commaund them to ouerflow the same agayne But yet they found it most true for in the seuenth age of this wicked generation the wrath of the Lord was well knowne amongst the sonnes of men for they were cut downe before the tyme and their foundation was as a Ryuer that ouerflowed So that he spared not this olde worlde which nowe had continued one thousand sixe hundred fiftie and sixe yeeres but onely saued Noe with seuen more of his familie and brought in the floud vpon the rest of the worlde of the vngodly yea he commaunded the fountaines of the great deepe to be broken vp and the windowes of heauen were opened so that all the high mountaines that were vnder the whole heauen were couered because that the wickednes of man was great on earth and all the imaginations of the thoughtes of his hart were onely euill continually And therefore did the Lorde smite the earth with the rod of his mouth and with the breath of his lippes did he destroy the wicked Yea hee made them to perish as though they had been doung so that they which had seene them might say where are they nowe But if you will know what is become of their soules Saint Peter will tell you how that they are now in prison that is in hell for disobeying the spirit of Christ who then preached vnto them by the mouth of Noe while the Arke was in making Againe if you will know how they might know that the spirit of Christ did so the answere is that euen the very same Gospell that was preached vnto Adam and Eue in Paradise and afterwardes to Abell to Seth and the rest of the godlie was also preached vnto them And this preaching was that the Seede of the woman should breake the head of the Serpent which notwithstanding being but a verie short Sermon yet was it so effectall and so full of matter as that all the whole booke of God is no more then that But as the preaching of this Gospell was a sauour of life vnto life to all those that laide holde thereon euen so was it also a sauour of death vnto death to all those that reiected the same So that for this first age you see both the louing kindnesse and the seucritie of the Lorde The iudgements of God on Chams posteritie as also on their confederats vntill the giuing of the Lawe NOtwithstanding now the former desolation of all things breathing on earth the which a man would thinke shoulde haue been a terrour vnto men for euer after yet full soone do they forget it For an hundreth and about some thirtie yeeres after the flood in the daies of Peleg do the posteritie of Cham with their adherents reuiue the olde impietie of Kain and his wicked race in that they also despise the couenants of God and the blessing pronounced vnto Sem And so goe about to buyld a Cittie and a Towre whose top as they thought should reach vnto heauen wherby they might get vnto them selues a Sem or name But full soone was the holy Trinitie aware of this their wicked intent and so he came down from heauen in his fierce wrath to confound their most foolish deuices and also to scatter them from thence ouer the whole earth And therefore the name of it was called Babell or Confusion because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth so that they were not onely cut from the holy Language of Sem but also from the religion and true worship of the blessed God of Sem the which continued in his tents Agayne in the tenth age after the flood in the dayes of Abraham the wickednes of those fiue Cities in Canaan as Sodom Gomorrah Admah Zeboiim and Zoar brake out into such filthinesse as that the stincke thereof ascended vp into heauen and cryed for vengeance to be powred vpon them And notwithstanding the Lorde being mercifull and was intreated to haue spared them for ten◅e righteous men their sakes yet could they not therein be found so that their sinnes being so great and greeuous in the sight of GOD his great anger was so kindled against them that in his fierce wrath hee ouerthrew them and turned foure of them into ashes and condemned them and made them an e◅sample of eternall fier vnto all ages that afterwards should liue vngodly So that heere the curse of Noe vpon Cham extending to Canaan tooke effect on these some part