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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	earth_n	king_n	lord_n	17,822	5	4.1701	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35558	A King and his subjects unhappily fallen out, and happily reconciled being the substance of a sermon with very little alteration fitted for the present time : preached in the sermon-house belonging to the cathedral of Christ-Church Canterbury Jan. 15, 1643, upon Hos. 3,4,5 / by Meric Casaubon ...	Casaubon, Meric, 1599-1671.	1660 (1660)	Wing C804; ESTC R9398	12,046	21

joy he sets out by the joy of a King and People who after many dayes so he saith many dayes divorce are again re-united Behold how good and how pleasant it is saith the Psalmist for Brethren to dwell together in Unity Unity indeed should alwaies be our wish and our aim and they that are the causes of division deserve the curse both of God and man It is not allwaies true that Amantium irae amoris redintegratio est Sometimes a little sparkle doth kindle a great fire not to be quenched untill it hath made an end of all But where God is so mercifull as after a long breach and gasping condition to grant a perfect Re-union and reconciliation a man had need of the tongue of Angels to express the greatness of that joy not here in earth and among men only but I am confident even in Heaven in the presence of the Angels of God and all the hoast of Heaven Hear I pray how pathetically the words of my Text doe run Afterwards after that sad Desolation or separation of many dayes shall the Children of Israel returne and seek the Lord their God and David their King and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter dayes And here offers it self our last observation upon the words viz. the method of this Returne or Reconciliation First they seek the Lord their God and after their King There may be a returne or reconciliation for meer politick ends on both sides It may be they finde they cannot subsist asunder and that the continuance of their division will be the ruine of both Such an occasion will cause a returne if they be not infatuated to their own destruction And God doth use sometimes such outward means and inducement to bring us to Himself and to work us by degrees to a perfect conversion or reconciliation However the truest and surest foundation is to begin with God acording to the method of my Text It is God that maketh men to be of one mind in a House Ps. 68. 16. according to some translations in a house much more in a Kingdom I form the light and create darkness I make peace and create evil So God of himself Esay 45. 7. God then is first to be sought according to the right method upon a sure foundation But what if Men will pretend to seek God and to return unto God but resolve to go no further It is very ordinary for worldly politick Men to put that cheat upon themselves or rather upon others credulous ignorant People They will affoord us fasting and praying enough in their kind and God shall be in their mouths and Christ Jesus nothing more By these fair pretences they drive on their designes and thrive by the miseries and sufferings of the publick To these men or to them rather that are gulled by them I shall commend the advice of an interpreter of great fame John Calvin is the Man Non frustra saith he Hoseas in resipiscentia populi c. in English thus It is not without great cause that the Prophet in setting out the repentance of the People doth also particularly remember or relate their return to David their King For otherwise the People could not truely and really seek God except at the same time it did submit to the lawfull government to which it was obliged or subjected not by Man or by chance but by the appointment of God himself The last words require a candide interpretation lest he should be thought to say that ordinary Kings that have not such immediate calling as David had are by chance or by Men only which is so contrary to Scripture and to sound doctrine that the very Jesuits would exclaim as much wronged if laid to their charge though many of them say little less in effect and act accordingly as it is well known But the Counsel well understood is very good I need not to add any thing to it So we have done with the Text the exposition of it and such Observations as I apprehended not impertinent to it These times and the common talk of all People might seem to prompt some application But this is lubricus locus such a subject wherein a man that will be meddling may soon go beyond his bounds and sooner do hurt then good Though Kings are by God and we warranted nay obliged by Scripture to preach subjection for conscience sake to declare against rebellion in generall much more against all killing or murthering of Kings O horrible under pretence of law yet since the power and praerogative of particular Kings is limited and constituted by the fundamentall laws of every Kingdome approved and confirmed by the assent and consent of successive Kings in this case what a King may do lawfully what he may not according to law what opposition in case he attempt or do any thing against the fundamentall law may be made according to the same law by whom and how farr these things as they are out of our spheare and scanning as we are preachers of the Gospel so must it be high presumption in any of our profession to pass judgments or indeed to intermeddle So if the business of union or reconciliation be in hand after many dayes separation and division I know 〈◊〉 what a loyall Israelite is bound to wish what to pray in generall but many cautions and considerations of State may belong to such a business to bring it to a good and well grounded issue They that can judge what is most agreeable to the proper constitution and fundamentalls of a Realm Lawyers and Sages of the land as I take it They that know what the present condition inclination ability necessities of the people of the land is what may be done what must be borne to prevent further evils and effusion of blood a Parliament as I take it I think it belongs unto them and is their proper work Let them look to it as they are accountable to God and their Country If they to whom it belongs shall enact any thing to which I cannot yield obedience with a good conscience that is without disobeying God I may resolve with Gods assistance to suffer I may not to oppose Yea though it were in my power to do some what and to disturbe yet my conscience tells me it is not lawfull This is all the application I shall make God give us all grace to apply our selves unto him in simplicity and syncerity of heart to depend of him in all things to seek his glory and his favour above all things to whom all honour glory power and majesty FINIS