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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
A51388	The Urim of conscience to which the author has had recourse for plain answers, in his own particular case (as every man living ought to do in his) to four questions of great weight and importance, viz. 1. who and what art thou? 2. where hast thous been? 3. where art thou now going? 4. whither art thou going? : together with three select prayers for private families / by Sir Samuel Morland.	Morland, Samuel, Sir, 1625-1695.	1695 (1695)	Wing M2785; ESTC R26850	73,650	220

the World 3465. As for the Books of Moses they were in one entire Volume long before the Captivity and it is probable that the rest of the divinely inspired Psalms and Prophesies that were written before the Captivity were laid up with them After the Captivity the Jewish Historians relate that the great Synagogue of which Ezra was President and at which Haggai Z●chariah Malachi and Nehemiah assisted compiled the Books of the Old Testament as we have them now divided into three parts and as they continued in our Saviour's time who himself refers to the Old Testament as consisting of the Law of Moses the Prophets and the Psalms and of each of these three parts they appointed certain Sections to be read in their Synagogues every Sabbath day Now that their Collection contained the same Books the Old Testament now consists of 22 in number is clear from Josephus contra Appionem quoted by Eusebius That these Books were kept with a Religious care we have the celebrated Testimony of Philo the Jew who wrote a little after the Ascension of Christ who saith That a Jew would rather suffer an hundred Deaths than allow the least alteration in one Letter of the Law And Buxtorf tells us in his Comment Masoreth Of their particular care in numbring the very Letters of every Book In the next place our blessed Saviour's miracles were so numerous so openly performed and before so many thousand Spectators both of the Jews and other Nations of which many were his implacable Enemies who wanted neither Learning Subtilty nor Malice to have soon discover'd any fraudulent Practices and those Miracles being such as could not be perform'd by Men or Devils or any thing less than a supernatural and Almighty Power it being never known since the World was created that the Devil ever open'd the Eyes of those that were born blind or fed so many thousands of hungry Persons with five Loaves and a few small Fishes or with the speaking of two or three Words raise Men out of their Graves who had been dead and buried four days there will be lest no reasonable or plausible Pretext for any sceptical Unbeleiver to call in question his divine Power I do believe that the Devil is a Spirit of wonderfull knowledge and mighty power and able when ever God permits him to blind the Eyes of us Mortals and so to counterfeit real Miracles as for a while Pharaoh's Magicians did in appearance perform some of Moses's Miracles and that which is no small help to the performance of his Sorceries and Witchcrafts and other of his diabolical practices he has undoubtedly a perfect knowledge of the Sympathies Antipathies and secret vertues that are either in the Bodies of all sorts of Animals and Plants or else in Minerals and inanimate things which if they should be publickly known or divulged Humane Society would be very much confounded if not utterly destroyed Who can give a rational accout of Straws jumping to the jett Or the Dust of Iron to the Load-stone Or of the needles turning to the North. What reason can any Philosopher give why the bark of a Tree in Peru should be a ready Cure for a Fever or Ague Or why the Skin of an Eele or Snake should give present ease to the violent pain of the Cramp Or which is yet more wonderfull why a small bit of Wood being cut and taken at such a criticall hour or minute and being gently rubbed upon a fresh wound should immediately staunch the Blood though issuing forth with great violence and perform the Cure in a few hours space the Wound being only wrapt up close and kept warm without any chyrurgical Operations I my self have seen and practised many strange Experiments of other kinds which I think not at all convenient here to publish And look upon it as an effect of God's wonderful Providence Mercy and Goodness that the Books which Solomon wrote concerning Plants and Herbs were concealed from or at least not made common or publick in future Ages And that several Experiments which some later and learned Authors such as Paracelsus Agrippa and others have published to the World have either been misunderstood or not at all believed As for the Miracles done by Moses there are two things very considerable and worth our notice First though the Magicians by the Devil's assistance did in appearance turn the Rods into Serpents and Water into Blood and bring up Frogs upon the Land of Egypt yet it is manifest that they were in no wise able to undo Moses's Miracles or to remove any of the Ten Plagues which would certainly have been a most acceptable Service to K. Pharaoh who had so much a do to bring his hard and stubborn heart to intreat Moses to beseech the Lord his God for the speedy removal of the Frogs the Flies the Hail and the Locusts Again it is no less observable That the Magicians counterfeited no more than two or three of Moses's Miracles and when they attempted to proceed they were forced to desist and confess it was the power and Finger of God Neither was the Devil with all his Magick-Arts able to help them to produce so vile and despicable a Creature as a Lowse or to give them afterwards a Receipt to cure their Boils and Blains which Moses had fixt upon their bodies so that they were no longer in a condition to stand before Pharaoh and his Servants neither do we hear any more of their appearance in all those Transactions whereas Moses went on triumphantly with his Miracles till he had safely landed all the Israelites on the other side of the Red-Sea and left Pharaoh and all his Host overwhelmed with the returning Waters and become dead Carkasses Reflections If God should permit real Miracles to vouch diabolical Delusions or indeed suffer any of the Devil's Magick-Arts to stand in competition with his own Almighty works upon such extraordinary Occasions of either revealing or confirming any new Truth or Doctrine it would soon overthrow throw Christian Religion But we always find the contrary throughout the Holy Scriptures Pharaoh's Magicians were soon put to silence Their Rods were swallowed up by Aaron's Rod They were at a Non-plus in producing a Lowse and at last were forced to withdraw and disappear with shame and disgrace The priests of Baal though they cut and mangled their flesh with sharp knives and from morning to Evening made bitter Cries were not able to bring down Fire from Heaven upon their Altars The Sorcerer Elymas was by St. Paul struck blind at Salamis and St. Peter more than once publickly baffled the famous Sorcerer Simon Magus So that whatever was done by Pharaoh's Magicians which is one of the most remarkable Instances of the Devil's power and Enchantments or whatever was at any time after done by any of his Sorcerers does not in the least derogate from any of our blessed Saviour's Miracles or the Miracles afterwards performed by any of his Apostles or Disciples which