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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
glory_n	lord_n	name_n	praise_v	7,539	5	9.1162	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31405	A sermon preached in a country-audience on the late day of fasting and prayer, January 30 by a priest of the Church of England.	Cave, John, d. 1690.	1679 (1679)	Wing C1585; ESTC R36288	19,279	33

shame and to grant that upon his own head his Crown may long remain and flourish 2. We have a great deal of reason to pray for our King at this time because we never stood in more need of a wise and Religious Prince to feed us according to the integrity of his heart Psal 78.72 and to guide us by the skilfulness of his hands to search out a matter to dive into the depth of our enemies treachery to see through their pretences and to frustrate the counsels of wicked and malicious Men to distinguish between his truly Loyal Honest peaceable Subjects and those who only flatter with their lips whilst War and Malice is in their Hearts to weigh counsels and actions and to proceed in such methods of Policy as are most likely to secure the great interests of Church and State The Characters which in Scripture are given of Kings and Magistrates shew us what great blessings they are to a Nation in times of fear and perplexity of distress and calamity They are called the shields of the earth Psal 47.9 Ezek. 31.17 Judges 20.2 Isa 19.13 Isa 44.28 2 Sam. 14.15 Job 29.15 the arms of a people to bear them up and lead them The corners of a State Pastors Angels Fathers All which speak them our Guides our Guardians our Strength and Safety as well as our Crown and Glory Wherefore in these dangerous and threatning times now so many have openly declared their ill will to this our Sion so many Tobiahs and Sanballats malign our Peace and Prosperity so many Zeha's and Zalmunna's are ready to take to themselves the houses of God in possession we cannot but in some measure be sensible of the great blessing of a Protestant King of one who tenders our Religious no less than our Civil interests and hath hitherto been a nursing Father as well to the Church as to the State and consequently me must needs apprehend that we have a great deal of reason to pray for the life and welfare of such a King for Gods gracious Providence over him and for the continuance of his fatherly care over us that he may be blessed with such Councillors and we with such Magistrates under him as may always be zealous for the rights of God and Caesar as may study to secure the Kings just power and dominion by countenancing encouraging and advancing that Holy Christian Faith which produceth Love Peace and Good-will among Men which teacheth us to be meek and good natured to be gentle and kindly affectionated one towards another to be subject to Principalities and Powers to obey Magistrates and to be ready to every good work I need not say much of our present exigencies we cannot but perceive them and I am as unwilling to raise causeless jealousies as to contribute any thing to a careless and irreligious security I only suggest this that if Kings have a great influence upon our Peace and Tranquillity the practice of Honesty and Piety as you have heard they have that there is more cause than ordinary that we should pray heartily for our King in these sinful and dangerous times that God of his infinite goodness and mercy would save both him and us out of the hands of our enemies that we may serve him without fear in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our lives that glory may dwell in our land and all nations may call us blessed And seeing God hath already been pleased to do great things for us whereof we are glad we must not wholly pass by that part of my Text which calls for our gratitude our giving of thanks but offer unto God the sacrifice of praise as well as of prayer blessing God for the experience we have had of his goodness and patience in sparing us hitherto and for those signal pledges he hath been pleased to give us of his favourable inclination towards us of his unwillingness to cast off his people and forsake his inheritance Psal 94.14 which he hath done by dispersing many of the clouds which have gathered very thick over us and often threatned us with an imminent destruction by lightning our darkness and shining upon us in so many intervals of mercy by warning us so graciously of our danger by making those Plots visible and apparent which were thought too subtle to be discerned and relieving our incredulity with so many repeated and convincing evidences thereby preparing us wither to avoid or to bear the stroke insomuch that if we will not with a careless and obstinate stupidity put the evil day far from us or meet our ruine we may fairly escape it Whereas God might justly have surprized us in our security and overwhelmed us in a suddain and inevitable calamity Whoso is wise and will observe these things Psal 107.43 even they shall understand the loving kindness of the Lord. I have not time to specify the circumstances of Gods great goodness to us in discovering so much of the late horrid Conspiracy against the Sacred life of our Second Charles and against that Holy Religion which is at once the Support and Glory of his Empire I shall only exhort you to magnify the name of our good God who is worthy to be praised O give thanks to the Lord for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever Blessed be the Lord God of Israel who only doth wondrous things 1 Chron. 16.34 Psal 72.18 19. Psal 106.48 and blessed be his glorious name for ever and let the whole earth be filled with his glory Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting and let all the people say Amen FINIS