Murtherer from the beginning but knowing the prohibition commeth to the Woman saying Yea hath God said yee shall not eate of euery Tree in the Garden To whom the Woman answereth saying Wee may eate freely of the fruite of the Trees of the Garden but as for the Tree in the middest of the Garden God hath sayd Yee shall not eate of it nor touch it least happily you die Out of which speaches the Serpent being a Ramping and a roaring Lyon going about seeking how he might deuoure her quickly sucketh aduantage finding her to haue digressed from the wordes of the Commandement adding thereto a tricke of his owne head sayth to the Woman Yee shall not die at all but you shall be as Gods knowing good and euill In that hee saith Gods hee meaneth not the true God for whatsoeuer hee speaketh is to be taken in the worst meaning that can be made of it but he meaneth you shall be in the state of Damnation as Deuils which are called Princes Gods of the World And likely enough that hee touched the Fruite because shee added to the commandement the word touch Now the Woman beholding the fruite that it was Good to eate Pleasaunt to the eyes A tree to be desired to get knowledge She tooke of the fruite did eate gaue also to her husband he did eate These 3. properties aboue are expounded in Iohn Wantonnes of the eies Lust of the flesh The pride of life By reason of which sinne Adam and Eue seeing their owne nakednesse sowed figge-tree leaues together and hidde themselues from the presence of God among the Trees of the garden their soules beeing then in the state of Damnation with a light shining in darknesse but their Darknesse not comprehending the same shewing thereby the weaknesse of their nature and of their posteritie God but a little leauing them to their selues that when they had sinned they had rather hide themselues in Darknesse and seeke to stockes and trees that haue no helpe in them than to God that made them But Dauid afterwards being clothed with the spirit of wisedome and vnderstanding acknowledgeth the power of God to ouer-reach the compasse of mans vaine imagination when he sayth Whither shall I flie from thy presence If I take the winges of the Morning and flie to the vttermost partes of the World thou art there If I climbe vp to Heauen thou art there If I goe downe to Hell thou art there also For God who made the eye shall not he see all the dwellers vpon the earth who hath weighed all men in a ballance numbring the dayes verie haires of the head diuiding to euerie one their double portion according to the fore-purpose of his election being a righteous Iudge sparing not the person of Adam though he were a King and the stateliest King that euer should be but calleth him to account in the coole of the same day wherein he was created and fell punisheth him though not according to the desert of his transgression like a mercifull Iudge that would saue as a Father that pittieth his owne child knowing wherof he was made and that he was but dust sayth to Adam What hast thou done and leauing him to consider of his sinne goeth to the woman in like tendernesse saying What hast thou done as if he should haue said Oh daughter haue I made the heauens the hoast therof that is Angels Sun Moone and Starres c. to be thy seruants and the earth and all that therein is to be obedient to thy call breathing into thy nostrils life whereby thou becamest a liuing soule in the image of God that is in righteousnesse and true holynesse to be a temple and a Tabernacle for the holy of the holyest to dwell in and hast thou defiled the same with fond lusts regarding the wordes of the Serpent the Father of lyes not respecting my power and my seueritie that as I made thy body and soule so I could destroy the same whereby thou hast purchased the execution of my law established at thy creation to thee and thy husband what hast thou done But God hauing examined the matters and finding them both guiltie and the malice of the Serpent to bee the cause of their guiltinesse neuer stayeth iudgement nor vouchsafeth once to reason the matters with him but presently curseth him and punisheth Adam and the woman and curseth for their sakes the earth plants and whole course of nature and made them of obedient seruants rebellious enemies to Adam and his posteritie And because Adam was not deceiued but the woman became into the transgression he maketh her will subiect to the desire