the beginning and the Father of lyes Satan fals from heaven when he is cast out of our hearts by sound doctrine and loseth his light that is his authority by the preachiny of Gods Word here as it were by a Thunderbolt from heaven that is from the Kingdome of God in the heart of man is he cast down and trod under foot but he was a murderer and lyar from the beginning that he fell not from that he was created 681. Luk. 10. 22. No man knoweth who the Son is but the Father and who the Father is but the Son Joh. 15. 26. The Spirit of Truth he shall testifie of me Christ excludes not the Persons of the Deity but the creatures and the false gods for the Father by the Son from eternity infinitely Joh. 16 13. communicating his infinite wisdome revealed it to the holy Ghost and therefore Christ saith the Spirit shall not speak of himself but whatsoever he shall hear that shall hee speak 682. Luk. 10. 24. Many Prophets and Kings have desired to see those things that you see Joh. 8. 56. Abraham saw my day There are different manners of the Visions 1 Cor. 13. 12. of Christ and of God We see now in a glasse darkly but then that is in the next life we shall see face to face Abraham and the faithful in the Old Testament saw Christ promised that he should come the Apostles saw him manifested in the flesh The Prophets saw him of old in shadows and figures the Apostles and the Christians now see him clearly and manifestly 683. Luk. 10. 28. Doe this and live Rom. 4. 5. But to him that worketh not but believeth his faith is counted for righteousnesse The parts of Gods Word are the Law and the Gospel the Law promiseth life eternal to them that doe it the Gospel to them that believe Christ by the words Doe this doth not shew that the Lawyer was able to fulfil the law but only admonisheth him so that he might grow sensible of his own weaknesse 684. Luk. 10. 41. Martha Martha Thou art careful and troubled about many things 1 Tim. 5. 14. I will that the younger women marry guide the house Christ reprehends not Marthas care of her house but for presumption and false opinion because she preferred the care of her house before the Word of God 685. Luk. 11. 41. Give Alms and all things are clean unto you 1 Cor. 13. 3. If I bestow all my goods to feed the poor it profiteth me nothing Christ speaks of alms proceeding from faith and charity the Apostle speaks of hypocritical alms without Christian Charity 686. Luk. 12. 33. Sell what you have and give alms 1 Tim. 5. 8. But if any provide not for his own especially those of his own houshold he hath denyed the faith Christ would not have us forsake our neighbour in his wants and necessities but rather to help him we should sell our possessions to declare our conpassion so far as we are able without doing injury to our family 687. Luk. 14. 23. Compell them to come in 1 Pet. 5. 3. Not as being Lords over Gods heritage There is used an internal compulsion spiritually when men are drawn to the knowledge of their sins by the law of God explained to them and are urged in thier consciences to fly to the mediation of Christ so from the dayes of John the Baptist untill now the Kingdom of heaven suffereth violence and the violent take Mat. 11. 12. it by force an external compulsion is when men not sufficiently instructed and forced by carnal weapons to religion against their conscience such are made rather hypocrites then good Christians therefore the Apostle warns us well that no man should affect to Lord it over Gods people that is the Church and to use a tyrannical power over their consciences 688. Luk. 14. 24. None of those men which were bidden shall tast of my Supper 2 Pet. 3. 9. God is long suffering to us-ward not willing that any should perish The Gospel since it is the power of God to salvation to all that believe they that hear it being invited by God and receive it not dying in their sins without repentance they are the cause of their own ruine and not God 689. Luk. 14. 26. He that hateth not his Father and Mother and Wife and Children and Brethren and Sisters yea and his own life also he cannot be my Disciple Ephes 6. 2. Honour thy Father and thy Mother that it may be well with thee c. 5. 25. Husbands love your Wives 1 Joh. 3. 15. He that hateth his brother is a Murderer Christ is to be beloved above all creatures and rather our Parents brothers and sisters and our own life should be lost then we should deny the Gospel He that loveth his Father or Mother more then me is not worthy of me saith Christ otherwise we must honour our Parents and love our children 690. Luk. 16. 9. Make you friends of the Mammon of unrighteousnesse 1 Tim. 4. 4. Every creature of God is good Riches are good in themselves as they are a creature but because they are after got unjustly and many abuse them to injustice pride tyranny luxury gluttony c. therefore Christ cals them the Mammon of unrighteousnesse thorns Mat. 13. 