of his wicked branches Likewise in the seuenth age from Abraham in the dayes of Moses the wrath of the Lord was manifested also in most vehement sort in Egypt euen in that land of cursed Cham vpon that proude Pharaoh and his countrie the which were other braunches euen of Cham himselfe that wicked roote I say the wrath of the Lord was manifested vpō them in most vehement sort by tenne seuerall plague◅ bestowed vpon man and beast and at last Pharaoh and all his host ouerwhelmed in the Red Sea For sayth he vnto Moses concerning the Lorde Who is he that I should heare his voyce and let Israell go I know not the Lord neyther will I let Israell go neyther do I regarde his words by you spoken for they are but vaine But the right hand of the glorious Lorde ouerthrewe these rebellious treatours which in this sort rose against him and sent foorth his wrath which consumed them as the stubble and also by the blast of his Nosethrils the waters were gathered and the floods stoode still as an heape yea the depthes congealed together in the hart of the Sea to intice them in but presently the waters couered them and they sancke to the bottome as a stone And why so because indeede they had forsaken the hope of Israell euen that most precious fountaine of liuing waters But he brought foorth them his chosen Israell through the middest of the Sea on drie ground and made the waters vnto them a wall both on the one side and on the other So that heere you may see againe both the louing kindnesse and the seueritie of the Lord his louing kindnes on Sem and his posteritie as also on all others that held the same fayth His most seuere seueritie on Cham and his posteritie as also on all other their confederats Now if you will knowe the chiefe cause why these horrible plagues befell them the aunswere is because they regarded not the preaching of the Gospell of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ. For as he was made the author of eternall saluation vnto all them that did beleeue in him and obey him euen so is it sayd that he that beleeueth not in y e Sonne of God nor giueth due obedience vnto him shall neuer see life but the wrath of God abideth on him But the very same Gospel that was preached vnto Sem ◅aphet and their posteritie was also preached vnto Cham and his posteritie Now
if you will knowe agayne what this preaching was it was no more but euen this Blessed be the Lord God of Sem. And tenne ages after that an other In thy seede O Abraham shall all the nations of the earth be blessed Now out of all doubt two meruellous short Sermons as possible can be heard and yet so full of vertue and grace that whosoeuer wroung out the iuice therof and applied it to his sores found euerlasting lyfe thereby but he that trode them vnder foote a biting Serpent whose sting was vnto eternall death and destruction The iudgements of God vpon the Israelits in the time of their being in the wildernes and also vpon their successors vnto the time of Samuel and Saule THus you see then the louing kindnes of the Lord towards the Israelites the seede of Abraham the seede of Sem in that he deliuered them from the Iron furnace the lande of Egypt the house of bondage according to his promise made vnto Abram which was That they should be straungers in a lande that was not theris where they should be afflicted and euill intreated for the space of foure hundreth yeeres But in the ende he woulde iudge that nation and bring them againe to the lande of Canaan in the fourth generation euen so it came to passe For all the host of Israell came out of the lande of Egypt by the blood of a Lambe figuring the seede that was promised to Abraham euen the selfe same day foure hundreth and thirtie yeeres before by whose bloud they were deliuered from that spirituall Pharaoh the Diuell Yet notwithstanding all this this grudging Israell the sonnes of Iacob the seede of Abraham who had seene the meruellous workes of God in the land of Egypt and his wonders in the fielde of Zoan and howe he had brought them thence as vpon the winges of an Eagle and howe he went before them by day in a pyller of a cloude to leade them the way and by night in