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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	ghost_n	holy_a	john_n	17,081	5	6.2026	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48310	Memoranda : touching the oath ex officio, pretended self-accusation, and canonical purgation together with some notes about the making of some new, and alteration and explanation of some old laws, all most humbly submitted to the consideration of this Parliament / by Edw. Lake ...	Lake, Edward, Sir, 1596 or 7-1674.	1662 (1662)	Wing L188; ESTC R14261	107,287	162

to do all to the glory of God so it belongeth to the glory of God for a man by due presumptions burdned with a crime and charged by the Magistrate to confess of himself as appeareth by the history of Achan The lot fell upon him but this was but an inducement to ground a special Inquisition against him if hereupon he might have been executed Joshua needed not to have required any further confession of him Lev. 5.1 but he goes further with a most solemn Adjuration in those dayes used for an oath the Hebrew word signisying both and being translated sometimes juramentum and sometimes adjuratio Josh 7.9 Son give glory to the Lord God of Israel c. albeit the punishment was capital Ezra 10. ● Ezra adjured the Chief Priests c. Calvin in his Institutions gathereth that Achan took an oath When a man is found secretly murdered in the field and the murder is not known nor suspected yet all the Elders of the next City thereunto should use certain Ceremonies and then swear Deut. 21. That their hands have not shed this bloud nor their eyes have seen him that shed it In Leviticus a certain Sacrifice is to be made for certain sins amongst which this is one as Arias Montanus translates it out of the Hebrew Levit. 5.1 If a soul or a man shall have sinned and have heard the voice of 〈◊〉 Adjuration or Oath c. That which is here said if he ha●… heard the voice of an Oath the Geneva Translation offereth it thus in the Margin as if it were nearer to the Hebrew ●…en the other in that Text viz. If the judge hath taken an 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 other When a man delivers money or stuff on trust Exod. 22. to be kept by his neighbour if it happen to be imbezelled away and the thief be not certainly known or found by the Law of God he must take a necessary oath of purgation and enquiry The same also is a little after established by God touching any quick goods happening to be left in deposito A sacrifice of Atonement for such a sin of Perjury is prescribed Ibid. v. 10. If any do sin saith the Lord and deny unto his neighbour c. Num. 5.14 If a man be moved with a jealous mind against his wife she is not onely to be charged with an oath but to have further tryal to drink the bitter waters J●r 38 14. When the Prophet Jeremy was charged by the King in a generality to answer that which he would aske him the Prophet promiseth so it should not be capital to him he would answer it Whether upon oath or not oath for before God 't is the same no doubt he answered the truth a Jer. 37.13 The same Prophet when he was charged with a particular high crime refused not to answer or bid them prove it but roundly answers it b 2 Kings 5. So Elisha examineth Gehaz● his servant c Gen 43.3 Joseph in Aegypt gave an oath to his brethren d Ezek. 7.13 Zedckiah took an oath of Subjection and is blamed and punished for breaking of it e 1 Sam. 21.2 The oath given to the Gibeonites was to be kept and the violation of it punished For the manner of proceeding or the cause of questioning we see many instances First in flagranti crimine * John 8.4 if a party be taken in the manner as we say or the fact is manifest as f Num. 25 8 Zimri's was g Deut. 21.1 Or though the fact be manifest the person committing it is unknown or the question is of the person the fact being unknown as in h John 7.18 Achans case Or by indicia suspected signs so i Gen. 3.8 Adam hiding himself So against k Gen 4.6 Cain Abel not appearing Adam impeacht Eve and Eve the Serpent and both were punished upon it Or upon infamy and cry l Gen. 18.20 The cry of the Sodomites being great I will descend saith the Lord. And such kind of Enquiries are made both in the Law m Deut. 17.4 If a report shall come to thee or thou shalt hear as also in the Gospel as against the incestuous person n 1 Cor. 5.1 It is reported Or by suggestion or complaint as in o Job ● 11 Jobs cause where the Devil was Accuser Joseph onely upon suspicion gave his brothers the oath Evangelical denunciation as Mat. 18.7 when Church or State are in danger as in the Valley of Achor that is against the troublers of Israel so signifies the word Achor When Peter and John were examined in the great Council Acts 4.7 By what power or in what name they had done that miracle Peter full of the Holy Ghost answered plainly and truly though it might have been capital to him What spirit are they of who being required by lawful Authority to answer in matters not capital yet will not answer at all for upon a mans own confession judicial though not upon oath he may be equally convicted Acts 6. In the proceedings against St. Stephen there were no Accusers in truth but those who by Subornation denounced him to the Priests and who are twice-called witnesses because they deposed against him yet he refused not to make answer though capital to him Acts 22. When the Captain asked St. Paul whether he were not that Aegyptian that made a Sedition c. he answered directly and denied it Likewise the same Saint Paul in all other his conventings before Authority mentioned in the Acts Acts 4.25 c. even at the suit and accusation of a party refused not particularly and truly to answer to all that was objected And all this is done to the sifting out truth and punishing crimes either truly so or at least thought to be so and criminous persons are questioned as well of the fact as circumstances or fame a Gen 3.9 Hast thou eaten of the fruit of the forbidden tree So the Princes questioned Baruch about Jeremiahs book b Jer. 26.17 Tell us how didst thou write these words So c Ezra 10.11 Esras examined the questioned persons concerning their own fact So the d Acts 23.20 High-Priest having committed Saint Paul examined him further for oftentimes Accusers as the Heathen could observe fall off all cannot some will not accuse what then many crimes being the deeds of darknesse cannot be e Eph. 5.11 revealed f Prov. 16.5 Because hand is in hand and they will not bewray themselves Because the name of Doeg sounds harsh and to come forth to accuse a man is accounted poor and odious a matter of cost danger and g Prov. 25.8 Infamy must Villany therefore be hid and scattered abroad and get strength till they break out to the destruction of the Commonwealth Or because none can or will for 't is all one whether one will not accuse or cannot accuse therefore it is