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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

captivity see Psal. 122. upon the Title V. 1. Afflictions labours and difficulties which he hath gone through for the establishment of thy service V. 2. Sware this Oath is not mentioned any where else in Scripture The mighty namely God who is the strength of his people Gen. 49. 24. V. 5. Vntill these seeme to be Davids thoughts and protestations before he had taken the rock of Sion from the Iebusites 2 Sam. 5. 6. where he knew by revelation that God hath made choyce of a settled abode for his Arke wherein he was present in grace and power V. 6. Wee heard in former times the ark was settled in Siloh Iosh. 18. 1. a place belonging to the Tribe of Ephraim Iosh. 16. 6. Psal. 78. 60. then it was transported to Kiriath-jearim that is to say a city of woods here called fields of the wood by reason of the great plaine of woods where this City stood 1 Sam. 7. 1. V. 7. Wee will goe the Italian let us goe now that I Solomon have built the Temple let all the people come thither to doe Gods service see Psal. 122. 1. 2. V. 8. Arise these three verses are part of Solomons prayer at the dedication of the Temple 2 Chron. 6 41. Into thy rest that isto say into thy firme habitation opposite to those moving ones which it had in former ages Of thy strength that is to say of thy glory namely where thou art present in thy glorious power for the safety of thy Church V. 9. Be cloathed that is say clothed with inward purity and holinesse represented by the holy garments Or cloathed with holiday garments by reason of thy deliverances and benefits often meant by the word righteousnesse and with this sense agreeth the phrase of being clothed with deliverance or salvation used 2 Chon 6. 41. V. 10. Thine annointed namely thy King whom thou hast consecrated and endowed with the gift of thy Spirit sitting for his office V. 15. Her poore wherewith the Church hath abounded in all ages see Isa. 14 32 Zach. 11. 7. V. 16. With salvation the Italian with clothes of deliverance that is to say with garments of joy and feasting because of my deliverances see upon Psal. 149. 4. V. 17. To bud that is to say to spring up strongly as from a lively root or blossome and grow out into a power and magnificent glory expressed by the word horn which anciently warriours did weare in their helmets see Psal. 75. 5. 10. and 148. 14. A lamp that is to say one of posterity in whom the glory of his Kingdome may live and shine 2 Sam. 21. 17. which was chiefly and most perfectly accomplished in Christ of Davids race according to the flesh PSAL. CXXXIII VER 2. IT is like this holy concord is not onely most pleasant but it must also be considered as an effect of the Spirit of grace and peace which being most plenteously poured out upon Christ who is head of the Church● runnes down upon all the members of his body and is the bond of the spirituall union figured by the holy oyle wherewith Aaron and his successors high Priests were annointed Exod. 30. 30. V. 3. Of Hermon along ridge of hills in Palestine Psalm 42. 6. which were the highest in all the countrey from whence in a manner the dew and moistnesse did run down upon the lower hills such as Sion and other neighbouring hils were Commanded the Italian appointed see of this manner of speech Psal. 42. 8. and 44. 4. and 71. 3. PSAL. CXXXIV VER 1. BY night namely you Levites which not onely by day doe service in the Temple but also watch by night therein by turnes according to your appointed times see 1 Chro. 9. 33. V. 2. Lift up to pray unto to praise and blesse the Lord. V. 3. Blesse thee this seemeth to be an answer of the Levites and sacred Officers to the precedent exhortation with a blessing upon the King as Psal. 118. 26. or upon all the people PSAL. CXXXV VER 2. THat stand it seemeth that here are distinctly set down the Priests which did Gods service in the Temple and the Levites which performed their functions in the court V. 3. It is pleasant the Italian amiable as Psal. 92. 1. and 147. 1. V. 5. Above all namely above all things which are called gods here upon earth be it either by resemblance of dignitie or by the false opinions of men V. 7. For the raine that is to say for a signe or peradventure one of the causes of the ensuing raine and such as seeme to bring the faine after them Out of his treasuries or store-houses see Iob 8. 22. V. 14. Will judge that is to say will punish and visite them Others because that the Lord will doe his people right and will be appeased with his servants will repent that is to say he will change his effects of severity into effects of mildenesle a phrase taken from men which is very frequent in Scripture PSAL. CXXXVI VER 1. FOr his by 1 Chron. 16. 