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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	bread_n	life_n	manna_n	4,497	5	12.2368	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47437	Christ alone the way to Heaven, or, Jacob's ladder improved containing four sermons lately preach'd on Genesis XXVIII, XII : wherein the doctrine of free-grace is display'd through Jesus Christ : also discovering the nature, office, and ministration of the holy angels : to which is added one sermon on Rom. 8, 1 : with some short reflections on Mr. Samuel Clark's new book intituled Scripture justification / by Benjamin Keach.	Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.	1698 (1698)	Wing K53; ESTC R24422	80,847	121

him and proceeding from him To p●each Christ the Life the life of our Souls not only having purchased Life for us but infuseth Life or a vital Principle into us and preserves that Life that he is the Bread of Life and the Water of Life That Christ is the hidden Manna that came down from Heaven which the natural Man knoweth not that by coming to him by believing on him or receiving of him we live and that by our Union with him he is ours and his Righteousness and all the Merits of his Blood even all his Riches both Grace and Glory becomes ours or we have an Interest in him and all he is and hath Thirteenthly To Preach Christ is to Preach him to be our Bride-groom that espouseth us in Conjugal Affections in Knowledge in Faithfulness in Mercy and in loving Kindness for ever That he is our Physician that heals all our Diseases Our Shepherd to gather us or bring us home to his Fold that feeds leads protects and defends us To Preach Christ the only Head of the Church having absolute Power over his Body and graciously guiding and influencing it and every Member thereof To Preach Christ the only Foundation and chief Corner-stone upon whom the Church is built and every lively Stone is united to build our Salvation on him to Trust on him and to have all our Faith and Hope in him To Preach Christ is to Preach him the Sun of Righteousness like as the Sun in Glory he is the Anima Mundi the very Soul of the new World in respect of Light and Life as well as Heat and in respect of his fructifying and comforting Influence and by his expelling all our Darkness causing a lovely Spring and blessed Day in all such Souls on whom he riseth and shines To Preach Christ the Fountain to wash us as well as the Sun to enlighten us and our only Physician to heal us To Preach Christ in a Word is to Preach him to be every thing that God hath made him to be unto us even both Wisdom and Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption Fourteenthly To Preach Christ is to Preach him as I said to be the Antitype of all Types and the Substance of all Shadows 1. The second Adam publick Person and great Covenanting Head and blessed Representative of all his Elect out of whose Side his Spouse is taken 2. The true Noah and Heir of the World that builds the Ark and that saves all just Persons the true Preacher of Righteousness that sends the Dove and that repairs the lost World 3. The true Melchizedeck without Father and Mother made a Priest by an Oath that blesseth Abraham and all his true Seed 4. The true Abraham to whom all the Promises are made the Father of all the Faithful and th●t turns the Bon●-woman and her Son out of Doors and recovers the Captives 5. The true and Antitypical Isaac long promised before Born and brought forth out of a dry Root by the mighty Power of God and Word of Promise three dayes dead and yet as to his Deity dyed not and yet was Offered up for a Sacrifice by his Father 6. The true Jacob who as a Prince prevailed with God 7. Our Joseph who was Sold into the hands of the wic●ed Ishmaelites and who by his Abasement was raised to Honour and made Lord-Treasurer of all the Land who feeds all Famished and hunger-starved Sinners to whom all must go for Bread and before whom all his Brethren must bow 8. Our Moses that brings all the Children of Israel out of Spiritual Egypt and Bondage of Sin and Satan 9. The true Joshua that carries God's Israel into the Land of Promise 10. Our strong Samson that slew the devouring Lyon and who by death or dying destroyed our Enemies 11. The true David beloved of God and his only Anointed with whom the Covenant stands fast for ever 12. The true Solomon the Prince of Peace that excells all in Wisdom both Men and Angels that builds God's Temple and bears the Glory and that Marries the Aethiopian Woman the black and polluted Gentiles 13. The true Elisha that Cures all the Leperous Naamans and multiplieth the Widdows Oyl 14. The true Elijah that raiseth up the dead Child i. e. the dead Soul and that went to Heaven 15. Our Jonah that was cast into the Sea of God's Wrath to make a Calm that lay three days and three nights in the heart of the Earth 16. The true Antitypical Aaron as you heard before 17. The Mercy-Seat from whence God Communes with us 18. The Altar of Perfame that presents all our Persons and Prayers acceptable unto God the Father 19. The Antitype of the Slain and Scape-goat on whom all our Sins are laid and who bears them all away into an unknown Land 20. The true Antitypical Rock that was smitten in the Wilderness that we might have Water of Life to drink in this Wilderness until we come to the true Canaan 21. The true Passover that was Sacrificed for us 22. The true Sin-offering yea both Priest Altar and Sacrifice Lastly the Antitypical brasen Serpent that is lifted up to cure all that are Stung with Sin that fiery Serpent that look up to him by Faith Fifteenthly To Preach Christ is to Preach all the Ordinances of Christ holy Precepts and Institutions Sixteenthly To Preach Christ is to Preach all the Promises of Christ and all in him and in him sure to all his Seed Not Yea and Nay but Yea and Amen to the Glory of God the Father Seventeenthly To Preach Christ is to Preach that fulness that is in Christ viz. 1. A Soul-fulness or spiritual Fulness a Soul enriching fulness a s●itable fulness and seasonable fulness a necessary fulness a Soul-satisfying fulness an eternal and everlasting fulness 2. A fulness of Merit and Satisfaction and of Righteousness 3. A fulness of Grace 4. A fulness of Light and a fulness of Sufficiency as Mediator of Power Wisdome Knowledge Love Mercy Pardon Peace Joy and Glory 5. A fulness of Efficiency Tho we are never so empty Christ can fill us tho never so poor he can inrich us tho never so weak he can strengthen us tho never so Ignorant he can give us knowle●ge tho never so guilty he can justifie us tho' never so naked he can cloathe us tho never so sa●● he can rejoyce our troubled Hearts In a word All fulness is in Christ In him dwelleth the fulness of the God-head Bodily Not part of the God-head the God-head the distinguished cannot be divided but the whole God-head dwelleth in the Son as in the Father and in the Holy Ghost Eighteenthly To Preach Christ to exalt him as the Father hath I fred him up and magnify'd him is to abase the Creature 't is to give all the glory of our Salvation to him and assume none of it to ourselves To Preach him only not