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A57230	Choice observations and explanations upon the Old Testament containing in them many remarkable matters, either not taken notice of, or mistaken by most, which are additionals to the large annotations made by some of the Assembly of Divines : to which are added some further and larger observations of his upon the whole book of Genesis perused and attested by the Reverend Bishop of Armagh, and Mr. Gataker Pastor of Rederith / by ... John Richardson ...	Richardson, John, 1580-1654.; Ussher, James, 1581-1656.; Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654.; Westminster Assembly (1643-1652)	1655 (1655)	Wing R1385; ESTC R3676	529,737	519

lovely Her Love wants no Rhetorick to display his parts she thinks she can never speak enough of him Whither The effect of the Churches speech being so ful of affection and admiration chapter VI verse 1 what it wrought upon the daughters of Jerusalem And here they double their demand as they did chap. V. 9. thou fairest Though she acknowledged her self black chap. I. 6. And was now in a distresse and a desertion that we may They cannot help her to satisfie her desire but they will joyne to seek him with her So much good they received by her holy conference with them And so God blesseth the holy conferences of his people and the communion of Saints Zech. VIII 21. And surely best it is to seek Christ with the Church in her companie she being the pillar and ground of truth and as that pillar of fire in the Wildernesse to guide and go before us is gone downe See before chap. V. 6. verse 2 But now she can tell it her self and tell it to others And she is ready so to do apt to communicate all she knows all she can tell them 1 Cor. XII 7. Not the powring out but the want of powring out dries up the streaming of that oile of Grace 2 Kings IV. 6. into his garden Chap. IV. 16. I am my beloveds Chap. verse 3 II. 16. and chap. VII 10. Here her faith reviveth And come what will come she rests upon this resolution Thou art beautiful verse 4 c. The Church having confessed her fault and seeking so earnestly to repair the breach and renew her love and interest in him Christ hereupon is so ready to receive her and afresh so highly to praise and commend her as formerly he had done ch IV. which shewes that he is no changeling and makes to her singular comfort Jer. III. 22. as Tirza Josh. XII 24. 1 Kings XIV 17. and chap. XV. 33. so beautiful a Citie as Jerusalem Lam. I. 1. and chap. II. 15 16. Psal. CXXII 3. and XLVIII 2. and LXXXVII 3. and CXXXII terrible To daunt enemies and draw hearts unto her she is admirable inexpugnable Turne away thine eyes Chap. verse 5 IV. 9. If she be sick of his love he is overcome by hers no love lost between them threescore Queenes This verse is put hypotheticaly verse 8 by way of supposition Be it so my Dove The rendition of the case verse 9 and comparison Yet allt hose would not equal thee yea even they themselvs would yeeld the praise and blessing to thee Deut. XXXIII 29. 2 Sam. VII 23. Ps. CXLIV 15. Who is she verse 10 c. Many make this the praise which the Queenes and Concubines give the Church not hereby doubting but admiring her and her excellencie Yet I see not but they may well be a continuation of Christs speech in praising her not unlike to that in the fourth verse aforegoing I went downe Christs inspection and care of his Church verse 11 and Congregations and how they fructifie and flourish Esay V. 2. Matth. XXI 34. 1 Cor. IX 7. This phrase speaks not a present ignorance in him no more then that phrase Gen. XVIII 21. Or ever I was aware i. e. verse 12 not ignorantly but suddenly As Esay XLVII 11. my soul c. This seemes to denote the affectionate haste and desire wherewith Christ was carried on in a kind of insensible manner to revisit his Church and restore comforts to her to present his ardent and longing affection to behold the flourishings and propagations of his Church Amminadab Likely some swift Charet-driver some translate it appellatively my willing people Some make the whole verse to be the speech of the Church confessing her ignorance that Christ was gone downe to that end as is expressed in the former verse But that he was gone away from her in angry displeasure for her unworthy and sluggish neglect of him chap. III. 3. And therefore she drove on so furiously to finde him out againe yea so furiously that she over past him So obscure is this text and the meaning