Selected quad for the lemma: law_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	king_n	people_n	subject_n	12,053	5	6.8171	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96450	Englands sorrows turned into joy. A sermon preached the 28th. of June, 1660. Being a publick thanksgiving, for the restauration of his Excellent Majesty, Charles II. Of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. To His crownes and kingdomes, and us (His subjects) to our antient rights, liberties, and lawes. By John Whynnell, minister of the gospel at Askerswell in the county of Dorset.	Whynnell, John, b. 1603 or 4.	1660 (1660)	Wing W2073; Thomason E1033_8; ESTC R208964	24,107	42

Respecting 1. Himself 2. His own people 3. The wicked And I might speake to many referring to each particular but I shall content my self with a few 1. Respecting himself I shall only instance in 2. 1. With respect to his own Honour and Name he doth great things for their Safety Deliverance and Comfort that they might do something for his Honour Alas should God leave his Church and people to the mercy of their Enemies they would soon destroy them and leave no Church no Christian on the earth This is that that the Devill would have and that wicked men aim at Should a Shepheard leave his flock to the mercy of Lyons Tygers Wolves and Foxes Alas he would soon have no flock remaining So should not God appear for his people in their extremities and sufferings and do great things for their deliverance Alas the Devill that Roaring Lyon and the wicked those Sons of Cruelty would soon make away with them all And then where would be his Honour and Glory 'T is his Church and people that do maintain that through his Grace on earth Wicked men do blaspheme his Name and dishonour him Alas should God have left us to the mercy of those Schismaticall Hereticall and Atheisticall Tyrants that had got the mastery over these Nations by an unjust and forcible Usurpation of the power into their hands certainly we should have been wholly destroyed and that within a little space They were now making provision for it as is too too notoriously known The Villanies that a long while were shrowded under the Cloak of Religion and the cause of God and the Liberty of the Subject now began to appear and that to every one almost And we may guesse by what they did what they did intend to do Ex ungue leonem c. what would not they have done to the People who murdered their King Who laid a force upon yea wholly denyed us our Parliaments who Banished some murdered others of their fellow-Fellow-Subjects and Superiours and miserably opprest the whole Nation What would not they have done who nul'd our Laws Who ruined our Church Alas we did not see the worst of it which possibly we should by this time It was high time for God to mind his own Honour and Glory and Name and Cause amongst us or else this flourishing State this famous Church that ever hitherto had Renown in the World and is under God as it were the prop of Christianity through all the World had bin utterly destroyed and made a desolation It was much and that not without cause fear'd often threatned and certainly had not God stept in betwen us and destruction our Honour and Glory had quite fallen and for ever have lain in the dust But God minding his own Honour Glory and Interest did great things for us to release us from this great and sad affliction 2. That so he might manifest his love to and care of his people even in this condition Though God suffer his people sometimes to be afflicted oppressed and persecuted by wicked men yet his love to them and care over them is the same still to them that changes not He sometimes suffers wicked men to do very great things to the prejudice of his people but when once he sees them really intend to ruine his Church then he shews his love to them and care over them in putting a Bridle in their Jaws a stop to their Isa 30. 28. Exod. 14. 4. Exod. 14. 10. wicked intentions He may stir up a Pharaoh to pursue his people with resolutions to destroy them all and he may suffer him to come in sight of them yea even in reach of them and may let him be confident of his Victory over them and contrive how to ruine them Exod. 14. 3. but yet the evill that Pharaoh intended against them befell not them but himself and in the very place he had Exod. 14. 27 28. designed for their execution He thought to have forced them into the Sea to have drowned them but it was himselfe and his own Army that were drowned He may suffer Haman to get a decree against his Church and People and to build a Gallows for Mordecai but yet so did God manifest his love to his People that he wrought things so that another decree passes from the King against him first and is executed himselfe hanged on the Hest 38 9 10 11 12 13. Hester 5. 14. Hest 7. 9 10. Mat. 28. Gallows he built for Mordecai and the Church delivered He may suffer Herod to intend and contrive the death of the Child Jesus but yet he out of love to it took such care of it that it out-lived Herod So he may suffer many of the malicious Jews to intend and contrive Mat. 2. 19 20. Acts 23. 12 13 14. the death of Paul yea to swear they will kill him ere they Eat or Drink any more yet he took such care of him that he reprieved him out of their hands So Acts 23. 31 32 c. likewise though God did suffer wicked men to contrive and to resolve to ruine all amongst us both Church and State Religion and our Laws to bring all to Anarchy and Confusion yet God loving of us and caring for us so manifested both unto us as that he prevented the threatned ruine he did great things for us Thus with respect to himself 2. With respect to his own people And I shall instance briefly in 4. or 5. 1. Because of their relation to him He 'le do it because they are related to him As his Subjects his Children his Spouse his Servants his Friends c. Now a King will do great things for his Subjects a Father for his Children a Husband for his Spouse a Master for his Servants a Friend for his Friends if in misery the relation wil engage them to it 2. Because he Sympathizes with them In all their affliction he is afflicted and therefore he sent the Angell of Isa 63. 9. his presence and saved them He that touches them touches the Apple of his Eye He suffers in his Churches Zach. 2. 8. sufferings Saul Saul why persecutest thou me Not my people but me He is wounded through the sides Acts 9 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of his Church When the Church bears the Cross it pinches his shoulders When the Church is Crowned with Thornes it wounds his head Now he knows our infirmities and knows what 't is to suffer how irksome to flesh and blood Now to ease his people when they sigh groan and cry by reason of the Oppressor Oh then he doth arise and do great things for them Psal 12. 5. 3. Because they are still crying unto him in times of affliction They cry and sigh groan and lament by reason of the evill of their condition as this Church doth And so they cry unto God too to avenge their quarrell to ease their trouble to set them at liberty and

