whereof is that Ministers bee no wine-blbbers or Alestakes 1 Tim. 3.3 Why should it bee said as of old They have erred becaus of wine and have gon out of the waie becaus of strong drink even the Priest and the Prophet Isa 28.7 Drunkenness is a crime in all but it 's a kinde of Sacrilege in Ministers And if other drunkards deserv double punishments for their misdemeanours as Aristotle judgeth first for their drunkenness 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arist Ethic. lib. 3. c. 5 and then for the sin committed in and by their drunkenness what do drunken Priests Isa 56.12 Ver. 10. And that yee may put difference Drunkenness take's away the heart Hos 4.11 besot's and infatuate's rob's a man of himself and laie's a beast in his room Ver. 11. And that yee may teach The Priest's lips should both preserv knowledg and present it to the people even all the counsel of God Mal. 2.7 Acts 20.27 To give the knowledg of salvation by the remission of sins Luke 1.77 Ver. 12. Take the Meat-offering q. d. Think not that God hath cashiered you becaus hee hath corrected you neither refuse your meat out of a sullen sowrness but fall to your Meat-offering and take better heed another time Onely eat before the Lord. Deut. 12.18 Ver. 16. And behold it was burnt Passion for their dead friends had so transported the Priests that they knew not well what they did Wee use to saie Res est ingeniosa dolor but then it must not bee excessive as here and as 2 Sam. 18.33 Ver. 17. To bear the iniquitie This the sinner doth subjectively the Priest typically the Lord Christ really Ver. 19. Should it have been accepted God love's a cheerfull server Deut. 12.7 and 26.14 Mourners bread is polluted bread Hos 9.4 And Mal. 2.13 those unkinde husbands are blamed for caussing their wives when they should have been chearfull in God's service to cover the Lords altar with tears with weeping and with crying out so that hee regarded not the offering anie more This Aaron knew and allegeth for himself CHAP. XI Ver. 1. Vnto Moses and to Aaron MAgistrate and Minister must jointly see that God's laws bee duly executed Queen Elisabeth once in her progress visiting the Countie of Suffolk all the Justices of Peace in that Countie met her Majestie having everie one his Minister next to his bodie which the Queen took special notice of and thereupon uttered this speech that shee had often demanded of her Privie Councel why her Countie of Suffolk was better governed then anie other Countie and could never understand the reason thereof but now shee her self perceived the reason It must needs be so said shee where Moses and Aaron the Word and the Sword go together Ver. 2. These are the beasts which yee shall eat These and these onely 1. That yee may bee at mine appointment for your verie meat as who am chief Lord of all 2. That there may bee a difference betwlxt you and all other people 3. That yee may bee taught to studie puritie and know that the verie creatures are defiled by man's sin 4. That yee may have these things as a shadow of things to com Col. 2.16 17. Ver. 3. Whatsoever parteth the hoof and cheweth the cud To teach them to think upon God's commandments to do them Psal 103.18 cleansing themselvs from all filthiness of flesh and spirit 2 Cor. 7.1 Ver. 4. The camel The foolish Jews when they saw Mahomet arising in such power D. Hall's Peace-maker were straight readie to crie him up for their Messiah But when they saw him eat of a Camel saith mine Autor they were as blank as when they saw the hoped issue of their late Jewish Virgin turn'd to a daughter Ver. 5. And the conie Which hath his name in Hebrew from hiding himself in holes A weak but a wise creature Pro. 30.26 And wisdom is better then strength Eccles 9.15 The Hare that trust 's to the swiftness of her legs is at length taken and torn in pieces When the Conie that fleets to the rocks doth easily avoid the dogs that pursue her See Isa 40.30 31. Ver. 6. Becaus hee cheweth the cud but divideth not Meditation must end in practice as lessons of musick must bee practised and a copie not read onely but written after Ver. 7. And the Swine Anima sui data pro sale nè carnes putrescant said Cleanthes The Swine hath his soul for salt onely so