prevaile against it The Lord hath chosen Ierusalem although the Lord made choise of Ierusalem yet this notable vine which he planted degenerated Iere. 2.21 and then he rejected it and brought great desolations upon it Esay 29.1 I will make Ierusalem like Ariel when Ierusalem killed the Prophets then he sprinkled it with blood like Ariel the Altar which was sprinkled with blood Is not this a brand pluckt out of the fire As if the Lord would say he is new brought out of the captivity and therefore no mervell though his cloathes be yet soiled There are three sorts of wants in the Church First Three sorts of wants in the Church wants of necessity Secondly occasionall wants Thirdly contracted wants wants of necessity are these when God with-draweth the meanes Wants of necessity what that the Church cannot have them when the people were in the Wildernesse and sacrificed there they had neither wine nor oyle to joyne to their sacrifice yet their sacrifice was accepted because it was a want of necessity The anointed of the Lord. so the Highpriest in the second Temple he wanted Vrim and Thummim and he wanted the holy oyle therefore he was not called in the second Temple Vnctus Iehovae but vir multarum vestium the man with the many cloathes because he had five ornaments belonging to him which none of the rest of the Priests had although he wanted this holy oyle yet he was accepted and his sacrifice because this was a want of necessity Secondly occasionall wants are these when men for the time cannot so conveniently have their defects supplyed as Num. 10. Eleazar and Ithamar when they should have eaten the sinne offering in the holy place they forgot to eate it and suffered it to burne because they were in such griefe for Nadab and Abihu Aaron taketh the defence of them in this case and sayeth such things have befallen me this day and no mervaile that both I and my sonnes should have forgotten to eate the sinne offering in the holy place Num. 10. Occasionall wants what if wee being in our sinne should have taken upon us to purge the sinnes of the people should it have beene accepted in the sight of the Lord Moses accepteth of this occasionall want because they were in great griefe it was no mervaile that they forgot to eate it So they now lately comming out of the captivity no mervaile that Ioshua was not so handsomely dressed as hee should have beene for in their captivities they contracted much corruption as in Egypt they forgot their Circumcision and that was called opprobrium Egâ—pti Iosh 5. Vnder Antiochus attrahebant praeputium for feare they drew the skin of their prepuce that they might not bee knowne to be Iewes The Israelits learne corruption in the captivity and the Apostle alludes to this Circumcisus es noli attrahere praputium 1 Cor. 7.18 And when they were in Babylon they married strange women and no mervaile that his cloathes were now soiled and foule when he was lately come out of the captivity a man that is newly risen out of the ague no mervaile that his colour be not good and if hee be weake and fall we excuse him Contracted wants what Thirdly there are contracted wants and these are not excusable if a man should drinke untill he were drunke and then stagger and fall no man will excuse him as they doe him who falleth through sicknesse the Lord that excuseth Ioshua here for his occasionall want he will not excuse Vrijah the Highpriest when he brings the paterne of the Altar of Damascus to Ierusalem 2 King 18.11 This is a contracted guilt and not occasionall when our forefathers came out of popery first no mervaile that there were great wants amongst them and that they savoured of the dregges of Rome but now when we have lived so long out of popery and yet desire to be backe againe to Egypt what a shame is that the Lord will not be beholden to idolatrous Egypt to borrow any thing from her Christ stands here for the occasionall wants of the Highpriest but not for the contracted wants our father 's lived in constituenda ecclesia and we live in constituta ecclesia and that which was tolerable in them may be abhomination in us God accepted of their little knowledge but he craves a greater measure of knowledge of us because we live in the sunne shine of the day And he answered and spake to them that stood before him saying take away these filthy Garments And he answered that is To answer is to begin to speake he began to speake according to the manner of the Hebrewes for no speach passed betwixt him and the Angels before Thomas marketh well that Christ speaketh after one manner to the Angels and the Angels speake another way to Christ for when Christ speakes to them he is sicut agens illuminans revelans but when the Angel speakes to Christ he is Velut passum admirans consulens accipiens revelationem ab eo And he spake to those that stood before him That is ministred unto him The Angels serve Christs but attend us The Angels are ministering spirits to serve Christ but they are ministering spirits to attend vs as a Nurse doth her young infant they attend not Christ to defend and protect him in danger for he is their head they onely Minister to him therefore when the devill cited the Psalme to Christ Cast thy selfe downe for he hath given his Angels charge to keepe thee this place was falsely cited two wayes by Satan First he leaveth out in all thy wayes Secondly he applyed it falsely to Christ they shall keepe thee this part onely belonged to Christus mysticus to Christs members they keepe Christs members in all their wayes but they keepe not Christ himselfe Christ hath procured this their ministery to us and he is that Ladder up which they goe up and downe to serve us Gen 28.12 Take away the filthy garments from him It may be asked here Quest how the Angels could take away Ioshua's filthy garments seeing they have no hand in our justification or sanctification Christ the mediator justifieth us and the holy spirit sanctifieth us Answ God speakes oftentimes after the manner of men This is but spoken humanitus after the manner of men for as men cause their servants to take away the foule cloathes off the person which is to be brought before them and put new apparell upon him as Ioseph was brought before Pharao so doth the Lord speake heare after the manner of men Some parts of Prophesies and visions are not to be expounded literally Those parts of visions and Prophecies which seeme contrary to other parts of Scripture we are not to expound them literally but we are to hold that they were onely done in vision Example Ieremiah is commanded to carry his girdle to Babel and there to hide it beside Euphrates Iere. 13.4 these words
of the children of Israel and ye shall give thereof the Lords heave offring to Aaron the Priest out of all your gifts yee shall offer c. Thirdly to what end they were payed the tithes were given as a signe of homage and thankfullnesse to God Prov. 3.9 Honour the Lord with th y substan Why the tithes were payed and with the first fruits of all thine increase and as Kings have their tributes payed unto them for the maintenance of their attendance Rom. 13.6.7 So the Lord will have his tribute payed to him for the maintenance of his servants the Priests therefore the tithe is called his heave offering Levit. 27.30 and before the Law was given Iacob payed them to the Lord Gen. 28.22 Aâ—raham and Iacob payed tithes before the law and Abraham the tenth generation from Sem payed them to Melchizedecke the Priest and the Lord appointed them for the Priests Num. 18.28 Now that we may understand what great plenty and a boundance the Levites had who had the Lord for their portion Num. 18.20 Deut. 18.2 Ezek. 44.28 The great plenty which the Levite had for their service Let us consider what they had in particular First they had a part of the meatoffering called Mincha Secondly they had a part of the peace offering the breast and the shoulder and skin of the burnt offering Num. 18.18 Levit. 7.13 Thirdly they had the first fruits of the Corne of the wine and of the oyle Reshith prestantissimum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 primitie primitiâ—â—um 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 primitiae the best of them and the fat of the oyle Num. 18.12 Deut. 18.4 and they had Biccurim the first fruits The difference Betwixt Biccurim and Reshith was this Reshith were the first fruits which the Levites tooke from the people but Biccurim were the first fruits which the people presented to the Lord and the Lord gave them to the Priests Num. 18.13 What so ever is first ripe in the Land shall bee thine Reshith was the first of the first fruits and Biccurim were the first fruits themselves It was not determined by the Law how much they should offer here What every one was to offer of their first â—ruits but the Doctors of the Iewes determined afterwards that none should offer lesse than one of sixty and none should offer more than one of forty and the middle sort one of fifty and they called him who offered one of sixty 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Oculus malus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Oculus bonus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Oculus inter utrumque the man with the evill eye or the covetous eye or the covetous man Prov. 23.6 eat not the bread of him who hath an evill eye that is of a covetous man and he who payed one of forty they called him the man with the good eye Ecclus. 35.8 Give the Lord his honor with a good eye and diminish not the first fruits of thine hand and he who payed one of fifty they called him the man with the middle eye 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Oblâ—to magna This was called Tereumah Gedolah the great heave offering by way of excellency and they payed this not onely of things commanded in the Law but also of their oates Lentiles and fitches although these served not for the sustentation of man but onely in time of famine mine to satisfie their hunger yet they payed them and they payed also tithe of Anise and Mint which did grow in their gardens which our Lord doth not blame Matth. 23. for he addeth these things yee should have done all these because they were not determinated by the law they gave at least to the Priests the sixty part so they gave the sixty part of their wool in their Tereumah Gedolah to the Priest The Priests and Levites had the fâ—eeâ—ill offerings and the estimation of male and female and according to their abilitie and sexe Besides these first fruits which they were bound to pay they payed likewise free will offerings Levit. 7.16 So when they made a singular vow they were valued according to their age and according to their sexe Levit. 27.3.4 The estimation of the male from twenty yeare old even unto sixty was fifty Shekels of Silver after the Shekell of the sanctuary and the estimation of the female was thirty Againe from five yeare old to twenty the estimation of the male was twenty Shekels and of the female ten Thirdly from a moneth old to five yeares old the estimation of the male was five and the female was three Shekels of silver Fourthly if they were past sixty yeares and above the estimation of the male was fifteene shekels and of the female ten shekels Fiftly the poorer were valued after the valuation of the Priests according to their ability and all these came for the maintenance of the Priests So they had a part of things consecrated Levit. 7.35 Num. 18.13 The Levites had the tenth part of all the fruits which did grow in Israel then the Priests got Decimas Decimaâ—um the tithe of the tithes from the Levites the husband man payed to the Levites the tenth of his whole encrease 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Decima prima 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Decima ex Decima and this was called Magnasar rishon the first tithe and the Levites payed out of this the tenth to the Priests which was the hundreth part of the husband mans increase Magnasar min Hamagnasar decima ex decima The third tithe was given to the poore and it was the ninth part of the whole increase Tobit 1.7.8 It was called Magnasar shani the second tithe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Decima secunda vel secundi anni 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Decima tertia vel tertij anni and in the first and second yeare this tithe was reserved by the husband man and either taken up to Ierusalem or else sold and put in mony that the Levite the widdow and the poore might eat of it there at the three great feasts and it differed nothing from the tithe of the third yeare but onely in the use as Maimony sheweth and every third yeare it was given to the poore but every first and second yeare it was given to the Priest and to the Levite and to the widdow and they did eate it before the Lord in Ierusalem by this we may perceive how the husband-man payed the ninth part of his whole increase every yeare Let us put this case The husbandman paid the most part of his increase a husband-man hath an hundreth and two logs of oyle of this he was to pay two to the Lord which was his Tereumah Gedolah and this was one of fifty and then ten to the Levites and nine of the hundreth to the poore for the second tithe so that of an hundreth and two logs he payed twenty and one which was the fift part of the hundreth and some more They had
this the Priest did not prophesie neyther made songues to the prayse of God but having put on this breastplate it was a signe to him that God would answer these doubts 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which he asked of him it is called the Brestplate of judgement mishpat signifieth eyther the administration of publike judgements Esa 41.3 or private affaires Pro. 13.23 est qui absumitur absqe judicio that is because his family is not rightly administrat It is called then the breastplate of judgement because the Lord taught his people in their doubtfull cases what to doe The breastplate and the Vrim and Thumim are distinguished by this vrim and thummim Exod. 28.30 Thou shalt put in the breastplate Vrim and Thummim Some hold that the twelve pretious stones set in the brestplate were called vrim and thummim as Kimchi but the Text maketh against that for the breastplate and the vrim and the thummim are distinguished vers 30. Some of the Iewes againe incline most to this sense that these two words vrim and Thummim were set in the breastplate as holinesse to the Lord was written in great letters upon a plate of Gold What this Vrim and Thummim were and set in the forehead of the highpriest But it seemeth rather that they were two pretious stones given by the Lord himselfe to be set in the brestplate and an Ancient Iew called Rabbi Bechai marketh ה demonstrativum that these two are set downe cum he demonstrativo for their excellencie Neyther saith the Lord thou shalt make vrim and thummim as hee sayd of the rest of the ornaments of the Highpriests thou shalt make this or that The letters did not make up the answer It is commonly holden that the letters did shine out of the breastplate of Aaron when the Lord gave his answers to him that he might read the answer by the letters but this could not be as may appeare by the forme of the brestplate following The forme of the Breast-plate When David asked of the Lord 1 Sam. 23.12 will the men of Keila deliver me and my men into the hands of Saul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Lord sayd ysgiru they will deliver thee here the letters in the brestplate would have made up this whole answer Iod from Iehuda Samech from Ioseph Gimel from Gad Iod from Levi Resh from Reuben and Vau from Reuben but Iudges 20.8 when the Israelites asked counsell of the Lord who shall goe up first to battell against Benjaman it was answered 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iehuda Battechilla Iuda shall goe up first now there was not so many letters in the brestplate to expresse this answer for there wanted foure letters of the Alphabet in the brest-plate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Sam. 5.23 There wanted foure letters in the Breast-plate when David enquired of the Lord shall I goe up against the Philistimes the Lord answered Thou shalt not goe up but fetch a compasse behind them and come upon them over against the Mulberry trees The letters in the brestplate could not expresse all this therefore it was not by the letters that the Lord answered the Priest but when hee had on this brestplate How the Lord taught the Priest by Vrim and Thummim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or rationale upon him then the Lord taught him what to answer and this brestplate was but a signe unto him that the Lord would answer him as Sampsons hayre was a signe unto him that the Lord would continue his strength with him as long as hee kept his haire how was the strength in Sampsons haire not as in the cause or in the subject but onely as in the signe so in the Apostles garments and shaddow The Vrim and Thummim were a signe onely that the Lord would answer the Priest they were but a signe of their power which they had in healing miraculously and so was vrim and thummim but a signe of this that the Lord would answer the Priest The vrim and thummim were not alwayes with the Arke The Vrim and Thummim were not ever with the Arke for all the time of Saul they asked not counsell of the Arke 1 Chron. 13.3 Let us bring againe the Arke of our God unto us for we enquired not at it in the dayes of Saul they went usually to aske counsell in the Tabernacle and Sanctuarie of the Lord Iud. 20. they went up to Silo where the Tabernacle was to aske the Lord then the Arke was in the Tabernacle but when the Arke was separated from the Tabernacle they might sacrifice in the Tabernacle So they might aske the Lord here by vrim and thummim although the Arke was not there When the Highpriest asked counsell for David at Nob the Arke was not there nor the Tabernacle but onely vrim and thummim but when the Arke and the vrim and thummim were together they alwayes enquired the Lord before the Arke and when they were separated they turned their faces towards the Arke wheresoever it was when they asked counsell by the judgement of vrim and thummim When David was in Ziglag 1 Sam. 30. he asked counsell of the Lord by the Priest but neyther the Arke nor the Tabernacle was ever in Ziglag a towne of the Philistims They asked counsell of the Lord at the Arke by the High Priest When any are sayd to aske counsell of the Lord who were not Highpriests as the Israelites are sayd thrice to aske the Lord. Iud. 20.18 1 Sam. 14.37 23.2 1 Chron. 14. they are understood to have done this by the Highpriest for Num. 27.21 Ioshua is commanded to aske counsell at the Lord by Eleazer the High-priest How he stood who asked counsell by Vrim and Thummim The manner how he stood who asked counsell of the Lord by the Highpriest He shall stand before Eleazar the Priest who shall aske counsell for him after the judgment of Vrim before the Lord. Num. 27.21 he stood not directly before the Highpriest for then he should have stood betwixt him and the Arke therefore liphne should be translated juxta 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a latere or beside the Priest Hee stood by the Highpriest when he asked counsell and hee heard not what tht Lord sayd to the Priest but the Priest gave him his answer The Lord by Vrim and Thummim answered distinctly to every question When two things are demanded of the Lord he answered in order to them As 1 Sam. 23.9 will they come up The Lord answered they will come up So he answered to the second question will they deliver me They will deliver thee They asked not counsell of the Lord by Vrim and Thummim but in great and weighty matters They asked counsell by Vrim and Thummim onely in matters of weight as David after the death of Saul 1 Sam. 2. So 2 Sam. 5. they asked the Lord for the King for the common wealth or for a
Revel 11.19 things which are hid and obscure are said by the Hebrewes to be far off Deut. 30.14 and things which are cleare and manifest are said to be neare at hand thus we see how farre the Gospell exceedeth the Law but yet we are not to vilifie and count basely of those ceremonies for the holy Ghost hath registred the least instrument and the basest things in the Sanctuary and David gave to Salomon a patterne of the table Candlesticke Lampes flesh-hookes and bowles 1 Chron. 28.11 17. It may be said perhaps that they had some use then 2 Cot. 5.10 but old things are past away and all things are become new what use then can they have in the Church now they have no use for signification now in the Church or to fore-shadow things to come seeing Christ the Body himselfe is come yet they have many other good uses first we should delight to looke backe to see the antiquitie of them for even as men delight to behold the cloathes and Armour of their predecessors which they wore long agoe So should we delight to see the cloathes in which Christ was wrapped in his infancy and the Cradle in which Christ lay Secondly this should teach us to be thankefull to God that we have so cleare a light under the Gospel which they had not under the Law it was a great benefit to learning when the obscure Hieroglyphicks in Egypt were changed into letters and the darke and mysticall writings of Plato were changed by Aristotle into a cleare and plaine forme of writing farre greater is the benefit that the Church hath now when the Lord hath changed these figures and ceremonies into the cleare light of the Gospell Thirdly these doe let us see that God will performe the rest of his promises as he hath fulfilled all these types already and lastly they let us see the miserable estate of the Iewes who cleave still to these ceremonies as yet Hierom compareth the Iewes before Christ came into the world to these that eate the flesh and he compared Christians under the Gospell to those who eate the marrow but he compareth the Iewes after they had rejected Christ to the dogges who gnaw the bones cleaving onely to the killing letter but not seeking to Iesus Christ the quickning Spirit And now Sir I dedicate this part of my labours to you that it may remaine a note of my thankefulnesse for your favours to me I know Sir that ye will make better use of it then most men in these dayes doe with such Treatises casting them by and rather reade any trifle than that which conduceth to the informing of the soule to God-ward yea preaching it selfe they are weary of except perhaps some new mans odde elocution invite them for a fit but by and by they looke after a new straine as it were for new fashions of cloathes But I know Sir your breeding craveth another thing of you who was bred up under so wise and religious a mother who for the educatioÌ„ of her children was another Monica as your selfe and your vertuous sister Mistris Katherine are sufficient proofes I cannot passe by her name upon this occasion whose life and death was to mean instruction Good cause have you to keepe that methode as yee have begun it in your eldest sonne so to prosecute the same with your many hopefull children which GOD hath given you by your Noble match which is one of the best borne Ladies of this Land who dignifieth her birth by her Christian humble and godly life Sir beleeve me that godlinesse is more true Honour to you than your birth although you be never so well descended and to be more esteemed than the place which yee have about our Gracious King and more than all morall vertues whatsoever which are but splendida peccata without piety your Honour and worldly credite are but trifles compared to this they cannot keepe a man alive in this world nor doe him any good in the world to come Eccles 12. â—3 for this is the whole man this makes up a complete man and he is but the shadow of a man that wants this Psal 34.7 The Angels of the Lord pitch round about them that feare him and deliver them and hath any man in this Court gotten more remarkeable deliverances than you have I am sure ye will not let these benefits of the Lord slip out of your minde reade often the sixty two Psalme Heb. 12.20 and meditate upon it The God of peace that brought againe from the dead our Lord Iesus that great Shepheard of the sheepe through the blood of the everlasting covenant make you perfect in every good worke to doe his will working in you that which is pleasing in his sight through Iesus Christ to whom be glory for ever and ever Now for these my labours if they serve for any Christian use in the Church I am satisfied and that I may doe so I humbly pray to God and shall still for your prosperity Your Honours still to be commanded in the Lord Iohn Weemes A Table of the Contents of the Exercitations of this Booke EXERCITAT I. OF the reducing of the ceremonies of the Law in generall unto the Commandements Pag. 1. First Commandement EXERCITAT II. Of the purification of the woman after her childbirth Pag. 4 Second Commandement EXERCITAT III. Of the place of Gods worship Pag. 7 EXERCITAT IIII. Of the Arke Pag. 11 EXERCITAT V. Where they worshipped when the Arke and Tabernacle were separated Pag. 15 EXERCITAT VI. Of the situation of the City of Ierusalem Pag. 19 EXERCITAT VII In what tribe the Temple stood Pag. 23 EXERCITAT VIII Of the Temple of Ierusalem Pag. 28 A comparison betwixt the first and second Temple Pag. 30 A comparison betwixt the Temple and Christ Pag. 32 A comparison betwixt the Temple and Heaven Pag. 33 EXERCITAT IX Of the Churbims Pag. 34 EXERCITAT X. Of the golden Candle sticke Pag. 39 EXERCITAT XI Of the table of Shewbread Pag. 42 EXERCITAT XII Of the Altar Pag. 45 EXERCITAT XIII Of the Sacrifices in generall Pag. 51 EXERCITAT XIIII Of the Sacrifices in particular and first of the burnt offering Pag. 56 Of the meat offring Pag. 58 Of the peace offring Pag. 59 Of the sinne offring Pag. 63 Of the trespasse offring Pag. 68 EXERCITAT XV. Of the Priests apparrell Pag. 69 EXERCITAT XVI The Lord would not have his people use the customes of the heathen Priests Pag. 73 EXERCITAT XVII That a woman might not weare a mans apparrell Pag. 76 Third Commandement EXERCITAT XVIII Of the Nazarite Vow Pag. 78 Fourth Commandement EXERCITAT XIX Of the passeover Pag. 84 EXERCITAT XX. Of the pentecost Pag. 93 EXERCITAT XXI Of the feast of Tabernacles Pag. 96 EXERCITAT XXII Of the new Moones Pag. 100 EXERCITAT XXIII Of the day of expiation Pag. 106 EXERCITAT XXIIII Of the seuenth yeeres rest and the Iubile Pag. 110 Of the
a duty required in the fift Commandement because parents should provide for their children Lastly these ceremonies generally for the most part are referred to the second Commandement Ceremonies belonging to the first Commandement EXERCITAT II. Of the purification of the woman after her child-birth Luk. 2.22 And when the dayes of her purification according to the Law of Moyses were accomplished they brought him to Ierusalem to present him to the Lord as it is written in the Law of the Lord Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is sayd in the Law of the Lord a paire of Turtle Doves or two young Pigeons How this ceremoniall Law pertaineth to the first Commandement IT may seeme strange to some how this ceremoniall Law should belong to the first Commandement but this is not strange for our conception in sinne is condemned in the Commandements but it is not condemned in any of the Commandements where the act and full deliberation of the minde is forbidden therefore the negative part is especially condemned in the last Commandement and the affirmative is commanded in the first Commandement which requireth the purity of our nature that we may love the Lord with all our heart and so the child must crave pardon for his sinne Psal 51.5 and the mother here must offer her sacrifice for her selfe and her child Two sorts of uncleanenesse the greater and the â—â—sser The mother when she conceived and bare a female she was uncleane in her great uncleannesse seventeene dayes and in her lesse uncleannesse shee was uncleane threescore and sixe dayes Levit. 12.4 When she conceived and bare a male she was uncleane in her great uncleannesse seven dayes and shee was in her lesse uncleannesse thirtie three dayes Ver. 5. The reason why she was longer uncleane when shee bare a female than when she bare a male The reason why the mother was longer uncleane when she bare a female than when she bare a male was not morall because the woman sinned first and not the man but the reason of this is naturall because the male is sooner quickned in his mothers bellie and mooveth more quickly by reason of the greater heat and dryeth up sooner the humidities than the female doth the female againe is more slowly quickned by reason of the greater cold and humiditie and therefore the mother had a longer time prescribed to her for her purification The mother when shee was purified The mother offered for her selfe and her child when she was purified shee was to offer a sacrifice for herselfe and her child Some hold that shee was to offer a sacrifice for herselfe and not for her child and therefore they read the words this wayes When the dayes of her purification are fulfilled for a sonne or for a daughter shee shall bring a lambe of the first yeere for a burnt offering c. But the Text seemeth rather to be read this wayes When the dayes of her purification are fulfilled for a sonne or for a daughter she shall bring a lambe of the first yeere for a burnt offering Mary offered a sacrifice for herselfe and for her sonne And the practise of Mary the Virgin confirmeth this that day that she was purified shee brought a paire of Turtle Doves or two young Pigeons and offered them to the Lord for herselfe and for her child Object But it may be sayd Luk. 2.22 Cum impleti essent dies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and when the dayes of her purification were fulfilled and not of their purification Answ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is put for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 here according to the Hebrew phrase and so it is in the Syriack for the Hebrews put the plurall number for the singular The Hebrewes put the plurall number for the singular and the singular for the plurall oft times as Iud. 12.17 He was buried in the Cities of David that is in one of the Cities of David so Matth. 27.44 the Theeves railed upon him that is one of the Theeves railed upon him So Ionas 1.5 he went downe into the sides of the ship that is to one of the sides So Psal 1.3 A tree planted by the rivers of waters that is one of the rivers So likewise they put the singular number for the plurall number as here the dayes of her purification The child was uncleane as long as the mother was uncleane for the dayes of her and his purification For so long as the mother was uncleane the child who suckt her was also uncleane and Christ who was subject to the Law although there was no morall uncleannesse in him yet he was legally uncleane all this time untill his mother was purified and this serveth for our great comfort that hee became uncleane legally to take away our morall uncleannesse Quest But if Christ was uncleane all this time how could he be circumcised the eight day Answ Christ was but in his great uncleanenesse untill the seventh day as his mother was and therefore he was circumcised the eight day but the females who were not circumcised were uncleane untill the foureteenth day Quest It may be asked why Mary offered a sacrifice for her purification seeing she conceived not her child in originall sinne and this sacrifice was appointed as a remedie against originall sinne Answ As Christ who knew not sinne yet became legally uncleane for our cause so he would have his mother also for her legall uncleanenesse to offer that sacrifice which all other women were bound to offer who were both legally and morally uncleane Conclusion The Conclusion of this is as Elisha when he cured the unsavory waters of Iericho did cast salt into the spring of the waters 2 King 2.21 So we must crave of God that he would first purge the bitter roote of originall sinne before he come to purge our other sinnes David craved pardon of the Lord for this sinne Psalme 51.5 EXERCITAT III. Of the place of Gods worship A ceremoniall appendix of Commandement II. Deut. 12.5 But unto the place which the Lord your God shall chuse out of all your Tribes to put his name there even unto his habitation shall yee seeke and thither shall yee come THe places which served for the worship of God Places for worship approved or commanded by God were either places commanded by God or approved by him places commanded as the Tabernacle and Temple places approved by God was their Synagogues and places of prayer their Synagogues Psal 74 8. they have burnt up all the Synagogues of God in the land their place of prayer was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Syriack Domus orationis a house of prayer Act. 16.13 And on the Sabboth day we went out of the City by a river where prayer was wont to be made The Tabernacle and Temple were Loci ut sic Locus ut locus ut sic as
the Schoolemen speake their Synagogues and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 houses of prayer were but Loci ut loci therefore they might not sacrifice in them but when they worshiped in them they turned alwayes their faces towards the Temple The Tabernacle which was the first place commanded for the worship of God was a type of heaven Psal 15.1 Lord who shall dwell in thy Tabernacle and when they could not have accesse to the Tabernacle they thought themselves but like the wandring Arabians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 appellative hic sumitur a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 protraxit we reade not that Daevid ever dwelt in the tents of Keâ—ar therefore it should be translated as in Kedar that knew not God nor his worship Psal 120.5 Woe is me that I sojourne so long dwelling as in the Tents of Kedar This Tabernacle was divided in three parts the holiest of all the holy place and the court of the people The holiest of all signified heaven the second place signified the state of the old Law where the Priests entered in daily and offered for themselves and the people and the court of the people signified the Church here below The people might not come into the court of the Priests The people might not come into the holiest of all but Esay 56.7 My house shall be called the house of prayer he applyeth this both to the Iewes and Gentiles which Christ applyeth to the Iewes onely in the Temple of Ierusalem and the Prophet speaketh in prototype as Christ in type the Proselytes might not come into the court of the Israelites they stood but in Atrio Gentium in the court of the people but Esay foretelleth that the Gentiles shall have as free accesse to the house of God as the Iewes because his house is the house of prayer and this Salomon foretold 1 King 8.41 If a stranger come from a farre country to call upon thy name then heare thou in heaven that is grant that they may have as great accesse to thee as the Iewes have When Herod built the Temple he wrote an inscription upon the gate of the court of Israel that no stranger should enter in there under the paine of death but now this inscription is changed that whatsoever stranger he be that doth not enter into the house of the Lord shall dye the death before The Levites might not goe into the holy place the people might not enter into the court of the Priest but now wee are all Kings and priests to God 1 Pet. 2.9 before the Levites might enter where the people might not goe they might goe into the court of the Priests but not into the holy place but now all the people are the Lords Levites Mal. 2.8 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 appellative hic sumitur quia habet ×” praefixum Yee have corrupted the covenant of Levi saith the Lord of hostes Levi here is put for the whole people and therefore they have as great accesse now as the Priests had Before none might enter into the holiest of all but the High priest once in the yeere Heb. 9.7 but now all have accesse to the throne of grace Heb 4.16 Rom. 5.2 The Tabernacle and the Temple were alike in many things first in the forme A comparisen betwixt the Tabernacle and Temple for the Tabernacle was a paterne to the Temple Againe there was no light in the holiest of all in the Tabernacle In what things they were alike So neyther in the holiest of all in the Temple and the signification was this Rev. 21.23 and the City had no neede of the Sunne neyther of the Moone How the Lord is sayd to dwell in a cloud to shine in it for the glory of God did lighten it and the Lambe is the light thereof In the holiest of all there was no light and the High priest when he entred into it kindled smoke and he saw nothing because the Lord dwelleth in a cloud Psal 18.11 he was not able to behold the shecina or glory that dwelt in the holiest there was no externall light that came there but the Lambe was the light and when we shall be glorified wee shall not see that inaccessible light in which hee dwelleth So in the holyest both in the Tabernacle and temple there was no light but the light of the Candlestick no light in the Temple but that which the lampe gave for there were no windows in the Temple to give light to it and it was compassed round about with Chambers that it could have no light Ob. 1 Sam. 3.3 And ere the lampe of God went out in the Temple of the Lord where the Arke of God was and Samuel was layd downe to sleepe Then it may seeme that they had other light than the light of the candlestick Answ Before the lampe of God went out that is before the lampes were changed by the Priests and new lights added and the signification of this was the Church should be directed by no light but by the light of the Word 2 Pet. 1.19 We have also a more sure word of Prophesie whereunto yee doe well that yee take heede as unto a light that shineth in a darke place untill the day dawne and the day starre arise in your hearts The Court of the Priests was not covered There was a court for the Priests both in the Tabernacle and Temple and it was not covered above to signifie that the Church here hath more of the light of nature than of the light of grace Againe the Tabernacle and Temple had the like implements both in the Holiest and Holiest of all And last the Tabernacle and the Temple served for the same use for Gods worship In what things the Tabernacle and Temple differed Now let us see wherein they differed First the Tabernacle was moveable and the other was fixed the moveable Tabernacle signified our estate and condition here and the Temple which was unmoveable signified our estate in future glory The Tabernacle had not the court of the Gentiles Secondly the Temple was much more large than the Tabernacle the Tabernacle had not the court of the Gentiles as the temple had there was but one golden candlesticke in the Tabernacle and ten in the Temple 1 King 7.49 So in the Tabernacle was but one brasen Laver in the Temple there were ten so there were but two Cherubims in the Tabernacle but foure in the Temple Lastly the Tabernacle indured not so long as the Temple did and when the Tabernacle had no use it was layd up in the Temple The Conclusion of this is Conclusion the Tabernacle gave place to the Temple So both the Temple and the Tabernacle gave way to Iesus Christ who was both the true Tabernacle and Temple and of whom they were but types EXERCITAT IIII. Of the Arke A Ceremoniall Appendix of Command 2. Exod. 25.17 And thou shalt make a Mercie seate of pure Gold c.
