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spirit_n	abide_v	able_a	fall_v	39	3	4.9452	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89448	Monarchiæ encomium est sceptrum sive solium justitiâ stabilitum; or a congratulation of the kings coronation, shewing withall, the right way of setling and establishing the kings throne, and causing his crown to flourish upon his head. By way of explication of the first five verses of the 25 chapter of the Proverbs of Solomon, with an application of them to the occurrences of these times, / published by Tho. Malpas preacher of the Gospel at Pedmore in Worcester-shire.	Malpas, Thomas.	1661 (1661)	Wing M341; Thomason E1856_5; ESTC R210373	32,700	77

of divers false Prophets which have been heretofore as the Prophets of Baal 1 Kings 18. and of the Groves four hundred and fifty which fed at Jezabels table The lying Prophets which deceived Ahab 1 Kings 22. The Old Prophet Act. 5. Act. 8. that seduced the young Prophet that was slain by a Lyon 1 Kings 13. Theudas and Judas of Galile Simon the Sorcerer and that deceitful worker Mahomet which taught a Dove to feed at his Ear wherein he had put grains of Corn. And when he was in his fits of the Falling-sickness he told his wife and the rest of his followers that he was a Prophet that the spirit of God fell upon him and that the Angel Gabriel in the form of a Dove came to his Ear and revealed to him secrets from God whose presence he was not able to abide and therefore it was that he prostrated himself and lay in a trance Such a Prophet was one George David born in Freesland who boasted himself to be Gods Nephew and that he was sent from Heaven to chuse and to appoint who should be saved and who should be damned Mr. Smith in his works so reporteth of him Such a Prophet also was James Nayler Lang. Chron. that great ring-leader of the Quakers who gave out these horrible prodigious and blasphemous words that he was the everlasting Son of God Such Prophets were Knox and Buchaman in Scotland who were profest enemies and open opposers both of Monarchial and Episcopal Government Such a Prophet was Paraeus and John Sleidan or John a Leyden in Germany a Tayler-King as he is commonly reported an Arch-Anabaptist a meer effeminate licentious Nicolaitain for he kept many wives together Oh what havock desolation did he and his Disciples bring upon that Church by harboring and entertaining such grosse erronious fancies in their brain that a wicked and godless Magistrate might be deposed and made away For the ordinary preaching of Muncer was this God hath warranted me face to face he that cannot lye hath commanded me to attempt the change of those means even by killing the Magistrate and Phifer his lewd Companion did but dream in the night-time of the killing of many mice and presently interpreted or expounded his dream of murthering the Nobles But these Prophets even all of them came to naught as Theudas and Judas of Galile did in the dayes of the taxing of whom Josephus makes mertion Lib. 20. De Antiqu. Cap. 4. They all perished and as many as followed them or obeyed them were dispersed For the Lord both checketh Act. 5.37 and correcteth and rejecteth such Prophets as these saying Jer. 23.21 I have not sent these Prophets saith the Lord yet they ran I have not spoken to them yet they prophesied And he saith moreover The Prophet that hath a dream let him tell a dream and he that hath my word Ier. 23.28 29. let him speak my word faithfully What is the chaff to the wheat saith the Lord So what is the dross to the silver Is not my word like as a fire saith the Lord Thus the fire of Gods word doth soon prove and find out those false Prophets to be but dross and therefore you see how needful it is to seperate them and take them away from the silver Take away the dross from the silver so take away the wicked from before the King c. I fear I have held you overlong in talking of false Prophets and in taking off the mask and vizard from that dissembling hipocrite that white-skind Devils-face as Luther was used to term the Traytor Judas 2 Covetous and Unjust Iudges dross Wherefore I hasten to the second sort that I named viz. Covetous and Unjust Judges And whether they also may not well be compared to dross judge ye For as the Prophet Esay Sophoclaeo Cothurne in a lofty or in a Courtly stile Esay 1.21 cryeth out and complaineth on the corrupt and degenerate Judges of Judah that were in his time How is the faithful City become an Harlot It was full of Judgment Righteousness lodged in it but now Murderers Here was a strange alteration and a most wonderful Innovation indeed in respect of their life and manners When those that should execute Judgment and declare righteous things to the people did practice nothing else but the contrary Nothing else but mischeif and murder destruction and unhappiness were in their wayes and the way of Peace Truth and Justice they did not know Whereupon the Prophet further upbraideth and accuseth them thus by way of similitude and comparison saying Argentum tuum abijt in scorias merum tuum Inspurcatum est aquâ i. e. thy Silver is become dross thy wine mixt with water thy Princes are rebellious and Companions of Theives Unusquisque amat munus et sectetur retributiones Every one loveth gifts and followeth after rewards And that you may perceive he speaketh directly of coverous and unjust Judges the words following do intimate it unto us They judge not the Fatherless neither doth the Cause of the Widdow come unto them No it seems they were all for money and bribes no just and honest or upright dealing was amongst them no regard or pitty or Commiseration of the poor at all The weakest went to the wall as we say the poor Widdow was despised the Orphane and fatherless Children were set at nought Therefore saith the Lord the Lord of hosts even the mighty God of Israel Eheu ah saith he shaking his head as it were for grief at their great cruelty and oppression and deeply considering of it and laying it to heart Ah saith he I will ease me of mine Adversaies and avenge me of mine enemies And I will turn my hand upon thee Et defaecans scorias tuas Justae puritati restituam te Whereby the Prophets comparison the Lord takes upon him to be an artificial Finer and purifier of silver from dross as Tremelius tells us directly on the Text Ut manu meâ tanquam Artifex eos qui improbi sunt a probis separem refundendo totam Rempublicam velut Adulterinum nummum I will turn my hand upon thee and purely purge away thy dross and take away all thy tin Where by dross and tin he meaneth the wicked and ungodly which are indeed the grosser and the worser mettal and as it were the excrements of gold and silver Restituamque Judices tuos sicut primum And I will restore thy Judges as at the first and thy Counsellors as at the beginning Afterwards saith the Lord i. e. after all this when I have seperated the precious from the vile when I have thus purged thee from thy dross and taken away all thy tin then thy silver shall appear and give shine unto the world For thou shalt be called Civitas Justa et urbs Fidelis The City of Righteousness or the Faithful City Jezabel shall lay aside her witty crafts and her paintings Rohab shall believe and receive the