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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
A77067	The labyrinth the kingdom's in: with a golden threed to bring it forth into light, liberty, and peace agen. Being a brief but impartial history of the good and evil of the former, later, and present power of the nation, as it relates to God and the people. The result is a plea for the restauration of all in Christ (the kingdoms rest,) who is expected to appear more in the present, then in any former power of the nation. / By R. Bacon, a lover of mankinde.	Bacon, Robert, M.A.	1649 (1649)	Wing B369; Thomason E541_26; ESTC R204342	33,585	52

very words or to this very purpose He the Lord hath lifted up an Ensigne for God set up his Standard first against the King before the King in a way of open War set up his Standard against the Parliament or P●ople the Ensigne is lifted up of God and given for a signe to the Nations first to the Irish then to the Scots and lastly though not first in a way of open War to the English all of them standing still in times past and so seeming as to the shaking of the Kings rest and glory afar off though some keen and quick-sighted men had a view in God of all this before it came they all obey his Call and come forth against him and his with exceeding speed God saying of them none of them shall be weary nor stumble among them none shall slumber or sleep neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed till they have brought to pass his Act his strange Act nay not so much as the latchet of their shoes be broken to shew that all lets and hinderances should be taken out of the way that the Councel of God might take place whose arrows are sharp every one piercing to the heart of King Queen Bishops c. and all their bows bent men still in readiness to second and supply one affrightment with another their horses hoofs shall be saith God counted like a flint that every march and preparation of calamity against him might succeed the wheels of their Carriages and Ammunition like whirle-winde all being always in a readiness to annoy him Their roarings shall be like a Lion as the King hath found they shall roar like young Lions yea they shall roar and lay hold of the prey and shall carry it away safe and none shall deliver it as it hath come to pass in all those great Engagements that have been against the King and therefore saith the Text Isaiah 5. Vers 30. In that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea against the prevailing mighty proud waves thereof there is no standing out And if one of that way or that engagement look unto the Land or any part of it behold darkness and sorrow or disappointment and the light of this Kingly glory or glorious Kingdom opposed now to the Coming and Kingdom of God which yet they themselves in blindness and in a way of tradition prayed for I say all that light and glory is darkened and eternally ecclipsed in the heavens thereof that is to say in the firmament of it which was the persons of the King Queen Nobles and all those either birds or beasts that had taken up their shelter under the shadow of this great tree which by the Commandment of the Watcher or strict Observer of all things and Kingdoms even the holy One of Israel that for Israels sake never slumbreth or sleepeth is now felled down Sect. 4. The King to prevent or rather to occur and make resistance against this inundation or flood of Fears and troubles flowing in upon him threatning the overshadowing yea the total ruine of this Babel that was so glorious in his and others eyes endeavours first the upholding it with the wit and policy of his Friends and Favorites and his own personal affronts and discountenancing yea openly as in the Parliament House menacing especially the heads of that party or sort of men from whence his expectation of fear did come but though this was effectual to the casting down many Stars that seemed to be more fixed in the Firmament of the Peoples expected Rights and Freedoms yet the opposition made against the other was so far from blunting the edg of their affections then to the Publique and proceedings against the corrupt interest of the King and Bishops c. that they by opposition multiplied and were so much the more fortified and united against him so that these bricks of policy and swordless or bloodless opposition made against the Power prevailing against and feared by the King being fallen down He speeds into the North and there is resolved to build with hewen stones and though the Sycamores had failed him and his hope in them yet now mindes to make further tryal and change them into Cedars sets up his Standard and makes Proclamation among the Gentiles men of looser and more apparent corrupt and evil lives and so appearing more remote then others from the knowleg and fear of God and thus calls upon these Mountains to cover him from the wrath of the Lamb who now appeared to sit on the throne of God against him to these in all Countries he says Prepare ye War wake up the mighty men in all parts Let all the men of War draw neer to the King and come up to his defence Beat your plow-shares into swords your pruning hooks into spears Let the weak say I am strong Let none deny his assistance of Mony Plate Horse Arm● § 5. Thus the King and all the fading worldly glory and creame of the Nation being embodied into a potent and resolute Army marches up and down like a swift Dromedary traversing her waies or as the same Prophet speakes like a wild Asse Colt used to the Wildernesse which no hand had yet medled with and therefore snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure or according to the desire of her heart as though none could turne her out of the way so that all they that go to seek her for the use of man do even make weary themselves as though it were bootlesse to pursue after her any more as was indeed the case of the King and those with him who had led at sundry times after so many fights and frights his and their pursuers as they say such a dance that they were weary and wasted and even ready and upon the matter willing to give over they said once and agen as David We shall one day perish by the hands of this Saul the fierce and first King of that but as some say the last of this our Israel but as the wild Asse is taken and made tame in her moneth so that a child may lead her so after a while this Army and mighty gathering together of men of Warre become bedrid and are taken as a wild bull in a net so that to every child is now given to play on the hole of this Aspe and the weaned child to put his hand on this Cockatrice den § 6. A digression by way of lamentation for the many slain Which though I so expresse in the language of the Scriptures they being such to some upon a true account yet I acknowledge them upon another to be men of might and great renown and therefore am so far from writing this as rejoycing at their fall that I hardly do it but with weeping eyes and a heavy heart and am ready to lament with David over them as he did over Saul and Jonathan his son The beauty of Israel is slaine upon the high places

