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A11059	The first booke of questions and answers vpon Genesis Containing those questions that are most eminent and pertinent, vpon the sixe first chapters of the same booke: collected out of ancient and recent writers; both briefly and subtilly propounded and expounded, by Alexander Rosse, of Aberdine, preacher at Saint Maries neere Southampton, and one of his Maiesites chaplaines.	Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654.	1620 (1620)	STC 21325; ESTC S112086	52,680	137

foretell many things partly by Reuelation from God and partly because he is a subtile spirk and of long experience and hee makes those men foretell things to come rather by mouing their phantasies or by dreames or by offering to their eyes the shape or to their eares the words of those things he will foretell or by characters 2. They can foretell things to come because God permits them for the greater destruction of those that curiously consult Sooth-sayers so he suffered Balaam his Asse to prophesie 3. Men that are of subtile spirits may foretell some things by looking diligently into the life manners and dispositions of men as one may foretell that a tyrant oppressing his subiects shal be killed 4. They may foretell some things which may fall out true because of the credulity of those that consult with them for if they foretel good successe to any this ofttimes falls out because of the feruent desire and vsing of all meanes to attaine the same which doth fall out not because it was fore-told but because he to whom it was fore-told vsed the meanes to haue it Q. Is it not lawfull then to consult with Astrologers and Sooth-sayers A. No because in consulting with them we derogate from Gods glory and honour them in thinking that they can fore-tell all things which is proper only to God 2. If it bee vnlawfull to conuerse with an excommunicate person much lesse should we haue commerce with Satan who is excommunicated from heauen to the place of darkenesse and is the pernicious enemy of God and man Q. Whether are the beasts or fishes perfectest A. The beasts because they haue more perfect sences beget more perfect blood in our bodies then fishes haue more commerce with men and are docible in many things fishes are not Q. Why then were they created before the beasts A. As nature begins at that which is most imperfect in generation so God in the creation did keepe this course for man the little world and patterne of all the creatures was not created till the sixth day 2. God keepeth that course in the 3. last dayes which hee did in the 3. first in the first he created heauen and in the 4. did replenish it with starres the 2. hee made the seas the 5. replenished it with liuing creatures Q. Why speaketh Moses of the creation of some particular fishes and not of trees and beasts A. Because these fishes are greater then any earthly creatures therefore we should the more extoll Gods glory in considering them Q. How doe the waters bring forth the fishes A. The waters are not the efficient cause of the fishes but the materiall yet but in part for fishes are compounded of the foure elements notwithstanding the waters are the predominant matter of the fishes not in respect of their substance for that is earth but in respect of qualitie moist and cold Secondly The temperature of the fishes are waterish Thirdly Water is the place of habitation generation and conseruation for the fishes Q. Why were the birds created the fift day with the fishes and not the sixth A. Because they were created of the water as the fishes Secondly Because of the great resemblance betweene the birds and fishes both in respect of their place water and aire for both these elemēts are perspicuous humid moueable and easie to be changed one into the other Secondly In respect of their bodies for both are light and swift the sinnes of the fishes answere to the birds wings and their scales to birds feathers they both want eares paps milke bladder Thirdly Many kindes of birds dwell in the waters as the Sea-meawes Swans c. Fourthly their mouing is alike for as the fishes swim so the birds flie Fiftly They both vse their tayle to guide their flying and swimming Q. Were the birds created of the water A. Yes but not of the thickest of the water but rather of a watery vapour betweene water and aire therefore the birds conuerse in the water and aire Q. But it seemes the birds were created of the earth the sixt day by these words of the 2. Chapters And the Lord hauing formed out of the ground euery beast of the field and euery