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A11649	Annotations upon the five bookes of Moses, the booke of the Psalmes, and the Song of Songs, or, Canticles VVherein the Hebrevv vvords and sentences, are compared with, and explained by the ancient Greeke and Chaldee versions, and other records and monuments of the Hebrewes: but chiefly by conference with the holy Scriptures, Moses his words, lawes and ordinances, the sacrifices, and other legall ceremonies heretofore commanded by God to the Church of Israel, are explained. With an advertisement touching some objections made against the sinceritie of the Hebrew text, and allegation of the Rabbines in these annotations. As also tables directing unto such principall things as are observed in the annotations upon each severall booke. By Henry Ainsworth.; Annotations upon the five bookes of Moses, and the booke of the Psalmes	Ainsworth, Henry, 1571-1622?	1627 (1627)	STC 219; ESTC S106799	2,398,875	1,194

countenance And it was when the dayes had been prolonged by him there that Abimelech King of the Philistims looked out through a window and saw and behold Isaak was sporting with Rebekah his wife And Abimelech called Isaak and said Behold surely she is thy wife and how saydest thou she is my sister And Isaak said unto him Because I said lest I dye for her And Abimelech said what is this thou hast done unto us one of the people might lightly have lyen with thy wife and thou shouldest have brought upon us guiltinesse And Abimelech commanded all the people saying he that toucheth this man or his wife dying he shall be put to death And Isaak sowed in that land and found in that yeere an hundred measures and Iehovah blessed him And the man waxed-great and went going-on and waxing-great untill hee was waxed-great exceedingly And he had possession of flocks and possession of herds and much husbandry and the Philistims envied him And all the wells which his fathers servants had digged in the dayes of Abraham his father the Philistims stopped them and filled them with dust And Abimelech said unto Isaak Goe from us for thou art very-much mightier then we And Isaak went from thence and pitched in the valley of Gerar and dwelt there And Isaak returned and digged the wels of water which they had digged in the dayes of Abraham his father and the Philistims had stopped them after the death of Abraham and hee called their names according to the names that his father had called them And Isaaks servants digged in the valley and found there a well of living waters And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with the herdmen of Isaak saying The water is ours and he called the name of the well Esek because they contended with him And they digged another well and they strove also for it and hee called the name of it Sitnah And hee removed from thence and digged another well and they strove not for it and he called the name of it Rechoboth and hee said for now Iehovah hath made-roome for us and we shall be fruitfull in the land And he went-up from thence to Beersheba And Iehovah appeared unto him the same night and sayd I am the God of Abraham thy father feare not for I am with thee and will blesse thee and multiply thy seed for my servant Abrahams sake And hee builded there an altar and called on the name of Iehovah and stretched-out there his tent and there Isaaks servants digged a well And Abimelech went unto him from Gerar and Achuzzath his friend and Phicol the Prince of his army And Isaak sayd unto them wherefore come ye unto me and ye hate me and have sent me away from you And they said Seeing we have seen that Iehovah is with thee and we said Let there now be an oath-of-execration betwixt us betwixt us and thee and let us strike a covenant with thee If thou shalt doe unto vs evill as we have not touched thee and as we have done unto thee but-onely good and have sent thee away in peace thou now the blessed of Iehovah And he made unto them a banquet and they did eate and drinke And they rose early in the morning and sware ech-man to his brother and Isaak sent them away and they went from him in peace And it was the same day that Isaaks servants came and shewed unto him concerning the well which they had digged they said unto him we have found water And he called it Shibeah therfore the name of the Citie is Beer-sheba unto this day And Esau was fourty yeeres old and he tooke a wife Iudith the daughter of Beeri a Chethite and Basemath the daughter of Elon a Chethite And they were a bitternesse of spirit to Isaak and to Rebekah Annotations FIrst famine whereof see Gen. 12. 10. Abimelech of whom see Gen. 20. 1. 2. c. which history is to be compared with this Vers. 2. Aegypt as Abraham did Gen. 12. 10. and whither it seemeth Isaak was purposing to go Vers. 3. this land of Canaan the land of promise and figure of the place of heavenly rest see the notes on Gen. 12. 5. So by David hee exhorteth Dwell in the land and feed on faith Psalm 37. 3. See Gen. 37. 