from God that no admonition of the Prophets which were daily sent him could turn him And last of all when Zacharia the Son of Jehojadah came unto him to call him again unto the Lord he notwithstanding the great kindness and faithfulness of Jehojadah his Father before him caused Zacharia to be put to death for the which cause the Lord stirred up the Syrians against him which slew a great number of his People and in the end his own Servants conspired against him for his ingratitude and slew him upon his own Bed after he had reigned forty years and buried him in the City of David but not among the Kings Joash the Lords fire or the Lords oblation Joash 2 King 13.9 10 c. the Son of Jehoahas began his Reign over Israel in the xxxvii year of Joash King of Juda and did evil in the sight of the Lord grieving him with the sins of Jeroboam the Son of Nebat 2 Chron. 25.17 18 c. Of the great Victory the Lord gave Joash against Amasiah King of Juda read his story And how he visited Elizeus the Prophet in his sickness read the last end of his story also This King reigned xvi years and dyed leaving Jeroboam his Son to take his place Job Job 1. cap. was a perfect just Man dwelling in the Land of Hus and one that feared God who gave unto him seven Sons and three Daughters and also endued him with great riches His substance was 7000. sheep 3000. Camels 500. yoak of Oxen 500. she-Camels and a very great Houshold So that he was one of the most principal Men among all them of the East-Country He was so careful over his Sons lest in their banquetting they had committed some offence or been unthankful to God in their hearts that he daily would sanctifie them and offer for every one a burnt-offering unto the Lord he was a Man also replenished with such patience that Satan with all his temptations could not move him out of the same for when word was brought him how that the Sabeans had taken away his Oxen and slain his Servants and that the Lord had consumed all his Sheep with fire and that the Chaldees had taken away his Camels and how that all his Children were slain in their eldest Brother's house which the wind blew down upon them he made no more a do but said Naked came I out of my Mothers Womb and naked shall I return again The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away even as it hath pleased the Lord so is it come to pass 2. cap. blessed be the name of the Lord. Also when Satan by the permission of God had plagued Job with extreme sores even from the sole of the Foot to the crown of his Head so that he sat upon the ground in dust and ashes scraping off the filth of his sores with a Potsherd and being also inwardly afflicted with the sharp temptation of his Wife which tempted him to blaspheme God he took all in good part reproving his Wife for her foolish talking for shall we quoth he receive good at the hand of God and not receive evil not so I am as well content to suffer this adversity sent of the Lord as I was to receive the prosperity he gave me before And so Job continued in his uprightness Job 42. and was at the last restored to as many Children as he had before and to double riches He lived an hundred and forty years and saw his Childrens children to the fourth generation before he dyed Job Sorrowful or hated Jochebed Exod. 6.20 Num. 26.59 was the Daughter of Levy and * She was Amram's Father's Sister which kind of marriage was after in the Law forbidden Levit 18. born in Egypt Her Husband 's name was Amram to whom she bare three Children Aaron Moses and a Daughter called Miriam Jochebed Glorious Jokshan was the Son ‖ Gen. 25.2 1 Chron. 1.32 of Abraham begotten of his Wife Keturah his two Children were called the one Sheba and the other Dedan Jokshan Hardness or Offence Joel the Son of Phatuel was * Joel 1 2 3. cap. an holy Prophet and prophesied against the Jews exhorting the Priests to prayer and fasting for the misery that was coming at hand And giving them warning of the coming and cruelty of their enemies moved them to turn and convert And last of all he setteth out the Judgment of God against the enemies of his People Joel willing or beginning Johanan Jer. 40.13 the Son of Kareah Prophesied to Gedaliah whom Nabuchodonosor King of Babylon had made Governour over the People that he left at Jerusalem that Ishmael the Son of Nethaniah by the procurement of Baalis King of the Ammonites should kill him which came so to pass indeed as ye shall read in the story of Gedaliah After whose death 41. cap. 42. cap. Johanan with the rest of the Captains over the Jews persecuted Ishmael and recovered from him all the People which he had carried away and put Ishamael to flight Then Johanan fearing the Chaldees because of the death of Gedaliah consulted with the rest of the Captains and agreed to conveigh themselves all the People into Egypt and asked counsel of Jeremy the Prophet who had dwelt quietly in the Land under Gedaliah whether it were best so to do or no who made them answer that if they went into Egypt they should perish but if they tarried still in the Land God would surely so defend them 43.5 6 c. that the Chaldees should not hurt them yet they of a proud mind despising the counsel of Jeremy and taking his words for lies led the People away into Egypt to their utter destruction John Baptist the Son of Zachary Luk. 1. cap. was sanctified in the womb of Elizabeth his Mother and ordained of God to be an abstainer and to go before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elias to prepare his way and make ready a perfect People unto him thorow preaching the amendment of life Luk. 3.3 4 c. and baptizing in the water of repentance And was a Man of so great perfection and holiness of life that the People stood in a doubt whether that he were Christ or no. And being asked the question denied plainly that he was not Christ nor Elias neither that Prophet whom they dreamed so much upon but only the voice of a cryer in the Wilderness to make streight the way of the Lord. For I do Baptise saith John in water only but there is one now come among you who although he came after me was before me whose Shoo latchet I am not worthy to unloose and he it is that shall Baptise you with the Holy Ghost John was a constant Man and lived austerely His Garment was course Cloth made of Camels hair His Meat was Locusts and wild Hony He was a Prophet and as Christ reporteth more than a Prophet
or crisped Cornelius was an Heathen man dwelling in Cesarea Acts 10. cap. and a Captain over a Band of Men which were in Italy This Man notwithstanding he was a Gentile born and in office a Man of Arms yet he was a good liver and feared God as it well appeared chiefly in two points which was in liberally relieving the poor and needy and his continual praying unto the Lord. In the which prayer as he was on a time occupied about the ninth hour of the day which was a little before Supper time he saw in a Vision an Angel of God coming to him and calling him by his Name saying Cornelius thy Prayers and thine Alms-deeds are come up into remembrance before God wherefore send to Joppa for one Simon whose Sirname is Peter he lodgeth with one Simon a Tanner whose house joyneth upon the Sea-side and he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do Then Cornelius sent for Peter against whose coming he had called together all his Kinsmen and special friends And when Peter was come Cornelius met him and fell down at his Feet to worship him which thing Peter would not suffer forasmuch as he was but a Man as Cornelius was And so going in with him he found a great company gathered together unto whom he said Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a Man that is a Jew born to company with or come to one that is of another Nation But God hath shewed me that I should not make any Man common or unclean Therefore came I unto you without saying nay assoon as I was sent for I ask therefore for what intent have ye sent for me Then Cornelius said Four days ago and even about this same hour I fasted and at the ninth hour I prayed in my House and behold a Man stood before me in bright clothing and said Cornelius thy Prayer is heard and thine Alms deeds are had in remembrance in the sight of God send therefore to Joppa and call for Simon whose Sirname is Peter he is lodged in the House of one Simon a Tanner by the Sea-side the which assoon as he is come shall speak unto thee Then sent I for thee immediately and thou hast well done for to come Now therefore are we all here present before God to hear all things that are commanded unto thee Then Peter preached the Word of God unto them and while he was yet preaching the Holy Ghost fell upon them all so that in the end Cornelius with all his Company there present were Baptized in the Name of Christ Jesus Cornelius a proper name Chore Numb 16. cap. was the Son of Jezehar the Son of Caath the Son of Levi. This Chore out of a stout and proud heart envied and detested Moses the true servant of God and raised up a sedition against him and Aaron having with him Dathan Abiram and On three great Captains beside 250. other Noble-men that took his part which Insurrection by the power of Man was unsuppressible But Almighty God caused the Earth to open and swallow them up with their Wives Children and all their substance Here is a question to be moved This is the exposition of a certain learned Man named Richard Turner Bacheler of Divinity and Reader in the Colledge of Windsor in the days of King Edward the sixth If all the substance of Chore with his Wife and Children were swallowed up of the Earth with them how can that be true which is written in the Title of the 41. Psalm that the children