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A theological systeme upon the presupposition, that men were before Adam the first part.; Systerna theologicum ex praeadamitarum hypothesi. English
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La Peyrère, Isaac de, 1594-1676.
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election advanced its Head above the rest was called the Princess of the Provinces in the first of the Lamentations of Jeremiah which God had peculiarly chosen out of all the Provinces and Cities of Israel it was called Jebus which is a treading under foot when it was numbred among the Cities of the Nations but being chosen and made a City of the Jews it was called by God Jerusalem that is The sight of peace Baruc. 5. Her foundations are in the holy mountains and glorious things are spoken of her Psalm 87. For that called the faithful City a City holy and elected and adorned with other great Titles well known in holy Writ The Temple placed in it was adorned with an Elogy of most choice holiness I have chosen and sanctified that place that my name may be there for ever and my eyes and my heart continue there alwayes 2 Chron. 7. That Temple was built upon the Mount of Sion God laid the foundation of the mount Sion for everlasting Psal 48. Hence those eternal Hills Deut. 33. as also Genesis 49. which are probably those two on the forked Hill of Sion upon the which the Temple of the Lord was built as likewise the City of David or of the King for which cause Jerusalem is said to be built upon the holy Hills Psal 87. now cited It was called The Temple of the Lord the rest of the Lord and his foot-stool the place of the Throne of God the place of his footsteps where he dwells in the midst of the sons of Israel Ezech. 43. for which cause the Hill of Sion is called the City of God because God dwelt in it God is great and very highly to be praised in his City in his holy hill This God is our God for ever Psalm 48. Our God is onely excellent in Sion cries out Isaias in the ravishment of his Spirit Chap. 3. onely that is cheifly by excellency and beyond all others excellent In which sence that Hill is likewise called a fat mountain and curdled Psalm 68. For all the rest of the Land of Canaan and Jerusalem flowed with the milk of election and sanctity of the Lord but the Hill of Sion was the cream of that milk that milk thickned and curdled a fat cheese pressed out of the milk of the election and sanctity of the Lord but that City was likewise called The city of the solemnity of the Jews Isay 33. Because all the Jews met there to pay their Vows and Sacrifices to God as also for their solemn joy and festivals according to the command of the Lord Deut. 12. In Sion you shall be joyful before your God you and your families in all wherein the Lord shall bless you there you shall feast before the Lord your God you your sons and daughters and your Levites there shall be the rest of the Lord and your rest The Temple and Jerusalem are for the most part joyned 2 Kingâ— 12. In this Temple and in Jerusalem will I put my name for ever And in Joel In the hil of Sion in Jerusalem there shall be salvation he that calls upon the Lord there shall be sâ—ved We must hear the Prayer of Solomon wherein he attests God in the behalf of Jerusalem and the Temple Kings 1. Chap. 8. Wheresoever said he thou shalt send thy People they shall pray to thee toward the City which thou hast chosen and towards that house which I have built to thy Name and thou shalt hear their prayer in heaven More I will say of the holy and chosen Land of Jerusalem and of the Temple of God when I shall speak of the return of the Jews which shall be their full Election In the top of the hill of Sion stood the Palace of the King which was called The City of David and which the Lord himself call'd the City of the great King Of this David and of this great King we shall afterwards have a great discourse In the mean time we must speak something of the Kings of the Jews who sat upon the high Throne of the City of David of whom this was the original We said before that the Lord God was King of the Jews A God to help them with heavenly assistance A King to stand for them in the battel to advance the shield draw the sword and put to flight the â—nemies of the Jews But because when the Jews began to be very stiff-necked it often came to passe that God turn'd from them and going from home as the Gospel speaks conâ—inued long absent then the Jews wthout a King and a Defender were open to the incursions of their enemies who spoyl'd them and most cruelly did destroy them utterly They fearing lest this might again befall them when Samuel their Judge was deed as also his Sons not walking in his ways requested a King who might judge them according to the manner of other Nations who might go out before them and fight their battels for them Which troubled Samuel Nor did the Lord slight the Petition of the Jews Hearken to them in all that they say to thee for they have not rejected thee but me Sam. 1. Chap. 8. Which open thus I was saith the Lord God and King of the Jews by Covenant And I appointed thee O Samuel by that Kingly power which I had over the Jews and thy sons to be their Judges Therefore having rejected thee and thy sons from being Judges they have not rejected thee but me who appointed thee And in that wherein they trespasse against thee they more hainously and grievously trespassed against me For in this they plainly discover'd their thoughts how little confidence they have in me and how weakly their hopes are fix'd upon me But because they are so unbeleeving and hardned in the foolishnesse of their hearts Harken to them and set a King over them Yet truly God had promis'd before in the desert that he would set a King over the Jews Deut. 17. Yea God had promis'd the Jews Kings at what time he blessed Abraham and the Jews in Abraham Kings shall come out of thee And Jacob prophâ—cying and in his sons blessing all the Jews The Scepter shall not depart from Juda. CHAP. V. The Gentiles elected in the Jews by a mystical â—lectâ—on Esteem'd the sons of God because elected in the Jews And grafted in the Jews AFter we have spoken of the election of the Jews it is fit that in order we should speak of the election of the Gentiles which sprang from the Jews as our Lord Jesus Christ himself most openly expresses to the Samaritan Woman in the fourth Chapter of the Gospel according to St. John Salvation is by the Jews But that which God the Son told this Gentile woman God the Father long before promis'd the Fathers of the Jews first to Abraham Genesis Chapter 12. All the kinreds of the earth shall be blessed in thee Then in the following Chapter That all the Nations of the earth should be
