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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	aaron_n	anoint_v	priesthood_n	58	3	10.3734	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44513	The crucified Jesus, or, A full account of the nature, end, design and benefits of the sacrament of the Lords Supper with necessary directions, prayers, praises and meditations to be used by persons who come to the Holy Communion / by Anthony Horneck ...	Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697.	1695 (1695)	Wing H2823; ESTC R35435	411,793	617

revenge God's Quarrel against the Idolaters of the Golden Calf and to give themselves to that peculiar and extraordinary Service and express their Zeal for God's Glory beyond all other People 2. Things And these are said to be consecrated when they are set apart to be used in an holy Place for religious Purposes as the Silver and Gold and Vessels of Brass and Iron the Israelites should find in Jericho are commanded to be consecrated to the Lord Josh. 6. 19. i. e. They shall be brought into the Tabernacle or place of publick Worship and there used in Divine Service and no where else 3. Times and Days Of this sort were the Festivals of the Jews which were set apart for publick Meetings to worship God and to perform the Duties requisite and the Offices of the publick Liturgy Ezra 3. 5. 4. Places And such we find often set apart for God's publick and private Worship as Jacob did Bethel Gen. 28. 18 19 22. And Solomon and the Children of Israel dedicated the House of the Lord 1 King 8. 63. i. e. They did solemnly set that House which Solomon had built apart for celebrating the publick Worship of God in that place II. Nor is the Conseration of a Thing a bare Setting it apart for an holy Use but it imports also to do this with suitable Rites and Ceremonies particularly with Prayer and Praises Which external Performance may influence the Senses of Spectators and cause greater Veneration and Reverence So the Temple of Solomon was consecrated with Thanksgivings and Supplications and offering Sacrifices 1 Kings 8. 22 62 63. And the Seventy Elders Numb 11. 17. were consecrated by Imposition of Hands as Ministers are ordain'd at this day and Mai●onides adds with a solemn Song or Hymn and these words I lay my Hands upon thee and be thou therefore ordained to this Office or Dignity or Imployment Aaron's Sons were in like manner consecrated by being anointed with Holy Oil the Ingredients of which we have exactly set down Exod. 30. 30 34 35. And this Way of Consecrating we find imitated and transcribed by the Heathen Nations who did run out into strange Superstitions and extravagant Ceremonies in their Consecrations of Things as Dan. 2. 5. where Nebuchadnezzar's Golden Image being to be consecrated all Persons great and low are ordered to appear at the Sound of the Cornet Flute Harp Sackbut Psaltery Dulcimer and all kinds of Musick c. And these exorbitant Ceremonies in Consecrations of Things are very much kept up in the Roman Church which seems to have transcribed Heathenism into Christianity Indeed Prayer and Thanksgiving were the most ancient Concomitants of Consecration And these Constantine used at the Dedication of Constantinople having sent for this purpose to the Fathers of the Nicene Council to assist at the Solemnity And having built a stately Church at Jerusalem and adorn'd it with Gold Silver and Precious Stones the Bishops assembled in the Council of Tyre were called in by Supplications and Psalms to consecrate the Building or to set it apart for a standing Place of Publick Devotion III. All the Vertue that can be supposed to be in Consecration may be reduced to these three Particulars 1. The Thing consecrated puts us in mind of something great sublime and magnificent such as God is or something which is nearly related to him And so much we may guess from the Consecration of Aaron and his Sons the History of which we have set down at large Exod. 29. There was scarce a Ceremony used about them in their Consecration but was and may be referred to some higher Thing They were to be wash'd with Water which was to put them in mind of the Purity and Innocence that was to attend their Lives and Profession Their rich Coat they were to wear suggested to them their Fruitfulness in all good Works The Breast-plate and Ephod that were put upon them signified their Spiritual Knowledge and Sincerity The curious Girdle about them was an Emblem of that Truth and Veracity they were to study The Bonnets upon their Heads represented the Graces of God's Spirit they were to be adorn'd with The Mitre and the Crown upon Aaron's Head prefigured the Royal Priesthood of the Son of God which was to appear in the World The Anointing Oyl that was to be poured out upon him and his Sons told them that they must be Spiritual Men and mind the Things of the Spirit and that in their Consecration they were to lay their Hands upon the Head of the Bullock and the Ram that were to be offered shewed that though they were exalted above other Men yet they were sinful Men had need of Confession and Deprecation of God's Judgments due to them for their Sins For in laying their Hands upon those Beasts they laid as it were their Sins upon them and that Death and Misery themselves have deserved And the same may be said of the Elements of Bread and Wine when they are consecrated in the Eucharist The Consecration puts us in mind of higher Things than Bread and Wine and suggests to us something more noble and more glorious which we are to fix our Thoughts upon 2. Consecration directs to a greater Esteem and Veneration of the Consecrated Thing Not an Esteem which proceeds to Adoration for that would make it Idolatry but such an Esteem whereby we raise our Thoughts and have no such mean and low Conceits about the Thing as before we had when it was not yet set apart for an holy Use but look upon it as representative of something more valuable And therefore Belshazzar and his Nobles incurred the Displeasure of God because they look'd upon the Vessels of the Sanctuary as common Utensils Dan. 5. 1 2 3. And thus it is in the Holy Sacrament After Consecration the Elements require an higher Esteem than before they being now no more common Bread and Wine but representative of the highest and most spiritual Food imaginable 3. Consecration commands a very serious Use of the Consecrated Thing and at the same time forbids all Lightness Frothiness Inattentiveness and Careless Thoughts And this seems to be a Principle of all Civiliz'd Nations in the World who have in all Ages required greater Devotion in the Temple than in the Market-place And the ancient Idolaters that worshipped their Gods in Groves intimated no less since those Groves caused a kind of Darkness which Darkness they thought might over-awe the Worshipper into greater Seriousness and Devotion And the same may be applied to the Eucharist The Elements being consecrated the Consecration ought to infuse very serious Thoughts into our Minds call them away from the World and meaner Objects and prompt us to devout Ejaculations to a severe Attention and to a suitable Admiration of the Bounty Wisdom and Goodness of God who appears to us in this Sacrament with all the Charms that make Souls in love with Holiness And all this is but suitable to the End of our coming to this