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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62735	Primordia, or, The rise and growth of the first church of God described by Tho. Tanner ... ; to which are added two letters of Mr. Rvdyerd's, in answer to two questions propounded by the author, one about the multiplying of mankind until the flood ; the other concerning the multiplying of the children of Israel in Egypt.	Tanner, Thomas, 1630-1682.; Rudyerd, James, b. 1575 or 6.	1683 (1683)	Wing T145; ESTC R14957	173,444	408

not him they bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the Earth knowing what kind of reverence the proud Egyptians did expect Then Ioseph remembred the dreams which he had dreamed of them and like a crafty Statesman to get what he could out of them and to make them fit for what he presently apprehended he spake roughly to them and dealt as hardly keeping them three days in ward and speaking to them by an Interpreter nay he took Simeon from them as a Pledge and bound him before their eyes and sent them away the first time in fear But the next time as soon as Ioseph spied Benjamin in their Company he said to the Ruler of his house Bring these men into my house and slay and make ready a place that will trouble them to answer who would perswade us as if the Egyptians then did eat no living Creature for these men shall dine with me at noon Then he brought Simeon forth unto them who no doubt looked never the worse for his detainment And they made ready the Present against Ioseph came in and made many low obeysances but he spake very kindly to them Then that Ioseph might reserve Dignity to himself in the sight of the Egyptians he caused himself to be served at a Table of State and that there might be no interfering he caused his Brethren knowing their scruples about eating of unclean meats or with uncircumcised men to be served at another Table by themselves And knowing also the superstition of the Egyptians who looked upon the Hebrews as prophane to them as the Egyptians could be unto the Hebrews if they did not also scorn them as Shepherds he caused them to eat in the same presence apart so that all admired and there was no exception but they drank and were merry as Ioseph had ordered the matter and no doubt obtained favour with such Egyptian Courtiers as there were then admitted at the entertainment Now when Iacob drew near unto Goshen he thought it a fit Ceremony for his part to send Iudah before as his Harbinger to prepare for his reception by his Son Ioseph in the state wherein he then was And Ioseph hastened in his Chariot to meet him as a Prince and to do honour to his aged Father And so instructed all his Company how to behave themselves before Pharaoh But since policy did require that Pharaoh should not see all civility and gratitude seemed to prompt Ioseph that he should present at least the chief of Pharaoh's beneficiaries before his face and he thought it enough to present but five of them to do or to receive that honour It is like the most personable and fashionable of his Brethren that were the Sons of Rachel and Leah rather than of the Concubines who we are not to doubt made their reverence unto Pharaoh as the Master of the Egyptian Ceremonies should direct them But as for his venerable Father he brought him in after them which was ever esteemed the more honour and set him before Pharaoh And Iacob blessed Pharaoh after his own way whether as a Prince and Priest of the most High God or as a congratulation only of his favours And so when he went out after short communication by Interpreters he blessed him again And Pharaoh accepted of their addresses and seems to have been pleased and satisfied with them Thus was the way made for Israel and his Children to be planted in Rameses which I take to be a fenced place with a Territory situate upon the jaws of the seven-mouth'd Nile and for his Hinds and Herdsmen to pitch where they liked in the Province of Goshen So the former of these needed Tents no longer for when Ioseph sent for them he had said from Pharaoh's mouth Come unto me and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt Regard not your stuff for the good of all the Land of Egypt is yours 'T is true the place might be called Rameses by anticipation as that which was called Luz was after called Bethel by Iacob's nomination but that there was an habitable Town or City before Iacob came thither I doubt not both because of Ioseph's recommendation of his father to a good place and because of the situation of it as a necessary Fortress against Out-livers of another Nation However some are of opinion that the Israelites themselves might build that City as the English did Calais while they were in Egypt before the Task-masters set them to work to fortifie it more as a Treasure-City and a Bridle to themselves from escaping as well as to keep out others against common sence for throughout their prosperity they were instructed that the Land of Canaan was their inheritance expecting daily as good a Call to return out of Egypt as ever they had to come thither Said not God unto Iacob at his first descent I will go down with thee into Egypt and I will also surely bring thee up again And said not Ioseph on his death-bed unto his Brethren I dye and God will surely visit