a pyller of fire to giue them light and how he came downe vpon mount Sina and spake vnto them from heauen and gaue vnto them right iudgements and true lawes ordinaunces and good commaundements and declared vnto them his holy Sabothes and commaunded them precepts ordinances and lawes by the hand of Moses his seruaunt and how he gaue them bread from heauen for their hunger and brought foorth water for them out of the rocke for their thirst and how he rayned flesh vpon them as dust and fethered foule as the sande of the Sea and how he suffered them to lacke nothing for theyr clothes waxed not olde and their feete swelled not And all this hee did to teach them that man liueth not by bread onely but by euerie worde that proceedeth from him Yet notwithstanding I say all these his great benefites bestowed vpon them full soone did they forget his noble actes and the woonderfull workes that he had shewed them and styll they rebelled agaynst him yea full often did they prouoke him in the wyldernesse and greeue him in the Desart they made a Calfe in Horeb and woorshyped the molten Image and thus they turned their glorie into the similitude of a Calfe that eateth Haye Wherefore his wrath was so greatly kindled agaynst them that the fyre burnt vp the wicked yea they prouoked hym so greeuously in misbeleeuyng styll his worde that he swore in his wrath that onely two of sixe hundreth thousande shoulde enter into his rest which by the tyme that fourtie yeeres was expired in the Wildernes their chyldren whom they had sayd shoulde be a pray for the enimie they I say sawe the performaunce of this othe For they saw this wicked company consumed and their Carkeises ouerthrowen in the Wildernesse So that not one of the sixe hundreth thousande was left saue Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh and Ioshua the sonne of Nun. Here then might you pause a lytle and consider with your selfe of the ingratitude of man and how that yf the Lord shoulde deale with vs according to our desertes we shoulde be sure to fynde that we shoulde deserue no better then here you see because as the Apostle sayth these men are euen as very stampes of our owne natures But because I would not haue you to tarry in this Booke I wyl proceede to the rest that when you haue heard all you may consider the drynes of your owne soule and so get you with all speede to the fountayne it selfe wherein you may drinke yf you wyll euen your fyll of those waters of lyfe the which sprang out of the Rocke that here folowed them and also learne to auoyde that vnholsome pit of mistrust the which became vnto them their onely poyson Agayne then when as now it had pleased the Lord to bryng in the younger sort as all vnder twentie by Ioshua or Iesus euen into the borders of his Sanctuarie and to the holy Mountayne which his right hand had purchased that so he myght perfourme his promyse made vnto their fathers and had cast out the Heathen before them and geuen them their possessions and lykewyse had fylled them with all good thinges in great abundance although not of theyr owne desertes Iwis but through his great goodnes Yet notwithstanding they also became disobedient and rebelled agaynst the Lord and cast his heauenly Lawes behinde their backes yea they tempted and prouoked him and kept not his testimonies but turned backe and dealt falsly lyke vnto their fathers yea they turned euen lyke vnto a deceitfull Bowe So that he gaue them vnto the handes of most cruell oppessours that greatly vexed them as vnto the Aramites Moabites Canaanites Midianites Ammonites and the Philistimes Yea they prouoked him to anger in such sort with their high places and moued him to wrath with their grauen Images that in the ende he greatly abhorred Israel euen so farre as that in the dayes of Ely he forsooke the habitation of Shilo euen the Tabernacle where he dwelled amongst them and so he deliuered his power the Arke so called into captiuitie and his beautie into the enimies handes Yea he gaue vp his people to the sworde and was marueylous angrie with his owne inheritaunce For sixe tymes now since they came into the Land had the Lorde suffered them to be most cruelly oppressed by the a forenamed So that here we may say agayne O beholde both the louing kindnes and the seueritie of the Lord. His louing kindnes towardes Israel whyle they tooke good heede vnto the couenaunt that he the Lorde their God made with them and his seueritie when so euer they began to tempt Christ in not obeying his voyce according as the Lord had tolde them Now yf you wyll know in what sort Christe was preached vnto them that they were thus destroyed for not obeying his voyce The answere is euen in as
