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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	mouth_n	speak_v	word_n	6,196	5	4.5092	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67263	A discoverie of the beasts being an exposition of the XIII chapter of the Revelation of Jesus Christ : wherein all true Christians (yet in Babylon) are admonished to come out, and the anti-Christians fore-told what their plagues will be / by I.W.	I. W.	1641 (1641)	Wing W41; ESTC R6846	38,588	101

a visible God not onely to behold with their eyes and look upon but also to eate and that their Maker and Redeemer to their everlasting salvation And being so effectually deluded as that they beleeved these lies hereupon they wondred and followed the Beast Well might they wonder to see bread and taste bread where was no bread and to see wine and taste wine where was no wine for so were they made to believe and to eate flesh and drink bloud and yet neither to see nor take flesh nor bloud this was a wonder to wonder at and who would not follow him for a guide that had power to worke such wonders But they did not onely follow the Beast as the Iews did Christ when they saw his miracles But they worshipped the Dragon which gave power unto the Beast and they worshipped the Beast saying who is like unto the Beast Who is able to make warre with him To worship is to heare and obey and by worshipping the Dragon was shewed that they wholly addicted themselves to be directed and ruled by the Beast whom the Dragon used as his instrument to work his will and to whom he had given authority and power to that end thus originally they worshiped the Divell Secondly they worshipped the Beast as being the instrument of the Divell and they became subjects in all things obedient unto the Beast as being of such holinesse and truth as that it could not erre nor deceive others and of such power as what they loosed on earth was loosed in heaven and what they bound in earth was bound in heaven and therefore such a power as had no match or peere so that they boasted and said of it Who is like unto the Beast As David considering the power and wonderfull workes of God saith Who is like unto the Lord So do the Nations boast of this Beast saying Who is like unto the Beast And further they said of him Who is able to make warre with him As if they should say This our holy Mother hath power to excommunicate and deliver to Satan all of what estate condition degree soever they be that will not heare her voice beare her yoke and be ruled by her Who therefore is able to make war with her that is make his party good against this our holy Mother Of such admiration was this Beast in the earth thus hath the world thought and spoken of her And moreover there was given unto this Beast a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies and power was given him to make 42 moneths As the mouth is the means and instrument whereby men do declare their mindes so this Beast had a mouth to declare and utter her minde by which mouth was signified a ministery of false prophets and lying spirits namely Doctours School-men Monkes Fryers and all sorts of their Preachers who teach for doctrines the commandements of the Beast and declare and utter the minde and will of the Beast as being equall to Gods Word this their Canons Laws Books and Monuments do manifestly witnesse The effect of that which this mouth uttereth is noted to be great things and blasphemies They boast of this Beast that she is the holy Catholike Church Militant the Mother of all rrue beleevers the chaste Spouse of Christ the Pillar and ground of Truth that it cannot erre c. And that all which will have God to be their Father must have her to be their Mother Finally that out of her lap and communion there is no salvation These and many other such great things speaketh the mouth of this Beast which are indeed great things and being so spoken are great blasphemies For is it not great blasphemie to call that Holy which is most abominable To call her the Mother of all true Beleevers which is the mother of fornications and of all abominations To call that the Pillar and ground of Truth which hath corrupted the earth with her errours and fornications and caused all Nations to drink of the wine of the wrath thereof To say there is no salvation but in her fellowship whose end and judgement is to go to destruction Beware of false Prophets and teachers of lies for such are the mouth of this Beast And it is further to be minded that it is said of this Beast that the mouth which she had was given her for had this Beast no more to maintaine this mouth then she hath of her own by discent and heritage she could not have so many to speak for her as she hath But Emperous and Kings Princes and Nobles and other great sinners became benefactours to this Beast giving unto her Lands and Tenements Rents and Revenews to maintaine this mouth to utter great things and blasphemies and more then this Power was given him to act or make two and forty moneths For the better understanding of this point let this be considered In the Antichristian kingdom they have a rule how to proceed in every cause but not given them of God but of their own making which they commonly call the Canon Law concerning which Law here we may learne by whom it was made and how long it was in making These Makets usurp the name of the Church of Christ but the true Church is the Kingdom of Christ and being the Kingdom of Christ it hath him onely for Law-giver they therefore which under the title of the Church presume to make laws are fitly and worthily resembled by a beast for what is more vnreasonable then for those whose greatest dignity glory and happines consisteth in hearing obeying and administring of gods word to fall from this and Lucifer-like to exalt and oppose themselves against their Maker as though they were wiser and iuster then God and to adde unto his Testament Which is suficient to instruct us in all Wisdom and to make the man of God perfect in every good worke and to take from the same Testament at their pleasure which is not lawfull to do to any mans Testament without great offence and iniustice as the Apostle sheweth Ga. 3.15 yet thit is the way wherein those great doers the authors of the Canon Law haue walked It is said of those Actors that Power was given them c. Where first we may observ that of themselves they had not this power for then it could not haue beene said to be given them but given them it was it is therefore to be considered Who was the giver Not Christ he gave his disciples no power to make Laws but gave them charge to teath belivers to observe all things whatsoever he had commanded them it is certain therefore that this power was given them not by God but by men namely by Kings and Princes for the states and degrees of men considered it is plaine that none can give power to make Lawes but such as be Soveraignes by such therefore this power to make Lawes was given unto this Beast But what should move Soveraignes to give power to Bishops