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A48445	Some genuine remains of the late pious and learned John Lightfoot, D.D. consisting of three tracts ... : together with a large preface concerning the author, his learned debates in the assembly of divines, his peculiar opinions, his Christian piety, and the faithful discharge of his ministry.	Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.	1700 (1700)	Wing L2070; ESTC R12231	207,677	406

a Physician snaps him up and devours him How miserably and unexpectedly was that poor Man surprized So how does the unhappy Soul we are speaking of find it self surprized when it suddenly finds it self in the Clutches of the Great Red Dragon ready now to be devoured by him VII A Meditation upon the Widow's Mite OUR Saviour sitting in the Second Court of the Temple called commonly by the Jews The Court of the Women but by the Gospel The Treasury because there stood the Thirteen Chests into which the People put their Freewill Offerings sees the rich Men casting in largely and of their Abundance But there comes a poor Widow and casts in a poor Pittance Two Mites that make but One Farthing a despicable Gift and such an one as those rich Men would make a Puff at to see such a poor Business offered And as God in another Case Mal. i. 8 offer such a Pittance to a great Man how would he scorn it But God seeth not as Man seeth God weigheth not as Man weigheth but he seeth and weigheth the Mind and Heart And our Saviour seeth that this Woman had put her Heart into the Treasury with her two Mites that she had cast in her Heart and her whole Living with her Farthing in the Chest she had chosen to put it in and accordingly he weighs values and estimates her Offering according to the large Heart wherewith she had given it as the largest Gift that was given nay larger than all the Gifts that were given Of a Truth I say unto you that this poor Widow hath cast in more than they all Luk. xxi 3 A Woman to outvye all the Men in her Offering A Widow all the great married Dames and Ladies and a poor Widow all the rich and wealthy Ones with all their Abundance It is very fortunate for Women to bear the Bell for Piety and Devotion in the Holy Story and none to go beyond them in Zeal and Religion or rather they to go before all The Virgin Mary Martha Mary Magdalen Joanna Susanna the Syrophaenician Woman with her great Faith and this poor VVidow with her great Offering That as Peter's Zeal and Earnestness in promoting the Gospel is more especially recorded in the Acts of the Apostles to give Evidence and Assurance of his Recovery out of his great Fall in denying his Master So the noble Zeal and Piety of several VVomen is recorded in Holy VVrit to be an Evidence of the Recovery of that Sex out of its foul Guilt of bringing Sin into the VVorld and being first in the Transgression As the Apostle speaks something towards such an Observation 1 Tim. ii ult Adam was not deceived but the Woman being deceived was in the Transgression Notwithstanding she shall be saved by Childbearing i. e. by the Birth of Christ a Child born to be a Saviour Tho' Pangs in Child-bearing were laid upon her as a sad Punishment for her Transgression VVe might enquire whether this VVidow were a true Believer or whether she were still in the Jewish Religion and Belief but only more sincerely Pious and Religious in that way than others were And the Reason of this Enquiry is that if she were a true Believer or had received the Gospel it may seem strange that she would contribute to the Jewish Service And if she were not a true Believer it may seem strange that Christ should give such a Testimony to her Offering if it were not offer'd in Faith Whether she were the one or other this Act of hers was certainly a Pious Act. For observe with me these few things I. Observe that all the Offerings or Gifts that were thus put into the Temple-Treasury were laid out for the maintaining the Service of the Altar and Temple To buy Wood to maintain the Fire of the Altar to buy Sacrifices for the Altar Salt for the Sacrifices Oil for the Lamps Wine for the Drink-Offering c. VVhatsoever was offered in the Temple went to the maintaining the Service and Religion of the Temple II. Observe that the Service and Religion of Temple and People was now grown exceeding Corrupt and many things of Humane Invention and Tradition were added to God's Institutions there So that our Saviour sticks not to say of the Temple that they had made it a House of Merchandize nay a Den of Thieves and himself with a Whip drives Buyers and Sellers out of the Temple And yet III. Observe that Christ himself contributed to the Maintenance of the Service of the Temple tho' such Corruption crept into it For that Tribute-Money that is demanded of him Matth. xvii 24 and which he works a Miracle to pay finding the Money in a Fish's Mouth was the Half Shekel that every one was bound to pay Yearly and the Money went towards buying the Sacrifices for the Altar and for the