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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	full_a	heart_n	sprinkle_v	1,473	5	11.0541	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50050	Annotations upon all the New Testament philologicall and theologicall wherein the emphasis and elegancie of the Greeke is observed, some imperfections in our translation are discovered, divers Jewish rites and customes tending to illustrate the text are mentioned, many antilogies and seeming contradictions reconciled, severall darke and obscure places opened, sundry passages vindicated from the false glosses of papists and hereticks / by Edward Leigh ...	Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.	1650 (1650)	Wing L986; ESTC R20337	837,685	476

in them when the Plantiffe or Defendant is called their Attorney appeareth in their behalfe 1 Iohn 1.2 The Leviticall Priest was wont to appeare before God in the peoples name he was but a figure in Christ is the solid truth and full effect of the figure Vers. 27. And as it is appointed to men once to die It is a generall Law given for men to die if it happen to any otherwise as to Enoch and Elias those are nothing saith Grotius to so great a multitude of men dying so ye may say for those that shall be found alive when Christ shall come to judgement Once to die The word once say some is not to be referred to die as if there were some suspition that man could die twice but to appoint it was once appointed and that once shall stand And after death the judgement Some understand this of the particular judgement the judgement which God passeth upon the soule immediately after death but Estius interprets it of the generall judgement Vers. 28. To bear the sinnes The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to beare although it properly signifies to lift or carry something from a lower place to an higher or at least from one place to another yet in this place it simply signifies to take away so it is used Josh. 24.32 and 2 Sam 21.10 and Ezra 1.11 and Psal. 102.24 For things lifted up are first taken away from the place where they were before and things taken or carried away from a man must first be raised and lifted up He shall appeare the second time without sinne unto salvation Christ comes but twice corporally once to merit salvation and again to perfect it CHAP. X. Vers. 1. FOr the Law having a shadow of good things to come It was not so much as an Image a shadow is not so much as an Image but an Image is not so much as the thing it selfe it was not an Image but a shadow Burrh Iacobs seed Some think that the metaphor of the shadow is taken from painting Painters are wont with choak or a coale to delineate that thing which they propound to themselves to expresse which rude picture is called a shadow or adumbration for the obscure representation then with their Pensill they bring on the lively colours that it may be a distinct and expresse likenesse of a thing which is properly called an Image Vers. 2. Should have no more conscience of sinnes Not that they will make no conscience of running into sinne as many Libertines doe that is not the meaning but conscience will be able to lay no more sinne to their charge Vers. 5. Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not but a body hast thou prepared me That is now after the comming of Christ but a body That in this body I might offer that expiatory sacrifice of which all the other were but shadows A body hast thou fitted me Psal. 40.6 it is mine eares hast thou opened but here so for illustration Christs obedience began at his eare but his whole body was obedient when he offered himselfe upon the Crosse. Vers. 7. In the Volume of thy Book it is written of me Interpreters enquire whither David Psal. 40.7 and the Apostle here had respect to Christ or where it is so written they agree in this that the Pentateuch is meant for scarce any other bookes of Scripture were written in Davids time but it unlesse Iob. The Pentateuch then was one book and the text in the Bible was not so distinguished as it is now Pareus saith in the whole Volume of the Bible there are many Oracles extant concerning Christ in which his obedience toward his father is described especially in 52 and 53 chapters of Esay Vers. 10. By the which we are sanctified Sanctifying here is not taken strictly for the change of our image but rather largely for all the benefits of Christ reconciliation adoption justification and salvation it selfe So Pareus and others Vers. 19. Having therefore brethren boldnesse to enter into the Holiest by the blood of Iesus There is nothing that can make a man die and goe to God with true boldnesse and expectation of a better life but onely faith in the blood of Christ. Into the Holiest That is Heaven say some whereof the Holy of Holies in the Temple was a figure or type Others think that he meanes a cleare manifestation of the way to glory under the Gospell See 1 Iohn ult Vers. 20. By a new and living way which he hath consecrated for us 1. A new way not the old by the covenant of works 2. Living enlivens the person God will enable us to walk in it Through the vaile that is to say his flesh An allusion to the Temple the vaile or curtaine did hide the glory of Sanctum Sanctorum and withall ministred an entrance into it for the High Priest Vers. 22. Let us draw neer with a true heart in full assurance of faith Here we have the true disposition of the soule in worship 1. A true heart he doth not say sinlesse but a true heart without guile 2. In full assurance of faith That is to be sure of acceptance of my person and service when I come into the presence of God A setled and full perswasion to be accepted through Christ. The first absolutely necessary this not so absolutely Having our hearts sprinkled from an evill conscience q. d. Otherwise your drawing neer will be to no purpose you shall but provoke the Lord in drawing neer except you be thus sprinkled washed and purified There is a twofold evill conscience 1. That lives in some known sinne 2. that accuseth a man and is unquiet He alludes to the old rites in which the Israelites being to come to the Tabernacle and worship of God purged themselves with many washings or to the Sacrament of Baptism in which there is an externall washing of the body but men are purged from all sinne inwardly by the blood and spirit of Christ. Some say he alludes to Numb 9.9 the sprinkling water made of the ashes of the red Cow wherewith the people were sprinkled Vers. 26. For if we sinne wilfully This translation is better then the Genevah which hath willingly Seientes volentes wittingly and willingly of set purpose The word answereth to that of Moses Numb 15.30 Elatâ manu with a high hand a resolute wilfulnesse See 1 Pet. 6.2 Mr. Bedford on Ioh. 1.16 Vers. 27. But a certain fearfull looking for of judgement There is a twofold receiving of judgement in this life 1. One enjoyned as a duty 1 Cor. 11 31. 2. another inflicted on him as a punishment when conscience at last shews him his everlasting damnation as it did to Spira say some Vers. 29. Who hath trodden under foot the Sonne of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 noteth by translation extremity of contempt Matth. 7.6 5.13 contemne and despise Christ So Theophylact Ambrose