Tribe of Iuda and mount Moriah with Salem and Akra towards the North in the Tribe of Benjamin but if the line be drawne through the valley which was filled up by the Maccabees then mount Moriah is conjoyned with Sion in the Tribe of Iuda for the Temple was builded in the threshing floore of Arauna the Iebusite and the Iebusites dwelt upon mount Sion therefore the division by this valley cannot shew us in what Tribe the Temple stood So that we must search out another line which separateth the Tribe of Iuda from Benjamin which line being to the north of Iuda must be upon the south of Benjamin the two extreames of this line are set downe Iosh 15.5 The line which divided Iuda from Benjamin reached from the dead Sea to the Mediterranean Sea where he describeth the borders of Iuda the cast part of the line tendeth towards the dead Sea at that part where Iordan entereth into it called Lingua maris and the west part of the line tendeth towards the great Sea called the mediterranean Sea these are his words For the east border was the salt Sea even to the end of Iordan this was the dead Sea where Sodome and Gomorra stood And their border in the north quarter was from the bay of the Sea at the uttermost part of Iordan Iosh 15.5 The line commeth from En-rogel thorow the valley of Hinnom to the tongue of the Sea This was towards the east the line was stretched forth towards the west to En-rogel which is a fountaine in the valley of Hinnom where the valley Tyropoeon endeth Now if yee will stretch out the line from the fountaine of En-rogel to the tongue of the Sea it must be drawne through the valley of Hinnom to the north of mount Sion and then it is subjoyned vers 9. speaking of Moriah and the border was drawne from the top of the hill unto the fountaine of the water of Nephtoah which is over against Hinnom towards the west and to the valley of Rephaim towards the north for Iosh 18.16 maketh mention of two valleyes one towards the east of the Citie called Hinnom upon the west of which lieth the hill Moriah and the Temple the other valley is called the valley of Rephaim or of Gyants lying towardes the west and south of mount Sion then the north part of that valley must stretch towards mount Moriah and the line which divideth the Citie and the mountaine thereof to wit Moriah in two parts must touch the valley of Rephaim towards the north The line goeth directly over the top of Mount Moriah the same division is set downe Neh. 11.24 So that Benjamin had the north side of this line and Iuda the south and the line stretching over the top of mount Moriah it went through the middle of the Temple and through the holiest of all so that the one halfe of the Temple stood in the Tribe of Iuda The line goeth through the midst of the Temple the holiest and holiest of all and betwixt the Cherubims and the other in the Tribe of Benjamin the one halfe of the Arke in the one Tribe and the other in the other and of the foure Cherubims two stood in one Tribe and two in another and God himselfe sitting betwixt the wings of the Cherubims is sayd to dwell cethephau betwixt his shoulders How God is sayd to dwell betwixt his shoulders that is in Ierusalem where the Temple stood in the very borders of Iuda and Benjamin 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 humerus vel extremitas alicujus rei Catheph signifieth the borders or marches as if he should say he shall dwell in the very outmost borders of Iuda and Benjamin Now for the better understanding of these things which haue beene spoken before marke this figure following West North. East South And for this cause it was that Salomon had in his throne twelve Lions upholding it but on the seat where he sate and leaned his armes there was a Bullock and a Lyon the Lyon for Iuda and the Bullock for Benjamin by which was signified Why Salomons Throne had a Bullock and an Oxe when ten Tribes should bee rent from his crowne that Iuda and Benjamin should cleave together and uphold the Temple both Iuda and Benjamin went in captivitie together came home together and builded the Temple together Conclusion The Conclusion of this is the kingdome and the priesthood should never be separated for most of the Priests dwelt in the lower citie in the Tribe of Benjamin and the kingly Scepter was in Iuda the upper Citie EXERCITAT VIII Of the Temple of Ierusalem Commandement 2. 1 King 8.30 Hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant and of thy people Israel when they shall pray towards this place THe Lord made choise of this Temple not so much for himselfe as for his people The Lord causes to build the temple not so much for himselfe as for mans cause for God dwelleth not in houses made with hands Act. 7.48 God fitting himselfe to mans capacitie doth as a Prince useth to doe for as a Prince maketh choise of some great Citie for his residence so doth the Lord make choise of Ierusalem The Lord compared to a Prince in his princely house therefore it is called the Citie of the great King Matth. 5.36 and as a prince hath his palace within a great Citie so hath the Lord his Temple within Ierusalem and therefore it is called the place of his habitation Psal 76.2 and as a Prince hath his palace distinguished in so many courts so was the Temple of Ierusalem and as they have their furnished Tables so the Lord hath his Altar for his Table Mala. 1.7 The Lord had his Table and appointed times as it were for dinner and supper and and his appointed time for dinner and supper were the morning and evening Sacrifices Psal 50.10 Every beast of the forrest is mine and the cattell upon a thousand hils If I be hungry I will not tell thee This Temple was called the throne of his glory Iere. 14.21 So the perfection of beauty and the joy of the whole earth Lament 2.15 So the place of his rest Psal 132.14 and 1 Chro. 6.41 It was divided into three parts and therefore The Temple divided in three parts Iere. 7.4 useth a threefold repetition to note these three parts of the Temple The first was the holiest the Seventy call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Divers names â—â—en to the holiest it is also called Oraculum Exod. 25.22 and it called Sanctum Sanctorum the holy of the holiest because it was separated from all profane uses Heb. 9.14 and because it was holy the Highpriest who went into it behoved to sanctifie himselfe before hee went into it and hee was a type of Christ who was holy blamelesse and undefiled and separated from sinners Heb. 26.7 The second part of the Temple was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vel
and glistering like gold So Iob. 37.22 Gold commeth out of the north that is faire and cleare weather It was beaten oyle to signifie with what paine and travell the word is prepared and with patience preached and made to shine in his Church No Waxe might be burnt in these lampes because Honey was uncleane therefore Waxe was uncleane Honey might be in no Sacrifice because it fermenteth Levit. 2.11 So no Waxe might serue for light So there was no silke in the Tabernacle because the Worme which maketh silke was an uncleane thing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 baccae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 spicae The Prophet Zacharie in a vision saw two Olive branches empyting themselves thorow the two golden pipes into the Candlesticke and they are compared to two eares of corne What the two Olive trees were in the vision of Zacharie because they were full of Olive berries as the eares were of graines These Olive trees were the cause of the preservation of the Church and the cause of the maintenance in the Candlesticke The two annointed ones which stand before the Lord of the whole earth vers 14. Targum paraphraseth them to be Zerubbabel and Ioshua who represented the Church and commonwealth The Lord commanded to make snuffers of pure gold for the snuffing of the lampes The snuffers of gold what they signified and snuffe-dishes to receive the snufle he would have the snuffe taken from the light to signifie that he would have the word kept in sinceritie and puritie and hee would have the snuffers of gold to teach them to be blamelesse and holy who are censurers and correctors of others and he would have the snuffe-dishes of gold to teach them that the covering of the offences of their brethren was a most excellent thing Lastly in what manner the Priests dressed the lamps The manner how the Priests trimmed the lampes when the lampe was out he lighted it and when it was not out he dressed it when the middlemost lampe was out he lighted it from the Altar but the rest of the lampes every one he lighted from the lampe that was next and he lighted one after another to signifie that one Scripture giveth light to another they say in the Talmud that the cleansing of the innermost Altar was before the trimming of the five lamps and the trimming of the five lamps before the blood of the daily sacrifice and the blood of the daily sacrifice before the trimming of the two lamps and the trimming of the two lamps before the burning of incense That the Priests should order and trimme the lamps The signification of the trimming of the lamps signifieth how Christ and his Ministers should continually looke unto the purity of doctrine and preaching of the light of the Gospel from evening to morning in the darke place of this world untill the day dawne and the day starre arise in our hearts Reve. 1.13 2 Pet. 1.19 EXERCITAT XI Of the Table of the shewbread A ceremoniall appendix of Commande 2. Exod. 25.23 Thou shalt also make a Table of Shittim wood c. vers 30. And thou shalt set upon the Table shewbread before me alway THe Lord commanded to make a Table and to set twelve loaves upon it The loaves represent the Church First the Church is represented by loaves here as many graines make up one loafe so many beleevers make up one Church 1 Cor. 10.17 for we being many are one bread The loaves made of fine flower Secondly these loaves were made of fine flower and not of barley which was a base graine and therefore used in no other sacrifice but in the offering for jealousie Num. 5.15 So Gideon represented by a barley cake Iudg. 7.13 and I bought her for so many Homers of Barley Hos 3.2 but the Wheate was most excellent graine and the flower of the Wheat was most excellent bread Deut. 32.14 he made them eate the fat of the kidneys of Wheate The twelve loaves represented the twelve tribes Thirdly there stood twelve loaves upon this Table to represent the twelve Tribes who came of the twelve Patriarchs The Tribes were represented by many things these twelve Tribes were represented by many things by the twelve stones set up in Iordan and so by the twelve stones set up in the land of Canaan So by the twelve stones set upon the breastplate of Aaron and upon his shoulders in onyx stones So by Canaan divided into twelve parts and from them the twelve Apostles in the New Testament and the new Ierusalem built upon twelve foundations Revel 21.14 These twelve loaves stood before the Lord Why called shewbread therefore they were called panis facierum or propositionis and they signifie that the Church is alwayes the object of the eye of God and therefore he saith set up no Idoll 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 gnal panai in my presence Why the bread was removed every Sabbath They were removed every Sabbath and new loaves put in their places to signifie the renuing of the graces of God to his Church None might eate of these loaves Who might eate of the shewbread but the Priests who served in their course that weeke and their children the Priests daughter did eate of this bread when she was a widdow and returned home to her father againe Levit. 22.18 So we being maried to the Law and it having dominion over us Rom. 7.1 we were out of our fathers house and might not eate of his holy bread but being dead to the Law Rom. 7.4 and divorced from our sinnes as widowes we may come home to our fathers house and be partakers of the holy things The Priests so long as they were in this holy service The legall sanctification of the Priests and eate this holy bread they were not to keepe company with their wives for this was a part of their ceremoniall uncleannesse Exod. 19.14 Moyses commanded them to wash their cloathes and not to come at their wives This abstinence 1 Sam. 21. How David asked the shewbread is called via munda a cleane way and to eate in this uncleannesse is called via polluta When David in necessity came to Ahimelech the Priest to aske bread for him and his men the Priests had no common bread to give them but this holy bread this bread the Priests sayd they might not eate of it if they were in via polluta and their vessels not sanctified by via polluta is meant here to keep company with their wives and by the sanctification of the vessels is meant the sanctification of our bodies Our bodies called our vessels for our bodies are called our vessels 1 Thessalon 4.4 That euery one of you should know how to possesse his vessell in sanctification honour And that this is the meaning it is cleare by Davids answer when he saith they have abstained from women this three dayes 1 Sam. 21. In their necessity David
sitting at the head of the Table The Heathen sayd of old that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 erant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sine patre that the feast when it wanted the father it wanted the head A bad division of the peace offering The peace offering was divided betwixt God and the Priest and the people but the whore sayd Prov. 7. that she had her peace offerings by her and shee invited her lover to them was not this a strange sharing or division for God to get a part the Priest to get a part and the whore and the whoremonger to get a share but the Lord will not share with such This feast which was adjoyned to the Sacrifices was a feast of joy The feast joyned to the peace offering was a feast of mirth Deut. 16.15 Iud. 21.19 wherein they danced and it figured our spirituall mirth and joy for our redemption by Christ The Idolaters kept this feast to the golden Calfe which they should have kept to the Lord. When they offered their spirituall Sacrifices with their externall Sacrifices then the Lord was much delighted with them and he saith I have eaten my honey and my honeycombe I have drunken my wine and my milke Cant. 5.1 and he tooke such pleasure in these feasts that he invited the Church his spouse to come and eate O friends drinke yea drinke abundantly O beloved But when their Sacrifices wanted the inward Sacrifice then the Lord sayd that they offered but flesh unto him Hose 8.13 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 putridi facti sunt then hee loathed them but as rotten flesh Nehelahhu putridi facti sunt Psal 14.3 they are become rotten and stinking and he continueth in the metaphor they are like wine that hath lost the tast which is called vinum fugiens 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 omnis recessit vinum sugiens when these outward Sacrifices wanted the inward see how unpleasant they were to the Lord Esay 1. I am full of the burnt offerings of Rams and the fat of the fed beasts I delight not in nor in the blood of Lambs of Bullocks or of Goates then he commeth to his smell Outward Sacrifices without the inward are offensive to all Gods senses vers 13 Incense is abomination to me then to his touch vers 14. your new moones and your appointed feasts I am wearie to beare them then to his hearing when yee make many prayers I will not heare them then to his sight ver 15. I will hide mine eyes from them Their Sacrifices were offensive to all Gods senses Of the sin-offering THe burnt offering was for all sinnes in generall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iosephus Lib. 3. Antiq. Cap. 10. the peace offering was a thanksgiving for sinnes remitted and the sin-offering was for sinnes committed for which they craved pardon the sin-offering was either hhataah or asham the first the Seventy translate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the second 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the first were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the second 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Sacrifice which was for the sinnes of ignorance or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 might ascend or descend that is it was more or lesse according to the worth of the offerer Levit. 5.7 the poore might offer a pottle of flower and the rich were to offer according to their ability but in the offering which was for a willing sinne the Sacrifice did neither ascend nor descend it was alike in all So in the punishment of sinne in some sinnes the punishment ascended and descended Exod. 21.28 if a man had kept a pushing Oxe and he had killed a man he was to dye for it or the punishment might descend Sacrificium ascensionis descensionis if a summe of money was layd upon him then he might redeeme his life here the punishment was ascending and descending but if a man had killed a man willingly then the punishment non ascendebat aut descendebat but he was to die for it In the sin-offering there was no oyle or incense neyther in the Sacrifice of Iealousie No Incense in the sin-offering or in the offering of Iealousie because there was nothing acceptable to the Lord in these Sacrifices Observe that there was a Sacrifice for originall sinne Leviti 12. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in errore there was a Sacrifice for sinne of error bishgagah in errore and there was a Sacrifice for sinnes of ignorance but there was no Sacrifice for wilfull sinnes There was a Sacrifice for all sinnes except for wilfull sinnes Heb. 10.36 for if we sinne wilfully after that wee have received the knowledge of the truth there remaineth no more Sacrifice for sinnes Christ prayeth for sinnes of ignorance Lord forgive them for they know not what they doe Luk. 23.34 Let us pray then with David to keepe us from presumptouus sinnes that they have not dominion over us Psal 19.13 There are severall sorts of Sacrifices prescribed for severall sorts of sinners as for the Priest Sacrifices according to the persons for the Prince and for the whole people and for a private man For the Priest was a young Bullocke without blemish The Sacrifice for the Priest which he offered for himselfe and here we are taught if the Highpriest under the Law might erre then the Pope may erre as Pope what priviledge hath hee to bee exempted from error more than the Highpriest had The Highpriest might erre and if they say because hee is the Highpriest under the Gospell therefore he cannot erre but now there is no Highpriest under the Gospel but Iesus Christ Who by his owne blood entred once into the holy place having obtained eternall redemption for us Heb. 9.12 If the Highpriests sinne made the people to sinne he was to offer a Bullocke Levit. 4.3 observe the phrase Lehashmath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in reatam populi that is if he make the people sinne by his evill example so Ioab sayd to David when he caused him to number the people why wilt thou be lehashamah a cause of trespasse to Israel 1 Chro. 21.3 Secondly for the whole people The visible Church may erre and they were to offer a young Bullocke Levit. 4.13 which was the same with the Priests Sacrifice and here observe The sinoffering of the whole people that the whole visible Church may erre otherwayes the Lord would not have appointed a Sacrifice for the error of the whole people The Sacrifice of the Priest and the Sacrifice of the whole people was one to teach us how great the sinne of the Highpriest was Quest Seeing the sinne of the Highpriest was as great as the sinne of the whole people what is the reason that the people were more severely punished than Aaron who made the golden Calfe Answ Aaron did it through infirmitie Why the people more severely punished than Aaron for making the golden Calfe but the people did it willingly and wittingly
were commanded to absteine from the dead and not to come neare their fathers brethren or sisters if they were dead if a man dyed suddenly by them they were defiled and if they touched but one who touched the dead they were defiled the same holinesse was required of them that was required of the highpriest to absteine from the dead Maimone in his treatise of mourning cap. 3. The Iewes say if the Highpriest had lighted upon a dead bodie in the way hee might defile himselfe and bury the dead being alone and none to helpe him So they say if an inferiour Priest and a Nazarite were walking together if he had beene but Nazaraeus dierum he was to burie the dead because his holinesse was not perpetuall but if he had beene a perpetuall Nazarite then the inferior Priest was to bury the dead and not he because as great purity was required in the perpetuall Nazarite as in the Priest concerning the dead Quest Did not Sampson sinne being a Nazarite by touching of the dead bodies and taking off their cloathes Answ He did this by the singular direction of the spirit of the Lord so he dranke of the water which flowed out of the law bone of the Asse and eate of the honey which was in the dead Lion which were al unclean by the law The heathen Priests learned of them not to touch the dead Seneca consolatione ad Marcian cap 15. the Flaminian Priests might not put shoes upon their feete of the leather of that beast which dyed of it selfe and if a Priest happened to have a funerall oration before the dead corpes he used to stretch a vaile betwixt him and the corpes that he might not see it Non licebat Flamini Diali tibias funebres-audire nec locum in quo bustum erat ingredi A Flaminian Priest might not heare the sound of the pipes which were at burialls neither might he come into that place where there was a grave The third thing was this that no Rasor came upon their head they suffered their haire to grow 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 intonsi therefore they were called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they were called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vel intonsi and if they were voluntary Nazarits no Razor might come upon their heads untill the vow was expired and then their haire was cut and cast under the Altar burnt but if they were perpetuall Nazarits there came never a razor upon their head but their haire was onely cut about and this was cincta caesaries Dalila cut off Sampsons haire yet he ceased not to be a Nazarit for the Angell said that he should be a NaZarit unto his death The haire was a signe of strength and as long as Sampson kept his haire hee kept his strength and God threatning to weaken the estate of his people useth this similitude that he will shaue the haire with a razor Esay 7.20 In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor When the voluntary Nazaret vowed a vow for thirty dayes and in the meane time defiled himselfe by touching of the dead if the whole time had beene spent to one day and then if he had touched any uncleane thing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all these former dayes were reckoned nothing to him Iob. 3.6 Naphal fugient aut dilabentur Onkelos inutiles erunt Perire diem ad embolismum pertinet or let let them be reckoned amongst the intercalar dayes which were not numbered amongst the dayes of the yeere and he was to begin his vow anew againe so it is in the course of our sanctification when we haue gone on a while in it and then fall into some great sinne in that case we are to begin our sanctification anew againe Act. 7.42 O yee house of Israel have ye offered to me slaine beasts and sacrificed by the space of forty yeeres in the Wildernesse They offered to the Lord sundry times in the Wildernes according to his ordinance but because now they fell to worship Idols therefore the Lord reckoned the former sacrifices as though they had not beene offered to him When the Israelites had travelled to the confines of Moab to Kadesh-Barnea they fell a murmuring there against the Lord therefore the Lord brought them backe againe after that they had passed sixteene stationes Num. 33.20.35 To the red Sea in which they were baptized 1 Cor. 10.2 So when we fall from the Lord we are to returne backe againe to our Baptisme and first vow And he came and dwelt in Nazaret that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Prophet Matth. 2.23 And he shall be a Nasarit to the Lord. Quest How were these two accomplished in Christ he was called both a Nasarit and a Nazarit Answ Christ was a Nazaret the true branch of the roote of lesse Nazaraus vot◠Nazarenus habitatione and he was a Nasarit truly separate to the Lord and Satan acknowledged him to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luc. 4. As Sampsō was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sanctified to the Lord in type 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he was both 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 et 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 est 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sanctus and he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 oriundus ex Nazaret and in the title of Christs Crosse there was an allusion to that plate of gold which was upon the forehead of the high Priest and therefore Aaron was called the Saint of the Lord because he had holinesse to the Lord written in his forehead that plate of gold was called Nezer it had written upon it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Exod. 30.39 It was written that is ingraven in the plate Christ was that true Nazarit holy blamelesse and undefiled we are to marke that the Seventy to facilitate words and to make them the more easie to be pronounced write the words different from the Hebrew as they say Samaria for Shemron so Solomon for Shelomoh so Nasareus for Nazareus the devil being well acquainted with all languages could cal Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 putting S for Z so in the inscription upon the Crosse they call him that Nasarit or Nazarit Ob. But Christ did drinke wine therfore he cannot be called Nasarit but Nazarit onely Answ He was not a legall Nasarit for he fulfilled that in his forerunner Iohn the Baptist but he was the true Nasarit separated from sinners the Iewes in contempt called Christ a Nazarit and so Iulian the apostate called Christ a Galilean because Nazarit stood in Galilee and it was for this that the Christians were called at the first Nazaraei but afterward their name was changed at Antioch and they were called Mesichijm Christiani From the cutting of the Nazarits haire they brought in shaving of the heads in the Christian Church and they said that long haire signified superfluity in manners hence came this speech afterwards Tonso capite fieri monachus
judaizing in this point Commandement IIII. EXERCITAT XIX Of the Passeover Levit. 23.5 In the fourteenth day of the first moneth is the Lords passover How the Passeover pertaineth to the fourth Commandement THe passeover as it was a sacrifice and a sacrament it is an appendix of the second Commandement but the time of it set downe here is an appendix of the fourth Commandement The word Passeover taken diversly This word Passeover is taken sundry wayes in the Scripture First for passing over because the Angell passed over the houses of the Israelites and destroyed them not Exod. 12.11 It is the Lords passeover Secondly Passeover is taken for those actions which were done about the passeover as killing the lambe sprinkling of the blood eating of it and such Matth. 26.17 Thirdly for the feast which was annexed to the Passeover 2 Chro. 35.11 They killed the Passeover and the Priests sprinkled the blood c. This was for the feast of the Passeover Fourthly for the Lambe killed at the Passeover Matth. 26.19 And they made ready the Passeover That is the Lambe which was killed at the Passeover so Marc. 14.12 They killed the Passeover Lastly for the time of the Passeover as Luc. 22.1 They had in this Passeover unleavened bread a Lamb bitter herbes and a cup in which they did drinke First they had unleavened bread The unleavened bread called the poores bread this unleavened bread was panis pauperum the poores bread Deut. 13.6 Yet the Lord taketh this unleavned bread for the Sacrament it was a great change Why they had unleavened bread in the Passeover when Moses rod which was the shepheards rod was made the rod of the Lord so this was a great change when he tooke the poores bread and made it this bread of his Sacrament they were commanded to eate the bread in remembrance of their hastening out of Egypt when they had no leisure to ferment it but Christ changed it to another sort of remembrance to be a memorall of his death in the Sacrament 1 Cor. 11 24. Doe this in remembrance of me It must be unleavened bread for leavened bread signified either Hypocrisie or malice David calleth a wicked man A leavened person Psal 71.4 So a leavened heart Psal 73.21 So Matt. 16.6 Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and 1 Cor. 5.7 Purge out the old leaven Then they eate it with bitter herbes Why eaten with sowre herbes to put them in remembrance of their affliction in Egypt and Ieremiah seemeth to allude to this Lament 3.15 Allusion He hath filled me with bitternesse he hath made me drunken with worme wood Quest Whether was the cup in the paschall supper a Sacramentall Cup or not Answ Not Whether the Cup in the Passeover was a Sacramentall Cup or not for there is no mention made of it in the institution the Lord commandeth to take a Lambe unleavened bread and bitter herbes but not a word of the Cup wherefore this cup was but their common Cup in which they used to drinke It may be said Obj. that the Master of the familie blessed this Cup. Answ This was not constitutiva sanctificatio but invocativa Sanctificatio Constitutio Invocatio it is constitutiva invocatio that maketh it a Sacrament accedat verbum ad elementum et fiet Sacramentum saith Augustine and when it wanteth the word of institution then it cannot be a Sacrament it is true that Christ transferred this cup Many things that are common changed to a holy use and made it Sacramentall under the Gospell but it was not sacramentall under the Law it was onely a common cup the water which they dranke out of the Rocke was a Sacrament to them 1 Cor. 10.4 and it was also common water for their beasts drunke of it So this was but a common Cup to them but Christ made it Sacramentall somethings againe which were Sacramentall to them were common at Christs Supper as the eating of bitter herbes Last it was not a Sacramentall Cup for the blood of the Paschall Lamb signified the blood of Christ there are not two things appointed in the Sacrament to signifie one thing What things were proper to the Passeover in Egypt and what proper to it in Canaan Things proper to the Passeover in Egypt were first they eate the Passeover in their severall houses when they were in Egypt but afterwards they were bound to eate it in Ierusalem onely Deut. 16.5.6 2 Chro. 35. Secondly in Egypt the blood was sprinkled upon the Lintels of the doores but afterwards it was sprinkled upon the Altar 2 Chro. 35. and then the Master of the house caused to bring backe the Lamb to his house and eate it with his family Luc. 22.7.8 Thirdly in Egypt they stood when they eat the Paschall Lambe with their loines girt and their staves in their hands to signifie that they were to make haste away Allusion and Esay alludeth to this Esay 52.12 For yee shall not goe out with haste nor goe by flight but when they came to Canaan they sate when they eate the Passeover Quest Their sitting at the Passeover was not a significative Ceremony Whether was their sitting a significative ceremony or not when they eate the Passeover in Canaan Answ Seven memorable Passeovers Not it was onely after the custome of men when they sit to eate meat There were sundry memorable Passeovers The first in Egypt the second in the Wildernesse the third in the dayes of Ioshua Cap. 5.10 the forth in the dayes of Hezekiah 2 Chro. 30. the fift in the dayes of Iosiah where there was not such a Passeover holden from the dayes of the Iudges that judged Israel nor in all the dayes of the Kings of Israel 2 King 23.22 The Sixt after they returned from the captivity Ezra 6.9 The last Passeover was that which Iesus kept with his Disciples Luc. 22. where he put an end to the Passeover and instituted his owne Supper in the place of it Quest Whether was the Lambe which was killed at the Passeover a Sacrament or a sacrifice Answ The most hold that it was not a sacrifice and their reasons are these Reas 1 First it might be killed by others than by the Priest therefore it was not a Sacrament Reas 2 Secondly Exod. 8.26 It was abhomination for the Israelites to sacrifice in Egypt but the paschall Lambe was eaten in Egypt therefore the paschall Lambe was not a sacrifice Reas 3 Thirdly a Sacrament differeth from a sacrifice for in a sacrifice we offer to God and in a Sacrament wee receive from God the Paschall Lambe was a Sacrament therefore it could not be a sacrifice Reas 4 Fourthly that which was eaten of the sacrifice was eaten onely in the Temple but the Paschall lambe was eaten out of the Temple therefore it was not a sacrifice Answ Now for answer to the first after that they came out of Egypt and the priesthood was setled the
