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A14282 Ten introductions how to read, and in reading, how to vnderstand; and in vnderstanding, how to beare in mind all the bookes, chapters, and verses, contained in the holie Bible. With an answer for lawyers. Physitions. Ministers. Vaughan, Edward, preacher at St. Mary Woolnoth. 1594 (1594) STC 24599; ESTC S119031 61,414 222

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with Enos He that is not sorrowfull for sinne is not setled in Christ He that is not setled in Christ is earthly miserable and perisheth I pray you labour well for the knowledge of this storie let nothing passe for all is profitable In them the law is thundered in them the Gospell is preached and in them the sacraments are administred All the world were enimies to these few as appeared by Gods iudgement vpon them by a floud The particulars of the Second storie Sem. Signifieth Renowned Arphaxad Healing Sale Peace Heber Pilgrime Peleg Deuided Regue Breaking Sarug Palme trees Nahor Angrie or drie Terah A wretch Abram High father Gen. 11 Here the great and mightie creator in the number of other ten holie fathers beginneth to multiplie a new society or sanctified people and to set vp his owne glorie in open shew to all that should come after according to the religion in the former age Sem Was Noahs sonne who afterwards was called Melchisedech because he was to beare a perfect demonstration or figure of Christ he was said to be the king of peace of iustice and of righteousnesse and to be without father and without mother Gen. 14 18. Heb. 7 1. without beginning of daies and end of life So long liued he after the floud that his kinred was vnknowne for in Abrahams time he was a great grandfather of eight degrees Melchisedech must be Sem for none of Chams house nor any of Iaphets house could resemble the sonne of God whose religion was to come from Salem Noah hauing found fauour with God and perceiuing by a spirite of prophesie that his sonne Sem should be blessed and of great fame with God and man he named him Renowmed which in the Hebrue is according to the Aetymologie of his name Thus of the other nine Elam Their issue Elamits Ashur Assyrians Iud. Lidians Aram. Aramits or Assyrians These were the wicked off-spring of Sem Gen. 10 12 who became opē enemies to him and to other of that sacred line whēce Christ should come Gomer Their issue Tartarians Magog Turkes and Scythians Madai Medes Iauan Their issue People of Asia and Gracia Ezec 27 1.2.38 1.2 Tuball Mesech These were the sonnes of Iaphet Gen. 10 2.3.4.5 of whom were the Gentils Tiras Cush The issue Ninnod a mightie hunter the builder of Babel Gen. 10 8. Misraim Aegyptians in Hebrue Misraims Pute Blacke moores Canaan Canaanites and Peresits Gen. 10. These were the sonnes of Cham who became professed and sworne enemies in this age The particulars of the third storie Ruben Signifieth Water Simeon A sword Leui. A booke Iudah A lion Dan. An adder Nepthali A Hind Gad. A banner Asher Bread Isachar An asse Zabulon A ship Ioseph A fuictful bow Gen. 29. Beniamin A wolfe In this age almightie God maketh his seruice religion more open and apparent than before by diuerse ordinances cōstitutions lawes which he imposed vpon these twelue holie fathers to be vnrepealed vntill the passion of Iesus Christ in the meane time God directed them and guided them as it were by hand and fead them in due season with al things miraculously out of these as out of one man euen Abram their father to whom the promise was made there came a mightie nation fierce and terrible against whom the kings of Canaan could not preuaile no not the deuill in hell whose kingdome is a kingdome of power Our of these twelue came all those of whom God had regard vntil Christ They are dispearsed in the scripture to great vse therefore learne their stories so you shal be able to say something of euerie one In the creation God did foresee this royal nation deriued from the twelue tribes for in their iourney to Canaan they came to Elim where was twelue fountaines He deuided the yeare according to their number the twelue stones in Aarons brest the twelue stones out of Iordan and diuerse other notable things of that number hath relation to this people You must be perfit in their particular stories for example thus Iudah Was the fourth sonne of Iacob whom Rachel bare vnto him Gen. 29 31.32 she called his name Iudah which is by interpretation Praise the Lord wherein she shewed a perpetuall memorie of Gods mercie not onely because she being