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II HOLIE BIBLE
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SS ^" LATED INTO ENGLISH, ^
^J[ OVT OF THE AVTHENTICAL ^^
Diligently conferred with the Hebrew, Grccke, JS^^ and ocher Edicions in diners languages.
Wir/? Argvments cfthe BookfSy and £ha^ta-s: ^
A nnotations.*Tables: andoth^rhclpesj ^^^l
yir better njndafanding cf the text : for dtjiouene of j&^
C o R R Y P T I o N s in fome late tranjUtions : and ^yt
for clearing Controversies in Rehgion. »^S
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By the English College of Doway.
Haurietis a^itaiin gaudio de fontibm Saluatoris. Ifai^.r^. You shal dra^*' waters in ioy out of the Sauiours fountaines.
Printed at Doway by LaVrence Kellam, at the figne of the holie Lambe,
No s inffdjcripn, in alma lyuactnfi vniuerjitatc SacricTheologiie DoSlores ^ n^-^rofejjoresj banc P t^nglicanam f^eteris Tejlammti tranjla-tionem,
mam tres diuerji cms natioms emditijjimi Tbeologi^ norifolum fiddem, fed prop ur diuerfa qu^ eijknt adiun^ ^a, valdc ytdemfidci Catholics propaganda ac tuendne, ^ bonis mor Ah s promouendis^ pint tefiath cjuomm tejti- moniabforHm fyngraphis munita mdimus; cuius item TranJlationiSj 0* Z^nnotationum auflons nobis de fidei integritatCy CT erudinonis pr^eflantia probe funt notii his rebus addu^i & nixi,fru6luofe euulgari pojji cenfui- mus, Duaci. 8. Nouembris. 160^ .
GyiLiELMVs EsTivs Sacrs Theologize Dodor, 5^ ia AcademiaDuacenfi Profcflfor.
Bartholom>«vs Petrvs Sacr^ Thcologi^ Do€lor,' & in Vniueifitate Duaccnfi ProfcfTor.
Georgivs Colveneriys S.TheologiacDo^or,& eiufdem ia AcademiaDuaceiia l^jrofelToi^
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TO THE RIGHT
VVELBELOVED ENGLISH
READER GRACE AND GLORIE IN Iesvs Christ eveklasting.
T LAST through Gods goodnes(mofl: dearly beloued) we fend you here the greater pare of ch e Old Teftarrjent : as long fince y ou re- ceiued the New j faithfully cranflated into English. The refidue is in had to be finished; and your dcfire therof shalnotncw (God profpering our intention)beIongfrufl:rate,Asfortheimpediments,which hitherto haue hindered this vvorke, they al preceded (as ^ manje do knowjof one general caufe , our pgore eftate in rt banishment. VVherin expeding better meanes,greatter
f j^ difficulties rather enfued. Neuerthelesyou>5f'il hereby the more perceiueour feruent good wil,euer to feme you, in that we haue brought forth this Tome,inthefe hardeft times, of aboue fourtie yeares, fince this College was moft «"<>. happely begune . V Vherfore we nothing doubt , but you our deareft, for whom we haue dedicated our liucs, wil both pardon the long delay, which we could not wel pre- uent, and accept now thisfruicl ofourlaboures,withhke good affedion J as we acknowlege them due, and offer \the fame vntp you.
\ If anie demand, why itisnow allowed to haue theholie Scriptures in vulgar tongues, which generally isnot per- /Mmittedjbut in th e three facred onlyrfor further declaration of this,& orher like pointes we remite you to the Preface, before the New Teftamenc.Only h ere, as by an Epitome,
t i we
The caufe of- delay in fet- ting forth this English Bible,
Why & ho^ it is allowed tohaueholie Scriptures in vulgar ton- gues.
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weHial rcpste the fammsof al,thatis there more largely difcufled. To this firft: queftion therforeweanrwer, that both iudreafonj&higheftauthoritie of the Church, iudge It not abfolutly necelrarie, nor alwayes conuenicnt , that hoHe Scriptures fiiould be in vulgar tongues. For being as they are,hard to be vnderllood, euen by the lerned, reaioa doch didate to reafonable men,that they were not written, nor ordayned to bercad indifferently of al men. Expcriecc Manic rake alfo tcacheth , that through ignorance, ioyned often with ofifr^^" P^'^^^ ^^^ prefumption, manie reading Scriptures hauc erred gro{ly,by mifunderPtanding Gods word. Which though it be mod pure in it (c\£,yei the fln^fe king adaltf rated is.tspenlotis (faith Tertullian) cts the ^ He corrupted, S. Ambrofe obferueth : that where the text Istruej the ^rrUns mterpreta- tion bath errdrs. S. Augullmalfo teacheth,that/'f?'^/^/4W peruerfe doMnes e /it angling fo ales ,,and throwing them dovvne headlong hit 0 the depths do not otherwife Jpring vp , hut when ^ood (or true) Scriptures arenotvvel{and truly) vnder Hood, and 'when that which in them is not vvelvnderjlood, is alfo rashly & boldly auouchcd. For the fame caufe^S. leromvtuerly dif^ allowed, thacal fortes of men & wemen, old &:yong, pre^ fumed to read.'&: taike ©f the Scriptures: wheras;?^? arttcene^ no tradfman dare p-'e fume to Peach aniefiCidtte^ which he hath not firjf lerned. Seing therforc that dangers, &: hurtes happen in manicjthe careful chief Paftores in Gads Church,haue al- waies moderated the reading ofholie Scriptures, accor- ding to pcrfons,times,and other circumftancesj prohibi- ting fome, and permitting fomc, to haue and read them, in th-irmother tongue.So S.Cryfoftom traflatedthePfalmes Scriptures ^^ fome Other partes of holie Scriptures for the Arme- fersTon-'''"'^i"is,w hcwasthcre in banishment. TheSlauonians gu«s. and Gothes fay chey haue the Biblein their languages. It
WIS tranilaced inco Italian by an Archbydiop of Genua. IntoFrenchinrhetimcof kingChirlcs the fiftrerpecially becaufsche waldenfianheretikes had corruptly tran0ated
it, to
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Scriptures
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it,to maintaine their errors. We had fome partes in Englifli wf/j.f* 7 tranflatedby Venerable BcderasMalmesburiewitnefletii. linyysd And Thoiiias Arundel Archbishopof Cancurburie in a .''^•^' Councelhc'lden acOxt-ord, ftraidly ordayned,ihat no he- retical trandati on fet forth by Wiclific, andhis compliceSj nor anie other vulgar Edition should befuffercdjtilir w:re approued by theOrdinaricoftheDiocc^e;aljeaging5.ie- romsiudgemencof chediiHcukie& dangerin tranflating iiohe Scriptures out of one tongue into an other. And iherforeicmuft nedes be much more dangerous, when ig- norant people read alfo corrupted tranflations. No^^' fmce Luther, and his folowcrs haue pretended, than the Ca- A c^lummous tholiqueRomane faith and dodrinc,should becontrarie Llthcranss^* to Gods written word, cV that the Scriptures were not fuiie- red in vulgar langiiac^csjell: the people (liould ice the truth, &: withal theienew aiaifters corruptly turning the Scrip- tures into diuers tongues, as might beft ferue their o wne g>- pinions : againft this falfe fuggeftion, and pra^life , Cath o- lique Paftores haue,for one cipecial remcdie, fee forth true and (incereTranllacions in n^oft languages of ths Latin Church, But fo , that people muft read them with licence oftheic fpiritualfuperior,as in former times they were in hke fort limited. Such alio of the Laitie,.yca & of the mea- ner Icrned Clergie , as were permitted to read holic Scrip- tures, did notptefume to interprcte hard places , nor high Mvilcries,muchlelIeto difpute and contend, but leauing thedifcuffion therof tothemorelerned , fcarched rather, vvhatpartof andnoced the godlicand imitablc examples of good life, Scriptures be and fo lerncd more humilitic , obedience, barred of finnc, ^lentforvul- feareof God ,zele of Religion, and other -vercucs. And gar readers. thus holic Scriptures may be rightly v fed in anie tongue,/^? z Tim 3. f^,jc/p^ to argue ^to correct ^ to irr^rtUi^ if* tufiice , thxt the man of Godm.i}bepeifcct^and[2isS, Paul addeth) w/lrufhd loeuerie lac r. ^^°^ worke jwhen men laboure rather to be doers ofGocU W'il & word ^t hen readers or hearers only , decciuing themjelues-^
t3 But.
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, r ^uc here an other quefltson may be propofcd: V Vhy Wc ratc^tl^^ofr tranilatethe Latin cexc, rather then the Hebrew,orGrefcc, Latin tcxc. which Proteftantes preferre , as the fountaine tongues, wherin holie Scriptures were firft Written > To this we More pure ^^^^W^r, tharif in dede thofe firft pure Editions were now then the He- cxtant, or if fuch as becxtant, wcre mote purc then the La- ^rj^xt'^nf'^^"''^^'^^^^^^^^'^ preferrefuch foantaines before the ri- uers, in whatloeuer they should be found todifagree. But the ancient beft lerned Fathers, &: Dodors of the Church, ^^'•^««'^ domuchcomplame, andteftifie to vs, that both the He- MirZt brew and Greke Editions are fouly corrupted by Lewes, ^- ^"*- and Heretikes, fuice the Latin was truly tranftated out of ^1^^'/,^! them,whiles they were more pure. And that the fame La- San.c.ii tin hath bene farre better conferued from corruptions. So f//3* that the old Vulgate Latm Edition hath bene preferred, louma,' and vfedformoftauthenticaiaboue athoufandand three hunderedyeares. For by thisverieterme S. leromcalleth that Verfion thevulgate or common ;^\\\c\\ he conferred with . , the Hebrew of the old Teftament, and with the Greke of ;^^J^; the Newj which he alfo purgedfromfaultes committed by writers, rather amending then tranflating it . Though in regard ofthisamending,S.Gregoriecallechit^;^^»^x;x'T'^/'- fioofS.Ierom : who ncuertheles in an other place calleth the 14^0,'J.' felf {^zm^^the old Latin Edition^mdgmg it moft worthy to be ^P^fl- ''«- Kcceiued by folowed. S. Auguftin calleth it the lulim. S. Ifidorus wit- ^^^^^^ aicburchcs. nQ(£cz[\ihMS, lerom^^ver/iofi wasreceiued and ipproued l^j^ 4/ u.Tnoh Turned into thrift Un chmhes . Sophronms alfo a moft lerned man, ^''^^^-'j Giekc. fcing S. leroms Edition (o much eftemed, not only of the ^Ef^Li.
LatineSjbut alfo of the Greciansturned the Pfalter & Pro- ^y^^^,- phetes, outofthe fame Latininto Greke. Of latter times \,n^^'. whatshal we nede to recite other moft lerned men? S.Bede <:- 1^. S,Aafelme,S. Bernard, S\Thomas,S. Bonauenture,&:the reft? V Vho al vaiformly allege this only text as authencical. Info machrhatal other Latin Editions, which S. lerom j,,.,y-^,^ faith were m his time almoft innumerable , areas itwere »» /<>/«'.
fallen
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fallen ouc ofal Diuines handes, and growne out of creditc ai oilers andvfe.If moreouerweconfiderS.Ieromslcrning,pictie, giowneout . diligence, andfinceritic, together with the commodities sieromci- he had of beft copies, in al languages then extant , and of celled ai other other lerned men, with whom he conferred: and if we fo [^"ff^/t-n^g^ copare the lame with the beft meanes that hath bene fincc, cxpoundiug lurely no man of indifferent Judgement, wal match anie ^°^*^ Scnpm- ocher Edition with S.Ieroms.-buteafely acknowlege with the whole Church Gods particular prouidece m this great Do6lor,aswel for expounding, asmoft efpecialy for the true text and Edition of Holie Scriptures. Neither do we His Eaitiota flee vnto this old Latin text, for more aduantage. For be- pauialidc.. fides that it is free from partiahtie,as being moft ancient of al Latin copie$,and long before the particular Controuer- fies of thefe daycs beganne; the Hebrew alfo & the Grelce when they are truly tranilated, yea and Erafmus his Latin, in fundrie place?, proue more plainly theCatholiqucRo- Preferred &c- maine dodrine, then this which we relie vpon. So that ^-^real otiict vref^t. B^,^^ ^ hjs folowers take alfo exception againft the Greke, B^za?"* ^ Tel^Atn. when Catholiques allege it againft them . Yea the fame jinno. Bezapreferreth the old Latin Verfion before al others, & ^lll\^ freely teftifieth , that the old Interpreter tranflated religi- T.i. oudy. V Vhat then do our councriemen, that refufe this ■
Latin, but depriue themfeluesofthe beft, and yet al this England ai- while,haueret forth none, that is allowed by al Proteftan- low-edfot fuf- tes, forgoodor fufricient.
Howwel thisisdonne the lerned may iudge, when by mature confcrence,they ihal haue made trial therof. And if trefAce auie thing be miftaken, we wil (as ftil we promife) gladly vvhatis done ^thJneyy corred it.Thofc that traftaccd It about thirtic ycatcs fince, '""'^^ '"''" Tefi^m. were wel knowen to the world , to haue bene excellent
in the tongues, fincere men, and great Diuines. Only one Diucrsrea- thing Wv haue donne touching the text, wherofweare e- dingus rc^ol- I fpecially to geue notice. That whereas heretofore in the none ^dfc in beft Lacin Editions, there remained manie. places diife- thcmargcnt.
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^nginwordes, fome alfo infenfe, asm long procefle of time, the writers erred in their copies; now lately by the care &: diligence of the Church5thore diners readings were maturely, and iuditioufly examined , and conferred with fundriethe beO: written and printed bookes, ^forefohied vpon, thatal which before were leift in the margenr, arc> cither rcdoredinto thetcxt, or els omittedj fothatnow none fuch remaine inthe niargent. For which caufe, we haue againe conferred this Englilh tranflatioo, and con- Tbcy touched fotmcd it to the moft perfed Latin Edition. V Vhere yet by ge^uoucHles. t^i^ "^'^''^y W^ "^"^ g^"^ the vulgar reader to vnderftand,thac very few or noncoFihe former varieties, touched Contro- ucrfies of this time. So that this Recognition isno w:jy fufpiciousofpartialtie, but is merely donnefor ihemore fegiire conferuationof therruetcxtjand more cafe, -and fatisfadion of fuch, as othcrwife fhould haue remained more doubtful. vvhyfomc Now for the ftridncs obferued in tranflating fome
vvorkcs arc \YordeSj or father the not tranflating of fome , which is in im:o 'vXaT iTiore danger to be difliked , we doubt not but the difcreie English. lerned leader, dccpely weighing and confidering the im-
portance of facred wordes, and how eafely the translatour may miffe the fenfe of cheHolieGhoft,wil hold that which is here donne for reafonable and ncceflarie. V Ve haue alfo SomeHcbrcw the cxamplc of the Latin.^and Grcke, where fome wordes woracs not are nottrandated, but left in Hebrew, as they were fiiiV intoTann, fpokcn 6<: wrictcnjwhich fxing thcy could not,or wctcnot jQorGrckc. conucnient to be tranilated intoLatin orGreke,how much JefTe could they, or was it rcafon to turne them into English? S. Auguftin alfo yeldctha rcafon, exemplifying in the i;^jy^^ Morcautho- Wordes Amen 'An*\ Alleluia, for the more fkcredauthritietherof. chnfl. nuc in (acred which doubtlcs is ihe caufe why feme frames of fclcmne "'^•''• toflgues. Feaftes^ Sacnfjces, & other holie thi nges are re/erued in facred tongues^ Hebrew, Greke, or Latin. Againe for necefTitie, English noc hauing a namejOrfufHcicncterme, we either
kepe
To THE ENGLISH READER,
kcnc the word.as we find it, or only turne it to our English Some vyordes
r . . ' ^ . Ill •/' • cantnocDctur-
terminaxion, becaufe it would ochcrwiie require manie nedintoEn-. wordes in English, to fignifis one word of an other tongue, glish: In which cafes, we commonly put the explication in the margenc • Bnefly our Apologie is cafie agamft English Proteilantes; becaufe chey alfo rcferue fome wordes in Protcftawcs theoriginal tongues, not tranflated into Englifn :as Sai?- l''^^^],^^^^^ _ bath, Ephod, Fentecofi^ Profehte, and fome others. The (cnfe tranflaced. vhcrof IS in dede as foone lerned, as if chey were turned fo nercasispolfibleinto EnglijTi. And why then may wenoc fay Prepuce, Pbafeot P Ajch ^Az^imes ^Breades of Propfitton, Holo- caufi^ and the like? rather then as Proceftances trandate them : Foreskinne^ Fajjeotier, The fe^ifi of fuvete breaded y Shew hreades, Buintofferings'.^z. By which termes, whether they be truly rranilated into Englilh or no, wewil paifeouer. Sure it is an Englilh man is ftil to teke, what they meane,as if they remained in Hebrew, or Greke. It more importeth, that noching be wittingly and falfly tranfiaced,for aduan- tageofdodrine in matter of faith. Wherein as we dare boldly auouch thefinceritie of this Tranilation, and that nothing is here either vntruly,or obfcurely donne of pur- pofe, infauour of Catholique Romine Religion: fo we can not butcomplaine,andchalengeEngli{hProteflantes, Corruptions for corrupting the ityii, c5trarie to the Hebrew, ^ Greke, Jes^xi'anflati- "Vf'hich chey profe/Teto trandate, forche more shew, and onsoihoiic maintcyning of their peculiar opinions againft Catho- s<^^'P^"^-s^ liquss. As is proued in xSxtDifiouerie of manifold rorruptios.Yoi example we shal put the reader in memorie o^ one or two. Gen. 4. V. 7. whereas (Godfpeaking co Cain)the Hebrew wordes in Grammatical conftru6lion may be tranflated either thus: Vnto thee alfo perteyneth the htf therof, &tho!t shalt haae dominion otter it: or thus; Alfovntotheemsde^re OFpurpofea- sh.d be fibiecl, & thou shalt ride oner h i m.- ch o u gh ch e cohe- \^^^ doaauc recc of the text requircth the former, & in the Bibles prin- tcd/jji.and. i)//. ProcellaiiUsdid foti^iflate::: yetin
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theycare 7579. and 1^03. theytranflate it the other ^^ayj racher faying, that Abel was lubiect to Cain, and that Cain by Gods ordinance, had dominion'ouer his brother Abel, then that concupifcence or luft of finne is fubictl co mans wil, or that man hath powre of free wil,torefift (by Gods grace j tentation of hnne.But as we heare in a new Edition (which we haue not yet fene) they traflate it almofl: as in the firft. In hke forte Gen. i4.v.i8.The Hebrew particle Vav, which S.Ierom,andal AntiquitietranflatedENiM (For) Pfoteftants wil by no meanes admitte it, becaufe (belides other argumentes) we proue therby Melchifedechs Sacri- fice. And yet themfelues tranflate the famc,asS.-Ierom doth , Gen. 20.1;. 3. faying : F o r she is a mans wife . &c. Againe Gen. 31.1/. 19. the English Bibles. 15^2. and 1577.. tvsinslcLZeTijcrapLim, iMAGES.VVhich the Edition of 1603, correding , tranflateth Idoles. And the marginal Anno- tation wel proueth, thatit oughttobefotranflated. .. With this then we wil conclude mofl:deare(wefpeake deXat^ed"to to you al,that vnderftand our tongue, whether you be of aithac vndcr- coutraric Opinions m faithiOtof muudanc feare participate With an other Congregation; orprofeiTe with vs the fame Catholique Religion) to you al we prefent this worke;day- ly befeching God Almightie,the Diuine V Vifedom, Eter- nal Goodnes,to create, illuminate, and replenish your fpi- riteSjWichhis Grace, thatyoumay attaine eternal Glorie. Euerie one in his meafurejin thofe manieManfions,prcpa- rcd and promifed by our Sauiour in his Fathers houfe.Not only to thofe wh ich firftreceiucd, & folowed his Diuine dodrine,but to al that should afterwardes beleuein him^ &: kepe the fame preceptes. For there is one God, oncalfo MediatourofGodandmenrManChriftlefus.VVhogaue himfelfa Redemption for al. VVherbyappearethhis wil, that al should befaued. Why then are not al faued.^'The Apoftleaddeth: thatthey muft firft come to the knowlege faucd! of the truth.Becaufe without faith it is impoffible to pleafo
God.
