Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	london_n	parliament_n	print_v	3,116	5	9.0916	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67194	Bereshit, the creation of the world being an exposition on the Hebrew in the first chapter of Genesis, as it was delivered at Sir Balthazar Gerbiers academy in White Fryers : the first oration, concerning the first dayes work / by Henry Walker ...	Walker, Henry, Ironmonger.	1649 (1649)	Wing W374; ESTC R39414	13,969	31

בראשית א THE Creation of the world BEING An Exposition on the Hebrew in the first Chapter of Genesis As it was Delivered at Sir Balthazar Gerbiers Academy in White Fryers BY HENRY WALKER Minister of Gods Word at Knightsbridge and formerly Student of Queens Colledge in Cambridge The first Oration Concerning the First Dayes WORK Imprimatur Hen Scobell Cleric Parliamenti Printed at London for Robert Ibbitson dwelling Smithfield neer Hosier Lane 1649. To the Right High and Supreame Power of this Nation the Parliament of England And in particular to the Right Honourable William Lenthall Esquire Speaker and to every individuall Member thereof Right High and Honourable UPon the clear demonstrations of the Right Worshipfull Sir Balthazar Gerbier his admired love to this Commonwealth to make it as happy in a gallant Academy as other Nations I was easily perswaded to offer there this small talent of my truest and dearest affections towards the erecting of so stately a Fabrick And here now it prostrates it self at your feet Me thinks Englands Reformation at this time resembles much the world in the first daies Creation here is a new forme of a Commonwealth by the Providence of God moulded which is hoped to be the beginning of a new heaven and a new earth The ornaments of this State are not yet beautified in perfection nor have all men prowesse to enjoy this glory yet because a great darknesse is still spread over England But were not men infatuated they would see and acknowledge that glorious worke which God hath put into your hands And how wonderfully the spirit of God which moved on the face of the waters hath supported you and wrought by you The Lord go on still with you untill he hath compleated his own work to his eternall glory and praise And as by many Acts so by your late Resolutions to furnish all parts in this Nation with able and godly Ministers to preach Jesus Christ a glorious light it is hoped is breaking forth as to settle so to enlighten and refresh the soules of Gods people and to divide between light and darknesse which is the first great work of Reformation wherein goe on and the Lord prosper you Yet in the middest of your great presents of State be pleased Right Honourable to accept this seasonable New years gift humbly tendred from though a mean hand yet a cordiall heart by him who can think himselfe happy in no enjoyment but what is sweetned by your prosperity in the great and glorious workes of God and is Your most reall servant in the Lord Jesus HENRY WALKER THE Creation of the VVORLD BEING An Exposition on the Hebrew in Genesis the first Chapter The first Oration concerning the first Dayes Work Right Honourable and the rest Lovers of Vertue MOses begins the History of the first dayes work of the Worlds Creation thus {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} bereshith bara elohim eth hashshamajim veeth haarets Genesis 1.1 In which he shews how the visible world sprung from the outflowne divine power And Montanus translates it thus In principio creavit Deus Coelos terram And it is rendered in our English Bible as followeth In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth But I will God inabling mee explaine every word in order clearly to your understandings The Lord give a blessing to it {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} reshith beginning is a noune derivative of {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} raash to cause beginning or first and from thence takes its signification and it is of the feminine gender to shew its naturall production of what God from all eternity hath appointed it And here being no emphaticall {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} h for its prefix it is not properly to be translated in the beginning but in beginning and it teacheth us that the first of all things out of God hath beginning God and only God is from eternity {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} b the prefix signifies in by which we may learn That all Gods decrees are accomplished in his own time {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} bara he created It is the root it self it signifies to make of nothing which is proper only to God All Artists are said to make according to their severall works but God alone createth Some of the Hebrew Rabbins have delivered their opinions that the severall Letters of these two first words בראשית ברא being summed up in figures did presage the time to be in how many years after he creation of the world the Messias was to come as thus א ב ר ש ת י M. MM. CC. CCC CCCC X. 1000. 2000. 200. 300. 400. 10. 〈…〉 to 3910. And about that time it was that Christ came {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} elohim God is Noune derivative of the Masculine Gender and plurall number for {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} eloahh is the singular But there is a great controversie of what root it is derived Some are of opinion that it is of {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} ajal to strengthen and so it signifies Gods omnipotency but from thence he is called {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} el God omnipotent Others say it comes of {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} ala to curse and so it signifies Gods wrath And I confesse it is under this root in the Lexicons yet under favour we finde it a name sweet to the remembrance of Gods people as oh my God our God is frequent in Scripture the joyfull expressions of Gods people where this word is found It takes part with both these and so is the name of God as he is omnipotent to defend his people and as he is a consuming fire to destroy his enemies And though it is a noune of the plurall number and joyned with a Verbe of the singular number as if you would say Dii Creavit an unusual phrase in Latine yet it proves clearly that the world was created by the Trinity in unity And that the Eternall Immence Incomprehensible unity manifesteth it self in it selfe from eternity in eternity by the Trinity and is Father Son and Holy Ghost in a threefold working And that the Father by the Son with the Holy Ghost in unity created the Heavens and the Earth and all the Hoasts of them {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} eth is onely a signe that the word ●●●ing is to follow the Verbe in the Accusative case but its selfe ●●●nifies nothing at all {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} shamajim heaven is a Noune derivatives of the duall number and there are very great disputes from whence this word should be derived Some say it comes from {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} majim which signifies waters taking {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} sh for its prefix which signifies which as if one should say that by