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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	egypt_n	hand_n	stretch_v	1,308	5	10.4202	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56703	A sermon preached before the Lords spiritual & temporal, in the Abby-Church at Westminster, on the 26th of Novemb. 1691 being the Thanksgiving-day for the preservation of Their Majesties, the success of their forces in the reducing of Ireland, and for the King's safe return / by ... Symon Lord Bishop of Ely.	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.	1691 (1691)	Wing P850; ESTC R20816	17,588	38

so distressed with Hunger and with Thirst that they wisht themselves in Aegypt again rather then dye in the Desert as they fancied they must for want of Food These were some of their dangers in all which they found God wonderfully merciful unto them For they were delivered out of the Land of Aegypt the House of Bondage with a mighty Hand and a stretched out Arm. The Red Sea opened a way for them to walk through it on dry ground He gave them a Glorious Victory over Amalek Which he ordered Moses to Record in a Book for a Memorial He made water to gush out of a Rock which followed them in a perpetual Stream to give them Drink And he showred down Bread from Heaven upon them for to eat These and such like were the Difficulties and the Deliverances which their Eyes had seen and which it concerned them never to forget 2. And some things like to these have our eyes beheld and this so lately that it may well be expected they should be in our memory I wish they have not departed from our hearts Which were this time three Year very sensible of the great danger wherein we were of being thrown into a worse than Aegyptian Bondage For we saw our Laws so boldly violated and trampled under Feet that we could not but fear the loss of all our Liberties Many Loyal Persons were turned out of their Freeholds without any legal Process Several of our Bishops imprisoned and afterwards indicted as Malefactors not for any Evil they had done but merely for making an humble Petition that they might be permitted not to do what they thought to be Evil. We saw the main body of the Clergy in the same danger most men thrown out of Civil and Military imployments who would not help to enslave their fellow Subjects all our Corporations subverted and their Rights and Liberties destroyed a great many men put into places of the highest trust who by the Laws were not capable of any trust at all We saw likewise Mass-Houses set up in several parts of the Kingdom Popish Seminaries openly erected Four Romish Bishops ordained who took upon them to exercise the Papal Jurisdiction in all the Quarters of this Realm Where all manner of endeavours were used by threats and promises to draw men to assist unto their own destruction by taking away all our Legal fences and securities In one word we saw the very foundations of our Ancient Government about to be rased and in great measure overturned the whole Kingdom of Ireland actually put into the power of Romish Butchers who in the memory of many of us imbrewed their hands in the blood of our Protestant Brethren there having Massacreed above an hundred Thousand of them in a time of perfect peace when they had no suspition of any harm from them This is a short Representation of the dangers in which we lately were which I hope we have not quite forgotten For then God may justly throw us back again into them after he hath in a wonderful manner rescued us out of them For behold when we were in this distress and so perplexed that we knew not what to do when all faces as the Prophet speaks were turned into Paleness and mens hearts failed them for fear of what was coming upon them God sent deliverance unto us by a great PRINCE Whose Heroick Spirit was stirred up to venture his Person and all his worldly interest to free us from our impendent dangers Many things strangely concurred to favour his design The very Wind and the Sea were favourable to him God bowed the hearts of all the people of these Realms as one man to wish well to him and the hearts of many to assist him Never was there a more Universal consent to any enterprise never was any more easily successful All opposition in a short time vanished The Forces that were raised to enslave us helpt to deliver us In brief a long laid design which had been cunningly managed for many years and so craftily carried on that it was almost brought to perfection before it was generally perceived was blown away and dashed in pieces like a buble in an instant This certainly was the Lords doing and ought to be had in everlasting Remembrance Especially when we consider by how long a Chain of wonderful Providences God hath hitherto secured this great Deliverance to us No year hath passed since this happy Revolution wherein we have not seen most remarkable Instances of his Watchful care over us And this year hath crowned them all by the extraordinary success with which God hath blessed Their Majesties Forces in Ireland Where all the Armies of the Enemy are vanquished their strong Holds taken or Surrendred the very Robbers have forsaken the Woods and Fastnesses to put themselves under the Protection of Their Majesties and submit to their Government This reduction of that Kingdom hath been attended with so many strange Circumstances that all considering persons who are acquainted with them cannot but acknowledge the hand of Heaven therein Which hath appeared also in the merciful Preservation of His Majesties Royal Person from all the dangers to which he was exposed during his late expedition abroad in the Protection of the Queen and defeating all designs of giving us disturbance here at home and in the bringing back his Majesty to us in health and safety By which means we are preserved in the peaceable possession of those Blessings which of all other are the most valuable and which we hope will be secured to our Posterity as the best Inheritance we can leave them our Holy Religion and the English Liberties Yea our very Lives we ought to consider are redeemed from destruction by this Signal Deliverance which God hath wrought for us For in a little time if he had not most graciously interposed They would have been at the mercy of our cruel Enemies unless we had left our own dear Country and sled for safety as the French Protestants were forced to do into Forreign places And yet alas whether we should have fled would have been hard to find For all other Protestant Churches would have been undone together with us and presently buried in our Ruines Can we be unmindful of such a Deliverance as this or insensible of the great Goodness of God who hath preserved us from losing all the happy fruits of it by the marvellous successes God hath hath given to their Majesties Arms in Ireland this Summer Can we forget those frightful dangers which we have escaped which would have been ten times more dreadful had we relapsed into them Shall we be so stupid as to have no more sense than the Beasts which think of no danger but just when it stares them in the face This would be the greatest danger of all And therefore let us seriously consider how we ought to be affected both with our past Dangers and with our late Deliverances that we may behaveour selves suteable to the