â—â—â—ctical and Polemical COMMENTARY OR EXPOSITION On the Whole Fifteenth Psalm Wherein the TEXT Is learnedly and fruitfully explained some CONTROVERSIES Discussed sundry CASES of CONSCIENCE are cleared more especially that 〈◊〉 USURâ—E Many common places succinctly handled and divers spiritual holy and seasonable Observations raised For the increase of Christian Knowledge and the better understanding of the holy Scripture the acceptations of the Original words are â—â—â—â—â—fully rendered By Christopher Cartwright late Minister of Saint Martins 〈◊〉 the City of York The Life 〈◊〉 the Reverend and Learned Author is 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 12.7 Their 〈…〉 of the Spirit is given to 〈…〉 Printed for 〈◊〉 at the Angel 〈…〉 To the Right honourable ROBERT HORNER Lord Major of the City of York And the Right VVorshipful the ALDERMEN Right Honourable Right Worshipful I Really blush to appear in a work of this Nature lest some put the gloss of Arrogancy upon my Endeavour but the Spunge wherewith I shall wipe off this Staine is by letting such know That I was obliged in duty to the Author a piece of which will be to perform what I know would have been his will even bequeath this his VVork to you upon whom he never thought his Labour ill bestowed Besides the Book being Motherless it pitied me it should be Fatherless too and therefore I thought it better to run the hazard of a harsh censure then that this poor Orphane should be exposed to the wide World without either Father or Mother to fawn upon it I should not have presumed to have troubled you with the Tuition of this Child but that I know you did Reverence and Respect the Authors Person and therefore I hope will smile upon this his VVork Besides as you are Magistrates you are Defenders of the Faith and therefore I hope will not refuse to defend this so agreeable to the Faith once delivered to the Saints I need not say any thing in the behalf of this Treatise though it be but young newly come into the World I doubt not but it's sufficient to speak for it self One Paradox Indeed I find in it The Author writes against Usury and none improved his Talent more then he yet no contradiction his Usury was not biting the improvement of this Talent was not to the detriment but advantage of others the Church of God I hope will be improved by that improvement he hath made And that your Honour and your Worships may reap some benefit to your Souls by this his Labour shall be the real Prayers of him Who wishes all happiness to you and your City JO. TYREMAN July 12. 1658. To the Christian READER READER I Being desired to give my Testimony concerning that Reverend Divine and my worthy Friend Mr. Christopher Cartwright and his learned Commentary on the fifteenth Psalm I was easily induced thereunto there being in his lifetime an intimate League of Friendship between us and he being one of rare Accomplishments Not long after my publishing of my first Book of the Divine Promises I had the happiness to be acquainted with him and he told me of a little mistake in one passage at the beginning thereof which was corrected in the second Edition I growing more and more familiar with him and perceiving his great Abilities made him ever after the * He was a Grammarian under Ptolomy of so exact a Judgement that no Verse was esteemed Homers but what he had allowed Aristarchus of my Labours and submitted them to his judicial perusal before I published them to the World Observing his great skill in the Hebrew Language I urged him to bend his Studies that way for the better elucidating of some part of the Old Testament He sending two of his Sermons up to London to me written with his own hand I caused them unknown to him to be printed and in the Epistle gave Notice of a worthy Work he had in hand on Genesis wherein the World should perceive his skill said I then for which he after blamed me in the Oriental Tongues though I should have said In the Hebrew Language and Rabbines †Of which work he himself thus wrote to me in a Letter as Scaliger to Drusius Certè expedit ut quae in libello hoc non vulgaria tractavi non ignorari For the New Testament which takes up almost half the Book it is incomparably above any thing in that kind Drusius seems to have applyed himself that way yet either saw not or had not leasure to peruse either Bereshith Rabba Midrash Tillim or Midrashin there is one long Chapter of Proverbs and Apophthegm's found in Jewish Writers which passage of mine hastned his Annotations on Genesis which with those on Exodus and also his * Mellificium Hebraicum when it comes forth in the Appendix of the Bibliotheca Criticorum abundantly shew his accurate Knowledge of the Hebrew Language and Writers And as I was his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 putting him on those Studies wherein his Excellencie lay so I by my interest in Mr. Selden