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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30686	Bêt̲ ḥokt̲̂, the house of wisdom Bêt̲ benê hamebî'îm, the house of the sons of the prophets : Bêt̲ hemmidraš, an house of exquisite enquiry, and of deep research, where the mind of Jehovah Ælochim in the Holy Scriptures of truth ... is diligently studies, faithfully compared ...	Bampfield, Francis, 1615 or 16-1683.	1681 (1681)	Wing B622; ESTC R32542	45,712	28

the Scriptures to have given a Specimen of these following Particulars towards the Advancement of Scripture-learning towards which I am like to bequeath my Studies and Collections unto such a School both as to my printed and written books An exact version or Translation of the Original Scriptures word for word without any human alterations or Supplements additions or Substractions with instances in several places what wrong is done unto the word of God and how the Translators were Malignly influenced upon by some thereby to serve Partial designs and Carnal ends and Corrupt interests of Churches and States Those who may have a call to and for such a work should be eminently gifted and graced fitted and furnished by Jehovah Aelohim for such a work Such as would be Right Translators of the Bible they must be God-taught-ones very Humble and mortifyed very Skilful in the original Language Experienced believers and Growing Saints not wedded to privat interests nor swayed by a Partial Spirit such as are much and mighty with a God hearing prayer spiritual wrestlers and powerful prevailers through Christs intercession with Him having Free converse and Distinct Communion with the Father Son and Holy Spirit It is a reproach to the Protestant Cause that one of the best Translations that we have of the Bible in an interlineary we have received from a Popish hand what pen can write down all the losses which the precious Souls of the Common sort of people do Sustain by the many useful mysteries of the Christian Religion which are hid from them for want of This How much has the Cause of Christ Suffered even from a Preaching Ministry by a pertinacious adhering to a Corrupt Translation whilst they let go if they understand it That proper significancy of the Original words and phrases which doe best set out the great Truths and things of the Christian religion and do most commend themselves to the knowledg Faith and Experience of Spiritual Discerners with what singular endowments they should be qualifyed who are employed in such an undertaking is sooner set dow●●● writing then to be found as yet actually given to men by the Holy Spirit my own unfitness and inability I do readily acknowledg It is honour enough for me to Commend the work to others and to quicken them up by the Prayers of ●i●h to wrestle with the Lord for larger pourings down of his Spirit for su●● an End O that I might live to see the Day when Such Eminently called ones might come forth more clothed with that Spirit An Hebrew Grammar and Lexicon should be composed out of the Holy Scriptures and not these Scriptures wrested and wryed to speak conformably to Grammars and Lexicons of Traditionary humane Composure All being to be kept within the Confines and borders of Original True Scripture and of Primitive pure nature of what use the Cognation of Languages would be in this might be considered For the Promoting of this such as have laid up any store or prepared any Materials concerning that which Jehovah Aelohim hath put into his written word and into Created Beings about Letters their figure name Power or force in Sound and Pronunciation Vowels Consonants Syllable● words sentences accents punctations distinguishing of Sentences Orthoepy or right Speaking with the instruments of Pronunciation which have so many wonderful secrets and hidden Mysteries both in Nature and in grace by which we communicate the Conceptions of our Heart and mind Orthography or Right writing Parts of speech in their several Proprieties particularly as to the verbs in the distinct significancy of their several Conjugations and as to the verbal Participles Syntax or Construction The only one Primary Original meaning of every Hebrew root the ●ap and Juice of which peculiar significancy should run into all the deviate branches not so making one and the same Word to signify so many various and contrary things To add no more now I am heartily thankful for what we have already hereof but it hath not as yet received its perfecting Advance This and what else might be further named I leave to the Serious and judicious to meditate upon The Lord give understanding herein Jehovah will give Wisdom out of his mouth Knowledg and understanding he hath hiddenly laid up essential Wisdom to the upright Wisdom shall enter into their Heart and Knowledg shall be sweat unto their Soul Of Hebrew Alphabet and Letters their Number and order of vowels Consonants Syllables Words Sentences Notes of Distinction and of Punctation in Sentences the Art and Science of Right speaking Right writing with their mutual Corresponding of the Parts of Speech of Etymologie or Analogy and somwhat of Syntax or of Construction JEhovah (s) Psal 139. 