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A46823	A help for the understanding of the Holy Scripture intended chiefly for the assistance and information of those that use constantly every day to reade some part of the Bible, and would gladly alwayes understand what they read if they had some man to help them : the first part : containing certain short notes of exposition upon the five books of Moses, to wit Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomie : wherein all such passages in the text are explained as were thought likely to be questioned by any reader of ordinary capacity ... / by Arthur Jackson ...	Jackson, Arthur, 1593?-1666.	1643 (1643)	Wing J67; ESTC R35433	692,552	595

is there made the Southern bound and fourthly the river which is the great river Euphrates which was the North bound CHAP. XXIV Vers 1. ANd he said unto Moses Come up unto the Lord c. God having given Moses those judiciall laws set down in the former chapters and Moses being now to carry them to the people upon their consent to make a covenant betwixt God and them the Lord before his departure gives him this command for his coming up again with Aaron Nadab Abihu and seventy of the Elders of Israel appointing him to leave the people at the foot of the mount but to bring up Aaron and his two eldest sonnes and the seaventy Elders into the mo●nt that is a little way up into the mount where they might be eye_witnesses of part of Gods glory as is expressed afterwards vers 9 10. being to approch nearer to the Lord then the people were and then there to leave them also to worship afarre off whilest Moses went up higher to the top of the mount into the dark cloud vers 18. for so it followeth vers 2. Moses alone shall come near the Lord but they shall not come nigh It is questioned by Expositours who these seventy Elders were W● reade of seventy Elders that w●re chosen to bear part of the government with Moses and received therefore from the Lord an extraordinary measure of gifts of Gods spirit to enable them thereunto as you may reade Numb 11. 16 17. but that was done after the camp was removed from Sinai and pitched in Kibroth-Hattaavah as it is Numb 11. 34. which was the next station beyond Sinai Numb 33. 16. And they removed from the desert of Sinai and pitched at Kibroth-Hattaavah Nor can it be meant of those Judges chosen by Moses before this by the counsel of Jethro as you reade Exod. 18. 25. they were doubtlesse farre more then seventy seeing there were amongst them Rulers over every ten families amongst all the tribes I● sufficeth us therefore to know that whereas there were alwayes even when they were in Egypt certain Elders in every tribe that were principall men amongst them God now appointed that of these seventy should come up with Aaron and his sonnes into the mount and these happely were chosen both now for witnesses and afterwards at Kibroth-Hattaavah for helpers to Moses in his government yea some adde that God appointed seventy rather then any other number as a memoriall of the seventy souls that went down with J●cob into Egypt and consequently of Gods blessing upon them in bringing them within a few years to so great a multitude Vers 2. Neither shall the people go up with him That is they shall not at all go up into the mount as Aaron and the Elders did Vers 4. And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord c. To wit in a book See Hebr. 9. 19. The ten commandments in the stone tables were written by the finger of God himself but the judiciall laws Moses wrote in a book And thus covenants agreed upon betwixt party and party are usually committed to writing And builded an altar under the hill and twelve pillars c. Both the altar and the pillars were outward sacramentall signes of the covenant which was now to be established betwixt God and his people the altar representing God in Christ the first and chief party in the covenant and the twelve pillars the twelve tribes Vers 5. And he sent young men of the children of Israel which offered burnt-offerings c. The common opinion of most Expositours is that the first-born were the priests and sacrificers amongst the people untill the Levites were taken in their stead Numb 3. 41. And thou shalt take the Levites for me in stead of all the first-born c. and consequently that these were the young men here spoken of And indeed the word here used in the originall doth not alwayes signifie youths in regard of years not yet grown up to mans estate but young men fit for service and ministery to their Elders as Gen. 14. 23 24. I will not saith Abraham take from a threed even to a shoe-latchet c. Save onely that which the young men have eaten and Exod. 33. 11. His servant Joshua a young man departed not out of the tabernacle And so in many other places But because it is I think unquestionable that before the people of God came to be a body politick the chief and governours of every family were the sacrificers neither do we ever reade that the first-born were set apart for publick sacrifices since the Lord challenged them for his upo● the coming forth of his people Sanctifie unto me all the first-born Exod. 13. 2. It is rather probable that Moses and Aaron and their chief Governours had as yet the chief hand in offering publick sacrifices and that then young men perhaps of the first-born were onely chosen to minister to Moses and Aaron in fetching and killing the sacrifices and other services belonging thereunto and are therefore said here to have offered burnt-offerings and sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen unto the Lord. Where by oxen other sacrifices are also implyed these being named as the principall i● stead of all for Heb. 9. 19. the Apostle speaking of this place addes also calves and goats Vers 6. And Moses took half of the bloud and put it in basons c. Which was so reserved to be sprinkled upon the people This bloud was to signifie the bloud of Christ by which we are reconciled to God and by virtue whereof the covenant of grace is established betwixt God and us and the dividing of this bloud half being sprinkled upon the altar which represented God and half upon the people signified that the performance of the covenant by both parties Gods favour and grace to his people and the peoples faith and obedience to God was to be ascribed to the bloud of Christ And half of the bloud he sprinkled on the altar And so also on the book Heb. 9. 19. Which as it seems was laid on the altar making use herein also of water scarlet wooll and hyssope Heb. 9. 19. though Moses here nameth them not because so the legall sprinklings were usually done for there was water intermingled with the bloud because the bloud otherwise growing cold would have been thick and not fit to be sprinkled nor perhaps enough for the use Vers 8. And sprinkled it on the people and said Behold c. That is all the people that stood about him some for all or all as they came to him or the Elders in stead of the people See Levit. 4. 15. Vers 10. And they saw the God of Israel That is the signes of Gods glori●us presence for never man saw God nor can see him 1. Tim. 6. 16. Whom 〈◊〉 man hath seen nor can see And there was under his feet as it were a paved work of saphir stone c. Not that the Lord shewed himself in any humane shape