and Bishop Usher procured him the use of some rare Hebrew Books very useful for the carrying on of his Designe and also bought of Manasseh Ben Israel three Hebrew Books for him very beneficial for his purpose As he was singularly expert in the Hebrew so he was very skilful both in the Latine and Greek He wrote an Elegant Latine stile and with ease as his Latine Epistles frequently written by him will Evidence For the Greek his Works in general shew his skill therein and there is yet a Divine Living in Staffordshire to whom he was used to write in Greek His English Books are all useful in their kinds For positive Divinity the two Sermons before mentioned his others unprinted and his double Exposition of the Apostles Creed shew his Ability therein the larger whereof would be more compleat if those Sermons he once sent up for the supplying of some things he had omitted were annexed thereunto For Polemical Divinity not onely his Rejoynder to the Marquess of Worcester but two other Autographs of his which I have seen shew his Knowledge therein For Expository Divinity this Learned and Laborious Work on the fifteenth Psalm shews him to be a good Interpreter of Scriptures wherein as Bishop Downham before him upon that very Psalm he discusseth accurately that great and most vexed Controversie of Usury and both removes the several shifts and pretences made for it and also shews the unlawfulness thereof by strong and evident Arguments One that reads his Writings or heard him Preach might easily see he was both copious and pertinent in Scripture-Quotations a Gift in which Mr. Arthur Hildersham that eminent Divine excelled It was very Commendable also in my Worthy Friend Mr. Cartwright his great Modesty I having sent him my Book of Religion and Learning wherein amongst others I gave him as there was reason a fair Character he after a while by accident meeting with it presently wrote me Word that he could
not but blush at the reading of it But the Writings of this precious Man are irrefragable Arguments of my own shall I say or Yorkshires Loss nay of the whole Kingdoms Loss in the Death of so Orthodox a Divine in such sad times But I will no longer detain thee from the perusal of this his last Work Reviewed and Corrected by himself Wishing thee much spiritual Benefit thereby and subscribing my self Thine EDWARD LEIGH To the READER READER THe name of the Reverend and Learned Authour prefixed to this Treatise with those other works of his published by himself in his life-time might save the Labour of any Epistle or Preface thereunto as being sufficient to recommend it unto the Church of God But because Editions of Books are lyable to prejudice and disadvantage in their entertainment it was judged not unnecessary that something of this nature should lead forth this Book into the world which service at the desire of a Friend I have readily undertaken that so I might express that true respect I always had unto the Author in bearing his Book after him And first let me assure thee That these ensuing Sermons on the fifteenth Psalm are the genuine issue of him whose name they bear being by himself prepared for the Press and wholly printed before his death And this those that knew him will believe for the very works sake which is a true resemblance of the Author learned and plain critical and practical There are indeed other Pictures of his for Books may be fitly so termed as his learned Annotations on Genesis and Exodus his Polemical Rejoynder to the Marquess of Worcester But this Piece as I conceive renders him more to the life then any of the rest for he lived this Treatise as well as wrote it In this Age wherein so many are offended it 's possible that some may stumble at the divine Zeal of the Authors matter and Method but let such consider that it was intended for a High-way to the heavenly Jerusalem the Holy Hill If any be weary of its plainness there are difficulties in the Margent to refresh him He that brings me good tydings let him with Ahimaaz Run the way of the plain I shall have them so much the sooner For my own part I look upon this work as a religiously-learned seasonable Call from disputes to duties from libertine wandrings to regular walkings and if there were no more in it then the producing and applying so much Scripture upon the account of Truth and Holiness it were sufficient to recommend it unto a right-spirited Christian who rejoyces in the word as one that findeth great spoyl But there is much more as thou wilt finde in the perusal to which with a blessing I leave thee and remain Thine EDWARD BOWLES York June 22. A brief and true account of the Authour and of his Work IN this Age of so many monstrous Editions of Books he that publisheth an Author ought to be a true friend to Piety faithful and honest to the memory of the Deceased more especially if as good men we consider how Popery