28 g A more special care for the Poore the third yeer 41 a Poore see hard dealing The Portion of the preests 16. Povertie whence it may arise 10. The Povertie of a man provided for in bringing his sacrifice 46 b The Amalekites overthrown by Moses Praier 54.l m. The Price or redemption of man 22.f g. Pride see king h. Of Preest Preesthood 35-38 Of their apparel first of the High Preest 35 l-x Then for the inferior Preests y.z. Of their consecration 36. And of their proper function 38. Succession of the Preesthood appointed to one familie 35 g First fruits the portion of the Preests 16 e f. Blemished persons of the seed of Aaron excluded the office of Preesthood but not their maintenance 23 s How both the High and inferior Preests shuld marie 23 t u. The High Preest might not moorn 23 x For whom the inferior Preests might moorn 23 y The Preest in som cases appointed to civil causes togither with the civil magistrate 52 n o. The proper sacrifice of a Preest for a sin of ignorance 47 a Of things to be redeemed the Preest must set the price 22 h The daughter of a Preest plaieng the whoore to be brent 59 h Preest see battel l. Preest see wine The proper sacrifice of a Private person for sin of ignorance 47 a Privie members see shamelesse Great Promises made to Israel 51 c d. To Prognosticate or to gesse before-hand of the successe of any matter by luckines of dais or seasons or by the flieng of birds or such like forbidden 22 u The people should never want a Prophet 22.l m. 51.h A false Prophet to be put to death 56 b In time of Prosperitie to take heed especially that then we forget not God 24 o How hard it is in Prosperitie to stand in the fear of God 24 p A notable Protestation for the tru paiment of tithes see tithes Purging of suspicion of murder 53 k Purging of suspicion of adulterie 53.l Purge see ielous n. Purged see oth i. Of Purification and the meaning of it 48. The ceremonie of Purifieng easier for a man child than for a woman child 48 c R. RAhab spared 12.d Rape or ravishing death to the partie that forceth 59 c.f. Rash see vow a. Of the feast of Reconciliation 40 x While the preest doth make the Reconciliation the people are to sorrow for their sins 43 t The day of Reconciliation a day of affliction but somtimes ioy withal 41 i The peoples exercise on the day of Reconciliation 40 z That the force of Reconciliation is not in the merit of man 35. after g. Reconciliation see sacrifice Reconciliation day see seventh i m n. Of the Red cow 45. Redeeming of the firstborn 21.f i. No lands to be sold without clause of Redemption 18 b How to Redeem houses 18 f-i Redeemed see Herem Refuge see cities c. What is the effect or sum of al Religion 20 a-k Religion see venturous Moses praier at the Removing of the ark 34 n Remooving see marched o To Repair to the place that the Lord had chosen 40 m Respect see persons Sabbath day a Rest day 24 a f. The Rest of the sabbath should be an holie rest 24 a b. The armies Rested not til the cloud did stay 34 u Restitution to be made for iniuries done 46.f g. Restitution to be made for taking away holie things ignorantly 47 e To whom Restitution is du 28. after f. 46 i Return see setting down of the ark We ought to Reverence ech other as his place requireth 25. before a. Rewards do blind the eies of the magistrate 52 m Right of any not to be hindered 52 c Rings for the table 32 l.2 Rings for the altar 32 l.2 Rings for the ark 32 l. 2 Rings overlaid with beaten gold 32 m Riotous persons see drunkards The several Rites of the offerings for the people 36 p Robberie see wrong and oppresse The Roofe of the tabernacle 32.d Ruben put from his birth-right and why 17 c d. S. THe Sabbath ordained 24 a Sabbath day to be observed in seed time and harvest 24.f The Sabbath commanded by the example of God 40 a By writing 40 b The Sabbath ordained that we and our cattel may rest 24 h In the Sabbath the Lord requireth holines 24 b The Sabbath teacheth that God doth sanctifie us 24 c The breach of the Sabbath to be punished with death 24 g 56 i.2 Lesser breaches of the Sabbath punishable with stripes 56 k Gathering of stiks on the Sabbath death 56 i Sabbaths sacrifice see sacrifice Sacraments ordained before the law was given 31 a Sacraments confirmed by the law 31 b Their Sacraments were two circumcision and the pascal lamb 31 a Of Sacrifices generally ordinarie and extraordinarie 42. Of their maner of Sacrifice 32. Of the daily Sacrifice 42 a Who might Sacrifice see clean Not to Sacrifice where they list but only in the place that the Lord appointed 32 b Sacrifice proper to certain of their feasts 42 f-u The Sacrifice of the sabbath 42 e The Sacrifice on the day of reconciliation made by the high preest only 43. a. Extraordinarie Sacrifice 43. Sacrifice for original sin 48. A Sacrifice