1. I will be the Chaldee expoundeth it my word shall be an helpe unto thee so in vers 24. and 28. these lands or countries possessed by so many nations Gen. 15. 19. 20. 21. so Psalm 105. 44. The Greeke translateth singularly land and so was the promise made to Abraham Gen. 13. 15. and 15. 18. and 17. 8. see the notes there stablish the oath that is performe the promises sworne Gen. 22. 16. 17. Vers. 4. starres that is innumerable see Genes 15. 5. seed meaning Christ Gal. 3. 16. 8. blesse themselves or as the Greeke translateth shall be blessed see Gen. 22. 18. Vers. 5. charge Hebr. keeping or observation that is ordinances to be kept So in Lev. 8. 35. and 22. 9. Deut. 11. 1. lawes for this word elsewhere the Scripture saith judgements Deut. 11. 1. and 5. 1. 31. and 6. 1. 20. and 7. 11. and 8. 11. c. and under these three particulars the whole charge or custody forespoken of is comprehended as afterward by Moses God gave the ten commandements or morall precepts Exod. 20. Iudgements or judiciall lawes for punishing transgressors Exod. 21. c. and Statutes or rules ordinances and decrees for the service of God Lev. 3. 17. and 6. 18. 22. Exod. 12. 24. 27. 31. 29. 9. 30. 21. Al which Abraham observed and is commended of God therefore Vers. 7. my sister He imitateth his father Abrahams practice Gen. 12. 11. 12. 13. and 20. 2. kill me Moses expresseth this as Isaaks owne words of himselfe The Greeke translateth it should kill him so elsewhere that version changeth the person for more easie order of speech and understanding to the reader See Psal. 144. 12. good countenance elsewhere it is faire of countenance or visage Gen. 12. 11. so the Greek turneth it here and before good is used for faire or goodly Gen. 24. 16. V. 8. by him or to him that is when he had beene a long time there sporting or laughing playing rejoycing it is the word whereof Isaak himselfe had his name Gen. 17. 17. 19. and 21. 6. Solomon saith Rejoyce with the wife of thy youth c. Prov. 5. 18. 19 Vers. 10. might lightly or had almost lyen guiltinesse a sinne making us guiltie of punishment a shamefull crime named in Hebrew Asham the Greeke translateth it Ignorance and so Paul calleth the sinnes of the people Ignorances or ignorant trespasses Heb. 9. 7. rightly so gathered from Levit. 4. 22. See the further explication of this word there Abimelech by this word Asham meaneth both the sin and the punishment for the same as in the law Asham is both the Guilty-sin and the Sacrifice for the same Lev. 5. 5. 6.

that in Isaak shall seed be called to thee Heb. 11. 17. 18. Abraham our father was hee not justified by works having offred Isaak his sonne upon thee altar Seest thou how faith wrought with his workes and by workes was faith perfected And the scripture was fulfilled which saith Abraham beleeved God and it was imputed unto him for justice and hee was called the friend of God Iam. 2. 21. 22. 33. Vers. 11. the Angell who speaketh as God ver 12. sweareth by himselfe and is called Iehovah verse 16. wherefore this was Christ himselfe see before on Gen. 16. 7. and 18. 2. V. 12. put not forth or send not forth that is lay no violent hands upon him Thus God spared Isaak from death and Abraham who beleeved that God was able to raise him up even from the dead did from thence also receive him in a parable Heb. 11. 19. I know that is I have experience God speaketh after the manner of men as in Gen. 18. 21. and often and thou hast or for that thou hast see Gen. 12. 19. Vers. 13. the ram Thus Abrahams word 〈…〉 s fulfilled that God would provide himselfe a lambe verse 8. and hereby the redemption of the Church by Christ the lambe without blemish 1 Pet. 1. 19. was signified according to that in Iob 33. 24. Deliver him from going-downe to the pit I have found a ransome Vers. 14. Iehovah Iireth that is Iehovah will see or provide as verse 8. the Greeke interpreteth it The Lord hath seene for hee answering to Abrahams prophesie verse 8. the perpetuall memory of his mercy was kept in the name of the place Mori-Iah the usuall name of the mountaine is of like interpretation Iehovah being shortned into Iah whereof see Exod. 15. 2. The Chaldee paraphraseth thus And Abraham prayed and served God there in that place and said before the Lord here shall the generations to come serve God Therefore was it sayd in this day In this mount Abram served before the Lord. Hee hath reference to the Temple built after in this mount wherein God was served 2 Chron. 3. 1. Abraham calling this place Iehovah Iireh speaketh figuratively as the Scripture useth in all Sacramentall things because it was a signe of Gods providence So Moses called his altar Iehovah Nish Exod. 17. 15. Ierusalem is called Iehovah Shammah Ezek. 48. 35. it shall be seene or it shall be provided of God So this speciall providence of God towards Abraham is become a generall proverbe for the comfort of his children in all their distresses The Greeke translateth it In the mountaine the Lord was seene Vers. 16. By my selfe the Chaldee turneth it By my word Elsewhere the scripture saith God sweareth by his soule Ier. 51. 