41. It appeareth that these words were an antiph●ra or burthen of the sacred Song and praises which were sung in the Temple V. 5. By wisdome the Italian with understanding that is to say through his supreame wisedome Prov. 3. 19. and 8. 27. 27. Ier. 10. 12. 51. 15. PSAL. CXXXVII VER 1. THe rivers he hath a relation to certaine Cities in Caldea set down in the Histories which were assigned to the Iewes for their habitation during the captivity where they held their Synagogues Schooles and places to performe the worship of God in and they were neer to the river Euphrates in low and wa●ie places V. 2. Wee they seeme to be the words of the holy Leviticall singers which dwelt in those Cities Vpon the willowes those being wa●ry countreys V. 3. Required of us through a prophane curiositie or in scorne That wasted us the Italian that made us howle singing as Isa. 52. 5. Or that had wasted us bringing our City and countrey as it were into heaps of ruines Psal 79. 1. Or that had sacked us V. 5. If I forget although we will not prophane the holy songs to make these Idolaters pastime and though we at this present so grieved at heart that we cannot think upon singing yet our desire and intent shall alwayes bee good whensoever the the Lord shall deliver us Let my right hand the Italian if my right hand with which I play upon these instruments V 6. If I do not if when it pleaseth God to deliver us and restore us if I doe not shew it by my congratulating songs towards thee and my songs of praises to God that the soveraign joy of my soule consist in thee V. 7. The children who through an inbred hatred against the ●●wes joyned with the Babylonians and did set them on to the totall destruction of Ierusalem and maliciously rejoyced thereat Lam 4. 11. Ezech. 〈◊〉 12. Obad. 11. V. 8. O daughter as much

we feare these things that are strangers and enemies unto them CHAP. XIV VERS 4. AND let us return which God had expressely forbidden them Deu. 17. 16. Because that Egypt being the figure of spirituall bondage God would have the people to have it for a perpetuall document to abhor to return under the old bondage of sun out of which God of his grace had freed them and also that such a glorious effect of his power might never be annihilated V. 5. Fell on their To prepare the people with their humility to give over this enterprise or to pray to God to turne them from it by his spirit and power Num. 16. 4 and 20. 6. V. 6. Rent In token of extream grief and anger V. 8. If the Lord It wee do not provoke him to wrath by our sins V. 9. They are bread God hath given them into our hands to destroy them and to get all their goods Their defence the Italian hath it their shadow their protection and safety which had hitherto been nothing but Gods patience their measure being not yet ful heaped Gen. 15. 16. to make an opposition between those accursed people abandoned of God and the children of Israel which lived secure under the shadow of the cloud See Ex. 32. 25. Is 22. 8. Mic. 1. ●1 V. 10. The glory Some extraordinary light brightnes signe of Gods glorious presence in the cloud come down lower and spread above the Tabernacle see Ex. 26 16 17. and 40. 34. Lev. 9. 23. Num. 16. 19. 42. and 20. 6. V. 13 For thou I fear lost the Egyptians upon whom thou hast hitherto glorified thy self in the deliverance of thy people now take an occasion to blaspheme thee by reason of their destruction V. 14 Art seen In the signes of thy presence though not in any visible likenes Deut. 4. 15. which was reserved for Moses alone Num. 12. 8. V. 15 As one man At once at one stroak V. 17. I beseech thee let the Accomplish thy work to shew that nothing can be done contrary to thy will V. 18 Cleering The pardon to which I am inclined is not an indisterency or connivence at sin which I always late and punish in all those that continue in it through impenitency and cause the very repentants after I have remitted them their punishments as I am judge to feele my fatherly corrections and punishments See Ex. 23. 7. V. 20 I have pardoned I doe remit unto them the punishment of present and universall death d●nbunced by my threatnings v. 12. V. 21 All the earth As I am jealous to maintaine the glory of my justice and providence over all the World much more will I be jealous in doing it in the middest of my people Others all the earth shall be or ought for to be filled that is to say as I will by my works and finally by my word be known and worshipped all the world over for what I am so I will by effects make it knowne to them to whom I have already revealed my self V. 22 Tempted me See upon Ex. 17. 2. ten times that is to say very often as Gen 31. 7 yet some will take this in its proper signification V. 24. Caleb which whom ●s Joshua also to be understood as v. 30. and 38. Spirit hath been moved and inspired by a better spirit namely by Gods spirit Followed 〈◊〉 hath believed in m● with an entire heart without varying or wavering Whereinto see upon Num. 13. 