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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
head_n	beast_n	dragon_n	horn_n	3,264	5	10.5839	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44798	The measvring rod of the Lord stretched forth over all nations and the line of true judgment laid to the rulers thereof wherein all governours and rulers, potentates and powers are measured, and all governments and lawes weighed in the true weight : wherein they all may see how far they are degenerated from the law of righteousness, and the rules of wisdome, which was in the beginning, before tyranny, and persecution, and rebellion had shewed it selfe : also shewing the end that will come upon all those rulers and governments, rulers and lawes that have been made in the apostacy, which is to all overthrown ... : also an advertisement to all the rulers upon the earth ... : published for the information of all the rulers upon earth ... / by one who waits to see the kingdoms of the world to become the kingdomes of the Lord ... Francis Howgil.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1658 (1658)	Wing H3171; ESTC R6600	23,099	33

of his strength who is comming up against you as a Lion greedy of his prey and will devoure at once all his enemies that thought in their hearts to reign for ever and to settle themselves in iniquity for ever now the time draws near when he will put down the authority of the dragon and of the beast and the beast with many heads and hornes and their rule shall come to an end and he will dash you one againe another as broken pitchers till you be consumed and brought to nought and be worn out as a motheaten garment and will overthrow your Lawes and customes which is made in the night of ignorance and blindness and will change your customes and the times and will reduce the earth again into its first purity and you that have ruled shall serve and be tributary and as you have had a time of rejoycing over the wittnesses who hath troubled your earthly and devillish peace and slayn them as sheep for the slaughter a time of mourning is comming upon you when you shall say alas alas for your glory shall pass away and your renown shall wither and for your dominion which shall grow so weake tht you shall not be able to resist him who travells in the greatness of his strength and treadeth the winepress of the wrath of God who is mighty and strong to judge the Whore and all they that have committed fornication with her and have drunk of her cup and are inflamed with Adultery and cannot cease from sinne but burnes in envie against the appearing of the manchild who is heir of the promise yea of life everlasting born heir to the inheritance which is incoruptible unto whom all power belongeth both in heaven and earth who will subdue the lower power and powers of darkness and tread them under foot and all who act from that power which is below the life below the truth below the light that power will he and all whom he brings out of the grave and raises above the grave tread down under foot which stands but in the earth wherein dwells unrighteousness Allthough thy teachers and diviners in the oh earth who preacheth a divnation of their own brain from the imagination of their own hearts hath made you beleive oh you powers of the earth who are in the fall in the transgression of the life that you were the higher powers every Emperour King Duke Earle Nobles Lords and that all were to stoop to your wills how contrary soever they have been to God but you and they must know there is one higher than the highest who is King of kings and Lord of Lords who alone will judge the hearts of his people and their consciences for he will not give his glory to another although you have long usurped it since the dayes of the Apostacy and would have had all to bow to that power which hath transgressed the life and is gone from the power of God oh long hath been the night of ignorance and darkness and great hath been the apostacy in the earth since the dayes of the Apostles and since the false Christs and false prophets entered into the World which Christ said should come and cry lo here and there and should deceive many yea all the world wondered after the beast and Iohn sa● it all ly in wickedness and the time that Christ prophesied of came to be fullfilled in the dayes of Iohn and he saw it Matt. 24. 23 24. that many false prophets and Antichrists were gone out into the World out from the life out from the truth cut from the light wherein the Saints had fellowship who wrote forth the Scriptures and he said they were gone into the World and he said the whole World lay in wickedness and so they went from holyness into wickedness and from the fathers love into the love of the World and Peter and Jude who lived in the same age they saw them that went in the error of Balaam and in the way of Cain and in gainsaying the Power being turned from it like Corah and also their hearts were exercised with covetuous practices So Iohn saw they were come 1 John 2. 18 19 ver. Little Chilldren it is the last times as you have heard that Antichrist shall come even now there are many Antichrists whereby we know its the last time and Peter saw that false Apostles should come who should make merchandise of the people and prophesied of it as you may read 2 Pet. 2. 2 3. and in the 14 15. verses you may know them by their fruits having eyes full of adultery and cannot cease from sinne beguiling unstable soules and hearts they have exercised with covetuous practices and they were the cursed children and these had forsaken the right way Christ the way and his command also freely ye have received freely give and they laboured to keep the Gospell without charge who were true Apostles but these false prophets deceitfull workers Antichrists and false Apostles they were gone in Balaams way after the wayes of unrighteousness in Cains way in Coras way in Antichrists way cut of Christs way and these false prophets false Apostles they spoke swelling words of vanitie and did allure through the lusts of the flesh and they like the rest of the false Prophets gone before them cried peace and promised peace unto others while they run with them into riotousness and while they put into their mouthes and these promised libertie to themselves and others while they themselves were servants of corruption and Jude bore witnesse that they were turned from the Grace of God into lasciviousnesse and wantonnesse even from the grace that taught them to deny ungodlinesse and was sufficient to preserve them from these errours before mentioned but they went from it and from the light and life of men and denied him and owned another even him who abode not in the truth the foundation of God but went out of the truth and so are bottomlesse or without foundation and there is the very center ground and residence of all the false prophets Antichrists deceivers all comes from or out of the bottomless pit and leades to perdition And Paul if not in that age yet in the next age after lived he saw the mystery of iniquity already begin to worke 2 Thess. 2. 6. and Paul an Apostle of Christ wrote to Timothy his Son that the spirit spoke expresly some should depart from the faith and they should speake lies in hypocrisie 1 Timothy 4. 1 2. and in the 2 of Tim. he gave him notice what fruits they should bring forth they that departed from the faith Chap. 4. ver. 2 3 4 5 6. yea a great Apostacy from the faith there was while Paul was yet living for he writes to Timothy 2. Tim Chap. 1. this thou knowest that all they which were in Asia be turned away from me and there were a great people in Asia for great persecution he suffered in Asia and

