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A87557	An exposition of the epistle of Jude, together with many large and usefull deductions. Formerly delivered in sudry lectures in Christ-Church London. By William Jenkyn, minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and pastor of the church at Black-friars, London. The second part.; Exposition of the epistle of Jude. Part 2	Jenkyn, William, 1613-1685.	1654 (1654)	Wing J642; Thomason E736_1; ESTC R206977	525,978	703

those who better deserved to keep then he to get the Government 2 His Employment with that of the rest of the Levites is mentioned Numb 16.9 to be honourable Numb 3.12.16.8 9. they being separated by God from the congregation of Israel to be brought near to himself to do the service of the Tabernacle and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them The Levites were brought nearer to God then the other Tribes though not so near as the Priests Numb 18.3 1 Chron 6.46 49 Aarons sons the Priests served in the Sanctuary in praying for the people and offering Incense and Sacrifice but the rest of the Tribe of Levi were not to come nigh the Altar upon pain of death Numb 3.9.1.50.3.6 7 8.4.3 4.7.5.18.6 Deut. 10 8. 1 Chron. 6.48.9.28 29 2 Chro. 26.18 1 Chro. 23.28 29. but served in Offices inferior to theirs Their work was 1 To attend the service of the Sanctuary according to the command of the Priests When the Tabernacle was moveable they were appointed to take it down carry set it up and to keep all the Instruments thereof and also with the Priests to carry the Ark of the Lord To wait upon the sons of Aaron in the service of the house of the Lord in the courts and in the chambers and in the purifying of all holy things Their work was to watch about the Tabernacle and afterward the Temple to defend it 1 Chron. 9.27 They also were to have the over sight of the Shew-bread Meat-offerings unleavened cakes and of all manner of measure and size they being to see that all measures both of dry and moist things which were used in Gods service might have their just proportion and that there might be a due length and breadth of all things that used to be measured by the mete-yard All manner of just measures for the things belonging to the House of God were to be tryed by the measures and sizes which the Levites kept and these were called the measures of the Sanctuary whether the Levites had the ordering of civil measures and sizes or no is uncertain 1 Chro. 16.4.23.30 2 Chron. 8.14.20.19 30.21.31.2 Nehem. 9.5 2. The work of the Levites was to sing praises to God and they praised him both by singing holy Songs and Hymns and also by Musical Instruments 3. The Levites were to teach the people the Law according to the good word of the Lord 2 Chron. 30.22 and 35.3 and this Employment was common both to the Priests and Levites Deut. 31.10 2 Chron. 17.7 8 9. and 31.4 Ezra 7.10 11. Nehem. 8.7 8. and 9.4 5. 4. To the Levites it also belonged with the Priests to take cognizance and to judg in causes about Holy things 2 Chron 19.8 10 11. So that the Priests and Levites were the two Ecclesiastical Orders in Israel employed about holy things the Levites making the lesser the Priests the greater and higher Order and yet both called Brethren Numb 18.6 And in process of time by the appointment of God when the Worship of God was to be stationary and fixt in one place David divided the Levites into sundry Orders and Ranks according to their Families for the discharging of their several functions and Ministeries they having their several courses of waiting and charges allotted to them See 1 Chron. 28.13 and 23. per tot and 25 c 2 Chron. 8.14 2 Chron. 35.4 5 10. The reason of the separating of the Levites to the worship of God is plainly mentioned in Scripture Numb 3.12 So Num. 8.16 I have saith God taken the Levites from among the children of Israel in stead of all the first-born because the first-born are mine for on the day that I smote all the first-born of the Land of Egypt Exod. 12 23 I hallowed unto me all the first-born in Israel The first-born then were Gods by a particular right of Redemption as well as Creation and therefore were in especial manner to serve him In other Creatures the first born were to be sacrificed to him if they were clean beasts and if they were not to be ransomed at a price for the maintenance of the Tabernacle Now instead of taking the first born of mankind to his service he appointed that the Levites should be peculiarly set apart for it And he chose to be served