hath the drunkard Ver. 8. Of their flesh yee shall not eat Not above the quantitie of an Olive saie the Jew-Doctors who will need 's bee mending magnificat adding to the Law Ver. 9. Whatsoever hath fins and scales The fins of the fish are for steering of their motion the scales for smoothness of passage Serm. 1. in die 8. And. for safegard for ornament Those onely are clean in the sight of God Qui squamas loricam habent patientiae pinnulas hilaritatis saith Bernard Ver. 10. Of all that move in the waters And yet swim also in the aër Like to these is the temporarie believer for that seeming to mount up in spiritual joies yet hee withall swimmeth yea batheth himself in the waters of sensual delights Ver. 11. They shall bee even an abomination To teach us that nothing is lawfull no not for our common use unless it bee sanctified by the word of God and praier 1 Tim. 4.5 Acts 10.35 Ver. 13. The Eagle Which yet is counted and called the king of birds and delight 's in high flying That which is highly esteemed amongst men is abomination before God Lu. 16.15 Ver. 14. And the vulture and the kite That feed upon carrion and dead carcasses and are emblems of greedie gripers and oppressors Ver. 15. Everie raven Unnatural to his young whom God himself heareth and feedeth Psal 147.9 though they crie with a harsh note and crie to God by implication and though the raven bee an inauspicate bird and a sign both of man's punishment and God's curs Isa 34.11 Ver. 16. And the owl and the night-raven Night-birds that hate the light or flie against it as bats do are an abomination Deeds of darkness are out of date now in the daies of the Gospel especially Rom. 13.12 13. Ver. 17. And the cormorant An unsatisfiable bird that fitly resembleth the divel who daily devour's souls and yet enlargeth his desires as hell Ver. 18. And the Swan Whose white fethers but black skin under them might serv to set forth the hatefulness of hypocrisie Ver. 19. And the Stork Which build's high Psal 104.17 but feed's low on fishes frogs and snakes and so might bee the rather rejected as unfit for food And the lapwing Which is worthily made an hieroglyphick of infelicitie becaus it hath as a coronet upon the head and yet feed's upon the worst of excrements It is pittie that the Saints that are brought up in scarlet should embrace the dunghill Lam. 4.5 that anie one that is
A Clavis to the Bible OR A NEW COMMENT UPON THE Pentateuch OR Five Books of MOSES Wherein are 1. Difficult Texts explained 2. Controversies discussed 3. Common-places handled 4. Cases of Conscience cleered 5. Many Remarkable matters hinted that had by other Interpreters been omitted 6. Besides divers Texts of Scripture which occasionally occur are fully opened 7. And the whole so intermixed with pertinent Histories as will yeeld both pleasure and profit to the Judicious pious Reader By JOHN TRAPP Pastor of Weston upon Avon in Glocestershire LONDON Printed for Timothy Garthwait at the George in Little-Brittain 1650. TO THE VVORSHIPFVLL his highly honoured friend William Comb Esquire of Stratford upon Avon Justice of the Peace for the County 〈◊〉 Warwickt Worthy Sir YOu may well wonder not so much that I now dedicate this peece of my pains unto you as that I did it not till now considering how long I have known you and how very much I am oblieged to You. The truth is this These Notes upon Genesis were the first in this kind that ever I finished and You were deservedly among the first that came into my thoughts for a Patron to them But as Pharez once made a breach upon his brother Zarah Gen. 38.29 and gat into the world before him so did those other Works of mine if at least that name be not too good for them deal by This which now with its red threed a sign of its intended seniority humbly implores Your patronage and if worth while your perusal I know you have somewhat else to do then to read Commentaries and yet I must needs know too that You that are so sedulous a searcher of the Scriptures and so seriously inquisitive after the genuine sense of such and such dark Texts therein as in conference occasionally You have oft proposed unto me cannot but delight to be duely exercised in books of this nature Dr. Cumber That Reverend Doctour