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A14282	Ten introductions how to read, and in reading, how to vnderstand; and in vnderstanding, how to beare in mind all the bookes, chapters, and verses, contained in the holie Bible. With an answer for lawyers. Physitions. Ministers.	Vaughan, Edward, preacher at St. Mary Woolnoth.	1594 (1594)	STC 24599; ESTC S119031	61,414	222

be done with the Toad the Ant the Adder and such small things all the creatures of God are good Gen. 1 31. as he himselfe veresieth and as the proofe thereof plainely sheweth They are to be vsed in their season and to be taken in their kinde so shall we haue vse and comfort by them Luke the Euangelist was a Phisition in Antioch whom Christ would not haue accounted much lesse appointed for an Apostle if his profession had not beene lawfull and necessarie And why shal I stand colouring of pure Corrall or preseruing of pure Ciuet that will neuer leese his sauour as the one will not receiue to it and the other will not leese from it euen so Phisicke is so exquisitely excellent that it need not haue any counterfait helpe and the other haue their commission so lawfull that they cannot be condemned nor iustly disdained Nature and Necessitie are two handmaids that attend vpon Phisitions the one enforced to seeke their helpe the other inforced to yeeld thē their guerdon reward As it is to be proued by Gods word damnable sin for a man to kill himselfe with fire water sword or with such like so is it sinne for a man to destroy himselfe in not seeking after Phisitions and Chirurgions when time and opportunitie is offred for recouery As men may be too carefull in seeking after Phisitions to remoue the diseases of their bodies so may they be too too carelesse in seeking after Christ to remoue the sinnes of their soules Whence comes all maner of infirmities and diseases of the bodie comes it not from the sinnes of the soule All the inconueniences dangers Pro. 18 7. Iere. 26 19. Eze. 18 4. Mat. 17 26. miseries troubles and wretchednesse whatsoeuer vpon the body comes as a punishment for the sinne of the soule Thence comes the originall thence comes the cause A good Phisition or Surgion will first remoue the cause ere he begin to heale euen so he that enterpriseth his health must first of all goe vnto Iesus Christ the Phisition of the soule that the cause may be remoued then Phisicke hath vertue and power to heale and not before All power of healing and doing good proceeds from him As the vertue attractiue to draw Elisha from his worke was not in Elias cloake 1. King 19 19.20 but in the power of the word euen so the vertue of healing is not in the Phisitions nor any thing they take in hand but in the Lord of life From the most high commeth healing Eccles. 38 2.3.4 the Lord hath created medicins God hath giuen men knowledge that he might be glorified in his wonderfull workes Men may not seeke to Phisitions nor blame them if they be not healed when they must seeke to God neither may they seeke to God when they should seeke to Phisitions The best Phisition cānot heale where God sets not to his hand Luke 8 43. therefore blame them not As for their liues and conuersations to speake truely and in the feare of God indifferently I take them for the most part to be men most ciuill in their behauiour chast in their bodies moderate in their diet and most religious in the seruice of almightie God And so I end for the Phisition desiring God to increase his graces in them and to blesse their labours in others Their cause is good Vi●um hoc gestit veritas ne ignoranta damnetur Men doe hurt and endamage themselues by committing their bodies into the hands of such as are not warranted by the degrees of learning to be Phisitions indeed If you adhibit any credit to my councell be sure to know the knowledge and the conscience of the Phisition before you commit your life into his hands euerie one cannot heale a sore that can make a salue so euerie one is not a Phisition that makes the profession Parishioner You haue said well for the Lawyer the Phisition now I pray you what is your iudgement concerning preachers and ministers for all the world saith they feed themselues with the sweat of other mens browes Whilst they are busied with the cares of their wiues and their children they starue the soules of Gods people and their ill life marres all Pastor YOu blame the ministers for neglecting their charge and for their ill life and conuersation you make no exception you conclude all and euerie one within the