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of the Divine word is proved to be uniforme to the honour and love whereof all that doubt of the consent of the same are modestly invited Some man perhaps will object that some things are borrowed by me from others which I deny not for in compiling this Synopsis I thought it more safe and discreet to follow the steps of the most approved Interpreters than without the authority of famous men in this most corrupt age which is full of Error and Heresie to invert any thing of my own brain and to publish it to the world And I hope that the Courteuos Reader and the equall censurer are not ignorant that in the study of Divinity nothing can be said now that was not said before And it is most profitable Eccles 1.10 Aug. tom 3. de Trin l. 1. c. 3. that many Books should be made by many men of the same things in a divers style but not in a different faith And he shall find that I have compendiously gathered together in this Concordance that which the greater works of learned Men contained more at large so that here he may as it were at a single view comprehend the matter Let those famous men have the praise who have set forth large handfulls in this harvest I would not that any one should derogate from their Orthodox labours but let them have it rather than my self Yet I doubt not but that he who was and is effectuall in their large and learned Commentaries will supply me with his grace and be present to these gleanings If any one condemn my brevity and rudenessâ—â—f my style I sought to be brief but not obscure because brevity is profitable and is accounted most acceptable alwayes by this there is nothing lost in the substance My religious mind bad me stop this little body with solid meat not with lofty and windy words if there be any thing found in it that is not as it should be I crave pardon what is not spoken religiously enough let it pass as not spoken far be it from me that I should arrogate to my self as though I had exactly written without error D. Mart. Luth. in Praef. for I am not he of whom it may be said He made it in the perfect tense but I stand in the last rank who scarce dare say I would have made it yet in great maters it is sufficient to be willing Wherefore I being much solicited by some like my self that is of the meaner sort and by the most pious desire of my intimate friends by this little Book of mine first intended for private use I would nay I am obliged to do them good but not them who suppose they better understand these things For who is sufficient for these things Christian Reader I do patiently and willingly beg of thee that according to thy Piety and Candor thou wouldst sincerely interpret of this my study and duty performed in collecting these Concordances of the Bible and wouldest look upon it with the same mind that I writ it that is with a single and good eye 1 Cor. 1.30 Our Lord Jesus Christ who of God is made unto us wisdome and righteousness and sanctification and redemption in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdome and knowledge Sanctifie reconcile and enlighten us by his holy Spirit that being reconciled in him we may remain for ever to the praise of his Divine grace and our own salvation Which is the desire and prayer of Your daily Orator at the Throne of Grace J. T. RECONCILIATIONS Of the Places of the Old Testament THE sacred Scripture of the Old Testament is the Word of God brought down from Heaven from the beginning of the World unto the comming of the Messias preached by the Prophets almost 4000 years written in Hebrew except some few things in Chalde Esdras 4 5 6. Dan. 2 to 8. Ezek. 10.11 called by the Jews Esirmve arba that is Luke 24.27 twenty four divided by Christ into the Books of Moses the Prophets and the Psalms The Books of Moses THe Pentateuch that is the five Books Also the Ocean of Divinity the Hebrews call the 1. Bereschit that is in the beginning 2. Velle Semoth These are the names 3. Vajer He called The 4. Vajed daber And he spake 5. Elle hadebarim These are the words both in Greek and Latine 1. Genesis 2. Exodus 3. Leviticus 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Numbers 5. Deuteronomy GENESIS THE Generation of the World is so called because of the Creation before the flood and the restoring of it after the flood and the administration of it by the Patriarchs unto the birth of Moses it contains the history of 2310 years The Places that are seemingly contradictory * 1. Gen. 1.1 Elohim Almighties Gen. 1.1 2. Bara created The noun singular the verb plural To shew that not one only person but the Trinity of Persons in the unity of essence three in one and one in three created the world the Father works and I work others say Hoc subtile potius quam solidum and that its only an Idiotism of the Hebrew tongue * 2. Gen. 1.1 with Gen. 1.8 God created the Heaven c. And God called the firmament Heaven and the evening and the morning were the second day Moses in the first Verse useth two words to comprize the whole Fabrick of the Creation but afterwards he descends to the parts of the Creation and so distinguisheth the Heaven or Firmament from other parts Or 2. By Heaven is meant in the first Verse by a Metonymy