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A48445	Some genuine remains of the late pious and learned John Lightfoot, D.D. consisting of three tracts ... : together with a large preface concerning the author, his learned debates in the assembly of divines, his peculiar opinions, his Christian piety, and the faithful discharge of his ministry.	Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.	1700 (1700)	Wing L2070; ESTC R12231	207,677	406

then of his Generation or that come out of his Loins were Sixty-nine in number and himself maketh the Seventieth He is presented before Pharaoh who never saw so old a Man in all his Life As he had nourished Joseph Seventeen Years before he was sold GEN. XLVII so Joseph nourisheth him in Egypt Seventeen Years before he dieth XLVIII Before his Death he swears Joseph to interr him in Canaan XLIX blesseth his two Sons particularly and himself with the rest of his Brethren He dieth an Hundred Forty-seven Years old Joseph Fifty-three Years after dieth himself L. and is cossined up in Egypt to be carried to the Land of Promise when Israel shall be delivered Before Joseph's Death Israel grows numerous in Egypt if not before Jacob's Gen. xlvii 27 And God chuseth them for his visible Church Ezek. xx 5 And to his new chosen Church he appointed Levi to be Priest to teach Israel the Ways of God when their great Instructor Jacob is dead 1 Sam. ii 27 His Repentance upon his Father's Curse Gen. xlix 6 7. obtaineth Pardon and his Dividing in Jacob and Scattering in Israel becomes a Blessing But after Joseph Levi and that Generation be dead they forget God as Judg. ii 7 They follow the Idols of Egypt Ezek. xx 8 Jos. xxiv 14 They reject the Covenant of God and Circumcision the Sign of it they utterly neglect so that they are uncircumcised like the Egyptians Jos. v. 9 Exod. iv 24 25. They make mixt Marriages with the Egyptians among whom they live as Lev. xxiv 10 And following the Customs of Egypt they make prohibited Matches among themselves as Exod. ii 1 Lev. xviii 3 and 12. Thus when his Church grows thus degenerate in Egypt God hath ready a Church to shew among the Heathen IOB After Genesis in order of time lies the Story and Book of Job Which to read here before you begin with Exodus will breed Interruption of a continued Story But when you do read Job remember his time and withal examine and mark how he and his Friends speak closely of foregoing Stories As of the Creation Chap. xxxviii xxxix c. The Fall of Angels and Men Chap. iv latter end Chap. v. 2 Cain's Case who was hid from God's Favour yet hedged in that he could not die Chap. iii. 21 The Fl●●d and old World Chap. xxii 6 Babel's Builders Chap. iii. 13 c. V. 13. These and other such things you may find closely couched in their Speeches which they came to know partly by Tradition partly by living so near Israel partly by Revelation as Chap. iv 12 and Chap. xxxviii 1 thereby to provoke Israel to Jealousie even in the House of Job in Arabia Whose like Israel had not Job i. 8 after the Death of Levi and the Birth of Moses God also chastiseth them by hard Affliction an Hundred and Twenty Years together according to the time of the old World Gen. vi SECT IV. EXODUS THE Book of Exodus by the ancient Jews was called The Book of Redemption Abarb. in Preface to Exodus So the Work of Redemption is called Exodus Luk. ix 31 Israel's Sin causes hard Affliction From which no Tribe is exempted even the Royal one of Judah groans heavily under this Burden EXOD. CHAP. I. To this first of Exodus treating of the sore Affliction of Israel in Egypt read P● lxxxviii and lxxxix which were made by two Men Heman and Ethan who then lived and felt that Affliction These were Ezrahites or immediate Sons of Zerah 1 Chron. ii 6 And Zerah was one of those Seventy that went down to Egypt Gen. xlvi 12 So that those two Psalms are the oldest piece of Writing the World hath to shew with the rest of his Brethren In these hard times is Moses born a goodly Child tho' his Mother were by Nature past the Course of Child bearing EXOD. II. He is hid at his Birth lest he should be slain as he was also after his Death lest he should be worshipped His Mother is paid for nursing her own Child EXOD. III. He lives Forty Years a Courtier other Forty a Shepherd spending his time in Divine Contemplation In one of which Thoughts of God God appears to him indeed gives him Charge of the Delivery of his People and withal