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A36033	Pious annotations, upon the Holy Bible expounding the difficult places thereof learnedly, and plainly: vvith other things of great importance. By the reverend, learned and godly divine, Mr. Iohn Diodati, minister of the gospell; and now living in Geneva. It is ordered this 11. of Ianuury, 1642, by the committee of the House of Commons in Parliament, concerning printing, that this exposition of the book of the Old and new Testament, be printed by Nicholas Fussel, stationer. Iohn White.; Annotationes in Biblia. English	Diodati, Giovanni, 1576-1649.; Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677, engraver.	1643 (1643)	Wing D1510; Wing D1509A; ESTC R5893	1,521,231	922

With the wings thereof Cleaving of it long-ways without disjoyning the peeces so that there may be a wing on each side see upon Gen. 15. 10. CHAP. II. VERS 1. A Meat offering Of which there were two kinds The first when these meale things were offered by themselves The second when they were joyned of beasts with their pooring offrings Numbers 15. 4 6. 9. Here is spoken particularly of the first Oyle oyle and incense containe a figure of what was required in good workes which are spirituall offerings to make them acceptable to God namely that they should be watered with the gift of the Spirit likened unto oyle and that they should be accompanied with Christs intercession which is the only acceptable smell unto God Ephes. 5. 2. Rev. 8. 3 V. 2. The Priest Namely he that supplies the place The Memoriall An ordinary terme in sacrifices and offerings to intimate that part which is offered to God as presenting before his Divin Majesty with its sweet savour the favorable remembrance of the offerer see Ex. 30. 16 and 34. 19. Lev. 6. 15. Num. 5. 26. Acts 10. 4. V. 3. Most holy So are called in the Law these sacred things which ought not to be touched and those meates wherof none were to eate but only the Priest in a holy place neare the Altar See Exod. 29. 37. Lev. 6. 26. and 7 6. 9 and 10. 12. Num. 18. 9 10. See the difference between holy and most holy things Lev. 21. 22. V. 6. It is Now in all such offerings there was oyle required v. 1. V. 8. Shall bring it Let him lay in one in signe that it is offered to the Lord yet shall but part of it be burnt V. 11. No heaven Which was forbidden in all free will offerings to signifie that all leaven of malice hypocrisie and pride ought to be laid aside in all the faithfuls spirituall offerings which are good works See Luke 12. 1. 1 Cor. 5. 8. Nor any honey according to some because that honey will leaven Or it may be God would intimate that the sweets and pleasures of the flesh do spoyle the study of good works V. 12. Ye shall offer The Iahan hath it You may may offer these things that is to say leavened dough or mixed with honey Of the si ●t fr●its which were not offered to God by fire but after they were consecrated were for the Priests use Num. 18. 13. Deu. 18 4. There was also an offering of thankesgiving wherin leaven was admitted Lev. 7. 13. V. 13. With salt A signe of the incorruptibility of the Spirit of God in the faithfull man 1 Pet. 3. 4. and of the savour of grace which it giveth to all good works Col. 4. 5. Of the Covenant A signe of confirmation of the Covenant which God hath with thee a phrase taken from the common saying that familiar friends do use the same salt that is to say feed at one table So anciently salt was a signe or token of friendship and of an inferiours duty whereby he was bound to his Superiour whence comes the word salary or wages Exodus 4. 14. Or salt is here set downe for a signe of the everlastingnesse of Gods Covenant Num. 18. 19. V. 14. First fruits whereof there were two sorts the one commanded at Easter Lev 23. 10. Deut. 16. 9. the other voluntary at the same time both different from them which were offered in Harvest time at the Pentecost Num. 15. 9. Deuterono 26. 2. Of full ears The Italian hath it Of the flower of the wheat Th● Hebrew word signifieth properly a certaine kind of wheat which grew upon mount Carmel of an exquisite goodnesse Others translate it well corned and full eares rubbed out with hands CHAP. III. VERS 1. PEace offering The Italian hath it A Sacrifice of thankesgiving Not for an attonement for sinne but only for a thankesgiving for benefits received either in generall or particular See Leviticus 7. 12 16. O● female The female sex was not admitted in burnt offerings but only in sacrifices of thanksgiving and in one kind of sacrifice for sin Lev. 4. 28. Before the Lord That is to say before the Tabernacle V. 2. And kill it see upon Lev. 1. 