33. V. 25 The Amalekites since I have consented unto thee not to destroy this people upon a suddain take heed lest they run from themselves into ruine voluntarily going on against mighty enemies without mine ayd Canaanites these are the Canaanites of the mountaines or the Amorites being different from the Canaanites which were by the sea coasts Num. 13. 31. and 21. 1. In the valley Beyond the hill where you now are Of the red sea Toward Egypt whereunto you had conspired to return V. 28 As you have spoken Namely desiring to die in the desert v. 2. V. 30 Doubtlesse ye shall not The Italian hath it if you doe come into A shortned kind of an oath To make you dwell Namely your Nation in generall V. 33 Wander The Italian hath it shall seed leading heards-mens lives without any firme habitation as the Arabians in the wildernesse Others wandring like sheep in the pastures Fourty untill the fourtieth yeare after the comming out of Egipt because that after this threatning untill they came into the land of Canaan there were but eight and thirty yeares Deut. 2. 14. Whoredome That is to say idolatries which are the spirituall fornications of the soule by a breach of faith to God wherein the people are taxed to have failed often in the wildernesse Num. 15 39 Deut. 32. 17. Amos 5. 25. Act 7. 43. V. 34 Each daie for a yeare The Italian Each year for a day See Ezech. 4. 6. My breach The Italian I will break A kind of humane speech that is to say I shew you that my promises made in generall to my people doe not belong to unbelievers and rebells but onely to them which observe the conditions of my covenant and towards them onely shal my promises never change nor alter V. 37 By the plague Of some strange suddaine and violent death sent supernaturally by the Lord some take it to be the plague it selfe V. 41 Transgresse For God had comanded them to turne their faces towards the red sea v. 25. V. 44 The Arke By which was to be guided every removall in this voyage See Num. 10. 33. V. 45 Hormah A place called by anticipations see Num. 21. 3. CHAP. XV. VERS 4. A Tenth deale called an Omer Exod. 16. 39. V. 15 Before the Lord in holy things belonging to my service there ought to bee no difference between the native Israelite and the Proselite or believing stranger and I will accept of and be propitious to the one as well as to the other V. 19. When yee Every year when harvest is ended you shall eat new corne V. 24 Of the congregation Lev. 4. 13. There is some diversity whereby it seemeth that either God hath here expounded and aggravated his Law to make the people more circumspect or that it is not spoken in both places of the same faults committed by ignorance But that in Levit. is spoken of common errors and faults and here of those onely which are committed in those actions which belong to Gods service V. 30. Ought that is unlawfull or wicked Presumptuously premeditately on porpose through boldnesse and arrogancy See Lev. 26. 21. Job 15. 26. Psa. 19. 13. or publikely and boldly as Exod. 14. 8. Cut off punished with death V. 31. Shall be Let the misdeed returne and the punishment remaine upon the sinner himselfe and let it not through connivence to him be imputed to all the people V. 33 The Congregation In this and the like places it should seem by the Congregation is

damnifie and deceive others V. 8. Of the villages A description of a high-way robber under which name are meant all violent and deceitfull men and their actions V. 9. Into his net into his traps and ambushes which hee hath laid for him V. 14. despight namely the malice and boldnesse of thine enemies in despighting thee to thy face or the injurie done to men with insulting over them V. 15 Seek out c. the Italian and then if thou seek out the wickednesse c. his meaning is these wicked men are incorrigible their malice will never have an end untillthey be rooted out therefore O Lord once rid the world of them V. 16. The heathen the Italian the nations that is to say the wicked and ungodly who are like heathens which have no God Or hee meaneth that God having rooted the accursed nations out of the land of Canaan had given a certaine signe and proofe that hee would suffer no wicked prophane people to be there V. 17. Of the humble or poore afflicted prepare the Italian establish namely by thy spirit with grace and strength to endure all assaults Others thou doest prepare namely them to call upon thee holily and righteously PSAL. XI VER 1. HOw say yee David speaketh to 〈◊〉 of Sauls courtiers who by violence or deceitfull speeches did seeke to send David far from the land of Iudah to free Saul from jelousie and doubts 1 Sam. 26. 