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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	believe_v	confess_v	righteousness_n	2,527	5	7.2907	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85769	The throne of David, or An exposition of the second of Samuell wherein is set downe the pattern of a pious and prudent Prince, and a clear type of of [sic] the Prince of Princes Christ Iesus the sonne of David and his spirituall kingdome by William Guild D.D. and minister of Gods word at King-Edward in Scotland.	Guild, William, 1586-1657.	1659 (1659)	Wing G2212; Thomason E984_8; ESTC R207805	271,425	357

s Exordium or beginning 2. A narration And 3. A conclusion 1. The Exordium has the place where David makes it and his gesture The place is the sanctuary now established in Sion into which now he comes and where the Ark was and to which the Lord had promised his presence Next his gesture was sitting which was to denote the settledness of his mind in uttering his oration Used therefore by Judges in hearing of parties and pronouncing sentences no wise to be taken exception against in David as unreverent more then in us in hearing of Gods Word and singing of Psalmes and sometimes in prayer as at meate and elswhere For the speciall thing that the Lord looks unto is the sincerity of the heart and truth in the inward parts as Psal 51. 6 ●s declared 2. The narration it selfe has 〈…〉 A depressing and lying low of David himselfe as he saies elswhere What is man that thou should'st so respect him c. And here What was he that the Lord not only should have brought him to such preferment but also promised the establishment of the Kingdome to his posterity which is not the manner of men to look so low to their inferiours and without their deserving from a low estate having no motive on their part to advance them and theirs to a high condition 2. Next to depressing of himselfe Vers 22. He advances God his greatness and goodness both towards himselfe and his people and thereafter from Vers 25. He petitions the Lord to establish his promises to him and his posterity which he acknowledges to be true and that he would of his good pleasure bless his house and to continue it before him And ●is he makes to be the conclusion of this forenamed thanksgiving OBSERVATIONS 1. WE see that David is not only thankfull in heart but also for the Lords benefits he expresses the same by Word that so by the whole man God may be worshipped as it is said we believe with the heart unto righteousness and confess with our mouth 's unto salvation 2. Vers 18. Where he saies Who am I c. We see that the Lords benefits move David to humility and dejection with Jacob the Godly ever acknowledging themselves unworthy of the least of all his mercies Gen. 32. 10. Whereas on the contrary the wicked are puft up with them as we see in Nebuchadnezzar and Pharaoh who said who is God that I should obey him And therefore the benefits of God to the Godly are blessings indeed whereas to the wicked they are turned into curses through their abuse of them unto pride excess tyrannie and the like 3. Vers 19. Where the Lord not only promises to establish the kingdome to David himselfe but also to his posterity after him we see the large bounty and goodness of God to his servants and that he does more to them then they could expect as we see in Jacobs profession Gen. 48. 11. In Josephs Davids Mordecai's Daniels and others their preferment And here in the promise to David concerning his posterity 4. Vers 20. Where David saies thou Lord knowest thy servant We see that the Lord is an omniscient God and who knowes particularly all his servants and subjects and the very secrets of their hearts The truth whereof in the hidden and inward parts he doth desire Psal 51. 6. And therefore David having this sincerity of heart can say what an hypocrite dare not thou Lord knowest thy 〈…〉 5. Vers 21. All the Lords promises and goodness to him 〈◊〉 it ascribes to free love only as the Lord himselfe speaks Hos 14. 4. Which we also should do and to no 〈◊〉 6. Vers 22. In Davids abasing of himselfe Vers 18. And extolling of God both his greatness and goodness here We see the disposition of the truly Godly they can never enough extoll acknowledge and praise the Lord as the spouse doth in the Canticles and David in the Psalmes Nor can they sufficiently lye low enough before him in the dust as we see Gen. 18. 27. 32. 10. In the Publican and parable of the Prodigall and others 7. This matchless and incomparable greatness and goodness of God David saies is according to that which he had heard with his eares shewing thereby unto us as the Apostle speaks that Faith comes by hearing and hearing is of the Word of God whereunto we should therefore hearken if we would be truly instructed and believe to salvation 8. Vers 23. If Gods goodness to his people be so extolled by David here for a corporall redemption from Egypt and from the Nations and their gods how much more should he be extolled by us Christians for that great and spirituall redemption of our soules from the tyrannie and bondage of Satan sinne and damnation and for our liberation who profess the Gospell from the tyrannie of Antichrist and his gross Idolatry 9. Vers 25. and 26. In speaking of Gods promises he ever makes mention that they are made to his servant Where we see who have right to the promises of God or may justly lay hold upon them towit only they who are Gods servants and who apply themselves to obey his precepts these only may apply to themselves his promises What God therefore has joyned together let us man separate 10. Vers 28. Where David saies to the Lord That he is that God whose Word is true we see that the Word of God is th● prop of the Godlies faith one jot whereof shall never fail no has ever failed towards his own 11. Vers 29. David closes up all with an earnest and reiterated petition for a blessing to himselfe and his house forever so that herein he is like Jacob who wrestled for the blessing and it should be likewise our earnest suit to the Lord that he would in like manner bestow his blessing upon us and ours and if we ge● this Fatherly blessing of his all will be well and we may say I is sufficient II SAM Chap. 8. and 1 CHRON. 18. IN this Chapter the Generall summe whereof is the amplification of Davids kingdome in his own time and by his own person are these particulars set down 1. The five warres that he had against the Philistines Moabites the King of Zobah the King of 〈◊〉 and the Edomites all whom he subdued and whereby his Empire was enlarged not only from Sichar the river in the South to Euphrates in the North but further almost from Sinai and mount Caucasus in Arabia Petra in the South even to mount Taurus and Armenia beyond Euphrates in the North. This is set down from the first to the 9. vers and in the 14. 2. Vers 9. and 10. Is set downe Toi King of Hamath his congratulatory message of Davids victory over the King of Zoba with the cause thereof and what gifts he sent unto David 3. Is set downe what David did with these gifts and all the rich spoiles of all the Nations which he subdued vers 11. and vers 15.