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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	great_a	speak_v	2,174	5	4.1269	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93860	Reflections upon the occurrences of the last year from 5 Nov. 1688 to 5 Nov. 1689. Wherein, the happy progress of the late Revolution, and the unhappy progress of affairs since, are considered; the original of the latter discovered, and the proper means for remedy proposed and recommended.	Stephens, Edward, d. 1706.	1689 (1689)	Wing S5437A; ESTC R188769	30,811	50

in these Words P. 20. If this WORK OF GOD possess us with the Veneration which is due to it We ought NOT TO STOP THE COURSE OF IT till it has had its full Effect nor to DAUB matters by slight and palliating Remedies We see now before us the most GLORIOUS BEGINNING of a noble Change of the whole face of Affairs both with relation to Religion and the Peace of Europe that we could have wish'd for It is so far beyond our Hopes that we durst scarce let our Wishes go so far We may if we are not wanting to our selves and to the Conjunctures before us hope to see that which may be according to the Prophetick Stile termed a New Heaven and a New Earth But if a Spirit of Jealousie and Murmuring of Impatience and Faction and of returning back to that out of which God has so signally extricated us grows up so that instead of reaping the Fruits that we have now in Prospect we have not Souls big enough nor Hearts good enough to carry this on to Perfection then we may justly fear our being DEIVERED UP to all those Evils from which we will not be healed c. And a little after There is scarce any INDICATION more certain of the Sins of a Nation being grown up to that height that it must be destroyed than the MISCARRIAGE of so great a Deliverance as God has wrought for us which will be an Eternal Blot on the Wisdom of the Nation c. Again P. 24. In order to the preventing the return of the like Evils We must avoid the RELAPSING into the like Sins It is neither the Vnion nor Wisdom of Councils nor the Strength of Fleets or Armies that will secure us from the Judgments of God which we may expect will fall upon us with an extraordinary redoubling of seven times heavier than any thing that we have yet seen or known if those that are filthy will be filthy still If Men think that their Fears are over and that therefore they may give themselves up to work Wickedness without Restraint then we may justly expect a return of the like if not of greater Miseries And toward the Conclusion P. 31. If in all that we do we take not Care to have God ever on our Sides it will be easie for him to blast all Councils and to defeat even the greatest and best laid Designs We have now before our Eyes one of the signallest Instances that is in any History of the Instability of all humane things c. Perhaps some may imagine that we are safe because we cannot be dashed on the same Rock about which we see so great a Shipwreck But alas If we provoke God to hide his Face and to withdraw his Protection from us his Ways are past finding out He can bring Ruine and Destruction on us from that Hand from which perhaps we apprehend the least If Prosperity and Success blow any up and make them forget God and all the Vows that they made to him he will never want Means and Methods to make them return to themselves and to remember him To these I will subjoyn one more delivered by the same Person upon the solemn Occasion of the Coronation in these Words Page 3. Those who are raised up to a high Eminence of Dignity are so much the more accountable both to God and Man not only for all the Ill which either they themselves or others acting in their Name or by their Example may have done but likewise for all the Good which they might have done but did not And as they have much to answer for to God so likewise men expect much from them c. These are all truths and so plain truths that there needed no extraordinary Spirit of Prophesie to reveal them and yet I doubt not but we may say truly This spake he not of himself but being ordered to preach on such occasion he prophesied If we believe that this great work was the work of God in whose hand are the hearts of all men why should we question but he who directed the Wind at Sea directed also now at their arrival here the motions of this mans heart to so seasonable and necessary Admonitions for the farther promotion of that work which he had so eminently favoured hitherto And the great change in the progress of affairs which we have since seen confirms the same inasmuch as it shews the Admonitions to have been not a little necessary And if that be so it is the more likely that some Miscarriage there hath been contrary not only to certain Duties but to some such particular express Admonition which is a great aggravation of that fault which hath had the unhappy effect to raise up such an Interposition between the happy Influence of Heaven and us The next thing then to be enquired is whose and what this Miscarriage may be The persons concerned in the Success and Management both were the Prince himself his Counsellors Ministers and those about him and among them he especially who gave those Admonitions the Convention the Army and the Navy in the Success alone the people of these Nations the Church of England and the Confederates beyond Sea whose Design is as much affected with it as the concern of any other But whoever else might be concerned in the Fault because the Prince was not only principally concerned in the Success and Management both but had before been made so glorious an Instrument that nothing could stop his Advance it is not reasonable to believe that he should have been at all deserted by the propitious Powers of Heaven without some Offence given by himself either by his own Act or Neglect or by Participation with some other And to discover that what it might be is a matter of great importance and requires no less Fidelity in any man to endeavour it than Skill to do it effectually Fidelity to God to himself now King to his Country and Good Will to a most just and honourable Cause and to all concerned in it And all this I hope is ground enough for plain dealing I cannot think of this King without thinking also of his Predecessors in the Throne of these Kingdoms from whom he is personally descended and now succeeds in their Estate Had he been only personally descended from them he had not been so far concerned in the Fate of their Family but having now accepted their Seat and Right he thereby succeeds in their Obligations and must either discharge their Debt by Reformation of what they have in that Capacity done amiss or bear their Iniquity and succeed also in their Punishment They had all the Favour of Providence in their access to the Throne and some of them in a special manner even beyond their Expectation or Hope but none more than this But they all deserted imprudently the Conduct and ungratefully the Service of that benign Providence and following their own ways were thereupon deserted by it and