not this a most admirable draught of Gods sage prodigallity and illustrious Magnificence who in exchange of a foot of ground gives intire worlds He will have the Heart and for the heart he gives Himself and in him the Creator of souls and the Soul of all hearts Alas what is a corner of the Earth compared with the Land of promise what is a country and City in respect of the firmament And where shall wee find brethren kindred or friends without pretension interest or any suspition of deceipt as are found in Heaven Ah! I no longer wonder that so many Kings and Queens so many great Lords and Ladies have followed the happy and blessed steps of Abraham to enter into the territories of the earthly Paradise and of Religion I remain no longer amazed to see so many young gentlemen brave rich couragious and learned So many tender fair and wealthy virgins who often in the sight of Royall Palaces and Courtes make a most sweet most holy and most honorable retreit into Cloisters to see them place their honor all their delights and riches in a most amiable and delicious prison Good God! How peaceable are these divorces how free are these Captivities and how holy are these resolutions If God give the whole for a part Worlds for one kingdome the Heavens for one Country and a hundred-fold for one who wil be astonished to see a Theodosius Zeno tom 3. an Anastasius and a Michael quitting the Empire of Greece to enclose themselves in a Monastery Who will wonder to see a Charlemain Son to Charles Martell who abandoned all the hopes he had in France to live out of the road of the world and the Court on Mount Soractes and what great wonder is it to see in the Kingdomes of Spain a Veremond King of Castile and a Remirus King of Aragon following the happy steps of a like conduct Surely I see nothing which is too admirable when for the same cause Sigebertus left his England Charls his Germany and so many others who have forsaken their most vast and most glorious Monarchies It was little considerable for Radegond and Baltildus to despise France though it were one of the Largest most Noble and most August Kingdoms under Heaven It was then yet less considerable for all those who have followed their steps and examples for doing what Sara and Abraham did they could not doubt but God would guide them out of their Empires into a Land of plenty where Crowns and Scepters are the Arms of an Eternall possession It remains then for all those Qui aedificavit ibi Altarem Domino qui aparuerat ei Gen. 12. whom he hath taken by the hand as he did Abraham and led them over the Banks of Jordan and through the shades of Hermon to build there an Altar on which they might offer Sacrifices of Love and Acknowledgments as Abraham did CHAP. II. The Voyages of Abraham and Sara into the Land of Egypt SAint Thomas hath excellently well noted D. Th. c. 26. c. 28. 1 in aggrediendo 2 in sustinendo that courage is a force of Spirit alwaies bold alwaies constant and which is found not only amongst assaults onsets and sieges but it delights also to sustain a long time the violences which present and oppose themselves to it's desires It is not then a perfect Act of Courage and Force to undertake some voyage and to put our selves on our way But we must advance even unto the End we propose to our selves And whether it Hails whether it Rains whether it Blows or whether it be fair Weather we must still have as a brave Pilgrim said our track and way mark'd out not on Sand and Earth but in the Heavens that is to say above the Sun and Stars which have alwaies regular motions and pass through the midst of Monsters without either stop or seeming astonished It was as I believe on this pleasing Mirror and on this Card of the most constant designs and of the most assured voyages or rather on God himself that Abraham leaving his own Country instantly cast up his eyes well resolv'd to follow him every where who served him for a Master a Conductor a Sanctuary and Country He left then the plains and vallies to ascend the Mountains as still desirous alwaies to make new progresses and to advance without any intermission It is he then whom I see spreading his Pavillions on the top of a Mountain Et inde transgrediens ad montem qui erat contra orientem Bethel tetendit ibi tabernacutum suum aedificavâ—t quoque Altare Domino invocavit nomini ejus Gen. 12. v. 8 and erecting an Altar to invoke the name and assistance of God his Conductor Listen a while and hear from his mouth the thoughts of his Soul Great God! I have forsaken all for thee and at the first command I received I obeyed the voice of thy most amiable providence A farwell to the World at length behold me here out of my Country far