14. by his holinesse Amos 4. 2. by his name Ier. 44. 26. Of this the Apostle saith when God made promise to Abraham because he could sweare by no greater he sware by himselfe saying surely c. And God willing more-abundantly to shew unto the heyres of promise the immutability of his counsell confirmed it by an oath that by two immutable things in which it is impossible for God to lye wee might have a strong consolation Heb. 6. 13. 14. 17. 18. where also the Apostle teacheth that this is written for our comfort as al other scriptures Rom. 15. 4. And by this it is plaine that the Angell who spake to Abraham was God himselfe and this oath had the accomplishment in Christ Luk. 1. 73. c. assuredly-saith or the faithfull-saying The originall word Neum is peculiar to Gods oracles which all are faithfull sayings as Paul speaketh 1 Tim. 1. 15. and 3. 1. and 4. 9. Of the same Hebrew letters transplaced commeth also Amen Vers. 17. Surely so the Apostle following the common Greeke version translateth the Hebrew Ki which also signifieth Because or That Heb. 6. 14. And here under the name blessing is meant the promise of eternall salvation as the Apostle there sheweth thy seed for which the Apostle saith thee Heb. 6. 14. Againe where Moses saith thee in Gen. 12. 3. the Apostle saith thy seed Act. 3. 25. By such interpretations the holy Ghost teacheth us how to understand the Scriptures and by Abrahams seed Christ the principall and author of salvation is implyed and all the faithfull by him saved Gal. 3. 16. 29. shore Hebrew lip Here they are compared to the sand of the sea which before in Gen. 13. 16. were to be like the dust of the earth see also Gen. 15. 5. This promise through the faith of Abraham and Sarah beleeving it was fulfilled as the Apostle observeth Heb. 11. 11. 12. thy seed Isaaks posterity Gen. 21. 12. the gate for gates as tree for trees see Gen. 3. 2. and by gates he meaneth cities and all strong defensed places as the doore or entring of the gate 2 Sam. 10. 8. is explained to be the doore of the citie 1 Chron. 19. 9. And at the gates of cities were publike places of judgement Deut. 22. 15. Iob 31. 21. So the strength and dominion of the enemies is meant here by the gate dominion over them by inheritance Levit. 25. 45. Psal. 82. 8. The Greeke also translateth it cities and so in Gen. 24. 60. his or their enemies meaning enemies of the seed which word being put for children at the Chaldee translateth it may have with it a word singular or plurall and so the Scripture speaketh indifferently as saying of the people it went 2 Chr. 10. 5. or they went 1 King 12. 5. it rejoyced 2 King 11. 20. which another Prophet writing saith they rejoyced 2 Chron. 23. 21. So 2 King 21. 24. with 2 Chron. 33. 25. and 2 King 23. 30. with 2 Chr. 36. 1. The reason hereof is because a multitude is many and yet as one therefore that which in Mat. 20. 31. is ochlos a multitude in Mar. 10. 48. is polloi many Vers. 18. in thy seed here the word seed is in speciall meant of one that is Christ Gal. 3. 16. 18. who was both of the seed of David and sonne of Abraham according to the flesh Rom. 1. 3. and also God over all blessed for ever Rom. 9. 5. in whom the nations doe blesse themselves and glory Ier. 4. 2. Ps. 72. 17. blesse themselves that is apply thy faith the blessing of Christ to themselves and so profess it or shall be blessed as the Greeke translateth it and as the promise was before made in that forme in the Hebrew Gen. 12. 3. and after in Genesis 28. 14. Vers. 19. Beersheba which the Greeke interpreteth the well of the oath See before in Gen. 21. 31. Vers. 20. Milcah called in Greeke Melcha shee was Abrahams brothers wife Gen. 11. 29. Of whose off-spring Abraham now heareth glad tidings unto whom he after sendeth for a wife for his sonne Isaak Gen. 24. Vers. 21. Uz or Urs in Greeke Oox. In this land Iob the patient dwelled Iob. 1. 1. There was also another Vz of Aram

she said if it be so why am I thus And shee went to inquire of Iehovah And Iehovah said unto her Two nations are in thy womb and two peoples shall be separated from thy bowels and the one people shall be stronger then the other people and the greater shall serve the lesser And her dayes were fulfilled to bring-forth and behold twins were in her wombe And the first came-out red all over like an hairy mantle and they called his name Esau. And afterward came his brother out and his hand holding by the heele of Esau and he called his name Iakob and Isaak was sixtie yeeres old when she bare them And the boyes grew and Esau was a cunning huntsman a man of the field and Iakob was a perfect man dwelling in tents And Isaak loved Esau because venison was in his mouth and Rebekah loved Iakob And Iakob sod pottage and Esau came from the field and he was faint And Esau said to Iakob Let me taste I pray thee of that red that red pottage for I am faint therefore he called his name Edom. And Iakob said Sell to me this day thy first-birthright And Esau said Loe I am going to dye and wherefore serveth this first-birthright unto me And Iakob said Sweare unto me this day and he sware unto him and he sold his first-birthright unto Iakob And Iakob gave to Esau bread and pottage of lentiles and he did eate and drinke and rose up and went-away and Esau despised the first-birthright Annotations ADded that is did againe take a wife when hee was an hundred and fourty yeeres old and had of her sixe sonnes by the extraordinary blessing of God whereas fourty yeeres before his body was even dead in respect of naturall strength and vigour as the Apostle noteth Rom. 4. 