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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	egypt_n	joseph_n	pharaoh_n	4,186	5	10.7503	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15700	An armoure of proufe very profitable, as well for princes, noble men; and gentlemen, as all other in authoritie, shewing the firme fortresse of defence, and hauen of rest in these troublesome times and perilous dayes. Made by Iohn VVoolton minister of the Gospell.	Woolton, John, 1535?-1594.	1576 (1576)	STC 25974; ESTC S106615	49,980	114

see that good princes magistrates haue bin preserued from the furious hands of their enimies abroade and at home IT is a great cōfort for godly and Christian Magistrates to haue before theyr eyes the worthy examples of Kings Princes in the old Testament and to obserue their famous and renoumed or rather miraculous actes which they did not by their own power and policie but by the ayde and prouidence of god Whereby they may both confirme and settle their confidence and faith in him and also haue presente admonition in all their distresse by the example of others what wayes and meanes they may vse to auoyde perilles and dangers Abraham the father of the faithfull being driuen into many greeuous miseries and calamities and tost too and fro with great carke and care yet for that he perseuered firme in faith and hope he was neuer forsaken of God but always deliuerd out of distresse Ind moreouer God gaue him glory in y day of batel For whē Lot his brothers son was led away captiue frō Sodome he broght out of thē that were borne and bredde in his house three hundreth and eighteene persons and pursued diuers Kings sinit them destroyed them and recouered Lot his family and his substance and placed him in his house agayne Ioseph the Patriarche breyng solde into Egipt where he liued an alient and straunger and afterward was cast into Prison yet trusting in the liuing God he was not only set at libertie but also called to suche honor and dignitie that vnder Pharao he was chiefe ruler of the land of Egipt Carnal reason would thinke it vnpossible that a seelie poore Israelite being sold to straungers and loden with bolts of iron in prison shoulde aspire to suche authoritie But these are y wonderfull works of God who is nigh vnto all those that call vpon him faithfully And againe The Lorde restoreth my soule and leadeth me in the paths of righteousnesse for his names sake Yea though I should walke through the valley of the shadow of death I will feare no euill for thou art with me thy rod and thy staffe they comfort me Moses that notable Prophet was almost drowned in many greeuous calamities wherein mans reason coulde deuise no helpe nor fynde comforte especially when bee went before the children of Israel being preserued with a mightie armye hanyng before him the read Sea and the mountaynes on euery fyde but he both knew what God could doe and beleued also that God would cause the Sea to soake into the earth or to stand like a wall on both sydes whereby the Israelites might marche through on drye lande and that the same shoulde returne agayne to bys course and drowne all the Egiptians than in any one ●ote fayle in his promises or relinquish his elect and chosen people Gods word can not be false and therfore the Prophet saith Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lorde and whose helpe the Lord is and in an other place In an acceptable time haue I heard thee and in a day of saluation haue I helped thee and I wil preserue thee Iosua succeding Moses casted many bitter cuppes before hee was able to subdue and caste those seuen wicked nations but of the lād promised vnto the Iewes būt resting vppon that ioyful and sweete promise of God As I was with Moses so will I be with thee I will not leaue thee nor forsake thee be vanquished his enimyes and placed Gods people in the lande of Chanaan Gideon iudge of the Israelites accompanyed with three hundreth souldiers only went agaynst y mightie army of the Madianites Amelechites and other easterne people who came into the land of Israel with their Tentes as thicke as Greshoppers in multitude so that they and their Cammelles were without number hee vanquished them and put them to flight for the spirite of the Lorde came vpon him and he beleued the word of the Lord promising him victorye Daniel by the malice and ●ny of the Courtiers was cast into the Lyons denne yet through gods protection he was preserued safe and sound the reason is expressed in the Text Bicause he trusted in his God whereat the Kyng wonderyng and reioysing commaunded Daniell hys accusers their