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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	david_n	samuel_n	saul_n	1,780	5	9.7755	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01718	A discourse of the subtill practises of deuilles by vvitches and sorcerers By which men are and haue bin greatly deluded: the antiquitie of them: their diuers sorts and names. With an aunswer vnto diuers friuolous reasons which some doe make to prooue that the deuils did not make those aperations in any bodily shape. By G. Gyfford.	Gifford, George, d. 1620.	1587 (1587)	STC 11852; ESTC S103141	49,907	72

it hath alwayes bin the manner of couseners and flatterers to tell Kinges of prosperous and good successe and to speake pleasaunt things Wherefore do couseners and flatterers practise their lewdenesse but for fauour and gaine Can any be fit for such a purpose which is so foolishe as to tell a King that hee shall be destroyed Was this Kinge Saul growne contemptible and of no power Wee may see in the Historie that hee was of greate force and dealte cruelly For he destroyed Nob the Citie of the Priestes with the edge of the sworde hee persecuted Dauid and had many to set him on durste now a poore woman dispise him Was the forme of words vsed by Samuel so commonlie bruted abroade and in euerye mans mouth that the verie Witch had it so perfectlie Men will not speake that which is against the King to his dishonor in the dayes that he liueth If those wordes of Samuel were publikly spread among the people yet they were not beleeued but of the smalest part this is plainely proued by this that after the death of Saul the most of the Tribes of Israel did not admitte of Dauid whome Samuel had anoyn●…ed but cleaue vnto the house of Saul and made warre Dauid was now in Banishmente fled out of the Countrye there was no shewe that he should be King and yet in this speeche vnto Saull it is said expresly God will rend the kingdome from out of thy hande and giue it to Dauid I doubt not but whosoeuer considereth these thinges and is not wilfully bent to maintaine his owne conceite hee will confesse that this was the Deuill who knoweth what God speaketh by his Prophetes and is right sure it will come to passe Whereas the most part of men neuer regarde what the Lord hath spoken The Deuill did speake vnto Eua out of the Serpent A thing manifest to prooue that Deuils can speake vnlesse we immagine that age hath made him forgetfull and toungue tyde Some holde that there was no visible Serpent before Eua but an inuisible thing described after that manner that we might be capable therof The reasons which are brought for proofe are more then friuolous and therefore I will but briefely touche them It was the Deuill himselfe and not a snake which seduced Eua that is moste true For who doth maintaine that the beast was any more but the outward ininstrument which the Deuill vsed This instrument was not a snake but one of the greater beastes For Nachash doth not onely signifie a snake but also the beaste which is called a serpent Whereof there be diuers kindes and some greater then other Behemoth are beastes among which wormes are not reckoned and this Serpent is matched with them as one of them When it is saide thou art cursed aboue euerye beaste It is further saide that if heere by the name Serpent were ment both the Deuill and a beast the holy ghost would haue made some distinction that we might bee enformed as though it were such an absurdity to set foorth the story as it did at that time appeare vnto Eua and to comprehend vnder the name of that which was visible knowne being the instrument the chiefe worker who was vnknowne invisible Eua did not as yet know of the fall of Angels shee knew no name of Deuill or Sathan she did not vnderstande that there was a Deuill no doubt God did instruct both Adam and Eua that there was another besides that visible serpent when he promised them victory by Christ further this is obiected that the Deuill is called a Serpent by an Allegorie and therefore what necessity to take it there of a beast I answere that the Deuil indeed is by a metaphor called a serpent in many places of holy scripture But doth it therefore follow that in this place was no●…e but hee The storye doth plainely euince that he couering his practise by the beaste and vsing him for his instrument hath euer after the same name giuen vnto him And for learned interpretors of that Historie as Maister Clauine and others what iugling is it to alleage some of their sayings contrarie vnto their meanings which do very well accorde with this that the Deuill spake out of a beast indeede It is thought a poore Snake shoulde not haue the cursse layde vppon him for how coulde hee be guilty of anye sinne This cannot stande with the iustice of GOD. I aunswere that Maister Painter hath deceaued many which take it to be a Snake and touching this beaste the serpent it standeth with the iustice of God that he should be accursed aboue euery beast He is an ignoraunt man that knoweth not that euery beast and the very earth it selfe had a cursse laide vpon them for mans sinne they did not offend but were made for mans sake Then if God in iustice layde a cursse vppon them as to saye it were not 〈◊〉 iustice because they did not sinne were blasphemie how shoulde it seeeme straunge that God should cursse the Serpent aboue euery beaste who was the instrument of mans fall though hee knewe not what hee did But to let those goe this is the chiefe and principall for the matter which I haue vndertaken to shewe euen by the very storye that there was not onely the Deuill but also a very corporall beaste If this question bee demaunded did Eua knowe there was anye Deuill or anye wicked reprobate Angels What man of knowledge will say that she did She did not as yet knowe good and euill She knewe not the authour of euill When the Lorde sayde the Lord said vnto hir What is this which thou hast done she answereth by and by The serpent deceiued me Shee saw there was one which had deceiued hir shee nameth him a serpent whence had she that name for the deuill whome shee had not imagined to hee It is plaine that she speaketh of a thing which had before this receiued his name It is yet more euident by that she sayth yonder serpent or that serpent for she not●…th him out as pointing to a thing visible for she vseth the demonstratiue particle He in the Hebrew language which seuereth him from other Anie man of a sound mind maye easilie see that Eua nameth and pointeth at a visible beast which was nombred among the Beastes of the fielde The cursse is directed to both vnder one because they were ioyned in one touching the worke some thing in it cannot belong to the Serpent as the victory by Christ Likewise no allegorie can well mollifie some speeches to apply them vnto a spirite as to goe vppon his brest to eate dust all the daies of his life then we see that Deuils can speake And the Deuill did speake out of a man Act. 19. for the holy ghost doth affirme it There were saith Sainct Luke certaine of the runnagate Iewes which were exorcistes that tooke vppon them to name ouer those that had euill Spirites the name of the Lorde Iesus saying wee