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The holy history in brief, or, An abridgment of the historical parts of the Old and New Testament by Samuel Clark ...
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Clark, Samuel, 1626-1701.
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parts CHAP. XXXIV God commands Moses to hew two Tables more of Stone which he carried up into the Mount Then God passed by before him and proclaimed his Name Moses begs again for pardon and God's Presence to go with 'em God makes a Covenant with 'em writes the Ten Commandments in the two Tables Then Moses came down from the Mount and his Face shone so that he was feign to put a Vail upon it CHAP. XXXV The Sabbath is again commanded and Free-will Offerings for the Tabernacle which the People chearfully offer Then Moses sets Bezaleel and Aholiab about the Work which they perform in all the parts of it and as to all things belonging to the Tabernacle as was before directed ch 36 37 38. together with all the Holy Garments for Aaron and his Sons all which Moses viewed and approv'd ch 39. CHAP. XL. On the first day of the first Month of the second year after they came out of Egypt was the Tabernacle rear'd and all things put in order about it by Moses which being done the Glory of the Lord filled it and a Cloud covered it so that Moses could not enter into it LEVITICUS CHAP. I IX THE Tabernacle the place of solemn Worship being set up God spake unto Moses out of it and gave him directions concerning the several sorts of Sacrifices and Offerings upon several Occasions CHAP. X. Nadab and Abihu offering strange Fire were consumed by Fire from God but Aaron their Father and his Sons are forbidden to mourn for ' em They are also forbidden to drink when they were to Minister in the Tabernacle CHAP. XI God declares what kind of Food should be clean and what unclean CHAP. XII He gives Rules concerning the Purification of Women after Child-birth and CHAP. XIII Rules for the Priests in judging of Leprosie and how it is to be cleansed and CHAP. XIV Signs of Leprosie in a House CHAP. XV. Concerning uncleanness by Issues CHAP. XVI Other Offerings are directed and the Feast of Expiation CHAP. XVII Blood must not be eaten CHAP. XVIII Shews what are unlawful Marriages CHAP. XIX XX. A Repetition of sundry Laws CHAP. XXI XXII Several Laws concerning Priests CHAP. XXIII Several Solemn Feasts prescribed CHAP. XXIV Some Ceremonial Laws and concerning Blasphemy CHAP. XXV Concerning the Jubilee CHAP. XXVI Blessings of Obedience and Curses of Disobedience CHAP. XXVII Laws concerning Vows and things Dedicated and Tithes NUMBERS CHAP. I. THE people were numbred all but the Levites and they were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty CHAP. II. The order and method wherein the Tribes were to pitch their Tents CHAP. III. The Levites are given to the Priests for the Service of the Tabernacle insted of the First-born being almost equal in number and the overplus of the First-born were to pay so much a Man for their Redemption CHAP. IV. The several charges and offices of the Levites CHAP. V. The Trial of Jealousie CHAP. VI. Laws concerning the Nazarites The Form of the Priests blessing the people CHAP. VII The Offerings of the Princes at the Dedication of the Tabernacle and Altar CHAP. VIII Directions about lighting the Lamps and Levites Consecration and the time of their Service CHAP. IX The Passover was kept and directions are given for those that could not keep it in its season The Cloud and Pillar of Fire guide the Israelites removings and encampings CHAP. X. Silver Trumpets are commanded to be made and their use shew'd By direction of the Cloud they removed from Sinai to Paran CHAP. XI God kindles a Fire among the people for their complaining which upon Moses's prayer was quench't They despise Manna and fall a lusting for Flesh which Moses being disturbed at begs of God to take away his Life Whereupon God provides him Seventy Men for his Assistants and promises to satisfie them with Flesh for a whole Month together which Moses cannot tell how to believe But God sent 'em Quails in abundance but withal smote 'em with a very great Plague CHAP. XII Miriam and Aaron speak against Moses because of an Ethiopian Woman whom he had married which God himself chides them for and smites Miriam with Leprosie but upon Moses's intercession she is healed CHAP. XIII Spies are sent to search the Land of Canaan who brought a bunch of Grapes of such a prodigious bigness that it was carried between two Men