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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	bishop_n	king_n	sir_n	11,216	5	5.9979	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B04311	A sermon preached on Sunday the XXVI of July, 1685. Being the day appointed for solemn thanksgiving to almighty God, for his Majesties late victory over the rebels. / Preached at Wakefield by Obadiah Lee, M.A. and vicar there.	Lee, Obadiah, 1636 or 7-1700.	1685 (1685)	Wing L885B; ESTC R222844	9,795	31

his Heart and therefore because the more deformed any action is the fairer vizor must be put upon it Absalom forsooth must go to Hebron there to pay his Vows to the most High which he uttered when he was in trouble How glad is the good Old King at the News hereof that he hath a Son so goodly and withal so pious whom he dismisses loaden with a Fathers blessing but what trust is there in flesh and blood when David is not safe from his own Loyns Armed Troops willingly offer themselves to make up the train of this darling Prince and now he wants nothing but the Oracle of his age politick Achitophel to form the design him he gains who advises him first to ascend his Fathers Bed to prevent a future reconcilement and then to pursue his flying Fathers person yet David is not so deserted of God or Man but gathers an Army of Loyal Subjects though far inferiour to that of Rebellious Absalom which Army he first Musters and then dismisses while himself retires to Mehanaim to see the event of this fatal battel Well the battel is joyned and the Lord of Hosts with whom it is all one to save with many or with few takes part with justice and lets rebellious Israel feel what it is to bear Arms for a Trayterous Usurper the news of which we have in the Text. Thus I have given you as short account as I could of the occasion of the text it was rebellious Israels defeat and usurping Absaloms death that gave Life to these words I was going to draw the parallel sutable to this days joy but I suppose none that have heard the History can be to seek to draw the parallel Had not we also an Absalom our late Kings Son though Illegitimate one indowed with perfection of Body and Mind only with Absalom wanting Grace and Loyalty Was he not as high in the King his Fathers favour as ever Absalom was in Davids yet Royal favours work nothing upon a disloyal Heart for though he was as great and high as Riches and Honour could make him or a Subject in his circumstances could expect yet filius ante diem patrios inquirit in annos he searches his Fathers Register and finding him not old enough yet to dye he seeks by an untimely death to cut off his too indulgent Father and kind Uncle that he also might usurp the Throne And did not he use the same methods and tread in the same paths that Absalom did of old having rendered himself conspicuous by a more than common Valour and Conduct in foreign Wars he advances in honour and esteem and by his Princely train especially into the West which it seems he design'd for a more bloody Stage and prodigious flattery in self-disregarding familiarity with those of meaner quality he gained their affections and stole their hearts And now all mens mouths are filled with the praises of this young Prince he is become at once the darling both of King and Subject Munmouth's Health is drunk his Praises sung in every place but amidst the praises of the admiring vulgar black thoughts possess the disloyal heart Neither does he want an Achitophel the man with three Names that once betrayed the Grand-father and therefore the more likely to betray the Father too This cunning man fills the young head with aspiring projects and by his policy forms a Plot for the destruction of the King the then Duke of York our present Sovereign and ruine of the Government but through Gods special Providence this Plot was discovered and he who expected to be Proclaimed King was proclaimed a Traytor but the close Traytor quickly improves into an open Rebel he therefore no sooner hears of the death of the King but he provides himself with Arms and Ammunition and had his spies with Absalom in several parts of these nations to sound the affections of the people and make way for his ready reception and though his as well as Absalom's Achitophel was dead yet he pursues the design invades two nations at once by himself and accomplices and under the stale pretense of extirpating Popery and Tyranny he breaks out into open Rebellion and pushes on to the issue of a Battel And though the Loyal Party was as far inferiour to the Rebels in number as those of David were to those of Absalom yet God who is the only giver of Victory by these few defeats the more numerous Rebels And we also had a valiant Ahimaaz Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe Great Grand-Son to the famous 〈◊〉 Tobias Matthews Arch Bishop of YORK our own Countrey man and he also of Sacerdotal Race to bring Englands King Tidings how the Lord had avenged him of his Enemies Thus you see the parallel holds in all the particulars and now I hope we may say all is well and how can we better express our praises to God for this wonderful mercy than in the words of the Text blessed be the Lord our God which hath delivered up the men that lift up their hand against our Lord the King In the Text are three things Observable 1. There were men that lift up their hand against the King The best of Kings have Enemies 2. These men thus lifting up their hand against the King are delivered up viz. to death and destruction Ruine is the ordinary consequence of Rebellion 3. The God of Israel blessed for thus delivering up the men that lift up their hand against the King of Israel Blessed be the Lord thy God c. 1. There were men that lift up their hand against the King This is supposed for if there had been none such there had been no blessing of God for delivering them up The best of Kings are not secure from the worst of Enemies such as dare to lift up their hands against them Moses was a Wise a Learned and a Pious Prince one set up immediately by God and proved his immediate call to the Government by most stupendous Miracles and yet this Moses is conspired against as an Usurper and a Tyrant one that took too much upon him and set himself above the Congregation of the Lord and tho these found a judgment worthy of God the Earth no longer able to bear those sinful burdens of it opened her mouth and swallowed them up so that they went quick into Hell yet Rebellion perished not with these Rebels David was one of Gods own chusing a Man after Gods own heart one that had often hazarded his Life for the defence of Israel his People yet we have this David complaining Psalm 3.1 Lord how are they increased that trouble me many are they that rise up against me an expression the more remarkable because pen'd upon his flight from Absalom he had foreign Enemies Ishbosheth Hanun Hadadezer the state of the Philistines he had homebred Rebels those that lift up their hand against him though their natural Prince Absalom Achitophel Amasa here Sheba Adonijah and Joab afterwards VSE 1 Let not