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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	church_n	infallible_a	pillar_n	1,606	5	10.4793	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34984	An alarum sounded in the borders of spiritual Egypt vvhich shall be heard in Babylon, and astonish the inhabitants of the defiled and polluted habitations of the earth. And the power of the Prince of Darkness called into question; and he himself examin'd by the truth, how he came to raign over mankind; and how long his time shall be, till he comes to be cast out of his dominion, and the creature be deliver'd from under his tyranny; to serve God in spirit and in truth, as Christ, the prince of peace, has order'd them. Also the number of him whom the world hath wonder'd after, found out; and demonstrated to be near at an end: and withal, that it is no wayes unlawful, nor in vain, both to hope, and to expect the utter desolation, and destruction of sin in this life, and the setting up of perfect righteousness in the souls of men, where sin has too long raign'd. Written in a testimony to the truth, and against the false position of the devil, and his servants; by a servant of God, Steven Crisp.	Crisp, Stephen, 1628-1692.	1671 (1671)	Wing C6922; ESTC R215182	35,940	50

was done and his One Thousand Two Hundred and Sixty Years were prosperous to his Kingdom and he did what he pleased and if any spoke against him and against his kingdom he would have them kill'd and then his Whore would drink the Blood of such and there were none left neither Great nor Small neither Bond nor Free High or Low neither Young nor Old but they had submitted themselves all of them and said Who is like him None are able to overcome him It is impossible to be made free from under his power He must raign as long as we live it is possible for us cry they to overcome Princes Kingdoms and Armies and therefore we go out and fight valiantly and many times we get Victory and become Conquerors but to overcome sin which the Devil has set up in us that is impossible and therefore it is in vain to trouble our selves about it and we will not do any thing concerning it seeing we have drunk in a Faith That it is impossible to perform or accomplish it And thus has the whole World been bewitched in the time when the Devil Raign'd And will he and his Servants make us believe That it must continue so alwayes Though never any other time was given him but such as was limitted and in the end of that time we understand there is a great Alteration to come to pass to wit That the Church the True Woman must come out of the Wilderness again the Man-Child must come down again and appear upon Earth and Rule the Nations with a Rod of Iron and the Whore must be judged that Sorrow Death and Famine must come upon her in one day and that Ten Kings should agree together to burn her Flesh with Fire and that the Smoak of her Torments should ascend to Heaven and then must the Dragon the Beast and false Prophet that had still preach'd Peace though it was so as above said they must all be taken whil'st they are yet alive in this Work and in their Power and be cast into the Lake of the Wrath of God which burneth forever and these Princes and Captains and Merchants and Inhabitants of the Earth must Howl and Lament because of this great Alteration And therefore seeing that such a time is Lawfully to be expected in which the Devil the Old Serpent may be thrust out of his dominion and that then the time of Joy and Rejoycing will be for the Upright it is worth the spending of our Labour and Time to find out that Time that so it may not come over us and we see it not nor know it not and so let it pass by as the Jews did and so doting and waiting for it as a thing which is yet to come as they do at this day when almost Two Thousand Years are past since the thing is come to pass Now you know the Jews had a Prophet which told them the time when the Messiah should come aforehand to wit Daniel as you may see Dan. 9.24 c. where he told them That it was Seventy Weeks that were determin'd upon the People and upon the City and that the Holy one should be Anointed Now this was not such a great Mystery to them they knew it was common to reckon a day for a Year among the Prophets so that that time was but four hundred fourscore and ten years that the Visions should be seal'd and the daily Sacrifice taken away the City be made desolate and the Anointing of the Holy One and the Messiah be slain for the sins of the People And since the time that the Command was gone forth to build Jerusalem again in which time the Seventy Weeks had their beginning it is above Two Thousand years ago the City is since builded again and also made again desolate and the daily Sacrifice taken away and the Prince of the People that then came viz. Titus Vespasianus the Roman has destroy'd the Sanctuary and the Destruction of it was with an overflowing to the end of the War and yet all these things cannot convince them nor make them believe that the Messiah is come or that it was he whom their Fore-fathers have killed as a Blasphemer Now That We after such clear Prophesies of the setting up of the Kingdom of Christ and dis-throning of the Devil Sin and Antichrist should not come to be surpriz'd with the same Blindness and Hardness of Heart Let us have a strict Observation of the Times that we may not fight against the Appearance of Truth and put it far away from us and say The Dayes are not come yet in which the pouring out of the Spirit can be witnessed and that the Knowledge of God must cover the Earth as the Waters cover the Sea and that the Gospel must be preached again unto those that dwell upon the Earth and that the Lamb and his Saints must have the Victory over the Dragon and his Angels For such as put the Day so far from them are in one and the same Error with the Jews and do not understand the Times better then they do and so are persecuteing the true appearance of that which they seem to expect and to pray for as the Jewes did because it does not appear in their Way to answer their Carnal expectations that despise the day of small things But from such are the Mysteries of the Kingdom shut up and are revealed unto those that fear the Lord. Now to understand these things let every one come to read the Prophesies in a measure of that Spirit by which they were given forth and that same opens the Prophesies and without it every one understands only according to his own Fancy or private Judgment The Apostle said There should come an Apostacy from the Faith that is from the true Christian Faith Now when was that And who are they that are thus Apostatized or fallen away Ask the Pope and the whole Roman Catholick Church and they will tell you that the Prophesie points at Martin Luther Zuinglius Aecolampadius Calvinus Menno Simoni● and other Hereticks that have rent many Nations from the true Apost●lick Faith and the Ancient Christian Church the infallible Foundation and Pillar of Truth c. Ask the Bishops of England and the Presbyters in Scotland the Pfarrherren or Pastors in Denmark and Sweed-Land and Predicants in the Low-Countries and they will tell you that this Prophesie signifieth the general Apostacy from the Apostolick Faith and Order in the Church of Christ to the Pope and Popish Exercises and Institutions over all Christendom Again ask them Which among themselves continue as yet in the true Apostolical Faith and Religion Then the Lutheran Pastors will say that are we and therefore cry they Joyn with us No say the Bishops in England we will prove that the Apostolical Church had Bishops and that the Apostle said He that desires the Office of a Bishop he desires a good Work and therefore We are they that are the true