Continens pro re contenta the invisible or glorious habitation of Angels with the Angels themselves and afterward by Heaven is meant the visible Heaven 3. Gen. 1.22 And on the seaventh day God ended his worke Chap. 2.4 All things were created in the day that the Lord God made the Heavens and the Earth Reconciling God created the world and all things therein contained in six dais and not in one day altogether The first place therefore is meant of certain naturall and artificiall dayes The latter contains indefinitely the time of the creation of things Psal 95.7 Heb. 3.13 So this day is put for the time of grace 4. Gen. 1.2 And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters John 7.39 The Holy Ghost was not yet given In the first place the treaty is concerning the person and existence of the holy Ghost in the latter concerning the gifts of the holy Ghost and the miraculous powring forth thereof in the day of Pentecost after the resurrection of Christ 5. Gen. 1.5 God called the light day before the Sun was Ecclus. 43.2 The Sun when it appeareth declareth the day The light which first made the day was not an other light from the light of the Sun but that light which God had dispersed through the hemisphere which he collected afterwards into the body of the Sun * 6. Gen. 1.27 In the Image of God Psalm 89.8 Who is
grew greater by the dignity of those that went forth and greatest of all wheâ— others joyned themselves to them that had not set down their names 423. Ezra 3.8 The Jews built the wals of Ierusalem after their return Zach. 3.4 Ierusalem shall be inhabited without wals Zach. 2.5 Under the name of Ierusalem Zacharias prophesieth or the Church of Christ and the heavenly Ierusalem the majesty of it is larger than can be comprehended in one City of which God is the wall a fire round aboue and glory in the midst of her 424. 2 Ezra 5.9 10 12. Nehemias reprehends the richer Iews because they thought to live by usury Gen. 47.23 Ioseph bought the Land of Aegypt and the people thereof he made subject to Pharaoh for corâ—â— The Aegyptians were punished by God for their iniquities the Iewes after their returne into their Countrey were so proved the richer Iewes oppressing their poore brethren with biting usury did burden them which Ioseph did not 425. Ezra 6.3 Cyrus the King decreed that the house of God should be built at Jerusalem and let them lay the foundations the height thereof sixty cubits and the breadth thereof sixty cubits 1 Kings 6.2 The house which King Solomon built for the Lord the length thereof was sixty cubit the breadth twenty cubits the height thirty cubits The structure of Solomons Temple was more beautifull than this 2 Chron. 3.3 Agg. 2.3 Ezra 3.12 therefore the Elders that saw this wept because the beginnings of this did not seem to answer the Majesty of the former Temple * Ezra 6.3 with 1 Kings 6.2 Cubits are common or sacred the common are half the length of the sacred which were unknown to the Heathen In the former place they are taken for common cubits and so the former Temple eâ—ceeded the latter And the number of them may be reckoned from the bottom of the foundation to the top of the outside and from the ouâ—â—ides of the Temple including the thicknesse of the Walls and of the Chambers adjoyning And so this Temple will be less than Solomons besides Solomons exceed the other in proportion ornaments outward and inward 426. Ezra 7.7 And there went up some of the children of Israel of the Priests and the Levites unto Jerusalem in the seventh year of Artaxerxes Chap. 1.1 Jerem. 25.12 34.10 2 Chron. 3.22 In the first yeare of Cyrus King of Persia the Jews had power given them to go up to Jerusalem After that Cyrus had given licence to them to return from Babylon to Jerusalem many with Ezâ—â—ras and Nehemiah returned to Jerusalem under the reign of Artaxerxes 427. Ezra 10.32 The houses were not builde Vers 3. Let not your doores be opend Their houses were not fully built the Cities had gates 428. Ezra 8.18 Ezra read in the book day by day Eza 3.4 They kept also the feast of Tabernacles as it is written This was a singular example of piety for they were not bound to do so by the Law yet they came willingly day by day to hear the book of the Law 429. Ezra 10.32 Also we made ordinances amongst our selves yearly to charge our selves with a third part of a shekell for the work of the Lord. Exod. 30.13 They shall give every one that passeth amongst them that he numbred half a shekell Moses once by Gods command laid on them that tribute and Ioas at the renewing of the Temple ordered that every one should give what he pleased so Nehemiah ordained the third of two shekels by the year to restore the Temple not from the Law but from necessity 430. Ezra 11.6 Of the children of Phares that dwelt at Ierusalem were four hundred sixty eight Benjamin nine hundred twenty eight 2 Chron. 9.6 Iehuel six hundred and ninety Benjamin nine hundred fifty six First the chief are set down to whom a dwelling fell by lot then other voluntary inhabitants who chose a habitation willingly NEHEMIAH * 431. NEhemiah 8.18 with Leviticus 23.36 and Ezekiel 3.4 The former place speaks of what was done extraordinarily by the people The latter what was usuall for the people to do as their duty * 432. Nehem. 