Selected quad for the lemma: fire_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	day_n	night_n	pillar_n	4,391	5	10.4587	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79493	The evening star appearing to the saints, directing them to celebrate their holy rest, even the Sabbath-day (not from morning to morning nor from midnight to midnight but) from even to even, according to the word of God ... There is an epistle to the Parliament in the conclusion ... Unto which is annexed, A new Christian creed ... / By Samuel Chidley, Cler.	Chidley, Samuel.	1650 (1650)	Wing C3839B; ESTC R173826	39,041	163

those that keep his Commandments that they may have right to the Tree of life and enter in through the Gates into the Holy City Remember therefore the Sabbath day to keep it holy as the Lord hath Commanded particularly to consider the time of celebration thereof which is from even to even Now that you may not forget duly to prepare your selves against the night of our holy solemnity I have published this following Epistle to prove that the Evening and the Morning is the first day from the Creation and that the Sabbath or Lords day is to be kept not from Morning to Morning nor from Midnight to Midnight but from Even to Even Thus saith Jehovah If you can break my Covenant of the day my Covnant of the night that there should not be day and night in their season then may also my Covenant be broken with David my servant that he should not have a Son to Reign upon his Throne and with the Levitos the Priests my Ministers * Jer. 33.20.21 Now here followeth the Letter which was Written at the earnest request of a friend for his satisfaction concerning the beginning of the Sabbath-day Loving friend I Understand by an old acquaintance and loving friend of mine that you have a great desire to receive some Grounds from me in Writing wherefore I keep the Lords Day from Evening to Evening and not hold it from Mid-night to Mid-night Truly at the first I thought it most meet that seeing we are both in one Town and can freely and frequently come to talk face to face it were better so to do then to write unto you with ink and pen but further considering what my friend had told me that you could better declare your mind in writing then by speech though I doubt not but that in discourse you are able to give reason and to receive reason I therefore have thought it not amiss to spare some time from my pressing urgent occasions to satisfy your desire by writing considering the smallness of your request and how that if this writing satisfy you you may send it unto your friends in the Country for their satisfaction seeing we cannot speak with them by word of mouth but if these lines which I shall here present you withall satisfy you not nevertheless it will serve as an entrance into more fuller discourse between us upon this subject And now to the matter in hand It is good to mind what we are to understand by a day in this present controversie and that will lead us to the day By a day in the Scriptures we are to understand either a day of twelve hours or a large day of twenty four hours A day of twelve hours Christ speaketh of when he saith * John 11.9 Are there not twelve hours in the day And so he sheweth by the Parable of the vineyard * Matt. 20. v. 1. to the 13. where those that were hired at the eleventh hour wrought one hour and then the day was at an end therefore as there are twelve hours in the day so likewise there are twelve hours in the night And so it appeareth that the day and night are both of an equal length and so it was when there was neither Sun nor Moon for the week consisteth of seven parts and every of those parts is twenty-four hours a piece none being longer or shorter then other this may appear by Exodus * Exod. 20.9.10.11 where it is said Six days shalt thou labour and do all that thou hast to do and the seventh day is a Sabbath c. And when the seventh day ended then the week began again as may appear by Leviticus * Levit. 23.15.16 where it is written And ye shal Count unto you from the morrow after the Sabbath from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the Wave-Offering Seven Sabbaths shall be compleat even unto the morrow after the seventh Sabbath shall ye number fifty days c And in Deuteronomy these are called seven weeks * Devt 16.9.10 The night in the Scriptures as it consisteth of twelve hours equal with the day so it is divided into four equal parts See which parts are called four watches * Luke 12.38 Matt. 14.25 In the fourth watch of the night Jesus walked on the Sea The first watch of the night beginneth when the first hour of the night beginneth even at the time which is commonly called six a clock at night and is the evening-watch and lasteth three houres The second watch is from the end of the first watch and lasteth till midnight or the sixth hour of the night which is commonly called twelve a clock The third watch of the night is from the end of the second watch lasteth also three hours even till the ninth hour of the night And then at the end thereof beginneth the fourth watch and lasteth three hours even till the first houre of the day which is commonly called six a clock in the morning and is called the morning watch In the morning watch it is said * Exod. 13.24 The Lord looked unto the Host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the Cloud and troubled the Host of the Egyptians now the Pillar of fire was to lead them by night Therefore at this time when God looked through the Pillar of fire though it was the morning watch yet it was part of the night even of the twelve hours See also in Mark * Mark 13.35.36 where Jesus Christ divideth the night into four watches saying thus Watch ye therefore for ye know not when the Master of the house cometh at even or at Midnight or at the Cock-crowing or in the dawning * some Translations say in the dawning Other saith in the morning or morning least coming suddainly he find you sleeping Now in a temporal respect the night is made for Man to sleep in and those that sleep sleep in the night But in extraordinary cases men are to watch unto which Jesus Christ alludeth when he saith watch lest when he cometh he find you sleeping Moreover I conceive that as the latter part of the Night or Evening is called Morning so the latter part of the Day or Morning is called Evening because it is next to it and next before it So it was Commanded that the Passe-over should be slain between the two Evenings * Exod. 12.6 That is to say in the lesser Evening before the twelfth hour of the day which was the beginning of the Evening for the next day and they were to rost it eat it at night and not to let ought of it remain untill the morning but that which remained till morning they were to burn it with fire * v. 10 So that there is two Evenings to one day there is the greater Evening and the lesser Evening The greater Evening is the night * Job 7.3.4 before the