and dwels in 1 Tim. 6. 16. an unaccessible light that Moses in his mortality saw not perfectly yet we piously believe that the Son of God taking on him the shape of a man as he was afterwards to be incarnate did speak with Moses familiarly 131. Num. 14. 1. All the people with a loud voice murmured against Moses Vers 23. They shall not see the Land of promise except Caleb Josh 14. 1. The children of Israel possessed the land of Canaan which Eleazar the Priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the Fathers distributed to them Ch. 24. 7. Whose eyes saw what the Lord had done in Egypt Eleazar and Caleb and other faithfull people came into the Land of promise but those 1 Cor. 10. 5. that murmured were destroyed in the wildernesse for with many of them God was not well pleased 132. Num. 15. 38. Speak to the children of Israel that they make themselves fringes in the borders of their garments Mat. 23. 5. Christ condemns the Pharisees for enlarging their phylacteries and their borders The abuse of a thing doth not take away the use of it God commanded the Israelites that so often as they should look upon their garments they should remember the Commandements of God and do them But the Pharisees abused this commandement of God boasting hypocritically of their long garments and fringes as though there had been some holinesse in them therefore their hypocrisie is deservedly reprehended 133. Num. 16. 32. The earth opening her mouth devoured them all which belonged to Corah with their houses and substance Deut. 11. 6. Psal 106. 17. 26. 32. When Corah perished all his sons perished not The sons of Corah which escaped alive were in the Tabernacle of the Lord when the sedition began because they consented not to the Levites in the sedition of their Father 134. Num. 18. 16. The redemption of the first-born shall be from a moneth old for five shekels after the shekell of the Sanctuary Exod. 22. 30. Thou shalt give me thy first-born and with Sheep and Oxen thou shalt do the like seven dayes it shall be with the dam on the eight thou shalt give it me The first born of Man and of clean beasts were consecrated unto God the eighth day but the unclean beasts were redeemed after one month A woman after she brought sorch a male child must stay apart six weeks after a female twelve weeks in that time they were purged from their issue of bloud 135. Num. 18. 20. God said unto Aaron Thou shalt have no inheritance in the Land neither shalt thou have any part amongst the Israelites I am thy part Josh 21. 41. The 48. Cities of the Levites were within the possessions of the children of Israel The Levites had their habitation and food in those Cities with their families which Cities were as Schooles wherein they were instructed rightly in the Law and to performe their office in holy things as they should 136. Num. 20. 11. At the stroak of Moses on the rock of flint the waters came out abundantly and the congregation drank and their beasts also Psal 18. 1. 1 Cor. 10. 4. They all dranke the same spirituall drink for they dranke of that spirituall Rock which followed them and that rock was Christ Moses relates historically the water that came out of the flint for the use of the people and their Cattle The Apostle speaks after a spirituall manner and saith that Christs benefits to us were prefigured thereby 137. Num. 20. 18 21. Edom would not suffer the Israelites to passe through the Land Deut. 2. 29. Let me passe through thy Land as the children of Esau did unto me The children of Esau denied to let the children Jud. 11. 18 of Israel passe through the publick way through their Cities and Villages the King of Edom suffered them to passe about by his borders and through by-wayes 138. Num. 20. 28. Eleazar the high Priest was present at his fathers death Lev. 21. 11. The high Priest shall not go in to any dead body nor defile himselfe for his Father or his Mother Eleazar was not yet the high Priest actually and this was a singular example Augustine That time that the high Priest did his office of high Priest it was forbidden him that he should not come to his Parents being dead 139. Num. 21. 9. Moses made a Serpent of brasse and put it up for a signe and when they that were bitten beheld it they were healed Exod. 20. 4. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any likenesse of any thing in heaven or earth God gave an especiall command of setting up the brasen Serpent like to the fiery Serpents whose wounds and bites the Israelites could not endure that so looking on this they might be safe it was a figure of Christ crucified 140. Num. 22. 12. God said to Balaam Thou shalt not go with them Vers 20. Rise and go with them Vers 35. Go with the men God would not that Balaam should go to curse the Israelites at last he suffered him to go though he were displeased at it yet on this condition that he should speak nothing then what God commanded him 141. Num. 23. 