all Sects I cannot se how I ought to swarne from them in anye one poynt essentiall what heresy is there in these days whose grounds they then ouerturnd not Our English Brownisme is but flat Donatisme he that knoes the Son may fetch the Father out by his face in the Arguments off Parmeneanus Petilianus Cresconius the Grammarian and such other Vermine strangled longe synce by holy Augustine Large Anabaptisme grewe also out off Donatus for makinge all other ministry voyde besides theyrs it must then folowe that only themselues could administer Baptisme The holy Father then tels Parmenean lib. 2. cap. 12. that they ought aswell make voyde the Sacrament off ministeriall ordination for iff thâ—one was good both stood good iff the one voyd the other also and so Donatus and his sectary Ministry who had and could haue no other Ordination then first they from them that also shold be voyde and so themselues deliuer no baptisme rightly Our Donatistes must learne also iff theyr Ordination in the English church be fully frustrate then also theyr Baptisme If Baptisme remaine good then also the Ordination And iff the Ordination be fully nothinge then they are like for euer to minister without Ordination except priuate laynien may impose hands which is flatly false as I haue shewed in Our booke off In Conclusions As for Artianisme Iudaisme and other our Factions theyr doctrines not only Augustine but many others haue cut the stringe off theyr bowe that iff the Deuel were not on men theyr Bowe shold haue bene burnt or euer it had bene stroong againe But not to digresse farre from the purpose of my Proeme the holy Reader must not be offended though in this Matter off Matters I consult with those Auncient my Betters who haue so valiantly fought the Lord Battels and sealed the sanctifying truth with theyr latest breathinge There is not A Sectary in these days but he reionceth in the writinges off his owne faction and why shold not the faith full be as carefull to vphold the Menâ—ornall off the just Let vs be faithles hereyn yet God will haue his owne Captaynes though dead theyr Ensignes displayd in his temple when the memoriall off the wicked shall rotte Shewe me One off Arrius or Donatus or Pelagins or any off the sophisticall auncient Heretikes theyr Bookes iff now can No God hath cased them from the fate off the earth that were it not the holy Fathers do mention them and theyr stuffe as the sacred scriptures remember Achan Iudas and theyr stealth we shold not haue knowen somuch as theyr rotten Names This Argument iff there were no more it vrgeth me to celebrate the Memoriall of the anncient â—ighteous verily here withall beleiuinge that my writings though off thowsands most vnworthy they shall ourline the Fartions and be as an Aegles fether to other fethers A finall consumption For euery plant our heauenly father hath not plained it shal be pulled vp by the â—ootes Whereas somtimes I alleadg som Iewe or prophane writer it is but in such A case as the parti may without prejudice be a fit witnes Hierom or serom all is one beinge off Ruffâ—nus vnto Magnus charged with the like as with â—â—ryme he vnto the Romayne Grator alleadgeth Pauls practise there withall sainge that he first according to the lawe pareth theyr nailes washeth them â—â—â— and then why may he not matry with the captine of the Gentiles and also by occasion take by Goliahs sword for cuttinge off the vncircumcised head off the Owner what he might say I also for my selfe may say whereunto I adde vnto the pure are all things pure but vnto them that are defiled and vnbeleuinge nothing is pure but euen theyr myndes and consciences are defiled The Scriptures I here alleadge for Canonicall they are thes off the Old and new testament which are vsually off Protestant Churches receiued for the Only Canon or Rule off Faith For the Olde testaments bookes there is cheifest coÌ„trouersie and disconteÌ„tment Som off the Bookes called Apocrypha are by Rome and som others made regular for Faith off vs not and good reason why Iosephus in his first booke againstte Appion hath this There are not vvih vs thovvsands of bookes discrepant and fightinge in themselues but only bare tvvo and tvventy And then A litle after he tels the Atheist Appion that the writings from Arrayezxes tyme till then these vvere our Apocrypha there was not like faith to be giuen vnto them as vnto the former 22 because with them there was not like certaine successioÌ„ of Prophets Origen on ps 1. and Eusebius from him do witnes that the Hebrues only acknowledged 22. Hierom not inferiour to any for Hebrues iudments he in his Prologo Galeato doth tell vs the same sainge that the 22. bookes answeringe the 22. letters they were thus called and into thre Orders disposed 1. Breshith Eenesâ—s 2. Velleshemoth Erod 3. Vaijkta â—euit 4. Vaidabber Nomb. 5. Elleh haddebarim Dent. 6. Iehoshuagâ—â—en-Nuâ— Ios 7. Shophtim Iudges 8. Shemuel Ruth 9. Melacim Sam. 1. and 2. 10. Ieshagniah Kings 1. and 2. 11. Iirmiah Isa 12. Iechezekel Ier. 13. Tere-gnasar Ezek. 14. Iob. the 12. 