great quantity of silver and gold to the oppression of their subjects otherwise they had need of great riches to preserve their Countries and their Kingly Majesty 165. Deut. 18. 10. There shall not be found amongst you an observer of time 1 Sam. 28. 7 Lev. 19. 13. Ch. 20. 17. 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 then an other 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 166. Deut. 18 11. You shall not consult with Wisards or seek truth from the dead Mat. 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 confirm the Disciples in the doctrine delivered by Moses and the Prophets 167. Deut. 20 17. Thoushalt 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 King 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 168. Deut. 20. 19. When you besiege a City you shall not destroy the trees 2 King 3. 19. You shall fell euery 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 169. 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. 170. Deut. 21. 21. If any man beget a stubborn child he shall bring him to the Elders of the City to the gate of judgement and he shall be stoned with stones till he die Prov. 19. 18. Instruct thy son and despaire not of him Moses speaks of the incorrigible son Solomon concerning fatherly correction whilst there is hope of the sons amendment and warns him that he shall not set his mind to destroy him 171. Deut. 23. 2. A bastard shall not enter 2 King 14. 6. 2 Chron. 26. 4. into the Congregation of the Lord. Ezek. 18. 20. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father God would not suffer bastards to be admitted to publick offices for the disgrace of their births and the honour of Matrimony lest the Common-wealth should grow contemptible by such but that exclusion is not to be taken for a punishment but an affliction which God in the next life will reward with more glory if they be pious and penitent 172. Deut. 23. 6. Thou shalt make no peace with the Ammonites and Moabites Rom. 12. 18. If it be possible as much as lyeth in you live peaceably with all men Those Nations did not only lay snares for the Israelites temporall life but also for their eternall life we so farre as we are able and where piety is not indangered must hold and embrace peace with all men 173. Deut. 23. 15. Thou shalt not deliver to his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee Philemon vers 13. Paul sent Onesimus who was fled from his Master to his Master again The fugitive servant was not to be sent back to his angry master who was ready to kill him There was a difference amongst the servants of the Jews for he that was to serve seaven years if he ran away after he had served six years he was not to be sent back to his Master but the Gentiles were bond-servants all their lives 174. Deut. 24. 1 If a man have taken a wife and married hor and she find no favour in his eyes because he hath found some uncleannesse in her let him write her a Bill of divorcement and give it 1 Cor. 7. 15. in her hand and send her out of his house Mat. 5. 32. Chap. 19. 7. Whosoever shall put away his wife saving for the cause of fornication causeth her to commit adultery and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery The law of divorcement of wives was nothing but a concession of Moses for the hardnesse of the hearts of the Jewes and the danger of the lives of the women Christ abrogated that custome by the divine Law and a precept from the beginning and corrected the false glosses upon the Divine Mal. 2. 6. Law 175. Deut. 24 2. She that was sent away from her husband might marry an other husband Rom. 7. 3. Whilst her husband liveth she shall be called an adulteress if she be married to an other man Divorce by a bill of divorcement doth not dissolve matrimony therefore they that are unlawfully parted must not attempt second marriages because they that are once marryed are made one body 176. Deut. 24. 16. The children shall not be Gen. 5. 1. 1 Cor. 15. 35. put to death for the parents Rom. 5. 12. By one men sin entred into the world The innocent children are not punished for the sins of their fathers but in Adam we all sinned and we are dayly polluted with many actuall transgressions 177. Deut. 25. 3. Forty stripes he may have given him and not exceed 2 Cor. 11. 24. I received of the Jews five times forty stripes save one The Jews to seem more mercifull subducted one stripe 178. Deut. 25. 4. Thou shalt not musle the Ox Jos Ant. â—â— 4. c. 8. which treadeth out the corn 1 Cor. 9. 9. Doth God take care for Oxen The former place doth not properly appertain to Oxen but it is a figurative speech In the latter the Apostle speaks tropologically of the Ministers of the Church as if he would say if God take care for Oxen then much more doth he care for men and the Ministers of his Church 179. Deut. 27. 15. Cursed be the man that maketh a mâ—lten Image Rom. 12. 14. Blesse and curse not The former place must be understood to proceed from duty and zeal to the glory of God not out of desire to revenge So Moses and Paul did curse Let us follow the example 1 Cor. 4. 12. of Christ who being reviled reviled not again when he suffered
Neither this Man sinned nor his Parents Rom. 3. 10. There is none righteous no not one none that understandeth The cause of his blindenesse was no notable and enormous wikednesse of himself or his parents though all men be sinners and for their sins infirmities and defects of nature are ohnoxious to temporal and eternal punishments 739. Joh. 9. 31. God heareth not sinners 1. Joh. 1. 9. If we confesse our sins God is faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us from all our sins God hears not impenitent sinners obdurate in their wickednesse but to such as repent confesse and amend their lives he pardons their sins 740. Joh. 9. 39. For Judgment I am come into this world chap. 3. 17. chap. 12. 40. 47. I came not to judge the world but to save the world In the former place by Judgement is meant a benefit given to men by the coming of Christ by which he brought those things to good order that were out of order in the latter Christ speaks of his principal end of his coming into the world 741. Joh. 9. 41. If you were blind you should have no sin Rom. 11. 25. Blindnesse is hapned unto Israel In the first place Christs speak of the Jews according to the opinion they had of themselves for they did not acknowledge any blindnesse of their minds or their sins in the latter what was the truth of them indeed blindnesse hapned to them not that they should all perish but that many multitudes of the Gentiles might be converted and saved so well as the Jews 742. Joh. 10. 28. My sheep shall never perish neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand chap. 13. 18. Judas was chosen to be of Christs sheep and yet perished Election in the first place is meant to eternal life in the latter to an Office Judas was Christs sheep only by outward vocation and profession 743. Joh. 10. 29. My Father is greater ver 30. I and my Father are one Christ is equal to God the Father according to his Divine Nature lesse then the Father according to his humane Nature and his Office of Mediatorship between God and Man 744. Joh. 10. 32. Many good works have I shewed you from my Father chap. 14. 10. The Father that dwelleth in me he doth the works In the former place Christ speaks not exclusively because the works of the Trinity outwardly are common to the three Persons there is no work of the Son which the Father doth not work in him In the latter he ascribing operation to the Father he asserts that it is done by the authority and counsel of his Father so speaking of the manner and order of working he takes not away the unity of essence Majesty and power 745. Joh. 11. 4. Lazarus sicknesse was not unto death vers 14. Lazarus is dead The sicknesse of Lazarus by reason of the event was not unto death because Christ raised him again and saith that his death was but a sleep for we are not so early awaked from sleep as Christ called Lazarus out of his grave and he shall raise us all at the last day 746. Joh. 11. 25. He that believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live vers 26. He that believeth in me shall never dye Death is temporal and eternal temporal in this world is corporal and spiritual Christ speaks of both in the former place Spiritual death is either of them who being dead have not Christs quickning Spirit and of this he speaks not here but of them that being quickned by Christs Spirit are dead to sin and the flesh in the latter is meant chiefly eternal death 747. Joh. 11. 26. Whosoever believeth in me shall never dye Heb. 9. 27. It is appointed for all men once to dye The faithful doe not dye a spiritual and eternal death but natural death is common to all men 748. Joh. 11. 34. Where have you laid him chap. 21. 17. Thou knowest all things Christ enquired of Lazarus his grave not as if he were ignorant thereof but that he might stir up a desire in his sisters and those that were present to consider and to see the Miracle of the Resurrection So God said to Adam Gen. 3. 