Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	egypt_n	people_n	pharaoh_n	2,508	5	10.0101	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85396	Hybristodikai. The obstructours of justice. Or a defence of the honourable sentence passed upon the late King, by the High Court of Justice. Opposed chiefly to the serious and faithfull representation and vindication of some of the ministers of London. As also to, The humble addresse of Dr. Hamond, to His Excellencie and Councel of warre. Wherein the justice, and equitie of the said sentence is demonstratively asserted, as well upon clear texts of Scripture, as principles of reason, grounds of law, authorities, presidents, as well forreign, as domestique. Together with, a brief reply to Mr. John Geree's book, intituled, Might overcoming right: wherein the act of the Armie in garbling the Parliament, is further cleared. As also, some further reckonings between thesaid [sic] Dr. Hamond and the authour, made straight. / By John Goodwin.	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.; Glover, George, b. ca. 1618, engraver.	1649 (1649)	Wing G1170; Thomason E557_2; ESTC R12380	138,495	164

i● fully set in them to do evil much more fully set to do evil must their hearts 〈…〉 needs be when they shall expect or fear no Execution at all neither speedy nor tardy As for Execution by a Divine hand or punishment from God how terrible soever they are or may be when they come yet are they seldom to Kings or Persons in greatnesse of Power of any resentment at all before Divine Justice before Execution or threatenings from God are turned i●to straw and stubble and rotten wo●d before Kings To say that Kings can do no evil without instruments and Se●● 59 from hence to infer that therefore the punishment of Instruments is sufficient to bind the Kings hands from doing evil and to stop all the issues of mischief as from him is but to lay a foundation of sand to build hay and stubble upon For 1. though no man should miscarry or fall under Sathans temptation yet Sathan is neverthelesse himself as much a devil in his suggestions and temptations as he could be in case all that are tempted should fall by him The evil of Kings is not eased or diminished upon this account that they can purchase or procure no Instruments to serve them in wicked designs nay such a disappointment as this unlesse it shall be supposed universal yea and upon such terms that every person tempted by them in this kind shall at the very first reject their motion with a peremptory indignation is like to make them so much the greater Sinners For as beggars that cannot receive reliefe at one door are hereby occasioned and half necessi●ated to re-act their parts at another So tempters unto evil being under the command of such a lust which cannot be fulfilled without the consent and concurrence of others there●nto the more denials they receive are provoked to multiply their tentations so much the more and to attempt the integrity of greater numbers and consequently to sin the more And besides faint refusals do but teach the Tempter his art more perfectly But 2. Whilest Kings or Persons in Sovereignity of Power are Sect. 60 free from fear of punishment for evil practices and consequently at full Liberty to assault the weaknesses and infirmities of men by their golden baites of tentations it is in vain to conceive or expect that they should not be able to raise up a generation of Instruments for their turn against any disadvantage whatsoever How many persons have perished and do perish daily in the sight of the Sun through Sat●ans temptations and yet Sathan being at liberty to tempt the generation of evil doers through his temptations faileth not abateth not nor is like to do either untill the Tempter be tied up in chains 3. And lastly to the main Objection in hand I answe● Sect. 61 that had the servants onely suffered from the hand of Justice and the Master of the house the King being more polluted with the bloud spilt in the Land that they all escaped the Pattern in the mount I mean the example of God himself in executing Judgement and Justice had been declined and some ignoble slimie modell of the valley followed in the stead For the Scriptures from place to place still represent God as fixing his eye in speciall manner upon Kings and Princes when he threatens any severe Execution of Justice upon men for such sins wherein they were Actours as well as others And when seventy years are accomplished I will visit THE KING of Babel and that Nation saith the Lord for their iniquities c. * Jer. ●5 1● Afterwards in the same Chapter Then took I the Cup at the Lords band and made all people to drink unto whom the Lord had sent me Even Jerusalem and the Cities of Ju●●h and the KINGS thereof and the Princes thereof Pharaoh also KING of Egypt and his servants and his PRINCES and all his people And all sorts of people and all the KINGS of the land of Uz. And ALL THE KINGS of Tyrus and ALL THE KINGS of Zidon and THE KINGS of the Isles that are beyond the Sea And ALL THE KINGS of Arabia that dwell in the desert And ALL THE KINGS of Zimri and ALL THE KINGS of Elam ALL THE KINGS of the Medes And ALL THE KINGS of the North far and near c. and THE KING of She●ha●h shall drink after them * Ve●s 17 1● 19 20 c. See other places of like import Jer. 49. 3 38. 50 35. Hos 5. 10. Am. 1. 4 15. Ezek. 29. 3. 31. 18. Psal 76. 12. 110. 5 6 c. It were easy to make this pile yet much greater the holy Ghost upon all occasions seeming to make speciall threasure of this Observation that whensoever the wrath of God is revealed from heaven in any publick manner against the unrighte●●snesse of men Kings and Princes when they are of the confederacie are still placed by him in the front of the Sufferers and made to drink of the Cup of his indignation whosoever else escapeth Therefore the Ministers who so importunely presse the sparing of Agag what do they else but change that precept of Christ into an injunction of their own wherein he commands those that professe Faith and Interest in him to be perfect not as men nor as men count perfectnesse but as their heavenly Father is perfect * 〈…〉 By what hath been argued concerning Oaths in point of Obligation and Disobligation it fully appears how irrelatively Sect. 62 to their occasion our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to speak in M r. J●●kins Dialect one of the Subscribers insist upon the severe punishment of the Kingdom of Israel and of Sauls ●●●t●rity in particular by God for Sauls violation of the Oath w●ich Joshua and the children ●●●iou●●nd F●●●hfull Rep●●●entation of Israel ●ad swor● unto the Gibe●nit●s This example is just as much to their purpose as if I should alledge the severe displeasure of God against the Nation of the J●ws for crucifying of Christ to deterre Judges and Executioners of Justice in a State from putting murtherers or the most desperate Malefactours to death If the Parliament or High Court of Justice should have proceeded capitally against the King in case his Government and Deportment towards his People had been just and peaceable or without sufficient and due proof made of matters and crimes against him justly by the Laws of God and men and his own Land deserving death the examples of Sauls slaying the Gibeonites contrary to Oath and Covenant would have somewhat parallelled the case But the Ministers to make the Example so much as in colour serviceable unto their design must prove either first that the Gibeonites whom Saul slew in zeal to the Children of Israel had been murtherers and men of bloud had by inciting and joyning themselves with a discontented party of the Sons of ●elial destroyed the Lives burnt the Towns and Dwellings ruined the Esta●es of many thousand innocent persons in the