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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	child_n	lord_n	pharaoh_n	1,368	5	10.4041	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05770	A toile for tvvo-legged foxes Wherein their noisome properties; their hunting and vnkenelling, with the duties of the principall hunters and guardians of the spirituall vineyard is liuelie discouered, for the comfort of all her Highnes trustie and true-hearted subiects, and their encouragement against all popish practises. By I. B. preacher of the word of God.	Baxter, J.	1600 (1600)	STC 1596; ESTC S112228	88,347	250

small reputation that it is demaunded whether any good thing could come from the same Luke 4.31 From thence forced to retire himselfe vnto the rocke of Capernaum Luke 9 58. not hauing an house wherein to put his head Luke 23. afterwards as a principall malefactour crucified betwixt two theeues The Disciples were dealt withal much like to their Master Acts. as is to bee seene partly in the Actes of the Apostles Ecclesiasticall histories and partly in the histories of those times wherein Nero Domitian Dioclesian and other tirants of the like disposition liued But yet no time so bloudie as since the child of perdition was borne and hath vsurped tyranicall iurisdiction For the Church could conuey it selfe into no corner of the wildernes but this bloudhound hath found it out to pursue and persecute it what bloud by him hath been shed and what murders committed in these latter dayes France and Flanders England and Scotland can sufficiently recorde And this is the way wherein the whole Church truly Apostolike being in this world Corint 6.5 Heb. 11.38 Apo. 12.14 as waifarers and wanderers hither and thither must walke the same being foretold vnto the last day Churches preseruation Yet behold the conquering lambe Christ Iesus standing on mount Sion is more mightie to defend then the prince of darkenes to destroy the Lord of Hosts cannot forsake his tabernacle Psal 84. and though the little barke of his Church be tossed to and fro amids the seas of this troublesome world yet he which holds the sterne is able to commaund both winde and sea wherefore although from time to time it hath been hoysed to and fro with winde and waues yet the Lord hath been continually assistant to the same so as it hath neuer been ouerwhelmed neither can bee For proofe whereof see how the creator in the person of him who after was made our redeemer and deliuerer in person did runne after those two forlorne children Adam and Eue after they had fallen away from him through infidelitie applying vnto that deadly wound so soone as it was made a remedie of immortalitie farre more excellent then that whereof they had depriued themselues and all their posteritie Looke further and behold Abraham Genesis Isaac and Iacob mightely preserued notwithstanding the infinit and daungerous by-wayes wherein they walked Exodus for the space of foure hundred yeares amidst most prophane people multiplied vnto the number of sixe hundred thousand persons beside women and children Looke againe and behold the indauntable insolencie of proud Pharao vanquished by frogs by flyes by lice at the shaking of the rod of one of the seruants of the Lord of Hosts Behold afterward the Church pursued on drie land by an huge multitude of the Egyptians swallowed vp of the red sea which was as a wall on either side of the people of Israell Behold what memorable and maruellous things did hee for his people in the wildernes how hee sent bread from heauen how with the stroke of a small rodde the most hard rocks cleaue to water almost fortie yeeres long this whole multitude See and consider how it arriued at the riuer Iordane passing the riuer on drie ground Iosua 3.6 making the high walles of Ierichoe to fall downe before it battering downe dashing in peeces trampling vnder feete thirtie Kings beyond Iordan how victoriously they were placed in the land of Canaan how they beate down their enemies sometime with an oxe goade Iudg. 3.31 Iudg. 7.20 Iudg. 15.15 1. Sam. 5.4 as did Samgar the sonne of Anath sometimes with pitchers as Gedeon sometime with the iawe bone of an asse as Sampson God suffered the arke to be taken prisoner but it was to th● ouerthrow of the Philistians Dagon vnder the raigne of King Saul the Church did abide many a cold blast but he raised vp his seruant Dauid a King prophet to refresh the same who left hi● successor King Salomon a figure of the true Salomon King of peace and eternall sonne of Dauid Now to passe beyond Salomon we● shall finde the Lord no lesse assistant t● his Church then before yea euen vnt● the consummation of this world we● shall finde the nearer the time an● tearme appointed of God approchet● for the execution of his promises th● more ardent affection will he shew to his Church who although many time● he scourgeth and afflicteth the same Why the Church is afflicted he dealeth but euen as the husbandma● doth with his corne which the oftene● it is winnowed and sifted so much the more purer it is Neither doth he set hi● enemies on worke to ruinate and destroy his Church but as it were to vnthaw his people waxen stiffe and be nummed through ouermuch ease and to vnburden his Church of a grea● number of villanous prophane persons ●●ept into the same For when the Chal●●ans laid Iury waste led the people captiue vnto Babilon insomuch as the Church seemed vtterly rased yet how captiue and prisonerlike soeuer they were behould the Lord present with his Church behould the royall edicts for the worshipping of the God of Daniel behould the tirant Nabuchadnezzar not being content to be the chiefest amongst men made the vilest amongst beastes behould Babilon it selfe captiue Israell restored and reestablished with great priuiledges and restitution of their holy vessels And thus if wee proceed we shall euidently see how the Lord hath bin present with his Church in the spirit of comfort assistance and deliuerance how hee hath beaten downe that great mount of the Romane monarchie and daylie bloweth to ruine the beast moulded vpon this patterne and seated in the temple of God vpon the verie same seuen hilles The declaration whereof one Chapter cannot afford nay the life of one man after an other can hardly performe it But to let passe forren lands and to speake of the great loue that the Lord hath shewed towards the Church and common wealth of England Gods great mercies to England I may truly say happie are we if we continue happie and blessed are we aboue al● other people if we be still blessed of the Lord who if insurrection hath been moued hath suppressed it if conspiracie hath been intended reueiled it 〈◊〉 treason hath been attempted confounded it if war by forrain foes threatned hath deliuered vs from it wee dwel● still in saftie though threatned by Spanish tiranny we triumph in garlands o● oliues though threatned to weare the wreaths of Cypres we sing te deum with cheareful hearts though forren cruelty haue threatned a mournfull miserere O thē let vs neuer forget the good things that hee hath done for vs the great kindnes that hee hath shewed to let his Church Tell it to your children and them tell it to their posteritie from one generation to another euen the good things that the Lord hath don for England vnder the regiment of a gratious princesse yea tel it how by his