wyues and children to bee put in his place and the Lions had the maistery ouer them and brake all their bones in peeces or euer they came at the ground of their denne Dauid entyrely beloued of God elected accordyng to Gods owne hearte and thryce anoynted Kyng of Israell ledde yet a lyfe full of many miseries and calamities contemned of his wife Micholl for that hee seemed oue● precyse in the obseruyng of Ceremonies Saul conceyued deadly feude agaynst him and often sought to kill him Absolon his owne sonne defyleth his bedde and rebelleth against him Besides this what assaultes susteyned he the Phylistines the Moabites the Syrians the Idumites great and mightie nations yet hee is patiente in hys house constante in hys Kyngdome and victorious agaynst straūngers For the almightie was his refuge hys hope and hys Protectour and therfore it was vnpossible for hym to bee confounded and destroyed Which for that hee approued passyng all humayne expectation bee singeth after this manner In thee O Lorde haue I put my truste lette mee neuer bee confounded delyuer mee in thy righteousnesse I will bee gladde and reioyce in thy mercye for thou haste seene my trouble and thou baste knowne my soule in aduersityes And thou haste not shutte met vppe in the hande of the enimye but haste set my feete at large Asa Kyng of Iuda abrogated horrible Idolatrie and superstition and commaunded Iudah to seeke the Lord God of their fathers to do according to do according to his cōmaundemēt and be tooke away out of at the Cittes of Iuda the high places the images therefore the kingdome was quiet before him hee built stronge Cities in Iuda and hee had no warre many yeares bicause the Lord gaue him rest Afterward there came agaynst him Zerach of Ethiopia with an hoste of ten hundreth thousand men and three hundreth Chariots Then Asa went out before him and set the battayle in aray and cryed vnto the Lord his God saying Lorde it is nothing with thee to helpe with many or with no power helpe vs O lord our God for wee reste on thee and in thy name we come against this multitude O lord thou arte our God let not many preuayle agaynst thee So the Lord smote the Ethiopians before Iudah and they fled and the men of Iudah caryed away a mightie great spoyle and returned to Ierusalem Iosaphat folowed his father Asa in clensing the temple and reforming true religion he set Leuites in Ierusalem for the iudgement of the cause of the lord and he appointed Iudges in the land through out the strong Cities sayd vnto them Take heed what ye do for

mounting vpon his horse and in his olde age vnskinned him from the toppe of the head vnto the plant of the foote so that at last he found an ouermatch stirred vp by God that taught him how tender in the sight of the Lord are the woundes of his saints Their places are prepared no doubt albeit somewhat deferred the stacknesse thereof wil be recompenced with the weight of the same Cayne his fra●recide was punished in the seuenth generation Bias his opinion is noted of the wise who when he sawe a wicked monster prosper say de Asshredly that felow must needes be punished albeit I liue not to see it The historie of Bessus serueth herevnto who murthered his owne father and liued long after in greate prosperitie vntill at the last passing by a nost of chittering birdes as he went to a solemne banquet wel accompanyed in great madnesse threw down the nest with his speare saying These birdes doe righte and daye with their noise lay vnto my charge the murther of my father whervpon he was apprehended condemned and executed Let no man therfore fret bycause of the greene bay tree in Libanus stay but a little and the leaues will fail the tree will rotte away and the plague thereof will no where be founde And touching our selues I see no cause why we should in the quarrel of our God conceyue such trernoling and feare at the great strength and tyra●nie of our enimies as many carnall men nowe do VVhen Hierusalem was in greate distresse and daunger of mighty ●nimies Esay the Prophete is sente from the Lorde with thys iniunction In silence and in confidence shall bee your strength VVhat is this silence and what is this confidence First it is our duetie to suffer afflictions patiently Secondly not to busie our selues out of our vocation Thirdly not to mistrust Gods helpe and so carnally to enter into vngodly leagues and vnlawfull friendships as the kings of Iuda leaned sometime vppon the Egyptians nowe vppon the Sy●ans and in the ende were made slaues vnto them and cast out of Gods fauour for so speaketh the prophete Iehu vnto Iehosaphat ▪ VVouldest thou helpe the