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B16297	An explication of the iudiciall lawes of Moses. Plainely discovering divers of their ancient rites and customes. As in their governours, government, synedrion, punishments, civill accompts, contracts, marriages, warres, and burialls. Also their oeconomicks, (vizt.) their dwellings, feasting, clothing, and husbandrie. Together with two treatises, the one shewing the different estate of the godly and wicked in this life, and in the life to come. The other, declaring how the wicked may be inlightned by the preaching of the gospel, and yet become worse after they be illuminated. All which are cleered out of the originall languages, and doe serue as a speciall helpe for the true understanding of divers difficult texts of scriptures. ... / By Iohn Weemse, of Lathocker in Scotland, preacher of Gods word.	Weemes, John, 1579?-1636.	1632 (1632)	STC 25214; ESTC S112662	170,898	257

fell from God the Angels stood with a flaming sword to hold him out of Paradise Gen. 3. 24. When Christ reconciled us to God he reconciled us also to the Angels Iacob saw in a vision a Why the Angels minister to us Ladder reaching from the earth to the heaven and the Angels ascending up and downe upon it Gen. 28. 12. Christ is this Ladder upon which the Angels come downe to minister unto us Ioh. 1. 51. Verily verily I say unto you hereafter yee shall see heaven open and the Angels of God ascending and descending upon the sonne of man Whether doe the Angels minister to wicked men Quest or not For outward things they may helpe them Answ even as the Lord makes his Sunne to rise on the evill and on the good Mat. 5. 45. Whether the Angels doe minister to the wicked We haue examples of this in the Scriptures when the Israelites were in the Wildernesse the Angels brought downe Manna to them therefore David saith He fed them with the bread of Angels Psal 74. 25. It is called the bread of Angels because it was brought downe by their ministery there were many wicked men amongst the Israelites who did eat Manna yet the Angels by their ministery brought it downe to them another example wee haue the Angels came downe at certaine times and stirred the Poole Ioh. 5. 4. and whosoever stepped in first after that the Poole was stirred was healed whether he were bad or good the Angels then may minister to wicked men in outward things but they doe not defend them from spirituall temptations as they doe the children of God in resisting Satan Secondly when they minister to man they minister to him in his life time in his death in the graue and at the resurrection First they minister to him in his life and they keepe him that he dash not his foote against a stone Secondly in his death they waite about his bed to repell Satan and when the soule is out of the bodie they carry it into Abrahams bosome and they attend the bodies of Gods children in the graue because they are the Temples of the holy Ghost and so at the resurrection they shall gather them from the foure corners of the earth and shall attend them to glorie Thirdly we haue great comfort by their ministery first they are Gnirim vigilantes the watchfull ones 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vigilantes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Robustissimi Dan. 4. 13. Secondly they are Habhirim strong ones Psal 78. 25. When Salomon went to bed he had threescore valiant men about it of the valiant of Israel to defend him Cant 3. 7. But what comfort is it to the children of God then to haue so many watchfull and strong Angels attending them He was carried by the Angels What strange change was this that he who was now lying amongst the dogs is carried by Angels lying amongst dogs the most base and uncleane creatures therefore they are called Impuri canes obscaeni canes that he should now be carried by Angels the most excellent creatures that GOD made and not carried by one Angell but by many Angels as if they were striving every one to carry him when a great man dieth all men striue to be about the Coffin one to carrie a legge and another to carry an Simile arme so doe the Angels striue here to carrie Lazarus soule never man in this world rode in such triumph as Lazarus soule did the Romans after their Victories The pompe of the Romans in their Chariots in their triumphs they had their Chariots drawn sometimes with Elephants sometimes with nimble footed ●ennets sometimes with pyde horses and we reade of Amasis King of Egypt who had his Chariot drawn with foure Kings whom he had conquered but what is this to Lazarus Chariot who is carried here by the Angels of God he rode here Bemirkeb hath hashecinah in curru 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 majestatis What shall be done to the man whom the King will honour Esther 6. 9. he shall not ride upon the Kings best horse but in the Kings best Chariot Into Abrahams bosome This is a speech borrowed from the custome of the Iewes for they that lay in ones bosome were most deare and familiar with him as Iohn leaned in Christs bosome therefore it is said that Christ came out of the bosome of the Father Ioh. 1. 