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A11058	An exposition on the fourteene first chapters of Genesis, by way of question and answere Collected out of ancient and recent writers: both briefely and subtilly propounded and expounded. By Abraham [sic] Rosse of Aberden, preacher at St. Maries neere South-Hampton, and one of his Maiesties chaplaines.	Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654.; Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654. First booke of questions and answers upon Genesis. aut; Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654. Second booke of questions and answers upon Genesis. aut	1626 (1626)	STC 21324; ESTC S116181	141,572	354

thy sins here is the golden candle sticke if thou wilt wash thy handes and feete here is the brazen lauer wilt thou bee Purged from they Leprosie here is the riuer Iordan wilt thou florish like a Bay tree thou must be planted by this riue●… wilt thou bring forth much fruite thou must be sowne with this seed wilt thou sacrifice thy sins to God thou must kill them with this sword wilt thou goe to the kingdome of heauen this is the only way here is the fiery Pillar and the cloud to conduct thee to Canaan and ●…ere is the Star that will leade the to find out the Son of righteousnesse Iesus Christ that bright morning Starte with whome we shall shine in eternity of glory as Stars in the firmament In this word then must we conucrse both day and night not in curious ●…earching and prodigious speculation but in serious weeping and religious a●…oration neither must our minds be op●…ressed with terrestriall and infernal occupations but they must be filled with ●…elestall and supernall meditations Therefore if we will profit here we must last off all carnall affection that wee ●…ay receiue for our weary soules eternall refection for if no beast could ●…uch the mountaine and heare Gods ●…aw why should beastly minds touch ●…e bible and read Gods Law And in ●…arching this Word let vs not in it ●…arch for riches and honour to our selues which is to seeke for dirt among●… Iewels and poyson amongst medica●… ments to ouerthrow our selues but l●… vs search for him who only is sufficien●… to content our soules within our bodies as hee was the only efficient to presen●… our soules into our bodies Therfore w●… conclude with Augustine Scriptur●… creatura ad hoc sunt vt ●…pse qu●…ratur ipse diligatur qui ipsam creauit q●… illam i●…spirauit The internall and eternall generation of the word was not knowne to th●… Gentiles but was obscured with an obscure fable of Minerua begotten of I●…piters braine by the which also they di●… signifie learned notions conceaued i●… the mind expressed by word or writ Then to be short right Honourable heere I doe offer to your tuition an●… fruition my Miner●…a not begotten o●… my braine but in my braine neither i●… shee armed with a helmet 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 speare to terrifie M●…mus and therefore ●…e more desirous shee is to shelter her●…lfe vnder the shadow of your Honors ●…tronage being perswaded that you ●…e both a Patrone a patterne of lear●…ng the fruits whereof haue not only ●…freshed the-hearts and eares of great ●…rittaine but with Dedalean wings they ●…ue bin transported beyond the Ocean 〈◊〉 that Rhodan●…s Betis and Rhen●…s haue ●…asoned their siluer streames with the ●…licious taste of your learned fruits ●…hen what remaines quam vt ocior Icar●… Visas gementis littora Bosp●…ri Sirt●…sque Getulas c●…norus Ales Hypereb●…rosque campos Moreouer your Honor being a Father ●…d Patrone of iustice if any wrong be ●…fered to her by M●…mus she may bold●… fly to the Chancery for succor there●…re I hope that as your Honor hath ●…rmitted your glorious titles to grace ●…r Frontispice so you wil not refuse to beautifie her with your gracious aspec●… and respect That GOD which hat●… exalted you to so great dignities in thi●… world preserue your body and soule and crowne you in the World to come with blessed Immortality Your Honours in all duty euer to command ALEXANDER ROSS●… THE ARGVMENT Q. WHo wrote these bookes of Moses A. Himselfe proofe hee was the first ●…at writ in the world Secondly The holy ●…host testifieth the same Exo. 24. 4. Deu. ●…1 9. and Christ Iohn 1. 45. and 5. 46. Q. When wrote he this first booke A. Before the Israelites went from E●…ypt R●…as 1. Because then feeding his ●…ather in-lawes sheepe 40. yeeres in Ma●…ian he was most at leisure to write Rea. 2. ●…o comfort the Hebrewes beeing oppressed ●…ith Egyptian seruitude for in this Booke 〈◊〉 read the life and death of their Anceours their courage patience vertue affliction Gods promises to Abraham that after 400. yeeres serui●…de in Egyp●… they should be deliuered and inioy the la●… of Canaan Q. How came Moses to the knowledge of these things contained in th●… Booke A. Either by reuelation from God 〈◊〉 by tradition of his Ancestors for the knowledge of these things Moses ●…ad from Iosephs children they of Ioseph he of Iacob Iacob of Isaac he of Abraham and he of Shem Shem of Noe h●… 〈◊〉 Methusalem and he of Adam with wh●… be liued 243. yeeres Questions on the first