19. Others take these words to bee touching some evill counsell of his friends wishing him to retire to his caves and rocks where hee was wont to lie and not come heere to Iudea which was Davids hearty desire V. 2. For loe it is true that I am in extreame dangers and that I can have no recourse to justice in this generall subversion of the state but yet upon the assurance of mine innocency I will have recourse to heaven and to Gods justice V. 3. The foundations that is to say all the state which ought to be founded upon piety and justice Psa. 75. 4. and 82. 5. Pro. 20. 28. and 29. 14. being subverted by the malice of mine enemies can the cause thereof bee imputed to mee guiltlesse man V. 4. His eye lids a manner of speech taken from those mens actions who being desimus to look upon a thing more fixedly doe winke with their eyes or close up one of them V. 5. His soule a humane kind of speech the meaning of which is he hateth them with all his heart V. 6. Shall reigne as in the destruction of Sodom Gen. 19. 24. snares the Italian embers others though not so well translate it snares the portion a similitude taken from banquets at which every one had his portion of meate and drink set out see Psa. 16. 5. and 75. 8. PSAL. XII THE title Sheminith see upon Psal. 6. in the title V. 4. Wee will wee will keep ourselves in favour with Saul and maintaine our greatnesse in his Kingdome by slandering of David and flattering of Saul For this Psalme seemeth to have a referrence ta those times which were infected with such plagues oùr lips our tongue is a meanes sufficient for to maintaine us which can neither be hindred nor taken away from us none hath any power thereon but only our selves V. 5. Puffeth at him the Italian against whom they speak boldly others from them that burst out in speeches against him namely through rage or contempt Psa. 10. 5. Others lay snares that is to say seek to entrap him with their courtly arts V. 6. The words namely the promises hee hath made mee to raise me to the Kingdome p●re from all falshood deceit and vanity which are the 〈…〉 rects of mens words for the Lords words are most true and most just V. 8. The wicked that is to say all manner of licentiousnesse and impunity reigneth when publick offices are enjoyed by unworthy and infamous persons such as Sauls officers were see Prov. 28. 12 18. and 29. 2. PSAL. XIII VER 2. TAke counsell that is to say advise how I shall doe to escape Or how long shall I be kept in care and troubles of the mind which daily troment mee V. 3. Lighten give mee the guide of thy spirit the joy and comfort of thy grace and re establish me by thy power least I sleep least I perish beyond all remedy like one that passeth immediately from sleep to death V. 6. Dea 〈…〉 bountifully hath given me the reward of mine innocency in this cause the wages of my paines and patience and the crown of glory for this combate PSAL. XIV VER 1. THe foole the sensuall and prophane man who is nor enlightened with the lively light of gods-Gods-spirit who through the malice of his heart puts out as far as in him lieth the naturall lights of knowledge and of conscience concerning God his providence law and judgement that hee may run headlong to all manner of evill hath said his understanding being darkned hee doubteth whether there be a God or no and in his rebellious and perverse will he endeavoureth to confirme that beleef in himselfe though atheisme can never find a perfect continuall assent in the heart of man and so works without any feare of God as though hee were fully persuaded thereunto see Rom. 1. 21. 28. 1 Cor. 15. 34. V. 2. The children namely all men in their corrupt nature having not the gift of regeneration see Gen. 4. 26. and 6. 2. yea and a great part of Gods own people which had gone astray while King Saul reigned though there were yet a holy remnant amongst them which are afterwards namely v. 4. opposed to the wicked and therefore are excepted out of this generality by Gods grace and seek namely that made God and his service and glory the only end of all their actions and that did seek to gaine the true and lively knowledge of him and to be in his favour to come at the last to a perfect union with him Acts. 17. 27. V. 3. They are all gone aside the Italian they are all spoiled the Hebrew word is taken from wines that are grown sower see Isa 1. 22. Hos. 4. 18. as the word that followeth is taken from meat that is grown rotten or stinking V. 4. My people by this word are oftentimes meant the poore and needy whose only protectoris God Exod. 22. 25. Mic. 2. 9. V. 5. There namely before God and his judgement contrary to the judgement of the world Psa. 2. 6. see Eccl. 3. 17. V. 7. Come out of Sion that I David comming to reigne in Ierusalem may free the people from Sauls tiranny and his wicked officers But especially that the great Saviour of the world whose type I am may come to be incarnate in Ierusalem to gaine everlasting salvation for his Church PSAL. XV. VER WHo shall abide that is to say who shall bee true member of thy Church never to be cast out of it and who shall enter into thine everlasting

