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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	prayer_n	spirit_n	supplication_n	1,486	5	11.4562	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81250	The root of apostacy, and fountain of true fortitude. Delivered in a sermon before rhe [sic] Honourable House of Commons, on their late day of thanks-giving for the great victory given to Sir William Waller and the forces with him, against the army of Sir Ralph Hopton. By Thomas Case, Preacher at Milk-street, London, and one of the Assembly of Divines.	Case, Thomas, 1598-1682.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1644 (1644)	Wing C839; Thomason E46_11; ESTC R22888	28,474	40

they had envolved the Land in guilt the guilt of blood and brought God as an enemie upon us I could tell you more of this but I must proceed The calling of this Parliamont which like another Phoenix sprang out of the others ashes Your pulling down of the Star-Chansber and high-Inquisition that Mizpah and Tabor those Mountains of prey Hosea 5.1 and Dens of Theeves Your casting out of the Prelacie first out of the House of Lords and now we hope out of the Lords House The unburthening of the back of the State and neck of the Church of unsupportable Monopolies Slavery and Superstition The dispossessing of many Places and Offices both in Church and State of enemies to both and placing faithfull men in their rooms especially in this City The famous atchievements in your Martiall affairs at Edge-hill Gloucester Newbery * Neer Stafford Salt-heath Cheshire Lancashire York-shire and now of late in Pembrokeshire and other places thereabouts with this late victory in the West for which wee are met together this day to praise God These and many more for as I said I can touch but one of ten of an hundred Oh what exploits have they been of all which we may truely say as that our Noble and worthily honour'd Generall spake of that one at Edge-hill Never was there lesse seen of man nor more of God Surely our salvation hath been of the Lord his blessing hath been upon his people The Wonder-working God hath done all these works of wonder and mercy for us Witnesse these five Demonstrations First That we never came off with more losse and shame then when our expectations soared highest upon the wings of our own strength and preparations Secondly Nor ever had greater deliverances and enlargements then when in our apprehensions and in the probability of second Causes we gave all for lost God hath fashion'd all our deliverances and victories upon the Modell he shewed to Abraham what time he made a Covenant with him Gen. 15.17 The smoaking fornace hath usher'd in the burning lamp that is dark and sad and gloomy dispensations of providence have let in the bright and cheerfull heart-raising and soul-ravishing goings forth of our God for the redemption and deliverance of a poor languishing people Thirdly That all our deliverances and victories have been the birth of prayer Never did any designe of the Church ride more visibly and triumphantly upon the wheels of prayer wee may sing of prayer and the sword in this day of our rejoycing as they did of Saul and David in their triumphs The sword hath slain its Thousands but prayer its Ten thousands Fourthly That in all that hath been done both in your Parliamentary and Martiall exploits there hath been no lesse then a miraculous raising up of the spirits of men above their own naturall proportion so that as it was with the worthies whose Monuments stand in Scripture unto this day The Spirit of the Lord came upon Samson and the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephta and David c. So hath it been in our conflicts the Spirit of the Lord hath come upon our Noble Generall Commanders The Spirit of the Lord hath come upon our Gallant Gentlemen Young men faithfull Countrey men Renowned Citizens so that he that was weak among them is as David and he that was as David hath been as the Angel of the Lord. Even then when our Armies have been weary and tyred feeble and faint as once David himself was Some have retreated others it may be fled and the state of the Battell very doubtfull and dangerous yet even then hath the Spirit of God come upon them Zach. 4.6 In all which that word hath been made good Not by might nor power but by my Spirit saith the Lord. Fifthly That whereas the counsells of the Enemy run all in one channell with one free and unanimous Vote against Christ and his people You have strugled and I wish I might say onely you have not only against a torrent of opposition from the open professed Enemy but with the secret tides and streams of crosse Malignant Councells and projects among your selves almost in all your Motions and Preparations throughout the Kingdome which when I seriously consider in my private thoughts I wonder not as some do that more is not don but am fil'd rather with wonder and astonishment that so much is done as is done and must needs break out with the Churches admiration and acknowledgment It is the Lords mercies we are not consumed because his compassions fail-not Lam. 3.22 23. They are renewed every morning great is thy faithfulnesse Had I not named this last of crosse Counsels I could have shewed you all these impressions of God upon the Deliverance and victory which we this day celebrate For first was it not in our despairing time when our hands were weak and our knees feeble Oh the opportunity of this mercy how seasonably it came in to refresh and revive our drooping spirits after that sad blow in the North wherein the hand of our God was stretched out against us how seasonably I say to stop the mouth of reproach and blasphemie in our insulting adversaries whom if God had suffered to have seconded their former successe with this dayes Victorie also surely the earth had not been able to have borne their words As with a sword in our Bowels Psal 42.10 they would have doubled and heightned their reproaches what is become of your fastings and prayers yea where is your God Yea Oh the patience and free-grace of our God which hath triumphed in this deliverance who when he saw us in our despondencies and despairings and might have destroyed us for our murmure and infidelity as he did the Israelites hath not only look't upon our affliction but pitied and help't our unbelief by so wonderfull and unexpected a reviving Secondly Look upon it under another advantage of the season namely as treading upon the heels of our humiliations and so you may behold it a double mercy A victory and the return of prayer which we may celebrate in Davids rapture Psal 31.22 I said in my haste I am cut off from before thine eyes neverthelesse thou heardest the voice of my supplication when I cried unto thee Vers 23. Oh let us follow it on with his O love the Lord all you his saints and I love the Lord because he hath heard my voyce and my supplication Psal 116 1. The hearing of prayer should marveilously endear our hearts to God And thirdly was there not a miraculous effusion of Gods Spirit seen in this Criticall day wherein the Enemies came in like a flood began to crie victorie our hands began to hang down our hearts to faint within us the day was well nigh lost Isa 59.19 and even then did the Spirit of the Lord lift up a standard against them by raising up the spirits of some that day to work with God for the turning