so dark and difficult to determine Returne c. Various likewise are the Opinions of Interpreters here I conceive The word fairly come of as the words of Christ to his Church mainly and earnestly recalling her to return to him O Shulamite Not Shunamite Some make it the feminine of Solomon and so to denote his wife the women being usualy called after their husbands names Esay IV. 1. And so his Spouse is the figure of the Church of Christ throughout this Song that we may look upon thee view and contemplate thee and thy beauty with complacency and delight What will ye see Seemes best to be Christs words still in answer of his own question as it were the company of two armies As in that joyful day at Mahanaim and the Vision there of Jacob Gen. XXXII 2. The Spouse here likened to these two armies Or that she is so guarded and safe-guarded with such armies as Jacob there was Yet some apply this to that intestine warre within her of the flesh and spirit fighting as two armies within her as the twins did in Rebecca's womb Christ here to the tenth verse continueth his Praising of her again running over every grace and ornament in her from the lowest to the highest together with his joy and pleasure that he takes in her And all under new and fresh Similies and exemplifications And thereupon in the tenth verse and to the end of this chapter the Church renewes the joyful profession of her love to him and of his desire towards her inviting him to her Assemblies to see them how they prosper and she promiseth to give and devote all her best fruits wholly to him for whom alone she had brought them forth and by whose blessing she flourished with all manner sorts of them both new and old How beautiful This beautifulnesse is ascribed chapter VII verse 1 with admiration to sundry parts of her and to her whole person oftentimes O Princes daughter 1 John III. 1. John I. 12. 2 Cor. VI. 18. the King is held in the galleries Christ himself verse 5 Yea and no earthly King but would finde in his heart to be tied to these walks and to be held as it were prisoner in the sight of thee and thy bravery Ps. CXXXVIII 4 5. and XXVII 4. being so astonished and never satisfied with the sight of thee and thy beauty and so over-valuing it above his own and all other earthly glory whatsoever How faire Such passionate admiration of her verse 6 proceeds from his wonderful love to her agreeing well to that saying Esay LXII 4 5. and LXV 19. Zeph. III. 17. And cannot but procure some suitable reciprocal love to him Ezra IX 13 14. 2 Cor. V. 14. Palme-tree The Embleme and symbol of constancie verse 7 and fruitfulnesse patience and victory Psalme XCII 12 13. Apoc. VII 9 10. go up to the Palme-tree He will familiarly dwell with his Church

tokens as Exod. III. 5. or by appointing his ordinary means of worship therein ceremonial under the Old Testament which now is done away and not to be recalled or spiritual under the New The former though of Gods appointment and ordination had not in themselves nor could give absolute holinesse to the worship therein performed And much more now the Places of Gods worship do not make holy the Services therein performed but by them rather are made holy only relatively being appointed to such holy uses He that hath Esay XXXIII verse 4 15 16. clean hands Psal. XVIII 21. Esay LVI 2. Ezek. XVIII 8. pure heart Matth. XV. 19. Prov. II. 19. Jer. XVII 9. yet Acts XV. 9. 1 Tim. I. 5. Psal. CI. 2. nor sworn deceitfully Oaths are taken in a strict and proper sense or at a great latitude They are Assertorie or Promissorie single or with a curse or execration annexed lawful in themselves an act of Religion Esay XIX 18. Lawfull in the Old Testament by Gods precept promise and examples of holy men Lawful in the New Testament by same nature and use of them as in the Old Hebr. VI. 16. by those warrants Esay XLV 1. Jer. XII 16. speaking of the times of the New Testament by the example of the Angel Apoc. X. 16. of the Apostle Rom. I. 9. 