gives him the Power of Miracles His Shepherd's Staff is turned into a Serpent for the Terror of Egypt and Israel if they rebel EXOD. IV. but into a Rod again for Israel's Conduct if they obey His Hand is Leprous to teach both them and himself that not that impure Hand but a greater did those Miracles Armed with these Powers he goes for Egypt The first Night he had like to have lost his Son for want of Circumcision Which when he had received he is unfit for a Journey and so he and his Mother and Brother are left behind Pharaoh upon Moses Message adds Affliction But God will approve himself Jehovah EXOD. V VI. faithful in Promise The Genealogy of Israel undertaken to be reckoned but stops at Levi Which Tribe was shortly to be taken for all Israel Pharaoh plagued five times and hardens his Heart when he is punisht for Sin EXOD. VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII Therefore God hardens his Heart five times more So that he sins for a Punishment At last Israel is delivered by the Blood of a Lamb. All Egyptian First-born slain For which Israel's First-born is due to God Egyptian Gods are overthrown and their Dogs struck dumb From their coming out of Egypt to the end of Exodus the Text hath so pointed out the Months and Days that being laid Kalendar-wise to view they yield more Facility and Delight Year of the World MMDXIII Days of the M. Nisan or Abib the First Month.   1 Some of the Plagues were at the beginning of this Month at the least the Hail was And Flax and Barley are now ripe So is Rahab's Flax ripe in the same Month Forty Years after and laid upon her flat-roofed House to wither Jos. ii 6   2   3   4   5   6 Rome is Egypt in Rev. xvi and is plagued with Hail for overthrowing Fundamental Points of Religion Every Stone a Talent weight ver 21. answerable to the several Silver Bases for the Foundation of the Tabernacle   7   8   9   10 The Paschal Lamb is taken up   11   EXOD. X. 12 Darkness Three Days   13 Darkness Darkness over Egypt while Israel gathers to Raamses Remember the Three Hours Darkness upon the Jews at Christ's Death EXOD XI.XII. 14 Darkness over Egypt all Day The Passeover kept at Night   15 Israel comes out of Egypt A Day of Unleavened Bread EXOD. XIII 16 They come to Etham EXOD. XIV 17 They come to Pihahiroth   18 Pharaoh arms after them   19 Pursues them   20 Overtakes them EXOD. XV. 21 This Morning they sing Deliverance   22 From hence after three

as in the Old Testament to search out the true and exact Order which the Continuation of the History requireth The Evangelists being Four in number and being all to write one and the same Story must either not write the same things or if they did must not write them in the same Style and Order Otherwise had the Uniformity of their Story and Phrase been but Repetition if not Confusion But while they either vary in Matter or Phrase or in Order this breeds the best Consort Their difference of Matter and Phrase is easily seen and easily reconciled But their Change of Method and Order requireth some Skill to tune to an Unison Like him in Plutarch that would first play rude and harshly to his Scholars before they should hear true Consort So have I to you after my rude and rough course gone a little way before you in the Gospel in this Course that your self may tune to your self more pleasing Music. Where I have laid the Evangelists together you may see they tune themselves and the Music is sweet let my Descant invite you to a better Strain II. In reading of the New Testament never take your Eye off the Old for the New is but again that in plainer Phrase God himself hath taught us by the writing of the Scripture what is the best way to read For he hath folded the Two Testaments together so that as the Law begins so the Gospel ends and as the Prophets end so the Gospel begins as if calling upon you to look still for the one in the other Moses and Elias Law and Prophets were Evangelists as well as Matthew and the other So that he that sees not Christ in them first in a Cloud sees him not in the other in Glory What did ever Christ do or suffer which you may not see in the Law and Prophets Which laid to the Gospel shews the more Lustre It were worth Study and Labour to trace Christ throughout all the Old Testament and to see a Gospel written by Moses and Elias concerning Christ's Actions Passion and Doctrine To shew my Meaning take here in brief what you may at Leisure and Study enlarge