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A42583	An essay toward the amendment of the last English-translation of the Bible, or, A proof, by many instances, that the last translation of the Bible into English may be improved the first part on the Pentateuch, or five books of Moses / by Robert Gell ...	Gell, Robert, 1595-1665.	1659 (1659)	Wing G470; ESTC R21728	842,395	853

of God and friends have communionem consiliorum voluntatum communion of counsels and wills And therefore David hates vain thoughts Psal 119.113 2. Entertain good thoughts and highly esteem them they are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sent of God unto thee Thou canst not think any thing of thy self as of thy self thy sufficiency is of God So David esteemed his good thoughts How pretious are thy thoughts unto me O God! How great is the sum of them Or Psal 139. v. 17. how strong are the heads of them There are leading good thoughts which if they be followed will prove exceeding strong Such was that of David Psal 119.59 I thought on my wayes and what came of it and I turnd my feet unto thy testimonies I made haste and delayed not to keep thy Commandements The Apostle knew full well how powerful good leading thoughts are Phil. 4.8 Having reckoned up things true honest just pure lovely of good report what ever vertue what ever praise think saith he on these things and then The God of peace shall be with you These are able to cope with Sihon King of Heshbon both in strength and number for so it followes if I number them they are more then the sand More and more mighty were they with David when all nations compassed him about yet so strong was he that in the Name of his God he doubted not but he should cut them off Psal 118.10 11 12. But when did all Nations compass David about The Psalm how ever some understand of David in the history yet it cannot be made good of him but of Christ the spiritual David and his Church as it is plain by evident proof v. 20. 26. And most true it is that all Nations have compassed him about Yea swarms of temptations from evil thoughts as of Bees have compassed him about for he was tempted in all things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hebr. 4. v. 15. according to similitude without sin Hebr. 4.15 And in that he hath suffered being tempted he is able to succour those who are tempted Hebr. 2.18 And therefore he being the minister of circumcision for the truth of God even the true circumcision of the heart Rom. 15.8 He cuts off all the vain sinful thoughts Psal 118. v. 10 11 12. from the heart and so circumciseth it And thence it is that Psal 118.10 11 12. he saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I will circumcise them so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 properly signifies and it s thrice there used importing the circumcision 1. Of the Father in the place named Rom. 15.8 2. Of the Son Col. 2.11 3. Of the Spirit Rom. 2.29 Phil. 3.3 And accordingly he circumciseth his Church under all these dispensations What though the Gyants the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the earth-born thoughts arise against thee Are any are all of them too mighty for thy God to overcome Retyre unto thine own heart and to thy God there and to his pretious thoughts When the heart is let loose and the thoughts not kept at home thousands of wicked imaginations break in and fill the soul and indispose it towards God and weaken it and disable it for resistance of the spiritual enemy Nunquam tam bene quis exit quin sit intùs manere melius Never does any go abroad but it s much better to stay at home The mighty God is the good mans dwelling place Psal 90.1 Through him the Zamzummim the wicked thoughts are subdued and brought under the obedience of Jesus Christ Deut. 2.20 21. 2 Cor. 10.5 3. Let us put on the whole armour of God that we may be able to stand against the wile of the Devil For we wrestle not onely against flesh and blood carnal thoughts only which are as Flesh-Flyes but also against the spiritualities of wickedness Ephes 6.11 12. Wherefore let us gird about our loynes with truth The loynes are the seat of lust both inherent and acquisit The beast he stirs up evil affections there Job 40.16 His strength is in his loynes and his force is in the Navel of his belly The Apostles counsel is therefore to gird up the loynes of our minde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of our reason or discursive faculty 1 Pet. 1.13 There 's great danger to be foyld at the weapon While Eve a figure of the thoughts 2 Cor. 11.3 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are not mindes but thoughts and acts of the minde adventured without this girdle 2 Cor. 11. v. 3. to reason with the Serpent she was conquered And while Eves children are un-girt in their thoughts while they do ad morem discincti vivore Nattae live without regard had to their thoughts Sihon soon prevailes over them The brest-plate of righteousness Lights and perfections were in Aarons brest-plate and they are required in all those who are made Priests unto God to be so armed Levit. 8.8 Ephes 6. v. 14. and having your feet shod shooing your feet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with the preparation of the Gospel of peace or with the confirmation and establishment Thou walkest in the midst of snares Ecclus 9.13 Briars and Thorns are with thee Ezech. 2.6 while we have to do with Sihon and his Heshbonites evil thoughts spirits and men we had need to be well shod Not so when we converse with good thoughts good spirits and good men When Moses came with his feet shod towards the Mount of God Exod. 3. v. 5. Josh 5. v. 15. the Lord bad him put off his shooes Exod. 3.5 So said the Angel to Jehoshuah And there is the same reason alleaged to both because the place was holiness No Briars no Thorns there there 's no need of fencing and arming our selves unless against thoughts and words and men of Belial 2 Sam. 23.6 7. Adde to these arms the shield of faith the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God praying with all prayer and supplication at all times or in every season 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in every opportunity yea in season and out of season continually in the Spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all Saints This part of the spiritual armour is not fixt to any part of the body as others are for herewith the whole armour of God is knit together Thus being armed with the weapons of our warfare mighty through God for the pulling down of strong holds 2 Cor. 10. v. 5. casting down reasonings 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and every height or high thing exalted 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 against the knowledge of God and captiving every thought 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unto the obedience of Christ 2 Cor. 10.5 So will the Lord of hosts give Sihon and Heshbon into our hand and power and tread Satan under our feet shortly For this end The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you Amen Rom. 16.20 What nation is there so great that hath God so nigh unto them

