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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	pure_a	religion_n	undefiled_a	1,985	5	11.7434	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96070	A discourse and defence of arms and armory, shewing the nature and rises of arms and honour in England, from the camp, the court, the city: under the two later of which, are contained universities and inns of court. / By Edward Waterhous Esq;.	Waterhouse, Edward, 1619-1670.	1660 (1660)	Wing W1044; Thomason E1839_1; ESTC R204049	70,136	238

pay and Ranzovius their General was necessitated as he declared to bear with them more then he ought or otherwise would but it was thought He had a divident in the plunder of those merciless inquisitors and his fate was to be a sacrifice to their insolence 'T is an ill chosen thrift to meditate that an Opportunity of our own glory which God intrusts us with to inaugurate his if men promoted by God to purposes of universall good degenerate and interpret his providences to be Prefaces to their own advantage God either meets with such by his ●errors in their Conscience or by countermining their Councel and making their device of none effect Ferdinand King of Arragon was a wise and politique Prince making havock of his Conscience and Honour to make his Sonne the greatest Monarch in the World But vain Prince He lived to see his darling Sonne die before him and that in the flower of his age and his Wife great with child die together with her untimely birth and both buried together Gods Ulysses's must stop their eares against this worlds Syren notes for if once they lean to an earthly requiem and look upon the forbidden fruit with delight to and desire of it then farewel God Religion Honour Conscience all these are Physicians of no value to him that is thus distempered in his brains and so dementated that he may be ruined and that unlamented Cossi was a brave Commander in Ottoman the first his Army having for a time large rewards and quiet abidance given him but Ottoman knowing he was by profession a Christian though God knowes a loose one and in no sort valiant for the truth sent for him to come to the Court pretending he had some service for him but with intent when he had him there to make him turn Turk Or have him murthered Cossi understanding the Emperours drift to keep in his favour and preserve his own life turned Turk Men must have not so much Sauls Armour as Davids faith that would overcome Goliah like temptations No Coat of Mail like to confidence in God no Weapons of Offence like to those little smooth stones we gather out of the brook of self-distrust He that fears himself annihilates Satans plot and gives a call of faith which brings in comfortable ayd for the Lord is nigh unto them that call upon him And therefore Interest in God is the best Sanctuary in dubious and deceitful times 't is the noblest subterfuge that we can fly to and the safest harbour we can anchor in when the World as it were is on fire about our eares and we are burning in it and when storms and commotions menace overthrow and dissolution of all There is a famous story of a Sorceress in Scotland called the wise Wife of Keith who in Anno 1591. being apprehended as a Sorceress upon examination confessed that Bothwel a notable Traytor had moved her to enquire what should become of the then King how long he should-raign and what should happen after his death and that the evil spirit with whom she confederated having undertook to make away the King after failer of performance being challenged by her for so failing said it was not in his power speaking words which she apprehended to be Il est homme de Dieu He is a man of God for though God has given the Prince of the ayre a large Territory yet has he kept the Paramount soveraignty to himself that is the security we have from him that is our enemy whose enmity is ●ersans circa totum genus humanum that God sayes to his proud rage hitherto shalt thou come and no further Et in tuto haereditas ponitur quae Deo custode servatur And therefore if God have any delight in us he will draw our hearts off from worldly objects and intend them on his glory concerned highly in the welfare of Religion I say Religion such as St. James calls pure Re●igion and undefiled before God and the Father is this to visit the fatherless and the Widows in their affliction and to ●eep himself unspotted of the world For Religion thus qualited is a beauty meriting the best Jewels this world can purchase her 't is the Pearl worth all Merchants wealth the prize worth all combatants hazard a blessing compensating all devotion Though it be giving ones body to be burned 'T was Royal Divinity that a Noble mouth once in this Nation uttered That soul is not worthy of the Heavens Joyes whose body cannot endure one blow of the Hangman Next to Gods preservation of his own honour the Authour is an humble Orator to God for his merciful defence of this Nations honour which is in a great measure decayed and of ill report abroad it was once said of England Regnum Angliae Regnum Dei But how O thou Lucifer of our honour art thou fallen from Heaven and hast exchanged thy morning clarity for night-shades and dresses of dismal aspect jam non Lucifer sed noctiferet mortifer once O beloved Countrey thou wast like Capernaum the envy and glory of Nations now thy widow-hood and old age deformity make thee unacceptable Thou wast once as a City united within it self but now thy differences have begotten hostilities which spur and switch to ruine ecce in regione nostra Hipponensi quoniam eam Barbari non attigerunt clericorum Donatistarum Circumcellionum latrocinia sic vastavit Ecclesias ut Barbarorum Jortasse facta mitiora sunt was St. Augustines complaint to Victorian and I pray God England has not cause to say that what forraign enemies could not bring about to her ruine homebred enmity is like to do Discord is the Port at which in vasion and conquest enters the Goths came into Spain and Narbon ruina videlicet Romani status frequenti mutatione Principum animati and if England would escape those harasses she has formerly suffered by she must avoid division and adhere to wise worthy and legal settlements while the Egyptians kept to the constitutions of the Gods and their Heroes to speak after Diodorus they did well and were oracular to the world but {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} when Macedonians were their Lords {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} then what was thought well setled became null and Egypt grew base and contemptible My prayer is that England may live in Gods sight that is in Job his words that it was with us as in times past in the dayes when God preserved us when his Candle shined upon our heads and when by his light we walked thorow darkness but I have no hope to see this till Religion be more our practice then prattle till meeknesse and moderation one of the most beauteous fruits of reformation be ingratiated with us O did men know the high notes of supernal Musick and superspherical harmony that are in the souls of peace makers they would never leave off prayers