Chapter Questions WAs the world created or eternal Answ. Created 1. There can bee but one eternall 2. Almost all the Philosophers are against the eternitie of the world 3. They that hold it ●…ternall can bring no sound reason 4. Th●… most ancient monuments or records amongst ●…he heathen are not so olde as the f●…ood of Noah Q. Could God make more worlds then one A. Yes for he is Almighty and hee made it ●…ot of any matter for that should haue bin ex●…austed but more he would not because hee ●…eing one delights in vnitie Q. Why in Hebrew saith Moses Gods created joyning the noune plurall with the verbe singular A. To signifie the mystery of the Trinitie one essence in three persons 2. It is the propertie of the Hebrew phrase Q. Why in the beginning of this booke speaketh Moses only of heauen and earth A. Because by the name of heauen he comprehends all celestiall bodies and by the name of earth the 4. elements for water is in the earth fire and aire as witnesse the springs exhalations or earthquakes and burning mountaines or hote waters Q. Did God create the earth moveable or not A. Immoueable Iob. 38. Psal. 39. and 104. this is vnderstood in respect of the whole earth yet it is moued in respect of parts by earthquakes Iob. 9. Q. Of what figure is the earth A. Round Esay the 40. This figure is most perfect capable ancient Q. Is the earth vnder the water or not A. Vnder because heauiest yet Exo. 20. Ps. 24. and 136. it seemes the water is vnder the earth but it is to be vnderstood that a great part of the earth was made higher then the waters for mans habitation Q. Why cannot the whole earth moue A. Because hee is in his naturall place which if it should moue it should ascend and this is against the nature of the earth Q. What is vnderstood by the spirit that moued vpon the waters A. A winde which often in Scripture is called a spirit or the holy Ghost or the power and mighty operation of God which also is often called by the name of Spirit in this sense the Spirit of God is sayd to carry Elias to heauen and to haue caught away Philip Acts 8. Q. Why is God brought in speaking in the creation A. To shew his absolute power whose word is his worke 2. The second person

called Pharaoh In the time of Abraham and this name remained amongst them till the returne of the people from Babylon then in the beginning of the Grecian Empire they were called Ptolomees till Cleopatra being ouercome Augustus did redact it into the forme of a prouince but after the Empire was diuided Egypt being gouerned a while by the Grecian Emperours and weary of that seruitude they did chuse Calipha the captaine of the Saracens to be their King from whom the Egyptian kings for almost the space of 447. yeeres were called Caliphae afterward the kings of Egypt were called Sultans after the death of Melechsala Q. How was Saraies chastity preserued A. By the hand of God for Pharaoh and his house were plagued with great plagues because of her then questionless●… as God had a care to keepe her chastity from Abimelech so now he hieth to keep it from Pharaoh though here it bee not directly expressed as there because shortly after mention is made of Isacks birth whom some would haue thought to haue been Abimelechs sonne and not Abrahams Secondly here we see the care that God hath of his children in their extremities hee suffereth no man to doe them wrong Psal. 105. 14. Thirdly Kings must take heede by this Pharaoh that they do not oppresse and offend Gods children for hee hath reprooued kings for their sakes Psal. 105. 14. Fourthly wee may see here the fiercenesse of Gods iudgements who for this sinne of Pharaoh did plague his whole house so many times for the wickednesse of a king the whole land is punished Quicquid delirant reges plectuntur Achiui Fifthly God plagued Pharaoh for Abrahams wife euen so whore-mongers and adulterers God will iudge Heb. 13. 4. Examples we haue of Pharaoh here Rubin Gen. 35. The Beniamites Iudg. 19. Dauid 2. Sam. 11. The Israelite with the Moabite woman Num. 25. 6. If God plagued Pharaoh who ignorantly tooke Sarai what plagues must they looke for who take a pride and pleasure in committing adultery Seauenthly not onely Pharaoh but the Princes that counselled him are plagued euen so shall all wicked counsellors bee handled Malum consilium consultori pessimum Then let none wonder why they are also punished Quid mirum ●…os regiae penae fuisse participes qui regis in patrando flagitio fuerunt adiutores Chrysostom Q. Did Pharaoh commit adultery with Sarai A. No for he is plagued before he touched her or else to what end had hee beene plagued after he violated her Secondly it was not the custome amongst these nations for kings to take them wiues before they had purified themselues certaine dayes yea a whole yeare as we may see in the booke of Hester Thirdly although Pharaoh had touched her yet properly wee cannot call that copulation adultery because she yeelded not of her owne accord but was compelled both by her husband to saue his life as also by Pharaoh So Abraham did lye with Agar and yet we cannot say he committed adultery seeing he did not of lust but by the counsell