of Ierusalem knew very well that in the first yeare of Darius of the seede of the Medes as also of Cyrus king of Persia these seuentie yeares were expired Whereupon he turneth hymselfe vnto the Lord with fasting and in sackcloth and ashes making his confession and praying O Lord God which art great and fearefull and keepest couenant and mercy toward all them whiche loue thee and toward them whiche keepe thy commandementes but wee haue sinned and haue committed iniquitie and haue done wickedly yea we haue rebelled and haue departed from thy preceptes and from thy iudgementes For we would not obey thy seruaunts the prophetes which speake in thy name to our kinges to our princes to our fathers and to all the people of the land O Lord righteousnesse belongeth vnto thee to vs open shame as appeareth this day vnto euery man of Iuda and to the inhabitantes of Ierusalem yea vnto all Israel both neere and farre off through all the countries whither thou hast driuen them because of their offences that they haue committed agaynst thee O Lord vnto vs appertaineth open shame to our kinges to our princes and to our fathers because we haue sinned agaynst thee Yet compassion and forgiueuesse is in the Lord our God albeit we haue rebelled agaynst him For we haue not obeyed the voyce of the Lord our God to walke in his lawes which he had layd before vs by the ministerie of his seruantes the prophetes Yea all Israel haue transgressed thy law and are turned backe and haue not heard thy voyce therefore the curse is powred vppon vs and the othe which is written in the lawe of Moses the seruant of God because we haue sinned agaynst hym and hee hath confirmed his wordes which he spake agaynst vs agaynst our iudges that iudged vs by bringing on vs a great plague for vnder the whole heauen hath not bene the like as hath bene brought vpon Ierusalem All this plague is come vpon vs as it is written in the lawe of Moses yet made wee not our prayer before the Lord our God that we might turne from our iniquities and vnderstand thy trueth therefore hath the Lord made readie the plague and brought it vpon vs. For the Lord our God is righteous in all his workes which he doth for we would not heare his voyce And now O Lord our God that hast brought thy people out of the land of Egypt with a mightie hand and hast gotten thee renowne as appeareth this day wee haue sinned we haue done wickedly yet O Lord according to all thy righteousnesse I beseeche thee let thine anger and thy wrath be turned away from thy citie Hierusalem thine holy mountaine for because of our sinnes and for the iniquities of our fathers Ierusalem and thy people are a reproche to all that are about vs. Now therefore O Lord our God heare the prayer of thy seruant and his supplications and cause thy face to shine vpon thy sanctuary that lyeth wast for the Lords sake O my God incline thine care and heare open thine eies and behold our desolations and the citie wherupon thy name is called for we doe not present our supplications before thee for our owne righteousnes but for thy great tender mercies O Lord heare O Lord forgiue O Lord consider and doe it deferre not for thine owne sake O my God for thy name is called vpon thy citie and vpon thy people So here you see a prayer framed vpon a sounde grounde and squared by that iust rule of Moses and according to the forme of that by Salomon with full assurance beeing done according to that rule that the Lord would shewe himselfe a righteous iudge and therefore whiles hee was speaking and praying and confessing his own sinnes and the sinnes of his people Israel and presenting his supplications before