bird of the aire brought them to Adam A. If God had created them the sixt day of the ground Moses had not spoken of them the fift day Secondly in these words alleaged the coniunction and hath no reference to the word ground as though both had bene formed of the ground but to the word formed so the meaning is that not only the beasts that were formed of the ground but the birds also which God had created were brought to Adam Q. How doth the earth bring forth liuing creatures A. Not actiuely but passiuely for the earth is not the efficient but the materiall cause of earthly creatures Q. What difference is there betweene the beast cattel and creeping thing verse 25. A. By behemah in Hebrew is vnderstood the great beasts as Iob 40.15 By chaiah the wild beasts in whom there is seen most liuelinesse by remesh creeping things such as haue no feete at all as serpents and they that haue short and little feete as Ants. Q. Why did not God blesse the earthly creatures as he did the fishes A. Moses did omit this for breuities sake Secondly the blessing of the fishes doth belong also to the beasts Thirdly man is blessed and in him the beasts as when hee was cursed the earth was also Gen. 3. And when he was punished the beasts were punished also Genesis 7. Q. Why was man particularly blessed A. Not only for multiplication but also because of the elect And thirdly because mans copulation is oftentimes sinfull and inordinated Q. Did God create in the beginning imperfect creatures as Bees Waspes and such like A. He did not create them actually as hee did the perfect creatures but he created them in their causes as hee gaue that faculty to the flesh of an horse to beget Waspes beeing dead Q. Were Mules now created or not A. They were not First Because they were found out by Anah Genes 36. Secondly They are barren but God created all creatures with his blessing to be fruitfull c. Genes 1. Thirdly this kinde of procreation is against nature but God created euery thing according to his kinde Genes 1. Fourthly This is against his owne law Leuit 19. Q. Who was man and the cattell created in the some day A. First Because they both dwell in the earth Secondly The earthly creatures are more familiar with man then others Thirdly they are more profitable to man then other creatures Fourthly They are most like to man of all other creatures Q. How doth Gods goodnesse and wisedom appeare in the creatures A. Many wayes First In the variety of so many thousand diuers kindes of creatures Secondly In the comely order that is seene amongst them Thirdly in that all things that serue for the perfection of the world is

and the filthy clensed If thou desirest light and perfection here is Vrim and Thummim if the sight of thy fins here is the golden candlesticke if thou wilt wash thy hands and feete here is the brazen lauer wilt thou bee purged from thy leprosie here is the riuer Iordan wilt thou floorish like a Bay tree thou must be planted by this riuer wilt thou bring forth much fruite thou must be sowne with this seed wilt thou sacrifice thy sins to God thou must kill them with this sword wilt thou go to the kingdome of heauen this is the only way here is the firy pillar and the cloud to conduct thee to Canaan and here is the Star that will leade thee to find out the Son of righteousn Iesus Christ that bright morning Starre with whom we shall shine in eternity of glory as Stars in the firmament In this word then must we conuerse both day and night not in curious searching and prodigious speculation but in serious weeping and religious adoration neither must our minds be oppressed with terrestriall and infernal occupations but they must be filled with celestiall and supernall meditations Therfore if we will profit here we must cast off all carnall affection that wee may receiue for our weary soules eternall refection for if no beast could touch the mountaine and heare Gods Law why should beastly minds touch the Bible and read Gods Law And in searching this Word let vs not in it search for riches and honour to our selues which is to seek for dirt amongst Iewels and poyson amongst medicaments to ouerthrow ourselues but let vs search for him who only is sufficient to content our soules within our bodies as hee was the only efficient to present our soules into our bodies Therfore we conclude with Augustine Scriptura creatura ad hoc sunt vt ipse quaeratur ipse diligatur qui ipsam creauit qui illam inspirauit The internall and eternall generation of the word was not knowne to the Gentiles but was obscured with an obscure fable of Minerua begotten