by one Tribe rather then by a number of first born taken out of many Tribes as Learned Interpreters conceive for prevention of confusion discord and division in holy Services and by the Tribe of Levi rather then any other for their Zeal of his Glory in revenging the indignity done unto him in the worshipping the Golden Calf Exod. 32.26 28. To conclude this Distourse As Israel was separated from all other people to be the Lords peculiar Lev. 20.26 so were the Levites separated from the sons of Israel to be the Lords Numb 8.14 And the employment of the Levites of which this Corah was a chief and among whom he was famous was though inferior to the Priests who were nearer to God in their attendances very honourable And therefore from the high honour thereof doth Moses argue against the ambition of this rebellious Corah whose desire it was to invade the Priestly Dignity also Seemeth it saith he a small thing unto you that the God of Israel hath separated you from the Congregation of Israel to bring you neer to himself Numb 16.9 to do the work of the Tabernacle c. If it be an honour for the greatest Subject to have the meanest Employment about the body of an earthly Prince how much greater is the advancement of the highest sons of men to have the lowest degree of peculiar service to God and truly David though a King went not an inch below his state in not disdaining the Office of a door-keeper in the house of the Lord and in putting on a linnen Ephod 3. For the Posterity of this Rebel Corah we find in Scripture that they were 1 Spared and exempted from this destruction of their father 2 Afterward that they were employed by God in his service which some of them did holily discharge 1 That they were spared is expressed Num. 26.11 The children of Corah died not neither did the fire from heaven nor the opening of the earth hurt them Whether they were in their fathers rebellion and were spared by the Prerogative of free mercy or for Gods care of his Ministry or whether they consented not to the sin of their father as it is most likely or whether they repented upon the warning given by Moses Numb 16.5 I determine not the Scripture being silent Nor will it be needful here to relate that fabulous invention of the Jewes by whose relation God wrought as great a miracle in the saving of Corahs children as he did in the destroying of Corah himself for they write That when the earth opened and swallowed up the father the children were taken up in the air and there remained hanging

Jer. 8.6 Hos 4.19 rushing out foming or boyling of the Sea Sometime to the swiftness of a Dromedary traversing her way sometime to the rushing of a Horse into the battell Also the back sliding of an heifer which will endure no yoke not be kept in any bounds Hos 8.9 to the unbridled unruliness of the wild Ass which is and will be alone by himself and will not endure any man to come neer him to bring him under government Who saith God hath sent out the wild Asse c. he scorneth the multitude of the City and regardeth not the crying of the driver Job 39.5 that is who but I God hath manumised or set free the wild Ass from all service of men and set and kept him loose from those bands to which other Cattel are subject whereby they serve in the Cart plow and under the saddle c. If drivers should offer to urge him to work as they do tame beasts he would scorn it and shew them a light pair of heels If a whole City should seek to scare him and bring him to work he would not regard it An exact embleme of a man pursuing his lust who will not endure to hear of a master but will be a stranger to discipline knows no other law but his lust will be a son of Belial without a yoke yea the vehement impetuousness of the wicked in prosecuting their lusts Jer. 2.24 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Clem. Alexandr is set out by the violence of a wild Asse winding the male and running mad after after him in her occasion none being able to turn her away or willing to weary themselves therein the wicked set sheir hearts on their iniquity Hos 4.8 The heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evill Eccles 8.11 More particularly 1. The Word and Will of God hinders not sinners in their courses of lust they break the yoke Jer. 5.5 and burst the bonds They break bands asunder and cast away cords from them Jesus qui potuit solem sistere ne procederet avaritiam bominum non potuit sistere ne serperet ad vocem ejus sol stetit avaritia non stetit Sole itaque stante confecit Jesus triumphum avaritia