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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	abraham_n	heaven_n	isaac_n	1,743	5	9.3557	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77290	Babels fall, in the foolish virgins sleep. Among which Presbytery lyeth, with predictions of the great disputed to be at the raising of the true ministry. / Written by a witnesse of the truth, John Brayne.	Brayne, John.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4319; Thomason E554_19; ESTC R205773	24,938	35

shut Notes the administration of the Gospel would be kept pure against all means that tend to defile them and be other ways kept then before Ver. 11. Then came the other Virgins 1 It is emphaticall the Scripture calls them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the other Virgins not the foolish Virgins now because they now seeing their former folly laying down their Call seeking admission to be with Christ ceased to be foolish and began to be wise 2 They had a minde to be with Christ but it was unseasonable it was after the doore was shut the unwise man begins to be wise when it is too late They say Lord Lord open to us 1 They desire admission to be a Church-minister or at least a Church-member at that time of plenty and power of the Spirit which will be the most desirable thing in the world 1 Their earnestness is emplyed in their reiterated Cry of Lord Lord. 2 Their expectation of favour more then others open to us though thou open to none yet open to us thou art our Lord wee are thy servants we waited long for thy coming to thy Church Applic. When the soul is sensible of it it is then a sad thing indeed to be shut out of Heaven from Christ and Saints 2 In the right constituting of Churches Excommunication will have greater effects on the spirits of men then in time past Mat. 18 11 12. And I say unto you that many shall come from the East and West and shall sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven But the children of the kingdom shall be cast into outer darkness there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth When ye shall see Abraham Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of God and your selves shut out then ye shall weep Ver. 12. Christ answereth verily I say unto you I know you not 1 None are to be admitted but by Christs approbation he is the doore 2 Christ denies their petition 3 On this ground I know you not that is scientia approbationis 1 Now Christ makes known to the soul that it is diserted of him which saddens the heart and fils it with fear 2 In that he sayth I say to you it takes away all plea or answer in the case whatsoever men indeed may plead against men but against the Word of God is no obj cting Ver. 13. ye have the application of this spirituall Coming of his before spoken of 2 In it is prophetically foretold the last personall coming of Christ to Judgment saying Watch therefore for ye know not the day nor the hour wherein the Sonne of man cometh Now that this fore-cited Parable respects the estate of the Church and the end of Antichrist as applyed I shall commend to your consideration the Parable set down of Matthew in Chap. 22. from Vers 1. to Vers 12. 1 The wedding is a wedding made in the day setting out the estate of the Church before the Antichristian night came upon the World 2 The present estate in the Apostles times and after to the time of Antichrist is herein mainly intended 1 From Vers 2. to the 8 respects the Jewish estate of the Church until their captivity under Titus Vers 2. The Kingdom and Mariage signifie the Gospel Government set up the Apostles gathering Churches out of the Jewish Nation Vers 3. The Apostles sent out to gather them Mat. 10. v. 5. and the prophesie fulfilled Acts 13.46 Vers 4. He sends forth other servants which were the 70 Luke 10.1 who were other in their call and persons or those sent out by the Apostles after Christ and by the Church Vers 5. and 6. The effects of the Ministry upon them is set down some are persecuting other scoffing Acts 12.2 cap. 7.38 cap. 9.1 Vers 7. All this was to be done before the Lord did send the Romane Army and before the desolation of their Cities Vers 9. He proceeds to the call of the Gentiles which succeeded the refusall of the Jews Acts 13.46 As for the Exposition of the rest of the Parable I understand it to agree with the Parable of the fish and tares See the Smoake of the Temple about the latter end thereof Applica This Parable precedes that of the Virgins as the day precedes the night so the Gospel day did the Gospel night and as where the day ends the night begins so do I conceive that where this Parable of the Gospel day ends there the Parable of the Night begins shewing prophetically what would be brought forth in the world during that time of Antichrists reigne unto the time of the Lords Marriage and after as concerning t●e ministry and government of the Church in its first constituting to the Parable of the night Applica To take away the strange thoughts that the world yea good men will have of the Parl. their proceedings though guided of God and their disaffection to the army who will then cry out 1 The Archbishops then the Bishops and the Reading ministers and the scandalous ministers and the malignant ministers as they tearmed them must go down O! but now what do they mean the good ministers as they call'd them those that preached for them they put down them also is this the reformation they told us of in their Declarations 2 They took down Common-prayer in our Churches and then turned two or three Churches into one that we may have preaching nor have we the Sacraments in many places this six yeers and now preaching is going away out of the Parish also and all this cryed up for Reformation 3 The Abbey Lands were took from the Ministry the Bishops Lands and now the Dean and Chapters Lands and the Tythes they say shall be took away also and it is thought the parsonage Houses and Glebe Land will be took from the ministry also and at last what wil they do with the Churches Resp I beseech you take heed and do not thinke hardly of the Parliament if ever ye see these things they as little think of doing these things as you witnesse their Declarations 1 God will have the flesh of Antichrist eaten that is all that maintenance that comes to the Ministry by her means Now these things all of them came by her be content God will have it so 2 God will have Antichrist in the more spirituall part as it were the soul of Antichrist that cannot be eat to be burned in fire which is the Polity or Government of Antichrist of which Presbytery is no lesse a part then Episcopacie together with the Antichristian doctrines of hers Object O! but these are good men Resp And who will say many of those under Episcopacy were not If good men stand in a bad place they must be removed as trees and planted into a better to this metaphor the Apostle alludes 1 Coloss 13. 3 These men shall doe those things doing Gods will indeed but it is in the dark and shews when they go about to do them