conjurgium Shee was not so hot but Moses was as meek Ver. 26. A bloodie husband thou art This peal shee ring 's oft in his ears and so taught him patience Conjugium humanae divina Academia vitae Certain it is that wee are a bloodie spous to Christ the Church is Acheldama a field of blood Ver. 27. And the Lord said unto Aaron To this religious Familie rather then to anie other God appeareth which mercie is remembred 1 Sam. 2.27 Met him in the mount of God His wife either had left him or was sent back by him to her father God suppli'es that comfort by the coming of Aaron Ver. 28. And Moses told Aaron So clouds when full powr down and the spouts run and the eavs shed and the presses overflow Aromatical trees sweat out their precious oils and as Amber-greece is nothing so sweet in it self as when compounded with other things so good men are great gainers by communicating themselvs to each other Ver. 31. They bowed their heads An ordinarie gesture among the Jews then as at this day the reverence they shew is in standing up Spec. Europ and the gesture of adoration in the bowing forward of their bodies for kneeling they use none neither stir they their bonnets in their Synagogues to anie man but remain still covered CHAP. V. Ver. 1. That they may hold a Feast CHap. 4.23 That they may serv mee Let us keep the feast 1 Cor. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 5.8 which is the same with Let us serv God acceptably Heb. 12.28 It is a Feast and better for a good soul to convers with God Psal 63.5 Isa 25.6 Ver. 2. Who is the Lord God's attributes either shew what hee is or who hee is To the question of Moses what hee is God gave a short answer I am To this second by Pharaoh Who hee is God made a large replie till Pharaoh was compelled to answer himself The Lord is righteous Ver. 3. Three daies journie viz. to mount Horeb. They made it three months journie e're they came there Exod. 13.17 18. God lead's his people oft not the nearest but the safest waie to their journies end Ver. 4. Let the people from their works Moses talk's of sacrifice Pharaoh of work Anie thing seem's due work to a carnal minde saving God's service nothing superfluous but religious duties Aug. de Civit. Dei Seneca saith the Jewes cast away a seventh part of their time upon a weekly Sabbath To what end is this loss said Judas Ver. 5. The people of the Land are manie nihil agendo malè agere discent Iphicrates never suffered his souldiers to bee out of emploiment 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Polym stratag lib. 3. but if out of militarie services hee set them to dig or lop trees or carrie burdens c. to keep them from mutining or wors doing Ver. 6. And Pharaoh commanded Hee raged the more for the message of dismission so wholesom admonitions make ill men wors Corruptions encreas and biggen by the Law Rom. 7. ver 8. Ver. 7. Yee shall no more give the people straw Speculum tyrannidis semper augescentis atque invalescentis The matter mend's with us Acts and Mon. said those Martyrs in prison as sowr Ale doth in Summer Ver. 8. For they bee idle I heard a great man once say saith Luther Necesse est otiosos esse homines qui ista negotia Religionis curant They must needs bee idle fellows that are so much taken up about the business of religion See the Note on vers 4. Vers 9. And not regard vain words Vain lying words So this profane Prince calleth and counteth the word of God What 's Truth saith Pilat scoffingly Vers 10. I will not give you straw Cold comfort things commonly go backward with the Saints before they com forward as the corn groweth downward ere it grow upward Hold out faith and patience deliverance is at next dore by Cùm duplicantur lateres venit Moyses When things are at worst they 'le mend Vers 11. Yet not ought Such hard service put 's Satan his slaves to and yet they rejoice in their bondage Vers 12. So the people were scattered So are most people now-a daies busied about trash and trifles neglecting the one thing necessarie In the inthronization of the Pope before hee put 's on his criple Crown a wad of straw is set on fire before him and one appointed to saie Sic transit gloria mundi the glorie of this world is but a blaze of straw or stubble soon extinct They that highly esâ—eâ—m it rejoice in a thing of nought feed upon ashes c. Amos 7.8 9. with 13. Vers 13. And the task-masters Who were Egyptians as the officers under them were Israëlites and beaten vers 14. Vers 14. Were beaten It is the miserie of those that are trusted with autoritie that their inferiors faults are beaten upon their backs Vers 15. Came and crie'd unto Pharaoh They did not rail upon him to his face as the Janizaries did in an uproar upon Bajazet the second their Prince saying that they would by and by teach him as a drunkard Turk hist fol. 444. a beast and a rascal to use his great place and calling with more sobrietie