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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	moon_n	star_n	sun_n	12,021	5	6.6320	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02908	A maruell, deciphered	Helwys, Edward.	1589 (1589)	STC 13050; ESTC S119782	11,856	26

A MARVELL Deciphered ET INVENTA EST PERIIT AT LONDON Printed by Robert Robinson for Iohn VVinnington at the golden Tunne neere to S. Dunstones Church in Fleete-streete 1589. To the Right Honorable my very good Lord Henrie Carey Baron of Hunsdon Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter Lorde Chamberlaine of her Maiesties most Honorable Houshold Lord Gouernour of Barwicke Lord Warden of the East Marches for an anempst Scotland Lord Lieftenant of Suffolke and Norfolke Captaine of her Maiesties Gentlemen Pensioners and one of hir Highnes most Honourable priuie Counsell RIght Honorable where as mention is made in the twelfth Chapter of the Reuelation of saint Iohn of a great wonder in Heauen namely A woman clothed with the Sun hauing the Moone vnder hir feete and vpon hir head a Crowne of twelue Starres c. A wonder of no small maruell amongst men that was saide to bee a wonder in heauen containing some strange misterie wherein the nature of the Sunne is not vnaptly to be considered being a most goodly creature of God and glorious in the ornament of heauen and no lesse beneficiall to all creatures of the earth wherein also wee may beholde not by any preposterous comparison of the creature with the Creator but by naturall coniecture with more effectuall motions in part to discerne the glorious omnipotency and maruelous mercies in the mightie Maiestie of the Creator of all beautie and benefites namely in and by Jesus Christ the true Sonne that lighteneth all the worlde Jn and by whom wee receiue so infinite so great and ineffable blessinges both for body and soule as also in this world and in the world to come vnto whom the naturall Sunne with his good gifts doth yeelde obedience as tributarie for his creation Wherein we are so impotent duely to expresse or discerne the aboundance of his beneuolence that wee are constrained with griefe of minde to complaine of this carnall Carkasse so dull and vnapt to performe the same as a weak and feeble post that falleth al to shiuers vnder the burden of some weightie frame By whose most pure and holie lawe hee hath left vs the more to moue our vnaptnes in some proportion according to our capacities to conceiue of his most mercifull liberalitie in heauen and earth both now euermore Which holy law in generall construction of Christians is truelie said to be the aparel of the church that doth inuest hir selfe with the deuine and immaculate Lawe of Christ the sonne of God And whereby the christian Church is indued with sounde knowledge to know God aright and to liue in concord and amiable affection with all men Which may be saide to be the peace of God which passeth all vnderstanding containing the most perfect harmonie of heauenlie concorde as also yeelding aspiring mindes vnto inexplicable blessinges namely to be deliuered from the terrible and the most cruell and inestimable calamities and bondage of Sathan to bee made a citizen of Heauen of the fellowship of Angels with most singular delight to beholde the glorious Maiesty and presence of God to possesse ioyes vnspeakeable that the eies of man did neuer see or his eares hath euer hearde either may bee contained within the thoughts of his heart By which corporatiō number of the christiā Church the heauens shall be adorned the glory of God most magnificētly magnified The glorious heauenly apparell aforesaid not by outward apparāce vnto the eies of carnall men but by the eies of a deuine mind is to be discerned and in such wise to be considered as that which containeth all in all for so much as it may not be truely said that there is any true felicitie to be obtained by man or to men or true honour vnto God but that in and by this saide lawe is founde out inioyed and performed Which holy lawe so much preuailed within the space of fiue or sixe hundred yeares after Christes incarnation that the whole knowen Nations of the earth imbraced the same vntill Sathan had begotten Antichrist his eldest Sonne who doubting some preuention of his fathers patrimony obtained the true stampe of his fathers phisiognomie which is murder to giue most certain testimonie by what spirit he is gouerned also conseruing vnto himself the very image of his own guilefull father contriuing deceit to beguile the diuell himself if it were possible by a supposed holines religion although counterfeit and most false Neuerthelesse the very cloake and couer of the most infernall drench