7. 1 Tim. 6. 9. the Apostle cals them the snare of the Devil and will have us so to dispose of our wealth that we may reap fruit of them in another world 691. Luk. 15. 7. The righteous need no repentance c. 3. 8. Bring forth fruits worthy of repentance Repentance of those that stand which is spoken of in the first place must be distinguished from repentance of those that are fallen which is meant by the latter place and we are admonished to it and to bring forth the fruits of it 692. Luk. 17. 10. When you have done all those things which you are commanded say We are unprofitable servants we have done that which was our duty to doe 2 Cor. 11. 12. Paul glorieth and reckons up his good works and divine Revelations In the former place Christ saith that no man can deserve any thing at the hand of God since we are all bound to obey God in all things unto the end so that we cannot boast before God In the latter Paul mentioneth his labours not of vain glory boasting but being compelled to it for the defence of his Ministry against all back-biters and false Apostles that unjustly reproached him 693. Luk. 18. 29. Verily I say unto you there is no man that hath left house or parents or brethren or wife or children for the Kingdome of Gods sake who shall not receive manyfold more 1 Cor. 7. 10. The wife must not depart from her husband and the man must not put away his wife For Christ his sake we may leave our Wives and al things when necessity constraineth us but we cannot leave our Matrimony Paul admonisheth the wife that she should not by
5. Deuteronomie GENESIS THe Generation of the World is so called because of the Creation before the flood and the restoring of it after the flood and the administration of it by the Patriarchs unto the birth of Moses it containes the history of 2310. years The Places that are seemingly contradictory 1. Gen. 1. 22. And on the seventh day God ended his work Chap. 2. 4. All things were created in the day that the Lord God made the heavens and the earth Reconciling God created the world and all things therein contained in six days and not in one day altogether The first place therefore is meant of certain naturall and artificiall dayes The latter containes indefinitely the time of the Psal 95. 7. Heb. 3. 13. creation of things So this day is put for the time of grace 2. Gen. 1. 2. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters Joh. 7. 39. The Holy Ghost was not yet given In the first place the treaty is concerning the person and existence of the holy Ghost in the latter concerning the gifts of the holy Ghost and the miraculous powring forth thereof in the day of Pentecost after the resurrection of Christ 3. Gen. 1. 5. God called the light day before the Sun was Ecclus. 43. 2. The Sun when it appeareth declareth the day The light which first made the day was not an other light from the light of the Sun but that light which God had dispersed through the hemisphere which he collected afterwards into the body of the Sun 4. Gen 1. 27. 9. 6. God created man after his own image Chap. 5. 3. And Adam begat a son in his own likenesse after his image The Image of God after which God created man at the beginning was depraved by the fall of Adam and so he begat such a son as himself a corrupt sinner and blind in spirituall things 5. Gen. 1. 27. God created man c. in the image of God male and female created he them 1 Cor. 11. 7. The man is the image and glory of God but the woman is the glory of the man The woman was created in the beginning 1 Pet. 3. 6. Gen. 24. 9. after the image of God so well as the man Paul considering the distinction of sex saith that the man came nearer to the image of God in respect of his dominion and the end because the woman wes made out of the man and for the man 6. Gen. 1. 2. 9. 1. Be fruitfull and multiplie and replenish the earth Luk. 23. 29. Blessed are the barren and the wombes that never bare Children before and since the fall are a blessing from God absolutely Barrennesse is commended by Christ not simply but by reason of a judgement was to fall upon the Jews and of that heavy calamity to ensue wherein the flight would be easier for one alone then for a mother and her little ones so Woe be to them that are with childe and to them which give Mat. 24. 19. suck in those days 7. Gen. 1. 28. Multiply and replenish the earth 1 Cor. 7. 7. For I would that all men were even as I my self Whether Paul were then a Batchelor or a maried man is uncertain that he was maried his words imply where he saith Have not we power to lead about a Sister or a woman a wife as well as the other Apostles otherwise he had not been sure of a wife If he were a Batchelor he speaks conditionally unlesse the propagation of mankind and of the Church should be hindred 8. Gen. 1. 