10. Balaam prophesied to his owne disgrace 1 Cor. 12. 7. To every man the manifestation of the Spirit is given to profit withall The gift of Prophesie was not hurtfull to Balaam in respect of God that gave it him had he used it well but Baalam abused it False prophets also speak truth Joh. 11. 51. as Caiaphas did though it be against their will 142. Num. 25. 3. Israel joyned himself to Baal-poor and God was angry with Israel 1 Cor. 10. 8. Neither let us commit fornication as some of them committed Since Idolatry is spirituall fornication Lyra. Paul makes mention of it for the daughters of Moab would not admit the Israelites before they had eaten things offered to Idols 143. Num. 25. 9. There died of the plague 24000. 1 Cor. 10. 8. They fell in one day 23000. Moses collects the number of those which fell by sword and strangling but the Apostle counts onely those that fell by the sword 144. Num. 27. 12. Go up into mount Abarim and see the land Deut. 34. 1. Moses went up to mount Nebo to the top of Pisgah c. Abarim was the mountain but Nebo and Pisgah were the tops of that mountain so they differ but as a part from the whole 145. Num. 27. 21. The Priest shall aske counsell for him after the judgement of Vrim 1 Sam. 30. 8. And Abiathar brought to David the Ephod and he enquired at the Lord. The Ephod was properly belonging to the high Priest common to all sacrificing Priests which David made use of extraordinarily and was inspired by God with a propheticall spirit 146. Num. 31. 18. But all maids that have not known a man keep alive for your selves 1 Sam. 15. 3. Slay both man woman and infant
because God is the revenger of all these things for all deceit is openly condemned in the word of God 66. Gen. 27. 28. God give thee of the dew of heaven and of the fatnesse of the earth and plenty of corn and wine Chap. 42. 2. Jacob for want of provision sent his sons into Egypt to buy corne Deficiency and temporall want doth not diminish the divine blessing and force of the promise As travelling did not hinder Abraham so Jacob did not lose the fruit of his Fathers blessing 67. Gen. 27. 38. Esan list up his voiee and wept Esa 12. 17. Esau found no place of repentance Esaus repentance was not true but hypocriticall for he did not aknowledge his sin but was sorry for his losse and would have killed his brother Nor could he by his tears move his Father to repent of the blessing given to Jacob. 68. Gen. 32. 3. 33. 14. Esau lived before Jacobs return in the Land of Seir. Chap. 36. 6. Esau took all that he had got in the Land of Canaan and went unto Seir from the face of his brother Jacob. Esau saith August after that his brother was departed to Mesopotamia would not live with his parents whether by reason of that commotion that he grieved that he was deceived of the blessing of his Father or whether it were by reason of his wives which he saw were hatefull to his parents or whatsoever the cause was and he began to live in the mountain of Seir then after that Jacob was returned peace being made betwixt them he went back to his Parents and when they both together had buried their Father he went again to Seir and there he propagated the Nation of the Idumaeans 69. Gen. 32. 30. I have seen God face to face saith Jacob. Exod. 33. 20. No man can see my face and live It was the common opinion of the Antients that if any man should see the face of God he must die the death so Gideon Manoah and the Israelites feared their lives but Jacob here Abraham Chap. 18. Isaiah Chap. 6. Daniel Chap. 7. by Joh. 1. 18. their example confute that opinion for they saw God face to face that is the glory of God was manifest to them but the essence and nature of Gods face no mortall man can see nor ever did see 70. Gen. 33. 19. Jacob bought a parcell of a field at the hand of the children of Hamor Shechems father Chap. 23. 16. Abraham bought the field with the cave of Ephron the Hittite Abraham bought the possession of the Cave with the ground about it for the buriall of the dead Jacob bought the greater part of the field to dwell there where he pitched his tents In the cave that Abraham bought was Sarah buried Gen. 30. 13. Chap. 48. Josh 24. 32. and he himself also Isaac and Jacob. But in the field that Jacob bought and gave to his son Joseph were Josephs bones buried brought thither out of Egypt 71. Gen. 33. 19. Jacob bought a parcell of a field where he had spread his Tents Chap. 23. 16. Abraham paid the money for the Cave and the borders round about Act. 7. 5. And he gave him no inheritance in it no not so much as to set his foot on The Patriarchs would not possesse themselves of the Land of promise before the time whose patrimony was not bought with mony but as we find it Act. 7. God gave it freely to their posterity 72. Gen. 42. 