Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	lord_n	majesty_n	viscount_n	1,962	5	11.8277	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29206	A sermon preached in the cathedrall church of York before Hi[s] Excellence the Earle of Newcastle and many of the prime nobility and gentry of the northerne covnties : at the publick thanksgiving to Almighty God for the late great victory upon Fryday, June 30, 1643, and the reducement of the west parts of Yorkeshire to obedience.	Bramhall, John, 1594-1663.	1643 (1643)	Wing B4233; ESTC R32864	17,240	33

A SERMON Preached in the Cathedrall Church of YORK Before hi●Excellence the Earle of NEWCASTLE AND Many of the Prime Nobility and Gentry of the Northerne COVNTIES At the Publique Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the late great Victory upon Fryday Iune 30. 1643 And the Reducement of the West Parts of Yorkeshire to Obedience Printed at York by Stephen Bulkley 1643. By speciall Command To His Excellence WILLIAM Earle of NEWCASTLE Viscount Mansfield Lord Ogle Baron of Bolsover Bothall and Hepple Governour of the Towne and County of Newcastle Generall of all His Majesties Forces in the North Parts of this Kingdome and in the Counties of Nottingham Lincoln Rutland Derby Stafford Leicester Warwick Northampton Huntington Cambridge Norfolke Suffolke Essex and Hertford One of His Majesties most Honourable Privie Councell Sir THis Sermon is Yours in right of the Author being first Preached then Published by Your speciall Command Therefore it flyes thither most justly for Protection from whence it had a being But You have yet a nearer Interest in it from the Subject a great Victory gotten with as great hazard of Your own Person We are not so Sacrilegious to robbe God of His Glory Neither are we so stupid or fanaticall as to separate the Sword of the Lord and Gideon So long as an English Chronicle shall be extant this Northerne Good Fryday will be remembred to the perpetuall Honour of Your Noble Family In managing Your great trust conformably to Your Soverai ne You have rather expressed His temper who would suffer no Man to depart away from him discontented then the disposition of Vitellius who thought no Smell in the World so Sweet 〈◊〉 ●●at of a slain Enemy God grant that 〈◊〉 to the bad may not prove accidentally cruelty to the good Nor Christian pitty to spare effusion of blood give the ulcer space to turne to a Gangrene so to make the Cure both more costly and more dangerous to the body Politiq●e He is blinde that doth not see how God hath blessed His Majesties Armies beyond probability and how all His Forces have almost ever proved Victorious in the Field Witnesse for this County Seecroft Tankersley Yarum Atherton c. Those losses which we have susteined have been upon surprises and especially by the negligence of Scouts The cold of the Feet strikes quickly up to the Head And the carelessenesse of the meanest Officer may indanger the Life of the Greatest But it is as superfluous as uncomely for me like another Phormio to discourse to Your Excellence of these things which are out of mine Element Accept I beseech you this Mite as a poore expression of my obedience and gratitude two forgotten virtues in this Age for Your singular favours to my selfe And to the Churches of this Province which owe to your Protection their present Liberty to serve God according to their Duty and the Laws and rites establ●shed and to these Northerne Counties which by Your endeavours are totall● in a manner freed from the fury of Sedition which lies now gasping within the Walls of Hull God Almighty prosper Your Excellencies Arms for the happy reducement of the rest of your great charge to Obedience and Peace To the glory of God the Service of His Majesty Your own lasting Honour the tranquility of this distracted Kingdom and the unmas king of all Politicall and Ecclesiasticall juglers which is the constant expectation and shall be the dayly Prayer of Yarl Iuly 18. 1643. Your Excellencies Most Assured And Obliged Servant JOH DERENSIS Psal. 44. Ver. 7. and 8. 7. For I will not Trust in my Bow it is not my Sword that shall Help me 8. But it is Thou that Savest us from our Enemies and puttest them to confusion that hate us WE are not met together here to scanne curious Questions but to Sacrifice unto God with the Voice of Thanksgiving Therefore I passe by those doubts in silence which concerne either the Author of this Psalme or the occasion whereupon it was Indited Saint Paul applying the 22 verse For Thy sake are we killed all the Day long and accounted ss Sheep for the slaughter to the sufferings of the Primitive Christians is an authenticke Witnesse that it may be aptly used by us in the like cases We have heard with our Eares O God our Fathers have told us Fathers are Domesticall Preachers to their Families How thou hast driven out the Heathen with thy head how Thou hast destroyed the Nations and cast them out God will have nothing stable in this World but himselfe The highest Floods have the lowest Ebbes All Nations have their Suns and their Nights Kingdoms and Cities have their diseases and deaths as well as Men When God is angry Momento sit cinis diu silva A Wood that hath been many ages in growing is turned to Ashes in an instant For they got not the Land in possession through their own Sword neither was it their own Arme that helped them but Thy right hand and thine Arme and the light of thy countenance Thy Power and thy Wisedome and thy goodnesse Hath not the Potter power over his Clay Or the Mint-master over his Bullion They that have great Orchards doe cut up some Trees and plant and transplant o●●ers and all for order and profit Shall no● God have the same power in the spacious field of this World Then if Go● be the Soveraigne Monarch and disposer of Kingdoms to whom shall we repaire but to Him in all our extremities Thou art my King O God send help unto I●cob Thou art my King That Jehov●h is the great King both of Heaven and Earth doth no more prejudice the rights of Earthly Princes then it derogates from the Power of a naturall Parent that his Child should pr●v Our Father which art in Heaven Mitte salutes or Manda salutes Send help or command help dictum factum saying and doing with God is all one help and health and victory are His Embassages Then followes Through Thee will we overthrowe our Enemies and in Thy name will we tread them down that rise up agai●st us Through Thee I can doe all things saith Saint Paul through Christ that strengtheneth me But without Him we can doe nothing especially nothing that is good No man can say That Jesus is the Christ but by the Holy Ghost In him we live we move and have our being Will we overthrow we will push them down or we will tosse them to and fro it is a Metaphor taken from horned Beasts Every defeat is not an overthrow but we will turne them upside down yea and trample them under our feet so as they shall not be able to rise again And tread them down It implies an utter overthrow as Elisha said to King Joash Thou shouldest have s●itte● them five or six times till thou hadst consumed Syr●a And tread them downe that rise up against us as dreggs are elevated out of the bo●●●one of a Vessell a proper Phrase for