1 2 4 14. Thou hast searched me and Known Thou understandest my Familiar thought afar off when the speech not in my Tongue lo Jehovah Thou knowest it All. I will confess thee for that Fearfully marvellously made am I marvellous thy works and my soul knoweth very well Adam was made a speaking Creature whereby he was separated from and excelling of all others the Glorious Holy Angels only excepted His (t) Psal 16. 9. 30. 12. compare Act. 2. 26. Psa 57. 8 9. Gen. 49. 6. Soul and tongue were his Glory Jehovah Aelohim could have glorifyed and injoyed himself in himself though no Creature had been spoken into a Being or seeing he would give an Essence and Existence to a World He could have made all his Creatures dumb but his will and pleasure was for the exalting of himself and the extolling of his Name to create Angels and men such noble Beings as had Rational Souls intelligent minds and were voluntary Free Agents having Hearts and Judgments to conceive and understand and Tongues and other Instruments of speech wherewith to offer and bring forth those inward Conceptions vocally and so to be the tongued Trumpeters of the whole Creation and thereby to sound forth the high Praises of his Wisdom and Power in so Excelling and Perfect a Work as this goodly beautious World not only to behold it with their Eyes and to admire it in their Meditations but also by Angelical and Human voice to confess it with their Mouths How great a Mystery This is both in Nature in institution and in grace How notions of truths and of things have their Conception Apprehension clear and distinct Perception speculative Reasoning Practical judging comparing and considering Resolving and ultimate dictating how they have Assent or Dissent in the Heart and mind of Intelligent Creatures How these being Formed there are uttered and communicated to the other instruments of speech how brought forth into words and sentences by these how conveighed by voice to the Ear of another how received by the Ears of others how understood by hearing whither carryed from the ear How these come to be written in such a multitude of expressions and phrases where the Letters are so few how written words are discerned and understood by

from one side of the Tongue to the other in the Palate and the drawing down both of the sides of the Tongue the left side a little crooked in its motion do add the two leggs of ●●●or its support 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He who would inform himself about this mystery in Nature let him narrowly observe how his own Instruments of speech do form every Letter and let him consult Helmonts Natural Hebrew Alphabet which is that peculiar Honour this orginal Language hath put upon it above and beyond all other Tongues Thus by some such means The Purity of the Text has been preserved A letter in the present case is an Element Principle or Rudiment of which syllables are made up in the Hebrew tongue Pila●es inscription on the cross of Christ was (w) Luk. ●3 38. Joh. 19. 19 20. Act. 28. 21. 2 Sam. 11. 14. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Esther 9. 20. 25. Jer. 29. 1. 25 29. Dan. 41 c. 6. 25. Act 9. 2. 22. 5 15. 23 3● 18. 27. 1 Cor. 7. 1. 16. 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Cor. 3. 1. 2 Thes 2. 15. 2 Tim. 3. 15. John 7. 15. 2 Chron. 21. 12. Isa 29. 11 12. Dan. 1. 4. 17. Act. 26. 24. Rev. 1. 8 11. 21. 6. 22. 13. Isa 41. 4. 44. 6. 48. 12. Joh. 5. 39. in Greek Roman and Hebrew Letters from these Letters we have word● a●d sentences 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a letter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to write he●ce comes Grammar hence Epistles are called Letters so are Books The Holy Scriptures have their name from hence 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so Christ is said to know letters which the carnal Jews wondered at because he had not been so trained up in their Schools Academies and universities Thus we read of the letters of Elijah to King Joram of Christs letters sent by John the servant of Christ unto the seven Churches of Asia in the First second and third chapters of the Book of Revelation written Letters are for this end that they may be read Daniel his Companions were to learn the Letters of the Chaldee tongue By Letters are signified the several sorts of Sciences contained in Writings Festus wrongfully charged Paul as if he were so addicted to Letters that many letters his much reading and Learning particularly as to Scripture-learning would bring him to madness We may read of A. Alpha of ω Omega the one the first Letter the other the last Letter in the Greek Alphabet answering to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aleph and to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thau the former the first the latter the last letter in the Hebrew Alphabet By this name Christ is called He being the First and the Last The Beginning and the Ending This is subjoyned by way of Explanation Jehovah Christ is honored with the same Title in the Old Testament All Creatures have their Being of and from him As the Author and therefore they should all be for and to him As the End such