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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	know_v	soul_n	spirit_n	3,987	5	5.1512	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57829	Mirmah, or, The deceitful witness a prophecy of Solomon, now first and seasonably discovered, wherein the deceitful witnesses of Rome are made manifest to all, and our Protestant witnesses are justified, praised, and defended, chiefly the late happy discoverers of the Romish plots & deceits : being a sermon preached Novemb. 5 on Prov. 14.25 : a true witness delivereth souls, but a deceitful witness speaketh lies, or, as the original signifies, the lord of Rome speaketh lies / by William Ramsay ...	Ramsay, William, B.D.; Ramsay, William, fl. 1680. Mirmah, Maromah, Maroum.	1679 (1679)	Wing R219; ESTC R13073	11,934	34

by the lyes of men Therefore Solomon tells us Prov. 19.5 A false Witness shall not be unpunished and he that speaketh lies shall not escape and repeats it again v. 9. A false Witness shall not be unpunished and he that speaketh lies shall perish Thus much of the Text as it is a Proverb and contains the Characters of a True and of a Deceitful Witness We shall now discover in it a double combination of Prophecies First A Prophecy of Christ the Great Witness of Truth on one hand and of Antichrist the Great Deceitful Witness on the other Secondly A Prophecy of true Protestant Witnesses on one hand and of Deceitfull Romish Witnesses on the other First We have here a distinct Prophecy of Christ the Great Witness of Truth as we gather clearly from the Property of the terms in themselves and from conference of them with other Scriptures The terms in themselves are proper to Christ He only is properly Hed-emeth matsiel nephashoth The Witness of Truth that delivereth Souls whom the Spirit knew when Solomon thus wrote Every other true Witness is term'd Hed-emunim as v. 5. that is a Witness of truths or of true things a faithful Witness but Christ is Hed-emeth The Witness of Truth or Truth it self or the Prime-Witness or the Witness of all Truth This is likewise the style of the Prophets and of the Apostles Isa 55.4 Behold I have given him for a Witness to the People c. Rev. 1.5 Jesus Christ the faithful Witness Rev. 3.14 The faithful and true Witness Likewise Jesus Christ is properly he that delivereth Souls for he came to that purpose and therefore is he called Jesus And in the style of the Prophets too this term of Matsiel is appropriated to God As Dan. 6.27 when God had deliver'd Daniel from the Lions God is there styled Meshesib ou Matsiel He that delivereth and rescueth that is Souls from destruction as Daniel from the Lions Then this Proverb of Solomon is a distinct Prophecy of Christ A True Witness delivereth Souls that is The great witness of Truth Christ the Truth it self shall come and shall deliver the Souls that believe on him From this it is easie by the Rule of Opposites to interpret the second part of the Proverb which is a Prophecy of Antichrist the great Deceitful Witness And a very remarkable Prophecy For the Spirit of God in Solomon not only here foretells the obvious signification of the words that there shall be an Antichrist a great Witness of Deceit who shall seduce Souls with Lies in opposition to Hed-emeth that great Witness of Truth who saveth Souls by Truth But Solomon further by the words if he that readeth understandeth points out that Antichrist who he is and by the name he gives that Deceitful Witness in the Text tells us distinctly that it is the Lord of Rome or the Great one of Rome For the Word of the Holy Ghost the Hebrew word which the Vulgar Translation renders a Deceitful Witness is in the Masorethan contraction Mirmah in Original latitude Maromah in Radical expression Maroum and signifies every way literally and grammatically the Lord of Rome or the great one of Rome This though I think never observ'd before yet to him that will inspect the Hebrew Tongue will be as clear as Columbus his Land to the first Discoverers I have writ a peculiar Discourse which makes this fully plain and intelligible and certain and shews the Mysterious Number of the Beast to be undeniably proper to this Name in the Text which Discourse shall follow this in the Press At present I shall only take occasion to give you a passing view of the thing it self The thing asserted is this These words of Solomon A Deceitful Witness speaketh lies are to be render'd from the Hebrew The Lord of Rome speaketh lies The proof depends wholly upon the understanding of the Hebrew word and we know that in difficult or obscure places especially in Prophecies and most peculiarly in such as concern the Name or Discovery of Antichrist it is said Let him that readeth understand and Here is wisdom Let him that hath understanding count the Number c. So that we must not expect the thing to be obvious but rather a thing hid a long time but when once discover'd very clear to all So is this present Word of the Text in the Hebrew Mirmah or Maromah or Maroum This plainly literally and grammatically signifies the Lord of Rome For Mar in Hebrew is a Lord and often us'd for Baal or for Adon says Buxtorfius as Dan. 2.47 Mare-malchin A Lord of Kings 1 Cor. 16.22 Maranatha The Lord cometh And Romah or Roum in Hebrew is the same with Romë in Greek Roma in Latine and Rome in English Then Maromah plainly literally and grammatically signifies the Lord of Rome Therefore the Text is to be render'd thus The Witness of truth which is Christ delivereth Souls But Maromah The Lord of Rome speaketh lies Both words and sence agreeing thus I can see no difficulty in the thing yet I shall add another fair Etymology of the Word and but another can be given The Word however contracted or dilated Mirmah Maromah or Maroum has in it the force and signification of three radical words Marah Roum and Ramah From the second the Name of Rome is Originally derived and Romulus from Rome not Rome from Romulus The first signifies to rebell the second to be lofty in pride the third to supplant or to deceive Now if Rebellion Pride and Deceit be not the properest characters both of the City and of the Lord of Rome let all judge that know Rome certainly characters by which the Spirit of God has distinguisht that City from all others And we know that Rome with the Lord-Popes thereof has openly rebell'd against the Kings and Emperours to which it was subject and has exalted it self in pride above their heads and has deceiv'd the Nations of the Christian World with all manner of deceivableness as the Apostle speaks 2 Thess 2.10 Then the Lord of Rome is that Mirmah Maromah or Maroum of which Solomon prophesies A Deceitful Witness speaketh lies That is Maromah shall seduce and destroy Souls with lies as Hed-emeth shall save and deliver Souls through the truth From this results a secondary Prophecy of true Protestant Witnesses on one hand and of deceitfull Romish Witnesses on the other For as the Lord of Rome is found here to be the great deceitful Witness opposite to Christ so the subordinate Romish Witnesses must needs be those deceitful Witnesses which are opposite to the subordinate VVitnesses of Christ which as they are called Christians from Christ so are they called Protestants from their opposition and protestation against the VVitnesses of Rome Thus the Text will import this A True Witness that is a Protestant Witness delivereth Souls but a Mirmah a Romish Witness speaketh lies This Prophecy might be made good throughout all the points of Controversie between us and