15. By the life of Pharaoh Mat. 34. Swear not at all Joseph sweareth not but he confirmeth his Deut 30. 19. 2 Cor. 1. 23. words by speaking after the usuall manner that the Egyptians did So Moses calleth the heaven and the earth and Paul calleth God to witnesse upon his soul Christ by the Evangelist forbids all vain and unnecessary oaths and forbids perjury 73. Gen. 46. 4. I will goe down with thee into Egypt and I will also surely bring thee up again Chap. 49. 33. Jacob died in Egypt Gen. 50. 13. Jacob returned out of Egypt in his posterity and his body also after his death was brought into the land of Canaan and buryed there 74. Gen. 46. 21. The tenne sonnes of Benjamin Chap. 44. 20. He was a childe a little one Jacob gave a wife to his youngest son Benjamin Dom. Mart. Luth. that Rachel might have seed by him and whilst God by a singular blessing gave him so many sons by that means he pacified Jacobs sorrow for Joseph 75. Gen. 46. 34. Every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians Chap. 47. 6. If thou knowest any men of activity amongst them then make them rulers over my cattle The Egyptians hated the shepherds of the Hebrewes not for their cattell but for their circumcision and religion because they sacrificed those things which the Egyptians worshipped for Gods 76. Gen. 47. 31. And Israel bowed himself upon his beds head Heb. 11. 21. Worshipped leaning upon the top of his staffe Jacob being lifted up at the head of his bed bowed himself upon the top of his staf and so worshipping God left an example of piety behind him to his children 77. Gen. 49. 10. The Scepter shall not depart from Judah not a lawgiver from between his feet untill Shiloh come 1 Sam. 10. 1. The Scepter was before David in the tribe of Benjamin Luk. 2. 1. And when Christ was born it was with Augustus Caesar The supreme power over the Jewes was in Moses and Joshua their leaders then in the Judges unto Saul under the Kings to the captivity of Babylon under the Priests untill Herod Now the accompishment of this Prophefie began not in the time it was pronounced but from the time the Kingly Government was confirmed in the tribe of Judah and the Princes of that tribe were in the Sanhedrim untill Christ came it was at last abolished by Herod 78. Gen. 49. 28. Jacob blessed all his sons with their proper benedictions Vers 7. Jacob cursed Simeon and Levi. That is he blessed them all in Christ but he foreshewed to every one of them blessings or cursings as the Holy Ghost inspired him EXODUS THis Book hath its name from going out for here is described the going forth of the Children of Israel out of Egypt the promulgation of the morall Law and the ceremoniall and judiciall in the wildernesse the raising of the Tabernacle with all things belonging to it It contains a History of 114 yeares 79. Exod. 1. 5. And all the sons that came out of the loynes of Jacob were 70 souls Gen. 46. 26. All the souls which came into Egypt with Jacob were 66. Act. 7. 14. Joseph called his father Jacob and his kindred 75 souls that went down into Egypt There descended with Jacob into Egypt the souls which came out of his thighs 66. if you adde to these Jacob and Joseph and his two sons they make 70. Stephen adds the four wives of Jacob and the two sons of Judah which were
dead excepting Jacob his whole family make 75 souls in number 80. Exod. 1. 19. The Midwives lyed to Pharaoh and God blessed them Chap. 3. 18. 5. 3. Moses said We will goe three dayes journey into the wildernesse and sacrifice unto the Lord our God Zach. 8. 16. Speak every one truth to his neighbour It is not certain whether the Midwives did 1 Pet. 21. lie or not it might be the Hebrew women were delivered before they came at them and God blessed the Midwives not for lying but because they feared him Moses spake the words of God unto Pharaoh and God is the God of truth 81. Exod. 2. 3. Moses was laid by the river in an arke of bulrushes Heb. 11. 23. Moses parents feared not the Kings commandement It is certain that the Hebrew parents feared God more then Pharaoh nor did they doubt in exposing of Moses but that God would deliver him 82. Exod. 2. 15. Moses feared and fled from the face of Pharaoh Heb. 11. 27. He feared not the wrath of the King Moses feared for killing the Egyptian whilst Pharaoh sought to slay him therefore he fled into the Land of Madian But upon his return when God sent him to Pharaoh he despised his threatnings being secure from all danger 83. Exod. 4. 21. 7. 3. 10. 27. 11. 10. But I will harden Pharaohs heart Chap. 8. 15. 8. 32. Pharaoh hardned his heart and was hardned c. God hardens permissively not effectively Ezeck 18. 23. 33. 