Chrift rede med al , but al are not
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God.Thisgroundworke therforcofour creation in Chrifl: Txuthkh by true faith, S. Paullabored mod ferioufly by V'^ord and^'-'^o^cfTarie. writing, to eflablish in t/ie hartes of al men. In this he con- firmed the Romanes by his EpiPcle, comcnding their faith, as already receiued,and renowmcd in the whole world. H e • preached the fame faith to manie Nations. Amongll: o-. thers to the lerned Athenians. V Vhere it femcd to ibraCj as abfurde, as ftrange; in fo much that they fcornfully called him a vvGr^i'/ovvert and Preacher of new gods. But S. Au- ^^li^' gnftinalloweth the cermc for good, which was repioch- s^r. 41. fully fpoken of the ignorant. And fodiftinguilbingbecwen deSana. Reapers, and Sowers in Gods Church, he tcachcth, that The twdnc wheras the other Apoftles reaped in the lewes, chat which J'T^^" ^'^^^ their Patriarch es and Prophetes had fowne j S. Paul fowed before rhcy' the feede of Chriftian Religion in the Gentiles. And fo m !^^'= Scwtrs, refpcdofthelfraehtes, to whom they >fi:ere firfl fent, cal- aSower^cr^^ leth the other Apoftles^^r^/, Reapers y and S. Paul, being Semii.aric fpecially fent to the Gentiles, Seminatorem a Sower ^ or Semi- ^° * ^* narie ApofiU, V Vhich two fortes of Gods workmen are ftii in the Church, with diflind offices of Paftoral cures, and Apoftojical miflionsi the one for perpetual gouernmenc of Paftoral cures Catholique countries : the other for conuerfion of fuch, as J"J^ j^^?^°*^" cither haue not receiued Chriftian Religion, or are relap- fed. As at this time in our country, for the diuers fortes of pretended religions, thefe diuers fpiritual workes are ne- ceflary, to teach and feede al Britan people. Becaufefomc in error of opinions preach an other Gofpel, wheras in ve- . s.jtuT. ^^^^^ there is no other Gofpel .They preach in dede new do- is fainy called deyiun drines, which can not faue. Others folow them beleuing ^^^c Gofpel. ^ttY' ^^l^hood. But when the blinde lead the hl'mde (not the one ^, ^ ,
only, huz) both fal into the ditch. Others conformc them- & citemaU/
felues, in external shew, fearing them that can punish, and conformable
?Mw. kil the bodie. But our Lord vvilbring fuchasdidineimo ( vn- "unhi'au?
-^ i\x^)olligations^ with them thatworkt iniquitie. The Reli- thorsof im..
qucs and fmalHock of Catholiqucs in our country, haue 'i'^"^'^*
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To THE ENGllStt READER^
great fadnes, and forow of hart; not fo much for our ownc afflidion , for that is comfortable-, but for you our bre- thren, and kinfemen in flefh and bloud. Wishing with our Gracein the o^nc temporal damage whatfocucr,your faluation. Now *-c<»r,^' ae^Tcftamlt IS the acceptable time, now arc the dayes of faluation, the dZ\tcni^ ^'^^^ of Grace by Chrift,whofe dayes manie Kinges & Pio- £fee old. phetes defired to fee:chey faw ihtm{mfpmte ) and reioyced. £,,f, i^.
But we are made partakers of Chrift, and his Myfteries; fo that our felues ncgled not his heauenly riches: if we receiue &: kepe the beginning of his fubftance, firme vnto the end 5 that is, the true Catholique faith ; building theron good workesby his grace; without which we cannot thinkea good thought, by which we can do al thinges neceffaric to faluation. But if we hold not faft this ground,al the buil- ding fayleth. Or if confefllng toknpwGodinwordes'jWe Tit.i. ^It'^s^al^ denie him in deedcs , committing workes of darknes 5 omifTionof or omitting workcs of mercic, when we may doe thcrn to ^'^^'H- frTdamBabk! °"^ ^i^J^efTed neighboursjbriSy if we haue not charitie, the ^^^^^.^^^ forme and perfedionof al vertues, al is loft, and nothing worth. But ifwebuildevpon firme grounde, gold, filuer, and precious (lones, fuch building shal abide, and make our vocationfure by good workes. as S. Peter fpeaketh. '•'''^•** Thefe (faiths. Paul) are the heyres of God, coheyres of Ja^'uTby Chrift. Neither isthenumberof Chrifts bleffed children ^^,,,.7, Chrift. couted,as of thelewes,an hundred fourtiefourethoufand,
of euerie tribe of Ifrael twelue thoufand figned; but a moft great multitude of Catholique Chriftians , which no man can number, of al nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues,ftanding before the throne of the lambfe, clothed in white robes, and palmes [of triumph) in theit hand^s : hauing ouercome tentatiohs in the vertuous race of good Theyjiremorc ^^^^' ^^^ch more chofcwhich alfo indure perfecutiOn for iiapoic that thetruthcs fake, shal receiue moft copious great te^atdes ^f/.y^: ttS for[hr* '^" ^^auen. For albeitthe paffions of this time Xinihemfituis) thie, or truth. are not * condign6,to the glorie to come,that shal be rcue- "^Vin
led in diimm.
To THE ENGLISH READER.
Car 4 ^^^^^^^'y^to^r tnbulacion, which prefcruiy is momen- *• "'•'*• came, and Jighc, >5^'orketh [through grace) aboue mcafure excedingly an eternal weight of giorie. What shal we therfore meditate of the elpccial prerogatiuc of Encrji^h Catholiquesacthistime?Forco youitis geuenfor Chrift^ not only that you beleuc in him, but alfo that you fufter for English Ca- him, A htle now, if you mufl be made penfiue in diuers ^^°^'S"« '•P"-^- ccntations, that the probation of your faith, much more iTcLl'a^.r precious then gold, which is proued by the fire, may be round vntopraife, and glorie,and honour, inthereuelati- on of lefus Chrift. Manie of you haue fuftevned the fpoile ofyourgoodes With ioy,knowing that yoii haue a better and a permanent fubftance. Others hauebenne depriued of your children, fathers, mothers, brothers, fillers, and
nereftfrendes,inreadierefolutionalfo,foraewithfentence of death, tolofe your owne hues . Others haue had trial of reproches, mockeries, and ftripes. Others of bandes, prifons,and banishmentes . The innumerable renowmed late English Martyres,& Confefibrs, whofehappiefoules Thcdue raiTc Ui conferring true faith before men, are nowmoftglo- ofMan/res'/ nous in heaucn, wc pafTehere with filence^ becaufetheir ^"^°'i^" due praifc requiringlonger difcourfe, yea rather Angels, S'excc then hnghfh tongues,farre furpafieth thereach of our con- ^^^^ "'^"^ ceiptes. And (o wc leaue it to your deuout meditation. '°"^^''' They now fecure for thcmfeIues,androhcitousfor vs their deareftclientes, incefTantly (we are welafTured) intercede before Chrifts Diuine Maieftie, for our happie confum- mation,with the conuerfion of our whole countric. To you therfore (dearcft frendes mortal) wc dired this fpeach-
adinonishingourfelues&you,intheApo(lleswordes,thac tor fo much as we haue not yet refifted ten rations to (laft) bloud (and death itfelf) patience is ftil nece/Tarie for vs ^^^^"""^ thatdoingthewilofGod,wemayreceiucthepromire. So ^^^T^l" wc repine not in tribulation, but euer loue them that hate ^'^'' vs, pittying their cafe, and reioyc'ng in our owne . For
t t neither
Remio.
To THE ENGLISH READER,
. ♦* neichei" can wc fee during this life, how much good tliey pJoScabk." <^o vs J nor know how manjc of cbem shal be (as we hartel y deiire they al may be ) faued: our Lord and Sauiour hauing. paide the fame price by his death , for them and for vs- Louc al therfore, pray for al. Do not lofe your confidence, which hath a great remuneration. For yet a htle,anda. very litle while, he that is to come, wil come,, and he wil notflackc. Now the luft liueth by faith, belceuing with ConfcfHon of harcto iuftice, and confeflmg With mouth to fakiation. But hJ.I^ faith before he that x^ithdrawcth himfelfshal notpleafeGhriftsfoulc. I^fXwt^?' Attendtoyourfaluation,deareftcouncriemen. You that are farreof, draw ncre, put on Cbrift. And you that are within Chnds fold,kepeyourftanding,perreuerein himto the end .His grace dwel and remaine m you, that glori- ous crownes may be geuen you. Amen.
From the English College in Doway, the Odaues
of A L S A I N C T E S. 1605.
Tfft Go^ of ^dtience and comfort geaeyau to he of one mind, one^ towards an&ther in Iesvs cbriji j that of one wi»dt with one mouth yott' may gtorijie God*
'es^.^^j^^^j^S^^^^W^^^-f^ Mi,
THE SVMMEAND PARTI- TION OF THE HOLIE BIBLE.
\7ich abiife note of the Canonical and Apochryphal Bookes.
T the '\'m forme conftnt ofdl learned Ditiines, the hoUt Bill^ or yvntten ivordof God^contcyp.tth ex^rejfed ortw^liedy at thingts that man is to beleue^ to ohferue^ 0~ to auoie^, for ob- tayninr of eternal faltiatton. That ts , A matters of faith Cr maners,by which \ve may kpoiv and feme CoS, and Jo befpi- S. Ji'^g. ntually toynedjvith him, tn this life.cr ineternttie. For Icth the old Cr frefac tn „^j^, fefiament propofe andtejtifie vnto l>s,one and tie fan:e Cod, the fame ^^Icjfd ^^*'^i^> *^^' f-^^^ church, and other Myfertes of our belee/e, not dijfaivg m djjh la. ftib(lAncty but in maner ofvttering;the old moreohf,ureljinfgur<s and pro- '^.u.i-de phecies foretellingthofe tbmges, which the New declare tb (in grett part) as Gen. c5- donnc and performed. VFhempon faith S. ^ugn^m : In tht Old Tefla- wiv^M ^^^"^ the New liethhidden: 6^ inthe New the Old liethopen. '^^U^7e ^"^ touching thctr names, wherein appareth difference, the one {jaith ciiteciu:^ the fame Dochr) is C2\kd the old Teftaraent , cither becaufeirpro» rudA.c. pofeth promifcs of temporal thinges (f^Fhenvith our old corru^tnts 5-c^-4- ii allured) Or inrcfped of the New, by which it is fulfilled, and f'erVxo"d income part abolished. The other is called the New, becaufeby o,7j. a. it man isrenevv-eJ, and hath promife of eternal life: P'rhuh iba\ lycont. neuer waxe old nor decay. Ltkj'iVife S. Gregorie the great ttfltfeth this cen- l^anich f'^^"^^**^ » ^^^ correfpondence betwen the old and New Teft^ment, affirming cajKr.h that the fameis ftgntfedbythePrsphetEfcchiels viftonofanhtele, which iZ.ciuit. badfoure faces, orapparence ef foure ivhi-es, the shafe whereof sv3.s,zs\t " y4'^« we-T, 1 wheelein themiddes of a wheelc. What is ii\\s faith hf, J^'J'*^ '"'* nifiqaod in Teftamenci vcteris litera Teftaraentum nouurn la- Ik^cIi. tiiicper Allcgoriara? but that in the letter of the old Teftamenr, Taiifi. the Newlay hidden by an Allegoric?
'"'*• i . ^nd as the fame is the fumme and fnbieEl of both Teguments : fo both are ^^'''iT' diuided(for the more principal partes therof) into four e fortes of Boo^^: '*\;' j*^ Legal, Hiftorical, Sapiential, & Prophetical. r^fZf^4l bookes of the ^Id Teflamtnt Artthe fine iook.cs of Moifesy Genefij, Exodus, Ltuiticus,
•j- j I Numeri,
HoUf tlic
holie Sciip-
turesconiemo
a! knowlcgc
neccflaric lo
Ijluation.
Ihe old and
thentwTtfta-
mert shew
the fane God,
Chrilt.Churck
andctheiMy-
fterics ot ivc-
ligion.
The old more
obfcurcly,
vitlilcllc
helpes.
The ne«'
more eiprcfly
and ycldeth
moregracc.
EKjfd
TnbothTefta.* mcnts, are foure forics of Bockcs,
*■* ^ P R O E M I A L A N N O T A T J O N S ,
Nuilieii, O^ DeuteroHomiej iphereto a»(]ver m the new Te^.fmftiiy f/?f/o/<;'«? Gofpclso/S. Matthtv, S. Marke, S. L'jke,C7-'S.Iohn. Miftoricai. fiiflonul l^ooisof the ol4 Tiftaimnt , d'reth: Stokes of lofue, luJges, Kmh ,^foHrebook,fs of Kir.r:cs,tivo o/Paralipomenon, Efdras ivvh . Nehemias,Tobias, ludicn, HcOer, Iob,c?" tivoofthe Machabecsj ynto wb'iih^ m thcmvv Ttflamenli unfp^ifr the Ades of the Aooftles. Sainciuul. Sapiential, of the old Tefiarwnt, Are the Pronerbes, Ecclcfiailes, Can- ticles,Booke of wifdomejCr EcclefiallicusjitWo/ h^e ferte are in ^ ,^^ ._ the ntw relhment, the E^nfrles of S.Paul o^ of otbiY ^poftles.VrophzncA
opi)u..va y^rjles are Dauitis PTaltcr ( which isalfo Sapiential, ye^ tike wife Legal and Hifcorical) the ZJoj^^io/Ifaias, leremias 'Veith Baruch, Ezechicl, Da.nie\, the tweiut lejfe Prophete5,0[eai loel, Amos, Abdias, lonas, Mich.'Eas, Nabm-ii, Abacuc, Sophonias, Aggxus, Zjicharias, Malachias. ^ad m thi new Tefiimsnt, iht Apocalips of S. John the ^pofile. ' ^ , , ^l thefe Bodk.es art \>ndo'Medly Canonical^ as the ^utheres eittd in Cone.
recijcd .if- *^' ^^'^'^ rnargeot te^ifie . ^>id cenfe^uently al^ and dl the partes^tberef^ Canb, ^ Cawonical, are of infallible truth. For other wife as S.^u^ufittteachethy if ante fart ^"-^^^ andofinMi- "^ere falfe^ or doubtful , al Were "yncertaint. once admittiug falfq^hpod cen'f ble truth* (faith he^ Epifi,^. ad leroni) in fuch foueraigne authoiiiie, no parcel Laeiie of thefe bookes should remaine,\rhich anie vc^ay should feme hard ^•^P-S'?' to maners, or incredible to beleiie,butit might by this moft per- ^^"I'"^ niciousrule be turned to an officious fidion of the author. That aJU^J is: if ante error couU be commifted by the autbores of ScriptnreSy either d^cret.y. through ignorance, obliiiioa.or aate other humane frailtie,whatfoet4ertvere Trident produced, exception mt?ht be ta^eny and ^ueflionmade^ whether the author ^^^' "*' haderedyorno} True it is, that fome of thefe bookes (as VPe shal par- -^^ ^ *' ApochrTph.it ticidarly dtfcuffe in their places) were fometimes doubted of by fome Catho' s, .jittg\ i' Nmdech-^ //^/^ei, 4»^ Called Apochrypal, »» that fen/e^as the word frtperlj fi^ntf- U.r.doSl red cjiionicii. t^h hidden, ernot apparent. So S. Terom (in his Prologue before the La- ^/T^*;* 1. Reicdcd as tin Bible) calleth diuers bookes Apochryphal, being not f» euident, ^ ^I'J' •1 ronioHs. "Whether thfy were Diitme Scnpture.bccaufe they were not m the lewes Canon, moi C r. nor atfrflm the Chu^'ches Canon, hut Wereneuer reteBed, asfalfe or erronious, & ^^'bi, InwhichfenfethsPrayezofMinz'AcSythe thivd bos/^e o/ Efdras,and ff*"Pdi. third of hHcha.heis a.t:e yet called Apochryphal. ^s for the fourth of j*'*^*"^' Bfdf island fourth of Machabees there is more doubt. But diuers others y as Eufeh.U. \ . //jf booke afcribcd to Enoch,*/;('Gofpclso/'S. Andrew, S.Thomas, 5.f.8.
\ ' S. Bartholmew, and the like recited by y. Gelafius ( Decreto de libris Bcde*
I fiaflcii diH. If. Can. SanSla l(omana) S. Innoctntius the fir si [Epi^. 5.)
S.krom,Ep.ad LiZtam^S- yCuguUin li. ly. ap. i^.deciuit. Dei.Origen bomif. r m Canthx^ arc in a ^ orfe fcnfe called apochryphal y c^ are reiefled as
C6n^
N:
ProEmial Annotations.
eenianing mantfejl errors^ or fa iced by JJeretil^es. J\cithtr can a C.lfifti^ttt Cathoiinue Jie ctLfnYife afiured^ ^hich Bodies are Diuine jnd Canonuat ^?^ }^? 'f Mrft.iS. Scriptures, but by dtclaratien of the Catholtque Citmhj nhichmihEUt int(r= j..,]^ v^^ ^y^^ j»^.iB,i4. ruptionfticcedetb the ^pcjUes, to whom ourSauiour promiitd.and fcnt Churchv/hick l^.^ the HolieGhoft, ro reach al umh. For tjin ante thirty mort then others, Bookcs r.ie i.r;»/. 3. ajjUredly one chirf and moji necfjfarie point ts , te kpo^V «nd declare, rvhuh ^^[f^ icnp- Book?i *rt Gods hoiii ^ord : betn^ of mop ftn^tiUr importance.
THE SVMME OF THE OLD TESTA- mentj as ir is diftinguished from the nevr.
'Of^ithfidTidiT)^ the fuhiefl.cr general argument of both Teflamtnti jLe old and
Uotiecrthe jamein Jubfiance, a^s is already faid, yet thry diftr ;«newTefta-
»;wf, m maner of^ttenK? ofMyflenes, m varietie of precepts, cr prcmifes, "'^"' ^^'^ ,r 1,11 n I J r c '^ r ■' mtmic.
Tom. J. *^/^ mrmanes to eh/erne the thmges exa/ledy Cr to attayne to the end pro- inmancrof
(jKffl. 10 pofed. In regard '^,'herof S. Jerome faith : Lex Moyfi S^^omne vetus vttcrmg.
-^(i:"/'"-* inflrumenrum elemenra mundi intelligiintur, quibus quafi elc-"^^"'^"^ ®^ mentis, d^T Rcligionis exordijs Deum difcimus. The law of Moy- ^^"^^^^^P!^- lesandal theold Teftamentare vnderftood the elements of the j^ieancs. world, by which, as by firrt rudiments 8<r beginnings, we lerne to know God. For that m it tvehatie fr/} the Latv of nature: and after- ypai-ds a laTi>T^ritten, n'ltb fromtfes of temporal rtwardes^aslong //c, land fc wiug With m"il{e cr home, cr the Ukcy hut it brougri t nothing
^' -^f to perfedion, m S. Paul faith, when giftes & hoftes were cftered, 10*. "^hich couldnot according to confcience, make the obleruer
Cal.4. pcvfe^.Fprthehelpes of thdt time , were but infirma& cgcnaelttneca:
Weake 6^ poore elements. Likewifein general, touching the punish- Tht oIHTe- ments that fometimes happenedttthe people of the old Tefament, n htn they ftamcnr con-
i.Cor.io trdnfgrejfed, the fame ^pofile aftrmeth,tlut al the fame chanced to ^cynerbfigu- them in figure, 6^'are written forour correption, vponwhom ^^J^^^^^
Gal ^^^ ^"'^sofihe world arc come. Jo //fc^//;5'? o/*^7ij?^.'wf«/,orLaw was ATnntintfal "•3- butoarpedagogucinChrift.rf////>//f/^/oni& to-^i the nphole courfe ^'ifd^lcChmch of GodsChurchforthefpace of fourethonfand yeares.that isyfrcm the brnt>~^^°"^ tbebe- mngoftheivorld vnitl Ckrift our I^edemer . which Dtuinesdmde w/o"/Ar^'''"''''^'lJ A^es, whtrin Wai l/arietie C^' change of herflate, three Imder the Law of chr ft °' ^"^ nature, and three others -^nderihe writtenlaw. The feuenth (y lafl age The i^^irc My heing tins time of grace {wherin we no w are) from Chrifl, te the day of te- ^'"^ ^'°^'^' neral Judgement: as the World was made in /,x dayes, ^ndmthe femtth^'''/'^'''''''^ CodisfatdtoLwertfled, and therfore fanUifedti, tn ether fort, then j/^/Diuidedinio former fix. The eight ivil be after the^furre^ion, during for al eternttie, £x aj
Cm. I , J ^f i','^^/f t^^^ ^f, '^' ancient church, cr old Teflar».m, art thus diftrt- ''"'^'^ ."''^ .^g^
?j floud, cQ»teymng thefpdce of 16^6, 1 1 5 ycares.
huttd. The fir jl from tbt Creatton to Noes floud, co»teym»g thefpdce of 16^6. J"""' ''^'^r'ts
'• - P R O E xU I A L A N N O T A T I O ^ S.
j^ir.'S, Tbefecondfrfim the flotid to thtroitw ofylbrmhAm out ofhh ccuntr ie, (>("•. 'S. The fcconi :^6S. or coHntm^ Cxm.in {G.;n, ii. tuxtaji. C7- Luc.i,.) !,oS. jieares. The ^"* ''^* ?68 .or ?9^- 1 _^ ffjiir({ i^om ^iMr^hdm his going forth of hti coitntrie, to the parting of the i,^^^.^ about --o ~ (^b^^''^'''^'> of ifrAtl out of /Egypt* yrhich fame count to haue contir.Henjio. chrc- .y yeares, others {whom ive folorv) hut 4^0. ^nd thus farre tn the latv of '^eloj. The foiKth xi'ittire befm-e the 'Written U^ . 7 he jourih Age dured, ^^o. yeaWj from ^' ♦^^'o'* 480. the dcliUint of the children of ifrael forth of JEgypt, to the fundation of the g "^^^^ *
Temple m Icmfdem. The fifth ige "^ as from the fundation of the Temple, ta g.*/ .j. The fifth the CAptmitie icr trAnfmigrAtion of the lewes into Babylcnj About 4f\o.yearcs . Exo. i(f.