to the feast of the Tabernacles and Ioh. 2.37 it is called the last and the great day of the feast Besides these legall feasts in this moneth they had likewise on the fourth day the fast of Godaliah and upon the twenty third day was festum latitiae legis et benedictio They had but one feast in the Moneth Nisan and one in Iair the Pentecost So the Lord commanded that the Land should rest in the seventh yeere and every seventh seventh in the Iubile The lan◠was laboured six yeeres and these yeeres were called Anni georgici The land was to rest the seventh yeere 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this was called annus shemittah from Shamat liberum demittere and not to seeke any due of it for those who laboured the ground to seek fruit of it every yeere was too much and gave no time of rest to the ground The Lord taught the Iewes sundry things by the resting of the Land What things the Iewes were taught by the rest of the seventh yeere for as the Sabbath day taught them that as they were the Lords they behoved to cease from their owne workes to doe his worke So the Sabbath of the seventh yeere taught them that both they and their land was the Lords and therefore it was to rest Secondly this yeere taught them to depend upon the Lords providence for the Lord promised his blessing upon the sixt yeere that the Land should bring out for three yeeres Levi. 25.20 Thirdly this yeere was a signe to them of their eternall rest Lastly he instituted this yeere to teach them to be pitifull to the poore for those things which grew of their owne accord that yeere were alloted to the poore and to the strangers Quest How could they live seeing the land rested the seventh yeare Answ The Lord answered Levit. 25.21 How God blessed the sixt yeere that it served for three yeeres Thar he should so blesse the sixt yeere that it should serve for three yeares and here we may see how the promises were fulfilled which were made Levit. 26 10. Ye shall bring out the old because of the new that is there shall be such plenty of new that yee must bring forth the old to make roome for it and that is that which Amos speaketh cap. 9.13 Haebraice 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a specie in speciem et chaldaice 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ab anno in annum Arator apprehendet messorem the plowman shall ever take the reaper that is the old and the new shall meete together So Psal 144.13 That our garners may be full affording all manner of store but the Chaldee Paraphrast paraphraseth it Affording corne from one yeere to another The fertility of the seventh yeare was not meerely naturall Here we may observe that this fertility of the seventh yeare was not merely naturall but proceeded from the blessing of God Secondly all those who rested the seventh yere from their labours yet they wanted nothing but it was supplied by the blessing of God Mal. 3.10 Effundam vobis vsque ad non sufficientiam that is that yee shall not have vessells to containe the oyle and the wine nor garners to containe the corne which I shall bestow upon you Never man suffered any losse in Gods service So those who abstaine from their labours upon the Sabbath it shall never impoverish them for the blessing of God upon the weeke dayes shall supply all their wants so the Lord promised when they shall goe up to Ierusalem to serve him at their feasts that he would keepe their land from the incursion of the enemies Exo. 34.24 and we see Iosh 5.2 When they were circumcised the Lord strooke such a feare and terror in the hearts of the Canaanites that they durst not touch them as Simeon Levi killed the Sichemites when they were newly circumcised never man yet got hurt in the service of God He shall still find the Lords protecting Hand and blessing in his service When hee sent out the seventy Disciples without purse scrip and shooes he said Lacked ye any thing and they said Nothing Luc. 22.35 Nebuchadnezzer shall not want a reward for his service which he did to the Lord albeit he was an heathen for hee got the Land of Egypt for his wages Ezek. 29.20 The next priviledge of the Sabbaticke yeare was this Deut. 14.1 Debts were payed in the seventh yeare that mens debts were pardoned to them if they became poore and had nothing to satisfie but not if they had sufficient to pay then they were bound to satisfie and if they were poore the Lord commanded to lend unto them Deut. 15.19 although the seventh yeare was at hand but that which was borrowed for necessitie onely was not to be restored and the naturall Iewes had onely this priviledge but not the Proselytes The third priviledge of this yeare was this Servants were set a liberty this yeare Exod. 21.2 He shall goe out free in the seventh yeere paying nothing to wit if he was an Hebrew servant but if hee was not an Hebrew servant but a stranger then he was to serve untill the yeare of the Iubile Levit. 25.4 The fourth thing which was done in the seventh yeare The Law was publikely read this yeare the Law was publikely read Deut. 31.10 Quest Whether or not kept they alwayes these sabbaticall yeares Answ Not Ier. 34.14 therefore the Lord plagued them with divers plagues and especially with barrennesse of the sixt yeare 2 Mach. 6.43.49 Quest When began this yeare of the rest Answ Some hold that it began after the land was divided by Lot At what yeare the first Rest began but seeing the Land was twise divided by Lot first in Gilgal Ioh. 14. Secondly in Siloh a few yeares after because the first division was not perfected this account of the seventh yeare seemeth to begin at the latter division of the Land Ios 18 2. Quest What time of the yeare began this rest of the seventh yeare Answ From Tishri and not from Nisan At what time of the were this Rest began for if it had begun in Nisan then they should have lost two Harvests first they might not cut downe the Corne which was growing upon the ground in Nisan and then secondly they might not sow in Tishri and so they should have lost both the Harvests Exod. 23.16 and 34.22 but the Lord saith Levit. 25.27 Yee shall sow the eighth yeare therefore they wanted but one sowing and one Harvest Of the Jubile 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Produxit eduxit Their great Sabbaticall yeare was the yeare of the Iubile It was called the Iubile from Iobhel or hobhel deduxit or produxit because it brought men backe againe to their first estate the Seventy translate it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because they were brought backe to their first estate and Philo Iudaeus calleth it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 restitutio and Iosephus 〈◊〉
out of the Sanctuary Ezek. 44.17 and so by their meates putting a distinction betwixt clean and uncleane and so by their houses when he commanded the Law to be written upon the posts of their doores and by the Battlements to be put about their new houses and so by their husbandry when he commanded them not to plow with an Oxe and an Asse and not to sow their fields ' with divers sorts of seede So by their flocks to offer their first borne of them to him and here when they were walking in the fields if a birds nest were before them in the way either in a tree or upon the ground they were commanded to spare the damme to teach them reverence to their Parents wheresoever they lookt they had some instruction before them He forbiddeth them to kill the Damme and the yong ones together Why God would not have the Iewes to kill the Damme with the yong ones he commanded them to eate flesh after the flood but here he would restraine their appetite that they should not kill both the Damme and the yong ones and which is more the Lord forbiddeth when they are about to sacrifice that they kill not the Cow or the Ewe and their young ones both in one day Levit. 22.27 So the Iewes say that they might not kill the damme upon the young ones although it were for cleansed of the Leprosie Lev. 14.4 And if he will not have this done for his owne worship farre lesse will he have men do it for their own private use God will have mercy and not sacrifice Matth. 9.13 he forbiddeth them to kil the Dam but they might take the young ones he will not have them like the Pythagoreans who thought it unlawfull to kill any beast or fowle neither will he have them like Barbarians who kill all without respect but he will have them kill the young ones and spare the old to teach them reverence towards their parents No creature but man may make use of it there is no creature but man may make some use of it either to make it the object of his pity or else to imitate it as the Storke the Crane and Swallowes Who know their times Iere. 8.7 yea the Lord sendeth the sluggard to the pismire to learne Prov 6.6 Honour thy father and thy mother is the greatest Commandement in the second table and it hath this promise annexed unto it that they who honour their parents shall live a long life and here the Lord joyneth it to the meanest of all the Commandements which the Iewes call Praeceptum leve the Lord set the ceremonies Sejag Latorah as a hedge about the Law 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and as the hedge is a fence to keepe out beasts so were these ceremonies set as a hedge to keepe the Iewes that they should not breake in to violate the morall This law to spare the Damme upon the yong ones binds us not now If a man should find a bird fitting in this land upon her yong ones he is not bound by this Law to spare her more then he is bound when he reapeth his field to leave the gleanings ungathered yet he is bound by the Morall Law to shew pity to his beast and so upon the foule neither could he promise to himselfe longer life if he should doe so but onely he must looke to the morall precept which obligeth man still when these ceremonies are abolished Object It may be said where the reason or the promise annexed to the Law is perpetuall there the law is perpetuall but this promise is perpetuall long life to the obedient child therefore it might seeme that this law is perpetuall How the promise is annexed to this ceremoniall precept and to the morall precept Simile Answ The promise is properly annexed to the morall Law and but accidentally to the ceremoniall Law a father hath a child whom he mindeth to make his heire he biddeth his child doe such and such things which are but trifles and then he promiseth unto him the inheritance there are more weighty conditions included in this promise but for the childs nonage and because as yet he is not capable of the greater conditions therefore his father setteth downe those meaner conditions unto him the inheritance is promised unto him especially if he observe the maine conditions but the meaner are set downe for the present to him so dealleth the Lord with the Iewes here The keeping of the whole Commandements hath this promise of long life annexed unto it Prov. 3.1.2 my sonne forget not my law but let thine heart keepe my Commandements for length of dayes and long life and peace shall they adde unto thee so Deut. 8.1 and 30.16 But it is more particulary annexed to this Commandement and it is called the first Commandement with promise Ephes 6.2 Commandement VI. EXERCITAT XXVI That the Jewes might eat no blood A ceremoniall appendix of Command 6. Deut. 12.24 Thou shalt not eate it thou shalt powre it upon the earth as water The blood is not the forme to the body THe Lord forbiddeth the Iewes his people to eate blood because the life is in the blood the blood is not the forme to the living body because one body cannot be the forme to another neither is it a part of the body for it nourisheth the rest of the body and one part nourisheth not another and it is more excellent than milke melancholly or marrow for they have their residence in some particular parts of the body but the blood is dispersed through the whole body and none of those are profitable to the body unlesse they be mixed with blood Why the life is said to be in the blood The life is said to be in the blood because the naturall heat is preserved in the body by blood the blood it selfe is a thing naturally cold and it is the heat of the spirits which commeth from the heart that heateth the body and the blood but keepeth in the heat as a mans cloathes doe quae non calefaciunt sed recalefaciunt it but keepeth in the spirits which are in the heart but when the blood is let out then the spirits faile and the blood is congealed Although the soule be said to be in the blood The blood is not the seat of the soule yet we must not thinke that the blood is the seat of the soule because the seat of the soule is some principall member of the bodie but the blood is not a member of the body the seat of the soule is a firme and a permament thing and it hath sense especially the Touch but the blood in it selfe hath no sense wherefore it is not the seat of the soule but the common instrument and Vehiculum which carieth the spirits The life is in the blood The passions shew themselves in the blood all the passions of man shew themselves in the blood as the blood is hote with
made it We are not to make an allâ—goricall application of any thing in the old Testament to the Church in the new but where the holy Ghost hath made it Example Galat. 4.25 Hagar and Sara in the old Testament are applied allegorically to the new coveant and they are said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or as the Syriacke hath it to be at peace together or agree together Hagar her sonne Ismael and the Law and Ierusalem below here and her children are all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sara againe the freewoman her sonne Isaac the new covenant Ierusalem which is from above and her children are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but they are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Hagar and her children Psal 40.6 Mine eare hast thou boared but Heb. 10.5 A bodie hast thou prepared for me it is commonly holden that this is an allegoricall application applied to Christ taken from the boaring of the servants eare under the Law but if it had beene an allusion to that forme under the Law why would the Apostle then who was most skilfull in application of the ceremonies set it downe thus thou hast prepared a body for me And David saith Psal 40.6 Thou hast boared mine eares Whereas the right eare of the servant was onely boared EXERCITAT XXXVI Of the abrogation of the Ceremoniall Law THE Leviticall ceremonies are considered three wayes first with CHRIST Secondly The ceremonies considered three wayes without Christ and thirdly against Christ In the first estate they were weake Elements and could bring nothing to perfection Heb. 10 1. And therefore they were to be abolished and the Gospel was to come in the place of them Heb. 7.19 The Law made nothing perfect but the bringing in of a better hope did by the which we draw neare to God First Lex rogatur the Law is given Secondly Subrogatur when somethings are added to the first Law Lex rogatur subrogatur obrogatur derogatur abrogatur Thirdly Obrogatur when something is changed in the first Law Fourthly derogatur when something is taken from it Fifty Abrogatur when it is altogether abolished and taken away When the ceremoniall Law was given The ceremonial law was was not changed in part but altogether abolished there was nothing subrogate or put to it neither was it obrogated changed in part neither was it derogated any thing taken from it but fully abrogated and therfore the Apostle saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Superinducta est spes melior the new covenant was not brought in upon the old that they might be both joyned in one but the old was first abrogated and the new brought in in the place of it Againe the Apostle saith Gods chiefe delight was not in sacrifices under the Law A body hast thou prepared for me as if he would say thou hast made choice of no sacrifices thou wouldst not have them for thou tookest no delight in them thy delight was in the most excellent thing and not in the basest 1 Sam. 15.22 Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and in sacrifices as in obeying behold to obey is better then sacrifice A threefold use of the ceremonies under the Law These ceremonies had three speciall uses when they were in force first to helpe the Iewes infancy but the Church under Christ comming to mans age these ceremonies have no use now many things become a child which are unseemely in a man Secondly these ceremonies served for signification when we have the fruit there is no use of the blossome so when Christ is come there is no use of the ceremonies Thirdly these ceremonies served to make a partition wall betwixt the Iewes and the Gentiles but this partition wall is now broken downe and there is one sheepheard and one sheepfold Ioh. 10.16 and therefore this use ceaseth now Three errours concer-cerning Christ Secondly the ceremonies are considered without Christ when the Apostles did beare with the weake Iewes for a while And in this estate they were beggerly elements Coloss 2.20 Scotus observeth the periode of circumcision the first period was from the institution of it untill the time that Christ was baptized then it was Necessaria et utilis the second period was from the Baptisme of Christ untill the promulgation of the Gospell Goe teach all Nations Baptizing them Matth. 28.19 In this period it was Vtilis sed non necessaria Profitable but not necessary the third period from the promulgation of the Gospell untill the destruction of the Temple it was Licita in this period Sed non vtilis The fourth period was from the destruction of the Temple or rather from the Councell of the Apostles even unto this time then it was altogether Illicita In this estate when the ceremonies were Licita sed non vtilis they did beare with the weake Iewes at Ierusalem but not at Antioch who would have added the ceremonies to the Gospell Paul circumcised Timothy Act. 16.3 bearing with the weake Iewes but hee would no wayes beare with the malicious Iewes therefore hee would not Circumcise Titus lest hee should strengthen them in their obstinacy Galath 2.3 The ceremonies being dead and Christ come Quest how could Cornelius Prayers and almes bee acceptable to God seeing he waited for Christ to come Answ There are three sorts of error concerning Christ Error temporis condetionis persona the first was error temporis the second was error conditionis and the third was error personae Error temporis was twofold either of simple ignorance or of affected ignorance simple ignorance as that of Cornelius and for this cause Peter was sent to teach him that Christ was come and therefore his error was pardonable affected ignorance is that ignorance of the Iewes who will not know nor beleeve that Christ is come although the truth bee evidently demonstrated unto them Error conditionis was that in the Apostles who tooke Christs Kingdome to be a Worldly Kingdome at the first Act. 1.6 When wilt thou restore the Kingdome to Israel This error was a dangerous error but yet was pardoned because as yet the holy Ghost was not come downe upon them the third was error personae and this was when they tooke false christs for the true Christ Matth. 24.24 And this error was alwayes damnable Quest Whether may these lawes which are mixtly ceremoniall be kept now under the Gospel or not Answ Where the ground of the law is ceremoniall and the Iudiciall but an appendix of it it no wayes may be kept Example this is a ceremoniall law cursed is he that hangeth upon a tree Whether Lawes mixtly ceremoniall doe bind the ceremoniall part is that he is accursed that hangeth upon a tree wee must not thinke that hee is accursed now who hangeth upon a tree therefore that law is quite abolished the Iudiciall part is this that he shall not hang all night upon the tree and this law bindes not Christians now because it is an appendix of
this ceremoniall Law but where the ground of the Law is Iudiciall and the ceremony but an appendix of it then the Iudiciall law may be observed at least the equitie of it Example Cities of refuge were appointed as a Iudiciall Law to save the mankiller from the revenger of the blood there was a ceremony annexed to this Law that they should stay within the City of refuge untill the death of the High-priest this was but an appendix of the judiciall Law therefore the Law may stand that Cities of refuge bee kept or at least the equity of it that those who casually kill be not slaine Quest What if a Christian now should keepe any of the ceremonies commanded in the Law Answ There is a three fold use of the ceremonies Materialis formalis mixtus vsus a materiall a formall and a mixed use A threefold use of the ceremoniall Law Materialis as if a man should abstaine from eating of swines flesh onely because it were unwholsome he Iudaizeth not in this case but if hee should abstaine from swines flesh as a meat uncleane and forbidden in the Law then he should formally keepe the ceremony and truely Iudaize the mixt use is this when a Christian borroweth Iewish ceremonies to any use in the Christian Church Marke how the Apostles in their practise renounced the ceremonies of the Law first the Apostles kept the Christian Sabbath after Christs Resurrection and not the Iewish Sabbath therefore they renounced the ceremonies and the Apostle willeth the Corinthians to keepe the Passeover all the dayes of their life in holinesse and restrained it not to some few dayes as the Iewes Passeover was Object But when the dayes of the Pentecost were fulfilled Act. 2.1.2 Cor. 16. Here Paul reckoneth according to the Iewish Pentecost Answ When he speaketh of their Pentecost here and when he sayes the dayes of their fast were expired Act. 27.9 the Iewes at the day of expiation had a great fast Paul doth not Iudaize here but onely marketh these for a civill use to know the time of the yeare which was most knowne to the Iewes when Paul Act. 17.19 calleth Areopagus Mars street none will thinke that Paul worshipped Mars here but he useth onely this name as a name of distinctiō to know this street frō other streets so when he sayes that he sayled in a ship that had the badge of Castor and Pollux Act. 28.11 we must not thinke he worshipped Castor and Pollux but hee useth them onely as names of distinction to put a difference betwixt this ship and other ships Paul used the names of the Iewes feasts for distinction so when Paul useth the name of the Pentecost and the name of the fast Act. 2. and 27.9 he used them onely as names for distinctions sake and not for any Iewish observation and when Paul practised any of these ceremonies he practised them not for the ceremonies themselves but for the weake Iewes sake Example When he did shave his head in Cenchrea the Port towne in Corinth Act. 18.18 this was not according to the Law altogether Paul did not shave his head according to the law for if he had done it according to the Law he should have gone to Ierusalem and there have cast the haire of his Nazarits vow under the Altar and burnt it after the death of Christ none of the Apostles ever went to the brasen Altar againe to sacrifice but onely they practised some of the meaner ceremonies bearing with the weake Iewes Quest How could these ceremonies be hinderances from Christ seeing they were types of him to come Answ Christ saith Ioh. 16.7 If I goe not away the Comforter shall not come Christs bodily presence amongst the Apostles hindered his spirituall presence amongst them if the bodily presence of Christ hindered the comming of the Spirit unto them how much more did these ceremonies under the Law hinder the sight of his Incarnation and obscure his glory amongst them The ceremonies in the third estate are against Christ In the third estate these ceremonies were against Christ in this estate the Apostle calleth it concision and not circumcision Phil. 3.2 In the third estate the Iewes preferred the shadow to the body The errour of the Iewes in preferring the Ceremonies to Christ the bones to the marrow and the letter to the spirit they preferre the shadow to the body the ceremonies to Christ the bones to the marrow because they content themselves onely with the outward figures and types and seeke not for the thing signified and so they have the killing letter but not the quickning spirit and therefore Saint Hierome compareth them well now to dogges who get onely the bones to gnaw but they get none of the marrow or that hidden Manna Iesus Christ to their saluation Conclusion The conclusion of this is it was a great benefit to learning when the obscure Hieroglyphicks in Egypt were changed into letters and the darke and mysticall writings of Plato were changed by Aristotle into a cleare and plaine forme of writing It is a farre greater benefit when the Lord hath changed these darke figures and shadowes into the cleare light of the Gospel Hovv to make use of the Ceremonies of the Law in opening of a Text and reducing them to practise Of the Notes whereby Aaron and his posterity were discerned to be called to the Priesthood Num. 17.2 And the Lord spake unto Moses saying speake unto the Children of Israel and take every one of them a rod c. WHen Corah and his complices murmured against Aaron and contended with him for the Priesthood as we may see in the Chapter preceding the Lord commanded every one of the first borne of the tribes to bring a rod to him that by this new miracle causing Aarons rod to blossome he might end this controversie and confirme Aaron the more in the Priesthood The Prince of the tribe represented the whole tribe Secondly hee commanded that the names of the Princes of the tribes should be written upon the rods and the reason was because the Prince represented the whole tribe so the Prince being repelled from the Priesthood the whole tribe was repelled Write thou every mans name upon his rod. Aaron had not written upon his rod the Tribe of Levi but the name of Aaron and so the rest of the Princes Another reason wherfore the names were written upon the rods of the Princes was because the Princes of the tribes were their first borne and therefore they might seeme to claime right to the Priesthood every mans name was written upon his rod and Aarons name was written upon his rod because he was the first borne of Levi for the first borne of Levi was Cohath and he begot Amram and Amram begot Aaron who was elder than his brother Moses Quest How were the Tribes reckoned in the Scriptures Answ How the tribes are reckoned in the Scripture Whē a matter is in hand which
cōcerneth the whole people then Levi is reckoned amongst the rest as in the matter of blessing and cursing Deut. 27. So in setting up the twelve stones at Iordan and upon Aarons breastplate so here when the question is to which of the Tribes the Priesthood belonged but when the matter is concerning civill things then Levi is excluded as in the division of the land and then the tribe of Ioseph is divided into two Ephraim and Manasses and so there are twelve Tribes Every Tribe must lay their rod before the Lord and have their name written upon it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tribus and from hence it came afterwards that the Tribes were called Shebhte because they carried rods before them and their names written in them and therefore Baculus is put for Tribus Num. 1.4.16.26 Iosh 20.10 Aaron tooke not his brother Moses rod which was the rod of God Why Aaron tooke not his brothers rod. by which he wrought so many miracles for the rest of the Tribes would have excepted against that rod because it was the rod of God but it was a common rod like the rest of the rods that they might take no exception against it The rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded God thinkes not every man fit for this holy calling he maketh choise here of Aarons rod amongst all the rest and maketh it to bud God thinketh not every man fit for the Calling of the Ministery No man taketh this honour unto himselfe but he that is called as was Aaron Heb. 5.4 First no man taketh this honor that is ought to take it What it is to take this calling Secondly take it that is usurpeth it at his owne hand as he that taketh the sword shall dye with the sword Matth. 26.55 That is he that takes it having no calling So thou shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vaine Exod. 20.7 that is usurpe it having no calling to take it up Thirdly this honor the Priesthood was an honorable calling and therefore every base fellow should not usurpe it any was fit enough yea the basest of the people if he could but conserate a ram to bee a Priest sufficient for Ieroboam 1 King 12.31 but the Lord would have none to take upon him this honorable calling but those whom he separated for it and were called as was Aaron if any man might challenge this prerogative might not the King but see what Vzzia got for attempting this 2 Chro. 26.19 Saul for sacrificing before Samuel came thou that canst not shew that the Lord hath made thy rod to bud meddle not with this calling for then some marke of Gods wrath may light upon thee The rod of Aaron was budded This miracle was not so much to confirme Aaron as to convince his gainstanders the Lord sayes The chiefe end of this miracle was to convince the enemies of Aaron Bring Aarons Rod backe againe to bee kept for a token against the Rebels As the Rodde was kept for a testimony against the rebels so it budded for a testimony against them the Apostle 1 Cor. 14.22 saith of tongues that they are for signes not to them that beleeve but to them that beleeve not so are miracles for the most part ordained for those that are unbeleevers Miracles doe not beget faith but confirme it or for those who had a small measure of faith in the beginning of the Gospell see what sort have beene most desirous of miracles those who had no faith first the Devill he cryed for a miracle that stones might be turned into bread Matth. 4.3 Secondly the rich glutton in hell he would have one sent from the dead to tell his brethren Luc. 16.30 Moses and the Prophets would not serve the turne so the misbeleeving Nazarits would have had a signe from Christ What sort of people desired miracles and the Iewes would have seene miracles Mat. 12.39 And Herod hoped to have seene some miracle of Christ Luc. 23.8 All these because they had not faith cryed for miracles When Paul healed the father of Publius the Consull of a fever he healed him by a miracle and made him presently to arise Act. 28.8 but he healed not Timothy that way but seemed rather to play the Physitian to him bidding him drinke no longer water but wine 1 Tim. 5.23 What was the reason of this Timothy beleeved therefore he needed not a miracle but the father of Publius beleeved not he was an infidell as yet therefore a miracle was more necessary for him many men cry for miracles but that argues infidelity in them but if thou didst beleeve thou neededst none of these they serve but for infidels but they serve nothing to beget faith the theefe said if thou wilt come downe from the Crosse and save thy selfe and us then I wil beleeve in thee Luc. 23.39 But if the death of Christ will not worke faith in the if thou shouldst see miracles both in heaven and earth they will never convert thee Quest What is the reason that God confirmes not now mens callings by miracles Answ Because now religion hath taken roote Why God confirmeth not mens calling by miracles Simile at the first when the Law and the Gospell were planted they were confirmed by miracles but when they once tooke roote he withdrew these miracles A gardner when he transplāteth a tree out of one ground to another before the tree take roote he setteth stayes to it he poureth water at the roote of it dayly but when it once taketh roote he ceaseth to water it and pulleth away the stayes that he set to uphold it and suffereth it to grow with the ordinary influence of the heavens so a Chirurgian when a legge is broken he bindeth it up but after the bones be fastened he taketh away these helps from it so the Lord in planting of Religon he put to these helpes of miracles as stayes to uphold it but when it is once confirmed and fastened he taketh away these helpes Quest What sort of miracle was this when Aarons rod did bud Ans The Schoolemen marke that there are three sorts of miracles First miracles in the highest degree Thom. contra gentiles Secondly miracles in the second degree and thirdly miracles in the lowest degree Miracles in the highest degree they make to be these Three sorts of miracles wherein nature never had a hand as for the sunne to goe backe and stand stil Miracles in the second degree they make to be these when nature had once an hand in them but when they are once decayed nature can never restore them againe nature bringeth forth a man seeing but when he is once blind nature can never make him to see againe but when he is restored to his sight againe this is a miracle in the second degree A miracle in the third degree they make to bee this when nature in time could doe such a thing but nature