of Chore were either the makers or the singers or the setters forth of that godly Psalm Answer is made Numb 26. where it is written that when Chore was swallowed up of the Earth God miraculously preserved certain of his children of whose off spring there came very excellent learned and notable wise men and specially these four Ethan * 1 King 4.31 the Ezrahite to wit that was born in the Town called Ezrahi Heman Chalcol and Darda which four so far excelled all other in wisdome and learning that the wisdome of Solomon was compared to be as great as theirs These four are called the Children of Chore not that they were the natural children of Chore but that they came of the off spring of the children of Chore which God had miraculously preserved from the great gulph and gaping of the Earth For it is well known that Chore lived in Moses's time and that he was the Chief in stirring up of Rebellion against him whereas Ethan Heman Chalcol and Darda lived and flourished in Solomon's time which was 480. years or thereabout after that Chore was killed So that these Men could not be the natural children of Chore but are called his Children and his Sons because they came of his Progeny and off-spring Chore Bald or baldness lce or frost Cyrus King of Persia 1 Esd 1. in the first year of his reign delivered the People of Israel out of Captivity and gave them liberty to go and build the * Cyrus being insatiable in coveting Countries was slain of Tomiris Queen of Seythia with 200000 Persians who caused his Head to be cut off and cast into a Vessel of blood saying Satisfie thy self with bloud which thou hast always thirsted Lanquet City of Jerusalem and the Temple of God again which Nabuchodonosor had destroyed and sent with them all the Vessels of Gold and Silver pertaining to the House of the Lord which were in number 5400. And the number of the whole Congregation that returned from the captivity of Babylon were XLII thousand three hundred and three score beside their Servants and Maidens which were 6337. and among them also were 200. singing men and women And of this Cyrus it was prophesied by the Prophet Esay long before Cyrus was born that he should deliver the children of Israel out of captivity Cyrus as it were a miserable man or as it were an heir a belly Chushan Rishathaim was * Judg. 3.10 King of Mesopotamia into whose hand God delivered the Children of Israel because they turned from him to serve strange Gods which King kept them in Bondage Eight Years till at last they crying to the Lord for help God raised up Othoniel which delivered them out of his hands Chushan Rishathaim Seeing or prophesying D. DALILAH was the Wife of Samson Judg. 16.4 c. who thorow the perswasions of the Philistines flattered him so long until she had got knowledge where all his strength lay that known she so dallyed with him that he laying down his Head upon her Lap and there falling a-sleep she caused the Hair of his Head to be shaven off and so betrayed him to the Philistines Dalilah a Bucket or Consumer Damaris Act. 17. ult was a certain godly Woman dwelling at the City of Athens whom among others Paul converted Damaris a little wife Dan Gen. 30.6 c. was the Son of Jacob born him of Bilha Rachel's
the Jews lay in great fear of him and his Power he was there by God's provision slain by the hands of an holy Woman called Judith Read her story Holofernes A stout and valiant Captain Hophni and Yhinchas the two Sons of Eli 1 Sam. 2 12-22 c. were the Lords Priests and became so wicked that they abused the Women that waited at the Door of the Tabernacle of witness And whereas the Law was that whensoever any Man did make any offering the Priests boy should come while the flesh was a seething and not before with a Flesh-hook in his hand having three teeth which he should thrust into the Pan Kettle or whatsoever Vessel it were and so much as the Flesh-hook brought up was the Priests part and no more yet notwithstanding this Law the Priest's boy would come before the Flesh was sod and require flesh to rost for the Priest and say unto him that made the offering that his Master would have no sod flesh but raw And if he would not give it him then would the Boy take it by violence By the which abusing of the Law the Lord's offering was had in such contempt among the People that they began to abhor it Wherefore the Lord plagued the Sons of Eli permitting the Philistines to slay them both in one day 4. cap. Hophni a Fist or as much as one may comprehend between his thumb and two fingers or covering Hoshea 2 King 15.30.17 cap. the Son of Elah by treason slew Pekah the Son of Remaliah King of Israel and possessed his place and began his Reign in the XII year of Ahaz King of Juda This was the last King that raigned over Israel and did evil in the sight of the Lord but not so evil as other Kings before him He denied to pay Tribute to the Assyrians and sent to the King of Egypt to have his aid against them wherefore Salmanasar King of Assyria came against Hoshea and besieged him in Samaria three years and in the end wan the City destroyed his Kingdom and led Hoshea and all his People captive into Assyria Thus was Israel now delivered into the hands of spoilers for their wickedness which the Lord had long suffered Hoshea a Saviour or health Huldah 2 King 22.14 the Wife of Shallum was a Prophetess dwelling in Jerusalem in a place called the house of doctrine To whom Josiah King of Juda sent certain Messengers to inquire of the Lord for him and his People concerning the Book of the Law which was found in the Temple and read before him and when they had done their message the Prophetess made answer saying Go and tell the man that sent you to me Thus saith the Lord behold I will bring evil upon this place and upon the Inhabitants thereof even all the words of the Book which the King of Juda hath read because they have forsaken me and have burnt Incense to other Gods to anger me with all the works of their hands My wrath also shall be kindled against this place and shall not be quenched But to the King of Juda who sent you to inquire of the Lord so shall ye say unto him Thus saith the Lord God of Israel the words that thou hast heard shall come to pass But because that thine heart did melt and thou hast humbled thy self before the Lord when thou heardest what I spake against this place and against the Inhabitants of the same how they should be destroyed and accursed and hast rent thy Cloaths and wept before me I have also heard it saith the Lord. Behold therefore I will gather thee unto thy Fathers and thou shalt be put in thy Grave in peace and thine eyes shall not see all the evil that I will bring upon this place And so the Messengers departed and told the King Huldah the World or a Weesel Hur came of the Tribe of Juda Exod. 17.10.24.14.31.2 and * This is not that Hur which came of the Kinred of Calcb although they came both of the Tribe of Juda but another of the same name Lyra upon 1 Chron. 2. This Hur was Husband to Miriam Sister to Moses was one of the principal Fathers and Rulers under Moses He and Aaron stayed up the hands of Moses while the Children of Israel fought with King Amalek And was also appointed with Aaron afterward to hear and determine all matters of controversie among the People till Moses came down from the Mount again whereunto he was ascended Hur Liberty whiteness or a hole Hushai the Arachite was ‖ 2 Sam. 15.32.16.16 Man of great wisdome and one of David's chief Counsellers his assured friend as it well appeared when he came unto him being fled from Absalom his Son with his Cloaths rent and ashes upon his Head declaring thereby the great sorrow and heaviness he was in to see his Lord and Master in that case by whose coming David was greatly comforted But forasmuch as he thought he should do him more pleasure otherwise than to go with him now he said Oh my most dear friend Hushai if thou dost go with me now at this time thou shalt be but a burthen unto me But if thou wilt return into Jerusalem and say unto Absalom I will be thy servant O King and serve thee as I have done thy Father thou mayst for my sake destroy the counsel of Achitophel and thereby do me great pleasure So Hushai gat him to Absalom saying God save the King God save the King What quoth Absalom is this the kindness thou shewest to thy friend How chanceth it that thou wentest not with him Nay said Hushai but whom the Lord and this People and all the Men of Israel hath chosen his will I be and with him will I dwell to whom shall I do service but to his Son as I served before thy Father so will I serve thee Then when Absalom had retained Hushai to be of his Counsel he said unto him Achitophel hath counselled thus and thus to do shall we do thereafter or not Hushai answered the Counsel that Achitophel hath given is not good at this time For said he thou knowest thy Father and his Men how they be strong and now being chafed in their minds are even as a Bear robbed of her Whelps in the Field And also thy Father is a Man practised in War and maketh no tarrying with the People Behold he lurketh now in some Cave or in some other strong place and though some of his Men be overthrown at the first brunt it will be said that thy People is overthrown and so shall the best Men thou hast whose hearts are as the hearts of Lyons shrink thereat For all Israel knoweth thy Father to be a Man of great might and his Warriors stout Men. Therefore my counsel is that all Israel be gathered together unto thee from Dan to Beersheba which are in number as the Sand of the Sea And that thou go to Battel in
