I will be in my bringing of them out of Egypt notwithstanding all Pharaohs obstinacie V. 7. breathed To shew that mans spirit is not of the earth as his body but of nothing by the insufflation of God and so differing from the spirit of beasts Job 33. 4. Eccles 3. 21. It hath iâ—s immediate original from the Father of spirits who did by creating infuse it or by infusion create it V. 8. planted On the third day chap. 1 11 12. Eastward From Moses in the wildernesse where he wrote this History in Eden A part of Mesopotamia V. 9. tree of life Because naturaly much but sacramentaly more it conduced thereunto tree of knowledge From the event in respect of our first parents V. 10. went out of Eden Flowing into it from above V. 11. Pison A part of Tygris Paâ—itygris or Pisotygris Havilah From Havilah the sonne of Cush Gen 10. 7. 25. 18 1 Sam. 15. 7. V. 13. Gihon The lower part of Euphrates Ethiopia Cush i. e. the Westerne Ethiopia adjacent to the Desert Arabia V. 14. Hiddekel The upper part of Tygris Euphrates Called the river the great river Deut. 1. 7. 11 24. Rev. 9. 14. V. 17. Thou shalt not eate of it The thing in it selfe indifferent but made unlawful to him by Gods command both sheâ— the Lords absolute dominion over him and his sin to be the greater and more notorious if he disobeyed it surely die Be subject to mortality misery death and to him which hath the power of death that is the Devil Heb. 2. 14. A man sentenced to death we count him a dead man dead in Law though he and his execution be reprieved for a time If he had not sinned he had continued in a safe and blessed condition free from death and all maner of evil V. 19. and brought them unto Adam Gen. 7. v. 8. 9. V. 20. And Adam gave names Not that the names must needs be given according to their natures V. 21. ribs With the flesh v 23. The want of which rib God could and easily did sufficiently supply by closing up the flesh instead thereof V. 22. made he a woman 1 Cor. 11. 8. brought her to the man As to her husband Thus the married estate honourable in the state of Innocency Matth 19. 4 5 6. V. 23. This is now bone c. He knew it partly of himself but more by divine revelation V. 24. Therefore shall a man leave c. These seeme to be rather the words of God Matth. 19. 4. 5. then of Adam or of Moses And are spoken both simply Gen. 24. 58 59. and comparatively rather leave the duty of children to parents then of husband to wife when any such case of necessity shall fall out And they Explained by twaine Matth. 19. 5 6. by two 1 Cor. 6. 16. Against Polygamy and unlawful divorces and carnal copulation out of marriage V. 25. both naked c. That shameful through sin since the Fall Rom. 6. 21. which was not so before not shall be after the Resurrection 1 Cor. 15. 43. CHAP. III. â—â—rs 1. SErpent Divers sorts are of them Some specious and beautiful to the eye subtil Prudent Matth. 10. 16. crafty 2. Cor. 11. 3. and so the fitter instrument for Satan he said Many Angels fell Mar. 5. 9 12. 2 4. Pet. 2. Jude v. 6. having one for Principal Matth. 25. 41. And they fell from the beginning 1 John 3. 8. Now they are called Devils or Daemons of their knowledge and cunning still remaining One of them if not the Principal opened here the Serpents mouth and caused it to speak with mans voice 2 Cor. 11. 3. as the Lord did with Balaâ—ms Asse And the Devil did this speedily after mans creation Whence he is called a Murtherer from the beginning Joh. 8. 44. and that old Serpent which deceiveth the whole world Rev. 12. 9. yea hath God This would be an abrupt beginning But it seemes to presuppose a Precedent parley in a more cunning and winning way V. 2. And the woman said She wonders not at the Serpents speaking and speaking so or it may be she did at the first for a while at least though it be not here expressed yet haply conceiving that her knowledge in some things was to increase by experience as our blessed Saviour did Luke 2. 52. He came to finde fruit on the fig-tree when the time of figs was not yet Mar. 11. 13. And she being not apt bâ— able to suspect any evil or sinne as not knowing the fall of the Angels or any evil to be in the world she might the rather entertaine this conference V. 3. Neither shall ye touchit lest ye die These words may be uttered with a good intention and receive a good interpretation in answer to the Serpents question she hereby heightening Prohibition to the utmost to put the greater â—ie upon her obediente and averring and ascertaining the danger and death which otherwise would ensue as Matth. 15. 32. compared with Marke 8. 3. V. 4. ye shall not surely die Thus the Devil is a liar and the father of it John 8. 44. V. 5. as Gods Satan might be pretend to meane it of the Angels But the woman conceived it of the true God in plurality of persons as appears v. 22. Knowing Satan abuseth the name of the treeâ— to a wrong sense pretending all good but intending all wofull knowledge of sinne and misery by it experimentally V. 6. And when the woman saw c. Here was the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life 1 John 2. 16. And thus through his eating by one man sinne and death entered into the world In Adam all his posterity sinned being then in his â—oines Rom. 5. 12 19. And in Adam all die 1 Cor 15. 22. Rom 5. 15 16 17 18. and he did eate Yet it is said Adam was not deceived but the woman being deceived was in the transgression â— Tim. 2. 14. She first and deepest in the transgression and she not the Devil immediately the meanes to induce her husband to sinne she giving the forbidden fruit to him with words to perswade him v. 17. though she did not purposely deceive him as the Devil did purposely deceive hee V. 7. And the eyes of them both Small distance then betweene the time of both their eating naked In body before without shame while without sin chap. 2. 25. But now experimentally they know that they were naked both in body and soule with shame as Exod. 32. 25. through guilt of sinne and sting of conscience they sewed A silly shift And therefore notwithstanding this they seek to hide themselves v. 8. But for their souls they did not nor indeed could make any shift at all aprons To cover especially those parts of all most uncomely now which serve for generation By which sinne hath its derivation to all mankinde V. 8. voice of the Lord God walking Either in an humane shape or otherwise without that
making this voice and noise by his Almighty power in the coole of the day Coole winde at evening tyde which brought the voice and noise to their hearing hid themselves With as much folly as faultinesse through the horror and amazednesse wherewith they were stricken at Gods approach V. 10. I heard He toucheth not but dissembleth the true and maine cause V. 11. hast thou eatâ—n c q. â— I appeale to thy conscience whether this be not the true cause of thy fear and present shame at thy nakednesse now V. 13. What is this c How heynous an offence as chap 44. 15. V. 14. unto the Serpent Curseth him as the Devils instrument Such is Gods hatred of sinne punishing the bare instruments of it as in Exod 32. 20. Levit 20. 15 16. as a father breaks the sword wherewith his childe was shine Yet this curse upon the Serpent is so expressed as fitly in a Mystical sense relates to and includes the curse inflicted on the Devil the chief agent and author upon thy belly This going on his belly and feeding on dust was not the natural gate and food of the Serpent before For he is numbered among the beasts chap. 3. 1. distinguished from creeping things chap. 1. 25. And the greene herbs was given him for meate chap. 1. 30. But now he is adjudged to go on his belly and breast and that with more paine and difficulty then other creeping things As to Adams labours and Eves conception and sujection to her husband paine and â—orrow were added for their sinne And for meat he must lick the dust Miâ—â—h 7. 17. Esay 65. 22. Whence they are called Serpents of the dust Deut. 32. 