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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	angel_n	golden_a	incense_n	1,470	5	12.0788	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00753	Comfortable notes vpon the bookes of Exodus and Leuiticus, as before vpon Genesis Gathered and laid downe still in this plaine manner, for the good of them that cannot vse better helpes, and yet are carefull to read the Scriptures, and verie desirous to finde the comfort in them. By the Reuerend Father in God Geruase Babington ... With a table of the principall matters contained in this booke.	Babington, Gervase, 1550-1610.	1604 (1604)	STC 1088; ESTC S100580	531,878	712

with our swéete gratious God it is far otherwise of whom the Prophet Hosea speaketh thus Quomodo affligam te Israel aut quomodo puniam te O Ephraim Iusté quidem te delerem sed conuersum est in me cor meum Exarsit comiseratio mea non faciam furorem irae meae quia Deus ego sum et non Homo c. How should I afflict thee O Israel Or how should I punish thee O Ephraim Iustly might I destroy thee but my heart is turned within me my mercie burneth towards thee I will not execute the furie of my wrath because I am God not mā c. Thus thus let vs gather comfort and in all stormes look vnto him and hold fast by him he is the same and no Changling good before good now and good euer Chastise vs he may for our good but forsake vs to our harme he will neuer Fyre tryeth gold affliction the godlie Abraham euen past hope yet beleeued vnder hope and so doo you If the Lord should kill me saith Iob yet will I put my trust in him Aske since the world was made who euer claue fast vnto him and was shaken of by him No saith Christ whom I loue to the end I loue and he that commeth vnto me I neuer cast away God for his Sons sake strengthen our harts in al our waies and giue vs assurance immoueable that he dwelleth with vs according to this promise Amen Amen CHAP. 30. 1. THe Holy-Ghost hauing thus passed ouer the ordinarie Sacraments of the lawe in the 25. and 26 Chapters the obseruations belonging thereunto in the 27. and 28. the Sacrifices in this last 29. Chapter Now in this 30. he layeth down such things as belonged to the Ministring of all the former And by name noteth 5. sorts of holy instruments whereof the first belongeth to Gods seruice the second to the whole Ministerie to wit the money for the maintenance of the Sanctuarie the third is the Lauer the fourth is the holye Oyle the fift is the Incense the manner to make it Touching the Altar of Incense if you marke the Text you shall sée in the first verse the matter of it Sittim wood in the second verse the forme of it thus long thus broad in the third verse the adorning of it it was ouerlaide with gold in the fourth and fift verses the helpes to carry it as rings barres c in the sixt verse the place for it to wit before the vayle neere the Arke in the seauenth and eight verses the vse of it to burne sweete perfume vpon it Morning and Euening in the ninth verse the holinesse of it in that no strange incense might be offered vpon it And lastly in the tenth verse a peculiar reconciliation by sacrifice to be made vpon the hornes of this Altar once in a yeere by blood 2. Concerning the mysterie and meaning of all these thus you may safely meditate of them The Altar of incense was of Wood and couered with gold figuring so Christ in both his Natures the Wood his humanitie the gold his Diuinitie the Deitie yéelding glorie and Maiestie to his Manhood as the gold adorned and beautifyed the Shittim wood You remember an other Altar in the Court of the TABERNACLE whereupon all the Sacrifices were offered and that was of Brasse now this ouerlaide thus with gold and as as it were of gold Both of them shadowed out Christ and this difference of matter happely the difference of his estate when humbled here on earth and when glorified now in Heauen The brasen Altar standing in the Court might note his meane accompt in the World before his passion This golden Altar standing in the Sanctuarie might note his Glorie and Maiestie in Heauen after his ascension For the Sanctuarie is a figure of Heauen The forme of this Altar square significantly represented the firme stabilitie of Christ who cannot bee ouerthrowne The Crowne about it the regall dignitie of Christ and of all those that are ingrafted to him For wee are kings and Priestes in him and by him Peter saith A royall Priesthood c. The hornes of the foure corners the power and force of our heauenly Altar CHRIST dispersed ouer the Worlde to the East West North and South in such as will beléeue in HIM The sweete Incense generally noted all duties and seruices which the people of GOD doo to him by his appointment and warrant and that they smell swéete before him as the Incense and are accepted of him But particularly the Prayers of GODS faithfull for so DAVID in his PSALME expounded it saying Let my prayer come before thee as the Incense and the lifting vp of my hands be as an Euening SACRIFICE And so the Custome noted which was That whilest the Priest was burning this Incense within in the Sanctuarie the people were without at prayer Also in the Reuelation thus you reade That the twentie foure Elders fell downe before the Lambe hauing Harpes and Golden Viols full of odours which are the PRAYERS OF THE SAINTS Againe in the eight Chapter An other Angell stood before the Altar hauing a golden censer and much odours was giuen vnto him that he should offer with the prayers of all Saints vpon the golden ALTAR which is before the throne This resemblance was very fit if you marke it shewed the Nature of true praier For what dooth the smoake of the incense but ascend vpward scatter it selfe abroad in the ayre euery way so shewing that the Faithfull Prayers of true Beléeuers ascend vp to Heauen and the profit of them disperseth it selfe far and wide ouer the World the members of the true CHVRCH praying one for an other through out the Worlde and beeing profited one of another by naturall prayer although they liue in seuerall countries and neuer knowe or see one another The burning of this Incense vpon the ALTAR which was a figure of Christ shadowed out that in Christ and for Christ onely our prayers are of force with God and therefore by him they ought to bee offered to GOD hee himselfe telling vs That No man commeth to the FATHER but by HIM and whatsoeuer we aske the FATHER in his Name we shall receiue it No Saint nor Creature was shadowed by the ALTAR of Incense but Christ therefore let them take heed that will pray to others make others the presēters of their desires to God Againe no strange Incense was to be offered vpon this ALTAR but Prayers either to others than to GOD in the Name of Christ or for vnlawfull and vnfit things are strange Incense and therefore not to bee offered to GOD. The LORD by the Prophets much complained of Incense offered without Faith in those dayes and prayers without faith are as odious Lip-labour much babling by number vpō Beads for to kéepe the reckoning is not incēse that pleaseth God It was forbiden that any man should make