despised and reproched for hir barrennesse had now the fourth sonne but also because that of his seed the Messias should come in whom all the world might sing and praise the Lord. Iacob by a spirite of diuination did foresee the same and therefore among the rest of his brethren at his death he gaue him a name or a cognisance of great magnanimitie and courage speaking after this manner Iudah as a lions whelpe thou shalt come vpon the spoile my sonne he shall lie downe and couch as a lion and as a lionesse who shall stirre him vp Here is a plaine narration of Christ compared to a lion for his kinglie properties no man daring to withstand him of whom S. Iohn saith Reuel 5 5. Behold the lion out of the tribe of Iudah hath obtained to open the booke and to vnloose the seales thereof meaning Christ Iesus is he that shutteth and no man openeth and he that openeth and no man shutteth Moses that kingly prophet at his death blessed these twelue tribes in another sort and yet ratefying the former wherein he remembreth Iudah aboue the rest These were enemies in this age with their issue Ismael Esau The particulars of the 4. Storie 12 principall stations or habitatiōs of Israell Ramases Ex. 12 Wormes meat Succoth 13 Poore cottages Ethan 13 Hard ground Maarah 15 Bitternesse Elim 15 Strong hearts Sin 16 Thornie Rephedim 17 Temptation Sinai 19 Euerlasting tēptation Jothathae Nū 1 Turning away Hor. 20 Declaring or shewing Zalinonah 21 Shadow of a portion Moab 27. Of the father The said twelue tribes were fortie yeares trauelling from Aegypt vnder the conduct of Moses towards Canaan They pitched their tents and rested in two and fortie places whereof some were pleasant and some were vnpleasant of which I haue reckoned vp these twelue Read the chapters opposit and you shall direct your memorie to all that was done in this age Enemies in this time King Pharao Exod. 1 5 14 Amalakits 1 Sam. 15 The particulars of the fift storie Wherein consider 1 The strength of Canaan hauing relation to Sathans force 2 The weakenesse of the conquerours hauing relation to the poore church of Christ 3 The time of the conquest which was seuen yeares hauing relation to Iesus Christ the conquerour of conquerours written and comprised in the aequall number of Seuen as many other great and famous acts are The black Moores the Canaanites the Peresites being the progenie of Chant Noahs cursed sonne banded themselues and became an huge armie against the host of Israel The particulars of the sixt Storie Acts 13 20. THese 13 Iudges or gouernors continued * But in proprietie of Chron.
TEN Introductions How to read and in reading how to vnderstand and in vnderstanding how to beare in mind all the bookes chapters and verses contained in the holie Bible With an Answer For Lawyers Physitions Ministers LONDON Printed by A. Islip 1594. To the right Worshipshipfull maister Tobie Wood Esquire and Councellor at Law dwelling neere her Maiesties Tower in London the true and vndoubted Patrone of this booke AS three speciall occasions moued S. Peter to offer his labour in building of three Tabernacles a Mat. 17 3.4 one for Christ one for Moses and one for Elias euen so right Worshipfull three speciall occasions moued me to offer this my labor in the building of a spirituall Tabernacle one for meere b 1 Cor. 12 12.13.14 to 25. Phil. 2 19.20.21 1. Cor. 10 24. care and c Act. 24 16. Rom. 9 1.2.3.4.5 conscience to my d Leuit. 25.25.48.49 Rom. 9 5. contrimen in Wales one to kindle my e 1. Sam. 16.2.20 2.4.9.12.13.17.12 10. faithfull affections towards you and one to satisfie the request f By his letters dated Ianuar. 20. Apr. 5. And one May 2. 1592. of a right worshipfull gentleman Sir William Herbert knight who would ioyne with me in this worke If the care of my countrimen might be vnsupplied and if the worthinesse of this learned and zealous knight might be as he is in the graue for euer silenced yet the heartie affections the bond of thankefulnesse and the christian duety I owe you can no way so effectually be discharged Wherein also I shall make cleare my good conscience towards the one and my humble duety towards the other which if you shall please to patronize whatsoeuer is found wanting by him which is dead shall be supplied I doubt not to your contentment by them which are aliue g Exo. 37 7. As the two Cherubins which Moses made tended to the preseruation of Gods people The Method and nine obseruations and therefore both were placed vpon the Arke as one euen so good worshipfull Sir the two former books which I made tended to the instruction of Gods people in the holie Bible and therefore I haue placed them both in one h Psal 62 11.12.13 As God spake once and twice that power and mercie belongeth vnto him so I will speake once twice and euer to his maiestie that power may be giuen by his spirit and mercie by his sonne to all that long with Zeale to the knowledge hereof These are to certifie i Ier. 9.17.18.19 you though not for news there was great k Ezech. 