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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	know_v	lord_n	write_v	2,857	5	5.3193	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52085	The womans advocate shewing the reason according to Scripture or the scripture reason why God hath brought to light the true meaning of his word by an unexpected hand.	Marsin, M.	1697 (1697)	Wing M813F; ESTC R31214	10,806	18

The Womans Advocate Shewing the Reason According to Scripture OR THE Scripture Reason Why God hath brought to Light the true meaning of his Word by an unexpected hand SEeing by that body of Men which in the Word is termed the Beast who under pretence of being Teachers of the Gospel deprive the Nations of the Scriptures whom God permitted so to do when the greater party with their Rulers grew to have no love to the Truth but took pleasure in unrighteousness then God suffered them to be deluded by the Beast and so Idolatry and Darkness overspread the Nations again By means of which we are now in great mistakes having lost in several places the right Sentiments of the Word And therefore if God hath at the end of the time determined that the whole truth should break forth another way I hope none will be offended And because Woman was the first in the Transgression therefore all the time of this World God hath more afflicted them than Man But the Lord Christ to restore fallen Mankind came of a Woman and to shew they were alike beloved of the Lord therefore his first coming was revealed to the Women as well as to the Men. And also when he arose from the Dead he then first appeared to the Women But because Woman was first in the Transgression therefore in the time of this World Man was given the Ruling Power and it is he that hath been the first setter up of all the Idolatrous Worship in the World And after the Primitive times the Beast and false Prophet have been the Suppressors of the Knowledge of the Truth And the Mighty God foreseing what the event would be Therefore by Zerubbabel the Favourite of Heaven the Lord saith Who art thou O great Mountain before Zerubbabel The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house his hands shall also finish it Zech. 4. 7 9. This was the great Zerubbabel that laid the Writing under Darius his Pillow wherein he joyns Women and Truth together as Prophetically foreseeing that as Christ who was Truth it self should come of Woman so again when Man had darkned Truth by Errour that God would again have Truth break forth by Woman at Christs Second coming and those places of Scripture which we have been mistaken in to be fully and clearly explained by the Word and that by Woman And tho' Women and all are said to be wicked Yet great is Truth and great is the God of Truth 1 Esd 3. 8 12. And Christ saith of himself I am the Way the Truth and the Life The Lord giveth himself that Name of Truth And several places of Scripture that we have apprehended to have little meaning in them yet will prove to be of wonderful Signification Now as Zerubbabel is said to lay the Foundation of the Temple so his hand is said to finish it And Christ terms his Body a Temple and the Temple of the Body of Christ came of a Woman and if the Lord will have the coming of the Temple of his Glorious Body fully declared by Woman it is what God thinks meet who is no respecter of Persons or Sex For of them that are in the Lord. There is neither bond nor free male nor female for they are all one in Christ Jesus Gal. 3. 28. And the Lords Second coming has been again declared for these several Years since the Reformation as by Luther Usher and Withers And the Lord will not come the Second time till his coming has been clearly made appear and that by Woman I do not think that those Women that first saw the Lord after he arose were better beloved of him then the beloved Disciple John or Peter But that the Lord did thereby fore-shew that the clear Declaration of his Second coming should be fully declared by Woman also And I hope that as Man is willing to be saved by the Lord of Life that came of a Woman that they will not rather chuse to go hood-winkt to Destruction then to be warned by a Woman to escape the near Appproaching danger by a a speedy Reformation and Preparation for the coming of the Lord. But to be awakened out of a sleepy Security seems no way pleasing to the Flesh but let such consider it is better to see the danger before hand that they may avoid it then to fall blind-fold into it With the true Saint there can be nothing so desirable as the coming of the Lord and the knowledge thereof whose coming I long for And my Souls desire also is my fellow Creatures Eternal welfare For which I have Laboured night and day But I was willing to keep it from being known by whom God had brought to Light the true meaning of his Word therefore I endeavoured to place my words when askt about the Books so as it might not be apprehended that it was a Woman that wrote them But the Lord bringing these fore-mentioned places of Scripture to my remembrance as I was one Evening in Meditation which before I had not taken notice of as to apprehend their meaning By which I thought that it was the will of God that I should own the Work that he had imployed me in that thro my weakness his Power might be exalted But as the Lords First coming was a snare to Israel in that he came of her that was but of small appearance in this World so the Truth now breaking forth and not by the great Schollars and Rabbies of the time it will prove a snare to many especially to the high and lofty in their own imaginations But God chuseth not the Wise and Learned of this World to discover the Secrets in his Word because man should not attribute to his own Wisdome or Learning Therefore God chuseth the weak things of the World to confound the wise and mighty 1 Cor. 1. 27. Isa 29. 11 12 13. Now the Beast deprived the Nations of the Gospel and would not permit any woman so much as to Read the Word For which when man acts contrary to God then God acts contrary to man And in that I that am but a weak Worm do understand the Misterious part of the Scriptures and have brought to Light the true meaning of those mistaken places which has caused so much Dissention amongst us by means of which we have been in great mistakes as to several places of Scripture which have seemed contradictory one to the other because we did not understand the true meaning of them And therefore some have said God hath a Secret and a revealed Will And that by his revealed Will he invites all that will to come promising them Life but by his Secret Will he hath determined that none but the Elect shall be saved The which is no other then the turning the Truth of God into a lie in his offering that Mercy which he never did intend to perform But now all those mistaken places of Scripture are clearly proved by the Word to have