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A57377	Clavis Bibliorum The key of the Bible, unlocking the richest treasury of the Holy Scriptures : whereby the 1 order, 2 names, 3 times, 4 penmen, 5 occasion, 6 scope, and 7 principall parts, containing the subject-matter of every book of Old and New Testament, are familiarly and briefly opened : for the help of the weakest capacity in the understanding of the whole Bible / by Francis Roberts ...	Roberts, Francis, 1609-1675.; Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1648 (1648)	Wing R1583; ESTC R20707	139,238	403

prophecy from the al-knowing God could foretell these things to come Isa● 41.22 2. In the propheticall expressions of it it is consonant to other propheticall books and gives light to them Daniel Zechariah especially Ezekiel As in the particulars of eating up the Book Rev. 10.9 10. with Ezek. 2.8 and 3.3 of sealing Gods promise Rev. 7.2 3. with Ezek. 9. of the foure living Creatures Rev. 4.6 7. with Ezek. 1.5.6 of Gog and Magog Rev. 20.8 with Ezek 38.2 and 39.1 of the measuring of the Temple and City Rev. 21.15 with Ezek. 40.3 c. Of the two olive trees c. Rev. 11.4 with Zech. 4.3 11 14. c. 3. Many things foretold in this Book prophetically are fulfilled and come to passe actually As Interpreters have observed in many particulars Therefore this Book is of divine Authority Ierem. 28.9.4 Promise of explaining how long the Idolatrous and Tyrannicall Kingdome of Anti-Christ should last was made to Daniel the Prophet Dan. 12.4 9. which some conceive to be fulfilled in these Apocalypticall visions Rev. c. 11. and 12. and 13. and 17. c. And had not Christ under the New Testament left his Church some propheticall Record for her comfort against the horrid cruelty idolatry and darknesse of the Anti-christian Dominion showing when it should have an end and how happy at last the Church should be all her enemies being universally made the footstool of the Lambe she were in a worse condition then under the Old Testament which were absurd 4. As the Holy Ghost by Moses the first Penman of the Canon of the Old Testament warned the Jewes against adding to or diminishing from the word of God yee shall not adde unto the word which I command you neither shall you diminish from it Deut. 9.2 and 12.32 So by the Apostle Iohn the last Penman of the Canon of the New Testament Iesus Christ warneth all persons that heare the words of this Prophecy If any man shall adde unto these things God shall adde unto him the plagues that are written in this Book And if any man shall take away from the words of the Book of this Prophecy God shall take away his part out of the Book of Life and out of the Holy City and from the things which are written in this Book Rev. 22.18 19. By which severe Commination the integrity and divine Authority of this Book is asserted by Christ against all whom Christ foresaw would either indeavour to infringe the Authority of it or corrupt the purity of it Hereby then the whole divine Canon is sealed up as fully now compleat and divinely Authenticall after which we are to expect no more Scripture from God 5. The generall current of best Antiquity except some few particular persons and divers of them guilty of such heresies as this Book condemnes hath embraced this Book and accounted it of divine Authority As those formerly cited to prove Iohn the Apostle to be Penman of it and many more that might be enumerated As that ancient Ancyran Councel held before the Nicene in Append. as also the third Councell of Carthage Can. 47. Cyprian frequently alledges the Revelation among the other Canonicall bookes as De exhort martyrum c. 8. c. 11. c. 12. Testimon Advers Iudaeos l. 2. c. 1. Sect. 3.6 11. c. 6. The Cavils and Objections against the divine Authority of this Book reckoned up by Erasmus or others how weak and unsatisfactory they are may appeare in severall writers who have confuted them Especially vid. Bez. Prolegom in Apocylaps Ioannis and Gerh. loc Com. De scrip sac in exeges cap. 10. Sect. 294. ad sin cap. Excellency of this Book is most considerable For 1. The conveyance of it at first to the Church