5. V. 5. The burnt Sacrifice Dayly one or other for the sacrifices did never begin with the sacrifices of thankesgiving but with them of expiation or attonment to sh●w that no worke of service or homage can be acceptable to God if the expiation or attonment for sin go not before V. 11. The food the sacrifices which were burned with fire were so called especially the bloud and the fat Leviticus 21. 6 8. and 22. 25. Ezekiel 44. 7. Mal. 17 12. to intimate that God did feed thereon that is to say he tooke delight therein and required them as his part of the sacrifices V. 16. All the fat Namely that which is solid and is at the end of the muscles V. 17. Throughout all Not only in Gods Temple but also in your privat houses where those kinds of fat being not offered to God it is very likely were thrown away as the bloud was and not eaten Levit. 7. 24. CHAP. IV. VERS 2. THrough ignorance of the Law or unawares or through plaine weaknesse without malice or deliberation Ezech. 45. 20. A figure of the faithfulls weaknesses and ignorances which notwithstandingare sins seeing they had need of expiation see Psa. 19. 13. Gal. 6. 1. Heb. 5. 2. V. 3. That is anointed The high Priest see upon Exod. 40. 15. According to the sin The Italian hath it Whereby the people come to be guilty God often times did punish the people for their rulers faults and also the people is induced to sin by their example or being scandalized by the Priests sin do absent themselves from Gods service see 1 Sam 2 17. 24. V. 7. Of sweet incense See upon Exo. 30. 10. V. 12. A clean place No dunghill nor filthy place as Lev. 14. 40. Where the See upon Lev. 〈◊〉 16. V. 15 The Elders The rulers and Magistrates which were seventy in number Exod. 3. 16. and 24. 1. V. 18 Which is in By this meanes is intimated the altar of sweet incense which was before the Sanctuary in the holy place V. 20 It shall be forgiven them They shall be purged from their sin according to the Ecclesiasticall and externall judgement and exempt from the punishment imposed by the Law in signe of the internall absolution of the conscience before Gods judgement by vertue of the reall and spirituall expiation through Christ. V. 21 At the burned As he was appointed to burn it A sin offering Now all such sacrifices as were sin offerings were to be burned without the camp see upon Exod. 29. 14. V. 29 In the place At the entrance of the Tabernacle where the burnt offerings were killed see Lev. 1. 5. V. 35 According to the offerings See upon Lev. 3. 5. CHAP. V. VERS 1. OF swearing The Italian hath it Of a

this was one of the ceremoniall abstinences of the Law 1 Sam. 21 4 5. Zach. 7. 3. V. 16. Thunders tokens of Gods terrible Majesty and to teach us that the Law was given after sin to abate mans pride to terrifie and awake mens consciences to have recourse to the grace of the Gospel Heb. 12 19. A thick cloud as it were to shadow the brightnesse of Gods glory which is not communicated unto us by the Law but by the only grace of Jesus Christ See 1 Kings 8. 12. 2 Cor. 3. 13. 18 and 4. 6. Trumpet an instrument of command justice war and uproare A figure of the rigor of the law in commanding and of its force in piercing the consciences Heb. 12. 19 opposite to the sweet sound of the Gospel 1 Kin. 19. 12 All the people yea and Moses himself Heb. 12. 21. V. 18 In fire to represent the power of Gods word like unto that of fire Jer. 23 29 V. 19. By a voyce the Italian hath it By thunder by a loud and resounding voyce Yet distinct and intellgible see Psa. 81. 8 Iohn 12. 29 V. 22 The Priests Before the Priesthood was restrained within the tribe of Levi the first born of great families did execute the place see Exo. 24. 5. Num. 8 16 which come n●●re which present themselves before God and go between men and him by prayeis sacrifices ordinary service see Lev. 10 3. Break forth l●st he send upon them some suddain unresistible plague to cast them to the earth V. 23 Ca 〈…〉 they are sufficiently warned to take heed ●●d their own fear keepeth them back sufficiently sanctifie it separate it by this signe from all approaches and contamination of sinfull men CHAP XX. VERS 3. GOds Idols to whom idolaters do falsly attribute any divinity see 1 Cor. 8. 4 5 Before me in my Church where I am present in grace and power wherfore idolatry in it is like an adultery committed before the husbands eyes and despighteth God to his face Isa. 65. 3 5. V. 4 Image No representation of God absolutely Nor likenesse of any creature to yeeld unto it any part of divine honor and service V. 5. Jealous Impatient to see my divine glory taken from me or imparted unto any else and an u●placable revenger of this misdeed Isa 48. 〈◊〉 Visiting I inquire after it and punish it Of the Fathers As concerning eternall judgement upon the soule every one dieth for his own iniquity Jer. 31. 