34. 2. and 64. 10. V. 75. Right the Italian righteousnesse namely just severitie in punishing of mens sinnes and a loyall love towards thy children in correcting them by afflictions V. 77. Come unto me have pity upon me that I may be restored from my former calamities and by that meanes I may serve thee effectually according to my desire V. 78. Dealt perversly the Italian subvert me that is to say they strive to overthrow me V. 79. T●rne unto m 〈…〉 for to joyne with me who am the chiefe of the good side forsaking the wicked or to behold in me an example of thy grace to bee thereby comforted and strengthened ver 74. V. 81. Fa●teth through a fervent extream desire V. 83. Like a bottle withered scorched and black with extreame misery as Iob 30. 30. Lam. 5. 10. V. 84. The dayes namely of my evils and calamities as Psal. 39. 4. Or of my life and so the sense would be My life is of it selfe already so short and frail that I would desire thee to take pity upon me not suffer it to be oppressed by mine enemies V. 85. Have digged have laid snares A terme taken from hunters V. 86. All thy seeing that thy Law is just and righteous favouring innocency and contrary to wrong and injury defend me according to that from mine enemies which do unjustly oppresse me V. 88. Quicken me that is to say restore me to life or preserve me alive V. 89. In heaven that is to say before thee in thy minde and will though according to the chances and appearances of the world it seemes to suffer many changes lets and diminutions Or it sheweth it selfe to bee settled in the heavens by the being and order of them seeing that through the power of thy word they have lasted without any change ever since the creation V. 90. Thou hast the same is also to be● seene in the masse of this lower world V. 92. Unlesse thy law unlesse I had been strengthned and comforted by the most sweet meditation of thy word I had beene overcome by my calamities see Psal. 〈◊〉 13. V. 93. Quikened me restored rejoyced eased me V. 96. Is exceeding broad it doth last eternally in its strength and authority and also bringeth forth the fruit of life and everlasting blessing to them that keep it see Matth. 5. 19. and 24 35. V. 97. Meditation or that which I talk of V. 98. With me the Italian mine as they are rooted in my heart and are not as an outward law to mee to force my will by constraint but by an internall conformitie of all mine inward senses and motions see Jer. 31. 33. Rom. 6. 17. V. 104. Therefore namely because I have learned by thy law to judge uprightly or because I am possessed with true and sound wisedome I doe hate fraud which hath but a false outside V. 108. The freewill offerings the blessings and thanks which I yeeld unto thee with a willing heart for all thy blessings Psal. 50. 14. and 69. 30. 31. Hos. 13. 2. Heb. 13. 15. V. 109. In my hand the Italian in the palm of my hand that is to say I am in continuall dangers of death A Scripture phrase taken from them things which one carrieth in the palme of his hand which are subject and easie to fall or to be taken away see Iudg. 12. 3. Iob 13. 14. V. 111. An heritage namely my true soveraigne and peculiar good which I hold from thee as a child of thy grace V. 113. Vaine thoughts the Italian discourses namely vaine and deceitfull ones which ●avour of carnall wisedome contrary to the simplicity of faith and to that obedience which is due unto thee see Eccles. 7. 29. Rom. 1. 21. 1 Cor 3. 20. V. 115. I will that being ●r●ed from your disturbances persecutions I may peaceably attend upon Gods service or that you may give me no scandal V. 117. Have respect or will take pleasure in them Or will attend upon them V. 118. Their deceit namely their devices and wily councels in which they trust do deceive them at last not being able thereby to avoid thy judgement Or they are abominable unto thee because that in all their actions there is nothing but fraud and thou art the author and lover of truth V. 119. Like drosse which consumes away in the fining of metals Therefore namely to avoid these terrible punishments Or the more I behold the punishments which thou iuflictest upon the wicked the dearer is thy grace unto me which is revealed to me by thy word V. 122. Be surety a phrase taken from men who when they are sureties for a debter do free him ●ut of the hands of a cruell creditor The meaning is doe thou stand between me and mine oppressors to rescue me from them see Isa 38. 14. V. 123. Of thy righteousnesse which is most loyall and holy V. 126. It is time mens malice is grown to the heigth good men are put to the uttermost of their patience and Gods glory is abused beyond measure For they namely the worldly and wicked Made void taking away the honour and authority due to it through their wickednesse and rebellion V. 127. Therefore the more I see them violated by the wicked the more am I confirmed through holy love zeal against their scandals see Iob 17. 