Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	day_n	let_v	see_v	12,443	5	3.3866	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59269	A sermon preach'd at the chappel royal in the Tower upon the death of Her Sacred Majesty, our Late Gracious Queen Mary / by a true lover of the church, the King, and his country.	True lover of the church, the King, and His country.	1695 (1695)	Wing S2632; ESTC R19634	24,464	39

applied O how is the Mighty fallen 2 Sam. 1.19 how lovely and pleasant was She in her Life and yet she is fallen as if she had not been anointed with Oil. And indeed nothing in the whole World could have more convincingly assured us of this Truth that all Flesh is Grass than her Fall hath done But I hasten to what yet remains There are two Duties that seem specially and necessarily to be incumbent upon us at this time First What we are to do to sanctify or at least how we are to demean our selves that God may sanctify this great Loss to us Secondly What we are to do to lessen it so as it may not prove fatal to us First How we are to improve this so as to have it sanctified to us This is certain by such Dispensations as these the Death of his Servants God doth forewarn us of future Judgments especially if they be such as are great and eminent whether in Church or State We have now lost the Greatest in both and this is a fearful Sign that some heavy Judgment attends the Remnant of the People This is that whereof our Prophet speaks Behold the Lord the Lord of Hosts Isa 3.1 2 3. doth take away from Jerusalem the mighty Man and the Man of War the Judg and the Prophet and the Prudent and the Antient the Captain of Fifty and the honourable Man and the Counsellor and all this threatned as the Fore-runner of heavy Judgments such as the having Children for their Princes Ver. 4 5. their oppressing one another Ver. 8. and no less than the Ruin of Jerusalem and the Fall of Judah And the same Prophet elsewhere tells us That the Righteous perisheth Isa 57.1 and no Man layeth it to Heart and merciful Men are taken away none considering that they are taken from the Evil to come Thus was that good King Josiah dealt with not long after whose Death followed the Captivity of Babel In the Grave wherein he was interr'd the Liberty Glory and Peace of Jewry lay also buried I would not willingly be the Prophet of our Wo but whatever we may think or however we may flatter our selves God never withdraws such great Lights out of the World but at the approach of some black and dreadful Tempest which if we humble not our selves under his mighty Hand and prepare to meet him in the Way of his Judgments will certainly overtake us And therefore while it is called to Day let us not harden our Hearts but look to the Things that concern our Peace Let us search and try our Ways and turn again unto the Lord. We cannot think he hath made this great Breach only to open a Passage to our Sorrow much less to furnish us with new Matter of Discourse No he designs that we should glorify him in our Hearts and Lives more than formerly we have done and therefore let it be our Wisdom and our Care to hear the Rod and who hath appointed it to turn every Man from the Evil of his Way before the Lord's Wrath be further kindled and to repent and relent for all our Transgressions that so Iniquity may not be our Ruin Secondly Let us see how we may lessen this great Loss at least so far as to prevent its being fatal to us And I conceive the best Course we can take in order to this is to place a double Value upon Him whom God in his Mercy yet spares to us our Gracious King Let this heavy Stroke render his Life more dear to us Let us pray more constantly and more fervently for his Health his Safety his Happiness and his Success We may be induced strongly to this upon these Grounds First We are to do this for her Sake that is gone Secondly For his own Sake Thirdly And especially upon the Account of our selves First For her Sake that 's gone While She lived She loved honoured and admired Him She knew his Worth beyond what we do and besides His many other Accomplishments which His very Enemies admire in Him She knew that in His greatest Undertaking His chiefest Aim was the Interest and Good of Europe and especially that part of it which needed most his Help and to which He was in all Respects most obliged to give it Great Britain and Ireland In a word She best knew Him and therefore justly valued Him And surely if the Saints departed have any knowledg of what passes here below we cannot perform a more grateful Service to her Memory than to value Him to love honour and admire Him too Secondly For his own sake Remember he is a Prince that has yet got nothing by us but Trouble and Care and Travel and Toil and Danger A Prince who when we were in the extreamest Danger upon the Brink of being ruined and undone staked his Life his Fortune his All to save us in which Attempt considering the Season and the powerful Army there was to oppose Him with the other Difficulties he had to struggle with the Discouragements were so many that none but a Courage great like His could have encountred them And indeed the Undertaking was so great and the Means to carry it on in Proportion so little that we need not think it an Hyperbole in Him who concludes there was a Power more than Humane in bringing it to pass and the Issue seems to confirm it Insomuch that France her self that laugh'd at the Attempt was yet amaz'd at the Success and well she might it being the likeliest step that was ever made towards her Ruin But to return Remember He is a Prince who after many Years Effeminacy Luxury Ease and Softness wherein the English Valour so samed heretofore lay withering and fading unactive and rusting hath renewed to us the Memory of those great Kings who headed English Armies abroad and hath done more in his own Person than all the Crowned Heads of this or for ought I know any other Age. What Prince ever so oft exposed to the Dangers of the Sea as well as to the Plots of Assassines and the Arms of the Enemy by Land as He has been A Prince that as always so lately and especially in the Reduction of Ireland hath made good the Character of his Illustrious Family in being the Deliverer of oppressed Nations In a word a Prince who hath every way performed his Part how much soever his Affairs hath been clogged at Home by the unnatural Treachery of some who like the true Seed of Nero can rake with delight in the Bowels of their Mother and betray the native Interests of their Country to its most inveterate Enemies not only holding a Correspondence with them but offering up Vows and Prayers for their Success and discovering a cursed kind of Laughter and Satisfaction at the Losses and Misfortunes of their own Nation an Indignity which no Government in the World deserves less than this and none upon Earth would perhaps bear but this But Mercy is a God-like