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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	duke_n	king_n	savoy_n	2,090	5	11.6019	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37208	The saints anchor-hold, in all storms and tempests preached in sundry sermons, and published for the support and comfort of Gods people, in all times of tryal / by John Davenport ...	Davenport, John, 1597-1670.	1661 (1661)	Wing D366; ESTC R7130	85,681	240

do serve the Austrian design against the Protestant interest Nor is there any considerable Prince in Germany except the Landsgrave of Hessen that is able to do any thing of moment to maintain that interest 4. In the Low Couutreys their present actings tend rather to serve the enemies design against the Protestant Interest then for it 5. In France the Protestant Churches are deprived of their former priviledges So that their standing is a meer toleration at pleasure 6. In Geneva we are informed from other hands that the Duke of Savoy would impose a Governour and a Bishop upon them or in case of their refusal threatens to besiege them and that the King of France refuseth to protect them unlesse they will receive a Bishop 7. In the vallies of Piemont the Duke of Savoy doth still most cruelly though not openly oppresse and vex the Protestants notwithstanding the peace made with them by giving them up to the power of the Popish Inquisition which threatens their utter ruin if God doth not prevent it 8. In Switzerland the Pope and the Austrians have stirred up and hired the Popish Cantons to break their fundamental League with the Protestants by persecuting to death or banishment all such as leave their superstitions to become Proselytes to us 9. How it is with our native Countrey England and those conjoyned with it in Scotland and Ireland you have formerly heard in part and may have more hereafter 2. If we add hereunto the great advantages which the Popish party hath against the Protestants and what posture the Protestant Churches are in in respect of their mutual relation each to other to oppose this combination of their enemies so strongly and universally laid it will be manifest that the Antichristian party had never so great advantage against the Churches of Christ since the Reformation began as now they have For 1. Whereas formerly the Popish parties were divided now their differences being composed they are all united in one common design against the Protestant Religion and Churches and their head the Pope doth manage their common interest with much subtlety and vigour and that openly by innumerable Agents and Emissaries who are subordinate to the Congregation de propaganda fide who creep into all Protestant States and professions to observe any distance or divisions among them to widen and foment the same in the minds of the common sort and to cast stumbling blocks cunningly before all the rest and thereupon to insinuate the more plausibly their own superstitions Hence in France where the popish Inquisition was not formerly admitted it is now of late introduced under a new name of the Congregation de propaganda fide which is an Inquisition in effect and hath begun to act there with publick Authority prohibiting all commerce from abroad for the vent of Divinity books in so much that they do not suffer Bibles brought from Geneva to be sold any where but do confiscate them And in every City in France where a Church of Protestants is there is also a certain number of Emissaries belonging to the Congregation de propaganda fide setled to oppose and vex them And it is intended that this designe shall be prosecuted universally against all protestant Churches in other places so soon as the Protestant States shall be sufficiently weakned by divisions among themselves 2. It is greatly to be lamented that whilest Satans Instruments are so active and united to advance his Kingdom we who are sujects of Christs Kingdom and so many wayes bound to advance it are so carelesse of Christ his interest that on the one hand licentiousnesse prophanenesse heresies blasphemies and wickednesses break forth to the reproach of Christian Religion and on the other hand the divided professo●s thereof seek follow eagerly their own advantages of power and places to undermine the settlement of each other and while the enemies have Agents every where and an universal correspondency to weaken us by division then to ruin us no such way of Agency or correspondency is set on foot by publick Authority among us to ingage the godly-wise peaceable to joyn with us to lay the cōmon-Gospel-interest to heart and to communicate counsel and assistance each to other at least to pray for one another suitably to the exigencies of things that when help faileth on earth it may be procured from the mighty God immediately For which the Lord may justly dash us into pieces one against another as vessels unfit for his honour and service 2. This being the present state of all the Churches of Christ in Europe I proceed to instruct you to excercise this hope aright in reference thereunto Which that I may do I must clear two things 1. What disposition of spirit is necessary to qualifie the person to make him a fit subject of this hope 2. How they who are thus qualified must excercise it 1. For the first whosoever would have and excercise this hope in reference to the publick state of the afflicted Churches of Christ they must have and excercise publick spirits in the communion of Saints that is they must be sanctified by faith in Christ and joyned unto Christ visibly as the head of his Church in communion with the Church which is his body and take to heart the publick state of the Churches and Christ his interest in them whatever their own private condition is and to prefer the publick concernments before and above their own private in their judgments affections and indeavours We must esteem that spiritual Society and the concernments of it as more considerable then our own Hereof God himself gives us example who preferres his Church before and above all the World besides as his chief treasure Exod. 19. 5. his jewels Mal. 3. 17. tels them that they are so precious in his sight and honourable and loved of him that he will give men for them and people for their life Isa 43. 4. as he did call off Senacherib from Jerusalem by sending Tirrhaka the King of Aethiopia to invade his land and so gave both Aethiopians and Aegyptians into his hand to free his Church from him Now Gods judgment of persons and things should be the rule of our judgment For we know that the judgment of God is according to truth So did Moses whose love acted so highly from his high esteem of the Church and Gods interest of honour in it that though God offered to make him a great Nation if he would let him alone that he might consume Israel in the Wildernesse Exod. 33. 10. yet he was so far from accepting it that he prayed the Lord to forgive their sin and if not to blot him out of the Book which he had written ver 32. David was so strongly ingaged in his affections to the Church of God that if all his petitions were to be put into one it should be this that he might dwell in the house of the Lord to behold his beauty there Psal 27. 4.