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A47629	A treatise of divinity consisting of three bookes : The first of which handling the Scripture or Word of God, treateth of its divine authority, the canonicall bookes, the authenticall edition, and severall versions, the end, properties, and interpretation of Scripture : The second handling God sheweth that there is a God, and what he is, in his essence and several attributes, and likewise the distinction of persons in the divine essence : The third handleth the three principall works of God, decree, creation and providence / by Edward Leigh ...	Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.	1646 (1646)	Wing L1011; ESTC R39008	467,641	520

best Expositors of it are Calvin Attersoll Ainsworth 5 Deuteronomy in Hebrew Haddebarim from the first words in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which the Latine retaines because it containes a second repetition of many necessary points of the Law It consists of 34 Chapters and containes a history of the two last moneths of the yeere Some say concerning the 34 Ch. 10. that part of it was written by Ezra contemporary with Malachy The best Expositors of it are Calvin Ainsworth Wolphius Cornelius a Lapide 2 Historicall 1. Before the Captivity Joshua Judges Ruth Samuel Kings 2 After the Captivity both the Chronicles Ezra Nehemiah The sixth Booke in the old Testament is called Joshua because it containes a History of things done by Joshua the servant of Moses which he by the will of God put in writing it being all written by him except some of the last Chapter where mention is made of his death and thought to be written by Samuel It consists of 24 Chapters and containes a History of 18 yeeres viz. from the death of Moses even to the death of Joshua The best Expositors of it are Masius and Serarius for Papists Drusius and Lavater of Protestants The seventh booke is called Shophetim Judges because it containes things done under the government of the 12 Judges There is nothing certaine of the authour of this Booke though some would have Samuel but he rather collected and compiled into one Volume what was written by many It describes the state of the government of Israel from the death of Joshua even to the Priesthood of Eli. It consists of 21 ●●hapters and containes a History of 299 yeeres say some of 300 at least saith Spanhemius The best Expositors of it are Peter Martyr Drusius Lavater Serrarius The eighth is Ruth the authour of which booke is unknowne many thinke it was written by Samuel who added this as a part or conclusion of the booke of Judges It consists of foure Chapters and is an History concerning the marriage and posterity of Ruth The best Expositors of it are Deusius Wolphius Lavater Topsell The ninth in order are the two bookes of Samuel which containe in them an History of 120 y●eres The first beginning an History of 80 yeeres of 40 under Eli 1 Sam. 4. 18. and of 40 under Samuel and Saul Acts. 13. 21. and consists of 31 Chapters The second Booke is a History of 40 yeeres even from the death of Saul to the end of Davids Kingdome and consists of 24 Chapters These two Bookes in the Originall have two severall Titles The one is the first and second of Kings the other the first and second of Samuel The former Title it hath received as it stands in relation to the two next Bookes and in opposition to that of Judges for as in that Story the Regiment of Judges was described in one Booke so in this Story of which these two are but one part the Regiment of Kings is described this is the reason of the first Title The other likewise of the first and second of Samuel is given unto it 1. Because there is very frequent mention made of Samuel therein he being a principall subject of the first part thereof 2. Because it continueth the narration so farre till the infallible truth of Samuels principall Prophesie which seemed to remaine in great doubtfulnesse at least when he ended his daies was fully accomplished in establishing the Kingdome upon the person and family of David the sonne of Jesse The best Expositors of both the Samuels are Peter Martyr Drusius Willet also hath expounded them but not so well as he hath other Bookes of Scripture The tenth is the two Bookes of the Kings in Hebrew Melachim is Greeke and Latine the third and fourth of the Kings from the subject matter of them because they relate the Acts of the Kings of Israel and Judah This History was written by divers Prophets but who digested it into one Volume is uncertaine many ascribe it unto Esdras The first Booke consists of 22 Chapters and containes a History of 118 yeeres The second Booke consists of 25 Chapters and containes a History of 320 yeeres The best Expositors of both the Kings are Peter Martyr and Gaspar Sanctius The eleventh Booke is the two Bookes of Chronicles which is called Dibrei Hajamim verba dierum because in them the deeds of the Kings of Israel are particularly described The Greekes and Latines divide