then enter but when the cloud was removed then he went into it 182. Numb 8.7 The Levites shall shave off all the hair of their flesh Lev. 19.27 You shall not round the corners of your heads nor shave your beards In the time of the Leviticall pacification they did shave the hair of their flesh Ezek. 44.22 but otherwise to cut the hair of their heads or shave their beards round was sorbade them by Moses 183. Numb 10.29 Hobab was Moses father in law Exod. 2.18 Raguel Chap. 3.1 4.18 18.5 Jethro Hobab because he was the sonne of Raguel is thought by some to be Moses kinsman in the Scripture oft-times persons have two or three names so the father in law of Moses had many names * 184. Numb 12.1 His wife who was an Aethiopian Exod. 2.10 She was a Midianite of Arabia Answ There was a double Aethiopia one West without Aegypt in Africa which is called Abasa the other East which is called Arabia which comprehends the Midianites and other people living toward the South 185. Numb 12.8 God spake with Moses mouth to mouth Exod. 33.20 Joh. 1.18 No man hath seen God at any time 1 Tim. 6.16 The divine essence is invisible and dwels in an unaccessible light that Moses in his morality saw not perfectly yet we piously believe that the Sonne of God taking on him the shape of a man as he was afterwards to be incarnate did speak with Moses familiarly 186. Numb 14.1 All the people with a 〈◊〉 voice murmured against Moses Verse 23. They shall not see the Land of promise except Caleb Joshua 14.1 The children of Israel possessed the land of Canaan which Eleazar the Priest and Joshua the sonne of Nun and the heads of the Fathers distributed to them Chap. 24.7 Whose eyes saw what the Lord had done in Aegypt 1 Cor. 10.5 Eleazar and Caleb and other faithfull people came into the Land of promise but those that murmured were destroyed in the wildernesse for with many of them God was not well pleased 187. Numb 15.38 Speak to the children of Israel that they make themselves fringes in the borders of their garments Mat. 23.5 Christ condemns the Pharisees for enlarging their phylacteries and their borders The abuse of a thing doth not take away the use of it God commanded the Israelites that so often as they should look upon their garments they should remember the Commandements of God and do them But the Pharisees abused this commandement of God boasting hypocritically of their long garments and fringes as though there had been some holinesse in them therefore their hypocrisice is deservedly reprehended * 188. Numb 16.29 If these men die the common death of all men c. Eccles 3.19 As one dyeth so dieth the other for they have all one breath It s one thing to speak of death according to the course of nature another thing to write of strange judgements above the course of nature according to the course of nature as the one dyeth so dyeth the other But this was a particular case of Corah Dathan c. which were to dye in a strange manner that the people might see the Lords sending of Moses 189. Numb 16.32 The earth opening her mouth devoured them all which belonged to Corah with their houses and substance Deut. 11.6 Psalm 106.17 26.32 When Corah perished all his sonnes perished not The sonnes of Corah which escaped alive were in the Tabernacle of the Lord when the sedition began because they consented not to the Levites in the sedition of their Father 190. Numb 18.16 The redemption of the first-born shall be from a moneth old for five shekels after the shekell of the Sanctuary Exod. 22.30 Thou shalt give me thy first-born and with Sheep and Oxen thou shalt do the like seven dayes it shall be with the dam on the eight thou shalt give it me The first-born of man and of clean beasts were consecrated unto God the eighth day but the unclean beasts were redeemed after one moneth A woman after she brought forth a male child must stay apart six weeks after a female twelve weeks in that time they were purged from their issue of blood 191. Numb 18.20 God said unto Aaron Thou shalt have no inheritance in the Land neither shalt thou have any part amongst the Israelites I am thy part Joshua 21.41 The 48 Cities of the Levites were within the possessions of the children of Israel The Levites had their habitation and food in those Cities with their families which Cities were as Schooles wherein they were instructed rightly in the Law and to perform their office in holy things as they should 192. Numb 20.11 At the stroak of Moses on the rock of flint the waters came out abundantly and the congregation drank and their beasts also Psalm 18.1 1 Cor. 10.4 They all drank the same spirituall drink for they drank of that spirituall Rock which followed them and that rock was Christ Moses relates historically the water that came out of the flint for the use of the people and their Cattle The Apostle speaks after a spirituall manner and saith that Christs bâ—nefits to us were prefigured thereby 193. Numb 20.18 21. Edom would not suffer the Israelites to passe through the land Deut. 9.29 Let me pass through thy land as the children of Esau did unto me Jude 11.18 The children of Esau denied to let the children of Israel passe through the publick way through their Cities and Villages the King of Edom suffered them to passe about by his borders and through by-wayes 