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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	child_n	israel_n	moses_n	21,148	5	7.7333	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45743	A sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons, at St. Margaret Westminster, on the thirtieth of January, 1694/5 by John Hartcliffe ...	Hartcliffe, John, 1651-1712.	1695 (1695)	Wing H970; ESTC R9583	12,292	31

Mr. HARTCLIFFE's SERMON Before the House of Commons January 30. 1694 5. Jovis 31. die Januarii 1694. Ordered THat the Thanks of this House be given to Mr. HARTCLIFFE for the SERMON by him Preached yesterday at St. Margaret VVestminster And that he be desired to Print the same and that Mr. Hunt and Mr. Hungerford do acquaint him therewith Paul Jodrell Cler. Dom. Com. A SERMON Preached before the Honourable House of Commons AT St. MARGARET WESTMINSTER ON The Thirtieth of January 1694 5. By John Hartcliffe B. D. CANON of Windsor LONDON Printed for Charles Harper at the Flower-de-luce over-against S. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet 1695. A SERMON ON PSALM 90. Verse XV. Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us and the years wherein we have seen evil THIS Psalm is made up of a complaint for the afflictions as well as the shortness of human Life together with an earnest prayer to God for a speedy return of his Mercy it doth particularly reflect on those times in which Moses lived when the Children of Israel suffered great hardships in the Wilderness and numbers of them were cut off for their provocations So that the Author hereof doth in the most passionate manner cry out our Troubles have been very heavy and have lasted very long let us have O Lord some proportion of Joy to so large a share of Sorrow and make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us and the years wherein we have seen evil By the Words we are directed First To consider what we have seen of Evil in passed years chiefly that which this day reminds us of Secondly To flie to the God of all consolation for comfort and joy that he would make us glad according to the days wherein he hath afflicted us To look back upon days of adversity and trouble is an unpleasant and melancholly sight however some good use may be made of it for thereby we shall see that a long Sun-shine of God's Mercy hath ripen'd the Sins of a Nation so that it shall be ready for the strokes of his Justice Thereby also we shall perceive with what subtlety the Seeds of Sedition have been sown and how mischievously they have been spread abroad in Libels To what a degree of heat and madness the lust and ambition of some Men hath been raised so that nothing could allay them till they had sull scope to take their revenge and wreak 〈◊〉 their malice both upon Church and State In order to this End we our selves have seen and our Fathers have told us what strange and monstrous Things have been done it being very much so for Subjects to Murder their King without shame and in the face of the Sun for the feet thus unnaturally to trample upon and throw off their Head The meanest indeed of the People must be the most proper and fit Instruments for such a work because low Descent and poor Education do by a natural Power incline the thoughts to an imperious Humour to cruelty and disobedience Now the more effectually to recommend this black Design and to give it a fair Face it was nam'd the Cause of God and the principal Actors therein were stiled God's own Israel Whereupon every Street was filled with their Cryes that all People would come out of Egypt and they had indeed provided them a Red-Sea of Blood for their passage So that in this day of our affliction all the Evil was acted under the vizard of Religion which did much aggravate the guilt of the chief Agents whose hearts were engag'd in the contrivance of the most unwarrantable Deed when their hands and eyes were offering up prayers and tears to Gods Throne nay they seemed to labour under strong Impulses of Spirit till they had brought forth the evil thing they had conceived which they could not have done so easily had they not united Men of different Interests by a Covenant What a Device was this to help forward the birth of the most amazing Wickedness by such an engagement as was never heard of in antient Times any otherwise than as at the making of their Leagues they were wont to kill Beasts and divide them so this also was solemniz'd with division and slaughter These were the years in which peaceable and upright Walking before God and Obedience to lawful Authority were exchang'd for an unusual Mode of Speech only and a formality of Looks The worst actions Men could be guilty of were attributed to the dictates of God's Holy Spirit and they were more busied in finding out some marks of Conversion than about the practise of real Godliness till at length the whole State was overthrown by fictions and lying Words For by these they did blacken and misrepresent the King himself that he might the more plausibly be Sacrificed to the will of his Enemies The horridness of which Fact may be here briefly considered in the fatal Consequences of it for as one absurdity begets many so did this Evil spread itself into many pernicious Evils which may be reduced to these two sorts 1. Such as were of Civil 2. Such as were of a Religious Concern We have felt the Death of the King to be a sore Judgment by the terrible Effects of it which did spead themselves over the Face and thrô the Veins and into the Bowels of the three Kingdoms Many Noble and Antient Families were not only undone but there immediately followed a Change of that Government whose Praise had been proclaimed on the Earth for many Centuries For as soon as the King was gone our Fellow-Subjects took upon them to be our Princes and to govern us at their pleasure in order to satisfie their Avarice or their Ambition and first they called themselves a Council of State but after that and the Nobility was excluded came in the Rule of the Common People by their Representatives only this increased the Number of our Rulers consequently the Burden of our Slavery by being forced to serve so many Masters After these were deprived of the Power they had usurp'd and abused began the Dominion of the Sword then we had as many Princes as there were Major-Generals who perhaps if they had out liv'd their Captain would have canton'd the Kingdom into so many several Principalities as when it was shred into Democracy the Streams of Government ran thin and shallow being cut into many Channels Thus it was when their Leader after the Pattern of Jeroboam who made Priests of the basest of the People set up his Creatures too in the House of Lords and would have all the Tribes come up and worship them After this manner when the King was gone a kind of Giddiness seized those who would be uppermost and usurp his Place insomuch that the state of things was continually toss'd from hand to hand rolling like a Ship in the midst of a tempestuous Sea with all her Rigging Masts and Rudder-Bands broken down and without a Pilot to stee her