of Cambridge that in the behalf of himself and his whole Colledg for a very good turn you did them presented You with the fairest great Bible that ever I beheld saw something surely of your pious inclination to the study of that blessed Book And if to the better understanding thereof this or any thing else that I have yet written may be any way serviceable I have that I sought for Alphonsus King of Arragon is said to have read over the Bible fourteen times Panormitan with Lyra's Notes upon it And those English Exiles for Christ at Geneva knew they could not present any thing more pleasing to that Incomparable Queen Elizabeth then their new Translation of and marginal Notes uppon the holy Bible which Book of books she had received with both her hands Speed from the Londoners soon after her Coronation and kissing it laid it to her breast saying That the same had been her chiefest delight and should be the rule whereby she meant to frame her whole deportment Let it be still Yours Good Sir as hitherto it hath been and let this poor piece of mine if at any time you think good to consult with it tell you in my absence what my sense is of such places as wherein with that noble Eunuch Act. 8.31 You may need an Interpreter No more Jam. 1.17 2 Cor. 4.6 Sir at present then to pray the Father of lights who commanded the light to shine out of darknesse to give You the light of the knowledge of the glory of God Vers 7. in the face of Jesus Christ That though You have this treasure presented to you in an earthen vessel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in a vile oyster-shell as the Greek hath it yet You may partake of the excellency of the power that is of God and not of Me Vers 5. who preach not present not my self but Christ Jesus the Lord and my self Your Servant for Jesus sake JOHN TRAPP 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thomas Richardson Oxen Pastor Ecclesiae de Newbold pace 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tho Dugard Art Mag. Rector Barsordiae LECTORI HAbes hîc Lector pretii quantivis Librum Prioribus * Limatissimis et lectissimis illis Annotationibus in Novum Testamentum unam cum locorum communium decade nec non duobus aliis idiomate etiam vernaculo conscriptis quorum alteri nomen God's Love-tokens c. alteri The true Treasure c. quos trivistilatus parem Notas in Mosis Pentadem unde denuò Sic splendet ille â—t Mâ—nte quum descenderet Magni Tonantis inclytus Tabellio At non at olim Claritate territans Abegit accedentes nunc parili modo Ne contremas tibi prodit formidabilis Accede sis et intuere senties Lucem stupendam sed quae oculos beet tuos Tenebras fugari gestis ecce Phosphorus Aenigmata solvi te penes est nunc Oedipus Gazas recludi clavem cernis auream Tenebricosior est subinde Legifen Et Sphingis instar et gazas premit suas Ast Trappus clarat solvit pandit omnia Trappi nil quicquam est invium solertiae Nec Luce solùm donat ut scientior Et auctior Capite ita corde purior Modò tibi nè desis hinc discedas Vale. Dugardus TO THE BOOK WElcome sweet Babe into the Light A Light thy self to Him whose sight Was at twice sixty undecay'd Deut. 34.7 Whose Infancy ravisht a maid His wind-and-wave-rockt Cradle she That gracious Princess needs would see And seeing fell in love with him Whose first three moneths were taught to swim As he to her so thou to me Art full of Amabilitie Exceeding fair and proper too He was thou art who can but wooe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Act. 7.20 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. 11.23 Who can but fix on thee his eye And much affect thy company So sweet is thy discourse where meet Piety Learning Eloquence wit Profit and Pleasure Muse and Grace Maschil and Michtam here 's the place Where golden apples we may find With silver pictures fitly joyn'd Were it not so I durst profess That thou sweet child
