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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	begin_v	king_n	year_n	13,736	5	5.6587	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45563	The royal common-wealth's man, or King David's picture represented in a sermon preached at the solemnity of the funeral of Sir Tho. Adams, knight and baronet, and alderman of London ; in St. Katherine Creechurch, on the 10th of March, 1667 / by Nath. Hardy ...	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1668 (1668)	Wing H742; ESTC R16815	26,628	50

hayle and lusty at 80. than David was at 70. That Promise in the Psalm Thou shalt see thy childrens children and peace upon Israel was abundantly made good to him as to Childrens children and though he lived to see both domestick and foreign wars yet before he died he saw peace upon our English Israel which God of his mercy long continue And as he was full of daies so he filled these daies with all sorts of good actions he well knew the worth of time which we for the most part undervalue and accounting every minute pretious took care to spend not only his daies but his hours well so that his gray hairs being found in a way of righteousness were a crown to him and what Scaliger said of Strisset may no less justly be said of him it was pity ut aut senium senem faceret aut lex naturae vita privaret either that age should have made him old or the law of nature bereaved him of life As to Riches and honour it is true he came far short of David yet he wanted not his share of either God was pleased so far to bless his honest indeavours in that Calling wherein his Providence had placed him that he enjoyed a liberal portion of this worlds goods nor did he want those honors which were suitable to him David indeed was a King and so the supreme person in his kingdom He was whilst Lord Mayor chief officer of this City during his continuance in which Place he did by virtue of his office represent the King's person Whatsoever honor in the City he was capable of he was chosen to Master of his Company Alderman of a Ward President of St. Thomas his Hospital several times Burgess in Parliament though the iniquity of the times would not permit him to sit Sheriff Lord Mayor After which he at length became and so continued for some years as Benazah was said to be a mighty man among the 30. the first among the 26. the eldest Alderman upon the bench that had served in the Office of a Lord Mayor to whom is given that honourable title of the Father of the City nor had he only all this honour from the City but his King also gave him the greatest honour he was capable of in his station making him not only a Knight but a Barronet which descends upon Posterity I mention these not as if riches or honours or both were abstractively considered Topicks of Commendation but in as much as they are conferred by God sometimes upon good men as the encouragements and made use of by them as the Instruments of virtue and so they were to him he being a bountiful steward of his riches nor did his dignities so much honour him as he them I cannot say of him as Christ said lo a greater than Solomon He was greater or richer than David nay much inferiour no nor yet better than David nor yet so good But thus much I dare say it was his laudable ambition to be as good he indeavoured to tread in Davids footsteps and what is said in my Text concerning David I shall confidently affirm of him and that in both translations He was one who served his own generation by the will of God and who in his own generation served the will of God Throughout the age of his life he was through God's Providence instated in manifold Relations intrusted with various offices conversant in several imployments in all which he had no cause to complain with him who said Omnia fui nihil profui I was every thing and profited nothing All of them being as so many Cutts and Chanels through which did run his several vertues and graces And now as he said of St. Cyprian Onerosum enumerare It would be a burdensome task to enumerate all particulars since Inopem me copia fecit Plenty makes me poor and I have so much to say that I know not where to begin If you please I will begin with that which is in Solomons language the beginning of wisdom namely the fear of the Lord. He was eminent for Religion and Devotion That Orthodox Religion which is professed in the Church of England he faithfully adhered to cordially owning her Doctrine and Discipline Hierarchy and Liturgy and though he lived in an inconstant age wherein it was the mode to change Religions as women do fashions he proved not a reed o● a willow but an Oak stedfast and immoveable Great was his respect to the Orthodox and Orthoprax Clergy Those who were Sufferers he charitably relieved Those who were Labourers he bountifully encouraged The very feet of them that served at the Altar were beautiful in his eies and I should be very ingrateful if I should not acknowledg my self though most unworthy to have had a Benjamen's share in his Favour Schismatical Conventicles he ahhorred but duly frequented the Church Assemblies I was for many yeares an ocular witness of his attendance on the Publick Ordinances where he was a Joint Petitioner at the Throne of Grace a Judicious Auditor of God's word a diligent receiver of the Lord's Supper from the monethly administration whereof I do not remember he was absent if in Town and in health and though it was an age wherein irreverence was in fashion and Devotion decryed as superstition he was exemplary for his reverent behaviour in God's house seldom at Prayers but upon his knees unless want of room hindred him his head still uncovered at the reading and preaching of Gods word and alwaies kneeling at the Holy Communion nor was he only as I fear too many are Religious in the Church but his Family praying with and for them and giving wholesome Counsels to them That Character which Almighty God giveth concerning Abraham for I know him that he will command his Children and his houshold after him to keep the way of the Lord did justly belong to him whose care it was to bring up his Children in the fear and instruct his servants in the ways of the Lord and his resolve was that of Joshua I and my house will serve the Lord. Finally trace him not only from God's house to his own but from his chamber to his closet and there you might have found him daily setting time apart for his meditations and devotions nor could any secular affairs divert him from God's Service and therefore when his occasions called him forth sooner he would still rise the earlier that he might begin the day with God with whom he always also closed it up Thus during his age and generation in this world he served his God and no less careful was he to serve his King remembring that Fear the Lord and the King are joyned together by Solomon He was a strenuous asserter of Monarchical Government Nor can I pass by one argument which he often used upon that account where Almighty God by his Prophet Ezekiel reconing up the manifold blessings he had conferr'd upon his