ENGLANDS SORROWS turned into JOY A SERMON Preached the 28th of June 1660. Being a Publick Thanksgiving for the Restauration of his Excellent Majesty Charles II. Of England Scotland France and Ireland KING Defender of the Faith c. To His Crownes and Kingdomes and us His Subjects to our Antient Rights Liberties and Lawes By John Whynnell Minister of the Gospel at Askerswell in the County of Dorset Prov. 29. 2. When the Righteous are in Authority the People Rejoyce LONDON Printed by T. M. for H. Brome at the Gun in Ivie-lane 1661. Carol ' Secund ' D G Mag Bri Fra et Hib Rex TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFULL GEORGE FULFORD Esq One of His Majesties Justices of the Peace and Quorum for the County of Dorset SIR THE experience that I have had of your former many favours makes me bold to Ask and confident to Obtaine this one more from you viz. To shelter this poor following Sermon under your Name I have not so high an esteem of it as to think it worthy your Acceptance if so I should have presented it to you as a Gift but so mean as that it needs your Countenance It was the advice of St. Augustine that in places where and times when Errours do abound all men should write that had any though but the least faculty which makes some Apology for me that so amongst many Books all sorts of people might meet with some to convince them of their Errours and establish them in the Truth Humanum est errare And these evil times in which we have lately lived involved many into Errours Some with reference to the Word of God some with respect to the Works if I may so say of God 'T is to the latter of these that I direct this Discourse to perswade them that Gods works of Mercy are Works of Mercy however they are misconstrued and mis-judged by some who measure Gods feet of providence by the last of their own Interests By the experience Sir in this latter and evill Age we have all found this to be a Truth that let Times be never so bad some will account them good and cry them up for Glorious Times And be times never so good some will account them evil and suffering times Some will account Mercies Miseries and Miseries Mercies Every man and party judges Gods dispensations according as they do favour his or their own private interests There is 't is known a sort of people amongst us that never would nor never will be contented No not with any Government in Church or State The Reason is because they are so addicted to Changes and affected with Novelties As if nothing could be true if not new nothing good and the right but that which sutes with their Humours Et hinc illae lachrymae c. From this root of bitternesse have sprung up many things that have troubled us Hence first sprung those many Dislikes of Disputes and Contentions about Formes of Church and State Government Which Contentions though they were but as Sparkes at first yet in a little while after they had sulterd in Contentious Brests grew to Flames and at last Flam'd high 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And fired the Church and State And what followed Discordia demens Intravit coelos superosque ad bella coegit Who were the Incendiaries Isidore will tell us Qui dissentionem animarum fecerunt Isidor lib. Etimol And what followed we can tell by wofull experience Nostine igitur quod omne quod Boetius de Philosoph consolatione lib. 4. est tamdiu manere subsistere quamdiu sit unum sed interire atque dissolvi pariter quam de unum esse desierit For as another sayes Nulla quantumvis minima natio potest ab adversariis per deleri Veget. lib. 3. c. 10. nisi propriis discordiis seipsa consumpserit And therefore Tyresius when he was asked by Scipio why Numantia aut prius invicta aut postea evicta Answered Concordia victoriam discordia exitium Paulus Diacon Hist lib. 4. adfert Many will colour their Seditions with this and that and most times In Nomine Domini incipit hoc malum But Aristotle will tell us the True Reason of it Minores ut fiant aequales seditionem Arist lib. polit 5. faciunt aequales ut fiant majores seditionem faciunt ipsi We have all of us or at least may see the evill of these things The issue of them was almost Destruction and would have been nothing less In foelix pereat Nihil relinquent bella tum vastis ager Squalebat arvis subditatectis face Altus sepultas obruet gentes cinis Senec. in Hercule furente Traged 1. Had not God in mercy done great things for us Yet many can scarce account this a mercy cannot be satisfied contented nor quiet the same Humours do work again But for my part I am of Cassiodorus his Principle Cogi debet ut sit quietus qui Cassiod lib. 1. Epist 1. suo vitio renuit esse pacificus Least such Sanballats and Tobiahs discontented Spirits Enemies to the Peace of Jerusalem should revive our old miseries and renew our former Griefes and turn our Singing into Sighing our Mirth into Mourning our Rejoycings into Lamentations But methinks t is high time for wise men at least such as would be accounted honest men though formerly they had unavisedly given their helping hands to make themselves and the Nation miserable to be far from favouring the least thought of so doing any more And to begin to see the folly of their actings and seriously to lay to heart the sad Consequences that followed thereupon as Anarchy in State Heresy in Church nay brought Destruction it selfe even to our very doores which they when they would with all their hearts could not with all their might prevent And to own and to acknowledge Gods mercy who did prevent our utter destruction and set us in Statu quo Prius gave us our Judges as at first and our Councellors as at the beginning Restored us our Ancient Rights Liberties Laws and Religion Our former Peace Prosperity Honour c. And laying aside their own private interests should have respect to the publick And should endeavour to quiet and satisfie themselves and others blesse God for this Mercy and live together in Love Vnity and Concord This will conduce both to our Peace and Prosperity For Si membra regni partesque inter se consentiunt P. Ae. mil. lib. 3. constabunt corpus universum salubre erit Concordia enim aureum adamantinum vitae vinculum est Omnia in pace vita festivitate tenet And to our profit too for as Micipsa a dying King said to his Sons Concordia res parvae crescunt And as the Poet sayes Velle Sal. de Bello Jugurth nolle ambobus idem sociataque lato mens aevo ac parvis dives concordia rebus As for others who are neither wise honest nor peaceable my