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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	holy_a	lord_n	praise_v	5,775	5	9.7846	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B09120	Englands ioy, for the kings gratious proclamation for the banishing papists		1640 (1640)	Wing E2988.3; ESTC S116764	8,796	19

and danted their hearts that wished well to the peace of Sion So played these imposturing spirits charming all men with such subtilties What the house of Austria to be checked and the Emperour of Germany to be affronted What Spain to be threatned with warre and intrusions of hostility Who is able to cover the Vienna as Xerxes once did the Hellespont with a numberlesse and invincible Armado to set upon the Iland of Brittany as a Conquerour and to make England to tremble with the multitude of his forces and yet dare you talke of warre and assisting the Low-Countries But now God be thanked Papistry shall be suppressed the Priests and Iesuits banished and these mighty Buls of Bashan either have their hornes sawed off or their chaps musled and what an alteration is heere Oh let us then give thankes unto God and confesse his mercy is beyond our apprehension and his benefits are Ocean in comparison of our duty or standing poole of deserving And seeing the King is so gracious to looke upon us like a faire moving Planet in a conspicuous Orbe from whose influence can proceed nothing but sweet presages Seeing our Parliament is so religiously Honourable to sound the foord of Spaines projects and their countries hazard by collusion and halting betweene two opinions with the plummets of true Wisedome and zeale to the Gospell of Iesus Christ Seeing that they are so indulgent and will not suffer either the wild Bore of the Forrest to trample downe the hedges or little Foxes to destroy the Grapes but are willing that Iehojadas filthy garments may be taken away and a Crowne of pure Gold set upon his head seeing the people are prepared to call and hasten one another to goe vp to the Temple of the Lord and rather then Ruben shall rayse a heape of stones like an Altar to put the people in feare of Idolatry they are ready to arme with their brethren and examine how the matter stands let every man exhilarat himselfe and cry out Why art thou cast downe O my soule and why art thou disquieted within me hope thou in God for I shall yet praise him he is the health of my countenance and my God So then if Paplstry shall be suppressed the Priests and Iesuites banished and our enemies both Forraine and Domesticke over-reached let God have the glory the Prince the honour the Parliament the commendation the people the comfort the Country the benefit and every true hearted Christian sing Iopaean and Epithalamions to Iehovah Marke the difference betweene flourishing Kingdomes through the blessing of reformation and advise of good governours and the fearefull distraction of Common-wealths where irreligion and indirect courses over-maister While the ambition of Athalia was predominant over her affection and drive her head-long to all obscenity tyranny she cōmitted idolatry she neglected the house of God she defiled the Altar she destroyed the seed royall she usurped the Diadem and disturbed the peace of Iuda and Israel But when Iehoash was miraculously preserved and instructed by Iehojada Athalia is slaine Iehoash doth that which is right in the sight of God the Priests repaire the Temple the Altars are cleansed the Common wealth reformed and the whole Country resetled in order and was not this a great alteration In the story of Manasses and Ammon his Sonne you shall finde these imputations of wickednesse cast upon them by the holy Ghost Hee did that which was evill in the sight of the Lord he lived after the abominations of the Heathen he reared up Altars for Baal he offered incense to the Host of Heaven he made his Sonnes passe through the fire he used enchantments observed times and dealt with familiar spirits and wrought much wickednes before the Lord But when Iosiah came to raigne and was instructed how he feared God and lived uprightly he cleansed and repaired the Temple he commanded the booke of God to be read he rent his cloathes as strucken with compunction of soule he made a covenant with God to observe his testimonies he put downe all the Offices of Baal and the groves dedicated unto him He slew his Priests he solemnized the Passeover and he performed the words of the Law which were written in the Booke and was not this a great alteration Thus it is betweene the government of Spaine and England especially the contrariety of Religion and diversity of serving God betweene Papists and Protestants the Papists both in Spaine and in England commit blasphemous idolatry are polluted with incests and fornication derogate from the honour of God to attribute adoration to creatures pacifieth himselfe in the Labyrinth of aequivocation Dissemble with God their owne soules and all that deale with them care not by what meanes or treachery they compasse their owne ends deny Christs presence in Heaven a maine article of Faith extenuate the power of the God-head by allowing a deity to Creatures and invocation to Divells First they have made many Saints that are passed downe to Hell Allow of murther and monstrous impiety and in a word are poysoned with the dregs of abomination wherewith the whore of Babylon hath filled her cup. The true Protestant and zealous Christian alloweth God the preheminence of all adoration will by no meanes blaspheme with idolatrous exorcismes detesteth whoredome and all incestuous Leprosie defieth the participiation of Gods glory to murther simply and plainly contriveth his affaires and keepeth his word though it be to his owne hinderance intermeddles not with matters of state except he be called to place of eminency is with Anna praying in the Temple and continually rejoyceth in the conversation of Gods servants and maketh the Church the sanctuary of his soule in a word is ruled by the directory of Gods word and neither dare abuse the Majesty of Princes by inter jecting a Jealousie and suspition betweene the Prince and the Subject nor runne away with the deceit of his owne heart in presuming to be more holy then his brethren or prejudging others either maliciously or foolishly And is not this a great alteration And is not this cause enough to induce us to thanke God and acknowledge his mercy and kindnesse that our King and Parliament would goe and buy eye-salve without money perspicuously to looke into the enormities of the Church and Common wealth and not onely with Nehemiah to abridge the extreamity of usury compell a relaxation of debts and oppression keepe and sanctifie the Sabbath drive the Marchants and Sellers of meate out of the City and at last put away their idolatrous wives but also will not suffer the Ammonites and Moabites to come into Gods Temple but enforce them to banishment out of Ierusalem For as you read how Iacob after his return from Laban cleansed his house of the idols so did Nehemiah in despite of Eliashib the Priest who had allyed himselfe to Tobiah a stranger and idolater put him from his lodging and cast out all the snuffe out of his chamber which