it into two with the Greekes it is called liber 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 q. d. praetermissorum because he summarily explaines somethings either omitted or not fully described in the Pentateuch the bookes of Joshua Judges Samuel and the Kings Of the Latines liber Chronicorum q. d. Chronologicum which appellation Luther retaines in the Dutch version of the Bible There is nothing certaine of the authour of these Bookes though Esdras be thought to be the authour The first Booke consists of 29 Chapters and containes a History of 2985 yeeres viz. from the creation of the world even to the Kingdome of Salomon The second consists of 32 Chapters and describes a History from the beginning of the Kingdome of Salomon even to the returne out of the captivity of Babylon The best Expositor on both the Chronicles is Lavater Twelfthly the two Bookes of Ezra they are counted for one Volume with the Hebrewes the Greekes and Latines devide them into two Bookes and assigne the first to Ezra the second to Nehemiah Ezra was so called from the Authour which was a Scribe most skild in the law of God as appeares in the 7 Chap. 1 6 11 verses The best Expositors of it are Junius and Wolphius Nehemiah It is called by the Latines the second Booke of Ezra because the History begun by Ezra is continued in it but usually Nehemiah because it was written by him and also because it containes the re-edifying of the City of Jerusalem caused by Nehemiah It consists of 13 Chapters and containes a Hi●tory of 55 yeeres viz. from the 20 yeere of Artaxerxes to the Kingdome of the last Darius The best Expositors of it are Wolphius and Pilkinton The next Booke is Esther called in Hebrew the Volume of Esther Many of the Jewes thinke this Booke was written by Mordechai which those words in the 9 Chap. v. 20. 23. seem to favour Isidore saith Esdras is thought to have written Esther but some say it was composed after by another Moses Camius saith it was written by the men of the great Synagogue Philo Judaeus saith Joachim a Priest of the Hebrewes sonne of the hight Priest was the composer of it and that he did it at the intreaty of Mordecai the Jew It consists of ten Chapters and containes a History of 10 or as others will of 20 yeeres concerning the preservation of the Church of the Jewes in Persia by Hester Drusius Serrarius and Merlin have done well on this Booke 3.

God shall destroy him with the Spirit of his mouth idest verbo suo Beza God hath consecrated the word to this purpose the end of it is not onely to save but destroy being the savor of death to some and it is a fit instrument for such a worke Antichrists strength is in mens consciences onely this will pierce thither Heb. 4. 12. God useth the word for the destruction of Antichrist these waies 1. It discovers him his doctrine his errours 2. It hardens him 3. It condemneth him and passeth sentence against him CHAP. III. 2. The Bookes of Scripture FRom the Divine flowes the Canonicall authority of the Scripture The bookes of Scripture are called Canonicall bookes say some from the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which word is used 2 Cor. 10. 13. Phil. 3. 16. Gal. 6. 16. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 marke the double emphasis this notable Canon because they were put into the Canon by the Universall Church acknowledged to be divinely inspired by it and also are made a perfect Canon or rule of all doctrine concerning religion credendorum agendorum of faith and manners of all things which are to be believed or done toward salvation But Cameron thinks it is not termed Canonicall because it is a rule for that booke saith he is called Canonicall which is put into the Catalogue which the ancients called a Canon of those writings which are esteemed Divine Becanus saith they are called Canonicall both because they containe a rule which we ought to follow in faith and manners and because they are put into the Catalogue of Divine bookes The conditions of a Canon are these 1. It must containe truth or be an expresse form and image of truth which is in the divine mind 2. It must be commanded sanctified and confirmed by Divine authority that it may be a Canon to us in the Church These bookes were sanctified either commonly all of both Testaments by the testimony of the Spirit and Church and Canon it selfe or the books of the old Testament were specially and singularly confirmed by word signes and event as the Pentateuch but the Propheticall books and Hagiographa before their carrying into Babylon by extraordinary signe the cloud and vaile in the Temple 1 Kings 8. 10. Levit. 16. 2. and Gods answer by Ephod Urim and Thummim Exod 28. 30. after their carrying away into Babylon by singular testimonies of events The books of the new Testament are confirmed by the Sonne of God revealed in flesh by his sayings and deeds Heb. 1. 2. and by the powerfull ministery of the Apostles by signes vertues and miracles Marke 16. 