took her from David and gave her to * Look in the history of Psaltei how he used Michal David's Wise Psaltei the Son of Lais to Wife with whom she remained till the death of Saul and then was restored again to David by Abner's means Finally when David came dancing before the Ark of God in his shirt to the City of David it chanced Michal to look out at a Window and beholding the King how he leaped and danced before the Ark she began to despise him in her heart and meeting him after all things were done she said O how glorious was the King of Israel this day which was uncovered to day in the eyes of the Maidens of his Servants as a Fool uncovereth himself And for thus despising of David the Servant of God the Lord plagued her with Barrenness that she never had Child Michal who is perfect Mephibosheth 2 Sam. 4.4 the Son of Jonathan was lame in his Feet by reason his Nurse by misfortune in his infancy let him fall to the Ground out of her Arms and was brought up and nourished after the death of his Father in the House of Machir 9. cap. 4 c. till David coming to his Kingdom took him from thence and restored him to all the Land of King Saul making Ziba his Servant chief Overseer and Receiver of the Lands and to see Micah his Master's Son well brought up and cherished for so much as Mephibosheth should remain with him and eat and drink at his own Board Now after this when David was brought into so great affliction trouble by reason of Absalom his Son Mephibosheth remained still at Jerusalem and never removed 2 Sam. 16.1 2 c. But Ziba his Servant went after David with a present and by false report of Mephibosheth his Master got his Land from him And when the King was returned and come to Jerusalem again 19.24 c. then Mephibosheth who had neither washed his Feet nor dressed his Beard nor washed his Cloaths from the time the King departed until he returned in peace went out to meet him and when the King saw him he said Wherefore wentest thou not with me Mephibosheth He answered My Lord O King my Servant deceived me for thy Servant said I would have mine Ass sadled to ride thereon for to go with the King because thy Servant is lame Therefore Ziba hath falsly accused thy Servant to my Lord the King but my Lord the King is as an Angel of God Do therefore what it pleaseth thee for all my Fathers House were but dead Men before my Lord the King and yet didst thou set thy Servant among them that did eat at thine own Table What right have I to cry any more unto the King Then said David why speakest thou yet in thine own cause I have said Thou and Ziba divide the Land between you Yea said Mephibosheth let him take all seeing my Lord the King is come home in peace Mephibosheth shame or confusion from the mouth Mephibosheth 2 Sam. 21.8 the Son of Rizpah King Saul's Concubine was by the Gibeonites with his Brother Armoni hanged for their Father's offence Miriam Exo. 6.20 was the Daughter of Amram and Jochebed and Sister to Aaron and Moses When her Brother Moses had brought the Children of Israel thorow the red Sea Exo. 15.20 Miriam the Prophetess took a Timbrel in her hand with other Women following in like sort and began joyfully to sing and dance Their Song was this Sing ye unto the Lord for he hath triumphed gloriously The Horse and his Rider hath he overthrown in the Sea After this she grudged against Moses Num. 12.1 10. because he had taken an Ethiopian Woman to his Wife wherefore the Lord smore her with Leprosie Then Moses partly for pity and partly at the intercession of Aaron his Brother besought the Lord to heal her who made him answer saying If her Father in anger had spit in her Face should she not have been ashamed seven days Let her be shut out of the Host seven days which being done she was restored and received in again Finally when Moses and the Children of Israel were come to Kadesh Num. 20.1 there she died and was buried Miriam exalted or reaching Meshach first called Mishael Dan. 1.7.3 cap. was one of Daniel's Companions and one of the three which was cast into the hot burning Furnace and miraculously preserved Meshach prolonging or drawing to him or compassing the waters or hedging Mithridates was King Cyrus's Treasurer 3 Esd 2. at whose commandment he delivered all the holy Vessels of Gold and Silver pertaining to the House of the Lord to Salmanassar the Deputy in Jewry The number of which Vessels was five thousand eight hundred and three score Mithridates dissolving the law Mnason was a certain godly Man Act. 21.16 and a Cyprian born who had of long time believed the Gospel in whose House Paul was lodged at Jerusalem Mnason a searcher out or promising or remembring Moses the Son of Amram and Jochebed Exod. 2. cap. was miraculously preserved at his birth For whereas Pharaoh the King of Egypt had straitly commanded the Midwives Moses signifieth preserved from the water that whensoever they saw an Hebrew bring forth a Man-child they should cast it into the River yet Moses being born and a proper Child was notwithstanding the King's Commandment kept secretly three Months And when his Parents could hide him no longer they closed him in a Basket made of Reed or Bulrushes dawbed with slime and pitch and laid him in the River And as the Child's sister stood looking what should become of him it came to pass that King Pharaoh's * Her name was Termuth Daughter came a walking by the River side who seeing the Basket floating upon the River caused one of her Folks to take it up And when she had opened the Basket and saw the Child she had pity upon it and caused the Maid his sister to fetch her a Nurse who went and brought his own Mother And so the Child being nursed and brought up in Pharaoh's house was instructed from his Childhood in all manner of cunning and wisdom of the Egyptians and became mighty in words and deeds saving in his speech he had an impediment And when he was full forty years old it came in his heart to go and visit his Brethren the Children of Israel whom Pharaoh vexed without all measure And as he saw an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew How that Moscs's impedment of speech came The King on a time for his Daughter's sake took the Child in his arms and set the Crown upon his Head which Moses as it were childishly playing hurled to the ground and with his Foot spurned it At the which the Priest cried out saying that this was he of whom it was prophesied that he should destroy Egypt Then Termuth excused the Child alledging his infancy and lack of
other HOLY MEN. AARON was the Son of Amram Exod. 6. and Brother to Moses and of the Tribe of Levi. His Mothers Name was Jochebed Sister to Caath the Father of Amram He was appointed of God to be Moses Interpreter and also his Prophet what time as God sent Moses to Pharaoh to pour out his plagues upon him He took Elisaba the daughter of Aminadab of the Tribe of Juda to wife He was the first High-priest of the Jews Exod. 24. And left with Hur to govern the People in the absence of Moses while he was in the Mount with God 32. cap. And in the mean time the People being yet infected with the Idolatry of Egypt cried out against Aaron to make them gods to go before them Then Aaron perceiving the People inclined to Idolatry and also thinking they would rather forgo the same than to forsake their precious Jewels said unto them Pluck off the golden Ear-rings in the ears of your Wives your Sons and of your Daughters and bring them to me The people did so and Aaron made thereof a Calf Which when the people saw and beheld they were exceeding glad And began now to worship and honour the Calf as a god skipping and dancing for joy But the Lord above beholding their wickedness told it to Moses and sent him down post-hast to reform their wicked attempts Who then coming down from the Mount with the Tables of God in his hand and drawing near to the Host he saw the Calf and the people dancing before it Which sight so kindled the wrath of Moses and grieved his heart so sore that he threw the Tables out of his hands took the Calf and burnt it in the Fire and stampt it all into powder and ashes which he threw into the water and forced the People to drink it Then he demanded of Aaron what the people did to him that he had brought so great a sin upon them Aaron said Let not the wrath of my Lord wax fierce thou knowest the people that they are set on mischief For they said unto me make us gods to go before us for we wot not what is become of Moses the Man that brought us out of Egypt Then I required to have their Gold and Jewels which they brought unto me and I did cast them into the Fire Idolatry punished Nu. 12. cap. and thereof came out this Calf Moses then understanding the matter commanded the Children of Levi to fall upon the Idolaters and slew of them about three thousand persons After this it came to pass that Aaron and Miriam his Sister did grudge against their Brother Moses because he had taken an Ethiopian to Wife saying on this wise Hath the Lord indeed spoken only through Moses and hath he not spoken also by us Disobedience punished The Lord not content with this their contemning of Moses authority was sore displeased and stroke Miriam with a foul Leprosie Which so much discomforted Aaron to see his Sister so foully arrayed and disfigured that he humbled himself to Moses and said Alas my Lord I beseech thee put not the sin upon us which we have foolishly committed and sinned Oh let her not be as one dead of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his Mothers womb And so thorow Aaron's intreaty Moses prayed unto God 22.33 and Miriam was healed Finally when Aaron had lived one hundred twenty three Years he died in Mount Hor as the Lord had foretold And his Son Eleazar succeeded in his room Aaron a Teacher