Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	aaron_n	confess_v	mercy_n	20	3	9.7641	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16559	An exposition of the last psalme delivered in a sermon preached at Pauls Crosse the fifth of Nouember, 1613. By Iohn Boys, Doctor of Diuinitie.	Boys, John, 1571-1625.	1613 (1613)	STC 3464; ESTC S112973	19,487	30

destroy them that hate me that I might breake them as small as the dust of the earth and tread them flat as the clay of the streete O giue thankes vnto the Lord for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for euer Let Israel now confesse that he is gracious and that his mercy endureth for euer Let the house of Aaron now confesse that his mercy endureth for euer Yea let all such as feare the Lord now confesse that his mercy endureth for euer All the Congregations of the Saints in the whole world haue good cause to thanke God our strength and deliuerer Scotland hath good cause for if England had been but a Tuesday breakefast assuredly Scotland should haue been but a Fridaies drinking one morsell as it were for the greedy deuourer The Churches in France relieued often by vs haue good cause to reioyce with vs. Our neighbours of Holland haue good cause to triumphe as they doe for if our house had been set on fire their house being the next would haue been quickly pulled downe The Churches in Germanie Denmarke Hungarie Geneua likewise haue good cause to praise God in this noble act according to his excellent greatnesse More principally the Common-weale of England and in it all men of all factions and all fashions whatsoeuer Atheists if they thinke there be a God haue good cause to thanke God acknowledging his mercie toward them in sparing vs and so sauing the bad for the righteous sake Carnall Gospellers haue good cause to thanke God confessing that so long as Let is in Sodome it cannot be destroyed and so long as Moses standeth in the gap and prayeth for his people Gods wrathfull indignation cannot deuoure vs. Yea let the Gunpowder men themselues if they haue any sparke of grace confesse that God is to bee praised in this noble act for suppose God be thanked we may suppose and dispose thus of these matters vnto our comfort I say suppose their diuelish plot had been acted I assure my selfe our cause had been farre better and our number farre greater then theirs and as for our sinnes which are indeede our greatest enemies they would haue brought into the field so many as we so that hauing so much armour of light and more armour of proofe then they Causa iubet melior superos sperare secundos But suppose the least and the worst part had ouercome the bigger and the better yet if they bee not hewen out of hard rockes if these Romanists haue not sucked the milke of wolues as it is reported of the first founder of Rome they would haue relented to see their natiue Country made nothing els but a very shambles of Italian and lgnatian butchers When Alexander saw the dead corps of Darius and Iulius Caesar the head of Pompey and Marcus Marcellus Syracuse burn and Scipio Numantia spoild and Titus Hierusalem made euen with the ground they could not abstaine from weeping albeit they were mortall enemies But aboue all other in this kingdome the truely zealous and zealously true hearted protestants haue greatest occasion of reioycing for if the Lord had not according to his excellent greatnes and according to his excellent goodnes too deliuered vs out of this gun-powder gulfe our bodies happily might haue beene made food for the foules or else sewel for the fire and that which would haue grieued our posterity more superstition and Idolatry might in short time haue beene replanted in this land I meane that vpstart Antichristian religion of Rome wherein many things especially foure as iudicious Fox well obserued are most abominable 1. Vnlimited iurisdiction derogatorie to all Kings and Emperours 2. Insolent titles preiudiciall to all Bishops and Prelates 3. Corrupt doctrine iniurious to all Christians 4. Filthie life detestable to all men The greater was our danger the greater was our deliuerance the greater our deliuerance the greater our thankes should be for as it followeth in my text God is to be praised according to his excellent greatnes It is true that our most and best praises are few for the number and little for the measure whereas God is infinite for his goodnes and in his greatnes incomprehensible so that the meaning of Dauid is that wee should praise him according to our capacity and not according to his immensity according to the grace bestowed vpon vs and not according to the glory which is in him Ecclesiasticus 43. 30. praise the Lord and magnifie him as much as ye can yet doth he farre exceed Exalt him with all your power and be not weary yet can ye not attaine vnto it Now where the Lord giueth a greater meane there he requireth a greater measure where he bestoweth a greater portion of giftes he doth expect a greater proportion of glory wherefore seeing the Lord hath out of his abundant mercy conferred vpon this kingdome inestimable blessings in the preaching of his word for the space of more then fifty yeares it is questionles hee lookes for no little thankes or small praise but for great thankes and great praise according to his excellent greatnes manifested in this our deliuerance I come therefore to the second part of this Psalme shewing with what God is to be praised in the sound of the trumpet c. God is to be praised saith Augustine totis votis de totis vobis with all your soules with al your selues That therefore we may manifest our inward affections by such outward actions as are commendable where there bee trumpets let them sound where there be lutes and harpes let thē strike vp where there be loud Cymbals and well tuned Cymbals let them ring let thē sing the praises of God for this our most happy deliuerance let trumpet and tongue viol and voice lute life witnes our harty reioycing in the Lord If our true zeale were more fiery within it would doubtlesse breake forth into moe publike workes then it doth against that bloody brood of the gun-powder crue There haue beene many collections in euery dioces for the reedifying of the Churches of Saint Albanes and Arthuret the which I assure my selfe were good workes there haue bin in this latter age many gorgeous I might say glorious buildings erected about and in this honorable City to the great ornament of our Country the which I thinke you may number among your good workes there haue bin lotteryes to further Virginean enterprises and these for any thing I know were good workes also there haue bin many new play-houses and one faire Burse lately built Paris garden in a flourishing estate makes a great noyse still and as I heare Charing Crosse shall haue a new coat too but in the meane time while so many monuments are raised either to the honour of the dead or else for the profit and pleasure of the liuing dic mihi musa virum I pray muse and shew me the man who ioynes with that euer zealous reuerend learned Deane in founding