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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	aaron_n	add_v	moses_n	17	3	6.3560	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28328	Gods soveraignity, His Sacred Majesties supremacy, the subjects duty asserted in a sermon, preached before His Majesties high commissioner, and the honourable Parliament of the kingdom of Scotland, at Edinburgh, the 31. of March, 1661 / by Mr. Hugh Blair ...	Blair, Hugh.	1661 (1661)	Wing B3126; ESTC R38836	30,104	23

5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thou shall not speak evill of the Ruler of thy People and by the Law you know what punishment is due to those that curse their Father or their Mother Ex. 21. 17. Pro. 30. 17. And the King is Pater Patriae the Father of His Countrey Yea it is Registrat in Sacred Scripture what the Lord did to Miriam though the Sister of Moses the supream Magistrate because of the Ethiopian Woman whom he had married no sooner is the Word come out of her mouth but the Lord is seen at the door of the Tabernacle in a cloud Nub. 12. 2 3. And as her Tongue swelled with proud aspersions against the lawfull and Supream Magistrat so is she smitten with a deforming and defiling Leprosie and seven dayes was She shut out of the Camp and not healed till Moses cryed unto the Lord for her One man may kindle a ●re which all the World cannot quench a plague sore may infect a whole Kingdome Lastly If they be thus Gods then will not that God by whom they Reign resent and revenge the injuries done to them as done to Himself Surely when the People began to flight Samuel the Lord said They have not rejected Thee but Me. And David sayeth Those that seek my soul to destroy it will the Lord bring down to the lower parts of the earth They shall be a portion to Foxes but the King shal rejoice in God 2 Sam. 1.7 Foxes they are and such shall their portion bee Hath any Nation delivered their own Gods with their own hands to burned surely the verie Lycaonians honoured Paul and Barnabas much supposing him to be their Jupiter and M●rcurius Act. 14. The very Heathen man said when a Bird cha●ed did flee to him for refuge I will not deliver thee into thy enemies hand since thou hast fled to mee for a Sanctuary Two sad acts and sinfull in this kind which are displeasing to this God by whom they Reign I cannot but mention the delivery of the Sucred Person of the one into his enemies hands the denying of the interest of our dread Soveraign the other But in all those Acts there is a great difference betwixt the Actors the Theologs distinguish a threefold Ignorance the first is natural to all men alienated from the Life of God through the Ignorance that is in them Eph. 4. 18. The next is voluntar this saith Peter willingly they know not 2 Pet. 3.5 The third is judicial while men receive not the truth with Love but imprison their knowledge they have of God he gives them Judicially over 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to a mind that can not discern Philosophers have a distinction betwixt ignorantia purae negationis and pravae dispositionis I shall adde a third pravae tentationis and so a little compare the denying the delivering of our Lords Christ in these Three Apostles were guilty of denying our dear Lord Paul who persecuted him but was received to mercy because he did it ignorantly Peter who denyed him throw a surprising tentation and was pardoned by his threefold confession daring to affi●m that he who betrayed him knew all things knew his heart loved him And Judas who betrayed him for love of money and in delivering our blessed Lord to Pilat three Actors they were 1. The people that did it ignorantly to please their leaders or 2. The Pharisees who did it of envy because he Ecclipsed his Glory And Judas again for 30 peeces of Silver To some we may say as our Lord did Father forgive them they know not what they are doing But if any through love to the wedge of Gold have done so to the Lords Anointed Ones let it be Mithridat in their meat Wormwood in their Cup a gnawing Worm in their Conscience a ded Flee in all their Oyntment a moth in their Estate and Garment Josh. 7. And let it do them no more good nor the golden wedge did Ahan which brought the stones about his ears or Naboths vineyard did to Achab or the two Talents to Gehazi 1 King 21. 2 King 5. 27. Who view Scripture aright shall ●ee that the Lord himself hath made such a distinction in that first insurrection against Moses and Aaron Numb 86.2 Corah kindled the fire the 250 Princes added fewel to it all Israel warmed themselves by it yet only the Incendiaries perish God and Moses know to make a distinction betwixt the head of a faction and the train betwixt Absolon and those that follow him with a simple heart 2 Sam. 15. 11. These that have been leaders have ever been plagued the other lesse censured forgiven yea prayed for oft times But against David the Father the man according to Gods own heart and Solomon the Sonne the wisest of the sons of men they were 3 great and Archenemies Absolon in the State Achitop●el in the Counsel and Army Abiathar in the Church conspyring with Adonijah and against all those God write his indgnation in Characters of blood and contempt Absolon as a paricide was exemplarly lifted up as a spectacle of Gods wrath and pierced with three Darts by Joab 2 Sam ●●●●4 The first for his sin against God that when he me minded Rebellion he pretendi●●●ligion he is become so religious forsooth he must go and pay his vowes at Hebron 2 Sam. 15.7 The second D●rt he gave him for his unna●ural insurrection against his own Father to be a monument of his wrath unto all generations to stubborn rebellious and irreligious children The third for his cursed and ●reacherous rebellion against the KING Ahitophel whose Wisdome was such that he was looked on as an Oracle from God yet dyed as a fool that he hanged himself 2 Sam. 23. 17. Abiathar was deposed by Solomon 1 Kings 2. 27. and though ●t be questioned whether he did this as a Prophet or as King of Israel yet is it needlesse to dispute this Since we cannot deny this to Kings which is given to eve●y man by the law of Nature to defend himself and in so doing to kill ere he be killed if Solomon will not depose Abiathar Abiathar will depose Solomon Never was there a treasonable and treacherous plot against the Lords Anointed but this G●d by whom they reign did signally avenge it when Corah Dathan and Abiram rose up against Moses The very earth opens its mouth to devour them at once Num. 16. 31. This Element was not used to devour such morsels it devours the carcasses of men but bodies informed with living souls never till now but as the Heavens hated to give them breathing in their Air so the Earth abhorred and his●ed to bear such a burthen as a Traitor to the Supream Magistrat to have them stricken dead instantly on the earth had indeed been fearful but to see the earth at once both their executioner and their grave O this is dread●ull and horrible who can but see how hateful seditious insurrections are to him who is the God of Order and can have