31. And God saw every thing that he had made and behold it was very good Eccles 1. 2. Vanity of vanities all is vanity All the Creatures are good in respect of the creation and their nature but Ecclesiastes condemns their vain and evill inclination which is not naturall to them but came upon them by the fall of man 9. Gen. 1. 31. All that God made was very good Rom. 8. 20. For the Creature was made subject to vanity not willingly but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope Before the fall every creature was in a better condition then after the fall for contrary to nature they are become subject to the lust of wicked men and so to many afflictions by reason of him who hath subjected the creature that is God under this hope that it shall be at last delivered from the tyranny of the wicked 10. Gen. 1. 31. God saw every thing that he had made and behold it was very good Mal. 1. 3. I hated Esau Every creature of God is good and so is Quaest ex Epist ad Rom. Man as he is a creature but not as a sinner saith August God therefore hated Esau for his sin and set him after his brother Jacob. 11. Gen. 2. 2. God rested from all his works Exod. 20. 11. Deut. 14. that he had made Joh. 5. 17. 14. 10. My Father worketh hitherto God rested from all the works of creation and of things that should be in nature but not from his works of Providence care and sustentation for without that all would return to Psal 104. Act. 17. nothing and perish 12. Gen. 2. 15. God put man into the garden of Eden to dresse it Chap. 3. 19. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread If Adam had continued in innocency labour should have been pleasant unto him but because he sinned therefore must we labour with much sorrow and trouble 13. Gen. 2. 18. It is not good that the man should be alone Mat. 19. 10. It is not good to marry 1 Cor. 7. To touch a woman In the first place God speaks of the good and profit of the whole Species and the Church which cannot be propagated by one person alone In the latter the Apostle speaks of the personall good and the more commodious kind of life in the time of persecution 14. Gen. 2. 24. Therefore shall a man leave his Father and Mother Exod. 20. 12. Honour thy Father and thy Mother To leave Father and Mother here is not to denie them the honour love and help that is due to them but to leave the house of his parents and to live with his wife and to set up a new family with her 15. Gen. 2. 24. A man shall cleave to his wife Exod. 21. 4. The servant going forth shall leave his wife to his master c. The generall Law pertains to all that is the first but the speciall law was granted to the Jews for the hardnesse of their hearts and so we understand the latter place 16. Gen. 2. 24. Mat. 19. 5. And they shall be one flesh 1 Cor. 6. 16. He that is joyned to a harlot is one body Married people are one body really and indeed by divine institution but carnall copulation with a whore without marriage though it be actually one body yet it is impure because it is not of divine
dead excepting Jacob his whole family make 75 souls in number 80. Exod. 1. 19. The Midwives lyed to Pharaoh and God blessed them Chap. 3. 18. 5. 3. Moses said We will goe three dayes journey into the wildernesse and sacrifice unto the Lord our God Zach. 8. 16. Speak every one truth to his neighbour It is not certain whether the Midwives did 1 Pet. 21. lie or not it might be the Hebrew women were delivered before they came at them and God blessed the Midwives not for lying but because they feared him Moses spake the words of God unto Pharaoh and God is the God of truth 81. Exod. 2. 3. Moses was laid by the river in an arke of bulrushes Heb. 11. 23. Moses parents feared not the Kings commandement It is certain that the Hebrew parents feared God more then Pharaoh nor did they doubt in exposing of Moses but that God would deliver him 82. Exod. 2. 15. Moses feared and fled from the face of Pharaoh Heb. 11. 27. He feared not the wrath of the King Moses feared for killing the Egyptian whilst Pharaoh sought to slay him therefore he fled into the Land of Madian But upon his return when God sent him to Pharaoh he despised his threatnings being secure from all danger 83. Exod. 4. 21. 7. 3. 10. 27. 11. 10. But I will harden Pharaohs heart Chap. 8. 15. 8. 32. Pharaoh hardned his heart and was hardned c. God hardens permissively not effectively Ezeck 18. 23. 33. 11. Cont. Faust by no antecedent will for he will not the death of a sinner but by a consequent will when he punisheth by just judgment and useth evill to a good end Satan saith Augustine hardens by perswading Man by consenting God by forsaking 84. Exod. 4. 