particularly named or their Name is expresed We should be so well versed in Scripture so familiarly acquainted with it It should so Indwel in us richly In all wisdom that assoon as any sentence or member of a sentence or part of the distinction of a member is spoken of we should know it that it is a Scripture-Testimonie or Scripture-phrase although the particular Book Place sentence or clause be not expressed There are some Accents in the Hebrew which some do call King-Accents because they do posess the Chief Stations and do most distinguish the sentences called pauses and Distinctive-Accents * Soph-pasuk Eccles 12. 13. Acts 8. 32. that which puts an end of the sentence and is the period of it they express by two words the former of them doth signifie An End and is so taken in several Scriptures particularly in the closing up of that Book of Solomons called Ecclesiastes as the pause at the ending of it an End of all this word hath been heard or we will hear this same Aelohim fear thou and those commandments of his keep thou for this All that Adam Because Al-that-work these Aelohim will bring in-judgment over all that is hidden If good and If evil and the other word which is translated place of Scripture in a passage of the Acts of the Apostles is retained in the Syriac denoting a cessation as when one doth cease to read and doth shut the book It puts an end to the section or sentence of a Scripture when the reader puts a stop or makes a pause Hence the Hebrews do call these Distinctive Accents †〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by a name which has its meaningof Tasts or Relishes because to a right judging-spiritual discerner they do indicate and discover what the nature and sense of every speech is as the palat doth judg of meat by the Tast and Relish of it Those who would find out more of this kind of Hebrew Learning let them industriously dig deep to come at Hebrew roots in their proper significance and apply themselves * Joh. 16. 13. 1 Joh. 2. 20 27. unto the holy Spirit for teaching as others have done In the supplies of which Good Spirit whose office and work it is from the Father and from his Son Christ to lead into all truth and to anoint with such a spiritual Unction whereby they may know all things the writer and composer of these few sheets doth intend if life and liberty be continued to set about the Practical part of this Science of Sciences and Art of Arts as any young hopeful sons and Disciples shall be willingnesses in the day Christs Power The method and mode of Arguing Disputing about any matter of profitable Inquiry in any Useful Art or Science will be this according to the Scriptures The Lord hath given us a Full Treasury of useful Knowledg in his word did we throughly apprehend prize and improve it in so much as that there is sometimes more in the right understanding of one Hebrew word For instance the first word of the First Psalm 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in its Full significancy than in all the Commentaries that I have met with upon that whole Psalm as This word O the Happy goings on with a straight foot Or O the blessed progresses with a straight foot The Root of this word is Ashar in Piel Ishsher he went with a straight foot he went happily he walked on in a right way This one word rightly understood doth cast a shining light upon the whole drift and Scope of the Psalm which is to discover who and what they are who do make an happy progress in the Christian Religion and what choice Priviledges they are which such holy Proficients do injoy This is more particularly and expresly described negatively such a man is one who hath not walked in the Councel of the unjust nor hath stood in the way of sinners nor hath fate in the seat of the scornful For Experience will convince Evidently that he who hath thus walked stood and set the Hebrew Phrase by the time past being often used to set out continued actions he will be thereby hindered in his religious journy and lose much of his precious time Then positively such a man is one whose delight in the Law of Jehovah and who in his Law will meditate Day and night because if he have done so do and shall do so This will put him onward and set him forward in the way of the LORD The holy Spirit will bear witness with his Spirit unto the Truth and goodness of This to his clearer Evidence and sweeter satisfaction And then shall he be As a Tree planted by brooks of waters which shall give his Fruit in his season and his leaf shall not fade and whatsoever he shall do shall prosper when others are fruitless and fading and unthriving as to any Spiritual holy good Progress he shall be confirmed established and not so moved whilst the unjust shall be As Chaff which the Spirit or wind driveth it away he shall be justifyed and stand upright