24. The Sovereignty of Gods power and authority over all his creatures doth clear the justnesse of his proceeding and doome here against all Serpents V. 15. enmity A natural antipathy betweene Mankinde and Serpents A greater enmity betweene Mankinde and the Devil His enmity to Mankinde is too apparent And mans to him so farre as he is rightly knowne and discerned to be the Devil though by his cunning conveyances as here with Eve he reignes since the fall as a God over a great part of Mankinde 1 Cor. 4. 4. It Or He the World for Seed and the Verb for shall break being both in the Hebrew of the masculine gender pointing to Christ the Seed of a woman Gal. 4 4. Luke 1. 42. 2. 7. the promised Seed Gal. 3. 16. who destroyed the Devil Heb. 2. 14. John 12. 31 and his works 1 John 3. 8. triumphing over him on his Crosse Col. 2. 15. And in Christ our Head we resist and overcome the Devil 1 Pet. 5. 9. 1 John 2. 13 14. The God of Peace bruising Satan under our feet Rom. 16. 20. V. 16. thy desire Shall be subject to thine husband as Gen. 4. 7. As Abels to Cain as the first-borne and he shall rule over thee By Creation she was to live in subordination to man 1 Tim. 2. 13. 1 Cor. 11. 9. But now a further rule in the man and desire of subjection in the woman is required here as a punishment or chastisement on her then he had over her by Creation and with more grief unto woman-kinde 1 Tim. 2. 12. 1 Pet. 3. 1 5 6. 1 Cor. 14. 34. Tit. 2. 5. V. 17. Cursed is the ground The earth which he gave to the children of men Psal. 115. 16. and to their use is now by Curse made more unprofitable to them and their use verse 18 19. chap. 5. 29. Yea the Creature was made subject to vanity by mans sin subject to a vanishing flitting and perishing estate subject to the corruption and abuse of man subject to serve for the object and instrument of sin Esay 24. 5. And therefore the heavens and the earth which are now are reserved unto fire against the day of judgement 2 Pet 3. 7 10. And the whole Creation groaneth and travelleth in paine together untill now The earnest expectation of the creature waiting for the manifestation of the sonnes of God that it may be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God that all the steps and traces of that malediction put upon it for mans sin may be utterly rased out of the world and new heavens and a new earth created as the Scripture phraseth it every creature according to every ones degree and nature partaking of that glorious liberty of the children of God being fully delivered from all vanity slavery abuse and evill Rom. 8. 19 20 21 22. V. 18. the herb of the field Not the herbs and fruits of Paradise v. 23 24. V. 20. Eve Here first so called God calls her Adam chap. 5. 2. because she was To be thus Propheticaly he foretels it else it is Moses that gives the reason of the name V. 21. coats of skins In likelihood of the skins of beasts which God taught him to kill for sacrifice being that Abel did so soone sacrifice chap. 4. 4. V. 22. And now lest c. Spoken by an ironie For it was not the eating of the fruit that could recover him or preserve him from the sentence of death whereunto God for his sin had now doomed him Both the Trees were Sacraments of the first Covenant of works to confirme the Promise and threatening there unto appertaining which Sacramental tree of Life he had now nothing to do withal no right to it having broken the Covenant and incurred the Curse no more then he ought to have medled with the other Tree in the state of innocencie V. 24. drove out The day not so certainly knowne But in all probability the same day of his creation For Satan would omit no time The woman if she had beene better practised and not taken at the first would not so soone have â—râ—ed or if she had knowne the Fall of the Angels she would have suspected the more Her speech v. 2. We may eate seemes to shew that no fruit had been eaten before And doubtlesse she fell a Virgin And accordingly Jewes Caldeans Aâ—abians Greeks Latines Barbarians hold that they fell the day they were created at the East Where the entrance was into Paradise Cheruâ—ims Angels Moses in the use of this word applying himself to the capacity of the people to whom the Cherubims in the Tabernacle were well known representing the Angels In Ezekiels Vision we read of Cherubims as living creatures with wings chap. 1. 5. and 10. 1 15. In Daniel the Angel Gabriel flying and a flaming sword Haply to each if there were more Angels then one Cherubims being of the plural number We read of an Angel with a drawn sword in Davids time 1 Chron. 21. 16. which turned every way All for the more terror thatâ— man should not dare to attempt re-entrance CHAP. IV. Verse 2. ABel So the New Testament writes him Matth. 23. 35. Luke 11. 5â— Heb 11. 4. and 12. 24. The Hebrew still is Hebel Saith David Psal.
be sprinkled seven times before the Lord before the vaile of the Sanctuary And then some of it to be put upon the hornes of the Altar of sweet incense before the Lord and the rest of the blood to be poured out at the bottome of the Altar of the burnt-offering as in the sin-offering of the Holy Priest Levit 4. v. 5 6 7. And of the whole Congregation ch 4. v. 16 17 18. Sometimes it was to be put upon the tip of the right eare and upon the thumb of the right hand and upon the great toe of the right foot and some of the blood upon the Altar was to be sprinkled upon the garments as Moses did at the consecration of Aaron and his sonnes Levit. 8. 23 24 30. all which was typical and ceremonial In summe it was given upon the Altar to make an atonement for soules for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soule Lev. 17. 11. and almost all things are by the Law purged with blood and without shedding of blood is no remission Heb. 9. 22. But with them blood was never at any time or upon any occasion to be eaten Lev. 7. 26 27. 1 Sam. 14. 32 33 34. And the Apostles make a decree for the forbearance of eating things strangled and blood Acts 15. 20. yet now the ceremonial Law being expired and the restraint in this text not so clear and full or not reaching to all people in all ages out of the case of scandal which occasioned the Apostles necessary 1 Cor. 8. 13. though temporary decree I see no necessity enforcing the contrary but that Christians may use their Christian liberty knowing that to the pure all things are pure that meat commends us not to God that whatsoever is sold in the shambles that we may eat asking no question for conscience sake V. 5. And surely your blood of your lives Your life-blood The reason of the former prohibition Of every beast Exod. 21. 28. mans brother All men are brethren Act. 17. 26. V. 6. Whoso sheddeth Wittingly and wilfully Numb 35. 31. else Cities of Refuge weee appointed as may be seen Numb 35. 11 15 22 23. Deut. 29. 3 6. by man Magistrate Revenger of blood Numb 35. 19 21 27. for in the image This reason sheweth death to be due for murther before the flood and from the beginning though God extraordinarily suffered Cain to live a life likely worse then death as a spectacle of his wrath all his age To deny the legal and military use of the sword to Christians is an Anabaptistical faucie V. 10. And with every living creature For mans sake for whom they were made and in the flood for his sin destroyed V. 11. All flesh No universal deluge though particular countreys may be drowned by the waters of a flood Yet in the end by fire 2 Pet. 3. 7 10. the earth As ch 6. 11. V. 13. My bowe Wittily say some bended upwards and withoâ—t any arrow in it This was in the clouds before naturally But now significatively instituted to this use to be a token of this Covenant for the assurance of the truth and performance of it and Gods oath annexed to it Esay 54. 