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A68150	A briefe discourse of the scriptures Declaring the seuerall stories, liues, and deaths, of the fathers, from the Creation of Adam, vnto the death of Ioseph: very necessarie to be read and practised, for easie vnderstanding of the Scriptures in a short time.	Hayne, Thomas, 1582-1645, attributed name. aut	1614 (1614)	STC 12975; ESTC S115174	75,069	130

or middlemost but in Gods free election standeth our eternall happines Three Angels appeared to Abraham in his Tent. Three foures of precious Stones were set in Aarons brest Three thinges reserued in the Arke The Booke of the Law The Potte of Manna Aarons Rodde that did alwayes florish Three taken vp in the Old Testament and three in the New Three partes was Ierusalem deuided into Three Letters the roote of euery word in the Hebrew tongue Three Captiuities of the Iewes Three times was the Temple grosly polluted by the Babylonians Antiochi Romanes Three times a yeare were the Iewes bound to come to Ierusalem to giue accompt of their Religion Three dayes nightes was Ionas in the Whales belly Three nightes and dayes was Christ in the Graue Three Iohns viz. Iohn Baptist Luke 1.60 Iohn Euangelist Mat. 4.21 Iohn Marke Act. 12.25 Job saued three Eliphaz Sophar Bildad Daniel saued three Ananias Azarias Mishael Noah saued three Sem. Cham. Japhet In the third seauenth Iubilee the Iewes fell away and then Ieremie said O Earth heare the worde of the Lord c. The Title ouer Christ on the Crosse was written in Three tongues Hebrew Greeke Latin Although it may not bee vrged that all these Threes haue full relation to the Trinitie seeing they fall not out by chaunce yet wee are not to despise the pleasant harmonie and comfortable vse of them but to thinke that the wisedome of God hath contriued saluation into such a sweet Art that verie children may learne the same and therefore the Scripture is called verie fitly a shallow water and a deepe fountaine shallow that the Lambe may wade and deepe that the Elephant may swimme FOVRE Foure Is a square number and vsuall Heber the fourth after the Flood Iuda the fourth sonne of Iacob Foure square signifieth true Religion Moses fourth sonne in the fourth age was Sacrificer to the Tribe of Dan. Foure times seuen Iubilees the time of Christes death Foure The forme of the heauenly Ierusalem FIVE Fiue the letters of Iehouah The fiue Vowels the sinewes of all Tongues Christ seedeth 5000. with Fiue Loaues SIXE Sixe The day of Adams creation which number is often times vsed in the Scripture to put vs in minde of the Creation Sixe hundred thousand fighting men came out of Egipt Sixe hundred yeares old was Noah at the flood Sixe times seuen Standinges had the Children of Israel in the Wildernes Sixe yeares was the land of Canaan in conquering Sixe Cities of refuge for one that killed a man by chance and not of malice had the Iewes to flie vnto Sixe times did the Children of Israel fall before Diuids time in the time of the Iudges SEVEN Seuen the number of the Sabaoth which number of Seuen as it is famous for the Creation so God comtinueth the same proportion throughout the Bible to the Redemption For as God the Father made the World in sixe dayes and rested the seuenth so God the Sonne hauing performed his Fathers will resteth the seuenth day in the Graue Seuen is a yeare of Grace Seuen Planets in the Firmament which Plato compareth to the number of seuen Starres in Apo. 1.16 Seuen yeares was the land of Canaan plagued for that Ioseph the beloued of the Lord should haue been slaine by his Brethren Seuen Stones in the Temple Gods seuenfold Wisedome or Prouidence in all his actions Seuen eyes to looke vpon the Building of euery Stone in in the Temple of Ierusalem Seuen yeares the land of Canaan was setling in rest Seuen yeares the Temple was in building Seuen yeares Nebuchadnetzar was a Beast for destroying the Temple Seuen Gates in the Temple before you come to the Holy of Holiest Seuen Branches did the Candlesticke in the Temple stand vpon which had 24. Knobbes signifying the sixe dayes worke the seuenth day of rest in the Creation Seuen Moneths was the Tabernacle in building Seuen Iubilees was the Arke in the house of Ioseph Seuen Trumpeters is a great number that doe alwayes sound Gods prayse Henoch the seuenth from Adam Heber the seuenth from Henoch Isaach the seuenth from Heber Moses the seuenth from Abraham Iosua the seuenth from Ephraim Elias taken vp in the seuenth age from Samuel Ioram the seuenth from Dauid Salomons