and discretion Neither did they go behinde his back and call him as Sanders did Q. Elisabeth his natural Sovereign Lupam Anglicanam the English wolfe or as Rhiston calleth her leaenam omnes Athalias Maachas Rivetti Jesuita vapulans page 263. Jezabeles Herodiades c. superantem a lioness wors then anie Athaliah Maacha Jezabel A foul-mouthed Jesuite made this fals Anagram of her Elisabeth Jezabel T is omitted Fuller's holy State fol. 317. the presage of the gallowes whereon this Anagrammatist was afterwards justly executed Aretine by a longer custom of libelous and contumelious speaking against Princes had got such a habit that at last hee came to diminish and disesteem God himself Vers 16. But the fault is in thine own people Fffugiunt corvi vexat censura columbas As a man is friended so is his matter ended And where the hedg is low a man may lightly make large leaps Or as the French man saith Qui son chien vult tuer la rage luy met sus Hee that hath a minde to kill a dog give 's out that hee is mad It was fault enough in God's Israël that they would not bee miserable Vers 17. Yee are idle See the Note on vers 4 and 8. Vers 18. Yet shall yee deliver the tale of bricks Or bee miserably beaten if but one bee missing The Spaniards besides other intolerable burdens and bondages that they laie upon the poor Indians suppose they shew the wretches great favor when they do not Sir Fran. Drake World encompas pag. 53. for their pleasure whip them with cords and daie by daie drop their naked bodies with burning bacon Regiment without Righteousness turn's into tyrannie Vers 19. In an evil case For
the Covenant the Seals Ministers c. But alas are not these blessings amongst us as the Ark was amongst the Philistims rather as prisoners then as privileges rather in testimonium ruinam quà m in salutem Rather for our ruine then reformation Ver. 28. Fortie daies and fortie nights Moses Elias and Christ those three great Fathers met glorious in Mount Tahor Abstinence merit 's not but prepare's the best for good duties Hee wrote That is Weems Exer. God wrote as som will have it Ver. 29. The skin of his face shone God hereby assuring the people that hee had inwardly inlightned him for their better instruction Ver. 30. And they were afraid This was another manner of Brightness and Majestie then that which sate in the eies of Augustus and of Tamerlan whose eies so shone as that a man could hardly endure to behold them without closing of his own and manie in talking with them and often beholding of them became dumb which caussed them oft-times with a comlie modestie to abstein from looking too earnestly upon such as spake unto them Turk histâ— fol. 236. or discoursed with them Ver. 33. Hee put a veil on his face And had more glorie by his veil then by his face How far are those spirits from this Christian modestie which care onely to bee seen and wish onely to dazle others eies with admiration not caring for unknown riches This veil signified the Laws obscuritie and our infidelitie Ver. 34. But when Moses went in Hypocrites on the contrarie shew their best to men their worst to God God see 's both their veil and their face and I know not whether hee hate's more their veil of dissimulation or face of wickedness CHAP. XXXV Ver. 1. And said unto them These c. HEE often go's over the same things as the knife doth the whetstone Good things must bee repeted sicut in acuendo 'T is Moses his own metaphor Deut. 6.7 Ver. Six daies shall work bee don This dutie is so oft inculcated to shew the necessitie excellencie difficultie of well doing it Ver. Yee shall kindle no fire sc For the furtherance of the work of the Tabernacle or at least that is not of absolute necessitie It might also signifie that in the kingdom of heaven wee shall bee set free from all the fire and scorching heat of affliction Ver. 22. And brought bracelets Glad they had anie thing of price to dedicate to God and to seal up their thankfulness for this re-admittance into his love and favor See the Note on Matth. 9.10 Nazianzen put this price upon his Athenian learning wherein hee was verie famous that hee had somthing of value to part with for Christ Ver. 32. And to devise curious works This also cometh forth from the Lord of Hosts Lib. 23. who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in working Isa 28.29 Plinie make's mention of som famous Painters whose rare pieces were Oppidorum opibus venditae Sold for so manie Towns-wealth A certain artificer set a watch-clock upon a ring that Charls the Fifth wore upon his finger Sphinx philos pag. 90. King Ferdinand sent to Solyman the Turk for a present a wonderful globe of silver of most rare and curious device daily expressing the hourly passing of the Time the motions of the Planets Turk Hist fol. 713. the change and full of the Moon lively exepressing the wonderful conversions of the Celestial frame To which I