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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	aaron_n	apparition_n	consecration_n	14	3	10.4777	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04076	Lawes and orders of vvarre established for the good conduct of the seruice of Ireland.	England and Wales. Army.; Falkland, Henry Cary, Viscount, d. 1633.	1625 (1625)	STC 14131.5; ESTC S3834	114,882	2

Israel to exhibite the petitions of his heart to his God and to receiue answere from him And so we may obserue that from this time forward the consecration of this house and the solemnity which Solomon here used did come into the style and forme of this peoples prayers made as it were an additionall to the Covenant with Abraham Isaac and Iacob But what expresse proofe have we that Solomons owne prayers at this time for these prerogatiues of this house were heard This fully appeares from the subsequent miracle wherewith this petition was signed as with the immediate hand of God 2. Ch. 7. 1. 2. Now when Solomon had made an end of praying the fire came downe from heaven and consumed the burnt offring and the sacrifices and the glory of the Lord filled the house and the priests could not enter into the house of the Lord because the glory of the Lord had filled the house This kinde of answer by fire was alwayes most satisfactory to the busines or proceedings that were or might be in question by this answere God did determine the controversies betweene Elias Baals Priests by the like effect of fire from heaven consuming the fat of the sacrifice the calling of Aaron to the Priesthood by Gods immediate appointment not by man was put out of question And so was the consecration of the Sonne of God to his everlasting Priesthood confirmed by the visible apparition of the Holy Ghost in tongues of fire which was the accomplishment of both the former miraculous apparitions from heaven the one at the consecration of Aaron the other at the consecration of this materiall Temple 3 But admitting every branch of Solomons petition was on Gods part fully granted yet will it be demanded whether the practise did pursue the grant or what remarkable successe or issue the practise found To both parts of this demand two or three instances which are upon sacred record will suffice The first from the practise of good Iehosaphat in that strange exigēce or extremity of danger whereunto the Kingdōe of Iudah was brought in his dayes by the malitious confederacie of Moab Ammō and Mount Seir. As was the danger so was this good Kings feare exceeding greate and the greater it was the better motiue he had to pray more heartily according to that patterne which Solomon prescribes 2. Chron. 20. 5. c. And Iehosaphat stood in the Congregation of Iudah and Ierusalem in the house of the Lord before the new Court and said O Lord God of our Fathers art not thou God in heaven and rulest not thou over all the Kingdomes of the heathen And in thine hand is there not power and might so that none is able to withstand thee Art not thou our God who didst driue out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel and gavest it the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever And they dwelt therein and have built thee a Sanctuary therein for thy name saying if when evill commeth upon us as the sword iudgement or pestilence or famine we stand before this house and in thy presence for thy name is in this house cry unto thee in our affliction that thou wilt heare and help c. As the forme of his prayer was peculiar such as was not used before this house was built so the successe was extraordinary and such as this people had never tasted before unles it were in the destruction of Pharaoh his mighty army The victory which Gedeon had over the Midianites was miraculous in respect of their multitude which was vanquished and of their paucity which vanquished them yet in that miraculous deliverance there was the sword of the Lord the sword of Gedeon They fought for victory but in this mighty discomfiture of 3 nations more potent then Midian which had combined for the overthrow of Iudah here was only the arme of the Lord the use of mans sword or arme of flesh is utterly prohibited by the Prophet Iahaziel v. 17. Ye shall not need to fight in this battell set your selves stand ye still see the salvatiō of the Lord with you All that Iehosophats royall presence or person did undertake or performe for the accomplishment of this victory promised was to exhort his people not to bee valiant in fight but to put their confidence in the Lord of Hostes. v. 20. They rose early in the morning and went forth into the wildernesse of Tekoah And as they went forth Iehosaphat stood and said Heare me O Iudah and the inhabitants of Hierusalem believe the Lord your God so shall you be established believe his Prophets so shall ye prosper And so they did For this victory was more compleat and more beneficiall to the King and people then any victory which David had gotten over the enemies of God though purchased with his peoples blood For as it is v. 25. When Iehosaphat and his people came to take away the spoyle of them they found amongst them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies and precious jewels which they stript off for themselves more then they could carry away and they were three daies in gathering of the spoyle it was so much For the Lord mighty in battell had turned the strength and weapons of death and war which these confederates had prepared against Iudah upon themselves The most remarkeable circumstance in this sacred story was that the coales and fire of that fatall diffention which brought universall destruction upon these three armies did then begin to kindle when the men of Iudah and Hierusalem began to praise the Lord with sweet harmony as well of heart and spirit as of voice v. 23. When they began to sing and praise the Lord set ambushments against the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir which were come against Iudah and they were smitten For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir utterly to destroy and slay them and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Mount Seir every one helped to destroy another Such power there is in the songs of the Sanctuary when they are rightly set by the Priest and taken up by unanimous consent of prince and people united in heart with the feare of God and with loving affection one towards another and towards Gods Church Here was more then an accomplishment of that branch of Solomons petition in this Chapter v. 34. They went out indeed unto their enemies by the way which God had appointed them but the way which he had now appointed them was not to fight with them but to believe in him who can save us as well with a few as with many can maintaine the cause of his people as well without the industry or endeavours of man as with them And for this cause Iehosaphat and his people did praise him with like confidence for the assurance which he had given them by his Prophet of future victory as