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A14282	Ten introductions how to read, and in reading, how to vnderstand; and in vnderstanding, how to beare in mind all the bookes, chapters, and verses, contained in the holie Bible. With an answer for lawyers. Physitions. Ministers.	Vaughan, Edward, preacher at St. Mary Woolnoth.	1594 (1594)	STC 24599; ESTC S119031	61,414	222

like els where The seuenth Introduction THe sixteene Prophets and the Reuelation comprehendeth great and notable things past present and to come in reading whereof marke well these that follow called Propheticall 1 Vnder what king in Israel or in Iudah any such prophet did liue one or more good or euil 2 What were the manners of the people and their religion vnder such and such a king compare it with the doctrine of that Prophet 3 Whether such a prophesie were before the captiuitie or after 4 Whether it were before the incarnation of Christ or after Compare the books of the kings with the obseruation or the former inuētion with the books of the prophets and you shall thereby make plaine the one by the other for you shall find that the prophets did apply their doctrine according to their manners where they had to doe The first and second of Chro. will serue verie well for the interpretation of the prophets because it doth enlarge many things spoken in the books of Samuell and Kings The eight Introduction THus I haue aduisedly considered and briefly disposed few principall places how you shall after another sort make interpretation of holy scripture particularly by applying or comparing the old Testament with the new or the new with the old you must be very perfect in them and then make diligent examination which of them shall happen to be in any one place that you haue to vse for the time Consider whether the scripture that you haue in hand be set foorth by Commaundement Promise Ceremonie Type or figure Prophesie Similitude Example Phrase Contradiction Parrable Miracle Allegorie Sacrifice Sacrament Least you should misse by taking one for another I haue verie briefly composed and laid you downe their plaine definition with examples Commaundement Is an imposition a charging willing or requiring of a man frō his owne wil seeme it neuer so good to the accomplishment and doing of another mans wil. And the Lord commanded the man saying Gen. 2 16. Thou shalt eat freely but of the tree of knowledge of good and euill thou shalt not eat 17. Promise Is to assume to vndertake to couenant to indent bargaine and agree is all one thing and to one sence If thou wilt obay diligently the voice of the Lord then the Lord wil set thee on high aboue all nations and these blessings shall fall on thee Deut. 28 1.2.3.4 Blessed in the citie and blessed in the field c. Ceremonie Is an order a constitution disposition rite an element or tradition It is an outward representing vnder a materiall and earthly thing an infallible matter tending to religion and the seruice of God vrged and commaunded by the greatest of power as time place or person doth require hauing an end as Circumcision Being the outward cutting of the foreskin of the flesh representeth the mortification of carnall and earthly affections and lusts and the quickning of the spirit This had an end by Baptisme which is also a ceremonie and hath an end at the second comming of Christ Gen. 7 10.11 Tipe or figure Is that which can be referred neither to religion to manners nor to truth If it command any wicked thing or doe forbid any good thing then it is a type or a figure When it may be taken two manner of waies one way to good Gen. 9 26 14 8. Haeb. 7 1. to 15. Gen. 12 1. to 18.22 to 19. 2. Cor. 12 4. and another way to euill then is it a type or figure Sem or Melchisedech was a perfect figure or type of Christ Iesus both concerning his kingdome and priesthood Prophesie Is a diuining foretelling an interpreting an exorting or aedifying Exod. 7 1.2 1. Cor. 14.3.4 1. Thess 5 20. Eze. 13 1.39 1.2 Sonne of man prophesie against the prophets of Israel and say vnto them that prophesie out of their owne hearts thus saith the Lord. Similitude Is that which beares a resemblance proportion fashion likenesse shew distinction or more plaine manifestation of another matter A similitude is not the same in euerie particular as that which was likened vnto it but it is sufficient if it be like in one Similitudes are neuer set out to confirme or confute but to adorne or to make a matter more plain and it is euermore inferiour to the matter in hand as for example Psal 144. Man is like a thing of nought things of nought worth are still throwne out cast away not sit for any good purpose therefore to be cast out reiected and troden vnder feet so is man as a thing of nought My beloued is like a Roe or a yoong Hart. Cant. 2 9. Here you must consider the qualitie of a Roe or a yoong Hart then you shall see what the beloued of Christ is Like the lillie among the thornes Cant. 2 2. Luk. 13.19.21 Math. 20 1.2 so is my loue among the children of men Like the graine of mustard seed to leuen to vineyard so is the church Marke well the particulars or the sundrie propertie qualitie condition or effect of euerie similitude then apply it to this or that thing or to that matter and you shall be greatly delighted and enlightned Example Is a matter like in effect though not in substance It is the confirmation of another matter whē it hath the selfe same sence although not the selfe same wordes It is well said to be a fit example when a like matter being generall doth proue a particular An example is a matter done and extant in print and in writing Ensample Is that which we see with our eyes daily in the worke of God or conuersations of men which is not printed or written It is an ensample when we ourselues can witnesse the seeing of it and the performing of it An Example is that which hath an end or purpose either to exhort or to dehort from some thing and so is an Ensample The drowning of Pharao in the sea was an example of Gods iustice against obstinate sinners Exo. 14.21 persecuting the godly and resisting the will of God The falling of the tower of Siloh was an example that others should take heed Luke 13 4. The destruction of the cities of Sodome and Gomorrah Gen. 19 23. was an example that we should not delight in sinne Phrases The holy Ghost for our better capacitie and vnderstanding vseth to speake and to deliuer great and waightie matters after a phrase or common speech vsed in the world among ordinary men as thus Nathan said to Saule 1. Sam. 15. The Lord hath cast thee away meaning thereby as men doe cast away things of nought things good for nothing so God hath reiected and cast him off he hath giuen him ouer as a thing nought worth Men say of base and simple things We will cast it away Let not sinne raigne in your mortall bodies meaning by kings gouernement Rom. 6 12. that sinne should not gouerne nor haue dominiō