as you read SECT XIII Evangelium Mosaico-Propheticum WHEN Adam had sinned God promised to him one that should break the Head of the Serpent who could be no other than God Christ's two Natures taught in the Garden But he should become the Seed of the Woman to do this and so be Man When the Fulness of time came when the Scepter was even ready to depart from Judah Gen. xlix and the Stem of Je●● even worn to the Root Esa. xi and the Feet of the great Image broken and the other parts fallen Dan. ii this came to pass For when Cittim afflicted Eber Num. xxiv and Augustus taxed all the World and among the rest the Jews Jesus is born having been taxed in his Mother's Womb as Levi paid Tythes in the Loins of Abraham His Mother was a Virgin yet bare him against the Course of Nature as barren Women had done the like above it Immediately after his Conception she goeth to Hebron where Abraham had his first Land and David his Kingdom There she keeps her swelling Belly undiscried three Months as Moses was hid three Months after he was born Which when her Husband detected he was incensed till like Tamar Gen. xxxviii it was clear she was without Fault In Tisri she brings forth her Son at what time of the Year Sin came into the World and at what time of the Year the solemn Festival of Expiation of Sin was and what time of the Year the great Jubilee-Year began a Type of him who should work Release At two Years old he is visited and worshipped by Wise Men of Persia who among the Records laid up there had found Daniel's Prophecy of the time of the Messiah Dan. ix Upon the Appearance of a new Star they know the time is come and from Persia from whence Cyrus had done Good to Jerusalem they come thither Herod of Esau persecutes Christ into Egypt Whence Pharoah had persecuted Moses least Christ should surprize Herod of his Kingdom as Jacob had done Esau of his Birthright and Blessing For now had Esau shaken off the Yoke of Jacob as Gen. xxvii 40 At twelve Years old Christ shews his Wisdom in the Sanhedrin at which Age Solomon had done his deciding the Matter of the two Harlots At thirty Years old he is baptized and anointed by the Holy Spirit and begins to publish the Gospel At which Age the Priests entred their Office Num. iv Joseph his Honour Gen. xli 46 And David his Kingdom 2 Sam. v. 4 He is tempted as Eve to the Lust of the Flesh the Lust of the Eye and the Pride of Life but overcometh having fasted Forty Days and Nights as did Moses and Elias in Horeb. So did he in the very same place Upon [a] John i. 29 his Return by Jordan John teaches the People That he was the Aim of the Paschal Lamb which every Year and the Offering Lamb which every Day was sacrificed At [b] John ii 9 Cana of Galilee he turneth Water into Wine That beginning with the Elements and changing their Form his working Miracles upon things composed of the Elements might be without Exception So did Moses in his Wonders in Egypt At [c] John ii 14 15. the first Passover after his Baptism he casteth out Buyers and Sellers in the Temple coming to his own House purgeth it and the Sons of Levi Mal. iii. 1 2 3. He [d] John iii. teacheth what the Spirit moving upon the Waters Gen. i. 2 and the Brazen Serpent Num. xxi aimed at In [e] John iv the Valley of Achor Hos. ii 15 he telleth an Adulterous Woman what Hosea's Adulterous Wives represented and briefly and sweetly expoundeth to her all Hosea's Prophecy He [f] Mat. iv chuseth Galileon Disciples of Nepthali who must give goodly Words Gen. xlix and Zebulun and Issachar who must bring Men to God to offer Righteous Sacrifices Deut. xxxiii 19 He healeth Diseases at distance Psal. cxlvii c. He [g] Mat. v. pronounceth the Blessings upon a Mount which upon their Entrance into Canaan should have been pronounced with the Curses and in number but were not Deut. xxviii In his Sermon there he destroyeth the Doctrine of the Scribes Pharisees and Sadduces the three Shepherds whom his Soul hated Zech. xi 8 He [h] Mark iii. 3 would not own his Mother nor acknowledge his Brethren Deut. xxxiii 9 when they went about to hinder the Work of the Lord. He seeks to unite Judah and Israel under one Head Hos. i. 11 by tendring an easie Yoke to them that were parted by the threatning of an heavy 1 King xii He opens his Mouth in Parables as Psal. xlix 2 and from that very Psalm sheweth the State of Luxurious rich Men Luke xvi and giveth more to the Scriptures than to the Words of Apparitions Luke