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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	david_n	israel_n	judah_n	1,785	5	9.8153	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93064	The dignity of kingship asserted: in answer to Mr. Milton's Ready and easie way to establish a free Common-wealth. Proving that kingship is both in it self, and in reference to these nations, farre the most excellent government, and the returning to our former loyalty, or obedience thereto is the only way under God to restore and settle these three once flourishing, now languishing, broken, & almost ruined nations. / By G.S. a lover of loyalty. Humbly dedicated, and presented to his most Excellent Majety Charles the Second, of England; Scotland, France and Ireland, true hereditary king.	G. S., Lover of loyalty.; Searle, George, attributed name.; Sheldon, Gilbert, 1598-1677, attributed name.; Starkey, George, 1627-1665, attributed name.	1660 (1660)	Wing S3069; Thomason E1915_2; ESTC R210007	99,181	247

the Lord promised to be and was with him as he was with Moses and the people obeyed him as they did Moses I dare say and affirm that no King of England ever did assume nor any would hereafter desire a larger extent of Authority over Subjects then Joshuah had and exercised over Israel After Joshua succeed the Judges who all of them exercised the authority although they wanted the title of Kings yet one of the Sons of Gideon Abimelech born of a Concubine had both the power and title of a King and was a Tyrant yet was he none to whom and in whom the promise of blessednesse was made which was not accomplished till Davids time Adde to this that the Glory of Israel was never compleat but under Kingly Government no nor till the promised Kingly stock came Before they were sold now to this heathen King now to that oppressed burdened and afflicted yea and in the time of Saul the Philistins oppressed Israel sorely insomuch that you shall finde Saul with a slender Army and them following him trembling on the other hand the insulting Philistims reproaching them when they saw any of them to appear These Hebrews come out of their holes into which they were crept to hide themselves Untill David the Chosen of the Lord comes to sit upon the throne and to have the Kingdom established unto him over all Israel as well as Judah then he fights the Battles of the Lord and God gives him Victory on every side untill the name of Jacob became famous among the Nations And it is worth observation that after the death of Joshua and the Elders who out-lived Joshuah who had seen Gods great works no Ruler being then in Chief the Children of Israel ask counsel of God who shall go up first to battell and God gives answer Judah shall go up first Now the Sanedrim or Common-wealth of Israel had a time to be tryed how good a Government that was yet then you shall finde the Children of Israel making peace with the Nations about them contrary to the express command of God by Moses and Joshua severely injoyned and often reiterated Then comes the Angel with that sad message which made them lift up their voyce and weep so remarkably that the place from it took the name of Bochim or place of weeping Then was that praevarication of Israel not to be expiated but by reiterated and tedious servitudes under Heathen neighbouring Princes whom they forbore to extirpate according to the Command of God Then comes the time of which the Holy Ghost testifies that there was no King in Israel and every one did that which was right in his own eyes This was the Interstitium of Government that of the bare Sanedrim or Seventy Elders being reputed by God as none at all in which the Levites Concubine was with unheard of brutish inhumanity ravished to death which barbarous abominable action was revenged with almost the whole extirpation of one great Tribe in Israel to wit Benjamin forty thousand stout men being lost in two preceding Battels on the part of the Eleven other Tribes and after this the Jabesh-Gileadites utterly cut off all the males to wit and married women because they were Anathematized by a Solemn Vow of the Congregation for not appearing before the Lord in Mizpeh in revenge of this detestable Rape upon the Tribe of Benjamin By which it is evident that the Government of Moses Joshua and the Judges was accounted by God as Kingship and the want thereof is by Divine inspiration reputed as a total defect of Government There was no King in Israel therefore every man did what was good in his own eyes Yet at that time it is evident by the same sacred authority that there were Elders of the Congregation otherwise called the Chief of the Tribes who consulted upon this act of those of Gibeah committed against the Levite upon his Concubine and who upon the Benjamites appearing armed to defend the fact mannaged the Warre against the whole Tribe who devoted to destruction by a solemn Curse in Mizpeh what City Town or Family soever should not appear to revenge this wickednesse Who repented after that a Tribe should come so neer to perishing out of Israel Who advised a way to the Benjamites how to supply them that survived that great overthrow and massacre of their Brethren with Wives having before given an Oath with a Curse to all the people upon whosoever should give a wife to a Benjamite A man would think that here were Government good enough if a Republican Government were worth estimation But notwithstanding it is testified that no King being in Israel every man did what was good in his own eyes The miseries brought upon Israel during the Interval between Joshua and the Judges Sampson and Samuel were so great and overwhelming that David a great Warrior and with whom God was spent his whole Reign in fighting the Lords Battels and making up those defects and amending such faults which were committed during the space that there was no King in Israel who therefore being as the Holy Ghost styled him a man of bloud was put off from building the Temple of the Lord although it was in his heart and God accepted therein his good intentions but this work was reserved to Solomon his Son and Successor a King of Peace and blessed with Plenty and all manner of Prosperity and so Chists Type in whose dayes Jerusalem was the renown of all the Nations round about who payd Tribute to Solomon and counted it their glory and happiness to be his Friends and Allies Adde to this that during the Reigne of David Jerusalem first came to be subject to Israel being formerly in the possession of the Jebusites which was the only place chosen by God the Lord of Heaven and Earth out of all the Earth to put his name there here was Zion the holy place out of which the Lord vouchsafed to distill his blessing First upon his chosen people and by their means upon all that fear him in all Nations making no difference After David comes Solomon mighty in power and extent of dominion for the bordering Nations were his tributaries to the great River yea and beyond it splendid in magnificence abounding in Riches incomparable for Wisdome yet blessed with Peace he builds a Temple for the Lord of Hosts and a place for the God of Jacob to dwell in who sitting in the high and holy Heavens and whom the Heavens of Heavens cannot contain yet vouchsafed to dwell between the Cherubims which Solomon had made according to the pattern given to him from himself Of this performance God himself testyfieth that from the day that Israel came out of Aegypt he had no house to dwell in but was content to dwell in Tabernacles in which being made according to the pattern shewed by God to Moses in the Mount were put the Arke with other holy things belonging to Gods worship and so continued till Solomons