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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	father_n	jacob_n	joseph_n	2,306	5	9.7122	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10045	David his oath of allegeance to Ierusalem The sermon preached on Act Sunday last in the morning, in St. Maries in Oxford. By Daniel Price Doctor in Divinity.	Price, Daniel, 1581-1631.	1613 (1613)	STC 20291; ESTC S115204	24,054	46

chaire of the Monarch●e throne of the kingdome Golden head of the picture No Israel may forget Egypt Simeon and Levi forget Israel their father the mother may forget her childe and the childe exenterate his owne mother but Ierusalem the apple of Gods eie the signet on his finger the Virgin of the East beautie of the earth his faire one deere one little one onely one shal be had in everlasting remembrance If I forget thee O Ierusalem let my right hand forget her cunning The best exterior member of the body the hand the best vse of the hand cunning but let hand and cunning perish the right best vse of the right hand perish let neither his tongue stirre nor his hand touch his harp nay let his eies fall into the holes of his head and all his faculties faile rather then he faile to remember Ierusalem Which few words shew the much loue of the Prophet to the place of Gods service and as Reverend Calvin vpō the words noteth Calvin in 137. Testantur Dei cultores adhibitâ imprecatione memoriam sanctae vrbis cordibus suis semper fore infixam neque vnquam deletam iri quicquid acciderit the true worshippers of God doe seale with an imprecation the remembrance and reverend regard of Religion never to be rooted from their soules to be their song day and night their morning and evening sacrifice their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their meate and drinke the very light of their life and breath of their nostrils never to be separated never to be divorced from them every man saying as our Prophet If I forget thee O Ierusalem then let my right hand forget her cunning Divisio Textus I haue numbred the words let vs goe to the sikle of the Sanctuary and there waigh them 1. The supposition or exaggeration of his vow If I forget thee The second the place or subiect or obiect occasioning his vow Thee O Ierusalem Thirdly the obligation and imprecation or if you please his oath of allegiance to Ierusalem then let my right hand forget her cunning All of them be as the ingredients for the holy incense sweet smelling savours vnto God the first a fervent and vehement vow holy for the matter harty for the maner The second the most holy place of the most high the Parallel of lost Paradise and figure of the hope for heaven a resemblance of every faithfull mans soule the representatiō of the militant triumphant Church The third a powerfull and faithfull confirmation of the Prophets profession and patheticall resolution let my right hand forget her cunning And now Ho Reverend all beloued lend your eares to that subiect to which David the type of Christ and Christ the sonne of David lent their teares Babylō hath friends every where Ierusalem wants Religion I meane expecteth that you wil stand to her otherwise vt quid statis hic otiosi why stand you here idle but per silentiū consensum video Acuanus spake in the same kind Acuanus in Psal I see your consent by your silence and hope your faithfulnesse will never entertaine forgetfulnesse especially of goodnesse which profession was Davids practise and my first part Forgetfulnesse 1. Part. Bon. in Psal 119. by the schooles is defined to be Memoriae lubricatio and so Bonaventure speakes on the 119. Psalme it is a slippery inconstancy of the memory whereby the best part of the minde the vnderstanding can neither fitly receaue nor faithfully retaine those species which are represented to it It is like to that swift Kishon which swept Sisera's souldiers away it is a precipitate torrent the obliterating and expunging of knowledge the very index expurgatorius of the vnderstanding the cloud of the minde and ecclypse of the memorie The fathers distinguish it into two parts first a vsefull and laudable second an hatefull and damnable forgetfulnesse Bernard in Cant. Bernard obserueth that the name Manasses signifieth forgetfulnesse and as the tribe of Manasses dwelt part on the one side part on the other side Iordan nātotus Manasses Iordanem non transiit so there is a forgetfulnesse which stayeth from passing Iordan another forgetfulnes which leadeth through Iordan to the land of Canaan Jt is a wonder that Manasses should bee the father of a Tribe an Egyptian bare him Pharaohs Court was the place of his breeding neither Nurse nor Mother could giue benedictionem patriae when he came for Iacobs blessing Ioseph the father led him by the left hand and Iacob the grand-father laid his left hand vpon him neither father nor grand-father gaue him benedictionem dextrae the blessing of the right hand When hee came to tearme of inheritance the tribe was divided Iordan divided them halfe on the one side Spedi geneal ante Biblia the other on the other no tribe so devided as Manasses neither had benedictionem terrae Manasses was but nephew to the Tribes lost his birth-right as Esau did Gedeō was of this tribe whose sonnes were all slaine Zelophehad of this tribe who had no sonnes but daughters Many monuments of orbitancy of defection and oblivion in this tribe and yet many Princes many Prophets were of it I follow St Bernard his allusion that Manasses the eldest sonne of Ioseph should bee forgetfulnesse Bernard It is much Ioseph was now a Prince in Egypt who had bin a prisoner in Egypt Ioseph whose feete they hurt in the stockes that the yron entred into his soule Ioseph from the state of a Prisoner to be a Prince his first fruit to be forgetfulnes it is very much Adams first fruit Cain to be a murderer Iacobs first fruit Reuben to be incestuous Aarons first fruit Nadab to be contumacious Davids first fruit Ammon to bee adulterous Salomons first fruit Rhehoboam to be Idolatrous sheweth that these holy men did not offer their firsts fruits their eldest sonnes vnto God but Ioseph almost the lest and youngest of his brethren saued from the pit saued from the prison now a Prince in Egypt and Manasses forgetfulnesse his first sonne enforceth that all that are dignified magnified are most ready to forget the state frō whence God hath brought them They are the sons of Ioseph not of Iacob he wanne by yeelding and was honoured by his halting by his humbling saith Chrysostome the lower he stoups to the earth the neerer the better his advantage for this blessing Chrysostom felices hi ex tribu Manassis qui humilitatem induunt authoritatem exuunt Leo giueth the reason Humilitas animi sublimitas Christiani happy is their forgetfulnes the starres of whose firmament being great yet seeme lesse then the earth this fargetfulnesse is virtus honorata saith Bernard an humble mind in an honorable place Bernard it is a lowly valley sweetly planted and pleasantly watered a royall Argosy with a low faile a holy temple with a low roofe He is a true Israelite more then a Nathiniel he is of the band