Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	famine_n	joseph_n	pharaoh_n	1,487	5	10.4663	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81574	Divinity and philosophy dissected, and set forth, by a mad man. The first booke, divided into three chapters. Chap. I. The description of the world in mans heart: with the articles of the Christian Faith. Chap. II. A description of one spirit acting in all, which some affirme is God. Chap. III. A description of the Scripture according to the history and mystery thereof.	Mad man.	1644 (1644)	Wing D1737; Thomason E53_15; ESTC R14404	70,768	67

of Noahs Arke so many cubits high and broad as the Scripture speaketh it could not containe all the creatures in the world by couples and sevens and all their meats so long time also it might be thought that God did inspire move all the creatures to come to Noahs Ark to be saved the which I desire you to consider of and the many absurdities that would fall upon it to be understood according to the letter which cannot be agreeable to reason but that there must be some higher mystery in it for the Scripture saith that there was but eight persons in the Ark and that all the world was drowned save these eight and presently after he speaketh of Kings and Kingdomes I pray tell mee from whence these Kings and Kingdomes came from in so short a time for we read how many of the children of Israell went into Egypt and were there foure hundred yeares marke their increase during that space and compare the times and you shall see how many eight persons could bring forth in so short a time for the Egyptian Kingdome and all the rest of the Kingdomes must come from those eight persons which they can never prove to have increased so many in so short a time for we read but of sixty six persons that came of Shem betwixt his comming forth of the Arke and their entring into Egypt and their abode in Egypt was foure hundred and thirty yeares the which in all that time did but increase to six hundred thousand till the time they came out of Egypt again to go into the land of Canaan therefore if you will compare those things and exactly calculate the times you will finde strange contradictions in them wherefore you must not look to the history of the Scripture but to the mystery for the deluge of Gods wrath must needs fall upon some other world then this externall even the world of sinne and iniquity and drowns all their delightfull pleasures and marriages by his heavy judgement and law of sinne that he executeth upon them many and divers wayes but the holy and divine manhood with all the beasts which are the passions and phantasies of his minde and the eight persons which are the five senses with the will reason and understanding which is to rule and governe all these beasts are shut up in the Arke Chest or Divinity of God while this deluge runs over the wicked world and are preserved in the same to bee brought forth as a new and heavenly Jerusalem to a better and more divine world which is the humanity to live in the Godhead or the holy divine life Likewise the history of Joseph his brethren is to be understood spiritually for the twelve sonnes of Jacob with their father and mother is the whole divinity and humanity joyned together and Joseph signifies the highest perfection or divinity which was sold into the hands of the wicked by his brethren which is the humanity with his affections and the wickednesse sold him unto the lust of the flesh which was Potiphars wife so that the lusts of the flesh desired to injoy the perfection to her lust will and desires as the Devill did to Christ which this doth presigurate and he left this garment of flesh which hee seemed to be cloathed with into her hands for a witnesse against him that hee was with her so the wicked lusts of the flesh put this perfection or Joseph in prison because he would not consent to her and helyeth in this dungeon or hell under the fleshly lusts of sinne till our Pharaoh King of ignorance and servitude begin to dream of all the miseries and famines that is to come upon us then Ioseph or our perfection is sent for in haste to provide food for us in this our famished land of servitude and ignorance where wee must sell our selves under this perfection who is as King and Lord in this land for a time otherwise we cannot be saved nor preserved and after a small time this Joseph dyeth in the land of servitude and ignorance after whose death comes a cruell Pharaoh to reigne over thee who doth impose such cruell and hard burdens and taskes on thee which makes thee long and cry out for a Saviour then comes the most powerfull God with his mighty signes and wonders to helpe thee plaguing thy wicked king of wickednesse in thee and when all those wonders and plagues are fulfilled upon thy king of servitude thou must enter into a wildernessed land where is no comfort carrying the dead bones of Joseph or thy dead perfection and in thy going thou must eat the pascall lambe or the supper of our Lord which wildernessed land is the whole passion and death of our Lord Jesus whereby thou must forsake the onions garlike flesh pots and all the pleasant meats which thou catest of in the land of Egypt and in walking through this wildernesse or this death and passion of our Lord Iesus we are brought to the heavenly Ierusalem or City of God wherein we shall rest in all peace and sweet content I doe not deny the history or litterall sense of the Scripture but there is nothing therein profitable for me save only the mystery and spirituall sense As for the sacrifice in the old law where mention is made of killing of bulls rams goats and lambs sure it cannot bee that the killing of these creatures could ever make satisfaction for sinne nor could the speech of a Priest speaking over the head of a goat carry away sinne into the wildernesse as it is said of the seape goat but these are holy mysteries and must be understood otherwise and the chusing of the Priests as that they should have no impediment as a lame leg or one arme or but one eye and that their attire should bee most glorious with the breastplate of Urim and Thummim and the Crown with writing upon it and the pure white linnen which to understand according to the history seemeth strange for the Priests to weare such babling things but that all those are mysteries As for the sacrifices which should be without blemish as the lambs and innocent doves with the sweet odours and perfumes is this to offer up a most holy and upright life without spot or blemish of sinne which is his holy Son Iesus in us a sacrifice most pleasing in his sight for he careth not for the sacrifice of bulls and rams but this most holy body hath he chosen O therefore let us offer up this most holy body and pure life for an acceptable sacrifies most pleasing in his sight this holy life is the odours and sweet perfumes which sweet savor deligh eth his nostrills and ravisheth his minde with most sweet contents and the divine humanity is the Priest that must offer up this most pure sacrifice for he must be a perfect man without the blemish of sinne and must wear the breastplate of judgement with Urim and Thummim which is light and