and Heresie prophaness and carnal mindedness by many unworthy Obtruders on the Press have crept into the World for the Churches sake these spiritual Aides should be communicated but not against the Church so that it will appear To be excellent Wisdom in Christians that bear a true Zeal to Religion to consider how men have lived as well as how they have writ The learned Author of this ensuing Commentary was descended from honest and Religious Parents born in the Parish of Saint Michaels the Belfrank called Belfrers within the City of York he was baptized the first day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and two his Education was under painful Schoolmasters from whom being accomplisht for the University of Cambridge there he was fellow of Peter-house and took his Degrees and remained there about fifteen years behaving himself so regularly that he purchased honour and respect from the most learned men in his time and when that he was called to any publick exercise he commanded the Emulation if not the Admiration of all his Auditors After some removes as the transactions of our lives are various his preaching of the Word at Cambridge Staffordshire and York for the space of thirty years in the last of which places for his happy settlement it pleased the divine Providence to continue this fruitful Plant of the Lord Jesus a painful pastor in the Church of Saint Martins in the City of York where for many years he discharged his blessed employment from heaven with such Pious Integrity and learned Elocution that his death at this time is bewailed of all good men as the greatest loss that hath for many years befallen that County I must not forget what Doctor Collins spoke prophetically of him in respect of his early proficiency in the Oriental Tongues That if it pleased God to bless him with years he would be an incomparable Ornament to the Nation which hath been verified in his since printed Works his Exposition of the Creed his Electa Thargumica Rabbinica Annotations on Genesis as also on Exodus with other Works of his which at this time are extant both in Latine and English And that the true love he bore to learning and the honour of his Country might not to be forgotten he inlarged himself according to his ability for the publishing of the large Bible in the Languages lately printed It pleased God to bless him with life to finish this Commentary the Sheets whereof he constantly received from the Press and corrected them with his own hands When after ten weeks more violent sickness of a Consumption death seized him he was gathered to his Fathers at six and fifty the Climacterical year as he called it of his Age. He lies buried in the Church of St. Martins where he continued so long in his Ministry That learned and religious Servant of Jesus Christ Mr Edward Bowles preacht his funeral Sermon which was attentively heard and drew tears from most of the Auditors he gave an honourable account of the deceased he took his Text out of the second of Timothy the fourth Chapter the seventh and eighth verses I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord the righteous Judge shall give me at that day and not unto me onely but unto them also that love his appearing Amongst other admirable expressions in his Sermon he touched on three things which he desired himself and his Brethren might imitate him in his Sobriety his Industry and the plainness of his preaching for though he had read more Books then many of of us have heard of yet he did not crowd his Sermons so much with Quotations of Authors as not to prefer the blessed Scripture infinitely before them and further alluding to the words of
the Prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord for an example of suffering affliction and of patience Jam. 5.10 And vers 11. Ye have heard of the patience of Job viz. that so you should conforme your selves unto it But all this will not satisfie them of the Church of Rome How the Papists exceed in giving honour to the Saints departed but they will honour the Saints departed far more then thus 1. They attribute to some of them more holiness then the Scripture doth afford any ground or warrant for yea such as is inconsistent with the doctrine of the Scripture For they universally hold Concil Trid. sess 6. can 23. Concil Basil sess 36. Canus Loc. Theol. lib. 7. cap. 3. Bellar. de Amiss Grat. lib. 4. cap. 15. that the Virgin Mary was so holy as that she was free from all actual sin even the least even venial sin as they call it And the most of them hold that she was also without original sin But first for original sin the Scripture makes all generally guilty of it saying By one man viz. Adam sin entred into the world that is into all mankinde and by sin death and so death passed upon all for all that have sinned Rom. 5.12 Bernard saith that what David confessed of himself is true of