9. V. 14. When I bring a cloud At sometimes V. 18. And Ham is the father of Canaan So againe v. 22. To imply the reason why Canaan is cursed v. 25 26 27. And that the Israelites who in Moses time and after were commanded to root them out might know that they were of an accursed race and off-spring V. 20. Began In the new world a new beginner yet some yeares after the flood V. 21. Uncovered Likely wearing long and loose garments without breeches As likely David did when Michal mocked him 2 Sam. 6. 20. To prevent which linnen breeches were commanded to Priests Exod. 28. 42. Ezech. 44. 19. and Gods Altar was to be builded without steps Exod. 20. 26. V. 22. And told He should have concealed it from his brethren and covered it himself V. 24. And knew Upon enquiry or otherways by relation or revelation V. 25. Said Prophetically both in his cursing and blessing by warrant of Gods Spirit V. 25. Cursed be Canaan Not naming Cham. But shewing thereby the curse to be entailed on him and on Canaan his fourth sonne ch 10. 6. then borne and haply a Partner in his fathers sinne and on his posterity after him Prov. 30. 17. a servant of servants Thus fore-doom'd to a most servile slavish estate and condition This most seen long after in the Gibeouites Josh. 9. 21. and in the Canaanites As the blessing on Japhet was long after fulfilled when the Gentiles became Christians V. 26. Blessed be the Lord God of Shem Shem blessed because God is called his God Psal. 144. 15. He named before Japheth his elder brother in covering his fathers nakednesse v. 23. and Canaan shall be his servant So to Chadorâ—aomeâ—â— of Shems progeny being King of Elam ch 14. 1 4 c. and ch 10. 22. so in the times of Joshuah Judges and Kings of Judah and Israel V. 27. In the tents of Shem In the Church become Converts and Christians Eph. 2. 13 14 19. 3. 6. even when Shems posterity the natural branches was much out off Rom. 11. 11. and Canaan shall be his servant Alexander the Great and the Romanes subdued them V. 29. And he died living almost to the birth of Abram CHAP. X. Verse 1. JAphet He is renowned in the ancient Greek Writers called Iupetos V. 2. Madai Of him the Medes Javan Of him the countrey Ionia the Grecians V. 5. Isles Properly or improperly such countreys whereto the Jewes from their land could not passe but by shipping the Province of Europe here meant every one after his tongue As it fell out after that division of tongues ch 11. 9. V. 6 Cush Cushians or the Ethiopians near the Arabian sea Mizraim Egyptians Mizraim in the Old Testament is alwayes called Egypt in the New Testament V. 7. Seba Whence came the West-African-Ethiopians and likely the Queen of Shebah 1 King 10. 1. called the Queen of the South coming from the uttermost parts of the earth Matth. 12. 42. And the Eâ—nuch of Candacâ— Acts 8. 27. Havilah In Arabiah V. 8. And Cush begat Nimrod Reserved here to the last place because Moses meant to speak most of him a mighty one Usurped by violence a more imperious Power and Government then formerly was used and enlarged his dominions V. 9. A mighty Hunter Hunter of men Tyrants and Oppressors are called Hunters Jer. 16. 16. before the Lord Openly without feare of God V. 10. Babel ch 11. 9. Semiramis then the wife of Ninus sonne to this Nimrod or Belus as profane Authors have it founded not this City but repaired it After Nimrods time it seems the seat of that Monarchy being the first was translared to Nineveb in Assyria Micah 5. 6. And after many ages Babylon rebuilt by Nebuchadnezzar Dan. 4. 30. Shinar Comprehending Mesopotamia situate
feast of the Passeover Exod. 12. 15 19. or forbear to keep that feast Numb 9. 13. or that eate fat Lev. 7. 25. or blood Lev 7. 27. 17. 10 14. or that eate of the flesh of the peace-offering on the third day Lev. 19. 8. or that eat of the flesh of sacrifice having their uncleannesse on them or being uncleane do not purifie themselves Numb 19. 13 20. or having touched any unclean thing Lev 7. 20 21. 22. 3. or that bring not their sacrifice to the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation to be killed there and not elsewhere Lev 17. 4 9. or that shall not afflict his soule on the fast-day the tenth day of the seventh moneth Lev. 23. 29. or doth any work in that same day or that defileth the Sabbath to do any work therein Exod. 31. 14. or that lieth with a woman in her sicknesse Lev. 20. 18. or with a sister Lev. 20. 17. or an idolater Ezech. 4. 8. or that gives of his seed to Molech Lev. 20. 2 3 4 or that turneth after wizards and such as have familiar spirits â—ev 20. 6. or that doth ought presumptuously Numb 15. 30 31. All these are expressely threatened with and sentenced to this punishment And the meaning of the phrase is most usually taken to signifie a cutting off by death and it is so expressed Exod. 31. 14. Lev 17. 4 20. 2 3 4. 5. And must needs be so understood when it is used against grievous sins and crimes as against idolatry witchcraft incest and sins done presumptuously despising the Word of the Lord and reproaching him This penalty is to be inflicted by the Magistrates power no doubt And in case of his faile God himself threatens and undertakes to do it Lev. 17. 10 20. 2 3 4. 5 6. 23. 30. And for the lesser offences mentioned they being wittingly and wilfully done in Gods Worship and service and against his plaine and peremptory command I see not how they come short of sins of presumption Numb 15. 30. which are doomed to death in the judgement of the learned upon that place I conceive therefore that they fall short that by this penalty here will understand no more but that such an offender is to be cast off and held for no Jew but as an Heathen man And they also that would apply this phrase here and in other places of the Old Testament for the maintenance of Ecclesiastical Excommunication among the Jewes The doubtfulnesse of the meaning of the phrase hath made me the more inquisitive into it I confesse if not too tedious in it However I leave all to better judgements And for my part like not in things dubious to be too definitive V. 15. Sarah Yet in the New Testament it is written Sara without the h the Greek tongue having no h at the end of words V. 16. Nations 1 Pet. 3. 6. Jerusalem which is above her answerable type is the mother of us all Gal. 4. 26. V. 17. Laughed For joy and wonder Rom. 4. 17 18 19 20 21. as over-joyed and amazed at the promise which he believed Heb. 11. 12. rejoycing even at the promised seed Joh. 8. 56. an hundred yeares old Rom. 4. 19 20. he did hope against hope If Abraham married Keturah thirty seven years after this time and had six children by her then surely God shewed his power in renewing Abrahams vigour and strength of body as the Eagles Psal. 103. 5. or it may rather seem that Abraham took Keturah in Sarabs life-time within those thirty seven yeares between the birth of Isaac and her death seeing Keturah is called his Concubine 1 Chron. 1. 32. V. 18. Oh that Ishmael Ch. 16. 10. V. 19. Isaac Laughter Chap. 21. 6. V. 21. My Covenant Thirteen times named in this chapter Luke 1. 72 73 74. with Isaac Ch. 21. 12. Rom. 9. 7 8. Gal. 3. 29. at this set time Ch 18. 10. This was just a yeare before Isaacs birth V. 22. Went up Ascending vanished out of his sight so from Jacob ch 35. 13. so from Manoah and his wife Judg. 13. 20. V. 23. In the self-same day Of the command not eight dayes after V. 24. When he was circumcised By whom Abraham was circumcised is not set down But he is said to circumcise the rest v. 23. some say that now the Jewes use Chirurgions in this service CHAP. XVIII Verse 1. PLaines O. Oak-grove of Mamre Ch. 13. 18. 14. 13. 23. 19. V. 2. Three men So in his thought and in appearance But thus he entertained Angels at unawares Heb. 13. 2. But one of them is called Jehova 13 14 17 20 22. And after Abraham so acknowledgeth him v. 25 27. The other two were created Angels Ch 19. 1. V. 3. Lord Speakes to one of them in shew the chief V. 6. Three measures Jewes write that their measure which they call Seah the Greeks Saton containes as much as one hundred fourty foure Hens egges about two gallons and 1 2 of our measure three of these measures make an Ephah containing about seven gallons and 1 2 V. 8. And they did eate Ch. 19. 