you and bring you out of this Land unto the Land which he sware unto Abraham Isaac and Iacob Ye shall carry up my bones from hence Which he did by faith as S t Paul witnesseth bearing up the like in his Brethren and Posterity In this estate the Children of Israel lived in prosperity the remaining seventeen years of Iacob's life and about fifty four more of Ioseph's through the Reign of more Kings than one as Historians tell us Even as it happened after unto Daniel for the sake of the same people when they were a second time to be redeemed from their bondage As large a time of felicity as God doth usually grant to his Church at once that their hearts should neither fail nor wax gross But before any change arrive we will leave them in their best condition in a foreign Countrey only eying in the close what their spiritual state was as the only remaining visible or at least conspicuous Church of God under Heaven CHAP. XXXVII Th● Israelites had toleration in Egypt as to offer Sacrifices during Ioseph's life Afterwards denied them That contrary Religions are sooner tolerated than diversities of the same That there was but one Religion in Satan's Kingdom how many Gods soever the Heathen worshipped Jews at this day tolerated much at the like rate that they were before THERE are three Questions emergent here if I may dare to handle the Argument that I have in hand viz. first Toleration secondly Division and thirdly The Unity of the Church The first from the indulgence of Egypt during Ioseph's life The second from the piety of Ioseph's house while separated from his Brethren And the third from the adoption of the whole house of Iacob whereas but one of Abraham or Isaac's Sons were comprehended in the blessing even of the Sons of Bilhah and Zilpah in opposition unto Hagar and Keturah It is not only

whom the Serpent was to be sped at last In the mean while there are two further Points to be discreetly traversed 1. That Adam lived nine hundred and thirty years and it is likely Eve somewhat near the matter whether more or less and begat other Sons not mentioned and Daughters whereof the name of never an one is at all recorded 2. That some penitent issue is not obscurely shewn to have issued from Cain himself For all the Sons of Adam not named we may take it for granted that they either abode in their Fathers Tents taking their Sisters to Wives who were next to be taken or went off with Cain to help him build and replenish his City being nevertheless of the Seed of the Woman or of the true Church so long as they retained the Worship the Rites the Rules and the Moral Laws that they carried off from their Fathers house And others of them cleaved unto Seth and holp to make up his Family because the Earth must needs be replenished and Children go off to further distance And thus we may conceive that the true Church was far from failing betwixt the death of Abel and the birth of Seth howsoever the necessity of livelyhood or civil accommodation might divide the Members of it But as Adam had lived a hundred and thirty years before he had Seth so Seth live a hundred and five years more before he had Enos In which long tract of time and encrease of Generations when men began to multiply on the face of the Earth and that Daughters were born unto them so that the Sons of God saw the Daughters of men that they were fair and took them Wives of all they liked then the true Worshippers were ●ain to gather unto one House or Tribe And how they might attain to any consistency there I refer you to the Letter of a learned Gentleman in the Postscript All that remains to be said here is this That when the House of Seth came to degenerate too God brought a Deluge on the World as it is commonly accounted 1656 years after the Creation CHAP. XII Why God preserved Cham and Japhet in the Ark as well as Sem. That though they followed the way of the old World yet they were encreased in dominion which was not the blessing promised more than Sem Nay that he himself was greater in temporal accessions by other Sons than by Eber. NOW one might think since God Almighty was so much offended with the sins of the old World as to say It repented him that he had made man on the Earth and it grieved him at his heart that he would have taken such caution about the next succession that no generation like to that of Cain's should have survived the Deluge Yet as he preserved some of all kinds even of noxious Creatures in the Ark so he dealt by the intire Family of Noah He would not prejudge the Cases of Iaphet and Cham who were under the same protection discipline and common blessings with Sem till they came to be severed in their habitations and progenies Among the Sons of Noah saith Sir Walter Raleigh there were found strong effects of the former poyson For as the Children of Sem did inherit the Vertues of Seth Enoch and Noah so the Sons of Cham did possess the vices of Cain and of those wicked Giants of the first Age. As for Iaphet we read no hurt of him but it is rather recorded to his commendation that he joined with his Brother Shem to make some amends for the villany of Ham. who had exposed his Fathers nakedness However it is not obscurely implyed that Iaphet was either fallen or about to fall off to degenerate worship because this is added to his blessing for that