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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38007	A farther enquiry into several remarkable texts of the Old and New Testament which contain some difficulty in them with a probable resolution of them / by John Edwards ...	Edwards, John, 1637-1716.	1692 (1692)	Wing E206; ESTC R37315	201,474	386

‖ In libr. Radic It is not known to us what the Urim and Thummim are And several other Writers as you shall hear afterwards speak the same despairing Language on this Theme ‖ Origen in Ex. 21. Hom. 9. Cy●il Alex de Adorat in Spir ●erit l. 11. Others seem to be Allegorical and by the Urim and Thummim understand that Spiritual Light and Knowledge that Divine Truth and Wisdom with which God inspired the Heart or Breast of the High Priest as aften as he wore the Rationale on that part But after this rate a Man may Allegorize away half the Bible and then when the Literal or Historical Sense is wholly swallowed up of the Mystical we may give up our Reason and Religion together and profess we know not what either of them means Besides it is impertinent and ridiculous to interpret these words of any thing that God infused into the High Priests Heart because they are spoken to Moses as appears from the first Verse of the Chapter So that it is evident they mention not what God but what Moses was to do It is He that is here commanded to put the Urim and Thummim into Aaron's Breast-plate and therefore it is unreasonable and absurd to understand these words of Gods infusing Light or Wisdom into Aaron's Heart This be sure is not the Primary and Literal Sense though as I shall shew in the close of this Discourse it may be contained in the Mystical and Highest Meaning of the Words I might in the next place mention and truly it is enough barely to mention the wild Fancy of the Brethren of the Rosie Cross who pretend to make and prepare the Urim and Thummim and therefore would perswade us that they know very well what it is viz. That it is an Artificial or Chymical Preparation of Light answerable to the Subterranean Lamps or it is such a Splendor made by Art as Noah prepared for the Ark Gen. 6. 16. for by what we translate a Window there is meant say they some Greater thing And what is that but this Spagyrick Splendor the True Urim and Thummim of the World But leaving these Fanciful Urim and Thummim-makers I proceed to acquaint you with the Sentiments of the more Sober I. Some of these hold that the Name of God was written and put into the Breast-plate and that this was the Urim and Thummim ‖ In locum R. Selomoh Iarchi saith expresly that it was the Name Iehovah inserted into the Foldings of the High Priest's Pectoral This is also avouched by Eugubinus Vatablus and P. Fagius the last whereof hath these words ‖ In locum The Writing which contained the Name of God with four Letters was called the Urim and Thummim And Avenarius is partly of this Opinion for though he holds that the Urim and Thummim are the Twelve Precious Stones shining in the Breast-plate yet he joyns to them the Shem Hamphorash as the Jewish Doctors stile the Name Iehovah But for my part I cannot conceive how these Persons came to take up this Opinion there being no Foundation at all for this Particular Word or Name They might as well have assigned any other Name of God yea any other Word whatsoever that was reputed Sacred and Venerable Wherefore others take another course and understand by the Urim and Thummim something of a far different Nature viz. some Curious Piece of Work either framed by the Hand of some Skillful Artist or immediately wrought by God himself and given by him to Moses when he was on the Mount Accordingly II. Some are of opinion that the Urim and Thummim were the Precious Stones in the High Priest's Breast-plate those Twelve Stones on which the Names of the Tribes were engraven This is the received Doctrin of the Talmudists and the Generality of the Jewish Doctors to whom our Learned Lightfoot and several other Christian Writers adhere And they labour to prove this Assertion from Exod. 39. 8 c. where the making of the Breast-plate with all its Ornaments is set down and yet the Urim and Thummim are not expresly mentioned there Whence they conclude that these Stones are the Urim and Thummim and that Moses mentioning those did as good as mention these These therefore say they are nothing else but those Stones But this is confuted from this Exod. 28. where Aaron's Garments and Habiliments are most distinctly set down Here you read of the Breast-plate with Twelve Precious Stones v. 15 c. and then in v. 30. the Urim and Thummim are mentioned by themselves Thou shalt put c. Therefore These are things really different from the Stones which were distinctly named before and particularly described from v. 15. to 22. This I think is very plain and convincing and as for the place before produced the answer is that the mentioning of the Urim and Thummim is omitted there where the Design was particularly to insist upon those Habiliments which were Rich and Costly and required great Art and Preparation but the Urim and Thummim are not of that nature but a plain easie thing as I shall shew afterwards The Talmudical Doctors go on and tell us that by the Stones shining more than ordinarily Answer was given to what was asked by the Holy Priest Which also is asserted by some Late Writers who confidently tell us that the Stones in the Breast-plate were called Urim because they sent forth a light in great abundance and especially that a Pair of these Gemms shone forth with extraordinary Brightness when the Answer of God was Acceptable and Welcome but when it was not they look'd very Dim and Dull But some say and with as much reason as the former that the Answer was given not by the Unusual Lustre of the Stones but by the Letters of the Names Ingraven in them which raised themselves higher and stood more out and so made up certain Words out of the Alphabet contain'd in the Names of the Twelve Tribes When any one came to enquire at this O●acle the High Priest look'd on the Letters which were Ingraven on the Stones of his Breast-plate and there read what God's Pleasure was But this is a mere Conjecture Besides we are certain that Long Answers and such there were sometimes could not be given in this way ‖ Antiq. Iud. l. 3. c. 9. Iosephus affirms that the Stones in the High Priest's Breast-plate fore signified what was to be by the Change of their Colour Others have other Fancies as Suidas quotes an Author who averred that the Stones turned Red if there was any Answer of War and that they turn'd Black if Death was denounced and other Divinations and Answers were signified by other Colours All which is mere Surmise and Conceit Wherefore 't is needless to insist upon the Refutation of it III. Others hold that the Urim and Thummim were Two Precious Stones given by God to Moses distinct from the Twelve Gemms or Stones before mentioned I find that Procopius

