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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	judge_n	king_n	ruth_n	1,639	5	10.6479	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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