15. Dauid lesse proph 16. Mishle Psal 17. Koheleth Prou. 18. Shir hasharim Eccl. 19. Daniel Cant. 20. Dibre haiamim Chro. 21. Gnezra Esrah 22. Ester Nehem. Vnder the which he suffireth Quicquid extra hos est c. whatsoeuer is besides these bookes they are to be â—ut amongst the Apocrypha And touchinge the Apocryphal writinges Augustine thus writeth in his 15. booke off the City off ap God and ch 23. Omittamus igitur earum scripturatum fabulas quae Apocryphae noninantur c. Let vs passe by the fables of those Scriptures vvhich are called Apocryphal because that theyr hidde begininge appeared not to the Fathers from vvhome vnto vs the Authority of the true-speaking Scriptures by most sure and euident succession hath com For in the Apocrypha although there be found som verity yet by reason of many vntruthes they are not of Canonical Authority Ruffinus in his exposition off the Symbole affirmeth the former bookes to be the Canon off the old testament from whose fountaine we were to drawe the drinck of God Som off thy rest he saith were Ecclasiasticall but not Canomicall But touching this poynt I neede say no more seinge our vvhitakres in his first off the six Questions controuerted with Bellaâ—mine hath set such A fyre in theyr Coate as I troe they shall neuerin Englande but smell off the smoke hereafter But had neither late nor auncient Christian writers euer disclamed them it is sufficient that Zion mother church off the Gentiles she neuer Named them Heâ—ers tongue they knewe not Iudah nor Israel euer cirâ—â—mâ—cised them nor had the Apostles euer comaundement tâ— baptise them Som off them as Ecclesiasticus VVisdome Baruch Machabees they may be vsed well prouided not for rule off faith but for Esdras Tobit Susanna Bel ludeth I knoe not iff
BIBLIOTHECA THEOLOGICA OR A LIBRARYE THEOLOGICAL containinge 1. A generall ANALYSIS or Resolution 2. A breife ELVCIDATION off the most sacred Chapters off Elohim his Bible Drawen for the vse off yonge Christians specially off the poorer sorte vnable to purchase Variety off holy-men theyr wrytinges ¶ By HENOCH CLAPHAM Nihil primùm perfectum IMPRINTED AT AMSTELRODAM Anno 1597. THE PROEME HAlfe A yeare togither was I ernestly folâ—â—â—ted to vndergoe the Analysinge of God his sacred Booke and that but for the first heads off the Chapters For so long tyme I refused that attempt though much was ofred for promouinge the work yet that helpe beinge cut off I finally tooke pen and did som what soc But then thinkinge with my selfe that such A generall Diuision wold litle helpe without som Sub-diuision I therefore subdiuided som chapters Yet me thought it shold litle to edify except from obscure places in the text were made cleare where vpon I finally drewe an Elucidation such as it is At this my work I looke that may shold storme disdayners off all mens wrytinges but theyr owne specially the Hereticall sort off people and no Maruel though SataÌ„ belloe from theyr mouths seinge my Pen is as A Goade in his sudes Carpers do prophane and snatch som times at Manner somtymes at Matter For the Manner I expect theyr snarlings specially at the Diuision som curiously as tyingme me to Dichotomie or partition into tvvo others that lesse delite in that forme fallinge me for vsing it somuch Betwene them both I haue here walked that so I might sanssy both partly whome I knewe it to be impossible to satisfy vvholy For the Matter som will snarle at som fewe vvords som at Doctrine Off such doth Erasmus speake thus in his Antidore on Hieroms epistle to Heliodore His mos est è toto libro quatuor aut quinque verba decerpere c. It is the manner off these persons to pick 4. or 5. vvords out off A vvhole booke and in thes to shoe by calumnie the excellency off theyr Ingene They animaduert not in vvhat tymes to vvome oÌ„ vvhat occasion vvith vvhat mynde that man vvrit nor do they conferre vvhat preceded vvhat folovves vvhat in another place is vvriten on the same matter Only they vrge and presse them 4. vvords Against them they moue all their syllogisticall engines they vvrythe depraue and somtimes speak euell of the thinges they vnderstand not Off this which Erasmus speakes I off experience can speake this In my Bibles breife I said that Elohim was the plurall off El and to the proper Name Ehjeh I suffired I AM. In Scotland the learned excepted not against it that I heard of Mr. Brought on as sufficient for the holy tongue as any publikely knowen off in Europe he also could read it without stumblinge but 2. or 3. englis he youths som off them hardly knowinge Beth from A Batle dor they behinde my hath because of them two words did labour the disgrace off Author and his booke They for I will not turne my speach to them though I speake off them did not for the first vnderstand or wold not vnderstand what like scholers and Christians charitable they might haue vnderstood When Hebrue Lexicons or Grammarians do say that Iehouah is deriued off hajah To be do they speak properly Hajah is not properly to be but he hath bene yet euery scholer knoweth what the speach meaneth so thei might haue thought that I ment Elohim the plurall came off El his Roote off which El commeth also Eloha his singular That Elohim is said to com off El in english Strong it so giues vs rightly to conceiue both Elohlm and Eloha his singular in direct forme off Declenson And as I spoke it it helped to the vnderstanding off Gen 17. 