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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	egypt_n	great_a	pharaoh_n	1,710	5	9.7164	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85659	Nehemiah's teares and prayers for Judah's affliction, and the ruines and repaire of Jerusalem. Delivered in a sermon in the Church of Magarets Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commons upon the day of their monethly humiliation, April 24. 1644. By John Greene Master of Arts, late pastour of Pencomb in the countie of Hereford.	Greene, John, Master of Arts.	1644 (1644)	Wing G1822; Thomason E48_7; ESTC R14498	37,819	46

violent waters so the verbe comming of this in the New 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 morus violentus impetuosus St ph 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Psal 29. 10. Testament is translated running or rushing violently Matth. 8. 32. Act. 19. 29. implying that let the Kings heart be set never so violently on this or that resolution yet the Lord that sitteth and ruleth on the flouds that can calme the greatest tempest is able at his pleasure to quiet the most violent spirits of Princes and some from hence referre it to the ebbing and flowing of the sea to assure that God who hath set barres and doores to the sea and said Hitherto Job 38. 10 11. shalt thou come and no further and here shall thy proud waves be stayed or as the Psalmist Thou rulest the raging of the Psal 89. 9. sea and when the waves thereof arise thou stillest them the same God hath set the counsels and power of Kings their bounds and limits which they shall not passe and can easily and if he please suddenly calme their rage what a full and comfortable evidence hereof is that of Nebuchadnezzars rage and fury against Shadrach Dan. 3. 13 14 19 20. Meshach and Abednego ver 13. full of fury 19. yet see how quickly God calm'd him ver 26 27 28 29. the place is worth your reading and observation you shall see how suddenly Nebuchadnezzars blaspheming God ver 15. turned into his blessing God ver 28. his decree for worshipping the golden image ver 10. changed into a decree for the honour of the true God ver 29. his rage and furie against Shadrach Meshach and Abednego ver 15. converted into his promoting them ver 30. The vulgar Latine reads divisiones aquarum the divisions of waters referring this either to the clouds those waters above the bottles of Heaven which the Lord is pleased to emptie on this Job 38. 37. Amos 4. 7. place and not on that as in the Prophet Or to the river Nilus whose overflowings sometimes fruitfull sometimes hurtfull so the Lord one while inclines the hearts of Kings to the good of his people according to that of the Psalmist of a good King He shall come Psal 72. 6. downe like raine upon the mowen grasse as showres that water the Exod. 15. 23. earth another time to the hurt of their people suffering them to be like the waters of Marah full of bitternesse and which is worse 7 ●0 21. like the waters in the rivers of Egypt turn'd into bloud insomuch as there was bloud throughout all the land of Egypt Others following the vulgar referre these divisions of water to the Lords dividing the red sea that when Pharaoh and his servants repenting of that libertie they had given to Israel for their passage out of Egypt pursued them with their whole strength as the Lord in that great strait of his people made a division of the waters in the sea for their safe passage but caused them to returne upon and drowne Pharaoh and all his forces so the Lord can turne the counsels and pursuits of such Kings as set themselves against God and his people as to the good of his people so to the ruine of themselves and their adherenes but in this the Lord be mercifull to our Soveraigne for his safetie and if nothing will calme the rage of the sons of Belial that then all the stormes and waves which their malice and furie hath raised may returne upon their own heads and overwhelme themselves Vse 1 To close all with some short Application give me leave to expresse my thoughts what is the best and likeliest way to have that mercie which Nehemiah here sought that we might at the length find favour in the sight of our King You have heard that the heart of the King is in the Lords hand and if ever we have it to out comfort we must have it from thence Now a prevailing way for this Neh ● 3 5 7 8 with God is Let the Lord in our Prayers for the Kings heart see in us Nehemiah's spirit he was all for the publike as will appeare in severall verses of the second Chapter not one word for his owne particular let the Lord then see that our desires for the return of our King are for the generall good of Church and State that Gods cause Reformation may be advanced that we may behold Jerusalem Prov 29. 26. in its beautie Religion in its Power and Puritie Many saith Salomon seek the rulers favour but for what surely most for 1 Sam. 22. ● that of Saul He will give every one of you fields and vineyards and make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds Are not too many of our hearts too much after such as these so we may sit under our owne vine we little care what becomes of Gods vineyard let the wilde boare make what spoile and havock he will in this it little troubles us so we can keep him out of our own Jerome reports of Nebridius the Empresse sisters sonne a great Hieron ad Salvinam de viduitate servanda Courtier and in speciall favour with Princes that he never put up any suit but for others chiefly the poore and such as were in distresse insomuch as Princes usually granted his petitions upon this ground what we give unto him we give to many certainly it would much work with God to give us our Kings favour if he did see that we would improve it for the common good especially for Religion when we much care not how it goes with us in our particular so that may be safe and prosper David an excellent pattern 2 Sam. 15. 1● 14 2● when things were at the worst as in severall Verses yet what was the chiefest of Davids care for himselfe or his own safetie No he so much lookt to the publique the safetie of the Arke which was Israels glorie as he overlooks himselfe saying in that 1 Sam 4. ●2 1 Sam. 15. 25 ●6 extremitie of his to Zadok Carry back the Arke of God into the Citie let that be safe and for my selfe and mine own safetie I leave that to God If I shall find favour in the eyes of the Lord he will bring me againe and shew me both it and his habitation But if he say I have no delight in thee behold here am I let him doe to me as seemeth good unto him Vse 2 That God may be pleased to give us our Kings heart let us in truth and sinceritie give God our hearts be cordiall in his cause look chiefly at his glorie many in these times may be for the common good but it is for such things as if we have them by meanes of our Kings favour and presence we cannot truly say it is that favour which God gives And I am perswaded the Lord hath justly with-held our King from us because in our desires for his returne we have too little