Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	daughter_n	king_n	son_n	18,071	5	5.0209	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26263	Awake Sampson, the Philistines are upon thee! or, A caution to England to take heed to her locks, least they being cut off by intrigues, she be made to grind at the mill of France ... by a lover of the true interest of his country.	Lover of the true interest of his country.	1696 (1696)	Wing A4275A; ESTC R14204	24,557	26

People had such Experiences of the Goodness of God by his many Deliverances by his own Hand and by the Persons he was pleased to raise as his Instruments but too much like unto you this was not satisfactory unto them but they would choose a King and declined the method which God had been pleased to lead them by but require of Samuel a King to Judge them like other Nations and the Lord permitted Samuel to answer their desire saying that they had not rejected him viz. Samuel but had rejected the Lord according to all the Works they had done viz the Murmurers for there were always some that stood in the Gap since the day they came out of Egypt And when they were to be gratified Samuel was ordered by the Lord to shew them the manner of their King viz. This shall be the manner of the King that shall Reign over you he will take your Sons and Daughters for Himself and he will take your Fields and your Vineyards and give them to his Servants and ye shall cry out in that day because of your King which you shall have chosen you and the Lord will not hear you in that day nevertheless the People refused to obey the Voice of Samuel and they said Nay but we will have a King over us c. How plainly applicable this would be to our case is easie to understand should we by our Murmurings provoke the Lord to anger against us and by our Divisions and Animosities one against the other intice and animate the French King to attempt another Invasion under the specious Pretences of a Magnanimous and Royal Act of Restoring King James to his Throne again But alas who can describe the consequence of such an Act I tremble to go about it and Methinks the Israelites yoke under their King is easie to what we may expect To begin with the first clause He will take your Sons and your Daughters for Himself denoting the absolute Authority the King was to have over their Children for the placing of them here or there this or that Employment as is there express'd noble and ignoble some were to be Captains of Thousands others of Fifties Confectioners Bakers some to reap some to sow c. as you may read in the Story Here is Mercy mix'd with Judgment an ordinary variety of circumstances of humane Life wherein no Man even the meanest servant was to be debarr'd the placid reflection he having done his duty upon the Law of God Fear God Honour the King the meanest Israelite reaping might rejoice in his happy state compar'd with Egypt's cruel oppressive Slavery But oh fearful Thought What can we expect from our Enemies who I am bold to affirm are the Enemies of God and good Men Stupid Souls Can you think the French King will be kinder to you than to his own Faithful Loyal Subjects who gain'd him the Crown by their indefatigable Labour and true Valour Take a view of his Gratitude and their Recompence Are they made Captains of Thousands and Hundreds yea tell me where is the poor Protestant Reaper allow'd to dwell peaceably in all his Dominions Instead of taking their Sons and Daughters to himself some he hath sent to the cruel Slavery of the Gallies some he has destroy'd without Mercy in most inexpressible Tragical manner and are not our eyes daily beholders of the many miserably banish'd Subjects of that King besides the innumerable multitudes banish'd other Countries Will your Sons and Daughters think ye be better used No no be not deceived the Fire of his Ambition Hatred Covetousness is rather seven times hotter and instead of Delighting in the Flames of London's Houses he would be glad to see Nero like your Sons and Daughters how delicate soever they are in your eyes burnt with them And to the second description of the murmuring Israelites King And he will take your Fields and your Vineyards and give them to his Servants c. Here the King 's peremptory will over his Subjects Estates is described an Israelite with an Israelite one advanced and the other brought low no Family exempted from such vicissitudes but the most dejected Israelite tho never so abject in the King's sight if free from blemishes of the Law might have recourse to the Temple and there rejoice in the God of his Father Abraham Blessed Priviledge meliorating the sowrest affliction But what Oh murmuring Englishman Canst thou expect from the French King that great Destroyer of Countrys Vineyards Corn-Fields Pastorage c. Do you Think if you escape with your Lives you shall dispose of your Houses Riches Lands c. Vain thought Forget not how you have been served by your own Kings born among you who never arriv'd to so infinite Barbarity as he hath done yet have not they banish'd several of your fellow Subjects to the West-Indies dispos'd your Goods and Money amongst vile Informers Is France more tender-hearted What bravely erected Churches curious Mansions fair Estates of his Protestant Subjects hath he demolished and made heaps of Rubbish even Dunghils of and forced the Owners of them into other Countries to seek for places of Refuge where they might sigh out their piteous complaints like the bless'd Souls under the Altar How long O Lord just and true c. And will he be kinder to you ye hard-hearted Murmurers No! He will esteem the meanest pitiful flattering Vale de Chambre-Monsieur before the most noble generous-hearted Peer of England and make him possessor of his Estate Pray tell me have ye not seen from among your selves a cunning tricking flattering person to serve the Prince's by-ends preferr'd before you What! expect ye kinder usage from France Don't mistake if ye by your Murmurings provoke the Lord to Anger and your hatred one of another break his commands and bring the French among you The Dogs of his Flock will he make to traverse your Estates and when he has done if it were possible make them Heirs of them rather than you His Revenge is not a light matter Provoke not the Almighty to let it out upon you It may not be impertinent to re-mind you the greatest Grievance you at present lie under in reference to the Coin is from the pre-meditated revenge cunning intrigues of your Antient Enemies the French it being part of the Plot in 1678 as may be seen in the Narrative of the Plot and in a late Discourse called A Tragedy c. in these words This Flot was to be effected by worse than Jewish Interest Transportation of Trade People Stock and Money ADVLTERATING MONEY AND PLATE To which end they have Bankers Merchants Goldsmiths and other Traders whom they stock and set up with Money of their Society of which they boast to have one hundred thousand pounds Cash c. What Stock they may have now is inconceivably great Oh England how long will you nourish these poysonous Vipers of the World by your Murmurings and Jealousies and discern it not I shall conclude in the words of another As the Case stands now there are but two Ways Victory or Slavery We must either make the French stoop to us or be forced to submit to them there remains no Terms of Peace for us but what will fix an everlasting Infamy upon the English Name In short the Greatness of England and France is incompatible if they rise we must fall and the richer they grow the poorer we shall be their Glory will be erected on our Shame and a Peace at this time would introduce far greater and more certain Calamities than War c. Awake England Thine Enemies are not only upon thee but within thee FINIS