9. Adam where art thou 749. Joh. 11. 50. Caiphas a wicked man prophesied by the instinct of the Spirit Rom. 8. 14. As many as are led by the Spirit of God they are the sons of God The gifts of Gods Spirit are of Sanctification and Salvation and those are proper to the elect children of God or gifts of administration which are common to good and bad men amongst which is the gift of Prophesie 750. Joh. 12. 27. Father save me from this hour Phil. 2. 8. He became obedient unto death Christ feeling the sins of the world lying upon him feared death as he was man and desired rather to live then dye if that might have been granted without detriment to Gods glory and our salvation but because it was not possible that that Cup should passe from him he submitted himself to his Fathers will and said Therefore came I unto this hour 751. Joh. 12. 30. Now shall the Prince of this world be cast out Ephes 6. 12. We have yet war with the Prince of this world That casting out was out of the hearts of the faithful whom though the Devill doe tempt and oppose many wayes yet he cannot vanquish them but is cast out also Christ respects the casting out of the Devill whilest both Jews and Gentiles amongst whom the Devill reigned were called to the grace of Christ by his coming 752. Joh 13. 27. After the sop Satan entred into him Vers 2. And Supper being ended the Devill having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot The first place is of totall possessing when after so many admonitions from Christ and so many humane favours received Judas yet continued in his purpose of betraying Christ he is delivered to Satan to be ruled so that he could think on nothing that was sound and good 753. Joh. 13. 37. A new Commandement I give unto you that you love one the other Mat. 22. 37. This was the greatest Commandement in the Old Testament to love God and our Neighbour It is called a new Commandement not by reason of the substance but because Christ renewed it and the singular affection of love which Christ requires in his followers as he loved them and gave himself for them so he would that they should love one the other with singular affection 754. Joh. 14. 4. Whither I goe ye know and the way ye know vers 5. We know not They did know inchoatively and imperfectly but because they knew not that they did know the cause was their rudenesse and forgetfulnesse of Christs words 755. Joh. 14. 8. Shew us the Father vers 9. He that seeth me seeth the Father The Apostles did not perfectly know Christ therefore he taxeth them of ignorance for they ought to have seen and
and dwels in 1 Tim. 6. 16. an unaccessible light that Moses in his mortality saw not perfectly yet we piously believe that the Son of God taking on him the shape of a man as he was afterwards to be incarnate did speak with Moses familiarly 131. Num. 14. 1. All the people with a loud voice murmured against Moses Vers 23. They shall not see the Land of promise except Caleb Josh 14. 1. The children of Israel possessed the land of Canaan which Eleazar the Priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the Fathers distributed to them Ch. 24. 7. Whose eyes saw what the Lord had done in Egypt Eleazar and Caleb and other faithfull people came into the Land of promise but those 1 Cor. 10. 5. that murmured were destroyed in the wildernesse for with many of them God was not well pleased 132. Num. 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 hypocrisie is deservedly reprehended 133. Num. 16. 32. The earth opening her mouth devoured them all which belonged to Corah with their houses and substance Deut. 11. 6. Psal 106. 17. 26. 32. When Corah perished all his sons perished not The sons 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 134. Num. 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 month A woman after she brought sorch a male child must stay apart six weeks after a female twelve weeks in that time they were purged from their issue of bloud 135. Num. 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 Josh 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 performe their office in holy things as they should 136. Num. 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 Psal 18. 1. 1 Cor. 10. 4. They all dranke the same spirituall drink for they dranke 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 benefits to us were prefigured thereby 137. Num. 20. 18 21. Edom would not suffer the Israelites to passe through the Land Deut. 2. 29. Let me passe through thy Land as the children of Esau did unto me The children of Esau denied to let the children Jud. 11. 18 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 138. Num. 20. 28. Eleazar 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 himselfe 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 139. Num. 21. 9. Moses made a Serpent of brasse and put it up for a signe 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 140. Num. 22. 12. God said to Balaam Thou shalt not go with them Vers 20. Rise and go with them Vers 35. Go with the men God would not that Balaam should go to curse the Israelites at last he suffered him to go though he were displeased at it yet on this condition that he should speak nothing then what God commanded him 141. Num. 23. 10. Balaam prophesied to his owne disgrace 1 Cor. 12. 7. To every man the manifestation of the Spirit is given to profit withall The gift of Prophesie was not hurtfull to Balaam in respect of God that gave it him had he used it well but Baalam abused it False prophets also speak truth Joh. 11. 51. as Caiaphas did though it be against their will 142. Num. 25. 3. Israel joyned himself to Baal-poor and God was angry with Israel 1 Cor. 10. 8. Neither let us commit fornication as some of them committed Since Idolatry is spirituall fornication Lyra. Paul makes mention of it for the daughters of Moab would not admit the Israelites before they had eaten things offered to Idols 143. Num. 25. 9. There died of the plague 24000. 1 Cor. 10. 8. They fell in one day 23000. Moses collects the number of those which fell by sword and strangling but the Apostle counts onely those that fell by the sword 144. Num. 27. 12. Go up into mount Abarim and see the land Deut. 34. 1. Moses went up to mount Nebo to the top of Pisgah c. Abarim was the mountain but Nebo and Pisgah were the tops of that mountain so they differ but as a part from the whole 145. Num. 27. 21. The Priest shall aske counsell for him after the judgement of Vrim 1 Sam. 30. 8. And Abiathar brought to David the Ephod and he enquired at the Lord. The Ephod was properly belonging to the high Priest common to all sacrificing Priests which David made use of extraordinarily and was inspired by God with a propheticall spirit 146. Num. 31. 18. But all maids that have not known a man keep alive for your selves 1 Sam. 15. 3. Slay both man woman and infant
The sin of the Midianites was not so horrible as that of the Amalekites and we though we know not the cause of Gods commands yet must we say Righteous art thou O Lord and just are thy judgments 147. Num. 32. 16 17. Reuben and Gad and the half tribe of Manasse went armed to battel before the children of Israel Josh 22. 8. Divide the spoile of the enemies with your brethren that is to those that staid at home The strong and fighting men went with the Israelites but those that were weak and unfit for war staid at home who took the charge to look to the Cities and manuring of the fields 148. Num. 33. 54. Divide the Land by lot amongst you Deut. 18. 12. Lots are forbidden Lots were ordained of God which are used according to Gods commandment and the land of Canaan was divided by the lawfull use of them Matthias was chosen to be Josh 14. 2. Act. 1. 26. an Apostle so every man must be contented with his own lot they are unlawfull and prohibited which are used in sports and playes 149. Num. 34. 17. Eleazar the Priest and Joshua shall divide the Land unto you Luk. 12. 13. Christ would not divide the Inheritance An office which is Ecclesiasticall is distinguished from a secular office in the dividing of the land Eleazar the Priest for his authority was joyned to Joshua the Prince that all things might proceed in right order and the tribe of Levi might be well provided for a place to dwell in from every tribe DEUTERONOMIE THat is the second Law Moses repeats here the ceremoniall and judiciall Lawes spoken before in Exodus and Leviticus ch 34. to the end from vers 5. Joshua fulfilled them after the death of Moses 150. Deut. 1. 16. Judge righteously Mat. 7. 1. Judge not at all Judgements appointed by God in the Church or Common-wealth are lawfull but Christ forbides disorderly and rash judgements that no man should suddenly or falsly passe sentence on his neighbours words or deeds 151. Deut. 2. 5. I will not give you in the land of Esau so much as a foots breadth Psal 60. 