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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	due_a	fear_n	tribute_n	2,900	5	10.7895	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59895	Some seasonable reflections on the discovery of the late plot being a sermon preacht on that occasion / by William Sherlock ...	Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.	1683 (1683)	Wing S3366; ESTC R10020	18,258	32

and not be hardy enough to sacrifice his own life in the Cause and a thousand other accidents which it is impossible for me to reckon up may save the Devoted Prince and Hang the Conspirators and those had need be men of very desperate Fortunes or very little understanding who engage in such desperate designs But when to this we add the consideration of the Divine Providence which peculiarly interests it self in the disposal of Kingdoms and in all the great Changes and Revolutions of Publick affairs unless these men were of the Privy-Council of Heaven and could hold intelligence with the Secret Decrees and purposes of God for the Government of the World they can never be secure of Success how hopeful soever their projects and designs appear If God take any care of human affairs if he concern himself at all in the Government of the World we may certainly conclude that his providence does principally order the Fate and Revolutions of Kingdoms and Common-wealths Some Philosophers have questioned whether God condescended so far as to take notice of particular creatures but all who acknowledged his Providence thought the great Concernments of Kingdoms the placing or displacing of Princes worthy of his care and peculiar regard and therefore we who are assured by our Saviour that Gods care and providence extends to the Sparrows and the Lilies of the Field cannot doubt whether he Rules and Governs in the Kingdoms of men whether he who takes care of every particular creature takes care of the general concernments of humane Societies wherein the happiness of all particular men is involved And can these men then think to pull down and to set up Princes at their pleasure God may sometimes suffer Treason and Rebellion to be prosperous but it can never prosper but when God pleases and it is impossible Rebels should ever know that and therefore it is impossible they should have any reasonable security of success There is nothing more expresly contrary to the revealed will of God than Treasonable Plots and Conspiracies against Soveraign Princes and though God does many times permit those things to be done which he has forbid to be done or else no man could ever be Guilty of any Sin yet his forbidding of it is a plain argument that he does not approve it that he will not countenance it nay that he will not permit it but where he sees great and wise reasons to do so God never indeed interposes by an irresistible power to hinder men from choosing that which is wicked for he offers no force and violence to mens Wills but when this wickedness is injurious to others who are the objects of his care and providence he many times interposes to prevent the mischief The lives of private men are not at the disposal of every Ruffian not a Sparrow falls to the ground without our Father much less a man much less a Prince on whose life and fortune the lives and fortunes of so many thousands depend And therefore no man can reasonably promise himself success in Plotting against his Prince but he who certainly knows that God for some wise but hidden reasons will suffer such a Villany to take effect which no man can know without a Revelation and we cannot think that God will encourage any man by an extraordinary Revelation to do that which he himself has expresly forbid and threatned with Eternal death So that all such men act at infinite uncertainties besides the punishments of the other World which are reserved for Traitors besides the many Natural contingencies and uncertainties of humane actions if they believe that there is a Providence which Governs the World they have ten thousand to one against them that God will not permit them to do what they design and those are bold men indeed who dare vie Stratagems and Power with God! Especially when they Plot against a Prince who seems to be the Darling of Providence who has received so many wonderful and miraculous deliverances as if he were still reserved for some Extraordinary service in the World One would have thought the discoverie of the Popish Plot which no doubt was managed with as much Secrecy with as wary Councils and deep Intrigues as any thing ever was should have discouraged any new attempts in this Age it should have brought to mind that Triumphant Psalm Why do the Heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing the Kings of the earth stand up and the Rulers take Counsel together a more powerful Faction than some private Male-contents against the Lord and against his Anointed saying Let us break their Bonds asunder and cast away their Cords from us He that dwelleth in the Heavens shall laugh them to scorn the Lord shall have them in derision At least it is time now to take warning lest we be found fighters against God it is a vain and a dangerous attempt to conspire his ruine whom God hath hitherto so miraculously preserved Secondly There is another Observation on these late Plots and Conspiracies which no man can avoid making and that is how dangerous the disputes and differences of Religion are to the publick Peace and welfare of any Nation Christian Religion indeed is the greatest security of Government both in its precepts and examples It commands every Soul to be subject to the higher powers and threatens eternal Damnation against Rebels It teaches us to give to every one their due Tribute to whom Tribute is due Custom to whom Custom Fear to whom Fear Honour to whom Honour It strictly enjoyns the practise of all sociable Vertues and charms those boisterous passions which disturb humane conversation it requires us to obey our Superiours in all lawful things and quietly to submit and suffer when we can't obey And the blessed Jesus who was the Author of our Religion and our great Pattern and Example did himself practise these Laws which he gave to us He lived in obedience to the Civil powers and though the Jewish Nation which was a free people the lot and inheritance of God himself were then in subjection to the Romans yet he would not give them the least encouragement to shake off the yoak but commands them to give nnto Caesar the things that are Caesars and to God the things that are Gods Though he was a King yet he was not Caesars Rival for his Kingdom was not of this world therefore he did not arm his Subjects to fight for him as he told Pilate His Kingdom was not to be set up in the world by force and power but he gave testimony to the truth with his Blood and commanded his Disciples to do so too He died himself upon the Cross and made this the condition of our Discipleship to take up our Cross and follow him and thus the Apostles and the Primitive Christians did they cheerfully followed their Master to the Cross and conquered by suffering Christianity was planted in the world by no other arts but the