Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	apostle_n	holy_a	teach_v	2,670	5	6.1174	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08559	The coniectures of the ende of the worlde, translated by George Ioye; Conjecturae de ultimis temporibus ac de fini mundi, ex Sacris literis. English	Osiander, Andreas, 1498-1552.; Joye, George, d. 1553.	1548 (1548)	STC 18877; ESTC S120761	47,723	118

beast For all y ● letters of the Hebrewes designe certaine noumbers as do our Latyn letters M. D. V. C. X. L. signifye our noumbers as M. a thousand C. an hundred c. But with the Hebrewes euery wryting or scri pture euery worde is a certein noumber Now sith this beast by hir comon name in the Hebrew tongue is called the Rhomane kingdom this name kingdō be comon to hir with other beastes it is manifest the very true and proper name of this beast to be Rhomanum imperiū where thou seest how diligent this autor was in his speche to hyde hir name vnder these letters lest mē should then haue espied him to haue spokē of Rome or she had ben reueled by hir owne factis no where openly naming Rome because he wold not at first exasperat hir tyll nowe hi● wickednes be full rype and she hath vttered herself declaring her last deadly wounde in resistyng Gods holye Gospell He calleth thys name of the beaste y e noumber of a man ether because it is a known name whiche all men comonlye vse or els because of a man whiche was Rh●mulus the citie had her fyrst name The greke letters wherewith this noūber ▪ cccccc lxvi is written make also this worde Latinos which name also Virgil geueth to Rhome But the Hebrewe letters make Rhomah whiche signisyeth a proude beast The marke therfor of this name they are sayde to receyue in theyr fore headis which in all theyr vtwarde supersticiouse proude habits and gesture and anon in theyr firste fro●te as they say they shewe it euen in their first prowd solempne countenaunce and hyghe lookis and crownes declare they themselues to be sworne subiectes seruauntes to the Romyshe beast as do these hoo ded fryers and monkes and shorne polled priestes and Bysshops And in theyr ryght handes they bere his mark which by some certayn Popysh workes of hys commaundementes rytes and institucions testifie thēselues to be obedient to y e Pope as in certayne dayes not to eate fleshe to confesse in lent into the priestes eares to misse and mōble vp a payer of matens not vnderstanden c. For vnto suche an vtward kynd shew of obedi ence are they conitrayned anon fro their yougthe For they that haue not suche a mark nor wil not receyue it they be takē as haithē miscreants But yf they contēp ne it then be thei accursed and excluded out of all mens company And yf the comon people wold not estiewe thē then y ● Pope interdicteth theyr churches no diuine seruice there to be sayd ne song And so in dede myght thei nether bye nor sell which had not this Romith beastis bron de Also that we maye somwhat vnderstand of the last end destruccyō of this abominable beast I shal yet bryng forth a fewe mo wordis of the Aungell interpreting this vision saying The x. horns which y u sawest are x. Kynges these shal fyght with the lōb that is they shal persecute y ● true doctrine partly of ignorāce seducte of the Pope and partely for hys money and ayed to do hym pleasures whome they couet greatly to please as now of late doeth Themperour But y e lombe shal ouercome them For he is the Lorde of Lordes and Kyng of Kynges And the called and chosen faythful whiche be with hym shal fight agaynst this beast For Christ shall not fyghte but w t suche instrumentes not with swerd figh tyng but with the worde of God and w t iuste argumentes taken out of the scriptures especyally nowe in thys our tyme wherin after the .xxx. iubiley of the churche Christe beginneth agene to preache as we sayd in the third cōiecture And y e Kynges by litle and litle shalbe ouercomen as euen nowe be many rulers and Kynges ouercomen and with the moost laude and prayse haue they geuen place to the trouth nowe knowne So that there is very good hope the reste also to geue place to the most euydent truth yf we now strōgly fyght with prayers Wherof at last it shall folow that they shall hate thys whore euen the court of Rome for her abominacyons and seduccyons shall make her desolate and naked eate vp her fleshe that is hyr ryches and robbe her of all her possessions and substaūce and burne vp her citie as it was once before burned For God sayth the Aungell hathe geuen it into their hartes so to do his pleasure and to do the same wyll that they shulde geue theyr kingedome to the beast tyll the wordes of god be ended And here oh reader I wolde thou shuldest diligently waye the wordes of the Aungell as they be most worthye to be noted For where before he spake of y e tenne Kynges then to haue one counsell and sentence to delyuer theyr strength power to the beaste he sayth it not to be the counsell and sentence of God but here where he sayth them to robbe y e whore and to burne hir vp with fyer he saieth that this thing god did geue it into their hertis to do the mynde sentence of him For in that thei in tymes past extolled y e pope thei did it by their owne proper pri uate counsell pleasure But where thei a litle after shall spoile and burne hir y t shal thei do by the counsell and pleasure of God Bothe of them yet notwithstanding that is to weit that thei in time past extolled hir and that thei shal robbe hir flowde forth of the hidde iudgemente of God For the first that is that they exal ted reuerenced magnifyed the Pope gaue hym their autoritie strēgth powr they did it verely by the priuate counsell of God which yet tended to this ende y t the wordes of God shulde be fulfylled which the holy ghost spake before by the mouth of Paule the Apostle euen thus Because many shall not receyue the loue of the truthe that thereby they myght be saued therfor shall God send them men teachyng errours and workyng false mi racles that they beleue lyes and be condempned all that beleue not the truthe but consent to wickednes Also last of all that they shall robbe and spoyle the Pope and burn vp the citie This shall they not do tyl God put it into theyr hertis by hys word and so illumine them that they shall vnderstand and knowe themselues rightly and in dewe order to do it and to fulfill the wyll of God in vtterly subuer tyng ouerthrowyng y e popedō Wherfor it is lyke that the Turke shall not be the instrument to destroye the popedom as some men thinke For one deuill shall not cast out an other nether any that is not of the noūber of those x Kinges shal go agaynst the Pope to destroy hym w t batayl For it is geuen hym to ouercome the holy faythfull vntyll the wordes of God be fulfyllled whiche be nowe thys day almost fulfilled all But yet