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A57230	Choice observations and explanations upon the Old Testament containing in them many remarkable matters, either not taken notice of, or mistaken by most, which are additionals to the large annotations made by some of the Assembly of Divines : to which are added some further and larger observations of his upon the whole book of Genesis perused and attested by the Reverend Bishop of Armagh, and Mr. Gataker Pastor of Rederith / by ... John Richardson ...	Richardson, John, 1580-1654.; Ussher, James, 1581-1656.; Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654.; Westminster Assembly (1643-1652)	1655 (1655)	Wing R1385; ESTC R3676	529,737	519

XXVIII 1. Dan. III. 16 17 18. Psal. III. 6. and XXVII 3. and XLVI 3. Job XI 15. Luke XXI 28. Prov. IV. 18. Some thus And wisdome will change the boldnesse of his face to more modesty The Kings commandment Obedience in the Lord verse 2 and for the Lord Acts V. 29. the oath of God Whereby thou hast sworne allegeance to thy Prince 1 Pet. II. 13. See Ezek. XVII 15 21. So as this is both a limitation and an enforcement of this duty Papists can slight this oath And some other too to go out of his sight Turne not thy back to him discontentedly verse 3 fling not away in a chafe But forbear and submit Prov. XXV 15. and chap. XXX 32. If thou hast offended him provoke him not more by persisting in it What dost thou Prov. verse 4 XXX 31. Job XXXIV 18. Yet he may be admonished and altered as 1 Sam. XIV 45. as Elias Micaiah Nathan and other Prophets did he is not absolute as God is Job IX 12. And as the Pope would be as the Canonists make him Whatsoever pleaseth him Such was their power specialy in the Eastern Empires the Commandment Of God verse 5 and the King shall feele Know experimentaly no evil No danger of punishment ver 3. But being morigerous and obedient shall finde good and encouragement rather Rom. XIII 3 4. Ephes. VI. 8. 1 Tim. II. 2. a wise mans heart Yeelds not blinde obedience But discernes when and how both the season and the meanes and manner of obeying so to apply himself to the King as to prevent his displeasure to gaine his favour and yet to preserve his conscience and allegeance to the King of Kings See 1 Chron. XII 32. time A well chosen season verse 6 which is the greatest advantage to any enterprize and action Prov. XV. 23. Amos V. 13. Acts XXII 25 29. and chap. XXIII 6 7. miserie of man Is great for not knowing and observing that point of time that proper season to every action as the next verse expresseth For he knoweth not Jer. verse 7 VIII 7. Luke XIX 42 44. Man cannot foresee to prevent the miserie He is in the dark in regard of future events He cannot so much as fore-appoint his own actions for the future much lesse foresee the consequences issues which would follow thereupon Prov. XXVII 1. James IV. 14. Therefore his misery is great upon him not knowing that point of time and exact season only fit for transacting and dispatching his great affairs which way is but one And he so having a thousand wayes to misse the mark and but one to hit it Difficult then is this though not alwayes altogether impossible Prov. XXII 3. and XXVII 12. Power over the spirit To retaine breath and life verse 8 to keep it from going away to prolong it or to adjourne and proroge death Psalme XLIX 7 10. Heb. IX 27. no man no King can do it The syth of death mowes down as well the Lilies of the Crowne as the grasse of the field no discharge in that warre No weapon againstit no dismission from it no vacation or exauctoration Some apply this verse to the power of a King over the life of a man and that there is no power in a man to withstand it and escape it Prov. XVI 14. neither shall wickednesse Sinfull shifts avoid it though they turne every way move every stone make a Covenant with death and hell Esay XXVIII 15 18. Ruleth over another to his own hurt Through his tyrannical rule verse 9 and evil government he comes to hurt punishment and destruction Esay X. 12. and chap. XIV 4. 23. 1 Kings XV. 30. Thus he proceeds to another vanity verse 10. The wicked buried Such wicked Rulers buried magnificently verse 10 who had come and gone In the administration of Government as the phrase elsewhere is to go in and out Numb XXVII 17. from the place of the holy Seat of judicature Where the Holy one sits among the Judges and Rulers as Lord Paramount were forgotten Their names perished even in the places where they had so domineered and been flattered and been buried Psalme XXXVII 9 10 35 36. Prov. X. 7. Because sentence Psal. verse 11 XXXVII and Psal. LXXIII God is patient willing men should repent 2 Pet. II. 9. Rom. II. 4. Esay XLVIII 2. But men abuse this patience of God unto presumption Fsay V. 19. Ier. XVII 15. 