11.5 My God put it into my heart c. to reckon by genealogies c. 1 Tim. 1.4 Neither give heed to endlesse genealogies The Jewes were to observe and keep their genealogies because they were to know of what Tribe Christ was Saint Paul forbids not making or reckoning up Genealogies simply But he forbids our spending our time and study in seeking out Genealogies which were endlesse By endlesse may be understood those of the Iews who were turned Christians which were so addicted to these Genealogies that they might have a pretence of claiming kindred of Christ that they made no end of drawing down their lines of descent from David or from Abraham or because the Questions moved concerning Genealogies by reason of the slender proof and ground they had for them could receive no determination or end * Nehem. 11.6 The sons of Perez were four hundred sixty eight with 2 Chron. 9.6 Six hundred and ninety In the former place mention is made of those who came by lot to inhabit at Ierusalem In the latter 2 Chronicles 9. not only of such but of voluntary inhabitants as Ephraim Benjamin and Manasseh ESTHER THe Book of Esther is so called from Esther who was Ahasuâ—rus wife here is shewed how Ahasuerus divorcing Vashti chose Esther to be Queen Haman the enemy of the Jewes and of Mordecai is hanged Mordecai is made Provost of the Kingdome It contains the History of twenty yeares Ezdras was the writer of it or else the men of the great Synagogue 433. ESther 1.12 Ahasuerus divorced Vashti because she refused to come at his commandment Matth. 19.9 Whosoever shall put away his wife except for fornication and shall marry an other committeth adultery The pride of Vashti hurt not the King alone but all the people and Princes of the Kingdom by shewing a kind of dominion over the King before other women Now adayes men do not divorce their wives but for the cause of Adultery onely and they are bound by the Laws of God and man to obey their husbands 434. Esther 9.21 Mordecai sent to the Jewes in all the Provinces that the fourteenth and fifteenth dayes of the moneth Adar should be held for festivals Deut. 4.2 Chap. 12.32 What I command you this day you shall not add to it The ordinance of Mordecai was not against the Law nor was it a feast of Gods worship but onely commemorative for the divine wonderfull deliverance of the people of the Jews JOB THis Book is so called from Job who was also called Joab King of Edom. Gen. 36. Moses is thought to have written that Book for an example of patience therein is contained the affliction of Job and contention with his friends and disputing with them God ends this controversie at last and restores Iob to his former prosperity The History appertains to
and openly without any shadows or externall propitiatory which Christ hath abolished 689. Dan. 9.25 Vnto Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks and threescore and two weeks Acts. 2.7 It is not for you to know the times and seasons By divine revelation seaventy weeks that is four hundred and ninety years were foreshewed to Daniel that within so many years Christ should come and performe the office of a Messias such a knowing of times is not forbid but that which is rashly attempted by us without divine revelation TEREASAR that is as they are commonly called in Hebrew The Prophesies of the twelve minor Prophets not for their authority but the quantity of the Book HOSEA HIS PROPHESIE THE SONNE of BEERI HE chides the Jewes for their idolatry He shews their casting off and the espousing of the Gentiles to God He declares salvation to those that should repent He Prophesied fifty years in the time of Osiah Jotham Achaz Ezekias Kings of Judah and in the dayes of Jeroboam sonne of Joas King of Israel about the year 3150. 690. HOS 1.2 Go take thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms Lev. 21.14 A widow or a divorced woman or prophane or an harlot these shall he not take but a virgin The command of God to the Prophet was not that he should marry a whore but a lawfull wife yet with such an infamy as though she were a Harlot and her children bastards By this embleme the Israelites are admonished of their spirituall fornication * Hos 1.2 with Lev. 21.14 As for the first place its probable that all this was commanded and seemed to the Prophet to be performed in vision that by this allegory they might perceive their duty toward God and rebellion against him 691. Hos 1.7 I will not save them by bow nor by sword nor by battel Rom. 13.4 The Magistrate beareth not the sword in vain The first place is of the conservation of the Kingdome of Judah against the Assyrian not by corporal weapons but by miracles which takes not away the lawfull power of the Magistrate against the enemies of the Church externall or internall 692. Hos 1.9 Ye are not my people Vers 10. Ye are the sons of the living God The Prophet divides the people of Israel into those which are and those which shall be Those which are he divides into righteous and wicked the righteous that remain shall be few but the wicked shall be more he saith that even the whole people of Israel should forsake God yet some few should be saved to the coming of the Messias