Selected quad for the lemma: parliament_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
parliament_n	house_n	king_n	officer_n	2,496	5	7.4181	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74254	The age of vvonders, or Miracles are not ceased. Being a true but strange relation of a child born at Burslem in Stafford-shire, who, before it was three quarters old, spake and prophesied strange and wonderful things touching the king ... affirmed in a letter by Mr. Colclough, Justice of the Peace, to Colonel Pury; and attended upon oath by Elizabeth Locket and her husband, the childs nurse.		1659 (1659)	Thomason E1017_37	4,476	8

The Age of VVonders OR MIRACLES are not CEASED BEING A true but strange Relation of a Child born at Burslem in Stafford-Shire who before it was three quarters old spake and prophesied strange and wonderful things touching the King three nights together contained in this ensuing Relation as it was affirmed in a Letter by Mr. Colclough Justice of the Peace to Colonel Pury and attested upon Oath by Elizabeth Locket and her Husband the Childs Nurse With divers other remarkable Predictions Signes and Wonders in relation to Monarchy and the Child born with three Crowns PSAL. 8.2 Out of the mouth of Babes and Sucklings hast thou Ordained strength because of thine enemies March 23. 1659 London Printed for Nehemiah Chamberlain and are to be sold at the East end of St. Pauls 1660. The Age of Wonders IT is an ungratious quality of our English Islanders rather then not to be babling to belie deprave and scandalize one another whereas the condoling our own miseries and glorifying God for the wonders which hee daily revealeth and the deliverances which we continually finde are subjects more becoming our Meditations God will never shorten the evidence of his own Essence and omnipotence were it onely to the confutation and condemnation of Athiests the holy Ghost is not confined to the rules of Nature but doth declare his wonderful and secret determinations oft-times by supernatural means and not seldom by crossing the course of Nature Not to ravel out the Scriptures which are full of such presidents we need go no higher then the present times wherein we live which may not unjustly be called The Age of Wonders Where are our Histories Sacred and prophane which can produce the paralel to the late years wherein we have lived for admirations Not to mix ink with the Sacred Royal blood so unnaturally Sacriligiously and inhumanely drawn which yet seems to sleep a Wonder in comparison of Gods Revenge for Murther which hath never been known to fail even to the most inconsiderable instance we shall do well to take some Doctrines from Infants as well as from irrational and sometimes from inanimate Creatures all of them naturally incapable by speech to utter any thing to our understanding and first for Infants To omit those serene and innocent Martyrs of Pharaoh and Herod who notwithstanding their incapacity of speech confessed and shewed forth the praise and glory of God not in speaking but in dying let us go no higher then a dozen years within which time we shall make evident that three cradle Infants have made audible wonderful revelations in order to the restoring of Monarchy into this wretched Kingdom One a Boy about the coming in of the present King Charles born a Sudbury at eleven weeks old was plainly heard as well by his Parents as others to speak before his Majesties march to Worcester and say A King which he often repeated a truth generally known to the inhabitants of those parts A second is another Boy as yet under two years old and living was born with Teeth in his mouth with two tongues in his mouth and three Crowns upon his head where others have but one he walked in his Mothers hand at six moneths old and from his birth spoke and ever in his speech named A King which to this day he not only continues with other expressions but if any one in his presence do but name the word King the boy seems to be over-joyed how he behaved himself sometime since in the Commons House of Parliament where in his deportment and expressions he fore-told their declining is better to be taken from their own Officers A third which is a Female Child we have certified from Burslem in Stafford-Shire which Child is nursed by Elizabeth Locket the Wife of John Locket in the said Parish of Burslem who are people of very honest conversation The said nurse about a Moneth or five weeks since undressing the Child at eight of the Clock in the evening the said Girl Infant being much under three quarters of a year old was heard plainly to say A King which she repeated seven times after each other and did the same three nights together about the same hour in the evening which child never spake before nor since This Relation was sent in a Letter to Colonel Pury and is offered to be deposed upon oath by John Colclough Esquire one of the Justices of Peace in the said County of Stafford and this the said John and Elizabeth Locket dwelling in Burslem aforesaid In this Miraculous Predection of an Infant more things are observable then may be slightly passed over First for an Infant to speak is so wonderful as we have not seen the like Recorded no not of the Son of God himself who did fully accomplish all manner of his Relations to Humanity sin onely excepted before he is mentioned to speak but in these Infants the growth of Teeth and strength to other Organs of speech seemed to be perfected onely for declaring a Miracle The two first Children were born with Teeth of which the last had onely three a long while the number of the first or the relation of any born with the last is not yet brought to our knowledge therefore we will observe something upon the Number Three Number is an Art it is no Natural gift for the Indians who want the use of Letters have not the gift of Numbering further then by their fingers they can prompt their memory and even at that help few of them can arrive at the number of a hundred and by our own Children we find that though we bring them early to the comprehension of Letters yet they can retain no great number till age have strengthened their memories The Heathen Philosopher saith That the first part of Wisdom is well to Number and the Divine Royal Prophet makes it a chief of his Prayers to Number his dayes that he may apply his heart unto Wisdom Whereby it is evident that a principal part of Wisdom rests upon the Art of Arithmatick in short it is the strongest link in the Chain of Assotiation nor Government nor Laws nor Trade can subsist or continue without numeration At this time we shall have occasion to touch and onely to touch three of the said numbers that is to say one Three and Seven by that number or rather beginning of numbers one we are lead to the serious consideration of the Word KING which was the subject and the whole Subject of all the three Childrens miraculous speech like the one Prophet amongst the Lyons or like the three children in the fiery Furnace whose discourse was of one God in Three Persons as this is of KING Monarchal by three Children One is a number uncomposed and not numerable because it cannot be divided neverthelesse it createth and produceth innumerable accounts and being again repeated it maketh two and so runs ad infinitum and indeed one and two are the Number of God who is Infinite one relating