from my own Possessions and severed from my friends I am ignorant where I am but I only know that I am with thee It sufficeth me O my God all my desires are pleased and my Soul is fully satisfied Farewell all my kindred farewell my friends farewell my Country O my God! me thinks at every step I make I conquer a Kingdom all my guests are Kindred the little Hils are my Dungeons the Fields my Cities and all that the day discovers to me of Earth of Rivers of Air and of Seas is my Country my House and my place of entertainment O God! how Magnificent are thy bounties and how delightfull it is to follow and serve so sweet a Master as thy self Ah! let my Mouth and Tongue bless thee and let them not from henceforth serve but to invoke thy holy name In fine I will not only ingrave these thoughts upon this Altar But to the end I may publish them through all the Countries whither the Sun carrys his light I make my self the Companion of this Storie Perrexitquâ— vadens ultra progrediens ad Meridiem Gen. 12. v. 9. and without further delay I leave the East to advance unto the South It often happens that God makes use even of the least sensible and most inanimate Creatures to impart his graces unto his Elect. Sometimes he enters into the Heart with the break of Day His Lights and Clarities often mingle themselves with the Night and when the Sun sets to give rest unto the Body he causeth a miraculous Morning to arise which awakens the Soul Now I no wayes doubt but our Pilgrim in his journyes towards the South feels also more resplendent ardors and more infired lightnings which inflam'd him with more violent more zealous and more lively desires and designs Mean while a generall famine came over all the Land of Canaan Facta est autem sames in terra descenditque Abram in Aegyptum ut peregrinaretur
with mourning how many bodies pierced through with Swords how many exiles and how many fatall events which have often been the end of a tragicall life and the disgracefull marks of an exemplar death have not Caesars been seen murthered in the midst of the Senate Nero's massacred by their rage and dispair a Cyrus beheaded by the command of a woman and his head plunged in the bloud he had so ardently desired Hath not also an Alexander been seen passing as lightning and who for this cause was drawn after his death by an excellent Painter under the form of a shining Taper which issued out of the womb of a Cloud to vanish away at the same instant Power of men how weak art thou Greatness how litle art thou Ah what Are these the bounds measures and heights to which all mortalls aspire hath impiety no other periods And shall Abysses of water be the Monuments of Pharaoh In truth can it possibly happen that the same Maximian who sought to efface for ever the name and memory of Christians should be strangled in the City of Marseilles that Dioclesian who had been his Colleague in the Empire and a complice in his designs should be consumed with putrifaction and eaten up with Worms Is it Bajazet who served for a block to get up a horse-back Is it not the heart of Julian the Apostate which I see pierced through with a deadly Arrow and the body of Valens which burns in flames and that of Anastasius who was as it were precipitated by a Thunder-bolt into the bottome of Hell Yea Dreadfull revolutions behold the course and dreadfull revolutions of all the Successors of Pharaoh After this let it be ask'd where they are and what is become of all these triumphant Chariots these Armies these People these Tyrants with all their power Down proud greatness down these Sacrilegious enterprises these blind furies and these obstinate cruelties which are more worthy of a Devil than of a man who hath any spark of reason In fine Pharaoh is drowned this great Dragon is dead his rage is satiated he hath heard the voice of Thunder and Thunder hath broken the wheeles of his Chariot He is no more or at least is groaning and dispairing in a Pool of Sulphur in a Sea of flames and in an Eternity of Punishments Moses and the Israelites on the banks of the shore and in a Paradise of delights make Canticles of joy and Songs of triumph to render thanks unto God for their deliverance CHAP. XIX The Canticle of Moses after the death of Pharaoh IF the severity of this History did permit me sometimes to mingle with it one of those Consorts whose Lawes and Rules are observed with Measure Cadence Rimes and Pauses and whose Charms flatter so much the most curious ears that with air they nourish and entertain the most Criticall minds I must often make use of the voyces of so many Swans which have taught our French muses the musicall Aires of Judea and Palestine in lieu of the prophane