Moses Aaron and Hur went up into the Mount where Moses's hands are thus supported while Amalek is discomfited and that Moses the Prophet Hur the Prince and Aaron the Priest all put together were a type of Christ who on the fourtieth daie after his Resurrection asscended into the Mount of Heaven where as our Prophet Priest and Prince hee hold's up the hands of his Intercession for his Church Militant whiles shee fight 's with spiritual Amalek Sin Satan Antichrist World Flesh c. Ver. 13. And Joshua discomfited How should hee do otherwise when hee fought with such weapons Praiers are the bombardae instrumenta bellica Christianorum saith Luther The great guns and warlike weapons of the Saints The Romans in a great distress were driven to take the weapons out of the Temples of their gods and overcame The Parliament souldiers at Edg-hill-battle falling on with courage and crying out Now for the fruit of praier Now for the fruit of praier prevailed mightily slaying near ten to one c. Ver. 14. In a book Or in the book that thou art now in writing viz. the Pentateuch the most antient book that is extant I will utterly put out c. The portion of wicked men is to bee forgotten in the citie where they had so don Eccles 8.10 their memorie die's with them or if it bee preserved it stink's in keeping and remain's as a curs and perpetual disgrace Ver. 15. And Moses built an Altar As a lasting monument of God's great Mercie in that first victorie The Romans had a custom that the Conqueror in his triumphant chariot rode to the Capitol and offered a white ox to Jupiter Liv lib 6. Decad 3. Ver. 16. Becaus the Lord c. Heb. The hand upon the throne of the Lord. God's hand is laid upon his own throne as swearing to root out Amalek Or Amalek's hand is lifted up against God's throne that is the Church called God's throne of glorie Jer. 4.21 and crown of glorie Isa 62.3 therefore hee will have perpetual war with him Tua caussa erit mea caussa said the Emperor Charls the Fifth to Julius Pflugius who beeing his Agent had received wrong by the Duke of Saxonie so saith God to all that belong to him CHAP. XVIII Ver. 1. Heard of all ANd thereby was converted saie the Rabbins beeing the first Proselyte to the Jewish Church that wee read of in in Scripture Ver. 2. After hee had sent her back Becaus shee was troublesom with her peevishness and a hinderance to the good work in hand Chap. 4.25 26. Sylla felix fuisset ni uxorem duxisset Adrianus ni imperitâsset Moses both Ver. 3. In a strange land See the Note on Chap. 2.22 Ver. 4. Eliezer Or Lazarus Wee should write God's mercies upon the names of our children or som other waies perpetuate the memorie of them Ver. 5. At the Mount of God Horeb whither they were removed from Rephidim though the remove bee not mentioned Ver. 6. And hee said That is sent him word so God's messages to us are to bee received as his own immediate words Hee that heareth you heareth mee Ver. 7. And did obeisance Sr. Thomas More Lord Chancellor would in Westminster-hall beg his Father's blessing on his knees Ver. 8. All that the Lord bath don It is not enough to relate God's mercies to us in the lump and by whole sale but wee must instance the particulars both to God and men That had com upon them Heb. Had found them yet not without a providence Job 5.6 God cut 's us out our several conditions it is his hand that finde's us when wee suffer ought Ver. 9. And Jethro rejoiced So must all Sion's sons Isa 66.10 Ver. 10. And Jethro said c. Cheerfulness make's thankfulness Luke 1.46 Jam. 5.13 Ver. 11. Now I know See the Note on Ver. 1. So the people knew that Jehovah was God 1 King 18.37 See 2 Cro. 33.13 Hee was above them God sit's in the heavens Psal 2.4 where hee see 's that their daie is coming Psal 37.16 and mean while scorneth these scorners Prov. 3. Fright's them as hee did those Syrians 2 King 7.6 Over-aw's them as hee did Laban Divert's them as hee did Saul Senacherib c. or otherwise defeat's them as hee did Benhadad disclosing their counsels blasting their designs c. Ver. 12. Before God i.e. as in his presence with reverence and godlie fear To feed without fear is a foul fault Jude 12. See my Common-place of Abstinence Ver. 13. And the people stood by Moses Beeing haply as the French are said to bee verie litigious and thereunto abuting Moses's lenitie whereas had they been soundly whipped as among Mahumetans they are that go to law for light â—â—attâ—rs there would have been but few and short suits amongst them Sure it is that if men's hearts were not bigger then their suits there would not bee half so