act of silial Grace and Duty That God would at last enlarge or perswade Iaphet to dwell in the Tents of Sem who though chosen by God is for the most part concluded to have been the younger Brother Which Prophetick Promise to Iaphet as the like Curse to Ham were not to be accomplished in either of their persons but in their posterities some Ages after Wherefore for all the love and great savour that God shewed unto Noah he would not hinder the accursed race of enmity from spreading out of his Loins also to be two ways branched for the greater afflictions of Sem's choicest Descendents until the time appointed For as the Sons of Noah descended from Mount Ararat where the Ark rested whether it was Caucasus or Taurus Ham and his Sons seized on all that they were able to occupy from the parts of Mesopotamia to the ends of Africk which was the Road that a part of them took Of his Son Cush descended Nimrod the Founder of the ensuing Babylonian Greatness as also Ashur who gave the Name of Assyria that built Niniveh And of his Son Canaan descended the Sidonians Hittites Iebusites Ammonites Girgasites Hivites Arkites and other reprobate Hoards or Nations Of his Son Mizraim descended also Pathrusim the Father of the Philistines and Casluhim the original of some of the Bordering Arabians And such of his Race as aimed further Southwards peopled all Egypt and Ethiopia to the Lands end so far as their number or encrease could seize on Lands without resistance So that out of Ham proceeded the Princes and people which held the great Kingdoms as they grew of Babylon Syria and Egypt for many Descents together towards the future oppression of the Sons of Sem the blessings of Shem and Iaphet as my Authour hath it taking less effect until the time appointed So that the first great Lords of the Earth were of this accursed Race that they might thresh in the Theshingfloors of Israel and bring their Fans in their hands whensoever the House of God was to be purged by the affliction of his people And to shew besides that God accounteth not as men do of Worldly Greatness he letteth it go to chuse unto the Heathen who thereupon do idolize the Fortunes of their Princes and set them up for Gods The first of which this Ham is counted to have been by the Name of Iupiter Hammon and the places where he was adored most do countenance that opinion And who was ever set up for an Idol but the worst of men From Iaphet also and his seven Sons the Medes Seythes Thracians Macedonians Grecians and the most part of Lesser Asia were replenished together with the Isles of the Gentiles by which name the ends of the habitable World were only known unto the Hebrews From whence came Alexander first and his Captains and after them the Romans to subdue and to waste Eber. Which events seem to have been more clearly revealed unto Balaam than unto any of the better Prophets even in the infancy of this people while they travelled in the Desart towards this Land of Promise And Ships shall come saith he from the Coasts of Chittim and shall

Which to me prophanum quoddam sonat audax seems to be too bold a sense to agree with that expression of our Apostle Now consider how great this man was unto whom even the Patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils Which words are surely imcompatible unto the best of the race of Canaan But the circumstances agree well that this Melchisedeck should be the great Patriarch Sem the high Progenitor of Abram from whom in a direct Line Abram was of the ninth Generation for Sem begat Arphaxad and He Salah and He Eber and He Peleg and He Re● and He Serug and He Nahor and He Terah and Terah Abraham And Sem lived in all six hundred years whereof a hundred and fifty in Abraham's life time so that very venerable must his presence needs be to Abraham who was so much a Puis●é among the Great Great Grand-Children of Sem. Now if any wonder how this Sem should come to dwell and have a Kingdom among the Canaanites it is to be remembred what Noah had said when he cursed Canaan Blessed be the Lord God of Shem and Canaan shall be his Servant So that for a time Shem might have an habitation amongst them and he built the City of Salem as it is conceived amongst them all other Nations becoming soon a confused medly of people besides the Israelites whom God preserved intire to himself And so it may be this branch of Sem after his death that dwelt at Salem might come to be incorporated with the other Nations that were afterwards to be destroyed for their idolatry But the blessing went away with his Son Arphaxad only of all his Sons mentioned before whither he went and followed only his Posterity according to election till the time of promise was compleat and the iniquity of the Canaanites full that the Sons of Sem by Eber alone might have it all at last Only this we may observe That for a long time after Adam and after Noah the Church of God was in divers Families and in divers Kindreds But as in the old World the Children of men came to be distinguished from the Sons of God by the House of Seth and his Son Enos when men began to call upon the name of the Lord in Assemblies apart from the other So after the Flood the like happened to the House of Sem the whole House of Sem till out of this it pleased God to make a more particular election of the