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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	king_n	kingdom_n	parliament_n	5,178	5	6.3666	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46526	Compunction or pricking of heart with the time, meanes, nature, necessity, and order of it, and of conversion; with motives, directions, signes, and means of cure of the wounded in heart, with other consequent or concomitant duties, especially self-deniall, all of them gathered from the text, Acts 2.37. and fitted, preached, and applied to his hearers at Dantzick in Pruse-land, in ann. 1641. and partly 1642. Being the sum of 80. sermons. With a post-script concerning these times, and the sutableness of this text and argument to the same, and to the calling of the Jews. By R.J. doctor of divinity.	R. J.	1648 (1648)	Wing J27; ESTC R213600	381,196	433

chiefly against the sincerest holiest and most conscionable Christians and Ministers yea and most soyall Subjects of his Majesty whose molestations and banishments by false suggestions have been procured Hence also such interruption of godly proceedings for Reformation whilest Christs easie yoke of discipline is accounted such a burthen and his cords so strait hence such and so many mighty plots and machinations such associations and practises such ill counsels and instigations and all by raising a combustion to hinder the work of Reformation which they cannot bear to draw in which upon too just grounds is feared the Irish Rebels to be our butchers here also Ah poor Ireland and ah poor England thus after so long a continued outward peace with the Gospel now after fourscore yeers to be divided against thy self and to seek thine own ruine And now beloved Brethren let us but look to God and we cannot but taking all blame to our selves justifie him and say in the midst of all this enmity The Lord is righteous in all his waies and holy in all his works Psal 145.17 Can it or should it be thought any wonder These judgements just considering such connivence as hath been shewed to practising Priests if God plague and punish us a while by the prophane Popish Arminian Antichristian faction and by such as hold of superstitious vanities when by our too much connivence used towards such and countenancing of them we have in effect and as God will take it repealed actually all those good Lawes and Statutes which upon most just cause have been enacted against practising Papists and Jesuites and against prophanenesse Did not the Lord punish his own people by their lovers the Assyrians and Caldeans who first defiled them and then slew them with the sword Ezek. 23.9 10. 17 21 22 23 c. And did not those Canaannites and other Nations uncast out prove as God foretold and threatned snares and traps unto Israel scourges in their sides and thorns in their eyes untill they perished from off that good land which the Lord their God did give them Josh 23.13 concerning whom God had said Exod. 23.31 32 33 c. Thou shalt drive them out before thee They shall not dwell in thy land lest they make thee sin against me c. Exod. 23.31 32 33. They shall vexe you in the land wherein ye dwell and it shall come to passe that I shall do unto you as I thought to do unto them Num. 33 5● 50. even cast you out by them whom you should have cast out Even so the sparing of such let be pretended what will is but foolish pity Thine eye shall shall have no pity upon them saith God Deut. 7.16 And blood spared as that of Jesuites and practising Priests and Papists as well as spilt calls for blood as in King Ahabs foolish pity towards Benhadad God in such case curseth such as keep back their sword from blood Jer. 48.10 The different course and issue held by K. Henry 4. of France There hath never been any long while peace or safety either to King or State where such have been whether through fear or favour suffered or connived withall It is worth our best observation to consider the different course holden by King Henry the fourth of France and Queen Elizabeth raigning at the same time with the different events and sucesses of both He in policy saith mine Author to establish the Crown of France upon his head revolted to Popery from the true Religion in which he had been bred and re-admitted the Jesuits after their just banishment by solemn Edict of the Court of Parliament not only into his Kingdome but Closet making Father Cotton the Jesuite his Confessor saying to some that would have disswaded him from the same Give me then security for my life fearing it seems if he did refuse to admit them they would at one time or other find means to send him the same way after his Predecessour Henry the third who was murthered by James Clement a Monk through the perswasion and incouragement of Father Commolet and others of the Jesuits society Yet at length himself was stabbed to the heart by Ravilliac through the instigation as by strong presumptions is probable of these Jesuits Contrariwise and Queen Elizibeth blessed Queen Elizabeth though at first weak and having many enemies yet building by faith upon God and not upon such worldly wisedome and policie she restored and maintained true Religion constantly reposed her trust in God confidently held the Jesuites and all her Popish enemies at the staves end stedfastly put her Lawes in execution against them resolutely yet without cruelty was protected by God against all their hellish plots and practises miraculously reigned fourty and four yeers gloriously and departed this world in her bed in a ripe age peaceably so leaving a glorious example to all succeeding Princes and others of constancie and perseverance in the true profession of the Gospel and of reposing trust in God more then in humane policy Good use may be also made of the example of King Solomon Did not Solomon King of Israel saith Nehemiah Nehem 13.26 As also other sins 1. Of great ones sin by these or such like things yet among many Nations was there no King like him who was beloved of his God and God made him King over all Israel Neverthelesse even him did outlandish women cause to sin Now this was no sooner done but mark it the Lord was angry with him and not only stirred him up two adversaries whilest he lived Rezon and Hadad but threatned to rend the Kingdom from him and to give it to Jeroboam 1 Kings 11 2 3 4-9-14-23-25 The foundation of which losse was laid in his own time though it were not effected till his son Rehoboam began to reign who in a suit of relaxation made to him by the people forsaking the counsell of the old men that stood before Solomon his father and following the advice of yong men and answering his people roughly he so occasioned the revolt of ten Tribes whilest only two remained with him Now if from such effects already felt or from our danger and feares of worse we would unpartially look into like causes we should soon see what need there were of true compunction contrition and godly sorrow without which it is in vain by the use of any other meanes or by trusting to an arm of flesh to expect peace quietness or safety This is the only way as it may concern our own Nation at this time to disappoint the Romish Church of their hope as it is expressed in the late brief or Bull of dispensation of the Pope to his Sonnes in England But are not the sins of the people to be looked into as a main cause and procurer of our present unquietnesse and distractions 2. Of the people Yes doubtlesse for when such a wonderfull and horrible thing is committed in the Land namely that the Prophets

