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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
reason_n	day_n	observe_v	sabbath_n	2,856	5	9.6296	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88142	A few, and new observations, vpon the booke of Genesis. The most of them certaine, the rest probable, all harmelesse, strange, and rarely heard off before. By Iohn Lightfoote Staffordiens.	Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.	1642 (1642)	Wing L2054; Thomason E118_19; ESTC R22089	13,302	28

watering the trees and plants budded to maturity in a trice this dew being as a naturall cause thereof yet the effect being withall exceeding supernaturall because so s●eedy Vers 7. Of the dust of the Earth thus watered God created the body of man and to this the Psalmist alludeth The dew of thy youth Psal. 110. 3. And into that Earth so prepared he breatheth the Spirit of Life and Grace Ephes. 4. 24. Vers 10. Eden watered by a river that overflowed it once a yeare after the manner of Nylus and Jordan chap. 13. 10. To Adam thus created and made Lord of the creature the Lord himselfe bringeth the creatures to receive their names which hee giveth to them agreeable to their natures and that at the first sight shewing at once his dominion over them and his wisedom among them all he seeth no fit match for himselfe but by seeing every one of them mated and that they came before him by paires he is brought to bee sensible of his owne want of a fellow which thereupon God provideth for him out of his owne body of a rib which part of him might best be spared And thus the Creation endeth in the making of the woman CHAP. III. The woman thinking it had beene a good Angell that spake in the trunk of the Serpent she entereth communication with the Devill who perceiving her both to adde and to diminish to and from the Commandement that was given them groweth the more impudent to tempt and seduceth her by the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life as 1. Iohn 2. 16. And shee perswadeth her husband and so they both are fallen on the very same day that they are created Gen. 9. 1 2 3. Psal. 49. 12. Christ is promised before the man and the woman are censured and they are questioned also before they be sentenced but so was not Satan for God had mercy in store for them but none for him The curse is not upon man himselfe but upon the Earth to teach him to set his affections on things above and not on the cursed ground and not to look for an earthly Kingdom of Christ on this Earth which the Lord hath cursed Adam apprehendeth and layeth hold upon the promise by Faith and in evidence of this his faith he calleth his wives name Eve or Life because shee was to be the mother of Christ according to the flesh by whom life should come and of all beleevers that by faith should live in him for an outward signe and seale of this his Faith and for a further and more lively expression of the same God teacheth him the rite of sacrifice to lay Christ dying before his eyes in a visible figure And with the skins of the sacrificed beasts God teacheth him and his wife to cloath their bodies And thus the first thing that dyeth in the world is Christ in a figure At the end of this third chapter imagine the three first verses of chapter 2. concerning the Sabbath to be observed to come in and suppose the texture of the story to lye thus Adam thus fallen censured recovered instructed and expelled Eden on the sixt day the next day following he by Gods appointment keepeth for a Sabbath or an holy rest and spendeth it onely in divine duties Now the reason why it standeth in the place where it doth chap. 2. Is partly because Moses would lay the seven dayes or the first weeke of the world altogether without interposition and partly because he would shew by setting it before Adams fall that had hee persisted in innocency yet must he have observed a Sabbath The seventh day or Sabbath is not bounded in the text with the same limits that the other dayes are for it is not said of it as it was of them The Evening and the Morning were the seventh day because a time should come when it should have a new beginning and end and though to the Iewes it was from Even to Even yet from the beginning it was not so expressed CHAP. 4. Cain and Abel twinnes of one birth and first was borne he that was naturall and after he that was spirituall The faith of Abell appeared in the very materialls of his sacrifice it being of slaine beasts and so a representation of the death of Christ for this it is fired from Heaven and Caines is not though his drye eares of Corne were materialls farie more combustible Cain and Abell were both their own Priests for it cannot be proved that Sacrifices were ever offered but upon emergent occasions till the Law fixed it for a common service and he that had such an occasion had libertie to be his own Priest even under the Law as it appeareth by Gedeon Manoah c. and then much more was that liberty before The word Sinne in vers 7. seemeth rather to signifie an offering or attonement for sinne then punishment For first God commeth not to deject Cain lower then he was but to raise him from his dejection as it appeareth both by his deigning to give him an Oracle from Heaven and also by the words wherewith he beginneth Secondly if the words Sinne lieth at the doore intend suddain Iudgement ready to devoure him what dependance can the words following have with these If thou doe not well thou shalt certainely be punished and thy brothers desire shall be subject to thee for this were to threaten poore Abell more or at least as much as Cain Thirdly the Originall word Chateath as it signifieth Sinne so also doth it the sacrifice for sinne as Hos. 4. 8. 2 Cor. 5. 21. And all along Leviticus and it was the custome according to which Moses speaketh as best knowne to lay the Sacrifice at the Sanctuary doore Vers 14. Cain sensible of his punishment though he was not of his sinne beggeth of God that he might die to ease him of it Therefore let any one that findeth me kill mee but this God denyeth to him reserving him to a lingring punishment and Caine being assured of long life giveth himselfe to all sensuality to sweeten it as much as he can and this is the way of Caine Iud. vers. 11. Ver. 23. Lamech in horrour of Conscience for his Polygamy which now began to be examplary to the generall corruption of the world acknowledgeth his sinne seaventie times greater than Cains and his desert of punishment proportionable for Cain had slaine but one man and but the body but he by his evill example had killed old and young and their very soules and therefore he maketh his complaint to his two wives that had brought him to it CHAP. V. A Chronicle of 1556. yeares and all the yeares are reckoned compleat but onely Noahs five hundreth yeere in ver. 32. Ver. 3. Seth borne in Originall sinne the Father of all men in the new world after the floud Numb. 24. 17. Ver. 23. Enoch liveth as many yeares as be dayes in a yeare Those that lived neerer the