30. but for the fathers sins the children are often punished in body in goods and other things which they hold and derive from their fathers Num. 14. 33 Sam. 12. 1● 21. 5 14 And besides God often times cu●seth the generation of the wicked withdrawing his grace and spirit from it wherby imitating their parents wickednesse they are punished in the same manner 1 Same 15 2 Mat. 23. 32 35. V. 7. Shalt not take That is to say in oathes and other kind of frivolous unprofitable ras●i false and impious speeches V. 8. To keepe it Holy To keep it as consecrated to divine exercises of piety and religion Isay 58 13. and effectually employ it wholly therein V. 10. Of the Lord The Italian To the Lord and dedicated to him and to his service Any work That is to say servile or toilesome labour or diligence about corporall things Exodus 34. 21. Leviticus 23 7. Num. 28. 18. That is That dwelleth with thee in the same city or countrey V. 12. May be Or that they may bee prolonged through them that is to say that they may be instruments and a meanes of it by their blessing and that this good may befall thee from God by their means V. 18. Saw They could perceive and hear plainly They removed The Italian hath It trembled or went further off and fled V. 19. Speake thou This request of the people was approved of and allowed by God Deut. 5. 28. and by this interposition of Moses was figured the necessity of the great Mediator between God and men See Gal. 3 19. Which was also promised upon this occasion Deut. 18. 16. V. 20. To prove you Whether this terror will breed in you a holy feare and reverence which is the 〈◊〉 spring of obedience V. 21 Where Where he shewed the power of his presence by these admirable effects and signes V. 22. From Heaven From above on high in the aire on the top of the mount Deu 4. 36. Neh. 9. ●5 And therefore Heb. 12. 25 26 It is said that he had spoken on earth V. 23. Ye shall not make Imagine none in your minds neither shape any with your handy work neither set it up to be worshipped through any custome● or authority V. 24. An Altar This is to be understood of some altars set up for some extraordinary service Deu. 27. 5. Jos. 8. 31. or made only for the mean time until the Tabernacle was built where the Altar was made of wood or till the Temple was built where it was made of brasse Exod. 27. 1. 1 King 8. 64. And it seemeth that God would have such transitory altars to be of some meane stuffe and of no durable forme because that in ensuing times they might not divert the people from the only altar upon which he delighted to be serv●d Deuteron 12. 5. see Jos. 22. 16. 19. 23. in token of the onely altar of the crosse of Christ Burnt offerings See Lev. 1. 3. Peace offerings See Lev. 3. 1. In all places Build no constant altars to fixe as it were my grace upon any place at thy pleasure For I will heare thee indifferently in any place where I shall give thee occasion or command to call upon me V. 25 Thou hast Thou having transgressed my commandement the altar shall no more be holy to sanctifie the offering Matth. 23. 19. V. 26 By steps This was in part changed in ensuing times when God caused the brazen altar to be made ten cubites high 2 Chro. 4 1. with an ascent E●ec 43. 17. providing for modestie the Priests linnen breeches Exod. 27. 42. Now the occasion of this commandement seemeth to be taken from the shamefull shewes and actions which the Pagans used in their sacrifices CHAP. XXI VERS 1. THe judgements The Italian hath it The judiciall Laws by which judgements in civill and criminall causes were to be regulated V. 2 If thou buy Which was lawfull in two cases First when one sold himselfe and his children for poverty Secondly when he was sold for his theft Exod. 22 3. For nothing Because he had repaid the price which was given for him by his servitude Deut. ●5 18. V. 4 Have given him a wi●e Some fo●●aigne bond-woman for a concubine to have children by For it was not lawfull to abuse an Hebrew bond-woman in that kinde v. 8 9. and such conjunctions with forraigne women had not the streight bounds of lawfull marriages in them see Deut. 21. 11. Neh. 13. 23. V. 6 Shall bring him To