Songs used in the world and at Court I might often borrow some Harmonies from so many choise spirits which every day cause that antient Musick to resound in the heart of France which was first sung upon the Mountains of Sion and in the holy Land And I might at present make use of the sweet interpretation of those who have procured the Charming Eccho of this famous Canticle to be heard upon the banks of our Rivers which was sung by Moses neer the Red Sea after the deliverance of the people of Israel and the generall defeat of Pharaoh and his Troops But since the nature of the Stile to which I have engaged my self doth not permit me to use this pleasing mixture I will content my self with a pure and exact relation Nevertheless before hand we must observe In the first place there was never any Quire of Musick better ordered or more compleat The Holy Ghost was the Master of it and inspir'd Moses with all the Accents and words of this most sacred Consort Secondly Moses first and alone sung a Verse of this admirable Canticle which before his time had never been sung For the Hymns of Orpheus Linus and Musaeus were not invented till three hundred years after or thereabouts Thirdly Philo saith that all the people answered the voice of Moses Author lib. 1. de Mirab Scrip. Apud Aug. c. 21. where we must take notice with the Authour of the Memorable things of the holy Scripture that it was not without miracle men and Children and the rest of the people hearing every verse but once did yet faithfully repeat the same after Moses whose voice could not be heard of all However it were they spake all with one heart and voice or rather with millions of voices which came but from one and the same Source and from a like Spirit which animated so many lungs and mouths Let us sing Cantemus Domino gloriosè enim magnificatus est equum ascensorem dejecit in mare Evod. 15. v. 1. Let us sing Victory And let it be every where known that it is the great God of Israel who hath freed us from Irons and from the slavery under which we have so long groan'd He hath loosned our fetters he hath broken our Chains and thrown both Horses and Riders Pharaoh and his Troops Egypt and her Chariots into the bottome of the Sea Let his name be alwayes in our mouths his love in our bearts and the remembrance of his favours in the Center of our Souls Dextera tua Domine magnificata est in fortitudine dextera tua Domine percussit inicum Exod. 15. v. 6. Now the day of his glory breaks forth in the midst of night his power hath raised our weakness and his goodness which he hath alwayes shewed us hath triumphed over the malice of those who had design'd our ruine We must never seek then any other subject for our praises and for all our songs of Victory than this glorious Conquerour who bears in himself all our hopes and salvation He alone is our God and the God of our fore-fathers and for this cause he alone ought to be the subject of our acknowledgements and the term of our Loves Yes my God! It is thou on whom all our tongues shall be still employed all our hearts fixed The term of love and acknowledgement and all minds bent to proclame love and adore nothing but thy Glory and the Glory of thy Name which is no other than that of the omnipotent Lord. Thou art the great God of Battells the Conquerour of Conquerours and thou hast not disdained to arm thy self on our behalf Thou hast also drowned this potent Army which plotted our ruine and thou hast given these Tyrants for food unto Fishes and the waves of the Sea who intended to make us the Victims of their fury All of us have been witnesses of it and there is not any one amongst us who
which would fall in the new Law and should continue even unto the last consummation of the world and of the Church It was an Antepast of the Body of Jesus Christ hidden under this adorable bread whose species hath a particular resemblance with the Manna and a more excellent sweetness than that of this bread of the desart It must not also be taken untill we have abandoned the carnal alurements of Egypt and the deceiptfull delights of the world and sin This is the food presented by the hand of Magnificence and received by those of faith Whence it comes that covetous and unbelieving people find there nothing but wormes and putrefaction It is also a fruit and there is no need either of cultivating the Earth or sowing any graines or seedes to gather it But without humane labour it comes out of the bosome of God its Father and out of the Bowels of the Virgin and amidst the influences and dewes of the holy Ghost on a Table where souls meet with their most pleasing repast It is little and inclosed under small appearances of bread The people