9. V. 129. Are wonderfull as well by reason of the mysteries of heavenly wisedome as also by reason of the promises of the everlasting happinesses to come Therefore as well by reason of the humble respect I beare to their divine substance as also by reason of my desire to enjoy those happinesses which are promised by them V. 130. The entrance though thy word doe abound in mysteries yet thou declarest and revealest them by thy spirit to thine elect who forsaking the sence of the flesh doe in all simplicity yeeld unto and believe what is taught them Matth. 11. 25. V. 131. I opened the action of those that runne after any thing or that are wondrous thirsty which setteth forth his zeale to Gods law V. 132. As thou usest to doe the Italian as it is ●itting to doe or according to thy custome to those c. V. 133. Order the Italian establish or direct Iniquity vice or evill inclination to sinne Rom. 6. 12. V. 144. And I shall live being guided by thy Spirit I shall beware of sinne and be afraid to quench that spirituall life which thou hast created within me but shall seek to increase it daily by practice V. 147. I prevented I have been the first that hath prayed unto thee Or I have come to meet thee and present my selfe unto thee V. 148. My eyes I have awaked of my selfe in the night before I have been called upon by the watch men who call in the night to tell folks the seasons or watches of the night V. 149. According to thy namely according to that rule by which thou dost proceed with thy children and

beene largely set downe by the other Evangelists is here left out by Saint Iohn Ve● 14. To wash that is to say to humble your selves to doe all deeds of Charity and the basest and most abject kinds of service to one another V. 18. Chosen not onely to the charge and calling of being Apostles but also to eternall life See Iohn 6. 70. and 15. ●1 6 19. But that the not that Iudas had any intention to fulfill that prophecie nor that he was by it forced to commit his misdeed but this is spoken simplie nor to free the Apostles from their amazement the deed having been foreseene and foretold Ver. 19. Yoe may beleeve yee may be confirmed in beleeving my God head by which I know the secrets of hearts and things to come And by this terrible accident be rather strengthened then shaken in your faith V. 20. Verily having stiled his Apostles Messengers or men sent ver 16. and having instructed them by his example to voluntary humilicy he now authorizeth and confirmeth them against the contempt which humility doth breed V. 21. Hee was troubled as much thorow the lively apprehension of the combates which hee was entring into as thorow indignation and horrour of Iudas his wickednesse V. 23. Was leaning according to the custome of those times in solemne feasts to take their foode lying along and leaning upon their elbow upon a great bed about the table so that the shoulders of one did meete with his next neighbours bosom their feete hanging out of the bed See upon Ezek. 23. 41. And that was specially observed in the Paschal Supper disfering from the first Passeover Exod. 12. 11. where every thing was to be done in hast to signifie the sodaine departure out of Aegypt instead of which afterwards God suffered by this diverse ceremony of eating the Passeover lying the people to have a signe of the peaceable enjoying which hee had granted them of the foresaid benefit Loved to whom according to his will and pleasure hee bore some more tender and intimate humane affection then to the rest Ver. 25 Saith unto him softly speaking in his eare as Christ also answered him V. 26. When bee had dipped in the second part of the Iewish Supper see upon v. 2. V. 27. After the sop Whether It were that seeing himselfe discovered by this act of the Lords hee did shake off all feare of God all curbe of conserence and all respect of men to give himselfe in prey to the Devills instigations by whom he was already troubled ver 2. Or whither the Sonne of God by his supreame power did absolutely give him over into the hands of the Devill taking away from him all manner of stay of his spirit by which he had until that time stayed him Doe quickly that is to say the time of fulfilling thy malice is come I doe represse it no longer as I have heretofore done run now with the reines loose Words not of exhorcation but of a wrathfull grant and abandoning V. 30. Immediately because the sop was given to Iudas in the second part of the Paschall Supper we may gather from hence that hee did not communicate of our Saviours Sacrament V. 31. Now is the I am now entring into my last combates in the victory of which shall appeare the strength of my deity and righteousnesse and so my Fathers glory shall bee fully manifested in the work of Redemption by me his Son which being accomplished he will give me a glorious reward for it in his Kingdome V. 32. In himselfe not with any forraign worldly glory but with his own proper glory to the fruition of which the Sonne of Gods humanitie hath also beene raised by the glorious power of God Rom. 6. 