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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	father_n	lord_n	spare_v	2,118	5	9.2354	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04850	A sermon of publicke thanks-giuing for the happie recouerie of his Maiestie from his late dangerous sicknesse preached at Pauls-Crosse the 11. of Aprill, 1619. By the B. of London. Published by commandement.	King, John, 1559?-1621.	1619 (1619)	STC 14983; ESTC S106562	22,697	58

consecrated to God and himselfe rapt vp as it were into the third heauens where he seeth and heareth those things which he neuer saw nor heard aforetime There are that are able to report his Swans songs the last before his death for ought appeared to the contrary how he behaued himselfe towards God and man and acted both King and Priest and setting himselfe in articulo mortis in the very ioynt and poynt of dying Looking backwards to his life past and forwards to the life to come neglected not any thing neither of his priuate nor of the publicke State with many diuine meditations holy professions religious promises prudent instructions which for my part I wish they were scriptura Hezekiae regis brought to the light of the world that all might vnderstand them But what becometh of this sicknesse remaineth it still No. For the sweet wood of the mercies of God was cast into the waters of Marah and altered their bitternesse And so must I alter my text Iordan is now gone backward Behold in my peace bitternesse bitternesse said Hezekiah Behold in our bitternesse bitternesse peace must I say Ecce euangelizo vobis gaudium magnum quod erit omni ciuitati as the Angel in the Gospel behold I bring you tidings of great ioy which shall be to the whole Land and God say Amen to it that I may euer be as Ahimaaz 2. Sam. 18. to bring you good tidings of such things His soule is deliuered from the pit of corruption And we trust that God hath added to his yeares as he did to the yeares of Hezekiah we pray that it may be and likely it is if we adde to our prayers that God will adde to his yeares If we aske life for him God shall giue him a long life and after that long life ended A life for euer and euer Psalme 21. But of all other things you will aske the meanes how he was deliuered He wanted not any thing that the earth could minister vnto him neither the helpe of learned and painfull Physicians benedictio Domini super eos c. Psal. 129. the Lord prosper them we wish them good lucke in the name of the Lord nor the intercessions of his faithfull Subiects that haue bowed the knees both of their bodies and hearts and with their prayers as an incense in the morning and the lifting vp of their hands as an euening sacrifice they haue pierced through the clouds and knocked at the gate of his mercy at midnight and giuen him no rest on behalfe of their King Our father our father the Chariots and horsemen of Israel is going from vs O Lord spare him Ariston was a good King but wanted Issue and the people desirous to haue one of his race to gouerne after him begged him Issue of their gods That sonne so obtained they named Demaratus because the people had gained him by their prayers I doubt not but our King was another Demaratus begged by his people at the hands of God or rather according to his owne name that our Iacob was another Israel and that he and his people wrestled with God by their earnest supplications to gaine a blessing of health from him and although as to Israel a sinew of his thigh be yet shrunke that is the ability strength of his body somwhat abated we trust that in time God wil also restore that But whatsoeuer I haue yet named is but a second and subordinate meanes and vaine we know is the helpe of man our helpe must stand in the name of the Lord which hath made heauen and earth or we shall neuer be holpen therefore the prime predominant and supreme cause that our King was deliuered was the same that Hezekiah found Placuit tibi dilexisti c. the good pleasure and loue of God Now the good will of him that dwelt in the bush euer dwell with our King and marrie him vnto him with euerlasting mercy and compassion The couenant of day and night be broken but the couenant of his peace with our King and his kingdomes be neuer broken Fathers forget their sonnes and nurses their sucking babes and mothers the fruite of their wombes The Lord neuer forget our King nor his seed after him nor the people committed to their charge By this time you may ghesse at the reason of our meeting so many thousand of soules together in one place though not in the house of the Lord I grant yet in the courts of the Lords house euen in the midst of thee ô Ierusalem in the fairest and fittest theatre we haue for such purposes to make it like Araunah his threshing floore a place for an altar of our thankfulnesse whereon we are to offer the Calues of our lips our reasonable seruice an Eucharisticall sacrifice for the life of our King whom God hath so lately rescued from the fangs and throte of destruction that as when the tidings came to Rome of Germanicus his better amendment they had newes before of his desperate sicknesse which strucke them all to the heart and Germanicus was an excellent Prince beloued of the people and one that said of himselfe afterwards at the time of his death Flebunt Germanicum etiam ignoti Strangers will misse and bewaile Germanicus they ran into their Capitoll men women and children and rent open the doores thereof and offered their votes and filled the whole Citie with the noise of their congratulation Salua Ciuitas salua Patria saluus Germanicus the City is safe the country safe Germanicus safe So come we into this our Capitoll our greatest Panegyris inured with the like meetings hither came that Lady of euer-blessed memory to giue thankes vnto God for her victorie ouer the Spaniard with such frequency of people as you see with such feruencie of heart to blesse the name of our God and congratulate our selues because Salua Ciuitas salua Patria saluus Iacobus the City is safe the kingdome safe our King safe And as before that whē Augustus was likewise recouered whom they styled Patrem patriae the Father of the countrey to shew their loue to their Emperour they layd their purses together and set vp a Statue to Antonius Musas the Physician that recouered him and placed it by the Image of Aesculapius So we in affection and loue to our King though we giue not titles to men and honour the Physician but with that honour that is due vnto him yet Aere collato ioyning our hearts and soules together as if we were all but one man we set vp our Statue and if it be possible raise our Colossus of thankfulnesse that may reach vp to the heauen of heauens vnto that great God that hath created the Physician and taught him his wisdom and made the medicines of the earth to take away the paines of men Ecclesiasticus 38. There is but one word more in my text and so an end But as it standeth in