19. a wife called elsewhere a concubine 1 Chron. 1. 32. what manner of wife that was see on Gen. 22. 24. Keturah in Greeke Chettoura Vers. 2. Zimran in Greeke Zombran Iekshan in Greeke Iezan Medan whose posterity are called Medanites Gen. 37. 36. Midian in Greeke Madiam and Madian Act. 7. 29. of him came the people called Madianites that soone fell from Abrahams faith to idolatry Num. 25. Shuach in Greek Soie of him came Bildad Iobs friend called the Shuchite Iob 2. 11. Vers. 3. Sheba in Greek Saba his posterity robbed lob of his oxen and asses Iob 1. 15. Vers. 4. Ephah or Gepha in Greeke Gephar Epher or Gepher in Greek Apheir of him the country Aphrica is thought to have the name Enoch in Heb. Chanoch as Gen. 5. 18. Vers. 5. to Isaak as being his onely heyre and child of promise Gen. 21. 12. a figure of Christ and Christians heyres by promise of all things Heb. 1. 2. Iohn 3. 34. Rev. 21. 7. Gal. 3 29. and 2. 28. Vers. 6. concubines Hagar and Keturah vers 1. east country or land of the East a part of Arabia hereupon mention is made of the sonnes of the East Iob 1. 3. And Iob himselfe was in likelihood the son of one of these sons or nephewes of Abraham by Keturah Vers. 7. 175 yeeres This summe of his yeeres sheweth how Abraham had lived a pilgrim in Canaan a hundred yeeres after he came out of Charran Gen. 12. 4. That he attained not to the yeeres of his forefathers who all lived longer then hee Gen. 11. 11. c. as did also his son Isaak Gen. 35. 28. That he left alive behind him Heber that great Patriarch and Prophet of whom hee had the surname to be an Hebrew Gen. 11. 17. and 14. 13. and from whom he was the seventh generation as Enoch was from Adam Vers. 8. hoary age as was promised Gen. 15. 15. of dayes so the Greek and Chaldee explaineth it and the Hebrew it selfe elsewhere Gen. 35. 29. Such words are often to be understood as a full for a full cup Psal. 73. 10. see Gen. 4. 20. and 5. 3. and by being full of dayes is meant a willingnesse to dye without desiring longer life on earth his peoples the Greeke translateth his people the like is said of Ismael vers 17. of Isaak Gen. 35. 29. of Iaakob Gen. 49. 33. of Aaron Num. 20. 24. of Moses Deut. 32. 50. and others sometime it is said gathered to their fathers 2 King 22. 20. Iudg. 2. 10. Act. 13. 36. and by Abrahams peoples are meant his fathers Gen. 15. 15. and the phrase signifieth the immortality of soules for Abrahams body was gathered to the body of Sarah onely as the next words shew and by his fathers are meant the spirits of just men made perfect Heb. 12. 23. See after in verse 17. Vers. 10. and Sarah as is shewed in Gen. 23. 19. Afterwards Isaak and Iakob with their wives were buried there also Gen. 49. 29. 31. Vers. 11. blessed Isaak so applying and confirming to him the promises made to Abraham Gen. 12. 2. and 14. 19. and 17. 19. and so Isaak commended to Iakob the blessing of Abraham Gen. 28. 3. 4. and by this blessing the righteousnesse of faith is implyed to Abrahams seed Galat. 3. 8. 9. c. Beer-lachai-roi in Greeke the well of vision in Chaldee the well at which the Angell of life appeared this place of Isaaks seating is not without mystery see Gen. 16. 14. and 24. 62. Vers. 12. generations a rehearsall of Ismaels off-spring as Gen. 5. 1. And here the fulfilling of Gods promise is seene made in Gen. 16. 10. 12. and 17. 20. and how hee that was borne after the flesh and cast out of Abrahams house Gal. 4. 23. 30 was multiplyed before Isaak the child and heyre of the promise See the like of Esau Gen. 36. 43. Vers. 13. Nebajoth he and his brethren seated in Arabia Esay 20. 13. 14. 16. Ezek. 27. 21. where peoples and places retained the footsteps of their names they gave themselves to shepherdy as appeareth Esay 60. 7. Ier. 49. 29. And here are twelve sons reckned which were Princes of their tribes as was promised in Gen. 17. 20. answerable in number to the twelve sonnes of Iakob heads of the twelve tribes of Israel but these Ismaelites are a generation before them as Ismael himselfe was borne before Isaak For that is first which is naturall and afterward that which is spirituall 1 Corinth 15. 46. Vers. 16. castles or villages dwelling houses so named of being faire and high built in a row or order In Greeke habitations as in Act. 1. 20. from Psal. 69. Vers. 17. 137 yeeres So he lived not so long as his father Abraham or his brother Isaak or as did Iakob though he lived till a great old age And this mention of the terme of his life and gathering to his fathers as was spoken before of Abraham v. 8. and the burying of his father with his brother vers 9. may be some probability of Ismaels repentance and dying in the faith of Abraham for unlesse it be he no reprobate hath his whole life time recorded in holy Scripture Or if

