Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	bread_n	lord_n	wine_n	3,679	5	7.3104	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70514	A theological systeme upon the presupposition, that men were before Adam the first part.; Systerna theologicum ex praeadamitarum hypothesi. English	La Peyrère, Isaac de, 1594-1676.	1655 (1655)	Wing L427; ESTC R7377	191,723	375

directly set down There has not been nor shall be so long a day Than which there is nothing more expresse nothing more clear And we should sayes he makes the holy Scripture a liar a thing horrid and not to be thought of if that were true which the Mathematician did demonstrate and therefore that Princes did very well who did banish Mathematicians out of Christendom My little Priest says the Mathematician be not so fierce Your zeal carries you beyond your wit For both the word of God is true and that Mathematical demonstration is likewise true It is true that neither before that time nor since could there be so long a day in Gabaon as there was by the command of Ioshua But extend not that miracle and that length of day beyond Gabaon to Neighbouring Nations For it is true nor can there be any thing more true that in those Countries which are near the poles those days are and shall always be longer than that day in which according to the command of Joshua the Sun made not hast to goe down upon Gabaon for the space of one whole day and one was made as two For they are really days under the pole not of two days but of a hundred and eighty two days and more which the Mathematician by irrefragable arguments made clear But the Divine being here baffled did wrangle to no purpose But that our speech may return whence it begun The miracle of Joshua must in effect not be placed in heaven but upon the earth nor upon all the earth neither but only in the Country of Gabaon In which there never was before nor shall be after so long a day for that could not be made good every wher else There will not be wanting men of ill conceits who will either render me suspitious as having an ill opinion of the faith in miracles or think me mad or desperately bold that I depart so far and wide from the received opinion who undoubtedly believe that the Sun upon the command of Joshua stood still in heaven as they also think that in the recovery of Eze. it went back They will detract from my conjectures defame them as rising from bad Principles that wil offer to overcloud the Scripture where it seems to speak so clearly saying that in the miracle of Ioshua It stood still in the midst of heaven and upon the prayer of Isaiah it returned ten lines Such men as these think all things that people wil not believe Religion Divinity miracles with them have the greater repute of sanctity the more incredible they are and which is a strange thing the more they are past belief the more they believe them I Ingenuously confesse I doe not give in my name amongst those enormous upholders of miracles who put all reason out of square I am reasonable and any thing that is belonging to reason I pretend an interest in it I believe those miracles of Iosua and Isaiah and doe very much magnifie God in them but think them not greater than they were nor as is agreeable to reason therefore I have contained them within their own limits And I beseech the Reader will not be so rash in his judgement concerning those those things which I have here written For I have written far from any ambition not to triumph over mens common errors but to search them out for the love which I bear to truth and whosoever is a friend to reason and truth let him judge of my observations CHAP. VI. Where the miracle is of the Iews garments not worn out in the Wildernesse and the not wearing of their shooes SUch another wonder that is thought indeed not a miracle which is read in the 29 Chapter of Deuteronomie where Moses rehearses this miracle and bounty of God to the Jews The Lord says he led you forty years through the Desart Thy clothes were not worn nor thy shoes wax'd not old It is cōmonly thought that the clothes of the Israelites therefore were not worn out because God had made their clothes incorruptible as also one occult facultie of growing bigger that the clothes which the Israelites put on so soon as they grew they grew likewise which they also wore Concerning their shooes that could not be spent nor grow old and so soon as they put shooes upon their childrens feet as the childrens feet grew so the shooes grew likewise This they believe because they consider not that the force of this miracle was nor placed in those idle fancies and childish stories but in that wonderfull providence by which God led the Israelites forty years through the Desart destitute of all things notwithstanding they had such abundance that they wanted not materials to make clothes shooes of that their clothes were not worn out because they had several changes that their shooes were not spent because they found new ones to put on that they fed a thousand Flocks in the desart of whose wool they made cloth and rayment and of their skins and leather made shoes and wanted besides no Weavers Taylors Curriers and Shoemakers God says moreover in that place Bread ye did not eat Wine or strong drink you did not drink in the Desart that you might know that I was the Lord your God Manna had reign'd down to them out of Heaven Water flow'd to them out of the Rock both by a miracle from God that they might eat drink Manna Water in lieu of Bread and strong drink It was likewise a miracle from God that their Flocks should find whereupon to feed and what to drink in the barren and dry Wildernesse This was then the force of the miracle meant by Moses to shew that the Jews wanted nothing for forty years which by several ways but always to the same sence he expressed He opened himself more clear in the 2 Chapter of Deuteronomie The Lord knows thy journey how thou pass'd through this great Desert dwelling with thee forty years and thou lacked'st nothing In which sense understand the 8 Chapter of the same Deuteronomie Thy clothes was not worn out with age and thy feet were not beaten behold this is now the fortieth year The Garments of the Israelites might grow old but not fail them with antiquity God not suffering them to want new garments to repair the losse of the old Their shooes might burst in their upper leather but their feet not to be gall'd because they had leather enough in the Desert so that they could not be bruis'd either with a worn or cobled shooe So understand that place where t is said The Jews did not thirst in the Desert For the Jews might thirst in the Desert but they wanted not water wherewith to quench their thirst Yea whatsoever the words of Isay may seem to imporr The Children of Israel must needs be dry in the Desert or else they had drink in the Desert for none drinks water but he that is dry The fool is dry when