of his wife to beget children yet the surer way is to hold that she was not touched Fourthly we may collect here by Pharaohs words that if he had knowne Sarai to be Abrahams wife he would not haue taken her Qui prat●…ndit ignor antiam condemnat intemperantiam Ambros. lib. de Abr. cap. 2. This prophane king had learned so much continency euen by the law of nature Fifthly it is like that Pharaoh was warned by God in a dreame as afterward Abimelech was that Sarai was the wife of Abraham Q. Why did Pharaoh giue charge to his men concerning Abraham A. Because he would not haue any to doe him wrong and like enough the Egyptians did enuy him because for his sake the king and court was plagued as also because hee grew very rich amongst them in that short time he remained there Secondly because he would not haue any violence offered to Sarai for he knew how prone to lust his people were Here then we see that the hearts of kings are in the hands of the Lord Prou. 21. 1. Secondly Abraham in this tentation lost nothing but gained both riches and honour then true it is that all things worke together for the best to them that loue God Rom. 8. 28. Now whether Abraham taught the Egyptians astrologie or not is vncertaine yet like enough he did although he did not remaine their long for it is very probable that Abraham did labour to bring them to the knowledge of the true God which he could not better doe then by the knowledge of the visible celestiall creature and truely no man fitter to teach them then Abraham being bred amongst the Chaldeans the onely astrologers in the world hauing also himselfe the true knowledge of God and none fitter to learne this science then the Egyptians who were naturally inuited thereto because of the perpetuall serenity of their ayre beeing altogether free from cloudes which doe take away the light of these celestiall bodies oftentimes from vs. Questions on the thirtenth Chapter Quest. HOw is it vnderstood that Abraham went vp out of Egypt into the South A. He is said to goe vp out of Egypt because this country lyeth lower then Canaan So in the precedent chapter vers 10. Hee is said to goe downe to Egypt Now Abraham going to Canaan from Egypt is said to goe vnto the South not as though Canaan did lye Southward from Egypt for it is Northward But by the South here Moses vnderstandeth the Southerne parts of Canaan As Canaan was a type of heauen so is Egypt of the kingdome of Satan Abraham came out of Egypt to Canaan so must we from the power of Satan to the kingdome of grace he went vp from Egypt so wee must ascend by faith and seeke those things that are aboue he went vnto the South as to the sunne so we must follow the sonne of righteousnesse and walke in the light while it is day hee tooke his wife and Lot with him so we must helpe forward our friends in this spirituall iourney he was very rich when he went vp so we must be rich in faith Iam. 2. 5. Rich in good workes 1. Tim. 6. 18. Rich in vnderstanding Col. 2. 2. Rich in all vtterance and knowledge 1. Cor. 1. 5. Q. Why did Abraham returne againe to Bethel where he was before A. Not to pay his debts which hee had contracted going to Egypt as Rabbi Salomo prateth but because he knew this place better then others Secondly he had more acquaintance here then else-where Thirdly he receiued here some blessings from God therefore his affection is more bent to this place then to any other Fourthly this place had beene consecrated already by building an alter and calling vpon the name of the Lord therefore he would not seeme to neglect that place which was once consecrated for Gods worship teaching vs not to despise the publike places dedicated to Gods seruice Fifthly he would not seeme to

was Abraham heire onely of this land or ●…ls heire of all the world as Paul scemeth to affirme Rom. 4. A. The seed of Abraham is twofold some after the flesh and some by promise Gal. 4. These who were only after the flesh possessed onely Canaan but the spirituall seede those that are Abrahams sonnes by promise and heires of his faith are also heires of the whole world for to them the world doth belong of right although the wicked haue the possession of the most part thereof yea wee may say that Abrahams spirituall seede hath possessed the whole world from the beginning for the Church which is Christs kingdome and the seed of Abraham by promise is vniuersall neyther is it tyed to any particular place according to these Scriptures I will giue thee the heathen for thine inheritance and the vttermost part of the earth for thy possession Psal. 2. 8. He shall haue dominion from sea to sea and from the riuer to the ends of the earth Psal. 72. 8. Hee shall raigne ouer the house of Iacob for euer and of his kingdome there shall be no end Luk. ●… 33. This is that stone cut out of the mountaine without hands which became a great mountaine and filled the whole earth Dan. 2. 