thousands that is the thousand generation of them that hate me or to my haters whereunto the Chald. addeth where the sons goe on to sin after their fathers For hereby they turne to be Gods enemies Mic. 2. 8. as they do love him that keepe his commandements v. 6. Verse 6. love me c. Love is first named as that from which the keeping of the commandements proceedeth Iohn 14. 15 for the end of the Commandement is Love out of a pure heart c. 1 Tim. 1. 5. and towards such as love him and keepe his commandements God keepeth covenant and mercy Daniel 9. 4. The Hebrew Doctors write Let not a man say loe I doe the Law and exercise my selfe in the wisedome thereof to the and that I may receive all the blessings that are written therein or that I may be worthy of life in the world that is to come and I will keepe mee from the transgressions which the Law warneth me of that I may bee delivered from the curses written in the Law or that I bee not cut off from the life of the world to come It is not meet to serve God after this manner For hee that serveth thus serveth of feare c. but hee that serveth of love exerciseth himselfe in the Law and walketh in the waies of wisedome not because of any thing in the world nor for feare of evill or that he may inherite good things but doth the truth because it is the truth c. And this is a very great dignitie which no wise man is worthy of and it was the dignity of Abraham our father whom the holy blessed God calleth his Lover or Friend Esay 41. 8. because he served him not but of Love And this is the dignitie which God commandeth us by the hand of Moses saying And thou shalt love the Lord thy God Deut. 6. 5. And at what time a man loveth the Lord with love convenient immediately hee will doe all the commandements out of love c. Maimony treat of Repentance c. 10. S. 1. 2. Verse 7. not take up to wit upon thy lippes or mouth as this phrase is opened in Psalme 16. 4. and 50. 16. that is not speake use or mention So to take up a proverbe Esay 14. 4. to take up a lamentation Ezek 26. 17. is to speake or utter the same The Chaldee restraineth it to one particular thou shalt not swears by the name c. and the Thargum called Ionathans thus My people the house of Israel Let not any of you sweare by the name of the Word of the LORD your God in vaine But though swearing be a principall thing here intended Esay 48. 1. yet the precept is more large forbidding all unreverent unholy use of Gods name in heart mouth oraction and commanding the fanctifying thereof as it is Holy and Reverend Matth. 6. 9. Psalme 111. 9. and to sweare by the same Deut. 6. 13. Name that whereby God hath made himselfe knowne as his titles and attributes Exod. 54. 56. 7. his Word Law Gospell Deut. 32. 3. Act. 9. 15. as the Law of Christ Esay 42. 4. inexpoundeth he his Name Matt. 12. 21. also prayer Gen. 4. 26. and Gods whole worship and all ordinances pertaining thereto Deut. c. 12. 5. Mal. 1. 〈◊〉 12. Mic. 4. 5. his sacraments Matth. ●8 ●8 19. censures 1. Cor. 5. 4. 5. Matt. 18. 20. and whatsoever belongeth to Christian religion is comprised in this Name of God That as the second commandement teacheth us wherewith to serve the Lord so this third directeth us unto the holy use of all religion in heart profession action in vaine or to vanitie which word implyeth also falsitie as after in v. 16. and so it is used to denote false religion or idolatry Ier. 18. 15. Ion. 2. 9. false doctrine error and heresie Lam. 2. 14. Ezek. 13. 6. 7. but commonly vaine and fruitles speaking or doing whereof no good commeth Ps. 127. 1. 2. Esay 1. 13. Ier. 4. 30. and 6. 29. So two things chiefly are here forbidden the mentioning or using of Gods name in word or deed when it should not be used for that there is no just cause so to doe secondly the using of it amisse whē duty bindeth us to use it with feare and holinesse As swearing when there is no cause of an oath Matt. 6. 34. and swearing falsly Levit. 19. 12. swearing and not performing 2 Chron. 36. 13. vowing and not paying Deuternomie 23. 21. vaine praying in respect of matter or manner Iob 35. 13 Matt. 6. 7. corruption in teaching or hearing the Word of God Ezek 21. 29. 2 Cor. 2. 7. Matt. 13. 19. Ezek. 33. 31. abusing the Word to unlawfull arts superstition jesting profanenesse Deut. 18. 11. Esay 66. 5. abuse of the sacraments and holy mysteries Mal. 1. 11. 12. 1 Cor. 11. 27. 29. Ier. 7. 4. 10. abuse of ecclesiasticall censures Esay 66. 5. abuse of Lots Esth. 3. 7. Prov. 16. 33. hypocrisie in any religious worke Mat. 15. 7. 8. 9. and all unbeliefe Rom. 14. 