8. Over Edom will I cast out my shooe The Israelites going into the Land of 2 Chron. 10. Canaan through the Land of the Edomites were not to offend them because the time to bring them into subjection was not yet full but they were made tributaries under David nor was the land of Idumea given to the Israelites as the land of Canaan was 152. Deut. 2. 19. I will not give to thee of the land of the children of Ammon Josh 13. 24. Moses gave to the tribe of Gad the one halfe of the land of Ammon The Ammonites held the land which they possessed in the dayes of Moses the other part of the Country formerly possessed by Sihon was distributed to the Israelites 153. Deut. 4. 10 11. The Israelites stood before the Lord God in Horeb. Exod. 29. 11. The Table of the Law were given in Mount Sinai Mount Horeb was called otherwise Mount Sinai or the toppe of the pinacle of the Mount 154. Deut. 6. 3. 10. 20. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God and him onely shalt thou serve Col. 3. 23. Exod. 6. 5. Servants obey in all things your Masters according to the flesh with fear God must be feared above all things and he must be first served masters according to the flesh must be obeyed for his sake and in respect to his commandement 155. Deut. 6. 13. Thou shalt swear by the name of the Lord. Mat. 5 34. Swear not at all That oath is lawfull when we give testimony Aug. Epist 154. to the truth in the name of God the Magistrate and necessity requiring that of us such an oath Christ condemns not but vain and unnecessary oathes and such as are made by the creatures and he saith so not because it is sin to swear the truth but perjury is a horrid sin 156. Deut. 6. 16. Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God Jam. 1. 13. God cannot be tempted with evill Divine temptations are for tryal but men do tempt God when they aske such things of him that are not according to his will Exod. 17. 8. Psal 9. 2. Mat. 12. 39. Diabolicall temptations are to seduce us he tempts good men to turn them from what is good wicked men to keep them still in their wickednesse 157. Deut. 10. 17. The Lord your God is God of Gods and Lord of Eords Chap. 32. 39. I am God alone 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 only we can be saved 158. 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. 159. 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 Canaan and continued in piety and the true fear of God 160. 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 Mat. 13. 30. kill the false Prophets 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 161. Deut. 15. 3. Of a forainer thou mayest expect thy money again Psal 37. 21. 112. 5. Prov. 11. 24. Luk. 6. 35. Lend 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 162. Deut. 16. 8. Six dayes Exod. 13. 6. Seaven dayes shalt thou eat leavened bread The seventh day of the feast was no lesse solemn then the first 163. Deut. 17. 17. The King shall not have many wives 1 King 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 164. Deut. 17. 17. The King shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold 1 King 3. 13. God gave to Solomon riches and honour Kings must not for their pride heap up
he threatned not lest he should seem desirous of revenge 180. Deut. 30. 11. The commandement which I command thee this day is not hidden from thee neither is it far off Joh. 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 search the Scriptures to increase our knowledge by because we know hereby in part c. 1 Cor. 13. 9. 181. Deut. 30. 15. I have set before you this day life and good death and evill Joh. 8. 24. Ye shall die in your sins Moses foreshewes favour to those that keep the Law and wrath to the trangressours Christ threatens the Jewes the servants of sinne with death and eternall destruction 182. Deut. 30. 19. I have set before you good and evill Rom. 6. 16. Wicked men are the servants of sin In the first place it is spoken of Gods people In the latter of the wicked who are called the servants of sin that run after it with greedinesse it reigns in them and their will leans to evill 183. Deut. 31. 2. Moses was a 120. years old Psal 90. 10. The dayes of our years are 70. or 80. Moses obtained long life by a singular priviledge from God The term of our life is 70. or 80. years or at the most 100. years as Ecclus. speaks 18. 9. 184. Deut. 32. 21. I will provoke them by those that are not a people Rom. 10. 19. Mat. 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 185. Deut. 32. 39. I am alone and there is not 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 then God 186. 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 187. Deut. 34. 10. There arose not a Prophet since in Israel like to Moses Matth. 11. 11. Amongst them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater then John the Baptist In the old Testament Moses was the greatest Prophet in the new Testament Jobn Baptist who pointed out our Saviour with his finger JOSHUA THis Book was written by Joshua the son 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 18. years after Moses 188. Josh 1. 5. None shall be able to stand against thee all the dayes of thy life Chap. 7. 4. Three thousand men fled before 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 performeds on the peoples part therefore the violaters of the divine Covenant were punished 189. 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 Deut. 2. 6. 190. Josh 1. 11. After three dayes you shall passe over Jordan Chap. 3. 4. That was done many dayes after Joshua speaks according to his humane intention hoping that the spies would return to him within three dayes 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 191. Josh 2. 14. The spies promised to Rahab life and safety Deut. 20. 13. Thou shalt destroy every Male thereof with the edge of the sword The enemies of the true God and of the people of Israel were to be destroyed Rahab with her Father and brothers was well minded towards the spies and joyning her self to the people of God forsook the mad Idolatry of the Heathens 192. Josh 4. 5. Take you up every man a stone upon his shoulder according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel that it may be a signe among you Exod. 14. 22. Passing through the red sea they did not do so At the Commandement of God in memory of the drying up of the water of Jordan and their passing over this was done that it might be a monument of Gods benefits Moses did not the same in his passage over the red sea because he had no command of God for it 193. Josh 5. 7. Circumcision was intermitted in the wildernesse for 40. years Gen. 17. 14. The man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised that soul shall be cut off from my people Circumcision was intermitted during the time of the exile and peregrination of the children of Israel because of their continuall journying which did hinder it for it did cause great pain and languishing to the body 194. Josh 6. 4. On the seventh day the Souldiers and the seven Friests shall compasse the City seven times Exod. 20. 8. Remember to keep holy the seventh day Deut. 5. 15. Ezek. 20. 12. That was a speciall and singular law of God There are many things of this kind saith Justinus in the sacred Bible which God imputes not to men as sin because of the necessity that fell out as Circumcision the eight day The seven times compassing about Jericho the offering of sacrifices on the Sabboth c. 195. Josh 7. 15. He that shall be taken with the cursed thing shall be burnt with fier Vers 16. Achan with his children was stoned by the Israelites The fault of Achans sacrifice and violation of the Majesty of God by him and his children was mitigated for he was first stoned and then burned he and all that appertained to him 196. Josh 7. 24. For Achans sin were his children killed also Deut. 24. 16. The children shall not die for their fathers 2 King 14. 6. Ezek. 18. 20. Achan did not only commit sacriledge but also high treason and therefore both he and his family were to die for it for if for rebellion against earthly Majesty committed by parents the children are justly punished in civill judicature much more shall God justly revenge the rebellion of parents upon the children unto the third and fourth generation unlesse their Exod. 20. 5. children repent for it 197. Josh 10. 26. The King of Hebron was hanged Vers 37. He was slain with the sword The first King being taken was strangled the