of her husband increasing her sorrowes her conceptions Thus he chastiseth them but giueth them not ouer but pronounceth to the woman a short but a pithy sentence That the seede of the woman should breake the head of the Serpent That is to say I will cause one to be borne of the Womans seede which shall subdue the Diuell and the Diuell shall doe his endeavour to trip vp his heeles by tempting him The particulers wherof Adam neglected not to examine and the Woman likewise vnderstanding from hence duly marking and imbracing the same that God had a purpose to saue her gathereth from these wordes matter enough to saue her and all the world after her which receiue like comfort of the same Promise For she rightly vnderstood that this Seede must needs be Christ who must come and take Adams nature vpon him who should be subiect to death that hee might ouercome him that had power of death For she knew and so did Adam that if euer man being but onely man might worke his owne redemption himselfe was likeliest to haue done it because he was the chiefest of all the men that euer should be in the world But Adam beeing the goodliest man and not able to doe it him selfe hee knew it must needs be God who must appeare in the similitude of Adams nature and suffer death that hee might rise againe to sit at the right hand of his Father to make intercession for the Sonnes of Adam They both the Man and the Woman embracing this obtained the fauour of God and Adam called his Wiues name Euah that is Life to shew that whosoeuer beleeued as she beleeued should be partakers of eternall life as it is written Rom. 10.9 Whose confesseth with his mouth and beleeueth with his heart that Iesus Christ is the Sonne of the liuing God hee shall be saued But Adam and Euah were driuen out of Paradise and Cherubines where set to keepe the way of the Tree of life and they were cloathed with Skinnes as it should appeare with the Skinnes of Beastes to shew their beastlinesse which God for them had slaine to offer for sacrifice to teach them the vse thereof For no doubt God would not destroy the beastes to haue them spoyled seeing that Adam was not to eate any And wee see that Kaine Abel offered
his will what we ought to doe to please him and then induceth vs thereunto not onely by hope of eternall life but promiseth vs in this life long and happy dayes as in the eternall Law is expressed Loue God aboue all and thy neighbour as thy selfe that thy dayes may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giueth thee c. Henoch therefore being assured of the infinite mercies of God towards him and his seed by fayth still beholding as in a glasse the Redemption by the Sonne of God the summe of all saluation nameth his sonne Methushelah Long life or Speare-death For euen as the poynt of a Speare keepeth off that which would otherwise destroy euen so Methushelah kept away the Flood a long time from drowning the World But because men should not thinke that any liueth without calamities least outward happines should make men to forget God Methushelah hauing heard his fathers and himselfe also being a Prophet preach of the destruction of the World by the Flood calleth his sonne Lamech that is Stroken or Heart-wounded which is to be vnderstood that in respect that he being neere those times of dangers many of his posteritie were like to be drowned not onely in the flood but eternally tormented for ioyning with the wicked mockers which despised the preaching of the Fathers But although God throweth mens consciences downe for a while with griefe of other mens iust punishment yet he rayseth them vp againe giuing them hope of his assured Promises and a sweete comfort of eternall life Lamech being thus strengthened with the fayth of his Fathers ayming still to the sentence of Saluation pronounced in Paradise calleth his sonne Noah Restorer or Comforter saying This Sonne shall comfort vs concerning the sorrow of our hands and concerning the earth which the Lord hath cursed Wherein he sheweth that he both looked backward to the Creation formard to the Redemption by Christ The Seed of the Woman that should bruse the head of the Serpent Thus much for the vse of the names of the ten Fathers before the Food in generll Now followeth the liues and deaths of the Fathers in particular and first of Adam There is a great doubt made of the time of the yeare of Adams Creation and of the day