manie Ver. 14. What is this thing A man by good counsel may becom an Angel nay a God to another Alexander beeing requested by som Embassadors to shew them his treasures shewed them his faithful Counsellors Ver. 15. To enquire of God For a divine sentence is in the mouth of the Judg therefore also the place of Judicature is called the holie place Eccles 8.10 Let those that go to law inquire of God and rest in his will Ver. 16. When they have a matter In our ordinarie suits there is for the most part more malice then matter The late Judg Dier if there came anie such trilling controversies to bee tried before him would usually saie That either the parties are wilful or their neighbors without charitie becaus their suits were not quietly compromised Ver. 17. Is not good Wee commonly saie Hee that receiv's a curtesie sell's his libertie But so did not Jethro Ver. 18. Thou wilt surely wear away Heb. Fading thou wilt fade as a leaf that wanteth moisture Melanchthon was wont to saie that none labored so hard as Travelling women Magistrates and Ministers Politici Ecclesiastici labores maximi sunt saith Luther Atterunt enim corpus tanquam ex imis medullis exhauriunt succum Ver. 19. I will give thee counsel A Midianite counsel's Moses God hereby teacheth him humilitie Ver. 21. Out of all the people Magistrates must bee drained from the dregs sifted from the bran of the ordinarie sort of people Able men Able and active strong and stout-hearted wealthie also and well underlaied See Jethro's Justice of Peace in a Sermon by Mr. Sam. Ward Ver. 22. So shall it bee easier c. How thankless is their labor that do wilfully over-spend themselvs in their ordinarie vocations Ver. 23. To their place To the promised land Or to their own homes well apaid and with good content Ver. 24. So Moses hearkned Of a meek man it is said that a childe shall lead him Isa 11.6 how much more so grave a counsellor as Jethro Dio. in Augusto Augustus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was
obedience and praie for God's Spirit to bee poured upon them Ver. 7. And Moses brought Aaron They did not intrude themselvs See the Note on Heb. 5.4 Ver. 8. Hee put in the brest-plate the Vrim c. Hence it may bee God appointed the brest-plate to bee made double that the Urim and Thummim might bee put within and lie hid on everie side This Urim and Thummim signified saith one that in Christ are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledg Col. 2.3 and that hee hath all secret things most perfectly known and numbred out before him which hee revealeth continually to his Church and chosen as need requireth by such means as himself hath sanctified Psal 25.14 John 14.21 26. 17.14 17 26. CHAP. IX Ver. 1. On the eighth daie THe verie next daie after the Priest's consecration that no time might bee lost I made haste and delaied not c. Psalm 119.16 Then said I lo I com in the volume of the book it is written of mee c. Psalm 40.7 Live live live saith one quickly much long let no water go by no daie bee lost c. Preach preach bee instant quick at work c. Praecipitat tempus mors atra impendet agenti Ver. 2. Take thee alyoung calf In remembrance and sor the remission of Aaron's sin about the golden calf as som Hebrews are of opinion Ver. 3. Take yee a kid of the goats for a Sin-offering Quia gravis odor peccati The smell of sin is grievous it offendeth all God's senses yea his verie soul Isa 1.12 13. c. Ver. 4. For to daie the Lord will appear unto you And hee may not sinde you emptie-handed unprepared See the Notes on Fxod 19.10 Ver. 6. And the glorie of the Lord shall appear unto you so shall it one daie to us yea wee shall bee like him and appear with him in glorie and must therefore purifie our selvs as God is pure 1 John 3.2 3. Ver. 7. Make attonement for thy self See Heb. 5.3 7.27 28. with the Notes there Ver. 8. Went unto the Altar i. e. The brasen Altar for hee had not yet access to the Altar of Incens Wee must staie our corruptions before wee present our supplications wash our hearts from wickedness and then compass God's Altar Ver. 22. Lift up his hands Hee put the blessing upon them A type of Christ Luke 24.50 with Acts 3.26 Ephes 1.3 Ver. 24. They shouted and fell on their faces The