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enemy_n	arm_n	king_n	lord_n	1,170	5	3.6006	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05186	Of ghostes and spirites walking by nyght and of strange noyses, crackes, and sundry forewarnynges, whiche commonly happen before the death of menne, great slaughters, [and] alterations of kyngdomes. One booke, written by Lewes Lauaterus of Tigurine. And translated into Englyshe by R.H.; De spectris, lemuribus et magnis atque insolitis fragoribus. English	Lavater, Ludwig, 1527-1586.; Harrison, Robert, d. 1585?	1572 (1572)	STC 15320; ESTC S108369	158,034	242

citie of Ramoth Gilead whiche the Assirians had taken from hym Iosaphat allowed well this deuise notwythstanding hée woulde in any wyse aske counsayle herein of god Achab therefore gathereth togither a councell of .400 priests of Baall who all with one voice exhorted him to goe on with his enterprise assuring him of most certeyne victorie One of them named Sedechias was so vainly bold that putting hornes of yron on his head he sayde with these hornes shalt thou pushe the Assirians But Iosaphat suspecting the matter asked if there were any one Prophet of God to be found of whom they might séeke councell Achab answeared There is quoth he yet a certeine man by whom we might enquire of the Lorde but I hate him for he doth not prophecie good vnto me but euill his name is Micheas Iosaphat thought good in any wise to heare him Wherfore the king presently sent for him by one of his chamberlaines And thus the messanger spake vnto him All the Prophets with one voice prophecie good lucke vnto the king I pray thée therfore that thou speake nothing to the contrary When he was nowe brought before the two kings sitting in their thrones clad with sumptuous apparell and before the other Prophets which stoode in their presence king Achab asked him whether they should make warres against Ramoth Gilead or no Unto whom he scoffingly answered go saith he thou shalt haue prosperous successe The king who by the manner of his vtterance vnderstoode he spake not in earnest instantly required hym to tell hym the truth Whervppon he sayde that he had séene all Israell dispersed in the mountaines as shepe without a shepherd and that the Lorde had sayde These men haue no Lord let euery one returne home to his owne house in safetie Then sayde Achab did I not tell thée that this fellowe doth prophecie me no good The Prophete went on saying heare the word of God I sawe the Lord sitting in his seate of maiestie and all the host of Heauen stand about him on his righte hande and on his lefte hande And the Lorde sayde who shall entice Achab that he may go and fall at Ramoth Gilead And one sayde on this manner and an other sayde on that manner Then there came foorth a spirit and stoode before the Lorde and sayde I will entice him And the Lorde sayde vnto him wherewith And he sayde I will go out and be a false Spirit in the mouth of all his Prophets Then he sayde thou shalt entise him and shalt also preuaile go foorth and do so Nowe therefore behold the Lorde hath put a lying Spirit in the mouth of all these thy Prophets and the Lorde hathe appointed euill agaynst thée Then Sedechias came nere and smote Micheas on the chéeke and sayde when went the spirit of the Lorde from me to speake vnto thée And Micheas prophecied what should happen also vnto him So the king commaunded him to be cast into prison and to be fed with bread and water vntil he returned frō the warres Then sayde Micheas if thou returne in peace the Lorde hathe not spoken by me and therewith he willed all the people to hearken what he spake Notwithstanding the kings went forewarde with their enterprise and prepared themselues and led foorth their armes against their enimies Achab was slayne in the battaile Iosaphat because he ioyned him selfe with the wicked was in very great daunger c. I haue handled thys historie somewhat at large that we might vnderstand howe God by his iust iudgement sendeth spirits vnto those which despise his word whereby they may be beguiled and deceyued The very same happened vnto the Christians after the Apostles tyme For when the word of God began to be lesse estemed than it shoulde haue bin and men preferred their owne affections before the hearing thereof and when as they would incurre no manner of daunger for the defence of their faith and of the truth but accounted of all religions alike God so punished them that nowe they began to giue eare vnto false teachers whiche framed them selues vnto theyr veine affections they learned of images whom they called lay mennes bookes they kissed these mens boanes and shrined them in golde if happely they were their boanes whose doctrine before they disdained to receyue they gaue credite vnto false apparitions and diuelishe visions and so suffered they worthy punishment for their greate ingratitude Euen as yong men which will not be ruled by their maisters are after compelled to obey other men with great shame so also happened it vnto those men for they fell dayly more and more from the word of God in so muche that when they had once lost the truthe some ranne one waye and some an other to fynde a meanes for the remission of their sins and one man beleued this spirite an other that which no man can deny The like chaunced vnto the Gentiles in times past as it appereth by the first chap. to the Romans also by their own writings They worshipped many gods many miracles were shewed amongst them they had many visiōs of gods and many oracles which when the Apostles began to preach al cessed S. Athanasius in his booke De humanitate verbi Fol. 55. 64. writeth that in auncient time ther were oracles at Delphos in Beeotta Lycia other places whiche he nameth but nowe since Chryste is preached euery where vnto all men this madnesse hath ceassed c. In the like manner writeth Lactantius and others But in these our daies since we haue refused mens traditions and willingly imbraced the doctrine of the Gospell all appearings of Soules and Spirites haue quite vanished away Who I pray you heareth now of any soule or Spirit which doth wander and as they call it craue mens deuotions Those rumblings of Spirits in the night are now muche more seldome heard than they haue bin in times past CHAP. II. VVhat the cause is that in these our dayes so fevve spirits are seen or heard THe clere light of Gods worde driueth away al such spirits which vse to worke their feates in the darke The cleare light approching the shaddowe and darknes vanisheth The prince of darknesse shunneth light and hath nothing to do where men worship God the father only through Iesu Christ beleuing only on him and committing them selues wholy vnto his protection If men esteme the word of God and haue it in price he will in no wise suffer them to be so ouerséene and deceyued as they are whiche do all things without the warrant of his word Here I cannot ouerpasse with silence a certeine merry iest when once there chanced to bée talke in a certayne place of visions and Spirits a certayne professor of the Gospell sayd vnto a Papist in this maner You ought quoth he euen by thys to gather that our religion is true and youres false for that since the Gospell was preached vnto vs very fewe spirits haue ben sene of any man. 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