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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

since the Ruin of their Commonwealth our Doctor was very Inquisitive after and wisht some Learned Pen would give the World a fair Account of But to prevent the swelling of this Volume it was thought convenient to omit this Piece However for a Taste I cannot but remark to the Reader how that Jewish Author sets forth the Calamities and Unmerciful Destructions that befel that People in the Year 1096. That Year he writes was a Year of Affliction of Jacob. For they were opprest in the Lands of the Christians in all Places whither they were scattered For great and evil Afflictions found them out even such are Written in the Law of Moses and such as are not written in the Book For against them arose up these abominable People the Germans and French Men a Nation strong of Face which respecteth not Persons nor spareth Old nor Young Let us say they avenge the Cause of our Christ upon the Jews that are among us and cut them off from being a People neither let the Name of Israel be remembred any more Or let them Change their Glory and become like to us When the Synagogues which were in Germany heard this headlong Rumour their Heart melted and became as Water Fear took hold of them sorrow as a Woman in Travail They lift up their Hearts to the Rocks They appointed Fastings They put Dust upon their Heads and Girded with Sackcloth And they cryed unto the Lord in their Affliction but he covered himself with a Cloud that their Prayers should not pass Then he proceeded to shew the Massacres and Spoils committed upon the Jews in all or most of the Cities and Places where they had Synagogues as at Spires Worms Mentz Colen Wabzlak Meir Trevir Metz Prague and many other Towns And how their Flights from Place to Place and some●imes to the Bishop's House for their safety could not secure them but were pursued and slain with Fire and Sword Whereupon he makes this Conclusion Thus whithersoever they fled the Stone out of the Wall cryed after them to confound and destroy them For God had given Liberty to the Destroyers to Destroy in those evil Days And one Circumstance in these Miseries of the Jews deserves to be more particularly observed which methinks is a singular Evidence of the Judgment of God upon that People who once called for Christ's Blood upon them and theirs that they were not only slaughtered by their Enemies but that no small Numbers unnaturally perished by laying Violent Hands upon themselves and their nearest Relations And this either to avoid being slain with the Sword of their Enemies or to expiate with their own Blood any Compliances they had constrainedly made Thus at Spires he mentioneth a Woman who took a Knife and slew her self refusing to be defiled that is to become a Christian At Worms where Eight Hundred Souls were Massacred in two Days many slew themselves and each one his Brother and Friend and Son and Daughter Bridegrooms and Brides Nay the tender Women slew their Children with all their Hearts saith the Author and all their Souls and the Children said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Hear O Israel Which was the beginning of one of their Prayers when their Soul poured it self into their Mothers Bosom The like was done at Mentz and at Rincona two Men escaped who were forceably defiled one Named Vri and the other Isaac the Son of David Parnes and his Two Daughters were with him but they returned unto the Lord. And Isaac slew his Daughters on the Even of the Feast of Weeks His House also he set on Fire And thus saith this Jew he offered a Burnt Offering unto the Lord. And he and Vri went into the Congregation of the Lord i. e. the Synagogue set on fire it seems by the Enemy before the Ark and Died there before the Lord as the Fire ascended At Wabzlag they slew every one his Fellow lest the Christians should abuse them in the Pools of Water which were round about the City And one Named Rabbenu Samuel who had one only Son this Young Man bared his Neck and the Old Man took a Knife and blessed over the Slaughter and slew him And the Young Man Answered Amen And all they that stood by Answered and said Hear O Israel Much more to this purpose is related there of the deplorable state of that People at this time which he saith he transcribed partly out of the Commentaries of Rabbi Eliezer I have but one thing more to add and so shall conclude this