Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	city_n	king_n	lord_n	4,004	5	3.6249	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45563	The royal common-wealth's man, or King David's picture represented in a sermon preached at the solemnity of the funeral of Sir Tho. Adams, knight and baronet, and alderman of London ; in St. Katherine Creechurch, on the 10th of March, 1667 / by Nath. Hardy ...	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1668 (1668)	Wing H742; ESTC R16815	26,628	50

hayle and lusty at 80. than David was at 70. That Promise in the Psalm Thou shalt see thy childrens children and peace upon Israel was abundantly made good to him as to Childrens children and though he lived to see both domestick and foreign wars yet before he died he saw peace upon our English Israel which God of his mercy long continue And as he was full of daies so he filled these daies with all sorts of good actions he well knew the worth of time which we for the most part undervalue and accounting every minute pretious took care to spend not only his daies but his hours well so that his gray hairs being found in a way of righteousness were a crown to him and what Scaliger said of Strisset may no less justly be said of him it was pity ut aut senium senem faceret aut lex naturae vita privaret either that age should have made him old or the law of nature bereaved him of life As to Riches and honour it is true he came far short of David yet he wanted not his share of either God was pleased so far to bless his honest indeavours in that Calling wherein his Providence had placed him that he enjoyed a liberal portion of this worlds goods nor did he want those honors which were suitable to him David indeed was a King and so the supreme person in his kingdom He was whilst Lord Mayor chief officer of this City during his continuance in which Place he did by virtue of his office represent the King's person Whatsoever honor in the City he was capable of he was chosen to Master of his Company Alderman of a Ward President of St. Thomas his Hospital several times Burgess in Parliament though the iniquity of the times would not permit him to sit Sheriff Lord Mayor After which he at length became and so continued for some years as Benazah was said to be a mighty man among the 30. the first among the 26. the eldest Alderman upon the bench that had served in the Office of a Lord Mayor to whom is given that honourable title of the Father of the City nor had he only all this honour from the City but his King also gave him the greatest honour he was capable of in his station making him not only a Knight but a Barronet which descends upon Posterity I mention these not as if riches or honours or both were abstractively considered Topicks of Commendation but in as much as they are conferred by God sometimes upon good men as the encouragements and made use of by them as the Instruments of virtue and so they were to him he being a bountiful steward of his riches nor did his dignities so much honour him as he them I cannot say of him as Christ said lo a greater than Solomon He was greater or richer than David nay much inferiour no nor yet better than David nor yet so good But thus much I dare say it was his laudable ambition to be as good he indeavoured to tread in Davids footsteps and what is said in my Text concerning David I shall confidently affirm of him and that in both translations He was one who served his own generation by the will of God and who in his own generation served the will of God Throughout the age of his life he was through God's Providence instated in manifold Relations intrusted with various offices conversant in several imployments in all which he had no cause to complain with him who said Omnia fui nihil profui I was every thing and profited nothing All of them being as so many Cutts and Chanels through which did run his several vertues and graces And now as he said of St. Cyprian Onerosum enumerare It would be a burdensome task to enumerate all particulars since Inopem me copia fecit Plenty makes me poor and I have so much to say that I know not where to begin If you please I will begin with that which is in Solomons language the beginning of wisdom namely the fear of the Lord. He was eminent for Religion and Devotion That Orthodox Religion which is professed in the Church of England he faithfully adhered to cordially owning her Doctrine and Discipline Hierarchy and Liturgy and though he lived in an inconstant age wherein it was the mode to change Religions as women do fashions he proved not a reed o● a willow but an Oak stedfast and immoveable Great was his respect to the Orthodox and Orthoprax Clergy Those who were Sufferers he charitably relieved Those who were Labourers he bountifully encouraged The very feet of them that served at the Altar were beautiful in his eies and I should be very ingrateful if I should not acknowledg my self though most unworthy to have had a Benjamen's share in his Favour Schismatical Conventicles he ahhorred but duly frequented the Church Assemblies I was for many yeares an ocular witness of his attendance on the Publick Ordinances where he was a Joint Petitioner at the Throne of Grace a Judicious Auditor of God's word a diligent receiver of the Lord's Supper from the monethly administration whereof I do not remember he was absent if in Town and in health and though it was an age wherein irreverence was in fashion and Devotion decryed as superstition he was exemplary for his reverent behaviour in God's house seldom at Prayers but upon his knees unless want of room hindred him his head still uncovered at the reading and preaching of Gods word and alwaies kneeling at the Holy Communion nor was he only as I fear too many are Religious in the Church but his Family praying with and for them and giving wholesome Counsels to them That Character which Almighty God giveth concerning Abraham for I know him that he will command his Children and his houshold after him to keep the way of the Lord did justly belong to him whose care it was to bring up his Children in the fear and instruct his servants in the ways of the Lord and his resolve was that of Joshua I and my house will serve the Lord. Finally trace him not only from God's house to his own but from his chamber to his closet and there you might have found him daily setting time apart for his meditations and devotions nor could any secular affairs divert him from God's Service and therefore when his occasions called him forth sooner he would still rise the earlier that he might begin the day with God with whom he always also closed it up Thus during his age and generation in this world he served his God and no less careful was he to serve his King remembring that Fear the Lord and the King are joyned together by Solomon He was a strenuous asserter of Monarchical Government Nor can I pass by one argument which he often used upon that account where Almighty God by his Prophet Ezekiel reconing up the manifold blessings he had conferr'd upon his