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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	david_n	king_n	saul_n	6,232	5	10.0779	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48855	A sermon preached before Her Majesty, on May 29, being the anniversary of the restauration of the King and royal family by the Bishop of S. Asaph, Lord Almoner to Their Majesties.	Lloyd, William, 1627-1717.	1692 (1692)	Wing L2716; ESTC R6946	15,431	33

A SERMON Preached before Her Majesty On May 29 being the ANNIVERSARY Of the Restauration of the King and Royal Family By the Bishop of S. ASAPH Lord Almoner to THEIR MAJESTIES By her Majesties Command LONDON Printed for Thomas Jones in Lincolns-Inn new Square next Clare-Market 1692. A SERMON Preached before Her Majesty At White-hall May 29. 1692. Psalm 118. 23 24. This is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our Eyes This is the day which the Lord hath made we will rejoyce and be glad in it THE day for which David intended this Psalm was probably the day of that great Revolution upon the Death of Saul by which he was exalted to the Throne of his Kingdom It was not long before this that David had said I shall perish one day by the hand of Saul He confessed afterwards that it was in his hast that he said this Psal. 31. 22. not considering as he ought the promise of God that he should live to be King of Israel But now after Saul himself was cut off by that terrible Judgment of God which David lamented as you see 2 Sam. 1. 17. Yet being thus secur'd from that which he fear'd and seeing his way open to that which God had promised now he corrects that hasty word of his He says here vers 17. I shall not dye but trve and declare the works of the Lord. What works That he sheweth in the following words there are other words between but I pass by them for I am not now Expounding a Psalm Verses 22. 23. The stone which the Builders refused is become the head stone of the Corner This is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our Eyes It is plain how these words were true of David himself Who tho he was Saul's Son in Law and made so on the account of his Merit which was so conspicious every way that the Honour of so high a Relation was the least part of his Character Yet they that were in power about Saul finding that Saul had a jealousy of him inflamed it to that degree that David was thrown out not only of his Place but of the Kingdom And so he continued in Exile till Saul's Death But then by a strange turn of affairs and of the People's hearts First the House of Juda and afterwards all the Tribes of Israel anointed him King And so God turned the Kingdom to David the Son of Jesse 1 Chron 10. last verse This I take to be the lite●al sense of the words Verses 22. 23. beforementioned But as Da●id was a most Illustrious Type of the Messiah who w●● the Son of David according to the Flesh and who is called by the name of David in some of the Prophecies So the Actions and Events of David's life were many of them Types of the like Actions and Events that should be done by and should happen to the Messiah That particularly which you have heard of David's being rejected by Saul's Courtiers and Counsellors was a Type of Christ's being rejected by the Priests and Elders of the Jews And that which you heard of that strange Revolution by which David was advanced to the Kingdom was a Type of the Resurrection of our Saviour by which he was Exalted to be Lord and Christ. In both these respects as you have heard the stone which the Builders refused was made the headstone of the Corner both these were alike the Lords doing and were marvellous in mens Eyes But especially the last that of Christs Exaltation to his Kingdom to which these words are applied both by our Saviour himself and more then once by his Holy Apostles this was the very sence that the Holy Ghost intended in inspiring David with this Psalm and the Church has used it accordingly This is one of the Psalms the Church has appointed to be used on Easter Day When we Celebrate the memory of Christ's Resurrection then if ever we have reason to say this is the Day that the Lord hath made we will rejoyce and be glad in it But as this intent of the Holy Ghost did not make it unlawful for David to make use of these words in a literal sense as no doubt he did for his part intend it in the composing of this Psalm So without comparing with the Resurrection of Christ with which no earthly thing ought to be named when we are in David's Case as to our Temporal condition I know no reason to doubt but we may lawfully take up his words And that 's enough to justify my Choise of this Text. For the matters contained in it here are two things in which we have David for an Example before us First When it pleaseth God to give us such a Deliverance as appears to be the work of God by the marks of his hand upon it we ought to give him the glory of it by acknowledging it to be his doing Secondly When God doth such a work for his People they ought to shew their sense of it by rejoycing in the Lord and by keeping a Day for that purpose of which we may say in David's words this is the Day which the Lord hath made I shall add that whensoever the benefit is such as is not confined to the present age even Posterity as they come to have a share of the benefit so they are to continue the memory of it by keeping Yearly Days of Thanksgiving to God We are now above thirty Years after the date of that mercy which we Yearly commemorate on this Day and yet now enjoying the full benefit of it we truly may and therefore ought to say it this is the day which the Lord hath made The first of these will be more then I can well bring within the compass of my time that where God has done a signal work we are to acknowledge 't is his doing This is nothing else but what all mankind will agree to All will agree that this is Just and Right It is but giving God the glory that is due to his name The Question will be how we shall distinguish such works as are to be ascribed to God only I am not now to prove that there is a God or that he Created the World or that he governs all things in it as well things that are wrought by humane means or otherwise by second Causes as those which God works immediately by himself These things I ought to take for granted by all that hear me What is it then that comes properly into our Question Only this how any work may be appropriated to God so that this or that above other may be said to be of Gods doing Not to reckon all that can be said of this kind I shall shew it particularly in these three respects First When it is so surprizing a work that we can assign no other Cause from which it does or can proceed but God only Secondly When beside the unaccountableness of the Cause we see the effect is such