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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
power_n	day_n	lord_n	sabbath_n	3,174	5	9.9898	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86356	The good old vvay, Gods vvay, to sovle-refreshing rest: discovered in a sermon preached to the Right Honorable the Lord Maior and court of aldermen of the citie of London, at their anniversary meeting on Wednesday in Easter weeke at Christ-Church, Apr. 24. 1644 being the day of the monethly publike fast. By Thomas Hill B.D. Pastor of Tychmersh in Northampton shire. Imprimatur, Charles Herle.	Hill, Thomas, d. 1653.	1644 (1644)	Wing H2023; Thomason E48_4; ESTC R11496	52,548	61

this will contribute much to draw poore soules into the good way Fiftly there is another thing that must be remembred Improve your power you wh● are Magistrats and governours in families others Improve y●ur power to keepe up the honour of the Lords day our Christian Sabbath blessed bee God that put it into the hearts of the great Counsellers in the high Court of Parliament lately to set forth an Ordinance for the strict and solemne observation of the Lords day I hope you will act it and indeed if ever you would maintaine Religion in a place main●●ine the Lords day and the solemne and holy observation of it God hath given a spetiall item to that precept Remember Exod. 28. 8. he would have all other Commandements remembred no question but he knoweth we are ready to forget that and it is of much consequence to be remembred It is a day of blessing and of sanctification If you would have your peoples hearts sanctified Oh traine them to sanctifie Gods day and to attend on Gods Ordinances It may be that hee may drop the grace of sanctification into them Let the feare of God I beseech you and conscionable observance of this pious Ordinance set all the wheeles of Authority on going and moving regularly in their severall spheares that the Lords day may be more carefully observed suffer not as many governors doe buying and selling not sporting and playing on that day whereby so many are hardned in prophane and ungodly waies you will finde the comfort of it Religion have a sensible progresse God delights to shew himselfe to his people on that day And therefore doe what you can to ingage all others to attend on publique ordinances that day doubtlesse many many soules may bee reduced to the good way if this method be wisely observed Lastly remember your solemne Covenant whereby you are ingaged to such personall and publike reformation as would bring many into that way which lead● to rest wee are happily brought under the bond of it the three kingdomes were united among our selves and to our God hereby Oh be as carefull to keepe it as you were cheerefull in the taking of it Rest is the pretious fruit of the Covenant 2 Chron. 15. 15. they tooke the Covenant cheerefully and God gave them Rest let us not onely take it but keepe it and ingage others what we can thereto let us all bee Covenanters indeed according to our obligation and walke in the good way of obedience to God that so this Covenant may bee a Covenant of peace and a Covenant of rest to us a Covenant of rest to all our soules a Covenant of rest to the Church a Covenant of rest to the kingdome yea to all the three kingdomes which are united together in it I should now come to the third observation drawne from the 18. and 19. Verses from the last generall part of the Text the wofull fruit of their wretched selfe-will We will not say they we will not hearken but what saith God he calleth the nations hee calleth the earth to take notice of it what he will doe against them hee will bring evill upon this even the fruite of their thoughts because they have not hearkned unto my words nor to my Law but rejected it The wilfull rejecting of Gods gracious admonition is a most provoking evill which betrayes a people into the hands of heavy judgements The more of God there is in any admonition in any of his dispensations the more glorious they are The more of our self●-will there is in any of our carriages the more odious abominable they are in the sight of God When our proud spirits boyle up to such an height of de●iance against him as here they did the Lord seeing himselfe so much affronted is ingaged to vindicate his honour by bringing some great evill upon them God hath three Prerogatives which he will not part with judgement is his hee will not allow us to judge one another vengeance is his he will not allow us to revenge our selves his glory is so deare to him that he will not give it to another when any one through pride shall incroach upon that royall prerogative he will make it appeare that he resists the proud by bringing some breaking evill upon them as Exod. 18. 11. One word to end all is this and it is a proper worke for the day This justifieth God in all the judgements and calamities that now lie on sinfull England a day of humiliation should be a day of selfe-abasing and a day of justifying our God and when we consider how Gods gratious admonitions have been sleighted what unanswerable entertainment they have had in England how ill we have requited all the gratious offers and tenders he hath made unto us we may all goe mourning home and even bemoaning the sad fruit of our own wretched carriage that now lieth on us and still all must speake this language The Lord is most righteous it is Gods mercy that England hath not beene in Irelands condition before this day so many gratious so many loving admonitions have beene sleighted and that with so high affronts when God hath sent to us by his Prophets when God hath called upon us when God hath sent mercies Ambassadours when God hath preached from heaven by his judgements yet we have still given him a negative a proud and stubborne negative we have againe and againe answered him Wee will not mee thinkes wee may looke upon our selves if God would deale with us according to our deservings even in Jerusalems case and we might even weepe over poore England as our Saviour wept over Jerusalem that because they were not sensible of the day of their visitation they did not consider and know those things that belonged to their peace now they are bid from their eyes now thy house shall be left unto thee desolate It is a miracle of patience and goodnesse that God should beare with us all this while when hee hath had such high affronts when his own Name when his deare Son when his blessed Spirit when his Covenant when the Minister of the Covenant when the seales of the Covenant when all these dispensations of God have bin so affronted so contemned in England and when wee have so much sleighted the day of our Visitation it is a wonder that Countries that Cities that al is not left desolate before this time Yea when we consider that in Ezek. 24. 13 14. In thy filthines is lewdnes because I have purged thee and thou wast not purged thou shalt not be purged from thy filthinesse any more till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee It might sad our hearts to think Oh! if this should be unworthy sinful Englands portion in thy filthinesse is lewdnesse and because I have purged thee and thou wast not purged God hath put us into the fire to see if we will let goe our drosse but