Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	france_n	king_n	kingdom_n	14,965	5	6.1241	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81624	Doomes-day: or, The great day of the Lords iudgement, proved by Scripture; and two other prophecies, the one pointing at the yeare 1640. the other at this present yeare 1647. to be even now neer at hand. With the gathering together of the Jews in great bodies under Josias Catzius (in Illyria, Bithinia, and Cappadocia) for the conquering of the Holy Land.		1647 (1647)	Wing D1907; Thomason E383_23; ESTC R22541	4,306	10

brought into bondage for so he no doubt meant when he said When Lords hest are taken for Lawes Do we not know that before the breaking forth of our present distractions the power of the King was divulged to be over the people both body and goods that a few persons in favour with his Majesty imposed upon the Subjects of this Kingdome the great loane of Ship-money and that the Earle of Strafford proposed that the tyrannicall power of the Kings of France might warrantably be exercised by the Kings of England therefore when things should bee thus carried he prophesied His Prophesie began to bee effected in the yeare 1640. and was fulfilled in the year 1644. Then shall the Isle of Brittanie Be brought into great miserie And have not our eyes seen the same fulfilled What greater misery can come to a nation then to be at variance among themselves mutually to sheath their swords in each others bowells to batter downe Cities ore one anothers heads to have their Soveraigne in armes against them and in a word to have all the calamities of war at once heavy upon them and this hath this poore Kingdome of England till of late undergone therefore the fulfilling of Chawcers Prophecie none but a mad man will denie But now for the other Prophecie it comes more neere unto us even to this present yeare 1647. for are not the three Kingdomes of England Scotland and Wales entred into a solemne League and Covenant to set up one and the same Religion in the three Kingdomes then if granted now is the long lookt for yeare come that Antichrist shall fall and then the day of Doome shall happen But of that day and houre knoweth no man no not the Angells which are in heaven Mat. 13.32 that is no man can positively affirme that such a day in such a moneth at such an houre The Prophet Daniel giveth us the time when it shall be saying Dan. 12.1 And there shall be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation to that time and is not that time now Is not the whole world involved in watres was there ever such a time of trouble as there is now since there was a Nation upon the earth And that these troubles foretell the neare approach of the day of judgement the very next Verse informes us And many of them what sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake some so overlasting life and some to shame and everlasting c●●●●●…p● Againe for our Saviours Prophecie Mark 23. confirming the Prophecie of the Prophet Ioel Iod 3.15 That the Sun shall be darkened and the Moone turned into blood it is the opinion of the Ancients and of ●he best of our mode●● Divines that the darknesse of the Sun not ●●●●●…tion of the Moone is not to be expected but rather the mysticall sense thereof the Sun being taken for the glorious light of the Gospell the Moone to presigure the Church But now what is meant when he saith And F. shall weare his triple crowne I am not able to determine whether as is most likely that some Prince the first letter of whose name begins in F. shall plucke the Pope out of his Throne let the learned judge whose knowing minds are able to dive into such deep mysteries it sufficeth me to be informed that the ruine of Antienrist is neere even at the doore and that the day begins to draw nigh that God will visit them that dwell upon the earth when God will make of them what they be that have hurt unjustly with their unrighteousnesse and that the righteous man shall stand with great boldnesse before the faces of them that have afflicted him who when they see it shall be amazed with terrible feare and wonder at the strangenesse of his salvation and they repenting and groaning for anguish of spirit within themselves shall say this is he whom we had somtime in derision and a proverbe of reproach we fooles accounted his life madnesse but now he is numbred among the children of God and hath his lot with the Saints There is a report spread abroad and the common talk about London and so consequently over England that such a day in such a week the day of Doome shall happen others will have it that on that day Christ shall come againe on earth and there personally reigne with his Elect a thousand yeares and opinion monstrous and to be abhorred as much as their opinion who contend that the divels shall at length be released from their torments We are sufficiently informed in the Scriptures and next to them from others that the day of Doome is even now at hand and that the second coming of Christ is each day and houre to be expected what remaineth then but that we prepare our selves to meet the Bridegroome with the loynes of our minds girded and oyl in our lamps that when our Lord cometh he may say well done good and faithfull servants enter ye into your masters joy FINIS