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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38007	A farther enquiry into several remarkable texts of the Old and New Testament which contain some difficulty in them with a probable resolution of them / by John Edwards ...	Edwards, John, 1637-1716.	1692 (1692)	Wing E206; ESTC R37315	201,474	386

which were commanded to be put into the High Priests Breast-plate that these Sacred Characters which were written at first with Gods own hand it is probable as the Moral Law was represent unto us something that is Spiritual and Mystical First then These relate to the High Priest and the Holy Function of the Ministry Those who are appointed to this Office are the Lights of the World And they must be as it was said of Iohn the Baptist Burning and Shining † 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 uro luceo Lights They must with Zeal Inform and Instruct the People they must Enlighten and at the same time Warm Mens Minds And the Thummim must be the individual Companion of Vrim i. e. They must be Men of Integrity and Vprightness Faithfulness and Sincerity which are also called Truth and so the Translation of the Seventy is very Agreeable who render Thummim Truth The short is That those who are employ'd in the Sacred Ministry must speak as the Oracles of God 1 Pet. 4. 11. They must deliver Gods Word Plainly Impartially Faithfully Truly and they must add Integrity of Life and Manners which make them in some measure Perfect Secondly These words relate to the Law of God which is so often called a Light Thy word saith the Psalmist is a Lamp to my feet and a Light unto my path Psal. 119. 105. The Commandment is a Lamp and the Law is Light saith Solomon Prov. 6. 23. Therefore it is said The Commandment of the Lord enlightens the Eyes Psal. 19. 8. And in Psal. 119. 130. It giveth Light The same Inspired Person tells us That the Law of the Lord is Perfect Psal. 19. 7. And it is This Divine Law which the Psalmist calls the Truth Psal. 119. 142. So that you see the Urim and Thummim may relate to This. Yea as they refer to this Law or Will of God the Revelation of it may be signified by Light and the Effecting and Accomplishing of it may be signified by Perfection Thirdly They have respect to a Higher Matter they represent and set forth Christ Iesus our High Priest He is the True Light which lighteth every Man that cometh into the World John 1. 9. and therefore he calls himself The Light of the World John 8. 12. When this arose the Shadows fled away Darkness and Night vanished and all became Clear and Bright This Sacred Oracle which was represented by That in Aaron's Pectoral did not speak Ambiguously but Plainly and Distinctly we are by it taught what we must believe and what we must do He is Truth it self as well as Light he is of such Faithfulness and Integrity that he will not deceive us In this Infallible Oracle Doctrin and Truth Light and Integrity Illumination and Perfection meet together The Jewish Vrim and Thummim were lost at the Captivity of Babylon and wanting at the Peoples Return Ezra 2. 63. neither do we find that God answered by them any more But Christ the Word is a Never●failing Oracle and shall indure for ever In him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily And we also are compleat in him who is the head Col. 2. 9 10. Thus the Vrim and Thummim were a Type of our Lord Iesus Christ the Great High Priest who is truly our Light and our Perfection You see then how Significant these Two Words are and by consequence how worthy they were to be written by the Finger of God himself and placed on the High Priest's Heart It was impossible to couch more in two single words than you see is here comprehended Whence we may conclude That the Writing or Ingraving of these was all that Moses here meant and consequently that those Writers have mistaken the Text who have imagined that some Precious Stones or Images or some such things were put into the High Priest Pectoral and that they are here called Urim and Thummim Thus I have given you an Account of the Different Opinions of the Learned concerning this Extraordinary way of Revelation stiled Urim and Thummim And I have presented you with my Own Thoughts which as I conceive are the most plain natural and simple account of this Divine Oracle I have likewise indeavoured to inform you what was the Higher and Spiritual Meaning intended by the Holy Ghost The third Text enquired into viz. Judges XI 30 31. And Jephthah vowed a Vow unto the Lord and said If thou shalt without fail deliver the Children of Ammon into my hands Then it shall be that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my House to meet me when I return in Peace from the Children of Ammon shall surely be the Lord's and I will offer it up for a Burnt-offering THis Remarkable Vow of Iephthah and the Manner of the performing of it have frequently employed the Thoughts and Pens of the Learned who according to their different Apprehensions of the Words have decided this Controversie in a different manner Some confidently assert that Iephthah did not Sacrifice his Daughter but others on the contrary maintain that he did And besides this there is another Question on supposal that he did Sacrifice her viz. Whether it was well done of him or no These are the Particulars which will fall under our Enquiry at present but especially I shall entertain the Reader with the latter of them and there endeavour to shew what was the Rise of this Inhumane and Extravagant Action and what Reason may be given why this Generous Commander this Noble Warrior was so eager of shedding the Blood even of his own Daughter yea when it was so absolutely contrary to the Law which this Great Man could scarcely be ignorant of Here I hope to give some light to this Controverted Cause by assigning the True Spring of that Strange Action and by discovering what was the Over-ruling Design of Providence in it which hath not been enquired into by others that I have met with on this Subject But first Let us hear what those say who embrace the Negative viz. That Iephthah did not Sacrifice his Daughter To make this good they hold that there are two distinct parts of the Vow 1. Whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my House to meet me shall surely be the Lords 2. I will offer it up for a Burnt-offering And they put them together thus Whatsoever cometh c. shall surely be the Lords or I will offer it up c. They read Or instead of And for the Copulative Vau they say is sometimes Disjunctive in Scripture and so it is here in this Vow the Hebrew Particle which is here translated and should be rendred or for Iephtha's words are to be taken Disjunctively and his Vow was no other than this Whatever I first meet with coming out of my House shall either be dedicated to the Lord or I will Sacrifice it for a Burnt-offering It was a Conditional Vow i. e. If it were a thing fit to be Sacrificed he would Sacrifice

