Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	aaron_n	appoint_v	tribe_n	21	3	9.3711	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56539	Monsieur Pascall's thoughts, meditations, and prayers, touching matters moral and divine as they were found in his papers after his death : together with a discourse upon Monsieur Pascall's, Thoughts ... as also another discourse on the proofs of the truth of the books of Moses : and a treatise, wherein is made appear that there are demonstrations of a different nature but as certain as those of geometry, and that such may be given of the Christian religion / done into English by Jos. Walker.; Pensées. English	Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662.; Walker, Joseph.; Perier, Madame (Gilberte), 1620-1685. Vie de M. Pascal. English.; Filleau de la Chaise, Jean, 1631-1688. Discours sur les Pensées de M. Pascal. English.	1688 (1688)	Wing P645; ESTC R23135	228,739	434

as that they subsist no longer unless it be amongst some ignorant People who only taking things on the first Credit of them never trouble themselves in throughly searching into the Truth of Matters But there is nothing clear in the World if it be not that no such thing can happen for the Book we now speak of and describe I could as well say that it would be no hard matter now to Insert in the New Testament as long and considerable a History as that and how idle soever this Supposition seems I cannot tell but that 't was harder to do it in the Books of Moses seeing the Jews respected it as much every jot as we do our New Testament and that there was not one amongst them that had not a very particular Intrest to know what was contain'd in it were it only to preserve themselves from the Sentence of Death which without Remission they were to suffer if they omitted certain Rites they were to perform But what does absolutely prove the Vanity of this Supposition is that there is as it were two Histories of Moses one that was written in the Book that bears his Name the other which is as it were engrav'd in the Ceremonies and Laws observ'd by the Jews the Practice whereof is a pregnant Proof of the Book that enjoin'd them and also of what it contain'd of greatest importance For the greatest part of the most Wonderful Miracles were shewn by the Ceremonies and other things that served in the Worship of the Jewish Religion The Pot of Manna kept in the Ark was a Monument of Gods Miraculous feeding that People in the Wilderness Aaron's Rod that blossom'd was a Sign of the manner how God confirm'd the Priesthood to him and the Two Tables shew'd what 's related in Exodus touching the Establishing the Law. The Sacrifice of the Pascal Lamb the Ceremony of the Azymes and the appointing the Tribe of Levi for the Service of the Temple shew'd the Passage of the Angel the Death of the First born of the Aegyptians and the deliverance of the Children of Israel The Plates of Gold nail'd to the Altar was a Memorial of the Death of those unadvis'd Levites that disputed the Priest-hood with Aaron To conclude The Ark the Tabernacle the sundry Orders of Priests and Levites all the Ceremonies of Sacrifices and Washings all the Laws the appointing the Countries beyond Jordan to the Tribes of Reuben Gad and the half Tribe of Manasses The Cities of Refuge for Man slaiers I say all these things which it were no less absurd to deny than it were to say there were never any Jews have a necessary reference and dependance on the Books of Moses and do invincibly prove that they could not be writ since his Time. For to this purpose it must be either that all we have said has not also been settled but since Moses's time and after publishing the Books attributed to him or that being Established by Moses his Word and without any Book some should add these Books to the Ceremonies and Laws that were in use and added these Miracles the more to enjoin this People to the observation of this Law. But all this is so unlikely that there was never any Person known that durst seriously maintain any such thing How can it be said for Example that the Pentateuch was made and published a long time after Moses his Death and that it was the Cause of Establishing the Law and Worship of the Jewish Religion contain'd in it It may as well be said the Ark and the Tabernacle which are the Foundations of this Religion were not made neither but a long while after Moses and after the publishing of this Book Now this cannot possible be for all the Jews were perswaded their Ark and Tabernacle were made by Moses as this Book does mention and it cannot be conceiv'd by what Fancy they could be of this Opinion if they themselves had made them after they had seen and receiv'd this Book which had not been known till a long time after Moses his Death doubtless this would have been one of the Pleasantest things in the World and the most unparallel'd either that this Book being made of a sudden and in a readiness with this great number of Laws and Ceremonies as being already in use they afterwards came to be Establish'd or that being made by little and little and just as all those things were settled it had always as is said at the Palace Retroactive Effect to make each of these Establishments be attributed to Moses How also could this People who beginning to receive this Law had they at least known it had been untrue that it had been practis'd since Moses and that it had a constant Succession of Priests since Aaron could they have Universally perswaded themselves that what this Book Commanded had been always practis'd and that the Priests it Established had received their Ministry from Aaron by an uninterrupted Succession And how also upon this same Foundation could all the other Tribes and Families have sufferr'd the Tribe of Levi and the Sons of Aaron to usurp to themselves the Prerogatives belonging to the Priest-hood and to the Office of the High-Priest There is no less absurdity in the other Supposition which is That the Law being given by Moses his bare Word was preserv'd by the Jews for some time only by meer Tradition and that afterwards those that wrote it added thereunto all these Miracles for besides that it were already a kind of Miracle and hard to believe that this People should receive so severe and troublesom a Law as that was from a Man that had done nothing extraordinary How could it be that Moses who doubtless had the use of writing should have omitted so Essential a thing and should not leave in Writing a Law that contain'd so many Rights and Ceremonies and so many Directions that it was necessary to have it always in readiness not to fail in some part or other of it Also we are inform'd by this Book it self that Moses fail'd not herein Moses it is said wrote this Law and gave it to the Priests the Sons of Levy and command it should be Read every seventh year at the Feast of Tabernacles And it is there said in several places That God commanded Moses to Write what he commanded him on the Mountain If the Jews then had receiv'd this Law from him only by Word how then could they receive a Book that contain'd so gross and manifest a Lye and that had in it an Express Command from God wherein their Legislator had fail'd This same Command of Reading the Law every Seventh year at the Feast of Tabernacles as being given by Moses does shew also that it could not be chang'd nor alter'd for it was impossible but those alterations would have been discover'd and being so that they should be sufferr'd by a People so wedded to this Law and whose Love for it was grounded on the

