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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	prayer_n	spirit_n	supplication_n	1,486	5	11.4562	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67805	A short discourse of the truth and reasonableness of the religion delivered by Jesus Christ wherein the several arguments for Christianity are briefly handled ... : unto which is added A disquisition touching the Sibylls and Sibylline writings wherein the objections made by Opsopæus, Isaac Casaubon, David Blondel, and others are examined ... / by another hand.	Yelverton, Henry, Sir, 1566-1629.	1662 (1662)	Wing Y29; ESTC R31870	98,179	176

Justin Martyr is the Ancientest I shall begin with him who proving Christ to be designed of God a Saviour hath these words Now you may learn this from those things which are done under your sight 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Apol. prima pag. 35. For many of our Christian men have cured and do even now cure many possessed with Devils throughout all the world and in this our City forcing and driving the Devils from the men they have hold on by adjuring these Devils by the Name of Jesus Christ who was crucified under Pontius Pilate who could not be recovered by all your Conjurers Inchanters and Witches In his Dialogue with Tryphon the Jew we have him assenting That Christ is the fittest person to be prayed to for the deliverance from being possess'd by unclean spirits because at the very force of his Name the Devils tremble 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dial. cum Tryph. p. 191. and at this day being adjured by the Name of Jesus Christ who was crucified under Pontius Pilate who was Procurator of Judaea they obey A little after telling us what power of doing Miracles Christ gave to the Church he verifies by the power the Church then had 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ib. p. 235. And now saith he we that believe in Jesus Christ our Lord who was crucified under Pontius Pilate adjuring all Devils and unclean spirits have them obedient to us And a little after that I may name no more being angry with Tryphon the Jew for adulterating the prophesies as particularly that of a Virgin conceiving he shews him that our Saviour was to come in a mean manner and yet to do great things The first the Jews know for the second 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ib. p. 243. Now 't is easie to learn from those things which are done in your sight if you will for by the Name of Jesus Christ the son of God the first begotten of all creatures born of a Virgin and being man subject to sufferings and crucified under Pontius Pilate by your people who died rose from the dead and ascended into heaven every Devil being adjured is overcome and subdued All these places are in his Apologie or in his Disputation with the Jew where having to do on the one hand with a potent on the other hand with an impudent and perverse Antagonist 't is not probable to suppose he relates any matter of fact which was not true Iraeneus comes next and him we find urging against Simon and Carpocrates that all the tricks they did were not beneficial but prejudicial to men he proceeds against them negatively and then affirms this miraculous power to be in the Church in his time positively His words are these For they neither can give sight to the blind Nec enim caecit possunt donare visum neque surdis auditum neque omnes Daemones effugare praeter eos qui ab ipsis immittuntur si tamen hoc faciunt Neque debiles aut claudos aut Paralyticos curare vel alia quadam corporis parte vexatos quemadmodum saepe evenit fieri secundum corporalem infirmitatem vel earum quae à foris accidunt infirmitatem bonas valetudines restaurare Tantum absunt ab co ut mortuum excitent quemadmodum dominus excitavit Apostoli per Orationem in fraternitate saepissimè propter necessarium ea quae est in quoquo loco Ecclesia Universa postulante per jejunium supplicationem multam reversus est spiritus mortuo donatus est homo Orationibus Sanctorum ut ne-quidem credant hoc in totum posse fieri esse autem Resurrectionem à mortuis agnitionem ejus quae ab eis dicitur veritatis Iraeneus advers Haereses lib. 2. cap. 56. nor hearing to the deaf neither can they chase away all Devils unless they be those who are put in by themselves if truly they can do that Neither can they cure the weak or the lame or those that are afflicted in any other part of their body which according to bodily infirmity often happens or the infirmity of those which happen without can they restore good health to 'T is so far from them that they should raise the dead as our Lord raised and the Apostles by Prayer and in the Brotherhood often for some necessity the Universal Church which is in every place by fasting and much supplication begging it the spirit is returned to the dead and a man is given to the prayers of the Saints that they do not believe this wholly can be done for that there should be a Resurrection from the dead is the agnition of that truth which is spoken by them And in the next Chapter disputing against the Epicureans and Cynicks and their Miracles which saith he are meerly deceits like to those of Simon Magus yielding no profit to the persons for whom and in whom these works were done being rather Phantasmes then Miracles when our Saviours are evidently so His Resurrection the third day from the dead was firm seen by his Disciples and in their presence he was received into Heaven He thus proceeds But if they say the Lord did those by the appearance of these things Si autem Dominum per Phantasmata hujusmodi fecisse dicunt ad Prophetica reducentes eos ex ipsis demonstrabimus omnia sic Deo praedicta esse facta firmissimè ipsum solum esse filium Dei quapropter in illius nomine qui verè illius sunt Discipuli ab ipso accipientes gratiam perficiunt ad beneficia reliquorum hominum quemadmodum unusquisque accepit donum ab eo Alii onim Daemonas excludunt firmissimè verè ut etiam saepissimè credant ipsi qui emundati sunt à nequissimis spiritibus sint in Ecclesia Alii autem praescientias habent futurorum visiones lectiones Propheticas Alii autem laborantes aliqua infirmitate per manus Impositionem curant sanos restituunt Jam etiam quemadmodum diximus mortui resurrexcrunt perseveraverunt nobiscum annis multis Et quid autem Non est numerum dicere gratiarum qua● per universum mundum Ecclesia à Deo accipiens in nomine Christi Jesu crucifixi sub Pontio Pilato per singulos dies in opitulationem gentium perficit neque seducens aliquem neque pecuniam ei auferens Ibid. cap. 57. bringing them back to the Prophets we will demonstrate out of them that all these things were foretold by God and most truely done and that he only is the Son of God Wherefore in his name they who are truly his Disciples receiving Grace from him are enabled to benefit the rest of men even as every one hath received a gift from him For some cast out Devils most really and truly so that they who are cleansed from these unclean Spirits do often believe themselves and are in the Church Some have the knowledge of things to come Visions and