Chu●ch according to the first Institution Then sayes the Presbyterians and Dutch Predicants The Bishops in the Primitive Churches were not such as you are but such as we are whose ca●e was over the Flock and did Teach and Rule in Ecclesiastical Matters but not in Councels and Parliaments as you do therefore you are fallen from the Primitive state And now at last what sayes Truth of these and all others who deny that Faith which Purifies the Heart and can Cleanse the Conscience from Sin and can give Victory over the World This was the Faith which Paul Preached that was nigh in the Heart and therefore all those that say that the Heart of a true Believer cannot be made clean nor that he can come to live without Sin nor to have a Purified Conscience And all those that denyes the Word of Faith in the Heart and Christ to be the Rule and set up another Rule and another Faith and another Foundation for it then the Apostle set up all such are fallen from the Faith and are not Apostolick but Antichristian and when the Man of Sin comes to be revealed they will come to be revealed with him and fall with him and with Babylon the Mother of them all and great will be their fall in that day There is yet another Prophesie of Christ when he said When you see the Abomination of Desolation standing in the Holy Place where it ought not then let not him that is in Judea flee upon the Mountaines Nor he that is in the Field go back to fetch his Cloathes And he that is on the House top come down to take any thing out of his House c. Mat. 24.15 and said he further vers 23 24. Then if any Man shall say unto you Lo here is Christ or there believe him not c. signifying plainly that when the Abomination of Desolation should be set up that the People would notwithstanding not want divers sorts of Teachers of the Name of Christ What were they made desolate of by the setting up of this Abomination seeing they were not desolate of a profession of Christ in divers manners They were desolate of the Power and Presence of God in all their Holy Places as they called them where this Abomination was set up even as Christ said to the Jewes when they had made the House of prayer to be a Den of Thieves then said he your House is left unto you desolate Mark it was not then desolate of People of Congregations of Religions and Worships but it was desolate of the Presence of God for that was not to be found there So that Abomination which makes People desolate of the Power of God by which they should have power over their Sin and Lusts and which make the Ministers and Teachers desolate of the Spirit of God by which they should have been led to Preach the Gospel this Abomination has been set up a long time and made the People and Nations as a Wilderness and this has been since that time that the Christian Religion has been carried on and maintained by the Traditions of Men Then came the Poyson to be poured out into the Church and thereby it is come to be so swell'd and bigg that it can comprehend in it the Tyrannical and persecuting Princes Proud and Rebellious Bishops wicked Man-slayers and Murderers Unclean Wanton and Drunken People they have all room enough in it and since that time it is counted Heresie that any should make a profession of being Purified and Cleansed and from that time it may be reckoned that the Abomination of Desolation has been set up And therefore let us consider how long it is yet to stand before the Devil come to be cast out and the Temple of God be Cleansed and the filth of Abomination be burn'd up that the God of Heaven may again delight in his Sanctuary and that the Earth may not for ever be empty of his presence but that he may be found of those that seek him and be heard of them that are Mourning after him Now John saith that this time of Desolation was to continue a Time Times and half a Time that is three years and a half or three times twelve Moneths and six Moneths that is 42. Moneths or 1260 Dayes which times are agreeing together in one and do perfectly fulfill the time of the restoration of the Church and of the coming down of the Righteous Judge whose right it is to Rule over Men for to him are the Gentiles given for an Inheritance and the ends of the Earth for a possession And that time doth also perfectly fulfill the time of the Power of the Beast for these times do all agree together and as they had their beginning about one and the same time they must also have their end shortly after one another because they are like one another Now to find out the end of those times the beginning must be first known now the daily Sacrifice was taken away long before the Abomination that made the Earth desolate was set up but from that time that both should be fulfilled said the Angel to Daniel should there be 1290 Dayes that is 30. more then John writes of Now the Abomination of Desolation was not set up in the time of Christ for said he When you shall see it set up c. speaking as of a thing that was not yet come to pass and the Apostle said There shall come an Apostacy from the Faith that shews that it was not yet come neither did it come till s●veral hundreds of years after for the true Christians suffered many cruel and grievous deaths for the Christian Faith so that they did not fall away but endured to the end and were saved and so long the Earth was not Desolate But when that Faith was lost which did support in Sufferings and that the Christian Religion which was the holy Place came to be corrupted by Pride Covetousness Persecution and Worldly Pleasures Ease and the Delights and Honours of this World then the Abomination was set up that made the Earth Desolate And reckon from that time 1260 Years and add to it these 30. Years of which the Angel spoke to Daniel Dan. 12.11 and see whether we be not about the Forty Five Years of which there is made mention in the 12th verse where the Angel having spoken of the 1290. years adds Blessed is he that waiteth and cometh to the Thousand Three Hundred and Thirty Five Dayes Signifying plainly that there must be a time of Patience and Waiting for the Blessed Restauration which was promised and that that time of Waiting should continue from the 1290. till 1335. which are 45. dayes or years and then they are Blessed that come thereunto So he that hath Wisdom let him reckon But this Reckoning is not comprehended in Arithmetick or the Art of Reckoning neither can it be conceiv'd by the Wisdom of this World But such as have the Wisdom which