of his fall and is refused as a thing vnprofitable to be knowne and Vnpossible to be prooued First for the time of his Creation IT is certaine hee was created in September at the time that Fruits be ripe which is at the fall of the Leafe And that was the fittest time seeing in the course of Nature there was no fitter time to expresse the nature of Adams fall And as the fall of Adam was answerable to the fall of the Leafe because by his fall death was brought vpon all So the death of Christ beeing contrary to Adams fall because it brought life to all the fittest time to resemble this life in the course of Nature was the Spring Therefore Christ dyed at the Spring to deliuer vs out of the spirituall Prison when as all thinges shew them-selues to be deliuered out of this earthly Iayle Now for the day of Adams fall IT was on Fryday the sixt day the day of Adams creation at the time of eating For we doe not read that euer Adam did eate before he did eate of the forbidden fruite Therefore when by the storie the time of eating cannot be seperated in time reason sheweth vs to ioyne them in time For Satan was a murderer from the beginning and wee must bring it from the beginning as neare as can be not crossing any Scripture The searching of this matter is not of small importance For from the true vnderstanding of the Creation we see the clearenes of the Redemption and not marking the Creation aright is the cause of much folly and they that misse of the lawes of Creation are sure to misse of the lawes of Redemption and Moses making mention of many Times hee would not haue omitted the time of the Fall except it had been done presently after the Creation therefore Adams fall must needs be layd as neere the beginning as may be not crossing the Storie The bare Narration sheweth that no famous action went betweene the Commandement and the Fall And the shortnesse of the time doth shew the force of the Aduersarie Besides it is a great sinne to say that any man except Christ could fulfill perfectly any one poynt of the Law for thereby we darken the glory of Christ and prooue him not to haue performed the whole Law If Adam had continued vntill the Sabaoth in his innocencie no doubt he would haue kept a perfect Sabaoth And if he had kept a perfect Sabaoth he had performed some part of the Law and thereby been partaker with Christ in the worke of our Redemption Againe if Adam had continued in the image of God which is in righteousnesse and true holinesse vntill the Sabaoth he would haue performed the ordinances of the Sabaoth which was to eate of the Tree of life for God after his fall setteth Cherubins to keepe the way of the Tree of life least Adam eating should liue for euer Whereby it appeareth that if he had eaten thereof before he had not fallen Therefore it cannot be that Adam continued perfect vnto the Sabaoth And further it is written Psal 49.20 Adam beeing in honour continueth not one night but is like to the Beastes that perish Cedrenus a Greeke writer sayth That Adam fell the sixt day of the first weeke Saint Augustine sayth The Woman straight way after her creation before she accompanied with Adam became into the transgression otherwise Kaine had been conceaued without sinne Theophilact vpon Matthew sayth That as Man was formed the sixt day and did eate of the Tree the sixt houre so Christ reforming Man and healing the fall was fastned to the Tree the sixt day and the sixt houre And in the storie of the Creation in Genesis presently after the fall Moses speaketh of the Redemption And without we compare the Creation with the Redemption we misse of all For Adam to be compared with Christ is the summe of all And wherefore should all the actions of the Redemption be accomplished in such rarenesse except to be answerable both to the fall and to the time of the fall Wherefore it is needfull we should know our thraldome if we will receiue comfort by the Redeemer thus First Christ the Restorer was borne of a Virgin Why Because by a Virgin destruction came to the world Chrysostome compareth Eue and Marie togeather thus Eue being a Virgin hearing the wordes of the Serpent and beleeuing them brought foorth Death The Virgin Marie hearing the wordes of the Angel Gabriel and beleeuing them brought foorth Life Againe why should Christ die on the sixt day rather then on the fifth or fourth And why was there darkenesse vntill the coole of the day rather then till the Sunne setting But to make the