The fixch w^^d the f/xth i(ge dured Jfout G^o.jenres^frem the Captttntie of Babylon to i-^^--^' Here ^40.' Chnj}. In allifhich times God ^xs acknowledged and rightly ferued, bj ^^'^'fj^" Al the time a continual liiftble churchy ^ith true {{eligisn , the fame O" no other y ^kich i, ', from the crea- noTV th^t Church holdethy that is called and knowenby she name of Catho- tionto ux i^ ^^^ ^ ^s ^e intend, by Gods af^ij^ance, to shew bjbriefe Annotations, jcares. concerning diuers particular points now in Controuerfie, as the bolie Text
gcHcthoccafion. And efp^ciallj by ^^y 0/ I{ecapituUtion after euerte one of
theffx agesy ^'hen YV<? ceme to thofe ^affaga m the Hijiorie, ^bereihefame
are ended,
OF MOYSES THE AVTHOR OF THE' fiuefirft bookes.
M o Y s E s . "jk yf O y Ces C|o called hecaufe he ^yis taken from the water, as the name E:vo«^. ^, jiga!fieth,t3- }^\^Cignifieth) Was borne in JE^ypt , the fonneof Amra.m y the fonne ^ '"•^*^* w^Jz^"^ "/ Cz^zhy the [onne &f Leui the Patriarchy audfo of lacob, Ifaac , and \J^,J]X Abraham. Hismaru clous deliaerie from drowningy his education, excellent i^ntia, formiyftnguUr wtfdomsyheroicaiyertue^^rare dexteritieinal affuyresy c:^ tap ^f. whole lifemT^ admirable , are gathered out of hoiie Scriptures y by S. Gre- ^' ^^S- gorie Biijjap of Niffen , mta a bnefe Summe , mofl yporthie to be ready but |^^^ ' The cTccWcn- fo^*''g'fof*^i^ P^'^i^^ ' He Wa^ borne about theyeare of the'^orld two thou- s. g'»p?-, cic ofMoyCcsfanJ hure hundred , long before al prophane 'Writers , yeabefore manie 0/ oratioyt th« Pamimes falfe goddesy as S. A^guftiy, declareth in diuers places of his ^'^"^^j" m'id excellent booke intituled of thsCiticQ^ God. He liuedtn this'^orld ^''1'^*^ . iio.jtares. 0^ which j^o. Wife in Pharaos courty as the adopted fonne of s. t^w-. Pbtraoi daurhter:fourtie in b xnishmtnt from J^gUpt '» Madian'.an^ fourtie H. 18 cf- morehe^oucrnedth! people of ifrael. His ftnguUr prayfes are alfo britjly "'^-f??* touched m the lafi chapter of Deiiteromiey added by lofue. and in the bookji of His CcpnlchreEcclefitjhcus. He di'Jinthe defert, and ^ as buried tn theyaileofMoaby fo ^/^'//'l" not knowen fecretly th it na mjrt tlmtn k.netf hisfepu'chreylefithelejfiesywhowere'yery Gloford CO amcman. ^^^^^ ^^ idtUtrie, should haiie idf>red his hodie with diuine honour y for the greatms ind It iliitvde of his miracles, andfortbefingnUr eJlimatioUy they had of hi/n for the fame*
THE
T,
THE ARGVMENTOFTHEBOOKE /^
OF GENESIS.
^HIS prj} Beoht ej bolie Sriptitn, called Gencfis , '^hicb ftgnifth Gtncfis writ- birth or beginning, Ti'rfj written hy y.oyjes, "^hiii hetvas iiifi^titdby t^" bvMoj les Gody to infiruB cr rule the children ofifrael-^i aljo the other fourt hocljs . '^^ ^7". "'*" folowing* The^utkorandanthontieofalnhichf.uehooi^eSy tvere cucr Sokncwenby Ack»oyi;Ld^ed hy the faithful J hath of the old and new Tef^.rnent : and Jo Ttidmon, Mat 19. Accotmttd and eflemcd by tradition, tUchri(} an^ hh ^fofiles: Jaho alfo cojifirnicd by iieb II. confirmed thctn hjtlcr tefiimoniei^ and alUgitians of th-- fi:me^ ai e/ holre ^ Y jr'^u ' Jacob. 1. ^^riptitres. From th creation yntil Moyfes 'Writ ('^hich WjiaboHe tivo thou- jj^„ AnofUes, i-^fet i' ft^d and foure hundred yeares) the Chtmh txercifed l{eii^ion hj l^euihtt- Religion rc- onsmjidctoctrt^int Ptitriarches,andbyTrAditisni fiom man to man^^itith- u-kdic C^^t- OHt ante Scnpturcior UW fP itttn. But the peculur people of Cod ieir)f c:al perfons, ... V I r 1 7 I ' r ^""^ 10 obicr- S. ^HT. more'Viftbly fepxrated fror» other nations ^ cr mxnie errors ainnuingw the ucdbyTradi-
qm^.yet world^God Would for corrgHton Ct Confutation therof, hatfe hn Wil made lions. &nom jj^^iljif l^no^en to bis chiUrerif. and (0 remaine amon^li theminv^ntten ^'^•""- rerord, hy bis faith fnl femant and Prophet Mo^pey VVho therfore decUreth ^^'^J ^"'P: the Author and beginning of al tbin^csy that ts , Bow al creatures "if^ert ^^^ fnidtbyGod,and of himbaue thirbsingy And by him only ire conferued. What Moy- Beteachethexpre/Iy th^t there U oneonlie Cod, a^amfl th<^fe that tm^gi' fcs fpecially 9ed and brought into the phantafir of men mime croddes. That the whole ^'\eveihia ■ ririn ri J I \f .i'^ .J tins bookc.
or yniuerfalfiibftance of heauen andrarih,'ivuf} their ornaments and acci-
dentSy ^cre mtde in time\ agnnHthofe ib it thought the fir fi fund at nn ther^
ef had euer ben ne. That God doth gouernt the fame ■■, againfl ihcfe that fay,
Adsridedbydjienieorbythe ffarres^ /r.nd not by the conttKfi.iI protudence
of God. That God is A rewardtr ef the g'jod^and a Ptinisher of tHily]vhtch
Jtnners feme eithernotto know, orgrofly toforgete.^.idthat Cod created
aI for mans l/feznd benefitey which should make Vi grateful, vrhcrfore .. .
1 ■ r • I I 1 , I ) I I r ) I Manmoftpar
holie MoyfesmoreparttcuUrLy dejcribeth the beginning of man-yWhat he iva^ ticularJy de-
At firfi\ hew hefelj hoW al mankind n come of one mm ■ deducing the (cnbtci:
Gen'alogie of ^dam y efpecially toNoe. Then how men being more and IhciigVitline
more defied ^pon the eArthy with Wtcked, efpecially carnal fhnes, Were by [^omAdami®
Gtds iufl wrxth drowned with an vniHerfalfoud.
^gaine how a feiV referued perfons mtltiplied the world anew. Bui
this 0 faring alfo falling into munie finnes, especially idolatrie and fpiri-
tual fornication, as tbofe of tkefrfiage did to carnal of cncei, CodfiiUon-
ferued feme faithful cr true feruants. of ^'hich Mojfes fpecially purfueth The principal
Q^^ the lineofNoe by Sem bis frfl begotten fsnne. Tlnn defcnbeth the p^-rticular P^tnovchcs
' yocationsy Hues, maners, notable ftjtngs, and noble f.Bes, "Vfith fincoe re- ^°^^ Vonncs
ligion of Abraham ylfaacylacoh.lef ephyCr other bolie Vatrtarchtsx "P io ofllcael.
lined befre the ^:nttenLm. lihvvife^pon'y'^^briteciafcn) O-'in^vhat
tuaniTi
The ARGVMENT OF Genesis.
mine,', lacoh otbenvtfe called Ifrael, with al his pro^ettiet depended fnm
This booke the Lund of Canaan into JEgypt,and were there entertayned. So thisbooke
dmided inco cintayneth the hijiorie oftivo thoufand three hundred cr odde yeares. And
° \ ^ ' it may he diuldei into eight fortes , The fir si contnynttb the Creation of
Heatienand Earthy o^ other Creatitres^andUfi/j of Man.cha^. i. <y i. i; The fecond part is of the trangreJtioH & falof man, &his calling out of
Paradtfe , of multiplication of men, and of fmne, though fit! fome ^sie
iujii of the generalfiond, that drowned al except eight per fons^ cr few other ?• liuingcreaturesof the earth, from the third chap, to the 8. The third partis
of the new mcreafe^O' multiplication of the fame, from the 8. chap, to the +• ii.The fourth, of the confmjion of toagttesy cr the diuifion of nations. i»
■*' theti. chap. The fft relateth Abrahams going forth of bis countrie, Godi
promfe,thatin his (eedeal Nations should be bleffed, O^ the commandment ^^ of Circumcifion, from the u, chap, to then. The ftxtb part reconn'teth the
progenie,and other blejUngSy efpecialiy the great yertim of Abraham ylfaac^ 7, and lajoff. from the zi. chap, to the 57. Thefeuenth part reporteih the feU
Zing oflofeph into JEgypt^andhis aduancement therefrom the ^y.chap. $a 8.. the 4(j. The eight and la^ part is of lacvb, and his progenies going Into
JEffypt y their intertainment there ^ andof lacobsyandjinally of lofephs . death, in the fine la^ cabpters.
The Signification of the markes here vfed, for dircdion of the reader.
The numbers in the argumentes of chapters point to the vcrfe, where the mat- ter mentioned beginneth. This forme of crofle [ f ] in the text, shevf^eth the beginning of euerie verfe. The numbers in the inner margentoueragainft the croffc, shev/ the number
of verfes in the fame chapter. This rairke"{ignifieth that there folovJ'Cth an Annotation after the chapter, vpon the \170rd, or wordcs, wherco it is adioyned. The number aifo of the fame verfc is prefixed to the Annotation. Thciefoare prickcs :: shew that thereisan Annotation in the margcnt, vpon that place. And when manie occurre, the firftanfwcreth.ro thefirit marcke, thefecondto thefecond, andfo forth. In like mane r the citations of places in the inner margent, are applied to the authorcs alleaged. But when the re be more fuch marginal annotations, then may cafely be ap- plied, vevfe the letters of the Alphabete fordiiedtion. Thisformeof aftarrc ["^J in the text or annotationsj.pointctluo the explica- tion of fome word or wordes, in the margent. Sometimes wc put the Concordance of other Scriptures in the inner mar- gent of the text. VVehauealfonotedin the margenty when the Bookesof holie Scripture (ox partes thereof) are read in the Churches Scruicc, For their fakes, chat dcuie to read the fame, in order of the Eccldiafucal Oifice.
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THE BOOKE OF
GENESIS, IN HEBREW
C E R E S I T H,
Chat. L
Coi credteth heauen And earthy And A things therin \ diflingulshing 4nd Thcfirft »»rf. hr9Vtyf)ing the fATne\ 16. Ufi of at tbefixihday be creuteth m4n:to Ofthecrcatii xvhom bejithtethth aI cor ford things ofthit inferior world. ^^ al things.
The Church N " T H E beginning God created hca- rcadcth this uenj and earth, f And the earth was bookc in her voide&r vacant, and darkenes wa^ piHc<;from vpon the face ot tne deapth: and tnc til Pailion Sua Spiritcof God moued oner the -sra- ^ay. rers. f And God faid: Beliahtmade, Alio this firft And light ^ras mad^. f And God ^^^P.^"'&/^- 11 law the hght tharit\rasgood:«Sche fccondon Ea» diuidcd the hght from the darkenes. f And he called the fterEucbc- H^ht, Day, and the darkenes. Night : and there was euening ^o^c Maflc.
a<rmorning, that made one day. t God alio faid: Be =• afir- '' ^hc firma.
•^j -inL 11 -,••,1 mentis al the
mament made amidlt the waters rand let it dmidc berwenc fpaccfromthc
7 waters 6d^waters. f And God made a firmament, anddiui- earrh to the dcd the waters, that were vnder the firmament, from thofe, ^ieghcft ftar-
8 that were aboiie the firmament. And it was To done, f And ^^' ^'^.^ [f"^." God called the firmament, •• Heauen:and there was euening ^f.^^^ bctw'cnc
9 S^morning that made the fecond day. t God alfo faid : Le'^t the waters oa the waters that are vnder the heauen, be gathered together the earth and into one place: and let the drie land appeare. Anditwasfo ^jjc ^"^^tc" in
10 done, t And God called the drie land,"Earth : and the gathe- ^.A-jHi 11 de ring of waters together, he called Seas. And God fawe that Gen Id lit.c,4
jz it was good, f And {aid: Let the earth fhootforth grenc '■ Like-wife herbes,and fuch as may feede,&: fruite trees yelding fruit h^^^u^isalrhc after his kinde, fuch as mayhaue feedcinitfelfe vpon the tfiecarXln
It earth. And it vasfo done. | And the earth brought forth uhofc lowelk
A grenc
i Genesis. Creation.
|»artarebii<!c$ grenehcrbc, fucK as feedcth according to his kinde, & tree and waters, in tliat beareth fruite, hauing feede eche one according to his
*^a« ft?rres k"^^^- ^^^<^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ S^^"^* t And there was 15 the hieahdiis euening S^inorning that made the tiiird day. f Againe God 14 the Empyrial faid : Be there H^htes made in the firmament of heauen, to hcaacn. Efa. diuide the day 6<f"the night, and let them be •* for fignes & f5" , J. , feafons, and dayes and yeares : f to ftine in the firmament of ij made the firft heauen, &c to giue hght vpon the earth. And it was fo done. day,aredifpo- f And God made "two '-' great Hghts : a greater light, to go- 16 fed the fourth uerne the day : and alefTer hght to gouerne the night : and day in their ftarres. f And he fet them in the firmament of heauen, to 17 leT?or more' ^^^^ vpon the earth . f and to gouerne the day 3c the night, 18 diftinftion of and to diuide the light 6^ the darkenes . And God fawe times. S. Di- that it was good, f And there was euening and morning 13 onyf. ca. 4. jj^^^ made the fourth day. f God alfo faid : Let the waters la S^Tho^pT^ bring forth creeping creature hauing hfc, and flying foule, t[. 67. a. 4, ouer the earth vnder the firmament of heauen. f And God zi &q.7o.a.i. created huge "Whales, and al Huing S^ mouing creaturt^^ :: The Sune & f^at the waters brought forth, according to eche forte, 8c al Jhou"h th^ ^°^^^ according to their kindc. And God fawe that it was* mooncbcthc good, f And he " blefTed them faying : Increafe and multi- Z2 leaftvifiblc plie, and replenifh the waters of thefea: and let the birds ^^"c^ccpt be multiplied vpon the earth, f And there was euening 8^ 25 ^^cucth' ^^^ morning that made the fifth day. f God faid moreouer: Let 24 morTughton ^he earth bring forth lining creature, in his kind, cattle, the earth by dcT fuch as creepe, & beaftes of the earth according to their reafonitis kindes:and it was fo done, f And God made the beaftes of 2/ ncrer and fo ^^^ ^^^^^ according to their kindes, and cattle, 6C al that kctha"cof"' crepeth on the earth in his kind.
ding to the And God faw that it was good, t and he faid" Let vs make 2.6
vulgar capaci- Man to our image, 5<flikenes : and let him haue dominion ^o/.j,
tie and vfe of ^^^^ ^^^ g ^^^^ of the fea, and the foules of the ayrc, and the 10.
li!T?c G^n^ beaftes, and the whole earth, and al creeping creature, that adlit.ca.itf. moueth vpon the earth, f And God created man_,, to his 27
owne image : to the image of God he created him, male 8^ £^at.
female he created them, t And God blefled them, and fiith: 28 19,4. " Increafe and multipHe,8^replcnifh the earth, and fubdew it, and rule ouer the filhes of the fea, and foules of the ayre, 6c al huin£T creatures, that mouc vpon the earth, f And God 25 faid : Behold I haue giuen you al maner of hcarbe that fee- dcth vpon the earth, and al trees tha.t haue in them fclue*
fccde
Creation. Genesis. j / ^
30 feede of their ovene k.inde,ro be your meatc! fandtoal ::Euericcrea- beaftes of the earth, and to euerie foule of the ayre, ^ to al ^^^^ ^" "^""1 that moue vpon the earth , and \chercin there is life, that.^ confiderccTto-
31 they may haue to feede vpon. And it was fo done, f And gcthermakc God fawe al things that he had made, and •• they >yere very the whole good. And there "Vaseuenmg 6^ morning that made tlic ^'oj^'^perfed,
^IXf'l^y- mans'THnd
. Gods glone.
" S.Aue.li.idc
ANNOTATIONS. Gen. cent.
Chap. I. Manich.ca.ix.
r. Inthehe^nni':!;.^ Holic Moyfes tcllcth vhat va$ done in the beginning The Church of the world, and fo forward euen til his owne time, writing abouc two thou- had only Tra- (andandfourc hundrerh yeares after the beginning. Al which being incom- ditions &no prehenfiblc by humaine witte or difcourfe,he knew partly by Reuelations Scripture from God, forhe had the gyftofProphecieinmoft excellent forte : partly by aboue 1400, Traditions from his elders, who Icrncd of their fathers. Forvntilthattimethc ycarcj. Church had only Traditions of fuch things, as were reueledto fpecial men , wherbywe fee the great aurhoritie of Traditions, before there were Scrip- Tradition* tures. And fince Scriptures were written they are alfo neccflarie, for three fpe- neceflarie for cial rearons. Firft for that we arc only affured by Tradition of the Church, that chrec caufes. thofe bookcs are in dede holie Scriptures, which are fo accounted, and not by ,
the Scripture it felfe, for that were to prouethefameby thefame, vntilwe be afTured of feme part, that proueth fome other partes. And this made S.Au- etnt. guftin to fay plainly, that ]>e could not hcleuetheGofpd, except the church told htm
Epift. yy'»ch ti the Goffel. Secondly holie Scriptures being once knowcn to be the z
funi. c. iford of God, and fo of moit eminent authoritieofal writings in the world, Scripture of -.J as S.Auguftm S.Ierome, Seal other Fathersagree,yctfor the true vnderftan- moft eminent
dingof the fame, both the Scripture it fe'fe, and the ancient Fathers remittc authoritie.. vs to the Church, namely to thofe in the Church, that are abpointei by Gods ordinance, in the Jji^hf^ lace that he hath chofen. Which were theFIighPriefts in the old Teftament, as appcareth': Deut. 17. Mat. 25. loan. 11. Andinthenew Teftament, S.Peter and his Succeflors for whom Chrift prayed that his faith fiiould not faile ; and therfore commanded him to confirme his bretheren Luc. iMC. 10, XI. Thirdly forthings not exprededinparticularinhoIieScripture, the Scrip- .
iC. ture and Fathers do likewife remittc vs to Traditions, andto theiudgcment
^cl.j^, andteftimonieofthe Church. Chrift faying to his Apoftlcs ; /'<'f/^<t^/?<''Z^i«/^7o» 18. />p^)-ef/;>7iP.TheApoftles dcubtcdnottofay : ItfemedgoohoiheHoUechojlAnito
1. Theff. -v.^-And S. Paul willed the ThcHalonians to hold the traditions, yyhtch they had 1. /^-iwef, whether it were by word, or byhisEpiftle.
Ori-en. I. Jnthe beiimunr c,od made h auen and earth. ] Al writers ancient and later CcrJp.yjps
/«/>«•. find fuch difficulfes in thefc firft chapters, that fome othcrwife very lerned 1 ? Cen.r.i. hane thought it not poll bic to vnderftand t'ne fame according to the proper ^w.li. andvfualfignificationofthe wordes, as thcletter may feme to found, but cx- X. de pound alallegoricalh', as that by the waters aboue the firmament fhould be Cni.cort v"derftood the blelTed Angels, by the waters vndcr the firmament wicked >f mch. fpiiites, and the like. So did Origen and diuers thatfolow bin: therein. Yea t*. 1. S. Auguftin in his bcokes vpon Genefis againft the Manichccs, written
A X ihortly
whj Scrip- tures arc naid.
Three rpiri- tual fen/es bcficles the literal.
Allegorical.
Jvioial.
Ajiagogical.
A fTgurc of Baptifmc.
Chriftians €sdlcd£{hes.
Light being anaccicicnt rcmayncd tK-ithouriub- ic<5^, by rhc iudcrcirent of fome Icr- ned Fathers.