1. where t is El-shaddaiâ— God alsufficient not Eloah-shaddaj and so off many other places The Declenson-deriual no Child that had bene two days lessoned in his Declensons could de possibly ignorant off And whereas they wold haue Ehjeh to be the future tyme I vvill not the present tense I am then babble they knoe not what Ehjeh caÌ„ neither be restrained to tyme to com tyme present or tyme past for as it is A proper name off God it is off all thre tymes and therefore as Vatablus wel obserueth Iohn in Apoc. 1. 4. he expoundeth it by vvhich was vvhich is and vvhich is to come The Thalmudists so vnderstand it and all Hebrues do by Ehieh vnderstand the eternity of God The Septuagint turne Ehjeh asher Ehieh in Exod. 3. 14. thus Ego Eimi ho â—n and theyr Interpreter Ego sum qui sum Tremellius Arias and such as translate it I VVIL BE. they do it not for tyinge men to that and that they shoe by the other translation in theyr margen-annotations Hierom in his tennanes off God and in his Bibles version and all aancients do expresse it as I haue And â—ff A maÌ„ set downe one off the 3. tymes and not all 3. let the learned iudge iff I AM agre not rather with the nature off God to whome thing preter it and future are present then I â—â—DE BEENE or I WIL BE. And let the how sober spirited also iudge for the spirit of the prophets must be subiect to the prophets if my annotatioÌ„ there vpon Ehjeh do not more fully set downe the nature off God then the future tyme wold Let the foolishnes past cawse them be more sparinge in censouringe hereafter off vvords For Doctrine as it is either Literall or Mysticall so also theyr Calumnie wil be twofole The Literall or Grammaticall doctrine I here meane to be that which at next had ariseth from Open text At such doctrine I looke to heare off thunderclaps from our english Donaâ—â—â—â—es Anabaptistes Arrians and Sectes off all sortes and no maruell for as I labour to hold fast so they labour to transgresse the bounds off the 〈◊〉 except off auncient heresy which they a newe furâ—ish Against such doctrine they haue made an insurrection since my publishinge off the XII Theologicall Axioms nor was my Bibles â—r fre from theyr enuenonied tongue I therein from the consideration off 2. Cor. 3. did affirme that the Iudicial Moral Ceremonial lawes were peculiar to Canaan but to vs the letter remoued yet equity and spirit thereoff remayninge Som bere who wold only haue Moses his Iudiciall lawes established did wickedly giue out that thereby I shut the maiestrate out off the Church etc. For Ceremoniall lawes they knew that euery one holds them abolished For the Morall the â—leainge letter off them two tables is abolished the former scripture teacheth and so â—â— Beza with others Old and New vnderstand it As for the state off the Iudiciall I knoe none that is not madly fond but he graunts they were peculiar to Ganaan Mr. Caluin in his Iustitutions â—ib 4. ch 20. he teacheth it at large and in the 16. section he vseth the word peculiar which they
cary at in me For Doctrine mysticall more reasonable sprites it may be will say somthinge and the rather because som late holy writers haue disliked off Mysticall interpretation Theyr reason is Bapistes vse it much for establishing theyr matters This reason indeed is no reason for the Papists vse asmuch the Letter for theyr purposes and neither Donatist Anabaptist Arrian c. but they call to the Bible and the letter of the Bible for only discussinge theyr matters Shold we therefore reject the Bibles Such slender reason hath caused late factions Spirits to reject the auntient holy writers because â—omanistes vse them and such insufficient collection hath caused the Svvenkfeldians to cast the Bible vnderfonte and to lissen to the priuate motions off theyr owne fleshly sprite An t is damgerous medlinge with mysticall expositions true â—s so T is damgerous medlinge with two edged instruments and the word off God is â— two edged sword and damgerous to meddle with the Bibles bare letter 〈◊〉 or yongones caÌ„ hardly medle with the letter but with perill Learne that off the Iues and our ages Donatistes And I wold with Pithagoras his scholers they wold at first be fiue yeares silent more redy to heare and slower to speak Euery one shold knoe â—eyr measure off faith and keepe themselues within theyr limits not medlinge with things to hy for them Yet him that hath som knowledge how to handle A two edged sword this is no barre to his medlinge with it One and the same spirit administreth diuersly to som aboundance in the sence Grammatical or literall vnto others A rauishment ut the sence mysticall nor ought the One to despise the other Yet