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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	child_n	observe_v	parent_n	1,546	5	8.6583	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32780	The commination prescribed in the liturgy of the Church of England vindicated, and recommended to the consideration of all pious Christians in a sermon preached to a countrey audience on the first Sunday in Lent, 1679/80 / by Benjamin Camfeild ...	Camfield, Benjamin, 1638-1693.	1680 (1680)	Wing C377; ESTC R1330	19,289	31

to the Left or another Levite it may be appointed for the Left Cursed is the man that maketh any Graven or Molten Image c. whereto All the People again answer and say Amen Those on Mount Ebel beginning the shout and those on Mount Gerizim following them in the same And then proceeding to the Second Blessed is he that honoureth his Father and Mother whereunto all the People in like manner answer and say Amen And on the otherside Cursed is he that setteth light by his Father or Mother And all the People say Amen And so in Order throughout all the rest 1. Inter Deum hominem 2. inter filium patrem Munster in Loc. The First plainly relates to the leading Duty of man to God which begins the First Table of the Law The Second to that of Children to their Parents which is also the First of the second Table And then we may observe that the Last is general and comprehensive of all together On the one side suppose Blessed is he that confirmeth all the words of this Law to do them and on the other Cursed is he that confirmeth not all the words of this Law to do them And all the People say Amen Which interlocutory service finished between Priest and People the Minister as 't is probable proceeded to repeat all that follows in the 28th Chapter as an agreeable Comment or Illustration upon this Blessing and this Curse which God had caused to be pronounced among them and they by their Amen had consented to the truth and equity of that they might the better understand and consider how much was Comprized under either of them what good things under the Blessing and what evil things under the Curse And it is not unlikely but these Blessings and Curses so distinctly proclaimed by Gods Messenger and attested to by the People were the Summary Epitome or Abstract of that Law which was at this time also engraven upon 12 great Stones very plainly Deuter. 27.8 in perpetuam rei memoriam for a perpetual Remembrance to them all The chief of those Commands which they were obliged unto thus recommended to their careful observance both by the hope of Reward and the fear of punishment But passing by all other observations we have here you see a Form of worship prescribed by Moses to all the People a Form of worship wherein both Priest and People were interchangeably to bear a part and a Form of worship to be observed orderly and uniformly among them And all the People shall answer and say Amen It is well that there was none of the Spirit or Leaven of the Dissentors of our time then among them For they would have said To what purpose is all this Doe about external and bodily worship about the uttering of an Amen about the observing of such Order and Ceremony in it Nay they would have gainsaid and quarell'd at it if upon no other ground yet meerly because commanded as an intolerable imposition upon their liberty and freedom a yoke of bondage Alas It is no engageing now as it was then it seems for all the People that they shall observe any thing prescribed them about the service of God so morose and untractable they are Set them to the Right hand they will take the Left Bid them Kneel or Stand up they will Sit and Loll Bid them Answer to any thing They will be Mutes Bid them say Amen they will rather declare by some or other sign or gesture a dislike of the disaffection to the worship they are present at They are not at all for being bound up to any thing for obliging themselves or paying their homage and devotion to God conceptâ verborum formula in any premeditate Form of words drawn up to their hands But that by the way All I will now further enquire into about the Text shall be concerning the importance and meaning of this word Amen which the People we may presume here uttered with a great deal of Solemnity and reverence as well as understanding and affection As we Read at another time when Ezra Blessed the Lord the Great God All the People answered Amen Amen Ezra 8.6 with lifting up their hands and bowing their heads and worshipping the Lord with their Faces to the Ground And there was a command for that Amen too as well as for this the Amen at the end of their Doxologies See 1 Chron. 16.34 c. Psal 89. ult 106.48 c. 1 Cor. 14.16 Revel 7.12 and praises and prayers which therefore hath been transcribed into the Churches practise ever since Well but what is the proper meaning and interpretation of Amen That is the most needful enquiry for our information In answer to this therefore you must know that it is Originally an Hebrew word though since admitted by use and custom into all Languages made a free denizon as it were in all Countries retain'd in all Tongues and among all People Now in the Hebrew it hath relation unto Truth and so it is used sometimes as a Noun for Truth it self but more usually as an Adverb for Truly in confirmation of Truth 1. It is used as a Noun for Truth Verity Faithfulness So God himself is call'd The Amen we English it the God of Truth Isa 65.16 In Deo Amen i. e. in Deo vero Grot. in Loc. That he who Blesseth himself in the Earth shall Bless himself in the God of Truth and he that Sweareth in the Earth shall Swear by the God of Truth It is in the Hebrew in and by God the Amen He alone is Truth the Very and True God in whose Name we are to Bless and by whose Name we are to Swear And thus in the New Testament Christ being also the True God is in like manner call'd The Amen Rev. 3.14 These things saith the Amen the Faithful and True witness where the Later words explain the Former the Greek pertinently glossing upon the Hebrew as chap. 1.8 I am Alpha and Omega the Beginning and the Ending The Amen that is The Faithful and True witness or as he elsewhere stiles himself The Truth St. John 14.6 And so the word is used too by St. Paul apply'd to the Promises of God through him 2 Cor. 1.20 All the promises of God are in him yea and in him Amen i. e. Truth and Truth most certain perfect and infallible Truth But then 2ly it is most frequently used Adverbially and then as I said the importance of it is Truly or Verily as we often render it And this is the primary signification and use of it as a word of Vehement asseveration or earnest affirming Thus in St. Matthew ch 24 47. Amen I say unto you So it is in the Original We English it Verily But then in St. Luke ch 12.44 where the same thing is repeated the Greek Varies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Truly in Truth or as we there English it Of a Truth I say unto