an honourarie dignity has Christ crowned little letters withall He is the Author the Subject-matter and the End of the whole Holy Scripture this is that written word which doth testify concerning him This being the ordinary appointed means by which we come to the saving knowledg and Acknowledgment of Him These Greek Letters have their derivation from the Hebrew Alpha from Aleph Beta from Beth Gamma from G●mel Delta from Daleth Lambda from Lamed c. Thus in other Tongues and Languages is the Hebrew Alphabet imitated Hence it is that from no Translation of the holy Scriptures in other Languages can we so convince Gainsaiers and Contradicters as by the Original language and Authentick Tongue of the God-inspirer of them The Greek tongue wanteth two Consonants Jod and Vau and it has no h in the beginning of a syllable in the middle of a word nor in the end of a syllable in the End of a word hence it is that that Name of Names and word of words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jehovah is not ordinarily pronounceable by the Greek tongue according to the Common rules of their Gram●●●s which doth not admit them so neither Jah by itself nor in Compound form as Halelujah nor any other proper name in Hebrew that hath those consonants in it as Aijob Mirjam c. Vowels are Essential to Pronunciation hence has a Consonant his signification for a Consonant is a Letter which doth sound that is constitute a Syllable with a vowel not without a vowel A vowel is to a Consonant what the Soul is to the Body it doth give Animation to a Syllable to a pronounced articulat sound without which we cannot rightly understand any speaking or writing as the Soul can move by itself and also move the Body together with it so a vowel both moves by itself that is it doth constitute a sound thus in the Hebrew it is in pronunication and in voice These Discoveries are not Childish trifles Great and weighty truths and things do much depend upon them as the Intelligent do know If the vowels were taken away and only the Hebrew consonants written as if these only and not also they were original one and the same word would have so many various significations as would leave the true right meaning of the Scripture at great uncertainties which may not be given any way to at all In the way it being natural to write as we speak and to speak as we write let Advancers of the best learning diligently inquire and seriously consider whether there ought not to be Dipthongs put into Hebrew Grammars which is commonly omitted and whether it be not an Errour both in Hebrew Grammar and Pronunciation that those four consonants 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being put with out a vowel in voice do lose all their valor value force vertue or price in pronunciation as if worth nothing at all in pronunciation being idle and doing nothing in sound so that they call them Quiescent having a place in the word written but not being movable consonants because not pronounced All dipthongs in the Latine tongue the Ancients so brought forth into sound as that both the vowels were heard in the pronunciation which was the true way of uttering in speech when two vowels one following another did not constitute one Dipthong but made two divers Syllables they were noted by two points on the Top or Cap of them as Igneüs Oceänus Aït Phaëton The Greeks have twelve Dipthongs six of these they call Proper because in these the sound of both the vowels was heard as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aura a and v are both in the sound the like in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eja both e and i are heard in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Euge e and v and in the rest Their Poets were more punctual in this for when there was need they would disjoine them

to see the goodness of Iehovah in the land of the living which doth too much imprison the sense and confine it to that one particular which is not the weightiest neither For that expression except I had believed this doth take in all the experimental cases mentioned in that psalm except I had believed I had been afraid of men when they made battle against me to eat my flesh I had dreaded my distressers and my enemies my heart had been afraid when a pitched Host pitched against me when war rose up against me except he had believed his heart had not been confirmed and strong waiting and expecting when he was banished and driven from the house of Jehovah where he longed to sit all the dayes of his life to view in the pleasantness of Jehovah and to enquire in his Palace except he had believed this what should he have done in the day of evil how could he in such a case have been confident that Jehovah would keep him privily in His pavilion that he would keep him secret in the secret of his Tent and that he would exalt him on a Rock and that his head should be lifted up above his enemies round about him that he should Sacrifice in his Tent Sacrifices of shouting and sing Psalms to Jehovah except he had believed this how could he have lived to his comfort and Satisfaction that though his Father and his Mother would forsake him yet Jehovah would not leave nor forsake him but be his Saviour and gather him except he had believed this how could he have kept an even frame of spirit when he had so many envyers when he was in such danger to be given to the Soul to the will and lust of his Distressers For witnesses of Falshood did stand up against him and the man who breathed violent wrong how injuriously therefore do they charge the Scriptures as if they were no perfect Rule because of such imperfect Speeches as they miscal them whereas this Psalm has the greater Fulness and more Perfection by this means as has been shewn In (q) Psa 109. 