4 Genesis. Creation.
(hortlyaftcr his conucrfion, when he could not find as he defircda goodand
Srobable fcnie agreable to the worJcs, in their proper fignification,expoun- ed them myftically, but afterwards in his Qther bookes de Gencfi ad lite- Uh.i.c ram, he gratfully acJcnowledgeth that God had gcuen him further fightthcr- jg' ij in, andchat novi^he fuppofed he could intcrprcteal according to the proper itb,2,c.u Signification of the wordes. yctfothathedurftnot nor would not addidHiim fclfetoonefenfe, but that he was rcadic toimbraccan other, left by ftickirg ' to his owne iudgcment he mightfailc. So likewife S.Bafil, S. Chrifoftoni, Ba/.h^: S.Ambrore,S.Icrome,S.Bede,andothcr^reatcflDodorsfound& confelfed ^./^ Qf^ great difficulties in rhcfcfirft chapters, which they with much Itudieendeuo- w; red to explicate . And thcrforeitis a wonder tofeeourProtell,ants& Puritans clninjt, hold this Paradox, that Scriptures are cafic to be vnderftood. VVherasboth ehifi.lL by teftimonicofthofethathaueindecde ftudicd& laboured in them, 2ndby a jf„ih &>' Jitledueconfideration,thec6trarieismoftcuidcnt. Forwhofocucrwil lookc Bedain into the holie Scriptures, fhal find that fome times in fhev/ one place femcth examen. contrari^eto an other; fbmc times the letter &: phrafe are obfcure & ambi- /«■£,»». gl guous; fome times the fentenccs vnperfect . Againc manic fpcaches arepro- pifiul.ad phcncal, manic parabolical, metaphorical, and vttered vnclcr other tropes Eufloch^ and .^gurcs, and that in the literalfcnfc. Moreoijcr there arc three fpiritual ctn.i.^^ fenfes bcfides the hterril,very frcquentinholieScripture. Allegorical pertay- r^.^i^l Ring to Chriftand the Church 5 Moral pertayningtomancrsjand Anagogic'al exo.io pcrtayning to the next life. As this word Icrufalcm literally fignifreth the head r . ^ ^z citic of Icwrie : ?4orally the foulc of man : Allegorically the Church militant: t.xo. * and Anagogically the Church triumpham. And fomctimcsrhis (and thf like joan'.t . ofothers) metaphorically in the literal fenfcfignificth the Church militant, 2f. * * and not the citic of lewric, as in the ii. chapter to the Hebrewes : and fome s^om.t^ times the Church triumphant, as in the zi. of the Apocalips.
z. iheHpinteofGod.] In the Hebrewitis /igniHed, thatrhcSpiritcof God was on the waters to make them fertile, for that fifhcs and birdes were to be procreated thcrof; the word is merahepheth, mcubabat, fate -vpon, to produce fruid (faith S.Ierom) from the waters, as a henncby her heatc, produccth leron.i^ lifcintheeggcs. AndthefamcS.Ierom, and before him TertulHan teach, that ptfioLSt. this was a figure of Baptifmc, which confiflcth of water and the Holie G hoft. ad o'cea^ For as water iu the beginningofthe world rcceiued a certain vital vcrtuc of ren.dt^ the Holie Ghofl to produce liuing creatures: fo alfo Baptifmc rccciueth vertuc Dapttf. of the fame Holie Ghoft ro procreate nc<a' men. VVhcrupon Tertullian calleth ChriftiansfT{hcs,bccaufe they are gotten from the waters, and thence hauc theiifirftfpirituallifc. Lnit not therftrs feme Jh-ange (faithhc} that tnBaftiftns yyatersgeue life.
i6. l"."vo great lijhts, auJ Jharres.J Hereoccurreth an other example of the hardnes of holie Scripture. For ifthc two great lights (towitthe Sunnc&thc Moonc) andalib the ftarrcs, were made :h: fourth day, and not before,, as ie may feme by the wordes in this place, then what was that light, and in what fubic<fl was it, th.Ttwas made the firftday? S. Bafi!,S. GicgoricNazianzcn,. Theodorct, andfome others, writing vpon this place do thinke that the light, which uasmidc the ^rftday, reraayned though an accident without his fiib- icfttilthc fourth clay. And .ilbcit moft other Doctors rather think that the fubftarce of the Sunne ik Moonc, & of other planets and ftarrcs were created thefirftdny, and the fourth day fctiuthat order and courfe which nowthejr kepe, with morc-diAin(5lioii/t'r/^»<J anifcafoits, und dayes andyeares :yethis ckrcth&ttheforcfaidapcieJU Pod©rs iud^editpofliblc^that accidents may
ccnuine
Creation. Guvesis. f
tcmz'mc^'nhovit their fubieft. which a Sacramcntarie vil be loath to grant. The accident* left it might be proucdpofliblc, as both thefe&al other Catholique Doiftors of breadc ani beleuedand^aught, that the accidents of btead and vine rcmaine in the blef- v/inecanrc- fed Sacrament of the Eucharift -without their fubiedbs. VVhich Protcftants maineby dcnic. Godspo\f'er
i6. Let ys make man to cur JmaTe-"] ForbettcrconCderationofGodsbountic \cirhout thcit towards vs, and fturring our rclues to gratitude towards him, we may here fubieftes. note tenneprcrogariucsbeftowcdonvs, by our Lord 5: maker in our creation Tcnne prero= aboue?l other carthlie creatures. Firft, wheias God by an imperial wordof gati'jcsof comin?ndmcr!tmade other creatures, Tim h;:, i ii.t firmamentHm: F.e there Lnht: man. in his , f <> I »V.<<ry«7777<jn;e»^ .-intending to make m.an, heproretleth fami'iarly, by way , creation, ssifvcrc, of confultation, and as to his ownc vil-anJ Icruicc to make man i. madelikc faying: if< -vs make man to our unagt andltkeiies, that is to iay, a reafonable creature to God. with^nderftanding and free wil, which bcaftes haue not. Secondly, m this i.TheMyflc- workc God firftinfinuatcth the high Myilerie of cheB.Txinitie, or piaralitic ricofthe B. ofPerfons in one God (becaufe manis to bcleue the lame) fignifying theplura- Trinitieinll- litieofPcrfonsby thewordesLf< -viwdifjandfocw/.Tind thevnitieiniubftahce, nuated in his bythcwordes Image and likcnes, the firft in the plural number, the later in the creation, /ingular. Thirdly, other creatures were producedby the waters and earth, j. producec! tet the yvaters bring forth (£{he and foulc) Let tleeartb bring forth (gralTeand by God hici cattle, & other beaftes] but God broiightibrtliman, not by the earth, though i'elfe. ©fthe earth, nor by water, norbyheauen, nor by Angels, but byhira felfe,, geuing him a reafonable foule, not fenfualonly asto beaftes, and thefamenot produced ofanie creature, but created immediatly of nothing. Fourthly, God 4-p'accdin gauemrnParadifeamoftplcafantpIace todweiin. Piftly, Godgaue mando- P^'^^""C. jninionandimperialauthoritie oueral liuing creatures vnderheauen. Sixtly, ^' L°™ ^f*^ man was created in thatinnocencie oflife, and intcgritic ofal vcitues, that his carthlie inJndwas wholly fubie«Sl: to Gcd, his fenfe to reafon, hisbodie to hislpiiire, ^'•i^^'* andalcther liuing creatures obedientto him: cuen the terrible Lions, the ^-i^" cruel Tigres, the huge Elephants, and the wildcft birdcs. Scuently, God 7, excellent brought them al to man, as to do him homage, and to take their names of him. knowlcae. VVhich by his excellent knowledge he gaue them conformable to their na- tures. Eightly, Godgauemaninfome forte an immorralbodie, that if he had g povrc CO kept Gods commandment, he had liued long and pleafantly in this world, arid Kneeuer fo Ihould haue bene rranflated to eternal life v/ithoutidying. Ninthly, God ^-fr pfp did not only adornc man withal natural knowledge, and fupernatuial ver- o']3cie tucs, but alfo with the gift of prophecie. VVherby he knew that Eucwas* ° bene of his bones, and flesh ofhtsfiesh, though being a T.cpe he knew not when fhe was made. Tenthly (which wasthe'chiefe benefite ofal) God conuerfed '^^- ^°^ ^^^' familiarly with mr.n, and that in ihape of man, which was a token of his "erfedfami- meruelous great loueto man, and a lingular incitment ofhim tolouc God. '^^^^^X '*'^^^ .Fvcade more, if you pIeafc,ofthe dignitieof man,andthe benefitesof God ™^°" towards him in his creation, in S.Bernardvpon the 99. Pfalmc. Andvponthc ^i. chapter of Efaie.
18. increafeandmultipUe. ] Whether this be a commandment or no, arleaft Godsblc/Hns itisablelling, forfo thcwordcs before conmncc, Cod b!ej]ed them and fatd: in- alwa-escfFc- treafeandmuhipUe. He faid the fame alfo to brute creatures, which are notca- ^ual^ cable ofa precept, butbythis were made fertile. VVherby we fee that Gods bleifing alwayes worketh fome real effe^.-as of fertilitic in this and other E^P^^cially in places, ofmultipHcationoftheloaucs and fifties, loan (J. And fome real elFedt ^'^<^ ^'^^^^'^ ^^'' Chfifts bk/Eng muft ncdcs woikc alfo in the blcllcd Sacrament. Mat. z6. charift.
A 1 VVhicli
crc4i»
ro»
6 G E N K s I $. Adam«
WhicKcanbenoothcrbutchangingbreadandwinc into hisbodicfc bloud,
feing him felfc cxpreflyf fayeth : rh s n myhodie. this u my hlovd.
And though Gods blefTing in this place, be alfo a precept, yet it is nottoal
men for cuerj but for the propagation of mankind, which being long (ince Not a! men & abundanrly propagated, the obligation of the precept ceafeth the caufc cca- wcmen com- dg. So S.Cyprian, S. lerome.i. Auguftin, and other Fathers expound thi$ manded to place. And confirme the fame by the text, for immediatly God fignifying to maric. vhatend he fpokcfairh: and replenish theearth. Which benig replenifhcd,
Gods vt'iUs therin fulfilled.
God crcatcth C h A P. 11.
des of crca- ' ^^^ tVorke of fix dxyes heingfiniihedy God refled thefeueth diy O" hU^ed it. cures , yet ftil 8. T.t:n^Ucing mxn inpxrttiife ( planted w th bejvtifid cr fwete trees , vorkerh. lo. crivxteredrvithfonre riiiers ) i6. comAndet'y him not to eate of the tree of
y, 17. con.er- ^nowledre of rood o^ end. 18. cjr formed a Woman of a rihhe of^dam. uing&jTouer- d J ^ J J J^
IK"
andaeatch^ 'T^ H E heauens therfore & the earth were fully finid-ecl, i
foules, grace, 1 and al the furniture of them., f And the feuenth day 2 ^^^
and Sjo'^ie of God ended his woorke which he hid made : & - reftcd " the lo, 11.
yAutr^H 4de ^<^^^s''i'^h day, from al woorke that he had done, f And he 5 ^'''*^- S*
Gen.lidl'it. bleifed the feuenth day and fandifi?d it : becaufein it he had ^^'
cea(ed from al his woorke which God created to make_y . / "**
(C..I1.
4.
:: Mans foule f Thefe are the generations of heaucn SiT" earth, when is immediatly they were created in the day, when our Lord God made the created by cod heauen, and the earth, f And euery plant of the filde, be- $ of other fSb- ^^^^ ^^ ihot vp in the earth. And eucric herbe of the ground fiance asthe before it fprang : for our Lord God had not raynedvpon the foules of earth : and man was not to til the earth : f But a fpring rofe G
beaftes and ^yj- Qf {[-^^ earth, watering al the ouermoil: part of the earth. '^ ' plants arc. ^ q^^. j^ord God therfore formed mm of the flyme of the 7 •• Vvhcther g^rth : and •• breathed into his face the breath oflife, ^ man r. Cor.
b '^i^^^extant became a lining foule. ij* 4J.
is vncerrayne, t And our Lord God had •• planted a Paradife of pleafure 8 though it be from the beginning: whcrin he placed man whom he had certainediat formed, f And our Lord God brought forth of the ground 9 T.nochan al miner of trees, fayre to behold : and plcafantto care of: liuinp^ in ^^^^ tree of life alfo in the middle of Paradife: and the tree of
cartli^S. Aug. knowledge of good ^ euil. "j; And a riucr ilTucd out ofthe ip' li. i. cone Pe- place of pi .'afare to water Paradife, which from thence is di- p^l'^^'.^^H^'^ aided into four heades. t The name of the one is Phifon,,: 11 o.'^r&'u.v. '^^^''^'^ *^ ^^ which compifTeth al the land of Hr?ailTth, where q. vkima. oold.groweth . •]- A id the gold of that land is very good: il ' ' ' there
G fev E SIS. 7
15 there is found bdclium, &c the ftorie ony£"f And the name of thp fecond riucr is Gekpn : that is it which ccmpafieth al
14 the land of Ethiopia, -j- And the name of the third riuer is
Tygris: that fame palleth along by the Adrians. And the 1 -.'..-:?. -.
fourth riuer, the fame is Euphrates. " ' : ' . : * -*i«3fl ;^fi
i; t ^"^^ Lord God therforetooke man, &r put hJm ill ijhe ' *
16 Paradifc of pleafure, to woorke, & kcepe it. t And he com- •' As Vfc fay manded him faying : Of cuerie tree of Ppradife cate thou: ^"*^^ ^^ "^^^*
17 t But "of the tree of knowledge of good 6^ euil eate thou ^oufe is buih not. For in what day foeuer thou fl'alt eate of itfthou (ha.lt of bricke : Co
18 dye the death, -f Our Lord God alfo faid : It is not good for Adam was man to be alone: let vs make him a helpe Hkevnto him "^^'^p °^^j^^-f*
!<> felfo. t Our Lord God therfore hauing formed of clay al ofanbbeof^ beaftes of the earth, and foules of the ayre, brought them Adam. And to Adam that he might fee what to cal them.,: for al that t^iat of one Adam called any Huing creature, the fame is his name. ^^^^ ' ^* '{",
ao tAnd Adam called al beaftes by their names, and alfoules build^houfc of the ayre, and al cartel of the Hide : but vnto Adam there of one bricke,
zi was not found an helper like him felfe_^ . f Our Lord God orasindcdc therfore caft a dead ileepe vpon Adam : andwhenhewas ^efedde.po. faftaneepe,hetooke one of his ribbes, ST filled vp flefh {^JaueTchrU:
11 for it. t And our Lord God •• built the ribbe which he ho. ij. S.Aug! tooke of Adam into a woman: and brought her to Adam. Traa:.i4.iii
15 t And Adam faid: This now, is bone of my bones, and flefh loan- S.Tho. of my flefh:l'he fhal be called woman, becaufe fhe was taken P* ^ " ^- '^' ^'^'
24 out of man. f Wherfore man Ihal leaue his father & mo- •• ^°^ three, ther, & (hal cleaue to his wife, & they (hal be -' tv^o in one ;;,°ore°for'thc°n
2j flefh. t And they were both naked j to wit Adam 6^ his two were cha- wife : and were not afhamed. gedtoancther
ANNOTATIONS. Chap. IL
numbcr.S.Icr. li.i.cont.IooL
1, rhefeMTtth day.^A\ creatures benig made in their kindes irt -fi* dayc», «ompleicandperfed, God not ncdin^(asmen often doin their vorkes) to --T'fanvc-!! pcrfed, poolilh, or amend the fame, nfledthefcuenth day and rherfore thcna- ..: •• ;£lr3!;A turalperfedionofGods workesis attributed to the feucnth day, and thefu- Obieruarioh' pcrnatural pcrfedingof men in eternal life, afterthe Rcfurreition, is atrri- ofholiedavef burcdtothe eight day. asS. Auguftin andother fathers teach. Andforthis by Godsin&- caufe Godhleffed and janififycd tl:e/eueiith day. and after we haue in the Deca- turlon ' •* loguc, or tcnne commandments, that this day al (hould reft and abftaine from - '' £-^
workrs, yea and kcpcitfeftiual, occupying them felues in fpuirual excrciies ' "'!"^
fcruiccandfpccialwoilhipeofGod,asihe Icwesdid cucncilChrifls, and his •' ^ '**
Apo.lcs
S Genesis. Adam;
Apoftlcs time, praying and hcarinethe wordofGoJ readand cxpoandedin ^(l. ij, Obferuatioof theSabboth day. VVherby\e'e fee that diftinfbion of daycspertayncth toRc- 14. fcftiiial dayes.'*g^°"> -^^ people of God thus obferuing the Sabboth in memoric of the Lenit.tp is religious Creation, & diucrs other fcaftes in memoric of other benefites. And Vfc near iioc ludaical kepe the Sunday holie^ in memorie of Chrifts Refurre£tion, and otherfeailcs nor heath- in gratful remembrance of other Myft£;rics of Chxifts Natiuitie, the coming l^(]j. of'the Holie Ghoft,, andtheli'^c. Yeaalfo feaftcs of his blefled Mother, and
othci Saindes, for the benefites rcceiuedfrora Chrift by them, and for more hOiidvir toChriil: in them. So this Catholiqae obfcruation of feaftcs is neither ludaical ( which alfo in the'law was good but now is abrogated) nor hcath- nifli, for we honour not lupiter, nor luno, nor.-inicfaircgodorgoddefTe, but Honour of our Lord God Creator &Redcmer, & for his fake, his beftferuants. VVhcrof Saincles is to fee the Annotations in the Englifh ncv/Teftament. 4. chap, to the Galathians. f^^ffjjj - thegrcater • VVHerto we here only adde thefc wordes of S.Bafil. Which mayfcruefor ,-^ honour of a general anfwertothe mofl: common obiedion. Honor femorKtn redundat in jj.l^*. Chrili. <o,nraunem Dominant. Theiionour of the feruantesredounieth to the commcn Lord, or „„ «
Vitifler. So, faith he, the honour of Saindes is the honour of Chrift their Lord and ours. VVhyaparti- ^7- o///;<'trf<'af,(,-ionn'/«'%<?.] Ecfides the law of nature, by which Manvaj cdar pofitiuc ^'^^"'^ ^^ diredl a! his adions according to the rule ofreafon 5 and belides the Jaw befidcs Supernatural diiTinclaw,by which he was bound to bejcuc,and truftin Coiy 'theo-eneralla- ^'"<i t^o lone him aboueal things, hauingrcceiuedchegiftesoffaith, h'opc, and Ves^fGcd & cl'iaritie: Gcdg.iuehimanotner parricuiar law, that heshov.ldnoteuieofthetrse nature was */^"'-''^T%''':/]t'<'<''^'^»f^««'^-Anuchatfortworpecial reafcns, which S. i\n<ruftin U'o.S.de- scucii to man. ^o^^'^ vp:o,D this pkce . lirft, that Cod might declrire him felfe to be Lord of Cm, ad ■ * man . VVhich"wus aUblutcly nccdTarie for man, and iiorhing at al pro£rab!c to Ht.c.ii.
firftrcafon. God, who uedeth notour fcruice, but we wichoathis dominion /hould vt- "f-iLl^. tcrly falto nothing. "Kec enim ipfanon creante, <^c. Tor he not cr eat; no- rs, neither co»ld vysh ay ehrne, nor he >iotcoii.fe;iiinf^ys,coiild -rye renia'ine, nor h^n'jt'Touermn'^-fS, ■ ---/•__ eo»ld-i>yel;::erhJ)tl-j. fKhnrfore he oid/eu our true Lord, yyhum not for hu<, hut for out
cy^neprofiteau-lf'hatianyyefcr.ic. Thcotherreafon wa<:, that Cod might <rcuc manmactcr wlirrin to cxcrcife the vertue of obedience, and to (hew him felfe afubiedl; of God. Which could notbe fo properly and cifedl:u4lly decla- red by keping other 'aw;s,northe enorniitie ofdilbbedicnceappeare To eui- dently, as by fulfilling of Gods' w'il commanding him, or by doincr hisowne wil, moucdrothecontiarie, ina thingofirfclfdindilfcrcnt, &:only made v i- , r -'-f lawful, bccaufc it v;'as forbid. But let vsheare S. Auguftins cwnc wordcs. ^^ V ^■?/?'^ Nfff of;.'vt»:('/,'>^<:«<- ddi^/ntn(s contend art qU'Umum m.i'urt fit fol.i tKohedtentia, (^-e.
^ifobc'die'nce; Neither couldit (laiththisgre.itDodor) be better, nor more cxadlyfignified* >> how bad a thing fole dtibbcdicnce is, then where a mnn became o-uiltie of » iniquitie, becauic he touched that thing contiarie to prohibition, which >» if^ie, notforbiJden, had touchi;d. he had not finned at al. For hethacfaith for >» Toyncd-^^ith example i.-ik(:,Touchnot this herbc, fuppofingit is f cyfcnful, and doth for- >» dama^eto wa mo one of death, if h.-; touch iC, death airurcdlyfailcih on the contemner .»
him that difc- oftheprc.cpt: yea though no man had prohibited, and he had touched, for .. icycth- heihouKldyebccaufcrhe (amc thing bcrcueth him of health and life, whc- »
therith.-'.dbenpcfrrbi.ldcn him ornp. Alfo when one forbiddeth that thine '> loyned with to bc.touched, which would not indcdeprciudiccjiinithattouchcth, bLthim >» damage of ' thatforbiudcth,.a$ ifdne take an ;Others money, being forbid by him, whofc >i him I h.-;t for- thcmoney is, itjs :»f<n»c iir him thatis forbidtlcn, becaule it is iniurij to him >> biddeth. ciutro.biddciLJBut when thattlung is touched whichneirherfiiouldhmthim »>
that
Adam. Genesis. 9
,, tKittoucficth, noriny otllcr, if itwere notforbit^jVlvcrforc isirpioliibirc<{, ,, but that the proper goodnesofobcdience, and the cuil of dilobcdicncc might appcarc?ThusS- Auguftinflieu'cth, thatdifobedicnce isa finnc , bccauicitis a<Tain{laprecept> though otherwife the thing that is done verc not cuil. And True obcdi- amongftothergood notes, teacheth that true obedience inquircth not, \t-hcr- cnceis blind fore a thing is commanded, but Icauing that to the Superior, promptly doth andprompt. that IS appointed.