second who succeeded him fell by the sword 198. Josh 11. 19. There was not a City which yeelded not it self up to the children of Israel Yet in the time of the Judges and the Kings many Cities were not in their possession Joshua took all the Cities he came at by force and those that were to be taken and they were to be delivered to Israel for a possession 199. Josh 15. 8. Jerusalem was in the tribe of Judah Chap. 18. 28. Benjamin is numbred In the borders of Judah and Benjamin at first they were two small Cities at last they were joyned into one and fortified with a wall round about 200. Josh 15. 63. The children of Judah could not drive out the Jebusites unto this day 2 Sam. 24. 18. The Jebusites were in their own possessions in the time of David who bought the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite Because the Israelites spared the Jebusites and the Benjamites took them into their protection so that the remainders of them were tolerated unto Davids time that succeeded ill to the people of Israel who by their society were Exod. 1. 21. drawn to Idolatry JVDGES THis Book is so called from the Judges of the people of the Jews It contains the condition of the children of Israel after the death of Joshua under 16 Judges The Idolatry of Micha The wickednesse of the Gibeathites The slaughter of the Benjamites It was written by Samuel It contains the History of 300. years 201. Judg. 5. 31. Let all the enemies of the Lord perish Prov. 25. 21. If thy enemy hunger Mat. 5. 44. Luk. 6. 35. Rom. 12. 20. feed him with bread if he thirst give him water to drink We must do good to our enemies but not to Gods enemies and for private injuries we must not curse them but as they are Gods enemies of whom there is no hope of their conversion out of zeal of a S. Spirit we may pray also for their destruction 202. Judg. 6. 17 36. Gedeon asketh a signe from God Mat. 12. 39. An evill generation seek for a signe Gedeon was confirmed in his office by a signe given from God so Moses and Joshua Christ cals the Pharisees an evill generation justly because they out of curiosity sought for a signe Let us be content with the word of God 203. Judg. 6. 21. Gedeon sacrificed on a rock Lev. 1. 5. The sons of Aaron shall offer the sacrifices on the Altar Gedeon offered the matter of the sacrifice to the Lord and God himself was the Priest in burning the offering nor was there any Leviticall officer present and the event teacheth us that what Gedeon did was from divine instinct 204. Jugd 11. 39. Jephtha did according to his vow Vers 31. Whatsoever cometh forth of the dores of my house to meet me I will offer up for a burnt-offering to the Lord. Deut. 12. 31. The Lord hates all the abominations that the Gentiles used to their Gods and those that offered us their sons and daughters and burned them in the fire Jephtha vowed disjunctively that whatsoever should first meet him out of his house should be the Lords that it should be either sacrificed or deputed for Gods service for he knew that all living creatures could not be offered in sacrifice to the Lord therefore he consecrated his daughter for the work of the Sanctuary Ve. 38. for she being sanctified to God knew no man and she bewailed her virginity 205. Jud. 13. 7. Samson was a Nazarite from his mothers womb unto the day of his death Mat. 2. 23. It was fulfilled in Christ he shall be called a Nazarite The Nazarites in the old Testament were votaries according to Law Num. 6. who gave themselves wholly to meditate upon divine matters and others which were born so as Samson here on whose head never rasor came nor was his head ever shorne others were called so both wayes joyntly Christ was prefigured by them who was most free from all uncleannesse commonly called a Nazarite because he was brought up in the Town of Nazareth 206. Judg. 16. 31. Samson killed himself Exod. 20. 14. Thou shalt not kill Samson killed not himself with the Philistins by any rashnesse of his own but he did that by the instinct and power of God and was a figure of Christs overthrowing our enemies RUTH IT is so named from Ruth a woman Samuel describes in this Book Ruths dutifulnesse to her Mother in Law and the integrity of Boas who was Davids Grandfather 207. Ruth 3. 4. Naomi perswades Ruth to lie down at Boas feet 1 Tim. 2. 9. Women adorning themselves with modesty and sobriety That was indeed a dangerous counsell nor must it be drawn in for an example Naomi was brought on to do that by the Law of raising children to the brother that was dead Yet God hindred that no dishonesty happened thereby 208. Ruth 4. 13. Boas took Ruth and she was his wife and he went in unto her Deut. 7. 3. You shall make no marriages with them Moah who was the son of Lot of his posterity they were not forbid to marry wives but of the Hittites Gergeshites Ammorhites Cananites Perisites Hivites Jebusites c. Ruth followed the true Religion and the Nation of the Jews and not the Moabites The two Books of SAMVEL Heb. Schemuel IN the first Book is described the life and death of Samuel with the Government of Saul In the second the translation of the Kingdome to David and his administration of it Samuel writ the first book to the 25. Chapter The rest with the second Book were writ by Nathan and Gad both Prophets In these two Books is contained the History of 120. yeares 209. 1 Sam. 3. 13. Eli knew his sons did wickedly and he restrained them not Chap. 2. 24. He said to his sons Wherefore do you all these things that I hear of you from all the people do not so my sons it is no good report The correction of Eli in reproving his sons was too gentle nor is it accounted for a restraint Chrysostome saith if Eli had been unreproveable in Mat. hom 17. himself in his life he should more sharply have corrected his sons treading under foot the Law of God therefore was he justly punished 210. 1 Sam. 7. 2. From the day that the Arke of God abode in Kirjath-jearim the time was long for it was twenty years and all the house of Israel lamented after the Lord. 1 Chron. 13. 6. David in the fifth year brought it from thence The Ark was in Kirjath-jearim unto the days of Saul who first brought it into the Army and then sent it back to its place David being made King first translated it to Obed-edoms house and after that unto the mountain of Sion 211. 1 Sam. 9. 16. Thou shalt anoint him to be Captain over my people Israel for I have looked upon my people because their cry is come unto me Hos 13. 11. I gave thee a King in mine
inflicts it hath the nature of good 450. Lam. 5. 7. Our fathers have sinned and are not and we have born their iniquities Ezek. 18. 20. The sons shall not bear the Fathers iniquities The children succeeding the Parents in their sins succeed them also in their punishments Godly and penitent children shall not beare the iniquities of their parents for ever though they be afflicted with temporall punishments 451. Lamen 5. 21. Turn thou us unto thee O Lord and we shall be turned Psal 119. ult Hosea 14. 2. Turn O Israel to the Lord thy God Conversion and Repentance is the worke Act. 11. 8. of God he gives it to the Gentiles and none but those that are enlightned in their hearts can truly turn unto God EZEKIELS Prophesie THe Priest the son of Buzi who was brought into Babylon under Jekonias and confirmed the Prophesie of Jeremiah and comforted the captives about the year 3350. by the river Chebar he had the visions from God He prophesied 20 years 452. Ezek. 8. 12. The Lord seeth us not Heb. 4. 13. All things are naked and open before the eyes of God The Prophet makes mention of what foolish men say who thought both by their words and deeds that God saw them not whose perverse judgement doth not hinder the truth which maintains that all things be they never so secret yea the thoughts of our hearts are open before God 453. Ezek. 18. 4. The soul that sins that shall die Rom. 5. 6. Christ died for us The first sentence is legall and teacheth what must be done by the law divine or humane legally The last is Evangelicall shewing that God for Christs sake freely gives us his grace and salvation 454. Ezek. 12. 13. I will bring Zedekiah into Babylon to the land of the Chaldees yet shall be not see it though he shall die there Jer. 34. 3. Thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the King of Babylon and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth Zedekias being taken saw the King of Babylon afterwards they put out his eyes that he could not see the Land of the Caldees nor Babylon in his captivity 455. Ezek. 18. 19. Walke in my precepts keep my judgements 1 Tim. 19 The law was not made for the righteous but for the wicked and disobedient The Prophet understands the law that teacheth and enlightens us The Apostle the law that condemns us For there is no condemnation Rom. 8. 33 to those that are justified in Christ Jesus 456. Ezek. 18. 21. But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed he shall not die Heb. 6. 4. It is impossible for those that were once illuminated if they shall fall away to renew them again by repentance It is hard and impossible in respect of those who bar themselves out from Gods mercy and shut their hearts that they may not be enlightned by the Sun of righteousnesse but it is not so in respect of God who would have all men to repent and be saved yet he justly punisheth with finall impenitency all obstinate and malicious Apostates and such as sin against the holy Ghost 457. Ezek. 18. 23. 33. 