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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
state_n	king_n	kingdom_n	monarchy_n	1,065	5	9.3350	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93701	A solemn discourse upon the grand covenant, opening the divinity and policy of it: by John Saltmarsh, Master of Arts, and not long since, pastour of Heslerton in Yorkshire.	Saltmarsh, John, d. 1647.	1643 (1643)	Wing S501; Thomason E1208_1; ESTC R208789	9,766	72

holy parallel to him into whose remembrance great Babylon came to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fiercenesse of wrath and to his own peoples resolution Happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us and the treacheries and tyrannies of Gods enemies have ever drawn along with them this resolution in Gods people Amalek and Ashur and Egypt are standing examples of Divine revenge And for Extirpation it is but a retaliation to their own just cruelty who would raze out the name of Israel that it should be no more in remembrāce And what hath their endeavor in our kingdom of Ireland been but an eradication of our memories And our confederations now cannot but be powerfull in the very notion Nationall Leagues have brought forth great effects in States and Kingdoms in the mutuall aydings and assistings and therefore Israel sent to Syria and Iudah to Assyria and Iudah to Israel and other Kingdoms have sought to one another for such combinations in any grand Enterprise That famous Designe of Christendom which was such a universall confederatiō against the Turk onely it was a Designe in a wrong channell Therefore the more spirituall that Leagues are the more powerfull that which made Israel so famous in their conquests to Canaan was the Association of the Tribes and the Ark of God amongst them therefore the Philistims cryed out Woe unto us the Ark of God is in the camp of the Hebrews and when they marched with the Ark amongst thē Iordan vvas driven back and the mountains and little hills were removed the walls of Iericho fell And certainely this grand and blessed Association of the three Kingdoms is a glorious portent to the destruction of Rome it self carrying amongst them such an Ark and Gospel this is the first time that ever the Sun saw such a Triple Confederation against the Triple Crown so many States so solemnly combined against the Popish Hierarchy this is the time the spirit of God hath set up a Standard this is a fair rise and improvement to the prophecy When the Princes of the earth shall gather themselves together and shall agree to make her desolate I know there hath been many confederations but they were narrower then this and so opposings and strong ones too and by confederacies too yet those were but single to this when our Princes in their eyes appeared in their graduall Extirpations our Henry and Edward and Elizabeth when in Scotland they against the French power and Idolatry ayded by a power from this kingdom yet these were not from such strong resolutions such able Principles such a sacred Covenant they were but ordinary and civil contributions weak strivings and so had shorter expirations and relapses and had little more of Religion then brought them into the fields and enabled them to break down Images The Confederations and Covenants in Germany so many Princes and States entring into a solemn Protestation upon Luthers discoveries The Conferations of those in Holland and those States in the Netherlands The Confederation of those Princes in France But these had their ebbings and flowings But now as if this were the Antichristian crisis and as if the Reformation had recovered the Period of declination three kingdoms strike into a sacred League And now methinks I hear the Angel saying to us The Prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty dayes but loe Michael one of your chief Princes came in to help me and now I am come to make you understand what shal befall in the latter daies now methinks the set time to favour Sion is come her servants take pleasure in her stones And for the Extirpation of Prelacie though it be a government rivetted into our Laws and usages and into the judgments and Consciences of some through a mistasten and colluding Divinity yet let us not like the Iews lose our Gospel with holding our Laws too fast I know this kingdom hath ever been a retentive nation of Customes and old Constitutions and it parted but sadly with its old Prganisme and with its latter Antichristianisme in the es●lation of Abbies and Priories And hence it is that Reformations in this Nation hath been with such little power and duration for we have ever easily gone back with a new successour never taking in so much of the power of godlinesse as should be able to make us live Protestants to another succession and especially the Superstitions and Idolatries of late were woven with such strange and plausible Insinuations Episcopacy was got upon the bottome of mis-interpreted Scriptures and the whole Government upon a pretended Antiquity and the Innovations upon a spirituall Decency and Order upon an Ecclesiasticall Magistrality and Reverend Infallibility and prodigeous Policy as if theire were no way to bring a Papist to Church but by going with him to Rome first if we considr well we shall finde cause enough to remove these as not consistent with the holy simplicity of the Gospel of Jesus Christ nor the spiritmall purity we were then trading with Popery when we ignorantly thought we had not enough to serve us frō the Scriptures of God now we see they are perfect cōplete in Iesus Xt let us cast away those weak beggarly rudimēts of the which we are now ashamed they do not savour the things of God who would now like Saul at Endor raise up Aron and the whole Hierarchy and bring us back again to the Law forcing us under that cool shadow of Types Ceremonies drawing the curtains of the Law before the light of the Gospel we serve now in the newnesse of the spirit not in the deadnes of the letter THe next thing I observe is the Politicall excellency those sound maxims for the kingdomes duration as the preservation of Parliamentary rights and Nationall rights and Royall rights that they exceed not nor exorbitate and this is no more then to reduce the kingdome into its primitive contemperation and to keep the mixture even for we see that whilest the power of Monarchy would needs take in such poyson'd principles as the Divines and Privadoes did instill carrying up the notion of a King into an higher firmament thē its own the whole State was in a posture of ruine for nothing hath more betrayed kingdoms into destructive alterations then exorbitancy of government and States must respect their fundamentals and originals in their present constitution for those infuse secret dispositions into al the Orders subordinations and that ingagement inables to incline to their own interests then in their inclinations pursuit thither tumults and stirres are wakened and there is a noise of some new treasonable endeavour when it is but the naturall workings of each degree for its owne preservation hence have these late aspersions been borne received the Princes and people being carried on by the strength and violence of a late predominancy almost out of sight of their true fundamentals