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A14284	A plaine and perfect method, for the easie vnderstanding of the whole Bible containing seauen obseruations, dialoguewise, betweene the parishioner, and the pastor.; Plaine and perfect method, for understanding the Bible	Vaughan, Edward, preacher at St. Mary Woolnoth.	1617 (1617)	STC 24600; ESTC S102671	80,065	286

all knowledge all power all mercy euen that is my name Par. What is the Word or second person in Trinitie Past Hée is the onely naturall Sonne of the most high and eternall God his Father his Word his Image and Character coessentiall and coequall with the Father and the holy Ghost Hée is said to be the Sonne of God in regard of his Godhead and not in regard of his manhood Par. Now let me intreate you to speake of his humanitie Past This diuine nature tooke vpon himselfe a reasonable soule and an humane body of a virgin and was made flesh as of the séed of Dauid and of the roote of Iesse The Godhead in no case can be said to haue any conuersion into the flesh neyther the Godhead to stand in stead of the soule no more then that he could be turned into sinne After his glorious resurrection these two natures to wit his Diuinitie and his Humanitie continued still distinct in substance and properties and euer continued one and the same And yet it is to be granted that there was great necessitie of the Godhead in his humane action or suffering that by the vertue thereof hée might ouercome all sufferings yea Death and the Diuel In the holy vnion or coniunction of these two natures we are to take them inseparably euen ●ince the moment or point of time in which the holy Virgin conceiued being made as one person Par. What vse haue wee of these two natures in one person Past It declareth the obedience of Christ performed in the manhood with innarrable wisedome and surpassing faithfulnesse In his wisedome he was able to deliuer vnto vs the whole will of his Father and in his faithfulnesse he concealed nothing As the Phoenix in her hot nest at Arabia is burned to ashes and yet saith I liue still and old age dyeth in me euen so Christ though being in his graue like one dead yet dyeth not but mortalitie dyeth in him for the good of all men Par. What be the parts of Christs mediation Past It consisteth principally of two parts to wit his Priesthood and his Kingdome His Priesthood stands in teaching and in doing he is a Prophet Doctor and Apostle for that he plainely teacheth the will of his father and saith I call you no more seruants because they know not what their maister doth but I call you friends Christ taught by Prophets by Apostles and by Euangelists and himselfe taught by farre greater authoritie then euer did any before or after The priesthood of Christ and the priesthood of Aron being compared wée shall therein finde two necessary parts to be considered One is what manner one he ought to be that entreth into this Office The other how it ought to be executed The manner or qualitie of him that entreth is two-fold to wit well qualified with gifts within and well called without He is to vs sanctification that is fréedome from the tyrannie of sinne the effects of righteousnesse and sanctification goe alwaies together For immediately so soone as man is partaker of Christs righteousnesse he is also possessed with the spirit of sanctification which worketh mortification and viuification P. what is the third persō in Trinity Past He is said to be the holy Ghost to wit a diuine innarrable maiestie procéeding from the father and the son who in respect of his diuers operations workings and effects is called by diuers effectuall names which being considered in their natures they doe clearly enlarge his gifts and graces towards the Church It is sometimes called Fire Oyle Wine Water Doue Cloude Winde Spirit Earnest pēny Comforter God Par. What religion had these the other holy fathers before recited betwixt the Creation the Flood Past The law of nature Gen. 11. They had the Law of Nature which was a rule of reason or an hidden iustice inforcing to doe well It was indéede the sum and effect of Gods diuine law which was most liuely expressed in the names of those ten holy Fathers who being linked together makes vp a Christian Sacrifice or an holy summe of true religion As he is not rightly reckoned a man that wants reason so hée was not then rightly reckoned to be of God that wanted this religious rule Saint Paul said as the eternall power and godhead by the creation of the world maketh all wicked men without excuse though they had no law euen so men knowing the end of their creation by the law of nature are without excuse if they doe euil though they were blinde and saw not the creation The Gentiles said hée that had not the Law written did by nature the things contained in the Law they hauing not the law written were a law vnto themselues euen so the people of the old world and others that sinned before the Law perished euerlastingly as those which afterwards perished vnder the law Rom. 7.23 Saint Paul cals the Law of nature the Law of the minde shewing thereby that as the minde