is singular From God to Iesus Christ From Iesus Christ to an Angel From the Angel to Iohn whom Jesus peculiarly loved above all his Apostles and Disciples Rev. 1.1 And this to Iohn when in exile for Christ in the Isle Patmos and that not on a common day but on the Lords day the Queen of dayes and ●o Iohn in Patmos on the Lords day not in an ordinary but extraordinary composure and elevation of his soule when he was in the spirit caught up as it were and transported in an holy extasie and spirituall Rapture that he might the more attend to these mysteries revealed and have more immediate un-interrupted Communion with Jesus Christ the Revealer Rev. 1 9 10. c. what can all this import but some singularly eminent treasure for the Church in this book whereby the Church in her deepest tribulation may be with Iohn spiritually intransed and ravished with many surpassing grounds of joy and consolation 2. The stile is stately and sublime and may wonderfully take the highest notion The expressions quick piercing and patheticall and may pleasingly penetrate the dullest affection The whole contexture is so full of divine majesty that it commands an awfull Reverence in all gracious hearts that read it 3. The matter of it is most heavenly and spirituall and that in exceeding great variety notably describing the Divinity of Christ His offices and the benefits of them clearly pointing out Anti-Christs Seate Tyranny Rise Growth Power Acts and Fall and most lively delineating the Churches condition what it was in the Primitive times after Christ and what it should be afterwards till the worlds end how sad yet s●fe under Anti-christs dominion how sweet and happy after Anti-Christs destruction how comfortable at the day of judgement and how glorious in heaven with Iesus Christ for evermore What Saint would not thirst much to read and here more to understand but most of all to enjoy these things Some of them are laid downe most mystically in abstruse visions to exercise the judgements of the wisest some more familiarly to succour the infirmity even of the weakest In some places the Lamb may wade in others the Elephant may swim Those prevent contempt these anticipate discouragement Ioao●imus Abbas prefers this Prophecy before the Prophecy of all other Prophets Beza saith That those things in other Prophets which were not fulfilled after Christs coming the holy spirit hath heaped them all together in this precious book and also added others so farre as was needfull or usefull for the Church to know them Bez. Prolegom in Apoc. Oecolampadius cals this book The best Paraphrast of all the Prophets Ioh. Oecolamp Praefat. in Dani●l Hierome saith Apocalypsis tot habet sacramenta quot verba Parum dixi pro merito voluminis laus omnis inferior est in verbis singulis multiplices latent intelligentiae i. e. The Revelation hath as many mysteries as words It s but a little I say all praise is too low for the merit of this volume manifold understandings lie hid in every word Hieron in Epist. ad Paulin. 4. The Book it selfe is compleat capable of no Addition or Detraction but upon severest Penalties Rev. 22.18.19 5. The Penman Eminent viz. John that beloved disciple

2. Of Iacobs being there Where note his conference with Pharaoh c. 47. His blessing of Ioseph c. 48. His Propheticall benedictions to all his sonnes c. 49. Consequents upon Iacobs death c. 50. Exodus EXODUS i. e. Going-out or Departure so called by the Greek because it declares Israels Departure out of Egypt after they had been long-oppressed there under Tyrannicall servitude In Heb. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 veelleh schemoth i. e. And these are the names Exod. 1.1 Scope To set forth Gods governing and ordering of his Church now reduced and united into one body out of all the severall families of Israel This is the Church in the wildernesse Act. 7.38 Exodus is an History from the death of Ioseph till the erecting of the Tabernacle for about 142. years viz. From death of Ioseph to the birth of Moses 60 years As Iunius computes Annot. in Ex. From Moses birth to the Departure out of Egypt 80 years Exod. 7.7 From the departure out of Egypt to the erecting of the Tabernacle two years Exod. 40.17 in the second yeare viz. the second yeare after their coming out of Egypt Iun. Annotat. Principal Parts of this Book Exodus contains an Historicall Narration of I. Gods Actions for Israels deliverance out of Egypt Things done of God were Before In or After Israels deliverance I. Before their deliverance are 1. His permission of the Egyptian Tyranny over them which was the occasion of the deliverance c. 1. 