compasse of your condemnation as the Pope doth comprehend all England within the compasse of his curse The Elder that is fullest of pith is smallest of strength the emptie Caske will giue a great sound and the bird Taurus hath a great voice but a little body euen so you and such like haue great will you haue many great words but God be thanked no power to hurt And againe that which you allow is ill that which you mislike is good because you haue no knowledge to iudge according to truth you haue no conscience to iudge according to charitie and you haue no place of office publickly to iudge according to iustice Your accusing of others is but the excusing of your selfe your medling with the ministers shewes that you cannot away to be reproued you hate to be reformed as the holy Ghost witnesseth saying Ioh. 12 35. 1. Cor. 3 1.2 2. Thess 3. 2. Pet. 2 1. Iohn 2 1. He that walketh in darkenesse hateth the light meaning that such as liue lewdly lasciuiously doe hate them that liue godly and honestly A matter very strāge to be shewed and hard to be beleeued that vice should hate vertue or that the sheepe shuld controle the shepheard therfore Christ foreseeing it answereth by way of interrogation 2. Cor. 6 14.15.16 What fellowship hath righteousnesse with vnrighteousnesse what communion hath light with darkenesse and what concord hath Christ with Beliall wherein his diuine maiestie doth shew the ods the difference the contrarietie the debate and the inequality that is between the right and the vnright betweene the ignorant and the learned between Atheists Epicures such like the true followers of Christ The vnrighteous the open the obstinate sinner cannot away with the godly and sinceere man the ignorant can not away with the learned the base-borne cannot like with the noble and it is too true that the carelesse and vnconscionable liuers will shun and auoid the company of the members of Christ You and the rest of your fellow bretheren and partners haue no other quarrell to the ministers of God but that they also doe disdaine shun and auoid your companies there is such inequalitie betwixt you and them that they admit not of your fauour neither doe they at any time feare you Therefore I need not studie to answere your friuolous questions particularly but rather in few words to reproue and with plain tearms to reprehend your baiardly boldnesse in medling with such as are so farre aboue your selfe as you are herein beyond the measure of modesty and christian duety Euery

and sacrifice for them 2 Mach. 2 5. It is said that Ieremie hid the Arke of the Tabernacle in a caue and that Salomon sanctified the place 2 Mach. 8 9.10 which thing Salomon could not doe because it was no part of his office and he neuer did it the same prophet did euen then reproue the seekers after such places least there shold be any monument or relick of Idolatrie further the death of Antiochus is not agreed vpon for in 1 Mach. 6 5.6 16. it is said That he died with sorrow in the 2. Mach. 9 6.7 the maner of his death is reckoned to be far otherwise It is said that Iudas Machabeus was slaine in Demetrius armie 1 Mach. 9 18. but in the 2 Mach. 1 10.11 he writeth a letter after his death 36 yeares vnto Aristobolus 2 Mach. 1.10.11 he doubteth of his well doing Let the feare of God withdraw you from all vnreuerent handling and iudging hereof The fourth Introduction THe Argument or sum of all the Bible by books and chapters as they ly comprehendeth ten histories or generall matters chaining the scriptures to the saluation of one people in the seruice of God and to the destruction of an another wilfullie nelegcting and obstinatly gainsaying the same whereby you shall see as it were it one view what was most notably done and spoken in euerie age what difference and change there was and vpon what occasion you shall not light into any one booke or chapter but hereby you shal be able to say This or that matter belongeth to such a storie This is the effect of euery booke chapter Here this or that beginneth and there it endeth I haue set before the particular matter of euerie storie seuerally according to the age and continuance thereof which being once perfectly learned shall euer be remembred with the encrease of knowledge and with an admirable change in your selfe to your comfort and to Gods glorie Storie Bookes and Chapters Contents 1 From Gen. 1 To Gen. 7 The Flood 1656. years 2 Gen. 8 Gen. 12 The renouation of the creation 424. yea 3 Gen. 12 Exod. 19 The election in Abram and his seed 430. yea 