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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	ceremonial_a	law_n	moral_a	2,252	5	9.4056	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59597	Two clean birds, or, The cleaning of the leper as it was unfolded in a sermon preached before the right honourable Ferdinando, Lord Fairfax, Generall of the northern forces, and the most of his army, on the fifth day of February, 1642 (being the Lords day, and by his honor appointed to bee kept as a fast upon speciall occasion) at Selbie, in the West Riding of the county of Yorke / by Iohn Shaw, pastor to the church at Rotheram in the same county.	Shawe, John, 1608-1672.	1644 (1644)	Wing S3031; ESTC R29354	29,441	41

such a Conquest as was mentioned in a paper set upon B●●dem Batre in Yorke City as King James rode under it when hee first came from Scotland and entred that ancient City Suavissina vict●ria amor populi Sixthly let us keep our godly Vowes and lawfull Protestations we have made with God that is the way to roote out all Rebels out of these Kingdomes Ezek. 20.37 38. then will I purge out from among you the Rebels This is the way to remove Gods heavie wrath from our Land 2 Chron. 29.10 Seventhly go we our way and sin no more remember wee and tell unto our children what God did for us Jan. 22. 1642. what God did to us May 4. 1643. how God threatned us Sept. 11. 1642. what a heavie Sabbath wee then kept how God terrified us on Thursday Januar. 19. 1642. let us now turne from our evill wayes 2 Chron. 7.14 so may our Land yet be healed and Jerusalems Wall be built up in the mid dest of these troublous times Dan. 9.25 God is now in sifting out the Bran of the Kingdome Amos 9.9 washing away of spots and purging away our drosse Mall 3.2 3. and will either cure or kill us purge us or burne us Ezek. 24. hold out Faith and patience as the Martyrsaid Antichrist is falling hee that shall come will come and will not tary And now to you blessed Doves that flock to peck up the 〈◊〉 of Gods word doe I bequeath these few Notes 1. out of my de●● and tender affection to you all and my Neighbour native So●●… and I desire heartily that by the common enemy we may reap th●… good that we may all more firmely and cordially be knit together in the best bond of love 2. That you may have these things in remembrance when I am gone I would leave this pledge with you 3. Not knowing hovv soon I must put off my Tabernacle the circle of my yeers having run 34 times about I would do all the good I can 4. To Cronicle this mercy to posterity Let me to conclude for my affection stayes me long entreat you First to set a speciall watch against all Malignants in thy heart towne or abroad Secondly prepare Oyle ready and a good Foundation against the worst times Thirdly do all from God and for God Fourthly to the Martyrs pray pray pray adde praise praise praise and work work work and whosoever reades these lines afford a prayer for The least of Gods mercies JOHN SHAW Leviticus 14. v. 4 5 6 7 8. Then shall the Priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two Birds alive and cleane and Cedar wood and scarlot and byssipe 5. And the Priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessell over running water 6. As for the living bird bee shall take it and ths Cedar wood and the skarlet and the hyssop and shall dip them and the living bird in the bloud of the bird that was killed over the running water 7. And hee shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from his leprosie seven times c. THis Booke of Levitious is Moses Gospell or the Gospell vailed and what that princely Preacher Count Anh ilt said of the whole Scripture that it is nothing else but the swadling clothes of the childe Jesus is most true of this Ceremoniall Law Heb. 10.1 All these Sacrifices in this Ceremoniall Law of Beeyes Sheep Goats and lambs c. did with Iohn Baptist point out and say Bebold the Lambe of God that takes away the sinnes of the wa●d God intending by all these Ceremonially holy Persons holy places holy times Iohn 1.29 holy things to teach us that as well the Fathers under the Law as we under the Gospell could be saved by no other but that holy thing which was borne of a Virgin and called the Son of God Col. 2.17 And all those legall pollutions and defilements by issues touches leprosies c. did nothing else but shadow out that most horrid filth and grand abominable pollution of sin which e●● no way else be washed away but by the sprinkling of Chri●● bloud upon our consciences Heb. 9.13 14 till we wash in this Jordan Zach. 13.1 2. God gave the morall Law which concerned all men upon a mountaine Horeb or as it was after upon occasion of the Bushes burning Exod. 2. called Sinai to set out the stability and firmnesse of it which should last till Christs second coming to dissolve the mountaines but hee gave the Ceremoniall Law which concerned the Jewes and was as the Greek Etymologie of the word notes eis kairon monon to last but for a time onely in a tent or flitting Tabernacle to Moses noting the mutability of it that it should last no longer then the things of the tabernacle i.e. Christs first comming who was the substance fulfilling of it as St. Ambrose well the shadow of Christ was in the Law his image in the Gospell his fulnesse in Heaven Now in this Ceremoniall Law which directed the Jew in the duties of the first Table of the morall Law towards God as the Judiciall Law did in the duties of the second Table toward men There are divers kinds of Legall pollutions mentioned one outward by touching any uncleane creature c. Levis 11. another inward by issues from within the bodies of men and women Lev. 12. A third and worst of all both inward and outwand Lev. 13. 14. here in Text and that is Leprosie In the words observe First the uncleannesse or defilement he● mentioned for the kind of it what it was viz. Lepr●sie the word of all legall pollutions most loath some in it selfe 〈…〉 to the party most infectious to others Secondly the materials appointed for the cleansing this Lep● and they are five first one bird that must be taken and killed out an earthen vessell full of fresh spring running water Secondly another bird of the same kind as like as may be both clean which must not be killed Thirdly Cedar-wood Fourthly Hyssop-Fifthly Skarlet or as it is Heb. 9.19 Skarlet wool Thirdly the preparation of these for and application of these to the Leper viz. First the Priest must take the live bird Cedar Skarlet and Hyssop in his hand and dip them all in the bloud of the slaine bird mingled with the water in the earthen vessell Secondly he must besprinkle the Leper that is to be cleansed seven times some conceive the Cedar wood to be the handle the hyssop ●e sprinkler and Skarlet the tye of them together with which ●e Priest sprinkled the water and bloud upon the Leper and let ●elive-bird loose into the field Fourthly the demeanor and carriage of the party himself thus cleansed viz. he must shave off his haire wash his flesh and his cloathes and bring his trespasse Offering c. Now if any of you that hears and reads this Text should whisper his neighbour in the eare and say as sometimes Phillip did to