Abakuck the Prophet was of the Tribe of Simeon Dan. 14. He prophesied of the taking of Jerusalem by Nabuchodonosor This Prophet on a time had prepared pottage and other victuals for the Harvest-folks And going to the fields to bring the same to the Reapers an Angel of God spake unto him and said Go and carry the meat that thou hast prepared into Babylon and give it to Daniel which is in the Lyons Den. O Lord quoth he I never saw Babylon and as for the Den I know it not With that the Angel caught up the Prophet by the top of his head and bare him to Babylon and set him upon the Den. Then Abakuck cried to Daniel and said O Daniel thou servant of the Lord take here the breakfast that God hath sent thee Daniel hearing the voice of Abakuck rejoyced greatly and said O Lord Abakuck died six hundred years before the Incarnation of Christ Eliote hast thou thought upon me Well thou never failest them that love thee And so he rose up and did eat of such things as the Prophet had brought him And immediately after that Daniel had eaten the Angel set Abacuck in his place again Abakuck a Wrastler Abdy the Prophet prophesied destruction to the Idumeans which came of Esau Abdy 1. cap. and were utter enemies to the Israelites which came of Jacob as at the siege of Jerusalem it did most plainly appear whereas they joyned with Nabuchodonosor against their brethren whom they ought rather to have holpen and defended against the Heathen Abdy a servant of the Lord. Abedmelech was a Morian born Jerem. 38. and Chamberlain to Zedekia King of Juda. This Man had so great a confidence in God and love to his Prophets that when he saw Jeremy so evil intreated he went to the King and besought his Grace that Jeremy the Prophet might be taken out of the filthy Dungeon whereinto he was cast lest he there should perish and dye for hunger And so obtaining the Kings good will he took his Men and went to the Prison where Jeremy lay and threw down unto him old rags clowts which he had provided bidding him to put them under his Arm-holes to keep the Cords from hurting and fretting his Arms in pulling up Jerem. 39. Now for this his kindness shewed on Jeremy Kindness recompensed and trust that he had in the Lord he was delivered from captivity and saved from the hands of Nabuchodonosor at the destruction of Jerusalem when others perished Abel was the Son of Adam Gen. 4. born of his Mother Eve next after Cain He was a Keeper of Sheep and wholly dedicated to vertue and godliness Abel and Delbora his Sister were born both at one birth fifteen years after Cain Cooper In all his oblations he ever gave of the best things he had Which of the Lord was greatly accepted And therefore Cain perceiving his Brothers offerings to be regarded and his rejected envyed him to death And at the last by a subtile train slew him Abel Vanity Abia 1 King 15. the Son of Rehoboam began his raign over Juda in the xviii Year of Jeroboam King of Israel His Mothers Name was Maacha the Daughter of Abishalom He walked not in the steps of David but followed the ways of his Father before him Yet notwithstanding for David's sake God gave him a light that is to say a Son to Raign over
report to their Brethren of that good Land saying it was a Country of strong and fierce People and such a Land as did eat up the Inhabiters thereof and with like perswasions made them both astonished and afraid and to murmur and grudge against Moses and Aaron saying they would make them a Captain and go into Egypt again Then Caleb and Joshua seeing their Brethren so discomfited rent their cloaths for sorrow and said Oh dear Brethren be ye not discouraged at these false surmised tails neither yet rebel against the Lord for we have seen the Land as well as they that have discouraged you and know it to be a better Land than they report a Land that floweth with Milk and Hony And as for the People therein fear them not for they be but Bread for us their shield is departed from them and God is with us therefore pluck up your hearts and fear not With these and the like comfortable sayings Caleb and Jeshua withdrew the fury of the multitude which were ready to destroy them and also ceased their murmuring which murmuration of the People so grieved the Lord that he swore to Moses that not one of them all should see that good Land save Caleb and Joshua although their children should see it But first said God to Moses they shall wander in the Wilderness Forty Years and suffer for their Fathers * Which is their infidelity and disobedience whoredome until their Fathers Carkasses be wasted a Year for a Day according to the number of days in searching the Land which was forty days And because Caleb followed the Lord continually God swore to Moses that Caleb and his Seed should inherit that Land which came so to pass for after xlv years Josh 14 10 11. Caleb then being at the age of lxxxv years and as lusty as he was when Moses sent him first to search the Land required of Joshua his Heritage who appointed out unto him the City of Hebron with the Countries thereabout out of the which City he drove out the three Sons of Anak Joshua 15.14 Judg. 1.13 This Caleb had a younger Brother called Othoniel to whom he gave his Daughter Achsah to Wife for taking of a certain City called Kiriathsepher Caleb as a Hart. Carpus 2 Tim. 4.13 was a certain godly Man dwelling at Croada with whom Paul left his Cloak with certain Books which he desired Timothy to bring with him when he came to him again Carpus Fruit or fruitful Cendebius 1 Mac. 15. cap. 16. was Captain-General of Antiochus's Host And when he had done much harm in the Land of Jewry and built up Cedron and fortified it with Men of War he was at the last by the Sons of Simon discomfited and put to flight Cendebius Zeal or the possession of sorrow or grief Cereas was Brother to Timotheus 2 Mac. 10. and Captain of a strong Castle called Gazar into the which Timotheus being overcome of Judas Machabeus was fain to flie for succor Now Cereas and they that were with him in the Fort trusted so much to the strength of the place that they fell to railing and cursing of their Enemies without who notwithstanding set so manfully upon the Hold that at last they wan it and took the blasphemers and burnt them quick and slew this Cereas and his Brother Timotheus with another famous Captain called Apollophanes Cereas Glad or rejoycing Centura look Ketura Chedorlaomor look Kedorlaomor Cis was the Son of Abiel of the Tribe of Benjamin 1 Sam 9.1 c. and Father to King Saul Whose Asses on a time being strayed abroad he said unto Saul his Son Take one of the Lads with thee and go and seek out mine Asses that are lost This Cis is called also the Son of Ner 1 Chron. 8.33 Cis Hard or stubble or a place where Cucumbers are Cis The Son of Jehiel 1 Cor. 8.29 30.9.35 36. his Mother was called Maacah Cis the Son of Mahli Son to Merari 1 Chron. 23.21 His Brother's name was Eleazar Whose Daughters he being dead the Sons of this Cis took to their Wives Claudia was a certain godly Brother 2 Tim. 4.21 who being with Paul at Rome sent as many more did greetings to Timothy in Paul's Letter Claudia a proper name Act. 11.28 * He was poisoned of his Wife Agrippina that Nero her son might succeed in the Empire Claudius was an Emperour in whose time the fourth Year of his reign was a great Dearth thorowout all the World whereof Agabus the Prophet prophesied aforehand Claudius a proper name Cleopatra Cooper 1 Mac. 10. chap. 11. the Daughter of King Ptolomy was married to Alexander the Son of Noble Antiochus And again for displeasure taken from Alexander her lawful Husband and given to Demetrius the Son of Demetrius Cleopatra the Glory of the Country Cleophas Luk. 24.13.18 was the Husband of Mary Sister to Mary the Mother of Christ and one of the two Disciples which after the death of Christ went to the Town of Emaus talking and reasoning together of all things that had happened to Jesus and as they were reasoning the matter Jesus joyned himself personally with them as a wayfaring man desirous to know whereof they talked so sadly To whom Cleophas made answer and said Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem and hast not known the things which have chanced there of late What things said Jesus Of one Jesus of Nazareth which was a Prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the People and how the chief Priests and our Rulers delivered him to be condemned to death and have crucified him but we trusted that it had been he that should have delivered Israel They understood not yet what was the deliverance that Jesus Christ purchased for us and besides all these things to day is the third day since they were done Then Jesus opened the Scriptures to Cleophas and the other and being known of them at the last by breaking of Bread they returned to the Apostles at Jerusalem and told them all what they had heard and seen of Jesus by the way to Emaus Cleophas All manner of glory Clement Philip. 4.3 was one of Paul's Fellow-labourers in the Gospel among the Philippians as Paul himself reporteth saying And I beseech thee faithful yoke-fellow help the Women which laboured with me in the Gospel with Clement also and with other my Fellow-labourers whose Names are in the Book of Life Clement Meek Crescens what time as Paul sent for Timothy 2 Tim. 4.10 was departed from Rome into Galatia for business he had there whereof he certifieth Timothy saying Crescens is gone to Galatia and Titus unto Dalmatia Crescens a Latine word Encreasing Crispus the chief Ruler of the Synagogue at Corinth Acts 18.8 after he had heard Paul's preaching believed in the Lord he and all his Houshold and were baptized in the Name of Christ Jesus Crispus a Latine word curled