tedious Preface which possibly may not be unacceptable to the Lovers of Dr. Lightfoot and his Studies to be informed of That besides these Tracts now offered to the Publick the last Year several other Posthumous Pieces of his were Printed in Holland in Latin b●ing a new Addition to his other Works as was hinted in the beginning These were to the Number of XXI Consisting of Some Learned Thoughts of the Greek Translation of the Bible by the Seventy An Inlet into the Talmud and a Summary of the remarkable Matters contained in it by way of Index Some Remarks of the Places and Towns of the Holy Land A Tract of the Spirit of Prophesie as it was among the Jews and afterwards ceased Some memorable Matters under Ezra and that which was styled the Great Synagogue An History of the Jewish University at Japhne that is Joppa Short Talmudical Notes upon Genesis Exodus Numbers and Joshua Some Annotations to be inserted into his Horae Hebraicae Talmudicae in their proper Places A Sermon in Latin Preached at Ely at an Episcopal Visitation before Bishop Lany in the Year 1674. that is the last Year but one of the Doctor 's Life Some of his Exercises at the Commencement Anno 1655. when he was Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge All these were writ by him in Latin The Pieces following were in English but Translated into Latin viz. A short Tract of the Creation The Motions and Stations of Israel through the Wilderness towards the Land of Canaan A short and plain Exposition of some of the first Chapters of Hosea A Dissertation whether the Supper in which Judas received the Sop were the Passover Supper Another Discourse whether the Revelation was wrote by the Apostle St. John or some other John An Enumeration of the Promises of God collected out of the Old Prophets to be fulfilled to the Jews in the latter Days An Enquiry into St. James's Liturgy Some Fragments of Roman and Christian History for the first Four Centuries Lastly A Collection of Letters of Learned Men and upon Learned Subjects to Dr. Lightfoot among which is a Letter of the Learned John Buxtorph from Basil to Dr. Lightfoot and another from the Doctor to him And thus beseeching God to encrease the Number of such useful and good Men as this Reverend Divine was I commend the Reader and my self to God I. S. It is fit the Reader be Advertised that whereas there be two References noted by

is substance in the things he delights in And Secondly a Christian's Delight in what he does is not founded in his own Mind but in the Mind of God This is the Will of God even your Sanctification And he applies to it 2. What Profit does all our Fooling and wantonness bring What Fruit had ye in those things whereof ye are now ashamed A serious Christian is bettered by his Holy Employment A Gamesom Wanton what is he bettered when his Foolishness is over It is woful to spend Time and Self when the Issue is nothing but Wind Nay it is well if it be nothing else But in Truth it is Guilt and Sorrow Israel Sows the Wind and Reaps the East Wind viz. That that Blasts and Withers A Toyish Wanton when he comes to Die then he looks in his Right Hand and what finds he there Nothing but a Lie Did Abner die as a Fool Intimating what it is to Die such an one Unhappy he whose Wits come not to him till he is Dying And then all his Wisdom is to see that he hath been a Fool. 3. There is great Difference between Wantonness and lawful Mirth and Recreation These are allowed to Christians both for Body and Mind But where is any allowance of Lightness or Fooling There is Difference betwixt making some Sport a Recreation and a Trade betwixt Honest Moderate Mirth and Talk to recreate the Mind and foolish Talking God hath allowed to recreate and be merry but then the End is to be better fitted to serve God after If Wantonness have that End too let that be shewed also But what Wanton ever aimed at that Recreation also is to be but for a Time How many are there that are Idle and Sport and do nothing else And what say we to them that make Sporting and Wantonness and Foolish Talking their Trade Such as Stage-Players Fools in Plays Common Fidlers Common Dancers upon the Sabbath But Gravity becomes Christians II. Having spoken concerning Wantonness as opposed to Christian Gravity now we shall Consider it as opposed to Chastity A Degree worse because coincident with Lasciousness an inlet to Uncleanness the very Bawd of Filthiness and Fornication For so the Apostle