Jer. 3.18 Ezek. 34.27 whilst all Nations both Jewes and Gentiles should be gathered into one people and one sheepfold under one King and one shepherd 693. Hos 2.13 I will visit upon her the dayes of Baalim when she burnt incense to them 1 King 18.40 Elias the Prophet killed Baals Prophets at the brook Kison The Baalites were destroyed in the time of Elias and of Jehu yet their superstition remained and stuck to the posterity of the people 694. Hos 4.23 Swear not The Lord liveth Deut. 6.13 And thou shalt swear by the name of the Lord. An oath is part of Gods worship and therefore the Prophet warneth Idolaters not to abuse it as they did in Bethel that they might seem to serve God and not the Calfâ— 695. Hos â— 4 They have set up Kings but not by me Rom. 13.1 There is no power but of God The Prophesie respects the breaking of the ten Tribes from the house of Solomon that was not from God as the Israelites did it who would not be subject to the Judges of Judah contrary to Gods revealed will but yet it was from God because he would punish the sinnes of Solomon So Tyrants are from God not onely as a scourge but by reason of their power because the power must be distinguished from the corruption of the person who useth it c. * 696. Hos 10.6 Ephraim shall be ashamed and Israel shall be ashamed Joel 2.26 My people shall never be ashamed It s one thing to be ashamed of sin and the basenesse of mens wayes as Ephraim and Israel were when they saw themselves in their own colours It s another thing to be ashamed of the wayes of God the latter Text tells us we should never be ashamed of worshipping God for he would so answer their expectations and assist them in their necessities that they should have no cause of being ashamed 697. Hos 11.1 When Israel was a childe then I loved him and called my sonne out of Aegypt Matth. 2.15 This Prophesie was fulfilled in Christ being brought back from Aegypt These words were spoken of Israel Gods adopted Sonne and of his onely begotten Sonne according to the union of the body with the head and comparison of the Type with the truth The deliverance of the children of Israel out of Egypt was a figure of our Redemption and freedome by Christ 698. Hos 13.14 O death I will be thy plague O grave I will be thy destruction 1 Cor. 15.55 O death where is thy victory The first place may be explained by the latter for in both is shewed that death hath lost its strength and is swallowed up in victory * Hos 13.14 with 1 Cor. 15.54 55. That which in one place is called plague in the other is called Victory but the difference of metaphors causeth not a difference in sense for as a plague conquers where it comes and eats up all so doth death conquer and eat up all and gets Victory JOEL HIS PROPHESIE THE SONNE of PETHVEL HE Prophesied in the year 3239. That the Israelites should be carried captives into Assyria he exhorts them to repentance and promiseth mercy to them that are penitent 699. JOel 1.13 Chap. 2.12 Turn you unto me with fasting with weeping and with mourning Matth. 6.17 When thou fastest annoint thy head and wash thy face that thou seem not to fast before men Christ discommends not private or publick fastings but he taxeth the hypocrisie of the Pharisees in their fasts for godly people must not sound a Trumpet but be content to have God the witness of their works 700. Joel 2.14 Who knoweth whether God will returne and repent and pardon us James 1.6 He that doubts is like a wave of the Sea Who knoweth Belongs not to remission of sinnes but removing of punishment for that is to be prayed for upon condition of the will of God and our good 701. Joel 2.28 Isai 44.3 And it shall come to passe after this that I will powre out my spirit upon all flesh 2 Sam. 32.2 2 Pet. 1.21 Holy men of God spake as they were inspired by the holy Ghost Joel speaks of the state of the Church after the coming of Mossias and of the comparing of the spirituall gifts of the Jewish and Christian members of the Church And he teacheth that after the Messias shall be come the spirituall gifts of God shall be
certainty of the things foretold in respect of God though not in our opinion he shuts out long delaies for the whole time of this Prophesie unto the last day is in the sight of God but as one day or one hour Psal 94. 2 Pet. 3.8 which is a comfort to the godly that they may not despair and it exhorts the wicked to repentance by reason of the sudden destruction shall fall upon them * 1478. Rev. 1.7 And every eye shall see him and they also which pierced him Job 19.27 Whom I shall see for my self and not another or a not stranger Every eye godly and wicked shall behold Christ either to their comfort or sorrow Job saith he shall see him and not another shall see him for Job or in the place of Job but Job shall see him for himself Which denies not but Job and another yea all shall see Christ and yet every man for himself 1479. Rev. 1.13 I saw one like to the Son of man Mat. 9.6 Christ is the Son of man really The first place is an Hebraism by which is intimated the certainty of Christs humanity also he may be said to be like man because he appeared in a singular form 1480. Rev. 2.11 He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death Heb. 9.27 