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A01676	Questions and disputations concerning the Holy Scripture wherein are contained, briefe, faithfull and sound expositions of the most difficult and hardest places: approued by the testimony of the Scriptures themselues; fully correspondent to the analogie of faith, and the consent of the Church of God; conferred with the iudgement of the fathers of the Church, and interpreters of the Scripture, nevv and old. Wherein also the euerlasting truth of the word of God, is freed from the errors and slaunders of atheists, papists, philosophers, and all heretikes. The first part of the first tome. By Nicholas Gibbens, minister and preacher of the word of God.	Gibbons, Nicholas.	1601 (1601)	STC 11814; ESTC S103122	726,660	618

or constraint but rather of a willing minde And surelie it appeareth by the text that b Vers 20. He built an altar and offered of euery cleane beast so soone as he was arriued on the earth Noah did it readilie and willinglie not at all being vrged thereunto but withall the Scripture doth instruct vs that c 1. Sam. 15.22 Deut. 12.32 Rom. 14.23 obedience and faith is as fire and d Leuit. 2.13 Marc. 9.49 salt wherewith the sacrifice is seasoned which the Lord will accept at the hands of men So that neither for the worke e Iob. 35.5.7 Luc. 17.10 performed or the f Esai 66.1 greatnes of the same but for the faith and obedience g Deut. 26.17.18 1. Chron. 29.17 Matth. 10.41 wherein it was performed it was graciouslie receiued h Rom. 3.24.25 11.6 Heb. 9.14 being sanctified by the merite of Iesus Christ Noah therefore did not Sacrifice without commaundement albeit he were not at this time commanded sacrifice For the Lord hauing i Gen. 3.13 43.4 Leuit. 1.2 c. Hebr. 9.13.14 being compared made it a perpetuall law vnto his Church from the fall of man vntill the k Heb. 10.14.15.18 perfect sacrifice of Christ it needed not to be repeated by commaundement as the making of the Arke being a priuate action belonging to none but Noah himselfe seeing it was before commaunded and taught from God Wherefore such l Isai 58.2 Matth. 23. hypocrites haue hereby no defence which m Such as are the Popish Pilgrimages Fastes Vowes c. of which Papists teach Omne quod fit ex voto etiamsi alioqui non sit à Deo praeceptum verè propriè esse cultus Dei that is Whatsoeuer is done to fulfill a vowe albeit it be not commanded by God yet it is truly and properly the worship of God Bellar. Tom. 1. contr 5. lib. 2. c. 16. when as the Scripture 1. Sam. 15.22 Rom. 14.23 doth proclaime the contrarie And S. August de ciuit Dei lib. 14. cap. 12 Obedientia commendata est in praecepto c. Obedience is the scope of the Commandement which vertue in a reasonable creature is as it were the mother and keeper of all vertue For as much as the creature is made after that condition that to be subiect to the creator is the profite of the creature and his great hurt to do his owne will and not the will of him that did create him And Ignatius epist ad Philadelp Christum non audire manifestus est interitus Not to heare Christ is manifest destruction And Bernard Serm. in Cant. 29. Quicquid sine voluntate consensu Patris filij Sp. fit vanae gloria deputabitur non mercedi that is whatsoeuer is not done according to the will of the holy Trinitie shall be accounted to vaine glorie not to reward The heathen Aristotle doth confesse in effect as much ad Alexan. cap. 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. God is not delighted with the costs and pains bestowed in Sacrifices but with the religious obediēce of the Sacrificers They will say perhaps God willeth it albeit he command it not Isaiah denieth that cap. 1. vers 12.13 and Moses Deut. 12.32 also Tertul. libr. de Castitate Deus vtique quae vetat non vult à quibus offenditur sicut qua vult praecipit accipit aternitatis mercede dispungit i. Doubtlesse that which God forbiddeth he willeth not for which also he is offended as also that which he willeth he commandeth and receiueth and requiteth with eternall reward worship the Lord without the warrant of his commaundement for the commandement of worship n Rom. 2.15 The Law was written in mans heart therefore also this speciall Law of worship which cōsisted partly in sacrifices from the fall of man vntil Christs Sacrifice being giuen alreadie and put in practise by the fathers and taught vnto Noah by o The word of God being not yet writtē the godly taught one another and were taught by reuelation from God Gen. 18.19 49.2 tradition and reuelation from the Lord was of the same force and nature vnto him as to vs p Quia vice verbi illis scripti fuerant Such reuelations were to them in stead of the word written wherof Chrysostome sheweth the reason Chrysostem Hom. in Matth. 