Selected quad for the lemma: peace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	bring_v	good_a	tiding_n	2,863	5	11.4428	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10078	Londons remembrancer: for the staying of the contagious sicknes of the plague by Dauids memoriall. As it vvas follovved in a sermon preached in Christs-church in London, the 22. of Ianuarie. 1626. Vpon occasion of the publique thanksgiuing, enioyned by his maiesties proclamation. By Samson Price, Doctor of Diuinitie, one of his Majesties chapleins in ordinarie.	Price, Sampson, 1585 or 6-1630.	1626 (1626)	STC 20332; ESTC S114330	24,161	47

LONDONS REMEMBRANCER FOR THE STAYING OF THE CONTAGIOVS SICKNES OF THE PLAGVE By Dauids Memoriall AS IT VVAS FOLLOWED in a Sermon Preached in Christs-Church in LONDON the 22. of Ianuarie 1626. Vpon occasion of the publique Thanksgiuing enioyned by his Maiesties Proclamation By SAMSON PRICE Doctor of Diuinitie one of his Majesties Chapleins in Ordinarie PSAL. 63.6.7 When I remember thee vpon my bed and meditate on thee in the night watches because thou hast beene my helpe therefore in the shadowe of thy wings will I reioyce AT LONDON Printed by Edward All-de for Thomas Harper 1626. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR THOMAS COVENTRYE KNIGHT LORD KEEPER OF THE GREAT SEALE OF ENGLAND Right Honourable IT is the great worke of God to reclaime from their offences those whom he loueth by corrections To this end as he bestoweth fauours vpon some in anger as he did Quailes vpon the Israelites so striketh he others in mercie that they may be zealous and repent The late Pestilence amongst vs of this Citie and the other infected parts of the Kingdome bringing wonderfull Plagues and sore sicknesses came rushing with such violence because wee did not serue the Lord our God with ioyfulnes hauing aboundance of all things and because we did not feare this glorious name The Lord yet mercie shewed it selfe stronger then Iudgement and vpon our weake and vnworthy humiliation the destroying Angel hath in a great measure stayed his hand Beautie therefore being giuen vnto vs for ashes the oyle of Ioy for mourning the garment of praise for the spirit of heauines The Lord is to be praised To this end hath our Royall zealous annointed Soueraigne sent forth a solemne command This to fasten as a memorandum in the eares and hearts of those committed to my poore charge I endeauoured By King Dauids memoriall of what God had done for him A subiect fit for an Angell from heauen to comment vpon A THANKSGIVING All the workes of the Lord praise him Angels Heauens Sunne Moone Starres showers dewe winde Winter Summer Wels Whales Fowles Beasts All holy and humble men of heart desire to remember the Lord. This is here pressed wherein my only ayme was to speake what was plaine profitable necessarie to the glory of God and good of the people This Mite I now offer to the Treasurie Talents I haue none Knowing that in a willing minde it is accepted according to that a man hath and not according to that hee hath not 2. Cor. 8.2 Whatsoeuer it is I am emboldened by your late Noble encouragements to present it to your Honours acceptation protection perusall It is the ioy of many that God hath giuen you a large iust and faithfull heart a desire rather to be an vmpire of equity then a Decreer of seuerity and as God hath exalted you so you remember by your resolute yet meeke carriage that God standeth in the Congregation of the mighty he iudgeth among the Gods I shall still rest a continuall Peticioner to the throne of grace that in these slipperie times all the foundations of the earth being out of course you may be kept by the power of God through faith vnto saluation New Rents 1626. Febru 10. Your Honours in all dutie to be commanded SAMSON PRICE Lord Iesus begin and end LONDONS REMEMBRANCER BY DAVIDS MEMORIALL PSAL. 42.4 When I remember these things I powre out my soule in me IT was the confident profession of royall Dauid when some did striue with him fight against him and persecute him Many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord deliuereth him out of all The whole Psalme was composed when he came to Achimelech the Priest crauing bread and armes A Psalme written saith Cassiodor for the times of Christians A Psalme which Athanasius perswaded Marcellinus to sing vpon any deliuerance As Dauids afflictions were great so were his deliuerances consider him a caula ad aulam from the Sheep-coate to the Scepter being sent to follow the Ewes great with young either by his Fathers neglect or his brothers enuious conspiracie and plotting against him the day consuming him with heat and the night with frosts in danger of Lyons Beares his Father in law vnkinde Michal his wife froward hauing breaches in his family by his Thamar Ammon Absalon bruises by the pestilence brunts by warres which made him water his couch with his teares and would haue made him mad indeede as he but feigned when he was before Achish had not the Lord deliuered him But his soule truly wayted vpon God because his saluation came from him A text vrged by St. Austin against the Donatists prescribed by Basil as an Antidote to euery Christian against corrupt passions that the soule be not made a slaue to lewd affections Euery creature is to obey the Creator and may be enforced but a voluntary subiection is expected of the reasonable soule of man that our will follow Gods will that we desire nothing contrary to his will that wee encline our hearts to his pleasure For we are the creatures hee is the Creator we but clay he the Potter wee captiues hee the commander wee seruants he the Master we Schollers he the Tutour and none but the sonne of Belial that cannot endure the Lord will seeke to breake his bands the life of Christ was a life of subiection to his Parents to Magistrates to the Law to the Baptisme of Iohn yea hee who was Lord and Master washed his Apostles feete not onely because the diuell had supplanted Adam in his feete or because they were to be his feete to carrie him through the world and as beautifull feete vpon the mountaines to publish peace and bring good tydings of good publishing saluation but to giue them an example of humility that seeing he washed their feete they ought also to wash one anothers feete Hee who was God and man was subiect that man might learne to submit himselfe wholy to God Anima is quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a breathing and the tongue of the soule is the Zeale of deuotion our deuout Kingly Prophet in all humble submission cried out Vnto thee O Lord doe I lift vp my soule Happy is hee onely who can say it with the heart of Dauid sinne doth not ouer-burthen him worldly delight draweth him not backe from the seruice of God pleasure boweth him not downe couetousnesse doth not make him stoope opulencie doth not puffe him vp ambition doth not carrie him away His soule made her boast in the Lord because confirmed strengthened and able to endure so wonderfully from his power by which he was whatsoeuer he was He prayed that God would say vnto his soule I am thy saluation For Gods word is his Act and his dixit a fiat His soule followed hard after God because his right hand did vphold him Hee followed not the allurements of the world which by vices draw men from