this always vnderstood the Mysterie can neuer be builded safely except the Grammer sence be first rightly laid for the Letter is the Ground and foundation to the Mysterie Which is greene heads did well looke into they wold not easly wade in Allegoricall Tropological and anagogicall constructions surder then first is by sad discreet sprites administred vnto them For Mysticall sences necessarily lyinge hid vnder the letter or Historie I wold men wold not only read Greek and Latin Fathers who herein solaced theyr sowles but also word go heare what reasons Moses Bar-kepha Syrian Bishop off Bethrawan in his Commentary off paradise hath concluded for repulsinge such Calumnie where amoÌ„gst the rest he writes so Except therein lay mysticall senses from vvhence coulde the auncieÌ„t Fathers Prophets other holy men off old knoe Christ to com therein be so solaced Finally iff yre shold vvith these heretikes be so mynded off a troth vve fall into Iudaisme for the lues vvho are voyd off the holy sprite they embrace no senses but vvhat is corporall grosse And indeede to vnderstand the scripture only literally it is but grosse Iudaisme and â—â— not liftinge it vp hyer then A humaine Cronicle that containes no further wisdom then bare letter affordeth Paul drawinge Sarah and Hagar Ismael and Isaac into Allegorn he vnderstood otherwise and the Author to the Hebrues who calls the Lavv A shadovve off good thinges to com Iohn in his Apocalâ—ps the Prophets on Moses and the Apostles on All they conceiued off scripture otherwise Somuch for Aduerse Spirits As for Freindly Spirits som off them it may be wil be makinge question touchinge Manner and Matter but not as the former with purpose to abuse the work A godly Ma 〈◊〉 Scotland hearinge that my foresaid Breif-booke had english Verses in it she for â—â— season refused to read it â—n som such like inough will here be stumblinge at the Chapters Arguments because they are verse For the proud Donatist that termed them â—ymes aÌ„d Trumyeries though I could justly twite such to the iudgment off theyr owne faction etc. and for the english Anabaptist that called them Playeclike thinges I will not answer the foole accordinge to his foolishnes least I be like vnto him but to the holy spirited I speak thus The learned do knoe that sondry bookes off scripture are off Poeticall shape consistinge off apt Nomber and som off Kythmed forme But where our language admitteth the Kythme in the end off A Measure that holy tongue giues it in the begininge One Instance do take in the 119 psalme First it is diuided into 22. parts according to the nomber off the Hebrue Alphaâ—et euery part answeringe to one Letter secondly euery part consisteth off 8. verses and euery verse with the same Letter with which that Octouary beginneth So that herein as also in other places there is not only verse but also Kythme and that with admirable elegancy These therfore that condemne Poetry because som prophane it they may for like abuse aswell reject other excellent guiftes off the Spirit â—t my forme off Diuision the Learned may say som thinge because it vttereth no Art butas the Diuision it self is homely so the braunches thereoff not vttered in Logicall termes These must knoe that I write specially for the erudition off vnlearned Christians by whome I haue somtimes bene sâ—â—â—bd for speakinge so darkly Nor do I expect otherwise to be intreated off som such though godly to whome I must also say though I writ specially for them yet not only for them And therefore what vnto them semeth difficill at first that shal be made vnto them more easy by more readinge As for wordes in anotherr language let them leap ouer such and iff they be vnenglished after the thing concerneth them not much Touchinge the Matter it is but an vnbowellinge off the sacred booke off Elohim and that is don first by comparinge scripture with scripture secondly by introducinge the Auncient holy writers for confirmatioÌ„ off my iudgment in thinges of most waighte that so it may not be demed myne owne priuate fancy And least I shold play the Theyfe to wisdome for so Clemens Alexandrinus 1. Stromatôn calleth such I haue ordinarily put downe his name from whome I borowed it I could with Others haue passed by them vnmentioned and so haue flowen abroad with other mens feathers as iff they had bene my owne but I detest that payde to be thought to walk alone Our Ages heretikes that are vnto me contrary mynded they for theyr alone walkinge do commonly alleadge Elijah sayinge he was somtymes alone But iff the lyers wold serch the scriptures they shold knoe that notwithstandinge he se himselff alone in Israel yet he could not be ignorant that the state was otherwise in Iudah for then good Iosaphat raigned Nor yet in Israel was the hali seede extinguisht as the Lord doth teach the Prophet but many there were that did neither inward nor outwarde homage vnto Baal To say that the Church off God many age hath bene holy invisible it is A dayngerous introduction to all heresy The Auncient Fathers Greeke and Latine for the first 600. Years but specially for the first 400. they are vnto me so deare as after all the tryall and knowledge I haue taken off