Seed of Abraham for his peculiar people to be his visible Church on Earth to which all Nations owed reverence and obedience as they hoped to share in the blessings of his holy Covenant not to dispute here whether the whole Election or the whole Covenant of Grace as to the inward part was not larger than the Covenant of Promise entailed only unto Abraham and his Seed with the outward priviledges annexed to it But before the Call of God to Abraham he disdained not to be called the Lord God of Shem yet after that it was said to Abraham in appropriated terms with addition above Sem for his posterity I will be thy God and the God of thy Seed after thee By which new way of entailment 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God common and as common appertaining unto all was saith Chrysostome made his by peculiar interest and appropriation since when it is delivered declared and averred by God himself for him and his Seed I am the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Iacob this is my name for ever this is my memorial from generation to generation And so he continued known and distinguished in the World of old until the incarnation the God of Israel above other people Let us therefore next consider how it pleased God to form them CHAP. XIV That God's Command to Abram might not seem too hard it pleased him to mollifie it with an ample Promise only general at the first Which he delayed about twenty eight years to exercise the faith of Abram and repeated with some variety to the sixth time after long intervals Abram running divers hazards between Abram is terrified by seeking of a sign and why Sarai thinking the promise not to be to her weakly giveth Hagar to her Husband yet divers mysteries in the coming of Ishmael betwixt the promise and the Son of promise IF Chaldaea had not been grosly idolatrous saith Bishop Hall Abraham had not left it But how could he chuse since God had called him from thence even out of Mesopotamia which is invironed with the two great Rivers of Euphrates and Tigris about which Tracts the Garden of Eden is thought to have been situated But whither must he go to a place he knew not to men that know not him The Text says no more at the first word but only unto a Land that I will shew thee Wherefore that this Command of God might seem the less hard or strange to Abram he thought it not too much condescension to his chosen Vessel to mollifie it with a rich and gracious promise both temporal and spiritual I will make of thee saith he a great Nation and I will bless thee and make thy name great and thou shalt be a blessing And I will bless them that bless thee and curse him that curseth thee and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed In which promise it is contained 1. That God would make of his Seed a great Nation 2. That that Nation should be a blessing in that it should become his only true Church 3. That God would bless the friends and blast the enemies thereof 4. That at last all the faithful throughout all the Families of the World to the World's end should become the Children of Abraham through faith in the blessed Seed promised who was to be made of God the Heir of all things visible and invisible by which faith they should be after blessed as Abraham himself was before Now to exercise this faith of Abraham and to make him a pattern to all posterity it pleased God to delay this promise for the space of twenty eight years till there was little hope in Abraham and none at all in Sarai of obtaining any Issue and yet still to continue this promise after divers tedious intervals to a sixth repetition with some seeming variation in the terms He no sooner had received the first general promise mentioned above but God drove him out of Canaan into Egypt by famine as was touched before where he was in fear of being killed for Sarai's sake Then he soon finds himself after his return engaged in a War to rescue Lot leading forth three hundred and eighteen of trained Servants born in his own house besides some Auxiliaries of the Amorites his Confederates under the Conduct of Aner Eshcol and Mamre in whose Plain at that time Abram sojourned when the tidings were brought unto him which

manner of the faith of the Saints of old is that which presents it self to our next thoughts about the Priestly Office of Christ within this inner Temple beyond the ministry of the Sons of Levi which was in the outer Sanctuary once a year excepted when it was permitted to the High Priest alone to enter in hither I hardly can forbear to deliver my own opinion expresly here although I know no other authority to fortifie it by besides the very Scriptures themselves or what an ingenuous man may accept for a reasonable inference upon them I take the Ark it self to have been a kind of Altar CHAP. XXVII The Kingdom given unto Christ for his Priesthood-sake who as of the order of Melchizedek had an inner house and Altar to which the house of Aaron owed reverence That it was not properly an Altar but bore some analogy and was needful for the people That the promises of God before the Law were virtually concealed in the Ark. A new Objection started IT was in contemplation of Christ's Priesthood that God the Father bestowed the Kingdom on him according to that of the Royal Psalmist The Lord said unto