17. Of the tree eate thou not.'\ This example of ourfirfl: parents tranfgref- ^ot mcare^ fion fiie>»'eth, how'friuolousananfveritis tofayj that brcal<ingofcomman- but thedilo- ^ . dedfaftes, or eating meates forbidden can not hurt VS;, the meate being good bediencehur- ' andholfomc : forfo the fruitc ofthetrec was good, and fhould hauc hurt no teth him that ' ■ f ' man, ifit had not bcnne forbidden. Euen fo almeatcs of their ownc nature arc tranf'TielVcrh "' 0*'' goo^j yet the precept of fafting (foretold by our Sauiour in general, and deter- thepreceptof rj „ ' mined by his Church inparticular j and foofanic other like law, though it abflinence. '' J. ' be in things othcrwife indifferent, proceeding from lawful .Superiors , bin- Lav/es in e'bid 80 ^^^^^ ^^'^ fubiefts in confcience. And the tranfgrcirion is properly difobedi- thinc^s indif- ^ ' ' encc, what other finne focucrmayalfo be mixed thcrwith. ferentbind in
Caltiin I ^^" ^'■""' •*'"*^' ^y^ '^'^ death. ] Againft the,new dodrine, denying that after confcience.
^,,/j c 1 ^""^ ^^ remitted, anie temporal puniflimcnt remaineth for the fame, this Temporal pu- paru'^ ii. P^^^^'^'icclareth that death (wherof God forewarned Adam, if he ftiould eate of nifliment due g^.f ' the fruite forbidden) remained due, and was at laftinflided vponhim, forhis afterfmne is
finne, which was prefently remitted vpon hisrepentance. remitted,
flew, f . Againeforfomuch as wearealiubicd to death,it proucth that we were al Death due to guiltieofthisfmne, by which death ciracvponal men, as S. Paul teachcth. Els ^1 for Oriei- Godlhouldpuniflivs without our fault, which is vnpofllblc that hiagoodnts nal finne. hb 11 de ^oulddo.Elpeciallyit appearcth in infants, who dying before they come to Yea to infants ^jj^jj.^^ vfe of reafon,canneuerc6mit other finne, for though they were circumcifcd, ^ho haue no Uh 1 </(, o^^^^d Sacrifice offered, or other remedievfed for them before Chrift, or bap- other fmne. pec mer fi^C'i '^'^'^c Chrifl : yet they luffer (as S. Auguftin noreth) both death and manie Alfo other pe-? \y.\cmif. oi^her penalties, of fickenes, cold, heate, hunger, and the like, which can nei- nalties infli- j. . ther be to them matter of mcrite (as to others it may be ) nor profite them for ^^d vpon in?
Cen. 17 ^"oi'^ing of other finnes, Icing they dye in theirinfancic-Yea moreouer if they fanrs. loAn. I. 'iy^^ ^it:houtcircumcifi6, or other remedie of thofe former times, theirfoules S.GreT. pcrifned from their people; and now without Baptifme can neuer enter into h.^.\lo- ^^^ kingdome of heauen, which could not fland with Gods iuftice,if they were ral c I notguikieoffinnc.
Chap. III.
Fj the craft of the Diiteifpedhjng in dferpent, our frjl parents tranfgrejfed '^^^ ^econi . aods commandment. 7. who being ashamed would hide themfelues. 9 f^Yof man*^ hit are refrouedhy God. 14,. and beftdes other particular j^unnhements and propaaa- Cjyff ivithpromife of a Hedemer ) are cajl out ofParadtfe. tion ofman
and of finne.
I T>VT"rhcfer!>entairo was morcfub tile then al the beafts l>of the earth, which our Lord God had made. Which ^i^afne'tor^ Ciid to the woman: " Why hath God commanded you, that fcapc Immc
B you
ta Genesis.' Adam.
vhcn t^4e7 you flioulJ iiot eatcofeucric tree ofParadife? f To ^rhom i
■'"w^"^l^° the woman anfxrercd: Of thefmite of the trees that are
ist V mc . in paradife> we doe eatc : f ^^^ of -the fruite of the tree j
which is in the middes af paradifejGod hath commanded vs
that we should not cate : and that w^e fhould not touch it,
leftperhapes wedic. f And theferpentfaid to the waman : 4
No you fhalnotdye the death, f For God doth know that in y ^ f.^,.:
what day focuer you ibaleate therof, your eyes thai be ope- \i,j.
ned : and you fl: al be as gods, knowing good 5^ euil.
-j- The woman therfore fawe that the tree was good to 6
eate, and fayre to the eyes, and deIe<n:abLe to behold: and
fhe tooke of the fruite therof, and did eatc, and gaue to her ^^^^
:-•■ After finne huPoand , who did eate. f And the eyes of them both were 7 , . rim.'
theywerea- opened: and when they - pcrceiued themfelu.'S to be nakcd^ • i,i4«
amet , not ^j^^ {^>^ed tof^eather leaues of a ficjffc tree, and made them- before .y.c/;;-!,/ ^ , -^ "^ 00 '
lelucs aprons.
f And hearing the voice of our Lord God walking in S
♦-AI ) ■ r P'^^radile at the after none ayre : Adam hid himfelfe and li)
pcrtcincth to^i<^ ^^^^ \irifQ from the face of our Lord God , amidft the
the diiulth.u trees of paradife. f And our Lord God called Adam, an^, 9
Tpakj in rh: faid to him : whcrc art thou ? f Who faid : I heard thy voice lo
f^^^a^ r ' ^ ^" paradife: and I feared, becaufe I was naked, and I hid mc.
lir. cap.^<^. S t ToNS'hom he faid : Andwha hath told thee that thou ri
Bcdainiiunc wafi: naked, but that thou haft eaten of the tree, whereof
locum. I commanded thee that thou fhouldeft not eate? f And u
:.•• Eaithlitot ^fia.m iaid :. The woman, which thou g;aueft me to be my
carnal men ">. ^^^^^ companion , gauc nie or the tree, and I did cate.
Greg, in Pfai, t -And our Lord God faid to the woman : ^Xfhy haft thou 15
Toi. done this? who anfwered : The fcrpent deceiuedme, 8^ I
••' "I^iOvig'^ did eate.. f And out Lord God faid to the fcrpcnt : Becaufe 14
?)w ""^?''^' thou haft: done this thine,'- accurfcd art rnou amonir al
lilt rcntations , t^rt i iin-tii
at the firit af- cacle, & bealts of the earth : vpon thy breft ihalt thou goc ,
faults, and fo Sz '• earth ilialtthou eate al the dayes of thy life, f I wil put if
bruife the fer- cninytics betv<^en thee 3^ the woman , and thy feed and
L^^t-o'/th ^^"^^ iced of her :. " iTic (bal bruifc thy head in peeccs, & thou
rtir to accciuc ^^^^' ty-" ^'"^ Nvaite:: of her heelcf To the woman alfo he faid: i<i.
cfpccially ia I wil multiplie thy trauailcs, and thy child bearinges : in tra-
rhcendof naiJtj ;i-,;^lt thou bring forth children, and thou i"halt be "vn^
^■f'll^J^.' ^'^~ d-errhyhufoands |>owcr, and he (hal haue dominion ouer i.Cfir.24
hcc?e. S^Gtc. ^*^-^- t ^'■^'i ^^^ Adam he faid : Becaufe thou haft: heard the 17
so cap. I, lob. vciccofthywifej and hail; eaten of the tree, whereof I co-
l»andc4:
Adam.' Genesis^ ii
mandcd thee, that thcu fhouldeft not eatc, ciirfed is the ::Almentra- earuh in thy \('Oorkc : with '•'• much toyUng \hz\t thou eatc ucloncway or
i8 thereof al the daycs of thy life, f Thornes and thyftles (hzl it ^s r^.J{,^\des bring forth to thee, &f thou flialtcate the herbcs of the tooncrarovc
1^ earth, f In thefVcatof thy face fhalt thou care bread, til (i" theuibuls; thourcturne to earth, of which thou v^ail tak^n : becaufc |K^' ^^\^'^ ^'H^ " duft thou art, and into duft thou fhalt returns ft Jne^thcV tc
20 t And Adam called the name of his wife , Euet for be- of Pur^racoric
II caufe " (he was mother of aJ the huing. j- Our Lord God alfo or eternal made for Adam and his w ifc j^armenrs of skvnncs , and clo- F^"*^- S. Aug»
11 thed them, t And faid : Loe Adam is become as it were one i, ^"'^'1°,?'''
r 1 • 1 oy^ M t r // 1 /I i Gen.co.AlaH.
or vs, knowing good oC euii : now thcrtore left perhapcs ..^^^ ^-j mo- he reach forth his hand , and take alio of the tree of life, 5^ ther ratbcr of i3 eate , and hue for euer. t And our Lord God lent him out of '^ ^^"^ dying: the paradife of pieafure, to worke the earth of which he was J^"^ u^J^d 14 taken, f And he cad out Adam : and "placed before the pa- wlio'ismothcr radife of pieafure Cherubins , 5(f"a flaming, and a turning of Chnft, life fworde, for to keepe the way of the tree of life. idcUc^iheis
called mother
_ of the liuing.
S.Epiph.htx.
ANNOTATIONS. 7^.
Chap. Ill
T rr/>^f-4tfj Ga^r[ Here ^s'c may fee how (inne came firftamor!e;fl men. For Sinnecntrcd
the diuclenuving mas happicftare tempted Eue the weaJccrperfon, beginning aiuon^T men
vuhaqucfiionj therby to allure her into conf'erence, andby fucha queftion byrhcenuic'
as mignt bring her into fufpition of Gods aifcdion towards man, faying: & craft of the
I'rhyhaih Coi lommandedyou, tJiatyoH should not rate of tuerie tree o f }' arad if( ? inC\- diucl man CO
^ \ ^ nuating by thefe words, and withal internally fuggefting,chat God dealt hard- feuting to his
lb "^i ^y "i^ittt them, abridging their Hbertie without cauic . And when he had got fugfeliicns.'
. ". ■*' fb much of her, that (he was difpleafcd with the precept, which flie fhewed by Eiierirllfm-'
adding ofherowne (to make it feme more greuous) that they were forbidden edinthough'c,.
f«fottf/;//;/t)e<':andagai,nebyreporting the funiAiment as doubtful, faying: theninwords
. J - . ■ lift- pirhapsyrt dje, then the tempter auouched boldly, and falfly, that they jaftindeeccs.
"^ ^ " (houid not dye, and charged God to be cnuious of the bcnefitc they ihouldeet tilt, d?* • ,- .- ,. -^ , ■ . 1 . I 1 , , .< . p.
SAf. 1. loan. S,
" I bycatiiigofthattrce, (ayingt/;f/»fjWj/;3»<'</6.' opened, andtlieyshouldbea^Goddes, '. ^ Lnotcntgii^nvdanieutLW^on^Kic^i perfwafion, and liking alfo flic had to the
fruirc, flic did take and cate, and perfwadcd Adam alio to eatc. And forth- -n \r \ p ljh.de ^ith cbeyfawthatthey wouldnothauefeenc, kncweuilwhich they had better /" f° ^ ■ f^ yera l{e- not to haucknowen, werealhamed, and endcuoredto coucr, and hide them '""'" liTtontt. t<:'L!CS.Ei!en thus the diueldealcrh with mer) cucr lincc, adaulting the weaker J. perfons, and weakei part, asthc 6cniandrenfualitic,andby themfcttethvpon
lfl_ J. the ftronger and luprrior part, togctconfcnt of freewil,'without which thcic No finnc caa Hetrai'L '^ Qo fume. According to thatfamous frying ofS. Augudin: fei at umadege'si be without e. II, yvluntA: turn ,yt hhH^ riijdi jh ^tccAtHtn^ji noti y<iliiniariHm.Sinncisfoy</li.ntaiie,thatfi-CCwi\,
II Genesis. Adam.
Concupifcece in »9 yyife it cawlejinne, if it he not -voluntarie. whcrforc it -was no finnc ip Euc to no fiiine , but bctempted by the feipent, which flie could not auoidcnor in Adam to be tcm- pheeftecl:, and pted by Eue, but they finned vf- hen they confcnted to the euilfuggcftions. And s ^n^. occafioii of now in the regenerate, though concupifcencc remaine, which is the cflK.'£t of Uh. i. d« finnc. finne paft,& occafion offinncin thofethat yeld againe to tetar!on';,yet is it not nupt.cr
Alfo occafion finne, but punilhment of fmnc, and matter of exercife in the iuft, and if v/c foM.c.i}. ofmerite. rcfiit, ofmerite: and therfore S.Paul cxhorteth \Sj to inrale in the jpiytte,aiid the Gal j.
ii'fts of the fle-h yve shul not accompltih. And in an other place fheweth, that h« z,r»m.x.
yyhtcl) fi^hieth lawfully, shal he crovyned. The Latin 'T sheshalbruiff] VvotcOmnts wilnoradmitte this reading, »>r4fo»Afr<f, (he
text defended ^^al bruife, IcftourBleflcdLadielKouldbefaidanie way to bruife thcferpents a^Tainft Keni- head. And Kemniiius amongft others faith, that al ancient Fathers read, >pfuf?7, nifuisand o- "o"^) '/'/''■ ^^^"^ i''^'^""'"<^'^"°^^y'"g ^7 C^*^"^^^^^-^*"^'^^ ^^*-^°'-' ''^ ^ "»G/». thcr Protc- Alcimus Auiru5//t. 5. frfm.f. 6. S. Chnfoflom f'c-w. 17 jwfjrwf/'.S. Ambrofe//t ^* ft-mrs. fu^a/xcnlicap.7.S.Augu([inlibi.deG'ttJiContra%UnicJ;xos,caf>.i$ O-hb.ii.
See Card. Bel- '^^ Ge)irfi ad litevam cap.x6. S. Grcgovie Ub. i.Moralium cap.^Z. And.aftcr them larmin.li. 1. S- Bedc, Eucherius , Rabanus, Rupertus, Strabus, andLira vpon this place, c. It de verbo ^- Bernard /fr 1. fupcr Mifus eil . And manic others, who read ;f>.as the T\- Latin text now hath, * S. Trf-
Both rea-'inrs ^^^ whether we read, she sh-dhrui/i, or, lerfede, that is her fonne Chriil", shal neus It 5. veld the fariic ^''"'/'^ the ferpents head, we attribute no more, nor no leiTe to Chrift,noj: to our e.^^.cy ienfe. Ladieby the one reading, tlien by the other:forby the text,'/ v^tlput itimiiies hb.$.cir-'
heiyyen th re and the yy. 'tnan^bctyyen thy [cede, and her feede. It is clere, that this ea med,
enmitie and battle pertained tothewoman and her [qc^.c on the one {>artie, s Efiph,
andtothisdiucl, thatfpakeby the fcrpenr, and al the wicked, on the other tJxr.yS.
partie, and that the viiSloric fiiould happen to mankind. Which being s.le-ren. As Adam was captiije by Adams finne , occafioncdby a woman, fhouldbe redeemed, both ep ii.ad thecaufe, and fexes, though rn farrc different forte, concurring therto . And fo it is moft EuUoih» 5ue an occa- true , that Chrift by his owne proper powrc, and his blelfed mother by her s. Jtitg. fipnafmans moft' immediate cooperating to his Incarnation (and confcquently to other { or S . cj^tiuitierfo Miftcries) did bruifc the ferpents head, breakeand vanquifhhispowre.* As Tdgent) Chriftisthe manie ancient Fathers do excellently difcourfc: namely S. Bernard, writing fer.iZ da true caufe and vpon thefewordcs in the Apocalips. cap.ii. ^^2:i-eat Jtgne appeared in heauen, san^ii, his mother an ayyomandothedyyith the funne: Alheh (faith he) byoncmanand one woman de f,de occafionof we were greatly damaged :yct ( God be thanked) by one man and one woman c^symb. ourrcftaura- al lofTcs are repaired, and that not without o;reatincrcafc of graces. For the de Jlgo^ tion. bencfitedothfarreexcede the lode. Our merciful father geuing vs for a ter- ntchri^
^ B T J- reftrial Adam Chrift our Rcdemer,& for old Eue Gods ownemother.Moreo- y?,4Ko.
f!> d I ■v"c''=*^ the fame S.Bernnrdflieweth, this blelTcd Virgin in fmgular forte bruifcd ser.t.fu^ J,""^^J;.^ ""^'^ thefcrpcncs head, in that fhe quite vanquifbed al maner fuggeftions ofthc per %Uf, iuggeltions, ^j^-j^g^ifej-p^P^ neucr yeldingto,nor taking delight in aniceuilmoucd by him, fwefl. 19. Dtijlthetp art ] By thefe wordcs Adam was admoniftied to humble him
felfe, confidcringthc matter wherofhisbodie was made, and into which he lobJ^z.
fiiouldberefolucdagainc.wheruponitcamc tobeacercmonic amongflpeni- Efai.^i. Thecrremo- jcnts, to caftadies onthcir heads. Asappeareth in hoUeScriptures.fo^rwhich urem.S, n'eofalhcs, ^^afc the Church now alfo vfcth this ccrcmonie thcfirft day of Lent, putting lona.^. en Aihwc- ^,^^j on her chiidrcns hcades: willing them to remember, that duft they arc. j^^^^. jj. ncfday. and to duftthey flialretuinc, to moue" vs by this meditation to more ferious
penance . Godsproui- n. lcJI- perhaps] Notwithftanding Gods eternal decree ii difpofing .il 4cflcc toncur- thxin'cs, aad his omni^otencie which nothing caa rcfift, /ct he pioduceth
Adam. Genesis. 15
good.aBdcither iuoidctkor difpofeth ofeuil wKich he rufFcrcrh, by ordinaric rcth vith ie grat . mcr.ncs, as jippeareth Ac>. ly.T. ^. and that becaufe man hath frccwil , wirh mansfiecwil. C^lther. which God concurrcth.& deftroycth notnorforceth.as S. AuguRinreacheth. arb, c 6. 14. pl.tcedcheruhns ] Man being caft OHt ofparadifc, the lame is defended Paradife defen de cor- virh diibic gard. with Angels, that are watchful, wife, and potent; and v/ith fire ded by Angels rtpt. & andlVoid, moft terrible arnioure to man. wherby againe we fee, that God and by firc& gj-at. .td vferh ordinarie mcancs in his piouidencc, as the miniltiie of Ano-cls & humane fVordc. an.ftlfo teiror, and would. neither deftroy the tree, nor depriueit ofthe vcrtue topro- God deftroy- imi>of. loag life norbcrcueman of freewil , by which he might deiirc to returnc : eth not nature
but confcruing nature in a! creatures, preuentethinconucnicncesotherwife. S. .4;*r j^^r^ Angels alio hinder the diuel, that he can not enter paradife, left he ^^ Angcis hb nJe fijo^ia take of the fruitc ofthe tree, and geue it to men to prolong their binder diucU c^"-"'^ hues, a»dthexbydrav them to Vsferuicc. ofthcirdc-
luc.^o. fires.
Chap. IIII.
yy'.c'j^d Cxin lihthhoVe ^hcl. 9. vvhofeblotidcryeth for reuenge. IV Cum A atrfed 'Vacabond) 17. bath much ijfne. i^.^4'dam alfo hath Setb, and Seth Enos.
Nd Adam knewe Euc his wife: who conceiued and brought forth Cain, faying : I haue gotten a man 1 through God . f Andagaine ibe Drought forth his brother AbeL And Abel was a Ihepehard, S^Cain a hufbandman. •3 f And it befel after manie dayes that Cain " ofFred ofthe Hth. II. ^ fruites ofthe earth giftes to our Lord, f Abel alfo " ofFred ,, ^ ^^k^xc of ofthe firft begotten of his flocke, and of their fat : and our the Lambe ; Lord " had refped to Abel, 8^ to his giftes. f But to Cain, that was and to his giftes he had not refped:: 8c 'Cain was exceeding ^^^'^^ ^^°"^
6 an2;rie, and his countenance abated, t And our Lord faid "^r i,^^'""m^
\ • \ i_ . 11-1 ortheworid.
to him : "Why art thou angrie ? and why is thy countiuance Adoc. ij.y.S.
7 fallen ? f If thou doe wel, " (halt thou not receiuc againe : but if thou doeft il , flial not thy finne forthwith be prefent at the dore?but thelufttherof thai be " 'Vnder thee, and thou (halt haue dominion ouerit-/.
8 t And Caine faid to Abel his brother: Let vs goe forth su- broad. And when they were in the fildc,Caine rofe vp againft
sa^.io. p his brother Abel, and flewe him. f And our Lord fnd to Cain : where is Abel thv brother ? who anfwered : I know y'"^' 10 not: am I my brothers keper? f And he faid to him: what - WHfcl haft thou done? ''- the voice of thy brothers bloud criech to munhct if - II me out of the earth, f Now therforecurfed ilialt thoube °"*= '^^jj^' vpon the earth, which hath opened her mouth, d^receiued crirto Go<l li the bloud of thy brother at thy hand, t "X^hea thou ihalc til follrcacBg?.