194. Numb 20.28 Elcazar the high Priest was present at his fathers death Lev. 21.11 The high Priest shall not go in to any dead body nor defile himself for his Father or his Mother Eleazar was not yet the high Priest actually and this was a singular example Augustine That time that the high Priest did his office of high Priest it was forbidden him that he should not come to his Parents being dead * 195. Numb 20.29 In the mount Hor and yet Aaron is said to dye in Mosera and to be buried there Answ Hor and Mosera are the same places the Mountain was called Hor but the place adjoyning in which the Tents were fixed was called Mosera 196. Numb 21.9 Moses made a Serpent of brasse and put it up for a sign and when they that were bitten beheld it they were healed Exod. 20.4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven Image or any likenesse of any thing in heaven or earth God gave an especiall command of setting up the brasen serpent like to the fiery Serpents whose wounds and bites the Israelites could not endure that so looking on this they might be safe it was a figure of Christ crucified 197. Numb 22.12 God said to Balaam Thou shalt not go with them Verse 20. Rise and go with them Verse 35. Go with the men God would not that Balaam should go to curse the Israelites at last he
his children 252. Deut. 30.11 The commandment which I command thee this day is not hidden from thee neither is it farre off John 5.39 Search the Scriptures Moses understands not only legall precepts but Evangelicall also which God writes in our mouth and our heart Christ commands us to seach the Scriptures to increase our knowledg by because we know hereby in part c. 1 Cor. 13.9 * Deut. 30.11 with Jo. 5.39 It is one thing for to manifest and clear suâ naturâ in it self and another thing to be clear quoad nos First The Word of God is clear in it self it was spoken in a clear and known language even their own and the Laws were not to be locked from them but read and explained to them by their Priests and though some things in the Law of lesser consequence were more obscure yet the things of greater concernment as to salvation are clearer so that he which runs may read Secondly Yet in regard of our dulnesse many things are hidden and dark to us in the Law therefore we may we must search the Scriptures 253. Deut. 30.15 I have set before you this day life and good death and evill John 8.24 Ye shall die in your sins Moses foreshews favour to those that keep the Law and wrath to the transgressours Christ threatens the Jewes the servants of sin with death and eternall destruction 254. Deut. 30.19 I have set before you good and evill Rom. 6.16 Wicked men are the servants of sinne In the first place it is spoken of Gods people In the latter of the wicked who are called the servants of sinne that run after it with greedinesse it reigns in them and their will leans to evill 255. Deut. 31.2 Moses was an hundred and twenty years old Psalm 90.10 The dayes of our years are seaventy or eighty Moses obtained long life by a singular priviledge from God The term of our life is seaventy or eighty years or at the most an hundred years as Ecclus speaks Chap. 18.9 * Deut. 31.2 with Psalm 90.10 The former place speaks of what hapned to Moses Historically the latter tels what happens to men many times and this Doctrinally Not that men even in our age passe not seaventy or eighty many exceed that but that this is generally the longest term which old men live to 256. Deut. 32.21 I will provoke them by those that are not a people Rom. 10.19 Matth. 10.5 Enter not into the way of the Gentiles rather go to the lost sheep of Israel In the former place is understood the calling of the Gentiles In the latter a temporary command of Christ by which he would that the Gospell should first be preached to the Jewes and then according to Moses Prophesie to all Nations and people 257. Deut. 32.39 I am alone and there is no other God 2 Cor. 4.4 The Devill is called the God of this world Jehovah is the true God the Devill is called the God of this world because he inclines the minds of wicked men to mischief and they obey him rather than God 258. Deut. 32.35 Revenge is mine I will repay saith the Lord. Rom. 13.4 The Magistrate is the revenger of Gods wrath on them that do evill That is Gods revenge which is done by the Magistrate therefore the Scripture forbids not publick revenge by Gods Ministers the Magistrates but onely private revenge * 259. Deut. 33.12 Object This seems not to be fullfilled for the Temple and Jerusalem were in the Tribe of Judah Josh 15.18 Answ The South superiour part of Jerusalem where Mount Sion was belongs to the Tribe of Judah The inferior and Northern part with the intermediall Mount Moriah in which the Temple was built belonged to the Tribe of Benjamin so Lyra in Gen. 28. And when God is said to dwell in Sion it s a Synecdochicall figure as Sion is put for the whole City of Jerusalem 260. Deut. 34.10 There arose not a Prophet since in Israel like to Moses Matth. 