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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10113	A sermon briefly comparing the estate of King Salomon and his subiectes togither with the condition of Queene Elizabeth and her people preached in Sainct Maries in Oxford the 17. of Nouember, and now printed with some small alteration, by Iohn Prime, 1585	Prime, John, 1550-1596.	1585 (1585)	STC 20371; ESTC S115247	10,727	32

memory Mendoza his trauels and treacherous embassay his and his casting lots for our garments Throgmortons beadroll of recusants and kalender of Inglish helpe for the inuading of England Ardens villanous desire Somerfieldes dagge and Ap-harries dagger as Stories axe in former times haue missed their wicked purposes all and haue not preuailed Forren enimies home libellers and rebels mighty or weake many or fewe subtile or rash secret or open they haue vndone themselues against vs our Queene and contrary they haue not preuailed Herein it is not to be denied her sacred Maiesty her most honorable councell haue Argus eies or rather to speake in this place more religiously lesse profanely In great measure wise hearts haue they as SalomoÌ„ had her friends are many sure her nobles trusty her seruants true her subiects loyall her people willing her realme no begger Siluer is not as plenty as stones in the streetes yet most men haue more plate now than their great grandfathers had peuter in elder age for general munitions the like store of weapons armour shot pouder people were neuer comparable in her ancestors dates her nauy incomparably strong the sea about vs a maine defence But but deere countrimen christians as I tolde you the other day except God had watched warded kept our citie except he had held his holy hand ouer vs except he had risen vp like a Giant plesaded his her our cause against our her his mortall foes except he had bard our gates bared his arme and stretched it foorth for our defence Sanders warring Alen libelling the Iesuits finely lying sophistically iugling doubtfully answering the Pope cursing the Guise practising the Spaniard vndermining Ireland the North rebelling pioners still working what had bin come of this litle realm Notwithstanding brethren bee of good cheere lift vp your heades your hands and hearts lift vp your heades and bee of comfort your handes to heauen your hearts to God the God and horne of our saluation the Lord of hosts The horse of Egypt is flesh not spirit their men but men not God The blast of a horne Iosua 6. Iudges 7. the blaze flash of a broken lamp litle things in the eies of the world and lesse in their own conceit haue ouerturned cities conquered countries and vanquished giants when God so would And one woman by the helpe of him in whom she trusteth euen ELIZABETH by the grace of God our gracious Queene is and shal be and shal be reputed for euer the terror of her foes the comfort of her friends the glorie of England the Iewel of the world and diamond of christendom Euen so O Lord because of perfit loue thou hast loued her so In the meane time vnnaturally minded men traitors to Ierusalem enimies to SioÌ„ hauing euill will to both commonwealth church of ours thinking it best fishing wheÌ„ the water is trobled most ban curse raue take on like mad men or losing mates lost companions not seeing so much as Balaam that sawe lesse than his Asse and yet saw thus much and sayd accordingly that for a house ful of gold he could not curse where God did blesse Numb 23. But is there no remedy can no musicke assuage these passions Will Ephraim bee wilfull Wil Israell trust to a reed can Papists imagine that strangers will doe them good and deeme they that God wil prosper a cursing generatioÌ„ And what if their treacheries which god auert might take effect * he Ose 8.7 that soweth a wind shall he not reape a whirle-wind do they remember or haue they forgotten or haue they not reade couÌ„ty Melunes most memorable counsel to our English nobles Mat. Paris Radolph Niger cap. 47. who after that the barons of this realme missed by fancy of their own and faction of the Clergy and prouocation of the Pope at first had brought in Lodouik the French kings sonne to be king of England in king Iohns steede moued with conscience falling deadly sicke at London calleth certain of the barons vnto him said I lament your sorowful case pitie with my hart the destruction that is coÌ„ming towards you and your country the dangerous snares which are prepared for your vtter confusioÌ„ are hidden vnto you you see them not yet but take heede of them in time Prince Lodouike hath sworn no smaloth and sixeteen of his Earles and Nobles with him that if he get once the crowne he will banish depriue them all of lands and goods at least if not of life euen as many as hee proueth to haue gone against their liege king and his noble person And saith the worthy Melune because ye shall not take this tale for a tale I assure you on my soule lying now at the mercy of God when it is no fitte time to lie that I was one of them which was priuy sworne to the same I haue remorse thereof and therefore I giue you this caueat I pitty poore England which hath bin so worthy a nation that now it is come to so miserable extremity And when with teares hee had blubbred a space he beginneth a