for sin how to be handled 46 c d e. Sacrifice for a sin wittingly done but without hurt to our neighbor 46 a Sacrifice for sin when our neighbor was hurt by us 46.f h. Sacrifice for offences done of ignorance 47 r a-e Sacrifice for the whole congregation having offended ignorantly 44. Sacrifice for several persons the nature and diversitie of them 46. Sacrifice must be brought willingly 35 a Why the flesh of the Sacrifice might not be long kept 49.d The Sacrifice of the red cow 45. Salt never to be wanting in any meat offering 42.d Sanctifieng of our selves required 23 b The maner and form of the Sanctuary 32 c-n.2 The oversight of the Sanctuarie committed to the preests 38 i Scriptures see Law Secret see damage m. Offering of their Seed to Moloch forbidden 22 t Selling of lands should ever be with clause of redemption 22 y The offerings for the Levites in their Separation 37 c The Service of the tabernacle given to al the Levites 38 u The Service of the temple was the work of the Levits after the building of it 38 g.2 Setim wood 32 g The Setting down of the ark 34 a.2 The Seventh day of the sabbath 24 a The Seventh moneth brought two notable feasts 40. before u. The tenth day of the Seventh moneth the day of reconciliation 42 m n. The tenth day of the Seventh moneth was also the day of blowing the trūpets 41 k l. Five dais after the feast of Tabernacles 40 b.2 The Seventh yeers solemnitie in what points it rested 41. The Seventh yeer their ground should rest and be common 41 c The Seventh yeer to surcease from suits for debts concerning their brethren but not so for strangers 41.d Seven times seven yeers being ended the Iubile
in the land of Canaan himselfe being 99. yeers old which was 406. yeers before the giving of the law in Sinai The matter of the sacrament was the d Gen. 17 11 12. cutting away of the foreskin of the privie members of al the male children in the land and e Lev. 12 3. when the child was eight dais old then was this sacrament to be ministred unto him The f Gen. 17 7. meaning of the sacrament was that God made with Abraham and with his seed an everlasting covenant of special favor that him and his seed God tooke to himselfe to be his own peculiar people and for that cause it seemeth to have a special consideration that the seal of the covenant was printed on that part of the bodie that therin they might more plainly behold both that there was a g Deu. 30 6. mortification of the flesh wrought by the spirit of God in al that were under the covenant in spirit and truth and that their h Ge. 17 7 8. Deut. 30 6. children appertained to the covenant as wel as themselves And it is to be noted that they were taken to be his people before and this pledge or the seal of the covenant afterward given As for the day the reason seemeth to be this that both children should be of som strength to bear it that they should not long delay to minister that comfortable sacrament unto them Last of al i Gen. 17 12-14 it was ordeined that al should take that sacrament on them and that such as would not should be cut off from among the people The Pascal lamb The pascal lamb their other sacrament was instituted or ordeined to the whole people k Ex. 12 3 51. a little before their deliverance out of Aegypt The matter of the sacrament was this The l Ex. 12 1-11 tenth day of their first moneth named Nisan they should take from among their sheep or goates a yoong sheep or a goat of a yeer old of the male kind and the same without blemish him should they keep until the fourteenth day of the moneth and then kil him at even m Ver. 7 22. Then they should take the blood of him in a basen with a bunch of hysop sprinkle of the same on the upper posts of their doores and on both the side posts They should n Ver. 8 9 46. rost the carcase whole and not break a bone of it they should o Vers 8. eat it with unleavened bread with sower herbs and like p Vers 11. passengers readie to go their journie with their loins girt their shooes on their feet their staves in their hands and make a quik dispatch therof q Vers 43 44 45 48. Vers 4 46. Vers 10. none but Israelites or such strangers as were circumcised should eat therof they should be so manie as might conveniently eat it and whatsoever remained therof to the next morning that should they burn or consume with fire This sacrament was ordeined to be received r Exo. 12 14. everie yeer once at the time by the law appointed had Å¿ Vers 14-20 one of the three principal feasts therunto annexed By the reason t Num. 9 6-9 of uncleanes or being in journey it might be deferred to the same day of the next moneth But u Num. 9 13. otherwise might not be deferred of those that were clean and were at hom Howbeit the unclean might not eat therof The meaning of this sacrament was both to