11. Cont. Faust by no antecedent will for he will not the death of a sinner but by a consequent will when he punisheth by just judgment and useth evill to a good end Satan saith Augustine hardens by perswading Man by consenting God by forsaking 84. Exod. 4. 24. Moses had his wife with him in his journey Chap. 8. 5. And Jethro Moses Father in law came with his wife and his sons unto Moses Moses sent his wife Zipporah back to her father and then afterwards received her with her children brought unto him by his father in law 85. Exod. 5. 2. Who is the Lord that I should obey his voice and let Israel go I know not the Lord c. Rom. 1. 21. The Nations knew God and his power so that they are inexcusable Pharaoh was ignorant who Jehovah the God of Israel was nor had he a true knowledge of the true God that he might serve him onely 86. Exod. 7. 20 21. All the waters in Egypt were turned into bloud Vers 22. And the Magicians of Egypt did so with their inchantments when they came to the water That which the Magicians did with water digged out of the earth seemed to be the like for they are no true miracles of God which are done by the help of the Devill 87. Exod. 9. 16. And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up for to shew in thee my power and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth Rom. 3. 8. We must not do evill that good may come of it The hardning of Pharaoh was a punishment of his former sins and of his tyranny shewed over the Israelites and this God directed for a good end that in Pharaoh his power glory and justice might appear 88. Exod. 9. 29. Moses prayed for Pharaoh that the plagues may cease 1 Joh. 3. 4. 5. 16. We must not pray for any that sinne unto death Moses prayed not for Pharaoh but for the taking away of the plagues farther to declare the power of God and to overcome the wickednesse and obstinacy of Pharaohs tyrannicall heart 89. Exod. 11. 5. And all the first born in the Land of Egypt shall die Chap. 12. 30. There was not a house where there was not one dead We must understand here not only the first-born by birth but such as were so by authority for it was so ordered by divine providence that there was a first born found in every house 90. Exod. 12. 36. The Israelires spoyled the Egyptians by borrowing of them Psal 37. 21. The wicked borroweth and payeth not again The Israelites had Gods speciall command for it to spoile the ingratefull Egyptians whom they had served for many years for no Gen. 15. 14. wages God foretold this to Abraham that his posterity should come out of slavery with great wealth 91. Exod. 14. 15. And the Egyptians which you have seen to day you shall see them again no more forever Vers 30. And Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shoar In the former place he means the Egyptians alive following the Israelites which afterwards the Israelites saw choked in the waters and cast dead upon the seashoar 92. Exod. 20. 5. I am the Lord thy God a jealous God visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation Deut. 24. 16. Ezek. 18. 20. The son shall not bear the Fathers iniquity God visits the fathers sins upon the children if they walk in the way of their fathers that is on them that hate him but it is otherwise if the children repent Also God punisheth the iniquities of the fathers upon the children with temporall punishments not with eternall unlesse they follow the footsteps of their wicked fathers 93. Exod. 20. 8. Remember thou keep holy the Sabbath day Deut. 5. 12. Mat. 12. 5. On the Sabbath days the Priests in the Temple profane the Sabbath day and are blamelesse Legall ceremonies and their externall observations give place to charity and necessity morall duties are preferred before ceremonials God forbad those works which hinder his worship but Christ defends his Disciples plucking ears of corn on the Sabbath day against the Pharisee by the example of David and of the Priests killing sacrifices on the Sabbath day pulling off their hides and washing of them 94. Exod. 20. 12. Honour thy father and mother Luk. 14. 26. If any man come to me and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters yea and his own life also he cannot be may disciple Christ forbids not the honour due to parents Mat. 10. 37 but he saith He that loves them more then me is not worthy of me for all things must be forsaken and hated too so far as they hinder our love of God and Christ for all things must give place to the love of God and that takes not away our duty or due honour to our parents 95. Exod. 20. 12. Honour thy Father Matth. 23. 9. Call no man Father upon the earth Christ forbids not children to honour their 2 King 2. 1 Chron. 4. parents or the hearers to honour the Preachers for Paul cals himself the father of the Corinthians but he forbids us to depend on humane authority in divine matters but we must depend on one God and have a filial confidence in him 96. Exod. 20. 13. Thou shalt not kill Mat. 5. 21. 18. 9. If thy eye hand foot
