Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	earth_n	father_n	heaven_n	17,972	5	5.2409	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78250	The Case of the Jevves stated: Or, The Jewes synagogue opened. With their preparations in the morning before they go thither, and their doings at night when they come home: Their practices in their synagogues and some select actings of theirs in England, upon record.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1656 (1656)	Wing C1094A; ESTC R173462	4,579	7

THE Case of the JEVVES stated OR The Jewes Synagogue Opened WITH Their preparations in the morning before they go thither and their doings at night when they come home Their practises in their Synagogues And some select actings of theirs in ENGLAND upon Record LONDON Printed by ROBERT IBBITSON 1656. The Case of the Jews stated OR The Jews Synagogue opened THe Jews had near 500 Synagogues in Jerusalem and many in all the Cities of Judea And from time to time as they are dispersed among the Gentiles labor to build them Synagogues among them The 48 Cities of the Levites first began them in which Jews called Archisynagoges were instead of Levites and Prophets In their Synagogues they dispute and preach sitting The Elders sit it Chairs the meaner sort in seats and the meanest of all on the floor upon mats They pray in their Synagogues standing and sometimes sitting When they were in England as Matthew Parris hath recorded in 34 H. 3. the Jews used every year to steal a young Boy the child of a Christian and to circumcise him and then in their Synagogue sate in a solemn Assembly chusing one of themselves to be Pilat who out of their Devillish malice to Christ and Christians condemned the child and crucified him to death and this was discovered at Norwich where they circumcised a Christian child and called him Jurnin and condemned him to be crucified it was discovered for which four Jews being convicted were drawn at horses tails and hanged on a Gibbet and 18 Jews were drawn and hanged for thus crucifying of one Hugh Lincoln There were banished 1605 11. in 18. Ed. 3. and their houses was given to the Master of the Rolls By the Statute they were to wear all above seven years old peeces of woollen cloth on their breasts to be known In the morning before they go to their Synagogue the Wife is to waken her Husband and the Parents their Children who after thirteen years of age are subject to their Laws They are to awaken before day that they may make their morning prayer whilst the Sun is rising and not later for then they say is the time of being heard from Lam. 2. 19. They then frame to sadness for Jerusalem and pray for the rebuilding of that City They say when they shed tears in the night the Stars and Planets mourn with them and if their enemies decree any thing against them those tears will blast it from P●a 56. 9. And that if any rub his forehead with those tears it will blot out certain sins there written They say that in the beginning of the night all the Gates of Heaven are shut and that there are evil spirits then sent into the world which hurt all they meet but after midnight the Angels are commanded to open Heaven again and that the Cocks in the World hear that voyce at which they clap their wings and crow at which they use these words Blessed art thou O God Lord of the whole World who hast given understanding to the Cock They use filthy blasphemous words when they go out of their chamber to the stool They say they must not touch their bodies before they have washed their hands in regard of the evil spirits which have rested in the night thereon and that if they should touch their eyes they should be blind or if their ears they should be deaf the nose dropping the mouth stinking the hands scabbed if not first washed because their hands are venomous if not washed first first they pour water three times on the right hand then three times on the left then wash them and after the face and mouth and then they say Blessed be thou O God our God King of all the world who hast commanded us to wash our hands When they come to the Synagogue to their mattins they endeavour chearfulness They make clean their shooes at the door and he that hath Pantables must put them off and at their entring in cast in every one a halfpenny at the least into the treasury and then bow themselves towards the Arke in which the book of the Law is using certain words out of the Scirpture as in Num. 25. 5. Psal. 5. 7. and others expressing a high esteem of the House of God Then they begin to pray out of their Common-prayer book in which their prayers are in Hebrew in meeter and after their first prayer they say 100 Benedictions grounded on Deut. 10. 12. Now Israel what doth God require of thee they read not Mahschoel but Meahschoel he requireth 100 which they have short and twice a day repeated 1. For the washing of their hands 2. For the creation of man 3. For that they are made full of holes one of which if should be stopped they should die 4. A confession of the Resurrection 5. For understanding given to the Cock to discern day and night asunder and with his crowing to awake them 6. That God hath made them Jews or Israel●tes 7 The Masters that they are not Servants The men that they are nor women the women that God hath made them according to his will 8 That God exalteth the lowly 9. That he maketh the blind to see 10. That he raiseth the crooked 11. That he cloatheth the naked 12. That he raiseth them up that fall 13. That he brings the captives out of prison 14. That stretcheth the world upon the waters 15. That prepareth and ordereth the goings of man 16. That hath prepared all things necessary for this life 17 That girdeth Israel with strength 18. That crowneth Israel with comliness 19. That giveth strength to the weary 20. That taketh sleep from the eyes and slumber from the eye lid● c. Then they pray to be preserved against sins evill spirits and ●vil men and confessing their sins they comfort themselves in the Covenant made to Abraham saying We are thy people and the children of thy Covenant c. O happy we how good is our portion who every morning and evening may say Hear Israel the Lord our Lord is one God gather us that hope in thee from the ends of all the earth that all the inhabitants of the earth may know that thou art our God Our Father which art in Heaven be merciful unto us c. Then after some other short prayers they go on to their Sacrifices and they repeat an history of Sacrifice and a prayer of the use of the Law and how many ways it may be expounded And then pray for the re-edifying of the Temple and rising with great joy and acclamation they sing a prayer of praise in hope thereof Then they read a long prayer which they conclude with the last words of the Prophet Obadiah The Saviour shall ascend into mount Sion to judge the mount of Esau and the Kingdome shall be the Lords Which they spake in hope of the destruction of Christians whom they call Edomites and of their own restitution And in some of their private writings which it