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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	affection_n	people_n	zion_n	17	3	8.7709	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54509	Gods doings, and mans duty opened in a sermon preached before both Houses of Parliament, the Lord Major and aldermen of the city of London, and the assembly of divines at the last thanksgiving day, April 2, for the recovering of the West, and disbanding 5000 of the Kings horse, &c., 1645 /1645 / by Hugh Peters ...	Peters, Hugh, 1598-1660.	1646 (1646)	Wing P1704; ESTC R6885	39,929	55

object mortall short-breathed and short-lived alas what waking dreames are honour beauty friends c Nay you shall find it non-satisfactory all the excellencies under the sun leave the soule to complaints of vanity and vexing and lastly you shall find it but partially not universally good Why will you lay out your money for that which is not bread all these things will but prove gravel under your teeth When David had reckoned mercies not a few he sayes upon the totall I will love thee dearly O Lord my strength I beseech you bethink your selves this day what lesse can you do then kisse the hand that hath preserved you Love climbes after more union with the object would you not be neerer to him who hath made such approaches and addresses to you that who so beholds not with wonder and joy is either stupid or envious Therefore O love the Lord yee his Saints 5. Love is an obliging affection and drawes forth much of God continually to the creature when the Lord by his servant Moses charged that people to love the Lord their God with all their heart and all their might he will fill up all the rest with heaps of promises of what he would doe for them enemies of all sorts should be subdued mercies of all kinds should be brought in deliverances preservations protections illuminations and what not Hosea seemes to delight to particularize the joyncture Gods people shall have in this case And it shall come to passe that I will heare saith the Lord I will heare the heavens and they shall beare the earth and the earth shall heare the corn and the wine and the oyle and they shall beare Jezreel and I will sow her unto me on the earth and I will have mercy on them that had not obtained mercy and I will say unto them which were not my people Thou art my people and they shall say Thou art my God And if that bee too little I will be as the dew unto Israel hee shall grow as the Lilly and cast forth his root as Lebanon his branches shall spread and his beauty shall be as the olive tree and his smell as Lebanon they that dwell under his shadow shall return c. Nothing can greaten a Nation as this nothing can maintaine what you have gotten but this and you will find Non minor est virtus quam querere parta tueri Therefore O love the Lord ye that feel mercy 6. You shall find that this is a strong and powerfull I was about to say omnipotent affection Much water cannot quench love it is strong as the grave If Paul would give an account of some undertakings he will tell you love carries constraint with it it lessens difficulties answers hard questions removes impediments over-powers feares cares doubts dangers makes wash-way of all Upon this the Apostle throwes the gantlet of famine want persecution principalities powers above beneath nay it will wait and serve in heats and colds as Jacob for Rachel I must professe Excellent Senators I know not how you will continue your wearying toyling incessant travels but by this cordiall it is this onely can oyle your wheeles and cheere your hearts pay you your wages after all expences of time estates spirits If a stranger should look upon your travels the bread of carefulnesse you eat your early risings long sittings late goings to bed can you give account of any thing but That you love Truly I know nothing so heavie but love can lift nothing so high but it can reach nothing so deep but it can fathom Love to this Cause I would rather say to this God hath quieted your Army often drawn out the deepest bloud of many emptied the purses of the rich drawn forth the teares of the poor and their sighes to heaven when they could doe no more Union with God the end of this love is the issue of all our labours Therefore O love the Lord yee that feel mercy But you may ask wherein it consists or how would I desire this affection should be manifested I answer 1. There is a love in imitation and indeed those we love most we make our copies to write after Then he pleased to mind the Text again He preserveth the faithful and plenteously rewardeth the proud doer there is your pattern imitation calls upon you to preserve the faithful to reward the proud doer And these two look like the main interests of this State the former a reverēd brother under that name hath commended unto you worthily I am bold to adde the latter to it For if you hear Polititians abroad what they say even Roan to Richlien they tell us of this double interest which some think expired with Queen 〈◊〉 viz. that Wee should have continued the patrons of the Protestant cause as the King of Spain of the Catholique and so have preserved the faithfull which Germany and Rochel would have thanked us for And secondly We should have rewarded the proud i. e. kept our war at a distance even where shee left us ingaged and by this time it may be we might have dried up E●●phra●es I mean possest the whole West-Indies which with little time and help from these parts may b● accomplished The words that follow in that Treatise are That England is a great Animal and cannot be destroyed but by it selfe which injury we are still as likely to put upon our selves as any people in the world One Chapter in Amos hath bred me some sad thoughts of heart where he 〈◊〉 you of two Visions the one of G 〈…〉 ppers that devoured every greene thing which made the Prophet cry out By whom shall Jacob arise for he is small and those Caterpillers were swept away The other Vision was a contention by fire for which he useth the same prayer By whom shall Jacob arise for he is small It seems contentions yea fiery contentions may lay a State as low as Caterpillers the Lord sprinkle the bloud of his Son upon this fire and quench it 〈◊〉 Doubtlesse much love of imitation will be shewed to God in recovering these two Interests abroad and if I might not be thought a designer I wish it at home Why should not the faithfull be preserved For the love of God doe it I speake not for my selfe for with Simeon I could even desire to depart in peace now mine eyes have seen so much of the Salvation of God Nor do I bring any Petition from your Army they never have nor ever will be burden some to you by Petitions but since you have trusted them with your own lives and estates they are contented willingly to trust you again with their liberti●● It brings to minde that issue of a Combate whereof Livie is the reporter when the three H 〈…〉 i and the three 〈◊〉 had by the sword decided the quarrell betwixt the 〈◊〉 and their enemies and only one H●●arius survived 〈◊〉 〈…〉 ning met his sister the wise of one