Jephthah vowed a Vow unto the Lord and said If thou shalt c. P. 81 Dan. 9. 24 25. Seventy Weeks are determined upon thy People and upon thy holy City c. P. 113 Matt. 27. 5. Judas departed and went and hanged himself Compared with Acts 1. 18. P. 141 1 Cor. 16. 22. If any Man love not the Lord Iesus Christ let him be Anathema Maran-atha P. 169 Col. 2. 8. Beware lest any man spoil you through Philosophy and vain deceit c. P. 193 To which is added A Discourse on 1 Iohn 3. 8. wherein is shewed what are the works of the Devil P. 285 AN ENQUIRY INTO Several Remarkable TEXTS OF THE Old and New Testament c. The first Text Enquired into viz. Gen. XLIX 10. The Scepter shall not depart from Judah nor a Law-giver from between his feet until Shiloh come I Begin with this Famous Prophesie concerning the Time of our Blessed Saviour's coming into the World And my Design is briefly to represent the general Glosses of the Learned upon this Verse with short Reflection's on some of them but more especially to choose out such an Interpretation of the word Shiloh the celebrated Title of the Messias as I conceive to be most genuine and proper which I will somewhat largely insist upon by shewing the great Agreeableness and Reasonableness of it and consequently the Preference of it to all other Interpretations This noble Prediction is no other than the remarkable words of the Patriarch Iacob Blessing his Children and among the rest his Son Iudah a little before his Death He intimates that the Primogeniture and with it the Ruling Power was taken from Reuben when he saith of him He shall not excel v. 4. And from Reuben this Dominion is transferred to Iudah for it is said His Fathers Children of whom Reuben was the chief of them shall bow down before him v. 8. i. e. The Kingdom and Government shall commence here and so remain among the Jews many Generations even until a certain Period appointed by God viz. The Arrival of the Messias who is here called Shiloh Till that time the Jewish Government and Polity shall be kept up The Scepter shall not depart But upon the coming of the Messias who is Christ their Ruling Power shall cease their State and Government shall be abolished and in a little time after there shall be no Footsteps left of their Kingdom and Dominion Let us take this Prophesie asunder and Comment on the several words and then set them together again and shew you how signal a Proof they are of Christ's being come First The Hebrew word which we translate the Scepter hath different significations and accordingly is sometimes rendred a * Lev. 27. 32. Ps. 2. 9. Rod or Staff sometimes a † Ps. 31. 13. Stroke Plague or Punishment and at other times a * Iudges 5. 14. Quill or Pen to write with I meet with no Exposito●s that think any of these to be the Acception of the word in this place But there are two other Acceptions which bid fair for it The word sometimes signifies a Tribe and that in this Chapter v. 28. and the reason why the same word signifies a Rod and a Tribe may be because the Tribes of Israel were distinguished by Rods or Wands Num. 17. 2 3. Accordingly Iulius and Tremellius render this place thus The Tribe shall not depart from Judah And they make the Sense of the whole Text to be this Iudah shall not cease to be a Tribe till the coming of Christ but then it shall And so indeed it did for when Christ came and was rejected by the Jews the Romans by Gods just Judgment scattered them abroad and the Tribe of Iudah could not be distinguished from the other Tribes This Interpretation confirms the Truth of this Prophesie and sufficiently baffles and confounds the Jews But there is yet behind another more eminent Acception of the word for you will find that it often signifies a Scepter And that the same word which before signified a Rod should also denote a Scepter is not to be wondred at because a Rod or Staff was the Ancient Ensign of Royalty and Dominion Amos 1. 5. This was born by Kings as a Badge of their Power and Authority By the Scepter then is meant here Kingly Power and Authority or the Supreme Government of what Name or Form soever This signification of the word in this place is owned and approved of by the Iewish Doctors and Rabbins themselves and the three Targums agree in it and it is acknowledged and allowed of by the Ancient Greek Versions of the Seventy who render it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Prince or Governor This Prince or Governor this Government or Scepter shall not depart which are the next words i. e. There shall be a continual Succession of Kings and Rulers the Civil Power and Polity shall constantly remain these shall not be removed shall not wholly be destroyed they may for a time be clouded and eclipsed they may be interrupted for a while but there shall not be a Final and Total Cessation of them The Scepter shall not quite depart it shall * Non auferetur Vulg. Lat. not be taken away from Iudah But what is meant by Iudah here First It is not to be taken in a Restrained Sense for the Patriarch Iudah but for the Tribe of Iudah As the Priesthood was consigned to Levi i. e. not his Person but his Tribe and Posterity so Iudah had the Scepter the Government conferred on him not his Person for he had no Rule but his Tribe as distinct from the other Tribes The meaning then is that there shall be some of that Tribe who shall Reign till Christ cometh and no longer For as the Kingdom and Government shall begin in this Tribe as it did in David and be continued in it so it shall end with it When that Tribe affords no more Kings then Kingship shall cease among the Jews though Foreigners may be set up yet they shall have no more Kings of their own which shall be a certain Indication of the Coming of the Messias Secondly Iudah must be taken comprehensively for the Twelve Tribes for the State Government and Polity of the whole Nation called Iews from the Patriarch Iudah Some shrink this Prophesie into a narrow compass but I think it ought to be taken largely and to be applied to Iudah not only as it signifies a particular Tribe of that name but as it takes in all the Jewish People the whole Body of the Jews For these Prophetical Blessings which Iacob here uttereth are of a large Extent and this especially relating to a higher matter than any of the rest is not to be confined and restrained to a Person or Tribe but it is most reasonable to believe that it reacheth to the whole Nation and Polity of the Jews who are here called Iudah as they are 〈…〉 innumerable places of Scrip●●● 〈◊〉 〈…〉 nor