assure the people that then lived of two notable benefits that immediately after the institution of it were to insu and to x Exo. 12 14 24-27 42. keep up those benefits in fresh remembrance both to themselves and to al their children that should afterward follow The benefits of which they were heerby assured at the first institution heerof and which afterward were kept in memorie by the same were y Exod. 12 13 23 29. that the Lord spared them at the sprinkling of the blood of that lamb when as he destroied the first born of al the land besides and z Exod. 12 17 41 42. immediately after delivered them out of the hands of Pharao and from their long and miserable bondage Nevertheles bicause these benefits could not be grounded but in their promised savior therfore did this sacrament to so many as had that consideration nourish besides a comfortable and a faithful expectation of Christ and of the force of his death and passion as afterward he was more plainly known to be both our a 1. Cor. 5 7. pasover and the b Iohn 1 36. lamb that taketh away the sins of the world 32 The sacrifices that I speak of are verie divers and therfore harder to be conceived Of their maner of sacrificing and first of the place Neither is the diversnes of them the only cause that they are somwhat hard to be conceived but also bicause they cannot wel be understood without the knowledge of certain other things first had and of their solemn feasts withal Those other things are especially three what was the place were they might sacrifice unto the Lord what the persons were that ought to do it and what were those creatures out of which they had to choose their sacrifice So it shal be needful to say somwhat of these things first and after to come to the sacrifices themselves And concerning the place it is first to be considered that a restraint was made then what the place was wherunto they were restrained The restraint that was made was that they should offer their sacrifice no where els but only before the Lord. And that was for the time of their pilgrimage and until another place was chosen only where the sanctuarie was afterward in Ierusalem at the temple there Concerning the former of these a Lev. 17 3-5 8 9. it was death to offer any where els when they were in the wildernes either in the host or without but only before the sanctuarie or tabernacle As touching the other they were warned beforehand b De. 12 4-14 that when they came to their land they shuld not offer their sacrifices where they thought good but only in that place which the Lord shuld choose or name unto them Nevertheles bicause we are now to inquire but only of that maner of government that in the wildernes was praescribed unto them and bicause the maner and use of the former doth sufficiently shew the use and maner of the latter therfore it shal be sufficient for us for this compasse that now we have taken to cast our eies on the sanctuarie only as it was at the first ordeined unto them But bicause that it was mooveable therfore it is expedient to consider both what the thing it selfe was and what was the maner of remooving the same Of the tabernacle The place it selfe consisted of two principal parts
for want of rebuke when need required in matters b Exod. 23 3. Lev. 19 15. of judgement never to respect the person of any neither of the rich nor of the poore in no wise c Exo. 23 6 9. De. 24 17 18. to pervert or hinder the right or judgement of the stranger widow fatherles or poore d Deu. 25 1. to determin such controversies as came before them justifieng the righteous and condemning the offender to receive no accusation e Deu. 19 15. Deu. 17 6. Num. 35 30. but under two witnesses at the least f Deu. 24 16. not to put the father to death for the fault of his children nor the childe for the fault of his father in such faults as are to be punished with stripes g Deu. 25 2 3 to punish according to the qualitie of the offence and never to give above fortie at once that the offender think not himselfe despised More specially certain of them Those forms of magistrates to whom there were som rules more specially directed are three first of al kings that afterward might be appointed then those under Moses that were over thousands hundreds fifties and tens and last of al those threescore and ten that were on the bench associate with Moses Kings unto their kings whom afterward it might be they would choose it was ordained that they should h Deu. 17 16-20 not lean inordinately to earthly strength seeking to increase the number of their horses or getting themselves abundance of treasure that they should moderate themselves in their pleasures not taking unto them many wives and that they should retain that humilitie of mind as that notwithstanding their high degree yet