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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	sound_n	zeal_n	zealous_a	19	3	9.4267	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48431	The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.; Works. 1684	Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.; G. B. (George Bright), d. 1696.; Strype, John, 1643-1737.	1684 (1684)	Wing L2051; ESTC R16617	4,059,437	2,607

stir 3. For a man to fall down before that that he can cast into the fire water dirt and trample under feet and the Image not able to say What doest thou 4. It being in the power of man to make his image in the likeness of man or beast then when it is made to think it hath power over him and he to owe homage and duty and sacrifice and devotion to it So brutish foolish besotted a thing is man when left unto himself and his own wisdom And therefore there was need of such a Commandment against such sottishness and of tyes and terrors added to affrighten men from the folly as there are two you see in the words I have read I. That God proclaims himself a jealous God II. That he professeth he visiteth the fathers upon the children I. It is no wonder God proclaims himself a jealous God in this case when the love service and worship due to him is given to an Idol to a piece of wood or stone silver or gold Conceive in your hearts what jealousie is and you will find it no wonder he is so in this case or indeed in any other where his honour is given away and bestowed upon any creature This title is oft given him in Scripture and if we well consider what jealousie is in man or woman we will read terror in the tittle when God giveth it to himself He professeth it to be his Name Exod. XXXIV 14. The Lord whose name is jealous is a jealous God Read it again and tremble The Lord whose Name is Jealous is a jealous God Moses glosses upon it with a gloss of more terror Deut. IV. 25. The Lord thy God is a consuming fire even a jealous God As if he had said Does any ask what Gods jealousie means It means a consuming fire And so the Prophet Zephany explains it also Chap. I. 18. The whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousie And again Chap III. 8. For all the Earth shall be devoured by the fire of my jealousie What fire was that that devoured Sodom and Gomorrha The fire of Gods jealousie What fire was that that consumed Jerusalem and laid it in ashes Was it the fire the Chaldeans put to it at the first sacking of it and the Romans at the second No it was indeed the fire of Gods jealousie What is that that consumeth ungodly men as stubble that unquenchable fire that devoureth the chaff when God cometh to purge his floor It is the fire of Gods jealousie The Prophet Nahum doth yet clear it further Chap. I. 2. God is jealous and the Lord revengeth the Lord revengeth and is furious the Lord will take vengeance of his adversaries and reserveth wrath for his enemies The rest of the verse is an exposition of the first clause God is jealous What means that And read the first clause in the Text I the Lord thy God am a jealous God What means that An avenging God a God that avengeth in fury that taketh vengeance on his adversaries and reserveth wrath and vengeance in store for his enemies and them that hate him But that we may view Gods jealousie the better and with the more dread and trembling and oh that we could ever feelingly consider that the Lord our God is a jealous God let us first consider the nature of jealousie in men or women and by that arise to apprehend what this jealousie is in God Zealous and jealous are comprehended under one and the same word in the Hebrew Tongue and Zealousness and jealousie are uttered in that Language in the very same syllables 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies both In those allegations out of Zephany The land shall be devoured 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the fire of his jealousie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the fire of my jealousie Now the same word is used elsewhere in a sense most sweet and comfortable That whereas it comes in some places like Elias his fire and earthquake and wind that rent the Rocks in terror and dreadfulness in other places it comes like the still voice in sweetness and comfort In Esa. IX 6 7. Where he is speaking of Christ his Names and Kingdom that he should be called Wonderful Counseller c. And that of the encrease of his government and peace there should be no end upon the throne of David and upon his Kingdom to order and establish it with judgment and justice from henceforth ever for ever he concludes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will perform this And so Esa. XXXVII 32. where he promiseth comfortable things to his distressed people and saith Out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant and concludes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Zeal of the Lord of Hosts shall do this And one for all Esa. LXIII 15. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Where is thy zeal thy strength and the sounding of thy bowels In zeal is a fervent tincture of Love The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up that is the fervent Love I have to thy house And in jealousie is a high tincture of Love And accordingly Love and Jealousie are joyned and made as one thing Cant. VIII 6. In zeal is Love and forwarding that we are zealous of In jealousie Love and anger at that that provokes to jealousie A man is jealous of his wife or the wife of her husband the bottom of it is Love but the top is Anger The bottom Love How It is said that jealousie is too much Love But that rule fails For a man may be jealous of his wife he loves not And yet the bottom of jealousie is love For a man though he love not the person of his wife yet he loves to have the affection of his wife intirely to himself and cannot endure that her affections that are due to him should be given to another but disdains it and is angry at it By this we may conceive of the jealousie of God only adding the observation of that expression that is so frequent viz. Gods complaining that his people went a whoring from him Hos. I. 2. The Land hath committed great whoredom in departing from the Lord and so went a whoring after other Gods God takes it in anger and disdain that men should give away those hearts affections that love and service that is due to God to any thing besides God God doth very oft title the Church of Israel his children and oft his wife that he had married to himself Jer. III. 1. He had taken them for his wife she had played the harlot with many lovers yet if she would return he would take her again So Hos. III. 1. and in divers other places And the expression is very proper for he had forsaken all other Nations and clave only to her I shall not insist to shew how far the parallel fits any Christian Nation that God hath taken more peculiarly to himself by the administration of his Covenant among