whether the Remainder of the Parliament or those bearing office in the Army and the honest men of the City and Country that have an influence into this engagement making more haste then good speed out of a good minde notwithstanding remembring the word and promise of God concerning Jacob That the elder should serve the younger that Jacob a plain-dealing smooth and honest man or men should have the blessing the upper hand of Esau she makes use rather of her policy then the promise of God she puts Jacob into the clothing or goodly rayment of this elder brother Esau which will no more fit or become him then Sauls Armour did David who was fain to put it of again when he had done and betake himself alone to his sling and stone to throw down the great Goliah the contemptible means of the word and power of God against which there neither is nor can be any prevailing Whiles Jacob this new and hopefull Supplanter of evill stands thus ready to administer savoury meat to the dying kingdom as he did to his father Isaac which now in his old age could scarce discern one thing from another yet coming neer and feeling whether this be his very son Esau which is best beloved of his father and most desired of the Nation or no findes and concludes as he did The voice is Jacobs voice but the hands are the hands of Esau this deceit of this good woman and this good mans complying with her therein cost her much sorrow and grief being fain after a while to send this her beloved son out of the way from the fury of his brother Esau and Jacob for his own part to serve another Aprentiship enjoying not the blessing at least in his own Land till after much strugling with God and man to obtain it yea he had it not at all indeed till God himself touched him in the hollow of his thigh that is to say till he had lost all strength and confidence in carnall and worldly courses counsels and policies and had nothing left him to rest in but the naked will and presence of God For this cause he was made to halt that it might be a signe to him of his former halting and a caution to others to take heed of the like This thing I desire the present power of the Nation to take heed of and lay to heart they have indeed Jacob's voice talking much of God Christ the Spirit Revelation prayer prophecie the power and presence of the Almighty the highest form of knowledge and talk of things divine is amongst them which if it be not in power and truth that is to say if it proceed not from the presence of the true annoynting and holy one among them it is the most deceiving Antichrist that hath ever yet appeared in the world and yet this I dare be bold to aver that this knowledge and talk of many of them that I say not the knowledge and talk of most is but traditionall and by imitation of others having Christ in their mouth but Sathan in their very hearts and lives being as the rest of the world holy by fits holy now and then holy upon Sundays holy at a Sacrament or a Sermon holy in their severall churches of which many are members holy upon their dayes of fast and prayer but not holy as every true Christian is holy in all manner of conversation holy as God himself is holy holy through their union with him and enjoying of him These these in the Army God sayes They are a smoke in my nose a fire that burneth all the day who being as ignorant in respect of pure and divine knowledge of God and as full of enmity in their spirits against him as others they condemn and say yet to others in respect of themselves we are more holy then ye Sect. 8 But yet I dare not yea I should grievously sin against God and his presence in the Army should I deny that there is the shout of a King even of the King of Kings amongst them should I deny that he hath given to many of them yea some of the chief and top of them to sit together with him on his thron● as the Father hath given him to sit with him on his throne these are they to whom is given a pure language not the language of Egypt or Ashdod no not of Samaria a mixt language a language that is neer or very like but not the very language of heaven or true Canaan such as is the language of the Jew not such a one that is so onely in the letter and in respect of the outward man but he that is so in the inward man such a one that speaks such a language that shall confound all other languages for thus saith the Lord of Hosts the Lord of Armies In those days it shall come to passe that ten men shall take hold of all languages such as are the languages of the severall Sects and sorts of men among us of the skirt of one such a one that doth not onely say but that is a Jew and of the seed of Jacob indeed they shall take hold of the skirt of such a one saying We will go with you for we have heard that God is with you This is indeed the voyce of Jacob which I and all good men delight to hear among them the joyfull sound the roaring of the Almighty like a Lion among you whose presence is terrible to the world For because of truth meeknesse for the meek shall inherit the earth and righteousnesse not that which is narrow and humane but that which is divine and superlative he shall bring mighty things to passe But as the Kingdom hears among you Jacob● voyce either pretended or in truth so by feeling they finde your hands are too too much like Esau's hands your little finger in some regard heavier then your fathers loins to the sense of City and Country the afflictions that have been and yet are upon them by the Parliament and their Proceedings and Armyes are much more heavie and intolerable and that upon both their friends and foes then ever were the oppressions of the King and Prelates respecting the outward man upon that sort of men that have now by a divine power got the upper hand of him This is certain the burthens of the people are many and their fears are more that one oppressing power will still succeed another so that the Land shall never enjoy her Sabbath this I say not to upbraid you but to re-minde you that you fall not into the same condition and censure others did that went before you for as their inward thought was that their houses should continue for ever and their dwelling places to generation and generation that they call their lands and their wayes after their names Nevertheless we see one year after another man in true Christian honour and integrity abideth not but is like the beasts that perish being earthly