makes it Rom. xiii 13 14. Not in Rioting and Drunkenness not in Chambering and Wantonness But put ye on the Lord Jesus and make not Provision for the Flesh to fulfil the Lusts thereof Of this there are Divers sorts Of every one of which we may say it is a Cockatrice Egg every one of them a Venemous Brood which if it be let alone will break out into Uncleanness nay is so already I remember a Saying of the Jews A Serpent be he never so little dash in pieces for he is a Serpent So these it behoves a Christian to dash betimes for they cannot but prove Serpentine and Deadly I. There is Wantonness in Heart When the Heart Frisks and Frolicks in Unclean Thoughts And Men and Women Delight in it and let it alone How does many a Heart feed its Delight with walking in his Thoughts in the Garden of Pleasure sporting with such Company as is Lascivious realizing the delight at least of Sin to themselves though all but in Fancy How many commit Whoredom with their own Hearts As the Body may be Chaste tho' defiled in Rape because the Mind was Chaste so the Mind may be Unchaste though the Body want opportunity to commit Lust. It is sad when a Man forbears only to Act Sin for want of Opportunity There should be another Bond to restrain us from Sin than barely the want of Opportunity It may be a Riddle a Man Acts Sin before he Acts it and when he hath Acted it though he Acted it not So a Man by these wanton Thoughts commits Uncleanness with his Heart before he comes to his Whore And he commits it again when past by Delighting to think of it again As he that chews the Cud when he hath done Eating II. There is the Wantonness of the Eyes Esay iii. 16 The Daughters of Zion walk with stretched out Necks and Wanton Eyes Or high Looks and wanton The Chaldee reads Painted The Greek and Vulgar 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nutibus oculorum The nodds of the Eyes The Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Deceiving with their Eyes as it is in the Margin They lay Snares with their Eyes to catch others to satisfie their Lusts Eyes that commit Adultery Matt. v. 28 Whosoever looketh on a Woman to Lust after her hath committed Adultery with her in his Heart Nay 2 Pet. ii 14 Having Eyes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 full of a Whore A Whore hath taken Lodging in them filled them that they can look at nothing else Do I need to tell what this Wantonness is It is twofold or of a twofold Acting 1. Eyes talking Lasciviously to our own Hearts looking wantonly on Man or Woman and desiring after them and wishing to one's Heart the enjoyment of them Thus Shechem was taken by looking upon Dinah Gen. xxxiv 2 And Amnon by his own Sister Therefore Solomon's Counsel is good Prov. vi 25 Lust not after her Beauty in thine heart Neither let her take thee with her Eye-lids And Job xxxi 1 Made a Covenant with his Eyes Why then saith he should I think upon a Maid 2. Eyes talking Lasciviously with others Eyes Wanton Glances 'twixt Men and Women catching each other with their Eyes See Prov. vi 13 He winketh with his Eyes speaketh with his Feet teacheth with his Fingers Too common such wanton Passages I would it were not too common in the Church And too many make nothing of it Thus they like the Fly Playing with the Candle till at last her Wings are burnt at it The workmanship of the Eye is admirable but it is miserable that it should be employed to so unworthy a use It is better we were born Blind than to make no better use of our Sight 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Hebrew word for an Eye signifies a Fountain It speaks Water But it is so apt to kindle Fire that it seems to be a B●rning Glass Yet it ought rather to be a Fountain to weep for its Sins as Jeremiah wished his Ch. ix 1 Oh that my Head were Waters and mine Eyes a Fountain of Tears Did this Man Sin say the Disciples to Christ concerning the Blind Man that he was born Blind It may sadden one 's Heart to think that Men should Sin by seeing using Eyes to the destruction of the Soul which God gave us for the good both of Soul and Body How comfortable is the Sight of the Eyes What excellent Ends was this Sense given us for To look upon and Contemplate the Works of God c. But Wantonness spoils all One said that he was made Ut coelum intuear i. e. To look upon Heaven So David makes use of his Eyes Psal. viii 3 When I consider thy Heavens c. How contrary is this use of them to use them to wanton