striuing for darknes we become children of darknes so lose the light of eternall life as the Iewes and Romanes did whose recompence hath followed The one depriued of their earthly glorie the other aduanced to glorie to be a staine of eternall damnation In the begining was the word c. Iohn 1.1 THese words In the beginning are the first wordes in the old Testament whose first word in the Hebrew is Bara which consisteth according to the Hebrew of three letters which closely conteine in them Father Sonne and Holie Ghost as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for Ben which singnifieth Sonne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for Abba which is Father and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for Ruach Hakodesh which is the Holy spirit Thus the Trinity is closely contained in the first word but in the first verse is expressed in open wordes In the beginning God made heauen and earth and the spirit of God mooued vpon the waters and God said Let there be light This is expounded Iohn 1.1 in these wordes In the beginning was the Word the Word was with God and that Word was God shewing that Word in this place is taken for the Sonne of God by whom he made the world as Iohn 1.3 By him were all things created And Heb. 1.2 God made all things by his Sonne who ruleth all things by his mightie power Wherefore Christ in the dayes of his flesh chose the trade of a Carpenter Iohn 6.42 Math. 13.55 And in Esay 43.10 It is sayd This record you must beare me your selues saith the Lord that I am God and euen he I am from the beginning I doe the worke who shall let it Thus saith the Lord the holy one our redeemer Wherein is distinctly expressed Father Sonne and Holy Ghost He was the Light and that Light was the life of man Iohn 1.4 LIfe and light is not here carnally meant but spiritually To which two thinges Aaarons Iewell of Vrim and Thummim had a full relation Vrim signifying Light of the minde Thummim Perfection of vertue which bringeth life to the soule As Iohn 1.9 Christ is the true light that lightneth euery man And hee that abideth in this light hath euerlasting life 1. Iohn 1.5 God is light and in him is no darknes at all If wee walke in light euen as he is light then haue we fellowship with him and the blood of Iesus Christ shall giue vs life and cleanse vs from our sinne We the gentiles were darknes but now are light in the Lord. Ephes 5.8 The vnderstanding of the stories of the Bible doth giue a great light to the mind of man and the practise giueth life vnto euery one that embraceth them as Deut. 8.3 and Mat. 4.4 Man liueth not by bread onely but by euery word which proceedeth out of the mouth of God The despisers of religion continue in darknesse and light to them is death as 1. Iohn 2. 9. He that saith hee is in light and hateth his brother is in darknesse and walketh in darknesse and knoweth not whither he goeth because the darknesse hath blinded his eies 1. Iohn 5.11 But God hath giuen vs eternall life and that life is in his Sonne who layed downe his life for his Sheepe Iohn 10.15 Wherefore while wee haue light let vs walke beleeue in the light that we may be the children of the light Iohn 12.36 The first Adam was made of the Earth earthly c. The second was made a soule giuing life c. HEre before the comparison betweene Adam and Christ we are to consider the Creation wherein we are to vnderstand the Creation of the Heauen Earth and Sea all the hoast of them which doe consist of Wightes visible and inuisible Inuisible as Angels Visible as Sunne Moone Starres Fishes Fowles Plants Hearbs Grasse Beastes and such like which God created before he created Adam by Christ for Adams sake because he purposed not to take the nature of Angels or of any other creature but of Adam and that he might be knowne in his power and louing kindnesse to Adam by his workes For he fore-purposing to make Adam both King and Father of all the Earth would not haue his wittes entangled with cares for this life but to haue his affections setled on heauenly things that he might continue holy and blamelesse before him as Mat. 6.25 Take no care what you shall eate or what you shall drinke nor yet for your body what rayment you shall put on Behold the Fowles neither sow nor reape and your heauenly Father feedeth them Are yee not much better then they How much more then