Temple was consecrated in the seuenth moneth answerable to the birth of the Fathers The ceremonie of the Feast of Tabernacles continued seuen dayes After the comming from Egipt it was seuen times seuen dayes before the Law was giuen Seuen times seuen dayes after Christes resurrection descended the holy Ghost The stories of the Scriptures goe by seuens from Moses till Christs death thus Seuen yeares the land of Canaan was in conquering Seuen fifties for the glorie of Iosephs house Seuen seuenties for the house of Iudah Seuen tennes for the Captiuity From the Captiuitie to the death of Christ seuen seuenties Moses Ceremonies for the most part were in the seuenth Moneth The Manna that was gathered on the sixt day serued for the seuenth The seuenth yeare the Iewes might not plough sow nor reape In the end of the seuen seuens was the yeare of Iubilee In the seuenth seuen from Cyrus the Walles of Ierusalem were built Seuen times 7000. of the Iewes came from Captiuitie Ioakim endeth the seuenth seuentie with affliction Seuen yeares plenty seuen yeares dearth in the land of Egipt figured by seuen eares of Corne seuen Kyne Noah liued seuen Iubilees after the flood Seuen thousand in the booke of Kings mencioned that neuer bowed their knees vnto Ball. Kaines house cut off in the seuenth age How often shall I forgiue my Brother till seuen times I say vntill seuen times seuentie times alluding vnto Daniels seuens EIGHT Eight The number of the persons saued in the Arke Eight The day of circumcision TEN Tenne Is a full number and the highest or last of simple numbers All Nations after the number of 10. begin againe for plaine teaching and plainnesse in reckoning Ten is the yeare of Iudgement or accompt You haue Ten words for the creation of the World And Ten wordes for the gouernment of the world The Tenth is a holy number as in Tythes which is giuen to vs to acknowledge our dueties In the Tenth moneth the Waters of the Flood abated Sem liued to see the Tenth age a great blessing Tenne Plagues were the Egyptians plagued with for afflicting Sems house Tenne Spies in the Wildernesse misbeleeued Tenne Tribes fell away at Roboams time Daniels Beast hath Tenne Hornes which doe represent Ten cruell Kinges The Beast in the Reuelation hath Tenne Hornes The Pope hath Tenne stately Kingdomes to assist him Noah is the Tenth from Adam Abraham the tenth from Noah TWELVE Twelue Signes in the Zodiacke Twelue Moneths in the yeare Twelue Fathers from the Flood to Iacob Twelue Sonnes of Iacob Twelue Fountaines in the Wildernesse Twelue Stones in Iordan Twelue Stones in Aarons brest Salomon had Twelue Stewards and Dauid Twelue valiant Captaines Salomon at Twelue yeares of age discided the

if we doe but crosse the account laide downe by the Heathen we do obscure the euidence of the Scriptures Thus much for the answere of this obiection Arphaxad borne when his father Sem was 100. yeares old Noah 602. and Iaphet 102. HIs name signifieth Healíng Some hold that the Caldeans come from him CHRIST healeth all our infirmities Shelah borne Arphaxad being 35. yeares old HIs name signifieth a Branch or Twigge Hee was the Eather of the Shelanites Heber borne Shelah being 30. yeares old HEber a representer of the Sonne of God who beginning to be thirtie yeares old buildeth vp the decayed walles of the Gentiles Thirtie yeares after the promise giuen to Abram was it before his seede began to be afflicted Ioseph being thirtie yeares old expoundeth Pharaohs Dreame Heber signifieth Pilgrime or Stranger So his faythfull seede confessed themselues to be Saith Abraham I am a Stranger and Pilgrime Giue mee a place for money to burie my dead So saith Saint Peter repeating the same Storie I beseech you as Pilgrimes and Strangers to abstaine from fleshy lustes which fight against the soule And Christ the chiefest of Heber said The Foxes haue holes and the Birdes of the ayre haue nestes but the Sonne of man hath not whereon to lay his head Hebers posteritie went as strangers flitting from Land to Land Looking for a Citie whereof GOD was the builder Heb. 11.10 This Heber is from the Creation the fourteenth two seuens a double Henoch He is the fourth after the flood as Iudah is the fourth sonne of Iacob of whom Christ came He is the seuenth from Henoch a man for rare blessinges to be compared with Henoch and is the same in force that Henoch is although you would thinke them cleane contrary and so they are in signification but in effect of diuinitie all one For Henoch signifieth Dedicated to God and Heber