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A67153	A practical commentary or exposition upon the Pentateuch viz. These five books of Moses Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. Wherein the text of every chapter is practically expounded, according to the doctrine of the Catholick Church, in a way not usually trod by commentators; and wholly applyed to the life and salvation of Christians. By Ab. Wright; sometime fellow of St. John's Colledge in Oxford.	Wright, Abraham, 1611-1690.	1662 (1662)	Wing W3688; ESTC R221054	292,675	224

being saved in the New by believing he is come CHAP. XXXVIII Verse 1. VVHile the Church of God was in a journeying condition a small Altar and a slender Sacrifice were sufficient but in Solomons time the Altar was four times as big as this here and the Sacrifice was multiplied God looks upon the condition of his Servants and will be content with what they are able to perform When the Church is in persecution a Grot or Cave of the Earth may passe with God for a Temple and a Turfe of the same Earth for an Altar and Gods Presence in such holes shall be as eminent as in the Temple of Ierusalem when that Temple was in its greatest Glory But when God shall please to restore his Church to Peace and Plenty then God doth expect that our returns of Duty should be answerable to such Blessings that as our Peace and Prosperity is more than it was so should our service and Worship of God exceed in a due proportion Verse 8. A good Prince doth the Office which Moses his Glasses did at the brasen Sea in the Temple For he shews others their spots and in a pious and unspotted life of his own shews his Subjects their deficiencies And to make an higher use of Moses his Glasse than to see a King in the whole Creation is that Glasse wherein we may see the King of Kings even our God himself Scarce can you imagine a vainer thing except you will except the vain lookers on in that Action than the Looking-glasses of Women and yet Moses brought those Looking-glasses to a religious use to shew them that came in the spots of dirt which they had taken by the way that they might wash themselves clean before they passed any further There is not so poor a Creature but may be thy Glasse to see thy God in The greatest flat Glasse that can be made cannot represent any thing greater than it is If every Gnat that flies were an Archangel all that could but tell me that there is a God and the poorest Worm that creeps tels me that If I should ask the Basilisk how camest thou by those killing Eyes he would tell me thy God made me so and if I should ask the slow worm how camest thou to be without Eyes he would tell me thy God made me so The Cedar is no better a Glasse to see God in than the Hysop on the Wall All things that are are equally removed from being nothing and whatsoever hath any being is by that very Being a Glasse in which we see God who is the Root and the Fountain of all Being Verse 22. The work of the Tabernacle was perform'd not according to the Will and pleasure of Man but God not as Bezaliel and Aholiab thought fit though they were knowing Men and great Artizans nor yet as Moses would have it but sayes the Text as the Lord commanded Moses In matters of concernment about Gods Service and Worship who so fit to command and prescribe as God Men are but Men and therefore may erre The holy Patriarchs in the Old Testament were holy Men yet they strayed into some sinful Actions the holy Fathers in the Primitive Church were holy Men yet they strayed into some erroneous Opinions and therefore neither the one nor the other can be an infallible Warrant for us If God command Moses Moses may command us Neither Temple nor Sacrifice nor Priest are of our own contriving any invention of Man but prescribed and founded by God himself CHAP. XXXIX Verse 10. IN all which rowes we may observe these seven things First the shining of the stones pointing to the Purity of Christ and his Church Secondly their price of great value and worth signifying at what price Christ valued his Church at Thirdly their place or situation they are set in the Pectoral and Aaron must carry them on his Heart signifying that Christ hath as much care of his Church as if it were inclosed in his Heart le ts out his Bloud to make room in his Heart for them Fourthly their number twelve implying that with Christ is plentiful Redemption Fifthly their order they stood in a comely Quadrangle Christ hath stablished a comely Order in his Church and we must keep our ranks Sixthly the Figure being four-square signifying the stability and firmness of the Church Satan and all Deceivers shall not pick one stone out of Christs Pectoral Lastly the quantity as all the Names of Israel were gathered into a narrow compass so Christ shall gather together into one all the dispersed Sons of God and present them before God as the most beautiful and pretious parts of the World Verse 23. The care that was here taken to preserve the Ephod that it should not rent serves to teach us our Duty and that we are to use all circumspection and diligence to keep Schisms and Divisions out of the Church For to break the Unity of the Church is to divide to cut asunder the very Veins and Sinews of the mystical Body of Christ. And therefore Saint Paul doth conjure his Corinthians 1 Cor. 1. 10. by the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ that they speak one and the samething and that they be perfectly joyn'd together in one mind and in one judgement I or Schisms do disjoynt Men they shake them out of their Senses and fright them out of their Wits Beware therefore sayes the same Apostle of the Concision Phil. 3. 2. that is of those that make Divisions and cut the Church into little pieces and sucking Congregations Christs Coat was seamless and his Dove but one And upon this account the Primitive Christians were famous for their unity As the Curtains of the Tabernacle were joyn'd together by Loops so were they by Love and as the stones of the Temple they were so close cemented together that they seem'd to be all but one stone to have all but one mind and one soul. Verse 26. It is the Duty of Ministers to live their own Sermons to be fruitful as well as painful Preachers and to teach as well by their Life as Doctrine Not like him of whom it was said that when he was out of the Pulpit it was pitty he should ever go into it and when he was in the Pulpit it was pitty he should ever come out of it Every good Ministers six dayes should be a Commentary on the seventh and his own life in the week dayes should be the use of that Doctrine he delivers upon the Lords day For which reason it was that the Predicants of old were call'd Operari● quia opere magis quam ore praedicarent because they should preach no lesse by their Actions than their Sermons and send forth a savour unto life as well by their Lives as their Doctrines And this is to have the Priests Garment fring'd about with a Bell and a Pomegranate to shew they must be neither dumb Dogs nor stinking Weeds but lead the People as well with the sweet

