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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	king_n	lord_n	saul_n	2,383	5	9.7328	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33894	A word in season to all in authority with weighty considerations what persons, practices, and things doth chiefly cause division and contention, rending of kingdoms, and distresse of nations : as also a plain discovery of those things and that ministry that will bring blessings and unity, with deliverance from bondage into liberty, and instead of strife, wars, and fighting, righteousnesse, reconciliation and peace in the land of our nativity / published by J.C.	J. C. (John Collens), d. 1682.; Anderdon, John, 1624?-1685.	1660 (1660)	Wing C5235; ESTC R27130	21,270	30

names been honourable and they gone to their graves in peace and likewise the Protector if he had done the thing he promised and engaged for and had broken the Yoak of the Oppressor and removed the Oppression to have taken away Tythes and set the consciences of all people in their Worship to God free might not his Kingdom been established and his Name been perpetually honourable For now consider that it was never Names as Kings or Judges or Elders or such like that the Lord owned not the name of the thing one more then another but the thing it self that is to say the Ruler called by what name he would he that ruled for God neither the right as by succession or not so if he ruled for God he established him as Saul whom the Lord chose yet when he did not obey the voyce of God the Lord rent the Kingdome from him and gave it unto his Neighbour for it is Righteousness and just Judgment and the breaking the staffe of the Oppressor it is this that establisheth the King and the Kingdome and that King whose heart is wholly set to seek the Lord in sincerity and to establish judgment and Justice in the earth and to remove oppression It is he and his Kingdome that shall be Established and this cannot be done as long as the men called Ministers are thus set over the people and can exact by force so large a maintenance from them for there is no sort of people whatsoever that can carry on Plots and designes to overturn Governments as they can for they being scattered over all the Nation in every Parish having so large a maintenance they have leisure and know the mindes of every person in the Parish how they stand affected and to whom and they themselves under pretence of Fasting and Praying have opportunity to meet and by that know the minds of every one amongst themselves how they stand affected and by this meanes they can Poyson a whole Nation and leaven them with malice against whom they please for as is the Priest so is the People or the most of them who are their followers and so then if their interest be upheld they will uphold them that uphold it whatsoever they are they will preach peace unto them and promise them prosperity though the judgments of the Lord be at the doore and their interest are so differring one unto another that they one stand in the destruction of the other for the Old Protestant so called he cannot stand with the Papist nor the Presbyter with the Protestant nor the Independent with either and the pride of their hearts and the greediness of their gaine that causeth them that they alwayes envy one another for because of the greatness of their profit and pride of life and the ease of their flesh there is so many that seek after it and so this blinds the minds of them the God of us World and so they cry up that man and that Government that will stand for them and uphold their gaine though to the destruction of all others besides themselves So it is altogether inconsistant with the safety of the people and the well being of the Ruler or Rulers the upholding and maintaining a Ministry by a forced maintenance It oppresseth the poor burtheneth the Conscience stirreth up strife and Contention brings Gods wrath upon people and that is the reason that so many of the worst of People get to be Ministers because whether they be good or bad if they love Pride and Wantonness and Lust and Pleasure and Luxury here if they can but use a meanes either directly or indirectly to get the place they know their strength whatsoever they are or whatsoever they do they are sure to be provided for having a Law to inforce it and so many people where there is any fear of God though they are such as follow that kind of Ministry yet when they see such a one loose and prophane they grieve and murmour in their minds and Gods Witnesse in their Conscience testifies both against them and their Minister and troubles them and so here is fear and doubt and then they seek abroad for satisfaction then the Ministers so called rages and he stirrs up the rest of the people against the man who is not satisfied in his Conscience under the Ministry of it may be such an Ignorant Blind Prophane Covetous Proud Unruly Wanton Wicked man as a Minister who they believe can never lead them or reach him the way to Heaven who himself never went a step therein but is in the broad way to eternall destruction and so if the blind lead the blind he knows both must fall together So then the man called Minister he pre●ches to the rest of his ignorant prophane Congregation and he sets their mindes on fire of hell against him and then he complaines of him to Authority and he hath enough to joyne with him to be evidence against him the poor man and then under the Notion of an Heretick or a dangerous person or principle to the Government they proceed against him and rack and torture him and then all them in whose hearts there 's any feeling or compassion or honesty they conclude this man doth not deserve this and that both Ruler and Minister hath not dealt well to punish after such a manner such an Innocent man and say in their hearts if this be their Law how shall we live amongst them And here division ariseth and increaseth and the bond of peace is broken but if the Magistrate be such a one as hath any zeal or tenderness towards God and will not joyne with the Minister so calledt o invent a way and wrest a Law to punish the poor dissatisfied man but perceives the Minister to be such a one as rather deserves punishment Then the Minister rages in his mind against him and he secretly deviseth mischief against him and goes to others whose ears he thinks will be open and he leavens their hearts against the other Magistrate and then what one will punish or who one of them will punish another will uphold and in time seek a remedy and complaines one against another to him or them that are over them and here the bond of Government is broken here begins strife division and contention and heart-burning waiting for iniquity one against another and so into rents and partyes and siding stil the Ministry blowes the fire and drives on furiously and it may be get such a one to be cast out and then he is dissatisfied and many more they see it is but for doing justice that he is so dealt withall and then people feare how they shall live or be governed when honest men are cast out of favour and then whosoever is found to question such things and the Minister so called heare thereof he begins to threaten againe and here is a Yoak which cannot be borne but people will break it though they break themselves

