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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
A93705	A solemn discourse vpon the sacred league and covenant of both kingdomes, opening the divinity and policy of it: / by John Saltmarsh, Master of Arts, and late pastor of Hesterton in Yorkshire.	Saltmarsh, John, d. 1647.	1644 (1644)	Wing S502; Thomason E253_7; ESTC R210075	9,504	8

have brought forth great effects in Stats kingdoms in the mutual aydings assistings and therfore Israel sent to Syria Judah to Assyria and Iudah to Israel and other Kingdoms have sought to one another for such combinations in any grand Enterprise That famous Design of Christendome which was such a universall confederation 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 Arke of God amongst them therefore the Philistims cryed out Woe unto us the Arke of God is in the Campe of the Hebrewes and when they marched with the Arke amongst them Iordan was 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 selfe carrying amongst them such an Arke 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 faire rise and improvement to the Prophecie When the Princes of the earth shall gather themselvs together and shall agree to make her desolate I know there hath beene many confederations but they were narrower than 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 civill contributions and weak strivings and so had shorter extirpations 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 Confederations 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 me thinks I hear the Angell saying to us The Prince of the Kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty dayes but loe Michael one of your chiefe Princes came in to help me and now I am come to make you understand what shall befall in the latter daies now me thinks 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 judgements and Consciences of some through a mistaken and colluding Divinity yet let us not like the Jewes lose our Gospell 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 Paganisme and with its latter Antichristianisme in the desolation 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 Episcopacie was got upon the bottome of mis-interpreted Scriptures and the whole Government upon a pretended Antiquity and the Innovations upon a spirituall Decencie and Order upon an Ecclesiasticall Magistrality Reverend Infallibility and prodigeous Policy as if there were no way to bring a Papist to Church but by going with him to Rome first if we consider well we shall finde cause enough to remove these as not consistent with the holy simplicity of the Gospell of Iesus Christ nor the spirituall purity we were then trading with Popery when we ignorantly thought we had not enough to serve us from the Scriptures of God now we see they are perfect and compleat in Iesus Christ let us cast away those weak and beggarly rudiment● of the which we are now ashamed and they do not savour the things of God who would now like Saul at Endor raise up Aaron and the whole Hierarchy and bring us back againe to the Law forcing us under that coole shadow of Types and 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 deadnesse of the letter The next thing I observe is the Politicall excellency those sound maximes 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 poysoned principles as the Divines and Privadoes did instill carrying up the notion of a King into an higher firmament then its owne the whole State was in a posture of ruine for nothing hath more betrayed Kingdomes into destructive alterations then exorbitancie of government and States must respect their fundamentals and originals in their present constitution for those in●use secret dispositions into all the Orders and subordinations and that ingagement inables to incline to their own interests and then in their inclinations and pursuite thither tumults and stirs are wakened and there is a noise of some new and treasonable indeavour when it is but the naturall workings of each degree for its owne preservation and hence have these late aspersions been born and received the Princes and people being carried on by the strength and violence of a late predominancie almost out of sight of their true fundamentalls till they have forgot their interests and maligne those that would bring them back and for the temper of our English Monarchy I will not say more to the praise of the constitution so many having spoken before me than its own duration breathing to this day under the succession of so many ages and never distemper'd but when the fiduciary power would needs be severer and taller then the rest and entertaine designes of trying strengths and interests to see If the fire out of the bramble would at length come forth and consume the trees of the Forrest And whereas there are some other subordinate principles in order to these as the discovery of Incendiaries and Malignants certainely they that shall suffer any relations to corrupt them