It is appointed unto men once to die The bodily death is one because the soul is but once separated from the body The second death is taken Metaphorically for the misery and torment of the soul after the death of the body 1481. Rev. 3.7 Christ openeth and no man shutteth shutteth and no man openeth Ver. 20. If any man hear my voice and open the door I will come in to him The Son of God is he that opens the internal door of the heart Joh. 14. we open only the external for no man comes to the Father but by him 1482. Rev. 3.10 I will keep thee from the hour of temptation which shall come upon all the world Ver. 19. As many as I love I rebuke and chasten God kept the Angel of Philadelphia from evil temptation because he was a pious assertor of the truth but the Angel of Laodicea who was luke-warm he would mend by his reprehension 1483. Rev. 4.8 They rest not night nor day Chap. 14.13 They that dye in the Lord rest from their labours The souls in the heavenly rest of the blessed are not idle they have their labours that weary them not but most sweetly refresh them in the latter place is understood the end of the troubles of this world 1484. Rev. 5.1 I saw a book written Ver. 4. No man was worthy to look thereon John saw the book in a bare Vision but no man could see the mysteries contained in it * 1485. Rev. 5.5 Christ is called the Lion of the Tribe of Juda. Rev. 5.6 Christ is called the Lamb. He is called a Lion to shew his great strength Majesty and Dignity and of the Tribe of Judah because he arose from thence which Tribe boar the Arms a Lion * 1486. Rev. 5.12 Worthy is the Lamb to receive honour glory and blessing If Christ be God how can he receive honour for we cannot add to Divinity Ans Christ as God cannot receive an addition of honour in himself but we may give him a relative honour or Quo ad nos He may seem to be more honourable to us that is when we take all the honour that the Creature hath or Idols hath and place it upon the head of Christ we esteem him most honourable and glorious 1487. Rev. 6.9 Under the Altar I saw the souls of them that were slain Ver. 11. White robes were given to every one of them Souls are invisible spirits which cannot be seen or cloathed it is therefore the sight of the mind and not of the body which is here understood for these things were seen in the Spirit 1488. Rev. 6.10 The souls of those that were slain cry out for revenge against those that slew them Mat. 5.44 Love your enemies and pray for them The cry of the souls proceeds not from a wicked desire of revenge but an earnest desire for Gods glory because they would have no ungodliness or wickedness remain unpunished c. in the day of revenge and judgment we suffering here according to Christs command pray for our enemies 1489. Rev. 7.9 I saw a great multitude which no man could number Luk. 12.32 The flock of Christ is called a little flock The Church compared with the numerous multitude of the wicked is a little flock but considered in it self it comprehends an innumerable multitude of all Ages Sexes Places Tribes and People * 1490. Rev. 7.12 Blessing and Glory and Wisdom c. Rev. 8.1 There was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour In the former place it shews what is Angels work in heaven as I take it The latter is shewn what for a little while may be done on Earth whether as in Constantines time or it be an allusion to that silence that was used to be in the Temple while the Incense was offering whereas they blew Trumpets and sung while the sacrifice was offered 1491. Rev. 11.19 The Temple of God was opened in heaven Cha. 21. v. 22. And I saw no Temple therein In the former place the Temple is taken figuratively this the Holy Ghost intimates that God is worshipped most holily with Hymns and Psalms In the latter place we must not think there shall be any material Temple in the life to come as we have here on earth 1492. Rev. 13.8 The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world Gal. 4.4 When the fulness of time was come God sent forth his Son made of a woman He was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world not properly but figuratively and in Gods Decree by Types Predictions and Efficacy by Acceptation not by Execution 1493. Rev. 16.1 Go and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth Ver. 4. to the 13. They poured out their vials of wrath upon the sea the rivers the fountains the sun the seat of the beast and Euphrates In the first place the earth is taken in a general signification because the effects of all the Vials redounds to the earth in a manner and to earthly men the followers of Antichrist for whatsoever the wrath of God was which was cast on the Seas Rivers or the Ayr or Sun was not for themselves but to afflict the earth and those that dwell thereon 1494. Rev. 18.6 Double unto her double according to her work Mat. 7.2 And what measure you mete shall be measured to you again The first place is a special command of God concerning retaliation In the latter Christ forbids rash judgment concerning others adding the Law of retaliation the more to convince the Jews * Rev. 18.6 with Mat. 7.2 Double not of her deserts but of those miseries she hath brought on you before and that is just