4 Exod. 12. Ios 1 Their going out of Aegypt to Canaan 40. yea 5 Ios 1 Iudg. 1. Their quiet possession in the same 7. yea 6 Iudg. 1 1. Samuel Of Saul their first king 450. yea 7 1. Sam. Nehem. Their captiuitie in Babylon 490. yea 8 Nehem. Their restoring to libertie 70. yea Ezra Hester 9 Danie Their perpetuall libertie in Christ 490. ye 10 Reuel The birth of Christ to the worlds end by the computation of Elias 2000. ye NOw you must learne what euerie storie doth generally containe what is the sum or whole drift of the holy Ghost in the same which I haue set downe by particulars You must marke where and in what booke or chapter the substance of euerie storie lieth and how it is dispearsed in the Bible most principally note two things to weet what good men was in euerie age or in euerie such storie and what wicked men The particulars of the first storie Fathers Gen. 5. Adam Signifieth Earthly Seth. Setled Enos Sorrowfull Kenan Godly repentance Mahalalel Praise God Jared The lowly Henoch The Sabaoth keeper Methuselah Long life Lamech Heart wounded Noah The Comforter These were the tenne holy fathers before the floud which the holy ghost reckoneth in whom the religion and seruice of God was grounded these published ouer the world that thē was all such effectuall matters tending to religion as was deliuered afterward to Moses in two tables of stone to be continued and enlarged by sacraments and sacrifices by ceremonies and such like ordinances euen vnto the death of Christ there was nothing done in the time of Moses which might not wel be deriued from the law and profession of these men if you compare them by their special instances by them you shal finde true religion maintained and the false detected moreouer by them hard places are made plaine And if you reckon how long euerie of them liued the whole doth perfectly measure the age of that world from Adam to the floud 1656. And for these special causes I haue laid downe briefly their stories ADam was a passing and a most perfect creature disagreeing from all other creatures both in the magnanimitie of his soule and in the excellencie of his bodie in soule he was like to God himselfe for wisdome for innocencie and clearenes in bodie he did beare the fourme and fashion of the goodliest male and female kinde that was to be in the world He comprehended by the light of Gods spirite that the seede of the woman should restore him and all beleeuers into the fauor of God and therefore he called his wife Heua that is to say Life and he called his sonne Seth that is to say Setled and persuaded in the faith of Christ In the commemoration of which seed Adam offered continuall sacrifice the which in the allowance thereof was ordinarilie consumed by fire as was the sacrifice of Abraham in the time of the law By this he may well be called a king a prophet a priest or sacrificer As the original whence he came being earth had relation to what he should returne so the place where he was created being mount Moriah had relation to that place where Christ the high sacrificer should be crucified to the ioy of the world as by many other particulars afterwards was made plaine to be Ierusalem Gen. 22 2. where Isaac was offered as a figure of Christ where Sem or Melchisedech dwelt being the king of peace and iustice 14 18. where Noahs arke rested Gen. 8. where Salomon was commanded to build the temple in the honour of his name 2 Cron. 3 1. When God had chastned the woman and cursed the serpent he said vnto Adam The seed of the woman shall bruse the serpents head Gen 3 15. He liued to instruct Mathuselah in this promise concerning Christ 243 yeares Gen. 5 25.10 11. the rather because Methuselah was appointed of God to liue long and manie yeares after of purpose to teach others That Adam fell the day of his creation all must hold that loue not grosse ignorance our Lord telleth that Satan stood not in the truth Now his falling could not be knowne to vs to iudge of that speech but by the storie of the serpent which Moses ioined with the creation and it were irreligious boldnesse to thrust a practise of life betwixt in another kinde Moreouer our Lord telleth that satan was a murtherer from the beginning speaking vnto Hebrues They now his enemies not onelie graunt but proue by the testimony vniuersall of all their learned that the sixt day the serpent deceiued Eue. If Adam fell not same the day of his creation what did he then on the next seuenth day how bestowed he the sabaoth if he were idle then he gaue an ill president