my Lord Sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool .... The Lord hath sworn and will not repent Thou art a Priest for ever after the Order of Melchizedek that is after the s●militude as the Apostle doth expound it of that King of righteousness which word doth indifferently signifie mercy in the use of the Old Testament Within this inward Temple therefore it was convenient that another kind of Altar should be reserved for another kind of Priest than Aaron was who had the Ruler of the people over him and many Laws lying on his Order from which Melchizedek was free For the Law made nothing perfect but the bringing in of a better hope did by which we draw nigh unto God ... which hope ●e have as an Anchor of the soul both sure and stedfast and which entreth into that within the Veil Whither the forerunner is for us entred even Iesus made an High Priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek who was a Type of him as the Holy of Holies within the Veil was of Heaven having the Throne of God in the midst of it and a multitude of Cherubims besides it after Solomon had put the last hand to it And as our hope is now above all in the intercession of Christ in Heaven so was theirs of old within the Veil more than it was without as I am about to shew But because it doth not consist with the oneness of the Body of Christ that there should be more Temples or Altar● properly so called than one I shall first address my self to some accommodation Besides the Altar of Oblation there stood apart and nearer to the Veil the Golden Altar or Altar of Incense by God's appointment which served to set forth the intercession of the Angel of the Covenant who is represented to us in the Revelation as standing at the Altar having a golden Censer with much incense that he should offer it with the prayers of all Saints upon the golden Altar which was before the Throne the smoke whereof ascended up before God out of the Angels hand and then the Angel took his Censer and filled it with fire of the Altar and cast it to the Earth as a return of prayers and then the judgments of God began to work below Which Altar therefore stands not in opposition to the other nor this that I am about to speak of to either of them But now I will shew what analogy and what need or use there was of this token Quod prius praestantius was the great Rule that S t Paul went by in preferring Christ's Priesthood before Levi's in that it was according to the likeness of Melchizedek's unto whom Levi himself had paid Tythes in the Loins of his Father Abraham And in this he shews the excellency of the New Testament above the Old that it was four hundred and thirty years indeed the elder of the two This I say saith he that the Covenant that was confirmed before of God in Christ the Law which was four hundred and thirty years after cannot disannul that it should make the promise of no effect And that it might not do so God laid a Mercy-Seat over the Law and put all together behind the Veil where he kept the Archives of his first promise made to Abraham and to Isaac and to Iacob concerning Christ In reference whereunto he bad Moses tell the people from the very first beginning of his vocation The Lord God of your Fathers the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Iacob hath sent me unto you This is my name for ever and this is my memorial unto all Generations This was his name within the Veil covered with the wings of Angels while the Lord of life was yet in the Loins of his Progenitors So that if any one be ready to object further against the knowledge of Christ of old that Moses put a veil of Types and Ceremonies over his face on purpose that the Children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished viz. the Ceremonial Law But their minds were blinded so that until this day the same Veil remaineth on them in the reading of the Old Testament we are as ready to meet them with another passage of the same Apostle Wherefore then serveth the Law Was it given to the prejudice of the Grace of Christ It was added because of transgressions till the seed should come to whom the promise was made and it was ordained by Angels in the hand of a Mediator Is the Law then against the promises of God God forbid But before faith came we were kept under the Law shut up unto the faith which should after be revealed Now the strength of the Objection seems to bear against the multitude of the Children of Israel and not against any choice men amongst them who for all this Objection as they drew nearer might see the clearer into this mystery of Christ on coming But I shall endeavour to take things in such an order that that which remains of the former Objection may go off as well satisfied as can be with this that cometh last CHAP. XXVIII What resemblance the Ark bore unto an Altar and how the Altar of Burnt-Offering was sanctified by it That a Censer was only a necessary Vtensil belonging to the Holy of Holies to be used once a Year That the whole Temple was hallowed by the Còvenant and Mercy-seat shewed by Solomon's Dedication of it OF the whole Law how far it is a priviledge or a burthen a light or a veil that I may not too much anticipate the design that I have in hand there will be a proper place hereafter In the mean while whatsoever was defective