20. There is a threefold Canon in the Church Divine Ecclesiasticall and False The Divine Canon is that which properly and by itselfe is called the word of God immediately inspired of God into the Prophets and Apostles This according to the divers times of the Church is distinguished into the old and new Testament 2 Cor. 3. 6 14. this is a common division of the sacred Bible among Christians as in the version of Tremelius and Junius Testamenti veteris novi Biblia sacra and the Geneva gives that title to their Bible La Bible qui est toute la Saincte Escriture du viel novean Testament Austin thinkes they are better called Vetus novum Instrumentum Heinsius Grotius vetus novum Foedus vide Grotii Annotat. in libros Evangelii A Covenant is an agreement between two a Testament is the declaration of the will of one It is called in regard of the forme convention and agreement betweene God and man a Covenant in regard of the manner of confirming it a Testament For 1. in a Testament or last will the Testators mind is declared so is the will of God in his word therefore it is called a Testimony often Psal. 19. 119. l 2. Here is a Testator Christ a Legacy eternall life Heires the elect a writing the Scripture Seales the Sacraments 3. Because it is ratified by the death of Christ Heb. 9. 16 17. The Bookes of the old Testament are the holy Scriptures given by God to the Church of the Jewes shewing them what to believe and how God would be worshipped The new Testament containeth the bookes which treate of salvation already exhibited and Christ already come in the flesh All the bookes of the old Testament were written originally in Hebrew because they were committed unto the Hebrews Rom. 3. 2. except what Daniel and Ezra wrote in the Chaldee The Jewish Church receiving them from God kept them and delivered them to posterity Many grave Authours hold that the Hebrew was the first Tongue and mother of all the rest and it may probably be collected from the names of our first parents It was called Hebrew saith Erpenius not from Heber of the posterity of Sem as Josephus Jerome and others thinke when it is manifest that he rather spake Chaldee then Hebrew because Abraham the Patriarke which drew his originall from him was a Chaldean but it was so called saith Erpenius as all the Rabbines Origen and others testifie from the Hebrews which people arose from Canaan It is honoured with the title of the holy Tongue saith the same Erpenius because the most holy God spoke it to his Prophets delivered his holy will written in it to the Church and because it is very probable from the opinion of great men that holy men shall use it with God hereafter in Heaven vide Buxtorfium de Linguae Hebraeae origine Antiquitate Sanctitate There are many Hebraismes also in the new Testament many words and phrases rather used according to the manner of the Hebrews then the Greeks by which it is mauifest that the same Spirit was the Authour of the old and new Testament The knowledge of the Hebrew much conduceth to the learning of those famous Orientall Tongues the Chaldee Syriacke Arabicke and Aethiopicke by reason of the great affinity which they have with their mother The bookes of the old Testament may be divided severall waies in respect of the stile some were written in prose some in verse in respect of time some were written before their being taken captives into Babylon as Samuel Esay H●sea and many others some in the Captivity and some after as Haggai Zachary Malachy The Hebrewes divide the Bible ex instituto Esdrae into three speciall parts 1. The Law the five Bookes of Moses 2. The Prophets 1. The former Joshua Judges two bookes of Samuel and two of the Kings 2. The latter 1. Greater three 2. Lesser twelve 3. The Hagiographa for want of a more speciall name by which title all the rest are understood and they are eleven Our Saviour himselfe mentions this most ancient distinction Luke 24. 44. calling all the rest of the bookes besides the Law and Prophets Psalmes All the Scriptures of the old Testament in other places are comprised in the Law

volunt quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aven Gilion id est mendacium seu iniquitatem voluminis Gualtperius 1 Cor. 1. 22. 6 Consectary It is a gradation Luke 16. 31. Tum antiqui theologi Basilius Chrysostomus Augustinus tum recentiores celeberrimi nominis inter adversarios Thomas Aquinas Ferus Andradius aliique Scripturam Canonis nomine designant aut designatam asserunt tanquam intellectus voluntatis regulam ad cuncta seu credenda seu agenda perfectissimam Rain●ldus 1 Thess. * Scripturae dicuntur Canonicae quia quid nos credere quemadmodum vivere operteat praescribunt ut huc fidem omnem vitamque nostram reseramus quemadmodum lapicida aut architectus ad amuss●m perpeudiculum opus suum exigit Whitakerus de Script Controver primae quaestione prima Cap. 2. Libri sacrae Scripturae Canonici dicuntur qui● fidei morum que regulam continent Woitakerus Scharpius de sacra Scriptura Proprii Canonis dicti univocè due