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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	david_n	lord_n	saul_n	2,776	5	9.6848	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03425	The king's request: or, Dauid's desire A sermon preached at the last generall fast holden at Yorke, the 21. of Aprill last. By Phinees Hodson Doctour of Diuinity, and Chancellour of the Metropoliticall Church of St. Peter-Yorke.	Hodson, Phineas, d. 1646.	1628 (1628)	STC 13551; ESTC S104137	19,311	38

make moane for it Doubtlesse it 's paine and griefe to God to with-hold his mercies which he neuer doth but in mercy If he delay to satisfie his children euen that delay is another mercy For if Dauid had sped at first it had beene vnum but not primum or if primum not vnicum it had beene one amongst the rest not aboue the rest whereas the want made it his vnicum most deare vnto him Finiuit omnes cupiditates remanfit vna illa quam petijt he had quench't all other desires so as to delight in them this onely remained as the ioy of his heart and the longing of his soule Then Vis impetrare aliud noli petere vni suffice quia vnus tibi sufficiet Set thy heart onely vpon him that 's onely able to fill thy heart Vse other things thou mayest but lay thy rest vpon this to serue God To those that depend for comfort vpon any thing but this vnum we may say with the Prophet Isa 50.21 You haue kindled a fire and are compassed about with sparkes and may not tarry lest you burne But this vnum will vpon the point cure all exorbitancies and coole all distempers For either it is that or leades to that wherein all generations haue beene and shall be blessed Abels and Moses and Iohns Lambe were all one Lambe The womans seed and Abrahams and Dauids and the Virgins were all one seed Dauids stone that the builders refused Psal 118. Daniels stone cut without hands Dan. 2. Peters stone elect and pretious 1 Pet. 2.6 are all one stone Iacobs Shilo Isaies childe the Euangelists Iesus are all one Iesus without whom we see not Gods beautie And as Ioseph said Gen. 41. both Pharaohs dreames are one So may we say of Dauids vnum here and Christs vnum in Luke 10.42 al 's one and the same vnum Mary sate hearing and that was Christs vnum Dauid would be hearing for the soule sees by the eare and so would he behold the beauty of the Lord and that 's Dauids vnum This I gather a man is esteemed happy that hath that he loues Vere autem foelix est non si habet quod amat sed si amat quod amandum est For many are more miserable by enioying their desires then if they wanted them It being most true that it 's ill to loue worse to loue and enioy that which is ill And therefore God in mercy denies vs that wee loue when we loue that which is not good for vs and in iustice Dat amanti quod malè amat So God heard the Israelites for flesh but not Paul for remoouing stimulum carnis but illis dedit ad damnationem huic negauit ad sanitatem as S. Augustine saith in a temporall blessing he heard the Israelites to their damnation in a spirituall blessing he denied S. Paul to his saluation Then let euery man be carefull what he sets vp to himselfe for his vnum If it be such a thing as may be spared let him not ouer-carefully or greedily desire it If it be such as is approued as grace or some meanes of grace let him not for the want of it be deiected Let it still be his vnum let him not spare to aske it I say not three times but thirty times three times and either he shall speed of that he askes or he shall speed of that shall be aequiualent to it either the temptation shall be remoued or sufficient grace to ouercome it Then let Courtiers flatter to get fauour popular men dissemble to gaine opinion the ambitious labour to soare aloft and when they are vp to keepe themselues on wing the lasciuious drinke of stollen waters as being the sweetest whatsoeuer they cost them though body and soule and all yea let all men set themselues to their seuerall delights Dauid you see desires but one thing and that one thing without exception that he may behold the beauty of the Lord. But because Gods beauty is not euery where to be found or seene Dauid takes a sure course and desires to dwell where God dwels God dwels in Zion Psal 9. And if he may dwell there he shall surely see him and his beauty too for out of Zion God shineth Psal 50.2 And this was it that made his loue so great to the Temple euen because his honour dwelt there that appeares not onely himselfe in beauty but makes euery place beautifull where he is for in the Verse before named Out of Zion which is the perfection of beauty God hath shined So that whether you looke vpon the Lord or the house of the Lord there 's nothing but beauty in his eie Hence is it that what he thought he cannot conceale But tells vs sometimes how amiable it is in it selfe Sometimes how pleasing to him Euen so pleasing as he had rather be a doore-keeper in Gods house then enioy any other honour Here indeed was his heart Gods house was his vnum wherein he found all other comforts Yea if any affection be more violent in a man then other here he findes matter for it How haue men beene transported with that which they call beauty And this Dauid as you heard found in the Temple yea many times the fancies of men make those appeare beautifull that are not and as the Philosopher obserued that Honor non est in honorato sed in honorante So may we truely that beauty many times is not in amata but in amante for it 's his affection makes her seeme so But Dauid iustifies his affection to be well plac't for the Mistres of his thoughts the Temple is the perfection of beauty No more maruell then if the Prophet were in loue for indeed so he was and as at another time he professed My heart is fixed my heart is fixed So might he now say My heart is stricken my heart is stricken and I am sicke of loue whereof if any shall doubt looke vpon him as he discouers himselfe in Psal 84. where you shall finde him in the exaltation of loues iealousie And of whome surely hee seemes to me to enuy the liberty and estate of Birds in respect of that he was in when he could not come at the Temple The Sparrow and the Swallow had built their nests euen by thine Altars saith Dauid but his soule longed and fainted for the Courts of the Lord. He that before had been the subiect of mens songs Saul hath slaine his thousand but Dauid his ten thousand and had all the honour and content which a kingdome and the grace and speciall fauour of God could cast vpon him is now brought so low in his owne estimation that the poore birds cannot build their nests but he must emulate their felicity as if vpon that condition hee could haue beene a bird so he might haue bred about the Temple So that when he can he frequents it when he cannot hee desires it and as a boone the granting whereof had bin the summe of all