2. Pet. III. 4. Matth. XXIV 48 49. Ezek. XII 22. therefore the heart Therefore wicked Rulers go on more boldly and other wicked men abuse this patience of God unto presumption But yet Gods forbearance is no acquittance If he be slow yet he is sure the deeper he draweth his arrow the soarer it woundeth his delay abused doubles the blow when it cometh Though a sinner Yea though he commit the same sinne an hundred times over verse 12 and his dayes be prolonged In prosperity and his punishment be delayed yet surely I know Here he answereth that Tentation whereby the godly are offended and the wicked hardened well with them Psal. LXXIII 1. Esay III. 10. He inverts the order to begin with the remuneration of good men to strengthen their faith and comfort them against this tentation that they may neither fret nor murmur but go on to hold fast their integrity not be well with the wicked But very ill verse 13 Esay III. 11. Num XXXII 23. Psal. XI 6. Nay even his prosperity shall slay him and this Sun-shine ripen them to ruine Neither shall he prolong his dayes Unlesse it be for a curse And all that while living he is truly dead dead in sinne dead in Law Mat. VIII 22. 1 Tim. V. 6. Col. II. 13. Luke XV. 24. Rom. VII 9. Ephes. II. 5 7. That there be just men This vanitie and vexation he doth more then once insist upon verse 14 It hath gravelled great Divines and Heathen wise moral men But all this is done and falls out here upon the earth as it is in the words of the Text. The wicked live in pleasure and receive their good things here James V. 5. Luke XVI 25. And the godly receive their rods Physick and Surgery here Yet this Solomon speaketh not to censure the Providence of God in this distribution of things but according to judgment of flesh and blood and thereby to shew the vanity of these earthly things using an argument against them like to that argument used against Idolatry Deut. IV. 19. Then I commended mirth Some make this a sensual and carnal deduction from the former passage and observation verse 15 But it seemes rather to accord with that sense formerly expressed chap. II. 24. and III. 12 13 22. and V. 18. That is all that can be reaped from all our labours in earthly things And that will make our comforts to be much more comfortable and our troubles to be farre lesse troublesome Whereas the contrary puts us under the reigne of continual unthankfulnesse and indisposeth us

XVIII 9 10. or Enemessar Tobit l. 2 15. Sennacharib who came against Hezekiah 2 King XVIII 13. Esarhaddon or Asnapper Esay XXXVII 38. 2 King XIX 37. Ezra IV. 2 10. called also Sarchedonus Tobit I. 22. And another King of Assyria against whom Pharaoh-Necho King of Egypt fights at Carchemish by Euphrates in the last year of King Josiah 2 King XXIII 29. 2 Chron. XXXV But many leave out Iareb as no proper name of a King and make Sargon to be the same with Senna harib And some place Iareb before Pul and Sargon after Shalmanesar And no doubt there were many Kings of Assyria it being the first Monarchy before Pul though their names be not in Scripture Though the Assyrians take the name from Ashur the sonne of Shem Gen. X. 22. 1 Chron. I. 17. yet the Kingdome seemes to be raised among them by the posterity of Cush the sonne of Cham Gen. X. 6 11. a Singer Heman chapter VI verse 33 of Kohath stood in the middest Asaph of Gershom on the right hand Ethan of Merari on the left ver 38 39 44 47. See more of the Singers 1 Chron. XV. ver 16 22. All their Cities The Kohathites had twenty three Cities verse 60 63. The Gershonites thirteen The Merarites twelve In all fourty eight Cities reckoned Issachar a numerous Tribe chapter VII Ephraim The line from Ephraim to Ioshuah verse 5 is Num. verse 20 I. 10. and chap. XXVI 35 1 Chron. VII 20 26 27. Shephuphan verse 5 and Huram chapter VIII verse 33 Either of these had three names Ner Ner had Kish the father of Saul and another sonne Ner the father of Abner 1 Sam. XIV 50 51. genealogies This Chapter chapter IX verse 1 and chap. III. 19 24. are some parcels of the last passages for History of the Old Testament See more on Neh. XII 10 11. David and Samuel David and Samuel the Seer though he died in the time of Sauls reigne ordained and ordered the Priests verse 22 and Levites Singers and Porters in their set Offices and Courses See ver 10 14 22 and Chapters XXIII XXIV XXV XXVI as the Lord God of Israel had commanded him 1 Chron. XXIV 19. by the Spirit and by God and Nathan 1 Chron. XXVIII 12 19. 