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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	earth_n	glory_n	kingdom_n	7,618	5	5.7127	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32794	Eben-ezer, a thankful memorial of God's mercy in preserving England from the gunpowder-treason, 1605 being a sermon on 1 Sam. 7:12, prepared for Novemb. 5th to be preacht at the cathedral, but preacht for the most part of it at the parish-church of Temple, in the city of Bristol, on the 6th of Novem. being the Lord's day / by John Chetwynd ...	Chetwynd, John, 1623-1692.	1682 (1682)	Wing C3796; ESTC R19751	30,602	46

countenance habit and gesture bind the sacrifice with cords unto the horns of the Altar Let our hearts Psal 118. 27. be glad and our Glory our tongue rejoyce Bless the Lord Psal 16. 9. in the Congregation Let the Singers go before and the Players Psal 68. 25. 26. on the Instruments follow after Let us say with the Psalmist My lips shall greatly rejoyce when I sing unto thee and my soul which thou hast redeemed My Tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long for they are confounded they are brought unto shame that seek my hurt But let us be sure that our joy and rejoycing may be in the Lord such as God may be pleased with Not in the day of our Kings deliverance make our selves or others sick with bottles of Wine not sit down to eat and Hos 7. 5. drink healths and rise up to play for with such mirth God is Exod. 32. 6. not well pleased but doth threaten to spread the dung of such 1 Cor. 10. 5. feasts upon their faces and curse their Blessings Mal. 2. 3. Now that our rejoycing may please God we must begin with Halelujah and end with Hosannah David gives us a pattern Open to me the gates of Righteousness Psal 118. 19. 25. I will go into them and I will praise the Lord. Save now O Lord I beseech thee I beseech thee send now prosperity Thus should we be joyful in Gods house of prayer but still Isal 56. 7. remember to rejoyce in trembling because we know not what a Psal 2. 11. day may bring forth Prov. 27. 1. Joyn we then praise and prayer thanksgiving for the mercies we have received and prayers for the mercies we still stand in need of All the Psalms are reducible to two words Halelujah and Hosanna not to be severed Neither of these if alone will prosper nor are acceptable when not united O then let us now do both praise God for our former and latter Deliverances from the many attempts of our Popish Adversaries the Spanish Invasion Gunpowder Treason many preservations of Queen Elizabeth of blessed memory and our own deliverance from their truly real Plot and intended Mischief which God preserve us from Pray unto him for the continuance of his gracions providence over us and protection of us For suppose that all were dead that sought our lives Say they are but is the Devil dead too If he be not it steds not much if they were His Powder Mill will still be going he will be as busie as ever in turning over all his devices in turning himself into as many shapes as Proteus and all to turn us to mischief And therefore we have and shall have always cause to follow our Halelujah's with our Hosanna's pray as well as praise in reference to our Popish Adversaries That God would abate their pride asswage their malice and confound their devices That the Life of our most Gracious King may be preserved the Protestant Religion our Lives and Liberties secured from all the devilish attempts of our implacable enemies the Jesuits and their Proselytes Oh let all that are now in the House of the Lord especially those amongst us that are of the House of the Lord earnestly and affectionately pray for our most Gracious King as in duty we are bound because God commands it and out of respect to 1 Tim. 2. 2. our own tranquility that is wrapt up in his safety that God would continue forth his goodness towards him and bless him with length of days with strength of health with the encrease of all Honour and happiness with Terror in the eyes of his Enemies with Grace in the eyes of his Subjects with whatsoever David or Solomon or any other King that was happy was blessed with a long continuance of the Peace and Glory of his Kingdoms on earth and with the eternal Kingdom of Glory and Peace in the highest Heaven To which God bring us all for his infinite mercy through Jesus our blessed Saviour Amen Amen FINIS

prosperous would have been seconded by a it one bred Rebelion of which Sir Walter Raleigh saith That it only d●need a Morice on our English Seas And as another 〈…〉 not one bullet into the shore lost many thousand m●n and near 20● ships whereas we lost but one in all Vessel and not an hundred men 2. All secret machinations treacherous Contrivances by poyson pistol dagger powder by Campion a French Lopez a Jew Creighton a Scot some vile Bygotted Gentleman and many others Thus that most excellent Princess notwithstanding all opposition by force and fraud that was made against her maintained Gods Ark not only twenty years as at Kirjath-jearim but twice twenty and five years and died in peace and serenity of mind in her bed in a good old age even the age of man in Moses's time seventy years and doth well deserve notwithstanding all the barkings of lying Papists and the belchings of impure Mouths against her that part of her Epitaph She is she was what can there more be said In earth the first in Heaven the second Maid Which Ark so setled her Successor King James of blessed Memory the most learned and most peaceful Monarch of Great Britain and Ireland maintained continued