shall he doe the same for you For he knoweth yee haue need of all these thinges But first seeke the Kingdome of God and his righteousnesse Math 6.33 For no mans life standeth in the aboundance of thinges which he possesseth Now followeth Adams creation HEe was made the sixt day as it is gathered in September of the dust of the earth vpon Mount Moriah which is a Mountaine adioyning to the gates of the Garden of Eden into which Garden hee was put to dresse it about sixe of the clocke in the morning as we account when men commonly goe to labour as should appeare by the Psal 104.23 where it is said Adam goeth foorth in the morning to his labour This is not particularly meant of Adam but generally of all men no doubt alluding to the time of Adams creation Hee had dominion giuen him ouer all things and witte like to an Angell to giue names to all Beastes free libertie to eate of all the Trees in the Garden The Tree of knowledge of good and ill onely excepted As if God should haue said vnto him as Moses afterwardes sayd to the Children of Israel I set heere before you life and death eate of the one and liue and eate of the other and die eternally Yet could not he be content with this glorious estate but did eate of the forbidden Fruite by the perswasion of the Woman which God framed out of Adams Ribbe and ioyned to him to be an helpe for him before they had continued in Paradice one day as it is written Psal 49.20 Adam being in honour continueth not a night but is like to the Beastes that perish which Woman was deceiued by the subtiltie of a Serpent that is of the Deuill speaking in a Serpent which Beast was fittest to possesse to the deceiuing of her because he excelled all other Beastes in the Field in witte For if an Asse had sayd so much to her as did the Serpent it is very likely shee would haue examined the cause further But hee hauing once been an Angell of light but not keeping his first originall being throwne downe from Heauen continuing his knowledge though he lost his vertue was not to seeke either for meanes matter or oportunitie enuying their estates to bring his murtherous purpose to passe for so is he called the Serpent the old Deuill or Satan who was a
both striuing in her wombe asketh counsell what should become of her The question is of whom Sem beeing dead it is manifest either of Heber or of Abraham Thus you may see that without the knowledge of the times wee could not auoide these errours SARAH borne SArah is the same in signification that Iiscah is for Sarah signifieth Queene So doth Iiscah Her name was afterwards called Sarai that is My Queene Shee is thought to bee Iiscah the Daughter of Haran and so shee is for Abraham calleth Lot Brother which could not be but in respect of marriage for Lot was the sonne of Haran and brother to Iiscah therefore in that meaning Abram speaketh truely You haue a verie easie reckoning of the times if you begin at Sarahs fifteenth yeare of age when she was fit as is were to bee a Tabernacle for Abraham From Sarahs 15. yeare of age to the building of Moses Tabernacle 480. These comparisons prooue the Prouidence of god to be plaine and his counsell easie Frō thence to the Building of Salomons temple 480. Third of Cyrus when the Proclamation went forth for building the seconde Temple 480. Gouernment of Pontius Pilate in whose time Christ built his spirituall Temple 480. These comparisons prooue the Prouidence of god to be plaine and his counsell easie Regu died being 239. yeares old Serug died being 230. yeares old The Promise is giuen to Abraham at his 75. yeare of age THat is Christ is promised to Abraham after the flesh Gen. 12.3 430. yeares before the giuing of the Law The Promise to Adam in Paradise and to Sem after the Flood is heere renewed to Abraham when hee is 75. yeares old so many yeares olde as there bee Fathers of Christ from Adam to Iosepth Saint Matthew beginning at Abraham reckoneth them but 42. that is three Fourteenes or six Seuens but Saint Luke reckoning them bringeth Christ from Adam and sheweth their number to be 75. Saint Matthews meaning was to prooue him King of the Iewes and Saint Luke to shew that he is the Seede of the woman Seuentie fiue hath in it Ten Seuens and Fiue the number of the letters of Iebouah God changeth Abrams name from Abram to Abraham of Haman a Multitude because in him all the Nations and multituds of the earth should bee blessed