2 Cor. I. 23. That text Matth. V. 34. and so that James V. 12. is not to be understood simply and absolutely but relatively as Christ thereby opposeth the corrupt practise of the Pharisees and their false interpretation of Gods Law concerning swearing as if swearing so as Gods name were not directly used in it and no falshood or perjury contained in it were no sinne with them but ever and altogether lawful though it were never so lightly and slightly vainly and customarily unnecessarily and causelesly done where yea and nay had been sufficient Thus Christ opposeth and forbiddeth even all swearing as much as lieth in us but forbids not lawfull swearing upon just urgent and necessary occasions Of Oaths see more in the Observations on Hos. IV. 15. He shall He is a true member of the invisible and Catholike Church verse 5 and he only whereas hypocrites and wicked persons may be members of the visible and of particular Churches by reason of their external profession only Rom. IX 6. Matth. VII 21. The former are members properly univocaly essentialy formaly inwardly in truth and in the judgement of God The later only equivocaly externaly materialy not formaly and essentialy in shew in the opinion of men as rotten members or ill humours in the body 2 Tim. III. 5. Gal. V. 24. These are in the visible Church as chaffe is among the wheat receive Not by merit of condignity for the worth of his works Dan. IX 18. Rom. VIII 18. For the works are imperfect in themselves and again not our own and wholy from our selves and besides due debt otherwise without this reward and lastly no wise equivalent and equipollent to this reward But receive the blessing and reward by and because of Gods free grace rich mercie bountiful promise whereby he hath freely engaged himself to give such and so superabundant a remuneration And so he gives it in justice now because engaged and obliged thereunto by the truth of his so free gracious and bountiful a promise God is just to performe his promise 1 John I. 9. 2 Tim. IV. 7. Blessing Gen. XII 2. Gal. III. 9. Eph. I. 2. Mat. XXV 34. righteousnesse Of Justification and of Sanctification Righteousnesse with the encrease fruit and reward of it according to Gods righteous promise and performance This is the generation This kinde of men verse 6 As Luke XI 29. and XVI 8. Matth. XII 39. Not those that brag of being Abrahams or Iacobs seed Matth. III. 9. Iohn VIII 33. but these are the true seed and generation Gal. III. 7 29. Rom. IX 6 7. These are the true Israel of God that seek him that seek Deut. IV. 29. Psal. XXVII 8. 2 Kings XX. 3 4. which grace comes of God Esay LXV 1 2. thy face O Iacob O God of Jacob. Or this in Jacob or the generation of Jacob that seek Gods face as Jacob did Gen. XXXII 24 30. See John I. 47. Rom. IX 6. and II. 28 29. Lift up Having mentioned the hill of the Lord verse 7 and his holy place ver 3. This may seeme to relate to the gates and doors of the Temple vowed by David and to be built by Solomon and to the coming in of the Ark into it or rather proceeding from the Type to the Truth we may mysticaly referre this to the Church of Christ and the true members of it to lift up the gates and doors of their hearts and everlasting souls that the Lord whom they seek may come into his Temple Mal. III. 2. that they prepare themselves to receive and entertaine him at his coming in the flesh at his coming into their hearts Apoc. III. 20. who is indeed the true King of glory Apoc. XVII 14. 2 Cor II. 8. the true Jehovah Exod III. 15. Psal. LXXXIII 18. Col. II. 9. and Christ compare Num. XXI 5. with 1 Cor. X. 9. and Esay VI. 1. with John XII 41. Even Iehovah our righteousnesse Ier. XXIII 6. the mighty God Esay IX 6. the increase of whose Kingdome and government shall have no end Esay IX 7. Dan. VII 14. Mat. XXVIII 18. for whose in-coming the doors of our hearts and affections should lie open To make the Alphabetical order perfect in this Psalm chapter XXV some would have the verses in it not to be rightly all distinguished as namely the second and the fifth And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to seeme wanting in the beginning of the seventeenth verse And the last verse to be only the later part of the foregoing verse without cause Given on my part verse 3 not provoked by me for it is great And so needs much mercie verse 11 great mercie seek ye my face chapter XXVII verse 8 Deut. IV. 29. Davids soul did most seek it to be near where the Ark of God was and so before the face of the Lord as the Scripture phraseth it being out of heart when he was barred from it ver 4. Psal. LXV 4. Psal. LXXXIV and XLII 1 Sam. XXVI 19. Gods command here was Davids request and the thing he aimed at regard not Esay V. chapter XXVIII verse 5 12. do not attend and wisely consider of them of the mysteries of Gods providence and wayes in bringing David to the Crown in managing the matters of this world as to the godly and as to the wicked in husbanding mans salvation by contraries c. Rom. XI 33. in the beauty of holinesse chapter XXIX verse 2 In the comely honour of the Sanctuary Psal. XCVI 9. the glorious holy Sanctuary The voice of the Lord Of thunder verse 3 see Exod. IX 23. Job XXXVII 4 5. and XL. 9. See the Observations on Psal. XVIII 13. Sirion See the

