Selected quad for the lemma: war_n

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
A84069	The great earthquake, Revel. 16. 18. or, Fall of all the churches. Discovering the apostasie of purest churches, not yet sensible of their spiritual whoredoms, EZek. 43.9, 10. Or, The great whore made bare and naked before she be judged, and her flesh burnt with fire, Rev. 27. 16. Proving, that none indeed deny the ordinances of Christ, but present churches not being in a Gospel-order. By William Erbery.	Erbery, William, 1604-1654.; J. W.	1654 (1654)	Wing E3227; Thomason E806_7; ESTC R207174	48,514	64

they need no order nor ordinance nor officers of the church they see and know all the truths of Christ therefore by the judgement of Christ they are blind and men shall shortly behold their nakednesse Fourthly Laodicea was neither hot nor cold these last churches are not so cold as National churches but they have not that heat and fire which was in the first churches of Christ therefore Christ will spew them out of his mouth and not take up their name into his lips any more nor love them as his church and spouse but loath them as the filth of the great Whore Now to returne to return to that we said before All the Ordinances in the church became defiled unclean and her forms the flesh of the whore not being salted with fire that is when the sacrifice was no more salted with salt which is of a fiery substance and keeps flesh from tainting When that holy fire was found wanting in the church all her flesh her forms and ordinances did stink and became defiled as those that touched an unclean thing or dead body for the manifestation of the spirit being departed from the church the church must needs be a dead body as those dry bones in Babylon signified the state of the church in the apostacy in spiritual Babylon where the church is not in the unity of the spirit and bond of peace but as those divided sticks in the Prophets hand the one for Judah and his companions the other stick for Joseph and his companions this is the dead divided state of the church in Babylon which is a city not in unity with it self as Jerusalem but divided into three parts so Babylon is and so the churches in Babylon are Presbytery Independant and baptized churches For though in the primitive times there were divisions between brother and brother in the churches yet never was there a division between church and church as at this day All the brethren walked in one church-way worshiping God with one consent one church-order ordinances and officers were all by the same spirit alike in all the churches who in this sense at least kept the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace for as there was one body among all so but one baptism but as the churches are now divided bodies so their baptisms are divers one church baptizeth the whole Nation another church baptized only the children of believers the third baptized only believers themselves Thus we may truly say the whore sits upon many waters many baptisms besides those rivers of living waters those manifold gifts of the spirit are dryed up in the churches much less doth the spirit shew them that pure river of life proceeding out of the Throne of God and of the Lamb in the new Jerusalem the churches being destitute both of fire and water having not that holy spirit given to the church of Christ must be but a dead body and he that toucheth them is unclean This the Prophet Haggai hinted at when he asked the Priests that if one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment and with his skirt do touch bread or pottage or wine or oyl or any meat shall it be holy and the Priests answered no. Then said Haggai If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these shall it be unclean and the Priests answered saying It shall be unclean So is this Nation before me saith rhe Lord and so is every work of their hands it is unclean Hagg. 2.12 13 14. Every Saint in the spirit freed from church-forms or not embondaged to partiality can easily interpret that text That though there be Saints by calling in the present church and she bear holy flesh in her skirt that cannot make any thing clean to her or them and if they touch a dead body as the church now is all that they touch therein it is unclean so is this people and so is this Nation before me saith the Lord and so is every work of their hands and every ordinance among them it is unclean If this be true as true it is that the forms of churchfellowship being defiled forms are become the flesh of the whore then must she be utterly burnt with fire yea those ten Kings which have received no kingdom as yet but receive power as kings one hour with the beast who with one mind give their power and strength to the beast who make war with the lamb that is with Christ in us with God in the Saints when the lamb shall overcome them and the power of God in the Saints appear above them then these shall hate the whore and make her desolate and naked and burn her flesh with fire If the honourable Parliament would but be pleased God so appearing in them to judge things in the spirit and see how dead and desolate the churches are of the gifts of the spirit how naked they are not adorned with one spiritual gift they would no more dote on the whores flesh though nevee so fair nor on any forms though never so oft reformed but burn her flesh with fire when thus the powerfull appearance of the great God shall be manifested in men and Magistrates the churches shall appear no more This is the second appearance of Christ of God in men in the first appearance of Christ the church appeared yet cloathed with all the gifts of the spirit that is God appeared in power in the midst of Saints but when God shall appear now the second time God dwelling among men which is the new Jerusalem then that church nor those first gifts of the spirit shall appear any more but the spirit even God himself shall minister in his own glory and power nothing but God shall appear in man and man shall appear no more no need of churches or ministers when God shall be our church and the house we live in when God in us shall minister all light unto us Thus in the new Jerusalem there is no Temple no churchstate nor ordinance and the city hath no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it for the glory of God shall lighten it and the lamb is the light thereof Sun and Moon are now the lights of the world these are the ordinances of heaven and have been the ordinary means of conveying light to the earth the sun the light of the day the moon and stars the light of the night so there has been a ministry by day and night in the day of Christ and the first appearing of God there was a ministry of Apostles Prophets Pastors and Teachers as the ordinary means of light to the world and to the church when the church came under the night of Apostacy and while the spirit of Antichrist was come in power darkning the sun and the air there was still a ministry of men as the means of light yet as the moon to the night ever changing in several fosms of Popery Episcopacy Presbytery