and established which exceedinly provoked the malice of the Popish Philistines against him Hence they contrived Watson and Clark Cobham and Raleigh's Conspiracy against him in 1603. and that failing this most Hellish Powder-Treason no doubt devised by the Devil but acted by his Instuments Piercy Katesby Digby and others who intended to blow up the King Queen Prince and the great States and Commons of the Land then met in the Upper-House of Parliament and then to lay that horrid fact to the Puritans Sham Plots you see are none of their new devices and so to have taken up thence a pretence by the help of Foreigners whom they had tampered with to root out Protestants and their Religion and establish Popery which no question is and will be their perpetual design and endeavour But blessed be God for ever blessed be his Holy Name God intervened and overruled and O let him do so still and turned Esth 9. 1. it into the contrary God made that day which had they had their wits should have been for Villany and cruelty the most unfortunate day such as Nov. 5. eye hath not seen nor ear heard of unto us most joyful and most glorious when by Gods infinite Goodness and his then most excellent Majesties most fortunate Interpretation of a passage of one of their own Letters which passage was The Danger will be over as soon as the Letter was burnt which was as a learned Prelate speaks more casual than rational not by Grammatical Learning but by divine Revelation and Inspiration and by his Bp. Andrews faithful Councils diligent and discreet Inquisition and search discovered and prevented though those Monsters of men and the Vassals of the Pope had taken the Sacrament of secrecy and the time was near for the execution of it Thus was our great danger by our gracious God prevented and their own deserved ruine by themselves procured The remembrance whereof we ought in all solemn manner to celebrate every fifth of November as we do and long may we and our posterity do it And as we are directed in a Prayer and Thanksgiving in the Office appointed for that day joyfully to bless God and earnestly to intreat him to root out that Babylonish and Antichristian Sect whose Religion is Rebellion whose Faith is Faction whose practice is murdering of souls and bodies from whose Treachery Cruelty Rage Malice good Lord deliver us Amen Text. Then Samuel took a stone c. saying hitherto hath the Lord helped us Having in the former dispatched the first thing proposed viz. What was in the Text supposed their danger and the Cause of it and their enemies I now come to the second thing viz. What is expressed Time will not allow particular insisting on those many things which the Text in its parts would present us with I shall sum up all in these two things 1. Gods helping them 2. Their sense of and thankfulness for that help 1 Gods helping them which though last in words yet being first in nature I shall first speak to and as I proceed compare Gods helping them with his helping us Now what their deliverance was the Text shews us After the Ark was taken by the Philistines at the news whereof and of his two Sons death old Eli died and Ickabod was born ● the glory was departed and they for twenty years were in an afflicted and therefore lamenting Condition v. 1. being fallen into the sin of Idolatry v. 3. Under the bondage of the Philistines who disarmed them left not a Smith c. Samuel having been always a Prophet and Instructor of them never ceasing to pray for them Cap. 12. 1. He having reproved them for exhorted and prevailed with them to put away Baalim and Ashteroth their He-Gods and She-Gods and to serve the Lord now as a Judge in which Office he seems now to be inaugurated he summons them to Mizpeh in order to their further Reformation to fast and pray and confess their sins which the Philistines hearing of they gathered themselves together with an hostile intention No new thing for Satan to imploy his Instuments in the obstructing of good actions At the hearing of whose gathering together the Israelites were afraid being unarmed and unprepared to encounter with them v. 7 and therefore despairing of their own apply themselves to Samuel to pray for Gods help that he would save them v. 8. They were sensible of their own sinfulness being Idolaters and knew that God would not hear sinners They were assured of Samuels Holiness and Innocency and therefore of Gods favour towards him Hence they desired him to pray for them when they were apprehensive of their own unfitness and indisposition to pray for themselves where by the way observe Though graceless sinners in their prosperity scorn and abuse Gods faithful Ministers yet have they then a Conviction in their own Consciences of their Innocency and in time of their distress will seek to such to pray for them as Pharaoh to Moses the people to Samuel they sent not to their fellow-Idolate's nor Pharaoh to the Magicians then Moses then Samuel must be desired to pray for them Thus it is and will be with intelligent though graceless people in reference to scandalous and careless Ministers who do delightfully associate them in their sinful and unwarrantable practices of drin●ing swearing dicing c. even those persons who seem to applaud flatter and admire them yet in their sober moods have so much conviction that in their thoughts they condemn them as the blemishes of their Function and in the 'r extremiti●s little regard their Prayers for them then an Innocent Moses though many times rejected then an holy and blameless Samuel shall be sought to then pray for us then