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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	wrong_a	wrong_n	wrong_v	49	3	8.6202	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70158	Gods eye on His Israel, or, A passage of Balaam, out of Numb. 23, 21 containing matter very seasonable and suitable to the times : expounded and cleared from antinomian abuse, with application to the present estate of things with us / by Tho. Gataker ...	Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654.	1645 (1645)	Wing G321; ESTC R7798	128,608	144

his guest therewith thereby implying what a wrong men would take it to be to see any sorry creature wronged or to have it taken from them wherein they take such delight And I might well appeal to those either rich or poore but the former especially that keep for pleasure Turtles or Finches or Linnets or Nightingales and the like be they for singing or sight desired how chary they are wont to be of them how carefull to cage them and keep them in places of security out of the reach of such ravenous creatures as Cats or the like that would otherwise be dealing with them and how they are wont to take it when through the malice of any ill-affected to them or the neglect of those that have charge of them any mischief befalleth them such a matter as that hath sometime cost a man no lesse then his life And so is it here Gods Church is his Turtle his Dove much more deer to him then any such toys for so in comparison I may well tearm them are or can be with those that doe most affect them and set the highest rate on them and is consequently as chary yea more chary of his then any man or woman is or can be of any such creature which they are most taken with and wherein they most delight Lastly they are his people the people with whom he hath entred into covenant whom he hath taken into his protection they are his servants and he their liege Lord they are his subjects and he their Soveraign Now it is the honour of a King to protect his people the office of a Soveraign to secure his subjects from violence and wrong Yea a good King accounteth himself wronged in the wrong of his people nor can he with patience endure to see that done wherby any even the meanest of them is unjustly molested and injured He shall judge saith the Psalmist that is judge for right and avenge the wronged poore of the people he shall deliver the needy and him that hath no helper he shall save their souls that is their lives and redeem or rescue them from fraud and violence he shall protect them against all damage and danger that by any injurious course either of circumvention or oppression in regard of their poverty and inabi●ity they may at any time be exposed unto and pretious shall their bloud be be in his sight no drop of their bloud but he shall set an high rate on it and make those therefore pay full deerly for it that shall either draw or even attempt to draw it And surely if earthly Princes who are but Gods vicegerents and ministers either are or ought to be so affected towards those who being indeed Gods people are by him committed to their care and charge how much more is God himself thus affected to his people of whose safety and welfare he requireth them to be so cautious that which is there spoken being in deed and truth but a type of that the truth whereof is most eminently found and fulfilled in him He it is indeed that helpeth those to right that suffer wrong and ●hat then also when those that should here doe it refuse to right them or in steed of righting them doe themselves wrong them that executeth judgement in the behalf of his oppressed ones and of whom it is avowed that the death and the bloud consequently of his Saints is pretious in his sight And surely if the teares of Gods people that by such courses are wrung from them are so pretious in his esteem that he is said to reserve them by him as in a bottle no marvell if their bloud be pretious in his sight if he set an high rate on every drop of it Thou countest my wandrings or flittings saith David put my teares into thy bottle are they not entred in thy book yes e this I know I am assured that so it is as if he had said there is never a step that I take when through the wrongfull and violent persecution of mine adversaries I am enforced to f fly and flit from place to place but thou takest notice of and keepest a due account of it and if thou keepest so exact an account of my steps then sure thou canst not but take as exact a tale of my teares thou hast a bottle for the one and a a book for both there is never a tear that I shed that falleth besides the one never a step that I take in these my flittings to and fro but that together with each tear that I shed stands registred as upon record in the other Thus then have we seen the point confirmed unto us by reasons drawn from those relations that such persons have to God we passe on to such Arguments as may be taken from Gods Attributes from the nature of God and his disposition as towards all in generall so more specially toward those whom in a more speciall and peculiar manner he hath taken to be his First then God is a just and a righteous God To shew that God is just and there is no unrighteousnesse with him And as he is a just and a righteous God so he loveth righteousnesse The righteous Lord saith the Psalmist loveth righteousnesse and indeed he were not righteous if he loved not righteousnesse he that loveth not righteousnesse is not truly righteous tho he may deale righteously Again as he loveth righteousnesse so he hateth unrighteousnesse Thou lovest righteousnesse and hatest wickednesse the one followeth necessarily upon the other and Thou art a God that delightest not in wickednesse but hatest all wrong-doers and abhorrest all bloudy and deceitfull persons and The Lord trieth that is upon triall approves of the righteous but the wicked and such as love and delight in iniquity his soul hateth he abhorreth them from his heart And as his countenance therefore doth behold the upright to wit with approbation and delight so he is of purer eyes then to behold evill or to look upon iniquity but with detestation and dislike His eyes behold the sonnes of men of all sorts as well bad as good and his eye-lids try them with their wayes and courses but the one to approve them and preserve them the other to testifie his dislike of their practises by the destruction of their persons 2. He is a jealous God as a just and righteous so a jealous God jealous of his own glory his reputtaion his credit his honour Now it is no small dishonour and disgrace to a Prince if he shall see and suffer his subjects to be wronged and doe not right them whether it be because he cannot or tho he can because he will not much more there is a note of impotency lying upon him in the one a blot which is farre worse of iniquity in the other Nor doth Gods honour seeme to be lesse engaged and to lie at the stake when his own people are in his own sight and presence oppressed We have been say