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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	good_a	grace_n	lord_n	7,245	5	3.6848	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77543	Britains king revived: or, a seasonable warning to the kingdom of Scotland assembled in Parliament, upon the first of January, 1660. By Scotlands true friend.	Scotlands true friend.	1660 (1660)	Wing B4811A; ESTC R223959	9,797	17

Britains KING REVIVED Or A Seasonable Warning To the KINGDOM of SCOTLAND Assembled in PARLIAMENT Upon the first of January 1660. By SCOTLANDS true Friend Josh 22.10 c. And when they came to the borders of Jordan that are in the land of Canaan the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by Jordan a great altar to see to LONDON Printed in the year 1660. BRITAINS KING revived c. OUtward Providences and Dispensations are not the Guides and Directories of Mans actions but as in the bitter trouble of the one there may be wisdom so in the sweet peace of the other may be foolishness and evil And the time of casting off the Armour more dangerous from within then sometine the putting on of the same is hurtful from without A victorious Army may fall in themselves and their own resolutions work trouble and disquietness Laudable intentions and good actions in matter may be misconstrued and subject to blame through defect of form and prudential circumstances Coifederacies may sometimes debord beyond their limits and the lesser party unawares impose upon the greater Religion may occasion mistakes neither doth the specious lustre and beauty of it exempt from censure People without the counterance of Authority may intend well but an harmony betwixt them is the sure band of all their work All these Aphorisms of State and Experimental Observations are clear here and plainly verified upon the first view of the condition of this little Israel and review of Scotlands affairs and transactions these fatal years past Twenty and seven years war with Canaan and peace in the end through valour and wisdom turneth into a dangerous Jealousie betwixt the greater and the lesser Tribes their parting of company with joy and spoil of Enemies threatens parting of hearts to further sorrow and spilling of their own bloud the turning of their weapons homeward beyond Jordan ready to sheath their swords in their own bowels at Jordan and turn those swelling waters into bloud of swelling hearts The religious intention of the lesser Tribes to 〈…〉 to themselves the true Religion and not to be 〈…〉 the division of Jordan was commendable 〈…〉 ●…ing in it was unadvised without the priva●… 〈…〉 ●…nour Joshua or their other brethren the 〈…〉 ●…ner of it unlawful by an Altar out of Shiloh or 〈…〉 the place of it more scandalous to their Brethren then safe 〈◊〉 them selves an Altar upon their brethrens side of Jor●●● 〈…〉 significant of their right and interest in the true God as upon their own side the border beyond Jordan is their 〈…〉 into Jealousie The indiscreet extent and limits of the●● 〈…〉 true Worship unto their neighbours Land is an 〈…〉 them beyond the moderation of Fraternity and occasioneth a misunderstanding Reuben here seeth the son of 〈…〉 too hastily Gad in his purpose advanceth in troops most suriously and Manasseh in the work forgets too speedily all form●●●oyls in the defence of Religion in Aegypt and the wilderness and his fathers house in the enjoyment of it as thus by a just mistake of their brethren to expose it to danger by a Civil War and division The greatness of this Altar to see to begets no charity to their work nor can plead their integrity of heart forever Idolatry is more expensive costly and painful then true ●●re and undefiled Religion and the golden Calf in the wilderness robbeth Israel of all their jewels and golden ear-rings the sure of Gideon's Ephod at Opbrah did spoil his people of all their golden collars and ornaments of prey from the Midianites and their Kings Molech the god of Ammon and Sidon bereaveth his worshippers of their first-born and spareth them not from the cruelty of the fire Great is Diana of the Ephesians and her silver-smiths very rich And the people of Israel did dispence with their many painful long and wearisome journeys to go even to Dan to worship the golden calf of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who made Israel to sin Yea under greatest shew of Religion and pretence of Zeal may be acted greatest Cruelty Fraud and Covetousness as witness Simeon and Levi the two sons of Jacob in their Circumcision to Hamor King of Shechem and his son and people before the marriage with Dinah their sister and Jehn his covetousness of the Kingdom of Israel from the house of Ahab by his zealous eruelty killing all the Priests of Baal was acted under his hypocrifie in the worshipping of their false God The two Tribes and an half meaned well in Religion but not prudently with the advice of Joshua their Governour before departing to their inheritance who had sufficiently directed them in the ways of God nor dutifully with his consent who was appointed by the Lord as a nursing father with Eleazar the son of Aaron in his Church neither in their enterprise did they enquire at the mouth of the Lord nor consult his wisdom in that great important case and hard matter and therefore they are in trouble Mans strength and wisdom in the matters of God is folly and when rashly handled through presumption and spiritual pride falleth to the ground When mixed with the impurity of his own thoughts and ends the building proveth but stubble and hay as daubed with untempered mortar and without the stability and indurance of gold and silver sincerity and uprightness in all self-deniedness But when the Ruler of the Lords people in his holy things or providentials is consulted with and by their prayers and petitions with tears is invited to the work then heavens influence and earths fruitfulness is joyned together for a blessed generation and production heavens mediatory blessing with the Lords soveraignty of power in his Vicegerent upon earth doth proceed And as in all Gods works which he sees to be good especially in what concerns immediately his glory upon earth there is the power of the Father by the grace of the Son for the operation of the Spirit so in all the Spirits motions upon a people in matters of Religion and actings thereupon by the grace of the Son there should be the consulting wisdom and consenting confirming Power and Authority of the King and Governour the Father's Vicegerent upon earth if intended for success and a blessing with peace profit and duration The building of the walls of Jerusalem and Reformation of the Worship of God was much intended and sought after by the people in the days of Ezra the Scribe but slowly proceeded in for the space of fifty years till the Governour Nehemiah came and then also much divided by the wicked enemy by opposition and conspiracie against him as the top-stone of that work The King is the pillar and supporter of Religion and therefore his place in the Temple was always by a pillar as the manner was 2 King 11.14 and 23.3 He is the hedge and guard of the Church of God in spirituals and temporals and therefore the Princes