conditiones sunt inseparabiles quod veritatem divinam contineat divinitus materia forma quod authoritate divins publica Ecclesia datus sanctificatus ut sit Canon sive regula ipsiu atque hic verè divinus Canon Jun. animadvers in Bellarm. Est mater Ecclesia ubera ejus duo Testamenta divinarū Scripturarum Aug. tract 3. in Epist. Joh. * Vt veterum librorum fides de Hebraeis vs. luminibus examinanda est ita novorum veritas Greci sermonis norn●am desiderat Augustinus a From the fourth verse of the second Chapter of Daniel to the end of the seventh Chapter and from the eighth verse of the fourth Chapter of Esaras unto the end of the seventh the Chaldee Dialect is used * Erpenius o● at de ling. Ebr. dignitate Some say the Hebrewes were so called from Abrahams passing over Euphrat●s id ib. a Omnes libri Canonici v●teris Testamenti Ebraic● scripti fuerunt Dantele Ezra sunt quedam partes Chaldaicae nempè quae ab iis ex publicis Annalibus fastis regni desumptae fuerant in quorum monarchia tum vive bant ut obsenvavit doctissimus Iu●ius b As Ezechiel Daniel Jerome hath followed this division of the Hebrewes * Both the Chronicles the Psalmes Proverbs Job Ruth Daniel Ecclesiastes Canticles Lamentations Hester Ezra and Nehemiah counted for one booke * Joseph contra Appion l. 1. Euseb. l. 3. c. 10. Some of the Jewes reckon 24. See Sextus Senensis his Biblieth l. 1. sect 2. Some 27. Waliherus in efficina Biblioa p 237. As the Massorites reckoned all the words and letters so some Christians all the verses of the Bible a Henric Steph. Lect. in Cancordant Graec. N. T. Grotius de Iure Belli l. 1. c. 2. Rive●us Isag. ad Script sac c. 29. b We are not too superstitiously to adhere to our late division See Heinsius prolegom ad exercit Dr. Rainolds his Letter for the study of Divinity Pentatenchum 〈◊〉 quinque volumin●bus dicitur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●nim Graecis quinque 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 volumen vocatur Ifid l. 6. In Judaica Ecclesia ●tsi summa fuerit omnium librorum veteris Testamenti dignitas autoritas maxima tamen su●t quinque librorum Mosis Rivetus Spanhem Dub. Evangel parte tertia Dab 1. * Nomina h●rum quinque librorum ab Hebraeis sumuntur de primis verbis librorum Graeci Latini denominant hos libros à materia dequa agitur in principl● librl Bellarminus a See my Epistle to my Hebrew Critica sacra and Thorndike of Religious Assemblies Chap. 6. p. 175 176. 2308 saith Sixtus Senensis * Hieron in prologo in Ezech. Epist. jam l. 1. Epist. 32. Eustocbio Mercer praefat in Gen. Cantic Vossius in Thesibus de creatione Vide Estium ad Ezech. 40. v. 46. 146 saith Senensis Barbara Turcarum gens h●die Mosis doctrinam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comprehensam non aliter quam divinam veneratur adeo ut etiam chartarum lacinias quibus aliquid ejus foriè inscriptum sit deosculetur Pareus praefat de libris Mosis Evangelistae Apostoli in nove Testamento centies quinquagies amplius in narrationibus cencionibus suis Mosaic● Cononis authoritatem adducunt ut suum cum Mose Prophetis consensum comprobent Id ib. The Hebrewes divide the bookes into 4 Classes The first is called Thorah that is the law containing the five Bookes of Moses The second Nebii●n R●shonim the Books of the former P●●phets as Joshua Judges Samuel Kings The third Nebiius Acharouim later Prophets Esay Jeremy Ezekiel And the lesser being 12. but one booke A Sepher Ketubim the Hagiographall bookes It was written as t is likely by divers Prophets Matth. 2 ult Vide Bezam Bucer Calvin in loc * Petrus Martyr in praefat com in lib. Judic scribit alios putare unumquenque judicem suorum temporum res gestas conscripsisse quae postea Samuel eorum monimenta cum difiecta essent in unum quoddam corpus seu volumen cocgerit * The Authors of these Books of Samuel are thought to be Samuel Nathan and Gad 1 Samuel of the first Booke to the 25 Chapter where his death is reheased Nathan and Gad continued it 1 Chron. 29. 29. a They are called the first and second of Kings by the Greeks and Latines They containe a large History of things done by Kings the History of Samuel being praeposed The ordinary glosse saith he wrote a good part of the first Booke Scriptor h●rum librorum quatuor Hebraeorum eruditissimis creditur esse Jeremias Sermonis forma non discrepat Eum credibile est usum commentariis illis Nathanis Gadis Prophetarum quorum mentio 1 Paral. 29. 29. Grotius Because they reckon the first and second of Samuel also among those of the Kings Esdras and Jeremiah are thought to be the authors of the Kings Munster rendred it the bookes of Annals Libri praeteritorum appellantur ab Hieronymo Ab E●dra scriptos hos duos libros constans semper fuit apud Hebrae●s fama qui bos libros vocant verba dierum id est excerpta ex regum diurnis Grotius Ezra signifieth an helper Nehemiah a comforter Nehemiah in English is a Comfort sent from God to comfort his people in those troublesome times Nomen huic libro est à potiore persona Martinius LXX huic historiae somnium quoddam Mardochaei praemittunt quod non est in Hebraeo Grotius Drusius Animad l. 2. c. 34. * Martinius Grotius reckons the Lamentations among the Poeticall bookes Mr. Caryll on Job 3. v. 2. p. 334. Singula in eo verba plena sunt sensibus H●eron Quis libri scriptor fuit incertum est nec nisi levissim● conjecturis nititur quiequid de ea dici potest B●za vid Grotium Waltherus in Offiecina Biblica Ludov. de Tena Isag. ad totam Sac. Script The Ap●stle 1 Cor. 3. 19. proves it to be of divine authority