24. Moses had his wife with him in his journey Chap. 8. 5. And Jethro Moses Father in law came with his wife and his sons unto Moses Moses sent his wife Zipporah back to her father and then afterwards received her with her children brought unto him by his father in law 85. Exod. 5. 2. Who is the Lord that I should obey his voice and let Israel go I know not the Lord c. Rom. 1. 21. The Nations knew God and his power so that they are inexcusable Pharaoh was ignorant who Jehovah the God of Israel was nor had he a true knowledge of the true God that he might serve him onely 86. Exod. 7. 20 21. All the waters in Egypt were turned into bloud Vers 22. And the Magicians of Egypt did so with their inchantments when they came to the water That which the Magicians did with water digged out of the earth seemed to be the like for they are no true miracles of God which are done by the help of the Devill 87. Exod. 9. 16. And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up for to shew in thee my power and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth Rom. 3. 8. We must not do evill that good may come of it The hardning of Pharaoh was a punishment of his former sins and of his tyranny shewed over the Israelites and this God directed for a good end that in Pharaoh his power glory and justice might appear 88. Exod. 9. 29. Moses prayed for Pharaoh that the plagues may cease 1 Joh. 3. 4. 5. 16. We must not pray for any that sinne unto death Moses prayed not for Pharaoh but for the taking away of the plagues farther to declare the power of God and to overcome the wickednesse and obstinacy of Pharaohs tyrannicall heart 89. Exod. 11. 5. And all the first born in the Land of Egypt shall die Chap. 12. 30. There was not a house where there was not one dead We must understand here not only the first-born by birth but such as were so by authority for it was so ordered by divine providence that there was a first born found in every house 90. Exod. 12. 36. The Israelires spoyled the Egyptians by borrowing of them Psal 37. 21. The wicked borroweth and payeth not again The Israelites had Gods speciall command for it to spoile the ingratefull Egyptians whom they had served for many years for no Gen. 15. 14. wages God foretold this to Abraham that his posterity should come out of slavery with great wealth 91. Exod. 14. 15. And the Egyptians which you have seen to day you shall see them again no more forever Vers 30. And Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shoar In the former place he means the Egyptians alive following the Israelites which afterwards the Israelites saw choked in the waters and cast dead upon the seashoar 92. Exod. 20. 5. I am the Lord thy God a jealous God visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation Deut. 24. 16. Ezek. 18. 20. The son shall not bear the Fathers iniquity God visits the fathers sins upon the children if they walk in the way of their fathers that is on them that hate him but it is otherwise if the children repent Also God punisheth the iniquities of the fathers upon the children with temporall punishments not with eternall unlesse they follow the footsteps of their wicked fathers 93. Exod. 20. 8. Remember thou keep holy the Sabbath day Deut. 5. 12. Mat. 12. 5. On the Sabbath days the Priests in the Temple profane the Sabbath day and are blamelesse Legall ceremonies and their externall observations give place to charity and necessity morall duties are preferred before ceremonials God forbad those works which hinder his worship but Christ defends his Disciples plucking ears of corn on the Sabbath day against the Pharisee by the example of David and of the Priests killing sacrifices on the Sabbath day pulling off their hides and washing of them 94. Exod. 20. 12. Honour thy father and mother Luk. 14. 26. If any man come to me and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters yea and his own life also he cannot be may disciple Christ forbids not the honour due to parents Mat. 10. 37 but he saith He that loves them more then me is not worthy of me for all things must be forsaken and hated too so far as they hinder our love of God and Christ for all things must give place to the love of God and that takes not away our duty or due honour to our parents 95. Exod. 20. 12. Honour thy Father Matth. 23. 9. Call no man Father upon the earth Christ forbids not children to honour their 2 King 2. 1 Chron. 4. parents or the hearers to honour the Preachers for Paul cals himself the father of the Corinthians but he forbids us to depend on humane authority in divine matters but we must depend on one God and have a filial confidence in him 96. Exod. 20. 13. Thou shalt not kill Mat. 5. 21. 18. 9. If thy eye hand foot
