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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	command_v	zeal_n	zealous_a	22	3	9.8468	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85411	A post-script, or appendix to a treatise lately published by authority, intituled, Hagio-Mastix, or the scourge of the saints displaid in his colours of ignorance and blood. Being an explication of the third verse of the thirteenth chapter of the prophecie of Zacharie; (the tenour whereof is this: and it shall come to passe, that when any shall yet prophecie, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, thou shalt not live, for thou speakest lies in the name of the Lord: and his father and his mother that begat him, shall thrust him through when he prophecieth.) According to the analogie of the Sriptures [sic], the scope and exigency of the context, and the sence of the best expositors upon the place. / By John Goodwin a servant of God and men, in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.; Hagiomastix. Appendix	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	1647 (1647)	Wing G1191; Thomason E383_10; ESTC R201432	31,560	34

in the world in the Doctrine of his word certainly if this word be but effectually preached there will be no necessity of driving them away by fire and sword except we mean thus to pursue them after they are departed far away from us as indeed the Papists many times do who use to destroy the lives of those that recant and abjure their errours as they call errour as well as theirs who persist obstinate So that it is neither agreeable to the scope of the place nor minde of the Scripture elsewhere nor to the sense of many Orthodox Interpreters upon the place nor to the judgement of the chief Modern Writers of the Protestant partie otherwise to understand the phrase of thrusting through in the Scripture in hand literally or of thrusting through with sword spear or the like unto death especially with relation to the Churches of the Gentiles under the Gospel And though some of our Protestant Expositors seem to carry it in such a sense yet the great crie of this interpretation is heard out of the midst of Rome Iesuits and others the children of that mother thirsting after the blood of the Saints being with open mouth the great abettors and proclaimers of it But 9. Whereas the Latine translation reads transfigent eum and our English they shall thrust him through the Septuagint readeth {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} i. e. they shall joyntly tread upon him or kick him with their feet which imports only a disgracefull or disrespectfull carriage towards him But 10. And lastly If there be yet any place left for a further conjecture upon a difficult and obscure place for peremptoriness and magistrality become difficulties no otherwise then a full career the deepest ways it may I conceive relate in the direct and full import of it to those times of refreshing which shall come from the presence of the Lord and of the restitution of all things viz. to the Jewish Church and Nation whereof Peter speaks and prophesies Act. 3. 19. 21. and our Saviour himself Mat. 23. 39. For I say unto you yee shall not see me henceforth till ye say Blessed be he that commeth in the Name of the Lord and the Apostle Paul Rom. 11. 26. And so all Israel shall be saved and the Prophet Ieremie before them all But this shall be the Covenant that I will make with the house of Israel After those days saith the Lord I will put my Law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts and will be their God and they shall be my people And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour and every man his brother saying Know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least of them unto the greatest of them saith the Lord for I will forgive their iniquity and I will remember their sin no more Ier. 31. 33 34. These with many more passages of like tendencie and import in the Scriptures plainly shew that God hath yet amongst the sealed treasures of his counsels and decrees precious thoughts towards his ancient people the nation of the Iews purposing in his time to build them up again into a Church of far more Inward grace and holiness into a nation of far more outward beauty strength and glory then ever was their portion since they first became a Church or nation unto this day either in the one kinde or in the other Now then I conceive that the intent and scope of the Prophet Zacharie in the first part of his 13. Chapter to the end of ver. 6. was to encourage and raise the faint spirits of that small remnant of his nation to whom he was sent by God with the message of this prophecie by representing unto them how glorious a Church and nation God intended to make of them and their posterity in time and what a spirit and rich anointing of zeal and holiness and knowledge and purity of Religion should be found upon them in that day insomuch that no touch or tincture of Idolatrie no mixture of errour or false doctrine should deface their beauty or stain the brightness of their glory yea and that their zeal towards God his Law and truth should be so exceeding fervent and strong that it shall command and subdue under it all carnall yea or naturall affections dispositions and desires all other ends purposes and intentions whatsoever By the way this interpretation doth neither suppose or imply either that there will be any son or child that shall then prophecie lies amongst them or that parents whether Fathers or mothers should or would slay them or thrust them through in case they did but such expressions as these are figurative as we lately heard from Mr. Deodate and our English Annotations upon the Bible taken from what was commanded against false Prophets Deut. 13. that is they only note or express such a degree measure or intensness of zeal to the truth and puritie of Religion which God in his Law commanded to be expressed by naturall parents against their children and by others against persons in neerest and dearest relation to them in the case of seducement to Idolatrie Now as the same degree either of love or hatred doth not necessarily import a specificall indentitie or sameness of expression but a generical only viz. by way of equipollencie or equivalencie yea and this only when there is occasion or opportunity in like manner it is no ways necessary that they who are as zealous for the truth and Law of God as those Parents were who in vindication thereof did lay violent hands upon their own naturall children should act or express this their zeal with the self same kinde of expression I mean should slay their children also there being several other ways and kinds of expression by which the greatest zeal for the Truth and purity of Religion whereof the nature of man is capable may be proportionably declared and expressed upon occasion But for the interpretation of the place in hand last mentioned and explained there are these reasons abundantly sufficient as I conceive to carry it First there is scarce any figure or propriety of speech more frequent in the Scripture then to express a proper and particular sense by words importing another sense equivalent to it Thus God promiseth victories and deliverances to his people by saying Psal. 68. 22. I will bring again from Bashan I will bring my people again from the depths of the Sea meaning that as he had delivered their fore fathers from Og king of Bashan and given them victory in battell against him and had brought them out of the Red sea so delivering them from Pharaoh who pursued them so he would for the future deliver them from other their enemies and give them victory and success against them a Thus he threateneth them with bondage and captivity by telling them that they shall return to Egypt Hos. 8. 13. Now will he remember their iniquity saith the Prophet