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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94797	A clavis to the Bible. Or A new comment upon the Pentateuch: or five books of Moses. Wherein are 1. Difficult texts explained. 2. Controversies discussed. ... 7. And the whole so intermixed with pertinent histories, as will yeeld both pleasure and profit to the judicious, pious reader. / By John Trapp, pastor of Weston upon Avon in Glocestershire.	Trapp, John, 1601-1669.	1649 (1649)	Wing T2038; Thomason E580_1; ESTC R203776	638,746	729

face of the waters till at last the highest hills were covered with waters the Ark floting upon the surface of them and not swallowed up by them In reference whereunto David prayes Psal 69.15 Let not the water-flood overflow me neither let the deep swallow me up The true Christian may be tossed on the waters of affliction yea dowced over head and ears and as a drowning man sink twice to the bottom yet shall up again if out of the deep he call upon God as Jonah did Then I said I am cast out of thy sight Jonas 2.4 there you may take him up for dead yet I will look again toward thy holy Temple there he revives and recovers comfort yea though Hell had swallowed up a servant of God into her bowels yet it must in despight of it render him up as the Whale did Jonas which if he had light upon the Mariners would have devoured and disgested twenty of them in less space Vers 19. And all the high hills So high some of them that their tops are above the clouds and winds And yet as high as they were they could not save those from the flood that fled to them Surely might they say in vain is salvation hoped for from the mountains Isaiah 3.23 Well for them if taught by their present distress and danger they could go on with the Church there and say Surely in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel Happy storm that beats us into the Harbor Vers 21. And every man died Now these mockers behold that Ark with envy that er'st they beheld with scorn they wish themselves in the darkest corner of it that lately laughed at it and perhaps did what they could Veris●mile est non abstinuisse manus ab opere turbando Piscat to hinder the finishing of it Yea some likely to save them from drowning caught at and clang as fast to the outside of the Ark as Joab for the same cause did to the horns of the Altar But all in vain For Vers 22. All in whose nostrils was the breath of life died of all that was in the dry land This last clause exempteth fishes though the Jews would needs perswade us that these also died for that the waters of the flood were boyling hot But rain-water useth not to be hot we know and therefore we reject this conceit as a Jewish fable CHAP. VIII Vers 1. And God remembred Noah HE might begin to think that God had forgotten him having not heard from God for five months together Fuit in arca per annum integrum decem dies Piscator and not yet seeing how he could possibly escape He had been a whole year in the Arke and now was ready to groan out that dolefull Vsquequò Domine Hast thou forgotten to be mercifull c But forgetfulness befalls not the Almighty The Butler may forget Joseph and Joseph his fathers house Ahashuerosh may forget Mordecai and the delivered City Eccles 9.15 the poor man that by his wisdome preserved it The Sichemites may forget Gideon But God is not unfaithfull to forget your worke and labour of love saith the Apostle Heb. 6.10 And there is a book of remembrance written before him Mal. 3.16 saith the Prophet for them that feare the Lord. A metaphor from Kings that commonly keep a Callendar or Chronicle of such as have done them good service as Ahashuerosh and Tamerlain Esth 6.1 who had a catalogue of their names and good deserts which he daily perused oftentimes saying that day to be lost Turk hist p. 227. wherein he had not given them something God also is said to have such a book of remembrance Not that he hath so or needeth to have for all things both past and future are present with him he hath the Idaea of them within himself and every thought is before his eyes Psal 139.16 so that he cannot be forgetfull But he is said to remember his people so he is pleased to speak to our capacity when he sheweth his care of us and makes good his promise to us We also are said to be his remembrancers when we plead his promise Esa 62.6 and presse him to performance Not that we perswade him thereby to do us good but we perswade our own hearts to more faith love obedience c. whereby we become more capable of that good God made a wind So he worketh usually by means though he needeth them not But many times his works are as Luther speaketh in contrariis mediis As here he asswageth the waters by a wind which naturally lifteth up the waves thereof and inrageth them Psal 107.25 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jon. 1.4 God worketh by contraries saith Nazianzen that he may be the more admired Vers 2. And the raine from heaven was restrained These four keyes say the Rabbines God keeps under his own girdle 1. Of the Womb 2. Of the Grave 3. Of the Rain 4. Of the heart Revel 3. He openeth and no man shutteth he shutteth and no man openeth Vers 3. And the waters returned continually Or hastily Heb. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In going and returning or heaving and shooving with all possible speed to return to their place at ●ods appointment See a like cheerfulness in Gods servants Zach 8.21 Isai 60.8 Psal 110.3 Vers 4. Mountains of Ararat On the tops of the Gordaean Mountains where Noahs Ark rested we finde many ruines The Pre●●bers travels by Job Cartwright p. 32. Joseph Antiq lib. 1. cap. 5. and huge foundations saith the Preacher in his travels of which no reason can be rendered but that which Josephus gives That they that escaped the flood were so astonished and amazed that they durst not descend into the Plains and Low Countries but kept on the tops of those Mountains and there builded Vers 5. The waters decreased Not all on the sudden but by little and little Isa● 28.16 for exercise of Noahs faith He that beleeveth maketh not haste God limiteth our sufferings for time maner and measure Joseph was a prisoner till the time came Smyr●● was in tribulation for ten days Physick must have a time to work and Gold must lye some-while in the fire In the opportunity of time 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Pet. 5.6 saith Peter God will exalt you Prescribe not to him with those Bethulians in Judith but wait his leasure and let him do what is good in his own eyes He waits a fit season to shew us mercy Isai 30.18 and thinks as long of the time as we do Vers 7. And he sent forth a Raven Which when it is made tame though it delights in dead carcases whereof Noah knew the earth was now full yet doth not easily forget its station but returns thereto when nature is satisfied Which went forth to and fro Fluttered about the Ark but kept out of it Manet foris cum voce corvina qui non habet