procedente pene amisit victoriam Ambr. l. 2. de offic cap. 26. When the Prophet had exhorted the people to turn from their evill ways they tell him plainly Jer. 18.12 and 2.25 There is no hope that is it is to no purpose to speak to us there is no possibility of reclaiming us we are resolvedly bent upon our courses which we have pitcht upon and firmly fixt to live as we list our selves I spake unto thee in thy prosperity and thou wouldst not hear Jer. 22.22 Though Joshua stopt the Sun that swiftly running creature in its course yet by severest threats and strictest prohibition he could not hinder Achan from his covetous attempt Though Samuel told the Israelites the manner of their King that was to reign over them and foretold them their many and certain calamities which should thereby ensue yet they refused to hear Samuels voyce and said Nay but there shall be a King over us Neh. 9.16 17.26.29 Fuit hoc gentilitium ac genuiuum vitium Judaeorum ut nihil minus crederent quam quod à Prophetis traderetur Mendoz. in 1 Sam. 8. Deut. 29.2 Matth 29 21 Gen. 5.31.7.6 The Levites in their confession acknowledg that their fathers hardned their necks dealt proudly harkned not to Gods commandments refused to obey were disobedient rebelled against him cast his Law behind their backs sinned against his Judgments withdrew the shoulder would not hearken So obstinate was Judas in his sin that the admonishing of the Traytor and mentioning of the Treason by Christ himself could not work upon him Though Cain was forewarned of God to take heed of hurting his brother yet would he not be stopt from the Murder Gen. 4.7 The preaching of Righteousness to the old and obstinate world by Noah who by the language of his tongue in speaking to them and hand also in building the Ark a work wherein he spent an hundred years foretold them of their approaching Deluge could not reclaim them from their lusts yea the slow proceedings of God in raining upon the earth forty dayes could not work upon those obstinate sinners but as they lived so they dyed in their contumacy The like may be said of the Sodomites Gen. 19.9 who would not be disswaded from their unclean persecutions by all the Arguments that righteous Lot could use The Jewes would not by the most clear and convineing Miracles of Christ be reclaimed or convinced Yea 2 So great is a sinners contumacy that the greatest of Gods judgments cannot reclaim him Thou hast stricken them saith the Prophet but they have not grieved thou hast consumed them but they have refused to receive correction they have made their faces harder then a rock Jer. 5.3 And chap. 8.6 Every one turned to his course as the horse rusheth into the battel The most visible and apparent threatnings of death cannot stop the horse from running into the battle nor a sinner from proceeding in his course of wickedness Such was the resolution of the Egyptians in pursuing the Israelites that they would rush into the sea which they knew could not be divided for their sakes and enter the jawes of death rather then think of a seasonable Retreat Rather then sinners will not satisfie their unlawful Lusts they will spend and profusely cast away their dearest enjoyments Quòd Aaron jubet inaures demi ab auribus uxorum c. non absurdè intelligitur difficilia praecipere voluisse ut hoc modo eos ab illâ intentione revocaret Aug. q. 141. in Exod. Abulens q 10. Some think that Aaron being required to make gods for the Israelites demanded of them their golden ear-rings which were in the ears of their wives their sons and daughters to try whether he could suppress that Idolatrous desire by calling for those things which were so dear and costly and yet the people were so obstinately bent upon Idolatry that notwithstanding these difficulties they took Aaron at his word and gave their most precious Ornaments for the making of a Golden Idol and Abulensis thinks that these ear-rings were taken away from the younger sort their sons and daughters against their wills and with such violence that their ears were torn and bloody before the Ear-rings were pull'd from them Jeroboam by the rending of the Altar and the drying up of his hand was not reclaimed from Idolatry 1 King 13.33 Esau rather then he would not satisfie his sensual appetite for a mess of pottage sold his precious birth-right Verberari à Damone mallebat quam à Deo coronari Illa flagella adorabat haec dona fastidiebat Mall●t suh diabolicis plantis crudeliter tundi quam inter divinas ulnas molliter foveri Mendoz in 1 Sam. 8.22 But that