maintaining of the Service there And as himself did in that Payment contribute to that so he commends this Widow who in her Gift did shew the like Contribution to the same thing For IV. Observe that Good might be gathered out of the Service there tho' such Corruptions were crept in because God's Institutions were there and he had set up his Candle there his VVorship which he had not taken down And every Humane Invention doth not presently destroy a Divine Institution tho' it doth pollute it And the seven Churches of Asia are Golden Candlesticks still tho' God find foul Corruption in all of them They that will pay nothing to our Churches that will not come at our Churches nay will not abide to be buried in our Church Yards do they see any abominable thing in the Service of our Churches worse than the Corruptions that were crept into the Jewish Religion worse Superstition worse VVill-worship worse Corruptions If they do let them shew it if they do not why do they so despise our Churches and the VVorship there VVhen Christ himself refused not to be present at the Temple and to contribute to maintain the Service there Let me ask them and the negligent Comers to Church tho' they do not quite refuse it do they think that our Saviour ever let a Sabbath-day pass in all his time while here but he was present at the Public Service either in the Temple or in the Synagogue Look the Gospel thro' and see by the Current of the Story there whether ever he absented himself from the Public Congregation on the Sabbath-day Read that Luke iv 16 to spare more He came to Nazareth where he had been brought up and as his Custom was went into the Synagogue on the Sabbath and stood up for to read It was his Custom to go to the Synagogue to the Public Service and Congregation on the Sabbath-day and he never fail'd of it And he stood up for to read in his own Town Synagogue as owning himself a Member of that Congregation For it is not recorded that he read in any Synagogue beside It was his Custom to go to

to Particulars Eden The Fourth Day The Sun Moon and Stars created The inferiour Hemisphere first sees the Sun Or else the Moon was made before the Sun The Fifth Day Fowl and Fish made The Whale particularly named to shew that even the greatest Creature could not make it self The Sixth Day Beasts and Cattel created and Man Lord of the Creatures on Earth Who come to acknowledge their Homage to Man when they come for their Names Which Adam giveth them GEN. II. Begin to read this Chapter at ver 4. This Chapter is a particularizing upon some Generals of the Chapter preceding at their first Sight according to their Natures He seeth not amongst them all a Mate for himself God provides one for him of his own Flesh marries them together puts them into the Garden gives them the Moral Law in few Words and to shew to them their intire Dominion as well over themselves as over the Creature he leaves them to their own free Will with Power either to stand or fall He gives his Angels charge over them to be ministring Spirits for their Good Some Angels despise this Office and for that Pride are cast from their first Estate of Happiness and are reserved in the Chains of God's Providence under the Darkness of his Displeasure unto the Judgment of the great Day No Comfort they have left them but to have Company of the same Misery and to bring Man into the same Perdition GEN. III. This they soon enterprize and having first obtained Leave of God they assail the Woman by three Temptations to the Lust of the Flesh Lust of the Eye and Pride of Life as 1 Joh. ii 16 she being overcome bringeth the Man into the same Transgression About Three Hours after their Fall God cometh to censure them but first he promiseth Christ a Redeemer Which Promise Adam layeth hold on and for that calleth his Wife's Name Eve or Life God seeth his Faith and teacheth him to Sacrifice clean Beasts as a Seal of his Faith in him who should be sacrificed for him With the Skins of which Beasts he cloatheth Adam and his Wife and driveth them out of Eden even on the Day of their Creation The Seventh Day After the end of Gen. iii. take in the three first Verses of Chap. ii That Adam fell on the day of his Creation were there no other Evidence Gen. v. 2. were sufficient The next Day God by his own Example ordaineth as a Day of Rest for Adam and his Posterity to meditate upon these things Evil Concupiscence generated in Adam by his Fall doth readily forward Adam upon the present Necessity of Generation of Children GEN. IV. He hath two born at a Birth First that which was Natural and after him that which was Spiritual Their Mother upon the Birth of the first of them shews her Apprehension of the Promise and calls his Name Cain a Possession or Purchase † The Original Words may well if not best bear this Sense For saith ●he I have obtained the Lord to become Man But the Purchase or Possession of the Propagation of Original Sin did most shew it self in the Nature of Cain Because his Brother's bloody Sacrifice