litle while a fresh againe my masters I aduise you earnestly to prouide for future extremities in season I forewarn you of good will and for my conscience sake and so after a fewe words to like sense hauing discharged vnburdened his heauy soule for the matter he gaue vp the Ghost Let English harts apply this story I wil not amplifie In the booke of Iosua the Gabionites for all their crouchings Iosu 9. old bottles finoed bread and proffered friendship were made no better then wood-cleauers water bearers drudges and slaues to the vilest function A foolishe a desperate sheaf it is that when it hath brought in fier sette the barne all in a flame can possibly suppose it selfe can escape Experience doth tell the contrary reason religion and scripture doe teach vs better To wit to forethinke our selues to thinke reuerently of the Lordes annointed to thanke God for all his blessings They who were weary of Salomon were wearied out with Roboam who succeded Salomon But what speak I to deaf ears which is but to powder the flint to plow the rocke and sow the sand and so to loose both salt seed and labour My brethren in christ my natural and naturally affected Countrimen I speake to you we haue gods blessings we finde and feele those bodily and ghostly commodities which our poore neighbors want God help them Neither are our desertes better than theirs for ought I see Do we thinke we are priuileged without couenant of duty or prouiso of forfeiting our estate more than are others Security maketh fooles and folly bringeth confusion and perfite wanton or waiward vnthankfullnes maketh a perfite separation and diuorse betwixt vs and our God The noble men of Israel 2. Sam. 1. where they braued it most and nothing remembred God lest thought of danger in the hils of Gelboe lost their liues God forbid that the mildnes of our Queene the fatte of our Country the plentie of the realm the wisedome of our rulers and the blessings of god should be our bane Nay rather God blesse vs with the gift of his grace in thankfulnes to blesse him euer that he may blesse vs alwaies more more as Bennaiah wished so wish we al euen god say so for euermore The happy resolutioÌ„ of this time the course of this great assembly the coÌ„ueniency of my text al holy writ besides iointly with this good example of the Queene of Saba the Sacrament and Eucharist which now wee shal partake being the pledge of his good wil paune of his fauor and seal of his mercies to vs-ward and likewise also on our partes to him being the prouocation and promise of our thankfullnes and Sacrifice of praise should moue al to laude and praise his holy name for euer more world without end Amen 1. Cor. 10.15 I speake as vnto them which haue vnderstanding Iudge ye what I say A PRAIER IN CONsideration of the former respects AL humble and hartie thanks be rendred vnto thee O Lord God almightie Father of mercies and compassion that in this later age euil dayes hast placed directed and preserued by thy singuler goodnes and speciall prouidence thine handmaid ELIZABETH our dread Soueraigne in the Seat of her father alwaies maintaining her cause against all her enimies who in great rage haue risen against her but thou O Lord was on her right hand that she should not be moued Continue the course of this thy goodnes towards vs we beseech thee for thy holy names sake Neither be prouoked in thy displeasure for our vnthankefulnes toward her and thee Aswage the malice conuert the harts or confound the deuises of al them that haue euil will to thine annointed repine at her good proceedings stirre vp her hart more more to loue thee that hast so perfectly loued her and to blesse thee that so hast blessed her to serue thee her only Sauiour euermore by publishing peace trueth peace iustice and equitie in this church and Common wealth that we our posterity after vs may many yeares meet in this place and the like as at this time vpon this occasion and to this purpose that thy blessings O Lord may be acknowledged our ioy increased her old age comforted this Realme established in the true worship seruice of thy holy name through Iesus Christ Amen

can dreame euen Iosephs dreame Genes 37. but not with Iosephes spirite that al the sheaues of the field must stoupe to their sheaue that the sun moon and starres the Queene Nobles and realme must bowe bend before a stinking snuf a Stukeley Thomas Stukeley a faithlesse person periured beast yet the best instrument of holy fathers pride But pride hath had hir deserued ruine As Absolons fancifal heade was hanged in his own lockes and Haman on his own gallowes so Stukeley Stukeleis like haue had their iust deserts drank the wine of their own vintage Notwithstanding all this to vse Hamans words to a truer sense most true it is So so and in greater truer incomparably better sort shal he be honored whoÌ„ God will honor with this most honorable calling of being a lawful prince to the end he be his own lieutenaÌ„t 2. Chro. 9.8 to sit in the throne in his own stead to be bear the image of his maiesty to haue the credit of kingdoms care of his people to feed Israel to guide Iacob to gouern Iudah to be a foster-father a nursing mother vnto his Church to bee the instrument angel of God as the woman of Thecuah said to Dauid to be the horse chariot the bones and