Selected quad for the lemma: parliament_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
parliament_n	king_n	power_n	prerogative_n	4,869	5	9.9586	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75736	The work of the age: or, the sealed prophecies of Daniel opened and applied. VVherein is plainly proved that all the governments in the world, except the government of Christ, are but images, or parts of Nebuchadnezzars image, and shall be suddenly broken in pieces by the little stone cut out of the mountain without hand: together with the means how Christ will effect all this. Shewing also that image-government, and image-worship have always been companions. Explaining likewise Daniels mystical numbers, and discovering some misprisions about the little horn, both in the translation and application of the same. Amending sundry places in our common translation, and clearing some chronological points from the common errours. / By William Aspinwall.	Aspinwall, William, fl. 1648-1662.	1655 (1655)	Wing A4010; Thomason E832_1; ESTC R207510	48,246	60

said that wee are not to understand three as a definite number but as a number of perfection denoting divers and many of the Horns I wish it may be wel weighed how unsafe such an interpretation may be For if it be granted that three in this Prophecy is not a definite but an indefinite and uncertain number put for Many will it not open a door to some to question the Trinity of Persons in the God-head and to say there are many persons because three is counted a number of perfection and doth not denote a certain but an uncertain number which would be of dangerous consequence Besides it may justly be inquired where the Scripture accounts the number three a number of perfection Often wee read of seven so used as the Seven Spirits of God the Seven Golden Candlesticks the Seven Churches of Asia the Seven Starres the Seven Angells the Seven Seals And it is usuall in Scripture to reckon by Sevens But I do not remember the like rotundity in the number three And if wee should make such an interpretation of the number three as if it were put for an indefinite number it would render the Accounts of Scripture very uncertain which is not safe to be admitted In the Fifth and last place let it be considered how the Characters of the Little Horn afore mentioned will suit unto Charls Stuart the late King in every particular For First He was a King Secondly Hee was one of the ten Horns or amongst the ten Horns or Kings appertaining to the Fourth Monarchy or great Beast Thirdly Hee was by originall a Scot and by consequence a little Horn for as much as Scotland is one of the least Kingdoms of the ten And as hee was the least in respect of his originall Nation so also hee was least or youngest by birth He was not the oldest but the youngest sonne of James And hee did spring up as Daniel saith from being a King of the least of the Kingdoms to be a King of three Kingdoms Fourthly Hee did in a great measure pluck up by the roots all the three Nations or Kingdoms by his prerogative If you understand by that Metaphor religion and the civil rights of the Nations Which are to the Nations as roots be to the tree And hee made use of his prerogative to that end For hee said hee would not leave a Puritan in all his Dominions And it is well known how farre hee proceeded to root up religion and the Nations Civil Rights and to introduce an arbitrary government and Popery into all the three Nations Fifthly Hee was a vigilant Prince and politick and had the eyes of a man as Daniel speaketh Sixtly His Spirit was bent against God and against his people and against the waies of God as might be instanced at large Seventhly Hee was a Prince of a wilfull resolute spirit insomuch as King James his Father sometimes would say of him that through his wilfullnesse hee would lose the three Nations Eightly Hee made warre against the Saints the better part giving denomination to the whole throughout the three nations Witnesse the displaying of his Banners first against the Parliament not they first against him And witnesse the Commissions hee granted to the Popish-Rebells in Ireland against the Godly party there Ninthly Hee made use of his prerogative to the extirpation of religion and the Nations Civil Rights as farre as lay in his power infesting all the three Nations with intestine and bloody warres Tenthly Who is it that knows not how hee oppressed his Subjects with Taxes Loans Ship-monys c according as it is said of the Little Horn that he did wear out the Saints the whole taking denomination from the better part Eleventhly It is a thing well known that hee had a secret design to change the antient Government of the Nations and instead thereof to have ruled by his Proclamations And what else did his billetting of forrain Souldiers up and down the Country import before the begining of these late warres Twelfthly It is apparently known not only to these Nations but throughout the world that hee was brought to a Judicial tryal and received his sentence before the High Court of Justice Thirteenthly Hee was unkinged as I may say and divested of his royalty when the Court proceeded against him as Charls Stuart a delinquent without any Kingly title Fourteenthly All these Nations yea the whole World can witnesse that hee was beheaded and slain by dismembring as Daniel fore-told Fifteenthly It is well known and still remains upon record that after his beheading the State removed away all soveraignty out of the Nations by a publick Act of State Sixteenthly We know it to be a truth that though Charls be beheaded and Soveraignty abolished yet the rest of the Horns or Beasts appertaining to the Empire still retain their power and Soveraignty and so are like to do for a short season Seventeenthly It needs no proof that all these things have been thus acted as upon a Stage in the latter end of a time times and half a time Our times drawing nigh to the expiration of the Fourth great Beast or Monarchy as it is acknowledged by most Now let every judicious and unbyassed Reader consider and laying all that hath been spoken by mee or others in the ballance of the Sanctuary looking up to Heaven for direction and then comparing the word of God the dispensations of his providence together let them judge as God shall cast in any light who it is that is meant by this little Horn. And if any doubt should arise about the Characters I have collected out of the Text whether they be the proper Characters of this little Horn because some good men express them otherwise let the Reader himself be judge which of the Characters have best footing in that Scripture that describeth this little Horn. For to fetch Characters from the second Eighth or Eleventh chapters of this Book wil be altogether improper and raise a mist before the Readers eye unlesse it could be manifested that those Chapters speak of the same thing which with submission to better judgements I may be bold to say hath not yet been done nor can be For as much as the matter of those Visions doth apparently differ from this of the little horn as in part I have shewed upon the second Chapter and am now about to shew further in the opening of the eighth Chapter Dan. Chap. 8. 1 In the third year of the reign of Belshazzar a Vision appeared to mee even to me Daniel after that which appeared to me at the beginning 2 And I saw in a Vision and it came to passe when I saw that I was in Shushan the Palace which is in the Province of Elam and I saw in a Vision that I was by the River Vlai 3 Then I lifted up mine eyes and looked and behold one Ram standing before the River and to him two horns and the two Horns were high but