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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	beast_n	earth_n	fowl_n	2,016	5	9.9276	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03778	Great Brittaines resurrection: or the Parliaments passing bell By vvay of psalmodie, against the tryumphing of the Papists, in their seuen psalmes. And in imitation of the song of the three nobles of Israel, deliuered out of the fierie ouen of Babell. By VVilliam Hubbard, Chaplaine to the Kings Maiestie, in his Highness Tower of London. Seene and allowed.	Hubbock, William, b. 1560.	1606 (1606)	STC 13898.5; ESTC S118144	37,262	64

wither and the flourish thereof to decay And yet as it were recomforting themselues thus they seeme to prophecie In a moment canst thou crush her bones and lay her pride in the dust And The earth is infected with the wickednes of the Inhabitants and crieth vnto thee for vengeance And possibly would swallow them as it did Ch●re and his company were it not for thine elect sake Reuenging fire of Sodome and Gomor might bee iustly feared And Confirme the heart of those thy labourers endue them with strength from aboue and giue successe vnto their endeuours Againe Embolden our hearts with courage to concurre with them freely in furthering thy seruice And in another place Confirme your hearts in hope for your redemption is not farre off The yeare of visitation draweth to an end and Iubilation is at hand And Ierusalem shall be built vp againe and the second glory thereof shall be greater then the first And Righteousnes shall prosper and infidelity shall be plucked vp by the rootes God will arise as from a long slumber establish againe the arke of his sanctification And The roote which hath waxen olde vnder ground man shoote vp againe as a fresh plant by the riuer side False errour shall vanish as smoake And they which sawe it shall say Where is it become Iust iudgment holy lawes shall be restored c. Againe His tabernacle he will spred againe and dwell amongst vs as in times past And Sacred songs shall break their long silence the lamp of our Lord shall be 〈◊〉 And The resemblance of heauen shall be renued the resemblance of hell shall be destroyed England shall be called a happy Realme a blessed Country a religious people Those which knewe the former glory of Religion shall lift vp their hands for ioy to see it returned againe Those that neuer saw it shall be strucken with admitation wishing that they had sooner knowne the truth condemning their fathers which forsooke it Men shall say of it one to another heere is indeede the house of God and the gate of heauen How great diuersitie is betweene truth and falsehood deuout solemnities and counterfet ceremonies From the East point to the West men shall confesse their errors They which thought themselues wisest shall say they knew nothing Gladly shall people walke in their auncient steps of truth and equitie c. The Prince of peace will breake the exactors rod. c. No longer will he dissemble the oppression of his people He is bent to reuenge their cause The daughters of Babylon shal be cast downe and in the dust lament their ruine Proud heresie shall strike her sayle and groane as a beast crushed vnder a cart wheele Againe The omnipotent hath sworne to make her stoupe and that he will abase her haughtines Againe The memorie of nouelties shall perish with a crack as a ruinous house falling to the groūd And Hee will come as a flame that bursteth out beyond the surnace His fury shall flie forth as thunder and pich on their tops that maligne him Againe A second Cyrus hath he stirred vp confirming his Scepter for the good of his people He shal likewise bring the Infants of Sion from all quarters of their banishment Ioyfully shall they returne from forraine lands And those Countries where now they harbour shall finde succour in this I le for their necessities Againe The tempestuous night being passed a perpetuall day shall be our comfort His truth his iustice his Priests his sacrifice shall be no more taken away I haue beene the larger that the reader might see obserue the Papists expectation out of their owne many words without equiuocation But Mutatis mutandis the prophecie shal be inuerted vpon themselues as is in part alreadie Magnified be the name of God therefore Now for this my methode as it were a letanie or procession and a kinde of spirituall preambulation thorough the whole England as men doe to keepe their bounds so we to see in particular and generall how much we are bound to God wee haue excellent presidents to omit Miriams song and Deborahs which both stand vpon the resolution into particulars but in Dauid himselfe more notably Dauid the sweet singer of Israel the king of singers first Psal 136. which vsed to be sung of the Leuites in the temple In which Psalme as it were by a logicall or theologicall predicament hee beginning with the great works of GOD in generall hee after diuideth his thoughts into the works of creation and administration hee goeth from the heauens to the earth hee particularizeth in the great lights the sunne and the moone In the works of administration he exemplifieth in the Lords destroying Aegipts first borne in bringing Israel out thence in cutting sea into two parts in bringing Israel thorough the midst and not at the shore and in some shallowe place In ouerthrowing Pharao and his hoast there In leading this people thorough the Desart In smiting great kings for their sakes particularly Sihon and Og in giuing his people their land in remembring not their miserie onely but in feeding all flesh The burden of all which to euery verse is The mercy of the Lord endureth for euer That is to say Gods mercy appeared not then onely and in those particulars but for euer And that these particulars were stakings downe that they had had Gods mercy from time to time and might be sure of it for euer euen as Esay the Prophet saith Heare and your soule shall liue and I will make an euerlasting couenant with you the sure mercies of Dauid What is this else but you shall be as sure of my loue as euer Dauid was And in a neerer example Psal 148. hee rangeth and marshalleth the creatures in order with redoubling the same wordes praise him all ye his Angels praise him all his armies praise him sunne and moone praise him heauen of heauens and ye waters that be aboue the heauens let them praise c. praise ye the Lord frō the earth Dragons depthes fire hayle snow vapours winds mountaines hills beasts creeping thinges and feathered fowles Kings and all nations Princes and all Iudges of the earth young men and maydes olde men and children Let them praise the name of the Lord c and why all these For the particular mercie saith Dauid in exalting the horne of his people Euen as Esay on the other side in the impenitencie of the people contesteth heauen and earth attesteth Oxe and Asse against Israels ingratitude And hence no doubt was deduced the canticle of the three children though apocrypha yet very auncient and inserted for the worthines of it into the liturgie of the Church of England Where the three great noble men and rulers of thy Prouinces themselues personally stand forth and beginning from the generall workes of God discend to specials in heauen to Angels sunne moone and passe along the cloudes in their spirits to showers windes