the Law Gal. IV. 4. under the Law of Moses Moral and Ceremonial that the righteousnesse of the Law might be fulfilled in us Rom. VIII 4. And these are not figurative and metaphorical but proper elocutions in regard of Christs humane nature not making a Person in it self distinct from the Person of the Sonne of God with Nestorius nor yet hereby making the Person of the Sonne of God hypostaticaly uniting to himself the Humane Nature inferiour to the Person of the Father as Arius would I have preached Though Gods works were such as the fifth verse expresseth verse 9 and specialy that work of mans redemption yet Christ as he took a body by the sacrifice of it as a Priest to satisfie the Father so here as the great Prophet of the Church he doth preach and publish it John XVII 6. Luke XXIV 47. even Gods righteousnesse faithfulnesse truth loving-kindnesse salvation to the great Congregation of his people Rom. III. 21 22. Esay LXI 1 2 3. and XLIX 6. which office and duty David also the Type in his degree and all Christs messengers in their place and function do performe with-hold not thou David prayes here for what he had preached in the former verse verse 11 containing in it the fountain and the epitome of blessings and happinesse to man heart faileth me Psal. verse 12 XXII 14. and XXXVIII 10. Be pleased Hence to the end of the Psalme agrees with Psal. LXX David petitions verse 13 for his deliverance in this verse the confusion of his enemies verse 14 15. to the joy of the godly and the glory of God verse 16. confounded Davids imprecation against his enemies verse 14 This is more then a passionate unfolding of their injuries and leaving the revenge to God more then that 2 Sam. XV. 31. and Acts IV. 29. and Psal. LXXXIII 16. more then a meer prophetical prediction of evills to befall them Here is more And so Psal. XXXV 4. and LXX 2 3. and CIX 7. c. LIX 13. and 2 Tim. IV. 14. And in many other places David here and other holy Prophets do not thunder thus against their enemies desperate sinners out of any immoderate carnal passions of private hatred or desire of revenge or out of any rash and inconsiderate zeal but moved and inflamed rather by the Spirit of God acting herein the publike cause of God and of his glory against those whom they knew by the spirit of discerning 1 Cor. XII 10. to be Gods and their forlorne foes Yet possible that in some of these imprecations some mixture of humane infirmities might be as in Jeremie XV. 15 16 17. But for us touching private and personal enemies our duty is as we read Matth. V. 44. as we finde in the example of Christ Luke XXIII 34. and of Stephen Acts VII 60. and 1 Pet. II. 23. And for publick enemies of God and his Church we may not absolutely use execrations against their persons as not knowing but God may convert them afterwards of Sauls make them Pauls and lest we incurre that rebuke with those Disciples Luke IX 55. Let us stay till we know that we be of their spirit before we do as these Prophets did Of imprecations see more in the Observations on Psal. CIX 14. and the Annotations on Neh. IV. 5. Let all those Davids prayer for those that seek God verse 16 and love his salvation But I He concludes with commending his own case to God verse 17 his help and deliverer Blessed This Psalme by some is applied to Christ chapter XLI verse 1 but very hardly deliver him That is the poor or sick weakling David so comforts the poor afflicted So we must judge charitably that God in his ordinary course of providence will in due time raise and restore them whom for a while he hath cast down Some by him understand him that considereth the poor his bed in his sicknesse Make it to his ease verse 3 verse 8 an evil disease As Acts XXVIII verse 4 eate of my bread This our Saviour applieth to Judas John XIII 18. See Psal. LV. 12 13 14. verse 9 Amen A concurrence of wishes verse 13 and confidence An end of the first Book of Psalmes Korah This chapter XLII and ten other Psalmes without Davids name in the Title are inscribed for Korah's posterity to be sung in the Temple with voice and instrument Heman the singer the grandchilde of Samuel the Prophet being one of his posterity 1 Chron. VI. 33 43. See the Observations on Num. XVI 32. This Psalme seemes written by David and when he was banished by Absolom or Saub rather from the Sanctuary and sacred Assemblies and Solemnities verse 1 2 4 6. 