during the journey in the desart to be poured down at the bottom of the Altar and the far burned upon it v. 5 6. after the comming into Canaan this Law was restrained only to the beasts which were sacrificed Deu. 12. 5. 15. 21. V. 4. Shall be imputed Hee shall be judged and punished as a murtherer for violating my Law in the spilling of bloud as well as if he had transgressed it by murther See Isay 66. 2. Shall be cut off hee shall be put to death if the thing be known Or he shall be punished by me if the fact be hidden from men or if they do not execute justice See upon Gen. 17. 4. V. 5. To the end I will have those sacrifices of thanksgiving which the people useth to offer to idols here and there in the fields making thereof their prophane meats to be cut off by this strict Law which shall bind them to consecrate all the flesh they eate to me only In the open field to idols in remote and severall places sought out by idolaters to withdraw themselves from the sight of men For Peace offerings Whereof they that offer may eat those parts which the Lord had not reserved for himselfe Levit. 39 14. 4. V. 6 The bloud The sprinckling of the bloud and offering of the fat of this common flesh had a resemblance to these offerings of thanksgiving but when such offerings were expresse and formall there were other ceremonies and other parts also reserved for God Lev. 17. 11. V. 7 Unto divels That is to say idols wherein whether the idolater have such an intent or no the divell is served under diverse names resemblances see Deut. 32. 17. 2 Chron. 11. 15. Psa. 106. 37. 1 Cor. 10. 20. Rev. 9. 20. the Hebrew word signifieth shaggy or hairy because the divell appeareth in such ugly shapes to them that serve him see Isa. 34. 14. A whoring Spiritually by idolatry See Ezech. 23. 8. This shall be Namely to have every sacrifice offered to the true God and only in the place dedicated to his service for otherwise the foresaid Law was restrained after the comming into Canaan see upon v. 3. V. 10 Set my face That is to say I will declare my self to be his adversary and will persecute him in my wrath by the hands of men and by the way of Justice or by my own judgements V. 15 That eateth That is to say hath eaten thereof unawares V. 16 He shall beare If he have offended wittingly and that the fact is known he shall be punished by the Judges if it be secret he is guilty before God and if he have sinned unawares yet must he purge himselfe by sinne offering See upon Levit. 5. 1. and 7. 18. CHAP. XVIII VERS 2. I Am As I am your Soveraigne Lord I command you these things out of absolute authority and as I am God most holy I declare unto you that you can have no Communion with me committing these following misdeeds V. 5 If a man According to the first Covenant of God with man at the first creation this may be understood of the perfect observing of Gods Law which had the promise of eternall life annexed But because man by sin hath deprived himself of the power of attaining to this perfect obedience this must be understood of the disciplinary and externall accomplishment of the Law which hath also its temporall reward O● according to the Covenant of grace of the new internall and spirituall obedience created in the faithfull by the gift of the holy Ghost which hath the promises of this and the future life 1 Tim. 4. 8. V. 6 To uncover To violate with any act or in any manner the chastity or respect due to the bloud V 7 Of thy father These words are spoken to the daughter and the next words to the son V. 8 Thy Fathers wife Thy mother in Law It is Thy father and she by the vertue of matrimony are all one flesh and therefore the prohibition of carnall copulation is in the same degree as that of fathers and mothers with their children and so interchangeably see Ezech. 22. 10. V. 9 The daughter By another wife Of thy mother By another husband She be borne Either lawfully begotten or a bastard According to others it meaneth sister by the same father and mother or sister only by the mother V. 10 Is thine own They ought to be to thee as thine own children V. 11 Thou shalt not uncover This verse seemeth to be added for an exposition of the ninth verse for marrying with the mother in Laws daughter is forbidden when both have one and the self same father but not when they have two fathers V. 12 She is She is in a degree of consanguinity forbidden by all Laws and even abhorred by nature it selfe V. 14 Thou shalt not approach This is an expostion of the precedent clause see upon v. 8 Thine aunt Neerenesse of affinity hath as much force to forbid joyning in marriage in certaine degrees as the neerenesse of consanguinity V. 17 For they are Between thy wife and them there is the degree of consanguinity descending by a direct line therefore in the degree of affinity is also forbidden in infinitum V. 18 shalt thou take Such a conjunction is incestuous verse 16. seeing there is the same reason for the sisters husband as for the brothers wife but here is also added the reason of the inconvenience it being a kinde of confusion to make two sisters rivals to one another to produce continuall strifes and jealousies as an example may be seene in Jacobs marriages which in those first ages were tolerated To vexe her The Italian hath it To be her rivall The Hebrew word is her adversary 1. Sam. 1. 