Pilgrime or Stranger and hee that is a stranger vpon earth despising the state of worldly pompe is a Citizen with God therefore whosoeuer will be a true Henoch must also be a true Heber And if we will be holy before God acceptable vessels for the vse of his Temple wee must beare Palme boughes in our handes that is sing Hosanna to the highest and be estranged from the vaine conuersation of this earthly Paradise so shall our names continue famous through many Generations as Hebers did and we shall speake the prayses of God in our owne tongues for wee will not consent with Nimrod to the building of our owne Confusion whereby wee might be shaken off from the fauour of God as hee and his adherents were Hebers glory is further enlarged in that the Hebrew tongue taketh the name from him The Iewes kept this sinceerely till they went into Captiuitie into Babylon but when they came from thence they began to stammer for they learned the tongue of the Babylonians Malachy endeth the old Testament the Hebrew tongue for though Schollers write Hebrew yet vpon the first sight it is apparant to be the writing of man so farre it differeth from the stile of the holy Spirit There be one thousand seauen hundred fifty and eight rootes in the Hebrew tongue And this is a wonderfull thing that the bare actions of the Creatures should expresse Hebrew wordet as a horse runninig vpon a cawsey the sound of his feete is much expressing this noyse Ratsat which in Hebrew is to run the noise which birds make by clapping their wings when they flie is of this sound Goth which in Hebrew signifieth a Fowle The Grecians cannot find out the roots of their tongue The Lord tooke such order in penning of the old Testament that one skilfull in the Hebrew tongue will easily know if there be a sentence or a word put in nay if there be but a letter added so that they are very vnwise that perswade others or beleeue themselues that the bookes of Iudith and Tobie are Canonicall scriptures for they are not Hebrew neither were they receiued at any time by the auncient Hebrewes who where so perfect and ready in the text of the old Testament that they could tell how many times the letter Aleph was vsed in the Byble so that to beleeue these bookes to bee Scriptures is to crosse the testimony of the Iewes for their owne story and if they knew our opinions herein they would condemne vs for missing of Religion This Heber was a varie happie man and his happinesse made manifest in that none that liued after him came to his daies for he being a Prophet knew how heauy the curse of God would be vpon the sonnes of men for building the tower of Babel therefore hee nameth his sonne Peleg Diuided The Hebrew name is halfe the abridgment of the story as it falleth out for the most part He had also great cause of sorrow and heauinesse in that thirteene families of Ioctaines sonnes to whom Heber was Graundfather went quite away and were farre from Ierusalem and being out of the fauour of God were bereaued of saluation so that Chams house might seeme to haue greater blessinges for they dwelt neere to Ierusalem and Iacobs sonnes in Egypt married with Chams daughters Iacobs sonnes called themselues Hebrewes because the storie of Heber is the most famous of all the Fathers Peleg borne Heber being 34. yeares old HIs name signifieth Diuision In his dayes the tongues of those that built the Tower of Babel were confounded In the consideration of which storie Time Place Persons are to be vnderstood Time at or a litle before Pelegs birth Place a Plaine in the land of Shinear Persons 70. of Sem. 27. Iaphet 14. Cham. 29. These 70. spake one language the tongue of Heber and going from the East they found a plaine in the land of Shinear where they abode and made bricke in stead of stone and slime in stead of morter and ioyning with Nimrod sayd Let vs make vs a Sem that is a name euen in despight of the blessing of Noah bestowed vpon Sem. But God scattered them from that place into the vpper face of all the earth and they left off to build the Citie therefore the name of it is called Ba-bell that is Come confusion because there the Lord confounded the language of all the earth Babell is Babling both in Hebrew and in English 1 This halfe sheweth that as the dayes of men at the 2 Flood were cut off halfe in halfe so likewise at the confusion of Tongues for none after Peleg commeth to halfe Hebers yeares As at the confusion of tongues there was great falling out about words because one could not vnderstand another so hitherto all the world is at variance for the vnderstanding of words And as the builders of Babell fell to Babling so the despisers of diuinity shall fall to Babling Therefore it were to be wished that euery man in the world vnderstood the Hebrew tongue All nations in the earth are compelled to take notice of this