upon a sodain cannot doe this and when it is done upon a sodaine it is a miracle in the third degree they give the example of this in Peters mother in law when Christ upon a sodaine cured her of a Feaver nature in time might have cured her of this Feaver but because she was cured of this Feaver upon a sodaine it was a miracle in the third degree Now what sort of miracle was this when this Almond rod budded and brought forth upon a sodaine it was a miracle in the second degree for an Almond tree will bring foorth Almonds by nature but being once cut up it cannot bring forth Almonds againe then it was a miracle in the second degree for nature could never have made this rod to bring forth Almonds Why Corah and Dathan contended for the Priesthood Dathan and Abiram contended for the Priesthood because they were of the posterity of Ruben the eldest brother and Corah thought that it belonged to him because he was the eldest sonne of Levi as Adonijah contended with Salomon for the kingdome because he was the eldest sonne of David Dathan and Abiram contended for the Priesthood because they came of Reuben Lineall succession not alwayes the Lawfull successinn Learne then that lineall succession is not alwayes the lawfull succession these were lineally descended of Ruben yet this lineall succession failed for Ruben lost his dignity by incest the Church of Rome now hath a lineall succession from the ancient Roman Church but by their spirituall whoredomes and adulteries Simile they have lost their succession Scarabeus or the dunghill flye bragg'd upō a time that he was more excellent than the Bee because he was descended of the horse but how was he descended of the horse he was onely bred of the dung of the horse so the Church of Rome that now is is but come of the excrements of the old Roman Church optimi vint pessimum acetum when the contention was betwixt Salomon and Adonijah about the kingdome of Israel Adonijah had standing for him Abiathar the Priest and Salomon had standing for him Zadok the Priest both of them were Priests and both of them had the holy oyle but who had the right whether he that was anointed by Zadok or he that was anoynted by Abiathar he that was anoynted by Zadok had the right because he had Nathan the Prophet upon his side No succession is the right succession although they have both Priest and the holy oyle if they have not Nathan upon their side Salomon had the right succession because he had it by Nathan And so Aaron here had the Lord upon his side and therefore the Priesthood belonged to him He chused the Almond rod because it flourished first Ministers should be trained up frnm their youth The Lord liketh these to be his Ministers who begin to blossome from their youth this was excellently typed in Ieremiah cap. 1. What seest thou Ieremiah I see an Almond rod This figured Ieremiahs calling as the Almond rod blossomed first so Ieremiah was called from his infancy and as the Almond tree flourished first so the Lord was to bring his judgements quickely upon that people which he pronounced by Ieremiah So he chose Samuel from his infancy and Iohn the Baptist from a childe and so Timothy and Athanasius he likes not these autumnales arbores as Iude calleth them vers 12. which begunne not to blossome till the latter end of Harvest and then to enter to the Ministery happy are they who can say with the Church omnes fructus servavi tibi Cant. 7.13 I have reserved all my fruits to thee of my infancy and middle age and old age and have dedicated my selfe still for this calling it is a pitty to see those that have bin deboshed and dissolute men to be thrust into this holy calling a casheerd souldier a bankrupt Merchant or a fallen Courtier When the Lord caused the uncleane spirit to passe out of the land Zach. 13. then those who had no calling to be Prophets were ashamed of their vision and of their rough gowne which they wore to deceive the people because the Prophets of God wore a hairy Gowne they confesse then that they were not Prophets The false Prophets were ashamed of their vision but they were husbandmen and taught to keepe Cattell from their youth it were to be wished that those who have not a calling to this holy function would renounce it and say I was not taught from my youth and trained up to this holy calling but to be a souldier a Merchant c. and therefore I will renounce it The Almond rod brought forth buds blossomes and ripe Almonds The blossoming of Aarons rod was to confirme Aaron as the Vine branches which budded and brought forth blossomes was to confirme the Butler in his office Gen. 40.10 and this was declared to Ieremiah a Priests sonne Ier. 1.11 12. and the continuance of the Priesthood with those who should sprout and grow out of him Ezeck 17.44 children are called buds Iob 30.12 The Church is in a happy estate when she hath qualified labourers in the Lords Vineyard The estate of the Church is happy when they have good men to succeed in the Ministry and expectants to succeed them when she hath her ripe fruits her blossomes and her buds the buds are the yong ones who give themselves to those holy studies the blossomes are the yong men who have made good progresse in Divinity the ripe Almonds are those who are actually serving in the Church The Iewes alluding to Aarons rod call the children of the Priests flores sacerdotoles it was a comfortable thing to Eli when he had yong Samuel to succeed him and to Elijah when he had Elisha to succeed him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Reliquium revertetu◠Esay 7.3 and to Esay that had his sonne Shear-jashub to succeed as a pledge to confirme his prophesie that the remnant of the people of God should be saved and brought backe from the captivity againe It was a great comfort to Paul when he had yong Timothy to succeed him and to Augustine when he had Alippius a father dieth the more willingly when he hath a good sonne to succeed him the blossomes may rejoyce when they have the buds to succeed them and the Almonds may rejoyce when they have the blossomes to succeed them Iohn saith 1 Iohn 2.14 I write vnto you babes I write unto you young men and I write unto you old men Babes are the buds the young men are the blossomes and the old men are the Almonds Let us pray to God for the Schooles and Vniversities when the old men are wearing away that good young men may succeed them and babes in their places the Church is much to be pittied now although there bee many youthes to succeed who have knowledge yet there is little sanctification amongst them and therefore lesse hope that their ministery shall bee
translated from the family of Phinehas to Ithamars posterity Ob. for Eli was of the posterity of Ithamar and not of Phinehas and from Eli it came to his sonne Phimehas and then to Achitub and then to Achiaz the brother of Ahimelech and then it was restored to Zadoc see 1 Chron. 24.3 for foure generations the posteritie of Phinehas wanted the Priesthood Elies posterity had it de facto et non de jure Ans therefore it is to be marked what bad successe most of them had in the Priesthood Eli brake his necke his sonne Phinehas was killed in the battell Abiathar was put from the Priesthood and his soone Ahimelech was slaine by Doeg and all this time when they wanted the Priesthood the posterity of Elcazer farre surpassed the posterity of Ithamar 1 Chron. 24.4 Againe it was promised to Phinehas posterity conditionally if they should walke in their fathers wayes This promise of the Priesthood was not made so absolutely to Phinehas but that Phinehas posterity for their sinnes might be deprived of it for a time even as the promise made to David that the Kingdome should continue with his posterity for ever did not exclude the captivity of Babylon and the overthrow of the kingdome for a time yet by vertue of this promise made to Phinehas his posterity could not want it for ever And thirdly it is so promised to his posterity that it should not be taken for ever from him as it was from the posterity of Eli. This rod brought forth Almonds without a roote the fathers reason out of this place against the Iewes who will not beleeve that the Virgin could beare a sonne why will ye beleeve this say they that Aarons rod brought forth Almonds without a roote and cannot beleeve that a Virgin can beare a sonne ye beleeve that Eva was created out of the side of Adam and that Adam was created out of the dust why may yee not beleeve this likewise that God can create a child in the Wombe of the Virgin Yee beleeve that Sara an old withered stocke conceived by the power of God and why ye will not beleeve this that God by his power created the Child in the Wombe of the Virgin The tree blossomed although it was withered Hence we may gather that the withered tree the Church of the Iewes shall flourish againe a man looking with a naturall eye upon that heape of dry bones Ezek. 37. would never thinke that they should rise againe but the Lord by the mighty wind of his Spirit gathered these bones together and made them to live so the Lord by his mighty power shall make the withered tree of the Iewes to flourish againe Obj. But ye will say that Christ cursed the figtree which represented the Church of the Iewes and said Never fruit grow upon thee henceforth Mat. 21.19 Then it may seeme that this tree shall never flourish againe Answ That figtree that was accursed by Christ never to beare fruit againe represented the Iewes who lived then and those who shall live till the conversion of the Iewes but when the wrath of God is come upon them to the full as the Apostle speakes then the Lord shall call them and their rod shall flourish againe Quest Whether kept this rod still the buds blossomes and Almonds when it was laid up before the Lord or not No question it did Answ for the Lord commandeth to lay it up as a testimony against the rebels now when it kept the buds blossomes and Almonds it testified the more vively against them and as the Manna lasted so many hundreth yeares in the golden pot so did this rod keepe the blossomes and Almonds When Aarons rod budded it was a token to him that he was called of the Lord he that runneth and is not sent by the Lord shall never doe good in that holy Calling these Agrippa who were borne with their feet formost it was a bad token of their evill government to follow as it fell out in Herod Agrippa who was a very bad Governour so when a Preacher is not sent by God to his people and the Lord doth not make his rod to bud he shall never be a profitable Minister in his Calling Of the priviledges of the first borne under the Law and what he was bound to doe to his brethren and kinsmen Matth. 22.24 If a man die having no children his brother shall marry his wife and raise up seed unto him AFter that the Pharisees had tempted Christ the same day the Sadduces came to tempt him who denyed the Resurrection and they reason with Christ ab absurdo if there were a Resurrection then this absurdity would follow that seven men should have one wife at the Resurrection but this is absurd therefore c. and thus they goe about to ground upon Moses Law For Moses commanded in the Law that if a man dye without seed then his brother should raise up his seed unto him Deut. 35.5 Now there fell out a case among us that a man married a wife and dyed without children his brother married his wife and he dyed without children also and seven brethren had her to wife Whose wife then shall she be in the Resurrection Our Lord answereth that they erre not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God for in the Resurrection men neither marry nor give in marriage but are like the Angels of God The Sadduces who denyed the Resurrection put this question to Christ He that denyeth the immortality of the soule cannot hold one sound point in Religion the Sadduces denyed the immortality of the soule they held the soule to be like Quickesilver which made the body to stirre or like Salt that kept the body from corruption as Epicurus held and the best that they made of it they said it was an exact temperature of the humours of the body and then for the Angels they said they were but good thoughts but not subsisting spirits Now if the soule be not an immortall substance the body cannot be joyned to it againe for the weale of the body dependeth upon the soules immortality they held the soule to be mortall and therefore of necessity they behoved to deny the resurrection Tertullian called the Marcionites and Valentinians qui credebant reditum animae non corporis partiarios Saducaeos We who professe our selves to be Christians say the Creed and repeate this Article often I beleeve the resurruction of the body but yet if we will looke to the lives of most part of men we shall heare than say no other thing but that which the Sadduces and Epicures said 1 Cor. 15.32 Let us eate let us drinke for to morrow we shall dye that is be quite extinguished in soule and body as if there were no more of us after our death thā beasts when they are knockt on the head when the Pharises reasoned with the Sadduces they said unto thē Why study ye to keep the Law seeing ye beleeve not the immortality
wisedome and she will exalt thee Prov. 4.8 the onely way for a Minister to get credit is to seeke the credit of his Master but there are too many like the Pharises who did all that they might be seene of men and in effect they say as Iehu said come and see how zealous I am for the Lord of hoasts 2 King 10.16 where a man might see as it were through a hole of his coate pride peeping out and he seeking his owne praise and not the Lords honor Let us not be like Onan who knowing that the seede should not bee his refused to raise it up to his eldest brother If the second brother raised not up seed to his eldest brother then they spit in his face The greatest credit to a Preacher is to beget children to his eldest brother the Lord Iesus Christ this was Pauls glory this shall be their Crowne and glory in the day of the Lord the Lord likes not these barren Eunuches in the Church who beget not children unto him It was a great credit for Abdon Iud. 12.14 To have fourty sonnes and thirty Nephewes that rode on threescore and ten Asse-Coltes but what credit shall it be for a Preacher to have so many sonnes and daughters begotten to the Lord riding in Chariotes of triumph to Glory when they can say behold me And the Children which the Lord hath given me Esay 8.18 When a Preacher hath begotten many sonnes to himselfe and built up his owne house this shall never be reckoned upon his score but what children hast thou begotten unto me will the Lord say as Arrowes are in the hand of a mighty man so are the children to the fathers Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them they shall not be ashamed but pleade with the enemies in the gate Psal 127.5 The Lord objected to the Iewes by Haggai Cap. 1.4 Is it time for you to dwell in your seiled houses and this house lye waste So the Lord may justly object to many of us that we build our owne houses but suffer the house of the Lord to lye waste it was an opprobry in Israel when a man or a woman wanted children scribe hunc sine liberis Iere. 22.30 and therefore they said when they had children deus abstulit opprobâ—ium meum Luc. 1.25 The Lord hath taken away my opprobry the Lord take away that opprobry and shame from the ministry that they stand not up as barren and unfruitfull Eunuches in the day of the Lord. How shall we judge who is a profitable Preacher Quest Ans Not by the event but by his diligence Esay was a good Preacher and yet his ministry for the most part was to make fat the hearts of the people and he said I have spent my strength in vaine Esay 49 4. so Iere. 6.25 Cura officij eventuâ— was an excellent Preacher yet he said The bellowes are burnt the Lead is coÌ„sumed the Founder melâ—eth in vaine Christ himselfe converted not so many as Peter did There is cura officij and cura eventus we must measure a faithfull Pastor How the faithfulnesse of a Preacher is to be measured per curam of ficij and not eventus his cura officij is this nosce statum gregis tui Prov. 27.23 To know his sheepe by their names Ioh. 10. Secondly to feed them diligen ly to goe out and in before them to leade them to the wholsome pastures to sow his seed faithfully and then he may lye down and sleepe and then it growes up day and night and he cannot tell this cura eventus belongs not to him Lastly he should be grieved when he sees the people hard hearted and will not be converted Three sorts of Preachers There are three sorts of Preachers First those who give a good account of good sheepe who can say with Esay 8.18 Here am I and the children that thou hast given me Secondly those who give a good account of bad sheepe he is free of their blood curavimus Babylonem noluit sanari Iere. 51.9 this faithfull Preacher shall not want his reward with God although he hath not converted many and Augustine shewes the matter by this comparison two men come into a Barbers shop to be washed a Blackamore and another man the Barber washes the other man and makes him whiter he washes the Blackamore and makes him blacker yet the Barber will be payed for both because he hath taken equall paines upon both so shall the good Preacher get his reward although hee make not the Blackamore looke the whiter A Minister shall not bee like Iacob in the day of his reckoning for Iacob made good to Laban that which was torne by the wilde beasts Gen. 31.39 but a Minister shall not make good that which is lost if it be not lost thorow his negligence it shall suffice if he can shew the skinne and the marke to the Lord and if he have sustained the heat of the day and the cold of the night as Iacob did that is all that the Lord requires from him The third sort is he that gives a bad account of bad sheepe when the sheepe perisheth through his negligence then the Lord shall require their blood at his hands Whether should a Minister be grieved Quest when he seeth his Ministery unprofitable amongst a people and that his Ministery is like to be the favour of death unto them No question he should be grieved Answ Ieremie wished that his head might be a fountaine of teares Ier 9.1 That he might weepe for that people and Christ himselfe wept over Ierusalem Mat. 23.37 But Christ himselfe ye will say gave thankes to God his Father Obj. That he had hid these things from the wise of the world and revealed them unto babes Matth. 11.23 and the Angell sang praise when Esay made fat the hearts of the people Esay 6. Christ is considered two wayes first Answ as he was the Minister of Circumcision secondly as Mediator Christ as he was the Minister of Circumcision Christ considered as the Minist r oâ— circumcision and as Mediator and sent to teach the Iewes no doubt it was a great griefe to him when he saw them hard-hearted that they would not beleeve but againe if ye will consider him as Mediator looking up to Gods wisedome and dâ—cree he giveth God praise for passing by some and chusing others Paul looking to his charge he wished the Iewes to be saved but when he looketh up to Gods will in a second consideration then his preaching was to make fat the hearts of that people as was the preaching of Esay he resteth in this and he rejoyceth that God is glorified Simile Although the spheares have their owne motions in particular yet they all follow the motion of the first mover So although Christ and Paul be sorry at the first for the hardnesse of the Iewes hearts yet they must follow the motion of the first mover God
himselfe and rejoyce when he is glorified Tâ—â— Angels are not ordainâ— to be ministring â—pirâ—ts to the wicked The Angels sing praise to God for the hardning of the hearts of the wicked and they are not sad for that the reason of this is because they are not ordained to be ministring spirits to such and therefore it was no griefe to them to see them condemned they rejoyce to see the godly converted because they are committed to their charge but Ministers have both the good and the bad in their charge and therefore at the first cannot be but grieved that they should miscarry as Samuel mourned for Saul 1 Sam. 15.35 The travell of the Minister is not alwayes lost But we are to marke if a Preacher be faithfull and painfull in his calling although his Ministery be not effectuall to the conversion of all yet it shall alwayes serve to the conversion of some Esaias ministery was to make the hearts of that people fat yet there was a remnant seed left unto him Esay 1.9 If he refused to raise up seed to his brother then the woman spit in his face Great shame to unprofitable Ministers Great shall be the shame and confusion that shall befall unprofitable and wicked Ministers in the day of the Lord who refused to raise up seed to their eldest brother Marke but the circumstances of spitting in the face and ye shall see how great a disgrace it was First we use to spit upon a dogge and not upon a man Secondly Num. 12.4 the Lord saith If her father had spit upon her face would she not have beene ashamed for seven dayes Where the Lord compareth Miriams leprosie to a father spitting upon his child so the Lord spit as it were Spitting in the face a great disgrace upon Miriam when he strucke her with leprosie and Onkelos paraphraseth it Si increpando increpasset eam pater ejus The woman the weaker Sexe did spit here in the mans face but what a shame is it for a childe to have his father to spit upon him Thirdly the place aggravates the shame it was in the publike meeting in the gates of the City it was a great matter to be praised in the gates of the City Prov. 30.23 The husband when he was well apparelled sitting among the Elders in the gates of the City then his wife is praised this was her greatest credit so it was the greatest credit of the Father when he had store of children then he was not ashamed to plead with his enemies in the gates of the City Psal 137. therefore to be put to publike shame and disgrace in that place what shame and confusion would that breed Lastly that she should spit in his face the face is the most excellent place in the body the most honourable and not a part of dishonour The Apostle Paul saith If a man smite you in the face 2 Cor. 11.20 If it was a greater shame to be smitten in the face than any other part of the body then it is a greater shame to be spit upon the face than any other part of the body Great shame to have the father spit in their faces and if it was such a shame in Israel for a woman to spit in a mans face in their solemne and publike meetings what shame shall it be for Preachers if the Lord spit in their faces in the sight of Christ and his Angels and if it was a shame to the daughter when the father did spit in her face what shame shall it be if the Lord who is the father of all and of whom all fatherhood is called Eph. 3.5 if he spit in the face of those who are negligent in their Callings if she was separated out of her fathers sight for seven dayes what is it to be separated out of his sight for ever There is no argument more forcible to move an unregenerate man to abstaine from sinne Shame a bridle to an unregenerate man than shame what saith Tamar to Amnon 1 Sam. 13.13 And I whither shall I cause my shame to goe and as for thee thou shall be counted as one of the fooles in Israel Saul had rather kill himselfe than fall into the hands of the Philistines and abide that shame 1 Sam. 31. When such doe heare the faithfull Pastors praised in the gates of the City what griefe will this breed to them and when they see those who have converted others shine like starres in the firmament Dan. 22.3 And themselves like darke and blacke clouds Iude. 12. What shame shall this be to them The naturall brother who refused to raise up seed to his eldest brother then the woman who complained did spit in his face but if he was a Cousin German or another kinsman they did not spit in his face because he had not such a neere interest as the naturall brother had to raise up seede yet the holy Ghost Ruth 4.1 doth not expresse his name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but calleth him Pelone al moni which implieth some disgrace the Lord would not name him here by his name as he did Boaz. Onan was killed because he refused to raise up seede to his brother Er this Er was a wicked man yet because Onan refused to raise up seede to him the Lord killed him What will he doe then to those who refuse to raise up seed to their elder Brother Iesus Christ who is holy blamelesse and worthy of all honor The putting on of the shooe a signe of possession They pulled off his shooe this was a signe that he lost his inheritance for when they tooke possession of the land they put a shooe upon their foot and when they lost their inheritance the shooe was pulled off their foote The principall and chiefe regard that a man should have is that hee lose not his inheritance a man in Israel for necessity sometimes morgaged his inheritance and sometimes by violence put from his inheritance and sometimes through negligence and slothfulnesse did suffer bryers and thornes to grow up in his inheritance but unlesse he had beene a runnagate like Esau he never sold his inheritance looke what regard Ieremiah had to that little peece of ground in Anathoth which he redeemed from Hanameel his Vncles sonne What care Ieremiah had of his inheritance to secure himselfe in that inheritance Iere. 32. First he bought the field then he weighed the silver and gave seventeene shekles for it then he subscribed the evidence and sealed it and he tooke witnesses and tooke the double of the evidence of the purchase both that which was sealed according to the Law and custome and that which was open than he gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the sonne of Nerijah in the sight of Hanameel his uncles sonne and last hee bids take these evidences and put then in an earthen vessell that they might continue there for many dayes had Ieremiah such
and the fooles in his left side How the wise mans heart is said to be in his right side the reason why the fooles heart is said to be in his left side is because the blood for the most part falleth to the left side and so the heart that is dull is said to be in the left side but the spirits againe ascend from the left side to the right and so the wise mans heart is said to be in his right side because he hath more understanding So in pleading before the judges the accused stood at the left hand of the accuser as Satan stood at the right hand of Ioshua but if the accused prevailed in judgement and the accuser succumbed then he was shifted from the right hand to the left hand then he was said to lose his cause But when the Scripture speakes of protection The left hand put first for protection it putteth the left hand first Psal 16.8 Because he is at my right hand I shall not be moved Then David stood at his left hand So Psal 129.5 The Lord is thy defence at thy right hand So when Iob prayeth Iob 17.3 Pone me juxta te set me by thee that is at thy left hand that thou mayest defend me with thy right hand Lastly when the heart and the hand are compared together then the left hand is the chiefe hand therefore the Iewes wore their Phylacteries upon their left arme because it was nearest their heart and so the Latines say of him that went at the left hand Ambulare introrsum vel extrorsum quid ambulare introrsum because that hand was nearest the heart and of him that goeth at the right hand they say of him ambulare extrorsum and we use to say when we give a man the left hand we give him the hand that is nearest the heart Standing at his right hand To stand in the Scriptures is either to pray Stand taken diversly Stare pro orare as Abraham is said to stand before the Lord that is to pray and the Publican stood a farre off that is prayed So Iere. 18.20 Remember that I stood before thee to speake for them and to turne away thy wrath from them and the Hebrewes say Sine stationibus non subsisteret mundus that is without prayers the world could not endure because they stood when they prayed Secondly to stand signifies to serve Pr. 22.29 Seest thou a servant diligent in his businesse Stare pro servire this man shall stand before Kings that is serve Psal 135.2 Yee who stand in the Courts of the Lord that is who serve Thirdly to stand in the Scripture is to stand to be judged before a Iudge Stare pro judicare as Exod. 17.14 Why doth the people stand all the day long So amongst the Latines Stare in judicio cadere causa Psal 1.5 Impij non stabunt in judicio that is they shall lose their cause now Ioshua stood here praying Ioshua stood here ready to serve and Ioshua stood as accused He shewed me Satan standing at the right hand of Ioshua Foure chiefe combats betwixt God and the Divell We may marke foure singular strifes betwixt God and the Divell about foure singular of the Lords valiant ones The first was betweene God and Satan about Iob cap. 1 The second was betwixt Michael the Archangell and the Divell about the body of Moses Iude 9. The third was betwixt Christ and the Divell about the High-priest Ioshua here The fourth was betwixt Christ and the Divell about the faith of Peter Luc. 22.31 In the first strife betwixt God and the Divell about Iob it might seeme strange that God gave such a way to Satan in this conflict but if we will consider Gods end in it Why God suffered Satan to afflict Iob. we shall see both his wisedome and goodnesse in it for God did not expose Iob to these trials that the Divell might swallow him up but both that he might get the greater glory by this his Champion Iob and that the Church might learne patience by this example yee have heard the patience of Iob Iam. 5.11 The Lord delighted here to see his champion Iob wrestle and to returne victorious God taketh delight to see his children fight with Satan and to put Satan to the foyle the Romane Emperours used to keepe Lyons in cages and they used to cast in condemned persons to them to fight to the death with them wee read in Tertullian how conclamatum est Christiani ad Leones so the Lord keepeth the Divels in Cages and brings not out slaves and condemned wretches to fight with them but his most notable champions whom he knowes will report the Victory and therefore hee delights to behold this conflict The second reason why the Lord put Iob to these hard tryals was for the good of his Church for even as the Physitians keepe the bodies of the condemned to make anatomies of them for the good of others so the Lord kept Iob for this tryall for the good of the Church that they might remember the patience of Iob. The second great strife was betwixt Michael the Archangell and the Divell about the body of Moses A second strife betwixt Christ and Satan about the body of Moses Iude 9. It is strange to see how Satan dealeth with Moses when Moses was living nothing but stone him to death but now when he is dead he would make an Idoll of his body and set it up to be worshipped and that which hee could not effectuate by him when hee was living he goes about to effectuate it now by his dead body It was a great sinne first to kill the Prophets and then to erect Sepulchres to them Matth. 23.29 Woe unto you Scribes and Pharises hypocrites because c. but this is a greater sinne first to kill Moses and then afer his death to labour to make an Idoll of him but the Lord had a great respect to Moses who was faithfull in all his house Heb. 3.5 when hee was living so now when he was dead hee preserved this his body and buried it honorably with his owne hands where the devill knoweth not The third strife betwixt CHRIST and the Devill was about Ioshua the Highpriest Satan accuses Ioshua for standing before the LORD in soiled apparrell but the Lord takes his defence putteth Satan to rebuke putteth new apparell upon Ioshua and setteth a crowne upon his head The fourth strife was about Peters faith Satan sought to winnow Peter as wheat but Christ prayed for Peters faith that it should not faile Luc. 22.31 The devill gave his faith a shrewd blow and sifted him strangely when he made him deny his master thrice But Christ saved him by his intercession We are to make use of these conflicts 2 Cor. 10.13 that God will not suffer us to be tempted above that wee are able God will not suffer us to be tempted above our power but