6. V. 21 Molech An idoll of the Ammonites which seemeth to be the same as Milcom 1 Kings 11. 5. 7. and the Pagans Saturne in honour of whom the idolaters caused their children to passe through the fire of his sacrifices either by some manner of expiation and dedication or by really slaying of them see 2 Kings 3. 27. Psa. 106. 37 38. Isa. 57. 5. Neither shalt thou prophane Let not the glorious title of being Gods children and people which you beare bee contaminated by such a commixture of idolatry V. 25 Vomiteth out The Land is over-burthened therewith as with a thing most abominable and is no longer able to beare them see Jer. 9. 19. and 10. 18. Mic. 2. 10. CHAP. XIX VERS 8. HE hath prophaned Breaking the commandement in the observing of which consisteth all the holinesse of Gods service V. 16 As a tale learer The Italian hath it Speaking amisse of others Or spying and reporting other mens words and actions or calumniating and maliciously accusing see Prov 11. 13. Neither shalt thou s●and The Italian hath it Shalt thou arise That is to say thou shalt not lay waite for his life thou shalt not raise any unjust s●●t nor beare false witnesse against him

Solomon 2 Samuel 8. 3. 1 Kings 4. 21. V. 32. Nor with their Thou shalt make no covenant with them neither in matters of policy nor of religion V. 33. It wil surely be That conversation and familiarny would almost be an inevitable inticement to idoltry and consequently an occasion of perdition and ruine CHAP. XXIV VERS 1. COme up After thou hast propounded these Lawes unto my people and that they have conse●●ed to my covenant doe thou come againe with Aaron and the rest Aaron Who with his two eldest sonnes in this treaty of covenant with God represented the whole Ecclesiasticall order and the seventy Elders the politick See Nehem. 9. 38. and 10. 〈◊〉 A farre off At the foot or about the mid-way of the hill V. 2. Neare the Lord To the top of the hill where the firme signes of my presence shall be verse 14. and 17. Neither shall They shall not passe the bound set Exod. 19. 12. V. 3. Came out of darknesse and from the hill where God shewed himselfe Exod. 20. 21. V. 4. An Altar For a monument and holy signe on Gods side as the twelve pillars were on the peoples behalfe in this treaty of covenant See Gen. 31. 45. Jos. 48. 9. 20. V 5. He sent Out of the host to the foot of the Hill You●g men The Italian hath it Minist●ing men which ministred in holy businesses they were then the first b●rn of families Exod. 19. 2● Which offered Upon the Altar which hee had erected Of Oxen and Goats Hebrewes 9. 19. Peace Offerings See Lev. 3. 1. V. 〈◊〉 And put it Mingling'it with water Heb. 9. 19. That he might sprinkle it upon the Altar and the people because that bloud alone will quickly congeale And also by reason of Christs mystery who came with the bloud of purgation and the water of regeneration 1 Joh. 5. 6. Wherein consisteth the substance of the new covenant figured ly this old one On the Altar As Exod 29. 36. The reason of this action is touched Heb. 19. 23. Namely that as here the Altar represented God himselfe the head of this Covenant and this Altar was besprinkled with the bloud of his owne sacrifice for to sanctifie it and make it fit to sanctifie the people and their worship so Christ head of the everlasting covenant hath beene besprinkled and consecrated with his owné proper bloud to be the cause of everlasting salvation to them that believe in him Isaiah 63. 3. Heb. 5. 9. V. 7. The Book Written by Moses himselfe verse the fourth This book was also besprinkled with the bloud Heb. 9. 19. To signifie that Gods covenant was grounded upon Christs satisfaction given to the Law whereof this booke represented the bond Col. 2. 14. V. 8. The bloud Which was in the basons verse 6. and sprinkled it to see the participation of the Church in Christs bloud for the redemption and justification of life by whose meanes she hath accesse to God and part in his Covenant and enterchangeably by accepting of his grace the Church bindeth it selfe to obedience and newnesse of life Heb. 12. 24. 1 Pet. 1. 2. Of the covenant That is to say a scale and confirmation of the Covenant according to the ancient manner of making of Covenants Genesis 15 9. Figure of the bloud of Christ upon whom is grounded the new and everlasting covenant Matth 26 28. Luke 22 20. Concerning That is to say upon these conditions or of which covenant these commandements are the subject and substance V. 9 Went up Untill they c●me to the place appoynted above verse the second V. 10. They saw In some visible shape clothed with everlasting glory by which visible shape the son of God who made this covenant in his owne person gave an essay of his future m●arnation and to the elect a signe of their future glory and sight of God in heaven Acts. 7. 