which Names he had given him of striving and strugling All Gods Israel are Wrestlers by Calling and as good Souldiers of Jesus Christ must suffer hardship Nothing is to be seen in the Shulamite but as the appearance of two Armies maintaining civil broils within her the Spinit warreth against the Flesh and the Flesh against the Spirit Wherefore we have more than need to take unto us the whole Armour of God and to strengthen our selves with every piece of it At no place must we lie open for our enemy is a Serpent if he can but bite the heel he will transfuse his venome to the heart and head Verse 19. We see here how Iacob is tryed with a new cross deprived of his Crown his Stay his Comfort his Wife Which is writ for our instruction to teach us that Gods Children must not look to live at ease in this life They must not Prophecy of Peace to themselves That there shall be no leading into Captivity and no complaining in our streets They must not dream that they shall be alwayes carried on Eagles wings but their dreams must be of Willow-trees by the Waters of Babel of afflictions and crosses a Christian must be a daily cross-bearer which made this Patriarch in another place say Few and evil have the dayes of my Pilgrimage been The Child of God a Son of Iacob must not think to walk in plain and easie paths to heaven but must climb hard it is all up-hill the way lieth inter Epauleum Magdalum as the Septuagint read the text Exod. 14. 2. that is by turreting and towering turning and winding as Origen Expounds it Never any went to Heaven with dry eyes Iacob's life was a continual warfare First Rachel the comfort of his life dieth and when but in her travel and in his travel to his Father Then his Children the staff of his age wound his Soul to the death Reuben proves incestuous Iudah adulterous Dinah ravished Simeon and Levi murtherous Er and Onan stricken dead Ioseph lost Simeon imprisoned Benjamin the death of his Mother the Fathers right hand endangered himself driven by Famine in his old age to die amongst the Egyptians a people that held it an abomination to eat with him Thus many are the troubles wherewith the Lord tryeth his Children And if that God with whom he strove and who therefore strove for him had not delivered his soul out of all adversity he had been supplanted with evils and had been so far from gaining the name of Israel that he had lost the name of Iacob Now what Son of Israel can hope for good dayes when he hears his Fathers were so evil It is enough for us if when we are dead we can rest with him in the Land of Promise If the Angel of the Covenant once bless us no pain no sorrows can make us miserable CHAP. XXXVI Verse 1. DEmosthenes that great popular Orator was wont to hugg himself as he went in the streets to hear the Common People say as he passed by This is Demosthenes There goes the great Orator but it can be no Joy nor Credit for any man to be pointed at and stigmatized by the People for an infamous person This is Edom is no Commendation though Registred in the Book of God no happiness for Esau to find his Name in Scripture in the Book of God unless he could find it also in the Book of Life It had been happier for Ieroboam and Iudas if their Names might have been forgotten than to be remembred under those ignominious Characters of Iudas the Traitor and Ieroboam that made Israel to sin The wicked though they think to get them a Name and to that end lay Plots to keep it up and protect both it and themselves yet their Names shall either rot and perish or if they be remembred it shall be only as his was that burnt the Temple of Diana as a Curse in the Nation wherein they live as the publick fire-brands and incendiaries the common plague ruine and desolation of their Country Verse 6. Esau no doubt was as strong if not stronger than Iacob yet fled before his face surely there was something in it more than the power of Iacob that daunted Esau and something more than ordinary appeared in Iacobs face from which Esau fled there was a divine Majesty seated there and with this Esau was not acquainted and therefore it struck a terror into him and made him fly and all this not without a special Providence of God to make room for the right Heir Canaan was the promised Land but not for Esau he had sold his Birth-right and with that the Promise which was annexed to it the Land flowing with milk and honey was too good for him that valued a mess of Pottage above the Blessing of the first-born A Iacob only one blessed of God was to inherit that Country which should afterwards be blessed by the Son of God the Holy Land was no inheritance for an Esau a prophane person Verse 20. Esau was by Marriage allied to this Seir for he took Aholibamah the Daughter of Anah to Wife vers 2. and yet the Posterity of Esau were so unnatural as to drive their own Kinsmen out of their Country Deut. 2. 12. No tyes either of Bloud or Friendship or Nature or Religion are able to hold wicked men when Ambition or Covetousness drives them on the Sons of Esau value not their nearest Relations an Estate to them is of far greater esteem then Kindred or Friends then either their Brother their Father or their God himself Verse 31. As Esau was the first-born so he was the first King likewise and good reason the Elder Brother should wear the Crown before the younger especially since Iacobs Portion was not so much a temporal Crown as an eternal For though Iacob by Gods Decree was to have the blessing yet not the inheritance of the first-born temporal Estates or Dominions are not entailed to Grace neither can the Children of God as such challenge to themselves the power and authority of other men as their King so their Kingdom is not of this World And therefore let Esau Reign and Edom have Kings while Iacob is a Slave an Israel under and Egyptian Captivity yet Iacob shall Reign at last and that for ever and Israel have a King whose soveraignty shall spread over the whole World and endure longer than it the Scepter shall not depart from Iudah until Shilo come no nor then neither for his Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom and his Dominion endureth throughout all Generations Psal. 145. 13. Verse 43. When Edom in the 31 verse of this Chapter was a King then was Israel a Slave but here when Edom was a Duke Israel was a King which instructs us not to look at the beginning of Gods Providence but the end and design of it Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is Peace saith the Psalm 38. 37. And