2. His Preparation both of Instruments and Actions for deliverance 1. Of Instruments viz. Moses who is Borne c. 2. Called c. 3. Aaron c. 4. 2. Of Actions viz. Words c. 5.6 Signes both Confirming their words c. 7. and Punishing the Egyptians for not letting Israel go with ten plagues viz. 1 Turning water into blood c. 7. 2 Frogs 3 Lice 4 And a mixed swarme of Flyes c. 8. 5 Pestilence 6 Boyles 7 Haile c. 9. 8 Locusts and 9 Darknesse c. 10. 10 Death of the first-borne Foretold c. 11. Fulfilled c. 12. II. In their deliverance where note 1. The●r departure Egresse or going out Acted c. 12. Attested for the benefit of Posterity with signes and observations c. 13. 2. Their Progresse or going on Whereof 1 Their passing through the Red sea c. 14. 2 Their thanksgiving for this wonder of mercy in a gratulatory Song c. 15. III. After their deliverance when God did 1. Supply them with food and necessaries c. 16. 2. Defend them from evils c. 17. 3. Appoint Judicatories for all matters of difference that might fall out among them c. 18. II. Gods institutions in which regard consider Gods Prescriptions Israels performances I. Gods prescriptions where note 1. Preparation of the people c. 19. 2. The promulgation of his lawes 1 Moral with their Appendixes c. 20. 2 Iudicial both in humane and sacred things c. 21 22 23. 3 Ceremoniall Touching the Ceremoniall lawes here are laid down 1. The Preparation to them c. 24. 2. The parts of them viz. 1 The Tabernacle with the Appurtenances and Utensils thereof c. 25.26 27. 2 The Priests and their Ornaments or Vestments for Ministration c. 28. 3 Sacrifices c. 29. and divers sacred things c. 30. 3. The close of ceremoniall directions c. 31. II. Israels performances of Gods Prescriptions Here consider Israels obedience 1. About Morals 1 Violated by idolatry c. 32. 2. Restored and renewed againe By reconciliation with God c. 33. and Renewing of the Tables c. 34. 2. About Ceremonials viz. 1. The Parts of the Tabernacle The matter chap. 35. The fashioning of the Tabernacle c. 36. of the Ark c. 37. The making of sacred things belonging To the people c. 38. To the Priests c. 39. 2. The totall disposing ordering and erecting of the Tabernacle c. 40. Leviticus LEVITICUS So denominated by the Greek from the chiefe Subject or matter of the Book which principally describes the lawes sacrifices and services of the LEVITICAL Priesthood It is stiled among the Hebrewes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vajikra i. e. And he called This being the first Hebrew word in the Hebrew text beginning this book Scope of this Book To make known Leviticall Lawes Sacrifices and Ordinances and by those shadows to lead Israel by the hand to Jesus Christ the true Priest and sacrifice of the Church See Levit. 11.44 and 20.26 This Book relates the memorable words Acts and Leviticall Ceremoniall Laws made known from God to Israel for one Moneths space viz. from about the beginning of the second yeare after Israels departure out of Egypt the Tabernacle being already reared till the beginning of the second moneth of the same yeare As Jun. in Annot. compare Exod. 40.17 with Numb 1.1 which was in the yeare from the worlds Creation 2514. As Ainsw computes Principal Parts Leviticus describes the sacred Ceremoniall law 1. Of things 2. Of Persons 3. Of Actions I. The Ceremoniall law of things c. 1. to c. 8. either according to the substance of them as of 1. Burnt-offerings c. 1. 2. Meat-offerings c. 2. 3. Peace-offerings c. 3. 4. Sin-offerings in case of ignorance c. 4. or of infirmity c. 5. Or according to the Rite and Ceremony of them c. 6.7 II. The Ceremoniall law of persons c. 8. to 16. viz. 1. Of the Priests In their consecration to their office c. 8. In their discharge of their office either according to Gods assistance c. 9. Or mens infirmity c. 10. 