wicked and loue them that hate the Lorde for this thing the wrath of the Lord is vpon thee Agaynste such difference and vnlawful defenses are these wordes spoken In silence and confidence shall be youre strength that is to saye awaite vppon Gods hād runne not to the Egyptians Turks Papists and to haue help of them Your cause is good and iust the almightie regardeth you and if you bee put to the worse yet is it better to suffer calamities than with vnhonest deuises to hurt a good matter Let no man faint therfore bycause now adayes many worthy men endewed with the giftes of Gods spirite are Tirannously murthered by most ●ile and dishonest persons Such troubles the Church neuer wanted but hath passed them all and shall continue vntill Christes comming to iudgement The face and countenance of Gods Church is not alwayes after one maner It is sometime ample faire and glorious sometime smal halfe darke and contemptuous in the world Muche like the Moone who according to hir place receyueth from the Sunne sundry beames so that the Diuell shall neuer be able vtterly to extinguish hir light for euen in hir wane shee spreadeth hir out at large and waxeth rounde and full againe And albeit some braunches of the Church be cut off and perish yet the roote and stocke of the same abideth alwayes sound and vncorrupte In the conseruation whereof the pleasure of almighty God is to excercise our faith hope and inuocation and to giue vs to vnderstand that he will not permitte mans deliberations to take place in the regiment of our liues but to acknowledge our protection to come from aboue least we might proudely boast Our ●wne handes haue done these things If the Church be not cōserued by those meanes whiche carnall reason deuiseth or at what time our harts do earnestly wishe it or by such men who according to our iudgement are of sufficient wisedome and strength to archieue it wee are euen then by vse experience taught that the regimēt of Christes congregatiō much varieth frō ciuill policie For vnto promises of tēporal blessings a condition of calamitie and affliction is most comonly annexed wherin the beautie of Christs espouse shineth most clerely in that she beareth constantly and patiently for Gods cause pelne and miserie and at the last is deliuered miraculously and gloriously VVe haue a mirror hereof in that notable promise made to Abraham and to his posteritie by Isaac In thy seede shall the nations of the earth be blessed frō which blessing Ismael is not only excluded but also cast out and banished Yet surely out of Ismael by his son Kedar that mighty nation of the Arabians often mentioned in the Scripture did issue and spring and from his eldest sonne Nabaioth descended the Nahatheans a people in Arabia faelici of whome the Poets speake much in their monumentes attributing vnto them the same name Mahomet the first author of the Turkish blasphemie and the erector of the Saracens kingdome deriueth his progeny by a long contract from the said Ismael whose posteritie do rule wide and broade throughout Asia Atricke and parte of Europ eue at this day do not cesse to make continual warre with Abrahā his children that is to say with the true Church of Christ But Iacob the heire of the blessing and hys children are ledde by and by into exile out of the ●and of promise becōmeth subiect to a strange king in Egypt where his posteritie endured hard seruitude and detestable slauery many yeeres E●au in the mean season enioyeth at home pleasant ●est pcace and in plenty and wealth multiplyeth and encreaseth that nation called Edumites Now albeit the Israelites seeme to be abiect from god yet they are preserued wonderfully most worthy euident tokens of Gods fauor toward them are shewed in the land of Egypt and lastly with Gods mighty hand and stretched out arme they are deliuered from Pharao his cruelty and are reduced into their naturall countrey God do the not therfore giue euents and successe by such meanes and wayes nor at such times as humane reason craueth and desireth but with his long tarying sharpneth our faith and kindleth an ●ardent inuocation in vs and so eyther mitigateth or wholly taketh away miseries and calamities Albeit the ayd cōfort of the holy Ghost doth neuer shew it selfe more manifestly than in assisting comforting the godly againste the fierce and outragious torments of the wicked whereby they are kept from despaire stayed from denying their God and preserued from murmuring repining against his maiestie VVherefore let all men that haue a place in Christes Church rest and stay them selues vpon God in these days of ours wherin the world runneth vpon