Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

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

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68136	A letter vvritten by a true Christian Catholike, to a Romaine pretended Catholike Wherein vppon occasion of controuersie touching the Catholike Church the 12. 13. and 14. Chap. of the Reuelations are breifly and trulie expounded. Which conteine the true estate thereof, from the birth of Christ, to the end of the world.	Herbert, William, Sir, 1553?-1593.	1586 (1586)	STC 12752.5; ESTC S112797	52,029	90

stir vp hatred dissention debate war and murder amongest you for his wrath is great knowing he hath but a short time For he is a roaring Lyon that knowing his ende to be at hand is the more fierce He is that cruel tirant that knowing his raigne to be but short sheadeth so much the more blood the more his time is diminished the more is his malice increased what he wanteth in measure he will fill vp in waight 13 And when the Dragon saw that he was caste into the earth hee persecuted the woman whiche had brought forth the man child When the Dragon that is to say the Deuil perceaued himselfe to be vanquished and ouercome driueÌ„ and expulsed out of the harts of the faithfull caste and throwen downe amongst the vnbeleeuers and reprobats hee persecuted the woman whiche had brought forth the maÌ„ child he persecuted the church the congregation of the faithfull which to her eternall happinesse had brought forthe the man childe Christ Iesus euen the Lord her righteousnesse her beauty and her saluation 14 But vnto the woman were giuen the wings of a great eagle that she might flie into the wildernesse into her place where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time from the presence of the serpent The prouidence of God assisted the Churche against the malice of Sathan The Church hauing her faith supported by the two testaments as it were by the two wings of a great eagle in this wildernesse of the world did infinitly spread it self by the outward preaching of the gospel and the inwarde operation of the holy Ghost The time times and halfe a time that is to say a yeare two yeeres and halfe a yeare is the selfe same that we reade before a thowsand two hundred and threescore daies the which wee there reduced to 42. monethes and expounded the moneths by Sabaoths of yeares according to the prophecie of Daniel It may also signifie both heere and in the place before the whole time and troubles of the church militant froÌ„ the birth of Christ to the end of the world reckoning for a time 500. yeares for times 1000. yeares for half a time 250. yeares 15 And the Serpent cast out of his mouth water after the woman like a flood that he might cause her to be caried away of the flood Sathan that cursed serpent abounding in malice against the church cast out of his mouthe water after the woman that is stirred and procured sundrie people nations and gouernments which heere are comprised in the word water to persecut and to endeuor to extinguishe the church Like a flood that is to say aboundantly violently and ragingly That he might cause her to be carried away of the floode That is to the end that he might cause her to bee destroyed by persecution and as it were caried awaye by violence from the face of the earth 16 But the earth holpe the woman and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed vp the flood which the Dragon had cast out of his mouth The church increased by persecution dayly the persecutors died the earth swallowed them vp in their graues and as it were opened her mouth dailye for them and they daily fell in But the church remained continued and augmented euery day and the blood of the Martirs became the seed of the church So the earth holpe the woman and swallowed vp the floode 17 Then the Dragon was wroth with the woman and weÌ„t and made warre with the remnant of her seede which keepe the commaundements of God and haue the testimony of Iesus Christ. The Dragon that is to say the Deuil hauing attempted first the head Christ Iesus Secondly the church his body aand finding his labor frustrated and his power too weake to worke the destruction of either of them taketh a third coursein executing of his malice which is to molest and persecute the members of the church which are the remnant of her seede which keepe the commaundements of God haue the testimony of Iesus Christ To the whiche ende he hath specially stirred certain diuelish and wicked instrumentes whose estats qualities actions and proceedings are very liuely pithelie and effectually set forth in this next Chapter ensuing 18 And I stood on the sea sand Heere the holy Apostle and Euangelist S. Iohn procureth in vs a certaine attentiuenesse and earneste animaduersion of the vision following declaring first the place wherein he stoode secondly what hee sawe which is this that followeth CHAP. xiii 1 And I sawe a beast rise out of the sea hauing seauen heades and tenne hornes and about his hornes were ten crownes and vpon his heads the name of blasphemy 2 And the beast that I saw was like a Leopard and his feete like a beares and his mouth as the mouth of a lion and the Dragon gaue him his power and his throne and great authoritie HEERE is described vnto vs the Romaine Empire vnder the forme of a beast most monstrous most cruell most strong and most terrible Saint Iohn heerein alludeth to the description laid downe thereof by the Proph. Daniel in his seauenth Chapter The fowrth beast saith