fire heat winter sommer dewes and frosts yce snow and knock at the dore of euery creature in the earth mountaines green things wells seas floods whales fowles beasts particularly summoning men more particularly Israel among them the Lords Priests and seruants the soules of the righteous and humble men that walke with God and indure any thing or euery thing for him and by name they call vpon themselues As though all the creatures were obtested to helpe them to praise God to acknowledge this Creator and preseruer of them and that they who had the chiefe deliuerance though men of care knowledge and vnderstanding in all learning and wisedome yet were vnsufficient without worlds of helpe Therefore as God presented all the creatures before Adam their Lord owner vnder God and at another time all the creatures of the earth before Noah their preseruer vnder the same God And as Landlords haue their tennants to shew their poll and to pay head siluer to their Lords in their Courts yearely And as sea-men scaping shipwrack offer vowes and hang vp tables of deliuerance so haue I endeuoured by these holy examples and the like to present in all humble duty all degrees and estates before this Lord their preseruer with crownes of saluation on their heads palmes of victorie in their hands Psalmes of thanksgiuing in their mouthes For when the funerall men of Rome tolled our last knel among thēselues so certainly that they thought all the Physitions of great Brittaine could doe her no good and that God himselfe had forsaken her saying now the Protestant shall die his name perish did not the Lord of life cause the bel to stay on a suddaine and hath hee not spirited her againe with a fresh life and made her the daughter of a ioyfull resurrection As it is said of Isaac that Abraham after a sort receiued him frō the dead when he was so neare vnto death and yet deliuered My meaning was to stirre vp all our spirits mine owne and others and to keepe vs somewhat waking least security the bane of all should creepe in For if right vse be made of this what doth let but we may write Aeterna Britannia magna wherein no doubt a princely and honourable monument from this Senate in a festiuitie ordained for euer to be kept which shall be like a marble piller with a real and compendious inscription of the matter and occasion ingrauen walled about and a keeper of it as of other monuments for all to visite to Gods glory and increase of our faith and repentance shal reuiue our anniuersarie thankfulnes to all posteritie And me thinkes I obserue a new edge vpon many louers of religion since when they see God hath so prouoked them by a foolish and idolatrous people desperately zealous for the setting of Dagon that thereby with greater inflamed hearts the friends of Sion labour to resetle the arke of God vpon our center for euer In which for my part I cannot but praise God for the feruour and ardent spirit of the most honorable and zealous lower house like the spirit of famous Martin Luther and a fierie conglobation in their holy and deuout dispositions in many notable propositions and yet also giue God most hartie thanks for the graue moderate and mature considerations of the most honourable high part of the vpper house as the sage spirit of melancthon and a refrigeratiue constellation whose operations and influences shal by Gods grace haue heauenly and mighty effects very beneficiall to the publike good in due time and their sweet aspect and louing respect vnto one another and to the whole by their happy and peaceable coniunction shall profit vpon further occasions that which is behind of their faith wisedome and zeale which shall be the better effected if we could all goe one way For I perceiue in many cases as the Lamprey and serpent ingender so some professors so named for I except the graue humble modest and fatherly whom I know many and the Papist with diuerse ends ioyne to debase him that without respect of factions in his honest simplicity and plainenes opposeth himselfe to two extremes Great was the light of wisedome that shined in the Gentiles He that wil preserue truth must not only confute other mens opinions but his own And would to God al sides could learne of the fountaine of wisedom not to do any thing for displeasure against any supposed tares as to pluck vp wheat and all sides so to denie themselues and their own name that we might thinke it no disgrace but good deuotion to say in a common voyce Thy name be sanctified O Lord whatsoeuer become of our name And heere I most humbly desire as in this last passage so in the whole processe the friendly christian and charitable construction indulgence of all men wherin any thing by omission or addition is mistaken which in such variety of degrees to sort euery one with their proper attributes and offices is easie for a contemplatiue man labouring according to this place my function to be a remembrancer among many knowing that as in a race though men runne swiftly of themselues yet the clapping of hands of other obseruers of them that blowe the trumpets addeth a new courage and vigour to them The sum of my desire is that all our people of great Brittaine hereafter may be like one flocke of sheepe as the holy Ghost speaketh as in good order come vp from their washing a peculiar people abundant and zealous of good works euery one bearing twins and none barren among them that our Church knowing the terrour of the Lord heereby as Christ speaketh may be purged and bring forth more fruit that it may grow as the Lily and haue rootes of Lebanon that she may looke forth from her sleepe as the morning faire as the moone pure as the sunne terrible as an armie with banners that all the world may confesse what nation is so great vnto whom God commeth so neare in all that we neede euen before wee call vpon him What nation so great that hath ordinances and lawes so wise and so righteous as they haue set out in this their day Amen April 29. 1606. Faults escaped SEction 1 line last for reseueth read and reserueth sec 5 l. 9 read sulphurous ibid. li. 23 read hath for haue sec 6 in margine for ornatumque read ornatum 16 d for a deo read ad eos sec 16 li 14 read leprous sec 19 li. 9 read wheeles sec 21. li 15 for houres read hoardes sec N. li. 16 Goteham sec 22 li. 23 at this signe * left out who ment to haue the incustodie and 25. read volies sec 25 li. 9 f. 1 Fsaac also Isaac alone sec 29 li. 17 Parliaments petition and li. 58.10 11 c. sec 30 li. 30. read praise sec 32 third page for