3. They had true bodies for the time and did truly eate Though a Spirit hath not flesh and bones Luke 24. 39. yet Spirits may and by Gods dispensation sometimes do assume humane bodies V. 9. Where is Sarah thy wife Thus they begin to manifest themselves to be more then men V. 10. He said Jehova v. 13. returne Not by apparition again but by performance of promise ch 21. 1. according to the time of life From this time according as the time of life is between conception and birth so many moneths as a woman goes with childe Rom. 9. 9. This Promise argued more then men V. 11. After the manner of women Rom 4. 19. Heb. 11. 11. V. 12. Laughed Not as Abraham ch 17. 17. but through weaknesse of saith and therefore it is reproved v. 13. yet commended Heb. 11. 11. after sure she did better recollect her self Luk. 1 45. after she laughed for joy ch 21. 6. within her self Not outwardly and openly which haply made her the more readily deny it V. 13. And the Lord said Jehova said Christ so v. 17. He knew her thoughts themselves fâ—ying shall I c She used if not the very same words yet to the same sense V. 15. Denied for she was afraid Weaknesses and failings in Saints V. 16. Toward Sodom As going thither the two Angels did so ch 19. 1. V. 17. Shall I hide Amos 3. 7. Joh. 15. 15. Abraham a Prophet ch 20 7. and a friend 2 Chron. 20. 7. V. 19. He will command Duty of Parents and Masters of families and example to them Gen. 28. 1. Deut 6. 7. 11. 10. 32. 46. Job 1. 5. Prov. 6. 20. V. 20. Sodom and Gomorrah Admah and Zeboim Deut. 29. 23. Hos. 11. 8. V. 21. I will go down and see God speaks after the manner of men as ch 11. 5 7. V. 22. And the men Two of the three
I not lift up my head I am full of confusion Thou huntest me as a fierce Lion Oh that I had not been borne Cease then that I may take comfort a little before I die chap 10. He reproves his friends for their pleadings against him He knowes what they know and say viz. That God doth all things in the governing of the affairs and states of men even of the great ones chap. XII Again reproves his friends as before and checks them for pleading for God in a wrong maner bids them hold their peace that he may speak professeth his trust in God his uprightnesse void of Hypocrisie and that he shall be justified he desires of God to know his iniquity for which he writeth such bitter things against him Chap. XIII He entreateth God for favour by the shortnesse of life and certainty of death though life once lost be irrecoverable yet he waighteth for his change he complains that God watcheth over his sinne and concludes that God prevaileth over man chap. XIV Doth the wilde Asse So neither do I complaine verse 5 if I had not so great a cause as ver 3 4. Can that Can it with any pleasure verse 6 much lesse if it be bitter as mine afflictions are and your unsavoury words So the application seemes to be made in the next verse Cut me off His wealth and health were taken away before verse 9 now he desires that his life may be so not concealed But professed before others verse 10 his word and worship Is not Any help in me verse 13 and defence for me against these evills and your words Pitie should Here he strikes at Eliphaz verse 14 and continues on so to do to the end of this Chapter Tema That part of Arabia where the posterity of Tema verse 19 one of Ishmaels race Gen. XXV 15. did inhabit See Jer. XXV 23. Sheba In Arabia Foelix South from Iudea whose Queen came to Solomon And whereof we read Psal. LXXII 10. Esay XLIII 3. and LX. 6. Ier. VI. 20. Ezek. VII 22 23. and XXXVIII 13. These seeme to be the posterity of Cush by his fourth sonne Raamah Gen. X. 7. The Ethiopians were no remote neighbours from them ye are nothing Hebr. not verse 21 or as the Masorets in the margin to it i. e. ye are like to that brook ver 15. See the like various reading Ch. XIII 15. Psal. C. 3. Esay LXIII 9. Exod. XXI 8. to reprove words As if my speeches were words without matter verse 26 words of a desperate brainlesse man my righteousnesse is in it Ye shall finde me no hypocrite if ye consider better shall come up no more Into this world chapter VII verse 9 till the Resurrection chap. XIV 12. and chap. XIX 26 27. I will complaine Men in anguish think it some ease to complaine verse 11 Grief kept in like fire burns the more Am I a Sea Too bold a speech from a creature to God verse 12 in this and that which follows not depart from me To give me the least intermission of pain verse 19 I have sinned Though not by hypocrisie verse 20 nor more then all others Here he confesseth sinne And petitions for pardon ver 21. How long He seemes to cut off Iob in his speaking chapter VIII verse 2 as not able to endure him longer to speak so much against God so to charge him and complaine of him If thy children Sonnes verse 4 and daughters chap. I. 18 19. If thou wert Wouldest be verse 6 as ver 5 7. Though thy beginning was small After thy repentance verse 7 As indeed it was chap. XLII 11. yesterday See the Observations on Deut. XV. 17. verse 9 Can the rush No more could Iobs and his childrens prosperity continue verse 11 because of their hypocrisie without sound piety which is the true nourisher of Gods blessings To which purpose he useth also the Similitude of a Spider and of a tree to set out the fleeting prosperity of ungodly men such as he intimates Iob and his children to be Arcturus Iobs skill in Astronomy chapter IX verse 9 And again chap. XXVI 7. 13. and in XXVII 18. in some Translations See the Annotations on Esay XIII 10. And we see Astronomy in Gods speech to Iob chap. XXXVIII 31 32 33. without cause High speeches against God verse 17 and impatient passages As likewise ver 22. should not An angry beginning likewise chapter XI verse 2 savouring of indignation I am clean in thine eyes Indeed no hypocrite verse 4 otherwise this is a false charge secrets of wisdome The hidden wayes of his providence verse 6 wherein he walks in his dealings with mortal men wilde Asses colt So foolish verse 12 so unable to comprehend the wayes of God in his workings towards the sons of men the wicked Concludes with the misery of the wicked verse 20 surmising or implying Iob to be such an one ye are the people Ye all three chapter XII verse 2 This is an ironical scoffe with indignation See the Observations on Iosh. XI 4. and on Amos IV. 4 5. who calleth upon God Either the mocked or mocker verse 4 calleth upon God answereth him The mocker whereas Iob himself the mocked is not answered of robbers prosper This Iob proves at large verse 6 earth This English word may seeme to come from the Hebrew word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 verse 8 Doth not the eare So easie is this point of trial verse 11 with the ancient This may relate to that verse 12 chap. VIII 8 9 10. And indeed it should be so chap. XXXII 7. but is not alwayes so ver 20. and XXXII 9. are his And subject to his authority and power verse 16 girdle Bringeth them to a lower condition verse 18 what ye know This relateth to chap. chapter XIII verse 2 XII 3. to reason with God Rather then with his friends verse 3 he is weary of that And he joynes herein with Zophar in his wish chap. XI 5. because he could clear his own innocencie before him who sees his heart and that he is no hypocrite ver 16. as his friends take him to be by Gods harsh dealing with him of lies Against God verse 4 and me Hear now Bids them save their labour in speaking verse 6 unlesse it were to better purpose ver 5. And now hearken to him and his reasonings for God against them and in defence of himself mock him Or seek to delude and beguile him verse 9 pleading his cause by bad arguments accept persons Though it be Gods own person verse 10 what will What ever become of me verse 13 Like that 2 Sam. XVIII 23. my flesh in my teeth Grief and plagues enough to make me teare my flesh verse 14 put my life Every moment be in danger to die yet will I trust Here the Cetib verse 15 or written in the text is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not And so the Reading and rendering may rather be this should I not trust in him And