wherein we must neither chuse our own wayes 2 As in matter of salvation we are to shew our selves heartily to obey God so in matters of Religion where we must not do what seemeth good in our own eyes Deut. 12.8 nor chuse our own wayes Isa 66.3 nor walk in our own counsels Psal 81.12 nor enquire how Idolaters serve their Idol gods nor imitate Idolaters saying even so will I do likewise Deut. 12.30 thou shalt not do so to the Lord thy God that is not onely not serve idols which thing the heathen did but not serve the Lord after the manner that the heathen served their Idols so that not only the worship of false gods but false or idolatrous worship of the true God and all imitation of Idolaters is condemned Lev. 18.3 This was the sin of King Ahaz in sending to Vriah the Priest at Jerusalem as did King Ahaz the fashion of the Altar which was at Damascus and the pattern of it according to all the workmanship of it on which the morning burnt-offering and evening meat-offering c. were burnt yet not to idols but to the Lord 2 King 16.10 -15. And this is the sin of such as have lately transformed the outward face of Religion and of Gods pure worship and as others of late among our selves into mimicall gestures and superstitious observations fetched and borrowed from the Idolatrous Papists and Priests of Antichrist But in offering our selves ready to obey either God or man in the matter and for the manner of Gods worship and service Gods word must be our only rule we must look to Gods onely will and word So that what he commandeth that onely must we do Deut. 12.31 32. Where we see how God appointeth his own word and law to be the onely rule of his service without imitating the customes of others or divising any thing of our own Whatsoever thing I command you observe to do it thou shalt not add thereto nor diminish from it And good reason for it Why for as we cannot see the light of the Sun but by that light which the Sun it self affordeth so what man or yet Angel knoweth what is pleasing and acceptable to God in his worship either for the matter or manner of it but so far onely as God himself shall please to make it known to him All other worship how specious soever and gilded over with fair pretences of reverence to him and his sanctuary of zeal and devotion is such as of which God will say as once he said of some such like specious and glorious abominations learnt of the heathen I commanded it not neither came it into my heart Psal 106.35 36 37. Jer. 7.31 And to such worshippers When ye come to appear before me who hath required this at your hand to tread my courts Isa 1.12 Lastly and generally Christians must offer their service to God and be content to be at his command and appointment in all things 3. Of obedience generally where we like the Centurions servants must obey God whither he bid us cheerfully and readily obeying him in all things how hard or hazardous soever they may seem herein like to the Centurions souldiers Mat. 8.9 I say to this man Go and he goeth and to another come and he cometh and to my servant do this and he doth it So that if 1. God send us to any place suppose it be of danger and say Go we must go though we know not what may befall us there other then bonds and afflictions as it was with Paul Acts 20.22 23 24. So it was with the seventy Disciples to whom Christ said Go your waies behold I send you forth as lambes among wolves 1. Go though it be to places of danger Luke 10.3.17 They went readily and returned joyfully And if our hearts were humbled as they should be no command would be too hard for us The Prophet Isaiah being humbled and terrified by a vision of the Lord in his glory and hearing the Lord asking Whom shall I send and who will go for us presently offers himself and saith Here I am send me A true tender heart such as was in these converts is fit to run on any errand 2. Or come after him 2. If God call and bid us come and follow him we must run and come willingly as when Christ saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea and said unto them Come ye after me they straightway forsook their nets and followed Mark 1.17 18. So when God in a vision called Paul saying Come over into Macedonia Acts 16.9 10. he presently endeavoured to go into Macedonia in obedience to Gods call So Abraham obeyed Gods call and went out not knowing whither he went Heb. 11.8 And if God bid us come though into danger though into a place of danger we must obey and depend on his presence and assistance as when Christ bade Peter come to him on the water Matth. 14.28 29. In like manner if when our brother hath ought against us and Christ bid us leave our gift and go and first be reconciled Matth. 5.23 24. and then come and offer our gift we must obey and not presume to come otherwise either to Gods Table or yet Temple And if Christ say to any that labour and are heavy laden with sin come unto me how much more when he bids us come to him for case and I will refresh you such must not in a nicenesse or pretence of their unworthinesse withdraw but come by prayer and faith being assured that though they be unworthy to come to ask or receive mercy yet Gods command is worthy to be obeyed and his promise of giving rest to such is worthy to be beleeved They should be of good comfort for the Master calleth them as was said to blind Bartimeus for refreshing Marke 10.49 So when Christ now by his messengers in the Gospel calls us to partake of the great supper Luke 14.17 c. 24. saying Come for all things are now ready It will be accounted not only unmannerliness but disobedience in an high degree if upon any pretence or excuse we refuse and such disobedience and contempt of the word will exclude us heaven Rom. 10.16 Such want of obedience to the Gospel Christ takes as a great neglect of him wherewith he upbraided the Jewes and may us Ye will not come to me that ye might have life Joh. 5.40 So for safety Rev. 18.4 Or 3. do anything Gen. 22.2 3. Hebr. 11.17 18. come out of Babylon 3. If God bid us do this and command and injoyn us the doing of any thing though never so crosse to our not carnall only but naturall desires we must obey as Abraham in offering of Isaac There should be a gracious eccho of the soul to God of whatsoever he saith to us in his word such as was in holy David Psal 27.8 When thou saidst seek ye