he meaning the Romain Empire was grimme and horrible and maruelous strong it hath great iron teethe it deuoured and destroyed and stamped the residue vnder his feete it was vnlike the other beasts that were before it for it had tenne hornes Which ten hornes are expounded in the 24. verse of the same chapter to be ten kings which shal grow out of the ruines of this empire And therefore the tenne hornes are heere laide downe to haue vppon them ten crownes of these kings and kingdomes we shal speake heereafter it had also seauen heads which are the seauen hilles whereon Rome standeth Vppon which heades was the name of blasphemye For so much did the Romaines attribute to their prowesse and pollicie their force and foresight that they termed their city Romam aeternam and as it were mating the most mighty vaunted Diuisum imperium cum Ioue Caesar habet Which their wickednesse is well heere expressed by the name of blasphemye Moreouer it is likened to a Leopard in proportion and shew to a Lion for the mouth and for the feete to a beare whereby we vnderstand that it not onelye had the countries and countenances the possessions and proceedings the might and maiestye the conditions and crueltie of the former monarchy but also in al euil and tiranny farre and much exceded them Daniel vnto this place giueth very great light who likening the Babilonian monarchy to a Lion the Persian to a beare the Macedonian to a Leopard teacheth vs that S. Iohn in this Romaine Monarchy foresawe the mouth and foote the pride and pase the state and steppe the rage and rauening of all the former to be expressed contayned and represented Heereunto is added that the Dragon haue him his power and his throne and greate authoritie That is to saye the Deuill assigned him to bee his

deliuered HEERE is first laid downe vnto vs by the holye Apostle a description of the true Church of God the true spouse of Christ the true mother of all the faithful which hath bene one and the very same euen from the beginning of the world vnto this day she is described in the forme of a woman clothed with the Sunne this sunne is the sunne of righteousnesse Christ Iesus the whiche the church his spouse hath put on with whom only she thinketh her selfe adorned beautified in so much that she nether seeketh nor coueteth any other mans righteousnesse to clothe her or deck her withall but accompteth her self in him and by him to haue sufficient beauty and purity the which she knoweth acknowledgeth to haue altogether of his mercy and goodnesse and not by her desart or merit And the Moone was vnder her feete By the moone may be vnderstood al worldly earthly things which are subiecte to changes and alterations whiche haue their diminishinges and increasings their waxines and wanings as honor riches power authoritie dignitie and suche like with all the vaine pleasures and delightes of this world all the which this true church and spouse of Christ doth despise contemne and treade vnder her feete The Moone also may put vs in remembrance of the chaÌ„ges and alterations which the church is subiect vnto in this world some times being in quiet sometimes in prosperity sometime in aduersity sometime consisting in many sometime in few Further it geueth vs to vnderstand that as the Moone receaueth all her lighte and beautye from the Sunne so the churche receaueth all her puritie righteousnesse and glorye from Christ Thus the Moone was vnder her feete and vppon her head a crown of twelue starres This number of twelue is the number of perfection or fulnesse and by the starres shynings in the church are ment the Patriarches the Prophets the Apostles the Martirs the godly ministers of al ages which shine in the church both in life and doctrine which all doe receaue their lighte of the sunne of righteousnesse wherewith the church is clothed 2 And shee was with childe and cried trauelling in birthe and was pained ready to be deliuered This place is to bee referred to those times of the church that were before the incarnation of Christ When as the congregation of the faithful that is to say the church did maruelously longue and as it were trauailed in minde to haue that promised seed borne and brought to light that should repaire the miserable ruine of mankinde and treade downe the serpents head the which seed was our Lorde and Sauiour Christ Iesus who was born within the church and of a blessed member of the church 3 And there appeared another wonder in heauen and behold a great red dragon hauing seuen heads and tenne hornes and seuen crownes vpon his heads 4 And his taile drew the third part of the starres of heauen and cast them to the earth Hauing described the church now he falleth to the description of the principall enemie of the church which is Sathan he is described in the forme of a dragon that is to say full of venome full of poyson wherewith he infecteth corrupteth the world of a red colour to declare his bloudines his cruelty his spite and malice hauing seauen headdes that is to saye being full of deuises subtilties craftes and deceipts to entrappe and destroy men withall He hath also ten hornes seueÌ„ crownes his hornes signify his mighty force power and violence his crownes his dignity honor and authority in this wicked world wherof he is called Prince and chiefe potentate of this darkenes 4 And his taile drew the third part of the stars of heauen and cast them to the earth The dragons taile are false prophets hypocrites and such as by a shew of holines deceaue men teaching false