1. Oportuerat quidem nihil nos indigere auxilio literarum sed tam mundam exhibere vitam vt librorum vice gratia spiritus sancti suppeteret nostris animabus sicut atrame●to illi ita corda ●●stra inscripta essent à spiritu Nam quod primum illud sit praestantius ex verbis suis Deus ex operibus ostendit Nam Noae Abrahae eiusque posteris Iob Mosi non per literas sed per semetipsum locutus est quia scilicet puram eorum mentē repererat Quia vero hanc à nobis excussimus gratiam c. is the written word of God wherein although not euerie priuate action be commaunded yet euery priuate action must haue his warrant q Deut 4.2.8.9 12.32 Non singula generum sed genera singulorum id est omnia capita doctri●ae D Whitaker controu 1. quaest 6. cap. 9. from the commaundement of God contained in the word And the Scripture doth not obscurely signifie that Noah did nothing in this sacrifice without the warrant of the word For surelie hee that r Gen. 6.22 7.5 8.15 in the least thing would not passe the bounds of Gods commaundement would much lesse in the ſ Deut. 10.8.12.13 Basil Hexam 11. Glorifica creatorem neque enim alterius rei c●●sa factus es i. Glorifie thy Creator thou wast created for no other cause principall point of his obedience alter diminish or goe beyond the same Secondlie it could not be vnknowne to Noah that the Lord had prouided for this Sacrifice and t Tertul. lib. de cast●tat Deus quod vult pracipit Chrysost Hom. 24. in Gen. therefore had commaunded it forasmuch as the seauenth beast was sent into the Arke neither for procreation or for the necessitie of Noah but for the Lord. Thirdlie where the Scripture saith the Lord smelled a sauour of rest therein seeing the Lord u 1. Sam. 15.22.23 Isai 64.6 August lib. de mori● Manichaeor lib. 2. c. 13 Finis quo referi●tur ea quae fa●imus in quaque re spectandus est De Cat●lina memoria proditum est quòd frigus sitim famem ferre poterat haec erant illi spurco sacrilegoque etiam cum Apostolis nostris communia Et vnde ergo discernitur parricida iste ab Apostolis nostris nisi fine illo quem diue●fissimum sequebatur Idem contr Iulian lib. 4. cap. 3. Absit igitur vt in aliquo sit vera virtus nisi fuerit iustus Absit vt sit iustus verè nisi viuat ex fide quomodo sint verè iusti quibus vilis

QVESTIONS AND DISPVTATIONS CONCERNING THE HOLY SCRIPTVRE WHEREIN ARE CONtained briefe faithfull and sound expositions of the most difficult and hardest places APPROVED BY THE TESTIMONY OF the Scriptures themselues fully correspondent to the analogie of faith and the consent of the Church of God conferred with the iudgement of the Fathers of the Church and interpreters of the Scripture nevv and old Wherein also the euerlasting truth of the word of God is freed from the errors and slaunders of Atheists Papists Philosophers and all Heretikes The first part of the first Tome By NICHOLAS GIBBENS Minister and Preacher of the word of God IOSHVA 1.8 Let not the booke of the Lavv depart out of thy mouth but meditate therein day and night that thou maist obserue and doe according to all that is vvritten therein for then shalt thou make thy vvay prosperous and then shalt thou haue good successe IOHN 7.17 Jf any man vvill doe his vvill he shall knovv of the doctrine vvhether it be of God or vvhether J speake of my selfe AT LONDON Imprinted by FELIX KYNGSTON 1601. TO THE RIGHT REVEREND FATHER IN GOD MY VERY HONOVRABLE GOOD LORD TOBIAH by the mercifulnesse of God Bishop of Dirham c. THe sacred Scriptures as you know right Reuerend they are the brests of the Church of God the foode of the faithfull the oracles of God the bequeath and Testament of Iesus Christ By them the Children of the Church thorough hearing reading and meditation in them receiue that sincere and holsome nourishment whereby they growe from children to be perfect men in Christ By them the godly receiue direction in euery enterprise for they are as faithfull counsailours to teach vs wisdome so that where men are blind thorough naturall corruption they are the lanterne whereby to see the light where men for sinne despaire of mercie they teach with confidence to rest on God where men are presumptuous to feare his iustice where men delight in sinne they teach the punishment and how to auoide the danger of the same And as they doe thus declare the truth so also by the light thereof they discouer error and are profitable to improue and to correct that the man of God may be absolute and perfect to all good workes By them our blessed Sauiour Iesus Christ taking on him our nature that in our nature he might appease his fathers wrath for our transgressions and might furnish vs with the merite of his righteousnesse whereby being restored to be the sonnes of God we might be partakers in his kingdome hath left his will and Testament recorded by which the infallible truth of God thorough the blood of Christ is sealed vp and men may know assuredly for as much as they know that God who hath promised is true and cannot lye themselues to be inheritours of immortall glorie so many as indeuour stedfastlie to keepe the conditions of the couenant I will be their God saith he and they shall be my people Wherefore as on the one part we haue infinite cause to magnifie the mercie of the Lord for this inestimable treasure of his holy word so on the