Ophir 1 Kings IX 28. Uphaz Jer. X. 9. This is the chiefest gold Dan X. 5. Job XXVIII 15. Psal. CXIX 72. See the Observations on Esay XIII 12. great reward Which reward yet is of grace verse 11 not of merit Rom. VIII 3. through Gods free grace and bounty not the merit of our works The Apostle doth thus distinguish of merit Rom. IV. 4 5. and XI 6. There is no merit properly if the work be not properly out own and not otherwise due debt and justly equal to the reward They are justly due out of his true and free promise who can Where then is that possibility verse 12 and facility of fulfilling the Law even unto works of Supererogation whereof Papists do so much brag dominion over me There are sinnes reigning and not reigning but rebelling verse 13 Rom. VI. 12 22. and VII 15 20. The Lord hear thee This Psalme chapter XXI verse 1 and the next are composed by David for a publike forme of a Prayer in the one of a Thanksgiving in the other to be used by the people for himself the King They seeme to stretch this Psalme too farre and that without ground who make it to be a Prophesie of Christs Sufferings and his deliverances out of them for which the Church with him triumpheth As also the next Psalme to gratulate the victory and Salvation of Christ. Save Lord verse 9 let the King hear us Most here understand God or the Messias Some David The LXX not observing or keeping the Hebrew distinction Athnach render it thus Lord save the King and hear us when we call upon thee for ever and ever Psal. chapter XXI verse 4 LXXXIX 29 36 37. and LXI 6 7. David lived but seventy years yet in his royal posterity for many ages and in Christ the Sonne of David Matth. XXII 42. for ever and ever eternaly Rom. VI. 9. Apoc. I. 18. Heb. VII 25. See the Observations on Deut. XV. 17. Thine hand King Davids hand chapter XXII verse 8 In some Psalmes there are passages that properly and literaly belong to David and to Christ only as David was a Type of him But in this Psalme are some Passages as ver 16 17 18. besides many other which are applied to Christ in the New Testament as ver 1 7 8 22 27. which literaly and properly belong to Christ and are appliable to him only or to him more then to David Then here is no place left for that question of the Eunuch Acts VIII 34. The allegations out of this Psalme Matth. XXVII 46 35 43. Heb. II. 12. and the body of the Psalme it self do shew that little of it can be applied to David as a Type most of it is proper and peculiar to Christ alone as I formerly said 1 Pet. I. 11 12. my God Jesus on the Crosse little before his death verse 1 about the ninth hour cryed out these words with a loud voice Matth. XXVII 46. Heb. V. 7. upon the weight of Gods wrath under the burden of our sinnes The Deity by a special providence and dispensation withdrawing and suspending its influence from the Humanity for this time God withdrawing all sense of his favour from him Not that the hypostatical union of both natures was then or ever severed or dissolved But yet he suffered chiefly in his soul all the paines pangs and agonies of a justly angry and punishing God even more then can either be expressed or imagined even so farre above the measure of ordinary sufferings as himself was above ordinary men without any influence or joy or comfort streaming from the Vision of God upon his mind and wil for that time So that he suffered as in body so in soul in his whole man as in his sensual part so in his intellectual also in his whole soul and body and in all the parts powers and faculties of them And the greatest sufferings as was said that could be sustained in this life Lam. I. 12. yet without any derogation to the integrity purity innocencie dignity of the person of Christ our Surety and Saviour These words then are not a complaint out of impatience ignorance disobedience or diffidence They are the words of sense not of infidelity See ver 24. Luke XXIII 46. He strongly calls him his God even in that instant of these suffering so expressing his firme faith in him But they are a Protestation of the bitternesse of his Passion so stricken smitten of God and afflicted and so farre prevailing on him in whom the spirit of fortitude had his residence forsaken me This sense of dereliction and carencie of Divine favour for the time as it was the Fathers pleasure to have it so so the Sonnes office called him unto it and he did not contract it by any fault of his but did voluntarily undertake it for our sinnes and the expiation of them as he did the death it self So that in this then there could not be any defect or defanlt of faith and hope requisite in him And likewise that Prayer and Speech Matth. XXVI 39. bewrayes the sense of the flesh but joyned with the obedience of the Spirit in him A double Will in him against Monothelites but joyned both in one holy obedience and subjection All which shew the nature of sinne the infinite wrath of God against it the infinite Love of the Father and the Sonne towards the children of men and the verity of Christs Humane Nature both in body and soul. roaring Like that of Lions Psal. XXXII 3. and XXXVIII 8. Matth. XXVI 38. Marke XIV 33. Luke XXII 44. so that he had need of an Angel for his Comforter Yet he so wrestles and prevailes that no signe of halting was left remaining after no signe or voice of despair as some are shamelesly wronged to charge upon him All the agonies of Christs soul ceased with his death but thou hearest not We read that God ever heard him verse 2 ver 24. John XI 42. Heb. V. 7. But here this Prayer was only conditional a signification of a natural desire not an absolute and plenary Prayer inhabit the praises of Israel Whose praise thou art verse 3 Deut. X. 21. And they praise thee in thy House and Sanctuary Thou art still praised by them for thy benefits to them and acknowledged their holy one Our fathers And shall I be so forsaken verse 4 not heard nor holpen nor delivered Thus he aggravates his complaint rouzeth up his faith bowes and moves God to mercie Cried Crying or clamor verse 5 and Prayer are oft conjoyned Psal III. 4. and XVIII 7. Jer. VII 16. Jonas III. 8. Micah III. 4. a worme So vile and contemptible in the eyes of men verse 6 Esay LIII 2 3. as Job XXV 6. Esay XLI 14. Not only made lower then the Angels Psal. VIII 5. Heb. II. 7. but disesteemed more then Barrabas or the two theives All they that see me This verse verse 7 and the next we see fulfilled in the History of Christs Passion
of heaven heareth not But jears at it chapter XIII Keepeth his mouth God hath set a double guard of lips verse 1 and teeth verse 3 before this gate yet unlesse God himself keep the watch all will be lost Psal. CXLI 3. and CXXVII 1. See chap. XII 13. and chap. XVIII 21. and chap. XXI 23. diligent Affection without endeavour is like Rachel verse 4 beautiful but barren we must work as well as will and wish and 2 Cor. VIII do as well as desire performe as well as promise loathsome Stinks as it were above ground verse 5 And cometh to shame by his lying The ransome Jer. XLI 8. heareth not rebuke As a man not worth the chiding verse 8 not considerable having nothing to lose the lamp of the wicked As a candle verse 9 Job XVIII 5 6. and ends in a snuff Eccles. VII 6. wisdome Meeknesse of wisdome verse 10 wisdome peaceable James III. 13 17. Hope deferred Many lie long languishing at Hopes Hospital verse 12 as he at the poole of Bethesda The Law Chap. verse 14 XIV verse 15 27. good understanding Both gaineth favour as in Joseph Daniel and others And favour or grace gaineth a good understanding or good successe chap. III. 4. Psal. CXI 10. is hard Harsh rough 2 Tim. III. 3 4. Tit. III. 3. prudent man Observes seasons verse 16 and circumstances deports himself with discretion Amos V. 13. his folly By his headstrong verse 17 headlong exorbitances a wicked messinger Chap. XXVI 6. is sweet Specialy in spiritual things verse 