for so long was hee in making it not because hee could not haue made it sooner for God could haue commanded it to be made with a word as well as he made all the world but to shew the patience and long suffring of God in sparing his iudgementes that they who would not heare the preaching of Noah might iustly be condemned Many thinges fall out in the Bible whose number are answerable to this of 120. yeares 120. Nations payde tribute to bring the Iewes home from Captiuitie The gouernment of the Persians was about 120. yeares 120. Seuerall Nations that is some of euery Nation were at Ierusalem after Christes Resurrection The Hebrewes descant very strangely with the letters of Iehouah and the 120. yeares wherein the Arke was in making thus Multiply 120. by the letter which is 5. then you haue 600. which is Noahs age at the Flood with the letter which is 10. then you haue 6000. The end of the world This is the consent of all the Hebrewes Heere is a doubt to be discussed concerning the wordes spoken in Gen. 6. The occasion of the doubt ariseth thus God sayth in Gen. 6.3 My spirit shall not alwayes striue with man his dayes shall be an hundred and twentie yeares In Gen. 5.32 Noahs age is reckoned and hee is then said to be Fiue hundred yeares old and begetteth Shem Cham and Iapheth When his age is reckoned againe at the Flood the summe is but Sixe hundreth yeares So that if the sixt Chapter be in time after the fifth and in the fifth Noah is 500. yeares old and that afterwards God saith The daies of all flesh shal be an hundreth tweentie yeares then Noah at the flood must be 620. yeares for put 120. to 500 and you haue 620. but his age at the Flood is but 600. Therfore some thinke that either the Chronicle is false or else the 20. yeares were shortened like as it was in Ierusalems straytes least no flesh should be saued To answere this doubt we must obserue that it is no reason in diuinitie that because a matter commeth or is made mention of in a Chapter afterwards that the time therefore of that storie or action followeth the Chapters or actions going before for this is but a circumstance of methode For Moses in penning the Scriptures vsed this order He layeth downe things of like nature together as Genealogies together such like though they differ in time because else he should make often repetion of the same thinges The obseruation of this caused the Hebrewes to set downe this Rule that Moses in penning his Storie doth not regard the circumstance of first latter To weete hee doth not set downe that in the first place which is first in time and so that which is latter in time afterwardes but sometimes that which is latter in the first place and that which is first in time in the last as the necessitie of the narration giueth occasion This being thus made plaine the doubt is easily discussed for neither is Noah 620. yeares old at the Flood neither are the yeares of the Flood any thing shortned but the Chronicle is altogeather true For if we referre the 120. yeares of the Flood 20. yeares before that Chapter in which it was sayd Noah was 500. yeares old and begot Sem Cham and Iaphet then doe we make all thinges agree without crossing one another and this of necessitie wee must needes doe For seeing God hath layde downe the generals in proper and plaine termes we must so cast the particulars that they may make the generall true and no way alter it Besides we haue a like example for although all the liues and deathes of the Fathers before the Flood are reckoned and summed vp togeather in one Chapter wee must not thinke that all their liues are precedent to the Chapters following For the Chronicles sheweth that Lamech liued 5. yeares before the Flood and Methushelahs death and the beginning of the Flood are very neare Euen so heere this sentence of the 120. yeares is to be counted before the fifth Chapter wherein Noahs age is reckoned and for the shortning of the dayes in Ierusalems besiedging the holy Ghost sayth it shall be so but for the shortning of the dayes at the Flood we haue no such warrant in Moses Therefore we are not to beleeue it Cxx. yeares begin Gen. 6. In which the spirit of Christ preached while the Arke was in making VPon this sentence there