38. and Isaiah 6 1. John 12 41. V. 11. He laid not his ●and God shewed that by vertue of this covenant he was propitious to his people seeing he had not by this appearing in glorie confirmed these men seeing sinners are not able to subsist before this devouring fire but did rather comfort and rejoyce them See Gen 16 13. and 32 30. Deut. 4 23. Judg 13 23. And did eat were at a sacred banquet made of the flesh of sacrifices of thanks-giving verse 5 in token of mirth and of full 〈◊〉 of ●race and of their continuall participation of the body and bloud of Christ to the nourishing of everlasting life and perfect enjoying of the joyes of heaven V. 12 A Low That is to say the ten commandements which onely were giaven upon the two tables Exodus Chapter 34. verse 28 Moses having written the rest of the Commandements in a booke verse 4. V. 13 Jeshua who notwithstanding did not got up to the top of the hill but stayd in some place between the camp and the hill v 2 Exo. 32. 17. V. 14. Here In the host amongst the people Aaron and Hur The one the Ecclesiasticall and the other the politick head V. 15. A cloud See Exod. 19. 9. 16. and 20 21. Psa. 18. 12. 13. Matth. 17. 5. V. 16. The glory The signes of his glorious presence as the great fire was verse 17. Deut. 4. 36. Covered it Namely Gods glory which appeared in that fire which having lyon hidden by the cloud six dayes at the last burst forth in the sight of all the people verse 17. the cloud going downe to the bottome of the hill CHAP. XXV VERS 4. AND blue Wooll dyed in these colours Fine linnen Hebrew Bysse that is a kind of white and shining linnen whereof great mens garments and the Priests garments were made See Gen. 41. 4● Rev. 19. 8. 14. V. 5. Shittim wood A kind of wood which would not corrupt Isa. 41. 19. which hath leaves like the white Thistle but groweth as high and as thicke as a Cedar V. 6. Sweet Incense The Italian hath it for the perfume of spices This is added for to distinguish this perfume from the fat sacrifices V. 8 Amongst them Not by inclusion of the essence Acts 7. 48. and 17. 24. But by an expresse and firme revelation of glory and by the working of grace and power through sacraments and pledges of visible signes V. 11. With pure gold That is to say with little plates of gold A Crowne It seemeth to be some Cornice which should goe round the body of the Arke above V. 16. The Testimony The two Tables of the law see the occasion of this name Ex. 16. 34. V. 17. A mercy seat The Italian hath it a cover The Hebrew word signifieth also a propitiatory or mercy seat and so the Apostle calls it Heb. 9. 5. That is to say a means of purging and expiating of sinne Because that this cover signified Christ who with his justice covereth all our sinnes and containeth within himselfe all the Churches justice as the Tables of the Law were

Ministers of Gods Temple whose office it is to blesse the people doe blesse thee David and all thy followers V. 27. Light the Italian a cleere light namely of his grace peace and blessing after the dark night of miseries and confusions which we have suffured Binde make ready sacrifices of thanks-giving The hornes whereof see Exod. 27. 2. to these hornes it should seeme by this place they did use to tie the beasts which were for offerings whilest the Priest laid his hand upon them and used other ceremonies of prayers and devotions and presently after did spill the blood at the foot of the Altar as it is set down Lev. 17. 6. PSAL. CXIX VER 1. VN defiled namely that converse and proceed in all equity and integrity in all their actions and life V. 2. Testimonies namely his law and word which are a most true declaration of his vul which otherwise is c●ncealed and u 〈…〉 V. 5. Directed or firme and se led V. 9. Wherewith shall man being impure and naturally defiled with sinne bee able as soone as hee commeth to have the use of reason to amend that naturall corruption and to live holily and purely V. 14. In the way namely by giving my selfe to practice the true knowledge and performance of thy holy word in my whole course of life V. 18. Open amend in me my naturall ignorance giving me the lively light of thy Spirit by which I may apprehend thy Law in its spiritual sense and thy whole word in the mysteries of thy promised salvation which are otherwise incomprehensible to the flesh Matth. 16. 17. 1 Cor. 2. 7. 11. 14. V. 19. A stranger the world is not my countrey it is but only away to passe to heaven which way of my selfe I know not guide me therefore as in a strange place by thy Law that I may not go astray V. 21. Rebuked or destroyed V. 23. Also in my greatest persecutions as I have suffered by Saul and his councellers I never left meditating upon thy word as well to comfort my selfe and put my trust in it as also to keep mee within the bounds of my true obedience to thee V. 25. My soule I am cast down beyond all hope of reliefe if thou dost not raise mee and restore mee to life Psal. 44. 