11. God will not the death He hath no pleasure in the death of the wicked Rom. 9. 18. He hath mercy on whom he will and whom he will he hardneth God will not the death of a sinner by his antecedent will but by his consequent will or his justice because he justly punisheth him who rejects the grace of God offered unto him He hardens therefore permissively not effectively 458. Ezek. 18. 23. I will not the death of him that dyeth Chap. 3. 18. Thou shalt die the death God as our Father will not by the Gospell but as he is our judge and revenger he will by the law that a sinner shall die 459. Ezek 18. 23. 32. I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth 1 Joh. 5. 16. A sin unto death God will not the death of him that repents for his mercy is over all his works A sin unto death is a sin against the holy Ghost and so it is called because it is iustly punished with finall impenitency 460. Ezek. 18. 26. When a righteous man turns away from his righteousnesse and doth iniquity he shall die in it Rom. 8. 30. Whom he justified them he glorified Righteous in the first place is not truly so but only in opinion so Christ came not to call the just but the Apostle speaks of Mat. 9. 13. those that are truly just who are justified in Christ and shall be surely glorified Or if the place of the Prophet be to be interpreted of him that is truly just it is conditionall and so proves nothing and the contradiction is reconciled 461. Ezek. 20. 25. I gave them also Statutes that were not good and judgments whereby they should not live Psal 19. 9. The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether Precepts that are not good are either legall threatnings by which God menaces curses to the wicked or false doctrine when God by his just judgement suffers those that would not believe the truth but go forward in iniquity to believe lies 462. Ezek. 44. 9. No stranger uncircumcised in heart and flesh shall enter into my Sanctuary Gal. 5. 2. If you be circumcised Christ shall profit you nothing The Prophet means spirituall circumcision by faith in Christ but the Apostle means nothing but corporall and legall circumcision which was that the Jews strove to be justified by Col. 2. 15. DANIELS Prophesie DAniel was carried young with Joakim to Babylon there he lived 70 years to the time of Cyrus in the year 3370. He interprets Nebuchodonozors dream of the image and writeth what was done under Nebuchodonozors reign Balshazars and Darius And describes the four Monarchies and the eternall kingdome of Christ he numbred also the weeks of years of the coming of Christ 463. Dan. 1. 5. The King appointed for Daniel and his fellowes a dayly provision that at the end of three years they might stand before the King Chap. 2. 1. In the second year of Nebuchadnezzar the King dreamed a dream wherewith his spirit was troubled Vers 16. Daniel went in and desired of the King that he would give him time That was done in the second year after these things were ended which were appointed for the education of Daniel and his companions under the government of Nabuchodonozor 464. Dan. 1. 21. 6. 28. And Daniel continued unto the first year of King Cyrus Chap. 10. 1. In the third year of Cyrus King of Persia a thing was revealed to Daniel In the former place the two following years are not excluded but it is noted that God prolonged the life of Daniel untill the time of the return of the people of the Jews from Babylon Daniel was in his office at Court to the first year of Cyrus then being grown old he led a quiet private life 465. Dan. 2.
46. Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face and worshipped Daniel Deut. 6. 13. 10. 30. Mat. 4. 10. Thou shalt worship the Lord 1 Sam. 7. 3. thy God Nebuchadnezzar would have worshipped Daniel after the heathen manner but being better instructed by him he changed his purpose being admonished by Daniel to worship and Rev. 19. 10 adore the true God of gods 466. Dan. 3. 12. Chap. 2. 49. Daniel Shadrach Meshach and Abednego despised the Kings commandement Rom. 13. 1. Let every soul be subject to the higher powers God being the highest power we must Act. 4. 19. c. 5 29. principally obey him and above all men we must obey the Magistrate in things which are not against Gods word and his true worship 467. Dan. 4. 27. O King break off thy sins by righteousnesse and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor Isai 53. 7. The Lord hath laid upon him the iniquity of us all 1 Joh. 1. 7. The bloud of Jesus Christ doth cleanse us Our sins before men are redeemed by making satisfaction for injuries and by sorrow for them to this Daniel exhorts Nabuchadnezzar but before God only the merits of Christ Jesus can take away sins 468. Dan. 6. 10. Daniel his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem kneeled upon his knees three times a day and prayed 2 King 4. 33. Elisha shutting his doors prayed Mat. 6. 6. Christ commands the same Daniels work of confession was necessary lest he should seem to denie God and his truth by reason of the wicked command of the King Christ forbids not publick prayers but boasting hypocrisie 469. Dan. 9. 3 to the 20. The prayer of Daniel is contained in many words Mat. 6. 7. And when ye pray use not many words Isai 23. 3. Daniels prayer was no vain repetitions but a testimony of his fervent desire powred out in prayer from before the most holy God So was the prayer of Moses David Solomon and our Lord Jesus Christ But in the latter place Christ reprehends the foolishnesse of them who think that by many words repeated they can perswade God 470. Dan. 9. 17. Cause thy face to shine upon the Sanctuary for the Lords sake Joh. 16. 24. Ye have hitherto asked nothing in my name We do aske in the name of Christ with confidence of his merit that did the godly under the old Testament comparatively secretly implicitely under a shadow and a propitaitory but under the new Testament simply nakedly and openly without any shadows or externall propitiatory which Christ hath abolished 471. Dan. 9. 25. Vnto Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks and threescore and two weeks Act. 2. 7. It is not for you to know the times and seasons By divine revelation 70 weeks that is 490 years were soreshewed to Daniel that within so many years Christ should come and performe the office of a Messias such a knowing of times is not forbid but that which is rashly attempted by us without divine revelation TEREASAR that is as they are commonly called in Hebrew The Prophesies of the twelve minor Prophets not for their authority but the quantity of the book HOSEAS Prophesie the son of Beeri HE chides the Jewes for their idolatry He shewes their casting off end the espousing of the Gentiles to God He declares salvation to those that should repent He Prophesied 50 years in the time of Osiah Jotham Achaz Ezekias Kings of Judah and in the dayes of Jeroboam son of Joas King of Israel about the year 3150. 472. Hos 1. 2. Go take thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredomes Lev. 21. 14. A widow or a divorced woman or prophane or an harlot these shall he not take but a virgin The command of God to the Prophet was not that he should marry a whore but a lawfull wife yet with such an infamy as though she were a Harlot and her children bastards By this embleme the Israelites are admonished of their spirituall fornication 473. Hos 1. 7. I will not save them by bow nor by sword nor by battell Rom. 13. 4. The Magistrate beareth not the sword in vain The first place is of the conservation of the Kingdome of Judah against the Assyrian not by corporall weapons but by miracles which takes not away the lawfull power of the Magistrate against the enemies of the Church externall or internall 474. Hos 1. 9. Ye are not my people Vers 10. Ye are the sons of the living God The Prophet divides the people of Israel into those which are and those which shall be Those which are he divides into righteous and wicked the righteous that remain shall be few but the wicked shall be more he saith that even the whole people of Israel should forsake God yet some few should be saved to the coming of the Messias whilst all Nations both Jewes and Gentiles should be gathered into one people and Jer. 3. 18. Ezek. 34. 27. one sheepfold under one King and one shepherd 475. Hos 2. 13. I will visit upon her the days of Baalim when she burnt incense to them 1 King 18 40. Elias the Prophet killed Baals Prophets at the brook Cison The Baalites were destroyed in the time of Elias and of Jâ—hu yet their superstition remained and stuck to the posterity of the people 476. Hos 4. 23. Swear not The Lord liveth Deut. 6. 13. And thou shalt swear by the name of the Lord. An oath is part of Gods worship and therefore the Prophet warneth Idolaters not to abuse it as they did in Bethel that they might seem to serve God and not the Calfs 477. Hos 8. 4. They have set up Kings but not by me Rom. 13. 1. There is no power but of God The Prophesie respects the breaking of the 10 Tribes from the house of Solomon that was not from God as the Israelites did it who would not be subject to the Judges of Judah contrary to Gods revealed will but yet it was from God because he would punish the sins of Solomon So Tyrants are from God not only as a scourge but by reason of their power because the power must be distinguished from the corruption of the person who useth it c. 478. Hos 11. 1. When Israel was a childe then I loved him and called my son out of Egypt Mat. 2. 15. This Prophesie was fulfilled in Christ being brought back from Egypt These words were spoken of Israel Gods adopted sonne and of his onely begotten Sonne according to the union of the body with the head and comparison of the type with the truth The deliverance of the children of Israel out of Egypt was a figure of our Redemption and freedome by Christ 479. Hos 13. 14. O death I will be thy plague O grave I will be thy destruction 1 Cor. 15. 55. O death where is thy victory The first place may be explained by the latter for in both is shewed that death hath lost its strength and is swallowed up in victory