9. As the Hart Or Hinde verse 1 The LXX hath it the Hinde reading the Hebrew here in the foeminine gender for which the Hebrews render divers reasons And though the Hebrews have a word of the masculine gender for the Hart and of the foeminine gender for the Hind yet by either of them many times the other sex is understood And so it is also in other names of beasts with the Hebrews As in Zech. IX 9. the word for Asse is of the masculine gender yet the female sex is thereby understood Matth. XXI 2. So the name of the fish which swallowed Jonas is named both in the masculine and in the foeminine termination See Jer. II. 24. Kept holy day Three solemne feasts in the year verse 4 At their solemne Assemblies and Sacrifices they kept feasts with dancing and joy Exod. XXIII 14. and XXXII 5 6 19. Deut. XVI 14 15. Judg. XXI 19 21. Esay XXX 29. for the help of his countenance Or his presence is salvations i. e. verse 5 most ample firme absolute and perfect salvation For so the Plural number is used to advance and amplifie the matter subject whereunto it is applied as in this word Ps. XVIII 2. XXVIII 8 and XLIV 4. and LXXIV 12. So in others as may be seene in the Observations on Psal. LI. 17. from the land of Jordan From the places of his banishment verse 6 in the borders of the land Deep Afflictions upon afflictions breaking in as billowes wallowing as waves verse 7 upon me and the noise of one calling as it were for another Seemes written by David chapter XLIII and upon the same occasion with the former hill and to thy Tabernacles The Ark was then at the hill of Kiriathjearim verse 3 and the Tabernacle at Nob or Gibeon This Psalme of Instruction chapter XLIV concerning afflictions and the right use of them And seemes written in the time of oppressions under the Philistines immediately before Davids reign or of the Babylonish captivity and not to be extended to the dayes of Antiochus Epiphanes and cast them out Or rather didst propagate verse 2 send forth make spread as the word signifieth Psal. LXXX 12. Ezek. XVII 6. them That is our fathers command Psal. XLII 8. Deut. XXVIII 8. Psal. CXXXIII 3. verse 4 But Having

solemn assemblies for his worship and service in the beauties of holinesse Or in the comely honours of the Sanctuarie meaning either the comely or honourable places of holinesse the Sanctuary or Church or rather in the beautiful ornaments of holinesse that is holy graces and vertues which with admirable varietie adorne the faithful and their inner man from the womb The second propertie or condition of the subjects of Christs Kingdome to be very numerous as willing so numerous as the dew from the womb of the morning 2 Sam. XVII 12. by a sudden unusual and wonderful increase and multiplication Esay LIV. 1. Micah V. 7. Esay LXVI 9. so numerous shall his youth be his new-borne people Iohn I. 13. and III. 3. Gal IV. 19. Heb. II. 14. 1 Pet. II. 2. See Esay LIII 10. So that these words are not to be understood of the temporal Nativity of Christ from the Virgin or his eternal generation from the Father as some do but of his active spiritual generation of his children the subjects of his Kingdome The Lord hath sworne The Vocation of Christ to his Office of verse 4 Priesthood Jehovah is the Author of it hath sworne Jehovah swears to confirme matters of greatest moment when and where his wisdome pleaseth And upon this point here of Christs eternal Priesthood mans salvation dependeth He swears by himself though that is not here expressed because he hath no greater to swear by Heb. VI. 13 16. Gen. XXII 16. And so by his life Esay XLIX 18. by his soul Jer. LI. 24. by his right-hand and the arme of his strength Esay LXII 8. The result of all which is the same with himself And implying thereby thus much Let me not be accounted what I am namely God the living God the omnipotent God if that which I speak be not true or my promises or threatnings do faile of performance Of Oaths See the Observations on Jer. LI. 14. and my Annotations on Hos. IV. 15. and will not repent Will not change or retract what he hath sworne Num. XXIII 19. James I. 17. Repenting is sometimes ascribed to God as Gen. VI. 6 7. Psal. CVI. 45. 1 Sam. XV. 11. 