in judgment when others are condemned and cast he shall have Church-Communion and Gospel-fellowship in the Assembly and Society of just ones which the unjust shall not be so priviledged withal For Jehovah will know he will acknowledg this way of such just ones wherein they make such an holy happy Progress whereas the way of the unjust will and shall perish they and their way together shall be done away decay be lost not regarded but rejected note this well what a Storehouse of practical religion there is contained sometimes in one Hebrew word It has been puzzling disturbing distracting and discourageing unto many in their endeavours and Studies after the knowledg of the Hebrew tongue that in most of the Hebrew Lexicons they meet with so many various and sometimes contrary significations of one Root which doth so leave them at a loss that they are under a temptation to throw away their Books and to conclude as if there were scarce any certainty in this Kind of Knowledg whereas the Scriptures of Truth copied out in the true real nature of created Beings is the one and the only Book of books where rightly and thorowly understood believed experienced lived and practised for infallible certainty of useful Science which Philosophical writings (w) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Academica qui Academici negabant aliquid posse comprehendi idest intelligi certo from α privativa particula 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 deprehendo apprehendo of vain affecters of human wisdom are not Therefore this also would I further commend to those who are Gifted and Graced for and called to such a work of Works and so others who having estates might do much in their place for encouraging and promoting of it by large Contributions that way that in writing of Lexicons in translating of the Orginal Scriptures into Mother-Tongues and in giving forth the interpretation and
the Scriptures to have given a Specimen of these following Particulars towards the Advancement of Scripture-learning towards which I am like to bequeath my Studies and Collections unto such a School both as to my printed and written books An exact version or Translation of the Original Scriptures word for word without any human alterations or Supplements additions or Substractions with instances in several places what wrong is done unto the word of God and how the Translators were Malignly influenced upon by some thereby to serve Partial designs and Carnal ends and Corrupt interests of Churches and States Those who may have a call to and for such a work should be eminently gifted and graced fitted and furnished by Jehovah Aelohim for such a work Such as would be Right Translators of the Bible they must be God-taught-ones very Humble and mortifyed very Skilful in the original Language Experienced believers and Growing Saints not wedded to privat interests nor swayed by a Partial Spirit such as are much and mighty with a God hearing prayer spiritual wrestlers and powerful prevailers through Christs intercession with Him having Free converse and Distinct Communion with the Father Son and Holy Spirit It is a reproach to the Protestant Cause that one of the best Translations that we have of the Bible in an interlineary we have received from a Popish hand what pen can write down all the losses which the precious Souls of the Common sort of people do Sustain by the many useful mysteries of the Christian Religion which are hid from them for want of This How much has the Cause of Christ Suffered even from a Preaching Ministry by a pertinacious adhering to a Corrupt Translation whilst they let go if they understand it That proper significancy of the Original words and phrases which doe best set out the great Truths and things of the Christian religion and do most commend themselves to the knowledg Faith and Experience of Spiritual Discerners with what singular endowments they should be qualifyed who are employed in such an undertaking is sooner set dowâ—â—â— writing then to be found as yet actually given to men by the Holy Spirit my own unfitness and inability I do readily acknowledg It is honour enough for me to Commend the work to others and to quicken them up by the Prayers of â—iâ—h to wrestle with the Lord for larger pourings down of his Spirit for suâ—â— an End O that I might live to see the Day when Such Eminently called ones might come forth more clothed with that Spirit An Hebrew Grammar and Lexicon should be composed out of the Holy Scriptures and not these Scriptures wrested and wryed to speak conformably to Grammars and Lexicons of Traditionary humane Composure All being to be kept within the Confines and borders of Original True Scripture and of Primitive pure nature of what use the Cognation of Languages would be in this might be considered For