4. 2 Cor. 13. 4. V. 33. As I said Not to exclude his Disciples out of the Kingdome of Heaven as the unbelieving Iewes but only to shew that their entrance was yet put off for a time v. 36. V. 34. A new that is to say a renewed one and re-established into its originall sence by my word and into its efficacy by my spirit And a spirituall and internall Law diverse from ancient Ceremonies CHAP. XIV VER 1. YEE beleeve or beleeve yee the meaning is As in my Father you have all the arguments and grounds of confidence in respect of his power so you have them also in me in respect of the righteousnesse and satisfaction and of your reconciliation with him and of all the worke of Grace and the accomplishment whereof is in mee which are the two objects and foundations of true faith V. 2. In my Fathers that is to say the Kingdome of Heaven is not for me alone but for all beleevers likewise It is a house wherein there is room for many children Heb. 2. 10. I goe I shall shortly die to the end that by my satisfaction I may obtaine you right to life everlasting and then I will rise againe and enter into glory to make intercession for you for ever for to bring you into it actually See Ephes. 2. 6. Heb. 9. 11 12 24 and 10 19 20. V. 3. Receive you Namely my whole Church which you represent V. 4. Yee know I have told you so often and so plainely that you must needs know it The way Namely the true and onely meanes for to attaine unto it V. 6. I am in mee is the onely meanes to get that life and that glory which I my selfe goe unto I doe give the most assured Declaration and direction by my word and by my spirit I doe conferre that life upon men and the power to hold and follow that secure way unto the end Or I am the way in mine owne person the truth in my doctrine and the life in my spirit V. 7. From henceforth if the fault lie not in you you may sufficiently know it in me and by me considering my person my workes and my doctrine which teach you what is needfull to bee knowne of the Father to salvation Namely what he is in himselfe and especially what he will be towards you V. 8. Shew us doe not lead us so far about but reveale unto us fully at once the heavenly Father and that life light and glory which is hidden with him V. 9. Hast thou not Seeing that being as yet earnall as thou art thou hast not beene able to comprehend those mysteries which I have revealed unto thee proportioning them to thy capacitie how wouldest thou be able to comprehend that infinitenesse of glory Content thy selfe at this time with the revelation which the Father makes of himselfe in me so much is sufficient for thee to salvation Hath seene me that hath known me by faith and by the lively light of the spirit V. 10. The words God sheweth himselfe present in my doctrine and in my workes of which he 〈◊〉 the first spring and Author That dwelleth who is inseparably united with me and that doth work continually in me and by me Verse 11.

Are justified namely that pretend and believe to be partly justified before God by the Law Fromgrace from Gods grace which before you made profession of accepting in Christ. V. 5. For we that is to say you separate your selves from Christ withdrawing your selves from the common meaning and belief of the Church whose whole hope is to be absolved at the last judgement and enter into everlasting life by the meanes of One onely Jesus Christ. Through the spirit namely taught and inspired by the holy Ghost or following the spirituall meanes which the Gospell propounds in Christ and in his Spirit and not the carnall and elementall ones of the ceremonies of the Law Heb. 9. 10. V. 6. Which worketh namely which is a true and lively faith and sheweth it selfe to be such by the fruits of a new life comprehended under the love of God and of ones neighbour Rom. 13. 8. of which faith is the root because it joyning a man with Christ drawes his Spirit from him and tha● Spirit is the soveraigne cause of all good workes See Iohn 15. 4 5. Iam. 2. 17 26. V. 7. Did run you were in a good way of faith and were gone happily forward towards the marke of your heavenly calling See Phil. 3. 14. V. 8. Of him namely of God V. 9. Leaven that is to say a little false doctrine Matth. 16. 12. doth easily corrupt the good minde of a man in the rest or a small number of heretickes may infect the whole Church V 10. Through the Lord namely through his grace and power No otherwise than I have at other times taught you and now confirmed unto you in this Epistle V. 11. And I for a personall proof of this truth consider that if I would retain the Mosaicall ceremonies I might avoid the persecutions of my nation which are raised against me onely for that cause and therefore seeing I do refuse to do it you may conclude that my conscience which may serve for example and rule to your consciences doth not consent to it See 1 Cor. 15. 