Anthropopathy he remembers when he sends help and hears our prayers as Gen. 30. 22. 1 Sam. 15. 19. Psal 13. 2. 42. 10. Also he is said to forget when he defers to help and seems not to hear us 35. Gen. 8. 13. In the year 601 the first month the first day of the month the waters were dryed up Chap. 8. 14. And in the second month the 27 day of that month was the earth dryed The diminishing of the waters and the superficies of the earth yet soft and plashy is intimated vers 13. 14. The earth is dryed and perfectly solid 36. Gen. 8. 21. Nor will I any more smite Psal 103. 13. every living creature Chap. 6. 13. 7. 21. And all flesh dyed Chap. 19. 24. Sodom overthrowne Before the flood God judged the world and he judged Sodom also as a just judge and revenger after the flood he promised he would do so no more as a father who taketh pity of his children 37. Gen. 8. 21. I will not again curse the ground for mans sake Deut. 28. 16. Thou shalt be cursed in thy house and cursed shalt thou be in the field c. A generall malediction doth not take away a speciall malediction neither did God oblige himself that he would not send his speciall punishments and calamities on those who refuse to hear his voice 38. Gen. 8. 22. Seed time and harvest as long as the earth endureth 1 King 17. 1. Jam. 5. 17. And it reigned not for three yeares and six months Barrennesse and drynesse was sent from God on the earth in the dayes of Elias by reason of the Idolatry of the Israelites He took not away seed-time and harvest in other places The ordinance of God though it was not observed in one place for mans transgression yet it found place in an other 39. Gen. 9. 2. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth Job 39. 9. Will the Vnicorne be willing to serve thee In the former place the dominion over the creatures is partly restored to man after the fall and God hath cast a fear on them that they should not dare to hurt man but should be afraid of mans countenance But if the Unicorn or any beast do violence to man they do but put him in mind of his fall 40. Gen. 9. 13. I do set my bow in the clouds and it shall be for a token of a Covenant between me and the earth Revel 4. 3. And there was a rainbow round about the throne in sight like to an emerald The first place is concerning the ordinary place of the rain-bow the second of the extraordinary rain-bow and the seat of God 41. Gen. 10. 8. Nimrod began to be mighty in the earth Vers 10. And the beginning of his Kingdome was Babel Rom. 13. 1. Let every soul be subject to the higher powers The tyrannicall power of Nimrod was with violence and violation of government in families yet not without Gods ordination nor doth every unlawfull attaining take away the lawfull power from ill beginnings and manners good lawes and profitable thins proceed also The beginning of the Kingdome of Judah was the wantonnesse and wickednesse of the people The beginning of the Kingdome of Israel the sedition of Jeroboam yet they were afterwards lawfull Kingdomes 42. Gen. 10. 22. The children of Sem were Elam Assur and Arphaxad Chap. 11. 10. Sem begat Arphaxad two years after the flood In History the order of nature and time are not alwayes observed therefore though Elam and Assur are named Chap. 10. before Arphaxad yet it followes not that they were elder then he and Sem is said to have begotten sons and daughters after Arphaxad was born and not before 43. Gen. 11. 7. Let us goe down and there confound their language 1 King 8. 27. Jer. 23. 24. Do not I fill the earth God is not moved from place to place because he is all every where saith Augustine but L. 16. c. 5. De civ dei he is said to descend when he doth any thing for the ordinary and usuall course of nature and so he sheweth his presence in respect of us not that there is any thing that he doth not see and know or doth change his place but this is attributed to God after the manner of men and in respect of our sense as Gen. 18. 21. Psal 14. 2. 44. Gen. 11. 12. Arphaxad begat Salem Luk. 3. 36. Which was the son of Sala which was the son of Cainan c. The name and the generation of Cainan in Beda in Luk. 3. Genesis and the words of the days according to the truth of the Hebrews is not found but Arphaxad is said to have begotten Sala there being none betwixt him Luke took this Genealogie from the edition of the 70 Interpreters 45. Gen. 11. 26. Terah lived 70 years and begat Abram Nahor and Haran Chap. 12. 4. And Abram was 75 years old when he departed out of Haran Terah did not beget three sons in the same year but he began to generate at 70 years old and he lived in Haran to 205 years old it may be Abraham was the younger son but because he is so commended in the Scriptures he is set down first before his brethren as Jacob Mat. 1. 3. Judas 1 Pet. 4. 1. 46. Gen. 12. 5. Abraham took Sara his wife and Lot his brothers son Chap. 13. 