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A48431	The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.; Works. 1684	Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.; G. B. (George Bright), d. 1696.; Strype, John, 1643-1737.	1684 (1684)	Wing L2051; ESTC R16617	4,059,437	2,607

Evangelists Among themselves and with the OLD TESTAMENT The Third Part. FROM THE FIRST PASSOVER AFTER Our SAVIOURS Baptism To the SECOND With an Explanation of the Chiefest Difficulties both in LANGUAGE and SENSE By JOHN LIGHTFOOT D. D. LONDON Printed by W. R. for Robert Scott Thomas Basset John Wright and Richard Chiswell MDCLXXXII To my very much and very worthily Honoured Friend and Patron WILLIAM COTTON Esq of Bellaport in Salop. SIR I Have alwaies and that not without very just cause esteemed it one of the choicest advantages that ever accrewed to me that it was my hap and happiness at my first setting out into the Study of the Scriptures and Divinity to be settled in the house and to come under the tutorage and instructing of your Noble and Heroick Uncle Sir Rowland Cotton A Gentleman of so rare qualifications and respondent worth that let the word be without offence his Country and his times produced not a man beyond him and I wish the Nation and succeeding times may shew his equal With much care tenderness and condescension did he guide and lead on my studies in the same way that he himself had been trained in by that choice and incomparable Oracle of Learning Mr. Hugh Broughton under whose instillings he had been so seasoned with skill in the Hebrew Tongue and knowledge in the Scriptures that even a Child he spake and understood that language as it had been his Native and in grown years he proved so exact expedite and solid a textualist as few his equals He was alike transcendently singular in all accomplishments His activity of body experimented to be without its parallel in the Nation His hospitality generous unto the admiration of all that knew it and his wisdom equally to be admired that managed his estate so as to maintain such hospitality His Patriotship even till now fragrant in the memory of his Country whose heart he had and it had his His tenderness to his Tenants so fatherly that before his death he took care that all their leases should be renewed that they might be certainly provided for when he was gone His affection to and his provision for his servants may be exemplary as it was not ordinary for in one morning a little before his end he sealed nine or ten leases to them of handsom estates for their lives and that so freely that he also paid liberally for their ingrossing His activity of mind was sutable to the activity of his body for he was a stranger to no kind of learning singularly languaged both in the learned and in the Western Tongues and of so deep a judgment in all affairs that there was hardly any concernment occasion or imploiment in which he was not able to have given Counsel And that which crowned all so cordial and sincere was his integrity virtuousness and piety that a very few minutes before his expiring he breathed out this fragrant testimony of a good conscience in my hearing and to my great rejoycing Lord thou knowest that I have loved honesty virtue and goodness for it self Sir This radiant worth of your gallant Uncle as it was an attractive of the affections of all that knew him for he was a man wholly framed to deserve men and to gain hearts so is it a most fair beauteous and sublime pattern and copy set before you to write after and I have spoken thus much the rather not as if I would inform you of him what you knew not before but because I know you delight to look upon his example and to hear the sounding of his name and virtues not only for his honor but also for your own imitation of him And daily may his example of worth and nobleness provoke your emulation and striving after that you may be his heir every way namely of his virtues as of his inheritance Besides this accomplisht bravery of his in himself which was enough to challenge esteem from any one that knew what worth was he laid such doubled and redoubled obligations upon me by the tender affection respect and favour that he shewed towards me as have left so indelible an impression upon my heart of honour to his dear name and observance to his house of Bellaport that length of time may not wear it out nor distance of place ever cause me to forget it I might relate particulars of his kindness but when I have said all I can I shall speak too little As it is my rejoycing to have seen and heard what I have done of your care to lay his Copy before you for your imitation and your desire to tread in his steps so have I cause to acknowledge with thankfulness your writing after that Copy in your favours expressed towards me even as he did before you And as I stand in an hereditary obligation to your Family for his sake so have I found an hereditary affection from your self which doth double my obligation and pleadeth your claim also It is my unhappiness that my tenuity is able to make no better a return for what I have received than this poor paper Monument and Memorial which I have presumed to devote to your name and betake to your patronage that you might have this token of my gratitude and observance laid up with you and by the perusal of it I might though remote and out of sight yet sometime obtain the turning of your thoughts and remembrances towards SIR Your most cordial and humble Servant Iohn Lightfoote Much-Mundon in Hertfordsh Jan. 28. 1649 50. To the READER IT was my promise in the Preface to The first Part of the Harmony of the Evangelists that at the Publishing of the third I would also set forth A Chorographical Description of the Land of Canaan and those adjoining places that we have occasion to look upon as we read the Gospels which task I undertook accordingly when I began the working up of this third part which is now published and spent very much time and pains upon it though it hath not found the hap to come forth with this part as was my promise My design was and I had made some reasonable progress upon it to have described the Land of Israel in a way something new indeed and untrodden and I believe unattempted and so much the more difficult because it was so but yet which I supposed might be of very good use and advantage for the fuller understanding of the situation and story of that Land In reading of the two Talmuds and other of the Iewish Authors of the greatest Antiquity I have observed and that not without much delight and content that as to the subject that we are speaking of namely the description of the Land of Canaan these things may be picked up out of them dispersedly in their writings to very good profit 1. In exceeding many passages when they come to speak of places of the land that are mentioned in the Scripture they either describe them or shew their situation

