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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	crown_n	grow_v	mitre_n	24	3	16.2663	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65074	Sermons preached upon several publike and eminent occasions by ... Richard Vines, collected into one volume.; Sermons. Selections	Vines, Richard, 1600?-1656.	1656 (1656)	Wing V569; ESTC R21878	447,514	832

thou gavest them saviours who saved them out of the hand of their enemies Nehem. 9. 27. As the Scripture calls Magistrates Gods so it calls the vindices or Judges which hee raised up to Israel Saviours but as those are but dii minorum gentium Gods by participation of some spark of his image and authority so are these but subsaviours instrumentall actours so far as they are acted by God the glory of an instrument is none but what redounds to the workman that made it or useth it Cicero taxes Verres for that he found him at Syracuse written 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Saviour Hoc quantum est sayth he this is so great a style as cannot be exprest in one Latine word The word Saviour hath no plurall number in an univocall sense Hos 13. 4. Thou shalt have no God but me for there is no Saviour besides me I will not common-place this point This day is text enough to prove the truth of it Let us make particular use thereof 1 To acknowledge God alone The Saviour 2 To rejoyce in him 3 To render to him as to a Saviour To acknowledge him whose finger doe I say or arme rather was made bare in this businesse Remove the thick wood of men the so many thousands out of your eye that you may see God I know wee have as he said prodigia miracula humana prodigies of men for valour wee have seene the chiefe Commander in fight to be as was said of Caesar medius inter imperatorem militem betweene a Commander and a common souldier But who teaches their hands to war and fingers to fight The more of God we see in them the lesse of them let us see in themselves And because the word Saviour will carry it both to deliverance and victory 1 Let us see God in the deliverance What might we have lost by this battle Might not the Religion Liberties Happinesse of two Kingdoms have been shaken would not the enemy have been heightened if yet there be any degrees of ascent left unto such insolency and cruelty that as was said of Tarquin Vel ipsam savitiam fatigasset he would have tyred out cruelty it selfe Would it not have beene the greatest crime to have been godly should not every Aristides have tasted of their ostracisme at the least for no other reason than quia nimium justus He is too good and if any have more cause to consider this than others they are those that have more of Christ in them than others to whom England and Scotland both might have been another Ireland I cannot expresse the consequence God denied the premises or antecedent who is our Deus liberator He hath delivered Hee doth deliver and wee trust also that he will deliver Hee hath delivered from plots from stratagems of dilatory and delusory peace He doth deliver from the sword of a furious enemy and we pray that He will deliver the King unto his loyall Parliament and people 2 Let us acknowledge God in the Victory How long did we lie against a strong City untill God sent a great army to surrender it up into our hands It was relieved that it might be emptied that York might be carried out into the field and taken there Who so is wise and will observe those things even they shall understand the loving kindnes of the Lord Psal 107. 43. Did not the enemy flesht with that successe follows us and seek us out for so God will have it At Edge Hill Newbery and York wee shall be defendants was not there some inclination of the battle at the first against us and some trepidation in divers of our men Is this to be ascribed to the dubiousnesse and uncertainty of war for so Homer calls Mars 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an up and downe Iliad ● or rather did not God take off some of Gideons souldiers They are too many saith he for me to give the Midianites into their hands Judg. 7. 2. Wee have always hitherto found it in experience in all our battails that God removes men from standing in his light and obscures us the more to shew himself do we need this art of God to take off our pride and self-confidence or doth God in goodnesse to us delight to sweeten our victories because gotten by his own hand and will not doe us so much hurt as to let us be our own saviours some use there is to be made of it that God in no battle as yet would suffer men to hide him from us and blessed be his Name for the sight of him in a Victory doth us more good than the Victory it self And yet further to winde up the strings of your prayses see the spirits of the enemy which God hath given into your hands and God hath showne you their spirits in their colours There is a sword reacht from a cloud with Fiat justitia it s well no higher hand reacht out that sword unto them The Oracle with which hee consulted that devised that Motto Fiat justitia was too cunning for him as it was for Craesus when it said magnam pervertet opum vim that he should overthrow a world of wealth for it was indeed his own he lost and so it pleased God the tables should be turned and the Motto should become ours and that it should be sent up to you to whom it belongs as a memorandum Fiat justitia The Crown and Mitre under it shews also that they hold the old principle No Bishop No King that is the lowest interpretation it can bear It is to be feared that the Mitre might in time have crept higher for it is an aspiring thing and the Motto seemes to joyn the Crowne and the Mitre in equipage Nolite tangere Christos meos As for the Crown let Mercy and Truth be the supporters of it for ever Prov. 20. 28. but for Mitres if Histories lye not we may say of them as it is said of some trees that grow not kindly in vicinity to each other the Crown hath never flourished that hath grown too neer the Mitre There is a sword also in one hand threatens to unity a knot in an other haply they meane the Covenant of the Kingdomes but that which is more strange is that this knot did ungird that sword And finally that they may shew their vile esteem of you they call some of you in a picture Dogs barking at a Lion and in the Motto they call you Catilines for that is the English of quousqué tandem abutêre patientia nostra which might have been a proper device if in the Lions place at which we bark not they had set the Fox or the Wolfe and had owned their own character And is this the festivity of their wit or the rage of their spirits whatsoever it be God hath given them check for though upon confidence of successe they did antedate their bells and bonefires yet in a few houres there was nothing of them left in the