Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	egypt_n	moses_n	pharaoh_n	2,863	5	10.3611	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42215	The [French-man] and the Spaniard, or, [The two great lights] of the world, displayed in lively [characters] representing the antipathy of their humours and different dispositions [with an impartiall survey] of the customes of both those nations / by R.G., Gent.; Oposicion y conjuncion de los dos grandes luminares de la tierra. English	García, Carlos, doctor.; Gentilis, Robert.	1642 (1642)	Wing G210; ESTC R7504	61,948	291

when hee gave the Israelites their freedome taking them out of Egypt hee could in the night have opened the gates of the citie and made them come out or by day have blinded all the people of Egypt that they might not have seene them or finde some other meanes to free them out of bondage but if he had done so hee had not caused that feare which materiall means did and the visible tokens which he shewed in turning the waters into bloud filling the land with Locusts and Frogges and Flies with other marvailous wonders effects by means of which all that barbarous people and even Pharaoh himselfe confessed the omnipotencie of the God of the Hebrewes and besought Moses and his brother Aaron to pray for them that those plagues might be taken away from them and that they would obey him And if God had used some other signe as had not been so plaine and manifest as this and that which hee used at the red Sea peradventure the Egyptians would not have attributed the deliverance of their slaves to the power of God nor the people of Israel who was rough and of a hard beliefe would have believed that he by his omnipotence onely could have wrought any such effect In the law of Grace God used the same meanes to make himselfe knowne seeing that all the miracles which hee wrought as the Evangelists set them downe were done by sensible and materiall signes from which every grosse and rough understanding might gather the greatnesse and the supreme power of the Creator For who could be so grosse but seeing sight restored to a blinde man with onely laying a little dirt upon his eyes might not know that the dirt of it selfe had no such vertue and that therefore hee who applied that medicine had a command above nature And who will but say seeing a Lazarus who had lyen in the grave foure dayes raysed onely by saying Lazarus come forth that hee had power over death And that the satisfying five thousand people with five loaves and two fishes onely by blessing of them doth not infer supreme worth and power And that seeing the healing of one the restoring of sight to another turning water into wine banishing death by naturall means doe not presuppose that this is a supernaturall power and vertue And if that Christ had done these wonders without visible and materiall meanes onely by his absolute power peradventure his infinite power had not beene knowne and therefore let us conclude with Saint Paul that by meanes of visible and materiall things wee come to the knowledge of the invisible things of God as his Infinitenesse his Immensity his Goodnesse and Omnipotencie And if in all nature there be any visible thing which sheweth us this divine power it is the miraculous conjunction of these two Nations so prodigious a one that any grosse understanding may plainly perceive that it is an immediate worke of Gods omnipotencie which only could undoe that which the Divell with so much diligence and art had done since we cannot imagine that any secondary causes could have so much worth industry and power as in an instant to unite two natures so infinitely distant one from the other and make them come frō an extream hatred and enmity to the other extreame of union And seeing that if the discord and contrariety of these two Nations had been a new or superficiall accident the onely consideration of good understandings and the perspicuity of wise and prudent persons might have been sufficient to remedy it but being nature and antipathy which like originall sin goes by succession from the Fathers to the children and so to the grand-children and especially being fostered and maintained by the Divels malice we must infallibly beleeve that it is the worke of heaven and that this union was onely reserved to God for to prevent an abysse of evils and miseries which by the said enmity were threatned And so God to whose goodnesse it belongeth to dispose sweetly of things having created and preserved the world by means of the union and peace of his creatures seeing that the discord of these two Nations was sufficient almost to ruine it stayed through his omnipotencie the fury of this raging evill and through his goodnesse and mercie provided such a perfect and salutiferous remedy as this divine union is that so the world might not only be freed from its imminent ruine the calamities which threatned it by reason of this enmity but might also bee enriched with those pretious fruits which from this union may be expected And as the end which God pretended in this confederacie is no other but this so it is plainly knowne that the Divell with all his followers hath not had power to hinder the execution of it though hee raised a thousand inventions pretences and feares both amongst the common people and also the most Noble egging them on with the fire of enmity and hatred to oppose themselves with all the power as might bee against Gods decree the Common-wealths repose and the good of the whole world and though the Divell went loose and puffed up holding the victory certaine with his forces against that small aid which was promised yet his care and labour being against the will of God and the universall peace I wonder not that God did send a woman to breake his head through the wisdom of so good a physitian whilest hee laid wait and snares for her heele And though there were no other reason to prove that this confederacie came from heaven this would of it selfe be a sufficient proofe that wee see it was gloriously effected against all humane endevours and propounded difficulties and against such great oppositions as I will now leave to the wise mans contemplation and the pennes of others who peradventure will write of this matter Wherefore I conclude saying that this conjunction being made at that time when this antipathy was most rooted between these two Nations wee must needs confesse that it was done by divine power since neither hatred nor disdaine nor the diversity of climates and humours nor the variety of customes nor mistrust nor the Divels endevours were able to hinder it CHAP. XIX Of Gods marvailous invention to unite these two Nations IT will not be hard to perswade an understanding man that this so important so glorious confederacie comes from heaven was ordained for the generall good of mankinde the effects circumstances means of effecting it having been such and so mysterious that they prove it to be true and that which now stupifies mans understanding is the marvailous and divine invention which God used in uniting those two Nations so different amongst themselves a meanes so ●ngenious and soveraigne that it not bee hoped nor looked for from any other place th●n from that inaccessible and majesticall Consistorie of the holy Trinity seeing that in it God hath shewed three effects of his immense God-head which are Omnipotencie in uniting from