B J. ' it, it
r4 Genesis.' Adam.
it, it ftal not yeld to thee her fruitc : a roag and vagabound flialc thou be vpon the earth, f And Cain laid to our Lord : 15 Ivlyneiniquitie is greater, then that I may deferue pardon. "f Loe thoudoeftcaftmeout this day from the face of the 14 earth, and from thy face (hal I be hid, and I ihal be a vaga- bound 6c fugitiuc on the earth: euerie one therfore that fin- dethme, thalkilme.f Andour Lordfaid to him: No, it (hal 1/ S' By the in- not To be: but xf^hofoeuer thai kil Cain, shalbe punished fea- crcife of A- uen fouhl . And our Lord put amarke on Cain , that\rho- buhas fccdc foeuer found him shouLi not kil him.
inL'^r I'r t And " Cain went forth from the face of our Lord, and 16 and Iacob,be- dwelt as a f ugitme on the earth at the eait hde or Eden. /ides the iilucs f And Cain kuewe his wife, whoconceiued, and brought 17 oflfniacl and forth Enoch : And- he built a citie, & called the name ther-
au; m lue of by the name of his fonne, Enoch, f Moreoucr Enoch be 18 jEorc then i , 1 t 1 1 x i ■ > i > / • 1 » ^ ^
4oo.ycaicsto g^^ Irad, and Irad begat Mauiaei, and Mauiael begat Ma-
*bou*ciixhun- thufiel, and Mathufacl begat Lamech. t whotooke- t\yo 19 <Jrcdi thou- wiues, the name of the one was Ada, and the name of the t^'lt^"c"rm!s o'^^^'^S^'^'^- t And Ada brought forth label, who was th£. 10 /Num.i")k ^^therof them that dwel in tents, and of heardfmen. -f- And 21 appcaicth his brothers name was lubal: he was the father of them that that Caincs flng on harpe & organes. f Sella alfo brought forth Tubal- 11 progenieinas Q2.in, wlio was a hammerer &: worker in al worke of bralFc tnWht fuffice ^ ^^on. And the lifter of Tubalcain was Noema. f And La- 2} to people a mech faid to his wiues Ada and Sella: Heare my voice ye cirie , y ea a wiues of Lamech,harken to my talke:for " I hauc flaine a ma whole coun. j-q ^[^^ wounding of my felfe, and a ftripeling -to mine ownc tne.S.Aug.li^ drie blowe brcwling. f Seuenfould vengeance shalbe ta- 24 .-.•This La- ^'^-^ of Cain : but ofLamech fcuentie times feuen fouid. nicch of Cains f Adam alfo knewe his wife again : and she brought forth a 1^ ilfue, is the fonne, and called his name Seth, faying : God hath 2;iuen me fed^'nsVir*.''" other feede for Abel, whom Cam llewe. f But to Sethalfo 16 sure"© haue ^^^ borne a fonne, whom he called Enos, this man " began iakcntwo to inuocate the name of Dur Lord, miKs.
ANNOTATIONS. Chap, llil
J, offered giftei]JLithct God him fclfe taught Ac'am, and he his childieii, orels they knew by inrtiadt of natui c, that Sacrifice muft be oMeicd to God, toaciiut>v!£dg« thcrbj his fuprcmc dominion outr maa, andmans due iLb-
icdion
Adam. Genesis. 15-
ic(^ion tohil diuire Maidlic . And that not onlyinintcrnalaffeAlon, vhicli EitcmalSa-
til 10. (^^S.Auguftin, and alCathoIiqrcDodois teach );s principally required, but crificc due to
de ciutt alfo in external-things, bccaufe we confiflof bodie , and not only of foulc, God in euciic
J , and'hauc, by Gods gcodncs, the vfc of corporal things. As hcrci'c fcccxam- Lav.
^. ^ plcinrhelawofnature : andthc.raineM'uSordaincd by written j^rcccptinthc
■ ' law ofMoyfcs : the Prophctcsalfo foretold , that citcrnalSacrificefliouldbc -^ . ' offered in the law of grace, and new Tcfiamcut, to vit, the fame which Chrift -^ ' ' inftiruted, and left in his Church, to continew to the end of the world.
MorcouerthishcmaricofoffcrrngSaerificeisfopecuIiartoGodonlyjthatal- SacrifTccdue- heitmnnieothereTfcricrritesandfcfuiccsare vied both to God & men, as to to God onliCj, ■• ., be bare head,ro bcwe, to kncclc,& the li e before them, cv.Jier of great humiUttc and to no crc-
/ .* ' (laith S. Auguftin ) or «f l>eshferotisf.<ittfytf, to inch zs nehomints colmJi^ytnc- aturc.
■ ■ ' ranili , fiauHm ets muhum^ddilurj &■ aaoraudi : men tobe-vfoyihibptd, raitrenccd "'1' and if 7r.uch he n^eam them, adored ( for this termc cf adori»i'^ is alfo aopiied to
J^^"-' " ■_ tncn in holic Scriptures Gf«.i?.v.7. ij-y. i9-) yet Sacrifice is due to God only,
, .^* and to no creature how c:;ccller;trocucr. In fo much (faith the (ameDo<5lorJI
'^, .'•'■ thatasalnationsfoundcitneccflaric toofFcr Sacrifice, fo none durn-facrifice
^ .. t03ni<:nifety(juemDeumatitfctitit,ttiitpuf.tuit,ai4tfiriXit:huttohim.\i'h.omtheY
' cither knew, or thought, or fa; ncd to be God,
*"■ * -I. Ilddvf'rectto^oel [Both CainandAbel didwelin ofFering extcrnalSa-
To.^.q. crificc, but they differed much in finceritic andmr'nerofchoofingordiuidincr 4.. their oblations, touching. Gods part and their owns , as S.Iui'Vinus Ivlartvr, .u 'i c
^^71 S. Hierom, S.Auguilin and others ceach.For Abel offered of the bcft things, ^ V , '% h'ebraU. ofthffn-n he^otten of hts flock , and of their fatte. And therforc God refpeded and l^M
Lib If. approuedit. Butto Cainand tohisgifrcshchadnct refpcd, becaufc hewan- ^'^'^'^P-"'''^? «^ (iutt c.-j. ted fiiirercdeuorio.VVhich difference of Gods acceptance appeared doubtlcs, "'^'^*^^'"S, by 9,!a}a .r. ias S. Hierom andS. Aagnftin f.ippofcd, by fomeextcrnalfigncjOtherwilcCain |p-'^'= ^^^^c"^**'' fubr.ii. hadiK)tvnderf>ood.ir.Moftlixcitwasby fire fentfrom God, which infiamcd "3"^' tmit.'). andconfumcd Abels Sacrifice, & not Cains . As wc read of diuers other Sacri- ludtc. 6. ficesin holic Scriptures.
iPar.y. 7- 3■/''^^'^''<»«;;otw««^•]Rewardofgoodworkcs,andpunishmcntofcu^!arc Rev/ird and J. ileg clerly proucdby this place. God faying to Cain : Jftheu doejl-vyd, sh^lt thouvot pmiirnmenc i8. rcceiueifraim ? what els bur wel for \*-cl doing ? as Abel rcceiucd confolation of accordinrr to
iM^f- I his Sacrifice wel offered, but ^f thou dv(ftil,shA trot thy finneleprr'cnt forth-ryith ourworkcs* . «f'/'e'/orf?afHictingthyccnfcience, and notfuffcringthy mindtobcin quiet, for remorf: of thy wicked facV, and fcare of iuft uidgcment . For hence ic came that Cainscounrcnancefel, andhisf:omack boyledwith an^ie :puniih= I
ment fo beginning cuen inrhishfe, &rnuchn)orcin thcnextuoiid cur Saui- 9tUt. r€. °"^ wilrendn- (as him fclfc faith) to cuery man according to his workcs: vi'hicli /(c>«. t. ine Apoftle erprcucth more diftinaiy, eumal Ufc, oryyyaih & indtmiation,
7. rwJfr/W [This Text fb plainly fheweth freewil in man, alfo afier his Frcewil in ma failejthatthe EnglifliProtcftanstoauoidfoclcr; a truth, for thc'e wordcs a'foaftcrhis thelufl ther-of (to wit of finne ) sh^lbc yndr- thrr, and thou .h.dt h.wc dominion oucr fallc tible "'' corruptly tranHate infomcofthcirBibles-thu? : Vntothcc his defirc fli-^I be Heretical truA »;79. fiib'e£l, and thou (halt rule ouer/.,w. As if God had fi;d , that Abel fl^ould be latioa.
hofcabfurdi-
Lcivs.
i6 Genesis. Adam,
Let T$ tkerfore exairine the fenfc, and if S . Hieromc, tlie grcatfcrlpture Do- J^^fi. Cioi did rightly vnderaandit>God did fpeakc to this cfFea to Cain: Bfcaufe thou H^raic, *rVi T4 K h..llfne'wfl,l-vy,trneihee, that ftnnthauenot dowmionoueii-thet , hut thottouer finne. in Gen.
w^^. ^ "j^ The Hebrew \\ditht\nii: ad te. if petitus etus, e't tudommabcris m eunt, or, «. Vnto a o ree c ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^pp^^^^^ ^ifygj^^ ^nd thou shah rule ouer u.Thargum Hierofolomitanum tex pijoue concludtthGodsfpcach zo din thus: lute thy hand l })uue^euenpoyyre of thy con- ■ reewi m cupifcmcr, and haue thoudonnmon therof:yyhetl)cr thouyyilttogtoderto f«ii.Thc Greke harh thus : To tkecis the conuerfion therof,and tl>oi* shall beare rule oufrit: to ., ... v'it,appetite,luft,concupircenceisvnderthy>»'il.Finally,aIantiquitievniuer- J. ^»»- Prccwil tcftih- f^i^^ieand vniforme conlentof Chriftian Doao)s,and otherlerned Philofo- guflm. e<ibyaiuiqui- phj.j.5^3njj.earoiiablc men hold it for certaine and an euidcnt truth , that man U.deye* tie , vnmcrfa- ^^^ ^ ^^^^^^ ^^^j^ frecwil. Yet Luther, the father of Proteftants,fo abhorred this raKd'^ line, and con- -^^j.}^ ^ thathe couldnotabide the very word, norvoutfafe ( v/hen he writ ca.i^.- lent of lerned ^^^-j^f^ i^j ^q ^^^1^ his beaftlie booke. Contra liberum arburium, ^gainii frceyyil: Screalonabie ^,^^j^ j^,, ff.y^^g arbtirio. offeymlarbitrlmcnt. And denieth that man is inaniwifc perlons. fiee to choofc, to refolue, or determine, but in al things feruil, tycd,conftrai-
d h ncd, and compelled to whatfoeucr he doth, faith, or thincketh. Further, that
^^- /. ^ ".^"^^ man in al his adios is like to a hackney, that is, forced to goe whither the rider "® •*^^^''^"' ^ii j^^^^jg j-^i^-, A.nd knowing the whole world aganft him, fliameth not to con-
fcffe, that he fetteth them al at naught in refped of him felfe, concluding thus: Ub. de ihaue not (faith he) otnferredyytth anie in this boo'e, but ihaue ajfnmed, andldo f^ruo ar- 'Caluin alfo affnmeTieil her yyil J / hat anie man iudge her(of,but J counfail al to obey,or yeehde to myn bitrto. jnaiflikeththc opinion. Caluin alfo for his part, confpireth in this herefie with Luther, but woidfreewil. more faintly rather wiflieth, then imagineth that men be fo maddc as to flee i^y ^ g^ from the name of frcewil. I ( faith Caluin) neither my feifeyyouldyfe thts'yy or d, ^..par.i, VVhereis nc- aniyyouldyvisJ) others, tfihey as e me ccunfatle, to ahfiatne from it. But we wii be cclhtie there bold to oppofeS.Hieromesrcafonagainft Luther, Caluin, al Manichees, and ''^^.i-^*^- is nether re- others that dcnie freewil. Godmadeys (faith he) yyith fneyyil , neither are yye t^e'flo^- ward nor pu- dravyenbyncccj^itietoyatttesnortoyices; othfryyiJtyrbeieiineceJ?itte,thereu tteither '♦""**'»♦ uifhmcntdue. damnation norcroyyne.
16. Cain yy ent forth ] It is a marke ofHcfetikes to make breach, and goe i.ioan.x. Coineforth forth ofthe Church. And commonly it Cometh of enuic.Jowze www »»to/?e?-e/f«f TraB.de ofthe Church 'J«-^/i''^/'»/« (faith S. Cyprian) -v-rfcfw they enttie Eishofs, yyhilf/loneetthercomplai. ^ijU (^ a marke of »eth that him felfe yyas not rather ordained, or difdaineth to fufferan other ahom him. liuore, Herctikes. Hereupon het^iiLetJ), hereupon herebelleih.Enuie moued Cain to k}l his brother, becaufe his
oyyneyyorkes yyereyvickcd and reiedcd; and his brothers iufi, and eftemed. So ' '^' goina forth became obftinate , obdurate, and defperatc in his finne, and bein?' reprobate of God, began a wicked Citie, oppofite to the Citie of God. Wherfore Moyfes, as S. Auguftin notcth, intending to dcfcribe, and fhew the lib. de perpetual continuance of Gods Cine, the true Church, from Adam, which he pajlore. doth bythc line ofS^th to Noe, and fo forward to hisov/nc time, wouldnot c.^.& e, omittotel alfo the piocrcnie of Cain, eucntothe floode, wherin al liis of- 10. fpringwas finally drowned and dcftroyed, that the true Citie of God might appearcmorediftind, more c6fpicuous,& more rcnowmed.And thatin decdc the fame only (and not anie broken and interrupted companies or conueRti- clcs) migbt beknowcntobe thetrueChurchofGod. ' ^
let' h rA ^3' ^ ^i*"" ,'^'"«' ] ^° h;a-d and obfcure is this pi '.ce, that S.Hierom required raw. |.-'
4C ipturena a ^^ ^ Damafus Pope to expound it, darcthnot afarmc anlc one fenfc for cer- ad i.
taine , but propofmg diners , which the text may feme to beare , wilhethtlic ^•^■c^.^ Pope (who was alfb very lerned ) to examine a1 more at large : putting hiraih Damaf, ciindthat Oriacn writ his tweifthandthirtcnch boolccs vpon this onlie place. ^ The
The,rpoil probaJiU cx|»p/i£ioft feiv.et]^ robe gathctcdoutof rficKcbrevcs A probable Tradkion,thattliis'Laipt:.cH pf'tliVifrucofCain (for there was an other La- renfe accor- mcchofSedfs'frq^eriieOwuch'adi^racd to hunting, ancl his eyes dccayino;, dingtorhe rledih^^at ebr^ercirc'clie d4r<fft^on' of 'ft young man Kis nephew', thdlbnneof Kcbiewcs Tubalcain . VVho r':ingrontcrhinfrmoueinbufiies,fuppo(in'iMtcobea v/ild Tiaciinon. bcaft, willed his grandfftthcf to llioote at the Tame :.wKichhc I'.iJ, andftioke the marke vitha dcadlie wpuri4., and approcbi.ngco:takethe f r.'y, foundic tobc old Cain. Whereupon '{qie amazed, afflided, 'and moucd ^^ith great pafHon, didfobeate the'voting rnan, forhis'il direftion, that he aUo dicdof the drie blowcs.After.bbthv.liich mi'fliappcs, and Ivis palfion at laft carJmcd, Lamech lament;cth as the textiaitji, ihathe had killed a man and flnpling, towit, the onp with a wound, the other with diie blowcs, for which he feared » Chrir fcuenfoldpuniOiment more tlicn Cain fuffcred for killing Abel. Neuertheles ^0 lO.in S. Hierom & other Fathers thinke it probable, that Lamech killing the one of Cm jn-norancc, the other in pa/Tion, was not fofeuerlypunilhed as he reared. And
fo they vndcrftaod the rcft^ ofjthis paliage,'that feuenfpldvenganee was taken ., of Cain,by prolongation of his miierable life til his Icuenth generation, when
'^' oncofhrs oi'neinjue Hew, him, and an other of the famclinage with him. And- ^"^' La'mceKwds pitnillied Vtiientic feuetifold when his fcuentie feuen children " v" {forfo'rhiniehe'b.^Hras'Iofei^pkuswpiteth) arid al their bfspring perilbed in ^ncZ ^^^ ^o«<i- 'Myftically by feiicntic fe'uen niay be fignificd that the finne ofman- Myfticaff^flXc kindftibuldbepunillied and expiated in Chrift our RedcniGr^-who was borne
tuc.y
la
the rcucntie fcuenih generation frpm Adam.
'±S. ''^''c^.ins'to tni^ocatc.'^ Seili was a mbft.bolie m.an,'ar\dfobrpUghtvp his Sttidtu children j thaHh'^)--wcfe .-rdMcd th'fc fonnes of Cod . Gen .' fe.^ Adam alio and Eue ■vocahnlo ^ifjexc-pc'nitetit^i'andbdcamitgrciicdbnfefrors, and arcnow Sainftes. And (bit "^'^ can no'tbedoubwdbm^'rarnongft other' fpiritual exercif^s they prayedand in-
Ufepb.l. upcatedGod. And thcrforcthat wbich is herefaid : He ( towit £»oi) ^f54»f or
besides $;lcri^?^^ whichwasallo bqJ[o'e, as appearcth both by Cain & A.ha\. • q a
f^e f>rv^nfle of j^ttmy^ numhercf -their ye ares (^vith the de^ith of tht T€pyC^ tr^nfiatitinxif Bnoch) mthel'meoj Sethyto Noe O^ his three fonnes,
i': ;-.■'■';• ;i • .: - •, \\ i\ / [■■: i ','■/> ■^ .:■-■•■.
■'X -^T^,H IS is the b^oke of the generation of Adam. In the
S4p.u J[_ day, when GoJ; areatedf mai) , to the hkcnes of God
g £*/, 17, i made he h-inji. ff-Malcand/cmale ereated he them ; and bief-
1. fc-d them -.and called their name Adam, in the day when
3 they wer ecreaccd. f And Adam hued a hundred and thrrtie ;> y:ear.e^, j and begat to his ownc image and likcnes, and called
4 his- name Seth. t ,And the dayc^ of A'^^'^* aftci; he begat Se:h-,cam$:Qjigiit hundred ycares :i .$<iiid he " begat fonnes
C ''. ■;-'. i': G and
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and daughters, f Ani al the time that AJam Iiue<!,came f to nine hundred and thirticycares,'' and he died. fSethalfo 6 lined a hundred Hue ycares, and be'gat Enos. f And Scth 7 lined after he begat Enos, eight hundred and feuenyearcs, and begat Tonnes and daughters, f Andalthedayesof Seth S came to nine hundred & t^j-ehie yeares, and he died, f And 9 Enos Uued nintie yeares, and begat Cainan. f After whofe z» ?; Thi- He- birth he liued eight hundred 6c fiftenc yeares, and begat brcv phrafs fo nnes and daughters, f And al the dayes of Enos came to ij """'■tf'^**^*/'^ nine hundred and fiue yeares, and he died, f Cainan alfo li- is. thaVhiTTued "^^ feuenrie yeares, & begat Malaleel. f And Cainan Hucd 13 ^-•elf: pieaft J after he begat Malaleel, eight hundred S^fourtie yeares, Goi. and begat Tonnes Sc daughters, f And al the dayes of Cainan 14
:.T!i{-^eae:uiccame to nine hundred and ten yeares, and he died, f And j/ tlr'^ ra'' God Malaleel liued fixtie fiue yeares, and begat lared. f And Ma- 1$ cranflatcdhimlaleei Hued after he begat lared, eight hundred and thirtic and (g dorh S. yeares , and begat fonnes and daughters, t Andal the dayes 17 Paul. Hcb. ir. of Malaleel came to eight hundred nyntie fiue yeares, 5d"Kc ioZtft lifc'^tf ^^^^* t ^^^ I^^^*^ ^^"^^ ^ hundred fixtie two yeares, and be- iS" a"hfrcrecirrdg^'itE"ocJ'>- t ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^'^'^ ^^^^^ ^^ hcgzt Enoch eight' 19 But if xife con- hundred yeares, and begat fonnes and daughters, f Andal zo fidcr that A' the dayes of lared came to nine hundred fixtie two yeares,^: dam ^as as |^^ ^-^j^ ^ Moreouer Enoch liued fixtie fiue yeares, & begat 21 di^e^^L^firflT' Mathufala. f And Enoch - walked with God : Sc Hued after 1* d;i7 he was ere he begat Mathufala, three hundred yeares, and begat fonnes ated, as thefc and daughters, f And althe dayes of Enoch came to three 25^ others were hundredVixtie fiue yeares. f And he walked with God, and 24. To' yea?^s)'bc- " ^as.feene no more: becaufc God-" tooke him', f Mathufala 2j , fore which, ^ alfo Hued a hundred eighriefeucn yeares, & begat Lamech. none are {^lid -j- And Mathufala liued, after he begat Lamech, feuenhun- 2^
le begot chiiJien ) and
CO haue begot ^j,^^ eightie two yeares, and begat fqjines and daughters. r r ' W^^ t And al the dayes of Mathufala came to *•• nync hundred 27
yeares from fixtie nine yeares, dc he died, f And Lamech hued a hundred 28 MathuCda, eic^htie two yeares, and begat a- fonne :f and he called his if theaAdam H- J^^^-^Q Noe, fiiying: This fonne ihal comfort vs from the ffa^elouTr ^orkes d<riabours of our handes on the earth, which our then hef y M. Lord cutfed'.. t And Lamech Hued, after he begat Noe , fine joJ yeares. hundred nintie fiue yeares, and begat fonnes and daughters,
a The fccond 4. y\j^(£ al the dayes of Lamech came to feuen hundred fc- 5£ foi'^'^Mii'l''oa "^'"tie feuen yeares, and he died. And ^ Noe when he wa« Ik:L- ^- u-^ °'^ fiue hundred yeares oide, begat Sem, Cham, and laphatL..
ANN.O^
$cch« Genesis* ip
ANNOTATIONS.
Chap. V.
