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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	harden_v	heart_n	pharaoh_n	2,001	5	11.6391	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51307	A modest enquiry into the mystery of iniquity by H. More.	More, Henry, 1614-1687.	1664 (1664)	Wing M2666; ESTC R26204	574,188	543

invincible circumstances and inviting opportunities which God by his permissive or more positive Providence brings into the world to try or rather discover what is in the hearts of the wicked and which he is well assured will naturally take effect in those that are lapsed into this lower Fate are look'd upon as Suggestions or Transmissions and Motions upon the hearts of men from God himself and that by such a providential frame of affairs of his allowing at least if not contriving the minds of men are determinated to act thus or thus And no other way then this need we understand touching Pharaoh's heart being hardened by God the grand cause whereof was his permitting the Magicians to emulate if not equalize the Miracles of Moses for the most part for so the Text runs And the Magicians did so with their Inchantments and Pharaoh's heart was hardened And it is as easie to conceive that it might be permitted to the Pseudo-prophetick Beast by the officious Assistence of the Powers of Darkness to doe such Miracles and use such ways of imposing upon the Ten Kings as would certainly enough determine them to the Idolatrous Religion of the Empire But that they were thus certain to be deceived is the fault of their own lapse and of the after-Consequences of it not any Injustice in God 3. But it is here seasonable to consider lest that School of false Prophets sacrifice too much to their own Nets and too lavishly applaud the marvellous pitch of their own policy and the policy of their predecessours how the Romish Politicians have hitherto rowed in a manner with the stream and how God has winked at the times of this Ignorance But let them be assured that the Night is far spent and the Day is at hand wherein God will no longer wink nor men be so universally asleep and in so deep a sopor but that they will be easily awaken'd by that voice of S. Paul commanding all men every where to repent or if you will of John the Baptist Repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand For there is no other prevention of that dreadfull and peremptory judgement against the Great Whore who being lulled in security by long and fatal successes saith in her heart I sit as Queen and am no widow and Apoc. 18. 7. shall see no sorrow then by casting away her Idols and by serving the living God Otherwise the stream of Fate and Providence will turn and that Doom shall be fulfilled upon her in the most unwelcome sense Therefore shall her plagues come in one day death and mourning and famine For strong is the Lord God that judgeth her For her time of prosperity is set as is plain by what follows in this present verse of this Seventeenth Chapter 4. Untill the words of God be fulfilled That is These Ten Kingdoms which were contributed to the making up the Ten-horned Beast which was to be rid by the Whore and be at her devotion will be in this subjection but such a time as is decreed by God and predicted by his Prophets So long indeed they will be her servants 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 till the words of God be fulfilled spoken by the mouth of the Prophet Daniel but no longer For in Daniel 7. it is plainly said of the little Horn that there takes upon him to change Times and Laws that is that makes what Festivals and Solemnities he pleases and for his own advantage appoints Laws and Institutes not onely new but grosly clashing with the known Laws of God that they shall be given into his hand for a time and times and half a time But then it presently follows But the Judgement shall sit and they shall take away his dominion to consume and to destroy it to the end This 17 th verse therefore gives a reason of the unexpected hatred and hostility of the Ten Horns against the Whore in the foregoing verse namely That their giving their Kingdoms to the Beast which is their professing of that Idolatrous Religion they were intoxicated with by the Whore that rides the Beast was to be but for a determinate time foretold by the Oracles of God but that Period expiring the Scene of things would fatally change and the doom of the little Horn or of the great Whore would be executed upon them And there is no kicking against Acts 9. the pricks as our Saviour told Saul out of Heaven And I wish those whom it most concerns would believe the voice and so become of Persecuters the true followers of Christ and living members of his body the truly Catholick and Apostolick Church and would cease to be the Body of an Harlot 5. But we may observe from the joint consideration of these two verses together That these Ten Kings their giving their Kingdoms to the Beast and their being in league with the Whore is all one For their being guided by this Whore makes the Empire Beast by making it Idolatrous And for these Ten Kingdoms though their Kings be called the Horns of the Beast as the four Successours of Alexander are called the four Horns of the Greek Empire divided into four shares yet these Kingdoms themselves may be look'd upon as the greatest share of the Body of the Beast while they are at the devotion of the Whore and profess her Idolatrous Religion Whence their flying upon the Harlot to consume her is ipso facto the dissolving or destroying the Beast that is the making the Empire to cease to be Idolatrous Wherefore it is plain that the continuance of this Ten-horned Beast is Par. 2. Agr. 17. said to be determined by God in this Chapter as well as in the Thirteenth where it is said that it is given unto him to continue fourty two months which is plainly three years and an half the same that a Time and Times and half a Time Whence the truth of the seventeenth Agreement of our second Parallelism is cleared Ver. XVIII And the Woman which thou sawest is that great City which reigneth over the Kings of the Earth The adjection of this last part of the Interpretation is of special consequence and very answerable to the event of things For this Idolatrous Hierarchy having at first as magnificent a Seat in the Oriental part of the Empire as the Occidental and both these Imperial Patriarchates being in a manner alike engaged and alike active or at least alike authoritative in the debauching of the Empire with Idolatrous doctrines and practices the Seat of the Great Whore is not restrain'd necessarily to one place more then another at first But because afterwards this Occidental Patriarchate did so much emerge above the other and exceed the other not onely in his peremptoriness and activity in keeping up and propagating Idolatry and is so foully besmeared or rather has been so swinishly drunk with the bloud of the Witnesses of Jesus but also besides all this did acquire to himself the Right and Title of