18. The fathers were partakers of the same salvation that The fathers partakers of the same salvation that we are of we are partakers of therefore Lazarus is in Abrahams bosome they shall sit downe with Abraham Isaac and Iacob in the Kingdome of God Mat. 8. 11. And they eat the same spirituall manna with us 1 Cor. 10. 3 And our Sacraments Our Sacraments haue the same name with the Iewes Sacraments haue the names of their Sacramēts we are circumcised with circumcision not made with hands Colos 2. 11. And Christ our Passeover is sacrificed for us 1 Cor. 5. 7. Those then who thinke that the fathers were but fatted up like hogges with the temporary promises of this life are foully deceived Paradise is called Abrahams bosome because the faithfull as Abrahams children are received into that same fellowship with him what is then become of this Limbus Patrum The rich man also died and was buried Many were the solemnities which were in this funerall but nothing of the Angels that carried his soule to heaven he carried nothing of all that he had with him but onely the prickles of an evill conscience now he leaveth all his pomp behinde him R. Salomon observeth that David sometimes is called David the King and David King of Israel but when the Scripture speaketh of his death he is called but David the dayes of David drew nere that he should die 1 King 2. 1. so vers 10. David slept with his fathers and was buried All externall glory and worldly pompe leaveth a man in his death To make use of Parables we are to consider how the How to make use of Parables Arguments drawn from the lesse to the more spirit of God in a Parable draweth an argument from the lesse to the more as if the unjust Iudge because of the importunitie of the widow granted her request how much more will God grant the earnest petitions of his children so the man instantly seeking bread from his neighbour the end of these Parables is to teach us perseverance onely and no other thing to be gathered out of them Secondly the unjust Steward is commended for providing for himselfe here we are to follow him in the Parable for his foresight and not for his deceit so we commend the Serpent for his craft but not for his poison Thirdly nothing is to be gathered in a Parable besides Nothing to be gathered besides the scope of the Parable the scope and as we looke not to every particular colour in the picture but to the whole picture so

and not like Bilhah and Zilpah Because these two were but handmaids and they were not the mothers of many children as Rachel and Leah Fourthly why first like Rachel and then like Leah Because Rachel was more beloved than Leah Fiftly why like Rachel and Leah and not like Sara and Rebecca Because there came of them the Ismaelites who were not of the Church as well as the Israelites Doe thou worthily in Ephrata in the Hebrew it is fac To doe worthily is to doe vertuously virtutem the Hebrewes put vertue for the substance gotten by vertuous doing Psal 49. He shall leaue his substance behinde him in the originall it is he shall leaue his vertue behinde and Prov. 31. Fecerunt potentiam id est comparârunt opes Let thy house be like the house of Pharez because there were fiue families in the Tribe of Iuda and Pharez was the chiefe of them Num. 26. 20. They pray then first that they may haue children secondly that they may haue meanes to maintaine and bring up their children and thirdly that they may liue in credit among their people After the marriage they did sing epithalamium a song What song they sung after the marriage of prayse in commendation of the Bride-groome and Brid Psal 45. so Psal 77. your virgins were not praised that is they were not married and the house of marriage the Iewes called it beth hillel domus laudis The morrow after the marriage the Bridegroome came forth out of his bride-chāber in great pomp with his Bride out under the vaile and these who heard his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 voice rejoyced because then the marriage was consummated and David alludeth to this Psal 19. for as the Bridegroome made glad the hearts of his friends when he came out of his Tent or covering so the Sunne when An anologie betwixt the Sunne rising and the Bridegroomes comming out of his chamber the morrow after his marriage he commeth out of his chamber gladdeth the earth his going out is from the end of the heaven and his circuit to the end of it Luk. 1. Christ is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Sunne rising from the East that Sunne of righteousnesse comming out of the bosome of his Father and out of his bed-chamber rising in the East did shine upon the Iewes in the South and next upon us Gentiles in the North Cant. 7. 9. The conclusion of this is We are married to Iesus Conclusion 1. Christ per confarreationem when he giues us the blessed Sacrament therefore let us come worthily to it that we take it not as Iudas did the soppe Ioh. 13. for that will make diffarreationem or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a divorce from him for ever Secondly we are married to him per coemptionem Conclusion 2. what was the Church when he married her She was blacke like the Tents of Kedar Miriam and Aaron grudged against Moses because of the Ethipian woman whom he had married Numb 12. 