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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	moses_n	people_n	write_v	2,486	5	5.9268	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88833	Gleanings and expositions of some, and but some of the more difficult places of scriptures: perhaps, but the first-fruits unto a more plentifull harvest / by John Lavvson.	Lawson, John, fl. 1644-1646.	1646 (1646)	Wing L716; Thomason E345_5; ESTC R200984	58,069	82

faithfull dealing with Christ And this is faithfull dealing with Christ to sufferage him as he suffered for us So Paul expoundeth it when he faith This is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the faithfull word or word of faith that if we suffer with him wee shall reign with him if we die with him we shall live with him if we deny him he will deny us 2 Tim. 2.11 If justification and salvation were promised to no faith but unto faithfull dealing power of godlinesse would prevail otherwise then it doth and Antinomian libertinisme vanish And why should not faithfull dealing with Christ be said to make no partakers of Christ aswell as faith to make us partakers of Christ Faith may be without faithfull dealing but faithfull dealing cannot be without faith if faithfull dealing with Christ be dangerous against Christ now can faith in Christ be safe unto Christ If faith make me partaker of Christ faithfull dealing much more will make me partaker of Christ that is it will evidence both to my self and others that I have communion with Christ Rom. 9.3 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Could I wish As much as to say If I could wish my self accursed from Christ yet it would do them no good For this later clause is understood by way of Apostopesis a Figure frequent enough in Scripture which modestly and prudently the Apostle forbeareth to break to ●illest he should offend the Jewes which were so apt to take offence at him By this Interpretacion the faith verse cometh in fitly which otherwise followeth unwillingly which is Not at though the word of God had taken none effect By this Interpretation Paul did not actually wish himself accursed from Christ which if he had seemeth not orthodoxall and hath bred great Scruple That of Moses Race●●e out of the Book which thou hast written is no more but this Whereas thou lust appointed me to do the Leader of this people I beseech thee exempt me from 〈◊〉 office of thou wilt nor pardon them this sin 1 CORINTHIANS 1 Cor. ● 15 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but he shall be saved It that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the foundation with which 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth agree in gender aswell as with the person there spoken of An answer to a prevented objection which revolters and ligh● 〈◊〉 to the truth do imagine viz. that if they perish but cause which they did professe must perish with them when they fall from it But if the cause be safe when they desert it the terrour is theirs which forsake no shame to the cause it selfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 even so as by the fire The word of God is tried as silver in the fire seven times there punished Psal 12. every time brighter then other And revolt howsoever it seemeth to marre the credit and honour of the truth yet it doth not blemish it no more then the fornace doth the silver which indeed doth dissolve and melt it but sendeth it out more refined The holy Ghost doth not use to prescribe such large pardons to evill workers as to burn their works and to save their persons without more adoe That 's more fit for Rome to doe who labour to ground their pecuniary Purgatory upon the sinfull sense which they say of this sacred Text. 1 Cor. 14.33 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let them ask their men at home not their husbands in this place All women have not husbands yet all women aswell as married women are forbidden publickly to enquire about the doctrine in the Church The word their as meant men of their own Church 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is not alwayes husband a little heed might have prevented this mis-translation unmarried aswell as married women are forbidden this publick inquisition No members but females are forbidden to expostulate about the doctrine then and there delivered II. CORINTHIANS 2 Cor. 3.7 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If the ministration of death in writtens not the ministration of death written the thing written might be death or betokes death but the writing of it was spirit and life As Jonah's message to Niniveh was death within 40. dayes but the sending of it did plainly argue that God was willing to spare them And this I take to be the difference between the letter and the spirit viz. the same which is between the thing written and the writing of it GALATIANS Gal. 6.4 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He shall have rejoycing against himself 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in this place is a scornfull upbraiding or domineering kind of rejoycing or ●●sultation As if her should have said He which scornfully or upbraidingly rejoyceth or insulteth against his brother for his casuall misdoing shall upon examination of himself find more cause upbraidingly to rejoyce or insult against himselfe A phrase alluding to that upbraiding kind of rejoycing or insultation against his brother and it is a kind of catachresticall Paronomasia no more improper then that liberty to the sword in reference to the liberty treacherously denyed to servants after the due proclamation of their liberty Jer. 34.17 Do you mock at the liberty of servants which I have commanded as appeareth by your retractation of your iust proclamation of their liberty He proclaim a liberty for you some to the sword some to the famine c. whereas otherwise a liberty to the sword seemeth improper So here Do you upbraidingly rejoyce against and 〈◊〉 over your brother for his casuall failing you have more cause if you well examine to upbraid or upbraidingly to rejoyce against or insult over your selves A tart kind of retorting of their base insultation upon themselves Do you examine your brother so neerly examine your self Do you upbraid him upbraid you self Do you insult over him insult over your self Do you laugh or mock at him laugh or mock at your self In all the perioche or passage of this place there is no occasion of rejoycing in another But to blame rejoycing against or insultation over another is the main purpose of this place EPHESIANS Eph. 6.13 EN 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in supercoelestibus in supercelestial things not places Licentiousnesse under pretence of free grace is a spirituall wickednesse in an heavenly thing Under pretence of separation from superstition and idolatry to blaspheme the congruity of the Adjective with his Substantive as inconsistent with divine writ is a spirituall wickednesse or ignorance in an heavenly thing So that there is not more deceit in shops and markers about earthly things then there may be and as men handle the matter often is in heavenly things Not that heavenly things of their own nature have any spirituall wickednesse in them for then heavenly should not be heavenly But men do pervert heavenly things and mingle their wicked and carnall sophistications with heavenly things which when they doe there is spirituall wickednesse in or about heavenly things not in the heavenly thing it selfe but in them that abuse that heavenly thing COLOSSIANS Col. 3.16 〈◊〉 〈◊〉