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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nation_n	church_n	king_n	rule_v	1,351	5	9.4691	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48465	The lamb calling his follovvers to retirement Being a gumble enquiry into the duty of churches, ministers, and all that fear the Lord, under the present dispensation of God. By one that would be found (though unworthy) the Lords witness and servant, and of all his saints.	One that would be found the Lords witness and servant.	1662 (1662)	Wing L213A; ESTC R221678	38,215	130

Poland France Ireland c. of late years and the death that the whole Work of Christ is under at this day it being clear that when the last slaughter is past and the lying dead three days and an half is over in the Witnesse resurrection that then they ascend●… to Heaven into a state of Liberty Power and Glory from which they fall no more but the seventh Angel sounds and the third Wo cometh upon the World the last Plagues to be executed upon the Antichristian World and Voices are heard in Heaven amongst the Churches proclaiming the Lord Jesus King of Nations for that upon the resurrection of the Witnesses and sounding of the seventh Angel the Lord Jesus comes forth to take to himself his great Power and to reign to contest with the Horns about his Soveraignty to rule the Nations with a Rod of Iron breaking them in pieces as a Porters Vessel at which time as some eminent Witness of the Lord have well stated it The little Stone cut out without hands the separated Saints in the Nations begins in a more especial manner to smi●e the Image Dan. 2. 39. for the Stone begins to smite upon the feet of the Image the last part of the Roman Monarchy which roes upon the feet ver 41. are the s●me with the ten Horns as Dan. 7. And the Stone smiting breaking in pieces consuming the Kingdoms as the Spirit of God opens the meaning of the Stone and its smiting v. 44. And in the dayes of these Kings shall the God of Heaven set up a Kingdom the Kingdom of the Stone which shall never be destroyed and the Kingdom shall not be left to oth●r people but it shall break in pieces and consume all these Kingdoms and it shall stand for ever is interpreted further in the Vision that Daniel himself had of the same thing ch 7. 22. 26 When Judgement is given to the Saints of the Most High And ver 26. The Judgement shall sit the Saints judging the ten-horned Beast and his Kingdom and they shall take away his Dominion to consurne and to destroy it unto the end But I do but hint here what I may give a further account of in due time to remove the stumbling-blocks that lie in the way of many of the Lord's People as to this glorious truth But I return to my enquiry which is that I humbly judge that the last slaying of the Witnes●es was not about the time mentioned for the reasons hinted and others might be given but rather that great sore blow upon the Protestant Interest to be fixed upon that foot of account namely of the Beast making war with the Saints and overcoming them Rev. 13. 7. which War from the time of the Waldensian people he hath been carrying on and overcome them And so in Bohemia Germany c upon which Word are all the former Wars and Victories of the Beast to be stated and not in reference to the last slaughter when the Beast makes War with the Witnesses and kills them and overcomes them which is after a full testimony hath been finished to all the Offices Work and Kingdom of our Lord Jesus and then the Beast such as are in the Spirit of the Beast and influenced by him rise up by the wise and holy permission and ordering of the Lord to bring about his own glorious design and slay the Testimony lay it dead especially in a civil sence in that tenth part of the City where the killing most eminently is which is where the most eminent Testimony for the Kingdom of Christ is the Spirit hath been of any of the Nations and so all publike prophesying in an ordinary way and with an allowed liberty becomes cut off the publike assembling of Churches supprest in that tenth part of the City so that the Work Kingdom of Jesus Christ being likely to arise a few years since in the apprehension of most of the Saints and to the terror of the Nations lo it is laid dead say the sons of Babylon we wil so bury it that it shall rise no more though that will be found their great error I might ●●stance the Judgement of several ancient holy Witnesses of Christ who are now in the same apprehension as to this dispensation we are under of some who in the highest day of our prosperity a few years since spake of it as to come upon us also as is humbly judg'd by som worthy servants of the Lord at this day that a more then ordinary discovery revelation hath been given forth to a worthy Minister of Christ some others that this is the 3. days a half in which the witnesses are to lie dead which I think meet only to hint at this time But if so then the Word of the Lord is Go and dye as to ordinary publike Prophesying and 't is the wisdom of the Saints to submit to the Dispensation of God and to be content even to lye as dead men in a civil sence till the spirit of life from God enter and a voice be heard in the providential workings of the Lord Come up hither Rev. 11. 12. And let it be soberly considered whether the contrary practice be not to cross the very design of the Lord at this day and to ruine the Churches and whole Interest of Jesus Christ whose res●rrection and restauration we are patiently to wait for Yea whether this be the last slaying or not 't is worthy a serious Judgement to consider That in the several Ages of Persecucion from the Apostles dayes unless where some have been carryed forth by an extraordinary impulse of Spirit the Professors and Churches of Christ met together in such a way as might most probably ●●nd to their preservation in a private and retired way in the best Wisdom they could as the Disciples John 20 19. they were assembled in an upper Room for fear of the Jews And the Church of Hierusal●m s●att●red abroad in parties in the several Provinces upon the Persecution Acts 8. when they began to be hal●d to prison from their Meetings and those that remained kept in a private way Acts 12. And so we find the Christians assembling secretly by night as they had opportunity As that Congregation that continued together in Q. Mary's dayes in London and kept up their Meetings secretly and were wonderfully preserved in that day though as I may presently shew 't is hard to give out any general absolute Rule in this case But 't is certain this was their ordinary practice The reasons hereof have been spoken to It may further be added that in such a retired way they shall not so much dare and provoke the civil Magistrate to greater wrath against them and not lay a stumbling block in their way but seem more to walk in the meekness of Jesus Christ and 't is the liberty that Jesus Christ doth indulge them and answers his promise of preserving and being a Sanctuary to