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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	blood_n	lord_n	shed_v	1,770	5	9.8115	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53951	David and the Amalekite upon the death of Saul a sermon preached on Jan. 30, 1682, being the anniversary of the martyrdom of King Charles I of blessed memory / by Edward Pelling ...	Pelling, Edward, d. 1718.	1683 (1683)	Wing P1077; ESTC R683	18,608	35

Earth could not have made a Law competent or tolerable in this case but shed the Bloud of the Lord 's Anointed contrary to all Law of God of Nature and of the Land too Regicides that were Amalekites indeed as to Faith Religion Conscience and Inhumanity but otherwise the Kings own Natural and Born-Subjects that owed him Fealty and Loyalty from the Womb that had often renewed their Natural Obligations by several voluntary and the most Solemn Professions Promises and Vows that had many times repeated the Sacred and Strict Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and besides all this that in a Solemn League and Covenant of their own had Sworn Article 3. to Preserve and Defend the Kings Majesties Person and Authority that the World said they may bear witness with our Consciences of our Loyalty and that we have no Thoughts or Intentions to diminish his Majesties just Power and Greatness Regicides that Vowed and Swore all this and that with respect to the Glory of God to the advancement of Christs Kingdom to the Honour and Happiness of the Kings Majesty and his Posterity and with Hands lifted up to the most High God as saith the Preamble to that Covenant But never do Hypocrites hands fall more heavy than when they have been lifted up in Gods Worship A Traitor is then most Formidable when he has been at a Test or at a Sacrament or at a Prayer Judas was fullest of Mischief when he had been at the Dish and the Sop. To answer all these Declarations Vows and Oaths as at first they lifted up their Hands to the most High God so at last they stretched forth their hands to Murder Gods Anointed and they Murder'd him in cold Bloud and after Deliberation and Council and Fasting and as their Phrase was when they had been seeking the Lord too This very Amalekite will one day rise up in Judgment against those Regicides and will condemn them for he seem'd to Repent when he had done the Fact he Rent his Clothes and put Ashes upon his own Head for the violence that he had offered to the Anointed one But these Regicides instead of Relenting or being Smitten in their Hearts were of Reprobate Minds and of Seared Consciences being past Feeling any thing but the Fire of Hell They persisted in hardness above that of Judas or of Cain They own'd the Villany and endeavoured to Justifie that as a Noble Heroick and Godly Exploit which made all Churches abroad but Rome to be asham'd and all Foreign Nations not only the Christian World but even Infidels and Barbarians to Abhorr all English men as so many Savage Dogs Nor was this the Wickedness of Dathan's and Abiram's only but Korah's and Sons of Levi were found also some that to Poize the Vessel had a great hand in casting the Pilot over board some that intentionally Preached off the Crown from his Majesties Head some that drove him to the Block some that were upon or not far off from the Scaffold and some too that made the Sound of the Blow to Eccho in the Temple and did not stick with hands lifted up too to Sanctifie the Fact in the very Pulpit And I cannot but take notice of one singular Instance out of due respects to a certain Doctor still Living and in great Vogue that on Jan. 31. 1648. the very day next Jo. Owens Sermon Jan. 31. 1648. dedicated to the Commons pag. 7. after the Murdering of the King as he was holding forth to the Regicides whom he complemented as the visible Instruments of the Work of the Lord and speaking with reference to the things that had been found in England he insisted much upon the Sins of Manasseh Son of Hezekiah King of Judah spake of his false Worship Superstition and Cruelty and of the Apostacy of those who flattered him in his Tyranny for ibid. p. 5. their own advantage and positively asserted that when Kings turn Seducers both the Blind Leaders and Blind Followers Justly fall into the Ditch and that when Kings Command unrighteous things and People suit them with a willing Complyance none doubts but the Destruction of them both is Just and Righteous Come thy ways now my Honest Amalekite Honest in comparison who though thou wast not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the King of Israel yet for ought we know didst never suffer thine Heart to swell against thine own Soveraign didst never trample Faith and True Allegiance to thy Natural Prince under thy Feet didst never break Covenants nor violate Oaths nor any ways further or abett the Bloudshedding of the King of Amalek nor didst ever harden thy Heart to that Desperate State of Impenitence Deadness or Reprobation as to Justifie and Vindicate the most Horrid Act of Treason with hands stretched out and lifted up before the most High God as did those Sons of Belial the Regicides of this day And yet behold a Greater Prince than either the King of Amalek or Saul was here Greater for his Lineage and Extraction Greater for his Wisdom Faith and Constancy to the Truth Greater for all Vertues Divine Moral Political Greater every ways but in the esteem of Men and in the Hearts of his own Subjects and only too Great by being too Good for a most Vnthankful and Improvident Nation To draw now towards a conclusion The design of this discourse is not so much to expose the Traytors as to Represent the Excessive Sinfulness of the Treason of this day to the End that we and our Posterity may see what reason all of us have to be truly Humbled under the Sense of it For murder is a Crying Sin that filleth Heaven with its Noise and Clamour And one reason of it is because it is not only an Injury against the Man but moreover a Contumely offered to the Majesty of God whose Image the Man bears and therefore Philo the Jew calls it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Philo de Spec. Leg. Sacriledge and the Greatest of all sorts of Sacriledge Nay it is of such a Staining nature that it polluteth a whole Land as God himself said Bloud it defileth the Land Num. 35 33. And an Instance hereof we have upon Saul's killing the Giheonites He slew them indeed in his Zeal to the Children of Israel and Judah but though 't was His Fact and Cruelty yet a Three years Famine came upon the Land for it 2 Sam. 21. 1. And if all Innocent Bloud staineth a Nation so how much more the shedding of Bloud Royal the Bloud of Kings who in respect of their High Office and Supreme Authority Represent God above all others and bear his Image and Impress after a Peculiar and Eminent manner I must confess that I cannot but still own my Fears that our Land is not yet throughly cleansed from the Bloud of that Innocent Vertuous Religious Matchless Prince who was so Barbarously murder'd among us on this day For though we may believe that the merciful God will not