with the temptation will make a way alwayes to escape that we may be able to beare it Observe in Satans tempations first the order and then the manner the Apostle hath an heavenly order 1 Cor. 11.3 The order of Satans temptations God is Christs head Christ is the mās head and the man is the womans head the Devill first hee tempted the Woman the weaker Vessell Secondly he tempted the man the womans head Thirdly hee tempted Christ here in his type Ioshua and then Christ in proper person who is the mans head but hee durst never goe higher to tempt God Christs head There is nothing contrary to God by his omnipotencie hee subdueth all things to him as there is nothing summe malum as God is summe bonum for then there should be duo principia as the Manicheans held so the Divel is not absolutely contrary to God but must be subject unto him and over-ruled by him And if we shall marke the manner of his temptations we shall see them strange First he intices and setteth forward men to mischiefe and then he would be their first accuser like unto Ioab 2 Sam. 18.12 when Absolom was hanging in an oake tree one came and told Ioab that he was hanging there Ioab offered the man ten shekles of silver to kill him but what saith the man he refused and said No thou wouldst give me a thousand shekles of silver The manner of Satans temptations for the King commanded to spare the young man and if I should doe so thou wouldst be the first man that wouldst set thy selfe against me for Ioab first to perswade the man to kill Absolom and then to bee the first to accuse the man was not this a shamelesse accuser So for the Devill first to set men on worke and then to accuse them is not this a vile accuser Satan is a cruel and a crafty adversary he is called Satan quia intestino odio prosequitur because hee pursueth with deadly hatred and that red Dragon who thirsts for the blood of the children of men therefore miserable are those who seeke to him for reliefe in their sicknesse or distresse Exod. 4.14 I am the Lord that healeth thee many thinke that there are some gentle sorts of Divels that can doe men no harme and that are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but if they understood Satan's grounded and rooted malice and craft they would never seeke to him Observe the nature of this false accuser How Satā dealeth with his owne children and how with the children of God when he accuseth the child of God he makes his sinnes appeare more than they are if Ioshua's cloathes be soyled he makes them appeare like the cloathes of the menstruous women but when he hath to doe with the wicked he makes their sinnes appeare lesse than they are but God keepeth a contrary course when he lookes upon the sinnes of his Saints they seeme lesse to him than they are Iere. 51.20 Iacobs iniquity shall be sought for and shall not be found and Rom. 8.1 No condemnation to them which are in Christ but when he lookes upon the sinnes of the wicked he sees them just as they are Simile when a man lookes in a round glasse his face seemeth to him lesse than it is when a man lookes in a hollow glasse his face seemeth to him more than it is when a man lookes in a plaine glasse his face seemeth just to him as it is They will never be well decked to whom the Divell holdeth up the glasse of all men the Divell taketh most notice of the sinnes of the Ministers and is readiest to lay their sinnes to their owne charge and to blaze them abroad to others if there be a hole in their coat he will say they are ragged and if their cloathes be soyled he will say they are naked he observeth all our infirmities and watcheth our haltings therefore let us looke well to our wayes To resist him Satan layes to Ioshua's charge the faults of the people here Ioshua represented the whole people for the Priest under the law bare the sinnes of all the people but to be partakers of the sinnes of the people as here Ioshua was when hee did beare with the people that had married strange wives How a Minister may be guilty of the sinnes of the people that is a great sinne A Minister may be guilty of the sinnes of the people sundry wayes First of the ignorance of the people when hee instructs them not the lipes of the Priest should preserve knowledge Secondly he is guilty of the sinnes of the people when he reproveth them not for their sinne as Mal. 2.9 Accepistis facies in lege what is that Ye have accepted persons in the Law that is when the great men sinned the Priest durst not reprove them but was partiall in his reproofes Thirdly they are guilty of the sinnes of the people when they scandalize them by their bad life when they cary not the tender and weake Lambes in their bosomes or cause them to abort For whom Christ hath died Rom 14.15 Lev. 4.3 in reatum populi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to cause the people to trespasse 1 Chro. 21.3 Why wilt thou be a trespasse to Israel How the Minister may be partaker of the sinnes of the people And as the Preacher may be an occasion and a stumbling to make the people sinne so he may be partaker of the sinnes of the people if hee follow them in their sinnes we have a notable example of this Amos 2.11 The Lord forbad expressely the Nazarits to drinke wine and yet the wicked Iewes came and tempted them to drinke wine and they to be counted boone companions did drinke wine with them and thus they were guilty of the sinnes of the people But they should have remembred that of Iere. 15.19 Turne thou not to them but let them turne to thee they bid you drinke wine will yee drinke it then yee goe to them but refuse to drinke it stand in your place and let them rather come to you run not in that same excesse of ryot with them When Ioshua's sonnes maried strange wives this was a staine to his holy garments so when the sonnes of Eli lay with the women that came to the Tabernacle it made the sacrifice of the Lord to be abhorred and when the Priests daughter committed whoredome it was a great disgrace and shame unto him therefore Paul will have a Minister To rule well his owne house having his children in subjection with all gravity 1 Tim. 3.4 and he giveth the reason why they should have obedient children and his house well ordered vers 5 For if a man know not how to rule his owne house how shall he take care of the Church of God How shall a Minister know that he is free from the pollutions of the people Quest First Answ if he be deepely touched with a sense of his owne sinnes and then
Fiftly he is called the Tempter Mat. 2.3 but Iesus Christ is called the Comforter and the consolation of Israel Luc. 21.25 primogenitus mortis Iob. 18.13 The first borne of death as many of the Fathers expound it but Christ is principium primogenitus ex mortuis the beginning and the first borne from the dead Coloss 1.18 Revel 1.5 by whom we shall live and rise againe Seventhly the Diuell is that roaring Lyon that seeketh to devour us 1. Pet. 5.8 but Christ is that Lyon of the Tribe of Iuda the roote of David who hath prevailed mightily Revel 5.5 Lastly the Divell is that Old Serpent who stingeth us to death but Christ is that Serpent lift up in the Wildernesse that whosoever looketh upon him and beleeves in him should not perish but have everlasting life Iohn 3.15 The Prophet Zachariah saw in a vision foure hornes rising up to molest and trouble the Church but he saw foure Carpenters come to beat downe these hornes Zach. 1.18 This is the comfort of the Church that there is no tentation that ariseth from Satan to trouble her but the Lord hath a hammer to beat it downe si venenum in Diabolo antidotum in Christo and if there bee poyson in the Divell there is a remedy for it in Christ The Lord rebuke thee O Satan The Apostle Iude verse 8. A great sinne to curse the Magistrate gathereth out of this place and out of the fight betwixt Michael the Archangell and the Divell about the body of Moses that men should not revile those who are in authority Michael is God blessed for eâ—â— Satan is a condemned spirit yet Michael will not raile against him The Devill is a condemned spirit and we are bound to pray against him but we are bound to pray for Magistrates of whose salvation we hope well therefore we are not to curse them the Lord commanded his people to pray for Nebuchadnezzer and for Babylon Iere. 20 7. and the Apostle willeth them to pray for all that are in Authority 1 Tim. 2.2 yea although they be infidels Davids heart smot him for cutting off the lap of Sauls garment 1 Sam. 24.5 and should not their hearts smite them who raile against Princes much more for killing of them the Lord will make the fowles of the heaven to discover this wickednesse although it be secretly spoken in their chambers Eccles 10.20 The Lord rebuke thee O Satan Quest What if a man should be tempted by Satan appearing in a visible forme what should he doe whether should he use arguments out of the Scripture to repell him or not Answ He should doe nothing but turne his face to God and weepe upon him and desire that the Lord would rebuke Satan Christ the Mediator could hold argumâ—nt with him because he was God blessed for ever but never one else could hold stitch with him Eva by reasoning and keeping purpose with him got the foile Ob. But ye will say that in spirituall temptations we may reply to him out of the Word why then may we not reply to him out of the Word if he should visibly appeare to us Answ The case is not alike for when the devill tempteth us by inward tentations and suggestions they are but the messengers of Satan and they are not so subtile tentations for they are mixed with our thoughts and therefore may be the â—ore easily answered but when he comes in proper persoâ— then his wickednesse is more spirituall Galath 6.12 therefore wee should turne to God and desire the Lord to rebuke him What are we to thinke of those Exorcists who take upon them to cast out the devill Quest That gift was an extraordinary gift bestowed onely upon the Church in her infancy Answ and it served not simply for edifying of the body of the Church Gifts simply necessary for the Church the gifts which served simply for the Church were Ephes 4.10.11 Apostles Evangelists Pastors and Teachers The Apostle 1 Cor. 12. Gifts necessary for the Church in her infancy reckoneth up other gifts which were not simply necessary for the Church but onely for her infancy as the gift of healing the gift of tongues and this gift of casting out devills if the Highpriest after the captivity should have put in two counterfeit stones in the breastplate and called them Vrim and Thummim would not this have beene a falsehood in him when the gift ceased to use the signe so now when there is no such gift in the Church to use the name this is but a deceit Gifts necessary for the building of the Church were of two sorts Gifts necessary for the Church of two sorts First extraordinary as Apostles and Evangelists Secondly ordinary as Pastors and teachers other gifts were onely for the infancy of the Church the matter may bee cleared by this example A Prince when he is a child he hath need of a regent Simile of counsellers and boyes to play with him but when the Prince commeth to maturity of age the Regent ceaseth and his Play fellowes but not his Counsellors so the Church in her minority had Apostles and Evangelists as her regents and shee had these gifts of ngues healing and casting out of Divels as her play-fellowes these cease now but Pastors and Teachers as her counsellers remaine still with her when Satan is cast out now by Exorcists this is not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by force to cast him out but onely by collusion he goeth out but he returneth againe Even the Lord that hath chosen Ierusalem rebuke thee as if he should say I have decreed that Ierusalem shall be built although thou hast set thy selfe against this yet thou canst not hinder it Ierusalem taken for the City and for the people in the City Ierusalem is taken here first for the City Ierusalem and then for the people gathered to that City out of the captivity No counsell can stand against the counsell of the Lord see what Gamaleel said Act. 5.38 if this Counsell be of God we cannot hinder it yee may see what strange impediments were cast in to hinder the building of the Temple although it was Gods purpose to have it built againe there was an hundreth and thirteene yeeres before it was finished after the foundation was laid First it was hindered by craft We will build with you Ezr. 3. then by bribes They hired counsellers to weaken the hands of the people and troubled them in building Ezr. 4.5 Thirdly by false accusationes by letters Ezr. 4.6 Fourthly by force Ezr. 4.23 Fiftly by the Kings edict Ezr. 4.21 Lastly when they could doe no more they hindred them by taunts and mocking if a foxe goe up with his taile he will destroy this worke Nehem. 4.3 yet because the Lord had determined to build it it must be builded the Counsell of the Lord stands sure for ever therefore in Zachary it is compared to Mountaines of Brasse and the gates of hell shall not
we cannot expound them literally but in vision for Ieremiah was never yet in Babel So we are not to expound the Prophecy literally when it is contrary to piety but onely in vision as when Hosea is bidden marry a whore Hos 1.2 This was onely in vision Thirdly when they are contrary either to decency or good manners as when Ezekiel is bidden goe naked and to eate his bread baken with mans doung Ezek. 4.12 so we are not to take this vision literally that the Angell did any thing in our sanctification or justification In the parable of the rich glutton hee desired that Abraham would send Lazarus that he might dip his finger put it upon his tongue in heaven the glorified soules have no fingers as yet nor in hel the damned have no tongues yet but because we cannot conceive spirituall things but by bodily things therefore it is expressed after this manner So every knee in heaven and earth shall how Phil. 2.10 there are no knees in heaven as yet to bow to Christ but this is spoken to our capacity for when we would doe homage here below we bow the knee so heavenly worship is here figured by earthly gesture And to him he said behold I have caused thine inquity to passe from thee and I will cloath thee with change of rayment Pardoning of sinne here is expressed by putting off foule cloathes and putting on a new garment The Lord delightes to see his Priests cloathed in holinesse Psal 122.16 and to put on righteousnesse as a garment Iob. 29.14 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sacerdos 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sponsus and the Hebrewes observe that Cohen a Priest and Cahan a Bridgroome come both from one roote because the Priest when he commeth before the Lord should be adorned like the bridgroome the Apostle saith That as many as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ Galat. 3.27 which is a speech borrowed from the custome used in the primitive Church for those who were Adulti or come to age The custome in the Primitive Church when they baptized those that were come to age when they were to be baptized came to the Church the Sunday before the Pascha and put upon them white cloathes therefore the day was called Dominica in albis and they were called candidati if white cloathes and holinesse becommeth every Christian when he entereth into Christianity how much more should Preachers study to put on righteousnesse when they enter to this holy calling but many now dare be bold to come in before the Lord with their soiled and filthy cloathes as if they had lyen amongst the pots of Egypt Foure sorts of Garments unbeseeming a Minister Secondly some come in and they have not these mutatorius vestes changed apparell but they had rather superindui to put one some shew of holinesse above but not to lay aside their old sinnes They make the outside of the platter cleane but within it is full of uncleannesse Matth. 23 25. Thirdly others come in with their garment of Linsey-Woolsey before the Lord ye shall not know of what profession they are like Sceptikes doubting of all things now standing for popery now for the truth now broching this heresie now that Fourthly some come in before the Lord with their wollen cloathes the Lord by Ezekiel cap. 44. commandeth expressely that the Priests should weare no wooll in the sanctuary but linnen and out of the sanctuary when they were about their secular affaires no linnen but wooll and therefore the Iewes proverb was when they saw a worldly minded Priest they said there goeth the man with the wollen cloathes Ministers of all men should study to have their cloathes cleane and see that their garments be not spotted with the flesh Iud. 23. Great purity required in Ministers It was a great change in Israel when the Nazarits who were purer then snow whiter then milke more ruddy in body then rubies when they became blacker then a coale Lamen 4.7 So now it is a great change when Ministers whose Garments should be pure and holy shining as the wings of a dove covered with silver and like her feathers covered with yeallow gold come in as though they had lien among the pots Psal 68.13 Many now that should come in Candidati before the Lord are fettered and intangled with the affaires of the world yea they come in Loadened with thicke clay Habak cha 2.6 having greater care to heape up gold then to gather grace to uphold them in the day of their triall when Satan shall accuse them for being cloathed with filthy garments as hee did Ioshua the Highpriest here And I will cloathe thee with change of raiment Quest Ioshua's sinnes being pardoned already how is his sinne pardoned anew againe Answ There is our totall justification and our partiall justification Ioshua had his totall justification before but this was his partiall justification Iustificate totalis partialis God pardoned him those sinnes which hindered him in his Priestly office an example not unlike unto this we have Esay 6.7 When the Seraphim came with a coale and touched the lippes of Esay this was his partiall justification when he pardoned him those sinnes which hindred him in his calling Esay 6. But ye will say Ob. get we not the remission of all our sinnes simul semel Although all sinnes both by past and to come are remitted to the child of God in Gods eternall counsaile Ans Whether we get remission of all our sinnes simul et semel yet the sinnes not yet committed when they are committed and repented of in our sense and feeling then they are pardoned when we feele them to be pardoned Peccata praeterita remittuntur per formalem applicationem as they speake in the Schooles futura vero virtualiter tantum praeterita insese futura in subjecto vel persona peccante And I said let them set a faire crowne upon his head God never beginneth a worke but he perfecteth it God never beginneth a worke but that which he perfecteth this we see in the worke of creation God rested not untill he had finished all his workes so in the worke of his providence Psal 65.11 Thou crownest the yeere with thy goodnesse Thirdly in the worke of redemption Christ left not off this worke till he said consummatum est Fourthly in the worke of sanctification Phil. 3.6 He that hath begun a good worke in you will performe it untill the day of Iesus Christ The Lord bringeth to perfecton every good worke begun in us he is not like the man in the Gospel who began to build a house but was not able to finish it This is a great comfort to the children of God who find many impediments in the worke of their sanctification the child of God saith sometimes with Rebecka Gen. 25.22 It had been better for me The comforts of the children of God never to have conceived he feeleth the flesh
striving against the spirit as Iacob and Esau in their mothers belly and sometime he feeleth the messenger of Satan buffetting him and hanging so fast on and fettering him by the way that in his owne sense and feeling he thinkes this worke will never be finished but yet he may take heart to him in this as God brought home Ioshua out of the captivity cloathed him with change of apparell and lastly put the crowne upon his head so shall the Lord finish that good worke which he hath begun in us Philip. 1.6 The difference betwixt the Kings Crowne and the Priests 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 corona regis They put a Crowne upon his head The Kings Crowne differed from the Priests crowne First in name the Kings Crowne was called Gnaterah the Priests was called Mitznephath Secondly in the matter the Kings Crowne was of pure gold the Priests was fascia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cidaris vel corona sacerdotis Exod. 28.4 of silke mixed with gold and it was called tiara Thirdly they differed in the forme and lastly in the use the Kings Crowne was typicall and civill also for government in things civill the Priests was onely typicall Secondly the things that were joyned with the Priests Crowne were more vive types of Christ then the Kings Crowne was for his Bells typed Christs propheticall office his white garments his Priestly office and the Crowne his Kingly office he was a more vive representation of Christ than the King was And they put a Crowne upon his head There are three sorts of crownes first the crowne of profession Three sorts of crownes common to all Christians Revelat. 3.11 Hold fast that thou hast let no man take thy Crowne Secondly a ministeriall crowne which belongeth to faithfull Pastors Phil. 4.1 Therefore my brethren my joy and crowne So 1 Thess 2.19 And thirdly the Crowne of glory 1 Pet. 5.4 The crowne of the Pastor is his people converted by him Prov 17.6 Childrens children are the crowne of old men Gnatereth corona commeth from Gnatur cingere 1 Sam. 24.23 When Saul and his men invironed David then they are said Gnatar cingere when the Grandfather hath his childrens children compassing him about what a crowne is that for him so a Ministers crowne shall be this Simile when his people converted by him stands about him like a crowne The Priest under the Law in the time of his dayes laid aside his crowne Ezek. 24.17 and in time of joy and gladnesse put it on againe Many now a griefe may lay aside their crowne and trample it upon the ground for griefe that they have been so negligent in their Calling What joy can a man have when hee remembreth his great negligence in his ministery and sloth in the Lords businesse he should not be so negligent if he would alwayes remember that last crowne of glory which the chiefe Shepheard shall give 1 Pet. 5.4 A crowne that fadeth not away The crownes below here wherewith men were crowned were made of grasse of Lawrell trees of linnen of wooll and the best of them but of gold which all are fading crownes but this crowne is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 immarcessibilis nunquam marcescens item flos quidam sic dictus quod non marcescat sed decerptus asservetur cum cuncti flores defecere madefactus aqua reviviscat Plinius lib. 2. cap. 11. an incorruptible and durable crowne that cannot fade nor vanish away So they set a Mitre upon his head or a crowne upon his head After that Ioshua by the assistance of the Angel had resisted Satan given him the foyle and had gotten the victory the Lord in signe of this victory and to confirme Ioshua in the Priesthood after hee returned from the captivity setteth a crowne upon his head This is a great comfort to all Christians but chiefly to faithfull Ministers that although they suffer persecution be carried as it were into captivity accused by Satan and the wicked in the world yet if they constantly stand out and resist Satan and stop the mouthes of those wicked instruments of his by their good life and holy conversation they may be assured the Lord will give them a crowne even the Crowne of life Revel 2.10 Feare none of those things which thou shalt suffer behold the Divell shall cast some of you into prison that yee may be tryed and ye shall have tribulation ten dayes be thou faithfull unto the death and I will give thee a Crowne of life Of the eating of holy things Levit. 22.10 There shall no stranger eate of the holy thing a soâ—ourner of the Priest or an hired servant shall not eate of the holy thing But if the Priest buy any soule with his money he shall eat of it c. THe LORD made a twofold distinction of meates under the Law First of cleane and uncleane meates and that is taken away now for to the cleane all things are cleane Titus 1.15 The Hebrewes call that which is uncleane Piggul a polluted thing that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Abhominatio res abhominanda proprie dicitur de carne faetoris coloris tetri a thing that is eaten after the time and Aquila translateth it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is a thing to be rejected or refused And the Apostle useth the same word when he is speaking of meates that nothing is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be refused if it be received with thankesgiving 1 Tim. 4.4 The second distinction of meates was this some were cleane by the Law but yet if they were eaten by persons who had no right to eat them then they were uncleane to them Thirdly if they eate them not in the appointed place and fourthly if they eat them not in due time First somethings the Priests might eate and their sonnes but not their daughters Num. 18.9 Here we must marke a difference betwixt the legall promises and the spirituall promises the legall promise is the Priests and his sonnes shall eate of it but not their daughters but the spirituall promises are made to them and to their children and to all that are a farre off even as many as the Lord our God shall call Acts chapter 2. verse 39. The difference betwixt the legall promises and Evangelicall promises Secondly the legall promise was made to the Priests and their sonnes but not to their daughters but in the spirituall promises there is no difference betwixt male and female Galat. 3.18 There were other things that their daughters might eate of as well as their sonnes and the servant that was bought with money or borne in the house and the Priests daughter who was a Widdow or divorced and returned to her father againe having no children all these might eate of the lesse holy things Lev. 22.11 12 A difference betwixt the morall and ceremoniall Law Observe first a difference betwixt the morall Law and the ceremoniall the morall
Law putteth no difference in the worship of God betwixt the sonne the daughter the man-servant nor the maid-servant nor the stranger Exod. 22.10 but the ceremoniall Law alloweth the Priest to eate his sonne to eate his daughter to eate his servant bought with his money to eate and his servant borne in the house to eate but not the stranger Levit. 22.10 11 12. Why the servant borne within the house and bought with the money might eat the holy things Againe the servant that was bought with his mony and he that was borne in the house might eate to signifie unto us that they who are borne within the covenant they who are bought with the price of Christs blood although strangers before are partakers of Christs sacrifice but these who are strangers still are not partakers of his holy body The Priests daughter when she returned home to her father againe might eate of these lesse holy things so we being married to the law and it having dominion over us Rom. 7 1. we were out of our fathers house and might not eate of this holy bread but being dead to the law Rom. 7.4 and divorced from our sinnes as Widdowes we may come home to our fathers house and be partakers of the holy things Secondly What things the Priest and his sons might eat what things the Priest and his sonnes might eate that which was ignitum Iehovae the sacrifice which was burnt to the Lord by fire as the sinne offering and the Trespasse offering the Priest and his sonnes might eate of them but not his daughters so the Shewbread Levit. 24.9 and it the Shewbread shall be Aarons and his sonnes and they shall eate it in the holy place for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the Lord made by fire The Priest and his sonnes might onely eate of the Shewbread but not his daughters but in necessity others might eate of it as well as the Priest and his sonnes as David and his men in necessity eate of it 1 Sam. 21.6 if they might eate of it in necessity much more might the Priests wife and his daughter in their necessity eate of it When the Priest asked David whether his men were cleane or not that they might eate of the Shewbread Quest whether might he have given them that bread in the time of their uncleannesse to eate of it in their necessity or not If it had beene in extreame necessity Ans he might have given them of this bread to eate to save their lives although they had beene in their uncleannesse but he could not have given them it in their lesse necessity when they were uncleane The Iewes have a rule A rule of the Iewes where thou findest a command to doe a thing and a prohibition to forbid a thing and they both cannot be kept then thou must leave the negative and fellow the affirmative Example a Nazarite is forbidden to shave his haire and the Leper is commanded to shave his haire Now when a Nazarite becomes a Leper which of these two shall he follow hee shall leave the negative precept which commanded him not to shave his haire and he shall follow the affirmative and shall shave his haire So the Priest is forbidden to give his daughter any of the Shewbread againe he is commanded to provide for his family now his daughter is like to sterve for hunger which of those two shall he follow he is to follow the affirmative here and to leave the negative So in the Sabbath c. The Place where they eate the holy things Thirdly the place where they were to eate the holy things some things they were to eate by the Altar that is in the Chambers of the Priests hard by the Altar some they were to eate in Ierusalem and some they were to eate in any part of Canaan Some things they were to eate in the Chambers nere the Altar Ezek. 42.14 those things in Levit. 10.12 they are said to eate at the Altar When Ezekiel describeth the Temple here he meaneth the Temple under Christ and the maintenance of the ministery under the Gospel as the Priests who served at the Altar under the law eate of the rest of the sacrifice in their Chambers so the ministers under the Gospell should be maintained now 1 Cor. 9.13 Secondly the lesse holy things they eate them in Ierusalem the Paschall Lambe was eaten within Ierusalem and not in the Temple therefore it was of those lesse holy things Quest The Paschall Lambe being the chiefe thing that represented Christ how is it reckoned amongst the lesse holy things Answ Why the Passeover was reckoned a lesse holy thing It was reckoned amongst the lesse holy things because there was little of it burnt but it was eaten by the people Secondly it could not be eaten as a Sacrament in the Temple for the distinction of the families that must eate it severally they all could not eat it in the Temple So the first Tithe was but a common holy thing or lesse holy and it might be eaten any where but the second tithe was the more holy tithe and therefore behoved to be eaten in the Temple before the Lord. Lastly when they might eat it Something 's they were bound to eate the selfe same day that the things were offred When they were to eat the holy things as the flesh of the sacrifice of the peaceoffering Levit. 7.15 some things might be eaten that same day that they were offered or upon the morrow as the sacrifice of the vow or a free-will offering Levit. 7.16 But they might eate none of the flesh of the Sacrifice upon the third day after it was offered but it was to be burnt with fire Levit. 7.17 18. Now time place distinction of persons No meat of it selfe uncleane and distinctions of meats are all taken away and it entereth not in at the mouth which defileth a man but that which commeth out of the mouth defileth him Matth. 15.11 there is no meat now that is uncleane in it selfe but it becommeth uncleane to them that receive it not with pure hearts Tit. 1.15 Vnto the pure all things are pure but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure but even their mind and conscience is defiled and every creature of God is good if it be received with thanksgiving 1 Tim. 4 4. Of pollution by the dead Num. 29.11 He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be uncleane seven dayes THe pollution of man above other creatures Man more uncleane than any other creature sheweth the effects of sinne which causeth death Rom. 6.23 Hee that touched a dead beast was but uncleane untill the even Levit. 11.24 but he that touched a dead man was uncleane for seven dayes So he that touthe grave or the bones of a dead man was uncleane and therfore they were cōmanded to bury the bones of the dead when they found them in the way Ezek.