of Iupiters braine by the which also they did signifie learned notions conceaued in the mind expressed by word or writ Then to be short right Honourable heere I doe offer to your tuition and fruition my Minerua not begotten of my braine but in my braine neither is she armed with a helmet aegis and a speare to terrifie Momus and therefore the more desirous shee is to shelter her self vnder the shaddow of your Honors patronage being perswaded that you are both a Patrone a patterne of learning the fruits whereof haue not only refreshed the hearts and eares of great Brittaine but with Dedalean wings they haue bin transported beyond the Ocean so that Rhodanus Betis and Rhenus haue seasoned their siluer streames with the delicious taste of your learned fruits Then what remaines quam vt ocior Icaro Visas gementis littora Bosphori Sirtesque Getulas canorus Ales Hypereborosque campos Moreouer your Honor being a Father and Patrone of iustice if any wrong be offered to her by Momus she may boldly fly to the Chancery for succor therefore I hope that as your Honor hath permitted your glorious titles to grace her Frontispice so you wil not refuse to beautifie her with your gracious aspect and respect That God which hath exalted you to so great dignities in this world preserue your body and soule and crowne you in the World to come with blessed Immortality Your Honors in all duty euer to command ALEXANDER ROSSE Ad illustrissimum Franciscum supremum Angliae Cancellarium Alexandri Rossaei Epigramma PAcis amans virtutis honos decor inclyte gentis Musarum docti gloria magna chori Auro Iuno beat te lauro Phoebus Apollo Linguâ Mercurius frontis honore Venus Frontis honor moritur florescit gloria linguae Aurea sceptra cadunt laurea serta manent Tu laurum praefers auro Venerique Süadam Plus tibi luce Themis plus tibi laude Charis Propterea aeternum tua fama vigebit in aevum Quod peritura fugis quod vigetura petis En tenues nostrae mittunt tibi dona Camoenae Non satis ampla tibi sint licet apta mihi Non Arabum messes non Indica munera mittunt Aut Nili varias luxuriantis opes Non pictas croco aut radiantes murice vestes Aut aurum rutilis quod vehit Hermus aquis Sed tibi chartaceum mittunt cum carmine donum Et sterilis noster qualia fundit ager Accipe propterea placido pia munera vultu Sinceri officij pignora certa mei Nostram si facilis respexeris inclyte Musam Te redeunte die te pereunte canam The Argument Q. VVHo wrote these bookes of Moses A. Himselfe proofe hee was the first that writ in the world Secondly The holy Ghost testifieth the same Exo. 24.4 Deu. 31.9 and Christ Iohn 1.45 and 5.46 Q. When wrote he this first Booke A. Before the Israelites went from Egypt Reas 1. Because then feeding his Father-in-lawes sheepe 40. yeeres in Madian he was most at leysure to write Rea. 2. To comfort the Hebrewes beeing oppressed with Egyptian seruitude for in this Booke they read the life and death of their Ancestours their courage patience vertue in affliction Gods promises to Abraham that after 400 yeares seruitude in Egypt they should be deliuered and inioy the land of Canaan Q. How came Moses to the knowledge of these things contained in this Booke A. Either by reuelation from God or by tradition of his Ancestors for the knowledge of these things Moses had from Iosephs children they of Ioseph he of Iacob Iacob of Isaac he of Abraham and he of Shem Shem of Noe he of Methusalem and he of Adam with whom he liued 243. yeeres Questions on the first Chapter Question WAs the world created or eternall A. Created 1. There can bee but one eternall 2. Almost all the Philosophers are against the eternity of the world 3. They that hold it eternall can bring no sound reason 4. The most ancient monuments or records amongst the heathen are not so old as the flood of Noah Q. Could God make more worlds then one A. Yes for he is almighty and hee made it not of any mater for that should haue bin exhausted but more he would not because hee being one delights in vnity Q. Why in Hebrew saith Moses Gods created ioyning the noune plurall with the verbe singular A. To signifie the mystery of the Trinitie one essence in three persons 2. It is the propertie of the Hebrew phrase Q. Why in the beginning of this booke speaketh Moses only of heauen and earth A. Because by the name of heauen he comprehends all celestiall bodies and by the name of earth the 4. elements for water is in the earth fire and aire as witnesse the springs exhalations or earthquakes and burning mountaines or hote waters Q. Did God create the earth moueable or not A. Immoueable Iob 38.

