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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	king_n	samuel_n	saul_n	1,596	5	10.1155	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93761	A word to both houses of Parliament.	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1692 (1692)	Wing S5150; ESTC R184567	7,112	4

as He hath ●…re spoken of in his Word As by those at this day who are employed in carrying on the War It is found 〈◊〉 what is written And thou Son of Man thus saith the Lord God speak to every feathered Fowl and to every Beast of the Field Assemble your selves and come gather your selves on every side to my Sacrifice that I do Sacrifice for you even a great Sacrifice upon the Mountains of Israel that ye may eat flesh and drink blood Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the the Blood of the Princes of the Earth Ezek. 39.17 18. For thus saith the Lord God of Israel unto me Take the Wine cup of this fury at my ●…nd and cause all Nations to whom I send thee to drink it And they shall drink and be moved and be MAD because of the Sword that I will send among them 25.15 16. For the Indignation of the Lord is upon all Nations and his Fury upon all their Armies He hath utterly destroyed them he hath delivered them to the slaughter Their slain shall be cast out and their stink shall come up out of their Carcases and the Mountains shall be melted with their Blood Isa 34. 2 3. The Kings Princes and Rulers of the Earth do not Read and Consider throughly of all this as they are raising Men making Pre●…tions for War and forming out their Camps Therefore I will number you to the Sword and ye shall ●…w down to the slaughter Isa 65.12 For so is the Eternity Prescience and Omniscience of Almighty God that He speaks of as already past what is yet to come And He knows before hand those Persons by their Names with the other Circumstances of Time Place and Manner who have been already and shall yet be killed in War And they shall go forth and look upon the Carcases of the Men that have transgressed against me and they shall be an abhorring to all flesh Isa 66.24 The Prophet here seeme to allude unto a Field after a pitcht Battel hath been Fought therein where is to be seen a great number of Corpses every way mangled and defiled with Blood and Excrements which cause a stink and noysomeness and then they are but little weak vile Bodies made of dirt and clay and covered over with that ghastly look Death hath cast upon them All this put together raises an Abhorring And this happens unto them of both sides as to the Cause and Occasion of their Fighting and Murdering one another because they have transgressed against the Lord. As commonly the Actors herein are trained on disciplined and led blindly to this kind of End by gross Ignorance of the Things of God Vain Swearing Whoredom Drunkenness Pride Revenge and Quarrelling Which do more chiefly abound in them than in other People For as throughout the whole Book of the Lord War is let forth by way of his Indignation Isa 34.2 upon the Inhabitants of the Earth so his reasonable Creatures would not willingly make choice of this kind of Employment unless such as are given up to these or the like Sins and Abominations Another short Warning to him hereafter Named Whereas it is said in Page 6 of my Printed Book Entituled The Mastery of Iniquity somewhat l●… Open c. That though God had rejected Saul from that day forward see 1 Sam. 15.26.28 in which Samuel spake after this manner Yet he continued King over all Israel until the day in which he was s●… in the Battel against the Philistines And therefore from what is there further said and alledged 〈◊〉 Lords and Counsellors if they be his real Friends should even weeping beseech whom ye call K●… William Yea Those near about him should take hold of the Skirt of his Garment as not to suffer 〈◊〉 to go out any more to Battel nor adventure himself therein by Sea or Land least it should be not 〈◊〉 with the certain hazard but yet greater danger of his Life For it is said in the Proverb The Pitcher 〈◊〉 not go so often to the Well but it is broken at last and Himself may learn by the Examples of Schom●… Walker and several others of his own Knowledge and Experience who escaped as many near immi●… Dangers as ever he did and yet were at last killed in War That the Sword devoureth one as well as other and the Bullets fly promiscuously amongst them all and therefore he only is safe who doth meddle with nor come near them And here if it should so happen whereof He is again hereby wa●… As He hath hitherto lived therein so He would die in his Sin and Iniquity But rather let him co●… Repentance and seek for Peace only by Righteousness See Psal 72.3 the Bible Translation 〈◊〉 7.2 for there is no other way under Heaven whereby we may come to it In this Case it is thought that it is vain to give Warning For say what we will The Destiny wh●… they are Worthy will bring them to their End and as Josephus the Historian saith Destiny is such a 〈◊〉 which the Wisest Man cannot avoid But certain I am it is not so much their Destiny as their and their Ignorance and their 〈◊〉 Folly which lead them For the foregoing Things are manifestly in●… own Power as in the present Instance He of whom we speak may go out to War or He may go out He may 〈◊〉 break off his Sins by Righteousness and thus lengthen yea secure his own Tranq●… if He will The Wrong getting and Unjust keeping of an Earthly Kingdom or of the greatest Worldly Profit few Months or Years longer cannot be a sufficient Compensation for the Loss of Heaven and falling Hell for all Eternity Most of this Testimony was finished March 25. 1692. and if it had then been made known unto and Obeyed by them whom it doth more especially Concern the Truth contained herein would have saved those Lives which have been lost in War this Summer and it would preserve them for the time to come if they will do accordingly FINIS