The sin of the Midianites was not so horrible as that of the Amalekites and we though we know not the cause of Gods commands yet must we say Righteous art thou O Lord and just are thy judgments 147. Num. 32. 16 17. Reuben and Gad and the half tribe of Manasse went armed to battel before the children of Israel Josh 22. 8. Divide the spoile of the enemies with your brethren that is to those that staid at home The strong and fighting men went with the Israelites but those that were weak and unfit for war staid at home who took the charge to look to the Cities and manuring of the fields 148. Num. 33. 54. Divide the Land by lot amongst you Deut. 18. 12. Lots are forbidden Lots were ordained of God which are used according to Gods commandment and the land of Canaan was divided by the lawfull use of them Matthias was chosen to be Josh 14. 2. Act. 1. 26. an Apostle so every man must be contented with his own lot they are unlawfull and prohibited which are used in sports and playes 149. Num. 34. 17. Eleazar the Priest and Joshua shall divide the Land unto you Luk. 12. 13. Christ would not divide the Inheritance An office which is Ecclesiasticall is distinguished from a secular office in the dividing of the land Eleazar the Priest for his authority was joyned to Joshua the Prince that all things might proceed in right order and the tribe of Levi might be well provided for a place to dwell in from every tribe DEUTERONOMIE THat is the second Law Moses repeats here the ceremoniall and judiciall Lawes spoken before in Exodus and Leviticus ch 34. to the end from vers 5. Joshua fulfilled them after the death of Moses 150. Deut. 1. 16. Judge righteously Mat. 7. 1. Judge not at all Judgements appointed by God in the Church or Common-wealth are lawfull but Christ forbides disorderly and rash judgements that no man should suddenly or falsly passe sentence on his neighbours words or deeds 151. Deut. 2. 5. I will not give you in the land of Esau so much as a foots breadth Psal 60. 8. Over Edom will I cast out my shooe The Israelites going into the Land of 2 Chron. 10. Canaan through the Land of the Edomites were not to offend them because the time to bring them into subjection was not yet full but they were made tributaries under David nor was the land of Idumea given to the Israelites as the land of Canaan was 152. Deut. 2. 19. I will not give to thee of the land of the children of Ammon Josh 13. 24. Moses gave to the tribe of Gad the one halfe of the land of Ammon The Ammonites held the land which they possessed in the dayes of Moses the other part of the Country formerly possessed by Sihon was distributed to the Israelites 153. Deut. 4. 10 11. The Israelites stood before the Lord God in Horeb. Exod. 29. 11. The Table of the Law were given in Mount Sinai Mount Horeb was called otherwise Mount Sinai or the toppe of the pinacle of the Mount 154. Deut. 6. 3. 10. 20. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God and him onely shalt thou serve Col. 3. 23. Exod. 6. 5. Servants obey in all things your Masters according to the flesh with fear God must be feared above all things and he must be first served masters according to the flesh must be obeyed for his sake and in respect to his commandement 155. Deut. 6. 13. Thou shalt swear by the name of the Lord. Mat. 5 34. Swear not at all That oath is lawfull when we give testimony Aug. Epist 154. to the truth in the name of God the Magistrate and necessity requiring that of us such an oath Christ condemns not but vain and unnecessary oathes and such as are made by the creatures and he saith so not because it is sin to swear the truth but perjury is a horrid sin 156. Deut. 6. 16. Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God Jam. 1. 13. God cannot be tempted with evill Divine temptations are for tryal but men do tempt God when they aske such things of him that are not according to his will Exod. 17. 8. Psal 9. 2. Mat. 12. 39. Diabolicall temptations are to seduce us he tempts good men to turn them from what is good wicked men to keep them still in their wickednesse 157. Deut. 10. 17. The Lord your God is God of Gods and Lord of Eords Chap. 32. 39. I am God alone and there is no God besides me Many in the world are worshipped which are false Gods but there is but one great and true God in essence by whom only we can be saved 158. Deut. 10. 27. God regardeth not persons nor takes rewards Gen. 4. 4. God had respect to Abel and to his offering Oblations and gifts are various God accepts those things he commands to be offered to him for Christs sake to whom those that offer must have respect by faith as to the only offering c. 159. Deut. 11. 25. No man shall stand against you Jud. 1. 