Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	bless_v	let_v	praise_v	13,035	5	9.8164	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37283	A thanksgiving-sermon preach'd at Sutton in Surrey, April the 16th, 1696 being the national thanksgiving day for His Majesty's most happy preservation from the most detestable assassination, in order to a French invasion / by Henry Day ...	Day, Henry, M.A.	1694 (1694)	Wing D463; ESTC R16920	10,274	30

A Thanksgiving-Sermon Preach'd at SUTTON in SURREY APRIL the 16th 1696. Being the National Thanksgiving-Day FOR His Majesty's most Happy Preservation from the most Detestable Assassination in order to a French Invasion By HENRY DAY M. A. LONDON Printed for Richard Baldwin near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane MDCXCVI A Thanksgiving-Sermon Preached at SVTTON in SVRRY c. PSALM CXXII 6. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem they shall prosper that love thee WHatever was the particular Occasion of this Pslam 't is commonly taken for a Song of Rejoicing after Victory upon the Resettlement of the Kingdom of Israel in Peace and Quietness The Royal Psalmist seems not to be better pleas'd with his Success which was perhaps his winning the Fort upon the Rock of Sion than with the Opportunity it gave him to go up to Jerusalem to praise the Lord of Hosts that inspir'd him with Courage and bless'd him with Victory Ver. 1. I was glad when they said unto me Let us go into the house of the Lord. Ver. 2. Our feet shall stand within thy gates O Jerusalem Diodati paraphrases We shall no more need to run here and there to do God's Service as we did at other times when the Ark removed from place to place now that it stands still in Jerusalem we shall not go any where else Ver. 3. Jerusalem is built as a city that is compact together David having paid his Devotions celebrates the Holy City 1 st for its Compactness i. e. as some interpret for its Uniform Beautiful Buildings others because of the joining of the low Town and Castle for the latter till the time of David remain'd in the hands of the Jebusites whom the Children of Judah could not drive out He prosecutes his Praise of the City farther taking notice that it was the place Ver. 4. Whither the tribes go up the tribes of the Lord unto the testimony of Israel to give thanks unto the name of the Lord. Ver. 5. For there are set thrones of judgment the thrones of the house of David The chiefest Honour of Jerusalem is plac'd in these two things it was the Place of Worship and the Seat of Judicature thrice in the year the Inhabitants go up thither to praise the Lord there also sat the Sanbedrim the Supreme Court of the Nation moreover there was the Palace of the King For these several Great and Weighty Reasons David owns it the Duty of himself and Subjects to pray for the Peace of Jerusalem Pray for the peace of Jerusalem they shall prosper that love thee The word Jerusalem is taken Properly for the City it self or Metonymically for the Inhabitants in general or Metaphorically for the Celestial City the Heavenly Jerusalem In this place it manifestly signifies the Inhabitants of Jerusalem in general of what Order or Degree what Quality or Denomination soever every Man of them in particular is requir'd to pray for the Prosperity of the whole Body of them in general The Scripture never uses the word Jerusalem but in one of the three ways which I have mention'd yet I confess it is applied sometimes to the Church of England and by them that apply it so the Church is restrain'd to signify none but the Clergy but if other men had equal Heat of Fancy they might with equal reason apply it to our Merchants and the word Merchants might be restrain'd to the East-India Company in contradistinction to the Interlopers Without question the Royal Psalmist was sensibly concern'd for the Prosperity of all Israel and not of one Tribe only 'T is true David was often piously busied in regulating the Service of the Temple but we do not ever find and cannot reasonably suppose him to have been so partial as to intercede with God only for the Levites and so it went well with them not to care how it far'd with all the People besides A Learned Man hath lately told us of a Muscovite Divine that thought Heaven was made only for the Czar and the Boyars David knew better nor Heaven nor Earth was ever promised as an Inheritance to a particular Order of Men with exclusion to others In the New Testament we read that God desires that all men all in general might come to the knowledge of the Truth and be saved And David desires that all his Subjects all in general may understand their Interest and their Duty and by Associating for the Safety and Honour of his Sacred Person of their common Religion Laws and Liberties become settled in a happy Peace and bless'd with a full Prosperity Granting that the distinction of Clergy and Laity is founded on the Word of God yet surely Clergy and Laity ought not to have Distinct and Separate Interests but as in One God they both believe in order to their Everlasting Happiness so by the same Laws they should both be willing to be govern'd the same King they should both own for their RIGHTFUL and LAWFUL Sovereign that so the Peace of their common Jerusalem of their Native Countrey may be promoted the Prosperity of every Honest Man among them taken care of Without this Unity of Interest without this Unity of Allegiance no Government can be settled on sure Foundations no King secured from a Combination of Murderous Assassines They who shall interpret praying for the Peace of Jerusalem to be nothing else but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 praying for the things which make only for the advantage of the Priesthood they do as good as bid the Secular Power take care of it self they alienate the Affections of the despis'd People from them they enervate the force of their own wisest Instructions in short they very anti-Apostolically invert the honest Practice of St. Paul hinted in that Divine Aphorism We seek not yours but you I have said that the Word Jerusalem in the Text is to be taken Metonymically for the Inhabitants of Jerusalem and that in general not for the Levites only but for the Laick Vulgar also even the whole Bulk of the Twelve Tribes The next thing to be determin'd is what King David meant by this Phrase Pray for the peace of Jerusalem That Teacher who throws out hard Words and mysterious Expressions to the people intends to amuse them or has some other Design not more honourable But whoso uses Words and Expressions common and plain gives a fair testimony that he has no sinister Ends to serve when he delivers his Message Few men care to trouble themselves with an inquiry after the sense of hard Words and mysterious Expressions but Words and Expressions common and plain they understand without an Interpreter though yet by accident through the untowardness of men of perverse minds even the plainest things that can be said shall need an explanation I make no question but the Enemies of David who sought to cast him down from his Excellency i. e. to dethrone him for no mean Criticks of different Parties suppose him when he penn'd the 62d Psalm to have been a Crown'd