8. 14. 14. Abraham said to Lot we are brethren c. Brothers are called by bloud Gen. 27. 13. of alliance Chap. 14. 4. of gentility Deut. 15. 3. of affection 2 Sam. 1. 26. of unity of confession of faith Jer. 31. 34. We are brethren saith Abraham to Lot perswading him not to contend with him but seeing that he is joyned with him in the band of religion and consanguinity he wisheth him to avoid occasion of quarrell and not to give scandall to the infidels 47. Gen. 12. 3. 18. 18. All the Nations of the earth shall be blessed in him Gal. 3. 14. The blessing of Abraham came on the Gentiles through Christ This promise was made to the seed and posterity but not to the person of Abraham so the promises made by God to the Fathers Gen. 22. 18. Heb. 11 8. are fulfilled in their children and in individuals 48. Gen. 12. 18. Abraham told a lie Psal 5. 7. Thou shalt destroy all those that speak leasing Seing that the Devill is the Father of lying Abraham denying his wife sinned against God by distrust against Sara and Pharaoh by injustice Mat. 26. Psal 32. for he sought to save his life by wrong means as Peter did by denying Christ God will destroy impenitent lyers but not whose lies and offences are pardoned in Christ and covered as Abrahams Isaacks and Peters were who repented 49. Gen. 12 7. 13. 15. 15. 38. This land which thou seest will I give to thee and thy seed c. Act. 7.
because God is the revenger of all these things for all deceit is openly condemned in the word of God 66. Gen. 27. 28. God give thee of the dew of heaven and of the fatnesse of the earth and plenty of corn and wine Chap. 42. 2. Jacob for want of provision sent his sons into Egypt to buy corne Deficiency and temporall want doth not diminish the divine blessing and force of the promise As travelling did not hinder Abraham so Jacob did not lose the fruit of his Fathers blessing 67. Gen. 27. 38. Esan list up his voiee and wept Esa 12. 17. Esau found no place of repentance Esaus repentance was not true but hypocriticall for he did not aknowledge his sin but was sorry for his losse and would have killed his brother Nor could he by his tears move his Father to repent of the blessing given to Jacob. 68. Gen. 32. 3. 33. 14. Esau lived before Jacobs return in the Land of Seir. Chap. 36. 6. Esau took all that he had got in the Land of Canaan and went unto Seir from the face of his brother Jacob. Esau saith August after that his brother was departed to Mesopotamia would not live with his parents whether by reason of that commotion that he grieved that he was deceived of the blessing of his Father or whether it were by reason of his wives which he saw were hatefull to his parents or whatsoever the cause was and he began to live in the mountain of Seir then after that Jacob was returned peace being made betwixt them he went back to his Parents and when they both together had buried their Father he went again to Seir and there he propagated the Nation of the Idumaeans 69. Gen. 32. 30. I have seen God face to face saith Jacob. Exod. 33. 20. No man can see my face and live It was the common opinion of the Antients that if any man should see the face of God he must die the death so Gideon Manoah and the Israelites feared their lives but Jacob here Abraham Chap. 18. Isaiah Chap. 6. Daniel Chap. 7. by Joh. 1. 18. their example confute that opinion for they saw God face to face that is the glory of God was manifest to them but the essence and nature of Gods face no mortall man can see nor ever did see 70. Gen. 33. 19. Jacob bought a parcell of a field at the hand of the children of Hamor Shechems father Chap. 23. 16. Abraham bought the field with the cave of Ephron the Hittite Abraham bought the possession of the Cave with the ground about it for the buriall of the dead Jacob bought the greater part of the field to dwell there where he pitched his tents In the cave that Abraham bought was Sarah buried Gen. 30. 13. Chap. 48. Josh 24. 32. and he himself also Isaac and Jacob. But in the field that Jacob bought and gave to his son Joseph were Josephs bones buried brought thither out of Egypt 71. Gen. 33. 19. Jacob bought a parcell of a field where he had spread his Tents Chap. 23. 16. Abraham paid the money for the Cave and the borders round about Act. 7. 5. And he gave him no inheritance in it no not so much as to set his foot on The Patriarchs would not possesse themselves of the Land of promise before the time whose patrimony was not bought with mony but as we find it Act. 7. God gave it freely to their posterity 72. Gen. 42. 15. By the life of Pharaoh Mat. 34. Swear not at all Joseph sweareth not but he confirmeth his Deut 30. 19. 2 Cor. 1. 