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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48433	An handfull of gleanings out of the Book of Exodus probable solution of some of the mainest scruples, and explanation of the hardest places of that Booke ... / by John Lightfoot ...	Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.	1643 (1643)	Wing L2055; ESTC R21590	43,133	64

upon us and without our doing And therefore this cannot be Jehovah for he would not plague his owne people but this is done by the finger of El●●im the great deity and the Jehovah of the Hebrewes is a God of no value SECT. XIIII The Plague of Boyles Exod. 9. 9. Two contrary Plagues in one MOses and A●ron must take their handfuls of ashes out of the Furnace that whence Israel had had their sore affliction Egypt might receive their corporall punishment Moses is to scatter the foure handfals into the aire towards the foure quarters of heaven hereupon a double miracle followed 1. That so little or few as●es were multiplied so as to flie throughout all the Land of Aegyp● and to light upon every man and beast in it 2. That lighting on them it was a Plague to them in their bodies As the Miracle was double so was the Plague 1. The Ashes became She●in that is a burning itch or an inflamed Scab for so the word signifieth as is plaine Job 2. 7 8. where the holy mans body is strucke with Shehin such an intolerable dry hot itch that his nayles would not serve to scratch enough but he is glad to get a potsheard to skrub himselfe 2. This Itch had also blaines and boiles brok● out with it and so Iobs had not so that the Aegyptians were vexed at once with intollerable itch and intolerable ach Their itch called upon them to scratch and skrub and yet they could not doe so for the sorenesse and aching of their boiles In the five preceding Plagues the obduration of Pharaohs heart is attributed to himselfe in these five forward it is attributed to God And justly when being punished for his sinnes he hardeneth his heart so many times is his heart hardned so many times that he sinneth for a punishment SECT. XV The Plague of darknesse Exod. 10. Why first named Psal. 105. 28. AS the men of the old world of Sodom and the Jewes at the death of Christ were strucke with darkenesse before they entred into utter darkenesse so it is with the Aegyptians here This Plague lay upon them three dayes namely the eleventh twelfth and thirteenth dayes of the moneth Nisan For upon the conclusion of the darkenesse Moses being sent for to Pharaoh giveth him such distast that he chargeth him never to come into his presence againe which Moses saith he will not do I will see thy face again no more but before he goeth out of the presence he giveth him warning concerning the slaughter of the first borne to bee that night Chap. 11. Vers. 4. by which it is cleare that the darkenesse ended on the Passeover day in the morning Quest Why then seeing it was the ninth plague in number hath Psal. 105. set it first Answ. Because it was the most terrible of all the Plagues that came upon them For those that had gone before had plagued onely their land or cattle or bodies that that came after light not upon all but onely on the first borne but this is a Plague even to the very mind and conscience and universally so to them all It was not their sitting in darkenesse and not stirring about their businesse for three dayes together that plagued them so much for this had beene no great ●orment but their torture was that in this darkenesse they saw fearefull apparitions of Fiends and Devills and horrible visions which so hideously affrighted and even distracted them that they were as it were in Hell already For observe that Pharaoh that had beene nothing at all moved in a manner with all the plagues that went before is so stirred with this that hee sends for Moses as soone as ever the darkenesse is over and permits him to depart Exod. 10. 24. which meere sitting in darkenesse could not have wrought him to but those terrors which he saw in the darke Hence it is that Psal. 78. 49. nameth not the plague of darkenesse by its name but in the place where it should come hee mentioneth that which was the very quintessence of it Hee cast upon them the fiercenesse of his anger wrath and indignation and trouble by sending evill Angels among them SECT. XVI Israel circumcised in the three dayes darkenesse He sent darkenesse and made it darke and they rebelled not against his word Psal. 105. 28. THis latter clause they rebelled not against his word is to be understood of Israel who in this plague of darkenesse performed some speciall part of obedience And that upon inquiry will be found to be their undergoing of circumcision For they had followed the Idols of Aegypt and in Idolatry were become like the Aegyptians so were they also in uncircumcision For when Joshuah had circumcised them at their entrance into Canaan hee saith I have rolled away from you the reproch of Aegypt Josh. 5. 9. or that wherein y●e were like unto the Aegyptians uncircumcised to your reproach But when God ordaineth the Passeover he giveth charge for circumcision for no uncircumcised person must eate thereof Exod. 12. 48. Then was required a generall circumcision of all the people or at least of the most of them for all were uncircumcised unlesse it was some few that were more constant to the Covenant of their God And that there was a generall Circumcision in Aegypt is inferred in the forenamed place Joshu 5. where God commandeth Joshua to Circumcise the people a second time which inferreth that there was a first time when they were circumcised with a generall Circumcision as they were that second time But in Aegypt must this first Circumcision be for the Text in that very place telleth that in the Wildernesse there was no Circumcision at all Whilst then Israel sate sore of their Circumcision God closeth up Aegypt in three dayes darkenesse and in horrour that they might not take the opportunitie against his people SECT. XVII The beginning of the yeare changed Exod. 12. 1. THe world from her creation hitherto had begun her yeares in Tisri or September which was the time of the yeare when she was created This will easily bee shewed against those that maintaine the world did begin in March by these reasons 1. From Exod. 23. 16. The feast of in gathering in the end of the yeare 2. From Ioel 2. 23. The latter raine in the first moneth 3. Had Adam beene created in March hee had had no fruits ripe for his food but in Autumne they were ready for him 4. Should the moneths before the passeover be reckoned to begin from March it will follow that the generall deluge increased in the heate of Summer and abated and dried up in the deepe and moist of Winter 5. Had the yeare begun from March from the beginning it had had been unnecessary to have commanded them to begin it thence who never knew where to begin it else From the creation then the yeares began from September but here upon a worke greater in figure as which represented the redemption by Christ the