34. The Amorites forced the children of Dan into the Mountains That promise held only for that time till the Israelites had gotten the Land of Canaan and continued in piety and the true fear of God 160. Deut. 13. 5. A prophet of false dreams shall be put to death Tit. 3. 10. An heretick after the first and second admonition reject In the old Testament God commanded to Mat. 13. 30. kill the false Prophets In the new Christ saith Let the tares grow unto the harvest The Apostolicall rejection of an Heretick is part of excommunication and spirituall death which hinders not the Magistrate that he should take cognisance of Hereticks to punish them 161. Deut. 15. 3. Of a forainer thou mayest expect thy money again Psal 37. 21. 112. 5. Prov. 11. 24. Luk. 6. 35. Lend looking for nothing again A modest demand of a debt may be lawfull according to the contracts of buying and selling Christ speaks of the poor and saith that we must deal brotherly with them that if they have not wherewith to pay we should forgive them their debts out of Christian charity 162. Deut. 16. 8. Six dayes Exod. 13. 6. Seaven dayes shalt thou eat leavened bread The seventh day of the feast was no lesse solemn then the first 163. Deut. 17. 17. The King shall not have many wives 1 King 11. 3. King Solomon had 700 Wives and 300. Concubines God forbad that the King should have many wives lest his heart should forsake the true God and run after strange gods as Solomons did loving many strange women and fell into so great lust by following them that forsaking the true God he set up many Idols of the Gentiles 164. Deut. 17. 17. The King shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold 1 King 3. 13. God gave to Solomon riches and honour Kings must not for their pride heap up
gathered together all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin Rehoboam had but one whole Tribe and Jeroboam ten tribes the tribe of Benjamin was divided between them both Some others also of other tribes that were godly men specially the Priests and Levites came to Jerusalem and staid in Judea 249. 1 King 12. 24. This thing is from me 2 Sam. 7. 16. Psal 142. 12. saith the Lord that is the revolting of the Israelites 2 Chron. 13. 5. The Lord God gave the Kingdome of David over Israel to him and his sons by a Covenant of salt The promise made to David doth not much concern his temporall kingdome as the eternall and incorruptible kingdome of Christ and the promise also was under a condition if his children should keep Gods laws and walke in his wayes 1 King 2. 4. 250. 1 King 15. 14. Asa took not away the high places 2 Chron. 14. 5. Also he took out of all the Cities of Judah the high places and the Images Those high places where God was worshipped Asa took not away but he destroyed the Idols of the Gentiles and the Images of the Sun 251. 1 King 16. 8. In the 26 year of Asa King of Judah began Ela the son of Basa to reign over Israel in Tersa two years Vers 10. And Zimri went and smote Ela in the 27 year of Asah King of Judah In the 26 yeare of Asah King of Judah Ela reigned over Israel in the 27 year of Asa Zimri rebelled against Elah and killing him took the kingdome from him 252. 1 King 17. 4. God commands the Ravens to feed Elias Lev. 11. 15. Every kind of Raven was abominable to God A Raven indeed is an unclean creature not by creation but by divine ordination and the forbidding men to eat his flesh but to touch the Raven alive or to eat the meat he brought was not unclean to Elias nor an abomination before God 253. 1 King 17. 22. Elias raised the son of the Widow of Sarepta 2 King 4. 18. Elizaeus raiseth the Shunamites childe Joh. 5. 28. God quickneth the dead God raiseth the dead by his own power the Prophets did it not by their own power but by power from him and so confirmed the heavenly doctrine 254. 1 King 19. 11. The Lord was not in the wind or the tempest Ephes 4. 6. God is all in all God did not reveal his presence to Elias in Act. 12. 21. the wind or tempest though he be otherwise in all his creatures 255. 1 King 22. 49. Ahasias the son of Ahab said unto Jehosaphat Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships but Jehosaphat would not 2 Chron. 20. 35. Jehosaphat joyned himself with Ahasias King of Israel to make ships to goe to Tarsis Jehosaphat first refused the friendship of Ahazias but at length he granted 256. 2 King 1. 10. Elias consumed two fifties with fire Luk. 9. 54. Christ forbad his disciples to doe so Elias was the Executor of the wrath of God on the enemies of God The Disciples would rashly have done the like their vocation was not to return evill for evill but to overcome evill with good and to love their enemies 257. 2 King 4. 29. Go and if thou meet any man salute him not Rom. 16. 