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A09365	The whole treatise of the cases of conscience distinguished into three bookes: the first whereof is revised and corrected in sundrie places, and the other two annexed. Taught and deliuered by M. W. Perkins in his holy-day lectures, carefully examined by his owne briefes, and now published together for the common good, by T. Pickering Bachelour of Diuinitie. Whereunto is adioyned a twofold table: one of the heads and number of the questions propounded and resolued; another of the principall texts of Scripture vvhich are either explaned, or vindicated from corrupt interpretation.; Cases of conscience	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.; Pickering, Thomas, d. 1625.	1606 (1606)	STC 19669; ESTC S114066	314,224	686

of man was great and large so was the cubite proportionall therto containing the length of the arme from the elbow to the longest fingers end And this beeing considered that the Arke was built by that measure and not by the ordinary cubit as it is now it will appeare that the Atheist hath greatly deceiued himselfe and abused that part of Gods word that declares the storie of the Arke Againe the length of this vessell beeing 300. cubits it is plaine that it was fiue times the length of Salomons temple which contained onely 60. cubits The breadth beeing 58. it was twise and a halfe the breadth of that which was but 20. broad Besides that it is to be remembred that in the Arke were three lofts or stories one aboue another whereof each contained 10. cubits in height and a chamber or flore of square measure 15000. cubits As for the creatures that were put into it the Fowles of the ayre though they were of many sorts yet the biggest fort of them beeing the Eagle and his kind they could not take vp any very large place for their residence The Water creatures as some foules the fishes c. kept the waters and were not lodged in the Arke And the beasts of the earth such beeing excluded as were bredde either by accidentall generation as Mules or by putrefaction as serpents and other creeping things which might afterward be restored in other creatures that were preferued though for multitude and greatnes they excelled the rest yet as some write there are of them in all not aboue an 150 distinct kinds And though there were as many more not knowne yet in probabilitie they could not be either many or great And of those that are great there are thought not to be aboue 40 kinds Now though it be graunted that there were in the Arke 300 distinct kinds of beasts yet this number compared with the roome it will easily appeare that there might be allotted to euery kinde in one onely storie 50 square cubits which in all likelihood might well suffice them all one with an other specially seeing all were not of an equall greatnes and therefore some might haue that or more space and some lesse All these things duly considered the vessell beeing of such capacitie might cōprehend all those beasts and many more together with their prouision for a longer time then a yeare Other doubts touching this historie of lesse moment I omit and passe to the next The sixt allegation is out of Gen. 21. 9. where Ismael is said to mocke at Isaak when he was wained at which time Ismael was fifteene yeares of age at the least For he was borne when Abraham was 86 yeare olde Gen. 16. and Isaac was borne when Abraham was about a hundred Gen. 21. 5. both which put together make 14 yeares whereto one yeare beeing added before Isaac was wained makes vp the age of Ismael as before And yet afterward in that chapter v. 14. Hagar is saide to carrie the child in her armes and to cast him vnder a tree when he and his mother were cast out of Abrahams house which argues him to haue beene but a little child whereas before he was said to be 15 yeares olde Ans. A foolish cauill which blind Atheists doe draw from the errour of some translation For the text is plaine that Ismael with his mother Hagar by reason of extreame heate and drought was almost dead wandering in the wildernes of Beersheba and beeing in this extremitie shee caried him not but v. 18. led him in her hand and set him downe vnder a tree and there left him to die For in those cuntries men for want of water were at deaths dore as we may see in the example of Sisera Iudg. 4. 19. and Sampson chap. 15. 18. The seauenth Allegation Gen. 43. 8. Iudah Iosephs brother calls his brother Beniamin a lad or a boy Send the boy with me c. and yet this lad saith the Atheist the yeare following when he wēt down into Egypt with Iacob his father is saide to haue ten childrē Gen. 46. 21. How can these two stand together Ans. This cauili a●iseth from the grosse ignorance of the Atheist in the originall text For Beniamin is called jeled which word commonly signifies a child but sometimes also a young man Thus Ismael that was 15 yeares old is called jeled a lad Gen. 20. 15. And so Gen. 4. 23. Lamech saith I will stay a man in my wound and jeled or a young man in my hurt that is If a man should wound me and a young man hurt me I would slay him Now it is not like that a child could hurt Laniech Neither must this seeme strange for the most valiant men that Dauid and Ishbosheth had are called hannegna●im the boyes of Abner Ioab 〈◊〉 Sam. 2. 14. And the like phrase is vsed in other languages For the Grecians doe call young men by the name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Latines by the name of pueri boyes or children The eight Allegation Exod. 7. it is saide v. 19. that all the waters in Egypt were turned into blood by Moses and Aaron and yet v. 22. it is saide that the Magitians of Egypt turned water into blood also which seemes to imply an absurditie considering that all the waters were turned into blood before Ans. Some answer thus that the water which the Magitians turned was newly digged out of new pits and therefore they vnderstand the former of all the waters that were seene and that they onely were turned into blood Others answer more fitly that the waters which the Magitians changed were fetched out of Goshen from amongst the Israelites where the waters remained pure and were not turned as the other were Either of these answers may satisfie but specially the latter The ●inth Allegation Exod. 9. 6. Moses saith that all the beasts in Egypt died of the mu●… and yet v. 25. in the seventh plague it is said the beasts were killed with thunder and haile and lightening both which cannot be true Ans. First we must put a difference between a common plague or iudgement and an vniuersall A common plague is when●●o sort or kinde s●apeth but all sorts are smitten and such was the murren For no mans cattell were free no kind of cattell were saued But the vniuersall is when no particular of any kinde is exempted but all destroied Such was not this plague but some escaped and were reserued for other iudgements that followed The ground of this distinction is this The word all in Scripture is often taken indefinitely for many Thus the Prophet Esay speaks cap. 66. 23. From moneth to moneth and from Saboth to Saboth shall all flesh come to worship before me that is many or great multitudes And so in the new Testament Matth. 4. 23. Christ healed all diseases that is many and of all kinds some And in like manner the text before alleadged must not be taken