Selected quad for the lemma: parliament_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
parliament_n	england_n	great_a	scotland_n	2,981	5	7.9820	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81250	The root of apostacy, and fountain of true fortitude. Delivered in a sermon before rhe [sic] Honourable House of Commons, on their late day of thanks-giving for the great victory given to Sir William Waller and the forces with him, against the army of Sir Ralph Hopton. By Thomas Case, Preacher at Milk-street, London, and one of the Assembly of Divines.	Case, Thomas, 1598-1682.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1644 (1644)	Wing C839; Thomason E46_11; ESTC R22888	28,474	40

because he came not forth to the helpe of the Lord against the mighty And hear it Oh ye Nobles and Senators and Commanders and Souldiers Cursed be he that doth the worke of the Lord deceitfully That pretends one thing and intends another That pretends for Christ and intends for Antichrist That pretends for GOD and his people but intends for their enemies or that doth the work of the * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sig. fraudare proijcere Lord negligently that doth it by halfes and piece-meals that turns it off as if he cared not which end went forward And cursed bee hee that withholdeth his sword from bloud 1 King 20.40 that spares when God saith strike that suffers those to escape whom God hath appointed to utter destruction Behold this may startle But then on the other side Fourthly study GOD in the word of Promise the summe of all which you shall finde in that word God spake to Joshuah Fear not Josh 1.5 Heb. 13.5 I will never leave thee nor forsake thee And bee thou faithfull to the death Revel 2.10 and I will give thee the crown of life There is your promise for this life I will be with thee and your promise for the life to come I will give thee the Crown c. God with you here and you with God hereafter Christians what would you have more Fidelity shall wear the Crown This may strengthen Thirdly study to know God in his Names and in his Attributes and there if you be weak you shall finde strength If Nonplust Wisdome If beset with Treachery Faithfulnesse If Wronged Justice If under oppression goodnesse loving-kindnesse tender mercies In a word if you have nothing bee nothing there you shall finde all things I am God Alsufficient walk before me and bee thou perfect Gen. 17.1 You shall finde all in God and all this yours Especially if you will study God In the fourth place in his Relations look upon him as Master Friend Father Husband c. You know of what obligation and influence these are among men can a woman forget her sucking childe of how much infinitely more with God! Oh study your Evidences Isai 49.15 for interest in these Relations I tell you noble Patriots and honour'd Christians the time is comming and now is when one Evidence well cleer'd will bee a better security to you then a Million of Armed men then an whole Navy such as shall enable you to dare all the powers of the enemy I will not bee afraid of ten thousands of people Psal 3. that have set themselves against me round about Odds enough one would think ten thousand to one and to that one no way left for an escape beset round about with Hoasts and Myriades of enemies Why will hee not fear hear him hee will tell you Arise O Lord Save me oh my God I there it is Psal 61. Hee that can say and say it upon good grounds my God may say Psal 68.1 2. Arise O Lord and if God arise His enemies shall be scattered they that hate him shall flie before him let them bee never so many thousands One beleever and his God is good enough for all the world If God be thine his Wisdome is thine his Power is thine his faithfulnesse thine his mercy and loving-kindnesse thine All hee hath and all he is is thine Oh study God in his Relations and study his Relations in Evidences You have taken up God upon trust too long already and that 's the reason 2 Pet. 1.12 you dare not trust him now study interest study evidences Give all diligence to make your calling and election sure The studying of Evidences is an Evidence And let me tell you thus much for your comfort Not only Evidences but the very studying of your Evidences will minister an holy sweet boldness in the day of trouble and hour of temptation Isai 26.9 when the soul shall be able to say With my soul have I sought thee in the night yea with my spirit within me will I seek thee early Vers 12. You may say also as it there follows Lord thou wilt ordain peace for us c. See Honourable and beloved in all these here is both engagement and encouragement Engagement to do for God whatsoever is in the power of creatures Encouragement Psal 144.15 to expect from God whatsoever is within the power of a God you may be sure of it Blessed are the people that are in such a case yea blessed are the people that thus know and have the Lord for their God And thus much for the first branch of the Vse I come now to the second In all the honourable and worthy exploits that are done Second Branch of Exhortation or may be done let us study to carry our selves as a people that know their God And indeed Honourable and Beloved Exploits have been done both in Scotland and in England in these later dayes if ever any since the beginning of the world Thou shalt remember sayd God to Israel Deut. 8.2 all the way wherein I have led thee these fourty years Alas I have not time to remember to you the way wherein the Lord hath led us these five or six years At your leisure peruse your Journalls and you shall finde the way full of wonders almost miraculous which God hath done for and by a poor people that have known their God In Scotland The casting out of that Popish Service-book and Prelacy Their first and second unbloudy victories over those formidable preparations for warre which were brought to their very borders to have forced the yoke of both upon their necks That yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear Oh what exploits were these They will tell you more In England for I must touch but one of ten of an hundred That little Parliaments great fidelity to God and their brethren of Scotland in refusing to contribute a farthing to that unnaturall warre notwithstanding all the threats and flatteries used to have corrupted them truely it was an exploit full of so much power and goodnesse of God as that it turned that dissolution which formerly had been a plague into one of the greatest mercies that ever England received The sence whereof while others were mourning for that untimely breach fil'd me with so much joy as that I professe I felt not that day the ground I went on while I could blesse God and blesse that Parliament with the words of Phineas the son of Eleazar the Priest Josh 22.31 to the two Tribes and an half This day we perceive that the Lord is amongst us because you have not committed this trespasse against the Lord now ye have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the Lord. Ireland we may fear is even almost destroyed for that sin amongst others Certainly Brethren had they contributed but six-pence to that warre eo nomine