the Promoting of this such as have laid up any store or prepared any Materials concerning that which Jehovah Aelohim hath put into his written word and into Created Beings about Letters their figure name Power or force in Sound and Pronunciation Vowels Consonants Syllableâ— words sentences accents punctations distinguishing of Sentences Orthoepy or right Speaking with the instruments of Pronunciation which have so many wonderful secrets and hidden Mysteries both in Nature and in grace by which we communicate the Conceptions of our Heart and mind Orthography or Right writing Parts of speech in their several Proprieties particularly as to the verbs in the distinct significancy of their several Conjugations and as to the verbal Participles Syntax or Construction The only one Primary Original meaning of every Hebrew root the â—ap and Juice of which peculiar significancy should run into all the deviate branches not so making one and the same Word to signify so many various and contrary things To add no more now I am heartily thankful for what we have already hereof but it hath not as yet received its perfecting Advance This and what else might be further named I leave to the Serious and judicious to meditate upon The Lord give understanding herein Jehovah will give Wisdom out of his mouth Knowledg and understanding he hath hiddenly laid up essential Wisdom to the upright Wisdom shall enter into their Heart and Knowledg shall be sweat unto their Soul Of Hebrew Alphabet and Letters their Number and order of vowels Consonants Syllables Words Sentences Notes of Distinction and of Punctation in Sentences the Art and Science of Right speaking Right writing with their mutual Corresponding of the Parts of Speech of Etymologie or Analogy and somwhat of Syntax or of Construction JEhovah (s) Psal 139. 1 2 4 14. Thou hast searched me and Known Thou understandest my Familiar thought afar off when the speech not in my Tongue lo Jehovah Thou knowest it All. I will confess thee for that Fearfully marvellously made am I marvellous thy works and my soul knoweth very well Adam was made a speaking Creature whereby he was separated from and excelling of all others the Glorious Holy Angels only excepted His (t) Psal 16. 9. 30. 12. compare Act. 2. 26. Psa 57. 8 9. Gen. 49. 6. Soul and tongue were his Glory Jehovah Aelohim could have glorifyed and injoyed himself in himself though no Creature had been spoken into a Being or seeing he would give an Essence and Existence to a World He could have made all his Creatures dumb but his will and pleasure was for the exalting of himself and the extolling of his Name to create Angels and men such noble Beings as had Rational Souls intelligent minds and were voluntary Free Agents having Hearts and Judgments to conceive and understand and Tongues and other Instruments of speech wherewith to offer and bring forth those inward Conceptions vocally and so to be the tongued Trumpeters of the whole Creation and thereby to sound forth the high Praises of his Wisdom and Power in so Excelling and Perfect a Work as this goodly beautious World not only to behold it with their Eyes and to admire it in their Meditations but also by Angelical and Human voice to confess it with their Mouths How great a Mystery This is both in Nature in institution and in grace How notions of truths and of things have their Conception Apprehension clear and distinct Perception speculative Reasoning Practical judging comparing and considering Resolving and ultimate dictating how they have Assent or Dissent in the Heart and mind of Intelligent Creatures How these being Formed there are uttered and communicated to the other instruments of speech how brought forth into words and sentences by these how conveighed by voice to the Ear of another how received by the Ears of others how understood by hearing whither carryed from the ear How these come to be written in such a multitude of expressions and phrases where the Letters are so few how written words are discerned and understood by
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THE HOUSE OF VVISDOM 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The HOUSE of the â—ons of the Prophets 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 An HOUSE of Exquisite Enquiry And of Deep Research 〈◊〉 the Mind of Jehovah Aelohim in the holy Scriptures of Truth 〈◊〉 the Original words and phrases and their proper significancy is â—â—gently studied faithfully compared and aptly put together for â—â—e further Promoting and higher Advancing of Scripture-Knowâ—â—â—ges of all useful Arts and profitable Sciences In the one Book â—â— Books the Word of Christ copied out and commented upon in â—reated Beings Second Essay in pursuit of the same Design held forth in a former Treatise inâ—â—tled All in One By the same Author more and yet more a Lover and Adâ—â—er of Christ and of his Word and Works Prov. 9. 