condemn others kill and notwithstanding all opposition you see Jesus Christ in a little time Reigning over them all and destroying the Jewish Worship in Jerusalem which was the Center of it and which he had first chose for his Church and the Worship of Idols at Rome which was the Center of Idol-Worship Ignorant and unlearned Men such as were the Apostles and first Christians resisted all the Powers of the Earth they bring under Kings the Wise and Learned and destroyed Idolatry which had taken such deep Root all this was effected by the Word that had foretold it 8. * The Jews in putting Christ to death for not believing him to be the Messias gave him the greatest mark that could be of being the Messias in persevering not to believe in him they became the strongest Evidence of him And in killing him and persisting to deny him they fulfil'd the Prophesies 9. * Who can but know Jesus Christ in so many particular Circumstances as were foretold For it is said That he shall have a Forerunner That he shall be born an Infant That he shall be born in Bethlem That he shall be of the Familiy of Judah and David That he shall be principally seen from Jerusalem That he shall make the Wise and Learned become blind and preach the Gospel to the Poor open the Eyes of the Blind heal the Sick and ●ring those into light that lay in darkness That ●e shall teach the perfect way and be a guide ●o the Gentiles That he was to be a Sacrifice for the Sins of the World. That he was to be the Foundation and pretious Corner Stone That he was to be a Stone of stumbling and Rock of offence That Jerusalem was to stumble at this Stone That the Builders would refuse it That God would make it the chief Corner Stone And that this Stone should grow into a great Mountain and fill all the Earth That he should be rejected despised betrayed sold beaten mocked afflicted an infinite manner of ways made drink Gall have his Hands and Feet pierced that he should be spit on his Rayment parted and put to a cruel Death That he should arise again the Third Day that he should ascend into Heaven and sit on the Right Hand of God. That Kings should rise up against him That being on the Right Hand of his Father he should be Victorious over his Enemies That the Kings of the Earth and all Nations should Adore him That the Jews should subsist a People That they should be Strangers without King without Sacrifice or Altar c. without Prophets expecting Salvation and finding none 10. * The Messias himself would Create a great People Chosen Elect Holy would conduct feed and bring it into the place of Rest and Holiness would make it Holy to God would make it the Temple of God would reconcile i● to God save it from the wrath of God would deliver it from the slavery of Sin which so visibly reigneth in Man give Laws to this People write these Laws in their Hearts offer himself to God for them Sacrifice himself for them would be an offering without spot and himself the Priest he was to offer his own self and offer his Body and Blood and nevertheless offer but Bread and Wine to God. Jesus Christ doth all this 11. * He is foretold to come a Saviour that should break the Serpents Head that should free his People from their Sins ex omnibus iniquita●●bus that he was to have a New Testament which was to be Eternal that he was to have another Priesthood after the Order of Melchise deck that this should be Eternal That Christ should be Glorious Powerful Strong and ye● withal so mean that he should not be known that he should not be taken for what he was that he should be rejected that he should be put to Death that his People which had rejected him should not be his People that those who Worshipp'd Idols should believe in him and should come unto him that he should forsake Sion and Reign in the Center of Idolatry that nevertheless the Jews should subsist still that he should come of the Tribe of Juda when there was no more Kings 12. * Ever since the beginning of the World the expectation or Adoration of the Messias has continued without interruption that he was promis'd to Adam presently after his Fall that there has since many Men been found that have said God had revealed to them that a Redeemer should be born that should save his People That afterwards Abraham came and said ●hat it was reveal'd to him that he should be born of him by a Son that he should have that Jacob declared that of his twelve Sons it was of Judah that he should be born That Moses and the Prophets came afterwards declaring the time and manner of his coming that they said the Law they had was only till the Messias came that till then it should subsist but that Law which succeeded it should continue for ever that so their Law or that of the Messias whereof it was a Figure should remain for ever in the World that it had ever been and that in the end Jesus Christ came in all the Circumstances that were foretold If all this was so plainly Prophesi'd to the Jews might some say wherefore did they not believe Or why were they not utterly destroy'd for denying so clear a thing I answer Both the one and the other was Prophesi'd that they should not believe so plain and evident a thing and that they should not be quite destroy'd and nothing can be more Glorious for the Messias for 't was not sufficient there should be Prophets it was requisite their Prophesies should be preserv'd without suspition Now c. 13. * The Prophets did prophesie of particular things and of those of the Messias to the end that the Prophesies of the Messias should not be without Proofs and that the particular Prophesies should not be without fruit 14. * Non habemus Regem nisi Caesarem said the Jews Then Jesus Christ was the Messias seeing they had no other King but a Stranger and that they would have no other 15. * The Seventy Weeks of Daniel are equivocal for the time of their commencement by reason of the Terms of the Prophesie and for the time of the end by reason of the diversity of Chronologers But all this difference extends only to two hundred years 16. * The Prophesies which represent Jesus Christ Poor do also represent him Lord of all the World. The Prophesies which foretel the time do only foretel him chief of the Gentiles and suffering and not in great Power and Judg of all And those which represent him Glorious and Judg of all Nations do not mark the time 17. * When there is mention made of the Messias as Great and Glorious it is visible that it is to Judg the World