are astonished at it they ask in this great astonishment what it is and how that could be done which was told them and what they were to believe concerning it Every one might take it and how little soever it appeared it was given in such a proportion that men received is as great and immense as it is in Heaven It will cease on the Great day of Sabbath and repose after the course of this life and when we shall see it with our own Eyes without veil or figure in the Land of promise There shall we drink large draughts of it in the torrents of delight and in stead of the dew of Manna we shall be satiated in an Ocean of Nectar and Ambrosia that is without boundes measure limit or bottome Ah! I think the time long till we be out of Egypt and free from these chaines which linck us to so shamefull services and so unworthy of a Soul ransomed by the blood and life of a God Alas When will this so much desired moment come When shall we hear the Canticles of victory and when shall we goe amongst the daughtes of Sion to our Country crying out with a loud voice that Pharaoh is swallowed up under the Abysses and that all those troops of Enemies which pursue us have suffered a dismal shipwrack not onely under the waves of the Red Sea but under the lakes of fire Sulphur blood and Malediction Mean while let us content our selves with the real Manna whereof our forefathers have had but the Figure Let us goe unto the Sanctuary where it is deposited for us and our generations Let us eat this bread of Angels and let us drink of this wine which germinats virgins Let us make use of it according to the Lawes which are prescrib'd us Let us goe then early in the morning that is to say before the noise and tumult of this great World hath strucken our eares with so many importune unprofitable extravagant and dangerous discourses before our Eyes have been surprised by the sight of these Objects of Vanity Ambition Envy or of some other vice which is yet more infamous and finally before the great day be arrived in which we are commonly so dazled by some false splendors as we can hardly discern the truth Above all since this bread of Heaven hath all sorts of Savours let us not mix with it any earthly food or any of all those meates which the Flesh the World and Hell use to season for this were to mingle remedies with poison and convert a Feast of life into a repast of death and it had been much better for them to have remained amongst the Flesh-pots and onyons of Egypt or at least to have dyed of famine in some desart than to have immolated themselves at the foot of an Altar and Sanctuary as a victime of terror perfidiousness and Execration CHAP. XXI The Fountain of Horeb. IT is our condition here In hoc positi sumus Thes 1.3 saith the Apostle to be tempted on all sides and it is as natural to man to live in the midst of Combats and assaults as unto Fishes to Swim in the water and Birds to fly in the Air. It is our profession our Imployment and one of our most usual exercises to be in this conflict and we must necessarily always attacque or defend And often to repulse an assault were to be a Conquerour in this kind of war and though sometimes we be almost vanquished yet we may have the glory of triumphing provided we hold out to the last the reason of this is most evident for as much as the assailer being afterwards wholy constrained to make a dishonorable retreat he that hath been so couragious as strongly to ward all his blowes and to smile at his threats remains like a fortress and strong hold which after a long siedge sees at last the rout of those who had assaulted it and where if the Gates out-works Bulwarks and walls had mouths they would be heard to cry out victory and all these breaches would serve onely to say that even the defences have overcome Now that which causeth many to yeeld at the first approaches is the little courage they have to resist or an over-great confidence in their own forces imagining that they can doe what is impossible for them and that it is easy long to preserve a place whereof God is not the Govenour There are also some who are affrighted at the first difficulty and presently despair as if God were not gratious enough to help them and powerfull enough to furnish them with what they need His magnificent hand hath been pleased to doe us all the good we have and can expect Nevertheless we doe like the Hebrews who in the midst of the raines and dewes of Manna complain and murmur for want of one drop of water What ingratitude and what cruelty What would a man say who after he hath been delivered out of the midst of Slaves and Gallies or rather out of some dark prison where he could expect nothing but death and