35. Not that there is any change of minde of will in God as there is in mans repenting But the change is in the work God eternally and unchangably decreeing both as to do the thing so again to change it upon mans repentance or disobedience Jer. XXVI 3 13 19. Of this see more in the Observations on Jer. XV. 6. In all this God condescends to mans weaknesse Heb. VI. 17 18. Shewes the greatnesse and excellency of the thing here avowed that the Lord Christ was lawfully Called and Ordained to be an eternal Priest for us and our salvation for our greater confirmation and consolation herein Thou art The Lord Christ well knew this and could not doubt of the will of the Father herein What then needed this Oath to be made unto him Answ. It was made to him for the use of his Church that his Church might know and be assured of it As that John XI 42. art God saying is as much as doing a Preist So Gen. XIV 18. Heb. VII 1. Melchizedec in type Christ in truth the Antitype The Priests office was to Teach Pray and Sacrifice The High Priest among the Jewes once a year entred into the most Holy place Yet he in all things was not an absolute and sufficient Type of our High Priest Christ the Lord. For he is an eternal High Priest and both King and Priest and his Sacrifice of another nature and himself of another Tribe for ever Not so the Priests after the order of Aaron Heb. VII 23. 34 and chap. IX 12. after the order Or similitude Heb. V. 6. and chap. VII 15. of Melchizedec Much question who this Melchizedec was He was not the Sonne of God himself our Lord and Christ. Very many take him to be Sem the Sonne of Noah who saw both worlds before and after the Flood and lived to the one hundred and fiftieth year of the age of Abraham Yet because Sems genealogie is exactly set down in Scripture and that the Levitical Priests themselves came from him after sundry descents and the Land of Canaan seems not to be Sems habitation which took its name from his younger brother Cham or from Chams sonne Canaan Neither would Abraham so long have forborne his due respects and visitation of Sem in Canaan if Sem had lived there Therefore divers learned men take this Melchizedec to be rather some eminent man in Canaan raised up by God in those corrupt times both good and godly both King and Priest living in Salem after called Jerusalem whose King in Joshuahs time was called Adoni-Zedeck that is Lord of righteousnesse Josh. X. 1. As this man here is called Melchizedec that is King of righteousnesse By which place or near to it Abraham in his returne from this warre and victory was to passe Of this Melchizedec and his Priesthood and the difference of it from Aarons Priesthood the Apostle to the Hebrews chap VII entreateth at large and observeth divers things his Name and Title his greatnesse in that he blessed Abraham and received Tythes of Abraham his being mentioned in Scripture without any Pedegree without father without mother without descent having neither beginning of dayes nor end of life All these he had as our Saviour himself had them but none of them recorded or registred in the Scripture that he might so become a Type of the eternity of Christs Person and Priesthood verse 3. The Apostle further observeth his Offices that he was both King and Priest and that our Saviour was made such with an oath of God the Father and a Priest of a better Priesthood Covenant and Commandment and that he was made not after the Law of a carnal commandement having carnal successors in his Priesthood but after the power of an endlesse life consecrated for evermore having an eternal Priesthood and unchangeable continuing ever and living ever to make intercession and by his one offering up himself once for all saving them to the uttermost that come to God by him In all which there are manifold resemblances between Christ and Melchizedec and manifold differences between theirs and the Aaronical Priesthood As for those fond and forced dreams of the Papist That Melchizedec offered up to God the sacrifice of bread and wine And therein was a Type and Figure of their sacrifice of the Masse And that thereupon Christ our Lord is said to be a Priest after the order of Melchizedec These may well befal to them who for want of the love of the truth are given up to beleeve lies but are too weak poor and silly for us to trouble our selves withal The Lord at thy right hand The prophesie of Christ the Lord his administration of his Kingly Office verse 5 in this and the next verse The Lord God the Father who will make thine enemies thy footstoole