in the text is likewise called cleansing and thus thankes be to God our great Nehemiah dealt with the Papists he hath not onely thought them as prickes and thornes in the sides of good Christians but now found them as noy some and infectious weedes in the Common wealth to choake and eate up the sweete Flowers and springing grasse and thus hath the Church of God example enough in Scripture to be an enemy to Gods enemies and fall to reformation with courage and magnanimity Shall such a man as I flye saith Nehemiah shall such a King as I saith King Charles that have been trayned up from my infancy to deny Popery and suffer my Kingdome of great Britaine the very nursery of zealous professors and mirrour of purity and piety to be defiled and contaminated with the poyson of superstition and now I have recollected my self shall I give way to rotten and filthy policy to eat upon the heart of true Religion or suffer private ends to thicken themselves like some obscure and dangerous cloud to stand as an interposition betweene the Sunny splendor of Gods word and the faire progresse of government No No J will now be my selfe and therefore if either the Pope or Spain deride me with Michol for dancing before the Arke and bringing it into Gods house I will answere with David I will yet bee more vile and zealous for the Lord and as he told his wife that therefore God had taken the Kingdome from her Father and invested him with the Diadem so may King Charles answer Spain that therefore God will make him mighty in his Provinces in despight of malignant opposition and great Britain shall not be onely able to stand firme like an impregnable Rock in all honor riches prosperity but of sufficiency to protect distressed neighbours and recover unfortunate and surrepted Provinces Therefore away yee Friests and Iesuites packe hence for your lives and let me not heare any further of your daring impostures and you that will remaine Papists and with the Adder stoppe your eares that charme the Charmer never so cunningly he shall not prevaile to remove you take heed and be warned that you live modestly in your wilfulnesse neither daring to breake our Statutes against those Locusts of Rome nor to insult your selves or be offensive to any civill conversation by thewrong defence and supportation of Romes corrupted Doctrine For I protest unto you by the faith of a Religious King I take a pleasure in hearing what God said to Abraham Genesis 18.19 For I know him that he will command his children and his houshold after him and they shall keepe the way of the Lord to doe justice and judgement that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken unto him And therefore as I am Gods substitute in the supreame royalty so will I be his instrument in the practise of this Reformation neither suffring any Papist whatsoever to have the use of Idolatrous masses nor to bring up their owne children in the Cimmerian darknesse of ignorance and divelish devotion For the Apostle tells us plainely Colos ● that the tormenting of the body worshipping of Angels observing of Dayes and many foolish humiliations likewise denying of lawful marriage and forbidding of meates and celebrating of superstitious times are all the doctrines of the Divell and is not this joy to great Britaine and how are our hearts cheered as you read of the Israelites that in the time of Salomon rejoyced with one another and made merry eating and drinking under their owne Vines Thus shall we see the backes of our adversaries and by Gods speciall favour and grace the banishment of Priests and Iesuites But yee Magistrates of the Common wealth let them not imitate the Israelites in this to rob the Egyptians in their departure out of Egypt Let them not export our treasures nor enrich other Countries with our spoyles Let not your Ladies bestow their jewels and ornaments upon them For though they could be contented to love them with gratuities and presents yet must the Common wealth reserve some secrets of State not to be impoverished by the lavish gifts of those that understand not the Mystery of carying wealth out of the Land or consuming our silver in trifles let none of their houses be furnished with those remnants of gew-gawes wherein the ancient idolaters excelled them in be decking their idols I mean their medales crucifixes relickes of Saints the Wood of the Crosse the milke of our Lady and a thousand such like trumperies fit for nothing but toyes to play with all as Apes doe with Nut shells For as you read how the children of Israel were tainted with the grosse superstition of Egypt so must needs the tender hearts of your women be captivated with the reservation of these things Let your Pursevants and Officers a Gods name be the researchers of suspected places that the very children which as yet know no harm may be sent to the Schooles of the children of the Prophets and by that meanes learne to live in the feare of God and dye in his favour Let the potent men be disarmed a Gods name not to give them cause to thinke the better of themselves as if they were to be feared or reputed dangerous and politicke but as you take knives and other hurtfull things from madde men to prevent mischiefe that they neyther endanger others nor themselves In a word let all good orders be observed and a fashionable body of a religious Common wealth erected that his Majesties person may be secured the Prince and the rest of that Royall issue protected and pleased the honest neighbours sublevated with care and diligence the whole Iland flourishing with prosperity and confidence the poore releeved the trades restored the City repayred the Marchant countenanced the Souldiers esteemed the Clergy-man beloved the well deserving reverence the weake supported the obstinate finner punished the offender through frailty remitted and all justifiable actions practised to the glory of God and comfort of our owne soules Then if there be cause of warre and so successe fallen Moses and Israell shall sing a song of Tryumph to the Lord and Miriam the Prophetesse shall take a Timbrell in her hand and all the women goe after her with Timbrels and Dances Then if there be the flourishes of peace and that Salomon hath finished the Temple of God and his owne house 1 King 3.22.9 he will present himselfe before the Lord and kneele to his prayers spredding forth his hands toward Heaven And then to conclude both in warre and peace shall great Britaine confesse to the Lord. What is man that thou shouldst thinke upon him or the sonne of man that thou wilt remember him And so prayse the Lord in his Sanctuary and in the firmament of his power praise him in his mighty acts and according to the excellency of his greatnesse praise him for thinking vpon vs even in this particular of suppressing Papistry