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A48433 An handfull of gleanings out of the Book of Exodus probable solution of some of the mainest scruples, and explanation of the hardest places of that Booke ... / by John Lightfoot ... Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675. 1643 (1643) Wing L2055; ESTC R21590 43,133 64

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him not when he came amongst them SECT. XXVIII The Covenant made with Israel They not sworne by it to the ten Commandements Exod. 24. VVHen Israel cannot indure to heare the ten Commandements given it was ready to conclude that they could much lesse keepe them Therefore God giveth Moses privately fifty seven precepts besides namely Ceremoniall and Judiciall to all which the people are the next morning after the giving of the ten Commandements sworne and entered into Covenant and these made them a Ceremoniall and singular people About which these things are observable 1. That they entred into Covenant to a written Law Chap. 24. 4. And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord c. Against tradions 2. That here was a booke written forty dayes before the writing of the two tables Against them that hold that the first letters that were seene in the world were the writing of God in those Tables And we have seene before also two pieces of writing before this of Moses viz. the 88. and 89. Psalmes And of equall antiquity with them or not much lesse was the penning of the booke of Iob most probably written by Elibu one of the Speakers in it as may be conjectured from Chap. 32. 15 16 17. and some other probabilitie 3. That this first Covenant was made with water and blood and figurative language For the twelve pillars that represented the people are called the people Exod. 24. 4. 8. As the words in the second Covenant this my body are to bee understood in such another sense 4. That the ten Commandements were not written in the book of that Covenant but onely those 57. precepts mentioned before For 1. The Lord giveth the other precepts because the people could not receive the ten for could they have received and observed those as they ought they must never have had any parcell of a Law more as if Adam had kept the Morall Law he had never needed to have heard of the promise and so if we could but receive the same Law as we should we had never needed the Gospell Now it is most unlike that since God gave them those other commands because they could not receive the ten that hee would mingle the ten and them together in the Covenant 2. It is not imaginable that God would ever cause a people to sweare to the performance of a Law which they could not indure so much as to heare 3. The ten Commandements needed not to be read by Moses to the people seeing they had all heard them from the mouth of the Lord but the day before 4. Had they beene written and laid up in this booke what necessitie had there beene of their writing and laying up in the Tables of stone 5. Had Moses read the ten Commandements in the beginning of his booke why should he repeate some of them againe at the latter end as Exod. 23. 12. Let such ruminate upon this which hold and maintaine that the Sabbath as it standeth in the fourth Commandement is only the Jewish Sabbath and consequently Ceremouiall And let those good men that have stood for the day of the Lord against the other consider whether they have not lost ground in granting that the fourth Commandement instituted the Jewish Sabbath For First The Jewes were not sworne to the Decalogue at all and so not the Sabbath as it standeth there but onely to the fifty seven precepts written in Moses his booke and to the Sabbath as it was there Exod. 23. 12. Secondly The end of the Ceremoniall Sabbath of the Jewes was in remembrance of their delivery out of Aegypt Deut. 5. 15. but the morall Sabbath of the two Tables is in commemoration of Gods resting from the workes of the Creation Exod. 20. 10. 11. SECT. XXIX The punishment of Israel for the golden Calse Exod. 32. ISRAEL cannot be so long without Moses as Moses can be without meate The fire still burneth on the top of mount Sinai out of which they had so lately received the Law and yet so suddainely doe they breake the greatest Commandement of that Law to extremity of Aegyptian Jewels they make an Aegyptian Idol because thinking Moses had beene lost they intended to returne for Aegypt Grievous was the sinne for which they must looke for grievous punishment which lighted upon them in divers kinds First the Cloud of Glory their divine conductor departeth from the campe which was now become prophane and uncleane Secondly the Tables Moses breaketh before their face as shewing them most unworthy of the Covenant Thirdly The building of the Tabernacle the evidence that God would dwell among them is adjourned and put off for now they had made themselves unworthy Fourthly for this sinne God gave them up to worship all the host of heaven Act. 7. 42. Fifthly Moses bruiseth the Cal●e to Powder and straweth it upon the waters and maketh the People drinke Here spirituall fornication commeth under the same tryall that carnall did Num. 5. 24. These that were guilty of this Idolatry the water thus dr●nke made their belly to swell and to give a visible signe and token of their guilt then setteth Moses the Levites to slay every one whose bellies they found thus swelled which thing they did with that zeale and sincerity that they spared neither Father nor Brother of their owne if they found him guilty In this slaughter there fell about three thousand these were ring-leaders and chiefe agents in this abomination and therefore made thus exemplary in their punishment upon the rest of the People the Lord sent a Plague vers. 35. A●ron had first felt the smart in this destruction had his action in this businesse beene as voluntary as was theirs but what hee did hee did in feare of his life SECT. XXX That Moses fasted three Fasts of forty dayes apeece IT is a doubt of no small import Why seeing it pleased God to appoint the Feast of expiation the solemne Feast of Humiliation in that moneth of the yeare in which sinne entred into the World why he also did not appoint it upon the same day in which sinne entred viz. the sixth day of the moneth but on the tenth The reason of this is to be found out by observing Moses his Fasts in the mount and the conclusion of the last of them That he fasted thrice forty dayes is not so frequently observed as it easily may be concluded from his owne words The first Fast in Exod. 24. 18. And Moses was in the mountaine forty dayes and forty nights At the end of these dayes they made the golden Calfe The second Fast Exod. 32. 30 31. It came to passe on the morrow that Moses said unto the People Ye have sinned a great sin●e and now I will goe up into the mount c. and Moses returned unto the Lord c. which he explaineth Deut. 9. 18. I fell down● before the Lord as at the first forty dayes and forty nights c. The third Fast when he goeth