19 abomination To be pulled from their evil lusts and sinful courses walketh Converseth verse 20 is a constant companion companion 1 Cor. XV. 33. which Saint Paul takes out of Menander the Poët pursueth Hard at heeles verse 21 Sinne and Punishment are linked together with chains of adamant repayed By God a liberal paymaster to his child Personal goodnesse is profitable to posterity verse 22 1 Kings XV. 4. Exod. XXXIV 7. where the Hebrew word Nâ—tser keepeth hath a great N. to note likely the greatnesse of Gods mercie to the good mans posterity Wealth As Nabals was for David Hamans for Mordecai the Canaanites for the Israelites Job XXVII 16 17. Though this be not so alwayes and universaly Psal. XVII 14. want of judgement In tillage verse 23 or managing and husbanding what is gotten hateth his sonne As it proves in the issue verse 24 As we see in Eli to his sonnes and in David to his Absalom and Adonijah See chap. XXIII 13. and XIX 18. And thus we are said to will and do many things which properly and directly we do not so but because we do such things whereupon the other will follow So chap. VIII 36. and chap. XVII 19. Matth. XXVI 12. John XII 7. Luke XI 48. Ezek. XVIII 31. and XXXIII 11. Psal. CVI. 24. satisfying With contentation verse 25 be it more or lesse verse 6 seeketh As a coward seeketh his adversarie chapter XIV in hope not to finde him is easie Chap. I. 20. and chap. VIII 1 17. a mock at sinne These dance with the Devil verse 9 Chap. X. 23. 2 Thes. II. 12. 2 Pet. II. 13. favour From God or a complacencie in their righteous dealing or gains them favour among themselves not intermeddle 1 Pet. verse 10 I. 8. Phil. IV. 7. 2 Cor. V. 4. It is an hansel of heaven The cock on the dunghil knows not the worth of this jewel seemeth Chap. verse 12 XVI 25. Sinne comes cloathed with a shew of Reason Exod. I. 10. And thereupon we willingly deceive our own hearts James I. 26. as Micah Iudg. XVII 13. and Ier. VII 4. And self-delusion is an epidemical disease and deadly even in laughter Some frothy and flashy mirth the wicked may have verse 13 but there is a snare or cord in their sinne which strangles their mirth that they rejoyce in the face not in the heart 2 Cor. V. 12. Esth. V. 13 heavinesse Iob XXI 12 13. Luke 6. 25. Eccles. II. 2. filled with his own wayes have made a match with mischief verse 14 and shall have enough of it hath sold himself to wickednesse and shall be sure of his payment from himself 1 Tim. VI. 6. Heb. X. 34. Psal. XIX 11. Goodness is its own reward in hand and in hope The simple beleeveth As Ieroboam that old baby verse 15 looketh well Looks before he leaps tries before he trusts 1 Iohn IV. 1. Ephes. V. 15. feareth verse 16 and departeth Feareth the judgements whiles they hang in the threatnings counts them not words so much as thunderbolts Hab. III. 16. The evil bow The worst cannot but think well of them verse 19 and do homage to the image of God stamped upon the natures and practises of the good and righteous his neighbour Poor neighbour verse 21 and needy that devise evil That plot and plough it verse 22 dig and delve it are they not heavenly wide utterly out labour That is honest verse 23 not that whereby they do wickedly with both hands earnestly talk of the lips Great talkers are commonly do-littles is their riches For God gives them wisdome to use them well verse 24 fools Rich fools Riches to them is as a sword put into a mad mans hand strong confidence Dan. verse 26 III. verse 28 17. 2 Kings XVIII 5. multitude of people Which wars waste and consume See 2 Sam. XXIV slow to anger Anger may rush into a wise mans bosome verse 29 not rest there Eccles. VII 9. Iames I. 19 20. exalteth Proclaims it aloud verse 30 sets it on the theater A sound heart Well freed from passions and perturbations holds out long envie A corroding disease it is an hel-hag that feeds upon its own marrow bones and strongest parts it is as rust is to iron as the viper It both sinnes and is punished together so quick and speedy justice accompanies it Iob V. 2. his maker 1 Sam. verse 31 II. 7. A poor mans livelihood is his life Luke VIII 43. honoureth him That is honoureth God God so takes it chap. III. 8. And God honours him Matth. XXV 34. c. driven away Being arrested by the Serjeant death verse 32 in the Devils name and so hurried away and hurled into hell hath hope Death to them is as the valley of Achor Iustus etiam dum exspirat sperat in the heart Is not vainglorious verse 33 sets not forth his good parts and practises a sunning to be seene and cried up in the midst of fools Their zeal must be seene 2 Kings X. 16. Their pietie must be shored up with popularitie a reproach Sinnes are the snuffs of our candlesticks verse 34 and threaten the removal of it and will render us a reproach and a taunt Deut. XXVIII 37. Ier. XXV 9. Ezek. V. 14 15. a wise servant So to Joseph by Pharaoh verse 35 so to Daniel by Darius And much more is the favour of the King of Kings to his servants Matth. XXIV 45 46 47. and XXV 21 23. his wrath So
the foole Speaking with relation to wealth verse 8 and the event of outward things These things promiscuously happen to all without peculiar prerogative to any and beyond their own natural use they are not able to supply a wise man more then a fool and the fool may have as much and as much also of them as the wise Better is the sight of the eyes To enjoy quietly and contentedly what a man hath in present possession verse 9 then to wander and rove up and down in desire and pursuit of what we have not and cannot hardly attaine but endlesly weary our selves in hawking and hunting after them which never will nor can satisfie That which hath beene verse 10 the name And nature of it is known already That which is hoped for hereafter is yet unknown That it is man Man still earthly Adam sorry man be his wealth or greatnesse what it will And God will make him know himself so to be Psal. IX 20. Ezek. XXVIII 6 9. Esay II. 22. and XXXI 3. Contend with To enter plea against God or require a reason of his judgements or strive against this streame thinking to alter or break through the order bounds of his Providence or decrees Esay XLV 9. Job IX 2 3 12. and IV. 17. and chap. XXXIV 23. Jer. L. 44. Rom. IX 20. Seeing there be many things A solemne conclusion of all the former discoveries of vanities in the Creatures verse 11 averring that first set down chap. I. 3. which is the maine matter of this Book What is man the better In regard of sound and solid happinesse for any or for all the former vanities For who knoweth The animal creatures by instinct of nature know what is good for them verse 12 to maintaine their being and well-being to remedy their maladies But man knoweth not what is good for him What is best for him in this life as to the things of this life Whether to be rich or poor c. Achitophel might have lived longer with lesse wisdome Nabal with lesse riches Herod with lesse pride and praise c. God is pleased to shew man the only good Mic. VI. 8. and Solomon chap. XII ver 13 14. vaine life This life it self a vaine shadow Psal. CXLIV 4. and XXXIX 6. Job XIV 2. and chap. VIII 1 Chron. XXIX 15. What shall be after him He cannot promise to himself when he is gone any satisfactorie content in name family and posterity no more then he could in his life-time to himself chap. II. 18 19. Nescis quid serus vesper vehat A good name chapter VII verse 1 Solomon in this Chapter proceeds to many other particular meanes and remedies for healing the vanities and vexations of this life and procuring tranquility and peace of minde in the midst of them Yet here and there he doth intermix some more vanities and vexations The first meanes and remedy here is a Good Name or Fame The first letter of the Hebrew word for Good is here greater then ordinary to intimate belike the great and extraordinary goodnesse of a good name Which is better to a man to his conscience and soul then a precious ointment is to his body It refresheth and cheereth and