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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

of the whole Bible or the bringing of both the Testaments into one continued History 2. To shew the usefullnesse or benefit of such an Harmonie 3. To discover the Difficulty of such an under●aking 4. To enquire into some Helps towards it 5. To Commend it to the allowance and care of the Publike State An Essay of the Designe THe Designe is to lay the whole Story together in a continued connexion the Books or parts of Books and all the severall parcels disposed and placed in their proper order as the continuance and Chronicall method of the Scripture-history requires so that no sentence nor word in the whole Bible be omitted nor any thing repeated or any word inserted but what is altogether necessary for Transition So as some whole Chapters or pieces be put into other places yea great parts of some Books and some whole Books to be woven into the body of an other Book For the illustration of my meaning I shall only offer at a generall draught or imperfect Essay It must necessarily begin with the first Book of Moses which is Genesis where such anticipations as may be found are to be refer'd to their own place As for example To make up the 27th and 28th verse of the first Chapter of Genesis with the 7th the 18th 19th verse c. of the 2d Chapter together into one relation Then to continue Chap. 1. ver 29 30 c. after the end of the 2d Chapter And to place the three first verses of the 2d Chapt. at the ending of the third And so throughout the Bible where any thing is related by prolepsis or Anticipation And to place the whole Book of Job digested also particularly if there be any anticipations in it into the body of Genesis either after the history of Nahor or next after the 33. verse of the 36th Chapt. of Genesis according as it shall be judged upon a learned examination that after the opinion of the Hebrew 's he was the Third from Nahor or after the opinion of the Greeks and the Genealogy added in the LXX at the end of Job he were the Fifth from Abraham and Third from Esau and so the same with Jobab mentioned Gen. 26.33 Whether Moses wrote the History of Job will not be materiall now to question but however the Story is to be inserted into that place that shall be found most unquestionably to agree to the history of his time In this manner to digest the Books of Exodus Numbers Leviticus Deuteronomy and to continue them to the story placing the severall exhortations of Moses recorded in Deuteronomy in their own proper times when the occasions of speaking them there were if it may be found in Numbers the history of the Removes when they were spoken And into the history of Moses to insert the 90. Psalme if it shall be concluded to be writ by him and as to me it seems most likely if it were penned upon occasion of that threatning related Deut. 4.31 then in that story to be conveniently placed There are some particular Anticipations in Joshuah and so in the Book of Judges but those being digested they are to be continued successively to the story And for the whole Book of Ruth it may seem fit to be put in the story of Eli in the beginning of Samuel if she be found to have lived under the time of his Judging Israel The Books of Samuel Kings and Chronicles will be next in their order where the History of the Kings of the whole people and after of the two Kingdoms of Judah and Ephraim being distinctly and in one relation of their severall reignes made up of the circumstances in the severall Books brought together here will be the greatest variety of transposition and inserting To distribute the Psalms so many as are found to be Davids and whose argument and occasion may be found into the Chapters in Samuel according to the severall estates and passages of Davids life that in his continued history we may heare him singing answerable to the emergencies of providence whereby we shall much better know his meaning As for such Psalms as are thought his but no satisfaction so much as conjecturall concerning the occasion those to be set at the end of his life and reigne The other Psalms to be distributed to the time and stories of their Authours one to Heman namely Ps 88. one to Ethan where we finde him mentioned in the Kings namely Ps 89. some to Asaph some haply to the Sonnes of Korah that were of the Quire in Davids time namely Ps 42 43 c. and haply some to King Solomon at least one namely Ps 72. being thought to be of his composing The Books of Proverbs so many of the Proverbs as may be judged to be spoken or collected by Solomon Canticles and Ecclesiastes to be put into the body of the second Book of Kings according to the times of Solomons reigne if the opinion of some Rabbins be thought to be followed that the Song was made when he was young at his marriage the Proverbs collected in his maturity Ecclesiastes in his age Those Proverbs ch 25. ch 26. ch 27. ch 28. ch 29. to be placed in the body of the Chronicles at the end of the reigne of King Hezekiah The Sermons of the Prophets to be disposed into the times of the reignes of those Kings under whom they lived So that if with industry and diligence the particular times and occasions can be found out so accordingly to refer them placing it may be a Chapter or Chapters of one two or more Prophets contemporary and prophecying of the same subject together And so in order to the times without regard to the order of Books And those Prophecies whose occasions or time cannot be judged of those to be placed at the ends of those Kings under whom they lived Ezekiel and Daniel to be inserted about the end or added after the end of Chronicles as shall be maturely considered Hagge and Zachary to be interwoven with the continued histories of Ezra and Nehemiah into which also the whole Book of Esther is to be wrought And then Malachy to be placed in the order of his own time As for the new Testament the beginning of it namely the History of our Lords life and sufferings recorded by four severall Evangelists is already brought together by many Learned men into an Harmony but most diligently by Chemnitius so farre as he went and then continued by Lyserus and after by Ge●hard Into the body of the History of the Apostles Acts are to be distributed the Epistles of James Peter and especially of Paul in an other order then now they lye according to the times wherein they were writ which will be applied without much difficulty to his history within severall Chapters of the Acts. And the writings of John will finish up the whole History And whereas it may be objected That the order of Books and Chapters being so altered and transposed