2 Chron. XXIX 25. and VIII 14. and XXXV 4 15. And Solomon did according to him 2 Chron. XXXV 4. Neh. XII 45. day and night verse 33 verse 9 The Singers imployed in that work day and night tydings unto their Idols Idolaters ascribe their Victories chapter X and prosperous successes to their Idols so Iudg. XVI 23 24. 1 King XX. 23. 2 Chron. XXVIII 23. Hab. I. 11. They bring their Idols to their Camps 1 Chron. XIV 12. As the Israelits the Ark 1 Sam. IV. 3. castle of Zion David took the Castle chapter XI verse 5 or strong hold of Zion dwelt in it built round about it called it the Citie of David And Ioab repaired the rest of the Citie 2 Sam. V. 9. came to David There came to David to Ziklag a great hoast chapter XII verse 1 like the hoast of God And to Hebron to make him King over all Israel 340822. And among them very many Priests and Levites ver 26 27 28. besides others intimated ver 32. Jehoiada verse 27 the Leader of the 3700. Aaronites that came to David to Hebron to make him King over all Israel 1 Chron. XII 27. Jehoiada a chief Priest 2 Chron. XXIV 6. married Iehoshabeath or Iehosheba the daughter of King Iehoram and sister of King Ahaziah 2 King XI 2 3. 2 Chron. XXII 11. He caused usurping and murthering Athaliah the daughter of Ahab and Iezebel and wife of King Iehoram and mother of King Ahaziah 2 Chron. XXI 6. and XXII 1 2. to be murtheredher self 2 King XI 16. And caused Ioash grand-childe of Athaliah and his wives nephew and sonne and heir of Ahaziah to be crowned King when he was seven years old 2 King XI 11 12 21. 2 Chron XXIII 11. Of whom see more on 2 King XI 4. Iehoiada the sonne of Benaiah Davids Counseller next to Ahitophel 1 Chron. XXVII 34. bring again the Ark David so soone as ever he was setled upon his throne over all Israel chapter XIII verse 3 taketh the strong Fort of Zion from the Jebusites brings the Ark of God with all solemnity yet not after the due maner from Kiriath-jearim and the house of Abinadab And upon the death of Uzza by the way at the threshing floore of Nachon or Chidon he carries it aside into the house of Obed-Edom where it remained three moneths 1 Chron. XIII Hiram sends to David messingers workmen and materials to build him an house in Zion And David takes more wives at Jerusalem and obtaines two victories against the Philistines chap. XIV And with great solemnity in the due maner he brings the Ark from Obed-Edoms house and sets it in the middest of the Tabernacle or Tent which he had prepared for it in the Citie of David in Zion chap. XV. where he offers Sacrifices Orders a Quire gives them a Psalme of Thanksgiving and appoints Ministers Porters Priests and Musicians to attend on the Ark continualy ch XVI In 2 Sam. V. David takes the strong Fort of Zion builds dwels in it hath messingers sent to him from Hiram King of Tyre with materials workmen for his building growes great takes moe wives and concubines at Jerusalem gets two victories over the Philistines in two set battels chap. V. And he brings up the Ark from Kiriath-Jearim and carries it aside into the house of Obed-Edom and after three moneths he brings it thence into the Citie of David with great solemnity and joy 2 Sam. VI Now whether the things contained in 1 Chr. XIV and 2 Sam. V. after the taking of Zion did intervene in that three moneths space while the Ark was in the house of Obed-Edom or were acted before the Ark was removed from Kiriath-Jearim is a matter of conjectural probabilities on either side yet I rather incline to the later opinion from Shihor of Egypt This Shihor chapter XIII verse 5 or Shichor or Sihor hath a notion of blacknesse in it And is not that rill or drill of water called by forraine writers Rhinocolura but is much rather the same with Nilus otherwise not once named in Scripture anciently by the Ethiopians called Siris by the Greeks Melas by the Latines Melo from the blacknesse of the water or rather of the mud and slime that it brings downe with it or the black colour of the grounds and soils it passeth through It is called by way of excellencie the River Esay XXIII 3. Ezek. XXIX 3 9. and the river or flood of Egypt Amos VIII 8. and chap. IX 5. This River rising in the South from unknown heads runs in one intire streame Northward to the Head Delta in Egypt where it divideth it self into two maine Channels and afterwards brancheth into seven several streames Esay XI 15. Emptying themselves