Word and Sprite eternall immense and therfore vndefutable which Moâ—er of Moueâ—s the Philosophers groping after Som with Aâ—aâ—imander called him Infinitum Som with Chius Metroâ—er â— termed him ple 〈…〉 mane Som the Being of Beinges Som came downe â—â—sely and entitled him by such and such A creature in heauen or in Earth but because I think they vnderstood that the Being of Beinges had being in euery Creature of which mynd was Marâ—â—ainge louis omnia 〈◊〉 as also 〈…〉 hylus when he crieth out la 〈…〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Coelumque 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sâ—pta Vers 2 And the Earth Leauinge the Heauenly Matter he now describeth the Earthly And the Earth was â—ohu and Bohâ— Som deâ—ue Toha of Tâ—han Desolation som of Iehom â— gâ—â—lfe or darknes both good Do thow shut thy eyes close and tell me what in mind or Conceipt thow sees A swallowinge wast darknes So I conceiue here of Toha The other wrod Bohâ— voyd Pagniâ—e defineth to be The Forme which grueth being to Matter Herein then lieth the Matter and his Internall forme The externall forme I may call the Figure of this Lump by the which it appeared outwardly and that was Darknes ouerspreadinge The first 2000. Yeares from the Creation the Iues call Tohu from this place and consideration The Lump thus formed theâ—e Sitteth vpon the waters therof the waters naturally lighter the Spirit as an Henne foâ—inge the Egge forâ—oduringe the followinge creatures Iesus He sanctifying the waters Math 3 10 for Baptismes vse loe the spirit in forme of A Doue som think of A Piller but their thought intollerable seing no Greek copie euer had for pe 〈…〉 written for pe 〈…〉 se Chyt 〈…〉 on Ioh 1. he ouershadoweth Iesus 〈…〉 ing ouer the waters for the Mâ—sticall producemeÌ„t of more excelleÌ„t creatures then were the former Cursed therfore the Caâ—a-paydistes that will not hope infants of the faithfull sacrified from the wombe 1. Cor. â— 14. as were Ieremiah and Iohn Baptiste The Cauillers who by Spirit wold vnderstaâ—d vvynd they speake besides booke for that Creature yet had not his being Ben. joch aâ— callinge it the spirit of Messiah he may set such Christians to schoole Vers 3. Then Elohim said Elohim hauing with the begininge of tyme and tyme is A nomber of Motion effected the Matter â—oelestiall and terrestriall Moses in the next place passeth to procedents visible I say visible to distinguish the following creatures from â—â— visible creatures before the others produced These Invisible ones I vnderstande to be â—ugelicall principalities and powers Colos 1 16. who are denied by Gregorius from theyâ— precious stones Eâ—ek 28 13 to be of 9. seuerall orders the 10. place beinge that from which Lucifer and his damned crâ—e are fallen to the filling of which place the mâ—sticall body of Iesus is aâ—otted The like doctrine doth Origen deliuer from the parabolicall tâ—th grâ—ate â—ound bâ— the woman seking These Angels all of them I deme most likly to be created in the first daâ— togither with the Light because they are called Angels of light Against this poynt in my Bibles Breif A great scholer in S. hath opposed by report of one of his principall hearers His opposition is deliuered in this his Ariome Quicquid Natura excellentius id creatione posterâ—us that is latter in order of Creation which is in nature more excellent and therfore saith he A te go the Angels must be last of creatures created Against his judgment I will not oppose waters Aunâ—ient and Now but against his physicall Arâ—ome I oppose Meta-phisicall order order diuyne What if I shold affirme woman though latter created to be inferiour in nature to man wold no subtile disputer take my part But I oppose Moses in the former speach Heauen and Earth giuinge the heauens matter the first place and I trowe that is in Nature more excellent then this Moses closely passing ouer their Creation and the fall of som these thinges are to be opened by the succeding light of scripture They therfore termed Angels of Light I se not why they might not as most probable haue their Being togither with the Light and if produced out of the first lump then out of the heauens not earths Nature Besides that Ioh. 8. 