to 1 Cor. 16.14 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let all your things be done in charity What ever the true house of Jacob doth that Hobab the love of God and man must be the doer of it otherwise they are not Israel indeed And therefore the Prophet Micha speaks of a false Israelites who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds when the morning is light they practice it because it is in the power of their hand And they covet fields and take them by violence and houses and take them away So they oppress or defraud a man and his house even a man and his heritage Whereupon the Lord threatens an heavie judgement against Israel falsely so called Micha 2.1.6 and then adds an Epiphonema O thou that art named the house of Jacob is the Spirit of the Lord shortned Are these his doings Is the Lords hand shortned that he cannot save you from doing these things Esay 59.1 Are these his doings whose spirit ye pretend Are these things done in charity And these are the Assistants of Moses and Aaron in the numbering visiting and mustering the Armies of Israel Whence it s strongly intimated what manner of people the souldiers of Jesus Christ ought to be even such as Moses and Aaron and their Assistants were or such as their well-boding names imply and hold them forth to have been For since similitude and likeness is one main ground of love how could these choose or approve of such for the Lords Souldiers who were not in some good measure like vnto themselves Yea what wise and devout Souldier will not endeavour by such ensignes of true valour to render himself approveable It is part of the fatherly advise which S. Paul now a Veteran and an old Souldier gives to his son Timothy endure thou hardness as a good Souldier of Jesus Christ No man that warreth intangleth himself in the affairs of this life that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a souldier 2 Tim. 2.3 4. The business of Moses Aaron and their assistants was numbering mustering the Israelites The people of Israel were thrice mustered 1. In the first year after their eating the Paskal Lamb their coming out of Egypt when they were to pay every one half a Shekel for the Ransom of his soul Exod. 30.11 12. which figured our Redemption by Christ For we are not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from our vain conversation received by tradition from our Fathers but by the pretious blood of Christ as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot And every one is to pay his half shekel whereby some understand Faith which yet is of no value without holiness of life and the Redemption is from the vain conversation And therefore the Apostle speaking of our Redemption through Christ exhorts us to be holy as God is holy 1 Pet. 1.15 because it is written Be ye holy for I am holy ver 16. This holiness is in part at the first when men are newly come out of Egypt as an half shekel being the holiness of obedient children ver 14. and not purified according to the purification of the Sanctuary 2 Chron. 29.18 19 20. Howbeit having kept the Passover by faith and by faith and hope passed thorow the red Sea Hebr. 11.28 29. they continue sincere in the good will figured by the unleavened bread 1 Cor. 5.8 until a greater power come that they may cleanse themselves from all filthinesse of flesh and spirit and perfect holiness in the fear of God 2 Cor. 7.1 That filthiness of flesh and that of the spirit are the two sorts of enemies against which the Israel of God is to be numbred mustered set in rank and file And the mustering in this Chapter is against the former enemies 1 Pet. 2.11 And that which we read Chap. 26. is against the later Of both the Apostle speaks Ephes 6.12 When these enemies are subdued we take possession of the eternal inheritance And therefore being mustered the third time unto these saith the Lord shall the land be divided for an inheritance Numb 26.53 According to which in that excellent hymn called Te Deum laudamus prayer is made for the Church in these words Make them to be numbred with thy Saints in glory everlasting Wherein some have thought numerari to be numbred should be read munerari to be rewarded But according to the sense given both will amount unto the same things O ye true Israelites ye who are of the Church Militant ye Males of masculine valour and prowess ye yong men who overcome the wicked one 1 John 2.13 14. Ye are the true 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Choise yong men chosen men of Gods Israel such as are so often mentioned in the Old and New Testament strong and able to wage the spiritual warfare fight the good fight of faith Adde unto or in your faith vertue 2 Pet. 1.5 O ye Veterans ye old souldiers of Jesus Christ who have known him from the beginning There is no limitation no stint of time for continuance in your service from twenty years old and upward or above how much above is not defined Your old age is no diminution to your strength and courage Remember what Caleb saith to Jehoshuah Chap. 14.10 11. I am this day fourscore and five years old As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me as my strength was then even so is my strength now for war to go out and to come in Caleb hath his name from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Canis as being one of the Lords Dogs Psal 68.23 figuring out good will to his Lord and his righteousness as ye may read in that good old book under a new title the Treasure of the soul to the shame of those who jeer that excellent book of Tobit because mention is there made of his Dog These men know not the mysteries of God by which character the ungodly are described Wisd 2.22 Such Calebs are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Secundum Cor according to the heart of God These wait upon the Lord and renew their strength Esay 40.31 as trees of righteousness Esay 61.3 for as the dayes of a tree are the dayes of Gods people Esay 65.22 which bring forth more fruit in their age Let us do so brave souldiers Let us fight the good fight of faith let us be faithful unto the death of all and every sin and the Lord of hosts will give us the Crown of life as he hath given it unto that old souldier S. Paul I have fought a good fight saith he I have finished my course I have kept the faith henceforth there is laid up for me a Crown of righteousness which the Lord the righteous Judge shall give me at that day and not to me only but to them also who love his appearing 2 Tim. 4.7 8. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O ye brave and valiant souldiers quit