may well add that admirable invention of Printing a special blessing of God to mankinde CHAP. XXXVI XXXVII c. Ver. 2. And Moses called Bezaleel GOd qualified them Mâ—ses called them Ministers also must have an outward calling too See Acts 13.1 2 3. Heb. 5.4 and bee sent ere they preach Rom. 10.15 And whereas 1 Cor. 14.31 It is said Yee may all prophecie the meaning is All yee that are Prophets may But are all Prophets 1 Cor. 12.29 Ver. 7. And too much Thus in outward ordinances of service and for the making of a worldlie sanctuarie Heb. 9.1 they could do and over-do So John 6.28 They said unto him What shall wee do that wee may work the works of God Men would fain have heaven as a purchase I would swim through a sea of brimstone said one that I might com to heaven at last But what said our Saviour to those questionists John 6 This is the work of God that yee believ on him whom hee hath sent And what said Luther Walk in the Heaven of the Promiss but in the Earth of the Law that in respect of Believing this of Working Manie poor souls can think of nothing but working themselvs to life Do wee must all righteousness but rest in none but Christ's Ver. 8. And everie wise-hearted man Let no man look upon this and the following Chapter as an idle repetition nor saie as one said once Did wee not know that all Scripture was divinely inspired wee should bee readie to saâ—e Quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus But know that here is see forth a Table Index or Inventorie of what Moses and the workmen did in obedience to God's command for everie particular about the Sanctuarie This Inventorie was taken by Ithamar at the commandement of Moses Et sic in archivum Ecclesiae relatum and so laid up in the charter-hous of the Church for the use of posteritie See the Notes on Exod. 26. and consider that saying of an antient Prosper Epist ad Augustin Necessarium utile est etiam quae scripta sunt scribere nè leve existimetur quod non frequenter arguitur CHAP. XL. Ver. 36. The Children of Israël went THe Jews conceiv that this Cloud that led Israël through the wilderness levelled mountains raised vallies and laid all aflat that it burnt up bushes and smoothed rocks and made all plain c. See Luke 3.5 Isa 4.5 A COMMENTARIE OR EXPOSITION UPON THE Third BOOK of Moses called LEVITICVS CHAP. I. Vers 1 And the Lord called A Continuation of the former Historie from the rearing of the Tabernacle to the numbering of the people beeing the historie of one moneth onely Ver. 2. Bring an offering Whereby they were led to Christ as the Apostle sheweth in that excellent Epistle to the Hebrews which is a just Commentarie upon this Book Ver 3. Burnt sacrifice A whole-burnt-offâ—ring Heb 10.6 purporting whole Chriâ—â— uffering for us Isa 53 12 and our sacrificing our whole selvs to him â—s a reasonable service Rom. 12.1 Ver. 4. And hee shall put his hand As acknowledging his own guilt and transferring the same upon Christ resting upon him with full assurance of faith handfasting us unto him Ver. 5. And bee shall kill the bullock The Priest shall kill it for it was death for anie man to offer his own sacrifice so it is still for anie to com to God otherwise then in and by Christ Ver. 6. And hee shall flaie the burnt-offering To shew the grievousness of our Saviour's sufferings the
the Lady Jane Gray whose excellent beauty adorn'd with all variety of vertues as a clear sky with stars as a Princely Diadem with jewels gave her the stile of Eruditionis pietatis modestiae delicium and Queen Elizabeth in whom besides her sex there was nothing woman-like or weak as if what Philosophy saith the souls of those noble creatures had followed the temperament of their bodies which consist of a frame of rarer rooms of a more exact composition then mans doth and if place be any priviledg we find theirs built in Paradise when mans was made out of it Besides in Christ Jesus there is neither male nor female but all are one souls having no sexes and whosoever are Christs are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise Gal. 3.28 29. Vers 11. A statute of judgment A standing law a standard for all cases of like kinde in that policy at least for we cannot consent to Carolostadius who contended in foro jus ex Mose dicendum esse that all other national and municipal laws were to be abolished and that all courts were now to pass sentence according to Moses's laws Hic non intellexit vim naturam Christianae libertatis This man knew not the extent of Christian liberty saith Melancthon Vers 12. See the land It was somewhat to see but oh how fain would he have entred the Land and could not we shall have in heaven not only vision but fruition we have it already in Capite-tenure in Christ our head and husband who will not be long without us it being part of his heaven that we shall be where he is Ioh. 17.24 and enjoy God which is heaven it