30. The offence namely the occasion of the persecutions which do so much offend and alienate the world from the Gospell is cut off seeing they are at this time stirred up onely by the Jewes through a false zeal to their ceremonies see Gal. 6. 12. Phil. 3. 18. V. 12. Cut off wholly separated and banished out of the communion of the Church in the bodie of which they are like unto so many plagues and cankers V. 13. For brethren the reason of this my desire is because that they remaining amongst you disguised in sheepes clothing do hinder the course of your vocation burthening you with the observances of such things as are contrary to Euangelicall libertie by which the holy Ghost carrieth Believers couragiously on to their supernall end To the flesh namely licentiously to satisfie your fleshly and vicious appetites under pretence that those ancient forbidding Lawes are disannulled By love the Italian for charitie have a care you do not offend the weak brethren in indifferent things using your libertie undiscreetly and unbridledly Rom. 14. 13 15 20. 1 Cor. 6. 12. and 8. 9. and 10. 24 32. V. 14 The Law from which though Christ have taken away the power of judging the faithfull before God yet it is left unto them for a perpetuall rule of true obedience and conformitie to the will of God their father V. 15. Ye bite he hath a relation to the controversies which were bred amongst Christians concerning the Jewish ceremonies maintained with great instance by some and by other some violently rejected Rom. 14. 13 1 Tim. 1. 4. and 6. 4 5. 2 Tim. 2. 25. Ti● 3. 9. One of another namely that in stead of receiving the Jewish ceremonies for fear of being persecuted by the Jewes you do not upon the same occasion ruine one another without any persecution V. 16. Walke in Order your whole life and actions according to the instructions and motions of the holy Ghost as well in the spirituall forme of Religion which is proper to the Gospell as in holinesse of life Not fulfill that is to say withstand the reliques of the old man and the naturall cor 〈…〉 tion which yet remaineth in you Rom. 7. 18. 〈◊〉 3. V. 17. Tor the he gives a reason for what he had said that following the spirit one ought to renounce the flesh namely because they are two beginnings and motions which are directly contrary in their qualities and actions So that ye the Italian that you may not do whatsoever you will I speak this concerning the strife between the flesh and the spirit which is in every believer to the end that under pretence of Euangelicall libertie or of the presence of the spirit you do not take leave to do whatsoever you please seeing that there may be some motion of the flesh therein which is contrary to the motion of Gods Spirit It may also be translated so that you do not the things that you would as much as to say so that you are hindered from doing good in that perfection as you desire Romans 7. 15 19. V. 18. Under the Law namely under the servile and scrupulous pedagogie of the ceremoniall Law nor yet under the morall Law which doth severely command and inexorably condemne but under that milde and most effectuall conduct of the holy Ghost working in you V. 20. Heresies the Italian Sects or heresies which are also effects of the corruption of sin as well in the affected ignorance of the understanding as in the perversenesse of the will fixed upon its own opinions lover of singularities and vainglorie rebellious against the truth failing in charitie c. V. 23. Against such the Italian against such things that is to say the Law of God that is so harsh and terrible to all men that are in the state of sin is not so to Gods children who do no more fight against it of pure malice nor are not fought against by the curse of it but do voluntarily submit themselves to it and it through the spirit of grace becomes to them a milde mistresse of their actions and guide of their life and is no longer an inexorable forme of judgement against their persons V. 24. And they though the root of the foresaid vices be also in believers and in the members of Christ yet by his spirit Rom. 8. 13. and by imitating his crosse Rom. 6. 6 they mortifie it suppresse the endeavours and smother the effects of it Rom. 6. 12. V. 25. In the spirit being by it regenerated into a new life V. 26. Provoking spighting and purposely doing acts of offence and prouocation against other men CHAP. VI V erse 1. OVertaken that is to say discovered to be guilty or have runne into it inconsiderately and not out of any deliberate malice Ye which are namely the bodie of believers in whom the worke of the holy Ghost remaineth safe without being spoiled or spotted by any grievous