who was the first Father of the Jews which Cain was not able to doe because Adam had as yet begotten no daughters He must marry a wife of the daughters of the Gentiles who was sprung from the men of the first creation That wicked brother-killer degenerated from his own stock and grafted himself into the prophane Nation Cain comming to this East-quarter of Eden built a City and called the name of it according to the name of his son Enoch to distinguish it from other Cities of the East of Eden which had likewise their own names But with what Workmen and Carpenters did Caiâ— build this City Of what Citizens was it made up If he had no other Workmen but from his Fathers house no other Colonie but what came from thence to inhabite his City Adam then had no children Abel was kill'd Cain fled And Adam then being one hundred and thirty years old begat Seth whom so soon as Eve had born Adam said God has given me another seed for Abel whom Cain slew By which words it is manifest that Adam had no seed instead of Abel til the hundred and thirtieth year of his age At which time Cain had married his Wife and built his City Genesis sayes beside And the days of Adam after he begot Seth were eight hundred years and he begat sons and daughters Which without doubt he would have spoken concerning the time betwixt Seth and Abel if Adam had in that time begotten any sons or daughters But because in that time he neither begat sons not daughters it is said after he had begotten Seth God hath given me another seed for Abel whom Cain killed that is Seth is come in the place of Abel who is dead CHAP. V. The Gentiles prov'd different from the Jews out of the monuments of the Gentiles and from the stock of Adam The argument of eternitie divided into two classes by the antients Of time Of the bundles of years which the Chaldaeans had made up Of the Periodical year Of the returning and great year Years signified by Serpents Of the cave of age decipher'd by Claudian Of the age of ages VVE have seen that the Gentiles in their kind and affection to their kind were opposite to the Jewes were begotten of another â—ock than the Jews and also call'd and esteem'd strangers by the Jews themselves We have seen the Gentiles the first men that were Gen. Chap. 1. created with the Sun and Moon which deteâ—minate beginning is unknown to all men On the other side we have seen Adam from whom the Nation of the Jews is deriv'd created apart from those first men created in the first Chapter and from the men of the first creation We have seen Eve his Wife created after a discontinuance of his creation and not upon the same day We have seen Cain a tiller of the ground and Abel a keeper of sheep Two brothers undertaking several tasks undergoing divers duties found out and established by custom Abel slain by Cains when they were gone forth slain in the field to hide it from men and the concourse of people We have seen Cain afrighted for the slaughter of his brother fearing the men of his own time that is his Judges Flying from his own Countrey and a Captain of Thieves in a strange Nation marrying a Wife building a City nor a City without a name but with such a name as was signal from his first-born Enoch Which that I may the more clearly illustrate we have seen Adam and Eve otherways created by God than the Gentiles were created and the men of the first creation We have seen Cain banish'd from the house of his Father Adam and the Family of God a renegado to the remote and strange Gentiles Lastly we have seen out of Genesis and out of other choice places of both the Testaments thâ— multitudes of proofs by which it is abundantâ— prov'd that the Gentiles are different from Adam and from the Jews of his posterity But because it is said That arguments joyn'd are more strong we desire to joyn to these arguments of Scripture those monuments which are a great many of the creation of the world and the first men whom the most antient and best-esteemed Philosophers and Historians have delivered to have been many ages ago And those which argued concerning the world were distributed into two Classes One was of those who affirmed that the world was without beginning and ending that it was from eternity and should remain to eternity Others disputed that the world had a beginning and should have an end but both granted that the beginning and ending of it were neither of them known They that said that the world was eternal believ'd that there was a God who was not begotten and who never should die Yea they would have God and the world to be one thing and that God had put on the world And that Jove the greatest of the Gods was the whole world a living soul compos'd of living souls and a God compos'd of gods as of his parts For they made the parts of the world of the number of eternal Gods for there were eternal Gods to wit the Sun and Moon and the rest of the stars which were in continual motion and which had no beginning nor ever should have an end And for this did they affirm that the Universe was eternal because if it was begotten it was begotten of nothing But that nothing could come of nothing they did imagine granted Likewise they guessed the eternity of the world by that eternal perseverance and constancy by which the world is permanent and alwayes like to it self Therefore did they say it was immutable because it was always such and should be alwayes such as it now is To which adde that of Ecclesiastes Chap. 1. What is that which was but it shall be There is nothing new under the Sun Nor can any one say Loe this is new For it hath been in the ages which have been before us And the same Sun still arising This was certainly the cause that there were Adulterers too before Helen that there were Captains before Idomeneus and Sthenelus and that Troy was taken before Agamemnon God made Eternity Eternity made the world said Mercury in Poemander Therefore God was before eternity and eternity before the world But as the Sun being the cause of the day is born with the day not before the day and as God the cause of eternity was not rather before eternity but from eternity with eternity So the eternity which made the world was not so much before the world as with the world from eternity Wherefore the same Poemander would have eternity to be in God and the world in eternity Yea he said that eternity was the soul of the world as God was the soul of eternity He said then that the world was the work of eternity that it was not made at a set time but alwayes and from eternity and since eternity never