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A88142	A few, and new observations, vpon the booke of Genesis. The most of them certaine, the rest probable, all harmelesse, strange, and rarely heard off before. By Iohn Lightfoote Staffordiens.	Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.	1642 (1642)	Wing L2054; Thomason E118_19; ESTC R22089	13,302	28

floud lived the longer unmarryed because they would not generate many children for the water V. 29. Noah a comforter because in him liberty should be given to the World to eate flesh CHAP. VI In the generall corruption of the World Noah the eight person in descent from Enoch in whose time profanenesse began as 2 Pet. 2. 5. Escapeth the abominations and desolation of the times CHAP. VII VIII IX The floud the Beasts in the Arke live without enmity which sheweth how the words Gen. 3. 15. about enmity with the Serpent are to be understood the Serpent and Noah are now friends each to other this is alluded to Esay 11. 6. 7 Noah is in the Arke just a compleate and exact yeere of the Sun but reckon'd in the text by Lunary Moneths Vniversall darknesse all the fortie dayes raines The doore of the Arke under water The Arke draweth water eleven Cubits The waters when they came to abate while they lay above the Mountaines fell but one Cubit in foure dayes but farre faster afterward After their comming out of the Arke for a whole halfe yeer together Noah and his family and all the Creatures live upon provision that was still in the Arke for they came out just upon the beginning of Winter when there was neither grasse corne nor fruits till another spring The forbidding to eate flesh with the bloud condemneth the Doctrine of Transubstantiation CHAP. X. XI Seventy Nations dispersed from Babel but not seventy Languages the fifteene named in Act. 2. were enough to confound the worke and they may very well bee supposed to have been the whole number Sem as he standeth in the front of the Genealogy of the new world hath neither Father nor Mother named nor beginning of dayes nor end of life Nahors life is shortned for Idolatry CHAP. XII Abraham at 75. yeeres old receiveth the promise and commeth into Canaan and just so many yeeres did Sem live after Abrahams comming thither and so might well be Melchizedeck in chap. 14. Ver. 6. 7. Abraham buildeth an Altar neere if not upon mount Gerizim the hill of blessing and vers 8. Another altar he buildeth neer unto if not upon mount Ebal the hill of cursing Deut 27. And so taketh possession of the land by faith in the very same place where his sonnes the Israelites did take possession of it indeed Iosh. 8. 12. c. 30. V. 11. When he is ready to enter into Egypt whither famine drave him as it did his posterity afterward hee is afraid of his life in regard of Sarah who being a white woman would soone be taken notice of by the Aegyptians who were blackmoores This was one mai●e inticement to Iosephs mistres to cast an eye of lustfulnes upon him because he was a white man and she a Moore Of the same complexion was Pharaohs daughter whom Solomon tooke to wife of whom that in the first and literall acceptation is to bee understood which spiritually is to be applied to the Church Cant. 1. 5. 6. I am black but comely and I am black because the Sunne hath looked on mee and that Psal. 45. 13. The Kings Daughter is all glorious within for she was a Blackmoore without V. 20. Pharaoh plagued for Sarais and Abrahams sake who was an Hebrew Sheepheard giveth charge to the Aegyptians making it as it were a law for time to come that they should not converse with Hebrewes nor with forraine Sheepheards in any so neere familiarity as to eat or drinke with them which the Aegyptians observed strictly ever after Gen. 42. 32. and 46. 34. CHAP. XIII Abram and Let quarrell and part in the valley of Achor and this is at the very same time of the yeare that Israel came into the Land viz. in the first moneth of the yeare or Abib CHAP. XIV Noah in the blessing of his son Sem maketh him in a speciall manner Lord of the Land of Canaan Gen. 9. Hither therefore came Sem and built a City and called it after his owne peaceable condition Salem here he reigned as a King but so quietly and retiredly as that he was a Priest also In this sequestration of the father from worldly cares and affaires Elam his eldest son and heire apparent though he were seated farre distant in the East yet it concerneth him to have an eye to Canaan and how matters goe there for the land by bequest of his grand-father Noah descended to him as by the common law This title bringeth Chedorlaomer an heire of Elam from Persia into Canaan when the five Cities of the plaine rebell Into this warre he taketh three partners younger brothers of the House of Sem Amraphel of Arphaxad King of Chaldea Arioch of Lud King of Ellasar bordering upon Babylonia and Tidal of Assur King of Nations and late built Niniveh These foure thus banded together and all children of Sem and all in claime of his land against the usurping Canaanite are resolved to march over and so they doe all that Country both within Iordan and without Their first inrode is upon the Rephaims that lay most North and lay first in their way and so over run the Zuzims in Ammon Emims in Moab Horites or Hivites that were Troglodytes or dwelt in the rocky Caves of Mount Seir in Edom as Ier. 49. 10. Obad. ver. 3. And all the Canaanites South-East and full South to Hazezon Tamar a point below the dead Sea There they turne in to the land of Canaan properly so called and as they had subdued all the Countries from North to South without Iordan so now they intend to doe from South to North within And so they did but when they were come to Dan the North out-going of the land Abram overtaketh them and conquereth the conquerours and now he is doubly titled to the land namely by promise and by victory This Sem or Melchizedeck observeth upon his returne with triumph and perceiveth that it was he and his posterity to whom the Lord had designed that Land in the prophetick spirit of Noah and had refused the heires that were more apparent in common law and reason and therefore hee bringeth forth bread and wine the best fruites of the land and tenders them as livery and seisin of it to him whom he perceived that God had chosen and pointed out for the right heire CHAP. XV All feare of claime by any of Sems sonnes was now past because of the late conquest but onely of Aram the youngest who had no chalengers or children in the warre of him was Eliezer descended who was Abrams chiefe servant and where is the title by Sems resignation was to descend to Abram and his heires Eleazer was like to bee next if Abram had no child of his owne When this jealousie somewhat troubleth Abram God removeth it by the promise of a sonne of his owne Loynes and by a Covenant with sacrifice even of all manner of creatures that were to be sacrificed CHAP. XVI Abram assured of a son of his owne body