all Quo scil Christo excepto de caeâ—â—ro universos respexit ex Adam natos quòd unus humiliter de sâ—ipso ac veraciter confitetur In iniquitatibus inquiens conceptus sum c. Bern. Epist 174. only Christ excepted I was shapen in iniquity and in sin hath my mother conceived me Psal 51.5 Bonaventure saith that the fathers generally except none but Christ as not being included in that sentence In Adam all have sinned And he addes more expressely Communiter sancti solum Christum excipiunt ab illâ generalitate quâ dicitur Omnes peccaverunt in Adam Et nullatenus ab hâc genâ—ralitate B. Virgo Maria excludenda ne dum matris excellentia ampliatur Filii gloria minuatur Bonav in Sent. lib. 3. dist 3. art 1. quaest 2. that the B. Virgin Mary is not to be excepted lest while the excellency of the mother is amplified the glory of the Son be diminished And for actual sin the Scripture sheweth that none whiles here upon earth except him only Who knew no sin yet was made sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in him 2 Cor. 5.21 is free from it There is not a just man upon earth that doth good and sinneth not Eccles 7.20 The best that live here must pray Forgive us our trespasses Matth. 6.12 The Blessed Virgin is no where exempted from this kinde of sin more then the other Theophylact thinkes that she shewed her infirmity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theophyl ad Mat. 12.46 vide plura and took too much upon her when Christ being yet talking to the people she sent to speak with him And that Christ to purge out that vaine-glorious humour that was in her said Who is my Mother 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Idem ibid. ad v. 48. c. c. Matt. 12.46 c. So upon Mark 3.31 c. where the same story is related he saith that she seemes to have been possessed with vain-glory 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theophyl ad Mar. 3.3 and so would have the multitude to see that him whom they so admired she could draw away while he was teaching Though I see no sufficient ground whereupon to charge the B. Virgin as Theophylact doth yet however thus much all from hence may see that Theophylact who was above 1000. years after Christ made no question but that the Virgin May was subject even to actual sin as well as others 2. They feign miracles of the Saints to make them as they suppose the more glorious They say that the house wherein the Virgin Mary was when the angel Gabriel came unto her was many hundred years after translated first out of Galilee into Dalmatia above 2000 miles and thence over the sea into Italie Tursellin de aede Lauretana where also it removed from one place to another till at length it found a place where to abide and many most miraculous cures they say were wrought by it and that the very trees when it came did bow unto it Infinite stories they have of this nature especially in the Legend of Saints which they call The golden Legend a book so full of such grosse stuffe that Ludovicus Vives a Papist Quà m indigna est divis hominibus Christianis illa Sanctorum historia quae Legenda aurea nominatur quam nescio cur auream appellent quum scripta sit ab homine ferrei oris plumbei cordis Quid faedius dici potest illo libro Lud. Vives de Caus corrup art lib. 2. but learned and ingenuous with great indignation cryed out What can be more abominable then that book And he wondred why they should call it Golden when as he that wrote it was a man of an iron mouth and of a leaden heart And Melchior Canus a Romish Bishop passeth the same censure upon that book Melch. Can. Loc. Theol. lib. 11. cap. 6. and complains as Vives also had done before him that Laertius wrote the lives of Philosophers and Suetonius the lives of the Cesars more sincerely then some did the lives of the Saints and Martyrs 3. They are most vain and superstitious in the honour which they give to the Reliques of the Saints as their dead bodies or some parts of them their bones flesh haire yea their clothes that they wore or the like You may now every where saith Erasmus see held out for gain Maries milk Videas bodiè passim ad quaestum ostentari lac Mariae quod honore propemodum aequam Corpori Christi consecrato prodigiosum oleum fragmento crucis tam multa ut si in acervum redigantur vix una navis oneraria vebat hic ostentari Francisci cucullum illic intimam vestem Mariae Virginis alibi pectinem Annae alibi caligam Joseph alibi calceum Thomae Caâ—tuariensis alibi Christi praeputium quod cum sit res incerta religiosiùs adorant quà m totum Christum Neque verò haec ita proferunt tanquam toleranda plebeculae donanda affectibus verùm huc ferè summa religionis vocatur Eras in Matth. 23.5 which they honour almost as much as Christs consecrated body prodigious oile so many peeces of the Crosse that if they were all gathered together a great ship would scarce carry them Here Francis his hood set forth to view there the innermost garment of the Virgin Mary in one place Anna's combe in another place Josephs stocking in another place Thomas of Canterburie his shoe in another place Christs foreskin which though it be a thing uncertaine they worship more religiously then Christs whole person Neither do they bring forth these things as things that may be