like vnto Noah a new Comforter Hee left his Countrey and his fathers house and went to a Land which God would shew him so Saint Paul teacheth saying By fayth Abraham when he was called obeyed God to got into a place which he should after receiue for an inheritance and he went out not knowing whither he went In this faith Moses a high Sonne refused to be called the Sonne of Pharaohs Daughter Saint Luke testifieth of him Act. 7.2 That the God of glorie appeared to our Father Abraham when hee was in Mesopotamia before he dwelt in Charran and sayd vnto him Get the out of thy Country frō thy kindred come into a Land that I shall shew thee Then came he out of the Land of Chaldea and dwelt in Charran and from thence when his Father was dead hee brought him into the Land of Canaan but he had no inheritance in it no not the breadth of a foote Yet God promised that hee would giue it him to possesse and to his seede after him when as yet he had no Childe Wherefore Beleeuing in God it was counted to him for righteousnesse For the promise to Abraham that hee should bee the heire of the world was not giuen him or his seede through the law but through the righteousnesse of fayth Rom. 4. In Nehem. 9.7.8 You haue there in the prayer of Nehemiah an abridgement of all this Storie how the Lord chose Abram and brought him out of Vr of the Chaldees and called him Abraham and found his heart faithfull and made a couenant with him to giue his seede the Land c. S. Paul in Act. 17. reasoneth with the men of Athens thus You Grecians you are of Iapheth that your Countrey is Ionia and yee are the Sonnes of the earth Be it knowne vnto you that God at the first made all mankind of one blood to dwell on all the face of the earth and assigned the seasons which were ordained before and the boundes of their habitations for he deuided vnto them the Land according to the number of the Sonnes of Israel Now ye Heathen your owne Poets say yee are the generation of God and wee may obserue that in all the Ceremonies of Moses there is a great preuiledge laid downe for the Heathen and it is sayd by saint Paul God which iustifieth the wicked euen Abram being an Idolater The Gentiles are no worse therefore they haue no cause to despaire And where it is said in this storie of Abraham that he forsooke his father his fathers house Saint Steuen Act. 7.4 sheweth that it was at the time his father was dead for otherwise it had been an hard example and Gods actions must bee so wisely disposed that the verie Heathen must acknowledge them to be iust which they would not haue done if he had left his father he being aliue It is further added that Abraham was rich hee was of behauiour quiet for to auoide strife and contention betwixt his Shepheards the Shepheards of Lot he willed him to choose whether he would take to the right hand or to the left Lot choseth the best for eie sight though by the close counsell of God ordering his choise it prooued farre contrarie Abraham was politique for he had 318. Souldiers of his owne family which he himselfe had instructed and he vsed recreation and in curiositie did not contemne it for otherwise he could not haue made his men so expert warriours and surely there is nothing disturbeth religion more then curiositie Hee was a stately man and couragious and had authoritie of life and death els could hee not haue kept so many in good order His moderation appeareth also in that he suffered Sara to rule at home he was politique in choosing the night to set on his enemies for seeing hee was in the fauour of God he was sure he could not walke in darkenesse and it was the fittest time to make his enemies afraid Melchisedech King of Salem a figure of the Sonne of God meeteth Abraham IT is a question who this Melchisedech should bee It is most certaine it is Sem the sonne of Noah Which may be gathered from the circumstance of the Storie being modestly expounded Heb. 7.1 This Melchisedech king of Salem mette Abraham as he returned from the slaughter of the Kings to whom also Abraham gaue tithes of all thinges first he is called by interpretation King of Righteousnesse and after that King of Salem that is to say King of Peace without Father without Mother without kindred and hath neither beginning of dayes nor end of life but is likened to the Sonne of God Hee was Without
