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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	henry_n	king_n	queen_n	22,548	5	7.7438	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19145	1588. A sermon preached on the queenes day. Beeing the 17. of Nouember. 1587. at the towne of Lidd in Kent, by Isaac Colfe, preacher of the word of God	Colfe, Isaac, 1558 or 9-1597.	1588 (1588)	STC 5552; ESTC S110713	22,343	63

how greatly they were blessed thereby hée that peruseth lib. 2. of Sam. and lib. 1. of the Chronicles shall finde the same most truely recorded and fully discoursed and whereas infinitely they were blessed thereby yet the blessednes consisted principally in two things first in his happie victories to the subduing of his enemies whereby his subiects were preserued in peace and mainteined in prosperitie Secondly in his feruent zeale to religion whereby his people vnder him were trained vp in the true seruice of God and therefore worthely doe they acknowledge This daye the Lord hath made Now as this people speaking of the day of the aduancemēt of Dauid to the kingdom of Iudah acknowledge the same to bee a speciall day wherin the Lord had shewed mercy vnto them in pouring out his blessings vpon them so likewise haue we dearely beloued the people of this lande as great cause vpon the consideratiō of the aduancement of Quéene Elizabeth to the Throne therof to acknowledge the day thereof a special day ordained of the Lord our God for the singuler benefit of the same saying with this people This is the day which the Lord hath made I might expresse the blessed estate of this land by conferring the same vnder her maiesties gouernment with the estate of Iudah Israel vnder the gouernment of Dauid of olde or I might expresse it by conferring the estate therof with the estate of other nations round about vs bordering vpon vs at this day either of which might easily proue it vnto vs but that I might not séeme nimis curiosus in aliena Republica I will make it manifest by conferring it with it selfe The estate of it now with the estate of it in times past neither do I meane to this end to call backe the consideration of the estate thereof in the dayes of her Progenitors whom we knew not but onely to examine it by conferring the estate thereof now with the estate of the same in the dayes of Quéene Mary her sister whom as you for the most part know so what the estate of the Cōmon wealth was vnder her you for the most part can not but remember that hauing conferred things together which you haue known and had full experience of you might the better iudge betwéen the one and the other here therefore if we consider how it was gouerned left by the on̄e and how it hath béene maintained gouerned by the other the benefit of this day of the aduancemēt of Quéen Elizabeth to the Crowne of this land shall most clearely shine fully be confirmed vnto vs. Quéene Mary left it vexed with the insolency of the Spanish nation whom she brought in Quéene Elizabeth hath eased it Mary left it in warre Elizabeth hath gouerned it in peace Mary left it in debt Elizabeth hath discharged it Mary left it in pouertie Elizabeth hath enriched it Mary left it weake Elizabeth hath strengthned it nay further wherein the perfection of our present happines consisteth Mary banished true religion Elizabeth hath restored it Mary persecuted it Elizabeth hath defended it Mary cast it downe Elizabeth hath aduanced it Mary with the intollerable superstitions of Antechrist defiled it Elizabeth by casting them out hath purged it so that now with liberty of body we enioy fréedome of conscience in stead of being strangers in other lands our land is become a safe receptance for the godly persecuted of other natiōs as in worldly so in all spirituall blessings we are wonderfully enriched briefely we all of vs more fully féele the blessednes of our estate then any tongue much lesse mine is able to expresse If therefore the Lord euer made any day for the benefit of Israel yea or any day for the benefit of any nation vnder the heauens then euen this day of the aduancement of Quéene Elizabeth to the kingdom of England hath the Lord made for the vnspeakable happines of the same Happy did England thinke it selfe in the dayes of King Henry hir noble father happy did it think it selfe in the dayes of king Edward her godly brother but yet neuer could it repute it selfe so happy as it hath bene during the raigne of victorious Queene Elyzabeth so vnspeakable an happy day was this of the aduauncement of Queene Elizabeth and therefore how shal we but acknowledge this day made appointed of the Lord our God for the happines of England surely neuer did the Lord make any such day before it neither will he euer make any such day after for the happines of England The Lord therefore vouchsafe to lengthen this day not onely as the day of Iosuah but euen as the daies of Heauen and Earth And thus much concerning the first part containing the declaration of the woonderfull and happy aduauncement of Dauid to the kingdome The second part The louing and dutifull behauiour of the people vpon the consideration thereof Which consisteth in 3. things first in a reioycing vers 24. secondly in a prayer verse 25. thirdly in a blessing verse 26. 1 A reioycing which is vttered by way of mutuall exhortation stirring vp one another vnto the same verse 24. Let vs reioice be glad in it Which is the louing nature of Gods children towards their brethren if they see and know themselues to bee such as they should bee they enuy not those that bee like vnto them but rather wish and desire that they all were such as they thēselues are so Paul Act. 26. assuring himselfe Act. 26. vnfainedly to serue the Lord wisheth that not onely Agrippa but also all they which heard him speak that day were altogether such as hee himselfe was onely his bandes excepted therfore in al godly actions which they dutifully exercise not satisfying themselues with their owne diligence they also stir vp one another by exhortation to ioine with them in them according to the present occasion offered as if occasion bee offered to heare the word preached they stirre them vp vnto hearing with them if to exercise themselues in prayer to pray with them if in fasting to fast with them if in lamentation to lamēt with them briefly if in reioycing to reioyce with them as the people in this place hauing occasion of ioy and reioycing geuen vnto them by the aduauncemēt of Dauid exhort each others thereunto saying Let vs reioyce and bee glad In which their reioycing yet more particularly we are to obserue 3. things first the persons who are exhorted of one another to reioice Let vs secondly the tyme when In it that is in this day which the Lord hath made thirdly what maner of reioycing it should bee First concerning the persons who are exhorted by each other to reioyce they are wee Let vs reioyce and bee glad Albeit that so great happines came to that common wealth by the aduauncement of Dauid to the kingdome yet notwithstanding all reioyced not thereat neither were glad thereof but many no doubt of the foolish people which knew