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The so long expected work the New World of English words or a general Dictionary containing the Terms Etymologies Definitions and perfect Interpretations of the proper significations of hard English words throughout the Arts and Sciences liberal or Mechanick as also other subjects that are useful or appertain to the language of our Nation to which is added the signification of proper names Mythology and Poetical fictions Historical relations Geographical Descriptions of the Countries and Cities of the World especially of these three Nations wherein their chiefest Antiquities Battles and other most memorable passages are mentioned A work very necessary for strangers as well as our own Country-men for all persons that would rightly understand what they discourse write or read Collected and published by E.P. For the greater honour of those learned Gentlemen and Artists that have been assistant in the most Practical Sciences their names are prefixed before the book 18. The so much desired and deeply learned Commentary on Psalm the fifteenth by that Reverend and Eminent Divine Mr. Christopher Cartwright Minister of the Gospel in York to which is prefixed a brief account of the Authours life and of his work by R. Bolton 19. The way to bliss in three books being a learned Treatise of the Philosophers stone made publick by Elias Ashmole Esquire 20. Wit restored in several Select Poems not formerly publisht by Sr. Iohn Mennis Mr. Smith and others 21. The Judges charge delivered in a Sermon before Mr. Iustice Hale and Mr. Sergeant Crook Judges of the Assize at St. May Overies in Southwark by R. Parre M.A. Pastor of Camerwell in the County of Surry a Sermon worthy of the perusal of all such persons as endeavour to be honest and just Practitioners in the Law 23. The modern Assurancer the Clerks Directory containing the practick part of the Law in the exact Forms and Draughts of all manner of Presidents for Bargains and Sales Grants Feoffements Bonds Bills Condititions Covenants Jointures Indentures to lead the use of Fines and Recoveries with good Provisoes and Covenants to seized Charter parties for Ships Leases Releases Surrenders c. And all other Instruments and Assurances now in use intended for all young Students and Practicers of the Law by Iohn Herne 24. Moors Arithmetick the second Edition much refined and diligently cleared from the former mistakes of the Press A work containing the whole Art of Arithmâ—tick as well in Numbers as Species Together with many Additions by the Authour to come forth at Michaelmas Term. Likewise 25. Exercitatio Elleiptica Nova or a new Mathematical Contemplation on the Oval figure called an Elleipsis together with the two first book of Mydorgius his Conicks Analized and made so plain that the Doctrine of Conical Sections may 〈…〉 understood a work much desired and never before publisht in the English tongue by Jonas Moor Survey or General of the great Level of the Fennes 26. Naps upon Parnassus A sleepy Muse Nipt and Pincht though not awakened such voluntary and Jovial Copies of Verses as were Lately received from some of the Wits of the Universities in a frolick dedicated to Gondiberts Mistress by Capt. Jones and others whereunto is added for demonstration of the Authours Prosaick Excellencies his Epistle to one of the Universities with the Answer together with two Satyrical Characters of his own of a Temporizer and an Antiquary with Marginal Notes by a friend to the Reader Printed by express order form the Wits 27. America Painted to the Life a true History of the Original undertakings of the advancement of Plantations into those parts with a perfect relation of our English Discoveries shewing their Beginning Progess and Continuance from the year 1628 to 1658 declaring the forms of their Government Policies Religions Manners Custumes Military Discipline Wars with the Indians the Commodities of their Countries a description of their Towns and Havens the increase of their trading with the names of their Governors and Magistrates by Ferdinando Gorges Knight For the Readers 〈◊〉 understanding of the Countries they are Lively described in a compleat and exquisite Map 28. The Joyes of Heaven the Saints support in Gods promises on earth Christs Sermons on the Beatitudes An exposition of the fifth Chapter of St. Matthew delivered in several Sermons by Mr. Jeremiah Burroughs the last Sermons he preacht a little before his death at St. Giles Cripple-gate London FINIS