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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	baal_n	zeal_n	zealous_a	48	3	9.4198	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89271	An explicite declaration of the testimony of Christ according to the plain sayings of the Gospel: and therein, of the purposes, promises, and covenants of God, as by Gospel declared. With, a consideration of a question stated about faith. By Thomas Moore, Senior.	Moore, Thomas, Senior.	1656 (1656)	Wing M2593B; ESTC R231372	616,621	754

a whoring after their Gods and God delivered them often into the hands of their Oppressors yet in mercy ever and anon in their distresses be raised them up Saviours or Judges So after the time of the Apostles and first Witnesses and the time of the Churches next succeeding them according as the Apostles had foretold wolves did enter in among them and men speaking perverse things rose up among them and something now they inclined to adorn them with the Wisdom and Learning of the Gentiles in Philosophy and other such-like Arts and excellency of Speech as the Gentiles gloried in and likewise with such worldly Excellencies and Superiorities and Dignities for Church-Order and Offices as might suit the same and so humane Traditions and Superstitions begun to spring up and God deeply chastned them and suffered the Enemies to load them with many Persecutions yet in their cries he still gave them some Deliverances and preserved to them many good and faithful Teachers 4. After those troublous times of Israel God gave them more peaceable times with the enjoyment of the purity of his worship in the days of Samuel Saul David Solomon his worshipping right to Judah in following Kings Raigns for a time so God was pleased after terrible Persecutions to give to the Christian Churches rest and peace in the time of Constantine and some other Emperours and Kings after him so as the Churches began for to encrease and flourish both East and West for a time 5. After Israel had long enjoyed these flourishing times they grew full and fell into Divisions and then ten Tribes rent from the House of David and fell to superstition in worshipping Jeroboam's Calves and after to more gross Idolatry in worshipping Baal till they were carried away into Captivity and are not yet returned but Iudah still worshipped the true God though polluted with many defilements of Israel's Superstition so the Christian Churches after a while of enjoyment of these flourishing times grew full and through pride and covetousness of their Bishops aspiring for pre-eminence fell into many Sects and Divisions and what Divisions in Churches and between the Churches East and West is by many recorded till many Churches that were famous in the first times had their Candlesticks removed and Mahometans now possess their place and they are not to this day restored The other Churches specially Westward still retained the Faith though defiled with many humane inventions and superstitions 6. After Israel's Captivity yet Iudah repented not of the defilements among them but though for a while continuing with God yet by degrees they fell to provoke him so with their Idolatries that he caused them also to be carried away Captive to Babylon for threescore and ten yeers so also after the removal of so many Churches Eastward the remaining Churches VVestward did not repent of their defilements with humane inventions and superstitions nor of the pride and covetousness of their Bishops and though for a time they held the Faith yet by degrees they fell to more superstitions so as they provoked God and made way for the Man of sin till he got his Seat in the Temple of God and therewith a worldly power also and so exaited himself above all that hath Imperial Majesty and so God being provoked left the outward Court into the hands of the Gentiles and being filled with Idolatry and Superstition the Holy City is by them trodden under foot 1260 yeers all which time the VVitnesses prophesie in Sack-cloth and all the upright are as Captives in Babylon mysterious Babylon 7. The Jews after their first coming out of Babylon they set on building the Temple and worshipped God according to the express and plain import of the Letter or VVords of the Law and were commended for it and encouraged by the Prophets and so they prospered for a time so the Christians after the first coming forth from the gross darkness delusions and Tyranny of the Man of sin endeavoured collection and reformation of Churches and held forth the Gospel according to the express and plain import of the Letter or words of the Scripture and for a time though in persecution they prospered and the word of the Lord grew and encreased 8. After this the Jews fell no more to the Idolatry of Jeroboam or of Baal nor to any willing or openly professed Idolatry of the Heathen yea they were zealous against it but in their zeal they ran into many over-strict Interpretations of some part of the Law and over-loose in some other parts of it and found out many Inventions and Devices pretending to Humility Devotion and Holiness which they took on them to observe and so by Tradition kept them appearing herein very holy and all that did not know and yield up to the same they counted as sinners publicans and prophane And thus they continued though under the Roman power till the coming of Jesus Christ So after the coming forth from the Man of sin these reformed Churches fall no more to such gross Idolatries but testifie against it yet with their humane Learning and Wisdom they content not themselves with the plain sayings of the Gospel but study and strain for Interpretations and so have framed by their School-Arts such appearing-exquisite Opinions and Rules also for Church-Government and certain Observations pretending to great strictness zeal devotion and holiness which taken up as a Tradition from one to another must be maintained and observed and they that do not observe the same are counted either factious or prophane And thus they continue till neer the coming of Christ 9. After the Jews had some Generations walked thus God sent among them John the Baptist in the Spirit and power of Elias the immediate fore-runner of the Lord's first coming by whom the way of the Lord was prepared and many discipled for the acknowledgement of him but those zealous ones received him not but rejected him though divers Sects among themselves Pharisees Sadduces and Herodians c. So after the reformed Churches have some Generations continued thus God stirs up some of his Servants to declare the Testimony of Christ plainly in the three forementioned Branches and therein the Love of God to Mankinde with the Priviledges of Believers and so to call to Repentance of the Doctrines and precepts of Men and to receive the Testimony of Christ and look for his coming and some here and there do imbrace it but very few of the wise and zealous Observers of the Doctrines and Traditions of their Fathers will receive it but oppose it earnestly though many divisions among them 10. When the Jews had had their time and God dealt thus with them and their sin ripened in opposing John c. then came Jesus Christ among them but these great Ones opposed him also so when the Gentiles have had their time and God hath dealt thus with them and their sin is grown ripe in such opposition of light then comes Jesus Christ personally with all his