1. Wisdom hath builded her House 2 King 4. 38. The Sons of the Prophets sitting to the faces of Elisha Matth. 11. 19. She hath been justified This Wisdom of those her Sons LONDON â—â—â—nted for the Author and are to be sold by John Lawrence at the Angel in Cornhill near the Royal Exchange 1681. THE House of Wisdom LET such an Uniform (a) Prov. 9. 1. 2 King 4. 18. Mat. 11. 19. Building be founded and superstructed and finished according to the Architectonick Art with Windows looking every way and Casements to be set open when it is needful to have the Rooms freely perflated quite blown thorow with gently-moving and sweetly-wholsom winds and excellently clarified and bright-beaming Sun-shines of Radiant splendour A dull and dark closet a Close smothering Room will breed Stifling Asthmas clogging phlegms panting wheezings they feed melancholy sluggishness raise offensive vapours and make the Spirits faint and swooning let it be in an Air pure clear fragrant and temperate such as may nourish and refresh the spirits of students and may preserve an healthful constitution and lively state of both their inward and outward man and such as is best suited to a Generous mind an Acute wit a clear brain a good Heart free-breathing lungs a sound liver a lively Colour a peircing sight a quick Hearing a discerning Palat a savoury smelling a milky honeyed fountain under the Tongue a clear voice and activity of limbs such Airs as are grosly-thick putridly-Corrupted noisomly-vaporous darkly-cloudy do breed rheumes cause obstructions annoy the lungs corrupt the blood beget ill humors infect and oppress the heart deject and imprison the Spirits having a malignant influence and diseaseing contagiousness quite subverting the Constitution and State of the whole man Let it be eminently Scituated in some open place some high Champion on a firm dry ground on an healthy red Earth having some living Spring of pure Water lying open to the East which East should also face the Front of this House that it may have the benign influence and the aspect of that Glorious luminary the serviceable Sun in its ascending flight with Healing wings * 2 Chron. 31. 14. Ezek. 11. 1. Luke 1. 78 79. Mal. 4. 2. Deut. 33. 2. Isa 60. 1. Job 1. 3. 23. 8 9. Psal 103. 12. Ezek. 40. 6. There was an East-gate of the Temple on Mount Tzijon This looked toward the East and was at the Principal Entrance into the Temple faced by the Rising Sun which is one of Christ's Names Christ is said to Rise up and to Shine forth as the Sun ariseth for of That Rising is the Hebrew word properly used The East is called Kedem Before because of the Positure of Man facing of the East The West Achor Behind The South Jamin the Right Hand The North Semoal the Left Hand In the Early Mornings when Students should be at their work betimes a clear Sun-shine doth visit them and a more pure and lightsom fresh and healthy Air salutes them or if there be not such a living spring yet some running Brook with silver Streams on a Sandy or Pebbly or Gravelly clean Channel and Bottom somewhat near adjoyning the Water being pure in taste sweet in smell altogether clean Low marshy filthy foggy Seats do infect Spirit Soul and Body also with vaporous sickly blasts with their grosness and impurity muddishness and waterishness and are thereby great endammagers of health The Grand Design of this noble undertaking being the improving-advance of Scripture-learning let us examine and collect and put orderly together what the written word of Jehovah Aelohim hath recorded concerning this Subject matter about Such Houses or Schools of the Sons of the Prophets Let that at (b) Gen. 28. 17 19 22. 31. 13. 35. 1 3 6 7 15. Hos 12. 4. 1 King 12. 28 29 30. Jer. 48. 13. Amos 3. 14. 4. 4. 7. 10 13 15. 5. 5. Hos 4. 15. 5. 8. 10. 5. 1 Sam. 7. 16. Jos 18. 21 22. 2 King 2. 3. Genes 12. 8. Josh 16. 1. Mat. 5. 14. 1 Sam. 13. 2. 1 King 13. 4 11. Amos 7. 13. 1 Sam. 10. 3. 2 King 2. 23. Beth-Ael because of its Name and Nature be the First it was a name of Honour The House of Ael whilst it was a Place kept pure for the instituted worship of Jehovah Aelohim In this City the Sons of the Prophets Some of them had a kind of Colledg or School Here the Lord appeared and revealed himself in special to Jacob manifesting his gracious Presence unto him Judge Samuel went from year to year in circuit to this Place which was in the heart of the Country belonging by Lot to the Tribe of Beniamin The Prophets Elijah and Elishah often visited This City for here was the Nursery for Scripture-learning where the Sons of the Prophets were addicted to that Study It had a mountain Eastward of it and Such little mountains and Hills at a convenient distance do somewhat hinder and keep back over-sharp