Land where she remained these seven years of dearth which being ended she returned home again And when she came to her House another having possession thereof withheld it from her wherefore she went to the King to make her complaint at which time it happened the King to be talking with Gehazi the servant of Eliseus the Prophet The Sbunamite is restored to her house and Land again who was declating unto the King what great and notable deeds his Master Eliseus had done and among all declared of a dead Body which he had raised up from death to life and as he was telling of these things unto the King the Woman came with her Son and required her House and Land again And when Gehazi saw the Woman he said O my Lord and King this same is the Woman that I told your Grace of even now and this is her Son that was raised from death Then the King commanded her House and Land to be restored her again with all the Rent and Profits thereof from the first day she left it till that present time Finally when the time drew nigh 2 King 13.14 c. that Eliseus the Prophet should dye Joash King of Israel came to visit him and as he stood before him and considered what a loss he should have of that good Man which had been so great a defence unto his Realm the tears ran down his cheeks and he said O my Father my Father the Chariot of Israel and the Horsemen of the same And when the Prophet saw the King he bad him take his Bow and Arrows in his hand and make him ready to shoot The Prophet put his hands upon the King's hand and caused a Window to be opened Eastward which was toward Syria and bad the King shoot and he shot The Arrow of the Lord's deliverance said Eliseus and the Arrow of deliverance from Syria For thou shalt smite Syria in Aphck till thou have made an end of them Now take thine Arrows in thine hand said the Prophet and smite the ground and he smote thrice and ceased Then was the Prophet angry that he had smitten the ground no oftner for if said he thou hadst smitten five or six times thou hadst smitten Syria until thou hadst made an end of them whereas now thou shalt smite them but thrice and so Eliseus dyed and was buried The same year came the Moabites into the Land of Israel and as some of the Israelites were burying of a Man and had spied the Souldiers they cast the Man into the Sepulchre where Eliseus the Prophet was buried and when the dead Man was let down and touched the Body of Eliseus he revived and stood up upon his Feet as lively as ever he was Elizabeth Luk. 1.24 c. was the Wife of Zachary the Priest and came of the Daughters and Posterity of Aaron She was long barren but at last she conceived by Zachary her Husband according as the Angel of God had said unto him And being great with Child Mary the Wife of Joseph which was also conceived by the Holy Ghost came to visit Elizabeth her Cousin who had no sooner heard the salutation of Mary the Mother of God but the Babe sprang in her Belly whereupon she was filled with the Holy Ghost and cried out with a loud voice saying Blessed art thou among Women and blessed is the fruit of thy Womb And whence happeneth this to me that the Mother of my Lord should come to me For behold as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears the Babe sprang in my Belly for joy And blessed is she that believed for those things shall be performed which were told her from the Lord. And when the time was come that Elizabeth should be delivered she brought forth a Son which her Neighbours and Kinsfolks would have named Zachary after his Father but Elizabeth would none of that but said his Name should be John Elizabeth the Oath of God or the fulness of God Elkanah the Son of Jeroham an Ephraite born 1 Sam. cap. 1. had two Wives the one named Hannah and the other Peninnah By his Wife Peninnah he had Children But by Hannah he had none It was his manner every Festival day to go up and pray and to offer unto the Lord of Hosts in Shilo where the Ark of the Lord was at that time And in one solemn Feast day among all other as he offered unto the Lord he gave unto Peninnah his Wife and to her Sons and Daughters portions but unto Hannah whom he loved he gave a worthy Portion And on a time when he saw his Wife Hannah weep in the House of the Lord for sorrow she could have no child he said Hannah why weepest thou and why is thy heart so troubled that thou canst not eat Am not I better to thee than ten Sons as though he should say Is it not enough for thee that I love thee no less than if thou hadst children This he said to comfort her And at the last God gave him a Son by her named Samuel after whose birth he went up to offer unto the Lord and to give him thanks But Hannah would not go with him until she had weaned her Son Elkanah the Zeal of God and the possession of God Epaphroditus Phil. 2.25 was a certain godly Brother whom the Philippians sent to Paul being in Bonds at Rome with their charitable relief Who being there ministred unto him in his need and was so faithful a fellow-souldier with Paul in setting forth the Gospel of Christ and put himself in such hazard that he fell sick and was like to have dyed Now Paul to comfort the Philippians which were full of sorrow and heaviness for Epaphroditus their Apostle because they heard he was sick was the more desirous after his recovery to send him home again in the company of Timotheus with his Epistle that they might be the less sorrowful and rejoyce the more at his coming willing them to receive him with a loving Christian affection in all joyfulness and not to make much on him only but on all such as were like unto him Epaphroditus Pleasant Epaphras Col. 4.12 was a faithful Servant by whose labour and preaching the Colossians heard the Gospel and believed it and being in Prison with Paul at Rome prayed for those Colossians that they might be perfect and filled in all the will of God after true knowledge He bare a fervent mind to them of Laodicea and them of Hierapolis Epaphras Frothing Epenetus Rom. 16.5 was the first that Paul brought to the Christian Religion among them of Achaia unto whom Paul had him saluted Epenetus Worthy of praise Ephraim Gen. 48. 〈◊〉 c. was the youngest Son of Joseph and born in Egypt His Mothers Name was Asuath the Daughter of Potipher Priest of On and his eldest Brother was Manasses which two being brought before their Grandfather Jacob to receive his blessing
provoke the Lord to anger that he sware that none of them all should see that good land save Caleb and Joshua Therefore said he if ye do now leave your brethren and will not go harnessed before them until the Lord hath cast out their enemies ye do so much sin against the Lord that he will surely find it out And when they heard Moses say so they answered saying We do not intend to leave our brethren our meaning is nothing less than so to do but rather that we might be suffered to make in this place sheepfolds for our cattel and houses for our wives and children to leave them therein which being done we our selves will go forth before our brethren harnessed and will not return home to our houses until we have brought them to their places and that every one of them be possessed in his inheritance Then Moses contented with this answer granted their request And so they builded sheep-cotes for their Cattel and houses for their families wherein they left them and went forth with their brethren until they had performed their promise and then returned home again Joshua 22. cap. And when they had rested a while at home they went and built an Altar near Jordan and that a very great one And when the rest of the children of Israel heard that the children of Reuben Gad and Manasses had built them an Altar in * This country also was calied Canaan because the Amorites dwelling there were called Canaanites Gilead beside Jordan even on the same side that they were of in the land of Canaan they were sore offended and so angry that they gathered themselves together to battel against them And being ready prepared they sent Phinehas the son of Eleazar the Priest and with him ten Princes of every chief house one to know for what purpose they had made them an Altar and whether it were to rebel against the Lord or no. And when they had done their commission the other answered and said that God was their witness that they had done it for no evil purpose either to rebel against the Lord or to swerve from his laws and ordinances in any point but rather for this consideration to be a witness between us and you and our generations after us lest it should chance another day that your children should say unto ours what have ye to do with the Lord God of Israel ye children of Reuben and of Gad the Lord ye see hath made Jordan a border between us and you and therefore ye can have no part in the Lord with us and so should your children make our children cease from fearing the Lord. And therefore to prevent such an inconvenience we took advice and made this Altar that if any such kind of talk should be ministred of your children to ours in time to come that then our children might answer and say again Behold the fashion of the Altar of the Lord which our fathers made neither for burnt-offerings nor sacrifices but for a witness between us and you that our part is in the Lord as well as yours And when Phinehas and the other Princes had heard their answer they were well content and returned and so the matter ended They called the Altar Our witness that the Lord is God Gad a Band or Garison Gad the Prophet came to David lying in the land of Moab saying Abide not in hold 1 Sam 22.5 but depart and go into the land of Judah 2 Sam. 