4. the one hundredth and ninth Psalm For my love they my slanderous enemies are adversaries to me and I give my self to Prayer here the Translators put in four words of their own which are Give my self to whereas the original is And I Prayer this doth set out one singular truth Duty grace and experience concerning prayer for besides the Several Passages in this Psalm to which it doth relate and concerning which it doth afford a choice either Prevention or remedy as to heart-akes Soul-sicknesses and bodily ailes it doth contain in it An excellent Directory for Prayer when a Believer under such trying cases is at prayer he should be All prayer his whole man should be all ingaged in prayer he should go to Jehovah in Prayer to Jehovah the father to Jehovah the Son to Christ as Mediator to Jehovah the holy spirit to a proper word and to suitable promises in prayer he should see that Graces in their places be acted in prayer he should pray in prayer thus Prayer should be prayer prayer well filled up How much beyond the Translator's-Supplement would this Scripture-expression lead an experienced beleiver Take an instance in the New Testament When the Mother of Zebedees Children came unto Christ desiring a certain thing of Him even to grant that those her two Sons whom she brought along with her to him might sit the one on his Right hand and the other on his Left in His Kingdom one part of Christ's answer was (r) Mat. 20. 23. that to sit on his Right hand and on his Left was not his to give but the Translators put in of their own It shall be given to them these five or six words they add for whom it is prepared of my father If an ignorant Teacher of an ignorant People were to raise Doctrines from this clause they were like to be these two One that to Sit on Christs right hand and on his left is not Christs to give The other that to Sit on Christs right hand and on his left shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of Christs Father These two seem very fairly rightly drawn from the words as translated in English and yet the former of these two is a False Doctrine For it is Christs to give as other (s) Rev. 3. 21. John 5. 22. 27. 13. 3. 17. 2. Scriptures do convincingly prove he has commissioned Power to grant unto him who overcoming to Sit with him in his Throne The Father hath committed All judgment unto the Son he hath given Christ authority to execute judgment The Father gave All things into Christs hands he gave Christ power over all flesh All authoritative power in heaven and in Earth was given unto Christ The Translation therefore should have run thus To Sit from my Rights and from my lefts the Plural Number in both takes in hands Arms sides c. not is it mine to give But or except or save to them it is prepared of my Father Christs it was to give but to such as were expressed in his Commission whom the Fathers purpose was to honour with such a Priviledg Though these and such like Supplements of men by which they pretend they would fill up the Sence be printed in lesser Characters in many Bibles yet not in All English Bibles and where they are printed in lesser Letters yet scarce one of many scores doth take any notice of this to exercise practical judgment about it and to compare Spirituals with Spirituals concerning it As for what doth concern the Right pointing of Sentences and distinguishing of those Sentences by Punctations and Accentuations This is not a meer humane invention but a God-inspired institution For if these be taken away how many blasphemies would Ignorance and malice quickly run into consider that Passage (t) Psal 5. 4. in the Fifth Psalm If a full Period be placed there where there is but a Comma or a Colon would it not be Blasphemy to make a full stop to these words Thou art not A God and so to read no further whereas it must be otherwise pointed For Thou not Ael or the mighty Almighty one A God delighting wickedness The Evil shall not sojourn thee Thus he who will read to the Period finds excelling sence in this choice Scripture To have a Distinction of a Sentence into certain members of it is natural and significant that there may be just spaces alloted both for due breathing and for right understanding the moderating of the respireing Faculty giveth both a Grace to the speech and a light to the apprehension of what is spoken The shortest point in a Sentence leaveth such a space as the ordinary pulse and measure of time is in musick yet so as that what doth follow do quickly Succeed after the breath is drawn in the next to this has a longer and larger respiration