Christ hath given me power freely to distribute the restoring of thy Limbs And the like let all God's People do to their Soveraign such as have not the opportunity or ability of doing service to him in other ways such as they have let them give Having a praying spirit given them of God let them make use of it in his behalf But what is it that we are to pray for on his behalf For resolution I might send you to that antient Father Tertullian who in that place fore-mentioned giveth us an account of what things they were that the Christians in his time were wont in their prayers to beg for their Soveraigns Oramus pro omnibus Imperatoribus We pray for all Emperours that God would give them Vitam prolixam a long life Imperium securum a secure Empire Domum tutam a safe Habitation Exercitus fortes valiant Armies Senatum fidelem a faithfull Counsell Populum probum a good People Orbem quietum a quiet World quaecunque Hominis Caesaris vota sunt and what ever good things Caesar himself or any other can wish And all these let us beg for this our dread Soveraign that God would blesse him with all kinds of Blessings blessings of his right hand and left blessings Spiritual and Temporal Spiritual that God would write all his Laws in his heart giving him his Judgments which is David's prayer for his son Solomon verse first of this Psalm Give the King thy Iudgments O God and thy Righteousnesse to the Kings Son That so he may be such a King as the Lord maketh promise of unto his People Esay 32.1 Behold a King shall R●ign in Righteousnesse and Princes shall Rule in Iudgment That God would give him an upright a perfect heart such a heart as King Hezekiah had that so he may walk before him as he did and be able at the finishing his course to appeal unto him as he doth Esay 38.3 Remember now O Lord I beseech thee how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart and have done that which is good in thy sight And as an upright so a wise and a large heart Such a heart God gave unto this King Solomon as you heard 1 King 4.29 And this was the chief blessing that his Father David begged for him 1 Chron. 22. 12. Only the Lord give thee wisdom and understanding and give thee Charge concerning Israel that thou mayest keep the Law of the Lord thy God And that he in whose hand the hearts of Kings are The Kings heart is in the hand of the Lord as the Rivers of Water ●e turneth it whithersoever he will as Solomon tells us Prov. 21.1 would hold the heart of this his anointed Servant in his own hand making use of him as an happy Instrument as in other Services so in building his House This David there beggeth for and of his son Solomon in the verse foregoing 1 Chron. 22.11 Now my Son the Lord be with thee and prosper thou and build the House of the Lord thy God Oh that the Lord 's Anointed amongst us may do the like Thus beg we for him these right-hand blessings spiritual blessings And this do we in the first place Then do we the like for left-hand Temporal blessings That God would blesse him in his Person and Government In his Person multiplying his Dayes Pray for the life of the King as that Text fore-cited hath it Ezra 6.10 Let the King live forever saith Nehemiah to Artaxerxes Neh. 2.3 And Daniel to Darius Dan. 6.21 Thou wilt prolong the Kings life and his years as many Generations Psal. 61.6 In his Government that that may be peaceable and happy that God would perform unto him what he promised to David Psal. 132.18 His Enemies will I clothe with shame but upon himself shall his Crown flourish As also that in the verse fore-going I will make the Horn of David to bud I have ordained a Lamp for mine anointed a Successor that should come out of his Loyns And that his Government may be prosperous to himself and others beyond what the best of his Predecessors have been This was the prayer of B●naiah which he made in the behalf of King Solomon at his Coronation 1 King 1.37 As the Lord hath been with my Lord the King even so be he with Solomon and make his Throne great●● then the Throne of my Lord King David Wherein he was second●d by Solomon's Servants ver 47. who coming to David after his Son Solomon was anointed King they said unto him God make the Name of Solomon better then thy Name and make his Throne greater then thy Throne To which David was ready to say Amen declaring his assent by bowing himself upon the Bed These and all other blessings which may be any wayes requisite or expedient let us beg in the behalf of our dread Soveraign that he being thus blessed and we blessed in him may have cause to bless him 2. That is the other Tribute which David here in the Text saith should be payed unto his Son Solomon His Subjects thus praying for him they should also praise him and so praise him as they prayed for him Continually And daily shall he praised ●olha●om jebar●keneh● Totâ or omni die benedicet ei All the day long or every day his own People and others should speak well of him bless him All Nations shall call him blessed ver 17. So did diverse ●orraign Nations whose Kings having he●rd of his Fame ●ame to see him bringing Presents unto him So it is here foretold of some of them ver 10. of this Psalm The Kings of T●rshish and all the Iles shall bring Presents the Kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer Gifts Yea all Kings shall fall down before him And accordingly we find it verified in that illustrious Princesse the Queen of Sheba who hearing of his Wisdom came from her own Country to see him and have some conference with him Which having had