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death_n	church_n	lord_n	zion_n	118	3	9.2112	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77950	A measure of the times: and a full & clear description of the signes of the times, and of the changing of the times; and of the reign of Antichrist, who hath long reigned, and of his down-fall, which is at hand; and of the kingdom of Christ which is now setting up in the earth. Shewing unto all people in all nations, what the state of things hath been in ages past, and what the state of things are at this present day. ... And also, here it is manifest, concerning the teachers of this age, and the root from whence they sprang, who are manifest to be of that stock of false prophets, which Christ prophesied of should come, and which the Apostles saw was coming in their dayes, and how that the night of darknesse hath been upon all, for many generations: ... And also, the restauration is described, which shortly cometh, wherein Christ shall reign, whose right it is, and shall change laws and decrees, and the lamb shall be the light of all nations, ... and their King shall possesse the uttermost parts of the earth. By one who hath measured the times, who is come to the day that hath made all things manifest. Edw: Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1657 (1657)	Wing B6012; Thomason E919_6; ESTC R207505	31,897	44

mouth and the church of Thyatira suffered that woman Jezabell to prophesie and to teach and seduced the servants of the Lord to commit fornication and to eat things sacrificed unto Idolls and she and her lovers was to be cast into a bed of torment and her children should be killed with death and all the churches should know that God searched the reines and the hearts and every one should receive according to their deeds and the church of Sardis had only a name to live but was dead and her work was not perfect before God and upon them would the Lord come as a thiefe and they should be in darknesse and not know what houre he would come And the church of the Laodiceans were luke warme and neither hot nor cold and the Lord would spew her out of his mouth for she was wretched and miserable and poore and blinde and naked and the shame of her nakednesse did appeare and if any had an eare to heare they might heare these things were spoken by him that lives for ever the first and the last the beginning and the Amen so that hereby the Lords soul was vexed and his spirit grieved and his wrath was suddenly kindled against them who were revolters and backsliders from his way of salvation which he had made manifest to them through the mouth of his servants so that his fury went out against them to overthrow them and to break them to pieces and they being turned from his Law and from his statutes he gave them up unto their own hearts desire and brought in the heathen upon them to confound them who broke them asunder and trod down many of their Cities and gained great Ports of their dominions and made them slaves by multitudes and overthrew their worship and subjected their power even the Turks and base uncircumcised people made a prey upon them and possessed their habitations and set up abominable Idolatries in the place where Gods honour had dwelt and their dominions and treasures without became spoyle to the teeth of devourers for they having lost the terrour of the Lord he brought up the heathen to be a terrour unto them whose power was mightier then they and overcame them they being without the power of God and this justly came upon them according to the purpose of the Lord because of their backslidings And others of them who was not so given up to the will of an outward enemy yet were they given up to strange Idolatries and subversion and setting up images and worshiped that which is not God but abomination to him to this day so that the holy City which had been full of glory was given to the Gentiles to be troden downe and under their poluted feet hath it been stamped and to their mouth hath it been a prey for such a time even since these things came to passe unto this day as you may read and the Beast and false Prophet hath ruled in oppression and the great whore hath made all Nations drunke with the wine of her fornication All the great men and Princes and nobles and all the people upon earth have been made drunke by her and touched her uncleannesse and ever since the day wherein the backsliding entered she hath fit upon nations and kindreds and tongues and people and hath been decked in divers colours to deceive the hearts of all people and all Nations have been deceived by her and the beast and his power whose dominion hath been great hath upheld wickednesse by a Law and established Idolatry by decrees and all have been out of the way and wandring in blindnesse and darknesse even the whole world have worshiped the Beast and gone after the false Prophet which sits upon the Beast and his power protects him till they be both overthrowne into perdition and cast alive into the Lake which now the Lord is comeing to doe in power and dominion and great Babylon is coming into remembrance before the Lord and as she hath done so shall it be done to her her children is dashing against the stones and her offspring is withering away and the darknesse is vanishing and the Sun is appearing and the beastly power shall be subdued and the false Prophet confounded even the old Dragon shall be bound and chained never more to deceive for the Beast hath had a long reigne with his false Prophet who have prophesied lies and false divinations and led away the minds of all people For marke and consider Christ Jesus who came into the world with glad tidings of good things even with peace and salvation he said the glorious day was come and even that day which many Prophets and wise men had desired to see but had not seen the earth was filled with light as I have said yet he farther prophesied and said that the night would come when no man could work and that in the last dayes false Prophets should arise and deceive many and should come into the world and should cry loe here and loe there is Christ and and if it were possible should deceive the very elect and the Apostle John in his time who had been an eye-witnesse of Jesus and had handled and tasted and felt the word of life and had been with Jesus and bore a true testimony unto him in that very age and generation he saw the false Prophets and antichrists come and coming in and aluded to the very sayings of Christ by this we know said he that it is now the last time for there are now many false Prophets and antichrists gone out into the world they were not of the true Apostles but went out from among them being gone out from the light in their own particulars and beguiled the hearts of the simple by good words and faire speeches and went in Balaams way for gifts and rewards and in Caines way to envy and murder as you may read in the Scripture so that in Johns time the false Prophets which Christ foretold off were come and they did deceive many according as Christ had said and they drew many from the wayes of God and subverted many from the truth and made havocke of the flock and were grievous wolves according as Paul had said and truth began to perrish from among men and the power thereof ceased and the apostacy came in and the forme was set up for a season so that John farther saw and said the whole world went after the Beast and false Prophet whom he saw before was come and worshiped the Beast and his image But a few whose names were written in the book of life and as I have said the holy City with the outward Court was troden down by the Gentiles foot and darknesse surprized all and wickednesse abounded more and more and the night came upon all as Christ had prophesied and the Beast grew in his dominion till there was hardly any man left to beare witnesse in the truth and in the power of God unto the name of