JOELS Prophesie the son of Pethuel HE Prophesied in the year 3239. That the Israelites should be carried captives into Assyria he exhorts them to repentance and promiseth mercy to them that are penitent 480. Joel 1. 13. Chap. 2. 12. Turn you unto me with fasting with weeping and with mourning Mat. 6. 17. When thou fastest anoint thy head and wash thy face that thou seem not to fast before men Christ discommends not private or publick fastings but he taxeth the hypocrisie of the Pharisees in their fasts for godly people must not sound a trumpet but be content to have God the witnesse of their works 481. Joel 2. 14. Who knoweth whether God will return and repent and pardon us Jam. 1. 6. He that doubts is like a wave of the sea Who knoweth belongs not to remission of sins but removing of punishment for that is to be prayed for upon condition of the will of God and our good 482. Joel 2. 28. Isai 44. 3. And it shall come to passe after this that I will powre out my spirit upon all flesh 2 Sam. 23. 2. 2 Pet. 1. 21. Holy men of God spake as they were inspired by the holy Ghost Joel speaks of the state of the Church after the coming of Messias and of the comparing of the spirituall gifts of the Jewish and Christian members of the Church And he teacheth that after the Messias shall be come the spirituall gifts of God shall be greater amongst all men but not that all under the new Testament should have the gift of Prophesie The latter places are of publick and ordinary prophesie 483. Joel 2. 32. Whosoever cals upon the name of the Lord shall be delivered Heb. 6. 4. Chap. 10. 26. They that are once enlightned if they fall they cannot be restored The first place speaks of the faithfull who call on the Lords name in faith The latter concerning Apostates that sin against the holy Ghost who have neither faith nor true prayer though they pray with their lips for they do it not sincerely and therefore their prayers are an abomination to God 484. Joel 3. 20. But Judah shall dwell for ever and Jerusalem from generation to generation Amos 9. 11. The Tabernacle of David is fallen down Mat. 24. 1. Act. 15. 16. The promises of the perpetuity of the Temple and Kingdome of Judah belong not to the building and wals of the City or the civill kingdome but to the perpetuity of the Kingdome of Christ and his Church against which the gates of hell shall never be able to prevail and they are conditionall upon their faith obedience and purity of Divine worship AMOS his Prophesie WHo was of the common people amongst the heardsmen of Tekoa He prophesieth of the wrath of God to the Kings and Kingdomes of Judah and Israel and he threatens Famine Sword Pestilence devastation and ruine to the neighbours who were enemies to Gods people He prophesied in the year 3153 in the dayes of Josiah King of Judah 485. Amos 1. 3. 6. 9. 11. 13. Chap. 2. 1. 4. 6. For three transgressions and for four I will not spare And at length he reckons but one It is a periphrasis of the seventh number which three and four do make which is called a perfect number in the Scriptures and a certain number is put for an uncertain as if he would have said For many iniquities I will not spare those Nations 486. Amos 5. 21. I hate I despise your feast dayes Exod. 20. 8. Remember thou keep holy the Sabbath day God hated the feasts and solemnities of the Israelites because they were defiled with humane traditions and a Pharisaicall opinion of merit But he doth not despise the Sabbaths appointed by himself and feasts which are kept at his command 487. Amos 5. 18. Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord that day of the Lord is darknesse Mat. 6. 10. Thy Kingdome come Chap. 24. 30. Let it come with glory The Prophet speaks of the day of Judgement of this world which hypocrites desire who look to be justified in their works and not of the last judgement which godly men ought to pray for and to cry without ceasing Come Rev. 22. Lord Jesus 488. Amos 5. 26. But ye have born the Tabernacle of your Moloch and the images of your Idols the star of your God Rempham the statutes of your Gods which you made for your selves I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus Act. 7. 43. You took up the Tabernacle of Moloch and the star of your God Rempham figures which you made to worship them and I will carry you beyond Babylon Stephen cites this Prophesie though in divers Rom. 16. 19 1 Eâ—d 8. 17. words yet in the same sense so Christ and his Apostles cite other places of the old Testament Moloch and Rempham were the Idols of the Ammonites The Israelites of Damascus by Cyromedia were carryed further into Persia and the Countrey of the Caspians beyond Babylon 489. Amos 8. 14. They shall fall and never rise up again 1 Cor. 11. 22. We shall all rise The first place speaks of a resurrection from sin to grace or from death to life which is denyed to impenitent sinners But the latter speaks of the generall resurrection of our bodies at the last day OBADIAHS Prophesie HE Prophesieth against the Idumeans He comforteth the Jewes and promiseth grace and help to the people of God He prophesied in the year 3337. 490. Obad. v. 15. As thou hast done it shall be done unto thee Revel 18. 6. Double unto her double In both places is manifested the just revenge of God he is commanded to mix double for Babylon according to her works thereby to shew that the kingdome of Antichrist shall be most miserably destroyed and trod down 491. Obad. v. 21. And Saviours shall come upon mount Sion Mat. 1. 21. Jesus shall save his people from their sins The Prophet means ministeriall Saviours that is the Apostles and other Ministers of the Jer. 3. 18. 1 Tim. 4. 16. Jam. 5. 20. Isa 53. 11. Joh. 1. 29. Ephes 1. 7. Church who do serve for the salvation of those that believe in Christ by the ministery of the word and not by the merit of their works and these turning sinners from their evill wayes do save their souls from death Christ Jesus is the only Saviour who takes away the sins of the world in whom we have redemption by his bloud and remission of our sins according to the riches of his grace nor is there salvation in any other Act. 4. 12. JONAS Prophesie THe son of Amittai of the tribe of Zebulon He was sent to Nineve the Metropolis of Assyria to preach First when he refused he was cast into the sea swallowed by a fish and the third day he was cast on the shoar then being sent again to Nineve he was angry because God spared them upon their repentance therefore he was reprehended by God He
25. 32. He shall separate the Sheep from the Goats Joh. 10. 16. And there shall be one sheepfold The first place is concerning the future state of the Church after the day of Judgement that shall be otherwise then it is now for then shall there be a separation made Hypocrites now passe for Sheep then they shall be manifested to be Goats The latter place is of the faithful Eph. 2. 14. c. 5. 23. 1 Cor. 3. 11. who shall be gathered into one sheepfold that is the Church both Jews and Gentiles under one shepherd 620. Mat. 25. 34. Inherit the Kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world Ephes 1. 4. He chose us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy Christ by the beginning and foundation of the world understands eternity the Apostle looks to the first Creation for before the foundation of this world were laid God chose us in Christ to salvation 621. Mat. 25. 34. There is a Kingdome prepared for us before the foundation of the world Joh. 14. 3. I goe saith Christ to prepare a place for you There is a place by Gods decree provided for us from eternity according to predestination but not particular designation which is done after Christs ascension but the Devil Death and Hell and Malediction did not suffer us to come thither untill Christ had destroyed those impediments and by his death vanquished the Devil Death and Hell blotted out our sins and by rising again had restored life to us by his Ascension had opened heaven to us and going thither before us confirmed it that we should follow him thither 622. Mat. 26. 