but withal they give a discouraging account of the Inhabitants and so brought up an evil Report of the Land Whereupon CHAP. XIV The people murmured and talkt of returning again to Egypt but Caleb and Joshua laboured to satisfie 'em but the people mutiny against them whereupon the Glory of God appeared in the Tabernacle and God threatens to destroy 'em all with a Plague but Moses intercedes for 'em and prevails for pardon but God resolves that those Murmurers shall never see the Land but die in the Wilderness and those that slandered the Land died by the Plague Whereupon some of them would needs go and fight with the Canaanites and take possession of the Land but Moses forbids 'em yet they will go and are worsted by the Canaanites CHAP. XV. Divers Laws about Offerings The Sacrifice for sins of Ignorance The punishment of presumption A Man that was found gathering Sticks on the Sabbath-day was by God's Command ston'd to Death Fringes to be worn on the borders of their Garments CHAP. XVI Corah Dathan and Abiram with two hundred and fifty Nobles make a Mutiny against Moses and Aaron because the other Tribes had not a share in the Priesthood as well as the Tribe of Levi and because the other Families of the Tribe of Levi were not taken into the Priesthood as well as the Family of Aaron Whereupon Moses bids 'em bring their Censers with Incense in them to the Tabernacle that it might appear whom God had chosen When they came to the Tabernacle God commanded Moses that the Congregation should separate themselves from the Tents of those persons then the Earth opened and swallowed 'em up and also Fire came out from the Lord and consumed the two hundred and fifty that offered Incense The next day the people murmured against Moses and Aaron for killing the people of the Lord and gathered together against them but the Glory of God appeared upon the Tabernacle and he smote them with a Plague whereof there died fourteen thousand and seven hundred Then Aaron made attonement for them and so the Plague was staid And CHAP. XVII For a further confirmation that God had chosen the Tribe of Levi peculiarly for the Priesthood he commanded that every Head of each Tribe should bring a Rod to be laid up in the Tabernacle before the Lord and the Rod belonging to that Tribe which God did choose should blossom On the morrow when they brought out the Rods the Rod of Aaron was budded blossomed and had Fruit on 't which Rod God commanded to be laid up before the Testimony for a Token of
Ephraim and Manasseh should be reckoned as his own being Heads of distinct Tribes as his other Sons were Then laies his Right Hand upon Ephraim's head the younger and his Left upon Manasseh's the Elder to shew that Ephraim tho the Younger should have the preheminence and bestow his Patriarchal Blessing on them and gives Joseph a parcel of Land in Canaan all that he had there as his Heir CHAP. XLIX Afterwards he calls all his Sons together and by the Spirit of Prophecy blesses them and foretels their future Estate and what should betide each Tribe particularly in their succeeding Generations Then commands 'em to bury him with his Fathers and so yields up the Ghost CHAP. L. Then Joseph commands his Body to be embalmed which being dispatch'd having crav'd leave of the King he carries his Father's Body into Canaan to his Sepulcher there according to his appointment The Funeral Solemnity being over Joseph's Brethren began to fear that he 'd reckon with 'em for their misusage of him formerly But he was so far from that that he comforts and speaks kindly to 'em and promises to nourish them and all theirs After which Joseph and his Brethren lived long in Egypt and when he was ready to die he told them that God would certainly visit them in mercy and bring 'em out of Egypt into Canaan and therefore they should not bury his Body there but carry it along with 'em whensoever they went out So he died being an hundred and ten years old and they embalmed him and put him in a Coffin EXODUS CHAP. I. JOseph being dead and the Children of Israel being multiplyed exceedingly there arose a new King who not regarding the eminent Service Joseph had done to that Crown fearing their Strength contrives several ways to keep 'em under endeavouring first to wear 'em out with hard Labour and rigorous Bondage which not succeeding he commands the Midwives to strangle all the Male Children in the Birth but they not obeying this barbarous Edict he next commands all his People to throw every Male Child they met with into the River CHAP. II. During this