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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	church_n	discipline_n	doctrine_n	4,176	5	6.2312	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71253	The description and the practice of the four most admirable beasts explained in four sermons upon Revel. 4.8 : whereof the first three were preached before the Right Honourable James, Duke of Ormond, and lord lieutenant of Ireland, His Grace, and the two Houses of Parliament, and others, very honourable persons / by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gr. Lord Bishop of Ossory.	Williams, Gryffith, 1589?-1672.	1663 (1663)	Wing W2664; ESTC R33669	79,502	118

all the families of the earth so I believe the Lord may justly say of our Kings dominions that he shewed more love and favour unto them then he did to any other Kingdom of the World for whatsoever good he did to others he did the same to us And he shewed two more signal favours to us then he did to any other Kingdome of all Christendome As I. He raised the good Emperour Constantine the Son of Helen out of Britaine to close up the days of persecution and shut the doors of the Idol-Temples II. When the mysts of ignorance and errors and superstition had covered and overshadowed almost all the Church of Christ God sent successively no less then five such excellent Protestant Princes King Edward the sixth Queen Elizabeth King James and King Charles the I. and II. as no other Kingdom had the like to protest against all the Popish errours and superstition and to make such a perfect reformation of Religion that both for Doctrine and Discipline no Church in Christendom is so purely and so perfectly established as these Churches of our Kings dominions are such love and such mercies of God to us as exceeded all the blessings of the earth and shewed to no other Nation of the world in such a measure but to this And what reward I pray you What requital have we rendred unto God have we and our people rendred unto God for those great unparalell'd benefits that he hath done unto us I do profess I have been a man ever faithful to my King and ever fearless of all the dangers of the world and therefore I must say the truth as Saint Steven told the Jews though I should fare as Saint Steven did that as they were a stiff-necked people that have always resisted the Holy Ghost and persecuted the Prophets and been the traytors and murderers of Christ so have the major part of us shewed themselves a rebellious Nation that confederated to assist the Devil to requite Gods extraordinary signal favour to us with extraordinary signal contempt of Gods service and signal malice to all his servants above any other nation of the World by raising out of us and bringing in amongst us the great Anti-Christ that is the great enemies of Christ you know whom * The Long Parliament to slay the two witnesses of Jesus Christ which were Cohors Magistratuum Chorus Prophetarum 1. the best and blessed King Charles the First that like a goodly Oake or the Cedar of Lebanon was cut down with all his boughes and branches of Magistracy and 2. all the Seers that were the eyes the light Those were the 2 witnesses and the reverend Governours of Gods Church and instead of them to bring in the wild bore out of the wood the great Vsurper to destroy the vineyard of Christ and Gebal and Ammon and Amalec Ps 83.7 the Philistims with them that dwell at Tyre the whole rable of Presbyterians Independants Anabaptists Quakers and other sects which are the false Prophet to devour the revenues of the Church and to destroy all the houses of God in the land and so to corrupt the whole Service of that good God that had so graciously done such great things for us as I have fully shewed it heretofore and will hereafter be manifested for truth every day more and more And if these things be a good requital or a just thankfulness to God for all the benefits that he hath done unto us judge you But to leave these monsters of men for their imparalell'd ingratitude What God hath done for every one of us in particular 1 What good things he hath bestowed on us let us return to our selves here present and see what God hath done for every one of us for he made thee a man or a woman when he might have made thee a beast and he gave thee all thy limbs thy sight and thy senses when thou mightest have beenborn like him that was so blind from his mothers womb I am sure thou wouldst be very thankful to that Chirurgion that would but preserve thy finger and what thanks owest thou to him that gave thee all thy members and whatsoever else thou hast good wit larg memory strong body comely proportion loving wise sweet children riches honour favour preferment and all that thou hast all is from God And that which is far better then all these for herein Dedit te tibi Deus He did but onely give thee unto thy self and those temporal blessings that are momentary but he redeemed thee from the pit wherein there is no water and in this thy redemption Dedit se tibi Deus God gave himself unto thee and his onely Son to die for thee he sends his servants to teach thee and his Holy Spirit to work all the good gifts that are in thee to make thee a good Christian here that thou maiest be for ever blessed hereafter And 2. 2 2 From how many evils he hath preserved us If thou hadst these eyes to look behind thee thou mightest see not onely how much good the Lord God hath bestowed upon thee but also from how many evils he hath preserved thee for Satan like a roaring Lion would have devoured thee thine enemies that rose up against thee would have undone thee if the Lord himself had not been on thy side Ps 124.1 2. and as the Psalmist saith they would have swallowed thee up quick when they were so wrathfully displeased at thee yea thine own self many times by thy desperate riding running jumping or the like mightest perhaps have broken thy bones thy limbs or thy neck if thy good God had not reached his hand to save thee from falling as he did to Saint Peter to preserve him from sinking And are not these things blessings worthy to be remembred O that we would therefore prayse the Lord for his goodness and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men And that we would sometimes cast our eyes behinde us to see what requital we have rendred unto God for all those benefits that he hath done for us and especially for bringing our Gratious King unto us and restoring both the Church to her purity to her rights and service of God and the Common-Wealth to its peace and tranquillity For as the Prophet David saith I called mine own wayes to remembrance So should every one doe call his wayes to remembrance that if he findes he hath been carefull in God's service and a faithful Steward in God's house it may be a comfort unto his Conscience Quia immensa est laetitia de memoria transactae virtutis because the remembrance of former virtues and of our Service and thankfulnesse unto God will bring a great deale of joy and comfort unto our selves or if he hath blasphemed Gods Name neglected his Word robbed his Church and offended his Majesty he may repent and as Job saith abhorr himself in dust and ashes But that I may