24.13 At another time when David had offended the Lord in numbring his people Gad was sent unto him to give him choice of three things whether he would have * Three years of famin were past for the Gibeonites matter and this was the fourth year to the which should have been added other three years â—1 Chron 21.11 12. seven years famin or three months to fly before his enemies or three days pestilence in the land Gaius a certain * Act. 19.29.20.4 faithful brother dwelling in Derbe was one of Pauls companions and in great jeopardy of his life at Ephesus thorow the sedition of Demetrius the Silversmith but after the business was ended he accompanied Paul into Asia To this man St. John wrote his third Epistle Gaius the Lord or Master of the tongue Gallio was Proconsul of Achaia to wit Act. 18 1â— c. the Lord Deputy under Cesar the Emperor in the Countrey of Achaia In this time it hapned the Jews which had made a conspiracy against Paul to bring him before the place of judgment where Gallio sate as Judge accusing Paul unto him of new doctrine But when Gallio perceived the controversie between the Jews and Paul was concerning Jewish Religion he sought to rid his hands of them and preventing Paul who was ready to speak in his own defence said O ye Jews if it were a matter of wrong or an evil deed reason would that I should hear you but if it be a question of words or names or of your law look unto it your self for I will be no Judge in such matters And so caused them to depart the place Gallio giving Milk or having Milk Gamaliel Act. 5.34 c. one of the ancient Pharisees was Pauls Shool master and in high estimation among the people both for his excellent knowledge in the law and for his singular wisdom When the Apostles were brought by some of the Council for preaching in the name of Christ whose lives he perceived the Council sought he desired that for a while the Apostles might depart out of the Council-house And when they were gone he said Ye men of Israel take heed to your selves what ye intend to do as touching these men for before these days rose up one Theudas boasting himself to whom resorced a number of men about 400. who was slain and they all which believed him were scattered abroad and brought to nought After this man rose up one Judas of Galilee in the time when Tribute began who drew away much people after him he also perished and all that obeyed him were scattered abroad And now I say unto you refrain your selves from these men and let them alone For if this Counsel or this work be of men it will come to nought but if it be of God ye cannot destroy it lest ye be found to strive against God Gamaliel God's reward Gedaliah the Son of Ahikam 2 King 25.22 c. was a great Captain under Nabuchodonosor whom he made Governour of the Land of Judah to rule the People which he had left behind him at the destruction of Jerusalem Jer. 42. câ—â— who intreated the People so gently and so friendly that all the Jews which were scattered about in the Land hearing of his gentleness resorted unto Gedaliah and sound great favour at his hand for the which they bare unto him their hearty good wills Insomuch that when Baal King of the Ammonites had sent one Ishmael under
three days Journey off from Jacob and the rest which were white and of one colour Jacob * Jacob herein used no deceit for so much as he did it at God's commandment kept himself And when he had made this division of Laban's sheep he took Rods of green Poplar of Hasel and of Chesnut-trees and pilled white strakes in them Which Rods in the conceiving time he laid before the Sheep in the gutters and Watering-troughs when they came to drink And the sheep that conceived before the Rods brought forth Lambs straked spotted and party-coloured so that Jacob's Flock increased exceedingly whereat the Sons of Laban grudged 31. cap. and made so heinous a complaint to their Father of Jacob that Laban began to disfavour him Then Jacob perceiving Laban's countenance to be changed he sent for his Wives and said I see your Fathers countenance that it is not towards me as it was wont and yet ye know that I have served your Father truly which hath deceived me and changed my wages ten times but God suffered him not to hurt me For when he said the spotted should be my wages then the sheep brought forth spotted And when he said the party-coloured should be my reward then the sheep brought forth party-coloured And thus hath God taken away your Fathers sheep and given them to me which thing he shewed me in a Dream should even so come to pass and hath now commanded me to depart out of this Country into the Land where I was born The Women said we have no portion in our Fathers house seeing he counteth us but even as strangers and hath sold us and eaten up our money And now that God hath taken away our Fathers riches and made it ours and our Childrens do whatsoever God hath said unto thee Then Jacob assoon as he had prepared all things for his Journey fled from Laban his Father-in-law towards the Land of Canaan to Isaac his Father and being pursued of Laban seven days and at last overtaken at Mount Gilead he laid many things to Jacob's charge whereof he discharged himself of all and in the end said This twenty years have I served thee xiv Years for thy Daughters and six Years for thy sheep which have not been barren and yet in all that space have I not eaten one Ram of thy Flock but whatsoever was stolen or torn of Beasts I made it good unto thee Thou changedst my wages ten times and wouldst surely have sent me away with nothing if God which saw my tribulation and the labour of my hands had not been the better unto me which rebuked thee yesterday Then Laban made a covenant with Jacob and so departed Gen. 32. cap Jacob then going forth on his Journey came into the Land of Seir and hearing of his Brother Esau's being there was sore afraid of him lest he had continued still in his malice towards him wherefore he sent Messengers before unto him with three great Droves of Cattel for a present trusting thereby to mitigate his wrath And as Jacob himself tarried behind to set his Wives and Children in order to meet his Brother Esau an Angel wrastled with him all Night and at last smote him under the Thigh and brake the sinew of his Leg whereon he halted ever after Yet nevertheless Jacob which had wrastled with the Angel until the breaking of the day would not let the Angel depart before he had blessed him who called his Name Israel for as a Prince said he to Jacob hast thou wrastled with God and with Man and prevailed And so after the brotherly meeting of Jacob and Esau Gen. 33. cap. and great amity shewed by one to the other Jacob took his Journey into the Land of Canaan where he remained until he was of the age of an 130. years And then went down into Egypt with all his Houshold which were three-score and six souls to see his Son Joseph Gen. 46. cap. where he continued xvii years And then dyed Gen. 49. ult being 147. years of age and from thence was conveighed to the Land of Canaan Gen. 50 1 2 c. where he was by his Children sumptuously buried Jacob a Supplanter Iaktan Gen. 10.25 was the Son of Heber and his Brothers name was Peleg Jaktan a little one or loathsomness or contention Iael Judg 4 11-18 c. was the Wife of one Heber the Kenite which was of the Children of Hobab Moses Father-in-law And when she had heard of the great overthrow of Sisera and how he fled she went and met him saying Turn in my Lord turn in to me and fear not And being come into her House he asked her a little water to quench his thirst and she brought him a Bottle full of Milk and when he had well drunk thereof he laid him down to sleep and as she was covering him with cloaths he prayed her to go and stand at the door of her Tent and whosoever doth come and * Now was the prophecie of Deborah fulfilled which she prophesied to Barak saying this journey that thou takest upon thee now shall not be for thine honour for the Lord shall sell Sisera into the hand of a Woman ask for any man say there is no man here And so when Sisera was fast asleep Jael went softly unto him with an Hammer in the one hand and a Nail in the other and smote him thorow the Temples of his head and nailed him fast to the ground Which done she went and stood in her Tent-door and seeing Barak pursuing Sisera she went and met him saying Come and go with me and I will shew thee the Man whom thou seekest and so he followed Jael who brought him into her Tent where Sisera lay dead Jael a Doe or ascending Iair Iudg. 10. cap. was a Gileadite born He had xxx Sons which were Men of Authority for they rode upon xxx Asses colts And they had xxx Cities lying in the Land of Gilead which Cities were called the Towns of Jair He reigned xxii years After whose death the Children of Israel fell to wickedness again and served Baalim and Astharoth the gods of Syria and other strange gods for the which the Lord was wroth with Israel and sold them into the hands of the Philistines and Ammonites which oppressed them so sore by the space of xviii years that they were sain to cry for help of the Lord. Who then said unto them Did not I when ye cryed unto me deliver you from the Egyptians the Amorites the Ammonites the Philistines the Sidonians the Amalekites and the Moabites which Nations had oppressed you And yet have ye now forsaken me and serve their gods Therefore cry unto these gods whom ye have chosen and let them help you in your tribulation for I will deliver you no more Oh Lord said they we have sinned do unto us whatsoever pleaseth thee Then had the Lord so great compassion and pity on the misery of