25. V. 26. I have declared I have alwayes laid open my heart thoughts and estate unto thee desiring of thee the assistance of thy grace spirit and word and thou hast granted it O continue thou towards me thus hereafter V. 28. Melteth the Italian droppeth namely in teares or melteth V. 29. Remove keep me that I may never give my selfe to any fallacie or deceit and deliver me from the fraudes and deceits of other men V. 32. Enlarged out of the streights it is in by the joy and consolation of thy spirit which is the true well-spring of all free and cheerefull obedience or from the bonds of naturall slavery to sinne by thy spirit of freedome Rom. 6. 17. 18. 22. and 8. 2. V. 37. Vanity namely the world and the lusts thereof which have no true happinesse in them but are like unto apparitions and transitorie shadowes Quicken thou me preserve and encrease in me the spirit of regeration and spirituall life that I may continually bring forth greater fruits of that life by obeying thy law V. 39. My reproach wherewith mine enemies rep●oach me Are good and therefore it is not sitting that I should be blamed and reproached as an evill doer so long as I keep and observe thy lawes V. 40. In thy righteousnesse namely in the keeping of it or by thy rigteousnesse namely thy loyalty in preforming that which thou promisest and specially in giving spirituall things to those that desire them of thee V. 42. Answer then shall I bee able boldly to confute the reproaches of mine enemies that doe scoffe at my trust in thee when I shall finde the effect thereof are come to passe V. 43. Take not doe not suffer me to want power or courage to talk of thy holy promises by finding my selfe fallen from those hopes which I had put in them In thy judgements the Italian in thy Lawes namely in that which thou hast set downe concerning my salvation or in thy judgements namely which thou shalt give in the behalfe of thine elect and for the punishment of the wicked V. 45. At liberty the Italian at large out of distresse and affliction both of body and minde being fully at liberty vers 32. V. 48. Lift up ones gesture who doth most servently desire a thing V. 50. Thy word namely that thou hast regenerated me in the hope of eternall life by thy word or that thou hast recreated and eased me through thy holy promises V. 52. Thy judgements namely which thou hast alwayes executed upon the wicked who are my persecutors Others thy lawes which have been for ever that is to say thine eternall decrees concerning my salvation which thou hast revealed mee by thy word V. 53. Because of the considering their grievous sinnes and the cruell punishment which thou wilt therefore inflict upon them V. 56. This I had namely that in my greatest afflictions I have received comfort from thee whereof hee had spoken in the former verses V. 57. I have said that is to say I have resolved within my selfe V 60. I made haste that is to say I have speedily disposed my selfe to follow thy will in all things without going back or doubting V. 62 Thy righteous judgments the Italian the lawes of thy righteousnesse I make thy holy word the principall subject of my praises it being one of the greatest benefits that thou hast bestowed upon man V. 64. The earth as thou dost largely bestow thy blessings upon all creatures according to their nature and condition so I doe desire the spirituall blessings of the lively light of thy law and word which are sitting and convenient for the being and happinesse of my soule V. 66. ●each me seeing thou hast done mee this first ●avour as to let me receive thy word by faith which word is divine and worthy to be both believed and obeyed d●e me also this second favour namely to let me understand it ●nd apprehend it that I may com●ort my selfe in the promises there●f and may ●ulfill the commandements of it and let my faith be encreased through understanding and knowledge V. 70. Their heart this may be understood either of the great abundance of corporall goods wherewith the wicked grow fat as Deut. 32. 15. Iob 15. 27. Psal. 17. 10 and 73. 7. Or of their stupidity and hardnesse in evill as Isa. 6. 10. V. 73. Thy hands as thou hast given me a naturall being so give me also a spirituall being in faith and knowledge without which thou art neither glorified by me nor hast any service done unto thee nor man hath no happinesse V. 74. Will be glad seeing in mee a notable example for those which hope in thy grace see Psal.