1. so was his Church Cant. 1. 5. I am blacke but yet if shee had beene rich which is a second beautie it had beene something but being both blacke and poore there was a hard matter for the Lord to marrie her A certaine woman being asked what dowrie she gaue to her husband she answered that she should keepe her selfe chast unto him onely as a chast spouse So we having nothing to bestow upon him but he having pittie upon us when we were naked and uncomely let us studie to meete him with heartie affection againe and not to fall a whoring after other gods which if we doe he will make us comely as the curtaines of Salomon Thirdly they sung praises and rejoyced at the marriage Conclusion 3. of the Bridegroome and the Bride So let us bee glad and rejoyce and giue honour unto him for the marriage of the Lambe is come and his wife hath made her selfe readie Revel 19. 7. CHAPTER XXXIIII Whether a brother naturall to keepe the Tribes distinguished might marrie his brothers wife or not in Israel or is it meant onely of the next kinsman DEVT. 25. 5. If brethren dwell together and one of them haue no seed c. THe Law is given first to naturall brethren and not to kinsmen onely for the Text saith if brethren dwell together and one of them die and haue no child now what brethren dwelt together are they Numerus cardinalis pro ordinali vnus pro primo as the evening and the morning was one day that is the first day Gen. 1. not naturall brethren and one of them haue no seed that is if the eldest of them haue no seed vnus pro primo And that it is meant of naturall brethren see it by the practise of the people of God for when Er died Onan was bound to raise up seed to him Gen. 38. 9. So Ruth 1. when Machlon the elder brother died without children The second brother was to marrie his eldest brothers wife then the inheritance came to Chilion And when Chilion died without children then his Vncle his neerest kinsman was to succeed and last the brothers children or cousin-germans and he who was to succeed in the inheritance it was he who was bound to marrie his brothers wife wherefore the Law meaneth first of the naturall brother and if there were no naturall brethren then the cousins or next kinsmen were to doe this dutie When the Sadduces propounded the question to Christ that seven brethren married one wife it is meant of seven naturall brethren see Tobit 3. 8. And where it is said Deut. 25. 5. the wife of the dead shall not marrie with a stranger what is that with a stranger That is with one who is not of the familie of him who is dead And first she was bound to marrie with the naturall brother who was not a stranger and if there had not beene a naturall brother then with the next of the kinsmen who was not a stranger Wherfore ijbbam and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are understood first of the naturall brother and then of the next kinsman But it is promised under the Law as a great blessing Object that he should leaue a posteritie behind him and that his name should not be blotted out in Israel But if the brother married his brothers wife then his children were not called his children but his eldest brothers children and so his name was blotted out in Israel and so he might haue set up a pillar as Absalon did for continuance of his name because he had no children of his owne But to haue the name of Iesus Christ continued is a Answ greater blessing To be the father of Iesus Christ according to th● flesh a greater blessing to the second brother then to haue children of his owne Psal 72. 19. coram sole filiabitur nomen ejus per successionem filiorum we see what befell Onan because he refused to doe this dutie h●e said

wicked man and hast no part of this Image of God to defend thee no marvaile if thy dogge bite thee thy horse braine thee or thy oxe gore thee Let us studie then for to haue this Imag● repaired in us if we would be in league with the beasts of the field The dogges came and licked his sores The beasts many Beasts surpasse man in many duties times out-strip man in many duties The Kine of Bethshemesh went streight forward with the Arke and declined neither to the right hand nor to the left but man many times declineth either to the right hand or to the left and he keepeth not this midst The Oxe knoweth his owner and the Asse his Masters crib but Israel doth not know my people doe not consider Esay 1. 3. and Ier. 8. 7. Yea the storke in the heaven knoweth her appointed times and the turtle and the crane and the swallow obserue the time of their comming but my people know not the judgement of the Lord. And the Lord sendeth man to the Ant to learne wisedome Prov. 6. 6. Goe to the ant thou sluggard consider her wayes and be wise Balaams Asse saw the Angell sooner then Balaam himselfe and therefore is it that the Scripture calleth men beasts and sendeth them to be taught by beasts which sheweth how farre man is degenerated from his first estate and what a low forme hee is in when the beasts are set to teach him It may seeme strange why the Lord distributeth Why God gaue his children a small portion in this life things so that he giveth such plentie and abundance to the rich glutton and so little to Lazarus seeing the earth is the Lords and the fulnesse thereof Psal 24. 