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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	apostle_n	church_n	spirit_n	3,973	5	5.1707	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80058	A whip of small cords, to scourge Antichrist (sitting in the temple of God, and exalting himself above, and opposing himself against all that is called God) out of the temple of God; and clearing up the way for the receiving in of the Lord Jesus Christ in his glorious power in and over the church; now exercised in the working of miracles, gifts of healings, and other extraordinary gifts. With the knot at the end of the whip. Whereunto is added, the sheerer sheer'd, and casheer'd; the shaver shav'd, & the grinder ground. By Matthew Coker, being apostolicus propheta, & propheticus apostolus; ut baptista severus, Christi præcursor; baptismate spiritûs baptizatus; Antichristi & antispiritûs antithetos oppositus; necnon angelus: non evanus, (qui vanus) sed evangelicus.	Coker, Matthew.	1654 (1654)	Wing C4990; Thomason E745_5; ESTC R207060	6,711	15

A Whip of small cords To scourge ANTICHRIST Sitting in the Temple of God and exalting himself above and opposing himself against all that is called God Out of the Temple of GOD AND Clearing up the way for the receiving in of the Lord JESUS CHRIST in his glorious power in and over the Church now exercised in The Working of Miracles Gifts of Healings and Other extraordinary Gifts WITH The Knot at the end of the Whip Whereunto is added The Sheerer sheer'd and casheer'd The Shaver shav'd the Grinder ground By MATTHEW COKER being Apostolicus Propheta Propheticus Apostolus ut Bapt sta severus Christi praecursor Bapt●smate Sp●r●tûs baptizatus Antichristi Antispiritûs ant●thetos oppositus necnon Angelus n●n Evanus qui vanus sed Evangel●cus Lonndon Printed by James Cottrel on Addle-hill 1654. WHereas some persons curiously wise have taken upon themselves to be the onely-best interpreters of those most sacred gifts of God's holy Spirit which none can so well judge of or understand as he or they that have received a greater measure of that same Spirit and been made thereby partakers in some sort of some Gifts at least likewise I therefore who as the works best testifie of me have received the power of working Miracles and the gifts of Healings have thought fit hoping to be soonest heard to speak both experimentally and knowingly And my Method shall be in resolution of Questions in this Age proposed or that haply may be proposed and answering Objections which have been or may be made unto or against the same Quest 1 Whether the Gifts in the Apostles times be in our times Answ The Gifts in the Apostles times being the gifts of Gods Spirit as recited in Chap. 12. of the first Epistle to the Corinthians have extremely abated since the division of us and Rome that is of us living in the Jurisdiction of the Church of England and them under the Papal power usurped over the Church of Rome and so the spirit of Unity having much ceased in that respect between Churches at home and abroad and the spirit of Division having advanced it self the faith of Christians through want of true Charity hath been much weakned to the great disabling of them in the receiving of those great Gifts which the Apostles inflamed in holy flames of Love and Zeal for the Truth even unto the death received in their time and men neerest approaching unto them in several Ages since have according to the great measure of God's Spirit imparted to them and their great care in not resisting the motions of that blessed Spirit received gifts measurably answering to the Grace given and received Quest 2 Then none can have those gifts but he or they that have such grace given Answ None can For it is not an injunction and command to men to believe so far as to the obtaining of those Gifts it is enough to believe to salvation Quest 3 How then is it that they can be received Answ As I said By grace given that is that God through his Son Head of the Church is pleased by his Son through the Spirit of him to convey when he pleaseth that faith in the ninth verse of the former Chapter which brings man within the capacity of receiving of those gifts and exercising the same by vertue of our Saviours affirmation But observe here is not his command If you beleive the things that I do you shall do also and greater things then these Quest 4 Are not miracles ceased according to the opinion of the Church of England Answ Yea according to the opinion of many they have ceased but according to the faith of the Church it cannot be presumed that any member will say Those gifts are ceased which are in Christ the head from that time especially that he ascended into heaven and so ever since Ceased indeed as to the great operation there was in the Apostles time as yet they have but ceased so as never to be again exercised in the Church of God will sure be maintained by none that believe That that same Spirit shall be given more and more in the later days till Time's last day after which in Eternity we shall live in and by the full measure of that Spirit for ever Quest 5 What hath the common received opinion been touching Miracles ceased Answ By wise men in this sense As when night comes we say day ceaseth till the Sun returns again to the East so in the night of Ignorance Schism and Division times of Error and black Darkness in the Church the Truth ceaseth to shine in its pure lustre and the Spirit of God hath not its perfect visible operation in and over the face of the Church till the Sun of righteousness which hath been long set in the firmament of the Church in respect of the great wane of light which the Apostles had shall arise oriently and purely to the bringing in at last of the perfect day But that being come or neer his full approach to the high noon-tide of Gospel-light Ignorance Schism c. are dispersed and vanish quite away into the bottomless pit back into the smoke again from whence they ascended up and then those gifts appear more and more as fast as the contrary flee away Quest 6 Whether it hath been held that gifts of Healings in the Church have ceased Answ That was never held but by those curiously-wise persons who have by Sophisms laboured to prove Miracles and Healings all one which is as accursed as the separating of that which God hath conjoyned And that Miracles that is as the text saith working of Miracles and Gifts of Healings are not all one appears first by the wisdom of God whose Word puts them distinctly which otherwise it would not it rather for the most part speaking with the greatest brevity so far as may be and yet avoid too great obscurity And here if Miracles and Healings be all one then Miracles are Healings and Healings Miracles But that cannot be for that act that makes the Lame to go immediately is much different from the laying on of hands which on a wound being placed conveys immediately vertue but heals not up under many days or weeks sometimes according to the quality of the wound So that that wound which by Plaister requires long time will also proportionably by that Gift take long time but yet ordinarily cures within half the time the other doth So that such healings though miraculous are not in themselves Miracles for that such healings may usually are effected by Physick and by Plaister But yet as to this they are Miracles in that touching the maner and way of cure they are healed without such means and that by laying on of hands the form and way in the Apostles days of conveying the holy Ghost on believers and the form and maner always of exercising the gifts of Healings proceeding by and from that self-same Spirit Quest 7 What is to be conceived