Psal 93. and 104. this is vnderstood in respect of the whole earth yet it is moued in respect of parts by earthquakes Iob 9. Q. Of what figure is the earth A. Round Esay the 40. This figure is most perfect capable ancient Q. Is the earth vnder the water or not A. Vnder because heauiest yet Exo. 20. Ps 24. and 136. it seemes the water is vnder the earth but it is to be vnderstood that a great part of the earth was made higher then the waters for mans habitation Q. Why cannot the whole earth moue A. Because hee is in his natural place which if it should moue it should ascend and this is against the nature of the earth Q. What is vnderstood by the spirit that moued vpon the waters A. A wind which often in Scripture is called a spirit or the holy Ghost or the power and mighty operation of God which also is often called by the name of Spirit in this sence the Spirit of God is sayd to carry Elias to heauen and to haue caught away Philip Acts 8. Q. Why is God brought in speaking in the creation A. To shew his absolute power whose word is his worke 2. The second person in Trinity the word essential of the Father by whom the world was created Q. Why was the light first created A. To beautifie al the rest of the creatures 2. The world was created in 6. daies which could not bee distinguished without the light and darkenes Q. Was this light spirituall such as God is sayd to inhabit as Christ is called the light of the world and the Apostles light the regenerate light A. No but corporall and sensible first the darkenes that went before was sensible ergo light 2. By this light the 3. dayes were distinguished before the creation of the sun but they were sensible 3. This Narration of Moses is historicall not allegoricall Q. Then what light was this A. Not the light of the elemental fire nor of a light cloud nor of water but of the sun which was the first day diffused through the whole hemisphere the 4. was collected into the globe of the sun we see The 1. day this light had but one common property to illuminate the 4. it had particular vertues to bring out particular effects 3. This light the 4. day began to bee cause of generation and corruption the measure of time the cause of increase and decrease in the moone Q. How did this light before the 4. day distinguish the day from night A. In moouing from east to west and from west to east by the motion of the 1. spheare Q. In what place of heauen was this light created A. In the east for this light returning to this same point of the east from which it went made a naturall day Q. VVhen was heauen and earth created A. Before the first day in respect of their substance and matter but in the sixe dayes in respect of their forme and perfection Q. What is meant by the firmament that separateth the waters from the waters A. The aire and starry heauens with all the spheres betweene which do separate the watry clouds from these waters below but properly the lower regiō of the aire doth separate these waters which are generated in the single region from the waters below which low region is called by the name of the whole firmament Q. What are these waters aboue the firmament A. Not Angels as Origen not waters properly so called aboue the stars as Basil would haue for their natural place is below and there is no vse of them aboue the starres neither the heauen called the Cristalline which hath neither the substance similitude or qualities of water but by these waters wee vnderstand the watery clouds aboue this lower region in the aire These waters in other places are sayd to be aboue the heauēs that is aboue the aire which in Scripture is called heauen Q. How made God the drie land to appeare A. By causing the earth which before was plaine to swell with mountaines 2. By the waters which before were spred ouer the whole earth to betake themselues to one place Q. Then were there mountaines before the flood A. Yes for the flood rose 15. cubits higher then the mountaines the mountaines are called eternall Psa 76. Wisedome is ancienter then the mountaines Pro. 8. They make the earth the comelier more fruiteful more commodious for man and beast they hold out the seas from ouer-flowing the earth out of them springs and riuers proceed they defend the valleies from the raging of the windes that without them the earth could not be before the flood Q. Is the earth or seas highest A. The earth for all riuers run into the seas naturally because they flow downewards 2. Men are said to go down into the seas in ships Psal 107. Again if the seas were higher ships should sayle swifter to the land then from it 4. The farther we were in the sea we should see the land the better Ob. But Psa 104. and 33. it seemes that the waters are higher then the earth A. In Ps 104. Dauid speaks of the springs that are generated in the mountaines or of the watery clouds that couer the hills in Psa 33. Dauid speakes of the miraculous standing of the red sea Q. Were briers thornes and poysonable hearbes created before mans fall A. Yes because these are parts of this world without which it is not perfect and although poysonable hearbs are not fit for meate they are good for physicke Q. In what time of the yeere was the world created A. In the Autumne because the Iewes before they departed from Egypt began their yeere in Autumne and also before the stood for the flood began in the second month that is about the month of Nouember 2. The Iewes Exod. 23. are commanded to keepe the feasts of Tabernacles in the end of the yeere that is in Autumne when fruits are ripe and also this same feast in the beginning of the yeere Chap. 34. nature also shews that Autumne is the end of the yeere by the maturity of the fruite and falling of the leaues from the trees It is also the beginning of the yeere as the yong seeds budding out of the earth do testifie Lastly in the creation the fruits of the trees were ripe and ready to be eaten Q. Were the starres created the fourth day A. Yes in respect of their light motions and operations but they were made the 1. day in respect of their substance for they are the thicker part of the spheres Q. Why were the stars created after the planets A. Because God will shew his power which in producing of plants doth not depend on the starres 2. To keepe the people from idolatrie whom he knew would be bent to worship the starres when they consider their beauty motion and operation in producing hearbs now they are inexcusable because this vertue they haue in producing hearbs is from God who in the beginning