People Israel mentioneth this among the rest as none of the least thou didst prosper into a Kingdom by which is clearly intimated that those nations are most prosperous which are under Kingly Government nay that Kingly Government is a prosperity to a people He was I dare say among the number of the mourners in Sion for all the Abominations which were committed and especially for that execrable treason in murthering the Father and banishing the Son nor did he cease to be an importunate Petitioner at Heaven gates for the restauration of King and Church Upon the account of his Loyalty to Charles the first of blessed memory When Lord Mayor his house was searched by the rebels then in power supposing there to have found the King the year after he was cast into the Tower and there kept a Prisoner and for several years put by all Publick offices and imployments they finding him a man that would not be moulded into their several formes nor make shipwrack of his Conscience to serve their interests Upon the account of his Loyalty to Charles the Second Whom God Almighty prosper during his Exile he hazarded his estate and life by sending him considerable summes of money beyond sea and when the Blessed time came of his joyful Return to his Throne though he was in the 73. year of his age which might have been a just excuse for his staying at home this aged Banzillai went not only over Jordan river but crossed the Sea to attend his Soveraign home Next to God and the King I dare say the City of London was written upon his heart wherein he spent by far the greatest part of his life and hath now breathed his last Here through God's blessing he got and here he spent a considerable part of his estate in the Citie 's service He was of so publick a spirit that when his Son in Law brought him the first news of his being chosen Sheriff of London he immediately dismissed the particular business about which he was and never after personally followed his trade but gave himself up to the City concernes It was his study to know the Customes and usages the liberties and priviledges of the City and accordingly his endeavour in his several capacities to preserve and maintain them He was not only in word but in deed an Assistant a Guardian yea a Pillar of the Right Worshipful Company of Drapers He was a vigilant President of Saint Thomas his Hospital which probably had been ruined before this but that his sagacity and industry discovered the fraud of an unjust steward In the Court of Aldermen he was as an Oracle very subservient by his grave and prudent counsels to the Cities Government He was so far from self-seeking that when he was Lord Mayor he did not make those advantages which usually are by selling the vacant places Whilst a private tradesman he was exact so far as I ever heard in commutative Justice in his bargains and contracts of buying and selling and when a publick Magistrate he was no less conscientious of distributive Justice between man and man so that what Lampridius said of Alexander Severus he was Virbonus reipublicae necessarius a good man and very needful for the Common wealth may be affirmed of him in reference to the City he was not only a good man but exceedingly useful by his Justice and prudence for the Cities welfare I must not forget to tell you how he served the Town where he received his first breath by building there and endowing a Free-School with a considerable maintenance for the education of Children How he hath served the University of Cambridge by erecting an Arabick Lecture and setling upon the Lecturer 40 l. per annum for his pains in reading it hereby testifying himself to be a lover of learning to which indeed none is an enemy but the ignorant and therefore he could not having himself a very competent measure of knowledg Nor were these munificent works to bear the date of their beginning from his death but the one began 20 and the other 30 years ago nor is their maintenance only setled for some term of years but as we usually express it for ever by which means he hath not only served his own but succeeding Generations nay in that Arabick lecture he hath served those remote Eastern parts of the world upon which account at the desire of the Reverend Master Wheelock now with God he was at the charge of printing the Persian Gospels and transmitting them into those parts yea by these wayes he endeavoured to serve the Lord Christ promoting the Christian Religion and to use his own Language throwing a stone at the forehead of Mahomet that grand Impostor Thus he was serviceable in his Generation to the will of God Honor of Christ Welfare of the City Benefit of Country and University nor was he awanting to serve the Poor neither by his Charity his hands were frequently open whilst he lived upon all occasions and notwithstanding many late great damages to his estate he hath given considerable legacies to the poor of several Parishes to Hospitals to Ministers widows and such like at his death all which I cannot now stay particularly to enumerate Finally let me not tire your Patience if to the rest of his graces and vertues I adde his Patience whereby he served the will of God in suffering To serve the will of God in doing good was his meat and drink to submit to his will in suffering evil was his Antidote and Cordial The truth is this good mans coat like Josephs was particoloured his wine mixed with water nay with gall and wormwood many doleful losses he met with as to his worldly goods some disastrous crosses in his near Relations such as himself said he could not have born were it not for this Book pointing to the Bible which lay before him but there he met still with that which comforted him frequently among others making use of that Passage of Job to his wife Shall we receive good at the hands of God and shall we not receive evil The latter years of his life have been years of Pain to him by reason of that Disease of the Stone in the bladder whereof at last he died A stone so weighty that it exceeded 25 ounces so grievous that a little before his death it made him roar but yet not murmur God graciously supporting him under the weight and sustaining him under the pain of it and indeed the Providence of God was singularly remarkable in that having a stone of so vast a bigness in his bladder his pain was comparatively so little his life so long for had there not been as it were a way pav'd or rather a channel cut through the stone for his Water to pass the stoppage of it must of necessity have very much added to his smart lessened his days He hath now taken his leave of this world and truly I may