15. 1. Heb. 8. 11. I●hn 14. 26. and by intell●ctuall visions Num. 12. 6. to the phantasie God revealed his will by imaginary visions to Prophets awake and by dreames to Prophets asleepe Gen. 40. 8. 41. 8 9. Acts 16. 10 10. 3. Num. 14. 4. to the senses God revealed his will and that either by vision to the eye or lively voyce to the Eare Gen. 3 9. 4. 6. 15. 4 5. Exod. 20. 1 2. 3. 1 2 3 33. 17. And Lastly by writing This Revelation was sometimes immediate by God himselfe after an unspeakable manner or by meanes viz. Angels Vrim Thummim Prophets Christ himselfe and his Apostles The written word forthematter contained in it is called the word of God Rom 9. 6. for the manner of Record the Scripture John 10. 35. 2 Tim. 3. 16. 1 Pet. 2. 6. or Scriptures Matthew 22. 29. John 5. 39. Romans 15. 4. 2. Pet. 3. 16. By an Antonomasie or an excellency of phrase as the most worthy writings that ever saw the light Sometimes with an Epithite the holy Scriptures Rom. 1. 2. 2 Tim. 3. 15. the S●riptures of the Prophets Rom. 16. 26 Some thinke th●t Enoch the seventh from Al●m wrote but Jude 6. 14. speak●th onely of his prophesying which might rather be by word of mouth then writing because our Saviour citing Scripture ever gives the first place to Moses and undertaking by the Scriptures to prove himselfe to be the Messiah that he ought to suffer began at Moses Luke 24. 27. No doubt if there had beene any more ancient then Moses our Saviour would have alleadged it because all the Scripture that was before him was to give testimony of him Of the authority of the Scripture The Author of the Scriptures was God himselfe they came from him in a speciall and peculiar manner commonly called inspiration which is an act of Gods Spirit immediately imprinting or infusing those notions into their braines and those phrases and words by which the notions were uttered 2 Tim. 4. 16. All Scripture is given by Divine inspiration or by inspiration of God Prophesie came not of old time by the will of men but holy men of God spake as they were moved or carried by the Holy Ghost 2 Pet. 1. 21. They did not write these things of their own heads but the Spirit of God did move and worke them to it and in it 2 Sam. 23. 2. The Spirit of the Lord spake by me that is did immediately guide me and tell me what matter to utter and in what words Stephen saith they resisted the Holy Ghost when they did disobey the Scriptures The Holy Ghost by the mouth of David and the mouth of Esay spake Acts 1. 16. 28. 25. The Inscriptions of many Propheticall bookes and Epistles Apostolicall run thus The word of the Lord which ●ame to Hosea Amos Joel Paul Peter JAmes a servant of God and an Apostle of Christ. The proeme that is set before divers prophecies is this Thus saith the Lord and the Prophets inculcate that speech the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it because they would take off the thoughts of the people from their own persons and lift them up to consideration of God the chiefe author It is all one to say the Scripture saith Rom. 4. 3. 10. 11. 11. 2. Gal. 4. 30. 1 Tim. 5. 10. and God saith Rom 9. 25. Heb. 4. 3. 8. 5. 13. 5. and the word Scripture is put for God speaking in the Scripture the Scripture saith to Pharaoh Rom. 9. 7. and the Scripture hath shut up all men under sinne Galat. 3. 22. for which in another place God hath shut up Rom. 11. 32. All other disciplines were from God and every truth whosoever speaks it is from the holy Ghost but the Scripture in a singular manner is attributed to the Holy Ghost he immediately dictated it to the holy men of God The efficient principall cause then of the Scripture was God the ten Commandements of which most of the rest is an exposition were writen after a secret and unutterable manner by God himselfe therefore they are called the writings of God Exod. 32. 16. Secondly all the rest which was written though men were the instruments was done by his appoinment and assistance Exo. 17. 14. Esay 8. 1. Jer. 30. 2. The Scripture is often attributed to the holy Ghost as the Author and no mention is made of the Pen-men Heb. 10 15. The Prophets and Apostles were the Pen-men of the Scripture whose calling sending and inspiration was certainly divine for whatsoever they taught the Church of God or left in writing they learned not before in the Schooles 1 Cor. 2. 