44. pointing out the Deuel of Deuels by whome the other apostate angels were murdred the charge from the begininge can be but ouer straitly tyed only to His murdring of Man in the 6. day As in Man kynd though but two One was first in transgression so the phrase Sâ—tan Deâ—el considering the infinite Legions of them it may easely perswade at least not with vnlikenes that Som One of the Angels was first in traÌ„sgression and so the murdrer of the rest and properly theyr fall being in the first day He so â— murdrer from the begininge Qâ—icquid must therfore be turned into Aliquid and his Arâ—ome must admit a Caution Out of Darknes Elohim fetcheth Light If one Lemuristes Lemares are in engl â—obgoblins or night sprites will haue this Light â—o be Christ then by like proportion must affirme darknes to be the Deuel and so out of the Deuel then fetch their Christ Iohn in his Ghospel affirmeth that Light he speaks of to be the vvoid and God by whome euery Creature existing was made By the vvord of the father is this Light 1. Created 2. approued for good From the Effects we must turne back to consider their next cawse The Light is an Effect of the Elementall fyre working by the 〈…〉 e. The Generation of Light is then by fyre the Agent and the â—ure the patient the light it self as the child conceuied Thus by the more knowen thinge the Effect we fynd out that is lesse knowen the Elemetns of Fyre and â—â—re The Elementalsl fire is most hot and dry so is the Complexion Choler the East wynd and sommer quarter and therfore it drawes by exhalations from belowe which comminge into the vppermost Region of the Ayre the matter there is turned into Comets furie shootings c. But stayinge in the Midle Region it is turned there by reason of his cold into som waterish clowde afterwards by the Sun dissolued it Commeth downe againe in â—ayne if the Clowde be naturally dissolued But in Snow if the clowd be not orderly melted speciallly if it be wynd shaken much Or else in the lower part of that Region it is turned into â—aile Vapours but a litle drawen vp is easely turned into Frost or Dewe The Ayre next Element in lightnes is moderatly hot and moyst vnto him is compared the complexion sanguine the South wynd and Springe Season Som haue demed the vvynd and Ayre all One. The wynd being Drâ— not Moist it argueth the contrarie The wynd is whot and dry of nature with the fore consisting for Matter of such qualified vapours and drawen vp vp strength of Sun as A straw by the heat of Ieat but comminge into the Middle Region of the Ayre they are repulsed
be In which ark as he himself shold be preserued so also that which was his 1. his Children 2. cooples of euery creature togither with theyr furniture Vnto euery particular of which Injunction diuyne the Diuine Prophet is conformable The Arks stuffe is of Ghopher the which word as Hebrues write is not once againe found in the Lord his Booke Som do turne it vvood 〈…〉 red som Cedar Pynetre Lightvvood What kynd of wood soeuer it was Light it was and there vnto I am the rather induced because in Gen. 19. 23. Gaph 〈…〉 Brimstone A mounting minerall it is hence diduced The Cubit common is the lenght of A foote and an halfe The Cubit here I take to be that of Geometrie as doth Oâ—igen against Celsus which containeth 6. common Cubits and so is it here commoly receiued of the Hebrues The Loftes are but thre First second third though others haue taught moe Curiosiues I passe by By this Ark I typically vnderstand 1. the Excellency of the visible church which preserueth her childen and all theyr furniture Whcih Church orderly distributeth her creatures into seuerall Classes or coâ—â—es The Philosophers cold say Tria sunt Omnia And behold here the Roumes were hy hyer hyest As the scripture teach A syn against the Father A syn against the Son A syn against the ho. gh so in the Church som are more capable of the father his Naturall creation som of the Son his spirituall regeneration som of the Spirits mysteris in contemplation yet Omnia ab vno ad vnum yet all these Guiftes from One God and that vnto one End the praise of his name 2. It may signify the same worke in one singular Person for though all Violets haue not one â—ue yet they all smell sweet and so Origen tropilogically applies it teaching this Arke so to be built in Mans heart and possessed with the threfold sense of scripture Literal Moral Allegorical euery affection hewed and squared for ad-aptinge A place for the Lords Bibliotheca or Librarie drawen from the Aposticall and Propheticall Volumes Noah must do nothinge in the Church Type but accordinge to Iehouahs patterne Nor must any man were he as great as Noah do any thinge in the Church her self in hewinge sqaringe rejectinge acceptinge joyning polishinge placinge off any thinge discrepant to Analogie and proportion of faith administred 2. Tim. 1. 13. and 2. 15. Rom. 12. 3. 1. Cor. 14. 40. This work must be suerly pitched not as did certaine in Ezekiels tyme. Ch. 13. 9. 10. etc. After such dawbinge the Ship will leake nay one bouncinge billowe will splet the Back in peeces Desperaetly fayle they that entertaine such Prophets for Pilots Or hier such Hâ—wers to frame A spirituall buildinge against vnmercifull tempests Verse 22. Noah did For the 120. y. thence vnto the flood Noah fynds himself occupied in the alotted work the spirit of Messiak preachinge after A sorte by euery stroke of his Are and hammer vnto the cares of the wicked What art thow doinge quoth one What is the Old doatinge foole doinge quoth another He and his blowes on the tymber do reply thus The vvorld shal be drovvned the vnrepent damned Repent beleiue and enter vvith me into this Ark as into the Rock Iesus Cant. 14. and so ye shall be saued The wretches rebell 1. Pet. 3. 