2. Ye know that after two days is the Feast of the Passeover v. 6. Jesus was in Bethany six days before the Passeover The Evangelist began to speak of what was done two dayes before the Passeover but repeating the matter higher he relates somethings were done in Bethany six days before the Passeover because the History of Judas the Traytor required that Therefore here is an Hysterosis 623. Mat. 26. 7. A woman poured Oyntment on our Saviours head Joh. 12. 3. Mary took a pound of Oyntment of Spikenard very costly and anoynted the feet of Jesus Some hold that these are different Histories yet it might be that when a greater quantity of oyntment was poured forth that his feet were anoynted also at the same time 624. Mat. 26. 8. The Disciples saw it and had indignation Joh. 12. 4. Then saith one of his Disciples Judas Iscariot The Evangelists usually ascribe to many the fact of one it their consent went along with him So the murmuring which Judas began is imputed to the rest who held their peace 625. Mat. 26. 11. You have the poor alwayes with you but me you have not alwayes c. 28. 20. And loe I am with you alwayes even unto the end of the world In the first place Christ speaks of his corporal presence and natural conversation with his Disciples in the state of humiliation that he should not be so alwayes with them In the latter of the assistance by his Person and his help that should be effectual in their Apostolical duty though it be difficult yet Christ would be present with them by a singular vertue of his Spirit dwelling in them The accomplishment of this promise was manifest in the Apostles and in all the faithful by the operation of the Spirit in us and shall be so to the end of the world 626. Mat. 26. 26. This is my Body c. 24. 23. If any man shall say unto you Loe here is Christ or there believe him not In the first place Christ asserts his presence in the sacred Supper In the latter he foretels that false Prophets should come and exhorts us that we should beware of those false Impostors and should not look for salvation in places times or persons contrary to Gods Word but only in Christ Jesus our Lord. 627. Mat. 26. 26. This is my Body Joh. 6. 63. The flesh profiteth nothing Christ in the first place understands his body that was given to dye for us In the latter flesh but not his own in special but in general the natural use of any meat whatsoever Not as the Capernaites dream that they should so eat his flesh who would eat him with their teeth but not with their heart 628. Mat. 26. 29. I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the Vine He puts these words after the Institution Luk. 22. 18. He puts those words before the Institution Christ once delivered the Sacramental cup to C. 3. de conv Evang his Disciples saith Augustine but Luke hath not made his Narration in a continued History nor alwayes observed the order of time so that here is an Hysterosis again 629. Mat. 26. 29. I will not drink henceforth of the fruit of the Vine untill that day when I drink it new with you in my Fathers Kingdome Act. 10. 41. We eat and drank with him after he rose from the dead Christ said he would not drink with his Apostles in his mortal body but after the Resurrection having put off the infirmity of his body he after conversed with his Disciples and eat and drank with them he cals it new because he is made immortal of mortal and the Devil and Death being destroyed he had opened a spiritual Kingdome 630. Mat. 26. 34. This night before the Cock crow thou shalt deny me thrice Mar. 14. 30. Before the Cock crow twice thou shalt deny me thrice Matthew briefly and in general without relating the circumstances but Mark relates the matter with more and more particular words 631. Mat. 26. 52. All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword Luk. 22. 36. He that hath no sword let him sell his garment and buy one A sword is taken properly in the first place for Christ will not that private men should use the sword for revenge and to resist evill but should overcome evill with goodnesse In the latter place a sword is taken metaphorically for the Word of God with which we must fight against Satan and our spiritual enemies and Rom. 12. therefore we must be armed with it 632. Mat. 27. 4. Iudas saith I have sinned betraying the innocent bloud Act. 1. 18. Falling headlong he burst asunder in the midst and all his bowels gushed out The confession of Iudas and the testimony he gave of Christs innocency was not with true repentance but only sorrow by the sense of his sin which led him not to conversion but to hand himself 633. Mat. 27. 32. They compelled Simon of Cyrenea to bear his Crosse Joh. 19. 17. Christ bearing his Crosse went forth into a place called the place of a skull At first going forth Christ himself carryed the Crosse and when he was grown too feeble in body the souldiers compelled Simon whom they met on the way to carry the Crosse 634. Mat. 27 44. The Theeves also who
ch 5. 20. Where there is no Law there is no transgression ch 2. 12. As many as sinne in the Law shall be judged by the Law In the former place the Law is taken generally without which there can be no transgression in the later he speaks of the natural Law for even the Gentiles shall perish for violating of it 837. Rom. 4. 18. Abraham against hope ver 18. Believed in hope He beleeved contrary to humane hope by his hope in God having confidence contrary to the reason of the flesh the force of nature for all these would have weakned hope would make him doubt and despair also yet he overcame all those difficulties by firm hope he hoped in things desperate distrusting himself but trusting in God 838. Rom. 4. 25. God raised Jesus Christ our Lord from the dead Joh. 10. 18. I have power to lay down my life and I have power to take it up The Resurrection is ascribed to God the Father because the works of the Trinity ad extra are indivisible to the Sonne because he hath the same power with the Father who willingly underwent death and therefore the Resurrection is to be ascribed to his free will 839. Rom. 5 2. By faith we stand and rejoyce 1 Cor. 10. 12. Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed least he fall We stand founded on Gods grace whilst we are kept by the power of God by faith unto salvation by sinne we fall when we think we stand 840. Rom. 5. 4. Patience worketh experience James 1. 3. Experience worketh patience Probation in the first place is taken passively for experience which rejoyceth by patience in the later it is taken actively for triall and the effect of it that is tribulation for affliction trieth faith as fire doth gold 841. Rom. 5. 6. 7. Christ died for us 1 John 3. 16. Because he that is Christ laid down his life for us and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren Christ dying for us a sacrifice and revenger Col. 1. 24. paied our ransom for us John comparing the death of Christ for us and our death for the brethren doth it secundum quid for we die not to redeem our brethren but to edifie them 842. Rom. 5. 8. God commendeth his love towards us in that when we were yet sinners Christ died for us Rom. 8. 32. The Father spared not his own Son but delivered him up for us all The Father and the Son did alwaies love us and have done all things for us Christ delivered himself for our sins into the power of the devil and because we were not to be redeemed by power but by Righteousnesse Christ the righteous died for us and so by righteousnesse he overcame the devil therefore because the devil had slain Christ it was necessary that he should release those that were captives and the Aug. de Trin. l. 13. c. 2. devil by the price paid was not made rich but ensnared 843. Rom 5. 10. When we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Sonne John 15. 13. No man hath greater love then this that a man lay down his life for his friends By nature we are Gods enemies by reason of sinne but by grace we are reconciled to God by Christ who died for us and we are so made the dearest friends unto God 844. Rom. 5. 12 18. As by one man sinne entred into the world and death by sinne so death passed over all men ver 19. as by one mans disobedience many were made sinners so by one mans obedience many shall be made righteous The guilt of Adam is here compared with the grace of Christ because both have that descends on their followers Adam derives his guilt on all men by nature Christ derives his righteousnesse by grace on all that beleeve on him 845. Rom. 5. 20. The Law entred that sinne might abound ch 7. 12. The Law is holy and the Commandment holy just and good The Law increaseth sinne not of it self and its own nature but by accident because it discovers sinne and the poyson of it that we may know it for by the corruption of nature we are stirred up to strive against the Commandment yet the Law remains still in it self just and good 846. Rom. 6. 