dependeth a great question whether Christ descended into Hell in his humane soule The cause why this question is necessarie to be handled is because diuers of the auncient Fathers hold opinion of Christes discent into Hell in his humane soule Whose opinions hauing been so superstitiously receiued haue drawen others of latter time into the like errours But if men would follow the plainnes laide downe in the Bible and with humilitie search it auoyding curiositie they need not trouble themselues with the errours of the Fathers The wordes of the text 1. Pet. 3.18 are these Christ was dead concerning the flesh but was quickned by the Spirit By the which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison which in times past disobeyed when once the long suffering of God abode in the dayes of Noah while the Arke was in making Now the words whereupon this error is grounded are these Christ being dead as concerning the flesh went and preached to the spirits in prison Vpon this they gather that the spirits mentioned there are meant those in Hell and went and preached that is after hee was dead But if wee compare these words with the residue and consider the time when this preaching was we shall see Saint Peter meaneth nothing lesse than the descending of Christs soule into hell For first the text saith Hee went and preached by the same spirit by which he was quickned This spirit is of necessitie the Godhead For what spirit was there that could loosen the sorrowes of death that they should not hold him and raise Christ from the dead but the Godhead of Christ Then the soules of all men Godly or vngodly being immortall cannot die and therefore this quickning cannot be meant of his humane soule for it needed none Besides we must consider to whom Saint Peter wrote to wit to the Iewes Now seeing Christ taught nothing but Moses and the Prophets and the Apostles nothing but what they learned of Christ with what conscience could Saint Peter write a storie to the Iewes of the seueere iustice of God which was neuer in Moses for Moses neuer mentioneth Christs descent into Hel there to cause the wicked to be more tormented Therefore seeing this old opinion gathered out of the workes of the fathers and bred by them maintaineth manifest absurdities we must seeke for another exposition If we consider the old Testament we shall find that Eliphaz in the booke of Iob. preacheth the same doctrine that S. Peter doth and therefore

sold his Brethren sprinkleth the blood of a Kidde vpon his partie coloured Coate and brought it home to their Father and said a wilde Beast had slaine him Jacob was 20. yeares from his father Isaacke and did not see his face Ioseph was 20 yeares from his father Iacob before he seeth his face To shew that wherein a man offendeth therein he shall be punished Joseph the sonne of Jacob fedde Israel in Egipt as putting meat into the mouth of a Child Joseth the sonne of Jacoh taketh the child Jesus and his Mother Mary fleeth into Egipt Mat. 2.14 and properly putteth meate into the Childes mouth Er and Onan died Gen. 38.7 ER and Onan hauing committed a horrible sinne before God are slaine and no seed left vnto them Then according to the custome Thamar thought to haue had the third sonne Selah to haue raysed vp seed but Iuda neglecting it shee attyred her selfe like a light woman and lay in the way as Iuda should goe to the Sheepshearing Whom Iuda knew and at the time shee bare two Children Phares and Serah For which fact Iuda would haue burt her Whereby we may know that before the Law giuen by Moses they had the same equitie of Iustice for punishing of sinne that they had afterwards In Moses Law a Magistrate might not be condemned vnder three witnesses Thamar condemneth Iuda by three witnesses his Seale Bracelet Staffe From this deed of Iuda wee may vnderstand the prerogatiue that his Brethren should prayse him could not be meant of himselfe but herein is manifest the giftes of God to be of Grace and not of Nature for if Iuda had been rare of godlinesse the prerogatiue of Nature might seeme to haue caused Christ to haue come of him Isaacke died Gen. 35.29 being 180. yeares old HEe is the longest liuer after Heber and liueth longer then Abraham to shew that he was a Child of Promise for if Abraham begetting him when he was old he should haue died quickly what rare blessing had it been to Abraham And therefore that the power of God might be seene euen in the weaknesse of man Isaacke hath a longer life then Abraham or any after him Herevpon it may be