Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	abraham_n	canaan_n	possession_n	1,451	5	8.0596	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33236	A brief view and survey of the dangerous and pernicious errors to church and state, in Mr. Hobbes's book, entitled Leviathan by Edward Earl of Clarendon.	Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674.	1676 (1676)	Wing C4421; ESTC R12286	180,866	332

carefully observes those Precepts in the understanding whereof every man of all parties agrees Nor hath he therein gratified the Pope himself who is willing to embrace all encroachments by which he may be a gainer and uses his faculty of interpreting to purposes monstrous enough yet he pretends not to make what he pleases Canonical Scripture If the Clergy whose learning is approved and whose manners are blameless are not fit to instruct the People whither shall they repair for information There may be some ignorant men amongst them who themselves need to be instructed and yet there is a Classis of men who may learn much even from them if they are honest men And there may be some seditious amongst them who maliciously pervert the Scripture and corrupt those who should be taught by them but as there are Laws very strict for the punishment of such so none are more glad to see those punishments inflicted or forwarded to promote it then the venerable part of their own order whose known abilities ought not to be prejudic'd nor their integrity suspected for the infamy of the other God was never well serv'd nor the King religiously obeied when and where the Clergy was despis'd or undervalued Mr. Hobbes is so much delighted with his institution by Covenant that he will not suffer God himself to have a Dominion over the Children of Israel pag. 217. but under an institution by pact which he saies is an addition to his ordinary title to all Nations Indeed that their obligations to his Divine Majesty were increased by his communication of himself and his gracious promises to them above other Nations is very true but that he should thereby have a greater dominion over them then he had over the whole Earth besides is not easy to be understood tho he makes that assumtion the ground-work of the greatest part of his discourse and ratiocination contain'd throughout this his Third part Only whereas the security of his Soveraign consists only in the Covenants between the people to one another without any obligation from the Soveraign to them this Soveraignty which he hath provided for God Almighty is more perfect and depends upon the Covenant which God himself first entred into and then the Contract entred into on their part like the sealing the Counter-part which he draws up as formally between them as he did the transferring and assigning each others right in the former establishment and all this Transaction he makes good by the express words of Scripture No man can now blame him for wishing for such a Soveraign who would take the Bible from every other body and put it into his hand with a Commission to interpret it But till he had gotten that delegation he should have forborn making such a story out of the 17 of Genesis 7. 8. pag. 216. of a Covenant on Gods part and I know not what contract and promise on Abrahams part that must constitute a neerer relation and give God a greater power over them then he had before whereas there was nothing like a promise from God to Abraham of the Land of Canaan for an everlasting possession in the 17 of Genesis which he had not made to him many years before He might have found the Original promise in the 12 Chapter when God commanded him to go out of his Country and from his Kindred and then premis'd to make of him a great Nation to bless them that blessed him and to curse them that cursed him and which was greater then all the rest that in him should all the Families of the Earth be blessed Abraham makes no reply but upon the command left his Country and departed from Haran when he was seventy five years old and took his journy towards the Land of Canaan and passed through the Land unto the place of Sichem unto the plain of Moreh and the Canaanite was then in the Land Which expression so natural to the relation and History he thinks ground enough for him to deny that Moses was author of the Book of Genesis because that expression he saies pag. 200. must be the words of one that wrote when the Canaanite was not in the Land which is an inference without shadow of reason When he was in the Land of Canaan God appear'd to him again and said Vnto thy Seed will I give this Land And he was then by a famine driven into Egypt and so much time passed that when he return'd towards Bethel from whence he went into Egypt his riches were so much increased that Lot and he were compelled to part that they might have more room to live in And then God appear'd again to Abraham and said Lift up thine eies and look from the place where thou art c. For all the Land which thou seest to thee will I give it and to thy Seed for ever when he had yet no seed After his Sacrifice he appear'd to him again and it is said made a Covenant with Abraham saying no more upon the matter then he had promis'd before only describing the extent of the Land that he would give to his Seed from the river of Egypt to the great river the river Euphrates What did God promise more to Abraham and what farther Covenant was entred into between them in this 17. Chap. when Mr. Hobbes dates the Covenant when Abraham was ninety nine years old then he had don four and twenty years before and what did Abraham do more then he had don before towards any contract on his part It is true that God enjoined him that every man-child amongst them should be circumcis'd which is his pag. 217. old Covenant And it is true Abraham and his Seed did so punctually observe that injunction that the omission thereof was never imputed to them and so could not be the cause of any of the calamities they sustain'd afterwards for four hundred years in Egypt or after their deliverance when their miseries at worst little exceeded what they may be thought to have suffer'd there Where he found that Dialogue between God and Abraham that makes the Covenant mutual other men know not There is no inconvenience nor would it be incongruous to suppose that Abraham upon such an immense benefit and honour promised to him by God and so often repeted to him did make some humble acknowledgment and promise of duty and obedience on his part And it appears he did whatsoever he was commanded and assoon as he was commanded he left his Country to live amongst strangers enjoin'd circumcision and observ'd all that he was commanded to obtain a great reward that his Posterity was to receive five hundred years after but for any man to digest this obedience into a style and method of words to no other end but to establish a new extravagant fancy of his own and that he may thereby create a peculiar Kingdom for God more then his illimited power over the universe had intitled him to and put a new interpretation