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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	aaron_n	beard_n	ointment_n	69	3	10.0573	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63066	A commentary or exposition upon the books of Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job and Psalms wherein the text is explained, some controversies are discussed ... : in all which divers other texts of scripture, which occasionally occurre, are fully opened ... / by John Trapp ...	Trapp, John, 1601-1669.	1657 (1657)	Wing T2041; ESTC R34663	1,465,650	939

my rest for ever It was so because God was pleased to make it so hee rested in his love hee would seek no further Zeph. 3.17 For I have desired it This alone made the difference as it a so did betwixt Aarons rod and the rest that were laid with it Vers 15 I will abundantly bless her provision Her stock and her store Vi●tico ejus affatim benedicam T●em so that she shall not want necessaries which yet shee shall hunt for that is labour for as the Hebrew word importeth and know how shee comes by therefore it is added I will satisfie her poor with bread Dainties I will not promise them a sufficiency but not a superfluity poor they may be but not destitute bread they shall have and of that Gods plenty as they say enough to bring them to their Fathers house where is bread enough Let not therefore the poor Israelite fear to bring his offerings or to disfurnish himself for Gods worship c. Vers 16 I will also cloath her Priests c. So that they shall save themselves and those that hear them 1 Tim. 4.16 Thus God answereth his peoples prayers both for temporalls and spiritualls See vers 9. and that with an overplus of comfort they shall shout aloud Vers 17 There will make the horn of David to bud A metaphor from those living creatures quorum ramosa sunt cornua which have snags in their heads as Deer have which are unto them in stead of boughs For horn some read beam of David confer Luk. 1.78 I have ordained a Lamp i. e. A successor cui lampada tradat and that a glorious one at length Christ who is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Light essentiall Joh. 12.46 Of Ascanius the son of Aeneas and likewise of Tullus Hostilius it is storied that light flames were seen about their heads when they lay in their cradles and that thereby was foresignified that they should bee Kings Vers 18 His enemies will I cloath with shame Shame shall bee the promotion of all such fools as set against Christ and his people yea they shall bee cloathed with it so that it shall bee conspicuous to all men But upon himself shall his Crown flourish His royall Diadem Nezer whereby hee is separated and distinguished from other men Alexander dropt his Diadem once into the water and because hee who fet it out put it on his own head whiles hee swam out with it hee cut off his head Our Edward the fourth hanged one for saying hee would make his Son owner of the Crown though hee only meant his own house having a Crown for the sign in Cheapside PSAL. CXXXIII VErs 1 Behold how good and how pleasant it is This David is thought to have said to the people when after eight years unnaturall war they came together to Hebron to anoint him King over all Israel 2 Sam. 5. Behold bee affected with that happiness of yours which no tongue can utter Accipe quod sentitur antequam discitur as Cyprian saith in another case How good and how pleasant Precious and profitable sweet and delectable 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dainty and goodly as Rev. 18.14 Communion of Saints is the next happiness upon earth to communion with God For Brethren Whether by Place Race or Grace which last is the strongest tye and should cause such an harmony of hearts as might resemble that concord and concent that shall bee in Heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●thenaeus ●● 3. The Th●bans in their armies had a band of men they called The holy Band consisting of such only as were joyned together in the bonds of love as would live and dye together these they made great account of and esteemed the strength of their armies To dwell together Heb. Even together that is even as God dwelleth with them Psal 132. to bee kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love Rom. 12.10 to bee as those Primitive Christians were Act. 2. of one heart and of one soul The number of two hath by the Heathens been accounted accursed because it was the first that departed from Unity Vers 2 It is like the precious ointment This similitude setteth forth the pleasure and amaenity of it as the other from the dew the profit and commodity Sic miscuit utile dulci. This ointment was most rich as made up of the chiefest spices Exod 30. and very fragrant refreshing the senses not of Aaron only but of all about him ●al 5. so doth Christian unity and amity that fruit of the Spirit far beyond that common friendship so highly extolled by Cicero and other Heathens and is therefore here fitly compared to that Non-such odoriferous ointment Upon the head that ran down upon the beard So the Spirit of grace that oil of gladnesse Psal 45.7 poured out abundantly even to a redundancy upon Christ the head runneth down upon all the members of his body mysticall even to the meanest so that they have grace for grace Vers 3 As the dew of Hermon Moisteneth and maketh fertil the Country of Bashan Hermon is a very high hill ever covered with snow whence ariseth a perpetuall vapour the originall and fountain of dew to all Jury And as the dew that descended The spirituall dew dispensed from God in Sion where hee is sincerely served For there the Lord commanded the blessing A powerfull expression highly commending brotherly love as a complexive blessing and such as accompanieth salvation PSAL. CXXXIV VErs 1 Behold bless yee the Lord This short Psalm the last of the fifteen Graduals is br●ve Sacerdotum speculum saith an Expositour a mirrour for Ministers who are first excited by a Behold as by the sounding of a trumpet or the ringing of a Sermon-bell And secondly exhorted to praise God and to pray unto him whereunto if wee adde their teaching of Jacob Gods Judgements whereof Moses mindeth them Deut. 33.10 what more can bee required of Archippus to the fulfilling of his ministry and if hee bee slack hee must bee told of it Col. 4.17 yet with all due respect and reverence to his office 1 Tim. 5.1 And it were fat better if they would rouse up themselves with the wakefull Cock and not keep sleepy centry in the Sanctuary All yee Servants of the Lord Yee Priests and Levites who are Gods Servants but of a more than ordinary alloy servants of noblest imployment about him Such are all faithfull Ministers each of them may say with Paul Act. 27.23 whose I am and whom I serve Which by night stand in the house of the Lord Keeping watch and ward there in your turns Num. 58.1 2 c. 1 Chron. 9.33 The Rabbins say that the High-Priest only sat in the Sanctuary as did Eli 1 Sam. 1. the rest stood as ready prest to do their office Vers 2 Lift up your hands in the Sanctuary Or Lift up holy hands as 1 Tim. 2.8 One readeth it out of the Hebrew Lift up your hands Sanctuary that is ye