23. words by speaking after the usuall manner that the Egyptians did So Moses calleth the heaven and the earth and Paul calleth God to witnesse upon his soul Christ by the Evangelist forbids all vain and unnecessary oaths and forbids perjury 73. Gen. 46. 4. I will goe down with thee into Egypt and I will also surely bring thee up again Chap. 49. 33. Jacob died in Egypt Gen. 50. 13. Jacob returned out of Egypt in his posterity and his body also after his death was brought into the land of Canaan and buryed there 74. Gen. 46. 21. The tenne sonnes of Benjamin Chap. 44. 20. He was a childe a little one Jacob gave a wife to his youngest son Benjamin Dom. Mart. Luth. that Rachel might have seed by him and whilst God by a singular blessing gave him so many sons by that means he pacified Jacobs sorrow for Joseph 75. Gen. 46. 34. Every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians Chap. 47. 6. If thou knowest any men of activity amongst them then make them rulers over my cattle The Egyptians hated the shepherds of the Hebrewes not for their cattell but for their circumcision and religion because they sacrificed those things which the Egyptians worshipped for Gods 76. Gen. 47. 31. And Israel bowed himself upon his beds head Heb. 11. 21. Worshipped leaning upon the top of his staffe Jacob being lifted up at the head of his bed bowed himself upon the top of his staf and so worshipping God left an example of piety behind him to his children 77. Gen. 49. 10. The Scepter shall not depart from Judah not a lawgiver from between his feet untill Shiloh come 1 Sam. 10. 1. The Scepter was before David in the tribe of Benjamin Luk. 2. 1. And when Christ was born it was with Augustus Caesar The supreme power over the Jewes was in Moses and Joshua their leaders then in the Judges unto Saul under the Kings to the captivity of Babylon under the Priests untill Herod Now the accompishment of this Prophefie began not in the time it was pronounced but from the time the Kingly Government was confirmed in the tribe of Judah and the Princes of that tribe were in the Sanhedrim untill Christ came it was at last abolished by Herod 78. Gen. 49. 28. Jacob blessed all his sons with their proper benedictions Vers 7. Jacob cursed Simeon and Levi. That is he blessed them all in Christ but he foreshewed to every one of them blessings or cursings as the Holy Ghost inspired him EXODUS THis Book hath its name from going out for here is described the going forth of the Children of Israel out of Egypt the promulgation of the morall Law and the ceremoniall and judiciall in the wildernesse the raising of the Tabernacle with all things belonging to it It contains a History of 114 yeares 79. Exod. 1. 5. And all the sons that came out of the loynes of Jacob were 70 souls Gen. 46. 26. All the souls which came into Egypt with Jacob were 66. Act. 7. 14. Joseph called his father Jacob and his kindred 75 souls that went down into Egypt There descended with Jacob into Egypt the souls which came out of his thighs 66. if you adde to these Jacob and Joseph and his two sons they make 70. Stephen adds the four wives of Jacob and the two sons of Judah which were
into Egypt Matthew passeth by the father of Ieconias 267. 2 King 23. 30. Iosias was buried at Ierusalem before the Babylonish captivity Mat. 1. 11. Iosias begat Ieconias and his brethren in the captivity of Babylon Iosias in his posterity begat Iechonias and his brothers kindred who lived when that miserable carrying captive into Babylon began 268. 2 King 25. 29. Iechonias or Ioachin died in Babylon Mat. 1. 12. After the transmigration unto Babylon Iechonias begat Salathiel That was done after the beginning of the captivity but not after the confirmation of it when the time was that Evilmerodach lifted up the head of Ioachim in the 37 year of his reign over Babylon when the time of deliverance drew on The two Books of CHRONICLES THey are called Paralipomena from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is from being passed by Things that are passed by in the Books of the Kings are contained here In Hebrew they are named Dibre Hajamin that is Words of dayes of Chronicall Annals because they contain Annals and Histories The first sets down the Genealogie of Adam of the Patriarchs and Tribes of Israel with the reigns of Saul and David The latter hath the History of Solomon and of all the Kings of Iudah and Israel to the Babylonish captivity and their enlargement by Cyrus which is done in the year of the world 3435. They were both written by Esdras 269. 1 Chron. 2. 9. The sons of Ezrom Ieramuel and Ram. Matth. 1. 3. Ezrom begat Aram. Ram and Aram were but one in Hebrew Ram in Syriack Aram signifies Noble or High 270. 1 Chron. 3. 11. Ioram begat Ochozias of whom came Ioas. Matth. 1. 8. Ioram begat Ozias Ochosias Joas and Amasias are left out by the Evangelist because they reigned not well and to observe the 14 generations that is the 14 persons of Kings in the genealogie of Christ 271. 