always had a considerable influence upon the manners of Men Great Examples do work more powerfully than the most subtle Reasonings and the most Elaborate Arts of Perswasion For though Men are generally shye of an Eloquent and Witty Man and apt to suspect an Artifice where they discern a piercing Wit and a ready Invention and consequently are little bettered by the strongest Arguments of Perswasion but go on in a course of Vice and Sloth in spight of all endeavours to reclaim them yet there is something in a good Example which does more powerfully charm them Here is a certain force not easily eluded This confirms the Truth of what we should not without it so firmly have believed Besides it does after the most lively manner represent Vertue and Goodness to us and its Desirableness and its Beauties in the most sensible and familiar way that we can desire A great Example does also convince us That it is a possible thing to do Vertuously and that our excuses are but pretexts and covers to our Sloth and Laziness Hence it is that as the Death of a vertuous and good Man is a great loss to the Community so the preservation of his Memory and representing his Example to those who survive him doth greatly advance the Publick good Many excellent Persons have passed through the World with little observation They have affected privacy and avoided crowds and shunned Publick notice Their Modesty hath been as great as their other Vertues and many others who could not be concealed while they lived have yet been soon forgotten after their decease for want of some to do them right in transmitting their memory to posterity Upon these considerations and upon no other whatsoever I have undertaken to give the World some small account of our Reverend and very Learned Author I Sincerely declare I had much rather it had been done by any other hand For besides my want of time and leisure and of many other helps needful for such a Work which I could plead for my excuse I might justly have expected that this should have been done by some one who upon all accounts was better provided for it Our Author John Lightfoot D. D. was born in the Rector's House of Stoke upon Trent in the County of Stafford on the 29th day of March being Tuesday Anno Domini 1602. As for this time of his birth I find it under his own Hand in one of his Academical Exercises which he performed being Vice-Chancellor in the stead of Dr. Arrow-Smith Publick Divinity Professor and Master of Trinity College in Cambridge who was at that time Sick He tells us there That that Doctor and Himself were born in the same year on the same day above named and almost in the same hour that Doctor near New-Castle upon Tine in Northumberland Himself near New-Castle under Line in the County of Stafford For which he had a very dear affection calling it in one of his Epistles his Mother the Mother of his birth and the Mother of his dearest interests And in another most passionately and most elegantly lamenting her under the miseries that the Civil Wars had brought upon her He was the Son of Mr. Thomas Lightfoot Vicar of Uttoxetar in the County of Stafford A man not to be named without a preface of honour and respect He was born in a little Village called Shelton in the Parish of Stoke above named He was a Man of exemplary Piety and of an industry indefatigable and one of the greatest examples of this last Age for his constant care of those Souls which were committed to his Charge This he shewed by his constant Preaching and diligent Instructing and Catechizing the Youth of his Parish which his Preaching did not excuse him from He was a burning and shining light and shewed his love to his great Lord and Master by the unwearied care of his Sheep He was in Holy Orders six and fifty years and thirty six years Vicar of Uttoxetar above named Died July 21. Anno Domini 1658. and in the eighty first year of his age Our Authors Mother was Mrs Elizabeth Bagnall a Gentlewoman of a very good Family Three of which Family were made Knights by Queen Elizabeth for their martial Prowess and Valour in the then Wars in Ireland against the Rebels She was a Woman of exemplary Piety and died Jan. 24. Anno Domini 1636. at the age of seventy and one Our Author when he was fit to be sent to a Grammar School was committed to the care of Mr. Whitehead School-Master at Morton-Green near Congerton in the County Palatine of Chester There he continued till June Anno Domini 1617. And thence he was sent to Christ College in Cambridge where he was admitted under the Tuition of the very Learned and Pious Mr. William Chappel then Fellow of that House and afterwards Doctor in Divinity and Master of Trinity College in Dublin and lastly Lord Bishop of Cork in Ireland While he continued in Christ College he gave great proofs of a pregnant Wit and great proficiency in his Studies His Tutor told some of the Heads of the University at that time that he had a young Pupil meaning Lightfoot whom he thought the best Orator of all the Undergraduates in the Town He made an extraordinary proficiency in his Studies during his stay in that place especially in the Latine and Greek Tongues For the Hebrew Tongue he neglected it there and lost that skill in it which he brought thither And for Logick he could by no means fancy that contentious and quarrelsom study it being very disagreeable to the quiet genius of this young Student He could not be so happy as to stay any longer in that learned Society than till such time as he was Bachelor of Arts. After this he was admitted as an assistant to his former Master Mr. Whitehead who was then Master of a famous School at Repton in the County of Darby where he continued a year or two and made great improvement in the Greek Tongue His conversation there was as pleasing to the Master as his mildness was acceptable to the Boys who were under his trust Sometime after this he entred into Holy Orders and the first place of his settlement after this was at Norton under Hales in the County of Salop This was near to Bellaport in the same County which was the Mansion House of the very Learned and Worthy Sir Rowland Cotton Knight who was his constant hearer then his Patron afterwards and his faithful friend whiles he lived This Sir Rowland Cotton was a Man of very singular learning He was the Son of Mr. William Cotton Citizen and Draper of London He had great skill in the Hebrew Tongue by the early instructions of Mr. Hugh Broughton who often lodged and for some considerable time resided at his Fathers House There were few places in the Hebrew Bible which he was not able readily to read and render into English when he was but seven or eight