11.11 Amongst them that are borne of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist In the Old Testament Moses was the greatest Prophet in the New Testament John Baptist who pointed out our Saviour with his finger JOSHUAH THis Book was written by Joshua the Sonne of Nun who brought the people of Israel over Jordan into the Land of Canaan conquering the Cities and killing their enemies and divided the Land amongst the Tribes of Israel he lived eighteen yeares after Moses This Book containeth an History of the seaventeen or as others eighteen years of the rule of Joshua which though they be not expresly named by this Summe in clear words yet are they to be collected to be so many from the grosse Summe of four hundred and eighty years from the delivery out of Aegypt to the laying of the foundation of Solomons Temple mentioned 1 Kings 6.1 For the Scripture hath parcelled out that Summe into these particulars forty years of the people in the Wildernesse two hundred ninety nine yeares of the Judges forty yeares of Eli forty of Samuel and Saul forty of David and four of Solomon to the Temples founding in all four hundred sixty three and therefore the seaventeen yeares that must make up the Summe four hundred and eighty must needs be concluded to have been the time of the rule of Joshua 261. JOsh 1.5 None shall be able to stand against thee all the days of thy life Chap. 7.4 Three thousand men fled before the the men of Ai. The promise was conditionall that if they would be obedient unto God but because the Covenant was violated and the condition not performed on the peoples part therefore the violaters of the divine Covenant were punished The condition is not expressed but as in other Scriptures it is understood Besides by the words A man not able to stand before thee is meant a man that shall not be overcome in the conclusion and so the men of Ai though they did at first stand before Joshua yet not in the conclusion being conquered 262. Josh 1.11 Prepare your victuals Exod. 16.20 Manna remained till the next day Joshua understood not Manna alone but other provisions which he would have them buy of the children of Esau 263. Josh 1.11 Deut. 2.6 After three dayes you shall passe over Jordan Chap. 3.4 That was done many days after Joshua speaks according to his humane intention hoping that the spies would return to him within three daies but because they were forced to lie hid in the Mountains untill such time as those that sought after them were returned therefore that passage of Israel over Jordan was delayed * Josh 1.11 After three dayes c. with the following Chap. Object Mentioning three men which went to search the Land which lay three dayes hid in the Mountains and after their return the Jews stayed three dayes on the other side Jordan as Chap. 3. Answ These are related per hysteron proteron Anticipative the sending
and there is no God besides me Many in the world are worshipped which are false Gods but there is but one great and true God in essence by whom onely we can be saved 224. Deut. 10.27 God regardeth not persons nor takes rewards Gen. 4.4 God had respect to Abel and to his offering Oblations and gifts are various God accepts those things he commands to be offered to him for Christs sake to whom those that offer must have respect by faith as to the only offering c. 225. Deut. 11.25 No man shall stand against you Jud. 1.34 The Amorites forced the children of Dan into the Mountains That promise held only for that time till the Israelites had gotten the Land of Cannan and continued in piety and the true fear of God * 226. Deut. 12.17 with 15.19 The first-born which were to be eaten before the Lord and not in Cities were not of the male and without blot but either female or spotted * 227. Deut. 12.20 Because thy soul longeth to eate flesh thou maist eat flesh whatsoever thy soul lusteth after Rom. 14.22 It is not good to eate flesh or drink wine nor any thing whereby thy brother is offended All things are lawfull in themselves to be eaten but yet relation must be had to the circumstances of time persons and quantity That this and that meat may lawfully be eaten is without dispute and yet this or that may not lawfully be eaten before weak brethren or in an excessive quantity c. 228. Deut. 13.5 A Prophet of false dreams shall be put to death Tit. 3.10 An heretick after the first and second admonition reject In the old Testament God commanded to kill the false Prophets Matth. 13.30 In the New Christ saith Let the tares grow unto the harvest The Apostolicall rejection of an Heretick is part of excommunication and spirituall death which hinders not the Magistrate that he should take cognisance of Hereticks to punish them * Deut. 13.5 That Prophet or dreamer of dreames shall be put to death Titus 3.10 11. Hereticks avoid c. The Old Testament gives the Magistrate power to condemn Idolatrous dreamers and the like and the place in the New Testament bids a Minister to avoid an Heretick which hinders not the Magistrates proceeding against him but rather it forwards it it is one thing what a private man as a private man and that is to avoid another thing what a Magistrate must do 229. Deut. 15 3. Of a forrainer thou maist expect thy money again Psal 37.21 112.5 Prov. 11.14 Luke 6.35 Leud looking for nothing again A modest demand of a debt may be lawfull according to the contracts of buying and selling Christ speaks of the poor and saith that we must deal brotherly with them that if they have not wherewith to pay we should forgive them their debts out of Christian charity * 230. Deut. 15.4 with Vers 11. Matth. 