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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	church_n	time_n	wilderness_n	1,494	5	9.8942	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