is such an effectuall power of the Soule as maketh all other faculties thereof and of the bodie to plyable and without tediousnesse to performe matters beyond ordinary strength euen so by the law being spirituall he was vrged to the performance of all other matters and lawes which were literall beyond all ordinary strength And as a line Diameter-wise in a Geometricall figure doth equally diuide one side from another euen so this Law naturall diuideth equally that which is Gods to God and that which is mans to man Nightingales are said to contend in singing that they die in their contention happy say I is he that so contends with the law of his minde against the law of his members for so to die is indéede to liue The East gate of Sala Temple was alwaies shut and neuer opened because the Lord God of hosts once entred by it and as into the windowes of Noahs Arke nothing entred but light euen so the minde of man wherein the law of God hath once entred must alwaies be shut against prophane inclinations and euer opened to diuine contemplations Par. Who were enemies in those times and who I pray you were they that priuately or publikely opposed themselues against this Law and the professors thereof Past These were open and knowne enemies to wit the Diuell Caine. Lamech From whom issued that wicked sort of people who so highly displeased God that he repented him of the good he had done to mankinde Par. What is there to be said concerning the Diuell Past The Angels séeing the excellencie of their creation day by day and perceiuing that they and all creatures else were made but as seruants to Adam they presently vpon his creation murmured and not being content God threw them into euerlasting darknesse The head of these euill spirits was Lucifer As he was more cleare and brighter then other Angels so hée fell into a more filthy Apostacie Hée was not euill by kinde but of his own aduisement

spake in olde ●ime as they were moued by the holy Ghost by meanes of which Spirit Moses was able to set downe as is specified in the said booke all that was spoken and done 2400. yeares before he was borne and of all things else most profoundly that should befall the children of Israell many hundred yeares after he was buryed yea most directly of things that should be performed vntill the birth of Christ The Prophets likewise doe testifie that they spake nothing of themselues concerning things to come but as the Lord by his Spirit did informe them which they vttered in these words Thus saith the Lord. The foure Euangelists in like manner disposing themselues seuerally to yéeld famous and renowmed testimony of Christ Iesus the holy Messiah they so agréed in their writings though many yeares and many miles sundred them as that their Gospels being compared together they al agrée for matter of waight and substance as if they had béen personally present the one with the other at one time And S. Paul writing his Epistles alwayes confessed that he deliuered them nothing for matter of doctrine and life more then that which was taught him and that which hée had receiued from the Lords owne hand directly All which manner of writing and forme of spéech plainely publisheth to all ages for euer the truth and dignitie of Gods word the plainnesse thereof to some and the profunditie therof to others Par. Now it remaineth by order to expostulate vpon the Creation which you said is one of the chiefest and most memorable matters in the first Obseruation tell me therefore what did God create the first day Past God made all things excéeding good euen out of that which was then without any preiacent matter or out of nothing and that not all together which he might well haue done but as it were by degrées day by nay night after night vpon diuine deliberation The very title or name giuen to this book imports in effect this wonderfull worke or creation of almightie God whence it is called Genesis that is to say a begetting generation or creation And the first day he created that stately Element of Fire which he gathered out of the whole masse setting it in the heauens as a glorious Globe whence it is said he made Light which indéede is nothing else but a qualitie of Fire in which wonderfull worke hée brought light out of darknesse as an Element impugning the former In this day hee created those celestiall Spirits which are called Angels Par. What was the second work Past The second dayes worke was that liuely Element of the ayre or firmament or as I may say more properly that vaste or void place betwixt the earth and the clouds which made a separation betwixt water and water and which giues breath and life to all liuing things The third day he made the Element of water which hée caused to retire into more proper places which fitly according to the qualitie thereof was called the Seas to wit a gathering together of waters The fourth Element of Earth which according to the qualitie thereof was called Dry land was also made and so continueth as vpon a firme foundation The generall creation of compound bodies were ordained for the inhabitants of this great element Earth In this