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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	end_n	king_n	lord_n	3,565	5	3.6733	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00954	The revvard of the faithfull. The labour of the faithfull. The grounds of our faith	Fletcher, Giles, 1588?-1623.	1623 (1623)	STC 11062; ESTC S117621	79,563	446

him That thou mayest see then what thou shouldest beleeue now beleeue those Prophesies which are yet to be seene Thou sawest not perhaps the comming of Christ in humilitie foretould by the foregoing Prophet but that which was foretould by his following Apostles thou maist yet see● the comming of Antichrist in pride Thou couldst not see Ierusalem destroy the Temple of Christs Body foretould by the former Prophets but our Sauiour himselfe Prophesied of the destruction of Ierusalem and that is yet to be seene Thine eyes cannot behold the spirituall Kingdome of Christ because it is of another world and beyond thy eye sight but the power of this Kingdome which was to breake in pieces the former great Monarchies of the world and it selfe to remaine vnshaken for euer Prophesied twice by Daniel in his 2. and 7. Chapters if thou wilt but open thine eyes thou canst not but behold The Diuine image of the inuisible God dwelling bodily in the humane Nature of our Sauior prophesied in Esays Immanuel is to diuinely subtile for his owls eies to looke vpon but it is visibly to be seene by thee that the false image of the heathen like Dagons Idol before the Arke are fallen downe and by the power of Christs Kingdom beaten to the ground Prophesied in the second of Esay and Dauid and diuerse of the Prophets How the Kings of the earth and the Rulers banded themselues together against the Lord and against his Christ to extinguish his Church in the very Cradle of it Prophesied by Dauid was thou wilt say before thou were borne to see it but happy happy art thou that thou art borne to see now Kings to be the Noursing Fathers Queenes the Nursing Mothers of his Church Prophesied by Esay Es 49. 23. Thou seest not the whole world Iew and Gentil forget themselues and rebell against the Lord denying his Kingdome or to be gouerned by him We haue no King but Caesar But thou seest now the Kingdome is the Lords and he is the Gouernour among the Nations and that all the ends of the earth hath remembred themselues turned vnto the Lord Prophesied by Dauid Psa 22. 27. Briefely thou seest not the Resurrection of our Sauiour in glory among the Iewes Prophesied by Dauid but thou seest that which was immediately to follow among the Gentiles the Resurrection of grace foretold by all the Prophets Neither canst thou see now the Iewes crying crucifie him crucifie him But thou maist yet see that which instantly followes His bloud be vpon vs and vpon our Children Since therefore thou hast lying before thine eyes by the power of Christs kingdome the 4. great Monarches of the world broken in peeces by the diuine Image of God the false images of Heathen beaten downe the destruction of that citie that destroyed him and the dispersion of that People that scattered his the rebellious Gentiles his seruants and the persecuting Kings his Subiects if thou wilt not be among those whom our Sauiour blesses Blessed are they that haue not seene and yet haue beleeued be at least one of Saint Thomas his Disciples vse thine eyes as he did his fingers and be not faithlesse but beleeue For I will not feare to say that the certainty of our faith arising from the Prophecies is more powerable to perswade thē if it were by an ocular demonstration now before our eies miraculously cōfirmed then if one should rise from the dead to instruct vs then if GOD himselfe should descend speake to vs from heauen A great audacitie of speech will some say I and a proude hyperbole of Truth but such as the Scripture vses They haue Moses and the Prophets sayes Abraham let them heare them And though such purple-habited and high-dieted Epicures as are already in the state of the damned though they liue in the world among vs foolishly suppose that of one should rise and come to them from the dead they should presently beleeue yet the Father of the faithfull who knew better how faith was begotten tells vs plainely if they will not heare Moses and the Prophets neyther will they be perswaded though one rose from the dead And what sayes Saint Peter who himselfe heard the voyce of God immediately and gloriously speaking to him from heauen This is my Well-beloued Sonne heare him We haue sayes he a more sure word of Prophecie whereunto you do well that yee take heed 2. Pet. 1. 19. And is it possible any word in the earth should be more certaine then word of God immediatly speaking to him from heauen Certes not in regard of the substance of the thing deliuered For so both the word of God immediatly framed by himselfe spoken from heauen or vttered by the mouth of his Prophet is all one and hath the very same identiall certaintie but both in regard of the manner of deliuery the Prophesies are more sure because they are larger and more copiously expositiue of themselues in case of doubts emergent God speaking but awhile by a voyce immediately framed by himselfe but speaking by his Prophets from the beginning of the world to the end of it which are therefore interpretatiue of themselues and specially in regard of vs Because the voyce of God immediately speaking from heauen to vs is more astonishing and lesse instructiue then otherwise it would be So we see the Children of Israel when God spake from heauen to them Exodus 20. 18. 19. shaken into such an Ague of feare and trembling as Moses himselfe was Heb. 12. 21. that they started backe and stoode a farre off and cryed to Moses O let not God speake anie more vnto vs lest wee die Which naturall feare God does not onely pardon but approue and therefore stooping to their nature and laying aside his owne Maiestie wee shall see in the 18. of Deuter. 16. verse what he sayes to them and by whose mouth hee promises to speake to vs. According to all that thou desirest of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the Assembly saying Let me not heare againe the voice of the Lord my GOD neither let me see this great fire any more that I die not And the Lord sayd vnto me they haue well spoken in all that they haue said I will raise them vp a Prophet from among their Brethren like vnto thee and will put my words in his mouth him shall they heare c. Thus when the Greeks came to see our Sauiour Iohn 12. 21. and God gaue a maiesticall witnesse to him from heauen they were all so horrowed with suddaine amase and affright that some thought it thundred others that an Angel spake from heauen to him but what was sayd none of them all knew And thus our Apostle heere himselfe was for the time that GOD spake in Mount Tabor strucke halfe beside his vnderstanding with feare and astonishment Matth 17. 6. and talked himselfe hee knew not what Luke 9. 33. We see therefore how strongly the Rocke of our saluation Christ