concluded the Booke of Tobias to be false because it maketh Tobias life so long and thereby seemeth to crosse Iacobs Blessing Besides wee shall finde that in Nehemias time they which came out of Captiuitie do out-liue any in the Scriptures that come after and these men were accounted old The longest liuer of them commeth short of Isaackes age Ezrom borne of him nothing is spoken Iacob goeth into Egipt Gen. 47.5 Hee is nourished of Ioseph 17. yeares NOw for this number of 215. how is that performed Gen. 15.13 where God sayth to Abraham Thy seed shall be euill intreated in a Land that is not theirs 400. yeares seeing they continue in Egipt but 215. yeares They were afflicted by some of Egipt 400. yeares for Ismael the Egiptian by Hagar mocketh Isaacke in the beginning of the 400. yeares and that Mocking in the Scripture is called Persecution And in the end of the 400. yeares they were afflicted vnto the comming out of Egipt so that they were not in Egipt 400. yeares but they were afflicted first and last 400. yeares Psal 105.23 Israel came into Egypt and Iacob was a Stranger in the land of Cham to confirme the couenant that hee made with Abraham and the oath that he sware vnto Isaacke which he appoynted to Iacob for a Law and to Israel for an euerlasting Testament saying Vnto thee will I giue the Land of Canaan the lot of your inheritance when as yet there were but a few of them and they Strangers in the Land what time as they went from one Nation to another and from one Kingdome to another people Hee suffered no man to doe them wrong but reprooued euen Kinges for their sakes saying Touch not mine Annoynted and doe my Prophets no harme Yet hee called for a Dearth vpon the Land and destroyed all the prouision of Bread But hee had sent a man before them Gen. 39.1 euen Ioseph which was sold to be a Bond-seruant whose feete were hurt in the Stockes and the Iron entered into his soule vntill the time that his cause was knowne The word of the Lord tryed him This Famine ouer all the land of Canaan may appeare to be a punishment on Iacobs samilie for selling Ioseph into Egipt IAcob goeth into Egipt and there telleth Pharaoh that hee was 130. yeares old though Pharaoh in his demaunde meant no more then a Heathen man would to wit to know his yeares and the age of his life ye● God so disposeth Jacobs answere that he signifieth vnto him that his comming into Egipt with Seauentie soules is answerable in a contrarie degree to the first scattering of the Seauentie Families at the building of the Tower of Babel In fourtie eight yeares there came three discentes from Iacob Whereby it appeareth that Iuda and Pharez could not be much elder when they begot children then Salomon was when he begot Roboam which was about twelue yeares of age By meanes of which speedy increase there were of these Seauentie in two hundred and fifteene yeares Six hundred thousand fighting Men besides Women and Children godly and of the household of fayth to shew how God could performe his Promise to Abraham that Hee would make his seede as the Starres of Heauen and as the Sand of the Sea-shore Heereupon Abacucke sayth that the Councels of God are eternall thereby teaching vs to marke diligently the time wherein God performeth his Promises which may be made familiar by examples in this sort It is sayd Gen. 3.15 The Seede of the Woman shall breake the head of the Serpent This was not performed till Christ tooke flesh of the Virgin and became Man which was 4000. yeares wanting but 70. after the Promise made to Adam Satan to try this tempteth Christ and is ouerthrowne Abraham goeth foorth of his Countrey to imbrace the Promise that God would giue him a Land 430. yeares before his Seede should enioy it But the true performance was long after that is to say in Christ as Zacharias speaketh Luk. 1. To performe the oath which he sware to our forefather Abraham that he would giue vs. God speaketh as though presently it should fall out but seeing one thousand yeares in his sight a●●●● one day we must marke how his Counsels are eternall It was spoken in King Achaz daies by Esay 7.14 Behold a Virgine shall conceaue a Sonne Hee nor his seede saw the performance thereof So was Isaacke a figure of Christ and the Lambe kept it in memorie Daniel in his time prophesieth of 70. Seauens or 490. yeares before Christ the King should be killed to performe euery Vision and Prophecie Iacob died in Egipt c. Gen. 49.33 HEe is brought from Egipt to Canaan to be buried in Hebron with Abraham and Isaacke as a signe that hee