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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	harden_v	judgement_n	pharaoh_n	2,936	5	10.9003	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62256	[N]ews of a new world from the word and works of God compared together evidencing that the times of the man of sin are legally determin[ed] and by the same right the days of the S[o]n of Man are alre[ady] commenced : being some account of eight sermons delivered at a lecture in London : whereto for further evidence are added two small tracts, the one touching the times of Gog & Magog, the other touching the 3 last vials / by J.S.	J. S.	1676 (1676)	Wing S77; ESTC R31797	131,955	209

to give some account why things go as they do in the world if the devil be let loose is it any wonder if Gog and Magog be upon the stage may we not wonder rather if we scape thus confider the evidence that hath been offered and what more follows at the end of these papers from the calculation of the time from the description of the enemy from the likeness of the action from the opening of the design both of God and Satan and the parallel between the dispensation of God to particular believers and the whole collective body of the Church which you have in the foregoing discourse to gird which a little closer to you take these two notes 1. That as it is but a mistical reign that the Church hath till Christs glorious appearing so it is but a mistical judgment that is executed upon Babilon or any of the Churches enemies till then else how should the day of the Lord come as a thief and fall as a snare on all that dwell on the earth as it is said it shall The not considering this makes us overlook the Vyals when they are before us it is true it is said at the pouring out of the Vyals his judgments are made manifest but to whom are they made manifest will not the wicked do wickedly still to the last must not the Lord even Christ at his appearing fetch the last blow himself at the wicked one therefore let us not think because a Pope lives still at Rome and a grand Signieur at Adrianople that therefore we are not near the finishing of the mistery of God By a mistical judgment I mean close and dark judgments such as take them not off their violence but heighten and harden them the more such the judgment executed by the Vyals seems to be and therefore by the 5th Vyal on the throne of the beast his kingdom is observed to be full of darkness and so little did the Antichristian party profit by that or any of the precedent Vyals that we fiud them under the next Vyal uniting and making head more strenously and universally then ever before like Pharoah that by every judgment was more and more hardened not but that God hath all along given many evident testimonies of his displeasure against them which those that have eyes see but they see it not or at least lay it not to heart to repent but are unjust and filthy still or as that word still may import are more and more filthy and unjust there in discovering the judgment to be upon their heart and thus it appears to me it will be till Christ fetcheth his last and dispatching blow at them and then they will see and be confounded My second note is this that there may be a great mistake in expecting those eminent scenes in the last times of the beast viz. the slaughter and rising of the witnesses the battel against him that sate on the white horse or the gathering to Armageddon and the visible effects of the Vyals especially the six first Vyals and so this attempt of Gog and Magog should equally shew themselves in all the parts and places of the beasts dominion it is sufficient for this mistical way of judging if the Lord single out some head-place some eminent part of his juridiction that is or hath been so and there present them at least more eminently thus Ezek. 5.5.8 God did set Jerusalem in the midst of the nations and did execute judgment in her in the sight of the nations and for their instructions this suits the way and manner of God who is one to judge and save in one as he did in Christ Therefore though the witnesses have been spread all over the juridiction of Babilon and have prophecyed and have been slayn by coast as I may say in all her streets yet the last and eminent settling of the cloud seems to be in one particular street or province and there their visible resurrection also to be which is called the tenth part of the citty and so the battel of Armageddon for the substance thereof without that specialty hath been fought by parties throughout the whole jurisdiction but the last and great dash of that shour may be found to have lighted on some particular place more eminently and that is like to be or to have been on the head kingdom or kingdoms of the Reformation and where that hath been there in probability it is that the Dragon will second the worsted beast his party with his succors of Gog and Magog These are my 2 notes which being premised I conclude that it is profitable that this is the time of Gog and Magog my reason in brief is for that there seems to me so little time yet to run out before the white throne be erected so little time that this old world hath to continue my confidence arises from those numhers pitch't by the Lord himself Dan. 12.11.12 the one of 1290 days the other of 1335 days the 45 years in the last number exceeding the former I look upon to be the time allotted for this expedition of Gog and Magog the one half of which 45 years is expired now let us but consider how much work is left for the other half that is to come the Jews are to be called and brought to their own land they are there to be settled and to get goods and cattel yea gold and silver in abundance and to live in great security before the Eastern Gog is let loose upon them which for a people so spoiled and that are to begin the world again as the greatest part of the twelve tribes are presumed to be may well require half of the time that is behind and then after the destruction of Gog and Magog they are to be seven years burning the weapons of warr all this probably before the coming down of the new Jerusalem therefore by this judge whereabouts we are Daniel is promised to rise and stand up in the latter end of those days those days come up 22 years hence there is not much difference among Chronologers all interpreters agree in the Epocha and fix it in Julians time all this work is to be done among the Jews ere that time is it not time therefore for us to expect their call and return Our western Gog and Magog probably may not stay for them but may lead the way and be a means of their awakning for the Aposile intimates that through our mercy they shall obtain mercy which probably must be understood of some eminent signal mercy farther then hath yet been seen upon us by the reviving the work and cause of God among the Gentiles and the deciding the controversy that hath been so long depending between Christ and Antichrist wherein this Gog and Magog is Antichrists last reserve Now there being so little sand in the glass it is very pardonable to expect these actions and issues which must shew themselves before that little sand