Selected quad for the lemma: nation_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nation_n	cup_n	drink_v	fornication_n	1,286	5	11.0334	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82585	The two olive trees: or, The Lords two anointed ones, which alwayes stand before Him, the ruler of the whole earth, Zach. 4. Described also Rev. 11. by the names of [brace] two witnesses, two olive trees, two candlesticks, two prophets. [brace] And shewing what they are in their own true nature, differing from all the new fancied ones, and in what manner they alwayes prophesie. How they are said to finish their testimony. How they were to be killed by the Beast, and when. How long their corps should lie in the streets of the Beasts great citie, dead and unburied. And when the spirit of life from God should enter into them, and they stand upon their feet again. And what great things should follow after the same to the end, and thence for ever. Published according to order.	I. E.	1645 (1645)	Wing E13; Thomason E270_1; ESTC R212360	37,813	48

two Witnesses that notwithstanding all whatsoever the Beast could doe against them they should prophesie the 1260 dayes even every one of the dayes of those fourty two months of the Beasts reigne and the Gentiles treading the holy Citie under foot yet did he not limit their prophecying in Sackcloth within the compasse of those dayes Neither is there a word in all the Scripture to such purpose onely their being killed by the Beast and their corps lying dead in the street of his Sodomiticall Citie c. are limited within that time as we shall see hereafter Neither is it said in the Text the Beast which descendeth into the deep shall make warre against them and kill them but the Beast which ascendeth from the deep c. implying plainly that he should make warre against them and kill them at his ascending or rising or soone after and not at his descending or downfall And that the finishing their testimony here spoken of was to bee before the Beast should rise which we are here duly to consider of as a thing that we ought to know and understand And therefore the Lord foreshewed saying And when they have finished their testimony the Beast which ascendeth from the depth shall make warre against them and kill them That is to say when the holy Prophets Apostles and Evangelists had finished their course written down all whatsoever they had seen and heard from the Lord concerning his two Wils Testaments according as they were guided by the holy Ghost and especially his second or last Will of grace and peace by Jesus Christ His wonderfull conception birth life death resurrection from the dead foretold also by the Prophets His ascension into heaven and his sending the holy Ghost unto them the Spirit of truth to lead them into all truth and to enable them to prophesie through the sevenfold gifts thereof Of Iohn the Baptist who was that Elias which God promised to send before the great and terrible day of the Lord should come the day of judgement and wrath and how he cried out unto the people of Israel and so unto all the world in the spirit and power of Elias requiring every man with strong perswasions great sorrowfulnesse of heart much lamentation and many teares to repent that they might obtaine the forgivenesse of their sinnes through faith in the Messiah the Mediator and Messenger of the Covenant who was now also come to his Temple Which voice of this Elias crieth out unto us all even to this day that we should repent that we may receive also the forgivenesse of our sinnes by faith in Christ lest in that great day when he commeth in power and glory we perish in his wrath and he smite the earth with a curse And how Christ himselfe also preached saving Repent for the Kingdome of heaven is at hand Repent and beleeve the Gospel with many other heavenly Doctrines and most true and gracious sayings And of all his wondrous workes and the things he had foreshewed them should come to passe Of the destruction of Jerusalem and wrath upon that people Of false Christs and false Prophets that should arise Of great tribulation that should befall the Church of Christ during the time of his personall absence And of the signes of his comming and end of the world And after his death and resurrection how hee opened their understandings and among many other heavenly things that he spake of and foreshewed them said unto them Thus it is written and thus it behoved Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day and that repentance and remission of sinnes should be preached in his Name among all Nations beginning at Jerusalem And then last of all this book of the Revelation wherein many great mysteries that were sealed up and no man in heaven nor on earth was found worthy to open but the Lamb that was slain are by him revealed 1. The estate of his Church in her primitive time 2. And what her great enemies should be and what shee was to suffer at their hands The first being the great red Dragon Satan reigning in the Pagan Emperours by whose bloody persecutions shee was forced to flie into the wildernesse to escape from his fury as in Rev. 12.3 4 5 6 c. described in Rev. 6.4 by a red horse and one fitting on him that should take peace from the earth The second that of Arius and his followers whose blasphemous doctrines and malicious persecution against those that opposed the same continued five months of years as in Rev. 9.2 3 4 5. described by a black horse Rev. 6.5 The third this of the Beast and his false prophets and whorish Church of whose abominations and filthinesses of the cup of her fornications Kings Princes and people of all Nations have been made to drink and became drunken committing fornication with her and so their souls became lost for ever And her selfe also becomming daily drunken with the blood of the Saints and Martyrs of Jesus Christ whose bodies she killed because they would not drink of her cup nor commit fornication with her All which being to continue fourty and two months of years as Rev. 11.2 Rev. 13.5 described also in Revel 6. by a pale horse c. ver 8. Then what plagues should bee powred out upon them all for their murders and wickednesse And what and when should bee their end and how great their condemnation And which exceeds all for the comfort of the Church of Christ which was to suffer all these things at her enemies hands how shee should bee delivered from her so great and violent oppressions And what and how great things her Lord hath prepared for her and promised and foreshewed her especially in this booke of the Revelations to be inherited of her for eternity in the world to come when he shall appeare in his glory So the holy Prophets and Apostles and Evangelists having from the Lord perfected his two Testaments which are his two Witnesses they having thus finished their testimony which was never to done before nor from thence forth could ever bee so done after and which might therefore rightly be called Finishing their Testimony and also because no man nor Angel from heaven might or may preach any thing as the testimony of Gods two Witnesses or his Oracles but what is written and contained in them it being the whole counsell of God So I say they having thus finished their testimony and they being prophecying in the plain demonstration of the Spirit and of power turning the hearts of Gods elect to repentance that they might be justified from their sinnes by faith through his grace in Christ which by the Spirit and word of reconciliation was ministred to their broken and contrite hearts And also by the same Spirit and power convincing the wicked perishing world of sinne of righteousnesse and of judgement Of judgement because the prince of this world whom they serve and obey he