1. God who doth all things in wisdome doth not this without good reason The Lord dealeth with his children in this life as he did with the Israelites when he brought them Simile to Canaan Numb 13. 17. When he brought them to Canaan he made them to goe Southward into the Mountaines South a barren Countrey the South was a dry and barren part Iudg. 1. 15. Thou hast given me a South-land giue me also springs of water so Psal 126. 4. Turne againe our captivitie O Lord as the streames in the South hee prayeth that the Lord would refresh them now in the midst of bondage as the waters refreshed the dry and barren South And Iarchi noteth that the Lord did with his people here as Merchants doe who shew the worst cloath first so Simile dealeth the Lord with his children hee sheweth them the worst first and as at the wedding in Cana of Galilie the last wine was the best so is it here the Lord sheweth his children great affl●ctions and troubles the South part as it were at first but afterwards he bringeth them to the Land that floweth with milke and honey Secondly he bestoweth these outward and temporarie things but sparingly upon his children that hee may draw their hearts to the consideration of better things he giveth the wicked their portion in this life Psal 17. 14. Sonne remember that thou in thy life time receivedst thy good things Luke 16. 25. but he reserveth the good things for his owne children that is the holy Ghost the graces of the Spirit Luk. 11. 9. It is a matter of great consequence to discerne what Great skill required in discerning the gifts of Gods right hand are the gifts of Gods favour many men thinke because they haue wealth and prosperitie they are the gifts of Gods favour and they seeme to stand under the Lords right hand but they are deceived When Ephraim and Manasseh were brought before Iacob Ephraim was set at Simile Iacobs left hand and Manasseh at his right hand but Iacob crossed his hands and laid his right hand upon Ephraims head and his left upon the head of Manasseh Gen. 48. So many men who seeme to stand at the Lords right hand shall be set at his left hand and many who seeme to stand at his left hand shall be set at his right hand Lazarus seemeth to stand now at his left hand but stay till you see him die and the Angels carry him to glory and then yee shall see him stand at the Lords right hand It is a point of great wisedome to know the Lords dispensing hand David prayeth Psal 17. 7. separa benignitates tuas as if he should say giue us something O Lord that we may be discerned to be thy children from the wicked for by these outward favours wee shall never be knowne to be thy children The Lord careth not to throw a portion of this world to a wicked man as if one should throw a bone to a dogge but he will know well to whom hee giveth this rich gift of eternall life And it came to passe that the beggar dyed and the rich Death separateth the godly from the wicked man also dyed Death maketh a full separation betwixt the children of God and the wicked the sheepe and the goates may feed together for a while but the shepheard separateth them the wheat and the chaffe may lie in one floore together but the fanne separateth them and the good and the bad fish may be both in one net untill they be drawne to the land and the tares and the wheat may grow in one field for a while until the time of harvest so may the godly and the wicked liue together here for a while but death maketh a totall and full separation Moses said to the Israelites stand still and Simile see the salvation of the Lord which hee will shew to you to day for the Egyptians whom yee haue seene to day yee shall see them no more for ever Exod. 14. 13. the red Sea made a separation betwixt the Israelites and the Egyptians for ever So death separateth the children of God from the wicked that they shall never meete againe Betwixt us and you there is a great gulfe fixed so that they which would passe from hence to you cannot neither can they passe to us that would come from thence Luk. 16. 26. This should Gods children should haue little medling with the world teach the children of God to haue little medling with the wicked why because one day there shall be a totall and finall separation and this is a great comfort to his children oftentimes now they are afraid of the incursions of the wicked and of their bloodie hands but then they shall never be afraid of them The gates of the new Ierusalem were not shut at all Revel 21. 25. to signifie that there shall be no feare of the enemie there And he was carried by the Angels into Abrahams bosome Here consider three things first how it commeth that the Angels are ministring spirits to man secondly what they minister to man thirdly the comfort that we haue by their ministerie First the ground of their ministery is because we are reconciled to God in Christ when man