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A88142	A few, and new observations, vpon the booke of Genesis. The most of them certaine, the rest probable, all harmelesse, strange, and rarely heard off before. By Iohn Lightfoote Staffordiens.	Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.	1642 (1642)	Wing L2054; Thomason E118_19; ESTC R22089	13,302	28

watering the trees and plants budded to maturity in a trice this dew being as a naturall cause thereof yet the effect being withall exceeding supernaturall because so s●eedy Vers 7. Of the dust of the Earth thus watered God created the body of man and to this the Psalmist alludeth The dew of thy youth Psal. 110. 3. And into that Earth so prepared he breatheth the Spirit of Life and Grace Ephes. 4. 24. Vers 10. Eden watered by a river that overflowed it once a yeare after the manner of Nylus and Jordan chap. 13. 10. To Adam thus created and made Lord of the creature the Lord himselfe bringeth the creatures to receive their names which hee giveth to them agreeable to their natures and that at the first sight shewing at once his dominion over them and his wisedom among them all he seeth no fit match for himselfe but by seeing every one of them mated and that they came before him by paires he is brought to bee sensible of his owne want of a fellow which thereupon God provideth for him out of his owne body of a rib which part of him might best be spared And thus the Creation endeth in the making of the woman CHAP. III. The woman thinking it had beene a good Angell that spake in the trunk of the Serpent she entereth communication with the Devill who perceiving her both to adde and to diminish to and from the Commandement that was given them groweth the more impudent to tempt and seduceth her by the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life as 1. Iohn 2. 16. And shee perswadeth her husband and so they both are fallen on the very same day that they are created Gen. 9. 1 2 3. Psal. 49. 12. Christ is promised before the man and the woman are censured and they are questioned also before they be sentenced but so was not Satan for God had mercy in store for them but none for him The curse is not upon man himselfe but upon the Earth to teach him to set his affections on things above and not on the cursed ground and not to look for an earthly Kingdom of Christ on this Earth which the Lord hath cursed Adam apprehendeth and layeth hold upon the promise by Faith and in evidence of this his faith he calleth his wives name Eve or Life because shee was to be the mother of Christ according to the flesh by whom life should come and of all beleevers that by faith should live in him for an outward signe and seale of this his Faith and for a further and more lively expression of the same God teacheth him the rite of sacrifice to lay Christ dying before his eyes in a visible figure And with the skins of the sacrificed beasts God teacheth him and his wife to cloath their bodies And thus the first thing that dyeth in the world is Christ in a figure At the end of this third chapter imagine the three first verses of chapter 2. concerning the Sabbath to be observed to come in and suppose the texture of the story to lye thus Adam thus fallen censured recovered instructed and expelled Eden on the sixt day the next day following he by Gods appointment keepeth for a Sabbath or an holy rest and spendeth it onely in divine duties Now the reason why it standeth in the place where it doth chap. 2. Is partly because Moses would lay the seven dayes or the first weeke of the world altogether without interposition and partly because he would shew by setting it before Adams fall that had hee persisted in innocency yet must he have observed a Sabbath The seventh day or Sabbath is not bounded in the text with the same limits that the other dayes are for it is not said of it as it was of them The Evening and the Morning were the seventh day because a time should come when it should have a new beginning and end and though to the Iewes it was from Even to Even yet from the beginning it was not so expressed CHAP. 4. Cain and Abel twinnes of one birth and first was borne he that was naturall and after he that was spirituall The faith of Abell appeared in the very materialls of his sacrifice it being of slaine beasts and so a representation of the death of Christ for this it is fired from Heaven and Caines is not though his drye eares of Corne were materialls farie more combustible Cain and Abell were both their own Priests for it cannot be proved that Sacrifices were ever offered but upon emergent occasions till the Law fixed it for a common service and he that had such an occasion had libertie to be his own Priest even under the Law as it appeareth by Gedeon Manoah c. and then much more was that liberty before The word Sinne in vers 7. seemeth rather to signifie an offering or attonement for sinne then punishment For first God commeth not to deject Cain lower then he was but to raise him from his dejection as it appeareth both by his deigning to give him an Oracle from Heaven and also by the words wherewith he beginneth Secondly if the words Sinne lieth at the doore intend suddain Iudgement ready to devoure him what dependance can the words following have with these If thou doe not well thou shalt certainely be punished and thy brothers desire shall be subject to thee for this were to threaten poore Abell more or at least as much as Cain Thirdly the Originall word Chateath as it signifieth Sinne so also doth it the sacrifice for sinne as Hos. 4. 