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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	call_v	eternal_a	sin_n	4,776	5	4.7030	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90265	The duty of pastors and people distingushed [sic]. Or A briefe discourse, touching the administration of things commanded in religion. Especially concerning the means to be used by the people of God (distinct from church-officers) for the increasing of divine knowledge in themselves and others. Wherein bounds are prescribed to their peformances, their liberty is enlarged to the utmost extent of the dictates of nature and rules of charity: their duty laid downe in directions, drawn from Scripture-precepts, and the practise of Gods people in all ages. Together with the severall wayes of extraordinary calling to the office of publike teaching, with what assurance such teachers may have of their calling, and what evidence they can give of it, unto others. / By John Ovven, M.A. of Q. Col. O.	Owen, John, 1616-1683.	1644 (1644)	Wing O741; Thomason E49_6; ESTC R2375	45,909	59

that him whom he hath chosen he will cause to come neere unto him Numb. 16. 5. chosen by a particular calling ad munus to the office of the rituall priesthood so in regard of that other kind comparatively so called it is said of the whole people What nation is there so great that hath God so nigh unto them as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for Deut. 4. 7. their approaching nigh unto God made them all a nation of Priests in comparison of those dogs and unclean Gentiles that were out of the Covenant now this Prerogative is often appropriate to the faithful in the new Testament for through Christ we have an accesse by one spirit unto the Lord Eph. 2. 18. 3. 19. We have boldnesse accesse with confidence so James 4. 8. Draw nigh unto God and he will draw nigh unto you which accesse and approximation unto God seemed as before was spoken to be uttered in allusion to the Priests of the old Law who had this Priviledge above others in the publike worship in which respect only things then were typicall Since because we enjoy that prerogative in the truth of the thing it selfe which they had onely in type we also are called Priests and as they were said to draw nigh in reference to the rest of the people so we in respect of them who are strangers to the Covenant that now are said to be afarre off Ephes. 2. 17. and hereafter shall be without for without are dogs c. Rev. 22. 15. thus this metaphoricall appellation of Priests is in the first place an intimation of that transcendent priviledge of grace and favour which Jesus Christ hath purchased for every one that is sanctified with the bloud of the Covenant 2. We have an interest in this appellation of Priests by vertue of our union with Christ being one with our high Priest we also are Priests there is a twofold union between Christ us the one by his taking upon him our nature the other by bestowing on us his Spirit for as in his Incarnation he took upon him our flesh and bloud by the work of the Spirit so in our regeneration he bestoweth on us his flesh and blood by the operation of the same spirit yea so strict is this latter union which we have with Christ that as the former is truly said to be a union of two natures into one person so this of many persons into one nature for by it we are made partakers of the divine nature 2 Pet. 1. 4. becoming members of his body of his flesh and of his bones Ephes. 5. 30. we are so parts of him of his mysticall body that we and he become thereby as it were one Christ for as the body is one and hath many members and all the members of that one body being many are one body so is Christ 1 Cor. 12. 12. and the ground of this is because the same spirit is in him and us in him indeed dwelleth the fulnesse of it when it is bestowed upon us onely by measure but yet it is still the same spirit and so makes us according to his own prayer one with him as the soul of man being one makes the whole body with it to be but one man two men cannot be one because they have two souls no more could we be one with Christ were it not the same spirit in him and us now let a man be never so big or tall that his feet rest upon the earth and his head reach to heaven yet having but one soul he is still but one man now though Christ for the present in respect of our nature assumed be never so far remote and distant from us in heaven yet by the effectuall energie and inhabitation of the same spirit he is still the head of that one body whereof we are members still but one with us Hence ariseth to us a twofold right to the title of Priests 1. Because being in him and members of him we are accounted to have done in him and with him whatsoever he hath done for us we are buried with Christ Rom. 6. 4. dead with him v. 8. quickned together with Christ Ephes. 2. 5. being raised up we sit together with him in heavenly places v. 6. risen with him Colos. 3. 1. now all these in Christ were in some sence Sacerdotall wherefore we having an interest in their performance by reason of that heavenly participation derived from them unto us and being united unto him that in them was so properly are therefore called Priests Secondly by vertue of this union there is such an analogie between that which Christ hath done for us as a Priest and what he worketh in us by his holy spirit that those acts of ours come be called by the same name with his we for them to be termed Priests Thus because Christs death and shedding of his blood so offering up himself by the eternall spirit was a true proper sacrifice for sin even our spirituall death unto sin is described to be such both in the nature of it to be an offering or sacrifice for I beseech you Brethren saith S. Paul that you offer up your bodies a living sacrifice holy c. Rom. 12. 1. and for the manner of it our old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed Rom. 6. 6. Thirdly we are Priests as we are Christians or partakers of an holy unction whereby we are annointed to the participation of all Christs glorious Offices we are not called Christians for nothing if truly we are so then have we an unction from the holy one whereby we know all things 1 Ioh. 2. 20. and thus also were all Gods people under the old Covenant when God gave that caution concerning them Touch not my CHRISTIANS and do my Prophets no harm Psal. 105. 15. the unction then of the holy spirit implies a participation of all those endowments which were typified by the anointing with oyl in the old Testament and invests us with the priviledges in a spirituall acceptation of all the sorts of men which then were so anointed to wit of Kings Priests and Prophets so that by being made Christians every one is not so that bears that name we are ingrafted into Christ and do attain to a kinde of holy and intimate Communion with him in all his glorious Offices in that regard are called Priests Fourthly the sacrifices we are injoyned to offer give ground to this appellation now they are of divers sorts though all in generall Eucharisticall as first of prayers and thanksgivings Psa. 116 17. I will offer unto thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving and will call upon the name of the Lord And again Let my prayer be set before thee as Incense and the lifting up of my hands be as the evening sacrifice Psa. 141. 2. so Heb. 13. 14. Therefore let us offer unto God the sacrifice of praise that is