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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	faith_n	true_a	truth_n	4,594	5	5.5207	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38773	The bloudy vision of John Farly, interpreted by Arise Evans. With another vision signifying peace and happiness. Both which shew remarkable alterations speedily, to come to pass here in England, also a refutation of a pamphlet, lately published by one Aspinwall: called a Brief discription of the fifth Monarchy. Shewing that the late Parliament was that beast mentioned, Rev. 13. that this representative is the image thereof, and that the fifth Monarchy will shortly be established in the person of Charles Stevvart	Evans, Arise, b. 1607.	1653 (1653)	Wing E3454; ESTC R208636	45,880	81

was given to him and what was taken from them is a robbing of him and also declareth that such as rob him in those things are accursed Malach. 3. 8 9. But ye will say those that gave these things were idolatrously devoted I answer Thou that abhorrest idols doest thou commit sacriledge Rom. 2. 22. Our Church in the days of King Henry 8. King Edward 6. and Queen Elizabeth took sufficient care for that matter Therefore take heed least ye by running away from idolatry split your selves upon sacriledge and robbing of God but rather do right to God in restoring these things that ye may be blessed The next thing is that ye do right unto all men from the highest to the lowest and that you restore to every one what is his Birth-right and due by the Laws of the Land according to the intention of our worthy predecessours that made them And that ye neither alter nor destroy those Laws they being experimentally found to be the best in all the World for the government of a people according to the word of God Insomuch that before this time Brittain might have been called the glorie of the whole earth for righteousness towards God and man if they had not come short in the execution of the Laws according to the true meaning thereof for the Laws are good though the administratours thereof being corrupted have through bribery many times wrested them and thereby wronged the subjects and it is a notable Character of the beast or Anti-Christ that he shall think to change times and Laws Daniel 7. 25. Therefore it were good that ye would leave off your destroying of our Laws and changing of times 3. The third thing is That ye restore the government of the Church and preserve the Laws and Ordinances thereof as well as of the state according as they were established in the beginning of these troubles And that for the better purging and taking away of all abuses and errours crept in since that time ye advise with such conscientious learned sober and honest Bishops and other Orthodox Clergie and Lawyers as be most able to direct you as from the mouth of God But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees I mean the Presbyterian or Puritanical faction who have brought all this misery upon themselves and us for though they be now so sensible of their errours that many of their Ministers and Ring-leaders do begin to creep toward the Bishops good old way yet it will not be wisdom to trust them least their old Leprosie break out again And now in the name of God Almighty I testifie and affirm unto you that this is the very minde of God and of the most conscientious and judicious men in the Kingdom which here I present unto you to be done for the good and happiness of the Nation Therefore as I said whilst ye stand in the station wherein ye are now I dare not for my part lie so grosly agrinst the truth mine own conscience as to call you a Parliament for I have proved by the Scripture in my book called A voice from Heaven written in the year 1651. That the late Parliament which was rightly called together at first by doing those unreasonable actions which the beast spoken off Rev. 13. was to do according to the Scripture became that beast Now the beast being wounded by a sword and dissolved yet liveth in its acts that ye are the Representative or image of the same beast Rev. 13. 11 12 13 14 15. And what penalty is appointed for any that giveth any Title of Honour Worship or reverence to the beast or to his image is evident Rev. 14. 9. 10. And truely let me tell you mine own infirmities also that it is no small grief unto me that I am confined upon pain of eternal damnation not to give you the Titel and reverence that ye expect from these three Kingdoms for I am confident that some of your intentions and meanings are good though your errours and want of true understanding be very evil so that it is harder for to bring you or such as profess so much knowledge to a right understanding then it is to bring them that never made any profession of religion at all to acknowledge the truth for as the Lord Christ found more true understanding and Faith in Heathens and Publicans then in the self-conceited Pharisical Jews Matth. 21. 31 32. So now those that seems to have nothing of value in them by the judgement of your precisians I finde to be most capable to understand and to believe the saving truth that I now declare for the open prophane through infirmities and weakness of the flesh being right firm in the true principles of Faith are better then those who profess outward holiness with errours in judgement faith yea and are more humble and consequently more capable to receive the truth Luke 18. 10 11 12 13 14. But I hope better things of you though I thus speak That notwithstanding the great difference between King Charls and you ye shall finde him to be a Child of God and appointed to be the most eminent servant of Jesus Christ in all the World and that ye will be yet his most glorious subjects to vindicat him from all the aspersions laid upon him and to wound the head of his Enemies and yet Truly Gentlemen if I should believe reports there is small cause for me to stand so much for him for I heard it of a certain that some eminent pretended friends of his who thinks to bear a great sway in this Kingdom have positively said That when he cometh to his Throne he must of necessity put me to death Because say they I laid too much honour upon his Father and did blaspheme therein but I believe they are not able to prove their assertion from scripture against me though they take up the teners of the Pharisee for a man may blaspheme God the King but to joyn God and the King together in one is no blasphemy by Scripture rule but howsoever I shall both do him right not be danted at their ignorant threats for I believe the King shall have such wisdom to rule that all things will not be done as such ignorants would for though they think the revolutions of these times to be nothing but accidental changes yet wiser men who shall then bear rule with the KING when he cometh to his Throne will finde and believe that these revolutions and changes came to pass even to fulfill the words and promises of God which are laid down in Scripture as they are and have been opened and declared by me these twenty years in some measure by Gods assistance and appointment And whereas many say the Kings bloud lies upon this man and that man and that the King cannot pardon such and such a man and that he can never be reconciled to such a party or parties I am sure you that so think or