stayed 2 years in Asia Acts. 19. ver. 10. In so much that all they that dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord yea and divers great men and of the cheife of Asia were his freinds Acts 19. ver. 21. so its manifest there were 2 great people for Acts 19. 26 verse not only at Ephesus but almost throughout all Asia this Paul hath perswaded and turned away much people said Demetrius and Paul writing to the Corinthians saith 1 Cor 16. 19. the Churches in Asia salute you and Iohn writes to seven Rev. 1 4. Rev. 11. and as was said before all was departed from the faith even all they that are in Asia are turned away from me and the Apostle wrote to Titus Titus 1 ver. 10 11. that there were many unruly and vaine talkers and deceivers who subverted whole houses teaching the things they ought not for filthy lucre And Iohn who wrote the last in the Revelations he writes that the whole World wondred after the beast and his power was so great that it was said who is able to make warre with the beast they worshipped the beast saying who is able to make warre with the beast Rev. 13. ver. 3 4. and the beast that arose out of the Sea having seven heads and ten hornes and upon his hornes ten Crownes and upon his head the name of blasphemy and the Dragon gave him his power his seat and great Authority and he opened his mouth in Blasphemy against God to blaspheme his Name and his Tabernacle and them that dwell in Heaven and it was given him to make war with the Saints ver. 6. 7 and to overcome them and power was given him over all kindreds tongues and Nations and all that dwell upon the earth ver. 9. shall worship him whose names are not written in the Lamb's book of life shin from the foundation of the World this Beast receiving his power and authority from the Dragon hath prevailed he rose out of the Sea the Waters upon which the whore sits and the waters are kindreds tongues and people and the Beast arose out of the Sea also that the whole World wondred after and worshipped and John that saw this coming 14 or 15 hundred years agoe so that in a few ages after the Apostles all was worn out the life lost the Dragon had power the Beast had power and all wondred after him and the Whore had made all Nations drunk with her Fornication and then she came to sit upon many Waters Kindred Tongues and People hears the Waters hears the Sea out of which the Beast rose who received his power from the Dragon and this is he who upon his head had the names of Blasphemy and all kindreds tongues and Nations whose names were not written in the Lambs book they who honoured the Beast and worshipped the Beast and said who is able to make war with him admired his power and submitted unto him and he hath had power and hath prevailed against the saints did overcome them and the Dragon hath made war with the Seed which keep the Commandements of God and the testimony of Iesus all this was seen many Ages agoe and what worke the Dragon hath made in the Nations and in the Earth where he hath had dominion and prevailed and what a raging the roaring Lyon hath kept in the Earth is evident seeking to destroy them in whom the seed remained and to destroy them in whom the power of God was or the least measure and so the false Prophets deceivers Antichrists which wenout then which the Apostle saw they cried up that power which was from the life of God and hath cryed it up for the higher power and said all ought to be subject to it and said who is able to make war with the Beast for the false Apostles and Deceivers and Antichrists went from the Grace of God and from the light and from the power of God into the World and into that Nature which all kindreds and tongues and people walked in and into the power that acts the Children of disobedience and joyned with that power upon which the Whore sits and they taught Nations and People to admire this power and to admire the Beast because of his Heads and Horns and Crowns and Names and hath wrought miracles before the Beast and this power which the Beast had received from the Dragon this power admires the false Prophet and the false Prophet the Beast so that none could buy nor sell nay nor live but that had his marke or the number of his name and so all hath been in utter darknesse and the deeds of darknesse hath spread themselves over the Earth For the Whore who is adulderated from God and the Dragon and the Beast and the false Prophet all have acted from that power which is below the truth and below the life which power is at enmity against the truth and the life and against the light and this power overspread all Nations and the Sun being set the night came over all and the shadow of death over all Nations and a veil and a covering hath been spread over all and so out of the midst of thick darkness all hath acted this long and darke night of ignorance in the Apostacy wherein the Dragon hath had power and the Beast and that power hath been admired and set up which hath transgressed the life so that any who have been zealous for the truth and have kept the testimony of Jesus and the spirit of prophesie the false prophets in all Nations who are from the testimony of Jesus have called to the Beast to slay and to kill and to destroy the seed of the woman which is cloathed with the Sun and so the Beast exercising his power which is from below have killed and destroyed them who were subject to the higher power And what torturing and Massacring and persecution what burning and strangling there hath been what cruell deaths many have been put to over all Nations and in all Nations where the beast have had power who makes warr against the life so that the streets have run with blood and all being gone from the life and power of God they set up themselves to be Judges over mens consciences and they who were in the errour they cryed out of heresie and they that are gone from the truth into a lie the ground of Blasphemy they cry out of Blasphemy and under the hornes of the beast and under the heads and the Crownes of the beast what Cannons constitutions edicts and lawes have been in all Nations what trapps ginns and snares have been laid in every Nation yea every home hath pushed and every head hath lifted up it selfe against Christ the head and every mortall Crowne hath advanced it selfe against the Crowne of glory and against the immortall Crowne so that it might be said as Eliah said the altar of the Lord hath been broken down and his prophets and his witnesses slain none hath