general earthly creation his Maiestie goeth forward as from things that were vnperfect to that which was perfecter till at last he came to the most perfect as from trées hearbs and plants which haue onely life whereby they grow and increase vnto beasts which haue an increasing and a sensitiue life and from thence to Adam who hath a reasonable life with the increasing and sensitiue which Element of Earth his diuine Maiestie stored with all kinde of commodities méete for the vse of mankinde to be and to remaine for euer This order of Creation vpon a sodaine view may seeme strange to wit that God made corne grasse trées hearbes and such like to grow and to haue their being before celestiall bodies as the Sunne the Moone and Starres whence corne grasse and such like haue their growth and influence But being rightly and aduisedly considered the Almighty Creator shewes that increase propagation preseruation of all things consists onely in him and by him and not from the vertue of celestiall creatures as men haue imagined and spoken The fourth day God made lights the Sunne to rule the day the Moone and the Starres to gouerne the night both which are very great that they might the better giue light to the darke earth being so farre from the heauens These two great ornaments in the heauens doe distinguish betwixt day and night the moneth from the yeare one moneth from another and summer from winter The first day and night hée created in the night fishes in the day birds Fishes were compounded of the foure elements especially of the element of water whence it commeth that they liue in the waters Birds were made of all foure elements but especially of the ayre whence it comes that they take pleasure in the ayre The sixt day and night he made all sorts of beasts some to goe and some to créepe some wilde some tame God then made man in both kindes plurally to wit male and female and yet of single bodies the better to helpe one another and therefore said It is not good for man to be alone I will make him an helper like vnto himselfe He was made after all other creatures that hée might in the beholding thereof laud and magnifie his Creator The whole Trinitie deliberated and consulted concerning him which he did not concerning any other creature The seauenth day God dedicated by his owne rest and ceasing from labour for an euerlasting rest amongst all posterities For when heauen and earth was finished and furnished God said Behold I haue made all things and loe they are exceeding good Hée blessed that day he hallowed it and sanctified it to his owne honour and glory and to the commemoration of the eternall ioy peace and comfort of Adam who was fallen and risen againe in Christ Iesus Adam rested and sanctified that very next and first Sabaoth with inuocations and offerings c. Par. Seeing that God made all things so deliberately and as hee said exceeding good why did hee afterward destroy them with the inundations of waters Past Almighty God saw that the wickednes of man was great on earth and all the imaginations of his heart was euill continually the sonnes of God marryed with the daughters of men onely because they were faire and it repented the Lord that hée had made man therefore he said I will destroy man from the face of the earth Par. What say you of our first father Adam and of his originall Past Adam was made or created in the sixt day being Friday before the Iewish Sabaoth Par. What was that breath which God infused into Adam Past It was an immortall an inuisible and an Angelicall or

into Egypt in the time of famine Gen. 17.17 21.5.25.20 47.9 when he was iust 130 years Iacob and his séede continued there 115. years Lay all together and it ariseth as I said before to 505. yeares The age of the fourth Obseruation Par. Now set me downe the continuance of the fourth Obseruation to wit from the going of Israel out of Egypt to the building of the Temple Past It ariseth to 480. yeares which is to be seene by the yeares wherein these religious men ruled and gouerned the people of Israel from their deliuerance out of Egypt to Saul the first king who were in number 17.   Rulers Years Chap. Vers 1 Moses 40 Deut. 1.3.29.5 2 Iosua 40 3 Othoniel Iudg. 3.2 4 Ehud and Shamgar 80 3.20 5 Deborah Barak 40 5.3 1. 6 Gedeon 40 8.28 7 Abimeleck 3 9.22 8 Tola 23 10.2 9 Iair 22 10 3. 10 Iephthe 6 10.7 11 Abesin 7 12.7 12 Elon 10 12.8 13 Abden 8 12.11 14 Samson 20 12.13 15 Eli 40 1 Sam. 4.18 16 Samuel 14 17 Saul 1 K. 12.11 Hereunto you must adde 18. yeares to Iudge Eglons oppression You must adde the Medianites oppression full seauen yeares You must adde also to the Philistins oppression 18. yeares and you must adde hereunto three yeares of King Salomon Now cast the whole and you shall finde my reckoning according as I said 480. The Age of the fift Obseruation Par. How many yeares were there betweene the building of the Temple and the captiuitie which is the fift Obseruation Past You shall finde the account to be 432. yeares which I finde by the seuerall yeares of the raigne of the Kings of Iudah in Ierusalem Kings Yeares Chapters Salomon 37 2 Cro. 9.30 Rehoboam 17 