blasting vaporous over-piercing over cold or otherwaies hurtful winds It stood upon a mount the eminence of the Habitation being best approved for health and for the prolonging of life the Air there being the more open and the breathing therefore the more Free the apter to engender an acuteness and generousness a publickness and magnificence of mind whereas when the dwellings of Studious men are in crooked and close in low and Fenny Countries those who are of a retired sedentary pondering and inquiring life are greatly incommoded thereby being of a more dull and drowzy sluggish and lazy sordid and earthy-distemperature whilst those who dwell in a more healthful and high a more pure and thin a more clear and heavenly Air are of a more princely and coelestial of a more subtil and refined of a more nimble and witty of a more ingenious and ingenuous of a more magnanimous and winged Spirit Habit State and Temper In this Beth-Ael dwelt an old Prophet It was a Royal City the house of the Kingdom There was an Ascending up unto it when it became Idolatrous its name was changed from Beth-Ael an house of God and Ael-Beth-Ael
is properly such tops of green buddings 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The tops of Trees and of Herbs fit food for the Sons of the Prophets much in the use of Herbs for broth Sallads otherwaies and of the tops of green buddings in the Fall and Spring especially of both which Herbs and Tops a discreet choice should be made of what is apt and proper for Food and also for Medicin if the Case call for it There are some sorts of Roots also which taken up out of healthful ground if discreetly chosen and well dressed are very wholsom Diet for young Students whose employ is much in digging after Hebrew roots and the branches and buddings of their roots in their proper significancy Good Fruits also in their Season Milk and Honey wholsom Drinks all with moderation for the measure seasonableness for the Time and aptness for the Kind have a name of Honour in the word scarce one man of a thousand who knows aright how to make one meal in order to health and other good ends Proper wholsom diet as it doth make much for the health of young Students so also doth it much promote their Learning when * Dan. 1. ch Nebuchadnezzar would have hopful young men bred up for his use and Service in state-affairs This being a noble Princely work fit for the greatest King to put on upon it's due advance he gives a strict charge to one of his chief Officers that he should choose and â—ull out certain of the Children of Israel of the seed of the Kingdom of the nobles young men Good to see to intelligent in all wisdom of a good Temperament likely ones to apprehend and to learn to be quick and expert in Arts and Sciences sharp witted of peirceing understandings in whom was strength of Body and of mind to stand and to serve in the Kings Palace for which purpose they were to be fitted and furnished by being instructed in Languages and in Books which he thought in three years time they might be well skilled in Daniel Hananiah Misael and Azariah were singled out for this end and the King by a Court-order appointed to be given to them the word of the Day in his day of the pieces parcels portions Messes or reliques of the Kings meat and of the Wine of his Drinkings Daniel though but yoâ—ng yet had so much perception with him as to discern and judge that this Commons and Meals which was prepared from them was both forbidden by the Laws of his Religion being somwhat of that a part whereof was offered to an Idol and so was prohibited and often being of unclean beasts Fowles or Fishes which Jehovah Aelohim expresly forbad as against both their Health and holiness too and foreseeing that at least this kind of food and such variety of wines was too high for them and would altogether indispose them for Study for Proficiency he therefore requested of this Officer Overseer and Steward that he and his Companions might not desile themselves with such Food but that he and they might have such diet as was everyway better agreeing with the Principles of their Religion with their State of Health and with their Progress in Learning This Steward at the first was afraid that meaner fare would breed a sadness thinness palenes and wannes upon their Faces which if the Kâ—ng should see For it becomes the greatest Prince to look after the education of such with his own Eyes and so the Officer should fall under the displeasure of the King and forfeit his head and life to the Prince Daniel perceiving that this Principal Officer would yet at least connive at it desired him who was an under Steward who by the direction of this chief Officer was to bring the Provision to him and to his Fellow-feeding friends to prove them for ten days long with what they translate