3. So many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death Act. 8. 13. Simen Magus and other hypocrites were baptized yet they put not on Christ To be baptized into Christ is to put on Christ the Robes of his Righteousnesse and Holinesse which beleevers who are baptized do Simon Magus and hypocrites that are not faithfull Hieror in Rom 6. receive not the Spirit but water only in Baptism for there is a common Baptism to all that are baptized but not the vertue of Baptism that is grace Aug. in Psal 77. 847. Rom. 6. 12. Let not sinne reign in your mortall body ch 3. 12. There is none that doth good no not one The first place is to exhort us to mortifie sinne in us in the Regenerate sinne reigns not they are wholly dead to sinne in Christ and partly in themselves they that are not Regenerate know indeed what they ought to do and know that of themselves they are unable to perform it 848. Rom. 6. 14. Ye are not under the Law but under grace Gal. 3. 22. The Scripture hath concluded all under sinne The first place is concerning the Regenerate who are not under the malediction dominion and rigid exaction of the Law the later is concerning all that are subject to sin for whom the Law is a Schoolmaster to Christ by the knowledge of our sins 849. Rom. 6. 18. You are become the servants of righteousnesse vers 20. You were free from righteousnesse In the former place is spoken of those who were converted and freed from the yoke of sin in the later of those that are not yet converted who are free from righteousnesse and are not under the government of righteousnesse for carnall wisdom cannot be subject to the Law of God 850. Rom. 6. 23. The wages of sinne is death Wisdom 2. 24. By the envy of the devil death entred into the world The wages of sinne is death because the Justice of God would have it so to punish mankinde that was fallen by death the Authour whereof was not God but it came into the world by the envy of the devil 851. Rom. 7. 6. Now we are delivered from the Law Matth. 5. 17. I came not to destroy the Law We are delivered from the curse of the Law the rigour and provocation of it to sinne also from the Law or death in which we were held but that takes not away the right use of the Law in respect of us 852. Rom. 7. 7. I had not known lust unlesse the Law had said thou shalt not covet 1 Tim. 3. 1. If a man desireth the office of a Bishop he desireth a good work Concupiscence taken
morally is either absolutely indifferent as to eat and drink or relatively to the Law and so good or bad as it is done contrary or according to the Law being ordinate or disordinate the later the Law condemns 853. Rom. 7. 8. Sinne in me wrought in me all manner of concupiscence James 1. 15. When lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sinne Paul means actuall concupiscence of corrupt nature James originall concupiscence 854. Rom. 7. 9. I was alive without the Law once saith Paul Phil. 3. 6. Touching the righteousnesse which is in the Law blamelesse Before his conversion Paul lived a Pharisee without any true knowledge of the divine Law ascribing to himself externall righteousnesse which was hypocrisie 855. Rom. 7. 12. The Law is holy just and good 2 Cor. 3. 7. It is the ministration of death The Law in it self in respect of the Authour is good holy and just because it declareth the good and holy will of God in respect of us it is called the ministration of Death because it reproves sinne and threatens us with death 856. Rom. 7. 14. I am carnall sold under sin ch 6. 22. We are made free from the Law of sinne wherein we were held The Apostle according to the unregenerated part was carnall that is indulgent to his carnall lusts but being Regenerate he did lament for those carnall affections and resisted them 857. Rom. 7. 18. In me dwelleth no good thing ch 8. 9. The Spirit of God dwelleth in us The first place is of the old man in me that is my flesh and that part which is not regenerate the second is concerning man that is regenerate for Christ liveth in us the holy Ghost liveth in us and indeed the whole Trinity John 14. 23. 858. Rom. 7. 18. To will is present with me Phil. 2. 13. God worketh in you to will To be willing is that good which is wrought in us by the holy Ghost but after the fall of man to be willing and be able to will what is good was lost in us 859. Rom. 7. 22. I delight in the Law of God after the inward man ver 23. I see another Law in my members warring against the Law of my minde Paul delighted according to his spirit and inward man the regenerate part in the Law of God but rebelled against it in his outward man the flesh and the part unregenerate for the whole man is as it is commonly said is partly flesh and partly spirit 860. Rom. 7. 23. I see another Law in my members warring against the Law of my minde ch 8. 2. The Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the Law of sinne and of death The faithfull are either captivated by the Law of sinne that they cannot do that good they would but what sinne will have done that dwelleth in them or they are freed from sinne here inchoatively because it doth not condemn them nor yet reign in them but in the next Psal 32. 1. Rom. 8. 1. ch 6. 12. world it shall be accomplished and they shall be perfectly made free from it 861. Rom. 8. 2. The Law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the Law of sinne and death Joh. 5. 28. The hour is coming in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice and come forth Resurrection from death to life is common to the good and bad but in a divers manner and for a divers end the good shall come forth gloriously to life the wicked ignominiously unto death 862. Rom. 8. 24. We are saved by hope Eph. 2. 8. By grace are you saved through faith Mark 16. 16. Subalternates disagree not the grace of God is the efficient cause faith and hope the instrumentall causes of our salvation 863. Rom. 8. 30. God whom he did predestinate them he also called Matth. 20. 16. c. 22. 14. Many are called but few chosen The first place is concerning those who being called are obedient to the holy Ghost and make their vocation firm unto the end of their lives The later is of those who resist the vocation of God in respect of the former there are as many predestinated as are called but of the later more called then are predestinated 864. Rom. 8. 31. If God be for us who can be against us 1 Pet. 5. 8. Your adversary the devil When God is for us though the devil be against us he prevails not 865. Rom. 8. 38. Nothing nor creature can separate us from the love of God ch 9. 3. I could wish that my self were accursed from Christ for my brethren The wish of Paul was conditionall if it were lawfull and might be done the Apostle thereby sheweth the vehemency of his affection toward his kindred and submits himself to the Divine will Chrysostom on this place saith that Paul by a premeditated prayer desired to be separated from Christ by a temporall and eternall abjection for the salvation of his brethren and so would by his own destruction redeem them to eternall salvation neither did he therefore love his brethren more then Christ for he did not desire to be separated from the love of Christ but from the fruit of his love and friendship he desireth to perish not as an enemy of Christ but a preserver of his brethren as Christ was made a curse for us not as Gods enemy but as our Redeemer 866. Rom. 9. 16. It is not of him that willeth nor him that runneth but of God that sheweth mercy Matth. 19. 17. If thou wilt enter into life keep the Commandments It is therefore said not to be of him that willeth because salvation is not given for our merit but of Gods mercy but it is also of him that willeth not because we will though no man is saved against his will but of unwilling to receive Gods call he is made willing 867. Rom. 9. 18. God hath mercy on whom he will have mercy and whom he will he hardneth ch 11. 32. God hath concluded them all in unbelief that he might have mercy upon all The first place is concerning the most free will and power of God who may have mercy on whom he please his antecedent will reacheth to all men his consequent will is restrained to the beleevers and unbeleevers and so he will have merey of the faithfull that they may be saved but he justly punisheth and hardneth the unbeleevers and wicked men who resist his grace freely offered unto them 868. Rom. 10. 10. With the mouth is made confession unto salvation 1 Cor. 4. 20. The Kingdom of God is not in word In the first place is spoken of confession with faith in the later of humane words which the false teachers used in preaching wherein the Kingdom of God consists not but in the vertue that is in a true performance of those things they professe with their mouths 869. Rom. 11. 7. Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for