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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nation_n	lord_n	people_n	zion_n	1,583	5	9.6197	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06118	A true chronologie of the times of the Persian monarchie, and after to the destruction of Ierusalem by the Romanes Wherein by the way briefly is handled the day of Christ his birth: with a declaration of the angel Gabriels message to Daniel in the end of his 9. chap. against the friuolous conceits of Matthew Beroald. Written by Edvvard Liuelie, reader of the holie tongue in Cambridge.	Lively, Edward, 1545?-1605.	1597 (1597)	STC 16609; ESTC S108759	129,093	343

thought the verie same and vnderstoode the same world which ended at the comming of Messias to raigne in a new world by the Gospell and for this cause those times betweene the preaching of Christ and Ierusalem destroyed were called the last dayes in the second chapter of the Actes of the Apostles the 17. verse In the last dayes saith God I will powre of my spirit vpon all flesh and in the beginning of the Epistle to the Hebrewes In these last dayes God hath spoken vnto vs by his son These last dayes are all one with the end of the worlde spoken of by the blessed Apostle Paul in his first Epistle to the Corinthians the tenth Chapter eleuenth verse calling that time the ends of the world These things saith he were writtē to admonish vs vpon whome the ends of the world are come and in the Epistle to the Hebrewes the ninth chapter and twentie sixe verse Now in the end of the world hath Christ appeared once to put away sinne by the sacrifice of himselfe That which R. Nehemias said of wickednesse to be multiplied against the comming of Christ is it not in plaine wordes verified by Christ himselfe in the verie same twenty foure Chapter of Mathew the twelft verse giuing this for one token of his comming and the desolation of Ierusalem to be at hand that iniquitie should abound and charitie wax cold If any here demaund how the second comming of Christ can be with any reason referred to the destruction of Ierusalem seeing that it is euident by that verie same twentie foure chapter of Mathew that the comming of Christ to iudgement at the latter day is there described by the suddennes therof by his appearing in the clouds the gathering of the elect with the sound of a trumpet by the doome of the iudge declared in the next chapter where the same argument is continued Come yee blessed of my father inherit yee the kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world depart yee cursed into euerlasting fire which is prepared for the diuel his angels I answere that the second cōming of Christ containeth his whole raigne iurisdiction and iudgement in the Citie of God the heauenly Ierusalem by the gospel preached frō the desolation of the outward earthly Ierusalem when it begun to the end of the world at the resurrection of all flesh so that the destruction of Ierusalem and the latter doome being both included within the time of Christs second comming there is no let but that the comming of Christ may be referred to both to one in regard of the beginning to the other in regard of the end and consummation thereof And this is the cause that Christ there speaking of his second comming blendeth these two together the desolation of Ierusalem and his last iudgement because both pertained to one and the same kingdome of Christ And hereof it is that respecting the beginning of that kingdome in the destruction of Ierusalem wherein hee first appeared a rauenging iudge hee saith that that generation should not passe till all those thinges were fulfilled All one with that in the end of the sixteene chapter of the same Gospel Verily I say vnto you some of them that stand here shall not taste of death till they haue seene the sonne of man come in his kingdome What time was there more fit for an other comming of Christ to fall vnto within one generation from those wordes by him vttered a little before his death then this what time more agreeable to that which after his resurrection hee spake of Iohns tarrying till he came then the downefall of the Iewes estate and the vtter desolation of their Citie common wealth which that Euangelist liued to see It is not vnlike or disagreeing to reason that then should begin the spirituall raigne of Christ ouer all Nations by the preaching of the Gospell when the doctrine of the law with all the ceremonies thereof were vtterly abolished That then shuld begin the heauenly kingdome of Christ whē the earthly kingdom of the Iewes and all their law gouernment was first extinct That then should begin the inward subiection of Gods newe people the elect amongst the Gentiles and the spirituall seruice of GOD when the Iewes outward worship had ceased That then should begin the spirituall Sion and new Ierusalem from heauen when the earthly Sion and olde Ierusalem had no more being According to the saying of Esay the Prophet in his second chapter It shall come to passe in the last daies that the mountaine of the Lords house shall be prepared in the top of the mountaines and shall be exalted aboue the hils and all nations shall flow vnto it And many people shall goe and say Come let vs goe vp to the mountaine of the Lord to the house of the God of Iacob and he will teach vs his wayes and we will walke in his paths for the Law shall goe forth of Sion and the word of the Lord from Ierusalem Where by the high mountaine of the Lords house and the names of Sion and Ierusalem is vnderstoode not any certaine earthly place or materiall citie but the Church of Christ ruled and guided by the preaching of the Gospell Which the Apostle in the fourth chapter of the epistle to the Galathians calleth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is high Ierusalem or Ierusalem which is aboue Alluding to the former prophesie of Esay and opposing the high Ierusalem to the earthly and materiall Ierusalem which begot children of bondage by the law like Agar and mount Sinai there called the new Ierusalem or Ierusalem that now is For as there were two kinds of Iewes spoken of by Paul in his Epistle to the Romanes the second chapter one visible the other secret so there were two Ierusalems one outward by the visible ceremonies of the Law the other in ward by the spirituall graces of the Gospell which is Christ his Church termed the heauenly Ierusalem in the Epistle to the Hebrewes the twelfth chapter and 22. verse This heauenly Ierusalem then begun when the earthly Ierusalem was brought to an end being destroyed by the Romane armie and consumed by fire and the Iewes led captiue and dispersed abroad The preaching of the gospel begun long before the destruction of Ierusalem I confesse euen by Christ himselfe while he liued and continewed after by the apostles for the space of 40. yeares All this is true Yet so as withall the outward and ciuill gouernement of the Iewes common wealth with their ceremoniall seruice and law worship remayned still all that while in the holy citie and temple of God And therefore that preaching of Christ and his apostles so long before seemed rather a preparation to this kingdome of Christ then any perfect beginning thereof According to that manner of preaching vsed by Christ and followed of his apostles Mat. 4.17 Mat. 10.7 repent for the kingdome of God is at hand Meaning that Christ in