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mercy_n	david_n	great_a	lord_n	5,127	5	3.9179	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42953	The demeanour of a good subject in order to the acquiring and establishing peace	Goodwin, Thomas, 1586 or 7-1642.	1681 (1681)	Wing G975; ESTC R22752	33,660	45

all private Interests whether Personal or Relative and exhibiting incorrupt Loyalty under the greatest Temptations and durance Nay even the better sort of Doggs have shewn grateful Fidelity to their Masters to the extremity of Breath So far have those other pretenders to the great Titles of Piety put off even Morality and Nature But such as truly fear God and revere Conscience upon each neglect or injurious act declare to themselves what David proclaimed to Abner and the People who sleeping left the King to David and Abishai's mercy As the Lord liveth we are worthy to die because we have not kept the Lords Anointed And wise men who know the danger will be as careful not to incurr the Divine Displeasure by sleeping when it is time of Action but rather they hate the Act of Negligence more then the desert and are so in love with their duty that no violence can seperate Affections or hinder their diligence in Preserving or Rescuing from danger the Lords Anointed the Breath of our Nostrils And this although good men in the performance of their duty least think of a Temporal reward yet they know to be the highest part of Prudence too or Rational Subtilty They know the Divine Power to be no Fiction or Dream but recollect and treasure up in their Memories the Omnipotent Acts of revenge of its dishonour upon the unthinking Contrivers of Treason and the most frequent Temporal manifestations of his Love and Honour to the Faithful They see it to be but a Tryal and being confirmed for their Duty are sure of being approved and that when God seeth his time to Turn again the Captivity of his people for their present Grief they shall obtain the chief places in the Theaters of Joy It being Gods promise That the King shall joy in Gods strength and that he will prevent him with the Blessings of Goodness They know that as the Kings Sorrow was theirs so shall his Joy be So that their Trouble although excessive hath yet much Consolation because they Hope always and their Hope is Rational depending on God who besides Scriptural most delicious Promises and Examples hath further amply furnished us with incomparable modern Patterns and Observations In the midst of their Griefs Sufferings and Endeavours they seem to hear directed to each of them as well as lamenting Rachel Refrain thy Voice from Weeping and thine Eyes from Tears for thy work shall be rewarded and they shall come again from the Land of the Enemy They are as a Faithful Wife whose Husband being either in the field ready to engage in a desperate Battle or at Sea in stormy weather and a road Infested by Pyrats Anxity and Fear make her continually Mournful she is viduated and neglectful of Ornaments and Food using but little enjoying nothing Yet Hope taketh its vicissitudes of administring Comfort minding her of the prevalency of Prayer and Patience repeating the successes with which God hath hitherto blessed either him or others who Industriously relyed upon the excellency of their Cause and which he hath to such promised This giveth Intermissions of Grief and often gaineth victory although subject to frequent relapses At length his return banisheth Hope and Fear but both serve to make great the joy which without them must have remained among the small and disregarded ones The King is the Soul of his Countreys Joy and Felicity whose Dangers or Absence cause Convulsions of Spirits in his Faithful Subjects who are Espoused to him and sharers in all his Fortunes And it is impossible while men are under greatly distracting cares for the Publick but that private Affairs and Pleasures must cease to be respected But before these Thoughts swell the heart to despair Divine Comfort appeareth encouraging Fidelity with Promisses of a Blessed Conclusion For by the Generations past they are taught that Adversities may fall upon Kings for their Kingdoms Wickedness God designing them as Punishments and Tryals for the Peoples Amendment but in his appointed time is wont to Turn him to the Prayer of the poor destitute and not to despise their desire And although God doth sometimes afflict yet he patronizeth the Cause of Kings and calleth it his own And the very success of the wicked is an assurance of their approaching fall for it is alway by them tyrannically and savagely used and accompanied with such prodigious haughtiness that the expectation must be inevitable ruine These interchangeable sorrows and hopes did once long contend for victory in the minds of the Loyal party of these Kingdoms The delays and improbabilities of our most Gracious Kings Restauration after we had seen His Blessed Father exalted to a more glorious Crown gave grief the longer possession But our reason when grief well nigh spent would permit us the use of it shewed us the impossibility of such sanguinary Pride long continuing or that those mens insatiable desires which by receiving were the more extended till at length they were enlarged as Hell should wanting supplies abroad not fall to feed upon their own Instruments first afterward one upon another and in the end ravingly exspire This reason was strengthened by a firm belief that God would not suffer such and so much blood to cry unrevenged that the patient abiding of the Meek should not alway be forgotten but that our God would be pleased to shew a token upon us for good that they who hated us might be ashamed Our fears were more durable but our hopes by these dependencies and encouragements were more quick and powerful and in the end vanquishing our fears were themselves lost in the following pleasant and celestial enjoyments The benefits whereof I humbly beseech God we may by our virtues and pious thankfulness make truely our own and by such patterns leave the possession of Posterities But the foul interruption which ill men have by indirect counsels made putteth us again upon the rack and giveth even the name of Joy but an unwelcom reception until judicious Hope relieveth us with assurances that their expectation is but short and sheweth us the Achitophels politickly contriving the frame and as cunningly erecting the Ladder from the top of which they may boast their success and give perpetuity to their memories Each dutiful Subject in the mean time with a lamenting care beholdeth his Princes troubles and the fate of those who so occasion them And such is the usual course of Divine Rewards descending upon prudent Obedience although he is least in his own thoughts yet by all his faculties endeavouring it he beginneth his own prosperity at his Soveraignes Being careless of all even life it self that is being resolutely willing to expose all that is dearest to him as the purchase of the Kings peace he best keepeth and secureth his All. By this means his adversity is shortned his joy rendred more durable and copious CHAP. VII The Princes Peace and thereby the Kingdoms settled can truely influence with joy none but Good Subjects WHat good men ask of