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 Benefits Difficultie Helpes By SAMUEL TORSHEL LONDON Printed by A. Miller for John Bellamy at the three Golden-Lyons near the Royall-Exchange M.DC.XLVII TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE The LORDS and COMMONS assembled in PARLIAMENT THis that I now humbly offer to your hands hath been long in my thoughts but much more since in my attendance on his Majesties Children I have under the incouragements and particular favours of the Right Honourable my Lord the Earl of Northumberland to whose care You have intrusted those Royall pledges read thorow the whole Bible in an expository way I have high thoughts of the sacred authority of Scripture I admire the wisedom of the whole and the admirable concent of all the parts of it and doe firmly believe that the majesty of it will triumph over the attempts of all Anti-Scripturists to the contrary till the time of our Lords coming again 'T is the glory of Christian States to maintain and advance it which was the meaning of those learned men who have lately enriched the world with that treasury of the King of France his Bible in 10. Volumes where in one Frontispiece they have represented a Table of the Portraicture of Cardinal Mazarine supported and mounted by Angels as being a great Patron of that renowned labour May your Names also be great unto posterity whilst you promote the glory of God and the saving knowledge of men by works of this nature The learned Licenser intimates the difficulty of this I also acknowledge it but withall I nothing doubt but under such an influence as yours it may grow to a full maturity Your Honours most humble and most devoted servant SAM TORSHEL A Designe TO HARMONIZE THE BIBLE The authority of the Canon of Scripture The liberty of Interpreting it A complaint against the abuse of it The Remedy IT is a received principle even among the Turkes themselves That Gods testimony sufficeth so the Alcoran speaketh cap. de Aranea Sufficit Dei testificatio and That God hath made known his will in Books The Alcoran gives witnesse to both the Testaments as we call them And Philip Guadagnoli the Arabick Professor at Rome in his Apologie for Christian Religion against Ahmed the Persian hath produced clear instances of some passages almost out of every particular Book in the whole Bible expresly quoted or manifestly alluded unto in many Chapters of the Alcoran Much more therefore in the entrance of this discourse or essay which I have now undertaken I will suppose it among Christians to be a principle that needs not proof and a thing constantly granted that the whole Scripture contained in the Canon or number of Books which we call Canonicall is the Word of God divinely inspired and left unto us to be the Rule of Faith and manners Under that Title or Right the Law and the Prophets were delivered over from the Jews the old and faithfull keepers of them to the Christians by whom both those and the Evangelicall or Apostolicall writings and declarations have been held in possession under the same Title in the severall ages since even down to these dayes There was never among the Ancients any publike quarrell about that Only which addes also to the weight and strength of the Scriptures Title there have been not a few quarrels about the sense The Arts that have been used by the Romanists for the setling and establishing the Right of Interpretation upon the Bishop of Rome have been well known whereby they have laboured to make him the Oracle to the world as the Turkish Mufti is by the relation of Busbequius in those parts finding it to be the most expedite way to gain the opinion of the publike and autorized Interpreter But upon the experience of his own and his fervants readinesse to make advantage of every thing that hath any likelihood to advance them and to wrest and abuse Scriptures to the maintenance of their usurpations therefore so long as there are at least reasonable men in the world it will alwayes prove a broken and entangled Title unto him Who then must be Judge There are many that would give it to the Fathers and that we must receive their Sense But that were to make them not Expounders but in a manner Law-givers I have spoken somewhat to this in my Exercitation upon Malachy and in my Historicall Preface before Mr Stocks Commentary upon that Prophet from whence I shall transcribe a little That we regard the Fathers highly but yeeld them not the Royaltie of a Mint as Morney speaks In the very Councel of Trent a saying of Cardinall Cajetan's That a new sense of Scripture is not to be rejected though it be against the old Doctors seeing power is left now also to interpret was by some much commended who thought it a Tyranny to forbid the faithfull the use of their own proper Ingenie Others indeed opposed that saying accounting License worse then Tyrannie Among others Richard of Mans a Franciscan Fryer went so farre as to say That the doctrine of Faith is now so cleared that we ought to learn it no more out of the Scriptures which were heretofore read in the Church for instruction but now only are read to pray by not to study There were not many that adhered to him the better part delivered themselves as Dominicke a Soto did That it was fit to keep every wit within limits for matters of faith and manners but else to leave them to their liberty for the sense Others of them yet more plainly That it was not fit to restrain the understanding of the Scriptures to the Fathers only whose expositions were most part allegoricall seldome literall and those fitted to their own times Seeing then the more learned and sober party even among the Romanists themselves have been tender of taking away the liberty of the faithfull to judge of what is written farre be it from us to be worse then they or to erect a tyranny by putting the key of knowledge into the hands of any particular order of men But what way may be taken to prevent that this liberty prove not a mischief Of late we have had too sad an experience of the boldnesse of such as pretend to the knowledge of Scriptures Besides what we hear of delivered here and there in corners there is too much witnesse in those weak senselesse and triobolarie Pamphlets which have wasted so much paper and have unmannerly intruded upon the leisures yea the necessary businesse of all sorts of men of late years in which what childish and impertinent allegations of texts have we found what raw and indigested collections from them what bandying up and down of incoherent Scripture-words and sentences many thorow a proud forwardnesse venture unripe and unexperienced upon the expounding of the Scriptures