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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	aaron_n	alive_a	atonement_n	34	3	11.2716	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47066	Even lero'sh pina, The Jevv turned Christian, or, The corner-stone wherein is an assertion of Christ being the true Messiah / by John Jacob, formerly a Jew, but now turned a Christian.	Jacob, John, 17th cent.	1679 (1679)	Wing J98; ESTC R5620	15,760	42

everlasting God Moreover in the Prophecy of Jeremiah in Chap. 23.5 6 God saith so Behold the day is come that I will raise unto David a righteous branch c. And this is his name whereby he shall be called The Lord our Righteousness 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Now the name Jehovah is so proper to God that it cannot be communicated by any means to any creature it is Gods own memorial as David speaks of it yea God himself saith with a kind of jealousie Jehova is my name and my glory will I not give to any else Besides that Reason it self shews us the incommunicability of this name because no living creature can give a Being to another yea neither to himself and therefore cannot be call'd Jehovah But because Messiah is call'd here in the quoted place Jehovah it must needs follow that he is the true and everlasting God who hath a Being from himself and sustains all things besides himself But the Jews use here a kind of exception saying the name Jehovah is communicated to others as to the Ark when it is said Arise Jehovah before Jehovah and thy enemies shall be dispersed But I answer this to be a vain exception 1. Because the Jews themselves when they are not in any disputation they not only confess this name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be a wonderous powerful name so that one may do great miracles if he knoweth the right pronunciation of it as they say Christ did all his miracles by that name because he had stolen the right pronunciation of it in the entry of Solomon and therefore they say the pronunciation of it is hidden so that they either call it Ihu or Shemhammephorash the name of four and twenty Letters but also they dare not pronounce the same for its holiness sake How then can this name that is of such a great efficacy and holiness be communicated to any creature and especially to such an one as hath no life but is more than irrational 2. The Ark is not call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but the Israelites call at the Ark or in the presence of it as of a thing where God more especially manifested himself upon because they say 1. Arise Jehovah which they could not say to a dumb Ark which could not hear nor rise up without the help of another 2. The effect of that arising cannot be ascribed to the Ark And thy enemies shall be destroyed which is only the Work of the Almighty So that here is not meant the Ark but God himself Moreover the verity of this assertion is not only proved by Scripture but likewise by the assentment of the Jews themselves amongst whom the most subtil Rabbies and Philosophers do yield that Messiah should be an Angel of the face of God Isa 63. and so not created but in some measure of that same essence with God which doth infer nothing else but that he is a true God and co-essential with the Almighty Father So then the Messiah being constituted of both natures divine and humane is so become a Mediatour and to undergo the office of a King of a Priest and of a Prophet which was adumbrated in the Old Testament by several which either had those Offices distinctly or joyntly together as Melchisedec David Samuel Solomon and this is the reason he is call'd a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec Psal 110.4 Let then the blind Jews dream of another end for which Messiah should come into the World as to deliver them out of the hands of their corporal enemies to re-edifie the Temple to set up the sacrifices to subdue all other Nations under their dominion yet it is plain and evident that the end of his coming should be spiritual to perform the Office of a King of a Prophet and of a Priest He was to be a King to over-power the works of Satan a Prophet for to teach us the Will of God and a Priest for to make reconciliation for iniquity and to bring everlasting righteousness All the offerings and sacrifices in the Old Testament could never make the comers thereunto perfect Heb. 10.1 not only because they could not cleanse from sin and were but a shadow of the things to come but also because they could not destroy the works of the Devil who still according to the assentment of the Jews had his part in the offerings We read Levit. 16.7 8 c. And he shall take two goats and present them before the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and Aaron shall cast lots upon the goats 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one lot for the Lord and the other for Azazel and Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the Lords lot fell and offer it for a sin-offering but the goat on which the lot fell to be scape-goat shall be presented alive before the Lord to make an atonement with him and to let him go for Azazel into the wilderness c. Here they say That by Azazel is to be understood the Devil who still had a power over them and unto whom they were forced to offer to mitigate him that they might be free from his assaults and hence proceeds the Jewish Proverb an offering 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Azazel when they are to give a bribe to a wicked man to stop his mouth who in his nature is as bad as the Devil Therefore it was needful that the Messiah should come as a spiritual King and as a Priest of an high power to tread the enemy under our feet to bruise Satans head and to destroy utterly his works that so he might take away that fear that was in the believers before his appearance in the flesh Now the considerations of those things did plainly shew unto me which is my last point that none else but Christ in whom Christians believe is the true Messiah because in him all the Predictions are fulfilled The Scepter did not depart from Judah nor a Law-giver from between his feet until Christ came when as I said above the Jewish Government was abolished and they dispersed through all the World The second Temple was yet in its flower when Christ appeared there and honoured the place with his presence and since that time it was desolated The Messiah was to be born of a Virgin so was Christ born being conceived by the Holy Ghost in the womb of the Virgin Mary as the Evangelist doth testifie Matt. 1.18 He was to be born in Bethlehem so was Christ the Saviour of the World Luke 2.4 7. The Messiah was to come after the end of Daniels Weeks so did Christ come as we may see by accompting of the time The Messiah was to suffer for our sins Isa 53 to be cut off and dye Daniel 9 he should cause the sacrifice and oblations to cease ibid. All this Christ did he offered his soul for the sins of men Joh. 10 he died for our sins Rom. 4 and after his death not only the sacrifices did cease but also the place of oblations which was the Temple in Jerusalem was abolished without any hopes of restauration The Messiah was to be God and Man so was Christ a Man because born a God because he shewed it by his Works and Miracles which a created power could never have done And to be short in a case so plain as this is All these Scriptures which did sound of the Messiah were fulfilled in Christ either touching his nature or the end of his coming yea not only in the things themselves but also in the circumstances as we may see by reading the New Testament written by the Apostles and Evangelists So then I concluded That the true Messiah was come that he was to be God and Man and that Christ in whom Christians believe was and is the true Messiah whom I have embraced truly and hope to be saved by his infinite merits And now I will exalt thee O Lord for thou hast lifted me up by the arm of thy mercy and hast not made my foes to rejoyce over me O Lord Satan Hell and Death had opened their mouths to devour me and so to rejoyce in that prey but thou O Lord hast shewed me the way of thy salvation and made me to cry out O Death where is thy sting O Grave where is thy victory I cried unto thee and thou hast healed me thou O Lord hast brought up my soul from the Grave thou hast kept me alive that I should not go down to the pit of eternal damnation Thou by thy favour hast made my mountain to stand strong and madest me take hold of the horn of thy salvation Sing then unto the Lord my Soul and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness Bless him and forget not all his benefits he forgiveth all thy iniquities and healeth all thy diseases Do thou O Lord strengthen me with thy grace that I may not fall from thee and from thy only Son our Saviour Jesus Christ to whom with thee and the Holy Ghost be praise and glory for ever Amen FINIS