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A09268	The period of the Persian monarchie VVherein sundry places of Ezra, Nehemiah and Daniel are cleered: extracted, contracted, and englished, much of it out of Doctor Raynolds, by the late learned and godly man William Pemble, of Magdalen Hall in Oxford. Published and enlarged since his death by his friend, Richard Capel.	Pemble, William, 1592?-1623.; Capel, Richard, 1586-1656.; Rainolds, John, 1549-1607.	1631 (1631)	STC 19582; ESTC S114347	63,361	88

our Darius succeeded Cyrus And by the tenor of this fourth Chapter we find that the building was letted the daies of Cyrus Assuerus Artaxerxes even untill the second yeare of this Darius therefore our Darius was not onely after Cyrus but after Assuerus and Artaxerxes also 2 Not Darius Hystaspis as Iosephus thought For Ezr. 4.6 7. there is mention of Assuerus and Artaxerxes who went betwixt Cyrus and our Darius But Darius Hystaspis was the immediate successor of Cambyses and Cambyses succeeded Cyrus his father therefore our Darius cannot be Darius Hystaspis For betwixt Cyrus and our Darius Ezra mentions two but betwixt Cyrus and Darius Hystaspis there was but only Cambyses As for the Magus he is not in accompt among the Kings of Persia eyther for that hee was a tyrant or else for that he stood but seven moneths 3 Therefore this our Darius was Darius Notbus the sonne of Axtaxerxes Longimanus named Ezra 4.7 the father of Artaxerxes Mnemon CHAP. VII HEre are sixe generations left out betwixt Merajoth and that Azariah who was the Priest as it is 1. Chron. 6. viz. Amariah Ahitub Zadok Ahimaaz Azariah Iothanan These were omitted here for brevitie sake because hast is made to shew onely that Ezra came from Aaron to honour Ezra and to give him the more authority And likely it is that those are passed over who were borne in the time of the Babylonian Captivitie and those set upon record here as though they had been the verie next whose memorie was fresh and most famous as being Priests about the time the Temple was ruinated Wee may say That he doth set downe by name the Catalogue of those his Ancestors only who flourished during the standing of the Temple And 't is a truth that Ezra was not the immediate but the mediate sonne of Serajah and so Ezra useth the word Son in a many of places CHAP. VIII THe question is Whether in case a man marry an Amorite now an infidell he be to put her away by vertue of this Law No by no meanes He must keepe her if shee will stay with him as Paul shewes 1. Cor. 7.12 And Peter inferres 1. Pet. 3.1 Where hee shewes that Christian wives must by their conuersation labour to winne their husbands that obey not the Word that is that are Heathens Therefore they are not bound to part a beleeving man from an unbeleeving wife a beleeving wife from an unbeleeving and infidell husband Wee must say then that this Law in Ezra was a part of Moses policy which did bind them then but not us now Next I say It did not bind them simply neither but in case such wives were not Proselytes but did remaine in their superstition For Salmon did marry Rahab a convert Canaanite and did well in it But these in Ezra did persist in their infidelity and superstition And if Pharaohs daughter were a Proselyte Solomon did not sin against that Law of Moses then much lesse was hee bound to put her away He is deceived who writes that Solomon did not ill in it not on this ground because she was a Proselyte but because shee was none of those seven cursed Nations named Deut. 4.7 This evasion is not currant For though those seven be only named yet other the like are meant And Ezra 9.1 the Egyptians are set downe by name and the Moabite Yet Boaz did his duty in marrying of Ruth the Moabitesse shee being now in faith and religion united to the people of God The summe is that it was a Law of Moses binding during the time of his policy That if an Israelite should marry an Infidell remaining an Infidell shee was to be put away and it seemes her children too which Law is not in force now Christians are not bound to it but doe sinne if they divorce such wives very Infidels that are willing to live with their Christian husbands CHAP. IX THis shewes that Nehemiah was the penner of this Booke And therefore it is a mistake in those who make Ezra to be the writer of this Booke of Nehemiah And this appeares further in that he speaketh often of himselfe in the first person I Nehemiah and not in the third person For though some that are makers of a Booke doe sometimes speake of themselves in the third person as Matthew and Iohn doe in their Gospels and Moses in his history Matthew said Iohn said Moses spake yet he that is not the author of a Booke never speaks of himselfe in that Booke in the first person as in this Booke often Nehemiah doth Neither is it any argument that Ezra wrote it because in the Hebrew editions it is called Ezra sith the Ebrewes did this to tell up the iust number of twenty foure Bookes of the old Testament Both the Bookes of Samuell stand under his name yet Samuell was not the writer of all but part was written by Samuell some by Nathan and some by Gad. The conclusion is cleare That we ought to confesse the sins of our fathers but first not to have a pardon for them when they are dead and gone 2 Nor that God pardons us their sins The soule onely that sinneth that shall dye No guilt necessarily passeth from the father to the sonne but that of Adam together with the sinne There is but one only Originall sinne The sonne is not guilty of the fathers sinne any further than he doth make it his owne sinne also by some consent either affirmative by doing or liking what his father hath done in point of sinne being glad of the broth wherein the abominable thing was sodden so subscribes to it by a tacite and interpretative consent Or 2 Negative when we doe not dissent A childe is bound to humble himselfe for his fathers sins upward as farre as ordinarily hee may come to the certaine knowledge of them which sometimes is to the third and fourth generation Now if he bee not humble and take them to heart there is a secret consent because he doth not by this act of humbling shew his dissent And had such a childe the occasions and tentations his forefathers had he would doe as they did And thus he sets his fathers sins on his score and makes them his owne According to that of Daniel to Belshazzar cap. 5. ver 22. And thou his son O Belshazzar hast not humbled thine heart though thou knewest all this viz. Nebuchadnezzars sinne and punishment In the Legall Covenant of workes the guilt together with the fault and corruption did convey it selfe to the Posterity Originall sinne descends by force of that Covenant And that Commination to visit the sins of the Fathers hath an eye to the Covenant of the Law But now in the Evangelicall Covenant of grace the sinne and the wrath of God goes no further than the very persons offending Only God doth sometimes make the fathers sinnes an occasion never a cause of punishing the