self whence in Scripture God is called Heaven I have sinned against heaven Malim praesente Deo esse in inferno quam abseute Deo in Coelo Luth. in Gen. 30. And I had rather be in Hell and have God present then in Heaven and God absent saith Luther Vers 13. Gathered to thy people To that great Panegyris the general Assembly and Church of the first-born in heaven Heb. 12.23 to that glorious Amphitheatre where the Saints shall see and say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. as Chrysostome hath it Look yonder is Peter and that is Paul c. we shall sit down with Abraham Isaac and Iacob have communion with them not only as godly men but as Abraham Isaac and Jacob Vers 14. For ye rebelled Sin may rebel in the Saints but not raign neither is it they that rebel but sin that dwelleth in them dwelleth but not domineereth Vers 16. The God of the spirits of all flesh Thou Lord that knowest the hearts of all men Act. 1.24 See the Note there Artificers know well the nature and properties of their own work Deus intimior nobis intimo nostro CHAP. XXVIII Vers 2. MY offering He is owner of all and of his own we give him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 said that great Emperour And my bread Called their bread for their souls that is the bread for their natural sustenance common bread when not rightly offered So Ier. 7.21 God in scorn calls their sacrifice flesh ordinary flesh such as is sold in the shambles So at the Lords Supper impenitent communicants receive no more then the bare elements panem Domini Aug. but not panem Dominum In their due season Which for 38. years they had intermitted Get a settlement or Sabbath of spirit or else God shall be but ill if at all served Vers 3. This is the offering See the Note on Exod. 29.38 39. Vers 9. And on the Sabbath day Every day should be a Sabbath to the Saints in regard of ceasing to do evil learning to do well but on the seventh-day-Sabbath our devotion should be doubled ' Debet totus dies festivus a Christiano expendi in operibus sanctis said Robert Grosthead Bishop of Lincoln In decalog praecep 30. long since The whole Sabbath should be spent in Gods service Psal 92. titled a Psalm for the Sabbath mentions morning and evening performances vers 2. Variety of duties may very well take up the whole day with delight Besides God gives us fix whole dayes Now to sell by one measure and buy by another is the way to a curse Vers 11. And in the beginning of your moneths Thus they had their daily weekly monethly yearly addresses unto God that they might ever be in communion with him and conformity unto him by this continual intercourse On the new-Moons they rested Amos 8.5 feasted 1 Sam. 20.5 heard the Word c. 2 King 4.29 Vers 17 18 19 c. See the Notes on Exod. 12.18 and on Levit. 23.7 c. CHAP. XXIX Vers 1. ANd in the seventh moneth This Sabbath-moneth as it were had as many feasts in it as were celebrated in all the year besides So that as the Sabbath is the Queen of dayes so was this of moneths It is a day of blowing See the Note on Levit. 23.24 Vers 7. And ye shall have See Levit. 16.19 with the Notes Vers 12. And on the fifteenth See Levit. 23.34 35 c. with the Notes There the feasts were prescribed and here the sacrifices belonging to them are described Vers 17. And on the second day ye shall offer twelve c. In every of these seven-dayes-sacrifices one bullock is abated Hereby the Holy Ghost might teach them their duty to grow in grace and increase in sanctification that their sins decreasing the number of their sacrifices whereby atonement was made for their sins should also decrease daily Or it might signifie a diminishing and wearing away of the legal offerings c. as One well observeth Hac caeremoniâ significabat Deus gratiam suam de die in diem crescere it a nempe ut minuatur vetus homo novus augeatur c. saith Alsted till the very ruines of Satans castles be as most of our old Castles are almost brought to ruine Vers 18. After the manner That is in manner and form aforesaid The Manner is that that makes or marrs the action as a good suite may be marred in the making so a good duty there may be malum opus in bona materia Jehu's zeal was rewarded as an act of justice quoad substantiam operis and punished as an act of policy quoad modum agendi for the perverse end Yea David for failing in a ceremony only though with an honest heart suffered a breach instead of a blessing 1 Chron. 15.17 Idolaters also went on in their own manner Amos 8.14 as their idol-Priests prescribed The manner of Beersheba liveth that is the form of rites of the worshipping in Beersheba as the Chaldee paraphraseth CHAP. XXX Vers 1. ANd Moses spake unto the heads Because they were in place of judicature and had power either to bind◠men to their vowes or set them at liberty Vers 2. If a man vow a vow unto the Lord God is the proper object of a vow Psal 76.11 Papists vow