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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	antichristian_a	true_a	zion_n	20	3	9.5376	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02476	A commemoration of the most prosperous and peaceable raigne of our gratious and deere soueraigne lady Elizabeth by the grace of God of England, Fraunce and Irelande, Queene &c. Now newly set foorth this. xvii. day of Nouember, beyng the first day of the. xviii. yeere of her Maiesties sayd raigne. By Edw. Hake. Gent.	Hake, Edward, fl. 1560-1604.	1575 (1575)	STC 12605; ESTC S106018	14,122	40

excéeding goodnesse bestowed vpon the children of men the seruaunts of thy household dispersed vpon the face of the earth it hath pleased thée that wée thy people of England liuing in these daies should in aboundance beyonde the measure of the graces of our brethren and the prosperous course of our fathers beholde and perceiue thine inestimable goodwill in the amiablenesse of thy countinaunce shininge vpon vs to whom thou hast geuen thy chosen Handmayden Elizabeth for soueraigne Lady and gouernour For what so euer is the glory of thy house O Lorde for vs w the issue of the slime of the earth to stande and looke vp to Heauen made into vessels after thine image that were not to bee redéemed borne a new after the seconde Adam that perisheth not in the sprinkling of the bloud of Christ and sanctificacion of the spirit that were vtterly lost to stande fast in thy handes sealed accordinge to thine eternall loue and written in the Booke of lyfe that dayly runne headlong to our own destructiō As the sence therof reioiseth the hartes of all those whom thou hast knit into this felowship of the saintes and called into the blessed hope of the eternall kingdome so againe how vngrateful should we be to whom thou hast dealt these benefites from thy diuine maiestie by the person reised vp for thine instrument therof toward vs if we should not in speciall sort shew vs thankfull vnto thee therfore And if not to liue tearing eating one the other like the Giantes in the old world and euery man to doo what séemeth him best in his owne eies as when there was no Iudge in Israel if that Princes raigne gouernors geue iudgment it is thy gift then in the worst disposition of their thoughts for the sinnes of the people they are redowbted thou O Lord hast appointed them they are sacred thou O Lorde hast annoynted them they are feared thou chaungest their hartes like the streames of waters they are honoured thine owne image and lickenes in guiding Angels and all creatures is pregnaunt and cannot deuayle in them bearinge rule in earth ouer the children of men what praise is due vnto thee from those vnto whome thou leauest not an Anarchy and headlesse dissolution as to the Cānibals a monstrous and misshapen gouernment and flaminge with fyre and streaminge with bloud and smoking with mist and darknesse of error and ignoraunce as to the Antichrists greased in the browe with the marke of the Image of the great Beast whoor of Babilon not a waste and barbarous perpetuall heathen cōtricion as vnto the Tartarian hoords of cursed Cham vnto the Rusty and wasted with misery th' inhabitants of Meschech or to the Turbulent and rauenous swarmes and hosts of Tubal-Gog or such lyke as those but contrarywise whome thou leadest like a flocke of shéep by the hands of Moyses and Aaron and hast chosen Dauid thy seruaunt whom thou hast loued to feede as the people of thine owne Inheritaunce geuing vnto thē for war peace for inciuilytie socyetie for ignoraunce knowledge for supersticion religion for errour truth for hunger plenty for vnproudiency polycie for dissonancye harmony for myserie felicyty making them to dwell in safetie as vnder the wings of thy defence and shadow of thy protection Now such hath ben thy mercy towards vs that no tongue is able to expresse in geuinge vs in thy gracious plesure thine vnrecountable largesse and liberalitie thy select Seruant Elizabeth Quéene and supreme gouernesse to vs of the liege Nations and peoples of her obeysaunce and regiment that as by a star the light and influence ouer thinges beneth frō thee the first cause and fowntaine of brightnesse not to be attayned vnto and as by a cléere riuer and plentifull brooke the course of the waters from thée y euerlasting head spring euen so the shininge beames and flowing streames of all those thy mercies and good gifts hath ben and are sithence the daies of her happye and gracious gouernment from thée conuaied and devolued vnto vs And we that before were no people not so much in regarde of the state in which wée haled when we were sauadge as wood men cruell as Mendeuourers terrible as spirites brutishe as beastes in the olde age at the first callinge home of our grand Auncestors to human ciuilitye but in these daies in few yeeres degenerate from the true knowledge of thee and thy sonne Iesus Christ vnto the consuminge nakednesse of idolatrie and playinge inordinat before the golden Calfe of our owne making and our priestes now the eightenth sunne most happely enuironeth in the firmamēt sithence by the meanes of a poore vessell of the weaker ser a selly mayden thou perfourming the gloryous delyuerance of thy people out of the thraldome and slauerye of Pharao Egipt dyddest annoynt the Kings daughter with an holy oyle setting a crown of pure golde vpon her head and inuesting her with the purple and Scepter and regal Diademe of this Realme Sithence which time O Father we owe to thee and to her our God and our Moyses the sight of this light the vse of this ayre the ease of our hartes the peace of our consciences the whole worke of our welfare By her inspired by thée spreding her beames at her appearing the bloudy lawnces claunching Murreans and redoublinge shieldes haue ben shattered asunder in shiuers and bated and foyled into mattokes and spades the flames of our furies quenched and put out and the coole of grace flowed ouer the realme the Lion reconciled with the Lambe the wilde Asse set to be pastured with the seely Kyd the abhomynation of desolation remoued from the holy temple and the sun of man exalted and lifte vp on high in his owne kingdom for all that were s●onge by the fiery serpēt to looke vpon and be saued In admyrable lenytie Babylon hath put on Syon Egypt is become our owne Rahab the harlot denizoned in Ierusalem wee become of the wilde olyues the true garden plants of Ismael Israell of miscreant christian of paynim protesting and professing of Antichristian Romanest heathen idolaters faithfull euangelycall sincerely beleeuing worshipers of thee in spirit and verytie according to thy holy worde Neither hath cost ben spared nor occasiō foreslowd nor time ouer passed nor trauel intermitted to rayse that was fallen to win that was witholden to call that was strayed to heale that was wurryed to finde that was lost to restore that was ruined to repayre that was decaied to make good and enhable that was abandoned Preachers haue bene sent forth plenteously Lawes haue ben executed mercyfully Orders haue bene set downe polytickly dangers haue ben declyned discretly tumultes haue bene apeased victoryously the whole spacious dominyons of both Iles and the adiacent Landes gouerned triumphantly So as it is harde to finde the man that more orderly hath manedged the charge of any one houshold then the Daughter of thy house with her virginall hands hath welded the weightye