8. 2 Cor. 5. 21. And all along Leviticus and it was the custome according to which Moses speaketh as best knowne to lay the Sacrifice at the Sanctuary doore Vers 14. Cain sensible of his punishment though he was not of his sinne beggeth of God that he might die to ease him of it Therefore let any one that findeth me kill mee but this God denyeth to him reserving him to a lingring punishment and Caine being assured of long life giveth himselfe to all sensuality to sweeten it as much as he can and this is the way of Caine Iud. vers. 11. Ver. 23. Lamech in horrour of Conscience for his Polygamy which now began to be examplary to the generall corruption of the world acknowledgeth his sinne seaventie times greater than Cains and his desert of punishment proportionable for Cain had slaine but one man and but the body but he by his evill example had killed old and young and their very soules and therefore he maketh his complaint to his two wives that had brought him to it CHAP. V. A Chronicle of 1556. yeares and all the yeares are reckoned compleat but onely Noahs five hundreth yeere in ver. 32. Ver. 3. Seth borne in Originall sinne the Father of all men in the new world after the floud Numb. 24. 17. Ver. 23. Enoch liveth as many yeares as be dayes in a yeare Those that lived neerer the

A Few and New OBSERVATIONS VPON THE BOOKE OF GENESIS The most of them certaine the rest probable all harmelesse strange and rarely heard off before By IOHN LIGHTFOOTE Staffordiens LONDON Printed by T. Badger in the yeare 1642. TO My deare and loving Countrie-men of the County of Stafford and other my friends r●siding in the City of LONDON Health Content Prospe●ity Eternity THESE few Collections worthy and worthily honoured Friends and Countrie-men were not intentionally and purposely studied for when I first tooke them up but I tooke them upon another occasion For having spent some yeares in compileing the Harmony of the foure Evaugelists among themselves and with the Old Testament and in exp●aining of their sence and language and for that purpose having read over the Old Testament as expressely as I could to bring it to help and further me in the works these observations and such other upon the other Bookes picked up by the way which I observed either very rarely or not at all to have beene observed by any heretofore That worke from whence this proceeded would now begin to creepe forth to the publicke view were but printing as pregnant a Mother for such babes as shee used to be in former time These small and few sparkes which have flowne from that Auvile I have chosen to present to your hands and favourable acceptance partly for a token of my love and observance of so worthy friends and partly because that if the briefnesse of these Collections which I have beene forced to straiten to this small compasse that I might relate them to the dimension of such Bookes as are now onely printed for greater volumes than these doe not now finde vent If they should breed any scruple or doubting you know where to finde the Author for further satisfaction If these find easie and gentle entertainment more of the like stampe are ready to shew themselves in order upon the succeeding Bookes as the printing of these times will bring them forth Yours ready to serve you I. L. Aug. 25. 1642. A Few and new Observations VPON THE BOOKE OF GENESIS CHAP. I. THE Scripture the word of Knowledge beginneth with the Story of the Creation because first the first stepp towards the knowledge of God is by the Creature Rom. 1. 20. Secondly the Story of the Creation pleadeth for the justice of God in planting and displacing of Nations as he pleaseth since the Earth is his owne and he made it Thirdly the Resurrection is taught by the Creation and the end of the world from the beginning for God that made that to be that never was can much more make that to bee that hath been before namely these our bodies Heaven and Earth Center and circumference created together in the same instant and clouds full of water not such as we see made by evaporation but such as are called the Windowes or Cataracts of Heaven Gen. 7. 11. 2 Kings 7. 19. Mal. 3. 