doctrine drawing men from heauen to earth from worshipping God in Spirite and trueth to earthlye adorations Imaginations and conceiptes Of this tayle were the Scribes and Pharisyes and other religious folke of the Iewes of the same also are all such as by false doctrine haue drawen any out of the firmament of Christes church that were once there placed as stars by baptisme and regeneration Hereunto the Prophet Esay doth allude saying the false prophet is a verye tayle but such starres were not fixed in the firmament therefore the dragons tayle had power ouer them And the dragon stoode before the woman which was ready to be deliuered to deuoure her childe when she had brought it forth So she brought a man childe which shoulde rule all nations with a rodde of yron and her sonne was taken vp vnto God and to his throne This childe that the church brought foorth whom the Dragon sought to deuoure was Christ our Sauiour against whom the Dragon stirred first Herode then the chiefe of the Iewes the Scribes the Pharesies the highe Priestes lastlye the whole multitude to the ende to deuour this man childe that the church had brought foorth to her euerlasting comforte and to the Dragons eternall ruine 5 She brought forth a man childe which should rule all nations with a rodde of yron This was that childe whom Dauid by the spirite of prophesie speaketh of in the second Psalme I will preach the law whereof the Lord hath sayde vnto me thou art my Sonne this day haue I begotten thee desire of me and I shall giue thee the heathen for thine inheritaunce and the vttermost partes of the earth for thy possession thou shalt bruse them with a rodde of yron and breake them in peeces like a potters vessell And her Sonne was taken vp vnto God and to his throne Thus when the Dragon had spitte all his venome had vsed all the deuises and subtilties of his seauen heads al the force and violence of his ten hornes all the authority dignity of his seuen crownes finally when he had shewed al his spite crueltye malice he preuailed no whit at all for the childe whiche hee persecuted Christ Iesus ascended into heauen was taken vp vnto God and to his throne and there sitteth at the right hand of the father in most glorious and eternal maiestie 6 And the woman fled into the wildernes where she hath a place prepared of God that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and three score daies And the woman that is to say the church the coÌ„gregation of the faithfull fledde and was dispearsed into the wildernes of the world among the Gentils in that huge and waste forrest wherof the Romaine Emperour was chiefe Foster who is the beast that in the beginning of the next chapter is described there remained the church in this wildernes subiect to the iniuries of the Emperours and other his vnder officers yet notwithstanding fedde by Gods especiall prouidence in myddest of all persecution with heauenly and spiritual foode by godly and sincere ministers And this state did she continue in a

the decaye of falshoode and lastly the glorification of the godly and condemnation of the wicked at the finall iudgement The methode is first a description of the church of God in the forme of a woman out of whose wombe Christ is borne Sathan is described in the forme of a dragon seeking to deuour this childe which the church had brought foorth Thirdly the ascention of Christ is declared and the persecutions raised against the Churche after Christes ascention Fourthly Gods prouidence is layde downe in preseruing the vniuersall church from ruyne which was doone by three meanes by the generall dispersing of the church by the two Testamentes which preserued the trueth of the doctrine and by the mortalitie of the persecutors Fiftly Sathans endeuours are manifested against the members of the Church when as hee sawe that hee coulde not preuaile againste the whole bodie that hee might the more violentlye afflicte the members hee vseth principally two instrumentes the first the Romaine Empire the seconde the Popedome The Romaine Empire is described in the forme of a beast most vglye and cruell The pryde and proceedinges thereof are layde downe and also the decaye which was wrought by another beast that hadde two hornes like the Lambe but spake like the Dragon Which by the iust iudgement of God partly by fraude partly by force inuaded the greatnesse and authoritie of the former and so brought it to ruine which other beast is the Popedome whose pride and tyranny is likewise declared and finally the fall thereof which is wrought by the restauration of the puritie of the doctrine by the woorde of God and shall throughly be accomplished by Christes comming in iudgement And this is it that Saint Paule teacheth vs that the man of sinne the sonne of perdition shall bee consumed by the spirite of the Lordes mouth and abolished by the brightnesse of his comming Nowe the next verse which is the first of the next chapter beginneth to expresse the restauration of the doctrine Christ manifesting himselfe in his Church in mount Sion accompaned with those whome the former persecutions of the Romaine Empire and Popedome had consecrated as martyres vnto him and sendeth an Angell with an euerlasting Gospell to preach vnto them that dwell vppon the earth to euerie nation and kindred and tongue and people which verse beginneth thus Then I looked and loe a Lambe stoode on mount Sion c. Which intimateth this muche vnto vs that when that man shall come whose name shall be sixe hundred sixtie and sixe