Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	day_n	lord_n	sabbath_n	9,284	5	10.5348	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26666	All is not gold that glisters: or, A warning-piece to England Being a prophecie, written by that famous and learned knight Sir Walter Rawleigh, the day before he was beheaded on Tower-Hill, in the raign of our late Soveraign Lord King James. Fore-telling the great and wonderful things that will befall the King of Scots, the people of this nation, the change of religion and law, and how long the government shall continue without a King, or House of Lords. Also, the landing of an English Army in France this summer, the taking of the city of Rome, and the beheading of the Pope, and seven of his cardinals. With other remarkable passages and presidents.	Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618, attributed name.	1651 (1651)	Wing A935A; ESTC R213935	4,627	10

so his flesh and bowels putrifying he was consumed with lice The Syrians being overcome in War by the Israelites in certain mountainous places ascribed their overthrow to the Gods of the Mountains who they said did favour the Israelite therefore they would fight with the Israelites in the vallies where they thought the God of Israel was not interessed upon which cause God by his Prophet thus spake to the King of Israel Quia dixerunt Syri c. Because the Syrians said the Lord is God of the Mountains and not of the valies I will give all this great multitude in to thy hand and you shall know that I am the Lord And thereupon both their Armies joyning battel after the Israelites though but few in number killed in one day a hundred thousand footmen And there remained in a neer place twenty seven thousand Syrians who flying into the City were killed with the fall of the City walls doubtlesly this was a manifest revenge and punishment of the former blasphemy Nicanor being leader of the Army of Demetrius the King and intending to invade the Jews upon the Sabboth was admonished that in honour and reverence to God who seeth all things he should forbear that sacred day to the which advise he thus answered Estne potens quispiam in caelo c. Is there a Lord in heaven that commands the sabbath-Sabbath-day to be kept to whom when it was answered Est dominus vivus c. There is a living Lord which ruleth in Heaven who commandeth the seaventh day to be kept he replyed Et ego potens c. And I am migh●y upon Earth to command them for to arm themselves and to perform the Kings business Upon which occasion the day of War being begun though Nicanor had a most powerful Army furnished with all kind of Munition and Armour yet was he overthrown by a very few with the loss of 35000 men His blasphemous tongue was likewise cut off At what time Achior commended the power of the God of heaven and averred that the Jewes were secure and safe in that they worshipped God religiously at which words Holofernes in great indignation thus answered Quoniam prophetasti c. Because thou hast prophecyed among us to day that the people of Israel is defended by their God I will shew thee that there is no other God but Nabuchodonosor c. For which blasphemy he payed dear for his own head was cut off by the hand of a Woman and his Army being driven to flight a great part therof was put to the sword by the Jewes Antiochus for his pride and blasphemy was strucken from God with an invisible and incurable disease for first suddenly a violent pain of his Bowels invaded him and then quickly after he fell out of his chariot wounding himself dangerously lastly his body putrifying with a filthy consumption and breathing out a most loathsom smell was consumed alive with worms Balthazar King of the Chaldeans when he commanded the holy Vessels to be brought to him which were taken out of the Temple of the Lord at Jerusalem and did drink in them with his Noble men and his Concubines for such his prof●ning of them did presently feel Gods just revenge for in the middest of the banquet and jollity with his guests it is said Appa uerunt digiti c. There appeared fingers of mans hand which wrot over he candl-stick upon the plaster of the wall of the Kings palace And this appeared in the ●ight of all men and with great consternation of mind and fear to the King himself Nabuchadonosor King of Chaldea when in his fury he cast the three children into the fiery furnace for that they refused to adore a Statue erected by him and further blasphemed against God in prefer●ing his own power before the power of God in these words Quis est De us Who is God that can take you out of my hands Did immediatly after acknowledge the contrary and confessed a Deity through the sight of that stupendious miracle by the which the children being in the midst of the flames remained unhurt and not burned But after when he had forgot the same and bear himself with his former elation and pride of mind maintaining that his power and glory stood obnoxious or subject to none he was suddenly punished by God a voyce from Heaven rushing upon him and speaking thus Tibi di●itur Nabuchodonosor Rex c. O King Nabuchodonosor to thee be it spoken thy Kingdom shall depart from thee And they shall drive thee from men and thy dwelling shall be with the Beasts of the field They shall make thee to eat grass as the Oxen and seven times shall passe over thee till thou knowest that the most high beareth rule over the Sons of men and giveth it to whomsoever he will Which voice being ended he was presently deprived of reason and grew mad Whereupon being driven from all mens society he begun to live in the Woods among Beasts and during seven yeares lived after the manner of beasts Which period of time being ended he was restored to his wits and senses and preently thereupon most excellently confessed a divine power That this was to happen unto him God foreshewed it a year before in a vision which he had while he dreamed which vision Daniel did interpret From Constantinople they write That the Emperour of Turkey hath positively declared against all the Kings Princes States and Common-wealths in Christendom and hath imprisoned about 4000 Christians amongst the rest many eminent Gentlemen some whereof are men of quality belonging to the English Nation who were Agents and Factors at Ska●o●n Smirna and other places yet notwithstanding the Janisaries are not a little obstructive to his proceedings which in time may cause a glorious Sun-shine of the Gospel over those dark Atheistical and Methometan Corners But as ancient Pithogoras said That he was assured the Ayr was full of Spiri●s so am I confident as yet that Turkey is full of Devils But the Venetians are preparing a great Summer Fleet to go out against the Turks under the command of the Lord High Admiral Foscolo who hath already took 4 stately Gallies and hath made himself Master of the strong Castle of Nedron wherein he found 30 brasse pieces 500 barrels of powder and great store of Ammunition The Emperor of Germany is likewise raising 40000 men to retard the Turkes Design against Christendom FINIS