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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	abraham_n	call_v	seed_n	781	5	8.3208	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70894	The life of the Most Reverend Father in God, James Usher, late Lord Arch-Bishop of Armagh, primate and metropolitan of all Ireland with a Collection of three hundred letters between the said Lord Primate and most of the eminentest persons for piety and learning in his time ... / collected and published from original copies under their own hands, by Richard Parr ...	Parr, Richard, 1617-1691.; Ussher, James, 1581-1656. Collection of three hundred letters.	1686 (1686)	Wing P548; Wing U163; ESTC R1496	625,199	629

stood no doubt for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whereof the High Priest was a Type And Rabbi Shelemo Jarki saith on these words Thou shalt pour the Oil of Unction on his Head and shalt anoint him in this manner Also this Anointing was made after the manner or fashion of χ for Moses put the Oil upon his Head and between his Eye-brows and made the Letter χ with his Finger So on the 7th verse on these words and unleavened Cakes anointed with Oil he comments thus After the frying of those Cakes he anointed them after the manner of χ the Greek Cappa or χ. This χ on the Cake of Bread was no doubt to teach us that Christ was the true Manna that came down from Heaven the Bread of Life 2. Of the Typical Sense of the blowing of the Trumpet on New-years Day 1 Cor. 15. 34. Awake to Righteousness and sin not for some have not the knowledg of God Ephes. 5. 14. Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the Dead and Christ shall give thee Light Some think this place is taken out of Esay 60. 1. and some out of Esay 26. 19. as Beza doth Drusius approves Georgius Syncellus's Opinion that it is taken out of the Apocryphas of Jeremy But Maymon enlightens this place fully in his 3 d Chap. of Repent Sect. 4. thus That it was the custom of the Jews to blow the Trumpet on every New-years Day and the Cryer to cry Awake thou that sleepest like John the Crier Repent and amend for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand His words be these Although that the blowing of the Trumpet in the beginning of the Year is the Ordinance of the Scripture Lev. 23. 24. yet there is a thing or matter signified or intimated thereby as if one should say Awake you sleepers from your sleep and ye soporiferous sluggards arise from your drowsiness search into your Works and return by Repentance remembring your Creator These that forgot the Truth by reason of the Vanities of the Time wandring all their Years in Vanity and Toys which neither profit nor deliver Look into your Souls and make good your Ways and your Actions and let each of you forsake his evil Ways and his Thought that is not good Thus far Maymon The blowing of the Trumpet then is a lively Type of Repentance and newness of Life to begin on New-Years Day and of awaking and rising from the sleep of Sin whereof St. Paul speaks Kimchy on Psal. 81. 1 4. Blow the Trumpet in the New Moon in the time appointed in our solemn Feast-day comments thus This Psalm was sung every New-years day in the Temple and the blowing of the Trumpet is mentioned in it the meaning whereof is That our Fathers rested from their Service and ceased from their Labours in that day For this Psalm spoke of the going of our Fathers out of Egypt which was on the Eve of the 14 day of Nisan or March Out of which words of Kimchy's and Maymon's compared together note with me that the Jews had two New-Years Days one on the First of September of which Maymon speaks in which the blowing of the Trumpet signified waking to Repentance the other on March 14 at Even of which Kimchy speaks in which the blowing of the Trumpet proclaimed the memorial of their deliverance out of Egypt for the Jews had two Years Annus Civilis Naturalis which began the first of September And the first word of the Bible per Metathesin literarum seems to prove it God created in the beginning 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the first of September And Annus Sacer which began on the 14th of Nisan at Even This month shall be unto you the first among the months of the Year I thought good to note this that the Reader might not think that the Rabbies do jar amongst themselves 3. Of this Phrase why Abraham is called God's Friend James 2. 23. And He i. e. Abraham was called the Friend of God It seems St. James alluded to that of Esay 41. 8. The Seed of Abraham my Friend Now why Abraham was called God's Friend St. James particularly opens not unto us Rabbi Shelemo Jarki saith God saith Abraham my Friend for that he did acknowledg me out of Love and not for the Rebukes and Disciplines of his Fathers Kimchy saith for that he loved me and did adhere unto me and went forth from among the Worshippers of Graven Images and Idols which Exposition suits well to the Prophets precedent words And Rabbi Abben Ezra saith Remember Abraham that came away from the Idolaters Neither is he called Ahub a Friend passively but Oheb a Friend actively not beloved but a loving Friend or Lover for it is an Action which passeth or goeth out of the Lover or Agent cleaving unto the Beloved which is the Patient Maymon in his Tractate of Repentance cap. 10. § 2. 3. makes plain this matter unto us Men serve God three manner of ways and have a threefold intent in serving him 1. Some fear God for fear of Punishment that he should not bring upon them in this Life the Curses written in the Law nor cut them off from the Life to come this is a good Service but yet none of the best for Women and Children for the most part serve God thus 2. Some serve God for hope of Reward that all the Blessings promised in the Law may come upon them in this Life and that afterwards they may have everlasting Life This is also a good kind of Service but none of the best for that it is mercenary and Servants serve their Masters for Hire 3. Some serve God for meer Love non formidine poenae nec spe praemii sed veritatis amore and this is the excellent kind of serving of God which every wise Man cannot attain unto for it was the Dignity of Abraham our Father whom the holy blessed God called his Friend or Lover for that he did not serve him for Fear or Reward but out of his Love Now what is this excellent Love But when we are even sick of the Love of our God always musing on his Love as a Lover that is sick of the Disease of Love in all his Actions doth nothing but muse on his Beloved And as the Spouse in the Canticles was sick with the divine Love the whole Book being nothing but a lively Parable of this excellent kind of serving God in Love 4. Of a periphrastical Speech or describing of God out of Gen. 1. And he said let there be Light and there was Light and out of Ps. 33. 9. the Rabbins describe God thus He that did but say and the World was So the Centurian Mat. 8. 8. stiles Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 do but say the word only thou that art the word and my Servant shall be healed by which Epithet he proves Christ to be God and Creator So 2 Cor. 4. 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