of deadly poison so shadowed with the vehement spirite of hipocrisie the guilefull enemie to all vertue which the Christian estate both greedily and generally swallowed and deuoured in the darkned daies of the Gospel of Christ Jesus to the cruell ouerthrow of all true Religion with the whole frame of all the ineffable blessings aforesaid And wherewithall by the power of a doubled spirite receiued from Sathan in the Temple of the euerliuing God he both forged and placed a newe vnknowen and a Monstruous god neuer seene or heard of before the comming of Antichrist a presumption neuer contained in the heart or thought of any person whatsoeuer namely to increase and to establish a new God but in the man of sinne the son of perdition which infernal inuention stretcheth it selfe beyond all his other wickednesse leauing nothing vndone that was to bee done either to the blasphemy dishonor of God or execrable crueltie against the whole generation of men respecting either the generality in which number not one escapeth or the horrour and the greatnes of the euill in which hee that escapeth best cheape loseth body and soule Vpon consideration viewe and newes of which cursed new god with scorneful derision All Jewes Turkes Mores Sarazins all Mahomatists and Jndian Idolaters are fled as men hunted with a Monster from their saluation Before the inuention of which wretched god the greatest portion of all these Nations aforesaid confessed Christ to bee their onely saluation and doubtlesse otherwise the whole Nations of the earth had beene submitted vnder the obedience of the gospell of Jesus Christ but nowe by Gods permission when it may iustly be saide that this saide Church of Christ the sonne of God by the malice of Sathan is brought vnto hir last decay and left as desolate but onely in an angle of the world the engin of man being vtterly incapable of all remedie or reliefe for the same Euen then Time reuealer of hidden secrets deliuereth demonstration that God himselfe hath erected the woman mentioned in the twelfth chapter of the Reuelation of saint Iohn that nowe at this instant by Gods great fauour standeth clothed with the Sunne the right and most true vesture of the Church namely the most pure and holy lawe of Christ Iesus the Sonne of God who with a most principall portion of fortitude confirmed with an assured confidence in hir Christ and God as a maine piller erected by deuine prouidence to beare the weightie frame of

reparation of this decaied and desolate Church of God aforesaide proceeding with a minde vnappaulled to the daungerous defence of the same against all the enemies of Europe whatsoeuer and as by a circle of the Sun beeing placed by deuine ordinaunce as a King amongest the Planets yeelding light and life vnto all signes and Starres of Heauen euen so that woman which is said to bee the Reuelation of saint Iohn to bee adorned with the shining vesture of the Sunne from the brightnes of which garment many Nations hath receiued doth and shall receiue both light and life vnto their great and eternall comfort and hauing the Moone according to the Text placed vnder her feete with great obedience to yeelde assistance with all her force and influences in strange enterprises by Sea to bee atchieued and right happily finished and vpon hir heade that Royall shining Crowne of twelue Starres In all obscure and difficult causes to conduct with a fatall faith in most certaine true and cleare direction vpon which infallible foundation as an Archtector to aduaunce the most difficult deuine and inexpungnable fortification for warfare that euer was seene or hearde not after the carnall man of flesh but mightie through God to cast downe holds casting downe imaginations and euery light thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing into captiuitie euerie thought to the obedience of Christ This said spirituall warfare so sufficiently furnished with such deuine armour and munition yeelding most certaine hope of assured victorie Yet neuerthelesse Sathan which neuer ceaseth his enuious inuasions against the children of God is nowe constrained to furnish his agent and eldest sonne Antichrist not according vnto his accustomed manner to deceiue the Nations with a slumbring potion of lethargie plausible both to the deceiuer and the deceiued but with the inuention of othes engines to inuade the houshold of faith namely fire sword treason and poison and such other straunge and vngodly tooles wherewith hee hath made sufficient proofe of his counterfeit holines and whereby hee hath made bloudie hauocke of infinite noble and holie persons and hath daungered the state of sundrie and many Countries Kinges and Kingdomes the onely euident