Pulse and Water but in proper significancy Zeragnim are such things as do spring and grow from what is sown such are all manner of wholsom Herbs Grains Corn Wheat Barley Rice Pease Beans and such like also of good Fruits from Trees and then after so many days were expired to compare their countenances with the countenances of such as did eat of the Kings meat and drank of his Wines and as he made the observation so to judge upon tryal accordingly this under-provider makes experiment and at the ten days end Daniel and his Companions were good of Countenance and fat of Flesh beyond the other fairer and healthfuller God giving these four young men Knowledge and understanding in all books and to Daniel more particularly and especially understanding in all manner of Visions and dreams so that at the end of the days when they were brought in before Nebuchadnezzar to his faces upon communing with them there were none found like Daniel and his fellow-feeding friends They excelled all the rest of his wise men Their diet with Jehovahs blessing contributed much towards the forwarding of them in their Studies and Knowledg their Food being Garden and Field-Herbs Grains and Fruits which did grow out of the Earth from what was sown or Planted Pot-herbs in Latin are called olus either from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Totus because Man might live almost wholly upon it or ab Alendo dictum because a discreet choice of these in good Broth especially in the spring with some good Raisons stoned are good nourishing Food and proper physick too The Creator who best knew what was for mans use and good for Food gave him every * Gen. 1. 2â— â— 3. 2. 8 9 15. Herb seeding-seed which upon the face of all the Earth and every Tree in the which the Fruit of a Tree seeding seed to Adam and Eve it shall be for meat And this Grant is continued to Noah and the Garden of Eden or of Pleasure where was every tree desireable for sight and good for meat of Jehovah Aelohim's own planting wheâ—â— these Fruits and Herbs grew up out of an healthful ground that was the Place where he put the man whom he had formed and his calling and work was to serve dress and to keep it Should I treat at large of all these and also of the well-governing of the Affections of these Sons and Disciples of their conferences debates disputes walks bodily Exercises Taâ—â—â— Discourses Hours for Study for sleep for rising closet and Familâ— and more-publique-Assembly worship with Scriptures directories and Rules and what else may fit them to be Healthful more learned Schollars Thorow Disciples of Christ experienced believers useful Instruments every way about their generation work I might fill up some quires of Paper but this I now rather leave to be somewhat of the Product of their Studies and observation according to the written word and created beings When I first entred upon this useful discovery I had it also in my intentions concerning the promoting of which I have collected and prepared many Materials out of
meaning of Hebrew words and phrases they would keep close to some only one certain proper signification of every distinct Hebrew Root and that the Sap and juice of that significancy may run itself into every one of the branches boughs limbs fruits and leaves which do spring from thence so will the True and Genuin meaning have more clearness and * Compare Gen. 18. 23. Eccl. 7. 16 17. Prov. 21. 18. Eccless 3. 16. Deut. 25. 1 2. Prov. 17. 15. Psal 37. 33. consider the Hebrew of Psal 121. 2. certainty The most Proper significancy of divers Hebrew words is best discerned by their opposites from words of a quite contrary meaning * As he who would find out the true signification of Reshengnim must inquire what is the right understanding of Tzaddikim if the one do set out such as are just ones justified ones then the other must denote these who being unjust not justifyed How holy a Mystery How full a Treasury is there sometimes in one Compound-praeposition in This Tongue of Tongues Take a short hint of this My help said the Psalmist From-with Jehovah who making Heavens and Earth it has been so is so will be so from Him as the Author and Giver of it yet so from Him as that it is with Him He must preserve and keep alive what of help he does actually afford and he continually gives more Oh! who can enough sigh at and cry over the neglect of an exact version or translation of the Original Scriptures word for word without adding or altering into the Mother tongues as they commonly call them because they are such as their Mothers do teach their Children in the several Country's where they are born and bred whereas in True propriety of speech The Hebrew tongue is the only Mother-tongue as the most ancient original Tongue all other Tongues being daughter tongues at the Babel-Confusion