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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	aaron_n	fruit_n	rod_n	20	3	8.8911	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61104	Chrysomeson, a golden meane, or, A middle way for Christians to walk by wherein all seekers of truth and shakers in the faith may find the true religion independing upon mans invention, and be established therein : intended as a key to Christianity, as a touchstone for a traveller, as a probe for a Protestant, as a sea-mark for a sailor : in a Christian dialogue between Philalethes and his friend Mathetes, seeking satisfaction / by Benjamin Spencer ...; Way to everlasting happinesse	Spencer, Benjamin, b. 1595?	1659 (1659)	Wing S4944; ESTC R13439	363,024	312

broken and his blood shed though the Papists love to call it so the more easily to make people beleeve that Christs very flesh is there present The bread for number being twelve great cakes Tremelius on the Ephab Exod. 16.36 and in respect of their order being six in a rank one against the other seemeth to represent Christs twelve disciples whom he sent out two by two This order of setting them is found by the Hebrew word Grerec which signifieth the order of martiall ranks So these being preserved for the Priests eating it sheweth 1. Who hath right to the holy bread of the Lords Table even such as are called to be holy Priests to God as none might eat of these but the Priests only It is true that David and his men did so but it was in case of great necessity wherein charity dispensed with the Law and in some cases the Communion cannot be denied to some not prepared according to the strict order of the Sanctuary as Judas was not and yet received the holy Supper yet examples are no rules when they vary from common Law Also it sheweth that God will provide for those that serve at his Altar and Table in despight of the envious world Psal 23. 1 Cor. The frank incense which with the bread was taken off and was offered to God signified the thanksgiving which we are to offer to God for all his benefits Hieron in Eccl. especially for feeding us by his Word and Sacraments for which our praier should be directed like incense Psal 142.2 Mathe. What means the seven fold golden Candlestick Phila. No doubt Christ and his Church and that in respect of the matter form and use of the Candlestick 1. In regard of the matter it was beaten gold The gold sheweth the pretiousnesse of Christ and the Church both of one mettall Heb. 2.11 The form shewed also Christ to be the middle and chiefest shaft or stock into the which the rest are ingraffed for he is the Vine and the Church are his branches This Candlestick was beaten out by the hammer Haym in Rev. 11. so was Christ and his Church by divers strokes God smit the Shepherd and the world scattered the flock by persecution Or if this hammer be taken in a good sense it signifieth the Scripture which is Gods hammer saith the Prophet to which Christ was conformed Psal 22. and by which the Church is and must be framed by Christs ministers as this Candlestick was by Bezaleel and Aholiab Exod. 31. driven out to and fro till she hath attained her perfection in Christs juncture as the children of Israel was in the wildernesse driven up and down to 42. stations and the Church from Abraham to Christ Mat. 1. was through forty two generations the true number of the Bowls Knops and Flowers of this Candlestick Exod. 25. The use of this Candlestick was to support the lamps of oile-Olive to give light clearly and continually Greg. Mor. lib. 18. cap. 32. This light signified Christ who is the true light that enlightneth every man Joh. 1.14 and also Christs true disciples who are the light of the world Mat. 5.14 Christ is the light enlightning his disciples the light enlightned These lamps may also signifie the word which St Peter calleth a light set in a dark place 2 Pet. 1.19 which word of prophecie is neither legall or evangelicall which two like two olive trees seen of Zachary cap. 4. feeds these lamps with oile Mathe. What were the adjuncts of the most holy place Phila. You know that I told you before that this most holy place signified the heavens the adjuncts were the Ark and the golden Censer The Ark was made of Shittim wood overlaied within and without with gold In this Ark were put the tables of the Law and so might well type forth the glorious humane nature of Christ Bed de Taber in whom was hidden all the treasures of wisedome Col. 2.3 And he indeed did only keep the Law of God entire The cover of this Ark was called by the Septuagint in their translation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The reconciliation and so St Paul useth their Greek word Rom. 3.25 But in Heb. 9.5 this cover is called the Mercy Seat This may well signifie Christ also whom God hath set forth to be our reconciliation Greg. Mag. in Ezek. lib. 1. hom 6. who covereth all our sins committed against the holy Tables by his glorious merits and all our sins by his love and so make us a blessed people Psal 32.1 This mercy seat was shadowed by two golden Cherubins with stretched out wings and from one end to the other and their faces bending downward as looking into the Ark as desirous to behold the great mystery of mans redemption signified hereby 1 Pet. 1.12 Here God promised to make declaration of his mind to Aaron Exod. 25.22 and we can have no comfortable answer nor apparition of God but by Christ the mercy seat Two other things were set by this Ark of Testimony or before it namely Aarons rod that budded to convince the peoples rebellion against him Numb 16.17 Isa 53.2 This rod might as it was a dry stick signifie Christ who though he seemed as contemptible Orig. in Ex. c. 25. yet brought miraculous fruits to mankind enough to prove that he was chosen of God though rejected of men As also the flourishing fruit of the Gospels discipline in the hearts of men by Gods powerfull blessing though the ministry seems to the world as foolishnesse Bed yet it shall prove as the scepter of Christ The reservation of this rod of Aaron shewed that the ministry of Christ our High Priest will ever and anon be quarrelled against by those who shal think themselves holy enough for the ministry til God stop their murmurings by some extraordinary work and shall cast away the rod of their presumption as things of no value as he hath done that of Rome and many other Hereticks and Sectaries making the true ministry of the Gospell flourish above all as he hath done the Protestant Religion in the hearts of people beyond all the feined miracles of Rome which is the right Epistle of recommendation to the truth preached 2 Cor. 3.2 3. Thus Aarons rod signified Christ and Gospell-ministry First Christ who seemed in the promise but a dry stick but in the Prophets as this rod blossoming but in the Gospell as this rod bringing forth ripe fruit Secondly the Ministry of the Gospell in doctrine and discipline First in discipline as 1 Cor. 4.21 shall I come to you with a rod. Secondly in the doctrin which at first worketh on the affections invisibly next in the tongue it blossomes by good words and lastly in the life by laudable deeds As for the pot of manna which was here reserved it shewed not only how God had fed their fathers in the wildernesse and so stirred them up to thankfulnesse but was