in a Book which is called Ecclesiasticus or the wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach Iesus otherwise called Justus was a Jew born Col. 4.11 and one of Paul's Workfellows in preaching and setting forth the Kingdom of God whom he commended to the Colossians desiring them that if he or any such did come unto them they should receive and entreat them with all gentleness Iethro the Priest of Midian had seven Daughters Exod. 4.18.18 cap. of the which one was called Zipporah whom he married to Moses And when that Jethro had heard of all the mighty deeds which God had done for Moses and how he had delivered the Children of Israel out of Egypt from the Bondage of Pharaoh and brought them thorow the red Sea he met Moses in the Wilderness and brought to him his Wife and two Children which he had sent back before at whose coming Moses was exceeding glad Then as Jethro abode with Moses and saw the great pains he took in judging the People from Morning to Night he said unto him What is this that thou dost unto the People Why sittest thou thy self alone and all the People stand about thee from morning unto even When the People quoth Moses have any matter they come unto me and I judge between one and another and declare unto them the Statutes and Laws of God Thou dost not well quoth Jethro for thou both weariest thy self The counsel of Jethro Moses Father-in-law and the People that is with thee The thing is of more weight than thou art able to perform alone Therefore hear my counsel and God shall prosper thee Be thou for the People to God-ward and report the causes to him Admonish them of the ordinances and laws and shew them the way wherein they must walk and the work that they must do Moreover seek out among the People men of courage and such as fear God true dealing men hating covetousness and appoint them to be Rulers over thousands over hundreds over fifties and over tens And let them judge the people at all seasons and every great matter let them bring it to thee but all small causes let them judge themselves and so shall it be easier for thee when they shall bear the burthen with thee If thou shalt do this thing and God so command thee thou shalt be able to endure and all the People shall go quietly to their place Jethro Excellent or remaining or searching forth or a little cord Ioab â— Sam. 2. cap. was the Son of Zerviah David's Sister and the chief Captain of all David's Host In the first Battel he made against Abner King Saul's Captain he was the Victor and put Abner to flight and of malice afterward by treason slew him for the which deed David was sore offended 3.27 23 c. that he besought God to avenge it on Joab and that his House and Posterity might always be plagued with the bloody-flux leprosie feebleness of Body the Sword or Famine for the death of Abner Joab also was the death of Absalom â— Sam. 38.15 and slew him as he hanged by the hair of his head upon the bough of a tree And when it was told him of the great lamentation the King made for Absalom his Son he went unto him and said Thou hast this day shamed the faces of all thy servants 19.5 c. which this day have saved thy life and the lives of all thy Sons and Daughters and the lives of thy Wives and Concubines in that thou lovest thine enemies and hatest thy friends For thou hast declared this day that thou regardest neither thy Princes nor servants Therefore I do perceive that if Absalom had lived and all we had been slain this day that then it had pleased thee well Now therefore up and come out and speak comfortably unto thy servants for I swear by the Lord except thou come out there will not tarry one Man with thee this Night and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that fell on thee from thy youth hitherto 20. cap. Also in persecuting of Sheba which had made a new insurrection against David he met Amasa his Aunts Son by the way and * Lyra supposeth that Joab slew Amasa of envy because David had made an oath in the Chapter before that Amasa should be his Captain in Joab's stead slew him and leaving him dead on the ground he followed Sheba and besieged him in a City called Abel where the Governess of the City being a wise Woman cried unto Joab demanding why he went about to destroy that City which was a Mother of Israel and to devour the Inheritance of the Lord before he had offered peace To whom he answered saying That he went about no such matter but I come quoth he for Sheba the Son of Bichri deliver me him and I will be gone and as soon as the head of Sheba was thrown over the Wall to Joab he departed Finally after the death of David who had ordained Solomon to Reign in his stead Joab took part with ddonijah Solomon's Brother which usurped the Kingdom and went about with all his power to stablish him in David's seat But when he heard Solomon proclaimed by David's authority he fled to the Tabernacle of the Lord out of the which he would not depart but catching hold on the * The holiness of the place ought not to save the wilful murtherer Exod. 21.14 corners of the Altar said he would even in that place dye Then Solomon hearing thereof commanded Benaiah to go and kill him even there for the bloud of Abner and Amasa which he had shed causlesly And so was Joab slain in the Tabernacle and carried out and buried in his own House in the Wilderness Joab willing or voluntary Joanna Luk. 8.3.24.10 the Wife of Chuza Herod's Steward was a godly Woman and ministred unto Christ of her substance while he lived And after he had suffered his Passion she went with other Women to seek him at his Sepulchre And being told by the Angels that he was not there returned to the Apostles to bring them tidings of his Resurrection which seemed to them but feigned things and therefore believed them not Joanna the grace of the Lord or the Lord's gift or the Lord's mercy Joash 2 King 11. 12. cap. the youngest Son of Ahaziah King of Juda was stollen away from the hands of Athaliah his Grandmother by his Sister Jehosheba Wife to Jehojadah the High-Priest and hid in the Lords house and brought up in the Chamber where the Priests and Levites lay the space of six years and in the seventh year Jehojadah brought him forth and proclaimed him King who in all things sought the Lord so long as Jehojadah lived He repaired the Temple He slew Mattan the Priest of Baal and brake down his Altars with many other good things 2 Chron. 24. But after the death of Jehojadah he fell so far
Matth. 14.28 29. that he went upon the Water which was too great an enterprise for him to perform without the help of Christ his Master who seeing him thorow weakness of faith in danger of drowning Matt. 16.21 saved him Again when Christ did shew unto his Disciples how that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things of the Elders and of the Priests and Scribes and be put to death and the third day rise again which thing he spake to remove out of their hearts that false opinion they had of his temporal Kingdom Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him saying Master look to thy self this shall not be unto thee With whose rash zeal Christ was so offended that he called him Sathan laying to his charge that he savoured not the things that were of God but of Men. Also when Peter saw Christ being transfigured talk with Moses and Elias 17.1 2 c. he was so ravished with that sight that he said unto him Lord here is good being for us If thou wilt let us make here three Tabernacles One for thee and one for Moses and one for Elias Matth. 26.31 c. Furthermore when Christ said unto his Disciples the night he knew he should be apprehended that all they should be offended because of him Peter trusting too much to his own strength said Though all Men be offended because of thee yet will not I forsake thee Nay I will suffer death rather than I will deny thee And to perform this promise when Judas came with a multitude of the High-Priests servants with Swords and Staves to take Christ John 18 10. Peter drew out his Sword and smote off the ear of one of the High-Priests servants For whose foolish hardiness Christ rebuked him sharply and bad him put up his Sword Then Peter seeing his Master led away and all his Fellows fled and gone would not seem utterly to forsake his Master but followed afar off and at length in the dark as unknown entered into the Court of Caiaphas And sitting among the Servants warming him by the Fire a Wench came to him and said Art not thou one of this Man's Disciples No said he Yes but thou art quoth another for I did see thee with him in the Garden Peter denied again saying that he did not know him Then certain which stood by knowing Peter said Surely thou art one of them for thy speech doth bewray thee Then began Peter to curse and swear denying that ever he knew him And immediately the Cock did crow Peter now remembring the words of Christ which had said unto him that before the Cock did crow he should deny Him thrice was touched with inward repentance and went out and wept bitterly And after he had lost the presence of his Master 21. cap. he went to his old occupation of fishing again And as he with other his companions had laboured all the night long in vain and were coming to Land Jesus which stood on the shore asked if they had any meat who not knowing what he was said they had none Then cast out your Net quoth he on the right side of the Ship and ye shall speed and so they cast out their Net and were not able to draw it to Land again for the multitude of Fishes that were caught in it And as Peter was haling up the Net and heard John say it was Jesus which stood upon the shore he left the Net and cast himself into the Sea to Jesus This is that Peter upon whose confession Christ when Peter acknowledged him to be the Son of the living God did build his Church Finally Matth. 