perish in the midway The Lords desi 〈…〉 is the downfall of Antichrist love him in promoting this end and especially let me call for help hereunto from my Reverend and learned Brethren here present Ah Brethren shew your love in this work Be not offended if I leave this caution with you and let this charity begin at home amongst us for ever beware of a spirit of domination truly it is a spirit of Antichrist and it was the first great quarrell the first 300. years after Christ When Constantine had been bountifull to the Church at Rome and after was as noble to that of Bizantium now Constantinople a quarrel grew among the two Pastors of these Churches who should be called Papa which introduced the Proverb Religion begot wealth and the mother devoured the daughter Remember our old complaints against Prelates and how we have filled Parliament eares with our out-cries Let this be often with you my dear Brethren that in all the cracks flaws and ruines of States some priestly thing or other hath had the principall hand mind it in a passage or two good Jeremy past through all guards till he came to Pushur the Priest the Nobility Gentry and others were easily intreated Christ breaks upon the 〈…〉 bes and Pharisees mainly It is considerable that H●sed saith Hear Oye Priests hearken Oye People give ear O house of the King for ye have been a snare c. the poor people are betwixt the Priest and the house of the King but it is to be noted that the Priests are in the first place It lies much upon you to shew your love to the Lord in promoting his great ends 4. This love would 〈◊〉 let out to his Saints of which you have lately heard so much that I shall say but little lesse then this I cannot say No man can love the Father and destroy his children truly I cannot say ●oo much for them because they have done so much for you I pray grieve them not it may be you may grieve the Spirit of God in them do not make them sad whom the Lord would not have made sad be not angry with your deliverance because of the good hand the Lord hath made use of Why should Ezra be angry with Zer●●babel for beginning the work O●Zer●●babel with Nehemiah for ending it You know how well it will be taken in heaven that you use the heirs of that country well upon earth yea you shall do well to love them impartially It is the triall many of the world are put to which they mind not how they will demean themselves towards poor Saints And let it not be forgotten that it will be the word of 〈◊〉 the great day In that you did it not sayes Christ to one of these little ones you did it not to me The Saints may do you much good they can do you no harm I am confident their interest in heaven which they have made use of for this nation hath been a strong ingredient to your preservation● and this is your glory and may be your establishment That this Land is sown with such feed which I believe Popery Prelacy and what else is not of God doth come too late to root up You remember that great Emperour who profest he would rather be a Member of a Church of Saints then the Head of the Empire It is taken notice of that you have laid this to heart and the Saints blesse you and carry you and your counsels to heaven with them daily In all the loud cries now about differences this toucheth my heart that some men can trample a poor Saint to the dust and into the grave if they might for a Peccadillo a little distance in an opinion and an open prop 〈…〉 beastly 〈◊〉 drunkard a black-mouthed swearer an enemy to any thing that is good can live quietly and unmolested 5. And above all this love is clothed with all its glory when we shall love him in his Son and greater honour you cannot doe him then to love him in Christ in whom he hath laid up all fulnesse the character and image of all his grace and glory But what he is and how lovely what want you have of him what worth is in him and which is the way to please him is constantly suggested unto you almost from every Pulpit the mystery of Christ now discovering it selfe He is the chiefest of ten thousand his mouth is most sweet yea he is all lovelinesse He is your peace the Prince of Peace the great Peace-maker if you desire peace war must continue he hath an Iron Mace and the Nations will be delivered up unto him a stone cut out of the Mountains shall fall upon the greatest Governours in the world O love the Lord in his Son 6. It concerns us this day that our love appear in our praises and though we have had so many Victories and Mercies that we have even wanted time for our solemn acknowledgements kindnesses have come tumbling in like war one following the other that Finis unius boni gradus est futuri Yet we have wanted ●kill to manifest our love to God in his praises of which you hear much by David who sometimes seems to forget himself in this point he will like a bird having got a note record it over and over Psal. ●36 For his mercy endureth for ever His mercy endureth for ever I shall take leave to commend to you that he hath in another place Pr●●ise waiteth for thee silently in Sien though your Translation want the Adverb that gives the Emphasis There is a threefold silence in this waiting upon Gods praises As 1. There is a silence of expectation when the soule waits when to expresse his praises and therefore keeps a private Catalogue of his faithfulnesse and truth 2. A silence of admiration when the heart is even ravished to wonder and sits down silently wondering over every mercy and all his lo●e● 3. A silence of approbation when others shall set forth his praises we approve and allow and can say A 〈…〉 and this is the work at Sion about his praises in the last Psalm there are but six Verses yet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O love him in his prai●●● 〈◊〉 him for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 him for all your lashes for you could not want a ●●ig of the rod praise him for his power goodnesse love tendernesse pitty praise him that you are on this side the grave and hell yea above all for his own bosome for his dearest Son who hath hung about our necks often and wept many a compassionate tear upon our cheeks not yet wiped off Let us all take up that of the Prophet My heart is inditing some good matter the word there is the same with the bubling of the oyle in the frying Pan at the Sacrifice Every heart should now be bubling up something every one should be thinking of setting up some monument Jacob promiseth the building of a Bethel a