10. Salute one the other with an holy kisse Salute the Churches Superstitious salutations must be rejected profitable and honest salutations by which we wish good and profit to our neighbour must be observed The command of Elisha to his servant obliged him that without delay or lingring he should performe his errand for what he was commanded was a singular charge 258. 2 King 8. 25. Ahasias reigned in the 12 year of Joram the son of Ahab Chap. 9. 29. In the 11 year of Joram the son of Ahab Ahasias raigned over Judah In the end of the eleventh year and beginning of the twelfth of Joram Ahasiah began to reign 259. 2 King 8. 26. Ahasias was 22. years old when he began to reign 2 Chron. 22. 2. Ahasias was 42 yeares old when he began to reigne Ahasias his age in the former place and the time of the reign of all the house of Omri is put in the latter place 260. 2 King 9. 26. I have seen the bloud of Naboth and the bloud of his sons saith the Lord. 1 King 21. 14. Then they sent to Jesabel saying Naboth is dead Naboth and his sons were killed lest they should by lawfull inheritance possesse the vineyard what therefore the holy Ghost conceals in one place he explains in an other 261. 2 King 12. 21. Josachar and Josabad his servants smote Joas and they buryed him with his Fathers in the City of David 2 Chron. 24. 26. Zabad and Josabad conspired against him and killed him in his bed and buryed him but not in the sepulchre of the Kings Josachar otherwise is called Zobad Joas was unworthy of Kingly buriall because he was perfidious to God and ungratefull to men 262. 2 King 13. 1. In the 23 year of Joas the son of Ahaziah King of Judah reigned Jehoahaz the son of Jehu over Israel in Samaria 17 years Vers 10. In the 37 year of Joas King of Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoash to reign over Israel 16 years in Samaria Joachas King of Israel reigned 17 years to the 30 year of Joas King of Judah the son of Joachas Joas was joyned with his father in the Government in the 37 year of Joas King of Judah and so he reigned two years with his father 263. 2 King 15. 30. Hoshea the son of Elah after the death of Pekah reigned in the 20 year of Jotham the son of Vzziah King of Judah about 33. Jotham reigned 16 years Hoshea reigned in the 20 year of Jotham not of his reign but from the beginning of his reign who died in the 16 year and Ahaz his son succeeded him 264. 2 King 16. 2. Ahaz was 20 years old when he began to reign and he reigned 16 years Chap. 18. 2. Ezechias was 25 years old when he began to reign so should he be born in the eleventh year of Ahaz Physitians do allow this others do attribute to Jotham 20 years and read it thus Ahaz was 20 years old when Jotham began to reign 265. 2 King 22. 3. In the 18 year of King Josiah the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah 2 Chron. 38. 8. In the 18 year of his reign he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah Josias began to reign in the 8 year of his age and in the 18 year of his raign he sent Shaphan to Helkiah 266. 2 King 23. 30. The people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and anointed him King in his Fathers stead Vers 34. And Pharaoh Necho made Eliakim the son of Josiah King in the room of his Father Mat. 1. 11. Josias begat Jechonias Iechonias nephew to Iosias was the son of Ioakim set by Pharaoh into the place of Ioacas who was carryed
because the beginnings of this did not seem to answer the Majesty of the former Temple 283. 1 Ezd. 7. 7. And there went up some of the children of Israel of the Priests and the Levites unto Jerusalem in the seventh year of Artaxerxes Ch. Jer. 25. 12. 34. 10. 2 Chron. 3. 22. 1. 1. In the first year of Cyrus King of Persia the Jews had power given them to go up to Jerusalem After that Cyrus had given licence to them to return from Babylon to Jerusalem many with Ezdras and Nehemiah returned to Jerusalem under the reign of Artaxerxes 284. 2 Ezd. 3. 8. The Jews built the wals of Jerusalem after their return Zach. 3. 4. Jerusalem shall be inhabited without wals Under the name of Jerusalem Zacharias prophesieth Zach. 2. 5. of the Church of Christ and the heavenly Jerusalem the majesty of it is larger then can be comprehended in one City of which God is the wall a fire round about and glory in the midst of her 285. 2 Ezd. 5. 9. 10. 12. Nehemias reprehends the richer Jews because they thought to live by usury Gen. 47. 23. Joseph bought the land of Egypt and the people thereof he made subject to Pharaoh for corne The Egyptians were punished by God for their iniquities the Jews after their return into their Country were so proved the richer Jews oppressing their poor brethren with biting usury did burden them which Joseph did not 286. 2 Ezd. 10. 32. The houses were not builded Vers 3. Let not your doores be open Their houses were not fully built the Cities had gates 287. 2 Ezd. 8. 18. Ezdras read in the book day by day 1 Ezd. 3. 