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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	church_n	day_n	dedicate_v	1,586	5	10.9303	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66966	An historical narration of the life and death of Our Lord Jesus Christ in two parts.	R. H., 1609-1678.	1685 (1685)	Wing W3448; ESTC R14750	308,709	352

an husband and now aged 84 years departed not from the Temple where many chambers belonging to it we may imagine she might have some little Cell for her self and her necessary provision brought to her thither and beside her Devotions might do some little services more proper for women in assistance of the Priests And some such thing of women serving and attending on the Tabernacle we read in Exod. 38.8 and again in 1 Sam. 2.22 And after the settlement of the Gospel in 1 Tim. 5. is mentioned such a sequestration and retirement of widows living together and taken care-of for their maintenance by the Church for the peculiar service of God and his Saints Where vers 5. it is said of these also that Desolate and trusting in God to whom they dedicated their continency and service for their subsistence they continued in supplications and praiers night and day So From the Temple this Holy widow saith the Evangelist departed not but served God there with fastings and praiers night and day With fastings as this being the best preservative of chastity and preparative for Devotion by allaying and calming the Spirits and Passions and mortifying and taming the flesh The chief subject of whose Devotions as of Simeons probably were the Redemption of God's people by his sending quickly the promised Messias then much spoken of She then at this blessed sight and the fulfilling of it first fell on praising and giving thanks to God and witnessed the same things with Simeon her coming also casually after him removing the suspition of any combination concerning this Heavenly child to all there present nor only to them but to all those pious people in Jerusalem that resorted to her and expected also this Redemption Luk. 2.38 which by her eminent sanctity and her being noted also for the gift of Prophecy must make no small noise in the City after the Magi had spread this news there before by their solicitous inquisition after this new-born King § 81 This that passed so publickly in the Temple after King Herod's long expectation of the return of the Magi supposing them perhaps to have travailed further to see the Country or that disappointed of their expectation out of shame they had secretly with-drawn themselves from a publick derision soon gave him a new alarm and so quickned his bloody intention of destroying the Holy Infant Meanwhile these holy rites devoutly performed and such praises and acclamations received at Jerusalem as were before at Bethleem the Holy Mother treasuring up all these things in her heart and Holy Simeons last words bodeing great afflictions as well as the first returned with her husband S. Joseph the same day to Bethleem For an immediate return of them from Jerusalem to Nazareth which some imagine seems not so well to sute with the following story of their being sent away into Egypt For at Nazareth they being so far removed from Bethleem their stay seems to have been secure enough or their flight from thence would rather have bin directed North-wards to some part of Syria near hand than Southwards into Egypt as beating again the way they came thro all their Country first and flying from Herod just the way toward him § 82 To Bethleem then they returned for ordering some little matters there or also giving their little one some repose but purposing a return to Nazareth with all convenient speed and with great apprehensions of the Consolations they should have in shewing to her parents and kindred her new-born Son and in providing for his better accomodation as also in the recounting to them the many strange things of her journey when behold they had no sooner after a weary journey setled themselves and the Infant to take some rest but that the Angel probably that very night appeared to Joseph and commanded him immediatly to take the young Child and his Mother for so it is observed the Angel in reverence stiles her v. 13. and again v. 20. and not his wife and to secure him by a speedy flight from that place for that Herod sought immediatly to slay him and this a flight not to some neighbouring Village or to his own Country Galilee but quite contrary still removed further from home and friends into Egypt a country of above 200 miles distance through a vast Desart in a cold season with a Child only six weeks old after a wearisome travel of it and them the day before unto a people of another language left also uncertain how long their stay which was to be so long as Herod lived Where what tolerable entertainment could they expect when they had received such mean accomodation among their friends and kindred Such was Gods command to Abraham and his obedience Gen. 12.1 but he much better provided and attended § 83 The Holy Man without replying or disputing why not Galilee thought a place remote enough or why not God take away Herods life to save his Sons He rose immediatly and departed by night without any conscious thereof their poverty being free from encombrances taking Jesus their treasure with him He and the Mother to whom he had communicated the Angels message being perfectly resigned and full of confidence in God and she also instead of disswading animating and hastening him thereto And the same resignation was also in the little Jesus to the will of his Father now engaged in a greater suffering than that of the Straw and Cratch or yesterdaies travel to Jerusalem smiling upon them in the midst of their cares concerning him and already beginning to fulfil the prophecies that were written of him A type of whom was that of Israel called also Gods first-born Exod. 4.22 and of whom he saith Hose 11.1 when Israel was a child then I loved him and called my Son out of Egypt in its first child-hood being by the Divine appointment carried into Egypt for its Education and brought thence with a strong hand after that Pharaoh was destroyed as our Lord was after Herod which Pharaoh also as Herod had appointed that all the Male-children of Israel so soon as born should be slain thinking thus to have destroyed Gods first-born Israel § 84 Our Little Lord rejoyced also at his going now as it were to take possession of his promised Psal 2.8 inheritance of the Gentiles to whom he brought salvation as well as to the Jews And as in Bethleem he had already received the Homage of the East so now he went himself in person to this Southern Region to establish his new Kingdome there where was at that time the very throne and seat of Satan and which was the chief Mother of Idolatry and Superstition in the whole Gentile world and the Source where the rest of the Western and Northern parts learnt and whence they derived it But again which after this gracious visit of his and by his Redemption its being subdued to the Gospel became no less exemplaplary to the rest of the Christian world in an extraordinary Sanctity