23 Iam. 1. 6. a sinfull conversation whereby the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles Rom. 2. 24. with whatsoever else is contrary to the sanctifying of Gods name which on the other part is here commanded Lev. 22. 31. 32. The Hebr. Doctors say Whosoever transgresseth wittingly and without constraint any one of all the commandements spoken of in the Law with a contemptuous soule to provoke Gods anger loe this man polluteth the Name of God and if he transgresse in the presence of the men of Israel he polluteth the Name publikely Also whosoever separateth himselfe from transgression or doth that w ch is commanded not for any thing in the world nor for feere or dread nor for to seeke honor but for our blessed Creators sake as Ioseph the just refrained himselfe from his masters wife Gen. 39. 9. loe this man sanctifieth the Name of the Lord Maimonian Iesudei hatorah c. 5. S. 10. guiltlesse or cleare innocent that is he will not leave him unpunished so the phrase signifieth as is opened in 1 King 2. 9. but he shall be plagued in this world or in that which is to come as Tharg Ionathan paraphraseth the Lord will not hold him just or innocent in the great day of judgmēt V. 8. Remember Heb. To remember of w ch phrase see Exo. 13. 3. God speaketh thus of this commandement to note the importance of it for hereckoneth the breach of this precept as one of the greatest sins in Israel Ezek. 20. 12. 22. 8. 23. 38 c Likewise to signifie the antiquitie of it as being from the creation of the world Gen. 2. 2. 3. and for that it was to bee kept but one day in seven that when the time come it be not forgotten or neglected In repeating this law Moses saith Observe or keep the sabbath Deut. 5. 12. In Esa. 58. ●3 the Lord add 〈◊〉 two words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to call the Sabbath a Delight the

Watchmen that did goe the city round Did finde me they did smite me did me wound The keepers that upon the walles did watch They from on me my veile away did catch O ye the daughters of Ierusalem I you adjuring charge if ye finde him That my Beloved is what shall yee say To him that I for love languish away What is thy Lief more then another Lief O thou that hast mong women beauty chiefe Thy Lief then other Liefs what is he more That thou adjuring chargest us so sore My welbeloved white and red appears Above ten-thousand he the banner bears His head is fine gold solid-gold-of-Fess His lockes are curl'd blacke as a Raven is His eyes as doves the streames of water by Washing in milke sitting in plenity His cheekes as bed of spice flowers sweetly-smelling His lips like Lilies passing myrrh distilling His hands gold rings fild with the Chrysolite His bowels yv'rie bright with Saphirs dight His legs like Marble pillars that have hold Firmly on sockets of fine-solid gold His sight as Lebanon choise as Ceders His palate sweets and he is all desires This is my welbeloved and this same My friend O daughters of Ierusalem Annotations IAm come or I have come but the time passed is often used for the present Here Christ answereth to the prayer of the Spouse being ready to fulfill the desire of them that feare him Psal. 145. 19 God is said to Come unto men when he manifesteth his presence by his workes either of mercy or judgement Exod. 3. 7. 8. Gen. 11. 5. 7. Here he commeth to the garden of his Church with grace acceptation com●ort and blessing to keepe a spirituall banq●et there as he promised In every place where I shall make the memoriall of my name I will come unto thee and I will blesse thee Exod. 20. 24. My sister spouse see the notes on chap. 1. 4. vers 8. 9. Myrrh with my spice that is with my other spices or aromaticall-fruits for myrrh was one of the chiefe spices used in composition of sweet ointments Exod. 30. 23. with such ointments they anointed them and their friends at feasts see the annotations on ch 1. 3. I have eaten or I doe eat for the words following shew this to bee spoken as at a banquet my honey-combo as the word and doctrine of Christ is likened to honey and the honey combe to wine and milke Psalme 19. 11. and 119. 103. Esa. 55. 1. 1 Pet. 2. 2. because it is sweet comfortable and wholesome to nourish the soule as these things doe the body so here the manifold fruits and graces which that word by the Spirit bringeth forth in Christians are likened also to such things whereof Christ is said to eat that is graciously to accept and delight in them On the contrary the evill fruits of sinners are likened to grapes of gall and their wine to the poyson of dragons Deuteronomie 32. 32. 33. eate O friends or O neighbours Christ speaketh as at a feast chearing up his friends as partakers with him of his graces and comforts aforesaid They that doe his commandements are his friends Ioh. 15. 14. as Abraham is called the friend of God Esa. 41. 8. Iam. 2. 23. and these desire and delight to be partakers of the fruits of the saints and rejoyce in their obedience Phil. 1. 9. 10. 11. and 41. 17. 