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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
tradition_n	holy_a	know_v	scripture_n	1,758	5	5.8907	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41434	The two great mysteries of Christian religion the ineffable Trinity, [the] vvonderful incarnation, explicated to the satisfaction of mans own naturall reason, and according to the grounds of philosophy / by G. G. G.	Goodman, Godfrey, 1583-1656.	1653 (1653)	Wing G1103; ESTC R4826	120,015	119

his body should be carried out of Egypt as it were going to Jerusalem in Pilgrimage there to meet Christ at his coming And not to trouble my self with so many testimonies all which do sufficiently prove the truth of Christs coming and that Christ must needs be the Son of God which presupposeth the great mysterie of the Trinity take one instance for all When God did deliver his people out of Egypt with so many wonders and miracles and that he gave the Law and used the ministry of Angels yet notwithstanding at that time Moses out of the certainty of his hope should use these words Mitte quem missurus es Lord use no such preparation but send him whom thou art about to send that is send thine own son immediately for he must needs be the Son of God for he must be greater then Moses greater then the Angels who were then imployed greater then all the commands of God which were then to be delivered to his people and his work and imployment must be greater then their deliverance from Egypt and therefore it must be a freedom and liberty from the captivity of sin hell and damnation and the conducting of us to that heavenly Jerusalem the true land of promise which is a work and imployment only fit for the Deity Many other types might be produced Suppose the three Children in the fire all praising God with one voyce see how three do concurre in one and that the fire did not hurt them as the fire did not burn the bramble bush wherein God appeared to Moses they saw one among them like the Son of God so here is not only an acknowledgement of the Son but as if they had known him by his face and countenance that he was the Son of God What shall we bring further instances when it is most certain that the whole scope and intent of the Law tends only to Christ and therefore must undoubtedly assure us that he could be no less then God for if we should think that God would rest satisfied with the slaughter of unreasonable creatures we must thinke it to be a very unreasonable service and we cannot imagine that Gods service should be directed to any other end but himself which must inforce the Deity of Christ. But further you shall observe that whereas the form of our Baptisme is That we are Baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost and that the matter of our Baptisme is water and therein we make a profession of the Trinity certainly the Jews had a tradition that the Messias should institute Baptisme in this manner for whereas there is no such thing written in Scripture yet the Priests and the Levites did send to Saint John Baptist to know whether he were the M●…ssias or not and if he were not then why he did Baptize In token and memory hereof some there were who kept watering pots after the manner of the Jews S. John 20. And this was done likewise by tradition for they had no warrant in Scripture Joh. 5. To the message of the Priests and to the common custom of Jews give me leave to adde that miraculous pool of Bethesda John the 5th where the Angell came down at a certain season and moved the waters and such as took the first opportunity to be let into the water were cured of all their diseases this first letting down did only betoken their watchfulness their zeale their strength of Faith and how the endeavours of men must concurre cooperate and correspond with Gods goodness and providence Here then we have the matter of Baptisme the element of water severall times intimated shall we then think that the Jews were utterly ignorant of the form which is no lesse then the profession or acknowledgement of the blessed Trinity Certainly as they had types and figures of the one so they might have an obscure knowledge of the other and this I do rather beleive because at the Baptism of Christ when the three Persons did so manifestly discover themselves for there was vox Patris This is my well beloved Son there was the Person of the Son and there was the holy Ghost in the form of a Dove yet we do not read that this seemed any way new or strange to Saint John Baptist who certainly if he had been utterly ignorant would have been strangely strucken with astonishment and admiration of this so great a mysterie then revealed but Saint John not contenting himself with that present mysterie taking it as granted he points out a further mysterie when this Son of God should become the Lamb of God and be made a sacrifice to satisfie for the sins of the whole world Ecce agnus dei qui tollit peccata mundi Now it is not credible that the Jews should have so many tokens and such use of the element of waters as the matter of Baptisme and should be utterly ignorant without any the least intimation or notice of the form of Baptisme which is the profession of the Trinity and to conclude how often do we read in Scripture Verbum Domini venit ad prophetas spiritus Domini replevit orbem terrarum which very Phrases seem to imply Pers●…ns in the Deity I will yet further proceed certainly at the time of their sacrifice they did use prayers onely to that effect That God would send down his Son for the redemption of the world for in Scripture there is no mention made what prayers they used in the time of sacrifice but it is hence gathered Luk. 1. when Zachary was sacrificing The Angel said unto him Thy prayers are heard but what these prayers were did not yet appear m●…rk then by the successe and so you shall know the effect of his and their prayers which was that the Angel Gabriel told him that he should have a Son who should be the forerunner to the Messias who was the expectation of Nations and the same Angel a little after carried another message to the blessed Virgin for her conception of Christ so then here was the effect of their prayers at the time of their sacrifice That God would has●…en his own coming and no longer feed them with types But it doth most especially appear in the cessation of the Law which falling out at the coming of Christ it must needs argue that Christ could be no less then the end of the Law and therefore God for you shall understand that about a full age before the birth of Christ there was a cessation of Prophets and God sent no message to his people As when the Sun ariseth the Stars are obscured So lest the Jews might take any of Gods messengers for the Messias the time now approaching for his coming therefore God sent no messengers untill at length Zachary at the time of his sacrifice was strucken dumb and so continued untill the Birth of his Son to whom he gave the