1 Chron. 3. 18. The son of Salathiel Pedajah of Pedajah Zorobabel Ezd. 3. 2. Mat. 12. 2. Salathiel begat Zorobabel Zorobabel was the nephew to Salathiel which he begat by his son Pedajah 272. 1 Chron. 10. 6. Saul died and his three sons and all his house died together 2 Sam. 2. 8. Abner made Isbosheth the son of Saul King over Israel Isbosheth after his fathers death though he had for a time the name of a King at last he was miserably slain in his bed and Mephiboseth was by favour in the Court of David without any rule so the family of Saul perished rightly with him nor ever could aspire any more to any eminent dignity 273. 1 Chron. 18. 12. Abishai smote Edom in the valley of salt 18000. 2 Sam. 8. 13. It was David Psal 60. 2. That Victory is imputed to Joab Abishai with Joab having the Army divided conquered the enemy at the first assault he overcame 6000 of the Edomites Joab killed 12000 of those that fled away but the victory is imputed to David as their King 274. 2 Chron. 2. 14. Hiram was the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan whose Father was of Tyre 1 King 7. 14. He was the son of a widow of the trihe of Nephtalim The Father of Hiram was of the tribe of Nephthalim who lived many years in Tyria and had a wife of the tribe of Dan. 275. 2 Chron. 8. 1. Solomon built those Cities which Hiram restored to him 1 King 9. 11. Solomon gave to Hiram twenty Cities in the Land of Galilee Solomon gave to Hiram those Cities for twenty years that he might have a yearly revenue from them untill the charges were paid to him then Hiram restored them to Solomon and he built them and made the children of Israel dwell in them 276. 2 Chron. 19. 2. Josaphat because he lent help to the wicked and made friendship with those that hated God deserved Gods wrath Gen. 14. 13. Abraham and Isaac were in league with heathen Kings and Gentiles Leagues in civill affaires are granted but otherwise there can be no firme league made with them So was David at peace with his Neighbours and Abraham with the Cananites 277. 2 Chron. 35. 18. There was not the like Passover in Israel from the dayes of Samuel the Prophet 2 King 23. 22. There was not the like passover from the dayes of the Judges which judged Israel nor all the dayes of the Kings of Judah Samuel was the last of the Judges the meanning therefore of the words is this there was no passover like that from the time that Kings began in Israel 278. 2 Chron. 35. 34. Josias was killed in battail by the City of Megiddo by the Archers of the Egyptians Chap. 34. 38. I will gather thee to thy Fathers and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace Josias his reign death and buriall were peaceable though he were wounded in the war fighting against Pharaoh Necho contrary to Gods word yet there is no doubt of his salvation EZDRAS two Books THey were both written by Ezdras and contain the return of the Jews from Babylon to Judea and the building of the Temple and of the City Jerusalem the correction of the people and restitution of religion With the History of 200 years 279. Ezd. 1. 5. There rose up the chief of the Fathers of Judah and Benjamin the Priests and the Levites with all them whose spirit God had raised 1 Chron. 9. 3. The Israelites the Priests Levites the Nethinims went up to Jerusalem the children of Judah Benjamin Ephraim and Manasses There came to Jerusalem in their return not onely the children of Judah but of other tribes and they restored the worship of God amongst themselves who were before time transported out of Judea with them into Babylon 280. 1 Ezd. 2. 5. The sons of Arah returned 775. Neh. 7. 10. They are recorded 652. First are set down those that gave up their names to return then those that came into Judea the rest remaining in Babylon or perishing in the journey so also is reconciled the unequall number of other families 281. 1 Ezd. 2 6. The children of Pabath-moab 800 and Joab of the children of Joshua and Moab 280 2. Neh. 7. 11. The children of Pahath-moab of the children of Joshua and Moab 2818. There was a lesse number of some of those families but at length it grew greater by the dignity of those that went forth and greatest of all when others joyned themselves to them that had not set down their namâ—s 282. 1 Ezd. 6. 3. Cyrus the King decreed that the house of God should be built at Jerusalem and let them lay the foundations the height thereof 60 cubits and the breadth thereof 60 cubits 1 King 6. 2. The house which King Solomon built for the Lord the length thereof was 60 cubits the breadth 20 cubits the height 30 cubits The structure of Solomons Temple was more 2 Chron. 3. 3. Agg. 2. 3. 1 Eld. 3. 12. beautifull then this therefore the Elders that saw this wept