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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
king_n	aaron_n	ark_n	manna_n	173	3	10.9916	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81179	Petrus Cunæus of the common-wealth of the Hebrews. Translated by C.B.	Cunaeus, Petrus.	1653 (1653)	Wing C7584; Thomason E1311_2; ESTC R209172	48,319	213

certain spaces one part for the Priests another assigned for the people Yet the Priests cuuld not sit down though within their own prescribed bounds The Senators of Sanhedrin had right to sit Maimon ib. but in the midst of that place which the prophane common people had Never did the more sacred spaces of the Court behold any man sitting but the King this being his Prerogative as if he were nearer to God than the Priests themselves and a greater President of Religion And if we go to other Nations Aristotle saith in the first times the same person for the most part was both King and Priest This was no depraved custom being in use while people followed nature more incorruptly and saw what was right so much better by how much nearer they were to the divine originall But to speak of the Hebrew Kings their sacredness depended much upon their being anointed This was proper to them and the high Priests as the Talmud saith That anointing added a divine Majesty to the Kings and made them sacred and allyed unto God The reason why in those times they ordered or restored Religion was not because they were Prophets that 's a groundless and erroneous opinion for except David and perhaps Saul no one of the rest prophecyed of things to come but Salonion and Jehoshaphat and Ezechiah and Josiah and others exercised power and authority over things divine because the vertue of the sacred Ointment had been communicated to them This Ointment Moses was directed to make of those aromatick ingredients which * In Hal. Cele Hammik c. 1. Maimonides describes And the Talmud saith it was used for initiation and consecration untill the times of J●siah who hid it under ground in the Temple in a secret place prepared carefully long before by Salomon upon notice of the prophecies that the Temple should at last be thrown down by the Assyrians In the same secret place as the Tradition also is the Ark of the Covenant and Aarons red and the stones Urim and Thummim with the residue of Manna were laid up by Josiah and none of them all was restored to the Jews when upon their return from Babylon into their native seat they built the second Temple Wherefore since that time the Kings and Priests received not the same Majesty from the mysterious initiation Nor was the Deity so propitious to their ceremonies and sacred rites as before The Jews have a proverb among them related by * In libro Juchasia Rabbi Zacuth The fire lay upon the Altar as a Dog because the vertue of it was extinct after the five things were wanting in the later temple but in the former that fire was like a Lyon The learned writer plainly saith the five things were wanting which even now we said were so hidden by Josiah that posterity never found them CHAP. XV. Jeroboams policy to get the Kingdom The declination and change of Common-wealths Scipio 's moderation The disposition of common people Samaria an imperiall City Change of Religion a secret of State The division of the ten tribes and the miserable effects of it The Captivity of the I sraelites and of the Jews Babylon enlarged by the spoils of Jerusalem The return of the Jews and the Dominion of the Levites THe unity of the Hebrew nation and the frame of that goodly Empire was cleft in two by Jeroboams policy a man no less ambitious than valiant Being commander of the Tribe of Joseph in the War and put in hope of the Kingdom by the Prophet rightly conceiving Princes are made by Providence He applyed his vast and climing spirit to obtain the Dominion First he attempted the Souldiers faith endeavouring to draw away their affections from Salomon to himself but the Plot being discovered to avoid punishment he left his Country and hid his head in Egypt After the death of Salomon he returned and met with a conjuncture of affairs very favourable to his great designs The heavy tributes the unjust exactions were a fair pretence which he gladly layd hold on to stir up the common people and so brought all into a combustion and became the Author of very great calamities that quickly invaded Palestin Verily so it usually comes to pass that no grear Common-wealth hath a fortune long continuing at one stay The Hebrews were now come to the hight of their prosperity All was safe and quiet incredible was the encrease of riches the Kings and Princes near and far off were friends and no room now was left for their greatness to extend it self Wherefore being uncapable of any farther encrease what remained but that it should according to the Law of fate decrease and which is the most miserable condition of humane affairs decline to the worse Scipio Africanus when he purged the City by Sacrifice being Censor and the Scribe rehearsed to him the solemn prayer that the Gods would advance the Common-wealth of Rome said it was great enough already and desir'd the Gods only to preserve it commanding the prayer in the publick record should be thus corrected The most prudent Roman well knowing that the celestiall bounty doth not so favour its own gifts as to make them alwaies peculiar to any people feared a vicissitude and change of fortune proceeding as he doubtless had in his thoughts not only from a forein Invader but from domestick causes every State breeding within her own bowels diseases to consume and destroy it self Jerusalem is an example The most flourishing City in the world where David and Salomon two most potent and most wise Kings had made a deep and secure peace could not long continue quiet For Salomon being dead although she had no enemy abroad she found one at home Jeroboam of whom I spake a man of a most turbulent spirit arose who in short time with better success effected the rebellious design he had before unprosperously attempted An Assembly being called he accused the publick State and the condition of the times and the Princes doings in the presence of the people whose ears he knew are ever open and glad to hear ill reports of their Superiours Liberty and other specious names hee pretended when his secret thoughts were how to enslave others and get Dominion to himself The people enflamed by his violent words fell presently into seditious ways whereby the most antient Kingdoms and the greatest Common-wealths usually go to ruin or at least are changed Forthwith the Captain of the Rebellion drew off the ten Tribes whom he had prevailed with from the territories of Jerusalem and to secure his dominion and settle it chose Samaria for his Imperiall City That his Government might be more firm he altered many customs of the Nation and devised another worship of the deity a new Religion For setting up calves to be adored he renewed the old superstition and made Religion the cement of Common-wealths a tye upon the people to keep them in his obedience when he could not oblige them by the