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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	david_n	great_a	saul_n	1,241	5	9.2078	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02715	Samuels funerall. Or A sermon preached at the funerall of Sir Anthonie Cope Knight, and Barronnet. By Mr. Robert Harrice	Harris, Robert, 1581-1658.	1618 (1618)	STC 12848; ESTC S103801	24,630	36

But for the wicked who bestow themselues in the world like drones in the hiue who either haue no calling or doe no seruice and towards God so demeane themselues as if they were his betters scorning his children scoffing at his Word trampling vpon his Name his Sabbaths his Worship let them neuer deceiue themselues their names shall rot they shall find no fauour in death their consciences shall brawle them out of all quiet men shall risle into their hues their whoredomes treacheries villanies shall flie through the world euery drunkard shall sit vpon them euery rake-hell iudge them censure them libell them In the meane whilest that the name is thus torne below the soule is brought before the Iudge conuicted committed to hell couered with shame deliuered vp to euerlasting contempt O then be not cursed but blessed be happy be honoured bee well thought of in life well spoken of after death be righteous be humble be seruiceable this is the way as heauen tells vs a Samuels life will draw on a Samuels death nothing else In a second place let this afford a double comfort to fruitfull members and faithfull Christians First for themselues let them know that the world will change ere long the wicked who haue now the applause must downe the godly who as yet are vnder shame shall shine Franzius in his histor Sacra The wicked as one speakes are like hawkes of great esteeme whilest liuing but after nothing worth the godly on the other side are compared to tamer fowle which are husht forth and little heeded whilest liuing but after death are brought into the Parlor Semblably in the dayes of life impietie hath the hand after death the difference is as much betweene Saul and Samuel Ioash and Iehoidah as betwixt the Faulcon and Capon Hauke and Hen. Yeeld then beloued to the worlds sonnes let them haue the place giue them leaue to speake the time will come when honour shall know its home and innocencie haue its crowne all the wiles in the world shall not keepe the wicked from contempt nor all the wits in hell the godly from honour Samuels name may be ouer-cast and clouded for a time but in the end his light will shew it selfe Whilest he is present hee is not valued his sonnes were naught his place meane his gouernment vile but this is Samuels honour when gone he is mist when dead he is lamented all Israel striues to doe him all honour blessed bee that life that ends in so glorious a death thrice happie that man whō Angels God and all men do striue to honor Next for the godly friends they haue wherin to comsort themselues for as much a holy life empties if selfe into an honourable death A true Christian may trauell in life vnder troubles and contempts but marke his end and you shall find as peace so honour When he is buried a true and honourable funerall is solemnized euen mourne not in the face but in the heart respect him not in shew but in truth their cōsciences reuerence him their soules find a misse of him the Angels of heauen man him in a goodly traine to heauen the Saints on earth follow him with greatest affections to his graue seuen nay thrice seuen yeeres after the funerall he is not forgotten Thus are the men whom the great King loues honoured if any of ours haue performed such a life that he hath attained to such a death there is no place for repining If God slay Aarons Leuit. 10. he must be silent If he honour ours shall we murmur What shall Bethuel part with a daughter Laban with a fister for an Isacks sake Shall Barzill●i in his age part with his staffe 2. Sam. 19. his sonne when he is to liue in Dauids Court Shall men and women beare with patience the absence of dearest friends when it is for their outward preferment and when Christ would marry a child preferre a friend aduance our acquaintance should wee stand off No if this bee the worst that death can doe to the godly to strip him of his raggs and clothe him with robes to free him from all contempts and possesse him of greatest honours to redeeme him from all shame and to crowne him with glorie in the harts mouthes consciences of men in the face of heauen and earth lets neuer frowne vpon friends departure but rather see if possible the messenger of this good ridings and blesse the Lord for our aduācemētsin theirs Indeed beloued we weep too fast when teares denie fight of mercies in the death of Samuel there is game to him as well as losse to vs both should be remembred I know many present sensible of the one I shall be wrongfull to conceale the other Truth it is there is fallen a great man in Israel But how fallen like Abner vpon a violent hand or died he like a foole Was he vnsensible of his estate Were his hands his mouth his heart tied Was his end without honour No brethren he died in a full and ripe age when the Lord had made the most of his life he died in peace he died with hopes of life in his heart with words of grace in his lipps and his Sunne did set in the highest point Vt esse Phaebi dulcius lumen solet iam tam cadentis in greatest brightnesse time place manner company men Angels God and all conspired together to doe him all honour in his death Blesse the God of all spirits for this all ye that are interessed in the same profession and religion Blesse the Lord for this that hee so died in such a place in such a time in such a sort as the diuell hath receiued a foile and religion grace and honour by it And thus Israel hath done his part in mourning in burying Samuel at his house in Ramah Now where is Dauid soone after Samuels death you find him in the Wildernesse of Paran and this clause is like a corner stone of double vse it closes one course and beginneth another This Paran was a Wildernesse vast and fearefull mountenous and rockie hither Dauid eft soones repaired when by Saul he was persecuted But why at this time truely now hee hath fewer friends then before Samuel hee much vsed before as the storie sheweth vs but now Samuel is gone Now againe hee hath more enemies then before Saul will be more bitter false friends will bee true enemies yea now Ramahs refuge perhaps will yeeld persecutours and Samuels sonnes as like to hurt as harbour him so that it is time for Dauid to flie I should doe you the greatest wrong to pursue my meditations at large giue me leaue to mind you of my thoughts and I will fauour your patience What a shame is it for Israel for Ramah for Samuels house that when the Old man is gone Dauid dare stay no longer amongst them O what a shamefull change is this what a blemish to Samuels successors to all the Countrie you that be