the Lord his God for the holy mountaine of his God euen while he was thus praying which was about the time of the euening oblation came the Angel Gabriel vnto him to giue knowledge and vnderstanding of their deliuerance and not onely how that at the very beginning of his supplications the commaundement came forth to returne them from Babylon but also that from that very houre the former seuentie yeares were to be multiplied by seuen and then should Christ the king the most holy be killed and not for himselfe but to confirme the couenant of olde made for the many of all nations that would imbrace the same By the bloud of which couenant they should be freed from confusion and redeemed not onely from the bondage of the outward but also of the spirituall Egypt and Babell and which bloud beeing shed for the remission of sinnes and for a reconciliation of all their iniquities should cause all sacrifice and oblation to cease So that here this welbeloued prophet who alwayes abode constant in the true worship of his God notwithstanding the rage of the enimie was shewed the summe and effect of all Moses and was also heard in that which he required for the Lord euer in wrath remembring mercy doth also at this time remember his mercie and promise of old made vnto their fathers and so bringeth them to the holy hill of Sion agayne euen to that freshe springing mountaine from whence suche gratious streames of doctrine continually issued as were sufficient if rightly vsed to coole the intollerable heate of all the soules that euer were or shalbe in y e world thither I say were these Iewes the people of God agayne brought And from whence Euen from a most filthy pit that without any such water which deliuerance was so great and myraculous as that from this time forward they were not to say any more the Lord liueth that brought the Children of Israel out of the land of Egypt but the Lord liueth that brought them out of the land of the North and from all the landes where he had scattered them yea it was so strange and so farre beyond their expectation as that when it came to passe they were euen like vnto men that dreamed or as men amased at so sodayn a decree and their mouthes were then filled with laughter and their toonges with ioy yea they confessed that the Lord had done great and woonderfull thinges for them But full soone doe they forget it for notwithstanding all this his great mercy and iudgementes shewed vnto them yet still they rebelled agaynst hym prophaning his holy Sabbaothes agayne and making them dayes of marchandice and also ioyned themselues with strang women of y â— land contrary to the law yea they greatly neglected the worke of his holy temple and citie saying The time is not yet come that y â— Lordes house should be built but they thought it was high time to build for themselues that so they might be setled againe in their sieled houses though the Lordes house lay wast Wherfore he was
Pet. 2. 5. You may cast these yeeres in Gen. 5. and. 7. Chapters Gen. 7. 11. Gen. 6. 5. â—… Pet. 3. 19. 20 Gen. 3. 15. As you may cast it in Gene. 11. 10. to 20. and Gene. 10. 25. Gen. 10. 6. to 11. Gen. 11. 1. to 10. Micah 5. 6. Gen. 9. 8. to 18 Gene. 9. 26. Gen. â—…1 1. to 10. * These 10. you may reckon in Gene. 11. from the. 10. to 27. These fiue cities are cyâ—…ed togeather in Gen. 14. 2. Gene 18. 17. to the ende Deutro 29. 23. 2. Pet. 2. 6. Gen. 9. 22. 24. 25. 27. These seuen ages you shall find thus Gen. 21. 5 25. 26. 29 34. 46. 11. Exod. 6. 18. 20. Exod. 3. Psal. 78. 51. 105. 23. By these places you may see that Egypt was the land of Cham. Exod. 7. 19. 8. 6. 16. 17. 24. 9. 3. 10. 23. 10. 13. 22. 12. 29. and 14. â—… 28. Exod. 5. 2. 9. Exo. 15. 6. 7. 8. Exod. 15. 5. Psal. 106. 11. â—…ere 17. 1â—… Exod. 14. 19. Hebr. 5. 9. Iohn 3. 36. Gen. 9. 26. Gen. 12. 3â—… Ierem. 11. 4. Exodus 20. 2. Gen. 15. 13. 14 16. * These 4. were Rohath AmraÌ„ Aaron Eliazar for Rohath was one of y â— 70. that went downe unto Egypt as you may see in Genesis 46. and Elyazar is one that parted the land of Canaan as you may see in Ioshua 14. 1. Exod. 12. Gen. 12. 3. Gala. 3. 16. 17. Psal. 78. 12. 43. Exod. 19. 4. Exod. 13. 