2 Cro. 12.13 Abias 3 1 King 15.2 Asa 41 2 King 9.10 Iahosaphat 25 2 Cro. 20.31 Iehoram 8 2 Cro. 21. ● Ochosias 1 2 King 8.26 Athalia 7 2 King 11.1 Ioash 40 2 King 14.2 Amaziah 29 2 King 15.2 Azariah 52 2 Kin. 15.33 Ioathan 16 2 King 16.2 Ahaz 16 2 King 18.2 Ezechias 29 2 King 21.1 Manasses 55 2 Kin. 21.19 Ammon 2 2 Kin. 22.1 Iosias 31 2 Kin. 23.31 Ioachas 3 Mont. 2 Kin. 23.36 Ioachim 3. Mont. 2 King 24.8 Zedechias 11 2 Kin. 24.18 Now make your Addition your selfe and you shall finde 432. yeares as I said The Age of the sixt Obseruation Par Declare vnto me the continuance or time of the captiuitie in Babilon which is your sixt Obseruation Past From the beginning of the captiuitie in Babilon Ier. 25.13.29.10 Deu. 9.2 2 Cro. 36.21 vnto the end thereof are 70. yeares according as it was foretold many yeares before by Ieremy the Prophet The truth hereof in experience fals out by the raigne of thrée kings or Monarches vnder whom they were captiuated for that time Nabucadnezer 45. yeares Euilmeredech 30. Baltashar 3. The odde yeares are inuolued in Zedechias raigne and Nabucadnezers before the second Captiuitie The Age of the seauenth Obseruation Par. There remaineth for you to set downe the age or continuance of the seauenth and last Obseruation to wit from the end of the captiuitie vnto Christs most sacred incarnation Past The sum thereof rightly reckoned ariseth to 590. yeares after this manner There was thrée goings forth of the people from Babilon The first was vpon the proclamation made by Cirus King of Persia who enioyed the Crowne of Babilon from which time vnto Artaxerxes Long-hand was 115. yeares euen then Daniels seauen seauenties or seauenty wéekes began which by the Romane computation is 490. yeares But by the Hebrewes computation reckoning by the moone it is but 475. years which 115. yeares 475. yeares amounteth iust to 590. yeares vnto Christs incarnation as I said before Par. I desire to know what memorable matter or stories of speciall account are in euery of those seauen Obseruations hauing Analogie reference and coherence with other places of Scripture The matter principall in the first Obseruation Pastor THe first Obseruation comprehends one most famous and renowmed story or memorable matter to wit Creation The matter principall vpon the second Obseruation Par. What stories or memorable matter doth the second Obseruation containe Past It comprehends two stories the one concerning the Floud other the building of Babell The matter principall vpon the third Obseruation Par. What doth the third Obseruation containe Past It containes eight memorable matters of story 1 the story of the ten holy Fathers 2 promise to Abraham 3 ●urning of Zodome 4 birth of Isaac 5 Iacob and his 12. sons 6 Ioseph 7 Pharaoh 8 Moses The matter principall vpon the fourth Obseruation Par. What is there comprised in the fourth Obseruation Past It containes ten most memorable stories and matters of waight 1 the story of the Passeouer 2 Israelits enlargement 3 Pharaoh 4 Israels peregrination 5 Iosuah 6 Iudges 7 Samuel 8 Saul 9 Dauid 10 Salomon The matter principall vpon the fift Obseruation Par. What doth the fift Obseruation containe Past It containes foure speciall stories 1 the story of the Kings of Iudah with their prophets 2 Kings of Israell 3 Captiuity of Iudah with their prophets 4 Captiuity of Israel The matter principall vpon the sixt Obseruation Par. What comprehends the sixt Obseruation Past It comprehends the state of the Church vnder foure sorts of tyrannicall gouernment 1 the story of Nabuchad Euilmeredech and Baltashar 2 Cyrus and Darius the Persians 3 Alexander the Grecian 4 Kings of Syria and Egypt The matter principall vpon the seauenth story The seauenth Obseruation comprehends the state of the Church from Artaxerxes Long-hand vnto the reedifying of the Temple thence vnto Christs incarnation Par. Wee will now returne to the particular consideration of euery Obseruation and of the stories recited in them The first particular of the first Obseruation concerning the Creation Parishioner TEll me I pray you before wee enter farther who wrote the Booke of Genesis Past Moses was the writer thereof and of the other foure Bookes next adioyning Par. When did he write the same Past When hée was full forty yeares old neare about the time that God made him Lord-Generall of his people Israel 2414. yeares after the Creation Par. How was it possible for him to write such a large discourse of things done so many hundred yeares before he was borne so truely so particularly and so substantially as if hee had seene all with his eyes and heard it with his eares Past Indéed as you say reasoning with flesh and bloud it was impossible but he was specially most highly in the fauour of God who by the motions stirrings and instinctions of his diuine Spirit did write the same with which Spirit all other Scriptures were written according as it is said 1 Cor. 2.14.15 2 Tim. 3.16.17 2 Pet 1.20 1 Cor. 1.25.26 No Prophesie or foretelling came of any priuate or publike mans motion it came not in olde time by the will of man but by the will of GOD. Holy men of God