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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prayer_n	offer_v	sacrifice_n	thanksgiving_n	3,189	5	10.9292	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80446	Saul smitten for not smiting Amalek according to the severity of the command: and the residue of the spoil sentenced to death, which Saul preserved and spared alive, (to wit) man, woman, infant, suckling, oxe, sheep, camel and ass. Being an allegorical allusion to the present passages of the times, delivered in a sermon at Somerset-House, May 1. upon the dissolution of the late Parliament. Also, a great and notable blow is given at the serpent, the ruine of the whore and her familie determined; wherein is discovered what she was, and is, and the several husbands that have married her, deceased from her, and been decieved by her; also the several children which by her have been brought forth and nursed up, with a dissolution of all unjust government, laws rules and worships exercised over mens lives, liberties and estates, and the restoring of all just government, the peoples rights and priviledges by the Lord Jesus, into its perfect state. As apprehended by Richard Coppin.	Coppin, Richard, fl. 1646-1659.	1653 (1653)	Wing C6104; Thomason E711_8; ESTC R207121	28,322	36

thou of the Lord 1 Sam. 15.13 14. I have performed his command then said Samuel what meaneth then the bleating of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the oxen which I hear as if he might say me thinks I see something still reserved which should not have been then Saul to excuse himself said that the people which were with him spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen to sacrifice he did not so now in these times vers 15. if any man law act form way worship or opinion which was formerly made set up and maintained by any to keep the people in bondage be still preserved kept up and maintained to please any one sort of people which the Lord would have put down and then the Lord do acquaint any of his servants with this and they do acquaint him or them which should have put it down then may he or they excuse themselves and say as Saul did that the people or those that were with us spared it themselves or desired it of us and therefore was it spared supposing in it to have done well they who desired it appearing to us a people walking in the wayes of God c. But let me tell any that should so do that this were still but to act like Saul and to keep something of an old rotten interest and to advance the Kingdom of the World wherein is hypocrisie oppression and tribulation this kingdom being still kept up and exalted in form and formality where then is the exaltation of Christ and his kingdom in Spirit and Power in the hearts of his people which is the Kingdom that ought to be set up and will be set up by the Lord of Lords in opposition to all other and where is the work of righteousness peace joy and freedom among men while this work of oppression and cruelty is carried on therefore so long we may conclude that in them the work is not yet done to them the Kingdom of Christ is not yet come by them the voyce of the Lord is not yet obeyed and with them the Kingdom of Antichrist not yet destroyed But though Saul did thus neglect the command of the Lord and please the people and then to excuse himself lay it upon the people yet let it not be so with us let not us seek to please men who would desire to have any thing spared or reserved that should be destroyed but in all things let us seek to please the Lord and to obey his voice and what his word of commands bids us to do that let us do which is that no oppressor or tyrant be lest in the land that there may be no more complaining in our streets Isa 33.24 or that the Inhabitant there may not say he is sick Again Saul farther to excuse himself saith that what was kept 1 Sam. 15.21 22. it was to sacrifice to the Lord then said Samuel hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying his voyce behold to obey is better then sacrifice Isai 1. and to harken then the fat of Rams and who hath required this at your hands saith the Lord that you should reserve any thing for me who am full and need nothing Psal 50.9 10 11 12. and what should the Lord now require of us who he knows hath nothing but to offer unto him the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving Isa 51.16 and that is not ours neither but his nor offered by us but by him 't is not we nor all our fasts prayers forms and worships that he accepts of but a sacrifice of righteousness the Lord Jesus who hath already offered up himself once for all Heb. 9.28 and all that he looks for from us and which he will make us to be is to be a still silent passive people Psal 46.10 and to know that he only is active who will do all things himself and cause us to be silent for a silent passive subjected condition to the Lord in all men is that which the Lord accepteth of and is the onely sacrifice that can be offered up unto him whose design now is to subject all men and things to himself and he only appear and be made manifest in all which is the Kingdom of the Lord where nothing of man is to be seen in any thing but all of the Lord and this is the pure and perfect obedience and only sacrifice the Lord cals for in us and which in his own time he by his mighty power will bring to pass with us CHAP. IX Of the Amalekites unjust possessing the Earth both of the Philistians and of Judah of their giving gifts one to another and of what WE read in the 30 chapter of this Book of Samuel vers 16. how the Amalekites had spread themselves over all the Earth eating drinking dancing sporting and delighting themselves because of the great spoil that they had taken from the people both out of the land of the Philistians and out of the land of Judah And were not the Governours of this land together with their authority and familie their infants and sucklings so spred over this land and Nation eating and devouring the fat of the land both of Cavaleers and Round-heads so called enemies and friends or all men of what judgement or opinion soever all were subjected to them and they had the spoil of all in their hands or at their command to dispose of as they pleased even their wealth riches honour peace freedom and all priviledges whatsoever they were Lords over it and could and did command it at their own will and pleasure And have we not seen for many ages how they of this and other lands have continued eating drinking dancing feasting feeding and refreshing themselves making themselves rich and fat and merry by the peoples rights sending and giving gifts one to another of that which they had taken from the people Rev. 11.10 rejoycing and delighting themselves in it that they had made all men subject to them and their ways and had the spoil and command of all in their hands to do with it as they would this was the merriment of the Amalakites in their cruelty towards the people of the Philistians and of Judah whose spoil they had got into their hands and which Saul was commanded to recover from them and restore to the people again but did not CHAP. X. How men intrusted with the Civil power of the Nation ought not to be proud and high-minded but humble and meek before God and man that honour is the ready way to dishonour and how NOw observe because Saul did not do the work he should 1 Sam. 15.18 19. but did evil in the sight of the Lord in that he spared any of that which he should have destroyed and recovered not the people but suffered this oppression still to abide upon the people therefore his kingdom was divided from him