16.18 to stablish Peter in the office of an Apostle Christ commanded him earnestly three times to feed his sheep Giving him also forewarning of his death Peter a Stone or Rock Phaltiel the Son of Laish 1 Sam. 25. ult would not seem to disobey the will of King Saul when of hatred he had taken 〈◊〉 Daughter Michol from David Lyra saith that Phaltiel was a learnned man And knowing Michol to be David's lawful Wife he reserved her as his Sister and wept for joy that she was without dishonesty restored to David again and gave her to him 〈◊〉 thankfully received her and gently entertained 〈◊〉 so long as the King her Father lived who being dead then David required to have his Wife Michol again And at the day of her deliverance to Abner to be restored to David he brought her on the way and came behind her weeping till they came to a place called Bahurim And there at Abner's commandment he returned home again Pharaoh There be divers * Gen. 12.14 15 c. Kings of this name expressed in Scripture What time as Abraham came into Egypt with Sarah his Wife who was reported to Pharaoh to be a Woman of an excellent beauty he took her home to his house and gently entertained the Woman without any spot of dishonesty and also entreated Abraham well for her sake But when he perceived that God had plagued his house Pharaoh was a general name given to the Kings of Egypt for keeping the Woman from her Husband he called Abraham unto him and said Why hast thou done this unto me Wherefore didst thou not tell me that she was thy Wife Why saidst thou she is my Sister that I should take her to be my Wife Now therefore behold thy Wife take her and go thy way and he gave a commandment that no Man should hurt them either in Person or Goods Another Pharaoh there was 41. cap. 47. cap. that delivered Joseph out of Prison to expound his Dreams And for the excellent wisdom and knowledge that he saw to be in Joseph he made him Ruler and Governour of all the Land of Egypt and shewed much kindness to his Father and to all his Kinred After this Pharaoh Exod. 1. cap. rose there up another which knew not Joseph And he without all measure vexed the Children of Israel And thinking by his humane wisdom to have lett their increase he commanded the Midwives to destroy the Men Children of the Hebrews assoon as they were born Whose policy took no effect for Moses notwithstanding was preserved and brought up even in his own house forty years And after the death of this Pharaoh there came another Exod. 5. cap. 7.8.10.14 whose heart God did harden and plagued him with ten marvellous Plagues before he would let the Israelites depart out of his Land And persisting in his obstinacy and froward heart God at the last drowned him and all his Host in the red Sea There was yet another mighty Prince of this Name 1 King 3.1.9.16 whose Kingdom joyned so nigh to Solomon's that Solomon to make himself the stronger made affinity with him and married his Daughter And this Pharaoh took the City of Gaza from the Canaanites and gave it with the Countrey thereabout to Solomon for his Daughters
Dowry Finally 2 King 23.33 c. Pharaoh Nechoh in the days of Jehoahaz the Son of Josiah King of Juda came and deposed him making Eliakim his Brother King in his stead and taxed the Land in a hundred Talents of Silver and one of Gold and carried Jehoahaz away with him into Egypt Pharaoh Vengeance Phebe was a certain Woman Rom. 16.1 which served in the Congregation of Cenchrea by whom Paul sent his Epistle to the Romans wherein he saith in her praise and commendation on this wise I commend unto you Phebe our Sister which is a Servant of the Church of Cenchrea that ye receive her in the Lord as it becometh Saints And ye assist her in whatsoever business she needeth of your aid for she hath succoured many and me also Phygellus was one of them in Asia 2 Tim. 1.15 which had cleaved to Paul's doctrine and after ward forsook him Of whom Paul writeth to Timothy thus This thou knowest how that all they which are in Asia be turned from me of which sort are Phygellus and Hermogenes Philemon look Onesimus Philetus 2 Tim. 2.17 was a certain Man in S. Paul's time which erred from the truth saying that the resurrection was past already of whose errour Paul warneth Timothy saying on this wise Study to shew thy self approved unto God a Workman that needeth not to be ashamed distributing the word of truth justly as for profane and vain bablings pass thou over them for they will increase unto ungodliness and their words will fret as doth the disease of a Canker of whose number is Hymeneus and Philetus which as concerning the truth have erred saying the resurrection is past already and do destroy the faith of many Philip. 1 Mac. 6. To this Man Antiochus the King at the day of his death committed the governance of his young Son Antiochus with the whole Realm during his Nonage Which Philip afterward went into Persia with a great Host leaving the King's Son under the tuition of Lysias who in the absence of Philip made Antiochus King in his Fathers stead adding to his name Eupater Then Philip hearing of this whose intent was to be King himself returned with the King's Army out of Persia and came to Antioch where he got the dominion But Lysias hearing thereof made haste to Antioch where he fought with Philip and in fine got the City from him Philip John 1.43 a Man born in Bethsaida a City of Galilee was called to be an Apostle After whose calling he went to Nathanael and said we have found him of whom Moses in the Law and the Prophets did write Jesus the Son of Joseph of Nazareth and so brought him to Jesus 6.5 This is he whom Christ asked to prove him where he might buy so much Bread as would serve the Company to eat that came unto him who made answer that two hundred penyworth would not suffice them to have but every Man a little Also 12.21 when there were certain Greeks which came to Philip saying they were desirous to see Jesus Philip went and told Andrew And again Andrew and Philip told Jesus Furthermore when Jesus reasoned with his Disciples about his Father saying that they both knew him and had seen him Philip said Lord shew us the Father 14.8 Act. 8.5 c. and it sufficeth us Now after the death of Christ and persecution that was about Stephen Philip went to the City of Samaria where he preached Christ and did not only convert the whole City but also Simon Magus the Sorcerer who had of long time seduced the same City with his sorcery and witchcraft And when he had thus sown the Word of God among the Samaritans the Angel of the Lord spake unto Philip saying Arise and go toward the South unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto the City of Gaza which is in the Desert And as he was going he met in the way by God's providence a certain Man of Ethiopia a Chamberlain and of great Authority with Candace Queen of Ethiopia which had been at Jerusalem to worship And returning homeward sitting in his Chariot he read the Book of Esay the Prophet Then Philip being commanded by the Spirit of God to go and joyn himself unto the Chariot went And when he came near and heard him reading of Esay the Prophet he said unto the Chamberlain Understandest thou what thou readest How can I quoth he except I had a Guide wherefore I pray thee come up and sit with me The Tenor of the Scripture which he read was this He was led as a Sheep to be slain and like a Lamb dumb before his shearer so opened he not his mouth Because of his humbleness he was not esteemed But who shall declare his generation and his life is taken from the Earth When Philip had repeated this Text unto the Chamberlain he said unto Philip I pray thee of whom speaketh the Prophet this of himself or of some other man Then began Philip at the same Scripture and preached unto him Jesus And as they went on their way they came by a certain Water And the Chamberlain said to Philip See here is Water what doth lett me to be baptised Philip said If thou believe with all thy heart thou mayst And he said I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God Then was the Chariot stayed till they both went down into the Water where Philip baptised him And assoon as they were both out of the Water the spirit of the Lord caught away Philip so that the Chamberlain saw him no more who went away rejoycing But the Angel set Philip down in the next City called Azotus who walked thorowout the Country preaching in all the Cities till he came to Caesarea Philip Act. 6.5.21.8 the Evangelist was one of the seven Deacons He dwelt in Caesarea and had four Daughters which did prophesie Phinehas Num. 25. cap. the Son of Eleazar was so jealous over the Laws of God that when the Children of Israel had committed whoredome with the Daughters of Moab and saw an Israelite named Zimri bring to his Brethren a Midianitish Wife named Gozbi even in the sight of Moses and all the multitude of Israel that stood before the Door of the Tabernacle lamenting their offence he took his Weapon in his hand and followed the Man into his Tent and thrust them both thorow the Bellies and killed them And then the Plague wherein were dead four and twenty thousand ceased For the which deed the Lord said to Moses Phinehas the Son of Eleazar hath turned away mine anger from the Children of Israel while he was jealous for my sake among them that I had not consumed them all in my jealousie Wherefore I give unto him my covenant of peace to him and to his seed after him even the Covenant of the Priests office for ever because he was jealous for his God's sake and made attonement for the Children of