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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	fall_v	great_a	lord_n	1,398	5	3.5077	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29373	A sermon preached unto the voluntiers of the city of Norwich and also to the voluntiers of Great Yarmovth in Norfolke by William Bridge ...	Bridge, William, 1600?-1670.	1642 (1642)	Wing B4466; ESTC R12276	14,881	24

wicked malignants and wicked counsellors about him If the Lord hath stirred thee up against mee let him accept an offering but if they be the children of men cursed be they before the Lord c. He does not say the King had done it but layes it upon those that were about him and therefore tooke up Arms to defend himselfe against the malignants Davids example is our practise and certainly if the Parliament should not have a power to send for those by force of Arms which are accused before them for their just tryall they should no longer be a Parliament every Court of Justice have a power to send for by force men accused to be tryed before them now the Parliament as King James speaks is the highest Court of Justice therfore accrding to the known priviledge of Parliament they do send Serjeant at Arms for those that are acccused to be tryed before them and if they have power to send out one Serjeant at Arms then they have power also to send forth a hundred and so a thousand and so ten thousand if need require and if the accused persons gather into an Army how can the Parliament send for them but by an Army so that when you consider the Law of the Land or the Law of God or the Law of nature which is for a community to defend it selfe your way and course is very warrantable your cause is good for that must needs be good that Religion maketh so your enemies are weake for they must needs be weake that sin makes weak your victory is certain which the Scripture promiseth and first or last the victory shall be to you Put all together your cause is good your enemies weake your victory certain your service honorable safe warrantable wherefore Be of good courage and play the men for your people and the Cities of our God and the Lord do with you what seemeth him good Fiftly This exhortation looketh upon all that heareth me this day men women and children be you all of good courage in these sad times notwithstanding the evill of the times fear not neither be dismayed Did the Lord do his work by halfs when he brought the children of Israel out of Egypt notwithstanding for mens unbelief some fell in the way to Canaan yet he brought them into Canaan Beloved you are now again coming out of Egypt for the Romish superstition and that partly is called Egypt Sodome Babylon you are now coming out of Egypt marching up into the promised Land and promised Ordinances nothing can make you fall in the way but unbelief wherfore be all of good courage and pray unto the Lord Be all of good courage thereby you shall be able to set upon great things for God though never so great thereby you shall endure great afflictions though never so heavy thereby you shall be untired and unwearyed in the service of God though the opposition be never so strong thereby you shall honour the Cause thereby you shall conquer your enemies thereby you shall encourage others your courage shall beget courage your courage will have an influence upon all the Towns round about you and make them of good courage as I make no question but the courage and valour of London have had an influence upon your hearts to make you couragious so your courage will have upon others what will they say when they come into Towns and return home again I will tell you what I was at such a Town and there they were working and fortifying their Town for their Countrey and King and I saw the best mans son in the Town go to the work and the best mans daughter in the Town carry a basket and father and mother shall we sit still therefore put on let the work never die for want of money let not such a Town as we are be base be poor low want courage when on the one side ye have the Sea on the other side the River on the other side the walls on the other side I hope friends within abundance of good people and above a loving God oh therefore put on be all of good courage I do but adde some directions and so winde up all First be sure of this That you make sure of God to be with you I mean not only in the generall causes but in your particular clear up your propriety to God himselfe When David was in a great straight his enemies had broken in upon him taken away his wives and then plundred all he had his own Souldiers began to mutiny and thought of stoning him what did he do it is said he encouraged himselfe in the Lord his God therefore first make sure of this cleare up this your propriety in God himselfe The sight of a great God under interest will encourage your spirits though dangers be nere so great Secondly Never go out upon any designe without Gods promise Gods promise of assistance acceptance and successe Joshua was a valiant man and brave Commander and yet we read of him 7 Joshua when some thirty men were slain and others fled he fell down upon the earth much discouraged why the Lord had promised he would never leave him nor forsake him his enemies should not be able to stand before him but hee had lost the promise that God had given to him and therefore was discouraged but the Lord comes to him and saith what dost here and brings him to the view of the promise again and then a new spirit and new life came into him Gods promise is your encouragement keepe that alwayes in your eye Thirdly take heed of all those things that will debase your spirits these are three things especially idlenesse wordlinesse false courage As for idlenesse saith Seneca it is the burying of a living man As for wordlinesse saith Aquinas it doth effeminate and set a man below himself And false courage is a true enemy to true courage if courage be layd upon the sense of the second cause when there is an ebbe of the second cause there is an ebbe of your courage There were two sorts of spyes that went into the Land of Canaan as for the first we do not read of any hard use they met withall and yet they were much discouraged and discouraged the people saying the men of the Country are Giants the Cities are walled up to Heaven and the Inhabitants ride in Charets of iron the other spyes met with ill use and had not Rahab hid them they had been every man cut off and yet they returned with good courage and so encouraged the people saying the men shall be meat unto us c. what is the reason of this one would thinke rather that the first sort should be encouraged and the last discouraged but it was not so the reason is this the first spyes that were discouraged looked only upon the men and walls and iron Charets went out in the way of sense but as for the