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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94756	A designe about disposing the Bible into an harmony. Or, An essay, concerning the transposing the order of books and chapters of the holy Scriptures for the reducing of all into a continued history. The [brace] benefits. Difficultie. Helpes. / By Samuel Torshel.	Torshell, Samuel, 1604-1650.	1647 (1647)	Wing T1936; Thomason E377_9; ESTC R201360	14,721	35

we shall not know where to finde any thing That may be easily helpt by marginall Columnes all along throughout with the Context and a Table or Index at the end of the whole In most places there will need but two Columnes for a great part none at all where the History or Book runs along without dislocation or insertion and in no place above four as in the Evangelists unlesse haply a fifth Columne somewhere there if it be judged fit to insert Judes Epistle into the History of the Evangelists concerning which for the present I Quaerie At the end may be an Index of two Columns In the first the Books Chapters and verses in the order as they lye now in the Bible And in the other the Books and Chapters of the Harmony it being divided into so many Books and Chapters as may be most for ease Whereby may presently be found in what part of the Harmony any Chapter Verse or Sentence of the whole Bible lies As for example Genesis Harmony ch ver lib. ch 1. 1. to 27. 1. 1. The Harmony being thus framed throughout there may be some marginall directions where they are necessary to give the reasons of the Transitions Insertions Transpositions and of the whole order The Benefits THe benefit of such an Harmony will be greater then we can fully comprehend till we have the use of it It will help much toward the making up an exacter Scripture-Chronologie It will serve abundantly to the clearing of the genuine and historicall meaning of the Text every where As for instance The Sermons of the Prophets though as they were laid up and preserved by the Sanhedrim are delivered unto us in a body as the learned Elders digested them yet they were applied at severall times in the severall emergencies of affairs of the two Kingdoms of Judah and Israel and upon severall occasions which being found out will make us as it were present auditours of those Prophets and in the quality of those to whom they were directed So the Psalms were written by severall men at severall times and those of David not all at once We shall know the temper of their spirits upon what motives upon what rejoycings upon what fears or distresses or accidents they were composed Take one example Psal 90.10 The anthour of that Psalm passionately complains of the shortnesse and misery of mans years The dayes of our years are threescore years and ten c. But it concerns not all men and times Only Moses who seems to have been the authour of that Psalm complains upon an occasion peculiar to that time and that people whom he governed It was the word of the Lord concerning that generation when they provoked him in the wildernesse that none of them should enter into his rest nor see the good land but that all their carcasses should fall in the desert that occasioned this complaint A strange and and unusuall thing that of 600000. souls men of able constitutions and lying under no epidemicall disease none except two persons Caleb and Iosuah should out-live threescore and ten years or at utmost but fourscore that were twenty years of age at their coming forth of Egypt We may take another example Psal 27.13 I had fainted unlesse I had beleeved to see the goodnesse of the Lord in the land of the living What was that land of the living that David speaks of When he made this Psalm he was forced from Ierusalem where he was wont to live in society with men and now shifted up and down among grott's and caves and solitary holes as if his dwelling had been among the Sepulchers of the dead The occasion then enlightens the Psalm if we insert it into that part of Davids story The literall historicall sense of Scripture we must first build upon else in mysteries and Allegories we may sooner be fine and witty then sound Hierome confesseth his own youthly vanity in interpreting Obadiah's Prophecie When I was young saith he I interpreted the Prophet allegorically because I was ignorant of the History I thought then I could read a sealed book No man can write so ill but some will like it Such an one praised it but I blush't I now freely professe that was the work of my childish wit this of my mature age Many undertake Scripture as if they could reade a sealed book and perhaps many praise them for lofty and raised notions but where is their Authority when they lose the genuine and litterall meaning of the holy Pen-man Isidore Pelusiota hath observed That wheras the Manichees thought that no part of the old Testament spake of Christ some in his time went to the other extream thinking all to be spoken of him and so brought a discredit upon the true testimonies when wrong ones were wrested Weaknesse of proof brings the greatest prejudice against the truth Divines have given out some observations for the understanding how Scripture is fulfilled either 1. When the thing is done or comes to passe which was meant by the Prophet in his litterall and proper sense Or 2. When that comes to passe which was fore-shadowed by the proper and immediate subject of the Prophets speech Or 3. When the thing that happens was not litterally and properly pointed at nor fore-shadowed but aptly and handsomely applied to and compared with somewhat like it Or 4. When that which was fore-told or fore-shadowed though it have been already done in part or have been begun to be done is afterwards done more fully or else more constantly It being possible that the same Scripture may be fulfilled often yea in the same litterall sense Now an Harmonious historizing of the Psalms and the Prophets and the like will lead us more clearly to know the immediate subject of what was spoken give us hints to discern what was higher and further meant yea possibly more then what themselves understood in the words that themselves spake For the Scriptures being given for the instruction and use of all succeeding ages It may be that the Prophets knew not all that they delivered and which the sense of their words might be afterwards improved unto Daniel was a man full of the Spirit of God and much travelled in Revelations yet he knew not the then approaching time of the Jews liberty till that in the first of Darius he learned more then was immediately inspired unto him by Books that had been written by Prophets before him Dan. 9.2 In the first year of Darius raign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the Prophet No doubt he diligently satisfied himself unto what year of Jeremies publique Ministery those predictions Chap. 25.11 12. and chap. 29.10 were made Some Prophets knew more and some lesse They saw for after times but often themselves saw but what concerned the present times places and affairs It was said to Daniel himself Chap. 12.4 O Daniel shut up the words and seal the