Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	hand_n	king_n	scotland_n	3,117	5	8.4868	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42917	Ben horim filius heröum = the son of nobles : set forth in a sermon preached at St Mary's in Cambridge before the university, on Thursday the 24th of May, 1660 : being the day of solemn thanksgiving for the deliverance and settlement of our nation / by Will. Godman ...	Godman, William, b. 1625.	1660 (1660)	Wing G941; ESTC R14547	24,781	48

noble accomplishments O what a pitiful dull thing is this rebellious malice how base and weak is it in its attempts how happily is it defeated and disappointed what have they done but to raise us higher by our fall and to lift themselves up on high that they might fall with a greater more dreadful ruine What do you think now you that us'd to talk so much of Providence where was your consideration of God's eternity I speak this not to reproach you but to undeceive you Did you think that God would never come and appear again because he hid his face from us for a time 2 Pet. 3.9 The Lord is not slack as some men count slackness for a thousand years in his sight are but as one day He hath now appeared again sooner than we could expect and much sooner than we deserv'd The stone which the builders Psal 118.22 23. not of Jerusalem but of Babel refused is now become the head of the corner This is the Lord 's doing and it is marvellous in our eyes The other was the Lord's doing too in exercising his just judgment upon a sinful Nation But this is his work of mercy the benefit whereof we hope will endure to all succeeding ages 'T is our comfort that we have remaining an illustrious branch of that ROYAL STEMME from which we hope to enjoy the fruits of Justice Goodness and Clemency Uno avulso non deficit alter Aureus simili frondescit virga metallo God and Nature his undoubted right and his Princely vertues have made him our King long since though we have wanted the comfort of his presence If any of his enemies should impertinently ask where his Kingdom hath been all this time 'T is easily answer'd where their 's never was He hath reign'd in the hearts and affections of his loving and faithful subjects which is a Kingdom farre more great and glorious than the proudest and most insolent Usurpers can ever hope to obtain Our Bodies only the worser part of us were under their power but our Minds which are most truly and properly our selves were at his dispose They bound our Hands but our Hearts were knit and oblig'd to him They possess'd the Cabinet but they could never come at the Jewel In the worst of times duty and allegiance were farre from suffering a totall defection and I dare confidently affirm that there are more than seven times seven thousand in England that never bow'd their knees to Baal If you could have then discover'd the hearts of many that were faithful in the Land there might you have discern'd a constant and immoveable Allegiance there might you have beheld the brightest flames of unextinguish'd love and Loyalty And now since the danger of owning him is taken away and the obstruction is removed behold how those hidden flames break out and make a glorious appearance Your eyes have seen and your ears have heard with how great a chearfulness with what expressions of unexpressible joy he is every where acknowledged I know no rejoycing that can so well be compared with ours as that of the Israelites at the proclaiming and crowning of Solomon 1 Kings 1. 39 40. They blew the trumpet and all the people said God save King Solomon And all the people came up after him and the people piped with pipes and rejoyced with great joy so that the earth rent with the sound of them And yet they had not so great reason to rejoyce as we Their change was but from a David to a Solomon immediately from a righteous KING and a great warriour to a wise and peaceful Prince But we I need not tell you the difference What shall we say now to those impostours that endeavour'd to put out our eyes by their frequent boasting of the consent of the people by pretending that their advancement was the Nation 's interest 'T is a sign they were farre from true Nobility that could so impudently practise that base and slavish vice of lying to maintain their ill-gotten authority I confess the late Tyrant in one or two instances seem'd to be somewhat modest but I attribute that rather to the over-ruling hand of Providence than to any goodness of his He styled himself Protectour of England Scotland and Ireland This was a notorious untruth for he was the ruiner and destroyer of these flourishing Kingdoms But here his impudence fail'd him that he durst not adventure to write himself By the Grace of God Again you know time was when he would and would not be King when he refus'd and yet hop'd that his refusal would have gain'd him that honour But in conclusion he miss'd of that which he had sought with so much ambition This again I ascribe to Divine Providence whose admirable contrivance it was that the Crown the sacred Embleme of Divine Power and Majesty should never touch that villanous and polluted head I need not tell you your own experience may abundantly inform you how dangerous it is to be under the dominion of ignoble and unworthy persons Whereas he that is of Royal birth and is a King by the appointment of God and Nature can maintain his dignity without those base and ignoble arts without those ambitious shifts and contrivances which are the only support of those that have no right and as little merit Again he that is a King by birth must needs look upon his people as his own natural possession and is thereby engag'd to provide more affectionately for their good and welfare and to regard them with a more tender and paternal care Lastly He that is such will be more sensible of honour and is likely to propound more noble ends in all his designs and counsels Therefore whether we look back upon what we have suffer'd or forward upon what we hope to enjoy in both respects we have reason to acknowledge this blessing of the Text Blessed art thou O Land when thy King is the son of Nobles And we may well take up those words of the Queen of Sheba Blessed he the Lord our God which delighted in him to set him on the throne of this our Israel 1 Kings 10.9 Because the Lord our God loved Israel for ever therefore he hath made him King to doe justice and judgement 'T has been our very great unhappiness to know him yet but little by experience But all the fame and the report of those that know him speaks him to be a rare and most accomplish'd Prince And yet I hope that his wisdome and goodness will hereafter so much exceed our present expectations that we shall say 1 King 10.6 7. as the fore-mentioned Queen did to Solomon It was a true report which we heard but the half was not told us In the mean time I shall give you two ample and honourable testimonies of him when he was nine or ten years younger than now he is from two dying Lords who being persons of honour and at the point of death are