after he hath been conducted into Palaces and royall Courts educated and treated as a King amidst all the honours and delights which could be invented should be so brutish as to complain if once it should happen that some small attendance were not soon enough given him Would not the Prince and Redeemer of this infamous wretch have just cause to use him according to his desert and to change all his favours and bounties into punishments to chastice so horrid an ingratitude God notwithstanding after all the good entertainments he had bestowed on the people of Israel Igitur profecta omnie multitudo filiorum Israel de deserto Sin per mansiones suas ubi non erat aqua ad bibendum populo Exod. 17. v. 1. Et murmuravit contra Moisen dicens cur fecisti nos exire de
Rigorous Meekness and that person hath no soul who cannot be irritated when occasion is given Tyranny hath been always insupportable but powers sweetly rigorous have never been but the objects of the most just affections Cruelty is fit for Devils and Justice is apportioned unto men It is the Rod of God and the Scepter which he was pleased to put into the hands of the Sovereign Magistrate and of his Lieutenants to render men as it were partakers of his power and to adopt them unto his Empire We must not wonder then if Moses who was as his Lieutenant over his people made them sometimes feel the weight of his hand which had so often obliged and filled them with his magnificences but I should rather remain astonished how a single man could undertake so great a work and compass it with a few selected Children who inrolled themselves under his Standard Children saith he let us go who loves God A fair saying of a Captain Who loves God let him follow me Feceruntque filii Levi juxta sermonem Moisi cecideruntque in die illa quasi viginti tria millia hominum Exod 32. v. 28. let him follow me And presently in the head of some Levites he assaults he defeats and puts three and twenty thousand men to the sword Behold I beseech you what a man animated with the Spirit of God is able to do Admire also the power and authority of Moses who is in the midst of his Troops as the eye in the head and the heart in the centre of the body to watch to heat and as it were to defend every Levite Behold an army of Stags led by a Lyon which is more dreadful than an army of Lyons conducted by a Stag. So Aaron was but a timorous Stag when he gave way unto the murmurings of the people and Moses a generous Lyon when he himself plunged his Sword into the bosom of Rebellion and Impiety It is much easier to finde Soldiers than a brave Captain Paul Aemil. lib. 6. Hist Franc. And it was for this cause Heraclius Patriarck of Jerusalem coming unto Henry King of England to induce him to go in person to the Holy War this Blessed Man seeing that nothing but gifts were presented him answered That he had not so much need of money as of a good Conductor for one man of Courage Authority and Experience is worth a world of people And this was the occasion that heretofore the Grecians esteemed more Epaminondas than all the Commonwealth of Thebes which never enjoyed Liberty but under this brave Governor From hence Advice to Noble-men the great ones the Nobles and all that are in office may learn how they ought to comport themselves in enterprizes of importance since on them usually the safety of a City Province Kingdom and even Christianity it self depends Above all let them learn the art to mix Honey with Gall and always to joyn Power with Meekness and never to sever these two sisters which are the Tutelaries and Mistresses of a good Conduct And if it should sometimes happen that both of them had a minde to be scrupulous Reason ought to resolve their doubts and rather incline a thousand times unto Mercy than to have the least shadow of Cruelty To this effect it is fit to set our selves in the place of others and to treat them as we would desire to be treated our selves if capable thereof We may pass farther if we please and without breaking the Laws of Piety consecrate and offer our selves up for a Victim and receive at least into our own hearts the blow which was ready to fall on others Thus did Moses Reversusque ad Dominum ait Obsecro pectavit populus iste peccatum maximum feceruntque sibi Deos aurtos Aut dimitte eis hanc noxam Exod. 32. v. 31. who fearing lest a more just and severe hand might strike these poor Criminals which were left after so bloody a slaughter lifted up his yet bloody hands towards Heaven to the end Justice might have at least some cause to become flexible at the sight of his exploits and that the mildness of a Judge might not condemn him of an over indulgent remissness Hear then