18. ● Ioh. v. 4. 3 Ioh. v. 3. 4. The Angels also are made joyfull at the conversion sanctitie and salvation of sinners by Christ Luk. 15. 7. 10. and 2. 13. 14. The Chaldee expoundeth this of Gods acceptation of his churches service under the Law thus The holy and blessed God said to his people the house of Israel I am come to the house of my sanctuarie which thou buildest for me my sister O congregation of Israel which art likened to an honest spouse and have caused my divine presence to dwell in the midst of thee I accept thy incense of spices which thou madest for my name I have sent fire from heaven and it hath eaten the Burnt-offrings and sacrifice of Peace-offrings accepted with favour before me is the drinke-offring of red wine and of white wine which the Priests have poured out upon mine Altar Now come yee Priests that love my precepts eat that which is left of the oblations and delight your selves in the good that is prepared for you drinke abundantly O beloved or be drunken that is be plenteously-filled with loves By Beloved he meaneth his friends aforesaid or by loves for so the word may be interpreted hee meaneth the fruits of love which his Spouse had brought forth unto him which loves hee said were much better then wine c. 4. 10. In Esa. 25. 6. it is prophesied how the Lord of hosts would make in the mountaine of his church unto all people a feast of fat things a feast of wine on the Lees c. Vers. 2. I sleepe or I sleeping and my heart waking The Spouse of Christ here telleth of a new and greater trouble that befell her through her owne negligence and how shee got out thereof In chap. 3. she had a much like tentation but not so heavy as this for there shee slept not but upon her bed in the nights sought her beloved here she sleepeth her beloved seeketh her knocketh provoketh but shee maketh excuses for a while There the watchmen though they tell her notidings of her beloved yet they doe her no farther har 〈…〉 e here they smite wound and unveile her There she soone findeth him after shee was past the watchmen here she findeth him not so soone but languisheth with love and complaineth to her friends who upon report of his praises doe helpe to seeke him with her Sleepe is the rest or ceasing of the creature from use of the outward senses and from action It is caused by vapour in the head that arise from meat drinke c. which stop the passages of the spirits and binde the senses This sleepe as it is a refreshing is sometime used in a good sense for the repose and rest that the faithfull have in God Psalme 3. 5. and 4. 8. Prov. 3. 24. But more often it signifieth the neglect of holy duties and a sinfull kinde of life Esa. 56. 10. Rom. 13. 11. 1 Thes. 5. 6. 7. and this sleepe is caused sometimes through sorrow Luke 22. 45. sometime through wearinesse Esa. 5. 27. sometime through sloathfulnesse and then it causeth spirituall beggery Prov. 19. 15. and 20. 13. The Spouse here having eaten and drunke largely of the bl●ssings of Christ beginneth to remit her zeale and neglect the workes of faith and love wanting the presence of her beloved and being pressed with the remnants of the flesh so shee gave place to ca●●all case and security Occasioned further hereunto by the time the night and by the wether which was rainy that is by ignorance and errour prevailing and by the opposition and persecution of enemies and my heare ●aketh

of the mountaine And mount Sinai was all of it on a smoke because that Iehovah descended upon it in fire and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace and all the mruntaine trembled exceedingly And the voice of the trumpet was giong and waxing strong exceedingly Moses spake and God answered him by a voice And Iehovah descended upon mount Sinai on the top of the mountaine and Iehovah called for Moses unto the top of the mountain and Moses went up And Iehovah said unto Moses Goe downe testifie unto the people lest they breake thorow unto Iehovah to see and many of them fall And the priests also which come neere unto Iehovah let them sanctifie themselves lest Iehovah breake forth upon them And Moses said unto Iehovah The people cannot come up unto mount Sinai for thou hast testified unto us saying Set bounds about the mountaine and sanctifie it And Iehovah said unto him Goe downe and come up thou Aaron with thee but the priests and the people let not them breake through to come up unto Iehovah lest he breake forth upon them And Moses went downe unto the people and said it unto them Annotations MOneth or new moone which was the first day of every moneth among the Hebrews therefore here followeth in the same day to signifie not the Moneth onely but the first day thereof to be meant Or as some thinke the same day meaneth the third day as it was the third moneth and this was 430. yeeres after the promise made unto Abraham but the covenant of the Law now given could not disanull the covenant of grace that was confirmed afore of God in respect of Christ Gal. 3. 