If it be wittily accounted that then Christ shall manifest himselfe that then the euerlasting Gospel shalbe preached to them that dwell vppon the earth that then the puritie of doctrine shalbe restored that then the will and word of God shall be published by the which Babylon shall fall and the popedome bee wasted and consumed These circumstances do leade vs to Paulus tertius whose name being well accompted contayneth this number of sixe hundred sixtie sixe if wee alter the numerall letters to Arithmeticall figures and reacon it thereafter thus PAVLVS III. 555 111. For Paulus containeth three numerall letters vz. VLV. the firste V is 5. the L and V is 55. which layd downe arithmeticallye thus 555. is fiue hundred fifty and fiue then III which in numerall letters signifieth the thid in arithmeticall account is one hundred and eleuen And both these numbers holde an equall proportion as one ten a hundred fiue fifty fiue hundred which both summes being added together do make vp a third number of the same proportion which is 666. In the time of this Pope the Gospell began to take roote in many countries sundry learned men both by wordes and writinges preaching and professing the sinceritie and truth of the doctrine For the suppressing wherof in this Popes tyme the councell of Trent was assembled and no practise omitted by confederacies leagues and complattes to withstand the progresse of the truth and to persecute the professors thereof but so had Gods goodnes ordayned thinges that now the riuer of Euphrates was dryed vp that the way of the kinges of the East might be prepared Euphrates the glory strength of Babylon the power and authoritye of Rome was so decayed by the euil opinion that many princes and potentates iustly conceiued of it that the way of the kinges of the East was thereby prepared So that as at the birth of Christ there came wyse men out of the East vnto Hierusalem to worshippe him falling downe before him and presentinge vnto him their giftes of golde incense and myrhe Euen so at the second birth as it were of Christ by the restitution of the true doctrine manye noble wise and learned men who by allusion to the former storie are tearmed kinges of the Easte embrased the Gospell fell downe and worshipped Christ and bestowed the talents of their power learninge wisedome iudgement and industrie vnto his glorye and aduauncement of his truth In this Popes time the societie of the Iesuits was constituted and ordayned hauing added to their vowes of single lyfe and pouertie the vowe of obeydience to a chiefe head and principall president cui omnes in terris tanquam Christo parerent cuius in verba iurarent cuius sibi nutum voluntatem instar diuini cuiusdam oraculi ducerent This gouernour was as it were their chiefe prophet and they as the children of the prophets To these three vowes they ioyned a fourth which is that whether so euer the Bishop of Rome shall please to send them thether without any gaynesaying without any rewarde or allowance sought towardes their iorney they must immediately go Whereupon this Pope enlarged their societye with his priueledges firste to the number of threescore and afterwardes vpon experience of their faithfull seruice vnto him he made it sans number These Iesuites are the three or threescore or many folde spirites or frogges that come out of the mouth of the Dragon that is by the direction of the deuill out of the mouth of the beast that is by the direction of the Pope and out of the mouth of the false Prophet that is by the direction of their preposite or president For they are the spirites of deuils that is to say deuillish voyde of all trueth and charitie which worke miracles by their hypocrisy illusions and ostentation of learning and go to the kinges of the earth and of the whole worlde whether soeuer it pleaseth the Pope to sende them to gather them to the battaile of the great day of god almightye that is to moue them to the affliction and persecution of the true christians in the which they shall confederate band combine themselues by these mens perswasions but shall be destroyed vanquished and ouerthrowne in the middest of their mischiuous enterprises by the omnipotent power of God Thus hauing declared by these premises how this misticall number is the number of a man whose number is 666. we will here impose an ende

to the interpretation of this thirtenth chapter onelye adding this much that Paulus tertius in whose name this accompt and number is contained was a man euen in his owne time charged with extortion sacriledge with adulterie and incest with murther and parricide with negromancie and coniuration The particularities whereof are plainely expressed in the xxi booke of Sleidans commentaries towardes the ende of the yeare 1549. whereby hee seemeth a man not vnmeete in whose name this misticall number and periode of Papall prosperitye should be accomplished As for the meanes of the Popedomes farther fall and finally of the vtter subuersion thereof the next chapter which is the fourtenth will most manifestlye laye it open vnto vs. CHAP. 14. 