the oppressed set free the Land cannot enjoy her Sabbaths neither can the Righteous rejoyce untill which time there shall be nothing firm nor lasting but heaps of Confusion and tossing to and fro as a Ship driven with a tempest which hath lost her Rudder and so fear and despair an distrust will be amongst the Inhabitants and one devour another untill they are devoured one of another and so the Lord sweep them away with the B●some of destruction and give them their Portion amongst the Workers of Iniquity in the Lake that burns with fire and Brimstone for ever The Conclusion THe Lord will thresh the Mountains and come down that the Inhabitants of the earth shall tremble thereat For it is his determination to purifie the Sons of Levi and to purge and cleanse the house of Judah and Jerusalem that they may be a Royal Priesthood a peculiar people a chosen Generation to the Lord for ever the people of his praise the Glory of Nations the Subjects of Christs Kingdom which shall be established in Righteousness on the top of all the Mountains of the earth which now are risen up against the Lamb and his followers whole government in truth shall stand over all the Heathen round about for it is his right to raign and he will not give his Kingdome to another Glory to our God for evermore who hath chosen the weak things of the earth to confound the strong by things that are not to bring to nought things that are that the Wisdome of the Wise shall be confounded yet more and more and the understanding of the prudent turned backward That all Nations may see that there is no confidence in Princes nor in the Arme of Flesh which is but as grass before the Lord God Almighty who is exalting his only begotten Son CHRIST JESUS the light of the world to be King of the Nations who is worthy God over all blessed for evermore the King of Saints whose Kingdome is not of this world but in Righteousness and truth over all In which he with his followers the redeemed ones of the earth make war not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers and spirituall wickedness in high places which leads men to destruction going on Conquering and to conquer untill all his enemyes are subdued that he alone may rule and reign in the earth whose right it is to have the Heathen for his Inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possessions the earth being the Lords and fulness thereof though other Lords have had dominion whose right it is not to reigne But the high and lofty ones that are exalted above the fear of the Lord they shall be brought down overturned and broken to pieces and the meek of the earth they shall be exalted who have chosen the foolishness of the Cross of Christ before an earthly Crown which perisheth and commeth to nothing and all the greatness and glory of Kingdomes shall fade as grass before the presence of the Lord and the Lamb who is come and comming in flames of fire to be revealed to consume and burne up the wicked before him for he hath determined a speedy Consumption in this Nation of all Powers Things and Governments that are set up and stand not by the Authority of his eternall spirit which is the rule of Saints the heirs of Gods Kingdome And blessed are they whose names are written in the Lambs book of life that are faithfull and true to the testimony of Jesus the Lamb● followers they only shall reign And all likenesses and false Coverings of Anti-christ shall be stript off and confounded and no longer hide him and his followers from the wrath of the Lamb whose day is come in which his fierce wrath shall be known against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men whatsoever under what forme or notion soever without the life and power of God in which his Kingdome consists which indureth and abideth for ever in which our peace and safety is though the Heathen rage and the people imagine a vaine thing yet they shall know that the Lord God omnipotent ruleth and reigneth in the Kingdomes of men and giveth them unto whomsoever he will The time is come and for the Elects sake he will cut short the work in Righteousness and terrible shall that day be which is nigh at hand wherein the Lord will sweep the Land of evil doers and execute his fierce Wrath and Vengeance upon the Workers of Iniquity of which the Land is full that the Lords Spirit is weary to bear them The Lords decree is gone forth and he will fulfill it That a King shall reign in Righteousness and all they that will not have him to reign over them shall be brought forth and slaine before him the Vials of his wrath are made ready to be pouered our upon this wicked Generation of men who reject Christ Jesus the light of the World to be their King and Law-giver he is come a light into the world that men through him might believe and be saved but they would none of his Counsell Power nor Kingdome but have hardned their hearts stiffened their necks and have chosen their own wayes and the Lusts and imaginations of their own hearts have they followed which are evil continually the Counsell of the wicked have they imbraced which leadeth down to the Chambers of death and Hell where their Portion shall be for ever unless they repent and turn from darkness to the light against which all the world combines and make strong the bonds of the wicked because it shewes men the evil of their wayes and bring the sinner and ungodly to judgment How foolish and unwise is the people of this generation to neglect so great Salvation as the living truth of our God and choose to themselves a thing of rought dumb Idolls that can neither see nor goe nor speak unto which the Beast and false Prophets with their fellows fall down and worship for whom the Lake of fire is made ready into which they shall be cast alive the Bed of Torment is ready made for Babylon and her Merchants and the Kings of the ea●th shall mourn who have traded on her Merchandize and drunk the cup of her Fornications A day of bitter lamentation and howling is at hand for that great Whore the Mother of Harlots that hath drunk the blood of the Saints And the Priests and false Prophets of this Nation shall be known and made manifest to be of the chiefest of her Merchants under the deepest coverings of Antichrist who have long stolen the words of the true Prophets Christ and the Apostles and sold them for unjust gaine with the divinations of their own braines that by their lyes and lightness the people have perished under the highest forme of words for want of the knowledge of God and of Christ whom to know is eternall life without which they are dead in sins and trespasses This painted Harlot great