Yet notwithstanding all these Blessinges of God vpon Ioseph to shew that euen the best haue their infirmities his Vertues were darkened very much in that he marrieth an Egiptian woman Gen. 41.50 Which was altogeather vnlawfull For Esau before doing the like is blamed and Rebecca hauing an speciall care ouer Iacob least hee should commit the like wickednesse sendeth him to Laban to choose a Wife of his owne kindred Abraham had the like care for Isaacke And Moses afterwards forbids it by a Law thereby confirming the vnlawfulnesse thereof Seauen hundred yeares after is this sinne punished in Israel for Ieroboam receiued Religion of Egipt and maketh two Calues whereby all Israel became Ipolaters FINIS The Table Page IEhouah The signification and efficacie Page 1. The Wisedome Power and eternitie of God Page 1.2 Our God Page 2. The Trinitie described Page 3. Of Election Page 4.5 The effect of Election Page 6.7 In the fulnesse of time all shall be brought vnder one head Page 9.10 In the beginning was the word c. expounded Page 11. Hee was the Light c. what is meant by it Page 12. The Creation of the World Page 13. Adams creation the day the houre and place with the time and continuance in Paradise c. Page 14.15 What is meant by the Seede of the Woman c. Page 17. Adam and Eue driuen out of Paradise Page 18. Of Kaine and Abels offeringes with the signification of their names agreeing with their conditions Page 18.19 Also the interpretation vse of the names of the Fathers from Adam to Noah Page 19.20.21.22 The time of the yeare and day of Adams creation Page 23.24.25 Adams death and the place where Page 26.27 Christ compared with Adam Page 28.29 Of the number one Page 29. Of three Page 30. Of foure Page 31. Of fiue Page 32. Of sixe Page 32. Of seuen Page 32.33.34 Of eight Page 34. Of ten Page 34.35 Of twelue Page 35. Of Seth borne and what vse of him Page 36. Seth compared with Christ Page 37. Of Enoâ—h and what of him Page 37. Of Kenan Page 38. Of Mahalaleel Page 38.39 Of Jared Page 40.41 Of Henoch Page 41.42.43 Of Henoch compared with Christ Page 44. Of Methuâ—helah Page 45. Of Lamech Page 46. Of Noah Page 47. Of Noah compared with Christ Page 47 48. When Noah began the Arke the place and how long in building Page 48. Of Japhet and the signification of his name Page 52. 67. Of Sem and his name Page 53. 68. Of the Flood and the thinges to be considered thereby Page 54.55.56 Christ and the Arke compared togeather Page 57. The time of the continuance of the Flood Page 59. Adam and Noah compared togeather Page 62. Of Cham and his issue Page 64.65.66 Of Heber and his name with the rare vse of his Storie Page 69.70.71 Of Peleg and the rare vse of him Page 72.73.74 Of the birth of Abraham and his name Page 77. A question discussed about Terabs age when he begat Abraham Page 78.79 Of Sarah and the signification of her name Page 81. The Promise giuen to Abraham Page 82. Melchisedech shewed to be Sem. Page 84.85 Of Ismael and his Storie Page 87.88 Of Jsaacks birth and name Page 89. Of Jsaacks age when Jsmael flouted him Page 92. Of Jsaacks age when he was to be sacrificed answerable to Christs death Page 93. Jsaacks compared with Christ Page 95. Esau and Jacob borne with their stories depending Page 96.97 c. Jsaacks blindnesse a great blessing to the children of God Page 100.101 Jacob goeth to Laban Page 103. Jacob in his iourney seeth a Ladder the interpretation thereof Page 104. Jacobs Wiues and Children with the interpretation of their names Page 105.106 Jacobs departure from Laban and his wrestling with God Page 106.107 Josephs Dreame and his selling into Egypt Page 108. Iacobs iourney into Egypt Page 110.111 Iacob dieth in Egypt Page 112. The Iournies of Abraham Iacob Iocobs sonnes and Christ compared togeather Page 113. Of the place where Jacob died Page 114. Of Iacobs Will the blessing of his Children according to the worthinesse of their tribes and posteritie to come Page 115.116.117 118.119.120 Of Iosephs death and of his excellent worthinesse Page 120.121 The Figures in the margent are the yeares of the world FINIS Apoc. 12.11 Iohn 8. 44. 930. 130. 1042. 235. 1140. 325. 1235. 395. 1290. 460. 1422. 622. 987· 687. 1656. 874. 1651. 1056. 1535. 1536. 1556. 1558. 1656. 1658. 1693. 1723. 1757. 1996. 1997. 2006. 2008. 20 2026. 2049. 2083. 430. 2090. 2094. 2096. 2108. 1. Chro. 2.35 Ier. 41.2 2126. 2140. 2145. 2148. 2158. 2168. 2183. 2188. 2231. 2245. 20. 2260. 2255. 2264. 2276.17 2280. 2288. 2298.17 215. 1298. 2315. 2369