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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	heaven_n	lord_n	praise_v	4,050	5	11.3032	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04390	Englands iubilee, or Irelands ioyes Io-pæan, for King Charles his welcome With the blessings of Great-Britaine, her dangers, deliuerances, dignities from God, and duties to God, pressed and expressed. More particularly, Irelands triumphals, with the congratulations of the English plantations, for the preseruation of their mother England, solemnized by publike sermons. In which 1. The mirrour of Gods free grace, 2. The mappe of our ingratitude, 3. The meanes and motiues to blesse God for his blessings. 4. The platforme of holy praises are doctrinally explained, and vsefully applyed, to this secure and licentious age. By Stephen Ierome, domesticke chaplaine to the Right Honourable Earle of Corke.; Irelands jubilee	Jerome, Stephen, fl. 1604-1650.	1625 (1625)	STC 14511.5; ESTC S103354	215,774	330

and distractions of families incumbrances from your callings and what other lets disturbance impediments and remoraes whatsoever which doe everie way in this your warfare here imbondage and inthrall you from the performance of this or any other spirituall duetie in that measure and perfect manner that you would or should of which you daily complaine with the h Rom. 7.23 Apostle and all the faithfull and against which you daily strive and fight in the Christian conflict and bickering i Gal. 5. v. 17. duell betwixt grace and nature the flesh and the spirit Oh let it be your living dying yet never dying comfort that you that begin cordially and Christianly to blesse God here after this short life is ended which is as brittle as k Esai 40 6. 1. Pet. 1.24 glasse as wavering as the winde as frayle as the Ice as swift as a poaste or a weavers shittle as melting as snow as fading as smoake or the fields flower as vanishing as a dreame you shall joyne your spirits to the spirits of the just to sing and ring forth your everlasting Hosannahes and Haleluiahs to the God of spirits for which end as Pauls wish and hearts desire was that Israell might be l Rom. 10.1 saved so my wish and hearts desire is that all of you might here be so farre sanctified that innitiated in this life as prentices to this heavenly science or as journey-men or journing men even strangers and pilgrimes with m 1. Chr. 39.15 David the Patriarkes and n Hebr. 11.13 1. Pet. 2.11 Prophets travelling and peregrinating in this vaile of miserie in your few evill o Genes 47.9 dayes ere you sleepe with your p 1. King 2.10 fathers you would so learne to speake the language of Canaan with the tongues and Tones of Angels that at the last as free Denizens free Citizens infranchized and priviledged in all the liberties of grace and glorie you may keepe a perpetuall Iubilee an everlasting Sabbath of prayses and holy expressions in that heavenly Canaan celestiall Ierusalem Mount Sion which is q Gal. 4.26 above to which my hopes be that you are my desires be that you may be travelling breathing and aspiring SECT II. Motives further urging here to begin the l●fe of Grace after of Glorie OH suffer the word of exhortation I beseech you as heavenly Quyristers begin even here even now even this day the Quyre on earth It 's not thanke worth to be eternally thankefull in heaven you must doe it you can doe no otherwayes if you once come there It 's as naturall if I may use that word for the blessed spirits to blesse and prayse the Lord as for the fire to burne the Sunne to shine the waters to move the Seas to ebbe and flow r Aelian hist li. 10. c. 44. Plin. li. 5. cap. 9. Nilus to overflow or any other creatures celestiall or sublunary animate or inanimate to move and worke and produce effects according to their natures and severall proprieties But to prayse God here joyfully cordially constantly to breake here through all impediments as Davids three worthies through the Garryson of the Philistines to fetch the desired waters of ſ 1. Chr. 11. vers 18. Bethlem to strive here against all discouragements as in the Olympicke t De his ludis multa apud Celium Rhodignū historicos Poetas sunt quos curriculo pulverem Olympicum collegisse iuvat c. Horat. games for Masteries to swim against the streame of all oppositions as is said of the u Arist anim lib. 9. cap 48. Dolphin and Samon to be resolute against all repugnances of the false and flattering flesh that bids the spirit as Peter bade Christ favour it selfe The tempting Devill the persecuting world who by the imputations of hypocrisie humorousnesse fantasticalitie singularitie at least of Puritanisme and Precisnesse seeke to quench in every zealist all sparkes of Devotion as soone as ever kindled yea as w Math. 2.16 Herod and x Exod. 1.22 Pharaoh to drowne murther even Christ and Christianitie in all the Israell of God as soone as ever new borne I say those that can thus digest all those bitter pilles as physicall and can be as was Davids y 2. Sa. 6.21.22 case with Micholl more zealous in this and all other duties the more they are opposed like the fire that burnes the more the more it is z Quo magis premitur eo magis astuat ignis supprest this indeede is prayse worthy everie inferior birde can chippe and croude it in the spring and can sing in the Sunne shine that is a birde indeede that can sing in the storme and charoll it in the Winter every fish can play in the calme the Dolphin and some moe can play in the tempest everie man can blesse God in the Sunne-shine of his prosperitie with full bagges full barnes full bellies and clothed backe But to blesse God in adversitie in the stormes of affliction with Iob on the a Job 1. v. 21. dunghill Daniel in the Lions b Dan. 6.21.22 den with the three companions of c Dan. 3.23 Daniels in the furnace with the Martyres at the d Many had that strength grace given them in the paganish Arrian popish persecution nominated in the Martyrologie but chiefly by him who hath epitomized all the booke of Martyres fol. 3.4.5.6 7.8.9.10 to fol. 18. c. stake to sing songs of Sion here in a strang land this is that which is most acceptable to the Almightie Oh then that my words might prick and fasten like the goades and nayles of the sanctuarie that I might plead and prevaile with you Even now with Noahs e Genes 7.9 Dove to enter into the Arke to leave the carrion and fleshly lusts of the world on which the worlds Crowes Dogs and Vultures prey and glutt themselves here to be at rest in God and on God Oh let my counsell be f Dan. 4.24 acceptable here strive to enter into the Bride-grome g Math 25.10 chamber to rejoyce as Paranymphs and friends of the h Math. 9 15. bridegrome to sing with Salomon a divine Epithalamium in honour of the spirituall espousals betwixt Christ and his Church Oh that you could here sleepe in quiet rest and tranquilitie of the soule in heavenly contemplations as that Endimion is said to have slept with the i Apud Natalem Comitem in Methiologijs Moone in the phylosophicall speculations here be conversant in the mount with God as k Exod. 19.3 Moses get a glimpse of the glorie of Christ in the mount with Peter Iames l Math. 17.4.5 2. Pet. 1.17 Iohn for in the mount of high and heavenly thoughts and meditations God will bee seene Christ will bee found in m Luk. 2.46 Ierusalem which is the vision of n Visio Paci● peace Oh that we could ascend up from earth to heaven with