10. created in the same instant with them vers. 2. The earth lay covered with waters and had not received as yet its perfection beauty and deckage and that vast vacuity that was betweene the convex of those waters and the concave of the clouds was filled as it were with a grosse and great darknesse and the Spirit of God moved the Heavens from the first moment of their creation in a circular motion abo●e and about the earth and waters for the cherishing and preservation of them in their new be●un being and verse 3. Twelve hou●es did she heavens thus move in darkenesse and then God commanded and there appeared light to this upper Horizon namely to that where Eden should be planted for fo● that place especially is the story calculated and th●re did it shine other twelve houres declining by degrees with the motion of the heavens to the other Hemisphere where it inlightned other twelve houres also and so the first naturall day to that part of the world was six and thirty houres long s●l●●ng wa●Ioshuaes day Iosh 10. And so long was our S●v●our clo●ded under death V. 6 When the l●ght began to set to the Horizon of Eden the evening or night of the 2d day was come God commanded that the Ayre should be spread out instead of that vacuity which was betwixt the waters upon the Earth and the waters in the clouds and in foure and twenty houres it was accomplished and the Ayre spread through the whole universe with the motion of the Heavens In this second dayes worke it is not said as in the rest that God saw it good because whereas this dayes worke was about seperation of waters they were not perfectedly and fully parted till the waters which covered the Earth were couched in their channells which was not till the third day there it is twice said that God saw it good once for the intire seperation of the waters and againe for the fructification of the ground Vers 9. In the new created ayre the Lord thundered and rebuked the waters Psal. 104. 7. So that they hasted away and fled all westward into the channells which the Lord had appointed for them And still as they flowed away and dry land appeared the earth instantly brought forth trees and plants in their severall kindes This production was onely of the bodies and substances of them for their verdure and maturity was not till the sixt day And now was Eden planted with the bodies of all trees fit for meat and delight which by the time that Adam is created are laden with leaves and fruit Vers 14. The Moone and some starres created before the Sunne She shone all the night of the fourth day in her full body and when the Sunne appeared in the morning then was her light augmented yet her body obscured from the World till the sixt day at even which was her prime day and she shewed her crescent and gave light to Adam who was but newly got at that time out of the darkenesse of his fall by the luster of the promise Vers 21. Whales onely of all brutes specified by name to shew that even the greatest of living creatures could not make it selfe Vers 25. Beasts wild and tame created and all manner of creeping things and the World furnished with them from about Eden as well as with men of cleane beastes were seven created three couples for breed and the odd one for Adams sacrifice upon his fall but of uncleane onely one couple for the propagation of the kinde 26 Man created by the Trinity about the third houre of the day or nine of the clocke in the morning CHAP. II. The three first verses that treate of the institution of the Sabboth are according to their proper Order of time to be taken in at the end of the third chapter Vers 4 c. On the morning of the sixt day a mist that had gone up from the Earth fell downe upon it againe in raine or dew and watered the Earth with which

floud lived the longer unmarryed because they would not generate many children for the water V. 29. Noah a comforter because in him liberty should be given to the World to eate flesh CHAP. VI In the generall corruption of the World Noah the eight person in descent from Enoch in whose time profanenesse began as 2 Pet. 2. 5. Escapeth the abominations and desolation of the times CHAP. VII VIII IX The floud the Beasts in the Arke live without enmity which sheweth how the words Gen. 3. 15. about enmity with the Serpent are to be understood the Serpent and Noah are now friends each to other this is alluded to Esay 11. 6. 7 Noah is in the Arke just a compleate and exact yeere of the Sun but reckon'd in the text by Lunary Moneths Vniversall darknesse all the fortie dayes raines The doore of the Arke under water The Arke draweth water eleven Cubits The waters when they came to abate while they lay above the Mountaines fell but one Cubit in foure dayes but farre faster afterward After their comming out of the Arke for a whole halfe yeer together Noah and his family and all the Creatures live upon provision that was still in the Arke for they came out just upon the beginning of Winter when there was neither grasse corne nor fruits till another spring The forbidding to eate flesh with the bloud condemneth the Doctrine of Transubstantiation CHAP. X. XI Seventy Nations dispersed from Babel but not seventy Languages the fifteene named in Act. 2. were enough to confound the worke and they may very well bee supposed to have been the whole number Sem as he standeth in the front of the Genealogy of the new world hath neither Father nor Mother named nor beginning of dayes nor end of life Nahors life is shortned for Idolatry CHAP. XII Abraham at 75. yeeres old receiveth the promise and commeth into Canaan and just so many yeeres did Sem live after Abrahams comming thither and so might well be Melchizedeck in chap. 14. Ver. 6. 