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	high_a	joshua_n	42	3	11.4120	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70760	Bishop Overall's convocation-book, MDCVI concerning the government of God's catholick church, and the kingdoms of the whole world.; Bishop Overall's convocation book	Overall, John, 1560-1619.; Sancroft, William, 1617-1693.	1690 (1690)	Wing O607; ESTC R2082	200,463	346

Birthright was not presently executed which did in their civilaffairs appertaining to themselves bear some chief sway amongst them And touching the Priesthood although the People were then generally much polluted with Idolatry yet therein also they had some most likely the first-born who although they durst not there offer Sacrifices to God as they should in that servitude yet some of them we doubt not instructed the people in matters concerning the Promises of the blessed Seed and perform'd as they might the other Offices of their Priesthood although many of the People and of the Priests as it seemeth were then greatly polluted with Idolatry CANONES IX and X. IX IF any Man therefore shall affirm either that the uniting of the Children of Jacob into one Nation or the severing of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Functions the Prerogatives of Birthright from Reuben the first-born and dividing of them from one person was made by themselves X. Or that their servitude in Aegypt was unjustly suffer'd to lie upon them so long by Almighty God or that they being his Church he left them destitute of such comforts of direction and instruction as were necessary those times consider'd for their Civil or Ecclesiastical Estate or that the People took upon them the appointing of the heads of their Tribes and Families or the choice of their civil Superiours or of the Priests or that the Example of those wicked Kings may be any lawful Warrant for any other King so to oppress the People and Church of God he doth greatly Erre Placet eis CAP. XI WHen the time came that God in mercy was pleased to deliver the Children of Israel out of Egypt and to place them in the Land which he had promised them he raised up his Servants Moses and Joshua to take that charge upon them and accordingly Moses being made their Prince or as the Scripture speaks their King did not only by God's Appointment and Assistance lead them out of Egypt but governed them being 600000 Men on foot besides Women and Children forty years by his Authority in the Wilderness and Joshua likewise succeeding Moses in the same Princely Power and Authority did after many difficulties bring them into the Land of Canaan and gave them lawful possession thereof So that although formerly the Children of Israel were kept in such great Servitude and Bondage whilst they were in Aegypt as notwithstanding their number they were no way able like a free People to lift up their Heads yet now they are knit together in one Body and setled as a particular State and free Nation in their own Countrey being rul'd and govern'd successively after a mild and temperate manner first by Moses in the Wilderness as is aforesaid and then by Joshua in Canaan whilst he lived CAN. XI IF any Man therefore shall affirm either that the Children of Israel were delivered out of Aegypt by their own strength and not by God's special Direction and mighty Power or that it had been lawful for them not warranted by God to have departed thence as they did without Licence first obtained of King Pharaoh or that Moses and Joshua were not called to that high Authority by God himself but received the same from the People as depending upon their choice or that Dathan and Abiram descended from Reuben can be justified in challenging of Moses that he took too much upon him in executing only that Authority which God hath given him he doth greatly Erre Placet eis CAP. XII AS Almighty God took order for the setling of his People in the Land of Canaan and established a Princely Authority to rule and govern them civilly so was he no less careful of his Church For however the Priesthood was disposed of before this time yet now it is apparent in the Scriptures that the same was after setled in the Tribe of Levi and Aaron was made by God's appointment for the better Government of the Church the Chief and High Priest the whole Priesthood being assigned to his Children and their Off-spring as well to succeed him in the said highest place as also to execute the other inferiour Functions belonging to Priests and the rest of the Tribe of Levi were to attend other Ecclesiastical Services CAN. XII IF any man therefore shall affirm either that the Tribe of Levi was assigned by the People to undertake the said Ecclesiastical Offices or that Aaron and his Posterity were chosen by the People to be their Priests or that they were not chosen directly by God himself or that the People had any lawful Interest at any time afterward either to chuse their Priests or they being appointed of God as is aforesaid to deprive them of their places or that Corah of the Tribe of Levi can be justified in saying That Aaron took too much upon him thereby repining either that Aaron was rather made High Priest than he himself or that the Priesthood was annexed to Aaron's Posterity whereas the rest of the Levites were to serve in inferiour places he doth greatly Erre Placet eis CAP. XIII BEfore Moses's Death God had appointed Joshua to succeed him but in Joshua's days he appointed none to follow him immediately whereupon after his Death the Israelites were left without a Chief Head or Prince to govern them They had then remaining the particular Officers and Judges appointed by Moses at Jethro's Council in their several Tribes as also the general Senate of Seventy Elders ordained by God upon Moses's complaint over all the Nation Yet there fell very great Disorders and Confusions amongst them for want of a chief Judge and Governour whereby they might see their own Disabilities and Errors and find by experience what it was to want a chief Governour and furthermore be moved when they were in distress to fly unto God and depend only upon him for the raising up of One from time to time to deliver and defend them and it is apparent that the People shortly after Joshua's time falling most strangely into gross Idolatry and being from time to time during the History of the Judges very grievously afflicted by the bordering Nations and such as dwelt amongst them when they found themselves still unable to withstand their Enemies using any great Force against them then they had for the most part recourse to God by Prayer who did at such times appoint one for their Prince chief Captain and Ruler to deliver them from their said Enemies we say for the most part because sometimes they attempted some matters of Importance without seeking any chief Governour from God as at one time the People of Sichem presumed to chuse them a Prince of their own after Gideon's Death which turned both to his Ruine and their Destruction And it is here generally to be observed that when there was the greatest liberty among the Israelites during the time from Joshua to Saul whatsoever the People thought of their own Courses