13. The Divine authority of th● word may be defined a certain dignity and excellency of the Scripture above all other sayings or writings whatsoever whereby it is perfectly true in word and sence it deserves credit in all sayings narrations of things past present and to come threatnings and promises and as superiour doth binde to obedience if it either forbid or command any thing 1 Tim. 1. 15. 2 Pet. 1. 19. John 5. 39. Heb. 6. 18. Rom. 1. 5. 2 Cor. 10. 5 6. 13. 3. 12. 12. Gal. 1. 1 12 13. though the things in mans judgement seem unlike or incredible or the Commandements hard and foolish to the carnall minde Hereticks have laboured to prove their corrupt and damnable opinions out of the Scripture and have received some bookes if not all as Divine The Turkes at this day so esteem the five books of Moses as they will kisse such patches of Paper as they finde having any part thereof written in the same Aristaeus an Heathen when he had determined to have disputed against Scripture confesseth that he was forbidden by God in a dreame Plato is termed Moses Atticus Moses speaking Greeke The holy Scripture in it sel●e is Divine and Authenticall though no man in the world should so acknowledge it as the Sunne in it selfe were light though all the men in the world were blind and could not or would not see it but in respect of us it is Divine and Authenticall when it is acknowledged and esteemed so to be The Scripture is the word of God written by holy men as they were inspired by the holy Ghost divinely containing all Divine truth necessary to salvation for the edification and instruction of Gods Church thereunto and for the glory of God That the Scriptures were from God may appeare by reasons contained in or cleaving to the Scripture 1. From the excellency of their matter which is Heavenly the divine and supernaturall matter contained in it It telleth us of such things as doe farre exceed the reach of mans reason and which it was impossible for any man to counterfeit and faine and which being told are so correspondent to reason

and Prophets Matth. 5. 17. 7. 12. 11. 13. 20. 40. Acts 13. 15. 24. 14. 26. 22. 28. 23. Rom. 3. 21. or Moses and the Prophets Luke 24. 27. 16. 29. or in the Scriptures of the Prophets Rom. 16. 26. or the Prophets alone Luke 1. 70. 24. 25 27. Rom. 1. 2. Heb. 1. 1. the name Prophet being taken as it is given to every holy writer The Jewes and the Ancient reckon 22 Bookes in the old Testament according to the number of the Letters of the Alphabet for memory sake Ruth being joyned with the Booke of Judges and the Lamentations being annexed to Jeremy their Author Hebraeis sunt initiales medianae literae 22 finales quinque Quamobrem V. T. modo in 22. modo in 27. libros partiuntur All the bookes of both Testaments are 66. 39 of the old and 27 of the new Testament Some would have Hugo Cardinall to be the first Authour of that division of the Bible into Chapters which we now follow No man put the verses in the Latine Bibles before Robert Stephen and for the new Testament he performed that first being holpen by no Booke Greeke or Latine Vide Croii observat in novum Testam c. 7. This arithmeticall distinction of Chapters which we have in our Bibles was not from the first authours Of which that is an evident token that in all the quotations which are read in the new Testament out of the old there is not found any mention of the Chapter which would not have been altogether omitted if all the Bibles had then been distinguished by Chapters as ours distinguishing of the Bible into Chapters and Verses much helpes the reader but it sometimes obscures the sense Dr Raynolds gives this counsell to young Students in the study of Divinity that they first take their greatest travell with the helpe of some learned interpreter in understanding St Johns Gospell and the Epistle to the Romans the sum of the new Testament Esay the Prophet and the Psalmes of David the summe of the old and in the rest they shall doe well also if in harder places they use the judgement of some godly writer as Calvin and Peter Martyr who have written best on the most part of the old Testament The Bookes of the old Testament are 1. Legall 2. Historicall 3. Poeticall 4. Propheticall 1. Legall which the Hebrews call from the chiefe part Torah Deut. 31. 9. 33. 4. the Grecians from the number Pentateuch the five Bookes of Moses Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy all written by Moses as it is commonly agreed except the last Chapter in the end of Deuteronomy concerning his death written by Joshua In which five Bookes are described the things done in the Church from the beginning of the world to the death of Moses The Sadduces as some say received no other Scripture but these five Bookes of Moses therefore Christ Matth. 23. 