Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	king_n	lord_n	sovereign_a	12,705	5	9.8164	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77718	Solomons blessed land a sermon upon Ecclesiastes X.17. Preached before an extraordinary assembly at Newark upon Trent, May 29. 1660. Being the birth-day of our soveraign lord Charles II. King of Engladnd, [sic] &c. / By Samuel Brunsell rector of Bingham in Notting.	Brunsell, Samuel, 1619 or 20-1688.	1660 (1660)	Wing B5233; Thomason E1033_9; ESTC R208965	28,934	40

Solomons BLESSED LAND A SERMON UPON ECCLESIASTES X. 17. Preached before an Extraordinary Assembly AT NEW ARK upon TRENT May 29. 1660. Being the Birth-day of our Soveraign Lord CHARLES II. KING of ENGLAND c. By Samuel Brunsell Rector of Bingham in Notting London Printed by E. C. for Henry Seile over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet 1660. SOLOMONS BLESSED LAND ECCLES X. 17. Blessed art thou O Land when thy King is the Son of Nobles and thy Princes eat in due season for strength and not for drunkenness IT 's very necessary in all meetings especially those of a more publick concernment that men should first understand the occasion and not be like that rabble of Ephesus in their tumultuous concourse of whom 't is said Act. 19.32 That the greatest part knew not wherefore they were come together or like unto masty in our later remembrances that had lost the distinction between their dayes of Thanksgiving and Humiliation either through the commonness of an hypocritical Sacrifice with which not only men but even God himself had been wearyed or through the mis-apprehension and mis-application of the subject whereby in the way of an inverted gratitude thanks have been frequently sent up to Heaven for the destructive prosperity of our sins and men have been humbled for the greatest benefits in such sort that as they have repented and bewailed their necessary duties by putting some considerable parts of their Christian obligations into the black Catalogue of their mock-confessions so have they not fail'd to bless even God himself for their Errors and Presumptions To the end therefore that none who hear me may be ignorant of the intent and design of this present Assembly I shall acquaint you with it much in the words of the Psalmist 'T is to serve the Lord with gladness Psal 100. and come before his presence with a song to wait in his gates with thanksgiving and in his Courts with praise to be thankful unto him and speak good of his Name for that the Lord is gracious and his mercy is everlasting and his truth endureth from generation to generation that is from the father to the son And blessed be he that sitteth on the Throne and liveth for ever and ever that hath performed that mercy and that truth to our David and his Seed that gave as on this day to the Crowned Martyr a Royal Confessor such had the sins of an unthankful people made them to be the Heir at once both of his Crowns and Vertues If publique blessings deserve publique thanks and solemn commemorations and that Nation be so blessed whose King is the Son of Nobles and that blessing take its original from the birth of that Son our thanks doubtless should keep time with the blessing For if men be greedy to have blessings bestowed upon them upon the earliest sense and first suggestion of their wants 't is fit they should be careful to date their Thanksgivings from the very first rise and birth of their blessings The birth of a King that is the Son of Nebles is a blessing in the judgment of Solomon the wisest both of Kings and men And that blessing too is of no mean value nor of a small extent 't is a Publique a National blessing that by which a whole land is blessed Blessed art thou O Land c. And this is the blessing of this Land through the tender mercy of our God whereby the day-spring from on high hath visited us even at this day Our King is the Son of Nobles and our Princes eat in due season for strength and not for drunkenness Nobility of descent as that imports generosity not only of bloud but of spirit also and temperance in life are very eminent and considerable parts of those Princely excellencies that qualifie the Person by whom our Land is blessed and that render him the Darling both of Heaven and Earth And this I doubt not will be acknowledged by all but the sons of Belial the Shimei's of the time 1 Sam. 10.26 or the company of Korah Dathan and Abiram So then our duty and business is thankfulness which presupposeth a blessing Now as men value the blessing so they dispose themselves for thanksgiving Be the blessing what it will if men do not esteem it so they can never be thankful Bread made of the corn of Heaven even the very food of Angels will be loath'd as light by those that do not relish it Not this man but Barabbas crie the Jews though that man were their King the holy one of Israel their Saviour So some still say even unto God himself Depart from us we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes If then men cannot be thankful for that which they do not value it must needs be pertinent to our present purpose well to understand the nature of the blessing which at this time calls for our thanks The thanks must be publique for the blessing is no less all that do not wilfully forsake their own mercies have a share and interest in it And the words before us are very proper to give us an accompt of its value which from them I shall endeavour to do by these degrees shewing 1. That 't is a blessing for a Land to be under a Government 2. That 't is yet a further degree of blessing to be under a King 3. That Kingly Government is then most blessed when the King is the Son of Nobles and the Princes eat in due season for strength and not for drunkenness How far we of this Nation are more immediately concern'd in these great improvements of blessing will appear in the Applications For the first if government were not a blessing the world might have done well without it each man being left to the dictate of his own will and acting according to the sense of his own judgment and the impulse of his own lusts And so things might possibly have stood if every one had been sufficient for himself without being forc't to call for the aids of others if the ground had not been curst for mans sake but Nature had of her own accord and from her own store-house unaskt brought forth all requisite supplies and offer'd them gratis to the needs and acceptance of all But sin had otherwise devis'd and Justice hath accordingly determin'd Job 5.7 Man now is born to labour as the sparks fly upward and the decree is not to be reverst In the sweat of thy brows thou shalt eat bread all the dayes of thy life Mans strengths are now weak his wants many his dangers sudden his fore-sight short his reason perplext and his heart deceitful A little care distracts him a little pain tires him the least accident afflicts him However care he will and labour he must in order to his own preservation the desire whereof being rooted in our very beings the means to effect it could not but become the natural imployment of mankind and so the