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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
A74698	Logoi Ōraioi. Three seasonable sermons the first preach't at St. Mary's in Cambridge, May 31. 1642. The others designed for publick auditories, but prevented. / By Tho. Stephens, M.A.	Stephens, Thomas, fl. 1648-1677.	1660 (1660)	Thomason E1839_2; ESTC R210165	57,540	136

their Persecutors to hear them poure out their Souls in their most pious devotions for a blessing on the heads of those Tyrants under whom they suffered fighting against them indeed but cum precibus lachrimis with those melting swords of prayers and tears And we which injoy all those blessings which a peacable government can inrich a Land with we which fit every man under our own Vines and our own figtrees partaking of the fatnesse of the Land vve vvhich are vvith as much severity kept off from idolatry as the Old Christians were inforced to it vve vvhich novv hear the bells toll quietly to bring us together to the publick service of God which were it not for this government we might expect would be jangling in a more dismall tune ringing a funeral peal to the Town or City that we Christians We Protestants should conceive a mischief against the King in our private bed-chambers nay more should unbridle our tongues so farr as to expresse those thoughts nay more yet should put those thoughts and words in Action and lift up the finger against the Lords Annointed I bring not in a Zisca's drum a ratteling of the elements to terrifie Children with fantastick fears I would to God the times were such that I might give my self the lie But alas ye all know 't is true it is and hath been acted We have a minde to Micahs Idols to Dan's robbery to Gibeas rape and therefore we are for no King to Israel The confusion of my Text is so great that I have lost all Method I will not seek now to recover it but shut up all with one Paraenesis You see the evil 't is general it extends to every man and there is but one Salve too which we can properly call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a King amongst us A pretious ointment 't is and as pretiously to be laid up laid up by prayers for him by hands with him by purses to him of all good subjects The breath of our nostrils the life of our liberties the strength of our hopes the pillar of our Religion his Commission is signed from Heaven Pro. 8.15 By me Kings raign His Authority is conferred by Heaven Chron. 1.16 He is the Anointed of the Lord His power descends from Heaven Psal 21.1 The King shall rejoyce in thy strength O Lord Obedience to him is required from Heaven 1 Pet. 2. It is the will of God that you submit your selves to the government of your Kings I have heard the Prophet David suspected by some as partial in his own cause just like the Northern Borderers who conceived the eighth Commandment Thou shalt not steal to be none of Gods making but foisted in by Henry the Eight to shackle their theevish fingers I am sorry that ever the Truth of Scripture should depend upon the arbitrary opinion of men but if S. Paul have gained a better credit with them I dare oppose the 13. Chapter of his Epistle to the Romans against the power of Men or Devils which would trample upon the neck of Kings Let every soul he subiect mark the stile There 's a Statute Law enacted in the high Parliament of Heaven which no man that owns a soul may break without high Treason against man and higher impiety against God But if our doughty valour have got so much confidence as to fight against the Spirit of God the apprehension of our own advantage might be a powerful argument me thinks to establish this doctrine Since in vindicating the right of Princes we assert our own By setting up a King in Ifrael we pull down Micah's Idols we stop the Danites forces we quell the lust of Gibeah 'T is Our battels he fights 't is our Laws he enacts 't is Our Liberties he defends 't is our Life he protects he watches for us he is exposed to personal hazards for us he writes for us he draws the Sword for us Ye know the old story of all the members mutenying against the lazy Belly The accusation was that it consumed all but got nothing but they denying their usual contribution you 'l soon finde who went to the worst of it The hands were feeble the mouth pale the feet weak and the whole Common-wealth of the body was out of frame If Moses do not stand in the top of the Mount with the Rod of God in his hand Exod. 17. and hold up his hand too Amalek will soon overcome the camp of Israel God hath blest this Land to the Admiration of our Neighbours round about with a Prince in whom Righteousness and Peace have kissed each other and carsed for ever be the bramdles of Jotham which would overshadow the Cedars of our Libanon But were he as detestable for his vices as he is now honourable for his vertues this were no fair plea for our disobedience A wicked King may be an effect of Gods wrath against a Nation but the removal the taking away this wicked King that 's hotter that 's plain fury Hos 13. 11. Suppose him very wicked he ha's the more need of thy prayers to make him better Suppose him to be a Tyrant he will give the fairer occasions to exercise thy vertue of Patience Suppose him to be a Persecutor hee 'l do thee a courtesie he will send thee to Heaven by violence It is not oleum gratiae but Dominii that Kings are anointed with Saul was touched with this Oyl long before the Spirit of God came upon him and this Oyl was not wiped off it swam uppermost still it had the preheminence long after when that evil spirit did possesse him If we took to the story of the 26 of the first Book of Samuel when Sauls guilty conscience gave him leave to sleep in the trenches of Hachilah with his men of war round about him we shall finde as many arguments to arm Davids hand against him as ever met to depose a Soveraign Title First on Sauls part he was an unnatural Tyrant against his own son Jonathan he was a bloody Persecutor of the Priests of God he was a sacrilegious Usuper of their holy Offices he was a deamoniacal furious man possessed with a Devil Next on Davids part his life was sought for and by sparing Saul he should undo himself he had all the opportunity that night and security could administer to him he was Sauls adopted son by Michals marriage he was successour to the Kingdom by the Prophets unction and yet for all this as if he had been a Champion to maintain the right of Princes he stops Abisha with a quis unqum Who can lift up the hand against the Lords anoynted And he that did it afterward though upon Sauls own intreaty if himself may be believed found him as stout a revenger as he was a bold challenger He brings News of Sauls Death but is sent after him the grave I am amazed Sirs when I hear mention of the Loyalty of some old Heathen some of them exposing their bodies