Sovereign Powers hear this poor Prince this generous Patriarck this incorruptible Judge this Father of Israel the Conductor of Gods people and the Lieutenant General of his Troops Alas my God saith he cast a gracious look upon thy people which are onely mine as being committed by thee unto my charge It is a Pledge thou hast put into my hands to restore it back unto thy self It is a Flock which thou hast nourished in the desert of which thou hast made me the Shepherd a Bark which thou hast drawn out of the billows of the Red Sea over which thou hast established me the Pilot Slaves which enjoy no liberty but by thy favor and children who can acknowledge no other Father and King than thy self They have offended thee I confess but thy goodness surpasseth there iniquity and the misery in which they are now involved is not a subject for thy Justice but for thy mercy all the favors thou hast conferred on them would not have their last effects if thou didst not continue thy graces to them and the desart which thou hast for their sake rendred a Paradise of blessings and delights would have been a fair way to lead them into a precipice It is sufficiently known how far thy power extends and that there needs but one of thy looks to consume the whole world with lightning and to cloud all the lights of Heaven but thou art also able with one word to repair Nature and thy goodness can in a moment raise a thousand Trophies in the midst of thy severest Justice and besides dost thou not see blood enough already spilt to satisfie thy vengeance and to efface the memory of one crime This example is general enough to excite every one in particular and of all those who are left alive there is not one which may not be innocent and desire to merit favor In fine Aut si non facis dele me de libro tuo quem scripsisti Exod. 32. v. 32. I humbly in their behalf request this favor of thee and I beseech thee rather to blot me out of thy Book of Life than not to grant them pardon I had rather become a subject of thy wrath and that there may be no memory of me than it should be said That I having been their Father and Conductor did afterward serve for an executioner in their last punishments It would be an eternal regret unto me to survive them and the glory I have had to have been their Captain and Judge would leave me nothing but shame and confusion I humbly beseech thee then yet once more to strike me out of thy Book and let me die with them or for them for I had rather be the Sacrifice than the Sacrificer and my loss will be
139 Hail plague of Egypt 286 Wretched Harvest of worldly men 152 Hail-storm in Constantinople 268 Hardness of Pharaohs heart 269 Hardness of heart a woful estate 271 Grashoppers of Egypt 289 I. Jacob and Esau 121 Figure of the Christian and Jewish people 116 Jacob Esau 's elder brother and how 137 His agreement with his father-in-law Laban 155 Jacob resolves to send Benjamin into Egypt 207 His descent into Egypt to see his son Joseph 223 The answer he made to Pharaoh concerning his age 229 His death and last words 231 Idols and their subversion 344 Detestable Idolatry of amorous persons 39 Jethro the counsel he gave to Moses to establish Judges for deciding differences between the people of Israel 337 Atheistical ignorance 85 Images of Jesus Christ anciently painted in Temples and Houses in the form of a Lamb 27 Image of a generous courage 69 Image of Gods judgement 86 Image of the lives of men 126 Image of the life and death of Jesus Christ 145 Image of Chastity 184 Image of the World 198 Imagination the effects and properties thereof 156 Unnatural impudence of Cham 48 Inconstancy of created things 113 Dreadful incertainty 135 Incarnation its draught and picture 144 Innocence secured 170 Innocence victorious 179 Inhumanity more than brutish 220 Joseph born of Rachel 154 Joseph sold by his brethren 165 Joseph known by his brethren 214 His lamentations for the death of his Father Jacob 242 Joshua his victories over the Amalekites 332 Isaac his birth 93 The discourse he held with his father asking him where was the victim of his Sacrifice 108 His submission and obedience 109 His mariage with Rebecca 116 Most exact Justice 83 Judges a fair example for them ibid. Judas the brother of Joseph made a speech to him in the name of his brethren 216 Judgements of God incomprehensible 290 Prodigious increase of the people of Israel 247 Jacobs Ladder 141 Jacobs wrestling with the Angel 159 K. Kings of France true successors of Abraham 80 L. Laban is grieved for the barrenness of his flocks 156 His agreement with Jacob and his return unto Mesopotamia 157 Lesson to husbands and wives 17 Leah considerable for her fruitfulness 154 Dangerous