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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	endure_v	lord_n	praise_n	5,037	5	9.1348	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58815	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city of London at St. Mary le Bow, July 26, 1685, being the day of publick thanksgiving for his Majesties late victory over the rebels by John Scott ...	Scott, John, 1639-1695.	1685 (1685)	Wing S2069; ESTC R14439	11,468	34

Almighty Thunderbolts it concerns us to be very careful that we do not swerve from our due Allegiance to our Prince that we do not suffer our Pride or discontent to prey upon our Loyalty nor imbibe Seditious Principles nor intriegue our selves with factious Combinations which are the Seminaries of Rebellion but that out of an awful fear and dread of God we honour and obey the King and avoid as we would the Air of a Plague-sore medling with those that are given to change I now proceed to the second observable in the Text viz. That God's delivering up of Rebels is a just ground of praise and thansgiving to him for the proof of which I shall not need to urge any other argument than the signal defeat and overthrow of his late Rebellion for which we are now rendering our thankful acknowledgments to God For considering the temper and quality of the Persons of which this unnatural Rebellion was composed a very small Prophet may easily prognosticate to what a deplorable condition this Nation must have been reduc'd if it had prosper'd and succeeded for it was nothing but a common shore into which all the kennels of the Nation ran being partly made up of the most debauch'd and profligate Atheists that had broke through all the Laws of humanity and stript themselves so naked of all the shew of Piety and Vertue that they had not hypocrisie enough remaining to disguise their lewd and villanous intentions partly of beggarly Male-contents who had no other way to repair their broken fortunes but by running in to the shipwrack of the Nation but chiefly of hot-brain'd furious Sectaries whose blind zeal like the Devil in the possess'd Man threw 'em into Fire and Water transported and hurried 'em into any villany into Perjury and Murder Treason and Sacrilege and would not permit 'em to stop at any thing that made for the Interest of their cause such were the Ingredients of this poisonous mixture So that had God for our sins permitted it to prevail we had quickly seen a flourishing Kingdom like Herod in all his glory and splendor seized on eaten up by Lice by a swarm of the basest and most infamous Vermin that ever bred out of the filth of a Nation We had seen the Atheist glutting his lust with the rapes of our Wives and Daughters and quaffing the tears of Widows and Orphans we had seen the beggar on Horse-back flaunting in the spoils of our fortunes and triumphing on the heads of our Nobles and Gentry and the bloudy Enthusiast imbrewing his hands in Loyal bloud appeasing his furious zeal again with Royal Sacrifice and throwing down all that is Sacred in our Jerusalem to make way for the erecting his Phanatick Babel his Tumult and confusion of Religions in a word we had seen our Laws trampled on our Liberties inslaved and our yet Sacred and Virgin Throne to our everlasting infamy deflowred and prophaned by a spurious illegitimate Issue With this dire spectacle our eyes had most certainly been entertained had this black Rebellion succeeded wherefore our Gracious God being moved to commiseration by this woful prospect of our approaching Calamity roused up himself like a mighty Man of War and with an avengeful eye looked down upon this Host of Assyrians and with the breath of his Nostrils scattered the Rebellious Rout before him Wherefore not unto us O Lord not to our conduct or puissance but to thy Name be all the Glory and Honour And since we are all of us sharers in this Great Deliverance it 's just we should all return the Tribute of our Praise to our Great Deliverer O give thanks unto the Lord therefore for he is good because his Mercy endureth for ever Let Israel now say that his Mercy endureth for ever Let the House of Aaron now say that his Mercy endureth for ever Let all them that fear the Lord say that his Mercy endureth for ever And as the best Return of Gratitude we can make to God let us by our future Loyalty to his Illustrious Vice-gerent by our firm relyance on his Royal Promises which hitherto have been ever sacred and inviolate by our chearful submission to his Laws and constant forwardness to oppose and detect all treasonous designs against his Person and Government endeavour as much as in us lies to render his Reign safe and easie and prosperous And by our immovable constancy in the profession and practice of our holy Religion the most pure and unsophisticated the most Primitive and Loyal Religion of the Church of England let us endeavour to indear our selves to God that so by our faithful supplications we may prevail with God to fix the Crown upon his Royal Head to guard and protect his Sacred Person to bless and secure his Government to abate the Pride asswage the Malice and confound the devices of his Enemies and after he hath injoyed a long a pious and prosperous Reign upon Earth to Crown him with everlasting Glory in Heaven To which Prayer I am sure all that are the genuine Sons of the Church of England will with a true Heart and Zealous affection say Amen FINIS