comforteth the soul and conscience in the very midst of all wrongs and sufferings and specially at the hour of death and remaines fresh after the body rots in the grave They leave their names for a blessing and are had in everlasting remembrance whereas the memory of the wicked shall rot Job XVIII 17. Prov. X. 17. and they leave their names as a curse and a stinking snuff behinde them Esay LXV 15. yea in this life this fattens the bones Prov. XV. 30. And procures reverence and esteeme in the consciences of others And is rather to be chosen then all riches Prov. XXII 1. Herein the Hebrew is a Paranomasia of the words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And the same is in Cant. I. 3. and the day of death To such a man of a good name or to any man relation being had to the many vanities and vexations of this life Job XIV 1. Life begins with crying 2 Nondum loquitur infans tamen sic prophetat And Lawyers define life by crying without which they are counted still-borne 3 Now that day that delivers a man from them is better then that which lets in and puts a man in possession of them Which makes Solomon here prefer his coffin before his cradle to the house of mourning So wise men do And fools they are that do the contrary verse 4. This is better for the living as the former for the dead for this is the end of all men Here is the reason men will so fall into deep and due consideration of their own dying life as Job XXX 33. Psal. XXXIX 4 5. and XC 12. that life is but to lie a dying and so be weined from the vaine jollities of this life and wrought to humiliation mortification and preparation for a better life From which Feasting calls us off See Josh. XXIII 14. Heb. IX 2. And againe Amos VI. 3 6. Deut. VIII 12 14. Esay XXII 12 13 14. and chap. V. 12. Sorrow is better James IV. verse 3 9 Luke VI. 21. 25. Matth. V. 4. yet this is a Paradox to the world which is alwayes set upon the merry pin to be as merry Greeks to eat and drink and laugh and play and labours to banish all sorrow away as the bane of their life sadnesse of the countenance In our selves by grave thoughts and sad and serious meditations and considerations or of a sower and severe yet sure friend the heart is made better The better part is bettered the inward man is amended by abandoning those loose noisome and destructive vanities and jollities of laughter and of penitential humiliation compunction contrition of mortality death judgment These sorrowful tears have much joy in them they wash away the filth of sin as sweet April showers they bring on amaine the May-flowers of Grace and Glorie And therefore where ever the body is upon several occasions yet the heart of the wise is here he numbereth the dayes of his life and the dayes of darknesse Psal. XC 12. Eccles. XI 8. And where ever the body is yet the heart of fooles is on effuse mirth runs a madding the way to rejoyce in a thing of nought Amos VI. 13. is on foolish follies in the filth and froth whereof is bred and fed that woful worme that never dies Job XXI 12 13. Yet their laughter is indeed but the hypocrisie of mirth as the crackling of thornes under a pot a sudden blaze soone gone as sudden lightning which yet is followed with the rending and roaring of thunder-claps Luke VI. 25. Psalme CXVIII 12. The rebuke of the wise Prov. XIII 18. verse 5 and chap. XV. 31 32. ch XXVII 6. Psal CXLI 5. An enemie in this case many times proves a good and
Whether thou wilt or no when thou shalt in vaine call to rocks to hide thee into judgement If not in this life yet at thy death thy doomesday and at the judgement of the great day Jude 6. called The terror of the Lord 2 Cor. V. 10. Acts XVII 30. See Esay XXVIII 17. Therefore remove sorrow Sinne verse 10 which is the true cause of sorrow as the end will prove Prov. XIV 13. and the true cause of Gods indignation Or particularly this sinne of thy indignation and all inordinate passions thy swelling and storming at the will and wayes of God or at any serious advice given thee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Remember 1. Chron. XXVIII 9. Prov. XXIII 17. thy Creator Heb. chapter XII verse 1 Creators Father Sonne and Holy Ghost So God my Makers Job XXXV 10. The Makers of Israel Psal. CXLIX 1. thy Makers is thy husbands Esay LIV. 5. Gods created Gen. I. 1. youth Youth is slippery prone to lusts and sensual pleasures apt to put off the evil day farre from them to look on death and judgement as at a great distance as evil men use to do Ezek. XII 27. Amos VI. 3. 2 Pet. III. 3 4. Solomon here calls on them to remember themselves better to minde God in the Spring of their age to present the first-fruits to God as young Samuel Jeremy and Timothy did and not to leave and reserve the dregs and snuffs to God while the evil dayes Old age is very unfit to begin so great a work in Old age will bring evils enough of its own besides While the Sunne Before the sight of thine eyes grow dimme Or verse 2 before thy most delightful and pleasant things begin to grow unwelcome unpleasant to thee The darknesse of lights about them as of the Sun candles torches c. Whence we need Spectacles Returning of the clouds after the raine alludes to the winterly state of old age In summer after raine the clouds break up and fair weather comes Not so in winter So in youth Not so in old age nor the clouds return One grief comes upon the neck of another as the billows of the sea wallow and tumble upon the back one of another A proverbial speech as Psal. XLII 7. the Keepers of the house The hands and armes verse 3 Some here take in the head and ribs and outward senses and inward faculties but not so properly strong men Thighs and legs Here some take in the feet Grinders The teeth They come not with us into the world And they commonly leave old men before they go out of the world look out of the windows The eyes out of the eye-lids darkened A further degree of dimnesse then that ver 2. And the doores Old men shall shut the street-dooers shall stay within doores because the weaknesse of their appetite and digestion when the sound of the grinding with the teeth was low and doth cause them to eat little and so weakens their bodies to stir abroad Others by streets here understand those Pipes and passages which are for the meat to go down to the stomach and for the breath and aire to go down to the lungs which passages have doores and covers which open and shut And these being weakened in old age breed weaknesse of the body and difficulty of swallowing and of speaking Those which stretch the words to the Hearing or to the eye-lids or to all the senses seeme to misse most of the true meaning doores Lips When for want of teeth the meat is rolled and ravelled in the mouth and hath need of shut lips to keep it from falling out of the mouth at the voice of the bird Shall wake out of sleep at every little noise through the badnesse of sleeping and wearines to lie long in bed by reason of little ease and much paine and akings daughters of musik That we can neither sing our selves nor be delighted with the musik of others 2 Sam. XIX 34 35. afraid of that which is high To go up it verse 5 being weak and short-winded And fear stumbling at every little stone in the way Both heights and hollows in the way annoy their goings almond-tree The gray-hairs which some call the white flowers of the Church-yard grashoppers Every light thing shall be a burthen to them who are now already become a burthen to themselves and desire shall faile The lust of the flesh libido As also the lust of the eye and the pride of life In decrepit age all these desires die though they reigned and raged in him before long home The grave his own house and long home Nox est perpetua Vna dormienda Esay XIV 18. never to returne hither again Job VII 10. But long to abide there till the Resurrection-day mourners Jer. IX 17. verse 6 and XXII 18. Amos V. 16. See Job III. 8. silver cord The marrow of the back-bone be loosed or lessened and contracted