the third are no people the first that sit vpon the mountains of Samaria the second the Philistins that dwell in Sichimis They that sit vpon the mountaines of Samatia repose themselues vpon the authoritie of Rome the Philistins represent the Turke Sarazens and other miscreants These are the sons of men said Dauid These are the generation of vipers said Iohn Baptist These are the children of darkenesse said S. Paule and these are they say all men that labor to ouer-run our countries to ouerthrow our churches to burne our houses to bereaue vs of our liues and to depriue vs of our queene and both hir and vs of the Gospell They conspire against God like Hipocrites against our quiet queen like traitors against our common weale like spoilers My good countriemen and kinsmen if you will adhibite any credite to my councell if you haue any comfort in the mercifulnesse of God and if you haue any bowels of Christian affection to your posteritie then now at the last get you Bibles leaue off your beads place learned preachers displace Ieroboams Priests walke in the light of the gospell extinguish the light of Tapers and Torches the one brings you the high way to heauen the other the ready way to hell As Ioab tooke hold on the horns of the Alter for the safegard of his life so now take you hold on Iesus Christ for the safegard of your liues All kind of creatures are in an vnitie praising God they call you to ioyne and to vnite your selues with vs in one religion Strange sights haue bin seen in the element and in the earth calling you to repentance fire hath come downe from heauen fishes haue throwne thēselues to land and beasts haue brought foorth vntimely monsters calling you to repentance the earth hath quaked vnder our feete and our houses haue shaken ouer our heads calling you to repentance O ioyne then with vs we wil now ioyne with you let vs goe togither into the house of God hād in hand heart in heart let vs sing one song as with one voice to the praise of our one only God Thus I haue boldly briefly admonished you in the Lord and that you may the better cōtemplate to your cōfort I haue here as you see comprised and composed my two former labors into one with some substraction and with some such addition as may best further you to the speech of his diuine maiesty in your owne person when occasion shal be offered for your selues for your houshold One quarter of a years pains as I haue pointed will bring you 40 years profit in earth and at the expiration thereof aeternall pleasure in heauen And when you haue obtained my promise I desire but your praiers and your meditations to God for me for the posteritie of the religious and magnanimious gentleman Sir William Herberd knight who for his owne part hath runne his race in the faith of Iesus Christ and finished his course according to conscience towards you as may appeare whose body is a sleepe in the Lord and whose soule is in ioy with Iesus Christ There are three sorts of professors that doe suffer great indignitie at the hands and from the hearts of many picke-thanke Parasites stily Sicophants too too hard yea heathenish or rather hellish censures are giuen in and granted out against them I know their obiections vpon long experience and I know that vpon small skill and little reading their turnesicke spirite of giddinesse may easily be quailed although through ignorance and wilfull stubbernnesse they will neuer be answered Good Christian countriemen and courteous Readers I am loath to offend you with tediousnesse about these matters hauing a great shew of indeuour and purpose to draw you to other matters of greater importance I haue therfore thought good and more conuenient to speake of them in the latter end of this booke The first doth partlie concerne this worshipfull gentleman to whom I write for protection The second doth concerne partly mine owne bodily health and the third doth concerne the earthly prosperity and the heauenly faelicity of all the elect and therefore I may not passe it neither may you in any case omit the learning of it that with him and me and with the rest of Gods inheritance you may be readie to defend it And thus for this time I humbly take my leaue and with such conueniencie as I may do now betake my selfe in the feare of God to the matter From Leonard Shordich and county of Middlesex nere London Yours if you be the Lords Edw Vaughan A briefe recitall of the generall heads or places of inuention contained in this booke 1 Away to know or to fetch readilie and roundly al the books in the booke of God either backward or forward in the old and new Testament 2 The Author the originall the occasion and the chiefe matter of euerie such booke 3 The books called Apocrypha how farre they are to be receiued and their imperfectiō when where and by whom found out among themselues 4 The principall stories chaining the whole scripture dispersed here and there in the old and new where euerie such storie doth begin and where it ends with a recitall of the principall matters therin 5 Sir William Herberts account vpon the tenth story of the age and time from the birth of Christ vnto the worlds end 6 Certaine principall obseruations or speciall matter to be marked for the reading and vnderstanding of all such books as are called Laegall 7 Certaine principall obseruations or speciall matter to be marked for the reading and vnderstanding of all such books as are called Sapientall 8 Certaine principall obseruations or speciall matter to be marked for the reading and vnderstanding of all such books as are called Propheticall 9 Other fourteene places and most direct rules how to read and vnderstand euery booke chapter and verse 10 Other foure and forty sure titles or matter supporting or agreeing with all the scriptures to be digested or framed into common places 11 The right vse of positiue Laws 12 The necessitie of Phisicke 13 The excellencie of the Ministerie 1 Introduction LEarne perfectly all the names of the Canonicall bookes as they are in order from Genesis to the Reuelation You must be able readily to render an account what booke is next before or next after any such booke taken in hand Then returne back and learne how many chapters is in euerie booke 2 Introduction NOw you must go ouer these books old and new by some proportion dayly either morning or euening after this maner wherein you shall see many profitable notes and especially the argument or summe of euerie booke it will pleasure you greatly by the report and iudgement of all antient authours The Argument of Genesis THis booke is called of the Hebrues Verescith that is to say Beginning Generation or Creation giuing vs to vnderstand that it containes the creation of all things Moses the son of Amram