20. they laffe in theyr Sleâ—e returne to theyr wyne build plant marry till Vengeaunce take them nappinge As the days of Noe came sodainly vnexpected so likevvise shall the comminge of the Son of maâ— be For as in the days preachinge the flood they did eat drinck marry giue in mariage vnto the day that Noe entred into the Ark knevve nothïnge till the flood came and tooke them all avvay so also shall the comminge of the Son of Man be Math. 14. 37. 38. 39. Let the Despisers Mock on Loosers â—â—ust needs haue theyr sayinges Argument Chap. 7. IEHouah calls Noah and his obay The floods of waters couer all straight-way Diuision of the text I. FIrst I obserue the Lord his speach to Noah vers 1. 2. 3. 4. II. Sec. the Obedience off Noah and the inferiour Creatures Thence vnto the. 17. vers III. Thirdly the execution off iudgment vpon the world in the remnant off the chap. I. In the Lords speach obseruable 1. his care off preseruing first Noah and his family drawen from the vprightnes off Noah vers 1. Then off preseriunge inferiour Creatures drawen from the end vers To becom seed vpon the whole earth vers 2. 3. Secondly there is set downe in Iehouahs speach A seuen days forewarâ—â—nge off the Deluge vers 4. II. The Obedience of aged Noah and the other Creatures is layde downe thence vnto the 17. verse And this is don 1. in A Generall terme layd downe vers 5. Then by rippinge vp the Obedience off both sortes off Creatures sealed vp by Iehouah shutting the dore vpon them in the remnant off the verses III. The Execution off the Lord his Iudgment is set downe 1. In the waters preuaylinge vers 17. 18. 19. 20. secondly in the destruction off all Flesh exceptinge that in the Aâ—lie and that by the sayd swelling waters Thence to the end ELVCIDATION VErs 1. c. And Iehouah said The Patriarch his vprightnes brings welfare to his whole houshold they must all into the Ark. Off more vertue is the Obedience off our Noah Christ in whome the father Rests well pleased with al such as heare him Math. 17. 5. C ham the turkinge hypocrite for iff the Church coÌ„sist but off 8. Persons two to One but there is som hypocrite for the season he fares the better for beinge at league with the Church For the cooples off beastes and byrdes much question many make The Hebrue readinge Seâ—uen Seauen off cleane-ones I vnderstand thereby 7. Males 7. Females and so 7. coople Of the vncleane it barely redinge A Coople I thereby think one Male one Female sufficient for theyr generation These that think there was Coition betwixt MaÌ„ and woman as also betwene other creatures in the Ark I deme it A coniecture without booke for as Rabbi Sa. Well saith it was the tyme off Vniversall tribulation and therfore more like they abstained from fleshly appetite as did Man and beast in Niniuehs humiliation The speach vers 7. Noah and his 3. sons Then after them the 4. wiues entringe the Ark apart as seperated from theyr husbands it may insinuate also theyr being so sundred within the Ark for that season And had not crooked Cham humbled himself in abstinence and prayer for the season and the Lord countenanced such obedience in the Niniuets out off the Couenant I could not think but the Lord wold haue pulled out the wretch Vers 4 Seauen days hence The Hebrues hold that these 7. days were Mathusâ—elah his Lament season In this yeare he died but whither in this weeke I knoe not Vers 11. In the 600 y. of Noahs lyfe in the second
dismayinge at the losse off thy father for I wil be a father vnto the and thine etc. As the tyme maketh the Promise more excellent so also it maketh Abrams Obedience more excellent for if he had folowed the Lord togither with Terah it might haue bene A 〈…〉 eâ—â—ion whither Terah had not bene better man This P 〈…〉 iudaus in his booke off Abrams departure doth pretily teach in his expounding the word Terah Lusebius Pamphilus also in his Cromâ—â—â— doth vnderstand this promise to be guien in chatian after Terah Vers 4. So Abram departed etc. That this holy patriark at the tyme off his Obedience is aged 75. y. this coniunceth all writers off errour who demed and taught Abram to be begotten in his fathers 70. At this tyme was Terah newly dead and aged 205. Extract 75 out off 205. and there remaineth 130. So old must Terah be at Abrams birth These therfore that teach him to be borne in his fathers 70. they so not only rob the worlds age off 60. y. but also make Abram at the receipt off the promise 135. old That his father was 130. p. aged Beroaldus and our English More and broughton they stand hereto as A thre-fold coarde that cannot be broken Hauing receiued the Euangel for this Promise was the substance off the Ghospel Galat. 3. 8. and that 430. y. before the LAVV Gal. 3. 17. he trudgeth forward with his wife Saraj his nephewe Lot and all that he had for why shold the goods off the faithfull be lefte in the howse off A strainger prov 5. 10â— and so he coâ—ameth to Canaan but comminge thither God gaue vnto him there not beâ—â—podos one foote off ground Act. 7. 