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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	body_n	good_a	lord_n	9,377	5	3.6974	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10110	The consolations of David, breefly applied to Queene Elizabeth in a sermon preached in Oxford the 17. of Nouember. By Iohn Prime, 1588.	Prime, John, 1550-1596.	1588 (1588)	STC 20368; ESTC S101191	11,314	32

all these tempests and then the plat-forme was broken vp and the snare taken away and a daughter of Dauid had as great deliueraunces as euer Dauid had and so her owne confession both then an since is a duefull and true confession That neuer Prince no neuer creature had euer greater Yet because this world is not the land of entire blessednes euerlastingly to endure sundry vncleane beasts haue entered with ful entendment to staine the greene and fertle pastures wherein God hath placed her and had done so so it might haue beene if God and his Christ the great sheepehearde of our soules had not exerted his arme and shewed himselfe and stoode in the gap and driuen away the Lion and the Beare and the Popes sundry Bulles Verily as Elias his seruaunt sawe a small cloud by little and litle growing to a greater matter so good countrimen the cheefe seruauntes of God in the honorable seruice of the realme and her Maiesty by that prudency which God hath lent them haue a long time since looking for such extremities as the wicked world offereth espied the rising and proceedinge of a cloude to come sometimes thickning in the North sometimes threatning in the West and of late time all the waters of the salt Ocean and brinish natures ascendinge and leaguinge themselues together to haue ouerwhelmed vs all but the ground and subiect of theyr practises and complots failing them and that onely or cheefe Pole-starre of these home-conspiracies and forraine drifts and troubles euen against her own onely sonne being taken away they haue missed theyr aime Her will and testament mencined in her letters to Mendoza to giue away the realme to the King of Spaine could not be prooued nor that Tragical execution be executed performed And all these waues breaking in the fale haue swallowed vp many of them who would haue deuoured vs by the prouidence of him that keepeth Israell the strong horse the proud rider those tale ships and furniture in them lie floting in the waters and sincke in the sea for since we desisted to chase and persue them most of this is come to passe to the ende cheeflie to shewe and declare that this was not the worke of man but the hand of God At theyr comming wee had warning of thē at their entry we had a good beginning in their passage we gained the winde or rather God gaue it vs when they were rooted ouer-right vs they were displanted againe In these things in whatsoeuer else either going before or passed since hee that seeth not the finger of God to haue bene and to be with Queen Elizabeth seeth nothing and the brightnes of God shining vpon her and by her vpon vs dooth dazell his sight that he cannot see Wherin the care of her maiesty the vigilancy of her honorable councel the faithfulnes of nobles courage in Captains souldiers with ioynt willingnes of all Englishe harts in the realme were merueilous vaileable commendable but except God keepe al in order except he had vnited vs in true wisedome to forsee and in harty rep●ntance to fly vnto him in his strength boldly and happily to withstand these titulary conquerers their pride might haue made thē more foolish and most wicked to venter vppon other mens dominions without end Plus vltra More stil More was his fathers posie Charls the. 5. But bee it that they haue receiued no harme by our resistaunce as their louers faine bee it that our weapons haue stunge them like Plinies flies and that for the present they doo not feele what we haue don by Our peccatores by our little poor sinners For so at first they could terme our Nauy imagine of our ships bee it that God by vs was not against them yet certainely they cannot deny and wee must confesse to the worlds end that The Lord was with vs herein we reioice praise his name for euer more the more we giue to God it is most true that the great benefit of the sea about vs wtin our Queene her Councel nobles peoples abrod her Admiral Viseadmirals and skilful Sea-men or any where else her forces polisies and helpes whatsoeuer shal haue neuer a whit the lesse as the widdowe had neuer the lesse 1. King 17 the more shee gaue to Gods Prophet Wherfore my good brethren and deere countrimen lift vp your harts lift them vp vnto the Lord and praise his holy name He that offereth praise honoureth him with an acceptable sacrifice Consider then all his benefites his olde late and his present benefites euen heaped vpon our Queene and vpon vs her subiects and lay them all as diuers sweetes togeather to make a Leuits fier of perfit thankefulnes that shall neuer out When a Spanish Prince and an Italian Priest ruled England when superstition humane deuises will-worshippinges and grosse idolatrie in a strange toung ouerruled al then were our goods spoiled our flesh martyred our bodies burnt and our ashes scattered and our very soules sterued A slight remembraunce of this good deliuerie from these calamities is little worth and as fier of brush soone extinct lay altogeather which hath followed since conspiracies detected rebellions repressed and preuented inuasions diuerted euer by the Lords owne doing stil blessing embrodered infolded powred down blessing vpon blessing with a full horne Truely the deliueraunces of Dauid were but a cast of those which we feede on Papists the peeuishe and worst sorte of them bite the lippe hereat and hang downe head not knowing God knoweth that their heads should be hanged vp soonest specially the heades of the richest for Lutherans and Caluinests as well as other Alas Cardinall Allen C. Allen. who euer standeth aloofe as Pirrhus post principia cannot be alwaies at hand with euery barberous souldier to say This man forsooth is a Catholique Well for this time hether to God bee thanked Iacobs hand hath beene stronge enough to hold Esau by the heel and if some Midwiues helpe out blooddy Esaus forces once againe God that hath preserued vs so long will not we hope forsake vs now Yet sweete wordes lull men a sleepe the best Remora and stay to keepe them of is an vnfayned repentaunce and a generall conuersion and certaine determination of the whole lād to serue him better thē in former time in all these victories or happie successes to prescribe al to the cheefe directer The Flye in the Beasts eare or the Emmite on his horne cānot say they were they who plowed the land and brought aboute these matters If we haue done great thinges hee hath don them by vs as one said to his souldiers if I be an Egle you be my feathers so if Captaines or Souldiers haue done any thing the Lord of hoasts hath beene with vs all in al. And as he is a foolish Inne-keeper that keepeth not a perfect remembraunce of his cheefest geastes by whom he gaineth so vnwyse are we