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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	house_n	king_n	lord_n	6,100	4	3.9503	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06191	The kings shoe Made, and ordained to trample on and to treade downe Edomites; to teach in briefe, what is Edoms doome; what the carefull condition of the king, what the loyall submission of a subiect, and what proiects are onely to best purpose. Deliuered in a sermon before the king at Theobalds, October the ninth, 1622: by William Loe, Doctour of Diuinity, chaplaine to his sacred Maiestiy in ordinary.	Loe, William, d. 1645.	1623 (1623)	STC 16686; ESTC S104104	30,137	54

law of Requitall therefore the King resolues Downe with them Downe with them euen to the very trampling and treading vnder foot Prophanenesse is most cruell For it is vnreasonable vnmercifull and implacable A profane person like Edom will pursue his brother with the sword casteth off all pittie his anger teareth perpetually and keepeth his wrath foreuer Witnesse dogged Doeg the Edomite who slew fourescore fiue persons that did weare a linnen Ephod when the Kings seruants would not put forth their hand to fall vpon the Priests of the Lord. Toward such therefore the king extends no mercy vntill he haue subdued them to his foot Proud is Profanenesse also as Lucifer For the pride of heart hath deceiued Edom the profane person Hee conceiteth that he dwelleth in the clefts of the Rocks And dwelling so high he saith in his heart Who shall bring me downe to the ground But God hath made and ordained the kings power to trample on thee albeit thou be neuer so big-bon'd a Nimrod yea and to tread thee vnder his feet And though thou Exalt thy selfe as the Eagle yea and though thou set thy nest among the starrs yet thence will I bring thee downe saith the Lord. Rebellious and riotous is profanenesse to the King traiterous and treacherous to the Common-wealth What can hee bee but a faithlesse wretch to the king who hath not the Lord for his God And what a bane is he to the Common-wealth who practiseth nothing daily but to runne to the excesse of all riotous liuing Kings therefore as they tender their owne safetie and the good of their countries endeauour by all possible meanes to subdue and subiect if it were possible euen to annihilation such rebels and wretches that they may not appeare or peepe once aboue ground 2. Contemners they are of God and cursed Scorners of all goodnesse Lucian-like and Iulian-like behauing themselues in Citie Court and Countrie especially when they come into the Church and assembly of the saints For there they shew themselues true Edomites indeed It is said in Luke that the whole multitude were without in Prayer while the incense was burning so reuerently and so Religiously did they then vse the place of Gods presence But these Edomites as saith S. Chrysostome stand and trifle while prayer is said yea not only when Prayer is said but when the Priest blesseth Dost thou not know that thou standest with the Angels singest with the Angels sayest Hymns with them and standest thou grinning and laughing It were no meruaile if God should send out a thunder-bolt not only vpon them but vpon vs also that are present with such vipers for surely these things deserue a thunderbolt saith that Father Know wretched miscreant that the Church of God is not a Barbers shop saith he further or an Apothecaries house or a common Court but a place of Angels the Court of heauen and heauen it selfe The king therefore being iealous of Gods worship in imitation of Christ whips such out of his presence Court Citie and Countrie shewing by that base punishment that such kinde of people are base not sonnes but seruants and seruile slaues of the deuill For while the Priest stands offering vp the prayers of all these profaners slyre and laugh fearing nothing Into a Princes Court they enter not without looking to order their habit countenance and gesture but entring into the Church which is the Court of the heauenly king these Edomites prate iangle and walke And as the swine putteth his filthy foote into the very same trough where hee putteth his mouth to take his meate so these profane men and women prate there to their dogge where they pray to their God Thus are they odious to God and the King for profaning the house of Almighty God Churches are like those Cities of refuge which God appointed among the Israelites whether hee that had offended might flye and finde pardon onely those Sanctuaries were for some kinde of faults but the Church is for all kind so that wee heartily and vnfeinedly cry Lord forgiue What a comfortable Meditation is this if wee follow ●…t What a blessing doe those prophane Mis●…rants lose who contemne and scorne so great fauour from the king of heauen Wicked profane men forget and forgoe this blessing and will not ●…e reformed vntill Gods wrath by the Kings power breake out against them as it did against Ni●…anor Antiochus and Heliodorus in the Macchabees ●…nd Belshazar in Daniel 3. Scorners these are also of all good men and goodnesse what holy and good man could euer escape the virulence of these Edomites either a●…ue or dead Munster is tearmed a mad man Pet. Martyr a paultry Iacke Bucer infoelix puer Philip Melancthon a foole Zanchius a dolt Caluin is accu●…d by Surius the Commentor rather then the Commentator and Bellarmine to haue dyed of ●…e disease called Pthiriasis when it was but ●…hthisis at the most an ordinary disease Chemnitius is called the Archaeretique Luther the incestuous Monke Zuinglius the Helvetian Swash-buckler Doctor Fulke the Protestants post-horse Iohn Hus an haereticall fire brand and Theodore Beza a Monster and such like scornefull and contumelious reproaches wherewith those profane Edomites haue alwaies not spared to lade the memoriall of such as were pretious with godly Princes on earth and now are without doubt blessed with the Lord in heauen The king then thus discerning these bad members and perceiuing their spirits by such ouert and open transactions resolues with Princely courage to quell them vnder foote that they may neuer bee able to hold vp their heads He resolues in City they shall beare no office in Court they shall haue no place in Church no dignity in Countrey no regiment O most gratious king 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Shoote so still Resolue so still Let not the cry of the Edomites preuaile that would downe with Church Chancell Steeple Bells and all that cry Downe with Ecclesiasticall policy Downe with Prelates Downe with the foundations and yet what hath the righteous done Let not cruell Doegs haue leaue for fearce is their wrath not onely towards the Priests of the Lord but euen in Nob the City of the Priests will they smite with the edge of the sword both men women children and sucklings oxen and asses ye●… and sheepe too Let not the pride of their hearts haue their desire for they will be too proud put them in feare and by the power that God hath giuen you let them know themselues to bee but men and of the worst sort too Riotous they are already and rebellious they will not sticke to bee ●…rebus sic stantibus if occasion be offered which profane Edomites greedily looke for And suffer ●…ot blessed Soueraigne a contemner of God and ●…f Religion to aduance himselfe neere vnto your ●…cred person but let all such know the waight of ●…our Princely power and Gods doome of them which is to be crushed