which were commanded to be put into the High Priests Breast-plate that these Sacred Characters which were written at first with Gods own hand it is probable as the Moral Law was represent unto us something that is Spiritual and Mystical First then These relate to the High Priest and the Holy Function of the Ministry Those who are appointed to this Office are the Lights of the World And they must be as it was said of Iohn the Baptist Burning and Shining † 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 uro luceo Lights They must with Zeal Inform and Instruct the People they must Enlighten and at the same time Warm Mens Minds And the Thummim must be the individual Companion of Vrim i. e. They must be Men of Integrity and Vprightness Faithfulness and Sincerity which are also called Truth and so the Translation of the Seventy is very Agreeable who render Thummim Truth The short is That those who are employ'd in the Sacred Ministry must speak as the Oracles of God 1 Pet. 4. 11. They must deliver Gods Word Plainly Impartially Faithfully Truly and they must add Integrity of Life and Manners which make them in some measure Perfect Secondly These words relate to the Law of God which is so often called a Light Thy word saith the Psalmist is a Lamp to my feet and a Light unto my path Psal. 119. 105. The Commandment is a Lamp and the Law is Light saith Solomon Prov. 6. 23. Therefore it is said The Commandment of the Lord enlightens the Eyes Psal. 19. 8. And in Psal. 119. 130. It giveth Light The same Inspired Person tells us That the Law of the Lord is Perfect Psal. 19. 7. And it is This Divine Law which the Psalmist calls the Truth Psal. 119. 142. So that you see the Urim and Thummim may relate to This. Yea as they refer to this Law or Will of God the Revelation of it may be signified by Light and the Effecting and Accomplishing of it may be signified by Perfection Thirdly They have respect to a Higher Matter they represent and set forth Christ Iesus our High Priest He is the True Light which lighteth every Man that cometh into the World John 1. 9. and therefore he calls himself The Light of the World John 8. 12. When this arose the Shadows fled away Darkness and Night vanished and all became Clear and Bright This Sacred Oracle which was represented by That in Aaron's Pectoral did not speak Ambiguously but Plainly and Distinctly we are by it taught what we must believe and what we must do He is Truth it self as well as Light he is of such Faithfulness and Integrity that he will not deceive us In this Infallible Oracle Doctrin and Truth Light and Integrity Illumination and Perfection meet together The Jewish Vrim and Thummim were lost at the Captivity of Babylon and wanting at the Peoples Return Ezra 2. 63. neither do we find that God answered by them any more But Christ the Word is a Never●failing Oracle and shall indure for ever In him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily And we also are compleat in him who is the head Col. 2. 9 10. Thus the Vrim and Thummim were a Type of our Lord Iesus Christ the Great High Priest who is truly our Light and our Perfection You see then how Significant these Two Words are and by consequence how worthy they were to be written by the Finger of God himself and placed on the High Priest's Heart It was impossible to couch more in two single words than you see is here comprehended Whence we may conclude That the Writing or Ingraving of these was all that Moses here meant and consequently that those Writers have mistaken the Text who have imagined that some Precious Stones or Images or some such things were put into the High Priest Pectoral and that they are here called Urim and Thummim Thus I have given you an Account of the Different Opinions of the Learned concerning this Extraordinary way of Revelation stiled Urim and Thummim And I have presented you with my Own Thoughts which as I conceive are the most plain natural and simple account of this Divine Oracle I have likewise indeavoured to inform you what was the Higher and Spiritual Meaning intended by the Holy Ghost The third Text enquired into viz. Judges XI 30 31. And Jephthah vowed a Vow unto the Lord and said If thou shalt without fail deliver the Children of Ammon into my hands Then it shall be that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my House to meet me when I return in Peace from the Children of Ammon shall surely be the Lord's and I will offer it up for a Burnt-offering THis Remarkable Vow of Iephthah and the Manner of the performing of it have frequently employed the Thoughts and Pens of the Learned who according to their different Apprehensions of the Words have decided this Controversie in a different manner Some confidently assert that Iephthah did not Sacrifice his Daughter but others on the contrary maintain that he did And besides this there is another Question on supposal that he did Sacrifice her viz. Whether it was well done of him or no These are the Particulars which will fall under our Enquiry at present but especially I shall entertain the Reader with the latter of them and there endeavour to shew what was the Rise of this Inhumane and Extravagant Action and what Reason may be given why this Generous Commander this Noble Warrior was so eager of shedding the Blood even of his own Daughter yea when it was so absolutely contrary to the Law which this Great Man could scarcely be ignorant of Here I hope to give some light to this Controverted Cause by assigning the True Spring of that Strange Action and by discovering what was the Over-ruling Design of Providence in it which hath not been enquired into by others that I have met with on this Subject But first Let us hear what those say who embrace the Negative viz. That Iephthah did not Sacrifice his Daughter To make this good they hold that there are two distinct parts of the Vow 1. Whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my House to meet me shall surely be the Lords 2. I will offer it up for a Burnt-offering And they put them together thus Whatsoever cometh c. shall surely be the Lords or I will offer it up c. They read Or instead of And for the Copulative Vau they say is sometimes Disjunctive in Scripture and so it is here in this Vow the Hebrew Particle which is here translated and should be rendred or for Iephtha's words are to be taken Disjunctively and his Vow was no other than this Whatever I first meet with coming out of my House shall either be dedicated to the Lord or I will Sacrifice it for a Burnt-offering It was a Conditional Vow i. e. If it were a thing fit to be Sacrificed he would Sacrifice