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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
war_n	king_n	lamb_n	overcome_v	2,182	5	10.6840	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28514	An alarme beat vp in Sion, to vvar against Babylon, or, The svmme of a sermon upon Revelation 18 and the 6 preached at Knowle, before the Honourable the Committee of the county of Kent, on the 13 of Iune, anno 1664, and by the said Honourable Committee required to be published / by Joseph Boden ...	Boden, Joseph, b. 1605 or 6.	1644 (1644)	Wing B3390; ESTC R15357	27,628	40

of God and for the testimony which they hold cryed with a loud voyce saying How long ô Lord holy and true doest thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth Revel. 6. 9 10. But what can prayers doe it is confessed they are of great prevalencie with God but for all our prayers enemies are enemies still Babylonians are Babylonians still Antichristians are Antichristians still men are implacable inexorable in their evils still especially those they act against the Church and people of God To our prayers therefore we must joyne and adde our spirits and let it appeare that our prayers have so had power with God as to encourage our hearts and hands to warre against Babylon We make our prayers to God that he would avenge us of our enemies yea saith the Lord I will but you must help to avenge your selves you would have Babylon down you shall it shall be so your desires and prayers are granted onely you must venture and hazard a little blood let us see can you spare a life that Babylonians may die I will doe my part but I will have my people to doe theirs also put your hands to the worke and I will not pull back mine reward her as she hath rewarded you if you will have me to doe your will in heaven doe you my will on earth my people and I are both of a minde we would have Babylon brought down and totally routed and ruined onely here is the difference they would have me to doe all and I will have them to doe some Let them but up and act and it shall soon be seen that the Lord is their help Again lastly I shall clearely confirme the point from the consideration of those engagements that lye upon the people of God to be active in rewarding Babylon as she hath rewarded them in doubling to her according to her works in the cup that she hath filled of filling her double and the obligements are many but these shall serve at present An obligement of profession is upon them they publish to the world that they are the servants and souldiers of the Lambe and therefore they must bestirre themselves that their Lord may overcome they must not onely enter and list themselves take pay we are their colours and live upon the provision of the camp but they must play the men and fight also It is observable Revel. 17. 14. that those who were with the Lambe when he makes warre with the ten horns that receive power as kings at one houre with the Beast were called and chosen and faithfull this is the commendation of a souldier indeed not onely to be called and chosen but that also in all and above all he be found faithfull and our fidelitie to Christ cannot more be seene or better exercised then when not onely as men but Christians also we act valiantly and constantly against the Antichristian brood in the world who wage warre against our King and Generall Christ They have assurance that in the blood of the Lambe they shall overcome Revel. 12. 11. My brethren who dares or can be a coward that hath it ascertained unto him upon unquestionable warrantie that without doubt he shall get the better and overcome in the battell that whether he kill or be killed he shall be looked upon and honoured as a conquerour yea certainly he shall triumph and see his captivitie led captive And this is the condition of all the faithfull souldiers in the Lambs warre against the Beast and his partie For there is that blood already shed that hath overcome them all for us Suppose those we are to encounter be kings their strength is broken crushed and made weake we have our feet upon their necks whiles we goe forth to the warre Our Ioshua hath conquered and we goe after him onely to take the spoile and triumph For he is king of kings and Lord of lords Rev. 17. 14. the field is fought and wonne we onely goe forth to fetch in the trophies of victory We have comfortable and abundant experience of and from the people of God who in this businesse of rewarding Babylon as she hath rewarded them have out of small beginnings come up to great and honourable atchievements Time would faile me to relate many instance of former dayes doe but reade over Gods dealings with his Church in these seven last yeares within the compasse and confines of Great BRITAINE and tell me whether there be not experience upon experience herein even to no lesse then wonders and miracles Scotland weake and poore animated into a Covenant to stand out in this worke against all thwarts plots armies men and devils I had wel-nigh said In England God using meanes that his banished be not expelled from him the righteous brought out of trouble and the wicked coming in their stead Courts full of vexation if not injustice tumbled downe into their first principles of non entitie In warres for the most part the Parliament successefull or not utterly destroyed able still to doe something for God and his cause even to the envie of the adversarie And in the beginnings of reformation more successefull and blessed then in formerly expected periods We would heretofore have thought our selves happy to have ended where we now thinke there is scarce a beginning But to come to Kent for whom and with whom I have to doe in this service how were we unworthy prospered in subduing not over a twelve-moneth since a desperate insurrection without either skill or helpe almost in any but our God who till a considerable number of faithfull ones were gathered and till the heart and strength of the wicked was wel-neare broken and scattered continued his raine of love to his people but of wrath and confusion to his enemies and hath twice since then defended us from the invasions of cruell and bloud-thirstie men Oh that we could never forget these mercies to serve God according to the engagements they lay upon us and that here we could as David from remembrance of the Lion and the Beare gather heart to act further and further against the brood of babylonians because we have cause to beleeve that he who delivered us from so great deaths and doth deliver us will also in Christ Iesus deliver us to and in the end The continued darings challengings and provocations of the Antichristian party For besides their wondering after and worshipping of the beast saying Who is like unto the beast who is able to make warre with him Revel. 13. 4. have they not gathered together in Armes and Armies against the Lord and against his Christ Nay are they not daily more and more mad and desperate in their mischiefe conceived against the Church Doe they not hourely beat up their Alarmes and bid defiance to the people of the most High Do they not rob spoil and plunder all where ever they come and are these things with many more