17. Sines in Greeke the Holy Ghost writeth it Sina which is a mountaine in Arabia situate in the wildernesse called thereupon the wildernesse of mount Sina Gal. 4. 25. Acts 7. 30. Vers. 3. unto God the Greeke saith unto the mountaine of God the Chaldee into the presence of the word of the Lord this was Christ who is called the Angel Act. 7. 38. the Angel of Gods Face or presence Esay 63. 9. It seemeth that the cloud by which God conducted them now rested upon that mount See Numb 9. 17. c. Vers. 4. you or your selves have seene c. This speech was to prepare them to receive Gods covenant now to be made and the like was spoken at the renewing of the covenant Deut. 29. 2. c. Eagles wings to cary you out of your place of bondage openly safely speedily as the Eagle doth her yong ones from their sluggish nest This similitude is more explained in Deut. 32. 11. And as the Church of Israel here fled from the dragon Pharaoh as he is called in Ezek. 29. 3. so the Christian Church fled from the Serpent or Dragon into the wildernesse with two wings of a great Eagle Rev. 12. 14. The Greeke and Chaldee here translate as upon Eagles wings unto my selfe to serve me at this mount as was promised in Exod. 3. 12 and for ever so the Chaldee explaineth it to my service and Thargum Ierusalemy saith to the doctrine of my Law Vers. 5. my voice the voice of my Word saith Thargum Ierusalemy a peculiar treasure or jewell The Hebrew Segullah signifieth ones own proper good which he loveth and keepeth in store for himselfe and for speciall use 1 Chron. 29. 3. Eceles 2. 8. Here it is applyed to Gods Church and translated in Greeke a peculiar people which phrase Paul followeth in Tit. 2. 14. but Peter expresseth it by another word a people for peculiar possession 1 Pet. 2. 9. as the Greek version is in Mal. 3. 17. The Chaldee translateth it beloved so doe other Hebrews saying Segullah signifieth that they should be beloved before him as a desirable treasure which a king delivereth not into the hand of any of his officers but keepeth it himselfe And such is the case of Israel of whom it is said in Deut. 32. 9. For the Lords portion is his people c. R. Menachem on Exo. 19. This grace which the Apostles shew we have obtained by Christ is sundry times mentioned to the praise of God Deut. 7. 6. and 14. 2. and 26. 18. For Iah hath chosen Iakob unto himselfe Israel for his peculiar treasure Psal. 135 4. the earth with the plenty thereof is mine yet my delight is in you to love you and to chuse you and your seed above all peoples So Moses openeth this speech in Deut. 10. 14. 15. and other Prophets as Thou Israel art my servant Iakob whom I have chosen the seed of Abraham my friend Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth and called thee from the chiefe men thereof and said unto thee Thou art my servant c. Esay 41. 8. 9. Vers. 6. a kingdome of priests which the Apostle following the Greeke version calleth a kingly priesthood 1 Pet. 2. 9. The Chaldee saith ye shall be before mee kings priests and an holy people Such Christ hath made us unto God his father Rev. 1. 6. Kings to reigne on the earth Rev. 5. 10. and priests Mosser up spirituall sacrifices 1 Pet. 2. 5. Rom. 12. 1. Vers. 7. Elders by them to communicate these thing with the people see Exod. 3. 16. laid or proposed Hebrew put Vers. 8. together with one accord as the Greeke 〈…〉 laineth it and elsewhere Moses saith with one 〈◊〉 Exod. 24. 〈◊〉 The people not yet knowing the unpossibilitie of the law which is weak through the flesh Rom. 8. 3. make promise of more than they were able to performe After when the law 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they fea●e and flee away Exod. 〈◊〉 1● 1● And it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but either men not understanding the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 presume of their 〈◊〉 strength or understanding it doe despaire 〈…〉 e the grace of God in Christ doe sustaine 〈…〉 Rom. 7 9 10 24. 25. 〈…〉 〈…〉 in the thicke cloud Hebrew in the thicknesse of the cloud which the Greeke explaineth the pillar of the cloud the Ierusalemy Thargum expoundeth it my Word shall bee revealed unto thee in the thicke cloud in thee see Exodus 14. 31. This confidence in Moses the Iewes alwaies retained and said they were Moses disciples they knew that God spake with Moses Iohn 9. 28. 29. They write of him thus Moses our Master Israel beleevod not in him because of the signes which he did for hee that beleeveth because of signes there is in his heart a suspicion that the signe may possibly bee done by inchantment or sorcerie But all the signes which Moses did in the wildernesse hee did them upon necessity c. we needed food hee brought us downe Manna They were a thirst hee clave the rocke for them The congregation of Korah rebelled against him the earth swallowed them and so all other signes But wherefore beleeved we in him For that standing at mount Sinai which our owne eyes did see and not a stranger and our eares did heare and not another the