Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	know_v	speak_v	word_n	9,131	5	4.2861	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84731	The sounding of the last trumpet or, Several visions, declaring the universall overturning and rooting up of all earthly powers in England. With many other things foretold, which shall come to passe in this year, 1650. / Lately shewed unto George Foster, who was commanded to print them.	Foster, George.	1650 (1650)	Wing F1624; Thomason E616_4; ESTC R215474	58,245	63

for as the beast that was to rise after the Kings should be diverse from the rest even so hath the Parliament been diverse from King Charles for though King Charles did oppress the people with ship money which he should not have done and so did shew his cruelty and tyranny yet the Parliament hath exercised as much cruelty upon the people as he did for as Charles laid his little finger upon the people the Parliament have laid their loynes and for matter of oppression to the people have been far more cruel then Charles that was before and so have been Divers from Charles which word Divers shews more then one though called by one as the Parliament are more then one yet being compacted together they are but one in respect that what is done is done by consent of all or most of them and not by some few And as the beast did think to change Times and Lawes they being given into his hands so the Parliament hath pretended to change times that is to take off the oppression of people and Lawes that is to alter the Lawes of the Land for the Parliament have had power to do so and the Parliament have done these in some sence as the taking away the high Commission Court and Star Chamber instead of being Governed or having Bishops we must have classes and Presbyters or at least they have declared that we should have but though the first beast in the Revelations had a wound with a sword and did live though high Commission Court and Star Chamber I mean the oppression that was used by them though the name be taken away yet in regard of oppression they live for the Image of the beast is nothing but the same oppression as to have a new name as not to be the same but by this new name and so under this new name exercising cruelty and oppression is to make an Image and so to represent the former and though the Parliament have given themselves a new name by stiling themselves a Free State yet they are but the Image of the former beast in regard as the former exercised cruelty upon the people and the Parliament doth the same and as the beast mentioned in Daniel had power and likewise in the Revelations for to cause all both great and small to worship the Image of the beast that they might live Even so the Parliament by the setting forth their Engagement as they call it and by forcing all to take it which was their intents when they set it forth and so to deprive them of the benefit of the Law for denying submission to this power or Image which they have set up and so the mark which the Image of the beast hath set forth and caused all to receive doth represent the Parliament who have set forth their mark the Engagement as they call it for people to receive it in their fore-heads that is to profess them to be the supreame power and that they ought to worship them and submit to their Lawes and on their right-hand is meant the aiding and assisting of them with power and with money that the former which was Kingly power might not rise again but that they might be now adorned and have the honour even the Parliament seems to be the Image of the Beast and the Engament the marke of the Beast but the Beast or Image of other is but for a time times and dividing of times mentioned in Daniel and also in the Revelations to be the forty and two moneths which is a set time that this Image of the Beast shall have power and when that set time is at an end which I have appointed this Beast shall be destroyed and burned to nothing all their powers and all their Laws and formes and wayes of governments and worships and shall never rise more nor any like it saith the Lord of host here is wisdome this wisdome is I the Lord and let him that hath understanding count the number of the Beast and let him that hath my spirit and this wisdom revealed from me to him count for the number of the Beast is the number of a man the number of a man is his continuance or abiding here in this earthly body before it returnes to the earth which number is set forth or appointed by me the Lord of host for his time here before he be brought to the dust of the earth which number being accomplished and come to an end man must come to the grave so the Beast is numbered his daies are set down how long he shall have Power or how long he shall continue By the Beast that is numbered here is meant the Parliament or powers of the earth which I tel you is the Beast that must be burned or destroyed so soone as his time which I have let him shall come to an end for his number is six hundred threescore and six which I the Lord of host tell you they are so many dayes that this beast shall have the whole power to himselfe that the Parliament shall have for their time to raigne from the day that they beheaded Charles six hundred and threescore and six dayes and I said Lord shall I take them to be litteral dayes as fivescore to and hundred and so seven of them to make a week as we call it and my God said you shall take them to be litteral dayes and so count them from the day that Charles was beheaded for that is and shall be the time of their power and before these six hundred and sixty and six come to an end the Parliament shall be consumed and destroyed and brought to nothing and I the Lord of host that hath revealed this vision to thee will surely bring it to passe and that thou maist know that it is I the Lord of host that have revealed this to thee and that this is truth I will presently shake thee in a strange manner more then ever I did at once as a token to satisfie thee that these shall come to passe and as soone as the voice which spake these words ceased I fell a shaking and was so shooke that I made the bed I lay in tatter and was lifted up as if some body had tooke me up and threw me down again which one that lay with me can tell for I told him before I shook I had received words that I should be shaken which proved true and I am satisfied in my self that that which I now write will to the terrour of Great men and to the amasement of all sorts prove very true and that it is the pleasure of the Lord of host to bring to nothing all earthly powers that the Lord may be all and in all and who shall hinder him from doing his pleasure for he will worke and who can let And the word of the Lord came again unto me saying what seest thou now and lo I beheld a house by a great mountain and there came