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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	antichristian_a	true_a	zion_n	20	3	9.5376	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72235	A ioyfull continuance of the commemoration of the most prosperous and peaceable reigne of our gratious and deare soueraigne lady Elizabeth, by the grace of God of England, Fraunce and Irelande, Queene, &c. nowe newly enlarged with an exhortation applyed to this present tyme / set foorth this xvii day of Nouember beyng the fyrst day of the xxi yeere of Her Maiesties said reigne, by Edw. Hake ... ; hereunto is added a thankesgiuing of the godly, for Her Maiesties prosperitie hitherto, with an earnest desire of the longe continuance of the same to Gods glory and our comfort.	Hake, Edward, fl. 1560-1604.	1578 (1578)	STC 12605.5; ESTC S5243	18,271	54

and cannot deuayle in them bearinge rule in earth ouer the children of men what praise is due vnto thée from those vnto whome thou leauest not an Anarchy and headlesse dissolution as to the Cánibals a monstrous and misshapen gouernment and flaminge with fyre and streaminge with bloud and smoking with mist and darknesse of error and ignoraunce as to the Antichrists greased in the browe with the marke of the Image of the great Beast whoor of Babilon not a waste and barbarous perpetuall heathen cōtricion as vnto the Tartarian hoords of cursed Cham vnto the Rusty and wasted with misery th' inhabitants of Meschech or to the Turbulent and rauenous swarmes and hosts of Tubal-Gog or such lyke as those but contrarywise whome thou leadest like a flocke of shéep by the hands of Moyses and Aaron and hast chosen Dauid thy seruaunt whom thou hast loued to feede as the people of thine owne Inheritaunce geuing vnto thē for war peace for inciuilytie socyetie for ignoraunce knowledge for supersticion religion for errour truth for hunger plenty for vnproudiency polycie for dissonancye harmony for myserie felicyty making them to dwell in safetie as vnder the wings of thy defence and shadow of thy protection Now such hath ben thy mercy towards vs that no tongue is able to expresse in geuinge vs in thy gracious plesure thine vnrecountable largesse and liberalitie thy select Seruant Elizabeth Quéene and supreme gouernesse to vs of the liege Nations and peoples of her obeysaunce and regiment that as by a star the light and influence ouer thinges beneth frō thée the first cause and fowntaine of brightnesse not to be attayned vnto and as by a cléere riuer and plentifull brooke the course of the waters from thée the euerlasting head spring euen so the shininge beames and flowing streames of all those thy mercies and good gifts hath ben and are sithence the daies of her happye and gracious gouernment from thée conuaied and devolued vnto vs And we that before were no people not so much in regarde of the state in which wée haled when we were sauadge as wood men cruell as Mendeuourers terrible as spirites brutishe as beastes in the olde age at the first callinge home of our grand Auncestors to human ciuilitye but in these daies in few yeeres degenerate from the true knowledge of thée and thy sonne Iesus Christ vnto the consuminge nakednesse of idolatrie and playinge inordinat before the golden Calfe of our owne making and our priestes now the eightenth sunne most happely enuironeth in the firmamēt sithence by the meanes of a poore vessell of the weaker sex a selly mayden thou perfourming the gloryous delyuerance of thy people out of the thraldome and slauerye of Pharao Egipt dyddest annoynt the Kings daughter with an holy oyle setting a crown of pure golde vpon her head and inuesting her with the purple and Scepter and regal Diademe of this Realme Sithence which time O Father we owe to thée and to her our God and our Moyses the sight of this light the vse of this ayre the ease of our hartes the peace of our consciences the whole worke of our welfare By her inspired by thée spreding her beames at her appearing the bloudy lawnces claunching Murreans and redoublinge shieldes haue ben shattered asunder in shiuers and bated and foyled into mattokes and spades the flames of our furies quenched and put out and the coole of grace flowed ouer the realme the Lion reconciled with the Lambe the wilde Asse set to be pastured with the seely Kyd the abhomynation of desolation remoued from the holy temple and the sun of man exalted and lifte vp on high in his owne kingdom for all that were stonge by the fiery serpēt to looke vpon and be saued In admyrable lenytie Babylon hath put on Syon Egypt is become our owne Rahab the harlot denizoned in Ierusalem wee become of the wilde olyues the true garden plants of Ismael Israell of miscreant christian of paynim protesting and professing of Antichristian Romanest heathen idolaters faithfull euangelycall sincerely beleeuing worshipers of thée in spirit and verytie according to thy holy worde Neither hath cost ben spared nor occasiō fores●owd nor time ouer passed nor trauel intermitted to rayse that was fallen to win that was witholden to call that was strayed to heale that was wurryed to finde that was lost to restore that was ruined to repayre that was decaied to make good and enhable that was abandoned Preachers haue bene sent forth plenteously Lawes haue ben executed mercyfully Orders haue bene set downe polytickly dangers haue ben declyned discretly tumultes haue bene apeased victoryously the whole spacious dominyons of both Iles and the adiacent Landes gouerned triumphantly So as it is harde to finde the man that more orderly hath manedged the charge of any one houshold then the Daughter of thy house with her virginall hands hath welded the weightye scepter of sundry and mighty populous nations Inher time hath béen seen the golden yéeres of the reigne of her Father Dauid and the peacefull kingdome of Salomon to haue ben aduanced The earth not to haue denied her fruitfulnes the sea her encrese the clowdes their drops the heauens their fayrenesse the sun his warmth the yeare her goodnesse But the valleys stand thicke with corne the wyldernesse crowned with gladnesse the furrous watred the mountaines laugh sing the folds full of sheepe our sonnes and daughters grow vp like to the polished corners of the Temple our yongmen sée visions and our olde men prophecy Hierusalē her light shining vnto her and the glory of the Lorde rysen vnto her The Quéene bringing her honor vnto the citie of Dauid and the nations walkinge in the light thereof Great is the honour the thou hast heaped vpon vs and honourable in foreine regions is the work that thou hast wrought by thy chosen Yea and so much the more hath the brightnes of this bewty ben powred abroad that whiles Egipt round about hath bene darkned euen the whole world in a manner besides vs whom thou hast gathered into pastures of this Gosen and the thicke mistes of errour hath blinded the eyes of the earth the cloudy piller hath not departed from vs by the day nor the fiery flame by night Whiles other lands round about haue warred to the destructiō of one another our Moyses hath guided vs in peace whiles other nations lyke Egipt rounde about hath béen plaged by the destroyer from the first borne syttinge vpon the princes trone vnto the slaue grindyng at the handmyll our Moyses hath not deminished of her flocke whiles the firme landes haue bene ouerwhelmed by the rage of the seas and waters our Iland hauing dwelt in peace in peace hath sent her ships into Opher for golde and prepared her nauye against the daunger of the enemie Whiles Athalia hath murdered her owne blood our Ioas hath learned the lawe of the Lord of Iehoiada Whiles Achaz consecrateth his owne sonne in the fier