consideration of God's gracious acceptation of us in Christ should make us to lift manie an humble joiful and thankful heart to God CHAP. X. Ver. 1. And Nadab and Abihu THese jollie young Priests over-joied haply of their new emploiment and over-warmed with wine as som gather out of Vers 9. over-shoot themselvs the verie daie of their service Vers 19. and are suddenly surprised by a doleful death So was that inconsiderate Priest oâ— Naples Anno Dom. 1457. of whom Wolphius report's Wolph Mcmorab Lect. Câ—â—â— 15. that when the hill Vesuvius had sent huge flames and don great spoil hee to make proof of his pietie read a Mass and would need 's go up the hill to finde out the caus of such a calamitie But for a reward of his fool-hardiness hee perished in the flames and was never heard of anie more Ver. 2. And there went out fire By fire they sinned and by fire they perished Per quod quis peccat per idem punitur ipse Nestorii lingua vermibus exesa est Evag. lib 1. So Archbishop Arundel's tongue rotted in his head The Archbishop of Tours in France made suit for the erection of a Court called Chambre Ardent wherein to condemn the Protestants to the fire Hee was afterwards stricken with a diseas called the fire of God Act. and Mon. fol. 1911. which began at his feet and so asscended upward that hee caussed one member after another to be cut off and so hee died miserably Ver. 3. This is that the Lord spake Where and when Lev. 8.35 Exod. 19.22 Or perhaps no where written but at som other time spoken by God Moses might but set down the short Notes of his discourses as the Prophets used to do I will bee sanctified Either actively or passively Aut à nobis aut in nos either in us or upon us sure it is that hee will bee no loser by us Sanctified hee will bee either in the sinceritie of men's conversation or els in the severitie of their condemnation Singular things are exspected of all that draw nigh to God in anie dutie but especially in the office of the Ministerie Those that stand in the presence of Princes must bee exact in their carriages God appointed both the weights and measures of the Sanctuarie to bee twice as large as those of the Common-wealth to shew that hee exspect's much more of those that serv him there then hee doth of others The souls of Priests must bee purer then the sun-beams saith Chrysostom D. Hakw on Psalm 101. And Aaron held his peace Hee bridled his passions and submitted to the divine Justice The like did David Psalm 39.9 which words were taken up by Du-plessis in the loss of his onely son Ver. 5. In their coats These were not burnt as neither were their bodies the fire Tostat beeing of a celestial and subtile nature might pierce their inward parts not touching their outward as the lightning kill 's by piercing not by burning Ver. 6. And Moses said unto Aaron Philo reporteth that the High-priest of the Jews to keep alwaies his soul pure never saw anie mournful object Tiberius counterfeiting grief at the funeral of Drusus had a veil laid betwixt the dead and him that hee might not see the bodie becaus hee was as the rest of the Emperors also were Pontifex Maximus or the High-priest and therefore a sacred person Mourning in Aaron might have seemed murmuring hee is therefore forbidden it and accordingly hee forbear's Manlii Loc. com p. 215. So did Luther when hee buried his daughter hee was not seen to shed a tear No more did reverend Mr. William Whatelie late Pastor of Banburie when after hee had preached his own childe 's Funeral upon this Text The will of the Lord bee don hee and his wise laid the childe in the grave with their own hands Bewail the burning It 's fit enough ordinarily that the bodie when sown in corruption bee watered by the tears of those that plant it in the earth Ver. 7. For the annointing oil of the Lord is upon you This is everie true Christian's case who should therefore carrie himself accordingly There is a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a seemlie carriage belong's to everie calling You have an unction c. 1 John 2. Ver. 9. Do not drink wine nor strong drink As som are of opinion Nadab and Abihu had don Ex malis moribus honae leges which miscarriage of theirs occasioned this precept The perpetual equitie