35. Q. How long was Abrahams seede to enioy this land A. For euer that is a long time for so this word is often vsed in Scripture so in this sence circumcision is called an euerlasting couenant Gen. 17. The Sabboth a signe between God and his people for euer Exod. 31. The seruant whose eare is boared must serue his master for euer Exod. 21. Now this cannot be vnderstood of eternity for the Israelites are long agoe expelled from Canaan circumcision the Sabboth and other ceremoniall lawes were abolished by the comming of Messyas the seruant was tyed to serue his master no longer then the yeare of Iubili●… then so long did they possesse this land as they walked obediently before God for it was giuen to them vpon condition of legall obedience otherwise if they did not obey the land was to spue them out Leu. 18. 28. Abraham and his seede were to enioy this land for euer but Abraham was to keepe Gods couenant he and his seed after him for euer Gen. 17. 9. If then they haue not enioyed this land for euer they must not accuse God but themselues who haue not kept his couenāt for euer Gods promises do then stil include the condition of our faith and obedience as whosoeuer beleeueth in the Sonne shall not perish but haue euerlasting life but he that beleeueth not is condemned already Ioh. 3. And here we cannot deny but that vnder this earthly Canaan promised to Abrahams carnall seede is vnderstood heauenly Canaan which belongeth to his spirituall ●…eede then this word euer is attributed to ●…he signe which doth properly belong to the ●…hing signified and thus the Scripture vseth ●…n all sacramentall speeches to ascribe that to ●…he type and figure which doth onely belong to the thing signified as the lambe is called the passeouer the blood of goates and calues ●…s said to hallow and purge the bread is called Christs body and here Canaan is promised to Abrahams seede for euer which yet shall not continue for euer for the world shal be destroyed and all the works therein then earthly Canaan was possessed of the carnall Israelites for euer that is a long time but the true Israelites shall possesse the heauenly Canaan for euer and euer Q. Why saith God that he will make Abrahams seed as the d●…st of the earth A. God doth vse this hyperbolical speech to stirre vp the minde of Abraham for hee knoweth how dull and hard by nature wee are to hearkento him for which cause the Scripture doth vse many such kinde of figuratiue speeches as the toppe of Babel is said to reach to heauen the cities of the anakims to be walled vp to heauen to birds of the ayre are said to carry our words if we speake ill of the king the world cannot containe the bookes which might be written of Christ and many such like therefore they are foolish who thinke that there is no figuratiue speech in the Scripture but that all must be vnderstood simply Secondly by this speech God would signifie ●…nto Abraham that out of his loynes should proceede an exceeding great multitude of people which was fulfilled in Moses time for he sayes they were as the starres of heauen in multitude Deu. 1. 10. 10. 22. And Balac said that they couered the face of the earth Num. 23. 5. Yea Balam is forced to acknowledge their great number when hee sayes Num. 23. 10. Who can count the dust of Iacob and the number of the fourth part of Israel Thirdly although Abrahams carnall seede were great in number yet his spirituall seede is greater the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea which cannot be measured Hos. 1. 10. Which is meant of the spirituall Israelites and Iohn saw a great multitude which no man could number of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues before the rhroane c. Reu. 7. 9. Fourthly as the carnall seede of Abraham considered in themselues were many yet but few in respect of all other nations for the Cananites the Hittites c. Were greater and mightier then the Israelites Deut. 7. 1. Euen so the spirituall children of Abraham though many in themselues yet are but few in respect of the wicked for many are called but few are chosen Mat. 22. 14. The way that leadeth to destruction is broade and many goe in thereat but the gate that leadeth to life is narrow and few there be that finde it Mat. 7. 13. Fifthly although the seede of Abraham be innumerable to man yet it is not to God who telleth the number of the stars Psal. 147. 4. And from hence we may collect that increase of children and a great posterity is a speciall blessing of God as wee may see Psal. 128. Q. Why would God haue Abraham to walke through the land in the length and bredth of it A. To augment both his faith and ioy in that his children should haue the possession of that land whereof he had now made a full survey Secondly this continuall walking vp and downe God would exercise his patience and let him know that he was but a stranger in his owne land Thirdly that by this meanes the knowledge of God might be the further propagated Fourthly that by the consideration of the length and breadth of that land hee might be able to comprehend the bredth and length and depth and height and know the loue of Christ which passeth knowledge Eph. 3. 18. Now as all the life of Abraham consisted in walking so doth the life of a Christian. Enoch walked with God Gen. 5. Abraham is commanded to walke before God Gen. 17. Noah walked with God Gen. 6. Abraham confessed that he walked in the sight