32. proves the resurrection of the dead which they denied out of the second Booke of Moses but Scultetus saith that they rejected not the Prophets l. 1. exercit evang c. 22. Anciently it was not the custome of holy writers to adde Titles to what they had written but either left their workes altogether without Titles or the first words were Titles the Titles now in use as Genesis Exodus were prefixed according to the arbitrement of men and the like is to be thought of those before the historicall bookes of the new Testament as Matthew Marke Luke John With the Hebrews the Titles of bookes are taken sometimes from the subject matter or argument as in the bookes of Judges Ruth Kings Proverbs and others of that kinde sometimes from the Authors or amanuenses rather as in the bookes of Joshua and the Prophets sometimes from the initiall words with which the bookes begin which Jerome followes The Bookes of Moses are denominated from the initiall words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. in principie i. e. Genesis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. Haec nomina h. e. Exodus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3. vocavit h. e. Leviticus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 4. in deserto i. e. Numeri 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 5. verba sive Deuteronomium These are subdivided againe into 54 Sections that the reading of them may be finished in so many Sabbaths which is signified Acts 15. 12. Junius Ainsworth and Amama with Calvin Cornelius a Lapide and Piscator have done well on the Pentateuch 1. Genesis in Hebrew Bereshith the first word of the book by the Septuagint it is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which appellation the Latine Church retained because it sets forth the first generation of things Ch. 2. v. 4. and of Adam or mankind Gen. 5. 1. It consists of 50 Chapters and containes a History of 2368 yeeres from the creation of the world to the death of Joseph The best Expositors of this booke are Mercer River Pareus Caelvin Peter Martyr on 40 Chapters Willet Ainsworth Origen upon the Canticles and Jerome upon Ezekiel say that the Hebrewes forbad those that had not attained to the age of the Priesthood and judgement viz. 30 yeeres to reade in three bookes for their profundity and difficulty that is the beginning of the world which is contained in the three first Chapters of Genesis the beginning and end of Ezekiel since that treats of the Cherubins and the Divine Majesty this of the structure of the third Temple and the Song of Songs in which those things which ought to be understood of the Divine Authour are easily through youthfull affection elsewhere drawne and wrested This booke of Genesis is not onely profitable but very necessary for doctrine as Moses is the Prince and as it were Parent of Divines so Genesis is the foundation and excellent compendium of all Divinity propounding evidently the chiefe parts of it 2 Exodus The second booke of Moses is called in Hebrew Shemoth in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which word the Latines have retained It consists of 40 Chapters and containes a History say Junius and Tremelius of 142 yeeres viz. from the death of Joseph even to the building of the Tabernacle The best Expositors of it are Rivet Willet Calvin Ainsworth 3 Leviticus in Hebrew Vaiicra in Greeke and Latine Leviticus from the matter which it handleth because it treats especially of the Leviticall Priesthood and the Leviticall or Ceremoniall Lawes in it It consists of 27 Chapters and containes a History of one Moneth viz. of the first in the second yeere after their going out of Egypt The best Expositors of it are Calvin Ainswarth and Willet 4 Numbers in Hebrew Vaie dabber in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Numeri in English Numbers because it begins with declaring the number of the people and because many numberings are reckoned up in this booke It containes a History of 38 yeeres and consists of 36 Chapters The

1. 10. Make it your maine studie there is the adverb of correction rather you would rather look after other matters but studie this most 1 The Apostles exhortation shewes it is a thing possible 2 It is necessary of great concernment use all diligēce rather shew that 3 it is profitable Such shall never fall into 1. sinne 2. destruction 3. apostacie An entrance shall be ministred unto them abundantly into the everlasting Kingdome of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 2. Gods exterternall workes Psal. 33. 6. Heb. 10. 13. * Creatio est actio Dei externa qua in princip● temporis s●x dierum spacio mundum produxit solo voluntatis suae imperio ad nominis sui gloriam Wendelinus Gen. 1. 1. And the beginningning of the Apostles Creede The Father is said to worke all things by his word and spirit not as by an instrument but as by a principall efficient of the same substance and equall with himselfe Rom. 1. 20. Ephes. 1. 4. Psal. 33. 9. a Pareus alis Acts 17. 24. Col. 1. 16. b Dubitari non potest primum fidei articu●●● 〈…〉 in Deum creatorem coeli terrae ex tructum esse ex hoc Mosis aphor●s●no Pa●eus Pro. ● 23. John 17. 24. Ephes. 1. 4. 1 Pet. 1. 