2. Of all the people touching whom are lawes about their sanctification both from uncleannesse without them in matter of their food c. 11. or In them By reason of 1 Child-bearing c. 12. 2 Leprosie whereof its Rise and State c. 13. It s cure c. 14. 3 Issue of seed or bloud c. 15. III. The Ceremonial Law touching Actions Necessary or Voluntary 1. Necessary whereof are laid down The Particulars and the Confirmation of them 1 the Particulars of these Necessary Actions are 1. In purification Common to the whole Church c. 16. Proper to every godly person c. 17. 2. In Sanctimony or Holinesse Both of the people 1 To be observed not only in their own bodies c. 18. but also among one another mutually c. 19. 2 To be maintained in their judgements c. 20. As also in the holinesse of the Priests in their Persons c. 21. Things c. 22. 3. In exercise Ecclesiasticall In legall Times c. 23. In legall Rites c. 24. Politicall c. 25. 2 The Confirmation or obsignation of these particular lawes by Promises and Threats c. 26. 2. Voluntary viz. touching vows c. 27. Numbers NUMBERS Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so called because a great part of the Book is spent in Numbring the Tribes and Families of Israel and of their journeys from Egypt to Canaan In Hebr. its called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bammidbar i. e. In the Desert Because this is the first word of this Book in the Hebrew text Numbers containes an History from the beginning of the second moneth of the second yeare after Israels coming ●ut of Egypt to the

All which Evidences I shall indeavour very shortly God willing more fully to open and unfold in a distinct Treatise called Believers Evidences for eternall life A subject which I hope to gracious hearts will be most welcome and seasonable in these sad afflicting dayes To help forward their Assurance for heaven when they can have no assurance of any thing on earth Principall parts in reference to these excellent ends are I. The Proem to the whole Epistle declaring 1. What the Apostle treats of viz. Of Christ the word of life viz. His person God-man and his office 2. What he is about to say of Christ not any novelty but what was from the beginning not any uncertainty but that whereof they were infallible witnesses 3. To what purpose he will treat of these things that they may have Communion with God and so their joy be full they become happy c. 1.1.2.3 4. II. The Substance of the Epistle it selfe which is either 1. Practicall full of heavenly exhortations viz. 1. To holinesse of life and conversation viz. 1. Not to walk in darknesse but in light c. 1. v. 5 6 7. 2. Not to deny sin to be in us but penitently to confesse it c. 1 8 9 10. 3. To avoid sinne and yet if sinne overtake us to repaire to Christ our Propitiation c. 2 1 2. 4. To adde to our knowledge of God true obedience to his Word c. 2 3. to 9. 5. To brotherly love c. 2 9. to 15. 6. To take heed of inordinate love of the world c. 2 15 16 17 2. To beware of the dangerous Anti-Christs and hereticall Seducers abounding in the world especially ●orinthians and Ebionites denying Christs Godhead c. 2 18. to the end 3. To abandon practising of sinne as inconsistent with the state of grace contrary to the wicked seducements of the Carpocratians forementioned who taught men to sin c. 3 1. to 11. 4. To sincere reall brotherly love by many Arguments c. 3 11. to the end and c. 4 7. to the end 5. To take heed of believing every spirit but to try them especially such as deny Christs Manhood as after did the Cerdonians Manich●es Priscillianists and Valentinians c. 4 1. to 7. 