whence old men grow crooked and bending in the back Some take this for the sinewes which are the ligaments of all the members and are loosened by cold humours and palsie-distempers golden bowle The heart the blood of it or the pericardion or the brain pan pia-mater and pericranion Some understand this of the cista fellis the gaul and choler which easily breaks out in old men Some of the skull parted in the sâ—tures and seams of it diseases grow round as a bowle-golden for the colour and precious use of it in preserving the brains or the pitcher be broken at the fountain By fountain we may understand those principal parts as the Heart Head Liver from whence the vital supplies of spirit heat blood sense and motion are drawn into the body By Cisterne the same aforesaid or those places of the body whereinto those vital supplies are drawn and conveyed By the pitcher and wheele the veins arteries and sinewes which as subservient instruments do conveigh those supplies into the several parts of the body Some understand by the pitcher the bladder and by the cisterne the belly that neither duly performe their office by the fountaine or spring the issuing forth of the water the retentive faculty of the muskle at the neck of the bladder being broken so that water the urine issueth from him insensibly without stay the wheele broken at the cisterne The Lungs broken off from their motion of inspiration and respiration by phlegme from the stomach stopping and stifling the Lungs The Lungs are as the wheele transmitting the aire in and out up and down and when this free course is stopped then follows ratling in the throat and death after The stomach is the cisterne from all the body And the spirit shall returne Gen. II. 7. Joh XXXIV 14 15. verse 7 And even the wisest Heathen have avouched the immortality of the soul and a life of joy or paine after this life ended according to our carriage here So Socrates Plato Cicero Plutarch Epicharmus Euripides Lucretius Heraclitus Virgil and others
of me of my Word of truth without mixture of hay or stubble 1 Cor. III. 12. Make haste See chap. II. verse 14 9 17. They then waited for the consolation of Israel Here is the Churches last speech and prayer like that Apoc XXII 17 20. She loves and longs and looks for his second Advent 2 Pet. III. 12. As the espoused Virgin doth after the day of marriage like to a Roe In nimblenesse and swiftnesse Come with all speed quickly cut off of delaies Yet his coming seemes long to us because we are short we set the Sun by our Dyal upon the mountaine of spices Where Christ is and whence the Church expects him and whither she longs to be brought by him Those high and heavenly those sweet and precious pleasures Ps. XVI 11. are the issue and upshot of all and the end of this spiritual heavenly Song THe Great and Small Prophets according to the Times wherein they lived and prophesied may seeme to stand in this ranck and Order viz. Jonah Esay Hosea Joel Amos Micah Nahum Habakkuk Zephanie Ieremy Daniel Ezekiel Obadiah Haggai Zechariah Malachi In the LXX the Lesser Prophets are placed before the Greater Esay ESAY Prophesies of the Destruction of the Kingdomes of Syria and Samaria shortly to be accomplished by the Assyrian And of the Kingdome of Iudah afterwards by the Babylonian And of the Neighbouring Kingdomes round about by them both And of the Ruine of the Assyrian Empire by the Babylonian And of the Babylonian by the Mede and Persian Intermixing sharp accusations of sins severe threatnings of judgments and comfortable Promises chiefly to the Jewes and Israelites And extending his Evangelical Prophecies and Promises to Christ and his glorious spiritual Kingdome And the Vocation of the Gentiles to the Communion of it And all in a stately stile and lofty language The time of his Prophesying must needs be 46. years from the first of Iotham to the 14th of Hezekiah Besides the Times that the Prophesied in the dayes of Vzziah and after the 14th of Hezekiah which for the number of years are uncertaine Yet it is recorded that he writ the Acts of Uzziah first and last 2 Chron. XXVI 22. though that Book seeme not extant now as not so necessary for the use of the Church As neither that of Iasher 2 Sam. I. 18. Nor that of Ieremy 2 Chron. XXXV 25. The Times in Esay may seem to be thus distinguished viz. In the dayes of King Uzziah Chapter I. 5. whos 's reigne is mentioned chap. I. 1. and his Death chap. VI. 1. Wherein some things most Prophetickly be spoken and understood both of sinnes and Punishments which otherwise are fitting rather to the times of Ahaz In the dayes of Iotham chap. VI. In the dayes of Ahaz Chap. VII XIV ver 28. whose reigne is mentioned chap. VII 1. And his Death chap. XIV 28. And the rest may seeme most if not all to be in the dayes of Hezekiah wherein there is a special notation of time in chap. XX. mentioning the year that Tartan 2 Kings XVIII 17. came to Ashâ—od or Azotus and took it when Sargon next Predecessor to Sennacharib or Sennacharib himself King of Assria sent him which seems to be about the eighth or ninth year of Hezek And in the XXXVI XXXVII chap. mentioning the 14th year of Hezekiah and the Histories contained in it And in chap. XXXVIII XXXIX containing Histories that fell out in the later end of that fourteenth year of Hezekiah without any other or further Notation of Times to the end of all the Book In this Prophecie are chiefly contained manifold Evangelical Promises and Prophecies of Christ of his Person and Offices his Gospel and Kingdome more Particularly of his Incarnation and Birth His Breeding Calling Teachings Sufferings Life Death Rising again Glory ensuing Kingdomes Length and Extent That Esay is well called an Evangelical Prophet or Prophetical Evangelist Concluding with the destruction of Babylon and the Deliverance of Gods People thence the glorious restauration of the Church and Numerous Vocation of the Gentiles And by reason of the Premises it is That this Book is so often cited in the New Testament As in the Table ensuing may appear Esay Alledged or Alluded to in 1. 9. Rom. 9. 29 6. 9 10 Mat. 13. v 14 15 Â Joh. 12. 39 40 41 Â Act. 28. 25 26 27 7. 14 Mat. 1. 22 23 8. 14 Rom. 9. 33 15 1 Pet. 2. 8 Â Mat. 21. 44 17 Luke 20. 18 18 Heb. 2. 13 14 9. 2 Mat. 4. 14 15 16 7 Luke 1. 32 33 10. 22 23 Rom. 9. 27 28 11 1 Mat. 2. 23 10 Rom. 15. 12 13. 10 Mat. 24. 29. 21. 9 Apoc. 14. 8 22. 13 1 Cor. 15. 32. 22 Apoc. 3. 7 25. 8 1 Cor. 15. 54. 28. 11 Apoc. 11. 7 17 Â 1 Cor. 14. 21 16 1 Pet. 2. 6 7 8 Â Rom. 9. 33 29. 10 Rom. 11. 8 13 Mat. 15. 7 8 9 Â Mar. 7. 6 14 1 Cor. 1. 19 33. 18 1. Cor. 1. 19 20 34. 4 Apoc. 6. 13 14 35. 5 6 in many places 40. 3 Matth. 3. 3 Â Mark 1. 3 Â John 1. 23 3 4 5 Luke 3. 4 5 6 6 7 8 1 Pet. 1. 24 25 13 Rom. 11. 34 Â 1 Cor. 2. 16 41. 4 Ap. 1. 17 22. 13 8 James 2. 23 42. 1 2 3 4 Mat. 12. 17 18 Â 19 20 6 Acts 13. 47 43. 19 2 Cor. 5. 17 44. 3 John 7. 38 39 45. 9 Rom. 9. 20 23 Rom. 4. 11 Â Phil. 2. 10 11 47. 8 Apoc. 18. 7 49. 6 Luke 2. 32 Â Acts 13. 47 8 2 Cor. 6. 2. 10 Apoc. 7. 16 50. 6 Luk. 22. 64 Â John 18. 22 8 Rom. 8. 30 34 52. 5 Rom. 2. 24 7 Rom. 10. 15 10 Luke 3. 6 11 2 Cor. 6. 17 15 Rom. 15. 21. 53. 1 John 12. 38 Â Rom. 10. 16 3 Mark 9. 12 4 Matth 8. 17 5 1 Cor. 15. 3 53. 5 6 1 Pet. 2. 24 25 7 8 Mark 15. 3 c. Â Acts 8. 32 9 1 Pet 2. 22 12 Mark 15. 28 Â Lu. 22 37 23 34 54. 1 Gal. 4. 27 13 John 6. 45 55. 1 John 7. 37 3 Acts 13. 34 Â Psal. 89. 35 56. 7 Matth. 21. 13 Â Mark 11. 17 Â Luk 19. 46 59. 7 Rom. 3 15 17 Eph. 6. 17 Â 1 Thes. 5. 8 20 Rom. 11. 26 60 3 Apoc. 21. 24. 11 Apoc. 21. 25 19 Ap. 21. 23. 22. 5 61 1 2 Lnk 4. 17 21 62. 11 Matth. 21. 5 63 2 3 Apoc. 19. 13 15 64 4 1 Cor. 2. 9. 11 65. 1 2 Rom 10. 20 21 17 2 Pet. 3. 13. 66 1 Acts 7. 48 49 21 1 Pet. 2. 5 9 Â Apoc 1. 6. 24 Mark 9. 44 Chap. VII ver 16. hath reference to Shear-jashub Chap. VIII ver 18. hath reference to Shear-jashub and Mahershalah-hash-baz Chap. XXXVIII ver 5. Ezekiah's tears among other causes might chiefly be because at that time he had no sonne Manasseh being borne