which properly signified that of Chris● was visibly fired from Heaven and his dry Sheaves of Corn the likelier Materials to burn are not he falls into a desperate Discontent which tho' God himself from Heaven would remove with † The common Gloss upon ver 7. Sin lies at the Door That is the Punishment for Sin is ready to seize on thee is that contrary to the Sense of the Verse going before and the latter end of that Verse God comes not there to deject but comfort him The Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 translated Sin signifies the Sacrifice for Sin all along Leviticus which was brought to the Tabernacle Door comfortable Words yet sticketh it fast even to the Death of his Brother For which he is made a Runnagate and hedged in that he cannot die as Job iii. 21 tho' he begged of the Lord Let any one that findeth me kill me God gives him a Token that no one should kill him Upon which he grows resolutely wicked as appears in the Discipline of his Children One of which Lamech the seventh from Adam in this Line is notoriously wicked and bringeth in height of Wickedness by his double Marriage This Chapter undertaking to set down the Wickedness of Cain's Brood runs on with the holy Line till it stop at Enosh In whose time that Wickedness began to be notorious See 2 Pet. ii 5 Which Enoch the seventh from Adam in the other Line prophesieth against Jud. ver 12. Yet Lamech boasteth in his Villany and even undervalues his great Grand●ire Cain His Children give their Minds to Trades that may further Luxury and Vanity as fatting Cattel Imagery and Music. Thus is Cain's Generation scattered and shall be utterly rooted out by the Flood But these are the Generations of Adam that should hold out and not fail GEN. V. This Chapter is a a Chronicle of 1656 Years from the Creation to Methuselah's Death This time is called Early in the M●●ning or the dawning of the Day Mat. xx 1 This Chapter cast into a Chronological Table giveth much Light to what went before to what follows and to it self In the Day that God made Adam he created him in his own Image even both the Male and Female he made in this Image and blessed them with Power of begetting Children in the same Image also but they fell on the Day of their Creation so that God names them Earthly Adam the Day that they were created And when Adam was an Hundred and Thirty Years old compleat he begat a Son in his own Image sinful like himself and called his Name Seth. And all the Days of Adam were Nine Hundred and Thirty Years a Thousand within Seventy But now Seventy Years are a Man 's whole Age Psal. xc 10 In this long time Adam saw his Children's Children to the Ninth Generation Enoch the Seventh from Adam is dedicated to God as the Seventh Day and God took him away that he should not see Death when he had lived as many Years as be Days in a Year Enoch before he was translated prophesied against the Wickedness of the World and foretold of the Flood Which those that feared God believed and therefore kept themselves long unmarried because they would not beget many Children for the Waters For Methuselah lived an Hundred Eighty-seven Years and begat Lamech and Lamech lived an Hundred Eighty-two and begat a Son and foresaw that to him should be given Liberty for all the World to eat Flesh whereby they should be much eased of the Toyl which they endured in Tillage of the Ground when hitherto they ate nothing but the Fruits thereof and he called his Name Noah And when Noah was Five Hundred Years old That Sem was Noah's second Son collect from Gen. v.

as in the Old Testament to search out the true and exact Order which the Continuation of the History requireth The Evangelists being Four in number and being all to write one and the same Story must either not write the same things or if they did must not write them in the same Style and Order Otherwise had the Uniformity of their Story and Phrase been but Repetition if not Confusion But while they either vary in Matter or Phrase or in Order this breeds the best Consort Their difference of Matter and Phrase is easily seen and easily reconciled But their Change of Method and Order requireth some Skill to tune to an Unison Like him in Plutarch that would first play rude and harshly to his Scholars before they should hear true Consort So have I to you after my rude and rough course gone a little way before you in the Gospel in this Course that your self may tune to your self more pleasing Music. Where I have laid the Evangelists together you may see they tune themselves and the Music is sweet let my Descant invite you to a better Strain II. In reading of the New Testament never take your Eye off the Old for the New is but again that in plainer Phrase God himself hath taught us by the writing of the Scripture what is the best way to read For he hath folded the Two Testaments together so that as the Law begins so the Gospel ends and as the Prophets end so the Gospel begins as if calling upon you to look still for the one in