other side of intolerable griefe and lamentation considering the negligence of men to imbrace this benefite whereby it commeth to passe that not onely so many thousand soules of men doe daily decay and perish but euen our enemies reproch our religion and blaspheme the Lord thorough our securitie that hauing the word of God before vs we neglect it and are not amended in our liues Whereunto we cannot but confesse for our sinnes doe testifie vnto our face that we are not for the greatest part of better conuersation then are the Heathen which know not God and that many euen among vs which seemed and were esteemed to be religious haue also almost forgotten their former loue The reason whereof is not strange vnto your Lordship nor vnto any that is godly prudent For the word of God hath not this priuiledge that whosoeuer toucheth the outward hem thereof shall fully be cured of his disease But as our corporall meate returneth not to nourishment vnlesse euery member of concoction performe his dutie Euen so this spirituall foode vnlesse it be seene with the eye heard with the eare confessed with the mouth beleeued with the heart it yeeldeth not that sappe or iuice that men may grow thereby Neuerthelesse as the lightning thorough his sudden brightnes awaketh those that are heauie with sleepe and forceth their eyes to behold the cleerenes of the same euen so the Gospell at the suddaine appearing thereof in this our land allured all with her perfect beautie yet many became offended at the light delighting in darknes more then light because their deedes were euill and many became like the stonie ground whose hearts are hardened and will not yeeld obedience many also who mixe it with couetousnesse vaineglorie and voluptuousnesse of life but not with faith heare it and receiue it and outwardly professe it but yet are choaked among the thornes Neither can it be but many should beholde it and few regarde it many receiue it and many fall away for many saith our Sauiour are called by it but few are chosen by the Lord. Now albeit the highest cause of things remaine in the secret counsaile of the will of God yet the outward meanes vndoubtedly of this distresse are plaine and easie to be discerned and ought of all men to be considered One is that darnell and tares haue growne vp together with the wheate which being sowne before in vnhappie seedes of vnholsome doctrine haue been permitted by the Lord himselfe to growe together that they that are approoued might be knowne Another is that this vine of God is not in this world so carefullie regarded but that briers and thornes corrupted manners and profane impietie doe make it for the most part to bring forth either sower or small grapes The third and principall is negligent respect of the will of God reuealed in the Scriptures whereby it commeth to passe that men haue not their hearts prepared to receiue it when they heare it neither can so easilie be grounded in the faith by the preaching of the word because they search not by reading and conference of Scripture whether the doctrine taught them be so in deede and carrie that equall waight in the balance of Gods sanctuarie but while it is sowne in them as in the streete that euill one commeth and stealeth both the practise and remembrance out of their heart There are many who to excuse this negligence pretend discouragement through the hardnes of the Scriptures which notwithstanding the Lord hath giuen to be euen instruction and sharpnes of wit vnto the simple Wherein also we doe confesse that the Scriptures of God in diuers respects are hard and difficult Namely hard to them that despise them and will not vnderstand hard to be vnderstoode of the naturall man without the eye-salue of the spirit of grace Hard in some points of

the rest The reason is annexed because in it he had rested from all his worke that is had ceased from creating therefore hee appointed the seuenth day to be a perpetuall memoriall of that his worke g From the creation vntill the resurrection of our Sauiour Iesus Christ the last of seuen who sanctified the next day or the fi●st of the next seuen by the perfectiō of our redemption and ordained it to bee obserued for the rest of Christians as appeareth by his presenting himselfe among his Disciples on the same daie Ioh. 20.19.26 by the constant obseruation of the Apostles and Disciples and the Church of God by ordaining euery seuenth day a day of rest Also to sanctifie doth h Mica 3.5 to prepare wa●re where the same word is vsed sometime signifie to make readie or prepare sometime i Leuit. 21.23 to make holie sometime to declare k Ezech. 