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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	earl_n	lord_n	northumberland_n	3,582	5	12.3383	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41155	Zions rjghts and babels rvine, or, The Church restored to her primitive lustre a treatise concerning the essence and subsistence of the christian church defecated and purged from the dregges of erroneous humane invention and erected by the vnerrable patterne of the Word of God / by William Fenwick.	Fenwick, William, 1616 or 17-ca. 1682.	1642 (1642)	Wing F725; ESTC R22447	51,941	79

ZIONS RJGHTS AND BABELS RVINE OR The Church restored to her Primitive Lustre A TREATISE Concerning the essence and subsistence of the Christian Church defecated and purged from the dregges of erroneous humane invention and erected by the vnerrable patterne of the Word of God JER. 2 13. They have forsaken me the fountaine of living waters and digged unto themselves cisternes that can hold no water REV. 2. 5. Memor esto unde excideris resipisce Olim quae Romana fides fuit optima sed jam Romanae fidei non adhibenda fides BY WILLIAM FENWICK LONDON Printed by A. N. for Lawrence Blacklocke and Edw. Husbands and are to be sold at their shops in Fleet-street neere Temple-Barre and Vine Court in the middle Temple 1642. TO THE RIGHT Honourable Algernon Earle of Northumberland Lord Percy Lucy Poynings Fitzpaine Brian and Latimer Lord High Admirall of England Knight of the most Noble order of the Garter and one of his Majesties most Honourable Privie Councell Right Honourable THe unworthy oppressed Author hath not long since groaned under the severe censure of the late high Commission for the ensuing speculations which now he adventures to present unto your Honour hoping for a candid acceptance and interpretation of his poore endeavours for the good of Zion Had not the rising Sunne of an auspicious Parliament dispelled those clouds of oppression and tyrannie that menaced a drowning both to me and them they had beene choaked in their embryo and never enjoyed the happinesse they have now attained in your honourable aspect Pardon most noble Lord the enforced presumption of the distressed Author which implores and hopes for your Honourable Patronage and humbly praying for the daily increase of your Honours health and eternall happinesse remaines Your Honours most humble most devoted servant William Fenwick The Errata PAge 1. line 27. for more reade most l. 28. for right r. light Pag. 2. l. 29. for a r. of Line 34 for posterity r. prosperity Pag. 4. l. 24. for endeavours r. endues The second Treatise page 2 line 33. for the r. thy for of r. unto Pag 8. l. 3. for he r. the Pag. 10. l. 21. for in r. from Pa. 11. l. 28 for what r. with P. 15 l. 1. for Angelicall r. Evangelicall P. 20. l. 9. for penitent r. impenitent Pag. 13 l. 6 for A r. As. for of r. to Pag. 25. l. 9. reade are first Pag. 54. l. 14. read omitted Pag. 55. l. 9. reade it is that l. 29. read All And thus ZIONS REQVEST To her Honourable and welbeloved Sonnes now happily assembled in the long and much-desired Parliament of England RIght deare and well-beloved of God your Father in my Lord by whom you are begotten and borne and welbeloved of me not begot of mortall or carnall seed but of the immortall seed of the Word neither borne nor brought forth of the mundane wombe of Rome nor sprong from the native bowels of my humanitie but I bore you and brought you forth of my celestiall wombe the eternall councell of God and I have nourished and brought you up in the royall City of divine Salomon my Lord and your God and Saviour My sonnes heare your Fathers instruction and forsake not your mothers teaching for they shall be a comely ornament unto your head and as chaines to your necke You have seene with your eyes and heard with your eares how the strumpet of Babell hath boasted her selfe against me and with her impudent face affirmed her selfe to be Queene of heaven and earth deluding the world with outward apparances whereby many are mistaken by her outward glory supposing her to be my selfe But I desire you my most honourable and deare children to conceive of me aright and be not deceived with vaine and glorious showes and worldly pompe For my glory is internall and heavenly more splendent then the pure gold of more curious embroderers which no eye can see but that Divine eye of right which is given you of your Father For I testifie unto you that I am not to be considered by the pompe and glory of the world nor yet by the wisedome of the wise man or by the nature of flesh and blood for those are not heavenly but earthly sensuall and divelish and doe not cannot nor will not please God but conceive you me to be heavenly spirituall and divine such as your Father hath described me to be A mountaine even Mount Zion a City the City of the living God the celestiall Jerusalem filled with the societie of innumerable Angels and the assembly of the first borne which are written in heaven and with the presence of God in Trinitie sitting upon the Throne Judge of all and with the unity and communion of the spirits of just and perfect men made perfect with that individuall union which they have with Jesus the Mediatour of the New Testament and with the blood of sprinkling which speaketh better things then that of Abel even the remission of sinnes to the imputation of righteousnesse for justification of sinners for he came to save sinners by drawing sinners to repentance And I pray you shake of all carnall apprehensions of mee and conceive me to be really such in nature and condition as my Lord hath reavealed me by the mouth of his blessed servant Peter 1 Pet. 2. affirming mee to bee a spirituall house or temple 1 Pet. 2. 5. built and compact of living stones made a spirituall house a holy priesthood to offer up spirituall sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ who is my foundation that living stone on whom I am built though hee be disallowed of men yet chosen of God and precious Neither suppose me to bee a politique body composed of a temporall head or soveraigne Monarchy or a Nationall and positive lawes and customes which though they bee ordained of God yet in substance they are humane inventions and traditions of men nor consisting of civill and humane Magistrates endewed with morall gifts and vertues for the externall government power and posteritie of humane societies politiquely and wisely providing for the defects of depraved nature and preventing the dammage danger and ruine which the malice of Satan and the corrupt nature of man would draw upon the societies of men in their terrestriall abode Though I bee sometimes called a Kingdome in respect of my eternall King the Lord of Lords and King of Kings and of his divine spirituall power and heavenly dominion which never shall have end Yet am I never anywhere in Scripture described to bee a temporall or earthly Kingdome But on the contrary my Lord did plainly affirme and teach that his kingdome was not of this world and prohibited the subjects of his kingdome to take dominion and government upon them one over another nor set up a Hierarchie among them as the Princes and Lords of the world did whose manner is to thirst after preheminence and dominion but that in his divine kingdome hee that would