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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	church_n	day_n	holy_a	18,897	5	5.6068	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29123	A sermon preached at the minster in Yorke at the assizes there holden, the thirtieth day of March, 1663 / by Thomas Bradley ...	Bradley, Thomas, 1597-1670.	1663 (1663)	Wing B4138; ESTC R34267	29,067	58

and Kingdome and all the people under their Government so amongst the Romans when any great Officer civill or military had done good service for the Commonwealth he was honoured with the title of a good Patriot or a Father of his Country and when men of the best ranke amongst them the Patricii came to be listed among the Senatours they were stiled Patres conscripti listed Fathers the Kings of the Philistines were stiled Abimelech which is as much as to say the King my Father and nothing more frequent nor familiar with Solomon throughout the whole booke of the Proverbs then speaking to his Subjects to call them his sonnes and why all this but to shew with what a Fatherly affection Princes and Rulers ought to governe their Subjects and with what filiall and sonne-like duties of honour reverence and obedience Subjects ought to carry towards them again In the first commandement of the second Table which St. Paul takes notice of to be the first Commandement with promise Ephes 6.1 the duty of Subjects to their King and Governours is call'd for under the notion of honour and the motive perswading to the duty that it may come sweetly and chearfully is the relation of a Father Honour thy Father and thy Mother thy Father the King and thy Mother the Church thy Father the Civill Magistrate thy Mother the Ecclesiasticall for that this command doth not only concerne our naturall Parents nor cheifly them but principally the Magistrate our Civill Father and the Church our Holy Mother the reason in the commandment which is the promise annex't to such obedience doth clearly evince That thy dayes may be long in the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee which clearly declareth that this command is not principally meant of a family command but of a Nationall command nor the promise a personall promise but a more generall promise to the People nor the duty so much intended of a family duty of piety of children toward their Parents as of subjection and obedience of Subjects toward their Civill and Ecclesiasticall Parents the King and the Church the neglect of which duty toward them and their undutifull murmurings mutinings seditions conspiracies treasons and rebellions against them is the ruine of Kingdomes the destruction of Monarchies great States Cities Common-wealths and the ready way to shorten the period of them for by these they expose themselves to the Rapine of all their enemies or of any any Nation that will take the advantage of their divisions and dissentions to fall in upon them and to make a prey of them and so throw them with their Kings and Princes out of the Land which the Lord their God had given unto them as it is now with this very People to whom this command was given as you may read 2 Kings 17. and 2 Chronicles 36. The only way for a people to live long in the Land which the Lord their God giveth them to prolong their dayes in peace and happinesse is by honouring and being obedient to their father and their mother their Rulers and Governours both Civill and Ecclesiasticall yet it pleaseth the wisedome of God to commend these duties to us under this near and dear relation of Parents and children that both the termes in it may from this expression learn their duty that Princes and Rulers may govern with a gentle hand much tendernesse and affection not as Tyrants but as Fathers not as over slaves but as over sonnes and on the other hand that Subjects may know how to obey not as by compulsion but of a free willing minde not out of a slavish fear but out of a filiall affection Thus while Rulers governe their People as Fathers and the People honour and obey as sonnes it is the only way to prolong our dayes in peace plenty happinesse security and to live long in the Land which the Lord our God giveth unto us and all this is taught us under this sweet notion and relation in the Text wherein Job professeth himselfe to be unto the poor a father And this was the second Character of a worthy Magistrate we now come to the third in the next words of the Text The Cause that I knew not I searched out These words shew the pains and patience prudence diligence which Job did and all other worthy Judges and Magistrates do and ought to use in examining Causes Persons brought before them for finding out of the truth that so they may judge righteous judgement all these are comprehended in the word searched The cause c. I searched out The righteous Judge of all the world when he came down from heaven to earth as sometimes he did to execute judgement though he knew the cause before he came yet before he past sentence or executed judgment he would examine the Cause and find out the truth by diligent enquiry see this in the examination of Adam Gen 3. the arraignment of Cain Gen 4. the judgement of Sodom Gen 19. Adam where art thou to the first and hast thou eaten of the fruits of the tree of which I commanded thee thou shouldst not eat as if he knew nothing of it Cain where is thy brother Abel to the second thy father hath lost a sonne the world a saint and I a faithfull servant and martyr thou must not so carry it thou shalt not so go away with the murder ubi est Abelfrater tuus where is thy brother Abel I will go down see to the third he needed not to go down and see for his own information the cry of the City was come up to him and might save his labour for going down to them as to his own information but by this his judiciary proceedings the Judge of all the world would teach all earthly Judges to know how warily and orderly they ought to proceed in hearing determining causes that are brought before them that so they may find out the truth and give sentence without error hence it is that Judges were anciently called Cognitores and to hear a cause in the Roman Orators language was cognoscere causam to know a cause and this requires much paines and patience prudence and diligence not slightly to passe it over but to search into it It is the honour of a King to search out a matter saith Solomon Pro 25.2 a rare example whereof he was himselfe in the case between the two harlots in discovering the true mother of the child in question 1 Kings 3. and such is the command in all other cases in the case case of Idolatry Deut 17.4 and in the case of false witnesse Deut 19.17 in the former saith the Text Thou shalt make diligent enquiry in the latter Thou shalt make diligent search both made good here in my Text by this worthy King Judge and Magistrate the subject of our discourse the cause which I knew not I searched out and great reason is there for all this care paines patience