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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	word_n	world_n	wrought_v	218	4	7.6175	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61415	An admonition concerning a publick fast the just causes we have for it, from the full growth of sin, and the near approaches of God's judgments : and the manner of performance to obtain the desired effects thereof, which ought to be other than our Common Forms, and with stricter acts of moritication than is usual amongst us : with an abstract of Mr. Chillingworth's judgement of the state of religion in this nation in his time : and of a letter from the Hague concerning two sermons preached there in the French church at which were present divers of the English nobility.	Stephens, Edward, d. 1706.; Chillingworth, William, 1602-1644.	1691 (1691)	Wing S5415; ESTC R19528	31,813	42

AN ADMONITION CONCERNING A Publick FAST The Just CAUSES we have for it from the full Growth of Sin and the near Approaches of God's Judgments AND The MANNER of Performance to obtain the desired Effects thereof Which ought to be other than our Common Forms and with stricter Acts of Mortification than is usual amongst us With an ABSTRACT of Mr. Chillingworth's Judgment of the State of Religion in this Na●●on in his time And of a Letter from the Hague concerning two Sermons Preached there in the Fr●nch Church at which were present divers of the English Nobility LONDON Printed in the Year M DC XCI To the Queen Madam SInce the Authority of your Majesty hath appeared so particularly in a most Necessary Appointment of a Publick Fast and Humiliation to be Observed in most Devout and Solemn manner for Supplicating Almighty God for Pardon of our Sins and Imploring his Blessing c. not once but every Month during the War It may be presumed that what is sincerely endeavoured that so Necessary and Pious a Command may happily obtain its desired Effects cannot fail of a Favourable and Benign Construction with a person of so much Piety and Sense of Religion though to those Naturals or Animals in whom the God of this World hath blinded their Minds it cannot but seem Foolishness and Canting as must all Truth to those who are both Ignorant and yet Conceited and though to such as are Big with the Wisdom of the World which is Foolishness with God ●ome things in it may seem Rude and Presumptuous For true Piety could bear even the Railing of a Shimei in a time of Humiliation and Christian Wisdom can easily discern and distinguish between Height of Fidelity and Affection in the plain Words of Truth and Soberness and that Malice and Falsehood which are always ingredients of Railing and Presumption Even Civil Prudence considering the irreparable Mischiefs which are daily wrought in the Courts and Councils of Princes by Treacherous Flattery will not only permit and allow but favour and encourage Serious Liberty and Freedom of Speech upon just and necessary occasion in persons of unspotted and undoubted Fidelity and Affection But Christian Wisdom much more and especially in Times of Account which call for Humiliation Repentance Reformation and Judging our Selves and for Publick Humiliation and particular Confession of Publick and known Sins and Offences with their Circumstances of Aggravation and carefull Search to discover them Which is the only way to lay a sure Foundation and to be raised up by the Mighty Hand of God Wherefore Madam presuming that I write to a person more Illustrious by such Great Virtues than any fading earthly Honour or Majesty can make you besides what I have said in Common to all I shall out of Fidelity and great Affection humbly represent to your Royal Consideration some few things more particularly relating to your self I will not here recount the Great Things which God hath done for the Gradual raising of your Glory nor tell you that the Eyes of all the World are upon you and what Great Things they Hope and Expect from you But this I may say in the Name of God That his Eyes are upon you the Eyes of the Lord which run to and fro throughout the whole Earth to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose Heart is perfect towards Him 2 Chron. 16. 8. That to whom much is given of them much shall be required and That if you justly expect from your fellow Creatures whom You imploy Fidelity Zeal and Activity proportionable to the Favours You confer and the Trusts You repose in them much more are You obliged to perform all these to the Soveraign Lord of all in the full Improvement of all t●ose Greater Talents of Honour Authority and other Advantages which he hath conferred upon You for His Honour and Service and with so much the more Vigor and Resolution by how much the greater are the Difficulties which occur The Highest pitch of all is the least Sacrifice that you can offer to Him And therefore I will not I may not tell you That the Leisure as well as the Calm of Peace will be necessary for this or That your Resolving on it Inwardly before God will be accepted by Him though you defer the Actual Performance till that Leisure and Calm which you may never see nor are ever like to see while Difficult Duties are declined neglected or deferred For this would be to deceive You after the manner of the False Prophets of old and to expose You and Your Affairs to the Treacheries and Abuses of Dissolute and Depraved men who be always truer to their Vices than to their Masters But on the contrary this I may be bold to affirm that when by actual Discountenancing and Disgracing of Vice and Encouraging of Virtue by distinguishing Marks of your Favour and by a visible beginning of Reforming your Court and your People and particularly that Body which of all others should need it least it is once understood that you are setled in those Noble Purposes this will make the Execution of them Easie to you and detect the Falsity of such dilatory Doctrines and would have done so sooner if more Faithfull Advice had not been withstood by such as perverted the Right Ways of the Lord and mis-led those they should have directed therein For God hath wrought in the midst of us a Mighty Deliverance and was ready to perfect and stablish that which he hath wrought for us But it is now apparent that something there is which doth stop that Course of Blessings that seems I cannot now say but once did seem ready to flow in upon us And we have now another Count to cast up We may and ought to recount the Mercies and Favours of God to us But we have now also an Account of his Judgments and Frowns to reflect upon And this should lead us back to enter into another Account viz. of Our Sins and Provocations For that Course of Blessings which for some time was only stopp'd was afterwards turned to a Course of Crosses and Disappointments or of a Mixture of Mercy and Judgment and is now at last turning it may be feared to severe Judgment Confusion and Destruction unless very speedily prevented by strict and impartial Inquiry into the Causes by truly Noble and Heroick Resolutions thereupon and by a vigilant and vigorous Execution For the King himself if I and many others be not mistaken hath already suffer'd some Diminution in some Essentials of his Majesty Honour and most Prevalent Powers and is in Danger to fall lower from being a Glorious Instrument of God for Good and Happiness to this and many other Nations into the deplorable and despicable condition of being an occasion of Confusion and Misery only there seems a door of Hope still open for him upon one Consideration if the Opportunity be not neglected of which more presently but first I think fit to say