for the present day but lay up nothing against the morrow the Grashopper provideth not against the winter as the Ant doth there are others of them who liue by rapine as the Caterpillers who devour all and then flie away Nahum 3.16 and Nahum compareth the Merchants of Ninive to these that carry all the wealth away with them and there are some of those people which are insatiable as the Horsleach that hath two daughters who cry continually Prov. 30.15 Giue giue This sort of people are governed by instinct onely the Locusts haue no King yet they goe out in bands the Ant hath no guide Prov. 6.7 overseer or ruler yet shee provideth her meat in the Summer and gathereth her foode in the harvest although they haue no King or ruler to command them and oversee them neither a guide to direct them yet they are ruled by instinct There are a second sort of people that God hath placed here below and they are men and there is a greater difference amongst this people than amongst the former for looke upon some of them and yee shall hardly discerne whether they be men or not and as the Philosophers say there are some sorts of creatures that we cannot tell whether they liue the sensitiue or the vegetatiue life onely there is so little life in them as in the Shel-fish so it is hard to discerne whether those liue the reasonable life or the brutish onely they haue no lawes they lodge in the caues of the earth goe naked eat raw flesh and although they haue the shape of men yet they haue but the heart of beasts in them as Nebuchadnezzar had There are other men who are ruled by reason and politicke government for their God hath taught them he may be called their God in this respect Esay 28.26 as the Prophet Esay calleth him the husband-mans God because he teacheth him how to manure the ground and so God commeth neerer to them they are a people here but yet they are not Gods people and it is better to be a dorekeeper in the house of God Psal 84.10 than in highest advancement amongst such There is a third sort who liue in his Church and this is the highest societie in this life and here we shall see policie justice frugalitie and all vertues because Gods worship is here and as the inferior faculties of the soule are eminenter by way of excellencie contained in the superior so are all those comprehended in Religion and as the shadow followeth the bodie so doth policie and order follow Religion if a man would learne frugalitie let him looke to Ioseph Psal 104.22 who taught the Senatours of Egypt if he would learne policie let him looke to the government of Salomons Court and his house 2 King 4. if he would learne to be a good warriour let him see what order the Lord hath placed in the Campe of the Iewes Numb 80.10 and if he would learne justice he shall see it exactly described in the Law of God My Honourable Lord I haue made choise of your Lop. to recōmend this Treatise to your Patrocinie because yee know what it is to be amongst Gods people many great men if they get their portion in this life amongst the people of this world Psal 17. they care not to be Denisons in the societie of Gods people and they content themselues with the portion of this world and say Benum est hic esse but this is a freedome which is bought at a higher rate it cost the chiefe Captaine a great summe of money to be made a freeman in Rome Act. 22 28. but to be made a freeman in the Church of GOD it cost the price of Christs bloud Great men desire to be out of this first societie they desire not to liue like beasts but if they come to the second societie to liue like civill men that doth content them they giue GOD thankes perhaps for this that they are men and not beasts and that they haue beene bred civilly but few giue God thankes for this that they liue under the Gospell where they may learne Christ not many Noble are called 1 Cor. 2. Sometimes they may tremble and feare Act. 24.25 as Felix did Act 26.28 and put off their conversion to another time and some of them are like Agrippa who almost are perswaded to be Christians but few like Sergius Paulus Act. 13.7 who was converted at Pauls preaching My Lord you haue had still the practise of Religion in your house and one of the best helpes to further you your worthy and religious Lady whose name smelleth now like the wine of Lebanon when shee is gone Hosea 14.7 and now she enjoyeth the fruit of that when neither her Nobilitie birth or worldly honour profited nothing and this I write unto your Lop. beseeching you to goe on in that Christian course that both by your place and example you may draw others unto the truth The Lord promised that he would giue the uttermost parts of the earth for a possession to his Sonne Psal 2.8 this is the Motto of this Iland and the farther North it is the nearer to the ends of the earth studie therefore my good Lord that Iesus Christ may haue his possession enlarged in the North and this shall be your crowne in the latter day when all your possessions shall faile you Your Honours in all dutifull submission IOHN VVEEMSE THE CONTENTS Of the Iudiciall Law in generall Page 1 CHAPTER I. That Kingly Government is best Page 4. CAP. II. An explication of Iothams Parable Page 7 CAP. III. Why God was angry with them for chusing a King Page 12 CAP. IIII. What Samuel meant by mishpat hammelech Page 14 CAP. V. A difference betwixt the election of Saul and the election of David Page 16 CAP. VI. Of the annointing of their Kings and whether the Kings and Priests were annointed with the same oyle or not Page 18 CAP. VII How the Kings of Iudah and Israel brake the commandement in multiplying wiues Page 22 CAP. VIII A comparison betwixt Salomons Kingdome and Christs Page 27 CAP. IX Whether Rahab was a betrayer of the Citie of Iericho Page 34 CAP. X. Whether the Kingdome of Iudah or Israel were the best Government Page 38 CAP. XI Whether the Iewes might chuse Herod for their King Page 44 CAP. XII Whether Ishboseth was a rebell in affecting the Kingdome or not Page 47 CAP. XIII Whether it was lawfull for the Iewes to pay tribute to Caesar or not Page 49 CAP. XIIII Whether Naboth might haue justly denied to sell his vineyard to Ahab or not Page 52 CAP. XV. Whether the Iewes should be tollerated in a Christian Common-wealth Page 57 CAP. XVI Of the Synedrion of the Iewes Page 61 CAP. XVII Whether a Iudge is bound to giue sentence according to things proved and alleadged or according to his owne private knowledge Page 66 CAP.
returned were marked 150. when they went to the warres 156. their Generall 162 their marching 163. who were discharged from the warres 164. 165. how they comforted the Souldiers before they joyned battaile 167. their Colours 162. their Ensignes and Motto's ibid. what they did when they were at the shock of the battell 167. Whipping a punishment amongst the Iewes 138. the manner of their whipping 139. not whipt thrice for one fault ibid. it was not a disgrace amongst the Iewes 140. the spirituall use of it ibid Widow why called emptie and dumbe 81. of the Prophets widow ibid. Oppression of the widow a grievous sinne 83. Witnesses the chiefe part in Iudgement depended on them 75. not to proceede without witnesses 76. a faithfull witnesse what ibid. Wiues not to be multiplied 26. the Iewes restraint in multiplying wiues ibid Y Yere divided into foure seasons 89. Leap-yeare what 101. AN EXPLICATION OF THE IVDICIALL LAWES OF MOSES As they are annexed to the Morall and Ceremoniall Lawes Of the Iudiciall Lawes in generall SALOMON the Preacher Eccles 4.12 saith that a threefold Cord is not quickly broken The LORD gaue his people three sorts of Lawes as three Cords to binde them and to keepe them in obedience God gaue his Morall Iudiciall and Ceremoniall Law to his people as a threefold Cord. The first was his morall Law which was properly called his Law Deut. 6.1 Secondly he gaue them his Ceremoniall Lawes which are called his Statutes and Decrees Exod. 12.24 And thirdly his Iudgements which were the Iudiciall Lawes Mal. 4.4 Deut. 24.17 These Iudiciall Lawes were Determinations of the Morall Law The Iudiciall Law what A Determination is either Iuris divini or Humani these Determinations in Moses judiciall Lawes are divini juris Determinatio Iuris divini Iuris humani therefore they had greater force to binde the Iewes than any municipall Law hath to binde the Subjects now in respect they were given by God himselfe and these Lawes of men which draw nearest to them in equitie are most perfect although particularly they cannot be fitted to every Nation no more than a shooe of one measure can serue for every foote The second sort of Determination is Iuris humani when men determinate where there is no expresse commandement of God as concerning circumstances time places persons and such God commandeth in his law that they should pay their first fruits but he determineth not how much they should pay of their first fruits then the Priests come in with their humane determination that the most shall giue no more than one of fiftie and the least shall giue no lesse than one of sixtie Simile When the Israelites were travelling in the Wildernesse they had the Cloud to direct them by day and the pillar of fire to direct them by night yet they desired Iethro to be eyes to them Num. 10.31 What neede had they of Iethro to be eyes to them seeing they had the Cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night Iethro was a guide to them to shew them the particular places and wayes in the Wildernesse as the Cloud and the pillar were their guide to direct them to Canaan So humane Determinations and Lawes are but guides in particular circumstances A comparison betwixt Humane Lawes and Moses Iudiciall Lawes Humane Lawes they command they forbid and sometimes they permit and lastly they punish so yee shall see all these foure in Moses Iudiciall Law First his Iudiciall Lawes doe command but they command the outward man onely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iguca lex and here Moses speaketh to them but as a Iudge and they differ from that fierie Law the morall Law that searcheth and peirceth into the heart Deut. 33.2 Secondly Humane Lawes doe prohibite and forbid so doe these Iudiciall Lawes and there are moe of them which are Negatiues than Affirmatiues to shew us the perverse nature of man Thirdly Why Moses Iudiciall Lawes permit many things Humane Lawes giue way and permit something for the eschewing of greater evill so doth Moses Iudiciall Law Levit. 27.10 When a man offered a Beast vnto the Lord which he had vowed he might not change a good for a bad or a bad for a good this was commanded onely for eschewing of greater evill for if it had beene lawfull to change once a good in place of a bad one then they would haue come quickly to this to haue changed a bad for a good So this Law permitted divorcement for the hardnesse of the peoples hearts and for the eschewing of greater inconvenience least hard-hearted men should haue killed their wiues Fourthly The punishments of the Iudiciall Law alterable the punishments inflicted by humane lawes are alterable so were the punishments in Moses Iudiciall Law therefore the Iewes say of them ascendunt descendunt which they vnderstand not of the greatest and highest transgressions but of the middle sort of transgressions which praecepta media their middle Precepts did forbid Example Ex. 22. If a man kept a pushing Oxe knowing that he were wont to push if he kill a man then the Law ordaineth that the man shall die or else to redeeme himselfe with a summe of money here the Law ascended or descended but if a man had wilfully killed a man that was praeceptum grave the punishment neither ascended nor descended but he was to die the death The Scripture compareth the morall Law to a prison Gal. 3.22 the Ceremoniall Law to a second Ward and these Iudiciall Lawes to a Iailor to keepe the transgressors in close prison that none of them breake out CHAPTER I. That Kingly Government is the best Government IVDG 17.6 In those dayes there was no King in Israel but every man did that which was good in his owne eyes IN government there are fiue things to be considered first potestas secondly ordo thirdly modus fourthly titulus and fiftly vsus Fiue things in Government First there must be a power to exercise government secondly order that some command and some obey some to be superiors and some to be inferiors thirdly the manner whether the governement be Monarchicall by one or Aristocraticall by moe fourthly the title whether it be by Succession or Election and last the vse how they exercise this Authoritie What things essentiall and what accidentall in Government That there should be a power and order in Government these two are essentiall in all Governments no Government can stand without these two but the manner whether it be by one or by moe and the title whether it be by Succession or Election and the vse whether they governe well or not these three are but accidentall in Government Monarchicall the best Government Of these two sorts of Government Monarchicall is the best Their reasons who hold Aristocraticall Government to be the best Levi ben Gerson vpon the 1 Sam. 8. holdeth that Aristocraticall Government is best and to be
the Oliue the Figge and the Vine-tree and they all refused The trees described by their properties and then they make choise of the Bramble The three excellent trees which refuse the government the Oliue the Figge and the Vine-tree are described by three properties the Oliue for his fatnesse the Figge-tree for its sweetnesse and the Vine-tree because it cheared God and man The Oliue Iudg. 9.9 saith should I leaue my fatnesse wherewith by me they honour God man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ex hiphil hophal compositum sensus est vestrisne verbis persuasa ita missam facere pinguedinem meam juxta hiphil ea ipsa queque priver deficiar juxta hophal nihilque amplius habtam in me commendabile The trees serue for a naturall civill and religious use in the Hebrew it is Hehhadalti as if it should say will yee perswade me with your faire words to leaue my fatnesse that I should be altogether deprived of it so that I haue nothing left in me worthy of commendation And if we will compare these three trees together we must consider them first as they serue for naturall uses secondly as they serue for civill uses and thirdly for religious uses and then we shall see the excellency of these trees First in their naturall use consider the wood of the Oliue how farre it excelleth the wood of the Fig-tree The wood of the Oliue tree excelleth the rest or the Vine-tree The Cherubims were made of the Oliue tree 1 King 6.23 which was a wood both of indurance fit to be carved or cut better than the Algum or Almug trees which Hiram sent to Salomon 1 King 10.11 and it was better than the Cedar of Lebanon the wood of the Fig-tree was but a base sort of wood but the Vine-tree is the basest of of all Ezek. 15.2.3 will a man take a pinne of it to hinge any vessell it serveth for no vse if it be not fruitfull it is like the salt if it loose the savour it is good for nothing Mat. 5.13 Secondly consider the fruit of these trees Their use in naturall things the Vine is uvifera the Oliue is baceifera and the Figge-tree is pomifera and they serue for most excellent uses in nature the Wine serveth to cheare the heart of man Psal 104.15 and Pro. 31.16 giue Wine to him that is of a sad heart so the Oyle maketh the face to shine Psal 104.15 and it is good for the anointing of the body A Romane being asked how it came to passe that he lived so long he said intus melle foris oleo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 qui ungebat 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 qui unctus fuit ab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ungo it is fit for the anointing of the body therefore those who wrestled of old were called Aliptae Secondly they haue good use in curing of wounds the Samaritane powred Wine and Oyle in the mans wounds Luk. 10.34 and the Figge is good to mature a boyle the Lord commanded to lay a lump of Figges to Hezekias boyle Esay 36. For civill uses the Oyle excelleth the Wine and the Figge for by me they honour man Iudg. 9.9 unguentum militare convivale funebre There is Vnguentum militare wherewith their Kings were anointed to goe out as their Captaines before them to the Battell so David was anointed amongst the mīdst of his brethren to be their Captaine and King 1 Sam. 16.13 Secondly there was Vnguentum convivale Eccles 9.8 Let not Oyle be wanting to thy head and let thy clothes be white And thirdly was Vnguentum funebre as that box of Oyntment which was powred vpon Christs head Math. 26.12 The spirituall use of these trees Now let us consider them in their spirituall uses as they served for the worship of God vnder the old Testaments the Wine and the Oyle were used in their Sacrifices the Oyle in their Meat-offering and the Wine in their Drinke-offering so in anoynting their High Priests but the Figge had no use in their Ceremoniall worship but in his worship under the Gospel the Wine goeth before the Figge or the Oliue for it is the signe of our Lords bloud in the Sacrament These trees fitly represent a good King The Oliue the Vine and the Figge tree fitly represent a good King the Oliue for his fatnesse to cure and heale their wounds Esa 3.7 Non ero Hhobhes I will not be a healer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ligator vulnerum The Seventie translateth it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ligator vulnerum it is the part of a good Prince to powre Oyle in the wounds of his wounded Subjects Secondly the Figge tree for his sweetnesse representeth a good King 1 King 12.7 If thou wilt be a servant unto this people and serue them this day then they will serue thee for ever So David spake mildly and sweetly to the people 1 Chron. 28.2 Heare me my brethren and my people Thirdly the Vine-tree representeth a good King the Wine gladdeth the heart so the light of the Kings countenance is life and his favour is a cloud of the latter raine Prov. 16.15 Three refused the Government Debora Gideon and Iephihe When these trees which were excellent for their fruit had refused the Government then they made choise of the Bramble for their King the Bramble represented a bad King First the Bramble bringeth forth no fruit Secondly The many evils which the Bramble brought with it the Bramble hath no shadow to shadow the rest thirdly Rhamnus the Bramble is full of prickles whatsoever it toucheth it holdeth fast and it maketh bloud to follow it was with this sort of thorne wherewith Christ was crowned the Italians call it Spina sancta Fourthly the fire came from the Bramble and did not onely burne the shrubs of the field but also the Cedars which were tall which might haue seemed to be exempted from this tyrannie The Persians said of Cyrus their King that he was their Father and Darius their King was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Vintner who sold them but Cambyses their King was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their Lord who hardly ruled over them The conclusion of this is Conclusion a good King is much to be honoured for the great good he doth to his Subjects First he is the head of the people and as all the members of the body will hazard themselues for the safetie of the head so should he subjects for the safety of their Prince Secondly he is the Shepheard and the Subjects are his flocke but who feedeth a flocke and eateth not of the milke 1 Cor. 9.7 Thirdly he is the husband and his Subjects are his wife and therefore she is called a widow when she wanteth her King Lament 1.1 What great lamentation doth a widow make when she wants her loving husband Iosias then she poured her liver out vpon the ground her eyes failed
least sparkle of goodnesse Reason 2 Secondly He will take your Cerem not onely your Vines but also your Vineyards 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Ahab tooke Naboths Vineyard whereas David bought from Aranna the Iebusite the ground to build the Temple on Reason 3 Thirdly He will take their tithes either he will take these tithes from the Priests and that had beene sacriledge or else he will tithe the people over againe and that had beene too hard a burden for them Reason 4 Fourthly He will make your young men slaues and your young women drudges The Kings of Israel made no free men slaues but the good Kings of Israel never did so they set not the Israelites to any servile worke 2 Chron. 2 17. And Salomon set the Israelites to be overseers over the worke of the Temple but he set Strangers to doe the servile workes When the Holy Ghost describeth a good King he calleth him Nadibh and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the New Testament 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bountifull â—ord Luk. 22. Quest In what Kings were these punishments accomplished Answ The Iewes hold that they were not all accomplished in one King some of them were accomplished in Rehoboam 1 King 12.16 some of them in Ahab 1 King 21. and some in Omri Micah 6.16 Conclusion The Conclusion of this is a good King seeketh not theirs but them therefore good subjects should answer as an Echo We and ours are thine and the good King or Nadibb will answere 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Princeps à munificentia et liberalitate fic dictus I and mine shall be ever for you my people When the Master sendeth his servant away with his reward and the servant doth his dutie faithfully then it is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mat. 20.2 CHAPTER V. A Difference betwixt the Election of Saul and the Election of David 1 SAM 13.14 The Lord hath sought him a man after his owne heart FIrst Saul was chosen but out of the tribe of Benjamin but David out of the tribe of Iuda and the Kingdome was intailed to him and his posteritie but not to the posteritie of Saul In Christs genealogie none is called a King but David onely Saul was chosen by lot David immediately Secondly Saul was chosen by lot but David more immediately by God and even as Matthias when he was chosen by lot his calling was not so solemne as Pauls was so neither was the calling of Saul so solemne as was the calling of David Non tam misit Deus Saulum quà m permisit populo Thirdly when he speaketh of David he saith 1 Sam. 13.14 Quaesivi Bikkesh est diligenter inquirere Cant. 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 diligenter inquirere Exod. 4.19 2 Sam. 22.33 And he was as glad in finding of him as the Widow was when shee found her groat who called in her neighbours to rejoyce with her when she had found it Luk. 16.9 Fourthly Quaesivi mihi est dativus Commodi Zach. 9.9 Mihi est dativus commodi id est in commodum meum Behold thy King commeth unto thee that is for thy profit and benefit So David was the King that would serue for the Lords glory Fiftly he chose David according to his owne heart this was verbum amoris and there was great similitude betwixt Davids heart and Gods owne heart The Iewes obserue concerning David that when he had sinned in numbring of the people God said to the Prophet Goe tell David 2 Sam. 24.12 1 Chron. 21.10 How the Lord calleth David his servant Giving him no other title but David as Kimchi marketh upon that place but when he had a purpose to build a house for the Lord then he said Goe tell my servant David 2 Sam. 7.5 1 Chron. 17.4 Shewing what account he maketh of such and how acceptable men are to him when they seeke his glory and the good of his Church So when the people had committed Idolatry the Lord calleth them Moses people Goe get thee downe Why God called the Israelites Moses people for thy people which thou broughtst out of Aegypt haue corrupted themselues Exod. 32.7 He calleth them not my people because they were blotted with such a blot as was not to be found in his children Deut. 32.5 Now because David was a King fit for Gods worship see how friendly he speakes of him I haue sought to me a man that is an excellent man Sixtly according to my heart God chose not David for his stature I made not choise of him for his comely stature as the people made choise of Saul but I chose him because he was a man according to mine owne heart The Conclusion of this is 1 Sam. 16.7 Conclusion a man judgeth according to his eyes but the Lord looketh to the heart the Lord hath not eyes of flesh Carneos habire oculos quid Iob 10.4 That is he looketh not to outward qualities as men doe but his eyes peirce into the heart and he made choise of David because he saw his heart was upright The heart of the Prince is the object of the eye of God CHAPTER VI. Of the anoynting of their Kings and whether the Kings and Priests were anoynted with the same Oyle or not PSAL. 89.27 I haue found David my servant with my holy Oyle haue I anointed him How the anointing of the Kings and Priests pertaineth to the Iudiciall Law ALthough the anointing of the Kings and Priests was a thing ceremoniall under the Law yet thus farre it falleth under the Iudiciall Law first what Kings and their sonnes succeeding them were anointed secondly whether the Priests and the Kings were anointed with the same Oyle or not There were three sorts of persons anointed under the Law Kings Priests and Prophets All the Priests at the first were anointed All the Priests were anointed at the first both the high Priests and the inferior Priests Levit. 8. but afterwards onely the high Priest was anointed and his sonnes after him Levit. 6.21 21.10 16.32 therefore he was called the anointed of the Lord. How the Priest was anointed The Priest when he was anointed first he was anointed with Oyle secondly sprinkled with bloud and thirdly with bloud and oyle Levit. 8. The first was upon his head the second upon his flesh and the third upon his garments So the King was anointed What Kings were anointed but the Kings sonne was not anointed if his father was anointed before him one anointing served for both because the Kingdome is the Kings inheritance for ever Deut. 17.20 But if there had beene a sedition they did anoint him to pacifie the people and settle the sedition and to make knowne who was the right King as Salomon was anointed Maymont in his Treatise of the Implements of the Sanctuary cap. 1. sect 4. because of the sedition of Adonijah 1 King 1. and Ioash because of Athalia 2 King 11. and Ioahaz
a Potters field with it to bury strangers in Mat. 27.7 therefore they might sell a field for they bought this field to bury strangers in it First this field was not a fruitfull field Answ but a place where the Potters made pots and it seemeth that this field was adjacent to some poore house So Ioseph of Arimathea being of another tribe than those of Ierusalem for Arimathea or Rama was in the tribe of Ephraim but a great part of Ierusalem with Mount Calvarie and Iosephs Garden wherein he had his Tombe was in the tribe of Benjamin yet he bought a Garden being neere Ierusalem and the Hill Calvarie because it was a thing which belonged to the house within the walled Citie If a man might not sell his inheritance in Israel Object how could the Kings themselues inlarge their possessions or haue places of pleasure proper for themselues but we reade that the Kings of Iuda Israel had Orchards and Gardens and places of buriall proper to themselues which was a part of their peculium or proper right Answ The Kings might haue Orchards and Gardens proper to themselues places of pleasure but they might not buy the propertie of any mans Land or Vineyard Wherefore Naboth said well God forbid it me that I should sell my fathers inheritance they were but usufructuarij but the Lord was Dominus fundi and he that hath no right to himselfe cannot make a right to another Why might they sell their houses within a walled Citie and not their fields and grounds in the Country Levit. 25.13 The reason why they might sell their houses within the walled Cities The reason was this they might not sell their grounds that their possessions might be kept still distinct but because many came to dwell in the walled Cities and the houses were not so distinguished as the grounds and Vineyards therefore they might sell them this was also done in favour of the Proselytes that they might haue a dwelling amongst the people of God Conclusion The conclusion of this is as the Israelites when they morgaged their Land they had not power simplie to sell it because the propertie was the Lords therefore it was to returne unto him in the yeare of the Iubile So although the children of God morgage their part of the heavenly Canaan yet because the right is the Lords it shall returne to them in the yeare of that great Iubile CHAPTER XV. Whether the Iewes should be tolerated in a Christian Common-wealth or not ROM 11.23 And they also if they abide not still in unbeliefe shall be graffed in for God is able to graffe them in againe THere may be many reasons alledged why this sort of people should not be tolerated amongst Christians First if yee respect their profession and Religion they are to be secluded from us Christians and secondly in respect of their dealing with us in their civill contracts and bargaining As for their Religion First they detest us Christians who professe Christ for Christs cause Secondly they hold many damnable and blasphemous opinions concerning Christ first for his forerunner Iohn the Baptist secondly they hate Marie the Mother of our Lord Iesus Christ thirdly they oppose themselues against Christs natures fourthly against his Offices King Priest and Prophet fiftly against his death upon the crosse sixtly against his resurrection seventhly they oppose themselues to his imputed righteousnesse and lastly to his Gospell and they expect a glorious Messias to come First in detestation of Christ they detest us Christians they call us Goijm Gentes and Edomites 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vastavit and when they would welcome a Christian they say welcome Shed that is Devill The Iewes detest Christians hinking that the common people understand not the word and they curse us Christians daily anathema sit externis in serpente that is they wish that we who are without their societie may be execrable as the Serpent But they detest those most of all who are converted from Iudaisme to Christianitie and they pray three times in the day against them morning midday and evening and thus they pray Ne sit quies Apostatis neque spes The Iewes expect Elias to come Secondly they expect Elias Tishbites to be the forerunner of their Messias and when they cannot resolue their hard questions to their Schollers they say Tishbi solvet nodos 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is when Elias Tishbites shall come he will resolue all doubts but Elias is come alreadie and they haue done to him whatsoever they listed Math. 17.12 They hate Marie the Mother of Christ and they call her Mara bitternesse and the herbe called Herba Mariae by them is called Herba suspensi because Marie bare Christ who was crucified upon the Crosse so a peice of money called grossa Mariae they called it in despite grossa suspensi The Iewes deny the two natures of Christ Then they deny the two natures of Christ for they deny his God-head inceptum est nomen Iehova profanari Targum Hierosolymitanum paraphraseth it thus illi caeperunt idola colere fecerunt sibi Deos erroneos quod cognominabant de sermone domini he understandeth here blasphemously Christ calling him Deum erroneum whom the Scripture call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Of old they said Deus sanctus domus Iudicij ejus fecerunt hominem by the house of Iudgement they meant the trinity of persons for all the inferior house of Iudgment consisted of three and they said Duorum non est judicium so the Chaldie paraphrast paraphraseth the trinitie of persons by this paraphrase but now the Iewes doe set themselues against this and they deny it flatly They set themselues against his offices The Iewes set thēselues against the offices of Christ he was anointed King Priest and Prophet Hameshiah that excellent Prophet but in detestation of Christ they will not call their Tardigradum or slow-comming Christ Messiah but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 delibutum they hate so the name of Christ They mocke the Kingly office of Christ Mat. 27.19 they put a crown of thornes upō his head for a crowne and they put a reed in his hand for a Scepter So they mocke his Priestly office he saved others let him saue himselfe Vers 40. and his Propheticall office Prophesie thou O Christ who is he that smiteth thee Mat. 26.68 So they mocke his death and his crucifying upon the Crosse they call Christs crosse the Woofe and the Warpe and so mystically when they speake one to another amongst Christians they call Christ the Woofe and the Warpe They deny the resurrection of Christ Mat. 28.15 and it is noysed abroad amongst them unto this day that Iesus Christ was stolen away by his Disciples and that he did not rise againe So they oppose his imputed righteousnesse and they say that every fox must pay his owne skin to the flayer and they say sit mors mea expiatio cunctarum