30.27 holines sometime to l Ioel. 1.14 set apart or dedicate vnto a holie vse God therfore blessed the seuenth day when he ordained it a time of greater and more holie works and by decree did crowne the m Isai 58.14 works themselues with richer fruite hee sanctified the seuenth day when he did chuse it n Chrysost Hom. in Gen. 10. Ab alijs illum segregauit aboue the rest vnto a holie vse The Lord in hallowing doth commaund it of his creatures to be hallowed Men are commaunded to hallow it that is to doe the holie workes thereof which are commaunded Wherefore we must remember that the day is hallowed of vs when holie workes are holily performed in the day which seeing God himself hath hallowed that is commanded to be done they are all found breakers of this ordinance which either doe workes which are vnholie or leaue vndone the workes that God hath sanctified or by prophanenes o Hagg. 2.14 make holie workes to be vnholie Question 3. verse 2. Whether in these words there is contained a commaundement of resting and whether the godly Patriarkes obserued the Sabboth before the law giuen by Moses THese words containe nothing else but a narratiō or report of that whic● was done and do not indeed directly affirme that it was commaunded but they doe vndoubtedly implie as much For seeing it is said God sanctified and this sanctifying is a Exod. 13.2 Ioel. 1.14 to exempt vnto a holie vse to be b Nam vt nomen dei sanctificatur ab hominibus quod per se sanctum est cum in se sanctificari cupiunt Hieron contra Pelag. lib. 3. sic itidem sabbatum sanctificant cū sanctum habent August locut in Num. lib. 3. ad opera sancta in dei cultum destinata Et licet omnia sanctorum opera sancta sunt in fide operata ea tamen ratione propri● dicuntur sancta quo proprio modo ad cultum dei conseruntur performed of the creature not of him that sanctified that it might sanctifie in doing which God had sanctified in ordaining therefore when he sanctified he appointed and in appointing c The word of God containeth all matters of saluation b●th of faith and works with the circumstances thereof either explicitè expressely as in the fourth cōmandement or els implicitè inclusiuè inwardly or inclusiuely as in this place the work● of resting the seuenth day commanded the resting of the seuenth day the seuenth day Wherefore although some there are d Iustin Mart. Dialog cum Triffo Tertull. aduers Iudaeos lib. D●●etur Adam sabbatizasse aut Abel hostiam Deo sanctam offerentem sabbati religione pla●uisse aut Enoch translatum sabbati cultorem fuisse aut Noe aut Abraham Beda alij which think that the Sabboth was not appointed to be kept vntill the daies of Moses yet surely wee may answere them as our Sauiour doth the Iewes e Ioh. 7.22 It was not of Moses but of the Fathers But where were they commaunded to obserue the Sabboth or which of the Fathers was a keeper of it The morall dutie of this commandement f Rom. 2.15 was written in their hearts as the restraint of murther adulterie theft false witnes the chusing and worshipping of strange Gods so that they whom the Scripture g Gen. 5.22 6.9 c. Isai 41.8 commendeth for iust and righteous men h Iam. 2.23 Act. 13 22. as certainly obserued the tenour of this commandement as they did abstaine from murther or from worshipping of Images And for the practise of it who can doubt i Rom. 2.15 Gen. 4.24 de septimo die laudes decantat Hesiodus in Theogon a●ij ethnici perindè ac si iudaeis gentibus communis esset seeing the very wicked did shew the effect of the law written in their hearts and seeing that the faithfull did performe the exercises of the Sabboth as that they called k Gen. 4.26 on the name of the Lord l Gen. 4.4 8.20 offered sacrifices m Gen. 13.4 prepared places to worship in n Gen. 18.19 instructed and taught their families the feare of God which duties although they are not to be restrained only vnto the Sabboth day yet are they chiefly to be referred thereunto seeing God hath sanctified that day and set it apart o Athanas Hom. in Matth. 11.27 Non igitur Sabbatum otiū designat aut innuit sed cognitionem conditoris eò quod cessatum sit à forma creandi vt in Ezechiele scriptum est Sabbata mea dedi illis vt esset in monimētum recordationem mei Intelligentiae igitur non otij datum est Sabbatum to the same intent The vse also of this commandement being no lesse necessarie before the giuing of the law then after may seeme a strong reason for the practise of it by the Fathers Yea moreouer as it was vnto Adam and to the Fathers a remedie against sinne to vse those exercises of the Sabboth after the first offence committed so was it also to Adam in his innocencie no lesse behouefull to be strengthened thereby against concupiscence of sin by drawing as it were p Numb 16.19 1. Sam. 14.36 more neere to God vpon the Sabboth day and vsing more exactly those blessed meanes he knew to be ordained by the purpose of this precept to keepe out sinne Neither are examples wanting q Gen. 2.2 7.4 of the maiestie of God himselfe r Gen. 8.10.12 of Noah ſ Exod. 16.6 of the Israelites before the law by whom the daies were gathered into weekes which sheweth that the obseruation of the Sabboth was not vnknown before the daies of Moses But chiefly sith that the law giuen t Ioh. ● 17.15 by Moses was u Rom. 2. written in the harts of men x August lib. de spiritu lit cap 27. 28. Quia non vsque adeo in anima humana imago dei terrenorum affectuum l●be detrita est vt nulla