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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	great_a	king_n	kingdom_n	4,596	5	5.5955	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41938	The great prophecy of King William's success in Flanders: or, The happy fourth year of His Majesty's reign giving several famous predictions of the honour of England, in His glorious actions to be performed this present year, 1692. Licensed and entred according to order.		1692 (1692)	Wing G1745; ESTC R218946	6,898	12

Difference from all other Princes that no Arms but those ●f England pretend to wild Beasts a part of their Escutcheon With a multi●ude of people With a multitude indeed as Generalissimo of the Confederacy so many Nations and People fighting under his Standard He shall passe many waters and shall come to the Land of the Lyon looking for help from the Beasts of his own Country The passing of many Waters can apply to nothing but our present Soveraign his first Expedition for ●e Redemption of England his Voyage to Ireland his passing the Boyne his ●uccesse over the Shanon his several Expeditions to Flanders all manifestly poin●ng at no other Prince His coming to the Land of the Lyon his Embarquing or Flanders looking for help from the Beasts of his Own Countrey that is ●xpecting assistance from the States General of the United Provinces the na●●ve Countrey of our present Sovereign The word Beasts in the Language 〈◊〉 a Prophecy meaning the People ' Then shall there come an Eagle ●●out of the East and his wings spread with the Beams of the Son of man ●●ere is plainly decypher'd his Imperial Majesty of Germany whose Ensign is ●●e Eagle display'd and his Wings being being spread with the Beams of the Son 〈◊〉 man denotes the Confederacy between England and the Empire the spread●●g the Imperial Wings by the Influence of the English Beams being a Prophe●● truly so fulfilled in his Britanick Majesty's vigorous Espusing of the common ●uarrel of Christendom and the Dependence the whole Confederacy has upon 〈◊〉 at Potent and Leading Hero and Champion of their Cause ' And in this year shall be destroyed Castles upon the Thames and there shall be great ●ear over all the World and in a part of the Land These Castles upon 〈◊〉 Thames undoubtedly can signifie nothing but the Naval Preparations ●hose floating Castles the Fleets that shall be engaged in this Quarrel The ●●ar that shall be over the World being no more than the universal Apprehen●●ns on all sides together with the Eyes and Concerns of all Nations being ●●t and intent upon the Fortune and Successe of such formidable Preparations ●nd that Fear that shall be in a part of the Land may very reasonably be ap●●ed to the present state of England where the Difference of Parties and Divi●●ns since the late Revolution have possibly created some particular Fears in ●●gland more and above those of the whole World besides so highly as be●●re said instructed in the Common Cause of Christendom ' There shall ●e great Battels amongst many Kings This still confirms the present Con●●deracy in which all Europe stands engaged ' In that day shall be the Bloudy Field 〈◊〉 which the Lilly shall lose his Crown where-with the Son of man shall be ●rowned Here we come to the concluding Stroke that there shall be one ●ore remarkable Great Day being the Defensive Blow in which the Lilly viz. ●rance shall be subdued and lose her Crown a Victory that shall be the particu●●r Trophy of England and the vanquished Diadem of France the Conque●●ur's Prize and Reward Nay the very next Paragraph assigns the very Year in which this Defeat or Overthrow of France shall be accomplished viz. And in the fourth Year many Battels shall be for the Faith and the Head of ' the World shall be brought to the Earth and the Son of man and the Eagle shall be exalted Now what can this Fourth Year in this reasonable Interpretation direct but this very 1692. the Fourth Year of his Majesty's Reign when the Son of man and the Eagle viz. the King of England and the Emperor shall be so highly exalted by bringing down the Head of the World to the earth viz. The French King that aspires at least to be the Head of the World and indeed who has but too long stood fair for being so The only thing tha● hitherto appears most mystical through the whole Prophecy is ' Battles for the 'Faith as if thereby were intimated some Religious War which indeed is not the present Case of Europe But what pro fide the words in the Original should amount to pro fide Christiana is going beyond the Text and truly to make this finishing part all of a piece with the foregoing Discourse we have all imaginable reason to construct the word Fides more inclining to Fidelity in opposition to the Infidelity of France And so the construction will run thus Viz. That these many great Battles in this great Fourth Year shall be fought in the Cause of Righteousnesse Honour Justice and Truth by the Confederacy for Recovery of so many Towns Provinces Principalities and Kingdoms torn from 'em by the Rapine and Violence of the French King or rather by his Treachery and Gold This being the true pro fide for which this just War is waged against that great Infidel of the World so notoriously guilty o● all manner of Breach of Faith Leagues Covenants nay Oaths themselves ' And ' there shall be Universal Peace over all the World Undoubtedly the subduing of France must soon settle the whole World in Peace and Plenty accordingly follow And the Son of Man shall receive a marvelous sign and shall go into the Land of the Cross What this wonderful Sign shall be we must expect from Time that part of the Prediction being above the Reach o● Foresight and Conjecture nor can we dive so far as to assign any particular Interpretation to that last part his going into the Land of the Cross unless w● may for once adventure to give this meaning to the Close of the Prophecy viz. That this our Great son of man shall finish his Race of Glory by acquiring a ye● brighter Crown that is from the Hand of the Greater Son of Man when a● the last Trophy and Reward of Vertue and Honour he shall be received into th●● Land of the Glorified Sufferer on the Cross the Kingdom of Bless Thus far our English Prophecy And now let us hear something from Prophet of their own the famous Nostradamus the great Favourite of thre● French Kings Henry the 2d Francis the 2d and Charles the 9th Celuy qui la Principaute Tiendra par grade cruanté Al● fin verra grand Phalange Par Coup defen tres dangereux Par accord pourroit fair mieux Autrement hotrasue D' Orenge In ENGLISH He we who shall with great Cruelty hold the Principality in the Conclusion shall see a great Army ruined by a most dangerous Fire●●low he might do better to make an Accord otherways he shall drink the juice of Orange Here is first a plain Description of the French Dominion which is certainty carryed on by the greatest Cruelty and Oppression wherever their Arms have made a Conquest so great are the Desolations of Germany especially Alsace and all that pleasant populous and fertile Countrey along the Rhine that there is scarce an Inhabitant or a Village left for many Leagues together to make complaint of the