• -j. — 4'. Ee':;ttef9nttuanetJaH^hters.] Moyfcs in this gcncalogic rccitcthnot al- The cutinual ,.' ^* vayes the firft begotten, nor the vholcprogcnic by theii names {forthen he fucccflionof *" '* ' ftiould haue repeated CainandAbcLandhauc named many others) butthofe Gods Church, * onlic by whom the Church of God continued, fignifying the reft in general, and inter: up- vhofc fuccefllon was cut of by the floud. tion of other
y. ^nd he died.] By this Gods word is verified faying, that Adam fliould commuu^tics. dye, if he fiiould eate of the forbidden tree. And the diuel is proued a Iyer, fay- ing, they (hould no t dye. It is alfo moft true that Adam dyed that day in whith j Jow ma died hedideatc.Forhebcgan that very day to decline to death jandfo doth alm^n- ^j^g j^y j-^^^,. S..R..14* kind cucr lince, as truly faid the woman of Thccua to king Dauid ; yyc docal ^^f^^^^^,^^
die, and M yyatevi that rcturne not,'vye fal doyynecntlieeartl/ . ^'Indyyhat els (faith ho.jj.in S. Grcgorie) is this daylte decaying efey.r corruptian, hut a lingering deail) ^ And tiiangtl. none ofalthcfcthatliucdlongeft reaching to a thoufandy tares (which with Tfai. 85. God is as one day) man dyed in that day in which he tranlgrelled.
S-lnnttti Morally ancient Fathers here note, thatalbcitthclifcof thcPatriaikcsfcc- Al time is h.$.ad- niethlongto vs, yetifwc copare the fame to eternitieitis nothing . Neither Ihort in reP- »«•. lie' by theiu<lgcmcntof Philofophersmay anicthing be counted long, that hath pc(5tofcter- »■'*• anead:asTulliebringingCatowifelydirputing,{hewcth the longcft life to nitie.
Ciceroli. \)q \jm ^ ftiort moment. Whereby againewemayfee whatlolfc we fuftainc ce Sftitc. byfinnc rfceingif finne had not benne, we fiiould al hauc bennc trandatcd ^ ? ^ • from earth to heauen, and neuer haue dyed. Tufcul. j^_^,- yf^as/eene no more.] That Enoch and Elias are yetaliueisa conllant Enoch & EHaj
knownetruthjinthehartcsandmouthcs of the faithful, faith S. Auguftin in y^j liuinc in it.io.ct- Ijjj gj-|^ booke, depeccat. merit o-remijf.c.^. andconfirmcth the fame in di- {jq^jj^^ eitt.cij, ucrs other places. And it is teftified by very raauy both Greekeand Latin Do- Itb. I. de ^ors. 5. Ircneus li. j. S. luftinus Martyr, q. 8j. ad Orthodoxos. S. Hippolitus ^••4^<i li.de Antichrifto.S.Damafccn, li.4. dc Orthodoxafide.S. Hicrom. epifr. 61. Cimpc. adPamach. c. 11. S.Ambrofc in Pfalm. 4f . S. Chryfoftom. ho. n. in Gen. t.i.trau, ho. yS.in Mat. ho. 4. in epift. 1. ad ThefT. ho. 11. in cp. ad Heb. S. Greg, li.14. 4tnloa. Moral.c.it,ho.i2.inEzech.S.Pro{p.Ii.vIt.dcpromif. S.Bcdeia c.j'^Marc. ^ -crv- ' Theophilaft and Oecumenius in cap. 17. Mat. and others innumerable. M.^^'^^"" 5>'^ri*' Malac.^. Touching Elias it is manifeft in Scriptures, that he (hal come, & preach, & be pture tnacEli- c/f/>p.ii. dainc witn an other witnes of Chrift, before the terrible day of Judgement. ''^ j'n, i"!"*^'**
Of Enoch Moyfes here niaketh the matter more then probable, fay mg of eue- ^". ^ "^ K«f o\i)t rie one ofthc reft, /;e dyed, onlic of Enoch faith not fo, but that he appeared, 01 V^"^^ l?-^~
Wft^KtTO T><«5/ep»tf«oOTotr Forwhich the feucntie two interpreters fay, ^/f»£//;e».*fX5r .^^ "^li , "^ «i - . - . _ .. . . - r._ . /' . _ Likewifc that
not
S7«^iT«- found, for God ti-attjlated him . Which can not fignifie death , but tranfpor- p T^',^,' »l6«)ct^' ting, or remomng to an other place. Whereto agreeth the author of Ecclcfi- E"ochdid <WT9r • afticus, faying : Enoch pltafedcod, andyy^- tranjlated. But moft clearly S. Paul ^^ death, ^^i- faith. Entch yyas tranflated, that be should not fee drath. and heyy.tsnjtf^iundfor Efc/i 44 c# I tranjlated him. With what plainer wordcs can any man declare, that a Thefc Scrip- Bidb. II. fpecial pcrfbn were not dead, then to fay : h'eT-r4i<r«in/Z4/ei, or coueycd away, tures fpeakc /(j/tf /jpi'^oM/ffwtff/ff <//4<';? Ncithcrisitareafonablc euafion to intcrprete this oftem^cral of fptxitual death. Forfo Adambeing eternally faucd (as S. Iren^usli.5.c.34. "Of o^^pir^t*- Efiphaa.con.h^rcfim4^.S.Agu.lincpift. ;>j> adEuodiuiii,andothersteach, aJ<^£i£o.
C 4 asdtl.^
1* .'iG'E^^te^'i^s. Noe*
and die v/holc Church bclecueth) v/as piefcrucd from that death, and fo yndoubtcdly were Seth, and Enos^eing moft holie.^iid the reft here recoun- ted, as is moft probable ., NeBerth'clcs for farthcj; (;<iQfutation of the contra- f rie opinion of Protcftanrs, the reader may a^fo obferuetheiudgement ofS. ^ " '* The Fathers Chrifoftom, who affirmeth that Though U be nut a matter of fatth,yyhether Enoch ., ' , prouebythe be.noyy in Paradi,e from ■vylience^iamand.Eueyyae.expeHed^or m^qmeothei-^lea- ' .' tcrvi\li:zsxh?i.Kfant place: Victi^nt tumen fac}-£Scnl>rurtt cjuodDetniranJlultteum, & qttoiiyiueniem/ "^ Enoch ig not tranfluiit cum, quod mortem tp^'e mnflt expertui,. The hoik Scrip'tureifay that Godt'ranf- , ' , t' dead. ' Ltfed !)im, and that he tyanjlatedhim aliue, that he felt hot (vrhatJ) not experienced) "m,- '»'
death /And S. Au^nAin-x^ ex^re{[y Czhh.. 'NonmorlHtci, fed yiuus trait/latfis (Ti. Iie,( to yyit Enoch) if tranJlateJ,uot deadbut alitie. Yea he tcacheth how his lifeis ' .' • fuftayned. thus many thoufandyeares vpbn earth. And {hev/ethmorcouer that " ' , both Enoch and Elias ftial dye. Tor J'einr Enoch and Elia^^ [{i.hhhe) aredeadin ' , o^durn^and cavyingthe ofsprin^ of death iiitheirfleih, to pay that debt, aretoretutne Caufes why *" '^^''^ '*''"^ (of common conuerfation) and to pay thu debt yyhtch fv long U deferred. . .-
Pnnrii X'TV-x: Diucfs Tcafons are alfo allcaoredj Vr'hy God v/ould referuc thefc two aliuc. ,' ^' ■^rt; re*'cxucd Fitft ro Inew Dy example, thatas thcirmcrtal bodies are lona conlerued from
E
aUue.
Sec D. Sand.
corrupting or decaying, in like forte Adam and Eue and al others notfmiung, _, , flionid liauc bene confenicd, and according to Gods promife, nc'ier hare t^ied, > J' ■ - buraftcrfojne good timetranflared to hcaucn, and indued with immortaiitie. ^ ■*
Secondly to g»Me vs anari;ament of immortahtie, which is promifed afier the " general Refurred'on. Forrc!ngGoddo;hprcfcruefomc mortal, folongfrom . ' alinfirmitie^ we may aflliredly bclciie that he wilgeue immortal & eternal life .. * 2 ofbobicandfoule to his S.iin(5les, after they liaue payed the debt cfdea»h., and ^
arerifenagaine. Thirdly rhefc two ( one bf the law of nature, the other of y. ^ .V the law of Moyfes ) are preferued aliue, to CvVme am/ohgft men againc towards r t ^' thc.end of the worlds to teach, teftifie, and defend the true faith and dodrin of ^. ' , .,\^ lib. 8. c. 3T. de l[;h.j-i{^^againft'Antichrift, when he Ihal moft violently oppugneScperfecutc ' u ^*' Ivlonar. EccL^.j^g Church. OfEnoch it is faidinthcbooke ofEccIehafticus, that he was j^^ tvmj' r.Kd f.i ereil- fi -inflated, yt det gentihw panitewitiawi that he gene repentance to the nations^ by p'v l us in c. ii.Da- j^-^ preaching, & reducing the deceiucd from Antic'hrift. And of Elias Malachic g^^ ' *^^*^^' ptophicieth, that he sh.il comehefore the great and tenihU day of our LorcU andshal . U '
tu'rne tlje.hurt of the fatheri ( that i,s the people of the lewcs) tothe fonnes ( the ' . "tV Cliiiftians )ari.d ofihefonmes ( thc.decciued Cjiiriiliiins] te the fathers, the ancieac ' -1
trae'Cacholiques.'.' ' . . ._ ■.' \ y. ,' , , , ' . , . ..
Chap, VL
'Min ^ finnes canfe of the licitige. 4, Guntsyvere then l>l^en the earth. ^,N»9
The prpfefr)^^ f^l'^^JnoreiAnd.iheferi^ofother.lmin^^
(brs oftrue " '.. 'VrV ' ', ' ^.•"','c"" ,i ' 1 ■ i- \ 1
rebv ion were A Nd after that men began to bemultiplied vpon the Irr:
called the.'" '' JjL. eartH, & Had procreation of daughters: 7 The "fonnes 1» ' V *'
fones of God.^fjQp^ C^jj^f^ jKc daughters, of men, that they were faire
o'fen'^rrr'iic ' ^^^^^ -"^ them felues wiues, o:nt,o,i^al,\rhiGh they had chpfe^ : 5..;^^ ioiiesofrncn/AndGodrai4;-Myf|)idtihal.iaG<trpmame in man ior.euer, l^-^ : >- ■ ' -■ becauic
Noc. Genesis. it
becaufe he i* flesh: it his dayes (hal be" an hudred 5c t-^cntie 4- yeares. f Aftd " Giants v^ere vpon the earth in rhofe dayes. :: God who ks For affel: fhc fomies of God did companic'with the daugh- j-^Jf^'JJ*^^^;^*^' • ttts of men, and they brought forth children, thcfe be the " j|-jon yet by j mightie of the olde world, famous men. -f And God feing the cnormitic the mahce of men was much on the earth, and that al the ofrinncsfc-
6 cogitation of their hart was bent to euil at al rimes, t ^^ v^\i^^ prouo- ••repented him that he had made njan on the earth. And tou- ^^^^ ^^ repeat
7 ched inwardly with forrowe of hart, f I wil, faith he, cleane that he had take away man, whom I haue created, from the face of the made man. S« earth , from man euen to beaftes, from that which creepeth Amb.h. 4e , cuen vnto the foulcs of theayre.foritrcpcntethmethatl °^ ^^*'**^..
.. ...-0.5. • haue made them. ^^^^Xt^^.
TrT-^^v^'^' t ^^^ Noe found grace before our Lord . ■\ Thefe are xhch ..^,^-[^ ^^ nH\^
Jhiit44, ■ generations of Noe : " Noe was a iuftand perfe6t man inl 23api.lc.uO
17. " 10 :: his generations, hedidwaike with God. ■\ And he begat jfiyyv^n^i^
II three fonnes, Sem, Cham, & L;pheth. •{- And the earth Was tious God rc-
corrupted before God, and was replenished with iniquitie.ft^J^uedfomc
u t And when Goi had perceiaed that the earth was corrup- ^" , ^
1 av- 1 ;i L r J J I • L t\ marc, inth«-.
ted ( for ai flesh had corrupted his way vpon the earth) j^^,., ^f Qracf*
13 f he raid to N66 : The end of al flesh is come before me, the
earth is replenished with iniquitie from the face of them, & i.i.sj
14 I wil deftroy them with the earth, f Make thee an arkeof . >'ii timber planke : cabinets (halt thou make in thearke, and
Ij flialtpitchitv/ithin, and without with bitume. f And thus ihalt thou make it . The length of the iVrke ihal be three hundred" cubitts : fiftie cubitts the breadth, and thirtic cu-
16 bitts the height of it. f Thou (halt make a windowe in the" arke, and in a. cubit finish the toppe of it: and the dore of the arke thou (halt fet at the fide belowe, middle cham-
17 bers, and third loftes (halt thou make in it. f Behold! wil bring the waters of a great floud vpon the earth, that I may deftroy al Hesh, wherin there is breath of life vnder heauen „
iS Al thinges that are in the earth, Sial be confumed. f And! wil eftabhsh my couenanrwith thee: and thou ihalt enter into the arke, thou and thy fonnes, and thy wifcj .and the
15 wiu'esofthy fonnes with thee, f And of alhuing creatures of al flesh, thou (halt bring payres into the arke, that they
*o may liue with thee : of the male fexc, and the female* f Of foulcs according to their kind, and of beaftes in their kind v & of al that creepeth on the earth according to their kindi
C 3 payres
s.i. Genesis/ I^oe#
payres of al fortes fl^al enter in with thcc, that they may liuc. t Thou (halt take thcrfore vith thcc of al meates, that 21 h A rigfit ex- may be eaten, and thou (bait lay them vp with thee : and ample ofa iuA tJ^ey {^^1 be meate for thee and them, f Noc thexforc « did il «<*• «» °**^' al thinges, vhich God commanded hinu.
ANNOTATIONS. Chap. VI.
Soncs of God 1. Sonnfs of God. ] The progcnic of Sethj profcfling true faith & Rcfigiofi, and fonnes of vcrc called the fonnes of God : and thofe of Cains iflue and congregatioii, //t, ir.^C tnenwas then folowing erronious and w^^icked opinions, were called the fbnncs ofmcn . j^/fiuit. fuch a diftin- VViiichv/crc then the diftinftiuc termcs of trucandfalfcReligiop, as after- j)e ytr4, ftion, as row N»'ardes were the rermes of lewes and Gentiles : after Chrift, Chriftians and reliT.c.y. Cathojiques Paganes:and laftly true and falfeChriftians are diftinguiflied, by the names can.epi^* #;idHereciks. ofCarholicjiicsandHeietikes. As S. Auguftinccacherh, in his queflionsvpon /•»„</. ,.^ GeneCs, & other places. Which is confirniedby the like iugcment of S.Ciril Trac. ti, Alcxandrinusli. «). aducrf. lulianum.S. Ambrofeli. dcNoe &: area. c.ij^S. Pa- in loan. cianus epift. ad Symphorianum. Thcodoret. & manie others vpon this place. } ^n hundred and tyrentie yeares.'j Mans life vas nothcre (hortned to an -t •< This warning hundred and twcnticyeares, as (omebaucmifundcrftood this place. For after i^/^*;*^, and expcda- this diuers liued much longcr,as appeareth in the gcncalogic of Sem to Abram i^^^^/ tionofrcpcn- in the ii. chapter of Genefis. And Abraham liued. lyy. yeares (c. zj.) IfaaciSo. D^pfyf' ^ncefhcv^'eth ( c.jj.) lacob 147. (c. 47.) and loiadas borne 1500. yeares after, liued 130. Yo^atttf^ Ece'riiiania. yeares (t. Par. 14. ) Butiio. yeares wcrcgrantcdbcforethefloudforthatgc- neration to repent in, as the Chaldce Edition cxprcfTcth more plainely : terminM dabiturei centum ■vi^^nti anmtumji forte eonuertdtur. The tearmc of an hundred and tweuticycaresflialbegcucnthcm,ifpcrhapstheymay conucrt. And fo S.Chrifoftom. S.Hicrom. and S-Auguftin expound this Scripture. Yet whether God cut of to. of thefc yeares, and brought the floud after a 100 (for Noe had his fonnes when he was joo . yeares old,' & tbeHoud came in the ^00. ycareof his age) or that this warning vasffeucn twcntic yeares be- Scriptures f*^^^ ^"^^^ of his foncs were bornejs not fo eafely decided by the holie Dodots. "o-^i. «» Qoteafic. HoweaficfoeuerProtcflantsfay al Scriptures arc. Though vndcr correction *'*''»•
of better Judgement, it fcmeth more probable, tharMoyfcsby anticipation "^^^dit. ioyneth the birth of Noes fonnes f when he was yoo. vearesold) to the reft of ^^^' ehc geneologieof the firftPatriarkcs, in the former chapter, and then tellcth ^f^-iS-f' ©fthisadmoiiition,geucnj.o. yeares before their birth. And fo Godexpedrd *4-"**f' elje peoples repentance the whole time of izo. yeares prefcribed. Erronious o- *♦• Gtantsyrereyponiht earth.] Some hauc thought that thefe giantes were pinions con- ^^^ men, nor begotten by men , but that cither diuels , which fcl at firfl ccrnine thefc ^om heauen, or other Angels allored with concupifccncc,begatc them of the ffhuUo daughters of Cain, Philo ludcus in his booke dc GigantibuS;, writeth that
° thofc whom Moyfeshere called ^ngds^ the Philofophers called Ccnioi. £)ui
funt animalU Aera,yvhkh Are Uuing creatures yyith ayrie lodes lofephus (li. i, Antiq.) faith that Angels begatc thefe giants. Tcrtullian alfo li.dc habittt KiuhebriJ holdcth the fame error, and diucis xnoic otha«ife good authors.
But S.
Noe. Genesis. 13
But S. Ciril of Alcian<!ria (li.^.aducr. lulian} S-dirifoftom (homil ii.in The principal Gen) S. Ambrofc f dc Noc & area. c.4. ) S. Auguftin (li.ij.c.ij.dc ciiiit) dodorsproue S.Hicrom (-Ttadit. Hebraic) and other moft principal Do<ftor$ teach it to tha: thtyvi^ere bcvntruejycavnpoiTiblc, that thcfc giants fhouldhauc bene begotten by anic rncn, and be- other creatures then by men. For that Angels and diucis are mere fpirits vitb' gotten of men out al natural bodies. And if they had ayrie bodies (as they hauenot) yet they Firftreafoij could not haue fuch generation. For the powre or force to engender be- X
longcth tothcTcgatatiuefouIe, whofe proper operations are to tuine nutri- ment into the fubfrancc of the fubied vherin iris, and to engender nevf iflue orofspring from the fame, as Ariftotlcflicweth (li. 1. deanima, teitu. 2.4.) And in xchat bodies focuer there is vegetatinefoule, it maftnecdes be, that the (ame \ras engendred, and muft fomc times Scaj and die, andfo diuels fliould be mortal. Moreouer if they could haue generation togeather with 5
nianJcind,thcn fuch ilfuc flaould be a diftinift fpccics both from man and du:cl, as a mule differeth both from hor/e and aflc. Againe, if fpirits had abufed we- "^
men in aflTuraptcd bodies, and Ihape of men, yet they did nottake them ro >s'iucs 2S the Scripture faith they did»who begate thefe gian t$. Finally the holie S
Scripture here cxpreflyeallerh the giants men. Theft be tht mightie ones, fa- mous mtn. The modeftic ofScripture terming them famous, whom our com- Giants fllcft mon phrafe would cal infamous being more monftrous in wickednesofmind, monftmousi^ theninhugenesofbodie. For they were moftinfolcnt,Iafciuious,couctous, bodic aHdin cruel, and in al kinde ofviccsmoft impious. mindc.
5. oil tht coi^ation hint to tuel. ] Luther (in his 11. article condemned br Leo the tenth) would proue by thefe wordes, and the like folowing, ^Ifit-h Lutjijcrj arp-i*» had corrupted hit-yvayyponearh, thatalworkesof men are finncs- For (faith mcnt that i he) feeing the hartesofal men are bent alwaies to euil, and al humane adions jriens workc* proceedcTrom the hart, itmuft necdes be that the hart as the fountainc being ^^^ dnnza corrupt, theftreamesalfb ifl'uing from theGune muft bccorrupted . Againe al flefli hauing corrupted his way vpon earth, iherc is not any iuft man ( i^ith he) nor anv man without finnerand withProtcftantesalflnnes are mortal. But Hcretixes arguments are like to that the Poets feyne of Sifyphus laboring to Heretiks Ilk* ■carie a great ftone to the toppe of an high h-1, which when he hath brought al- to Sifyphus, moft to the height, it ftil faJIeth from him,& rumbleth againe ro the bottomc. Eucnfo their arguments that make greateft fhew of prouing their opinions. The fTnne* arft nothing but vainc trauciing, when they come robe tried by thetruefenfc before the •ofholyScrinture. In this place Moyfesdefcribeth the enormitie of linnethat floudvcrygre reigned in the world before rhc flouJ, for which God fcnt that deflrudion- ucusin /eaJfe For it was haynous in deede, and tha t e(pcciall y in foure refpeds. Firft the ma- rcipe6b lice and wickedaes "VZi general^ which is fignificd by thofc worde.s, alfiesh hath j
ntrrvfttd his way -wpon earrh. SecSdly it was grest railice^figiiified by the words mueh, and, tthhp ca^^itatiottt of their hart « bfnt to euil. For they committed al maner ofwickednesinhautincs of pride, inallafciuionfncsof thcflcfii,in aL crueltieof robbinsj,facking,& nuitthering,in al im.p'etie, againrt God & man. Thirdly, itwas of long continuance, a nd'dayly iterated. For Cain once fallen '
into damnable finne ncuer repented, and al his progenie was eiccding wicked' and after that Adana and Seth were dead, and Enoch tranflated.manie of the faithful fel to the wicked forte, and became worfe and worfc emni temporf, aJ- waies, or ^««-*<</d;7. Fourthly they wereobftinatc and obdurate, notrepcntine 4
L.ff/.t. y^hen-Kochuihthc a-rUc, 3nd preached iufltce ( as S. Peter teftificth) andtherforc Cod famed him andhtsfamtlte , hr in^n^ in the deluge -rpon the 'r>orld of theimpiotti, Al vhich. mikcth nothing at al for Luther. Foralthough the malice of man,
,i;4 O E N E s I J. F -Noe.
