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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
father_n	abraham_n	angel_n	lord_n	686	4	3.4680	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65949	Safety in war, or, The infallible artillery of a kingdom, fleet or army in sermons unto Their Majesties forces by sea and land / by John Whittel ...	Whittel, John.	1692 (1692)	Wing W2042; ESTC R38612	29,317	34

therefore I Pray let us all Worship the Lord with a Holy Worship Secondly he is most Wise and therefore no Policy or Subtilty of his Adversaries can inveigle him He sees all their Snares and Conspiracies and all their secret Thoughts and hath them in derision For he taketh the Wise in their own Craftiness and maketh Diviners mad Thirdly he is most able and of greatest Power and Might and hence he encourages his Servant Abraham saying I am the Almighty God walk before me and be thou perfect Gen. 17 1. Then for his Titles He is called Jehovah or rather Jehueh which signifies his being is of himself Esa 42. 8. and he is called Elohim which denotes the Glorious Trinity Elohim Bara The Mighty God or the three Persons in the Trinity Ben Rua Ab the Son the Spirit and the Father He is called El which is as much as strong God and signifies That God is not only most strong and Fortitude it self in his own Essence But it is he alone that gives Strength and Power unto all his People and hence t' was that the Holy and Blessed Jesus in his Agony on the Cross Cried out Eloi Eloi which in the Syrian Tongue signifies my strong God my strong God c. He is called in another place Shaddai which is Almighty the Septuagint Translates it by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is a derivative Word and comes from Dai sufficiency 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Essentia qua sibi suisque sufficit And of Shad a Dug or Breast To signifie that God is all-sufficient and able to supply the wants and necessities of his Children whatsoever they are like the huge Ocean which fills every Creek which the Shallow narrow Rivulets of the Creatures largest and best perfections cannot do Hence the Church says the Lord is her Portion and therefore she will hope in him Lamen 3. 24. And David says his People shall not want any thing that is good Another Title of God is Jah and this is given to him when he hath wrought some Notable Deliverance and therefore says the Psalmist Extol him that Rideth upon the Heavens by his Name Jah and Rejoyce before him Psal 68. 4. And again the Lord is my Rock and my Fortress and my Deliverer The God of my Rock in him will I trust he is my Shield and the Horn of my Salvation my high Tower and my Refuge my Saviour c. 2 Sam. 22. 2 3. Who then can be a Defence like unto God Almighty who hath always in a readiness for the help and Redemption of his Church and People out of the greatest dangers and to Rescue them out of the Hands of their most inveterate Enemies at his own Pleasure besides his own Omnipotent Arm the least Finger whereof can beat down the strongest Mountain to Powder and rend the Flintiest Rock into Pieces innumerable Hosts or Armies of Angels one of which killed in the Camp of the Assyrians one Hundred fourscore and five Thousand in one Night 2 King 19. 35. Chariots of Fire even a Thousand Thousand in the Whirlwind That fair Glorious Giant which with incredible swiftness runs Day by Day Post through the Heavens for to stand still or retire as it did at Joshua's Command The impetuous Current of the raging Sea to recoyl or go back The Merciless Flames of the hungry Fire to become a sweet refreshing Air The implacable Fury of the most enraged Lions to Couch at the first Word for his Servants sake and safety Nay if need be the great and terrible God hath Caterpillars and Frogs Worms and Lice even those impotent silly Creatures for to fetch Blood and pull down the Pride and Heart of the most Rebellious Pharaoh and to eat out the very Bowels of the most cruel Herod see Acts. 12. 23. And immediately the Angel of the Lord smote him and he was eaten of Worms and gave up the Ghost Secondly By the manifold Deliverances of his Church and People in all Ages of the World we have a Cloud of Witnesses to confirm this But I shall confine my self unto some few Was not the Almighty only the best Defence unto righteous Noah in that terrible Flood which drown'd all the World except 8 Persons To the Patriarchs Abraham Isaac and Jacob To Abraham against Abimelech King of Gerar and also when he rescued his Brother Lot out of the Hands of the Enemies To Isaac when he was taken and bound and laid upon the Altar just ready to be sacrificed by Abraham yea so near the point was he that his Fathers hand was lifted up with the Knife but yet an Angel of the Lord stayed him To Jacob against Esau his Brother and Laban his Father in Law Unto the Seed of Jacob or People of Israel in Egypt and in the Wilderness Unto Moses in the Bulrushes David in Saul's Court and Jeremiah and Baruch against Jehoiakim King of Judah when he sent to destroy them for their Prophesies for tho' they were commanded to hide themselves yet it s said The Lord hid them Jer. 36. 19 26. Alas our own hiding will not do it must be Gods our now clasping our Arms about our selves is the ready way to drown us whereas spreading our Hands forth to Heaven may save us Then in the new Testament Was not the Lord of Hosts the best Defence unto Peter when he was kept in Prison by four Quaternons of Soldiers To Paul when he deliver'd him out of the Lion's Mouth 2 Tim. 4. 17. And what are the 121st and 124th Psalms but a Confirmation of this Truth Does not the Church say If the Lord himself had not been on our side when Men rose up against us they had swallowed us up quick when they were so wrathfully displeased at us But to come down to Examples in the last Century of the World Was not the great and mighty God the best Defence to Q. Elizabeth of blessed Memory and these Kingdoms when all Europe conspired together against her and sent the Spanish Fleet which was term'd the Invincible Armado by reason of its Strength and number of Ships for to overthrow her and introduce Popery into this Nation But alas how suddenly was this great Fleet overcome and dispers'd here and there about the British Seas by her grand Defence even our God! To K. James I. and our Nation when that horrid Powder Plot was discover'd and laid open by the unsearchable Wisdom and Goodness of the Lord that cruel Plot I say which was hatch'd in Hell and carried on with the greatest Secrets by those Engins of Beelzebub and Soul-Deceivers and Murderers the Jesuits and Priests of the Roman Faction which said God and Man had concur'd to punish the Iniquity of the Times But to come to some Examples in our Days which our Eyes have seen and Ears heard Oh was not the Lord Jehovah the best Defence of that mighty Prince of Valour now our gracious K. William and his whole Fleet in the midst of very a terrible Storm raised