of Languages each of which doth retain and borrow somewhat of and from the Hebrew This is an ingenious Age in almost every Art and Science else which the Virtuosi of the times are set much upon highly to advance and greatly to promote in their several sorts of Learning though it doth appear to me through a God-taughtness they lay aside at least the Best if not the only way of thorow obtaining of a Satisfying Knowledg which is the Holy Spirits teaching in the written word and in Created Beings according to that word and what must this only of all other wayes be laid aside Oh how often have I bewailed it with yearning bowels and compassionating pittyings over the precious Souls of the Sons and Daughters of Adam that so many rich truths should lye so much concealed from them wherein their Temporal Spiritual and Eternal good is so much concerned either by giving them no translation of the Scriptures in their own Countrey Language or by putting of them off with such a corrupt and defective such a dark misinterpreted translation in some places as doth hide so many profitable parts of Religion from them which yet Jehovah-Aelohim hath graciously vouchsafed to them in Holy Writ How many large Incomes and great estates have been sinfully mispent and prodigally wasted of late years in England by riotous living and such like Sensual bestialities which will pass heavily upon accompt another day when the Righteous judge of All shall sit upon their case and reckon with such and how many others are there who with the Horseleach are still crying Give Give still coveting more Gold and Silver Houses and Lands and still more being never satisfyed whilst scarcely can one man be found who first layes up at least that portion of Gods part the tenth part of his incom and who also lay's by more of the rest that upon a clear call and just occasion he may have by him a considerable sum for the carrying on of some eminently useful work for the Honour of our Lord and for the good of Souls and the Blessing of Nations such a work especially as this is which I am now upon If there be a new Bridg to be raised or a new great gate or Gate-house to be built or a conduit to be set up or a Superstitious Aedifice to be Superstructed or some such London-Monument to be erected the present Lord Mayors will lavish out of their Baggs to have their names Engraven and their Majoralties recorded to be read in the stones In such cases It is who can be the chief Overseer of such a work some Prince or Noble man or rich Merchant is ambitious at the Foundation or Finishing of such a great publick structure to lay on or cause to be laid on in open view the first or the last stone one or both of which stones it may be they will lay with their own hands (x) Zech. 4. 6 7 8 9 10. and then O what shouting out-cryes and joyful Acclamations are there sounded forth by the people But where are the Zerubbabels and Joshuahs who will set their hands to this new Temple work this later day-glory-work and where do such Prophets and such sons of the Prophets as of old in Samuels in Elijahs and in Elisha's dayes dwell what entertainment this printed paper may have upon the hearts of any into whose hands it may be received I have referred and committed to his care who has the hearts of the great ones in his hand Praying Longing and waiting for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ for the conspicuous appearance of his Personal Presence when there shall be larger pourings out of his Spirit and when some shall come forth so cloathed with that Spirit when (y) Isa 19. 18. Zech. 3. 9. Isa 34. 16. Acts 14. 13. 1 Thes 3. 13. 2 Thes 2. 8. Heb. 9. 28. 1 Tim. 6. 14. 2 Tim. 1. 10. 4. 1 8. Titus 2. 13. Jude 14. Isa 32. 15. 44. 3 4. 59. 19 20 21. Ezek. 39. 29. 47. 1-12 Joel 2. 28 29. Zech. 4. 6. 12. 10. Rev. 1. 4. 2. 7 11 17 29. 3. 1 6 13 22. Mat. 24. 29 30 31. Mal. 4. 5 6. Rev. 1. 7. 22. 16-21 the lip of Canaan the Pure lip shall be turned to Jehovah's new Covenant-people and shall be Spoken by not only such as are born and bred Hebrews but others also when Jehovahs book shall be more searched after and into from above and when it shall be more crowned with good success upon hearts who shall here below set to their Seals unto that Testimony which shall by miraculous Attests from Heaven be given by the Author of that word of his grace Even so come Lord Jesus Amen Hallelujah POSTSCRIPT The Author intends Freely to impart what in his Measure he hath Freely received to any Sons whom the LORD shall make willing to be Christ's Disciples in this School About Three-times in every week there will be these Exercises One about the proper significancy of Original words and phrases Another about Philosophy A Third about Textual Sermons To which may be added a Specimen or Example of some particular Art or Science