of which it is said that God resteth himself after he had made an end of creating his works for as aftet that God as one should say did retire himself to the quiet enjoying of himself and of his glory and blessednesse So beleevers being by death freed from the works of this life and from all sinnes and troubles shall live together with God in perfect rest of glory Rev. 14. 13. V. 4. He spake namely God speaking in the Scriptures V. 6. Seeing therefore seeing there is a rest like unto Gods rest and that some must enter into it as it appears by the comparing of those two passages which cannot be done but onely by faith seeing the others were for incredulity excluded out of it God would by David admonish the Church that he had appointed a certain time namely that of the preaching of the Gospell in which he would for the last time and at full propound his promise of eternall rest inviting men to enter into it by faith with threatnings to unbeleevers to banish them from it for ever It remaineth seeing this stands firme and irrevocable by Gods order and that this promise is not yet performed Of unbeleefe or rebellion V. 7. Again besides his old time of patience with the Israelites in the wildernesse In David namely in his Psalms After so long namely after the entring into the land of Canaa● which was the rest out of which the unbeleevers of those dayes were excluded V. 8. For if he proveth that there is another rest besides the ancient rest in the land of Canaan for if all the promise of Gods rest had been accomplished at the entring into the land of Canaan with Joshua God needed not to have exhorted them by David not to harden themselves against his voice upon pain of being excluded out of his rest into which they were gathered long before V. 9. A rest the Italian 〈◊〉 Sabbaths rest namely a spirituall sac●ed and divine rest from all works sinnes and troubles of this present life to live wholly to God V. 10. For he he gives a reason why he had called an everlasting rest a Sabbaths rest namely because in it a man obtains a rest like unto Gods rest V. 11. Fall that is to say Perish as anciently the children of Israels bodies fell dead in the wildernesse Numb 14. 29 32. After the same namely in imitation of the same sinne or by such another exemplary punishment V. 12. For to draw away the Hebrews from sinning against Christ that great Prophets word he shews the terrible power of it against Hypocrites and unbeleevers The word he attributes that to Gods Word which belongeth to God himself or to Christ working by it and mortally wounding the unbeleevers and rebellious mans soul by a true feeling of Gods curse and against which there is no defence nor remedy seeing it doth penetrate into all parts of man see Isa. 11. 4. and 49. 2. Revel 1. 16. and 2. 16. and 2 Cor. 2. 16. To the dividing namely so far into man that it divides the very soul c. Figurative termes taken from a well ground and sharpned knife which doth so peece-meal cut out the ●arcase of a beast that it pierceth through every joynt be it never so straight or small Now the soul is here represented as a body whose principall parts are the soul that is to say the animall and sensuall part and the Spirit that is to say the intellectuall and rationall part and by these divisions and dismembrings of the inner parts is meant the totall slaying and destruction of the soul. A discerner of the Italian Is the judge of in as much as the conscience being lively touched doth redargue those thoughts and intents in man himself on Gods behalf see Acts 2. 37. and 19. 18 1 Cor. 14. 24. man being not able to shun this judgement neither by flight nor by hiding himself V. 13. Opened unto the Greek word signifieth a body lying upon the ground with its face upward With whom we have the Italian to whom we must give an account or of whom we speak V. 14. That we have seeing we have said Heb. 3. 1. that Christ is the chief Apostle and Priest of the Church as by the first qualitie you have heard how dangerous it is to not beleeve in him or rebell against his word so by the second of Priest consider how profitable and saving it will be for you to cleave unto him by faith perseverance That is passed into namely who after he had fulfilled all parts of his priestly function upon earth is entred into Gods most inward presence there to make intercession for the Church perpetually to the likenesse of the high Priest under the Law who went once a yeer into the Sanctuary Levit. 16. 2. to shew that if Christ hath accomplished his work and doth make the fruit thereof eternall by his intercession man ought also to perform his duty by perseverance if he means to partake of that fruit Our profession the Italian the confession that is to say the profession of Christian faith and religion in words and deeds see Rom. 10. 9 10. V. 15. Which cannot that is incapable of being moved to compassion towards us sinners and afflicted persons to relieve us according to his office either not knowing or having not tried our miseries Heb. 2 18. or wanting power to aid us as it would have been if Christ himself being righteous had not suffered for us unrighteous Tempted that is to say afflicted exercised and tried by all manner of torments and troubles Without sinn● there being no cause of those evils in him he paying that which he did not owe Psal. 69. 4. Isai. 53. 9. 1 Pe● 3. 18. or without corrupting any of his sufferances by any act of sinne but with a most perfect obedience patience and charity which makes his sufferings meritorious before God to give satisfaction for sinners Others except sin V. 16. Unto the throne that is to say to God proceeding not as an inexorable Judge Psal. 97. 〈◊〉 but as a Soveraign Prince appeased and propitious granting his grace and pardon to absolve save and defend CHAP. V. Vers. 1. FOr ev●●y he proves by all the proper●ies of a Priest that Christ is one indeed as he had said Hebr. 4. 15. Taken from namely a humane Priest opposite to Christ who is true God vers 〈◊〉 and likewise true man vers 7. For men namely to present themselves before God for man with sacrifices and prayers and to be a means to work his peace Gifts the Italian offerings this word set down as different from sacrifices signifies the offering of things that have no life V. 2. Who can have who by the lively feeling which he can have of other mens miseries which he tr●eth in himself may be capable of being touched with hearty compassion to relieve them by his sacrifices and prayers inflamed with charity and zeal With infirmity namely with sinne which being