2. Dogmaticall wherein he asserts that Iesus is the Christ the Son of God and true man and this from divers Arguments and Testimonies which we should believe that we may have eternall life begun c. 5 1. to 14. for perfecting whereof we should pray where he directs us how and for whom to pray c. 5.14 to 21. III. Conclusion with a serious monition against idolatry c. 5 21. II John THe second Epistle of JOHN the Apostle This Epistle of Iohn is nor as the first Catholique or Generall but Particular being written to particular persons viz. The Elect Lady and her children Who she was is not known Some think that ELECT was her prop●r name but that 's improbable for then Iohn would not have said To the Elect Lady but To the Lady ELECT Some turne this into an Allegory and say that by the Elect Lady Iohn intended the whole Christian Church But this is most unlikely and plainly repugnant to this Epistle it selfe for 1. To write to the whole Christian Church under the Notion of an Elect Lady is so unusuall that we find no such thing done in all the New-Testament 2. This Epistle not onely mentions this Lady and her children v. 1.4 But also sends her salutations from the children of her Elect Sister v. 13. 3. The Apostle speakes of his intention to come and see her and speake face to face Which cannot be understood of the whole Christian Church ver 12. She is thought to be some eminent religious Matron of great Estate who much relieved and supported the members of the Church in her dayes Bez. Annot. in 2 Ioan. Piscat in 2 Ioan. Penman Some thinke was another Iohn then the Apostle as is testifyed by Euseb. Eccles. Hist. l. 3. c. 39. But this seems to be a plain mistake for 1. The Greek Copies call it in the Title The second Epistle of Iohn the Apostle 2. The matter of the Epistle is not only Divine and Apostolicall but notably owns Iohn to be the writer wherein Christian love walking in the truth and taking heed of Seducers and Antichrists are pressed as in the first Epistle of Iohn So that this is Iohns genuine language Compare these passages among others viz. 1 Ioh. 2 7. with 2 Ioh. 5. and 1 Ioh. 2.23 with 2 Ioh. 9. and 1 Ioh. 4.1 2 3. with 2 Ioh. 7. and 1 Ioh. 5.3 with 2 Ioh. 6. c. 3. The Salutation is plainly Apostolicall ver 1 2 3. And notably relisheth of Iohn's Spirit 4. Both ancient and modern Writers account this Epistle Canonicall and ascribe it unto Iohn the Apostle Concil Carthagin 3. Can. 4.7 Concil Laodic c. ult Hieronym in Epist. 85. ad Euagrium August de Doctrin Christian l. 2. c. 8. Sentent Episcoporum Concil Carthaginens apud Cyprian Sent. 81. Cyprian op edit 1593. p. 449. Beda Piscat Bez. in 2 Iohan. So that this Epistle being written by Iohn the Apostle is of unquestionable authority Occasion Some thinke that Iohns familiar Christian acquaintance with this Elect Lady gave him Occasion of writing this Epistle Others rather think it was written against the Antichristian Heresie of Basilidis and his followers who taught that Christ was not a true man but a phantasm and therfore that he neither did nor suffer'd those things which he is said to do and suffer Epiphan Heres 24. Compare 2 Ioh. 7. Scope To incite the Elect Lady and her children To persevere in the truth and carefully to shun all hereticall Seducers that bring not Christs Doctrine A● also to adorne the truth with love and good workes Principall parts To this end are I. The inscription of the Epistle containing 1. The writer 2. Persons written to 3. A testification of the Apostle's and other 's sincere love to the Lady and her children 4. His pious wish o● supplication for them ver 1 2 3. II. The substance of the Epistle wherein the Apostle 1. Congratulates with the Lady that some of her children walked in the truth ver 4. 2. Exhorts to constancy in the ancient Doctrine of love and truth ver 5 6. 3. Warnes them against Seducers denying Christs incarnation shewing the danger of them and forbidding all fellowship with them ver 7. to 12. III. The conclusion of the Epistle with 1. Intimation that he omits writing many other things hoping to come to them and speak them by word of mouth verse 12. 2. Salutations from her Sisters children ver 13. III John THe third Epistle of IOHN the Apostle This Epistle is not Generall but Particular written to Gaius Penman of this Epistle also was Iohn the Apostle and therefore it is Authentique and Canonicall Both these are ev●dent by all the foure Reasons alleadged touching Iohn's second Epistle And the word phrases and method of these two