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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nation_n	abraham_n	father_n	seed_n	3,938	5	8.1458	4	true

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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

to be truly and only agreeable to this Prophecy That this Prophecy sounds of a true Messiah who was to be a true Mediator of the World and of no temporal Saviour is clear Because 1. The six intents here mentioned in the 24 are impossible to any meer man 2. The title of Honour Prince is added for a distinction from other Saviours as also for a distinction from other inferior Angels in vers 20 21 and also added for a distinction from other Lords in Chap. 8.25 Because therefore it sounds of the true Messiah and the time of his coming is past as likewise all those things which were predicted are brought to an effect I safely conclude the true Messiah is come Moreover one of their Rabbies Rabbi Eliah saith The World should stand 6000 years according to the number of days of the Creation 2000 should be of Vanity 2000 of the Law and 2000 of the Messiah Now those 4000 first years are long since past and we are very near the end of the 2000 of the Messiah These exceptions they make That namely God hath not as yet sent the King Messiah for their sins sake are of no value because they have never been in such a long exile as now and they think themselves more just than their Fathers in the Egyptian and Babylonian captivity by reason of keeping the Sabbath neither can their sins change the decrees of God so often manifested in Scriptures These were the Arguments which sufficiently did perswade me the true Messiah was come But because the Jews dream only things corporal about the Messiah and about the end of his coming as likewise about his person I resolved to enquire further into these points A. 1. Touching his person I found out that he should not only be a man but likewise the true God not only because the nature of the offenders and the party offended did require but likewise because the reason of his coming into the world was to make reconciliation for iniquity and because many Scripture-places did affirm the same That he should be a true man was plain because he was to satisfie for that nature which did trespass in and by Adam He is call'd the seed of the Woman Gen. 3 which being material doth infer that Messiah should be a man like unto us yet without sin He is call'd the seed of Abraham and was promised to him Gen. 17. It is observable That God having an intention to confirm his Covenant of Grace and to shew the certainty of it doth promise the blessed seed not only to a woman Gen. 3 but likewise to a man which was Abraham Gen. 17 for to make them both sure of those spiritual benefits which were to be acquired by him and to make both the Sexes partakers of that glory viz. that the Messiah should come out of their Limbs Hence it proceeds That when God had promised the blessed seed unto the woman Adam call'd her Eve because she was the Mother of all living Gen. 3.20 Before the fall Adam call'd her 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Woman but after the transgression and the promise of a Messiah unto her he called her Eve because out of her should proceed him that should give life unto all them that require him and so in and by Christ she was the Mother of all living who otherwise could bring nothing into the World but sinners and so dead in their trespasses And as Eve was call'd the Mother of all living so Abram was call'd Abraham after the promise of the blessed seed that is the Father of many Nations because in him by reason of the seed all Nations should be blessed Gen. 17. And there God was pleased to confirm his Covenant and the promise of the Messiah belonging to it by adding to his name the Letter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which was taken out of the name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and making out of Abram Abraham and to shew that promised seed belonged as well to the woman as the man the Lord added the same Letter to the name of Sarai and maketh it Sarah When God sent Moses to the Children of Israel into Egypt for to bring them out of the House of bondage and to bring them to the Land of Canaan according to the promise he uses this expression And I appeared unto Abraham unto Isaac and unto Jacob by the name of God Almighty but my name JEHOVAH was not known to them Exod. 6.3 Surely they knew that God was call'd Jehovah because they call'd him so themselves therefore this is not to be understood of the name as it is in its sound but as it is in its power they knew him by the name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is that he was able or sufficient to perform what he had promised but not by the name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jehovah That is they had not seen the being of those promises because the name Jehovah signifieth as much as an Essentiator who giveth a being to those things which he hath formerly promised to do So God in that case reflects upon himself and upon the Covenant made with Abraham which at present he was to execute And this is the reason why God changed the name of Abram in adding to it one Letter out of his name Jehovah that he might assure him and his Wife that he would for certain give an esse to his promise and so make himself known by the name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jehovah and this was the surety and underpand of his promise So then because the Messiah proceeds from both the seeds of a man and of a woman according to the promise it must needs follow that he is a true man himself Besides he is call'd a Son a Child born of a Virgin and so-forth That he should be a true God doth shew not only the infinite Object that was offended and the infinite guilt of Adams sins which a meer man could not take away from us and reconcile us to the offended party but also those expressions in Scripture sounding of the Messiah which cannot be attributed to any meer man He is then call'd Emmanuel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Isa 7.14 Behold a Virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his name Emmanuel that is God with us which is to shew that God should take on him the seed of Abraham Heb. 2.16 and so be God and man Then Isa 9.6 it is said of the Messiah Vnto us a child is born unto us a Son is given and the government shall be upon his shoulders and he shall be call'd Wonderful Counseller the Mighty God The Everlasting Father and The Prince of Peace Where one may plainly see that the Messiah should be a God because he is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The mighty God and everlasting Father whose goings forth have been from old from everlasting Micah 5.2 which attributes can belong to none else but to him who is the true and