reasons and arguments to defende his desperate estate to vnderprop his decaious kingdome But God himselfe hauing care of his owne causes prouiding at his owne pleasure safetie and consolation for his elect in all their proceedinges and also for seruice and defence of that sacred person inuested with the Sunne aforesaide Certaine engines as yet vnknowen vnto the world for ouerthrow of an hundred thousand of his enemies vpon land and to confounde a thousande Saile of Ships if they ariue within a mile of anie Shoare of England as also for doubling of anie Cape or forland Rocke or sandie banke either to pursue or to escape being ouercharged with enemies to enforce a Shippe to make waie at Sea against both winde and tide These straunge matters right Honorable J thought conuenient enforced by your Honors receiued fauour constrained in longing desire by some laudable meanes and in some portion to expresse my duetifull seruice vnto your Noblenesse to present my humble sute vnto your Honour both for my selfe and the matter that wee may iointlie bee receiued into your Honours fauourable protection whereby the worke it selfe may obtaine generall and friendly entertainement and the testimoniall and ornament of my commendation and behauiour by your Honors good liking no little aduancement Crauing with all humblenes that desire to doe well may bee mine excuse for all defectes that herein may appeare And J your Honors poore Orator shall nowe and alwaies pray vnto the euerliuing God to illustrate your Noblenesse with great encrease and with euerlasting felicitie Your Honors most duetifull Orator E. H. A NOTE OF strange things mentioned of a Woman conteined in the 12. Chapter of the Reuelation of Saint Iohn Text. AND there appeared a great wonder in heauen a woman clothed with the Sunne and the Moone vnder hir feete and vpon hir head a crowne of xii starres A woman to bee clothed with the Sunne is a maruell both misticall and deuine conteyning some glorious effect and the misticall discription of the true Church of God described in the forme of a woman which is naturall to procreation to bee clothed with the Sunne is to put on or to be inuested with Christ Iesus the sonne of God and to be endued with his deuine spirit So as if there be anie sacred woman that notablie to the wonder of the worlde by the mightie power of the spirite of God without abashment of so dangerous an enterprise hath aduaunced the glorious Gospell of Christ protected and defended peoples and countries that haue professed the same to the perilous hasarde in the eies of men of her person and estate contrarie to all humaine pollicie and hath vowed to thadmiration of men and in despite of Sathan and his agent Antichrist with all there adherents to performe the same manifestile discouering to be beautified with the vesture and apparell of the sunne That same woman whatsoeuer may aptlie be applied without figure to accomplish this prophesie And the Moone vnder hir feete The Moone that receiueth light from the Sunne as a substitute to giue light in time of darkenes whose nature is to giue increase to growing things ruler of marin causes and of nature inconstant so as if by deuine ordinance there be any woman that as a substitute from God and his Christ that with zeale strength and power in the dayes of ignorant darkenes hath reuealed and made to shine with great and comfortable brightnes the holie misteries and secrets of God in flowing abundance so as countries and nations haue beene lightned therewith and vnto whome the Lord of heauen and earth hath giuen power to performe maruels at sea in contempt of inconstancie holdeth the Moone with hir inconstant dealing vnder hir feete confirmed with mortall hatred to all vnsound and variable proceeding doctrine and religion that same woman effecteth this prophesie Text. And vpon hir head a crowne of twelue starres If there bee anie notable woman that hath made knowne vnto the worlde To haue beautified hir head with the most singuler holie and bright doctrine of the twelue Apostles and Prophets all which speake but one thing in effect And hath garnished hir senses with vehement care to imploy this proceeding to manifest the brightnes of the same to all nations may aptlie be saide to be crowned with twelue glorious starres both in life and death yelding immortall glorie Such a woman effectuallie effecteth this prophecie Text. And she was with Childe and cried traueling in birth and was pained readie to be deliuered So as if there bee anie woman that with an ardent an holy desire traueileth with zeale cost and danger and with power inforceth the birth of the childe and the Lorde Iesus which is his sacred worde and the Image of himselfe