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cause_n	know_v	let_v	lord_n	3,357	5	3.9065	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04166	Christs ansvver vnto Iohns question: or, An introduction to the knowledge of Iesus Christ, and him crucified Deliuered in certaine sermons in the famous towne of New-castle vpon Tine. By Thomas Iackson, Dr. of Diuinitie, vicar of Saint Nicolas Church there, and fellow of Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford.	Jackson, Thomas, 1579-1640.	1625 (1625)	STC 14306; ESTC S107447	127,240	218

by Gods Saints yet doth not this title any way import that they haue absolute independent power or Monarchicall Soueraignety ouer the ayre but onely that He who is supreme Lord of Heauen Earth of all the World and of all in it oft times permitteth those infernall spirits for the iniquity or sins of men to exercise such power in the ayre as hee neuer permitteth them to vse or exercise in the higher Region whence they are vtterly banished or excluded So that albeit they oft times know much and more than man by meanes naturall can doe concerning the alteration or change of weather yet can they know no more concerning these or like effects than God permitteth them to know or suffereth them in his iust iudgements to effect or worke Againe for the managing of ciuill affaires of gouernement of States or Kingdomes GOD by his euerlasting Decree hath left vnto men such variety of choyce such a contingency in their consultations such a freedome of will in contriuing or proiecting their seuerall ends as it is impossible for any man liuing in this Age though he should consult with Witches or familiar spirits to prognosticate or fore-tell what the successe or finall issue of what hee himselfe at this present proiects or plots shall bee an hundred or two hundred yeeres hence From this faculty or rather facility in fore-telling things of this nature which for diuers Generations after shall certainely come to passe the Lord himselfe doth pleade and proue his Title of infinite wisdome that He is the onely wise immortall God that besides him there is none that can doe or say as He doth Produce your cause saith the LORD vnto the Heathen gods and their worshippers Bring forth your strong reasons saith the King of Iacob Let them bring them forth and shew vs what shall happen Let them shew the former things what they bee that wee may consider them and know the latter end of them or declare vs things for to come Shew the things that are to come hereafter that wee may know that yee are gods yea doe good or doe euill that wee may bee dismayed and behold it together Behold you are of nothing and your worke of nought an abomination is hee that chooseth you Isay 41. vers 21 22 23 24. And againe chap. 47. vers 5 6 7 8 9. Sit thou in silence and get thee into darknesse O Daughter of the Chaldeans for thou shalt no more be called the Lady of Kingdomes I was wroth with my people I haue polluted my Inheritance and giuen them into thine hand thou diddest shew them no mercy vpon the ancient hast thou very heauily layde the yoke And thou saidst I shall bee a Ladie for euer so that thou diddest not lay these things to thine heart neyther diddest remember the latter end of it Therefore heare now this thou that art giuen to pleasures that dwellest carelesly that sayest in thine heart I am and none else besides mee I shall not sit as a Widdow neyther shall know the losse of Children and widdowhood they shall come vpon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries and for the great abundance of thine enchantments This speech you must consider is directed in particular to the Chaldeans who were the most curious Inquisitors after things to come the cunningest Southsayers as they tooke and professed themselues in the world And for this reason it is that the LORD sendeth that peremptory challenge vnto them v. 12 13 14 15. Stand now with thine Inchantments and with the multitude of thy Sorceries wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth if so bee thou shalt be able to profit if so bee thou mayest preuaile Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy Counsels Let now the Astrologers the Starre-gazers the monethly Prognosticators stand vp and saue thee from these things that shall come vpon thee Behold they shall be as stubble the fire shall burne them they shall not deliuer themselues from the power of the flame there shall not be a coale to warme at nor fire to sit before it Thus shall they be vnto thee with whom thou hast laboured euen thy Merchants from thy youth they shall wander euery one to his quarter None shall saue thee 28. Let mee giue you two instances or examples of things fore-told by God by his Prophet Isay concerning the strange alteration of States or Kingdomes both which predictions were exactly and remarkeably fulfilled and accomplished the one about an hundred the other about one hundred and seuentie yeeres after the Prophet from the mouth of the LORD had fore-told them The former is related in the second Booke of Kings chap. 20. and in the 39. of Isay vers 6 7 8. The summe of both those Stories is this After Hezekiah had shewed his House and all his Treasure vnto the King of Babylons Embassadour which came to congratulate his late recouery from that dangerous sicknesse of which the Prophet Isayas had by Gods appoyntment cured him hauing first secured him not onely of his instant recouery but of the continuance of his former health and prolonging of his dayes by a signe from Heauen the same Prophet came vnto him and telleth him that this his kindnesse or courtesie to the Embassadours in shewing them his Treasury was factum malè ominatum and did abode a future misery to his posterity Heare the Word of the LORD saith Isaiah to Hezekiah Behold the dayes to come that all that is in thine House and that which thy Fathers haue layed vp in store vntill this day shall be carryed to Babylon nothing shall be left saith the Lord. And of thy sonnes that shall issue from thee which thou shalt beget shall they take away and they shall bee Eunuches in the Palace of the King of Babylon Now if wee consider the strength of Iudah and of Aegypt in those times and the small power which the Babylonian had in respect of his Neighbour the mightie King of Assyria who then layde clayme to Iudah the accomplishment of this Prediction or Prophesie was in all politique esteeme or humane coniecture more improbable and more incredible than if a man in this Age should take vpon him to fore-tell that the Duke of Saxony or some other Prince of Germany should conquer the Low-Countries France and Spaine and leade all the Royall Race of both those Kingdomes Captiues vnto Dresden or to some other Princely Court of Germanie within these hundred yeeres next following He that should fore-tell thus much at this present would be recoūted a true Prophet or Messenger from God in the ages following by such as liued to see the euent or prediction fulfilled or verified Now there was not one part or circumstance of the former Prophesie but was notoriously and remarkeably accomplished in Iehoiakim Zedekiah and their Children both of them being sons to good King Iosiah both of them being confederates with the King of Aegypt whose ioyned strength could not