21. Nehe. 9. 12. Exod. 19. 18. Nehe. 9. 13. to 16. Exo. 16. 15. Nehe. 9. 15. Exod. 17. 6. Nehe. 9. 15. Exod. 16. 13. 15. Psal. 78. 27. Deut. 8. 4. and Nehe. 9. 21. Deut. 8. 3. Psal. 78. 11. Psal. 78. 4. and Exo. 14. 11. 12 15. 23. 24. 16. 2. 7. 8. 17 2. 6. 32. 1. Num. 11. 4. 5. 6 14. 2. 16. 13. 14. 41. and 21. 5. Exod. 32. 4. Psal. 106. 10. 20 Psalm 106. 18. Deutr. 1. 32. Num. 13. 32. 33 and. 14. 11. Num. 14. 28. to 36. Psal. 95. 8. to the ende Numb 14. 3. Numb 14. 35. Ioâ—…hua 5. 6. Numb 26. 65. 1. Cor. 10. 4. Ioshua 3. 4. Chap. Acte 7. 45. Psal. 78. 54. 35 Gene. 12. 7. 13. 14. 15. 16. 26. 4. 28. 13. 14. Psal. 105. 44. Nehem. 9. 25. Deutr. 9. 4. to the ende Nehe. 9. 26. Iudg. 2. 10. to 15. Psal. 78 56. 57 Iudg. 2. 14. Iudg. 3. 8. 14. 4. 2. 6. 1. 10. 7. 8. 13. 1. Pâ—…alm 78. 58. 1. Sam. 4. 18. to the ende Pâ—…alm 78. 60. 61. 62. 1. Cor. 10. 9. Exod. 23. 20. 21. Hebre. 4. 2. Ezeâ—… 20. â—… Gen 1. 2. 3 chap § As you may cast in Gen. 11. 10. to 27. but when you come at the. 26. verse where it is sayd Terahat 70. Y. begate Abram you must cast Terah to be 130 for so he was as you may proueby these places * As you may cast your selfe in Gen. 5. ‡ As you may cast your selfe in Gen. 5. 25. 26. 27. 32. 6. 6. 11. 10. 11. Gen. 11. 32. and 12. 4. Actes 7. 4. †Abram was an 100. y. olde when Isaak was borne Gen. 21. 5 and lyueth 75. y. after Gen. 25. 7 And Isaak at 60 y. begate Iacob Gen. 25. 26. so that Abram might teache Iacob 15. yeeres ¶ For the tyme that Iacob lyued in Egypt you may read Gen 47. 28. Gen. 49. 8. to 13. Iob. 4. 17. to the end 9. 20. 31. 33. 19 23. to 28. Gnn. 18. 19. Exod. 12. Iohn 1. 2â—… Heb. 2. 14. 15. 9. 13. 14. 15 1. Pet. 1. 18. 19 20. Reue. 1. 5 5. 8 to the end 1. Cor. 5. 7. Gen. 12. 3. and Exod. 12. 40. 41. Gal. 3. 16. 17. Exod. 〈◊〉 41. 42. Exod 13. 1. to 17. Acte 26. 22. 23 Gen. 12. 3. 17. 1. to the ende 26. 4. 28. 13. 14. * From the tyme that y â— commandement came forth to returne the Iewes from Babell vnto the houre of Christe his death is 70. seuens or foure hundreth nintie yeeres Danie 9. 21. to the ende Uâ—…tyll whiâ—…he houre the Iewes coulde haue no power to kyll Christe as yâ—…u may see in Luke 22. 53. 54. Iohn 8. 20. 11. 23. Leuit. 16. and Numb 19. and Hebre. 9. Pâ—…al 40. 6. to 11. Heb. 10. 5. to 11. Leuit. 16. 5. 7. 8 9. 10. 20. 21. 22 and Esai 53. 4. 5. 6. 10. 11. 12. Heb. 9. 1. to the ende Exod. 13. 21. Iohn 1. 8. 9. Exod. 23. 20. to 24. Exod. 17. 6. Num. 20. 8. to 12. Exo. 16. 15. 1. Cori. 10. 3. 4. and Iohn 6. 31. to the ende and â—…ohn 4. 13. 14. Num. 21. 6. to 10. and Iohn 3. 14. 15. Exod. 28. 29 Leuit. 16. Hebr. 4. 14. to the ende 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. chapters Exo. 20. â—… Hebr. 12. 29. Exod. 23. 20. to the ende 1. Corin. 10. 9. Mala. 3. 1. Hebr. 1. 3. Colo. 2. 9. Ioshua 5. 13. to the end Hebr. 3. 19. Psalm 106. 41. 1. Sam. 5. 6. chapters 2. Corin. 6. 15. 16. 1. Sam. 6. 19. Numb 4. 15. 20. 1. Sam. 12. 12. 1. Sam. 12. 17. 1. Sam. 8. 7. 1. Sam. 8. 7. to the ende Hose 13. 11. 1. King 12. Gen. 49. 8. to 13. Hose 1. 2. 1. King 12. 25. to the ende Hose 4. 17. Ezek. 23. 2. King 15. 19 29. 17. 3. 6. Ezek. 23. 9. 10. 2. King 18. 12. Hosea 5. 12. 13. 7. Hose 1. 9. Ierem. 3. 8. Ezek. 23. 4 5. Iere. 3. 8. Ezek. 23. 4. Esai 5. 7. Ezek. 23. 11. Iere. 11. 13. Iere. 32. 34. 2. Cron. 33. 3. 4. 5. Iere. 32. 33. Iere. 7. 13. and 25. 3. 8. Iere. 7. 12. 14. Iere. 32. 30. Iere. 6. 10. 28. Micha 6. 16. Esai 5. 24. 25. and Iere. 6. 19. 1. King 24. 1. 10. 25. 1. Haba 1. 6. Iere. 25. 9. Dan. 1. 2. Gen. 11. Ezek. 37. 2. Cron. 36. 20 21. Leui. 26 33. 34. 35. and that whole chapter 2. Cro. 36. 21. Iere. 25. 11. 12. Lament 2. 4. Lamen 2. 4. Lamen 1. 5. Reade 2. King 25. 2. Cron. 36. Iere. 39. 52. Lam. Lament 2. 15 Psal. 137. 7. Amos. 1. 11. Obad. 10. to 15 Zechar. 1. 15. Ezek. 25. 6. 8. 12. 15 26. 1 28. 21. to 25 29. 2. 6. 7. 35. 5. 15. 36. 2. â—… Dan. 9. 11. 13. 14. Leui. 26 Deut. 27. The ende of Iehoiakims thirde yeere and the beginning of his fourth maketh Nebuchadnezer his first as you may see in Dan. 1. 1. and Iere. 25. 1. and 2. King 24. 1. Iere. 25. 11. 12. 27. 6. 7. * Both of y â— Empire of Babel to that desolation which 〈◊〉 wrought in his