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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	old_a	prophet_n	testament_n	5,085	5	8.1969	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

another meaning then what we have hitherto apprehended So as all the Scripture now by Gods assistance is made to agree in a Holy harmony and Justice Mercy and Truth go hand in hand together Therefore it is evident this must be done by the Assistance of God and at the time and in the way he hath appointed in his Word And as the Jews were mistaken as to Christ's first coming so the Christians are as much mistaken as to his second coming But I hope our Rulers will not oppose the Truth as theirs did But the people as they love to have smooth things told them and love not them that tell them the truth altho' they are willing to spend and be spent for them Some there are that find fault with my quoting of Esdras in my Books saying that he was not mentioned either by Christ or his Apostles To which I answer Neither were several other of the Prophets that are spoken of in the Old Testament But if any say he is not mentioned there they assert that which is false For Ezra in the Old Testament is the same person which in the Apochrapha is called Esdras For in Ezra Chap. 10. the 9 16 17. Verses is exactly the same with that in the 1 Book of Esdras Chap. 9. 5 6 17. Verses And also in Nehemiah Chap. 8. 2 4. Verses the like is again said in 1 Esdras 9. 40 42. Verses By which places it is fully made appear that it was one and the same Man who after the Captivity caused Israel to put away their strange Wives being met together at Jerusalem on the Twentieth day of the Ninth Month in the great showre of Rain and likewise stood upon a Pulpit of Wood and Read the Law on the First day of the Seventh Month to all the People As to the difference of the Name one was taken out of the Hebrew the other out of the Caldean Tongue and the Prophets are not called in the New Testament as they are in the Old But as for our Ancient Expositors who placed not his Prophesies among the Prophets it was because themselves erred from the Truth Not only as to their misapprehending that none but the Elect could be saved but they likewise understood not the meaning of the World to come And that in Scripture there is Three Worlds spoken of and Three Evers and Three Times and Three Generations And that in the Word every World is termed a Generation as well as that from the Father to the Son which now by laying Scripture to Scripture is proved Neither did they apprehend that the Powers and People are termed the Heavens and Earth which in the Word are so termed far oftner then the Material Heavens and Earth are as now by the Scripture is made plainly appear And our Ancient Expositors being mistaken in these things made them deny the Restitution of all things which God by the mouth of all his Prophets and his Apostles has declared Acts 3. 21. which likewise Esdras affirmeth which will be fulfilled in time to come before Eternity Until which time of Restitution the Heavens were again to receive Christ At which time of return the World will be judged in Righteousness by him whom God hath ordained Acts 17. 31. And then will Israel be restored For then the deliverer will turn away Ungodliness from Jacob Rom. 11. 26. And St. Paul turns us to the day of Judgment Isa 59. 20. For the time of the Judgment of this World and the rise of the Saints and the last Judgment when all the Dead are raised are clearly proved to be Two several Judgments Sure our Ancient Expositors were in dangerous mistakes when by their Interpretation of the New Testament they make God false and forsworn in the Old Testament For therein he hath declared that Jerusalem shall again be Built upon her own heap never more to be destroyed Jer. 30. 18. Jer. 31. 40. And likewise God hath sworn by his right hand and by thearm of his strength that he will no more give their Corn to be meat to their Enemies Isa 62. 8. which promise will be made good to them at the time of the Restitution of all things At which time we shall be judged according to our deeds These things will be fulfilled according to the Word in as much as it is impossible for God to lie in not performing his promise to all according as he hath declared Luther declared in a Book that was Translated into English by Capt. Bell That when the Turk began to decline the Mighty Lord would come And the signs of the time as I have already elswhere proved by the Word is about Forty years the which time Israel lay in the Wilderness And about Five or Six and Thirty years ago There was as is recited in History over Constantinople an Apparition seen in the Heavens which was a Woman with an open Book in her hand which when they of the City did see one of the Priests said Our Mahomet is not come at his appointed time And that the Book which the Woman holds open in her hand may be the Book of the Crucified Jesus which Book we have neglected Upon which saying the people Stoned him to Death at which time all the Lights in the place of their Worship went out The History in which this is recorded I saw about Seven years ago it was a borrowed Book and the Person is Dead with whom I saw it It was a Book in Folio and treated of several Countreys and may be heard of And since that Apparition the Turks have been much opprest by War and are declining and the Mighty Lord is a coming as by all the signs that he hath given us he doth declare which in my Books by the Word I have fully proved And Blessed will they be that are found waiting for him Whereas some say if the Lord were a coming sure we should know it And likewise others say if it were so we should know it And so the Third But they examine not their own hearts whether upon the signs the Lord hath given of his coming there was then in them an uncessant longing for his appearance and so a more diligent search into the Word by giving themselves up to God in studying the Scripture night and day neglecting their outward concern and like the importunate Widow to the Judge sought to God by fervent Prayer that they might more clearly understand the Scriptures And if they had so done my life for theirs they might have known a great deal more then they do in which way the knowledge of the Truth was attained by me And God doth often chuse a peculiar Person or Persons to accomplish or declare that he hath determined And who is it that for his so doing dares say What dost thou As for my self I have been one whom God hath Exercised with affliction from my Youth up and I have also loved my Lord much and therefore was not only