Selected quad for the lemma: judgement_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	great_a	heart_n	sin_n	3,915	5	4.7151	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31734	A character of His Most Sacred Majesty, King Charles the IId with a short apologie before it, an introduction to it, and a conclusion after it / written by a minister of the word ...	Minister of the word.	1660 (1660)	Wing C2017; ESTC R21751	17,960	39

from among our selves and that vve may not any more be delivered into the hands of brutish men that are skilfull to destroy That God vvould please to make these Nations after their so much bleeding to recover their former health and strength and to live in his sight by causing the hearts of all the People vvhich inhabite them more to bleed for that great effusion of blood shed and spilt upon them as for all other hainous sins committed in them that they may not be made to bloed afresh by such heavy Judgements And novv his Judgements his most heavy Judgements have been in these Nations that he would please to make the inhabitants thereof to learn Righteousness and to learn obedience by the things they have suffered That God vvould further please to unite the Hearts of all his People in these Nations together as if they vvere all but one man that they may joyntly severally and unfeignedly pray for and pursue after such a Peace and Settlement as may make us at once both safe and happy And that he vvould please to beget and increase a right and a true understanding betvvixt his Majesty and the People of these Nations that he may not be made further to suffer by any of their bold and misgrounded prejudices nor they longer block up the vvay of their ovvn happiness against themselves by their causeless fears That God vvould stir up the hearts of all the people in these Nations who know how to pray unfeignedly to pray for his Majesty that if it shall stand vvith the good pleasure of Almighty God to settle these Nations by the happy establishment of his Royal Majesty here amongst us that he vvould make him such a Blessing in Himself and to these Nations such a Blessing likevvise that the Generations to come may call him blessed vvhereby all such as have been so presumptuously and vvickedly bold led hereunto by their ovvn misconceiving to utter hard speeches against his Majesty for the time past may be convinced and made ashamed and endeavour by their Subjection Love and Loyalty to his Majesty for to salve and heal up all again for the time to come And the that God vvould further please daily to add unto the number of those Chariots and Horsemen in this our Israel that still may be mighty to prevail with him and to scatter those yea all those whosoever they be that delight in War That delight in War For War as it is sometimes necessary so it is alvvayes evil the vvorst of all remedies that can be thoughton for if fighting and killing in this Case have any other end proposed besides Peace and Settlement it proves Murther I observed but now that if we desire to be safe and happy by the establishment of his Majesty amongst us we must be instant and importunate with God in his behalf The Kings heart is in the hand of the Lord and he turneth it whithersoever he will No King can encline his own heart which way himself listeth and therefore it is the duty of the people that would be happy under a good Prince to Petition the Lord for every thing that may concern his present and Eternal good and welfare that so he may become a King of Prayers and a King of Prayses It is an heedful exhortation of the Apostle in his first Epistle to Timothy where he saith I exhort that first of all Supplications Prayers Intercessions be made for all men for Kings and for all that are in authority for Kings first and there is great reason for it as will presently appear The Tempter in the Gospel presented unto our Blessed Saviour the sight of the Kingdoms of the world and the glory of them The Kingdoms and their glory and we may confess that there is no such Beauty Splendor Bravery Riches Pleasures Majestie to be found in the world as in the Courts of Princes who are Gods Deputies here on earth there is soft rayment there are sumptuous Feasts rich Jewels glorious Triumphs royal State there is honourable Attendance and what not And all these no doubt Satan presented on their fairest side to their best advantage But he did not tell him how many Cares and anxieties attend Greatness He did not acquaint him with the abundant troubles the great disquiet and marvellous perplexities which usually attend early Crowns all these Satan hides out of the way nothing may be seen but what might both please and allure But most certain it is that the Crowns of Gold which adorn the heads of Kings though they shine and glister yet all is not gold in them because they are in-layed with Bryers and Thorns High Seats are alwayes uneasie And there is no good Prince who desires to manage his Scepter well if he view it round on all sides but shall find that there is a gread deal more attending earthly Diadems beside Pomp and Glory And for this reason First Prayers must be made for Kings that desire to rule well because their troubles cares and fears are greater then other mens Secondly Their Temptations are likewise greater then those of private Persons and therefore they stand more in need of joynt publick and private Prayers And Lastly They must in a special manner be prayed for by their people upon the account of good vvhich may be received under them That they may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty I have done vvith my short Narrative concerning the most eminent King vvhich might have been abundantly more enlarged by a better Pen though I conceive there is no great need of it in regard that God vvho hath so turn'd the Hearts of the people in general tovvards his Majesty wil doubtless and that speedily turn the face of the King towards his people in bringing him home unto them and then he vvill be his own and therefore much better Epistle When a very great number of the people in these Nations men of even spirits sound minds uncorrupt principles and of godly and blameless lives that never cease Praying for the happy settlement of this Church and State upon the sure foundations of Truth and Peace and Order and long for it as the morning shall not be disappointed of their Hope To Conclude then after all our Miseries we may be yet happy and safe and every thing we want and hope for beside that 's good for us shall assuredly be had after we have been deeply humbled for and have thankfully accepted of the punishment of our former iniquities and vvhen God shall please to speak peace unto us vve resolve by his Grace and assistance not to return again to folly and labour vvith all our might to perform and do vvhat vve resolve By vvhich means all heats and animosities amongst us might be in good time quenched or cooled every mans rights and properties setled Trade encouraged and increased and the three Nations in general who for some years last past by reason of their strange actings and divisions have made themselves a Scorn and contempt unto other people round about them might regain their honour and become both their Envy and Terror yea then all Blessings shall overtake and come upon us both the blessings of Gods left and right hand When which is first to be considered though here put in the last place we contend for the establishment of True Religion of Religion though we may tremble to speak it which hath been so much prostituted in these Nations unto ends that have not been good and made a stirrop to get up to Power or Riches Oh how many thousand souls have been and are betrayed by the abuse of that Word whose use is Soveraign and Saving Yet although some and they too too many under the mask and shew of Religion have been naught yea and most vile it is not possible for any to be good who are not Religious I say therefore when we endeavour after that which above all things ought to be most dear unto us and before all other things most to be contended for the Purity and Power of Religion the Purity thereof separated from all dregs or mixture of Error or Ignorance which do marvellously debase it And then the Power of it consisting in a right understanding of all those things we may and we must know which concern God and our selves And as Religion takes its name from Binding so then may we be accounted Religious when we bind our selves as much as we may to search after every thing vvhich God vvould have us to know and then to do what vve know the Practice of Duty being the Life of Duty In short vvhen not the Form nor the Visard nor the Face nor the Shew nor the Name only but the Purity and Povver of Religion shall shine amongst us vve cannot be less then an happy people For this vvill be the only means to procure to get and to keep the presence of God in mercy and for ever to abide vvith us And happy are the people that be in such a case yea blessed are the people who have the Lord for their God FINIS