strength to be the head the eie of direction for iustice equity good order in a commonwealth This is no small prerogatiue or common priuilege And in one word this was Salomons case was this no blessing 2 In the second place consider we the blessing loue of God towarde Salomons subiects As the wickednesse of the king bringeth the wrath of God vpon the whole realm Gen. 20.9 so when wise very wise men gouern the gouermnent is stable and they so gouerned are most happy As when Salomon should build the temple he cared litle for hey for straw for vnteÌ„pered morter for vnskilful workmen he sent for HyeraÌ„ prouided as Dauid his father had done before him for the gold of Ophir cedars of Libanus Euen so God in the edifice of his chosen peculiar people for the greater benefite and beuty of the whole work he chuseth no Nabal no foole as Nabal was to be their ruser but Salomon the wisest man that euer was If the prince bee wise the people be the wiser if he be blessed of God they be most happy Si caecus caeco praeierit If the head be il the members cannot prosper if the blinde lead the blind they both fal into the pit the pit is bottomlesse but if the ese be sound the fish is sweet A good neighbour as we say is a great coÌ„modity a grations prince hath no coÌ„parison to speake of A candle lighteth a house the sun the world a wel is competeÌ„t for a few it is the stream that caseth the couÌ„trie one beame beareth an other one peece of a bough feedeth another it is the foundation it is the roote that vpholdeth the building cherisheth the whole tree Somway semblably in this case Israel reaped mutual helpe ech of other but the sun the generall light the streame the foundation the root of their blisse whole repose next immediatly vnder God depended altogether and rested most in hauing Salomon to be their prince Vnder him their peace and plenty was more than woonderfull siluer was as common as ruble in the streetes and euery maÌ„ sate without any feare at ful ease vnder his vine Were these no blessings No dout the Lords blessings rare effects of his singular loue wherein he blessed Salomon and by him them powring the ointment on his head that it might descend be deriued to the rest parts of the whole body of the common-wealth Not the poorest woman but had accesse 1. Kin. 3.17 and inioyed her right as appeareth in the strife for the liue child and whose the deade should be So wise so willing a prince was he so happy a people were they and which was all in all so louing a God was God vnto them both And heere I pray you haue resort your selues vnto and view the story as it lieth in the Bible and you shal perceaue I haue but tripped ouer things And nowe because I am desired to bee short who neuer loued length right worshipful and deere countrimen looke wee homeward a litle and as it were out of the looking glasse of this scripture by way of reflexion I beseech you consider what blessings also on vs God hath bestowed by what meanes they haue been receiued what dutifulnes is due therefore Flattery becommeth no place but lest of al the pulpit Be it spoken to the praise of God for it is a truth and you who knowe anie thing and haue a true tast of things knowe I lie not God hath blessed her maiesty with a wise a wealthy a peaceable and a godlie raigne THE time was when Steuen Gardiner Bishop of Winchester and canceller of England a wilier serpent than all his brethren worse than Abiathar and as bad as Achitophel laied his complot to preuent her preferment and in deede vpon vaine surmises without all proofe or legall caling to question most wrongfully brought her Grace to that heauy and doleful plight that for griefe of minde and sorow of heart she heartily wished rather to haue beene a poore milkmaid in Woodstocke park than a Kinges daughter and a Queenes sister and heire apparent to sundrie Bealmes The Lorde William Howard the Lord Williams some others could do no more than they could In al the world she found no friend no able friend no firme hope or present help but in God alone the sure rock of her foundation Only he that is mighty magnified her and tooke her from the prison as Ioseph from the stocks and made her our Queene and as it were a Martha to prouide for Christ in his members and as a Marie to heare him in his ministers and as a verie Debora to execute iustice equitie and trueth in this English Nation And hee that preferred her at the first preserueth her still and preserue her euer But all this was because he had a tender a fauourable and fatherly respect to her and our former troubles for euer more Since her happy raign some unhappy persons as what field hath not some blasted eares haue sought if they will needes be traitors long may they seek but all in vain the ruine of the realme and destruction of her person but they haue not preuailed at al. The master of all misrule Pius the fifth his Bull which Harding and his felow procured Felton affixed in her principal city Moortons conspiracy with Westmerland and his complices in the North Daluies promised aide the great and popular man with all his potent endeuours rumors and vauntings of the Duke of Florence and Don of Austria what haue they effected haue they preuailed In late times and very lately of greene

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