7. Abraham buildeth an Altar neere if not upon mount Gerizim the hill of blessing and vers 8. Another altar he buildeth neer unto if not upon mount Ebal the hill of cursing Deut 27. And so taketh possession of the land by faith in the very same place where his sonnes the Israelites did take possession of it indeed Iosh. 8. 12. c. 30. V. 11. When he is ready to enter into Egypt whither famine drave him as it did his posterity afterward hee is afraid of his life in regard of Sarah who being a white woman would soone be taken notice of by the Aegyptians who were blackmoores This was one mai●e inticement to Iosephs mistres to cast an eye of lustfulnes upon him because he was a white man and she a Moore Of the same complexion was Pharaohs daughter whom Solomon tooke to wife of whom that in the first and literall acceptation is to bee understood which spiritually is to be applied to the Church Cant. 1. 5. 6. I am black but comely and I am black because the Sunne hath looked on mee and that Psal. 45. 13. The Kings Daughter is all glorious within for she was a Blackmoore without V. 20. Pharaoh plagued for Sarais and Abrahams sake who was an Hebrew Sheepheard giveth charge to the Aegyptians making it as it were a law for time to come that they should not converse with Hebrewes nor with forraine Sheepheards in any so neere familiarity as to eat or drinke with them which the Aegyptians observed strictly ever after Gen. 42. 32. and 46. 34. CHAP. XIII Abram and Let quarrell and part in the valley of Achor and this is at the very same time of the yeare that Israel came into the Land viz. in the first moneth of the yeare or Abib CHAP. XIV Noah in the blessing of his son Sem maketh him in a speciall manner Lord of the Land of Canaan Gen. 9. Hither therefore came Sem and built a City and called it after his owne peaceable condition Salem here he reigned as a King but so quietly and retiredly as that he was a Priest also In this sequestration of the father from worldly cares and affaires Elam his eldest son and heire apparent though he were seated farre distant in the East yet it concerneth him to have an eye to Canaan and how matters goe there for the land by bequest of his grand-father Noah descended to him as by the common law This title bringeth Chedorlaomer an heire of Elam from Persia into Canaan when the five Cities of the plaine rebell Into this warre he taketh three partners younger brothers of the House of Sem Amraphel of Arphaxad King of Chaldea Arioch of Lud King of Ellasar bordering upon Babylonia and Tidal of Assur King of Nations and late built Niniveh These foure thus banded together and all children of Sem and all in claime of his land against the usurping Canaanite are resolved to march over and so they doe all that Country both within Iordan and without Their first inrode is upon the Rephaims that lay most North and lay first in their way and so over run the Zuzims in Ammon Emims in Moab Horites or Hivites that were Troglodytes or dwelt in the rocky Caves of Mount Seir in Edom as Ier. 49. 10. Obad. ver. 3. And all the Canaanites South-East and full South to Hazezon Tamar a point below the dead Sea There they turne in to the land of Canaan properly so called and as they had subdued all the Countries from North to South without Iordan so now they intend to doe from South to North within And so they did but when they were come to Dan the North out-going of the land Abram overtaketh them and conquereth the conquerours and now he is doubly titled to the land namely by promise and by victory This Sem or Melchizedeck observeth upon his returne with triumph and perceiveth that it was he and his posterity to whom the Lord had designed that Land in the prophetick spirit of Noah and had refused the heires that were more apparent in common law and reason and therefore hee bringeth forth bread and wine the best fruites of the land and tenders them as livery and seisin of it to him whom he perceived that God had chosen and pointed out for the right heire CHAP. XV All feare of claime by any of Sems sonnes was now past because of the late conquest but onely of Aram the youngest who had no chalengers or children in the warre of him was Eliezer descended who was Abrams chiefe servant and where is the title by Sems resignation was to descend to Abram and his heires Eleazer was like to bee next if Abram had no child of his owne When this jealousie somewhat troubleth Abram God removeth it by the promise of a sonne of his owne Loynes and by a Covenant with sacrifice even of all manner of creatures that were to be sacrificed CHAP. XVI Abram assured of a son of his owne body