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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	kindness_n	lord_n	love_a	1,686	5	9.5041	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54509	Gods doings, and mans duty opened in a sermon preached before both Houses of Parliament, the Lord Major and aldermen of the city of London, and the assembly of divines at the last thanksgiving day, April 2, for the recovering of the West, and disbanding 5000 of the Kings horse, &c., 1645 /1645 / by Hugh Peters ...	Peters, Hugh, 1598-1660.	1646 (1646)	Wing P1704; ESTC R6885	39,929	55

patimur mala saevior armie Luxuria incubuit victumque ulciscitur orbem We could never have suffered so much by a forraign enemy as by our home-bred luxury and wantonnesse Oh call these ill times when a base messenger from a proud Prelate could shut up these doors stop the mouths of the most godly Ministers that the best noble-man here could not enjoy the worship of God freely and hardly his Bible without reproach I am bold to say you have heard more of Christ within these last foure yeares then you have for forty before call such dayes good And more especially to improve what I have spoken in the doctrinall part truly the Lord hath rightly timed his favours even when he might most advance his own wisdom power and mercy when he might stir up his gifts and graces in you if the enemy ask after our Prayers Fasts Tears yea our God as they were wont to do we have all these this day from Edge-hill and before even to this very hoare yea all these preservations have been so seasonable that what time we our selves would have chosen hath been Gods time that we may say as David in this Psalm Our times have been in thy hands O Lord And I humbly beseech you give the Spirit of the Lord its praise who hath done the work The Lord is willing you should have the mercy so he may have the prayse Potiphar lets Joseph h●●e the use of all he hath onely keep● his wife to himself Pharaoh lets him have the Kingdom but he will keep the Throne Gods Spirit hath so appeared as we conclude means can do nothing without him but he can do all without meanes and what meanes doth is all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be it is that hath quickned and succeeded your counsels and executions he hath even gone against 〈◊〉 and beyond means for you he it is who hath spirited all your endeavours in Counsels and Armies raised help for you out of the very dust Externall motive he hath none from us who are not the loveliest people in the world he hath from himself over a w●d men powred contempt upon Princes taking away the occasions of many evils met the proud in their full career and wither'd their arm often kept them from us by strange diversions fill'd the world with tumults that you might not be a prey to strangers On the riches of his grace His own righteousnesse and holinesse have thus perswaded him to do the glory of his mercy hath been his argument his wisedom and faithfulnesse have been glorious in preserving crums and clusters The very Truths now profest have been rak'd up in contemptible ashes and now revealed to the world and they that are wise shall see the loving kindnesse of the Lord in all For the proud doer so called because a contemner of the faithful you see how the Lord hath resisted him and hath taken him in his moneth as the wilde Asse in Job you may remember how the Egyptian King out-lived many miracles but must perish in the Red-sea whether Red from the sand thereof or the blood of many he spilt I will not dispute You know how the Lord hath been provoked by the low price set upon his holinesse and his image in his Saints the peculiar sin of this Nation for travell where you will even from hence to the Garamants you shall never find but the Z●lots in other parts of the world are honored onely in England Ludibrium vulgo It hath long been a crime to be godly and he hath been a lost man that trades that way whilst a company of obsolete and beggerly rudiments and ceremonies have been billeted upon Gods ordinances and eat out the very heart of them double Service and no Preaching Nay you have lived to see Iniquitie in the fulnesse of it Oaths and blasphemies unparallel'd yea when one of our Troopers reproved one of theirs in Cornwal for swearing he was answered by that prophane mouth He would sweare as long as he was on horse-back he should have time enough to repent on foot nay they would serve the Devil now that he might use them kindly when they came to hell the very Sunne might even blush looking upon such mise●●ants Of this fulnesse you have seen the magnitude multitude measure strength age growth d 〈…〉 ity imp●dence and the good God grant we may see the period How the Lord hath paid them in their own coyn you have many witnesses They would have war they have it the sword must decide the controve●sie let God Angels and men give the verdict and let it be carried down to after-ages that God plenteously rewardeth the proud doer or that a Parliament and faithfull Councel to a State may live in the midst of the fury of an implacable Prince and his ●a●e wigs Adde this that you have been eare and eye witnesses of the pr●ud mens disappointments after all their labour and travels their inventions have been many for mischief which have been cherified by affection formed by consultations and Juncto● and made ready for birth by many resolutions which have held as high as Brainford what inland and forreign conceptions of this kind have we met with Plot upon Plot designe upon designe Speak London hath it not been so Let us now remember the time of travelling could not be prevented Petition sent after Petition Declaration after Declaration nothing must prevaile but the acceptance of such a remedy as would prove worse then the disease And then before the birth what throwes and pai 〈…〉 Send to Denmark run to Holland fly to France Curse Digby imprison Hamilton c. and then all help is called in for midwifery intreat friends here and there pawn jewels break and close with Irish even in a breath any thing for help hazard posterity ingagein marriage and as she did roare out Give me a childe or I●dle and that miscarriage we are this day to prayse God for and wonder at The summe totall of all these endeavours of the proud comes to nothing but vanity and emptinesse all these conclusions vanish into a li● the Parliament is not destroyed the City stands the Gospel is preached we do not yet heare the scretches of defloured damosels nor the cries of abused matrons we hear not the ratling of their arms nor the neighing of their horses in our streets Oh my Lords you are not at Oxford led up and down as Samps●n to be looked at by children nor are you crying as poore Belifalius Date obolum Belisario date obolum Nor you Gentlemen of the other House crying at a prison grate to some mercifull man for a penny Nor you my Lord Major and your Brethren under a great ransome for your freedome Nor You that your Teachers are forced from you but you can yet look upon them And you my reverend Brethren who have been part of the divided spoile you feele that mercy that gives them a loud lie But to raise the ground-work of our praises