32.1.2.3 lamentation in Syon because of Gods iustice for their sinnes as there was great lamentation for Pharao in Aegypt because he was a lion in the land and a dragon in the sea and as there was great l Hest 4.3 sorrow fasting mourning and weeping among the Iewes because the king had decreed their deaths euen so there is great cause of lamentation fasting mourning and weeping here in England because m Ier. 9 21. death is scaling our windowes the n Eze. 32.4 beasts of the fields hungering to deuoure our bodies our bloud readie to water the land Eze. 32 6. and our o Mat 7 19.13 42.43.18.9 Iud. 9 Reu 19 20. soules as prepared for the fire of hell by reason of sinnes in the p Hos 4 1.2 common sort of horrible crueltie in many of them that are q Esa 3 12. Hos 7 3.4.5 great and of the generall ignorance of Christ according to his gospell in euerie sort If it please you to compare the raigne of r Kin. 20 21. Manasses sometimes king of Iudah with the raigne of Marie sometimes queene of England you shall finde little oddes in the innocent blood that the one shed at Ierusalem and the innocent bloud that was shed at London c. which God the righteous iudge hath not yet fully reuenged because that the vniformitie in the professiō of Christ these 36 years is not yet perfect the persecution of former times are not done away by repentance For notwithstāding the great s 2. Kin. 22.23 zeale of Iosias with the obedience of his people yet the former sinnes of Manasses would not be forgottē Therfore God knowes and most wise men sees we haue vrgent occasions mouing vs to pray yea to pray heartely vnto Iesus Christ the aeternall king for Elizabeth our queene and other hir subiects that either be will vtterly forgiue or at the least grant that the penaltie deserued doe not fall vpon vs nor vpon our children And albeit we cannot shake off the generall condemnation threatned and knowne to hang ouer England yet hir maiesty with vs and we with hir loathing our own sins and detesting the abhomination of others shall be singled and seuered to preseruation come the desolation neuer so terrible and suddaine Ierusalem which was sometimes the citie of the great king the keeper of the diuine oracles the receptacle of Angels and the continual presence of God himselfe is now become a place of sulphir and hellish flames inhabited with Oules Estriges and such like noisome creatures euen so they that haue eyes to see may yet see the tears and desolation of the great and famous citie of London they that haue ears to heare may yet heare the cries of hir children the pitious lamentation of hir women and the sighs of hir men in euerie street some for their parents some for their children some for their wiues some for their husbands some for mony and some for meat which the last years plague hath ruinated depriued and desolated Whether this were a reuenge of their sinnes yet liuing or a reuenge of their sinnes alreadie dead and yet vnrepented it is not knowne but sure it is many woes are past and many more are to come if the perusing and the examinatiō of our selues worke not in vs the consideration of that great zeale of Gods glorie the desire of building the Lords house and the practising of such an vpright life as was in the antient fathers of the church Wherefore I humbly intreat you and in Christ Iesus I desire you albeit your place be not to reforme these things so generally out of frame yet reforme and amend your selfe and your owne houshold ioyne with them that they may ioyne with you My good worshipfull and Christian friend as I cannot charge you nor any of yours for any disorder so I cannot leaue to intreat and desire you to walke warily and wisely in this crooked and froward generation ground your own foundation sure take heed to your selfe looke that noman t Reu. 3 11. take away your Crowne The deuill offreth violence hold therefore fast that which you haue watch and pray O pray continually powre out your supplications before God morning and euening both you and your hoshold v Psal 5 3. Morning and euening said Dauid will I direct my praiers vnto thee