liberty 29 Liberality cannot be without freedom 79 Liberality portraict of the Divinity ibid. Liberty of holy Souls 80 Liberty of Esau cause of his misfortune 128 Laws their excellency 357 Their establishment 368 Lot delivered out of the hands of his enemies by the means of Abraham 70 Luxury destruction of souls and canker of body 64 Love its effects and properties 3 Love architect of the world ibid. Gods love never idle 73 Incredulous love 224 Ladder of divine providence 146 Lots wife transformed into a pillar of Salt 89 Irreparable loss 184 Life of man a war without truce 159 Life and death inseparable companions 231 M. Magicians of Pharaoh and their enchantments 270 Admirable magnificence of God 58 Malediction of parents dangerous 132 Malediction of God on the Serpent 23 Malediction of Noah on his son 48 Malice of an eloquent woman 20 Manna of the desart 320 The time when it was to be gathered 323 Mariages subject to many disasters 123 Mariage of Isaac with Rebecca 116 Assured marks of our disposition 126 Martyrdom of love 103 Mixture of fortune 166 Excellent meditation 298 Pleasing Metamorphosis 63 Murther of Abel 27 Michael the Emperor quits his Empire to enter into a religious life 58 Mirror of Essences the motto thereof 29 World error of some Philosophers touching the beginning thereof 8 Monarchy of Adam and Eve over the Univers 19 The world is a Theatre 116 Extreme mortification 145 Motives which induced God to create the world 1 Motives of Conscience 140 Powerful motives to divert the brethren of Joseph from wicked designs 172 Moses 246 His birth and education ibid. His learning 252 His zeal and mariage with the daughter of the Prince of Madian 253 His fear at the sight of the flaming Bush 257 His Commission concerning the deliverance of the people of Israel 260 The certain marks of his power 263 He excuseth himself for accepting the Commission which God gave him 265 The threats God used to him 266 His Embassie into Egypt 267 He is visited in the desart where he creates Judges and Magistrates 334 His last Actions 385 His Testament 386 His last Canticle 402 Mysteries hidden under the Paschal Lamb 300 Man necessary for the world 9 Men eloquent when it concerns their own praise excellent conceptions upon this subject 10 Man the sport of the gods 148 Honest man what he is 163 N. Nature of God beneficent 320 Nature her power limited 269 Nembrod cheif contriver of the Tower of Babel his spirit and disposition 49 Noah his obedience to the command of God 41 His going out of the Ark and his sacrifice on the Hills of Armenia 44 Names Chariots of Essences 74 O. Obligation of fathers and mothers 128 Dreadful obstinacy 271 Oeconomy of the humane body 12 Opinion of Hesiod touching the Creation of the World 8 Original sin 15 Ornaments of the Sanctuary 369 P. Peace and Purity inseparable companions 65 Terrestrial Paradise 16 Paradise first habitation of man 16 Passions their different nature 181 Patience very awful 84 Persecution of modesty 184 Perfidiousness of the world 206 Plague of Egypt 284 Natural causes of the plague 285 Pharaoh King of Egypt makes Joseph his Lieutenant by reason of the truth of his predictions 196 Command of Pharaoh concerning the murther of all the male-children of the Hebrews 248 Pharaoh swallowed up in the Red Sea 304 Plagues of Egypt 275 Antient Policy 356 Portraict of the Justice of God 86 Predictions of Joseph 192 Efficacious prayers 122 Prevision of merits 137 Proclaming of Joseph by his Brethren 172 Promulgation of the Law on Mount Sina 343 Paternal Prudence 169 Punishment of Adam 14 Shameful pusillanimity 69 Putipher his over-great credulity 186 The impudence of his wife and her attempt upon the chastity of Joseph 178 Paschal Lamb 299 Planets the beginning of their courses 5 Pillar of Fire and Clouds 379 Picture of Hell 91 Picture of Fortune 194 Pains of women in child-bearing 23 Prayer the power and effects thereof 122 R. Rachel and her sterility 154 Radegond a despiseth France to become religious 59 Ramerus King of Aragon follows the same destiny ibid. Amiable resemblance between Joseph and Jesus Christ 222 The recompence of Jacob for his services 155 Pitiful reliques of sin 26 Remorse of Conscience 32 Remedies against Envy 35 Reproaches of God to Cain 28 Very just resentments 77 Rosignation of Abraham 101 Angelical resolution of Joseph 181 Rock and its motto 102 Ruben his affection towards his brother Joseph 173 Rivers their bounds and limits 5 River of Charity 80 S. Sacrifices very different of Abel and Cain 28 Sacrifices of Aaron consumed by fire from Heaven 376 Sanctification of the Sabhath 346 Sarah her death 113 How long she lived 115 Scamander i'ts properties effects