20. c Quam vis naturall lamine demonstrar● posset 〈◊〉 à Deo fuisse c●nditum tamen rectè A●gustinus de Civit. Dei l. 11. c. 4. Quòd Deus ●undum fecerit nulli tutius credimus quam ipsi Deo d Joseph Antiqu l. 2. c. 2. See Polid. Virgil de inventoribus rerum Master Pemble in his Treatise of the providence of God * August de civitate Dei l. 15 c. 9. Plinie l. 7 c. 16. Aul. Gell. lib. 3. cap. 15. Juven Sat. 13. Lacta●●ius * That the Wworld is 〈◊〉 compounded our senses tell us seeing some things are heavy some light some hot some cold and one of these is apt to destroy another as is the nature of Contraries * What is eternall is without beginning mutation succession or end so onely God See Doctor Hackwells Apology of Gods providence p. 39. 46. De qu● re inter duos Rabbinos est Controversia R. Eliezer R. Josue altero mundum in martio altero in Septembri contendente condium esse Quod quia nobis Scriptura non exprimit tanquam curiosum relinquamus Mercer Nothing negatively * Silvester When wee say God made the World out of nothing our meaning is not that nothing was the matter whereof the world was made but only that it was the terminus à quo non materia exqua * Bonitas rei creatae est illa perfectio qua apta sit ad usum cui inservit ●mesius haec bonitas duplex est 1 Generalis omnium creaturarum viz. integritas perfectio omnium do●orum ●●rium naturalium qua●um beneficio suas operationes exercere possunt conformi●er ad divinam voluntatem ordinate ad proprios fines 2● Specialis creaturae rationalis Angelorum hominum qui donis supernaturalibus ornar● sunt qua vocantur 〈◊〉 nomin● sanctitas ●ive imag● Dei Gen. 1. 26. M ● ●emble ubi supra a That opininion of Austin that God made all things in a moment distributed them into dayes because of our better understanding is exploded by all Although Creation was done in a moment in respect of the particular bodies severally considered yet in respect of all it was not perfected in an instant but in the space of six dayes which spaces of dayes note not a temporall succession of the same but the order of divers Workes b Festina lentè c 1 Gods goodnesse in making all things good Gen. 1. Ps. 33 5. 2. His power in creating all things of nothing Psal. 96. 4 5. 3. His Wisedome in making such various things Psalm 104. 24. * Isa. 40. 26. Consectaries from Creation in generall d Albertus Magnus Et eo major discipulus Thomas Aquinas persuasum nobis cupiverunt non ●am propositum Aristoteli fuisse aternitatem mundi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ac invictis rationibus ●omprobare quam illad so●ùm estendere mundum non esse genitum hoc est non incepisse per motum quae philosophorum priorum sententia erat Vossius in Thesibus de creatione vide plura ibid. Et Hackwell Apol pag. 442 443 444. Jer. 27. 5. 45. 4. Rom. 9. 21. He bounds the Sea with his Word onely God instanceth in the work of creation to Job to shew his power His wisdome shines in the exquisite workman ●ip variety order and subordination of them one to the service of another * Man was magnified in Creation in being made so excellent a Creature Psal. 8. 5. and in having so many excellent creatures made for him Psal. 8. 3 6 7 8. David beheld the works of God with admiration Psal. 8. Rev. 4. 11. Esay 17. 11. a Hee that studi●s the creature much shal finde much of God and of himselfe Some conceive Isaac Gen. 24. 63. studied the Book of the Creatures b Aliis scriptuturiaelocis apertiùs expressiàs potest trinitas confirmari efficacacius adversum I●daeos est pugnandum ne nos illis ridiculos praebeamus linguae eorum im●eritia Mercer in loc Ego cum Calvino mercer● aliis imea re sentio ex solo vo●e Esohim terminationis pluralis conjuncta cum verbo singulari non posse solidum duci argumentum pro tanto mysterio quia rationes a●●a●ae mihi videntur 〈◊〉 adductis pro sententia contraria praeponderare Etsi e●s●imen 〈…〉 esse 〈…〉 stodi●● qui 〈…〉 ex hoc loco sic intellecto mysterium tri●ratis probare conantur sed quia non ●gitur de intentione eorum q●am piam bonam conso●us verum de Mosis proposito in hujus vocis usu missa eorum intentione rem ipsam in se spectantes judicamus solidiora consectanda esse argumen●● quam quae à vocula aut constructione aliqua grammatica deducuntur quam Judae● haereticis proclive sit eludere quasi de re ipsa triumphata ex talium argumentor●m refutatione gloriari Rivet 9. in 〈◊〉 It is questioned whether this light was spirituall or corporeall a substance or Accident The out-spead thing Expansū in Latine Estendue in French c This made some hold that there were waters above the skies as Brentias saith alledging that place Psa. 148. 4. The Schoolmen understand it of the Christalline heaven d Mercerus in Gen. 1 Eccles. 7. Job 26. 10. 38. 13. Psalme 104. 9. Gen. 8. 22. Pallida ●una pla● rubicunda flat● alba serenat Rogue soir blanc matin ●est le plais●r du pelerin See Plinies Naturall Hist. l 18 c. 35. See Josephus and Luk. 21. 25 e As at ●hrists Death which Eclipse Dionysius Areopaeita a great Astronomer beholding and little knowing of Christs death he cryed out Aut Deus naturae patitur aut mundi machina dissolvetur