the other Moses and Elias Law and Prophets were Evangelists as well as Matthew and the other So that he that sees not Christ in them first in a Cloud sees him not in the other in Glory What did ever Christ do or suffer which you may not see in the Law and Prophets Which laid to the Gospel shews the more Lustre It were worth Study and Labour to trace Christ throughout all the Old Testament and to see a Gospel written by Moses and Elias concerning Christ's Actions Passion and Doctrine To shew my Meaning take here in brief what you may at Leisure and Study enlarge as you read SECT XIII Evangelium Mosaico-Propheticum WHEN Adam had sinned God promised to him one that should break the Head of the Serpent who could be no other than God Christ's two Natures taught in the Garden But he should become the Seed of the Woman to do this and so be Man When the Fulness of time came when the Scepter was even ready to depart from Judah Gen. xlix and the Stem of Je●● even worn to the Root Esa. xi and the Feet of the great Image broken and the other parts fallen Dan. ii this came to pass For when Cittim afflicted Eber Num. xxiv and Augustus taxed all the World and among the rest the Jews Jesus is born having been taxed in his Mother's Womb as Levi paid Tythes in the Loins of Abraham His Mother was a Virgin yet bare him against the Course of Nature as barren Women had done the like above it Immediately after his Conception she goeth to Hebron where Abraham had his first Land and David his Kingdom There she keeps her swelling Belly undiscried three Months as Moses was hid three Months after he was born Which when her Husband detected he was incensed till like Tamar Gen. xxxviii it was clear she was without Fault In Tisri she brings forth her Son at what time of the Year Sin came into the World and at what time of the Year the solemn Festival of Expiation of Sin was and what time of the Year the great Jubilee-Year began a Type of him who should work Release At two Years old he is visited and worshipped by Wise Men of Persia who among the Records laid up there had found Daniel's Prophecy of the time of the Messiah Dan. ix Upon the Appearance of a new Star they know the time is come and from Persia from whence Cyrus had done Good to Jerusalem they come thither Herod of Esau persecutes Christ into Egypt Whence Pharoah had persecuted Moses least Christ should surprize Herod of his Kingdom as Jacob had done Esau of his Birthright and Blessing For now had Esau shaken off the Yoke of Jacob as Gen. xxvii 40 At twelve Years old Christ shews his Wisdom in the Sanhedrin at which Age Solomon had done his deciding the Matter of the two Harlots At thirty Years old he is baptized and anointed by the Holy Spirit and begins to publish the Gospel At which Age the Priests entred their Office Num. iv Joseph his Honour Gen. xli 46 And David his Kingdom 2 Sam. v. 4 He is tempted as Eve to the Lust of the Flesh the Lust of the Eye and the Pride of Life but overcometh having fasted Forty Days and Nights as did Moses and Elias in Horeb. So did he in the very same place Upon [a] John i. 29 his Return by Jordan John teaches the People That he was the Aim of the Paschal Lamb which every Year and the Offering Lamb which every Day was sacrificed At [b] John ii 9 Cana of Galilee he turneth Water into Wine That beginning with the Elements and changing their Form his working Miracles upon things composed of the Elements might be without Exception So did Moses in his Wonders in Egypt At [c] John ii 14 15. the first Passover after his Baptism he casteth out Buyers and Sellers in the Temple coming to his own House purgeth it and the Sons of Levi Mal. iii. 1 2 3. He [d] John iii. teacheth what the Spirit moving upon the Waters Gen. i. 2 and the Brazen Serpent Num. xxi aimed at In [e] John iv the Valley of Achor Hos. ii 15 he telleth an Adulterous Woman what Hosea's Adulterous Wives represented and briefly and sweetly expoundeth to her all Hosea's Prophecy He [f] Mat. iv chuseth Galileon Disciples of Nepthali who must give goodly Words Gen. xlix and Zebulun and Issachar who must bring Men to God to offer Righteous Sacrifices Deut. xxxiii 19 He healeth Diseases at distance Psal. cxlvii c. He [g] Mat. v. pronounceth the Blessings upon a Mount which upon their Entrance into Canaan should have been pronounced with the Curses and in number but were not Deut. xxviii In his Sermon there he destroyeth the Doctrine of the Scribes Pharisees and Sadduces the three Shepherds whom his Soul hated Zech. xi 8 He [h] Mark iii. 3 would not own his Mother nor acknowledge his Brethren Deut. xxxiii 9 when they went about to hinder the Work of the Lord. He seeks to unite Judah and Israel under one Head Hos. i. 11 by tendring an easie Yoke to them that were parted by the threatning of an heavy 1 King xii He opens his Mouth in Parables as Psal. xlix 2 and from that very Psalm sheweth the State of Luxurious rich Men Luke xvi and giveth more to the Scriptures than to the Words of Apparitions Luke