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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
power_n	government_n	king_n	monarchy_n	2,757	5	9.5091	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56453	More than conquerour a sermon preach't on the martyrdom of King Charles the I, Jan, 30, at Christ-church, Dublin : before his Excellency Arthur Earl of Essex, lord lieutenant general and general governour of the Kingdom of Ireland / by B.P.	Parry, Benjamin, 1634-1678.	1673 (1673)	Wing P555; ESTC R31070	13,763	42

punishment and derision of mankind why did David complain that he was become a scorn to all that were round about him he might have turned scorner himself and instead of being the Royal Prophet have been a Tyrant or an Atheist as proud and imperious as the greatest Pagan or Barbarian Monarch For a Prince to wish himself a door-keeper in the house of God and be content to leave his Throne and Kingdom flowing with milk and honey for a new Jerusalem was a pleasant Paradox for the Carnal and the prophane to droll at And that the Apostles and their successive Martyrs should endure the scoffs miseries and torments of vulgar rage and madness for an invisible Kingdom had they not the strongest convictions for proof and the highest consolations for support might well be look't upon as the highest degree of folly in the world And so no question it appears to those that are yet strangers to their graces and have not yet felt the least spark of that Divine fire which warmed them into flames and rapture They that will not believe shall never find nor know what the joyes and breathings of the Spirit are how secret and irresistable its strength how sweet its influence how ravishing its charms how powerful and divine its motions and its light Let the Infidels wit then grow big with his own folly and strain hard to make his nonsense fashionable and taking let the Atheist and the prophane sit as dictator in his Chair and be the founder of a new Academy wherein to Apostatize or Blaspheme shall be no more a sin but an improvement Let the Temporizer and the Coward the worldly mind and the false heart follow the fortune and flatter the sins of Tyrants be Disciples of a prevailing faction and Canonize the crimes of prosperous impiety count Treason no sin nor inconstancy a shame laugh at sacriledge and fast with the Pharisee onely to whet their stomacks and be the more devouring anoint their forehead with perjury and make long prayers even to a desolation Let the levelling of Churches be the Zealots pride and the pulling down of Crowns and Scepters the Saints priviledge let the vitious and the vile thrive and flourish for the time grow rich and secure in all their worldly ends and enjoyments yet after all there is God that judgeth the Earth and who besides his vengeance hereafter can curse the wicked in their Graves when they seem to have escap't his anger pursue their Carkases and Ruines and make their very death but the beginning of a worse destruction plague their posterity and bring them also to an account for their predecessors crimes Blood hath a crying and a peircing voice it awakens the Dead and makes them speak nay it reaches Heaven and will not let God alone till he descend and revenge its cause it was Davids fright and his prayer That God would preserve him from blood guiltyness if he prayed so for himself what must they do that murderd David If the blood of Gods private Saints and Servants cry from under the Altar That of his Anointed will peirce through sure and when the sin seems spent or forgotten yet the punishment is not that may last and pass from one generation to another and even in this life as well as the next God will make it appear that sooner or later he will bring iniquity to remembrance and avenge the blood of his Saints and plague a guilty land with astonishment and horrour And therefore it is the special duty and design of our present meeting this day to silence if we can the voice of innocent and Royal blood by a repentance loud as our sins and also to reverence and renew the memory of a Prince sacred for his Government and his graces bury him afresh who can never dye and whilst his murderers barbarous after death denied him the Obsequies of a King we will be his yearly mourners and interr him afresh with a more illustrious sorrow And truly no Age or People almost since the Creation stand more in need both of the preaching and the practice of true repentance and obedience than the sinful Kingdoms in which we live for none have so degenerated from the honour and beauty of Christianity none have so affronted its Holy Authour and disgrac't his Gospel despised his Word or perverted it more For that very course and method which God at first appointed and still continues to the world to cure its confusions creating Magistrates to keep the Peace and sending Kings as his own Vice-gerents to heal our disorders and strengthning the Blessing by commanding every soul to submit to their authority and power that so we might the better learn to fear and obey him We have employed to a quite contrary design and as if we had never heard or learnt any such Lesson by a new Divinity will neither fear God nor honour the King for Monarchy they say is an arbitrary Government not fit for Saints that would rule all as Kings themselves Such is the end and fruit of all popular Tumults preach't up under colour of Religion and Reformation no noise louder no quarrel finds more Seconds than that of Religion every man turns zealot in such a cause wherein he hopes his own Diana shall be uppermost and his fortune advanc't by usurping his Neighbours Vineyard for his inheritance and accordingly they made it their business to cry out on the Magistrate that they might get proselytes for a faction and exclaim against the Church to gain Disciples for a Reformation Endeavouring to find fault first with their Prince and then as handsomely transferr it on his evil Counsellors out of their loyal and abundant affection abusing him doubly First in his person than in his choice committing a double errour first in making themselves both parties Judges and Executioners and secondly In taking a wrong course by making Rebellion a way to Reformation Disobedience a remedy for pretended inconvenience and redress at most but small faults by committing much more great and horrid an Artifice so profoundly politick and Divine that by it no person or calling ever can or shall be secure But Pride and Ambition scorn all bounds of Justice or Duty The new the best and surest way to subvert the Crown was by taking away its Supporters And therefore those two great Heroes and Champions of Church and State the noble Strafford from whom the Reformation of this Church and Kingdom derives the best part of its strength and beauty and the pious Laud who thought nothing too great for God and the King were by a new found ordinance thought the fittest Sacrifice to prepare and lay the Scene of a deeper and more fatal Tragedy Princes seldom fall alone Crowns and Miters like Twins cannot well be parted so great a Majesty and vertue could not goe of a cheap and single Sacrifice but like a mighty Earthquake carry open ruine with it And though his Murderers like themselves denyed him the