A HELP FOR THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURE Intended chiefly for the assistance and information of those that use constantly every day to reade some part of the Bible and would gladly alwayes understand what they reade if they had some man to help them The first part Containing certain short notes of exposition upon the five books of Moses to wit Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers and Deuteronomie Wherein First all such passages in the Text are explained as were thought likely to be questioned by any Reader of ordinary capacity Secondly in many clauses those things are discovered which are needfull and usefull to be known and not so easily at the first reading observed and Thirdly many places that might at first seem to contradict one another are reconciled By ARTHUR JACKSON Preacher of Gods word in Woodstreet LONDON MATT. 24. 15. Who so readeth let him understand Act. 8. 30. 31. And Philip ran thither to him and heard him reade the Prophet Esaias and said Understandest thou what thou readest And he said How can I except some man should guide me Omnes qui legimus nitimur hoc indagare atque comprehendere quod voluit ille quem legimus Aug. Confess lib. 12. cap. 18. Printed by Roger Daniel Printer to the University of Cambridge And are to be sold at the signe of the Angel in Lumbards treet ANNO DOM. MDCXLIII To my well beloved friends and neighbours of my charge in WOOD STREET LONDON Right dearly beloved in the Lord THis poore work of mine the first-fruits of my labours in this kind must needs passe through your hands to the publick view not onely in regard of the speciall interest you have in me whom your selves were pleased many years since to chuse to be your Pastor to feed your souls but also in regard the work it self was at first collected and composed purposely for your service and use It is now above twenty years since the Lord was pleased to open a doore unto me for the preaching of the Gospelof Christ amongst you wherein though with much weaknesse I have endeavoured to the utmost of my power I blesse God to build you up in the knowledge of God and of Christ and need no other witnesses then yourselves that I have not sought yours but you as having indeed from my first entrance amongst you resolved with the Apostle very gladly to spend and to be spent for you though the more abundantly I loved you the lesse I were loved by you Amongst other wayes wherein I have studied to be serviceable to your souls it pleased God to put into my heart that I would undertake the unfolding of such passages of the holy Scripture as were somewhat more difficult and obscure to such as would come in and partake of my labours therein and the end I propounded to my self in this was both that I my self might hereby be the better enabled in publick also to declare unto you the whole counsell of God as occasion was offered and that you likewise might with the more advantage and comfort exercise your selves in your private reading of those sacred volumes Now having for severall years spent some time every Lords day in this imploiment I was at length importuned by some friends that were partakers of my labours therein to prepare those Annotations for the Presse which were the chief substance of that which I had collected for that service They alledged what satisfaction and comfort themselves had received in the hearing of them and what an advantage it might be both to them and others if they might have them ready at hand at all times to inform them in any thing they scrupled in their private reading and so farre I was swayed with what they said that I resolved in the publishing of one part of them to make triall whether they would find that approbation and welcome abroad that might give encouragement to send ●orth the rest after them These indeed come forth in a sad time when arms are in farre more request then books but we must herein submit to the good will of God It hath fared with this Book in this as with many a traveller that hath prepared for a journey when the sunne shined fair and yet was constrained at last to go forth in a storm When I began first to transcribe these Notes for the Presse the skie was clear and shined upon us and yet now when they should go forth the whole kingdome is overspread with a cloud that is like to poure down showrs of bloud upon the whole land the Lord give us grace to turn to him who hath promised to be a refuge from the storm Well but yet the book being passed the Presse and being withall to go upon Gods businesse I was unwilling to forbear the publishing of it especially when I began to consider that the drift of it was to help men to reade the Scripture with profit and that there is never more need for men to be much in studying Gods word then in troublesome and sad times God having there stored up those cordialls for us which in such times must chear up the sick fainting spirits of his poore afflicted servants unlesse thy Law had been my delight saith David Psal 119. 92. I then had perished in my afflictions Having therefore resolved to publish it and to leave the successe to the good providence of God I here present it to you in the first place to whom it doth of right belong If it may prove a means to bring you whose souls God hath committed to my charge to be in love with the Scripture or adde any thing to your stock of knowledge and grace I have if not all yet my chief desire Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God even our father which hath loved us and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace comfort your hearts and stablish you in every good word and work And so I commend you to Gods grace and desire likewise your prayers unto God for him who is Yours in the surest band of Christian affection ARTHUR JACKSON from reading his word because there are some places they shall meet with which they shall find above their reach yet because of this we presse t●em to be the more carefull to search diligently for the meaning of what they reade to be wary of perverting the good word of God and to that end both to pray unto Go● often that he would therein reveal the truth unto them and to make use of those for their help whom God hath furnished with gifts above others for the re●olving of such doubts as they shall meet with in their reading And indeed that I might be serviceable to the weaker sort of Gods people herein hav● I yielded to publish the●e Annotations which at first I gathered for the more private use of my self and some others Many I know there are that are carefull every day to redeem some time from their worldly