1 Then I looked and lo a lambe stoode on mount Sion and with him an hundreth fortie and foure thousand hauing his fathers name written on their foreheads 2 And I heard a voyce from heauen as the sounde of manye waters and as the sounde of a great thunder and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harpes 3 And they sung as it were a newe song before the throne and before the foure beastes and the elders and no man could learne that song but the hundreth forty foure thousand which were bought from the earth 4 These are they which are not defiled with women for they are virgins these follow the lambe whether so euer he goeth these are bought from men being the first fruites vnto God and vnto the lambe 5 And in their mouthes was found no guyle for they are without spot before the throne of God 6 Then I saw an other Angell flye in the middest of heauen hauing an euerlasting Gospell to preach vnto them that dwell on the earth and to euery nation and kinred tongue and people 7 Saying with a loude voyce feare God and giue glorie to him for the houre of his iudgements is come and worship him that made heauen and the earth and the sea and the fountaines of waters 8 And there followed an other Angel saying it is fallen it is fallen Babylon the great City for shee made all nations to drinke of the wine of the wrath of her fornication 9 And the third Angell followed them saying with a loude voyce if any man worship the beast and his Image and receaue his marke in his forehead or on his hand 10 The same shall drinke of the wine of the wrath of God yea of the pure wine which is poured into the cuppe of his wrath and he shall be tormented in fire and brimstone before the holy Angels and before the lambe 11 And the smoke of their torment shall ascend euermore and they shall haue no rest day nor night which worship the beast and his Image and whosoeuer receaueth the print of his name 12 Here is the patience of Sainctes here are they that keepe the Commandements of God and the faith of Iesus 13 Then I heard a voyce from heauen saying vnto me write Blessed are the dead which hereafter dye in the Lord Euen so saith the spirite for they rest from their labours their workes follow them 14 And I looked and behold a white cloud vpon the cloude one sitting like vnto the sonne of man hauing on his head a golden crowne and in his hand a sharpe sickle 15 And another Angell came out of the temple crying with a loud voyce to him that sat on the Cloude thrust in thy sickle and reape for the time is come to reape for the haruest of the earth is ripe 16 And he that sate on the Cloude thrust in his sickle on the earth and the earth was reaped 17 Then another Angell came out of the Temple which is in heauen hauing also a sharpe sickle 18 And another angel came out froÌ„ the altar which had power ouer fire cryed with a loude crie to him that had the sharpe sickle said thrust in thy sharpe sickle gather the clusters of the vineyarde of the earth for her grapes are ripe 19 And the angel thrust in his sharpe sickle on the earth cut downe the vines of the vineyard of earth and cast them into the great winepresse of the wrath of God 20 And the winepresse was troden without the citie and bloud came out of the winepresse vnto the horse bridles by the space of a thousand sixe hundred furlonges O Thou lambe of God that takest away the sinnes of the world thou lamb that standest on mount Sion in the heauenly Ierusalem the Church triumphant with an hundred forty and foure thousand twelue times twelue thousand hauing thy fathers name written in their foreheads euen with all thy faithfull and elect whom thou hast taken out of the miserie of this world out of error and ignorance and especiallye those whom thou hast deliuered out of the thraldome and oppression of the olde Romaine empire and the Image thereof the new Romaine Church and hast blessed with thy Fathers name with eternall glorye and felicitye whom with thy precious bloud thou hast bought from the earth from sinne and corruption and hast so endued with thy spirite and grace that they were not defiled with women with the errors and superstitions of particular churches but kept the virginitye of their doctryne and fayth within thy catholycke church pure and sincere and haste aduaunced to euerlastyng blisse and made the fyrste fruites vnto GOD faythfull and spotlesse before the throne of his Maiestye wee yeelde thee moste humble hartye and duetifull thankes that it hath pleased thee to send thy messengers ministers and preachers into the militant church to preach publish thy euerlasting Gospell which the might mistes of Babylon had longe Concealed and obscured vnto them that dwell on the earth and to euery nation and kinred and tongue and people teaching vs to feare God and geue glory vnto him and not to feare the power and might of Antichrist nor his fyerce and furious thunderboltes of curses and excommunications nor to glorify and magnifie that man of sinne and childe of perdition but to glorifye God the honour of whose iudgement is come to consume the kingdome of Antichrist with the spirit of his mouth and to worship thy heauenly father and thee his eternall worde and wisedome which hast made heauen and earth and the sea and the fountaynes of waters and not to worshippe stockes and stones Images and Idols the babes and abhominations of Babylon We yeeld the also most humble and feruent thankes that with this thy heauenlye doctrine and spirite of thy mouth thou hast ouerthrowne the towres of Babell the might and maiestye of the Romish Sinagoge that wee maye truelye and reioycinglye say It is fallen it is fallen Babylon the great Cittie that made all nations drunken with Idolatrye and superstition euen with the name of her false doctrine wherin God in his wrath suffered her to solace her selfe and to commit idolatrie which is spirituall fornication We beseech thee

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