Distress Moses was born and concealed by his Parents but when they could hide him no longer they put him in an Ark of Bull-rushes and laid him among the Flags by the River side and set his Sister to watch the event Pharaoh's Daughter coming that way and spying the Ark sent for it and found a Child therein Then she sent the Childs Sister to fetch an Hebrew Nurse who called the Child's Mother so she nurst it and when he was grown up brought him to Pharaoh's Daughter who adopted him for her Son called his Name Moses and trained him up in all the Wisdom and Learning of the Egyptians whereby he was fitted by God's singular Providence for those great Services he was afterwards employed in In this capacity he continued in Pharaoh's Court till he was forty years old but then he forsook the Court and joyned himself to his afflicted Brethren resolving to afford 'em what help he could So going among 'em one day and seeing an Egyptian cruelly beating one of his Brethren he slew the Egyptian which being known to Pharaoh he was fain to fly into the Land of Midian where he dwelt with a Priest of that Land and married one of his Daughters by whom he had a Son Here he continued forty years till that King of Egypt was dead But still the Israelites were exceedingly opprest which made 'em cry to God and he took notice of it CHAP. III. As Moses kept his Father-in-law's Flock by Horeb he had a Vision of a Bush Burning yet not consum'd out of which God calls to him and tells him he heard the Cry of the Israelites and was come down to deliver them and would send him to bring 'em forth from which employment Moses excuses himself but God encourages him Moses asks his Name God bids him say to the Israelites I AM THAT I AM hath sent me to you and bids him and the Elders of Israel go to Pharaoh to ask his leave to go into the Wilderness to offer Sacrifice and Promises tho Pharaoh did refuse to bring 'em out by Power and with much Wealth CHAP. IV. Moses further excuses himself and God encourages him again by two Miracles but still he is loath to venture and frames new excuses till God was angry with him and to encourage him joyns his Brother Aaron in Commission with him to be his Spokesman to Pharaoh and the People Hereupon Moses with his Family return into Egypt and in an Inn by the way the Lord had like to have slain him for not circumcising his Child In the Wilderness he meets with his Brother Aaron and so they went and called together the Elders of the People and rehears'd these things to them who rejoyc'd at it CHAP. V. Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh to demand leave for the People to go to keep a Feast in the Wilderness to the Lord. Pharaoh proudly demands Who is the Lord that I should obey his voice to let Israel go and chides 'em for their message and encreases the Peoples task which when they complain of they are chidden and get no redress whereupon they cry out upon Moses and Aaron and Moses complains to God CHAP. VI. Then God encourages him and renews his Promise by his Name Jehovah assuring him that he 'l bring the People out of Egypt and bring 'em into Canaan And this Moses relates to 'em but they minded it not by reason of their oppression CHAP. VII Then God sent Moses and Aaron again unto Pharaoh who requires a Sign whereby he might know that God sent ' em Aaron throws down his Stick before Pharaoh and it became a Serpent The Magicians did also in like manner So Pharaoh's Heart was hardned that he would not let 'em go Then God sends Moses and Aaron again and in case Pharaoh would not yet be perswaded that they should smite the Waters with the Staff and turn 'em to Blood which accordingly they did and the Magicians did the like So that Pharaoh was hardned still CHAP. VIII God sends 'em again and upon Pharaoh's refusal sends Frogs all over the Land and the Magicians did the like But now Pharaoh seeks to Moses and Aaron to have the Frogs remov'd and promises to let 'em go but when the Frogs were taken away he refuses still Then God sends Lice upon Man and Beast which the Magicians could not do and so were convinc't that it was Gods work yet Pharaoh stands out still Then God sends Swarms of Flies which corrupted the Land Pharaoh then would let 'em go with some Limitations and prays that this Judgment might be remov'd which being done he was hardned still CHAP. IX Next God sends a Murrain upon the Cattel so that they died next Boils upon Man and Beast so that the Magicians could not stand before Moses next Thunder Lightning and Hail which destroyed all that was in the