Prophet hath deceived many as Christ hath said and all the earth hath been wandering in the wildernesse of wickednesse and the long-suffering of the Lord hath been wearied and he continually provoked to destroy the Nations who have followed Antichrist who hath shewed himselfe in the seat of God to be God and hath sat in the seat of God in the seat of justices righteousnesse and of mercy and the abomination of desolation hath long stood in the place where it ought not for many ages and length of times and his many heads and many hornes hath swayed the world through the terrour of the Beast who hath made all worship him and they that would not he hath killed who hath carried the great whore who hath made all men without exception and all Nations without respect to any wholly drunke with abomination and all hath staggered and fallen into grievous iniquities and the Dragon hath stood ready continually to devour the child of righteousnesse as soon as it wa● borne and the woman hath been forced to fly into the wildernesse that hath brought it forth and hath fed there for so many dayes and for a long season hath the Lord been blasphemed even the name of God and his Tabernacle and them that dwell in heaven But now hath the Lord considered and looked down from his habitation and of a truth he is risen and hath taken to him his great power that he may reigne and put all things under his feet and subdue the power of the Beast and Antichrist and all their government and rule and Lawes and decrees shall be overthrowne and confounded and all their worship shall be broken for great Babylon is come into remembrance before the Lord to render to her according to her workes the Lamb is now risen and advanced with his bow and his sword and he is going forth conquering and to conquer the Beast and all that hath worshiped him and they that are with the Lambe are called and chosen and faithfull and they loved not their lives unto death and they shall overcome him by the blood of the Lambe and by the word of his Testimony the dominion of the Lambe is setting up and his power is made manifest and the stone cut out of the Mountaine without hand is a dashing at the feet of the image and against the Beast and his power and against all his Lawes and decrees is he risen and he will change times and Lawes and powers and the Kingdomes of this world shall become the Kingdome of the Lord and of his Christ and he shall reign for ever and ever for now the Spirit of life from God is entered into the witnesses which hath been slain and they begin to stand upon their feet and great feare falls upon the great men of the world and the Devill is cast out into the earth who hath sit in heaven in the Temple of God and deceived the whole world and his wrath is great against the Saints and against the Lambe because he knowes that his time is but short and the man-childe shall grow and shall rule the Nations with a rod of iron if any man hath an eare to heare let him heare he that leadeth into captivity shall goe into captivity he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword the purpose of the Lord shall stand who is now gathering and bringing backe such as hath been driven away and deceived by the generation of false Prophets who hath deceived the whole world and all that dwell therein and the Lord will take vengeance upon them upon the Beast and upon the false Prophet and great Babylon shall be thrown down and shall be no more at all but shall be made desolate and the voyce of harpers and musicians shall be heard no more at all in her But her glory shall wither and fade away in a moment for he that bath a true weight and measure is appeared to divide and to give due weight and measure unto every one and all the wicked who will not come from under the worship of the Beast shall have their part in the Lake that burnes with fire and he that is unjust let him be unjust still and he that is righteous let him be righteous still here is the dividing of all things as they were in the beginning the glory of the Lord is risen whose name is called the word of God and out of his mouth goeth a sharpe sword and with it he smites the Nations and he shall rule them with an iron rod for his name is King of Kings and Lord of Lords and he is gathering his Saints together to the supper of the great God to eat the flesh of Kings the flesh of captaines and the flesh of horses and them that sit thereon the purpose of the Lord shall not be disanulled though the Beast and the Kings of the earth gather together their Armies to make war against him that sits upon the horse who is already gone out to conquer and the numberles number of the Saints are gathering together before the Throne of the Lambe and they have no guile found in their mouthes And the day is now dawned and the night is far spent woe unto the world and to all the inhabiters of the earth who have worshiped the Beast the Lord is coming to plead with you and ye that have partaked of the sins of the great whore shall partake of her plagues and she shall be rewarded double according to her works for her sins hath reached unto heaven the day of great tribulation is at hand of anguish and destruction men shall seek death and shall not find it but it shall flie from them when the Lord ariseth and the Lamb standeth upon mount Sion and his Saints with him who shall tread down the Heathen and cast them out even as they have troden down the holy City and the worship thereof and the Kingdome of the Beast and his seat and his great authority which he hath received from the Dragon shall all be thrown downe and the Kingdome of the Son of God with his government scepter and rule shall be established in all the earth and the uttermost parts thereof shall be given him to possesse this is the promise and this shall come to passe and through the whole world Lawes and decrees ministry and orders shall be changed and renewed the Law and the decree of the most high shall rule over all and the holy City shall be beautified and is adorning and preparing for the Saints and their King to inherit the Lamb is the light of the City and the Temple therein and all Nations and people that are saved shall walke in the light of the Lambe for he hath lighted every man that comes into the world with the light of salvation in all that doe receive him and darknesse shall fly away the Sun is risen and praises and honour and glory and dominion shall be given to the