strife amongst them What doth he then He made choise of sixe out of every Tribe and he brought forth seventie two blanke papers upon seventie of the papers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Senex he wrote Zaken senex and upon the two that remained hee wrote Hhelek pars 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pars. Now when the Tribes drew their Lots out of the Boxe he who drew Zaken senex Moses said unto him Antea sanctificavit te deus benedictus but he who drew Hhelek pars he said unto him Non cupit te deus The Hebrewes say that Eldad and Medad Num. 11.26 were of those who were written but they went not out into the Tabernacle because they drew Hhelek pars but not Zaken senex they were inter conscriptos say they but not inter electos and so the number seventie is made up without them There were two Presidents in this Councell Two Presidents in the Councell 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Princeps the first chosen in respect of his power dignitie and wisedome and he was called Nashi princeps and Rosh hajeshibhah Pater consessus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pater Consessus and he it was as the Iewes say that succeeded Moses The order how they sat in Iudgement who was the principall and the chiefe in the Councell and upon his right hand sat he who was greatest amongst the seventie and he was called Abh beth din pater consistorij 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pater Consistorij the rest sat according to their dignitie and age next to the Prince and they sat in a circuit or a halfe Moone that both the Presidents might haue them in their sight The time when they sat in these Iudicatories The time when they sat the great Iudicatorie sat every day except on the Sabbath and festivall dayes and when they sat the little Synedrion sat but from the morning Sacrifice untill the sixt houre that is untill our twelue but the great Synedrion sat from the morning Sacrifice untill the evening Sacrifice that is untill our three of the clocke in the afternoone What matters were judged in the great Synedrion The matters which they judged in this Iudicatorie were matters of greatest weight as to judge of a false Prophet when to make warres appointing Magistrates for inferior Cities so for cutting off of a Tribe and punishing the high Priest and whether an Apostate Citie should be raised and cast downe or not and they say that none might giue the bitter waters to the woman suspected of Adulterie but this Iudicatorie Num. 5.29 So they say when a man was killed and the killer not knowne none might measure from the place where the man was killed to the next Citie Deut. 21.7 but the Elders of the great Synedrion this case was onely tryed by them So the raising up seed to his brother and pulling off his shoe if he refused these were tryed by the great Synedrion Obiect Bellarmines argument to proue the Pope to be aboue secular Iudges Bellarmine the Iesuite to proue the Pope to be aboue secular Iudges alledgeth Deut. 17.12 The man that doth presumptuously and will not hearken unto the Priest and to the Iudge even that man shall die Here he saith the Magistrate doth onely execute the sentence of the Priest But first ex decreto judicis is not in the originall Answ but according to the sentence of the Law Deut. 17.11 and the word should be read disjunctivè He that hearkeneth not unto the Priest or unto the Iudge c. And by the Priest here is understood not onely the high Priest but other Priests Vers 9. When the high Priest and the Iudges sat together then he that hearkened not to the sentence given by the Iudge and interpreted by the Priest was to die so he who hearkened not unto the Iudge although the Priest was not there was to die for these Iudicatories which are conjoyned are sometimes distinguished Deut. 17.12 2 Chro. 19.8 and they must be interpreted respectiuely as the Lawyers speake In the lesser Iudicatorie When they might judge of capitall crimes in the lesser Iudicatorie they might not judge of a capitall crime unlesse they were twentie three a full number so they judged of a beast that had killed a man or lien with a woman to be put to death Levit. 20.16 The seventie whom Moses chose now at the commandement of the Lord Num. 11.25 The difference betwixt the seventie which Moses chose and the seventie which were chosen at the direction of Iethro differed from the seventie whom he chose at the commandement of Iethro Exod. 18. they excelled the former seventie far in gifts for they had the spirit of Moses upon them and as the Mantle of Elijah when it was put about Elisha then the spirit came upon him The spirit of Moses was not diminished when it was put upon the seventie so came the spirit of Moses upon the seventie and the spirit of Moses was not diminished when it came upon the seventie but the spirit of Moses in that houre was like the middle lamp of the Candlestick from the middle Lamp the rest were lighted but the light of this Lamp was not diminished so the spirit of Moses was not diminished when it came upon the seventie Moses spirit of judgement was upon them all but not his other gifts as Moses was mightie in words and deed but not they Moses was the meekest man in the world but not they One Moses ruling in a Councell will make it famous but to haue seventie like Moses sitting in a Councell for they had the same spirit of ruling which Moses had that made it to excell all the Councels in the world even Areopagus in Athens and the Senate in Rome and if we shall marke the unitie that was in this Councell then we shall more admire it Object Whether had the Seventie this gift of Prophesie continually or not Answ They prophesied for a day but no more therefore the Text said Prophetarunt non addiderunt i.e. prophetare The seventy which Moses chose had not this gift of Prophesie continually and so the phrase is used by the Hebrewes Gen. 8.12 Non addidit redire She returned not againe so 1 Sam. 15. Non addidit Samuel redire ad Saulem that is he saw him no more so Prophetarunt et non addiderunt that is they prophesied that day and no more Conclusion The conclusion of this is the Lord did sit here in the midst of this great judicatorie and he was their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he was the President of their Councell and therefore they that hearkened not to this Councell were worthy to die CHAPTER XVII Whether a Iudge is bound to giue sentence according to things prooved and alledged or according to his owne private knowledge EXOD. 23 1. Thou shalt not receiue a report put not thine hand
doe and here the will giveth no consent at all as when they drew the Martyrs before their Idols and put incense in their hands Coactum is that when there is some externall violence used to enforce and compell a man to doe such a thing against which he standeth out and resisteth for a time but yet in the end he yeeldeth for feare as Origen did to Idolatrie But non spontaneum is this when it is partly with the will and partly against the will Christ sayd unto Peter Ioh. 21.18 they shall carry thee whither thou wouldest not meaning what death he should dye It was partly with Peters will and partly against his will that he went to martyrdome Voluntarium is that when the will giveth full consent to doe a thing When a man killeth his neighbour in suddaine passion he is not violently drawne to this sinne neither is he compelled to this sinne prima principia concupiscible et irascibile sunt interna homini and cannot be compelled and in this sense he who killeth in suddaine passion is sayd to doe it willingly but if we will respect the will as it is obnubilated with the perturbation of anger for the time he did it not willingly but non spontè which is a midst betwixt spontè and invitê Peter sayd to Christ Lord I will lay downe my life for thy sake Iohn 13.3 no doubt hee had an intention to dye with him when he spake these words but they shall carrie thee whither thou wouldest not here he was not willing to dye so that he was partly willing and partly not willing hee was not altogether willing nor it was not altogether against his will but it was partly with his will and partly against his will We doe a thing Spontè we doe a thing invitè Spontè Invitè Non invitè and we doe a thing non invitè We doe a thing Spontè when we are altogether willing to it we doe a thing invitè when it is partly with our will and partly against our will we doe a thing non invitè quando procedit ex ignorantia comitante Simile as when Mutius Scaevola killed another in stead of Porcenna and when it was told him that he had missed the King and killed another he was sory that he had not killed the King this action was neither done Spontè nor invitè but non invitè but when a man killeth in suddaine passion and after that his passions and perturbations are setled he is sory that he hath done such a thing and is grieved that primus impetus non est in sua potestate then he doth it invitè There is a twofold concupiscence Concupiscentia Antecedent Consequent an antecedent concupiscence and a consequent concupiscence the antecedent concupiscence is that when the passion preventeth the will and moveth it but the consequent concupiscence is that when the will willingly worketh and stirreth up the passion that it may execute the sinne more readily when passion preventeth the will then it extenuateth the sinne but when the will stirreth up the passion then it augmenteth the sinne Againe Agere Ex ira Iratus we must make a difference betwixt these two to doe a thing ex ira and to doe a thing iratus when a man doth a thing ex irâ anger is onely the cause of it and it repenteth him of it afterward that he hath done it but when he doth a thing iratus it doth not proceed principally from his anger but from some other bad disposition and hardly such a man repenteth him of his fact Lastly Eligere Praeligere there is a difference betwixt eligere and praeeligere eligere is to follow sense and appetite but praeeligere is to follow reason When a man killeth in suddaine passion Anger followeth the complexion of the bodie it is electio non praelectio This sinne of anger commeth commonly of the complexion of the body nam ex iracundis nascuntur irati the Philosopher saith a certaine man being challenged for beating of his father gaue this answere My father beat his father and pointing to his sonne with his finger he said this my sonne will beat me also these hereditary evils are hardly cured The woman of Tekoah when one of her sonnes killed the other she begged of the King to remember the law of the Lord that her other sonne might be saved in the Citie of Refuge which the King granted unto her willingly 2 Sam. 14. because he killed him in suddaine passion CHAPTER XXII Whether they might take the sonnes of the Prophets widow for debt or not 2 KING 4. Now cryed a certaine woman of the wiues of the sonnes of the Prophets unto Elisha saying the Creditour is come to take unto him my two sonnes to be bondmen IT is a pitifull thing to adde griefe to those who are in griefe already this widow shee was in griefe already and those who would take her sonnes from her adde new griefe unto her The Lord saith Make not sad the heart of the widow Iere. 22.3 Elias 1 King 17.20 said unto the Lord O Lord my God thou hast brought evill upon this widow with whom I sojourne by slaying her sonne As if he should say is it not enough O Lord that thou hast taken away her husband but thou wilt take away her sonne also The Lord could not doe wrong to this widow by taking away both her sonne and her husband but they who came to take this poore widowes children did great wrong to her in adding new griefe to her The widow in the Hebrew is called Almonah muta ab Alam silere 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vidua ab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Silere 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vacua because she hath no body to speake for her and she is called Rikam emptie Ruth 1.21 because she wanteth a husband to defend her a widow who liveth in pleasure shee is dead while shee is living 1 Tim. 5.6 but a widow that is a widow indeed and desolate trusteth in God and she is civilly dead when shee wanteth the meanes to helpe her The Lord forbiddeth in his Law to take to pledge the upper or the nether Milstone which are the meanes to maintaine the mans life Deut. 24.6 The widowes two sonnes were as it were the nether and the upper Milstone to gaine her living Secondly the Lord forbiddeth to take to pledge the cloths in which the poore man lieth in the night for he saith when he cryeth unto me I will heare for I am gracious Exod. 22.27 And when those two sonnes of the widow were taken from her did not the Lord heare her a poore woman a poore widow the widow of one that feared the Lord the widow of a Prophet Yes verily he heard her and that quickly And he that saith Touch not mine anointed and doe my Prophets no harme Psal 105.15 so he saith touch not the Prophets widow nor her sonnâ—s and doe them no harme
called stragula How the beds on which they eat were called and the Greekes called them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and they differed from the sleeping beds called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a bed wherein one slept and sometimes they had three and sometimes foure of those beds in a Chamber The forme of their beds For those three beds the Ancients made one long bed called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 after the forme of the Greeke Letter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that it might almost compasse about the round Table which they called Semirotundum suggestum an halfe round Table like the Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and it was thus painted Ϲ Martial Accipe lunata scriptum testudine sigma Octo capit veniat quisquis amicus erit And the round Table joyned with it was called Antisigma because it made a semicircle upon the other part it was semirotundus suggestus and joyning with the bed it made the full circle this great bed sometimes contained seven Martial De Stibadio Lib. 14. Septem sigma capit sex sumus adde lupum Christ and his Disciples sat not in Stabidio but in severall beds in biclinijs or triclinijs He who made those beds was called Lectisterniator he who kept the chamber cleane after the beds were made The decking of their beds and chambers was called Mediastinus the charge of those was to hang the Chamber with Tapestry and Curtaines and Christ meaneth of such a Chamber when he saith he will shew you a large upper roome furnished and prepared there make readie for us Mark 14.15 The Tables which they had either stood upon one foot and they were called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or upon two and they were called bipedes or upon three and they were called tripodes At the first their Tables were not covered with linnen How their Tables were covered but after Supper they tooke a Brush or Sponge swept the Table Martial Haec tibi sorte datur tergendis spongla mensis Afterwards they used to cover their Tables Gausapo villoso with a cloath made of rough Cotton and afterward with linnen and they had Napkins with which they wiped their hands called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They had mensam urnariam a Table upon which their vessels stood by Varro called Cylibantum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Of their Tables because it kept the Cups and it was called Gartibulum or Gertibulum a gerendis vasibus this mensa urnaria stood but in the Kitchin but the other stood in triclinijs in their upper chambers When the Chamber and the Table were thus prepared the guests were washed in baths Of their washing before meat and then they were anointed the servants who anointed them were called Vnctores or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the place where they were anointed was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they washed their feete and the vessell in which they washed their feete was called Pelluvium that in which they washed their hands was called Malluvium when they washed before the dinner it was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and after dinner 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They were curious in anointing of their bodies Of their anointing for every part of the bodie they had a severall ointment they anointed the feete with Egyptian ointment the cheekes and the breast with the Phaenician but the armes with the Sisymbrian the necke and the cheekes with the ointment made of the herbe Serpillum Chiefly they anointed their head and their feete with Nardus and this by Marke cap. 14.3 is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 upright Nard and the box in which it was kept was called Alabastris a box cut out of a precious stone in Egypt When they sat at these costly Tables they had great banquets and feasts this was called Cana dubia caena opipara caena ebria by Plautus caena triumphalis by Plinius caena dapsilis Opposit to these was caena pura caena sine sanguine caena terrestris in which they eat onely herbes Of their manner of drinking THey measured their drinke by a cup called Cyathus and some were said potare sextantes quadrantes trientes He that dranke Sextans was of a weake bodie he that dranke Deuux was a drunkard he that dranke triens was one of the middle sort they used to drinke harmonicè there were three sorts of mixtures like three harmonies in musicke the first was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 three parts of water and two of wine secondly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when they mixed three of water and one of wine thirdly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when one part of wine and two of water were mixed They dranke sometimes nine cups for the nine Muses and three for the three fatall sisters Ausonius Ter bibe vel toties ternos sic mystica lex est Vel tria potandi vel ter tria multiplicandi And sometimes they dranke as many cups as there were letters in their friends name to whom they dranke Martial Nevia sex Cyathis septem Iustina bibatur And sometimes amongst the Romans they dranke as many cups as they wished years to him for whom they dranke and they used to coole their wine in snow water so they had a vessell in quo solebant aquam colare in which they used to straine the water Martial Attenuare nives nôrunt Lintea nostra Frigidior caelo non salit unda tua They had a Master of the feast called Pater discubitus and by Tacitus Rex convivij and the Greekes called him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who assigned to every man his place where he should sit and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who tasted the wine before others dranke When they were at Supper they had all sort of musicke and perfumes and when they departed the Master of the feast gaue them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 gifts so our Lord in his great and last feast had his perfumes his prayers sweetning the prayers of the Saints they had their hymne and he had 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he gaue them his flesh and his bloud Of their Apparell THe matter of their Apparell was Wooll Linnen and Silke and Xylinum which was a middle betwixt Wollen and Linnen Silke was called Meshi Ezek. 16.10.13 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sericum a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 extrahere Aquila translateth it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because it was soft and smooth and easie to be handled or it was called so from Mashah extrahere because it was easily drawne out silke is not a new invention as some take it to be for it was in use amongst the Hebrewes and Greekes and it was called Serica Medica because the Medes brought it upō Camels from Bactria Secondly they had Wooll and thirdly Byssus white Linnen which groweth in Egypt and Palestina like to the leaues of the Poppie and this is called Shesh 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Xylinum shesh
stood foaming and roaring before them but hurt them not and therfore they were glad to put the skinnes of wild beasts upon them to make the Lyons runne upon them and teare them Thou that art a wicked man and hast no part of this Image of God to defend thee no marvaile if thy dogge bite thee thy horse braine thee or thy oxe gore thee Let us studie then for to haue this Image repaired in us if we would be in league with the beasts of the field Beasts surpasse man in many duties The dogges came and licked his sores The beasts many times out-strip man in many duties The Kine of Bethshemesh went streight forward with the Arke and declined neither to the right hand nor to the left but man many times declineth either to the right hand or to the left and he keepeth not this midst The Oxe knoweth his owner and the Asse his Masters crib but Israel doth not know my people doe not consider Esay 1.3 and Ier. 8.7 Yea the storke in the heaven knoweth her appointed times and the turtle and the crane and the swallow obserue the time of their comming but my people know not the judgement of the Lord. And the Lord sendeth man to the Ant to learne wisedome Prov. 6.6 Goe to the ant thou sluggard consider her wayes and be wise Balaams Asse saw the Angell sooner then Balaam himselfe and therefore is it that the Scripture calleth men beasts and sendeth them to be taught by beasts which sheweth how farre man is degenerated from his first estate and what a low forme hee is in when the beasts are set to teach him Why God gaue his children a small portion in this life It may seeme strange why the Lord distributeth things so that he giveth such plentie and abundance to the rich glutton and so little to Lazarus seeing the earth is the Lords and the fulnesse thereof Psal 24.1 God who doth all things in wisdome doth not this without good reason The Lord dealeth with his children in this life Simile as he did with the Israelites when he brought them to Canaan Numb 13.17 When he brought them to Canaan South a barren Countrey he made them to goe Southward into the Mountaines the South was a dry and barren part Iudg. 1.15 Thou hast given me a South-land giue me also springs of water so Psal 126.4 Turne againe our captivitie O Lord as the streames in the South hee prayeth that the Lord would refresh them now in the midst of bondage as the waters refreshed the dry and barren South And Iarchi noteth that the Lord did with his people here as Merchants doe who shew the worst cloath first Simile so dealeth the Lord with his children hee sheweth them the worst first and as at the wedding in Cana of Galilie the last wine was the best so is it here the Lord sheweth his children great afflictions and troubles the South part as it were at first but afterwards he bringeth them to the Land that floweth with milke and honey Secondly he bestoweth these outward and temporarie things but sparingly upon his children that hee may draw their hearts to the consideration of better things he giveth the wicked their portion in this life Psal 17.14 Sonne remember that thou in thy life time receivedst thy good things Luke 16.25 but he reserveth the good things for his owne children that is the holy Ghost the graces of the Spirit Luk. 11.9 It is a matter of great consequence to discerne what are the gifts of Gods favour Great skill required in discerning the gifts of Gods right hand many men thinke because they haue wealth and prosperitie they are the gifts of Gods favour and they seeme to stand under the Lords right hand but they are deceived Simile When Ephraim and Manasseh were brought before Iacob Ephraim was set at Iacobs left hand and Manasseh at his right hand but Iacob crossed his hands and laid his right hand upon Ephraims head and his left upon the head of Manasseh Gen. 48. So many men who seeme to stand at the Lords right hand shall be set at his left hand and many who seeme to stand at his left hand shall be set at his right hand Lazarus seemeth to stand now at his left hand but stay till you see him die and the Angels carry him to glory and then yee shall see him stand at the Lords right hand It is a point of great wisedome to know the Lords dispensing hand David prayeth Psal 17.7 separa benignitates tuas as if he should say giue us something O Lord that we may be discerned to be thy children from the wicked for by these outward favours wee shall never be knowne to be thy children The Lord careth not to throw a portion of this world to a wicked man as if one should throw a bone to a dogge but he will know well to whom hee giveth this rich gift of eternall life Death separateth the godly from the wicked And it came to passe that the beggar dyed and the rich man also dyed Death maketh a full separation betwixt the children of God and the wicked the sheepe and the goates may feed together for a while but the shepheard separateth them the wheat and the chaffe may lie in one floore together but the fanne separateth them and the good and the bad fish may be both in one net untill they be drawne to the land and the tares and the wheat may grow in one field for a while until the time of harvest so may the godly and the wicked liue together here for a while Simile but death maketh a totall and full separation Moses said to the Israelites stand still and see the salvation of the Lord which hee will shew to you to day for the Egyptians whom yee haue seene to day yee shall see them no more for ever Exod. 14.13 the red Sea made a separation betwixt the Israelites and the Egyptians for ever So death separateth the children of God from the wicked that they shall never meete againe Betwixt us and you there is a great gulfe fixed so that they which would passe from hence to you cannot neither can they passe to us Gods children should haue little medling with the world that would come from thence Luk. 16.26 This should teach the children of God to haue little medling with the wicked why because one day there shall be a totall and finall separation and this is a great comfort to his children oftentimes now they are afraid of the incursions of the wicked and of their bloodie hands but then they shall never be afraid of them The gates of the new Ierusalem were not shut at all Revel 21.25 to signifie that there shall be no feare of the enemie there And he was carried by the Angels into Abrahams bosome Here consider three things first how it commeth that the Angels are ministring spirits to man secondly what
the hearts of the Gergesites from Christ by drowning of their swine and the reason wherefore he delighteth to dwell in no other creature but man is because there is no visible creature that can commit sinne but man where there is not a Law there is no transgression for sinne is the transgression of the Law Rom. 4.15 but no Law is given to any visible creature but onely to man This should be a great motiue to humble man A motiue to humilitie when he seeth such a great change that he who was the Temple of the holy Ghost should now become a cage for uncleane spirits and to make the house of God a den of theeues Mat. 21.13 Was not this a great change when a mans house in which he dwelt was made a dunghill Ezra 6.11 But this is a farre greater change when man who should be the Temple of the holy Ghost is made a receptacle for uncleane Devils it was a great change in Naomi when her beautie was changed into bitternes and when the Nazarites that were whiter than the snow became blacke like the cole Lament 4.8 and when Nebuchadnezzar who was a mightie King became a beast Dan. 4.33 but those changes were nothing to this change when man who was the Temple of the holy Ghost should become the cage of uncleane Devils When the uncleane spirit is gone out of a man Whether did Satan goe out willingly here Quest or was he cast out by force He was cast out by force here Answ he goeth not out willingly but by collusion this is not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Satan goeth not out willingly by force to cast him out Satan doth not cast out Satan but when the Lord casteth him out by his power then he is cast out by force Whether is this gift in the Church now or not Quest to cast out Satan Answ This extraordinary gift to compell Satan to goe out of a man is not in the Church now we haue prayer and fasting now desiring the Lord to cast him out Mat. 17.21 but to charge him to goe out or to conjure him the Church hath no such power Not lawfull to use the signe when the thing signified is not to use the signe when the thing signified is not this is a great abuse if the high Priest under the Law should haue put in two counterfeit stones in the brestplate when there was neither Vrim nor Thummim and promised by them to haue the Lord to answere him had not this beene a delusion so for men now to use the words of authority to charge Satan to goe out when this power is not in the Church this is but a delusion the Church hath power now by excommunication to giue over wicked men into the hands of Satan but yet they become not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 really possessed as it was in the Primitiue Church So the Church now hath power to pray to God for the delivery of the partie but they haue not power with authoritie to charge the uncleane spirit the Church in her infancie had some extraordinary gifts which are now ceased as to speake tongues to cure the sicke to cast out Devils and to kill as Peter did Ananias and Saphira Act. 5.5 to strike blind as Paul did Elymas the sorcerer Act. 13.11 God never withdrawes from hi◠Church gifts which are simply good Those gifts which are the best gifts God never withdraweth them from his Church altogether but other gifts which are not simply the best gifts he withdraweth them example to speake diverse Languages was a gift profitable for the planting of the Church at the first but yet it was not simplie necessary Paul said he had rather speake fiue words in a knowne tongue than ten thousand words in an unknowne tongue 1 Cor. 14.19 Those gifts which are most excellent and simply necessary in the Church he taketh not away I shew unto you a more excellent way 1 Cor. 12.31 And the Lord hath turned these gifts into more excellent gifts Ioh. 14.12 He that beleeveth in me the workes that I doe shall he doe also and greater workes than these shall he doe When Christ was here bodily present with his Disciples his bodily presence was not so comfortable to them as his spirituall presence so when he was present by miracles signes and wonders in the Primitiue Church this was but a bodily presence in respect of his spirituall presence with us now when the LORD wrought these miracles then it was either to convict the Infidels or to strengthen the faith of the weak ones these miracles were signes not to them that beleeue Why miracles were wrought but to them that beleeue not 1 Cor. 14.22 When Paul healed the father of Publius the Consull of a Fever he healed him by a miracle and made him presently to arise Act. 28.8 but he healed not Timothy that way but seemeth rather to play the Physitian to him bidding him drinke no longer water but wine 1 Tim. 5.23 What was the reason of this Timothy beleeved therefore he needed not a miracle but the father of Publius beleeved not he was an Infidell as yet and therefore a miracle was more necessary for him He walketh through dry places That is he counteth all other places but deserts in respect of his former habitation Seeking rest and findeth none Satan hath three places Three places of Satan first his place of pleasure secondly his place of wandring and thirdly his place of torment his place of pleasure is an uncleane soule in which he delighteth to wallow his place of wandring is when he goeth about compassing the earth too fro seeking whom he may devout and his place of torment is hell Satan is tormented now when he is in his place of pleasure and in his place of wandring but his full torment is not come Art thou come hither to torment us before the time Mat. 8.29 The childe of God hath three places So the childe of God hath three places his place of pleasure as Psal 84.1 How amiable are thy Tabernacles O Lord of Hosts my soule longeth yea even fainteth for the Courts of the Lord so he hath his place of griefe Woe is me that I sojourne in Mesech that I dwell in the Tents of Kedar Psal 120.5 and he hath his place of joy in the Heavens The spirits haue their rest And findeth none Spirits haue their rest they are not like quick-silver which hath principium motus in se sed non quietis but they haue principium motus quietis the soule resteth when it is delighted as the bodie resteth when it lyeth or sitteth Satans rest is sinne but this is a restlesse rest the true rest of the soule is God onely When the soule resteth therefore David said returne my soule to thy rest Psal 116.7 When the soule is not set upon God the right object Simile then it is extra centrum and as the Needle