5. Many now wil be Abrams seede but iff they tast off these Alloes they will spit out all religion They will folowe Christ so long as he hath Barly bread in the one hand and fish in the other otherwise they will depart sorowing as rather willinge that the spirituall Forts and Byrds off the Ayre shold make holes and nestle in theyr heart then the Son off Man shold haue any roâ—me there whereon to rest his Heade Vers 6. The Plaine Morâ—h in engl Rebellinge I vnderstand to be the Penta-polis plaine of Sodom Gomer Zeboim Admah Bela A pleasant plot Chap. 13. 10. called in Moses tyme the plaine off Rebellion as preachinge to all folowers God his iudgment powred forth on that pleasant place because off Rebellion Vers 6. 7. Abram â—ainginge the Regionâ— Iehouah meets him aÌ„d bids him welcomâ— with an Euangelical sermon which the Ismaelites off our age do terms A cold breakfast For A Memoâ—all off the Lord his mercies Abram buyldeth an Alter and sacrificeth let the Canaanite take it as he will Afterwards vers 8. 9. He remoueth and buildeth anothr Alter the faythfull desire in all places to leaue Monuments off Religion behind them but affter that he â—â—itteth agayne Thus som and som the Lord wayneth his Châ—â—dren I now they suck on A Lilly-white pappe by and by it is smeated with foote or Alloes Vers 10. etc. Then there came a Famine Bring A litle hardned agaynst the wether he now must skirmish with Famine a strongâ— Tempter with whome he deales this he thâ—â— Canaan and went downe as the Man did from Ierusalem to Iericho euen downe into Egypt Faith kept him from lookinge back to Chaldeâ— and fathers howse Heb. 11. 15. but in the meane tyme this affliction off famme dazeled his eyes that he hit not the best way Hauinge Famine behind him in Canaan and want off God his feare in Pharaohs court before him it cawseth him and Sâ—raj 1. to Consult 2. to Doe as they did If Abram sawe it to be the practise off Kings then as it was in â—estâ—â—â— spuâ—e after namely not to lye with A woman till she had bene for A yeare prepared Hest 2. 12. that wold make him the rather to make this hazarde iff not Yet I doubt not let hasty Gen sorers off the Fathers actioÌ„â— say what they will but Abram herein as in another case Rom. 4. 18. euen beyond hope be hoped to be helped off God in opportune season In the meane time he speaks but Truth though not all the Truth for he conceales she was his wyfe That he knewe they wold not company with his wife except first they slewe him thereby appeareth that bare Nature cheeks adultry secondly that Naturall men sekinge to avoid one syn they fly into another yea many times auoidinge the lesser they pâ—p into the greater vers 17. But Iehouah plagued The Heb. hath gnal-debar For the vvord off Sâ—raj Dabar will beare the common version but properly â— is A vvord or Speach newly spoken or A new thing vttered So I take here because no doubt she did dal◠〈◊〉 the lord with A headingher case which Word and Speach off hers the lord graunted by plaguing the Court proportionably to the syn they aymed at This is that the wicked get by touching his Annointed ones and doing his prophets any harme Vers 20. And Pharaoh gaue com Many are the Troubles off the Righteous but the Lord deliuereth them out off all He will not suffer vs to be tempted beyond the strength he administreth Paul had A perilous shiuer puckinge his flesh but he had this answer My grace is sufficient for the for my povvre is perfected through vveaknes 2. Cor. 12. 5. But this I note in the kinge that the good vse he made off Courts crosse it shall condemne Princes and people in these days who are so far from being humbled by such afflictions as they rather will make it A Cause off stabbinge poore Abram to the heart I could but pick out A particular InstaÌ„ce from som Brownists and proue that NOTA. As Abram did goe downe into Aegipt so did the people off Israel go downe thither in the tyme of A Famine Comminge thither they soone after A sorte denyed the spirituall wyfe off theyr powth by shaping themselues to the Idol worship off the contry But God mynding to call that figuringe Son out off Aegipt he plaguinge that Pharaohs court and contry the king was vrged thereby to send Israel out and that not without much substance and treasure In that theyr Pilgrimage they might well haue remembred Abrams story An Introduction to Mysticall consideration SWeet Iesus when the Body off thy Father was dead in the Carnall Rites Ceremonial giuen first vnto Israel thow was appointed to shewe thy self in the â—esh A poore pilgrim in Canaan and thow did so hauing thy dunâ—ty accompanied with Saraj and Lot Both were knit vnto the by sacred vnion off Mariage mysticall Lôt thy Flesh Saraj thy Sowle both thy Brothers Children and both right deare vnto the. But Quene mystris the Sowle as it is A substance spirituall so off the two it rather accords with thy Diuyne nature Into Canaan and the most pleasant plot off Palestina thow came to fynde the seede that was promised not the