should they not advance themselves above their brethren To the end they might do these things the better and whatsoever els was required of them they had in commandement to get them a copie of the law so soone as ever they were com to their kingdom and diligently to studie the same al the dais of their life that doing according therunto and declining on neither side neither on the right hand nor on the left from the praescript and tenor therof he and his children by that means might have a long and a prosperous reign on the earth Besides these generals one special cōmandement was given unto them that they should never bring the people again to the land of Aegypt Concerning that diligent studie of the law i Ios 1 8. it was in like sort injoined to Iosuah when he was appointed to govern the people and that in respect of the office wherunto he was called and by the mouth of God himselfe Captains under Moses Vnto those that were over thousands over hundreds fifties and tens it was injoined that they should perform the parts of good judges that k De. 1 16 17 they should diligently hear and uprightly determin every cause both for their brethren and for such strangers as were among them that they should in no wise have any respect of persons neither of the smal nor of the great and that such causes as were too hard for them they should refer to Moses himselfe Iudges in cities Vnto those inferior magistrates that were to be ordained in their cities it l Deut. 16 18-20 was commanded that they should judge uprightly regarding no person nor wresting the law that so they might prosper upon the earth And to the end that they might the better do it he chargeth them in no wise to take rewards for that those are wont m Exod. 23 8. both to blind the eies of the wise and to pervert the words of the righteous More specially to them u De. 17 8-13 it was praescribed that if at any time they should have a matter that was too hard for them to decide at hom then should they repair unto the place that the Lord should choose and refer the deciding of the court unto the o Deut. 21 5. Levitical preests that ministred there before the Lord and to him that should be the judge or soveraign magistrate in those dais and that according to their sentence so should the matter stand determined And that whosoever would not stand to their judgement but should do any thing contrarie therunto should be put to death to teach al the people to fear and to deal so praesumptuously no more 53 Those which concern others What maner of trial was appointed unto them do partly respect the maner of trial that should be among them but especially the punishment that should be du unto those that should be found faultie Concerning the maner of trial that should be among them we find that the magistrates were streightly charged to search out such matters that they had divers wais or means allowed unto them to find out the truth They were willed to make diligent inquirie somtimes about a Deu. 13 14. whole cities that should at any time revolt from the Lord their God to any other somtimes about b Deut. 17 4.19 18. particular men that should be supposed to have offended The wais that were allowed unto them were som more ordinarie and others more special or cheefly appertaining to certain cases Ordinarie it was to have witnesses and those sworn somtimes it c Lev. 5 1. appeereth But for that matter it was ordained d Deu. 17 6. that one witnes should not be of force to condemn any to be guiltie of death e Deu. 19 15. nor so much as be received against any in any other trespas or fault whatsoever but that al such matters should be tried f Deut. 17 6.19 15. by the witnes of two or three at the least Those that were more special are two othes and purging of themselves by a kind of solemn protestation Concerning othes first it is plain g Ex. 22 7 8 10 11. Lev. 5 1. that they were allowed to be used in matters of judgement by the appointment of God himselfe Then also in what cases that is h Exo. 22 7 8. when a man had given to his neighbor any thing to keep which after was stolen and the theefe could not be found in which case the partie to whom it was given to be kept had to purge himselfe by oth or i Exod. 22 10 11. in things lent that came to hurt in the hands of him that borrowed them in which case the partie that borrowed had to purge himselfe by oth likewise And although the same that should swear was but the partie himselfe yet k Deu. 17 6 19 15. Heb. 6 16. was it ordained that the controversie therby should be decided Of purging themselves by a solemn protestation we read of two special cases One l Deu. 21 1-7 that if a man were found slain in the feeld and the partie unknown that did it then should the inhabitants of the next citie adjoining to the place stand