26.11 This is a precept to shew not that there should be no poore but that the poore should be helped He that saith thou shalt not suffer an Whore to be in Israel de jure doth not say but that there would be such de facto Vatables saith There was private beggars amongst the Hebrews though none publickly suffered 231. Deut. 16.8 Six dayes Exod. 13.6 Seaven dayes shalt thou eat leavened bread The seaventh day of the feast was no lesse solemne than the first 232. Deut. 17.17 The King shall not have many wives 1 Kings 11.3 King Solomon had 700 Wives and 300 Concubines God forbad that the King should have many wives lest his heart should forsake the true God and run after strange gods as Solomons did loving many strange women and fell into so great lust by following them that forsaking the true God he set up many Idols of the Gentiles 233. Deut. 17.17 The King shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold 1 Kings 3.13 God gave to Solomon riches and honour Kings must not for their pride heap up great quantity of silver and gold to the oppression of their subjects otherwise they had need of great riches to reserve their Countries and their Kingly Majesty 234. Deut. 18.10 Lev. 19.13 Chap. 20.17 There shall not be found amongst you an observer of time 1 Sam. 28.7 Rom. 14.6 He that regardeth a day regardeth it to the Lord. Moses condemns superstitious observation of dayes as if one day were more happy than another The Heathens divided dayes into white and black fortunate and unfortunate The Apostle shews the liberty of Christians against those who by an opinion of sanctity would have the legall feast dayes observed 235. Deut. 18.11 You shall not consult with Wisards or seek truth from the dead Matth. 17.3 Moses and Elias spake with Christ in Mount Tabor It is an abomination in the sight of God and a heathen superstition to consult with Wisards c. The appearing of Moses and Elias was of another way and their speaking with Christ was to confirme the Disciples in the doctrine delivered by Moses and the Prophets 236. Deut. 20.17 Thou shalt destroy with the edge of the sword the Hittites the Amorites the Canaanites the Perisites the Hivites and the Jebusites Josh 9.15 Joshua made a league with the Hivites and the Jebusites Solomon spared the Amorites 1 Kings 9.20 The Gibeonites craftily saved their lives laying down their high spirits and Solomon made the Amorites tributaries the other enemies of God and his people who continued stubborn in their wickednesse were destroyed 237. Deut. 20.19 When you besiege a City you shall not destroy the trees 2 Kings 3.19 You shall fell every good tree Those trees that bear fruit the Israelites could feed on were not to be cut down in the promised land but in the Country of the Moabites God would shew a peculiar example of his just anger for their sins 238. Deut. 21.16 The sons of the hated being first born must be acknowledged for the first born Gen. 48.5 Jacob assigned the right of primogeniture to Joseph the son of his beloved Rachel and gave two Tribes to his children Jacob lived before the promulgation of the Law Joseph was his first born of his beloved Rachel to whose children he wisely assigned two Tribes as he made to Judah born from Leah the primogeniture and gave him the dominion over his brethren Gen. 49.8 239. Deut. 21.21 If any man beget a stubborn childe he shall bring him to the Elders of the City to the gate of judgement and he shall be stoned with stones till he dye Prov. 19.18 Instruct thy sonne and despaire not of him Moses speaks of the incorrigible sonne Solomon concerning fatherly correction whilst there is hope of the sonnes amendment and warns him that he shall not set his mind to destroy him 240. Deut. 23.2 2 Kings 14.6 2 Chron. 25.4 A bastard shall not enter into the Congregation of the Lord. Ezek. 18.20 The sonne shall not bear the iniquity of the father
long after to be fulfilled Answ It is usual to give signs of things soon to come which happen long after 1 Sam. 2.34 1 Kin. 22.25 There were two signs set forth by the Prophet in Isa 7. The one of a temporal deliverance in token whereof he bringeth his son Shearjashub ver 14. The other of an eternal deliverance by the Son of God who was to come of a Virgin He could not call his own son Emmanuel c Esa 8.8 10. and to ascribe such wisdom to him the Jews say Almah doth not strictly signifie a Virgin But there are three words which signifie and betoken Virginity in the Hebrew The first Naarah any young woman whether a Virgin or not Secondly Bethulah a Virgin though she be not young and sometime it may be otherwise taken Thirdly Almah properly a young Virgin and not at all touched it imports youth and virginity which is the word here and so not applicable to the Prophets Wife or any save Mary It had been no wonder for any woman that had known a man to bear a son the wonder was that a Virgin or one that knew no man should bear a son 759. Mat. 2.1 Behold wise men came from the East to Jerusalem Chap. 11.25 I confess to thee Lord because thou hast hid these things from the wise c. The Wise men were led to Christ not by humane Col. 2.3 Rom. 1.25 Mat. 23.23 Luk. 11.12 1 Cor. 1.26 but divine wisdom acknowledging that in Christ were hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge Christ rejects no such wise men but such as are not wise from Gods Spirit and yet think themselves wise following the wisdom of this world as the Heathen Philosophers and the Pharisees amongst the Jews and those that are wise now adaies with fleshly wisdom * Mat. 2.1 with Mat. 11.5 The former place speaks of some Wise men whether worldly wise Astrologers Wizards c. The latter saith God revealed these things not to the wise i e. worldly wise or wise in their own opinions but to the men who became as children in their opinion and were as children ready to be instructed if worldly wise men would leave their high thoughts and opinions of themselves and become docible and little children as these wise men were they might understand the mind of God and see Christ The former place is understood of such Wise men as were so in the opinion of the World and by Profession though not so in the opinion of themselves The latter place is understood of such as are wise in themselves and that the world adjudges wise * 760. Mat. 2.23 He shall be called a Nazarene Isa 11.1 There shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse There is not any place which in direct words cals Christ a Nazarene The former place saith that it might be fulfilled which is written by the Prophets But this place is equivalent to it some things are spoken Aenigmatically by the Prophets some things Allegorically Every thing that is spoken Aenigmatically is spoken Allegorically but every thing which is spoken Allegorically is not therefore spoken Aenigmatically This was spoken Aenigmatically and Allegorically of Christ for Isa 11.1 Christ is said to be a rod or branch Nezer which indifferently signifies a branch and the City of Nazareth one and the same word denoting Christ and the place where Christ should be born There were three sorts of Nazarenes First Those who were so by profession of Moses his Law Num. 6. Secondly Those who lived in Nazareth the City Thirdly Those who were Votives and Natives Christ was said to be a Nezer or Nazarene the second way 761. Mat. 3.1 John the Baptist preached in the wilderness Luk. 3.3 He came into all the Country about Jordan preaching by the Desart Matthew means not the inward remote parts separated from the company of men but the fore-parts a Mountainous Country lying about Jordan * Mat. 3.1 with Luk. 3.1 The former place saith no more than that he was preaching in the wilderness and the latter that he was in the Country about Jordan preaching which are thus reconciled The wilderness is meant either that which is called so and yet had in it Villages and Cities as Jos 15.61 62. 1 Sam. 23.14 24. some of which probably were in the Territories and under the command of Hebron the place where John was born for there is mention of the Cities of Hebron 2 Sam. 2.3 Or the Wilderness is taken for the inmost Wilderness and Desart where was no Habitations of men Iohn lived and was brought up in the former wilderness and when he came to thirty years old he began to preach first to his neighbours and friends and then afterwards came down into the Country about Iordan and preached there likewise 762. Mat. 3.14 Iohn knew Christ before he baptized him Joh. 1.33 I knew him not but he that sent me to baptize with water said unto me Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending and resting upon him he it is that baptizeth with the Holy Ghost Iohn had a knowledge of Christ before his baptism by inchoation but that knowledge was confirmed and consummate when in baptism he saw the Heavens open and the Spirit of God descending upon him like a Dove and so by an outward revelation joyned with an inward illumination he pronounced that Jesus was the Messias and the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world 763. Mat. 3.16 The Spirit of God descended and came upon Christ. Luk. 1.35 Christ had the holy Ghost before Gal. 4.6 At the baptism of Christ the Holy Ghost came upon him like a Dove to declare that Jesus Christ is the Mediator between God and man according to the prophesie The spirit of the Lord was upon me Isa 61.1 because he hath anoynted me to preach good tidings to the meek to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord Psa 45.8 who being to take upon him the Office of Mediator is anoynted with spiritual oyl 764. Mat. 4.2 And when Iesus had fasted forty daies and forty nights he was afterward an hungred and the Tempter came and said unto him Luk. 4.1 He was tempted forty daies The internal temptation lasted forty daies then came the devil to Christ in an external and corporal shape and spake unto him 765. Mat. 4.8 The devil at the third temptation took him up to a mountain Luk. 4.5 The devil at the second temptation took him into a high mountain In the holy Scriptures saith Augustine there is no contradiction where any thing is related by divers Authors and not observed the same way De Cons Eccles Matthew placeth the temptations in order But Luke by Hysterosis puts the second temptation after the third 766. Mat. 4.12 17. Iesus began to preach from the imprisonment of Iohn the Baptist Joh. 1.2 3 4. chap. He preached before Iohn was in prison Matthew passeth over that which Iohn sets down in his four first