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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	abide_v	dwell_v	zion_n	24	3	9.4390	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B05943	The royall advocate. Or, An introduction to the magnificent and honourable laws of Jehovah the Lord Christ, now contaminated and despised by the present army-men of this nation. Asserting and controverting the holinesse, righteousness, perfectnesse, and universallity thereof, of divine right: in opposition to the heathenish, and antichristian laws, traditions, and vaine imaginations of the past and present, pretended Christian magistrates of this nation which they yet so much dote upon and endeavour to support, against the alone law giver, lord of heaven and earth, god of gods, king of kings, and lord of lords. / Published by John Spittle-house, now a prisoner for his testimony against the idolatry and tryanny of the present army men, priests, lawyers &c ...	Spittlehouse, John.	1655 (1655)	Wing S5014; ESTC R184541	66,921	80

written and to which purpose he hath also commissionated them Rev. 18. 6 7 8. But before I speak to the Commission it is worthy of our best observation to take notice of the just and righteous dealings of God unto the inhabitants of Babylon for I say before he giveth out his Commission to his Saints who are to judge the world 1 Cor. 6. 2. and to be the rod of his strength Psal 110. 2. His battel-Axe weapon of war will break in pieces the horse and his rider c. Jer. 51. 20. 21 c. he doth in the first place send his Messengers from his Churches with great power to enlighten them with his Glory crying mightily with a strong voice saying Babylon is fallen is fallen and is become the habitation of Devils and the hold of every soul spirit and a cage of every unclean and hatefull bird Reas For all nations have drunk of the wrath of the wine of her fornication and the Kings of the earth have committed fornication with her and the Merchants of the earth are waxen rich through the abundance of her delicates and this I take to be by way of Aggravation to shew her abominations and how ripe she is for Judgement and executions as also to strike a terrour in the hearts of the people of God that are yet in her of what rank soever which having done in 4. and 5. v. he sendeth other Messengers to call the people of God out of her saying Come out of her my people God hath his people in Babylon Reason 1. That ye do not partake of her Sinnes 2. That ye receive not of her Plagues Those then that partake of her sins shall rrceive of her plagues Reason For her sins have reached unto heaven and God hath remembred her iniquity after which fair warning he forthwith giveth his Commission to his Saints in these words Reward The Saints Commission against Babylon and all her adherents her as she rewarded you and double unto her double according to her works in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double how much she hath glorified her self and lived delitiously so much Torment and Sorrow give her Reason For me saith in her heart I sit a Queen and am no widow and shall see no sorrow Therefore shall her Plagues come in one day viz. this day of vengeance Death and mourning and famine and she shall be utterly burnt with fire Reason For strong is the Lord God that judgeth her so that it is clear this Judgement and Vengeance is to be inflicted upon Babylon and her adherents by way of recompence for the further confirmation whereof see these following Scriptures id est Psalme 2. 4 5. He that sitteth in Heaven shall laugh the Lord shall have them in derision then shall he speak unto them viz. to the Kings of the earth and the Rulers v. 2. in his wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure Psal 139 8 9. O Daughter of Babylon who art to be destroyed happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones Isa 54. For my sword shall be bathed in heaven viz. in the Pagans and Antichristian heaven or Church Behold it shall come down upon Idumea and upon the people of my curse to Judgement The sword of the Lord is filled with blood it is made fat with fatnesse c. and the Vnicorns shall come down with them and the Bullocks with the Bulls and their Land shall be soaked with blood and their dust made fat with fatnesse Reason For it is the day of the Lords vengeance and the year of recompence for the Controversies of Sion c. the remainder of that cup Isa 47. 1 2 3. Come down and sit in the dust O Virgin daughter of Babylon sit on the ground there are no thrones O daughter of the Caldeans for thou shalt no more be called the tender and delicate take the Milstone and grind meal and cover thy locks c. Thy nakednesse shall be uncovered yea thy shame shall be seen I will take vengeance c. vid. cap. 49. 26 Jer. 50 35 36. A sword upon the Caldeans-saith the Lord and upon the Inhabitants of Babylon and upon her Princes and upon her wise men a sword is upon their lyers viz. her Astrologers c. they shall dote A sword upon her mighty men her Army-men and they shall be dismayed A sword upon their Horses and their Chariots and upon all the mingled people good and bad that shall be found in her Rev. 18. 4. and they shall become as women there will be no fear of Laodiceans the Merosh * As in the Epistle Churches that hath one word for God and another for Baal of those that halt between Christ and Antichrist that can swallow a Parsonage c. and yet be a Church-gatherer in the world and not of the world the Hocus Pocus Christians of the times A sword upon the Treasurers and they shall be robbed it will be an ill day with Treasurers it seems let them therefore look to it A drought upon her Waiters i. e. her Clergy men of all sorts and sises vid. Rev. 18. Reason For it is a Land of graven Images i. e. either of Idolatry or Tyranny and they are mad upon their Idols Jer. 5. 30. 31. Therefore the wild beast of the Desart with the wild beasts of the Island shall dwell there and the owls shall dwell therein and it shall be no more inhabited for ever neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrhah and the Neighbour Cities thereof saith the Lord so shall no man abide there neither shall any son of man dwell therein Again the Lord speaking of his people Jer. 51. c saith I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Caldea all these evils they have done unto Sion in your sight saith the Lord Behold I am against thee O destroyinng Mountain saith the Lord which destroyest all the earth and I will stretch out my hand upon thee and roll thee down from the Rocks and will make thee a burnt mountain Note and they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner nor for a foundation not the least grain of humane invention either in things appertaining to Babylon whether in its Civill or Ecclesiasticall estate where the Lord hath given a c●ear and expresse command himself But thou shalt be desolate for ever saith the Lord. Zach. 12. 2. Behold I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all people round about it c. and in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it in that day saith the Lord will I smite every * Mat. 18. 7. Luke 17. 1. 2. horse with