more wicked than others they are not then called worse spirits because they are moe in number onely but they are worse because they are more malicious they are all bad spirits but some exceed others in malice and wickednesse many men doe mistake Satan and his Angels they thinke that some of them are spirits which doe no harme but they are all sworne enemies to mans salvation therefore Satan is called the red Dragon the red Dragon delighteth not onely to kill men for hunger but also for sport to kill them what can we looke for then of those infernall spirits of destruction And the last end of that man is worse than the first The end of the wicked is worse than their beginning three wayes His last end is worse than his beginning in three respects first in respect of God secondly in respect of himselfe thirdly in respect of Satan First in respect of God who justly punisheth him this wise by giving him up unto a reprobate sense because he loved not the truth secondly his last end is worse in respect of himselfe because he is dyed over againe with sinne those sinnes in the Scripture are called Scarlet sinnes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Scarlet is called Shani or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because it is twice dyed So men when they fall backe they are dyed anew againe and as recidivatio in morbis est periculosa so is the falling into sinne anew againe So it is worse in respect of himselfe because after that a man is illuminated he is more readie to become prophane Simile if he be not sanctified Take water and heat it and set it in the ayre it will freeze sooner than cold water So if a man be illuminated and haue some taste of sanctification and then fall backe againe he is in a worse case than he was in before Thirdly he is worse in respect of Satan for when Satan catcheth him againe he maketh him twice more the childe of hell A Iailor hath a prisoner fettered by the hands necke and feete the prisoner beggeth of him that he would release him he releaseth him all to the foote he slippeth his foote out of the fetters and escapeth if the Iailor catch him againe he layeth a double weight upon him and fettereth him twice as sure as he was before so when a sinner seemeth to escape from Satan being enlightned and in some shew sanctified it he fall backe againe he bringeth seven worse spirits with him The application of the Parable is The application of the Parable Even so shall it be also unto this wicked Generation As if Christ should say when I came amongst you yee were in darkenesse but by my ministerie yee haue beene illuminated but maliciously now yee impugne this truth and yee are possessed with seven worse spirits than before therefore your end must be worse than your beginning FINIS ¶ An Addition Pag. 122. line 11. TO raise up seed to the brother that is to the eldest brother Deut. 25.5 If brethren dwell together and one of them die that is if the first or eldest die and haue no seede then his second brother was bound to raise up seede to him if he were not married for the Law speaketh of brethren dwelling together and not married or forisfamiliate an example of this we haue in Er and Onan Gen. 38. Secondly if he had no brethren then his neerest Kinsman was bound to performe this duty to him if he had not beene married But it seemeth that this dutie is required of N. Rut. 4. Object although he had children for he saith then I should marre mine owne inheritance It is onely required of him here to redeeme the inheritance but not to marrie his Cousins wife Answ this was onely stare super nomen defuncti that is to make his childe to be reputed as the childe of the dead and so the childe should not be counted his sonne but the sonne of Chilion thus his inheritance should haue beene marr'd and his name rased out and this made N. to refuse but if the Cousin were not married then he was bound to marry the wife of his Kinsman Erratum Page 166. line 13. Dele not EXERCITATIONS DIVINE Containing diverse Questions and Solutions for the right understanding of the Scriptures Proving the necessitie majestie integritie perspicuitie and sense thereof As also shewing the singular prerogatiues wherewith the Lord indued those whom he appointed to bee the pen-men of them Together with the excellencie and use of Divinitie above all humane Sciences All which are cleared out of the Hebrew and Greeke the two originall languages in which the Scriptures were first written by comparing them with the Samaritane Chaldie and Syriack Copies and with the Greeke Interpretors and vulgar Latine translation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Viatici parum via longinqua est By Iohn Weemse of Lathocker in Scotland Preacher of Christs Gospell LONDON Printed by T. Cotes for Iohn Bellamie and are to be sold at his shoppe at the signe of the three Golden Lyons in Cornehill neere the Royall Exchange 1632. TO The Right Honorable Sr. Thomas Coventrie Knight Lord Coventrie Baron of Alesborough Lord Keeper of his Majesties Great Seale of ENGLAND Most Honorable and my very good Lord IOB the wisest and the richest Prince in the East Iob. 28.7 searching where wisedome might be found he could not finde the place thereof He could not finde it in the land of the living the depth saith it is not with me and the Sea saith it is not with me the Vultures eye hath not seene it for all his sharpe sight and for the worth of it it cannot be gotten for Gold neyther can Silver be weighed for the price thereof then hee subjoyneth God understandeth the way thereof and he knoweth the place thereof for he looketh to the ends of the earth and seeth under the whole heaven The wisedome which Job speaketh of here is Gods secret wisedome in his workes of nature which none of the world although they were as sharpe sighted as the Eagle can understand Now if man be so ignorant in Gods woTkes of nature much more is he in the workes of grace and he may say as Agur sayd when he considered Jthiel and Vcal Iesus Christ the wisedome of the Father surely I am more brutish then any man Pro. 30.2 and have not the understanding of a man David when he lookt upon the heavens Psal 19.1 the workes of Gods hands he sayd The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth his handy worke then he telleth how they declare his glory and what sort of Preachers they be The vniversality of their preaching their line is gone out through all the earth even to the ends of the world Then their diligence in preaching both day and night Lastly how plainely they preach n all languages Yet this their preaching is but an indistinct fort of preaching in respect of the preaching of
our sight and because the heart since the fall is not so capable and so large to comprehend the knowledge of these creatures as it was before the fal therefore it is said 1 King 4.29 that the Lord gave Salomon a wise heart as the sand of the Sea shoare that is to know an innumerable kind of things like the sand of the sea Simile When a man is to infuse liquor into a narrow mouthed vessell that none if it runne by hee enlargeth the mouth of the vessell So did the Lord enlarge the heart of Salomon that hee might conceive this heavenly wisedome and the knowledge of all things but the minde of Adam before his fall needed not this extention to receive these gifts Secondly the great measure of this knowledge which Adam had before his fall may be taken up this wayes The Hebrewes write that there were foure gates by the which Adam entred to see the Lord Porta creaturarū visibiliū Porta intelligentiarum Porta majestatis Porta gloriae the first was the gate of the visible creatures the second was by the gate of the Angels the third was by the gate of majestie and the fourth was by the gate of glory and they say that Adam entred three of these gates but the fourth was shut that hee entred not in at it in this life The first gate was opened unto him for in the creatures below here he saw the majesty and glory of God The Scriptures when they express any great thing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 est epitheton omnis rei admirandae magnae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they joyne the name of God with it as Ezek. 13.9 great haile is called Gods haile or sent by God el gabbish So 1 Sam. 26. cecidit sopor domini super eos that is a great sleepe fell upon them So a strong Lyon is called ariel the Lyon of God 2 Sam. 23.10 So Moyses is said to be faire to God that is very faire Act. 7.20 So Ninive was great to God that is very great The beauty and greatnesse in the creatures led Adam to take up how great the Lord was Iacob when he saw Esau reconciled unto him sayd I have seene thy face as though I had seene the face of God Gen. 33.10 This glimpse of goodnesse in the face of Esau made Iacob take up how good God was unto him The second gate was porta intelligentiarum the knowledge of the Angels they resembled God more than any visible creature doth therefore they are called Gods Sonnes Iob. 1. Chapt. and 38. Chapter 7. verse and they see his face continually Mathew 18. verse 10. As the Kings courtiours are sayd to see his face continually 2 King 25.25 and the Angels conversing with him made him to come nearer to the knowledge of God The third gate was porta Majestatis he saw the majesty of God more clearely than any other did Moyses is sayd to see the face of God and yet it was but the sight of his backe parts compared with Adams and we see him but through a grate Cant. 2.11 Heb. 11.26 The fourth gate was porta gloriae That gate was reserved to bee opened for him in the heavens Let us compare the most excellent men with Adam and see which of them came nearest unto him in some things Moyses came nearest to him in somes things Salomon came nearest unto him and in some things Daniel in some things Ioseph but Christ the second Adam excelled them in all A comparison betwixt Moses and Adam In the knowledge and sight of God and his attributes Moyses came nearest to him Exod. 33.13 Teach mee thy wayes that is thy attributes So Psal 103.7 He made knowne to Moyses his wayes that is his attributes for hee subjoyneth the Lord is mercifull and gracious slow to anger and full of compassion and he chideth not for ever here his wayes are his attributes Moyses came nearest to Adam in this knowledge A comparison betwixt Salomon and Adam Salomon in the knowledge of the politickes came nearer to Adams knowledge than Moyses did Moyses sate all the day long to judge the people Exod. 18. and hee stoode in need of Iethro's counsell to make choyse of helpers but Salomon could have found out all these things by himselfe without the helpe of another Salomon begged wisedome of God and it was granted unto him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he desired wisedome to be his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be president of his counsell and to be his assister or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to rule happily Wisedom 9.4 Salomon came nearest to the knowledge of Adam in the Politickes and he is preferred to the wisest within the Church as to Heman and Dedan 1 King 4.3 and to the wisest without the Church as to the Egyptians As he came nearest to Adams knowledge in the Politickes so likewise in the knowledge of naturall things Salomon came neerest to Adams knowledge in the Politicks for as he wrote from the Cedar of Lebanus to the Hyssope that grew out of the Wall 2 King 4.33 that is as Iosephus explaineth it he wrote parables and similitudes taken from every one of these kinds and Tertullian saith well Familiare est sacris scriptoribus ut sublimiores veritates explicent per sensibilia nam idem qui est author naturae est author gratiae It is an usuall thing to the holy writers to illustrate heavenly things by earthly comparisons for he that is the God of nature is also the God of grace Salomon wrote from the tall Cedar to the small Hyssope that groweth out of the wall that is from the greatest to the smallest then he passeth by none of them The Hebrews marke the two extreames and leave the midst for brevity for it is the manner of the Hebrews to marke the two extreames and to leave the midst for brevities cause as Num. 6 4 from the kernell to the huske here the Scripture omitteth the wine which is the midst betwixt the kernell and the huske Another example Exod. 11.5 And all the first borne of the land of Egypt shall dye from the first borne of Pharoah that sitteth upon the throne unto the first borne of the maidservant that sitteth behind the Mill. The Scripture omitteth the midst here the rest of the people for shortnesse and expresseth onely the two extreames the highest and the lowest A third example Iob 24.20 The wombe shall forget him and the wormes shall feede sweetly upon him the birth and the grave the two extreames include the whole life So Psal 121.8 The Lord shall keepe thy going in and going out that is all thy wayes So Salomon writing of the two extreames the tallest and the least includeth all the rest Now if Salomon had such knowledge of these naturall things much more had Adam Adam gave fit names to the creatures knowing their qualities and nature Adam had such knowledge
bestowed anew againe in the second Temple under the new Testament Ioel. 2. I will powre out my spirit upon all flesh and your young men shall see visions c. This gift lasted in the Church till the second Temple was destroyed The Iewes by a certaine kind of Kabbala called gematrja 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 observe upon Hagg. 1.8 it is written there ekkabhda I will be glorified because the word wanteth the letter ה in the end of it which letter standeth for five they say that the want of this ה sheweth the want of five things in the second Temple which were in the first The Arke the mercy seate and Cherubims Secondly the fire from Heaven Thirdly the majesty of Divine presence called shekena Fourthly the holy Ghost And fiftly Vrim and Thummim But this rabbinicall observation is most impious The Iewes cabbalisticall observation blasphemous and serveth to overthrow all the whole New Testament to deny Iesus Christ and to condemne his Apostles and Evangelists as though they had not the gift of the holy Spirit when they wrote during the time of the second Temple and this is contrary to the very scope of the Prophet Hagg. 1.8 Goe up into the mountaine and bring wood to build this house and I will take pleasure in it and I will be glorified saith the Lord and Hagg. 2.9 The glory of the latter house shall be greater then the former and in this place will I give peace saith the Lord. Whether were the Arke the Vrim and Thummim Quest and the holy fire in the second Temple or not Answ Although there was greater spirituall beauty in the second Temple than in the first The Arke was not in the second Temple yet the second Temple wanted this typicall Arke the Vrim and Thummim and the fire therefore it is but a fable of theirs Iosephus ant lib. 14. who say that Titus after he had destroyed the second Temple brought the Arke to Rome in his triumphes but the Arke was never seene in the second Temple and Iosephus who was an eye witnesse of Titus triumphes sheweth that it was onely but the table of the shew-bread which Titus carried away in his triumphes and is seene yet pictured there The Vrim and Thummim were not in the second Temple but the graces signified by them Object But it may be sayd Nehem. 7.65 and Ezra 2.63 That they should not eate of the most holy things untill there stood up a Priest with Vrim and with Thummim Answ It is the manner of the Scriptures to expresse the nature of the Church under the New Testament The new Testament expresseth things sometimes under types of the old Testament by figures and types which were under the Old Testament so by Vrim and Thummim which were in the first Temple to expresse the perfection of the Priests which should be in the second Temple The last way How the Lord revealed himselfe by the poole Bethesda how God revealed himselfe in the second Temple was by the poole Bethesda when the Angel came downe at certaine times to stirre the poole then whosoever after the first troubling of the water stepped in he was cured of whatsoever disease Ioh. 5.4 It was not the Angell that cured them here for it is a true Axiome of the Schoolemen An Angell cannot worke a Miracle pars naturae non potest superare naturam an Angell is but a part of nature therefore hee cannot worke a miracle What Angell wrought this Miracle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is above nature It was Christ himselfe who wrought the miracle it was hee who loosed the prisoners Psal 146. Mattir is so to loose the bound that they have use both of their hands and feete to leape as freely as the Grashopper doth which hath legges to leape upon the earth Levit. 11.21 So the diseased were loosed that they might leape and goe streight upon their owne feete By Angell here some understand the power of God who useth his Angels as his ministers to worke many things below here and therefore the Seventy put God in place of the Angell as Eccles 5.6 Say not before the Angell that it was an errour But the Seventy translate it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for the Chaldes use to ascribe the worke of God to his ministers the Angels But it is better to ascribe this miracle here to the Angell of the covenant Iesus Christ Tertullian saith that the operation of the fish-poole being now to cease and to loose the vertue of it our Saviour curing him who had beene long diseased being at the poole gave thereby an entrance to all sicke persons to come unto him as if he should have sayd he that desires to be whole let him not come to the poole or expect the comming downe of the Angell for when he commeth he healeth but one but come unto me and I shall heale you all Conclusion The conclusion of this is seeing wee have a more cleare manifestation of the will of God by Christ than they had under the Law let us beware to offend him now He that despised Moyses law Heb. 10.28 dyed without mercy under two or three witnesses of how much sorer punishment shall we be thought worthy of if we treade under foot the Sonne of God EXERCITAT VIII Of the necessity of the Word written Ioh. 20.31 But these are written that yee might beleeve GOd thought it necessary after that he had taught his Church by Word next to teach her by write There is a twofold necessity The first is called an absolute necessity the second of expedience Againe Necessitas absoluta Necessitas expedientia Gods revealed will was necessary to all men as a cause but his written word was necessary as an instrumentall cause and this word is considered eyther essentially Scriptura est necessaria 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 verbum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The word considered essentially or accidentally Simile or accidentally Essentially for the written word this written and unwritten word differ onely as a man naked and cloathed for there is no change in the nature and substance here And that we may the better underderstand the necessity of the writing of the word wee must distinguish here the states of the Church First The estate of the Church considered three wayes shee was in a family or oeconomike Secondly she was Nationall dispersed through the countrey of the Iewes Thirdly she was Ecomenicall or Catholicke dispersed through the whole world So long as shee was in a family and the Patriarches lived long to record to the posterity the word and the workes of God then God taught his Church by his word unwritten But when his Church began to be enlarged first through Iudea then through the whole world then he would have his word set downe in write Why God would have his word written because then the Fathers were not of so
and the finishing of the translation Bishop Morton saith that the Canon Law forbiddeth that a child shall be baptized before it bee borne yet they will make this Vulgar translation to be originall and authenticke before it be finished and perfected by the Popes And what will they say here wanted the Church an authenticke translation all this while untill it was concludedâ— in the Councill of Trent When Sixtus Quintus had taken all this paines in correcting the vulgar Latine and had proclamed it as authenticke by his Bull and cursed them who held otherwise yet Clemens the eight came afterwards Clemens the eight corrected the vulgar translation and corrected many things which were left uncorrected by Sixtus Quintus and he set out a more perfect Edition than that of Sixtus Quintus and there was great difference betwixt these two Editions as Docter Iames the Overseer of the Library of Oxford hath marked in his booke which is intituled De Bello antipapali These were not errors in the Print as some would salve up the matter but they are materiall differences as may bee seene in that booke by conferring their translations We may demand of the Catholickes whether did the Councill make this translation Authenticke which was not Authenticke before Diverse â—udgements of the Catholicks concerning the vulgar Latin translation or did they onely declare it to be Authenticke Some of them say that the Councill promulgated it to be Authenticke and that the Lord so directed the hand of the first Translator that he erred not in these things that the Councill was to approve afterwards But Bannes the Iesuite saith Pag. 537. that it is of greater authority that is approved by the Church than that which was immediatly written by these who were infallibly directed by the Spirit but can there be any greater authority than to be infallibly directed by the Spirit In locis theologicis lib. 2. cap. 14. Canus holdeth that they were immediatly and infallibly directed by the Spirit who translated the Scripture first into the vulgar Latine And Gretserus goeth further and sticketh not to say that Theodosion who translated the Bible into Greeke Defensione Bâ—llarm contra Whittakerum lib. 2. cap. 2. pag. 537. erred not in his translation but was assisted by the holy Spirit that hee could not erre yet hee was a Iew and an enemy to Christ Serrarius saith he who translated the Vulgar Latine had but the generall concurse of the Spirit of God Serrarius in Prolegom bibuac Pag. 110. as the rest of the servants of God had but was not infallibly directed by the Spirit in his translation And Iohannes Dreido proposit 3.4 and Andradius fol. 255. and Be armin Lib. 2.11 admittimus eum interpretem fuisâ—e sed non vatem and yet some of them hold that he erred not in the versions which the Church approved afterward Againe wee may demande of them whether will they preferre the Vulgar translation to the Hebrew and Greeke The grosser of the Papists are not ashamed to preferre it to them both and they say wee have no neede to have recourse to the originall to try whether it be Authenticke or not the Vulgar Latine being now established by the Councill Inâ—â—agoge ad Scripturam lib. 1. diff 6 sect 1. And Ludovicus a Tena saith although the books in the originall both Hebrew and Greeke were not corrupted yet seeing they have words of diverse significations which the Church hath not approved or rejected therefore wee are to hold that the Vulgar Latine is Authenticke onely because the Church hath concluded it to be so And Osorius saith Osorius Instit Moral Lib. 8. Cap. 3. if we should grant that the Interpreter might have erred in his versions yet the Church cannot erre in approving his Version The Moderne Papists preferre it not simply to the Hebrew and Greeke as Gretserus saith Sufficit aequatio non pralatio But they say that they will not have their translation examined and tryed by the Hebrew and Greeke for how know we say they that these Copies which we have now agree with the first originall Copie we have the judgement of the Church concerning this translation but not concerning the Hebrew and Greeke But if it bee in the Churches power to make a translation or to authorize it why will they not authorize the Hebrew and Greeke rather than the Vulgar Latine translation And if they inact the Vulgar Latine to be Authenticke and the onely rule to decide controversies what shall become of all the Churches in the East that understand not the Latine shall they under the paine of a curse receive this translation When the Vulgar translation was concluded in the Councill of Trent onely to be the Authenticke translation in their Disputations Sermons and Conferences Some opposed against this and said that it was a hard thing for the Church to judge that onely to bee Authenticke which one man had done And Aloysius Caetenaeas sayd that no man could know what a Version meant but by the Originall and he alledged for himselfe Cajetans authority in the Councill who being Legate for the Pope in Germanie Anno 1523. was wont to say that the onely remedy to refell Heretickes was to understand the literall sense out of the originall tongues and he sayd now that the Cardinall would spend the rest of his dayes in studying of the tongues that hee might bee the more fit to convince the Heretickes which he did and he gave himselfe to this studie eleven yeares before he dyed Againe there was much contention among them concerning the meaning of this Canon made in the Councill of Trent whether this translation was the judge in matters of faith or manners onely or was it so strictly to be taken that it failed not one jote and that Mathematice it was so perfect and not Moraliter onely Andreas vega who was present at the Councill of Trent holden under Pope Paul the third saith when the Tridentine Fathers call the vulgar Latine translation the Authenticke translation they meane no other thing but this that it was not corrupted with errours and that it might bee safely read and used to a mans salvation and he concludeth that the authority which the Councill gave to this translation is not to be taken infinitivè but definitivè with certaine limitations But if this was the meaning of the Councill that the faithfull might safely read it because there was no danger of errour then what authority or prerogative had this version by the Councill above that translation of Pagnine for the Doctors of Lovan by the approbation of the Pope put the translation of Pagnine with the Hebrew Text. But the former Catholickes say that hee who translated the Hebrew into the Vulgar Latine was not an Interpreter but a Prophet but how commeth it that others say now that this Interpreter might erre although not grossely that he might erre not in side moralibus but in lesser matters
but one full and intire sense When Ionathan shot three Arrowes to advertise David 1 Sam. 20.20 hee had not two meanings in his minde but one his meaning was to shew David how Saul his father was minded towards him and whether he might abide or flye So the meaning of the holy Ghost is but one in these places Example 2 Sam. 7.12 The Lord maketh a promise to David I will set up thy seed after thee which shall proceede out of thy bowels This promise looked both ad propius remotius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a radice 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 non a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 significat formam 2 Chron. 17.17 yet it made up but one sense propius to Salomon and remotius to Christ therefore when he looketh to the farthest to Christ 2 Sam. 7.19 he saith Zoth torath Haec est delineatio hominis Dei it should not bee read is this the Law of the man O Lord God as if David should say this is not all that thou hast promised to me O Lord that I should have a sonne proceeding out of my owne loynes but in him thou dost prefigure to me a sonne who shall be both God and man and hee addeth For a great while to come thou doest promise to me a sonne presently to succeede in my kingdome but I see besides him a farre off the blessed Messias And he applyeth this promise literally to his sonne Salomon and figuratively to Christ his Sonne taking the promise in a larger extent and the matter may be cleared by this comparison A father hath a sonne who is farre from him he biddeth the Tailor shape a coate to him and to take the measure by another child who is there present but withall hee biddeth the Taylor make it larger because his child will waxe taller So this promise made to David was first cut out as it were for Salomon his sonne but yet it had a larger extent for it is applyed to Christ who is greater than Salomon and as by a sphere of wood wee take up the celestiall spheres So by the promises made to David concerning Salomon we take up him who is greater than Salomon and these two make but up one sense When a man fixeth his eye upon one to behold him another man accidentally commeth in in the meane time hee casteth his eyes upon that man also So the Lords eye was principally upon the Messias but hee did cast a looke as it were also to Salomon When these testimonies are applyed in the New Testament A Scripture diversely applyed doth make up but one literall sense the literall sense is made up sometimes of the type and the thing typed Example Ioh. 19.36 A bone of him shall not be broken This is spoken both of the bones of the Paschall Lambe and of the bones of Christ and both of them make up but one literall sense Sometimes the literall sense is made up ex historico allegorico as Sara and Hagar the bond woman and the free signifie the children of the promise begotten by grace and the bond servants under the Law and these two make up but one sense Sometimes ex tropologico literali as Ye shall not mussle the mouth of the Oxe that treadeth out the corne 1 Cor. 8.9 Fourthly the literall sense is made up ex historico mystico prophetico Example Ier. 31.15 A voyce was heard in Ramah lamentation and bitter weeping Rachel weeping for children refusing to bee comforted for her children because they were not There was a voyce heard in Ramah for Ephraims captivity that is for the ten Tribes who came of Ioseph the sonne of Rahel this mourning was because the ten Tribes should not be brought backe againe from the captivity this was mysticall and not propheticall that shee mourned for the ten Tribes who were led away into captivity but it was propheticall foretelling the cruell murther which Herod committed in killing the infants not farre from Rahels grave all these are comprehended in this prophesie and make up one full sense When a testimony is cited out of the Old Testament in the new the Spirit of God intendeth that this is the proper meaning in both the places and that they make not up two divers senses Example the Lord saith make fat the hearts of this people Esa 6.9 and Christ saith Matth. 13.14 In them is fulfilled this prophesie This judgement to make fat the hearts was denounced against the Iewes in Esaias time at the first Act. 23.16 Well spake the holy Ghost by Isaiah the Prophet it was fulfilled upon the Iewes who lived both in Christs time and in Pauls time Esay when he denounced this threatning he meant not onely of the Iewes who lived then but also of the Iewes who were to come after and it was literally fulfilled upon them all Example 2. Esa 61.7 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he hath annointed me to preach the Gospel this prophesie is cited by Christ Luk. 4.18 and it is onely meant of Christ and literally to be applyed to him Example 3. Esay 49.6 I will give thee for a light to the Gentiles Christ went not in proper person to preach to the Gentiles himselfe but he went to them by his Apostles therefore Act. 31.47 Paul saith the Lord hath commanded me to goe and be a light to the Gentiles this is the proper sense and meaning of the Prophet Esay in this place When the testimonies of the Old Testament are cited in the new they are not cited by way of Accommodation but because they are the proper meaning of the places if they were cited by Christ and his Apostles onely by way of accommodation then the Iewes might have taken exception and sayd that these testimonies made nothing against them because it was not the meaning of the holy Ghost who indited these Scriptures to speake against them But Christ and his Apostles bring out these testimonies as properly meant of them and not by way of accommodation onely We must make a distinction betwixt these two Applicatio destinata Applicatio per accommodatione Destinatam applicationem per accommodationem Destinata is this when the spirit of God intendeth that to bee the meaning of the place Applicatio per accommadationem is this when a preacher applieth the Testimonies of the scriptures for comfort or rebuke to his hearers this is not destinata applicatio sed per accomodationem A man maketh a sute of apparrell for one Simile that is Destinatum to him yet this suite will serve for another and this is Per accommodationem When Nathan said to David the Lord also hath put away thy sinne thou shalt not die 2 Sam. 12.13 this was destinata applicatio but when a preacher now applieth this to one of his hearers this is but per accommodationem the scriptures are written for our Admonition upon whom the ends of the world