4. They kept also the feast of Tabernacles as it is written This was a singular example of piety for they were not bound to do so by the Law yet they came willingly day by day to hear the book of the Law 288. 2 Ezd. 10. 32. Also we made ordinances amongst our selves yearly to charge ourselves with a third part of a shekell for the work of the Lord. Exod. 30. 13. They shall give every one that passeth amongst them that be numbred halfe a shekell Moses once by Gods command laid on them that tribute and Joas at the renewing of the Temple ordered that every one should give what he pleased so Nehemias ordained the third part of 2 shekell by the year to restore the Temple not from the Law but from necessity 289. 2 Ezd. 11. 6. Of the children of Phares that dwelt at Jerusalem were 468. Benjamin 928. 2 Chron. 9. 6. Jehuel 690. Benjamin 956. First the chief are set down to whom a dwelling fell by lot then other voluntary inhabitants who chose a habitation willingly ESTHER THe book of Esther is so called from Esther who was Ahasuerus wife here is shewed how Ahasuerus divorcing Vashti chose Esther to be Queen Haman the enemy of the Jews and of Mordecai is hanged Mordecai is made Provost of the Kingdome It contains the History of 20 years Ezdras was the writer of it or else the men of the great Synagogue 290. Esth 1. 12. Ahasuerus divorced Vashti because she refused to come at his commandement Mat. 19. 9. Whosoever shall put away his wife except for fornication and shall marry an other committeth adultery The pride of Vashti hurt not the King alone but all the people and Princes of the Kingdom by shewing a kind of dominion over the King before other women Now adayes men do not divorce their wives but for the cause of Adultery only and they are bound by the Laws of God and man to obey their husbands 291. Esth 9. 21. Mordecai sent to the Jews in all the provinces that the 14 and 15 dayes of the moneth Adar should be held for festivals Deut. 4. 2. Chap. 12. 32. What I command you this day you shall not add to it The ordinance of Mordecai was not against the Law nor was it a feast of Gods worship but only commemorative for the divine wonderfull deliverance of the people of the Jews JOB THis Book is so called from Job who was also called Jobab King of Edom. Moses Gen. 36. is thought to have written that book for an example of patience there is contained the affliction of Job and contention with his friends and disputing with them God ends this controversie at last and restores Job to his former posterity The History appertains to the time of Jacob. 292. Job 1. 1. He lived in the land of Vz his name was Job he was a perfect and an upright man and one that feared God and eschewed evill Psal 147. 20. He hath not done so with any Nation Under the old Testament the publick worship of the true God was amongst the Israelites whither other Nations were admitted to come which God called by divers wayes to come unto him and he had amongst them some that served him sincerely as Jethro Moses father in Law the Gibeonites and Job here so Rahab and Ruth 293. Job 1. 6. Satan came amongst the sons of God 2 Pet. 2. 4. God spared not the Angels that sinned but cast them down to hell and delivered them unto chains of darknesse The coming of Satan amongst the sons of God was onely as an executioner of the commands and judgments of God 294. Job 5. 1. Call if there be any that will answer thee and to which of the Saints wilt thou turn Isa 63. 16. Abraham knew us not Israel was ignorant of us Eliphaz teacheth Job that there is no flying to Saints in misery and that no man is unjustly punished by God but there is alwayes a just cause for it therefore saith he shew any of the Saints who being in such a calamity as thou art that was so without a cause as thou supposest thy self to be 295. Job 14. 4. Who can bring a clean thing Psal 51. 7. Rom. 7. 20. out of unclean Rom. 11. 16. For if the first fruits be holy the lump is also holy All of us by originall sin are conceived and born in sin and sin dwels in us yet by Gods grace we are reckoned for holy which account passeth over all within the Covenant as we are 296. Job 14. 5. His dayes are determined the number of his moneths are with thee thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot passe Prov. 18. 21. Life and death are in the power of the tongue Death and life of man are in the power of God who hath put bounds to his dayes Life and death is said after a sort to be in the power of the tongue because a wicked man may by slanders and detraction and contention hurt a man even to death 297. Job 14. 6 14. Shall a man if he die live again 1 Cor. 15. 22. In Christ shall all be made alive Job denyeth not the resurrection but he saith Dan. 12. 2. rather that men shall rise not with bodies subject to death but such as shall live for ever