■'Luthcisargu- and corruption of flcfti, was then vericgenaral, great, of long ccntinoancc, gumentan- &obftinarc, yecvasitnot fovniucrfal, but fhat God him fclfe excepted Noc, Ivfercdi faying to him i haue found thee iuji in my fight in thi^ ^eneii-atton, thereby it is clerc
that thefe general termcs, al cogitation and ai fleshy haue exceptions. As likewifc other as general propofitions in this fame chapter,concerning the punifliment threatned, comprehend notabfolutly al, and euericonc, butalmoftal, vcrjr few excepted. / ffU cleans ta^eavyay, or deflroy man yyhom I haue created, from ■ the face of the earth. The end of alfiesh PS come hefsre me. A^ainc, that I may d^firoy al flesh yyherein is breath of life ynder hcauen.ThcCc arc very general fpcaches,tharal fhould be deftroycd, and yet eight perfons of mankind, that had the fame na- tural flefh, and amongfl: other huing creatures, that had breath, diners payrcs verc faued aliue. .So that this place ( nor anie other in holic Scripture ) wil not r%.,r, " proue that Protcftants paradox, that al mens a(ftions are mortal finnes, or that ."^ '-J
no man in this life is or can be iuftrbutmanie fcripturcs tcl vs plainly that feme , ^ men xs'cre iuft, as Noe, lob, Daniel, ZachariaSjElilabeth, Simeon and others * ^ Of Noc fee more in the next annotation. -'it J 5?. 2\ro?'v»'.«4/»f?4»(//'er/>L}mrf» ] HcreNocisnotonlieGaIIcdiAlft,butalfo f !fv ^ pcrfcd. The hebrew word tamim of the verbe tamam (which lignificth to fi- jjertcCt. nilkoraccomplilh) ilacweththatNoe was a perfed or complete m^n doing al
that he was commanded, and performing the offices ofal Vertiies that pertai" fied to him j and that not in a vulgar and meane forte, but in.a high degree, & Iieroical maner, as fundrie ancient Fathers h.-iuc gathered vpon.tliis plac?. VVeHialcitefomefcwoftheirrayings forexample. S.HieroiTi (Tradit., Hc« braic.iuGen.) diftinguifhingbetwenconfumniateiuftice (ofthenextlife J $C iuftice of this generation ( or rranfltorie life ) [aith : tloe the in'<i man yyAsfirfe£h in Ins jfcnrrutions :Xoe didyy^J^eyvithaod: that h-,dtdfo'ioyy })tsfiep-l}es. S. An^nit. . -(li. 15. ciuit:c.i^.] faith the like, that KoeVr.Mcaff;i^j/«/Z^>»/>M:^«ti?vrft*<>»,toT>v*^,
not as the citizens of Gsds cilia are to be.peifecledin that iinmortalitie,inyyh(ch they shal he equal to jfngel5,hutas they may hs fferfeH intht< ftlgrdmage. And in his bookc de TVho Is per- perfe(5H<5ne contra Csleftium. he de(cribeth him to be a, perfeil man, thatrunr '{c€t in this neth yyithont blame towards perfeclion, yosdc of damnable finnes, a,nd n not negligent life.* to cUanfe yemalfmnes, by almes, prayeis, and other good workes. S . Ambrofc alfo
teftifieth, (ii. deNoe&arcac. 4.) thataibeit the world was verie wicked, yec fome were iuft, faying: Bj theg^-ace [or fauoure) ry.lnchKoe found, usly^yyedthat mther nens offence doii} not obfcurethe ittfi man, yyho m pray fed, not by tin nobilitieoj hu 'birth, but by-the mertt of hit iufliceandpc rfeHion. S. Chrifoft. moft largely ( ho. 15. in Gen) fetteth forth theiuHiiceand perfedlion of Noc. Whereafter he hath {hewed thatNocdefcrued in decdeth'.; name of a man, becaufe he by flying vices, and folowing vcrtuesconfcrucd the image of man, when others like bcaftes were leddc away and ruled by their wiclced luftcs, procecdeth thus in »» his commcndatidn. Behold (fairh he) an other kind of praifc : Noe is called, '♦iuft, which dcnbrninationcornprehendethalvertue. For this name iufi we vie »• to pronounce of them, that cxcrcife al maner of verruc . And that yoii maf '> 'krrie, how he ariaed to the very toppe which was then alio required of our '"nature,, the Scripture fiith, heyyas iu[l, bcpigperfe^ inhtsgefiei-ation. He petfor- »» -ftiedwhacthinges focuer it behoueth one todoe thatembracethvertue, for >> fuchaoneispcrfcft, he inrcrmirrcd nothing, he halted in nothing, hcdid >' not wel in this'thin*;!; , and finned in that thing, but was perfcdt in euerie ver- »'tuc, which v/asrc^quditc'fdr him to haue. Morcoucrtomikeairothisiuft man . ,
>j tfi'otc conrpic'iouSTo vs in regard of the time, and by comparing him with o- .j*ftIicts,thevScripEure faith, he yyas^erjeclinhi- generation: in that time, in thftP o: . >- pcruerf*
Ndc. Genesis'.^ ;z-5
pcrucrfc generation, which declined vr^tocuiljWliichvonld not Gey much a.s ,, pretend anie refemblancc of vertue . In that generation thcriore, in thole ,, times, tha^iuftmannotonly pretended, but arriued to thatheightofyertue, ,, that he became perfed, andinal thingesabfolute . And that which I (aid be- ,, fore, to doe wcl amongft the enimies of vertue, amonaft them that forbid ver- ,, lue, doth alwaiesteftifie a greater poyfeofvertue,{b by this occafion theiuft ,, man got greater praylcs. Neither doth diuine Scripture here make an enilof ,, . . praifingliim, but further fhe\»'eth the excellcncie of his vertue, and that he ,, '*"'!* wasapprouedby Gods ownecenfure, for bcfides faying : He yyM perfect m htt ,, "^ '" "' geno-ation^ itaddeth, that "Hoe pleajed Cod. So great was the renowme of his ,, vertue, that he deferued to be pray fed of God" For Hoe pleafed Cod faith the „ Scripture, that you may know that he was approued of God. He pleafed that >, cye,thatcannotbcdecciucd, by his good workes. Thusfarre S.Chrifoftom ,, and much more to the fame efFedt. S.Gregorie the great in hjs fifth booke of Morales, and ^6. chapter vpon the third chapter of lob, recounting certame principal Patriarchcs among the reft faith :Koe for that hepleafed'cods examma- tton was faued alitie m the yncleane vyorld . and after a large catalogue of other iuft men in confirmation of this dodrine, that fome were iuft in the law of nature condudcth thus : Neither is it to be beleued ( faith he ) that on'yfo manie y-vere iujl before the layy yyas receiued, as Mo^fes contraOeth in his mcfi briefe de- fir ipt ion.
75. Threehunlredcuhites] Apellesan old heretike, fcholar of Marcian, but af-
ter Icauing him, and amongft other new coynedherefies, reieding the Law& fffj "^^ the Propheres, would by this place impugneMoyfes, faying it wasvnponlble , ^^'^^"f^' /as was the arke by this defcripno, the defigned payres ^^^^ J^"^l
tne rropt
that info fmalerowmc, as wasthc arke by this defcripti*
of al kindes of beaftes, foule, & ferpcnts, (hould be contained, with the cignt """"" '" '
pcrfons, and al their prouifionof meatc for a whole yearc. VVherupon he truettcli
concludeth that this narration (which he calleth a fable) hath no probabilitie, nor poifibilitietobc true. To whom &alfuch calumniators it may be anfwe- A general an- rcdjthat Moyfes cucn in an herctikes owne coceipt, if malice obfcured not his fwcr to al ca- fcnfe, maft necdes be thought wife ynough, if he had benne difpofcdro fayne lumniators of fables, to frame them prol^able, or poiTiblc, efpccially when he pretended not wife andlear- to fignific a miracle, in the fmalnes of the rowme to rcceiue fo much, as he re- ned men. - . porteth. Origentoanfwerhimfuppofetha cubiteheremctioned, to haueco- Qj.j^g„5 opj.
tained fix ordinariccubircs: and fo doubtles the arke might eafilycontaineal nion of long * "*' thinges thararc here fpoken of, for fo it were like to a great citic. But this opi- cubites not nion neither hath good warrant, that cuer the itgyptians(of whom he fuppo- pj-Q^^bl e. feth Moyfes might hauc learned itjor any other nation vfed fuchlong cubites, neither can this meafure of a cubite, be agreablc to Moyfes meaning, who no j^oyfes in o- doubt fpeaketh of thelike cubites here, as he doth in othcrplaces. Andin tl^er places I Exodus hedcfcribeth an Altar to be made fiuc cubites long. Hue broadc, and can not be vn- '■ three in height. Which would be by Origins meafure (cuerie cubite conray- jgiftoodto ning fix otdinaric cubites, that is nine foote at leaft ) in length, and hkewife in (ppake of o breadth 4f. foote, and 2.7. foote in height. Againe (Deut. 3.) Moyfes telleth long cubites, of an iron bed ofOg King of Bafan, that was nine cubites lonjr, Scfoure broad. ° Which make according to Origens meafure of a cubite, fourfcore and one foote in length, and inbrcadth 56. foote: which in dcede hane no probabili- tie. And thctfore .S. Aiiguftin and other Doctors, fuppofing that Mofcsinal l.\^ emit thgfg bookes, written for inftruftion of the fame people, whom he brought *"• ^7- forth of>^gypt, fpeaketh of one forte of cubites, do likewile iudge that he meaneth ordinarie Scknowne cubites, which contains a foote & a halfecueric
D ' cubue, '
t6 Gfnesis. Noe.
cublte, at Vitruuius Agrcola and others Ho proue, or a fo ore and rhrcc quar- ters of a footc, which is the greate'"': cubitc, thatfcmcih to he]ncnt:or.ed ia holie Scripture, called a mans cubitc, or fi^/j/rf ofrfw-inj/z^'i.-/. And fo rhcArkcjr,,^ , was atleaft in length 4 5'o. foote, in breadth 7 y. in height 45-. or at moftin lenvnh 5 If. foore, in breadth 87. and a halfe : in height ^z. and a halfe. And either ofthcfe capacities was (ufficicnt toreceiacal the t hinges hcrcmcn- tionedjConfidering the lofies&partions, that were in rhi: whole arkc.
Chap. VII.
Koevvith his fdmiliej 4ndp aires ofalkjndes ofl;>eafies and foulest ^eipgm" ;;Noev'2siufl: tred into the arl^e, 12. it ratneth foitrtte dates and fonrtie night:, 21. not only by ^^/ ^,,j^ ^^^^ q^j^^^ liuinr CVS fit lire s on the earthy jvithoitt the ^rkft^i'^ thcelhmation 1 n j ofmen,butin ^^poycd.
decdeand be- A ^^ our Lord faid to him: Get thee in, thou and al i •^Obre^ruati- -*^ ^'"^X houfe into the arkc ; for I haue ("ene thee iufl: - in on of cleanc my hght in this generation, f Oral bcafts that are "-creane, i andvncleannc thou ihalt take feaueUjand feauen, male 6^ female : f but j bcaflrcs ^X "^- of the beafts that are vncleane two and two, male & female* the bw of '^ Yea and of the f^ules alfo of the ayre feauen & feauen, male Mnvfes. and female: that [^^dt may be faued vpon the face of the-
:: The He- whole earth, f For yet a while, and after feauen dayes, I wil 4 brew word rayne vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nights : and 1 cd/r'ullb of"^^^ cleans dcftroy al fubftance', that I haue made, from the vaterffrom^ face of the ear- h. t Noe therfore did al thinges, which our y xi'hcuce new Lord had commanded him. t And he was fix hundred ycares G f.jLinraynes ^y^ when the waters of the Hond flowed ouer the earth. ^k'^^"? '. T'!''^'^ t And Noe entred and his fonnes, his wife and the wiues of 7 '^^•^^- ^4* ?ha"cu^erimce of his fonnes \vith himmto thearke, becaufe'of thewaters ' ^**' ^7- or before. of the lioud. f Of beaf s alfo.thecleane and the vncleane , 8 zt^rstbbah ^^ of foules, and ofal thai moucthvpon the earth, f two & 9 fignifiecK ^^,^ vent to Noe into the arke, male and female, as our l^ndowes'by Lord had commanded Noe. y And after the feauen dayes i» vhich water were pafled, the waters of the floud flowed ouer the earth. fell downein -j- in the fix hundred ycare of the life of Noe, in the fecond 11 greatabt'idan- i-j^ongfj-^^ i^ the feaucntenth day of the moneth, al the foun- "r^eTcre cal- f^i^^s of the - greate deaprh were broken vp, and - the floud kd Kcavien, gates of heauai were opened : t ^nd the rame fel vpon the rt S.Iiicr.']ueft. earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nights, f In the verie point ij Heb.S.Epiph, ^^f fj^^f ^J^y entred Noe, and Sen^ai^d Cham, cV lapheth his
folo!i^ S^'chT ^o^'^c^ • -'^"^ his "^'^f^' ^"^ ^^^ ^^^'^^^ "^'^"^^ °^^^^^ fonnes with hoTj-in Gen! them into the aike : t they and cuerie beaft according to 14
their
Genesis. 27
tKcirkiniJ, and al cattle in their kindc, andal tharmoucth
vpon tlie earth according to their kind, and al foule accor-
i; ding to their kind, al birds, and al that ily f went to Noe
into the arke, two and two of alflelh, wherin there was
16 breath of hfe. f Andfuchasentred in, male and female of al fie ih did enter in , as God had commanded him : and our
17 Lord " (hut him in on the out fide, t And the Hoiid grew fourtic dales vpon the earth : and the waters incrcafed, and
18 lifted vp the arke on high from the earth, f For they oucr- fiowed excedingly : and filled al on the face of the earth:
15J moreouer the arke fleeted vpon the waters, f And the wa- ters preuailed out of mcafure vpon the earth : and al the hiegh mountaines vnder the whole heauen -were couered.
io t Fiftene cubites higher was the water aboue the moun-
II taines, which it couered. f Andal flesh was confumed that moued vpon the earth, of foule, of cattle, of beail:s,and of al
2i creepers , that creepe vpon the earth : al men.. , f and al things, wherin there is breath of life on the earth, died.
13 t And hecleanedeftroied al fubflancc, that was vpon the earth, from man euen to bead, as wcl it that creepeth, as the foules of the ayre : and they were deftroied from of the earth : " butonhe Noe remained, and they that were with
24 him in the arke. t And the waters held on aboue the earth an hundred fiftiedayes.
ANNOTATIONS. Chap. VII.
iS. shut him in"^ God v/ho by his only w\\ could in a moment hauc drow- ned al the reft of the world, faaing whom he pleafed, not needing in any thino- the helpe of his creatures, yet \K'ouId vfe both natural, & fupcrnarural meanes, God vfetli as the labour ofNoe to build the arke, new fountaines fpnngin^, and the hea- bo-ih natural uenspowringdowne water fourtie da yes togearher, afterwar.^s the winde to andfuperna- dry vp the earh, and becaufe the dore being great ( for Elephantsr to enter m ) tural meanes,' li.dcnoe ^"d was to be firmed without (asS^ Ambrofenoteth ) for better ind-uring the asfecundaric O- arcj, forcible waters, could not commodiouily be clofed by Noe, our Lord { by the caufes,inpro- r. 15. ' mniiftrieofAncels) s/n.r /j/>w;» on f/jco«<fy?.^e, to teach vs by al this, and the like ducing,con- difpofitionofthings, that albeit his Diuineomnipotencie can do what he wil feruino-, go- al alone, yet he wil haue his creatures to concurre and cooperate as fecundarie uerning, pu- caules, fomcrimes naturally, fometimcs fupernaturally, or miraculoufly, as it nifliing , & in plcafcth his goodnes to impert to them powrc and vertuc- rewarding hi»
J.3. e«f ""'7 ^'''f] As thereisnotaniething:naltheoldTeftament,from creatures, the creation of the world til the coming of Chriflr, more notab'c, more admi- rable, or of greater importance, then this hiftofie of the general floud 5 fo was
D 3- there
iS Genesis. Noft
AI ormoft there nothing ( though al, or moft chanced to them in figure) that cuer more i.Cor.i^ thmgesin the aptly, more liucly, or more exadly prefigHredChrift andhis Church, with oJd leltament the reft ofal mankind, then did Noeand the arke,& the drowning of thereft bein figure of ofthc world in that deluge. Which S.AugUftin declareth in many places, but Efoif.l thenew,&no moftefpecially and of purpofb in his twelfth booke againft Fauftus thcMani- s-deBabi hgurc more chee, ftom the 14. chapter to the 21, and in his fifteenth booke of the citie of tif.c.ii. cxaa then the God, in the two laft chapters : where he (Keweth at large both the certamric deyntt* floud of Noe. of the hiftorie, and that as cerrainely it was a figure of thi'^ngs in the new Tefta- teLccUf.
meat, and withal the great congruitiebetwen the figure & the things figured, ca. 5. How the Do- The fame did Oiigcn explicate (homil.i.in Gen.) S. Gregorie (homi'lii.in In Vfal. dors apphe Ezech.) Rupertus'f li. 4. comment, in Gen. c. yr. & {equenr.) and diners other loj. ^ the figureto afitient Dodors, confirmingtheirexpofitionsbyS. Peters tcftimonie, faying: 131. ser. the things fi- In the arke afeyy^ that height foules( or pedbns ) yyerefaurd ( from drowning ) 6p.de tt- gured. by yvater, ■vvhcruttto Baptifmeheing of the hke forme myy [Am thy oualfo . And by pvre.
our Sauiours wordes faying : ^s in the days of'Koe, fo iJ)alalfo the conimingof the i. Vet. j. Noe fio-nified ^onneofmanhe. In fumme the Dodors teach, that Nocfignifying rfj? was afi- Mat'.-i.^. Chrift.^ S"^^ of Chrift, the very reft ofmans foule. Whom who focuer'^foiowcth flird Lttc. 17.
Thearkethe fi"di"cft for their Icules. The ail;e fignificth the 'Church-, the forme th-erof Church. being fix times fo long as broad,, and tenne times fo Iongashiegh,,refcmbleth
the proportion of mans bcdicj.yincr prone orproftrate. The dorc in the fide Entran'-c into ^'^P''^^^^'^^'^^'^^^^"""'^!^ thrifts fide, from whence flowed -the holieSacra- the Church'b "^'^■"'"' ^^ wi'^i'^h the futhful enter into the Church, and are fanftified. The Baptifme ^ ^ timber wherof the arke is made, & the waterbearing it vp,fignified the CrofTc Vertue f S of ChriPcand Baptifme. For ^^?>roe (faith S Auguftin ) tt«/; /;«, yyas deliueredhy li. ix.it
theyyattr andtheyyoode, fo thefumUisofchnfh^ by Baptifme Jignedyyith Chufi's paf- Baptif\e* meth from " -^'"* "" ^^'' Crof'e. Likcwife the fquarnes of the timber which both fuftayned the 14. Chriftis Paff' ^'^J'^cn ofal contayned in the arke, and xefifted the boyftrous waucs of the ' floud be.>Jting without, did fignifie fuch men in the Church, as be conftant& Dodors a d ^'^'^"'^^-™^yi^^'-'^^'-'^-^'^^'^c'^^^tions:efpecialIy godlic & lerned Dodorsand
Y) n • , Paftors, who by worde and example vphold and cofirmc the faithful people in raitoresin the 1 mn- -i • j ■ t n ^1 ^ • itt t n ^t t f
Cl rch alahii6.ionswitnm,and withftandandconuincc al Hcrctikes, and;other Infi- dels that oppugne the Church without. Againc the hicgher & lower rowmes Varietic offta- 'wifh the midle chambers & third ioftes, & other diftindlions of cabinets, and tesand orders p^i'titions, and al fortes of liuing cre:itures clcancanAvncleanc , receiued in the Church therin, did fignifie the varieties oi"aI ftatcs & fundions, and diucrfitic of ma- ners and mcritesin the Church, in which arc pcrfons ofal degrees, Clergifc and Good and euil Lai tie, Potentates, Princes, fubieitcs, good and euii- The moft ftrong feind of in the Churc h glev/ called ^;>»»we!i, fignified the permanent or euerlafting ftabilitic,andvn- Perpetuitico feparableconexion of^the Church, by the grace and continual afliftancc of tjhc theChurch. Holie Ghoftconferning the fame. Theconfummatioilof the arkcinonccu- Vnit'e fth bite fignified the vnitie of thcfame Church, which is one inal times, andpla- ^i , ccs.NcithcrwouIdGodalmightiehauemanie arkes,for Noe andhisfonnes orother creatures, nor manie chiefc rulers ( though he would that of them fhould come manic Nations) but one only arke, and one chiefc gouernour One chiefc therof, and that al without the fame Hiould corporally dye, to fignifie that al poucrnour' which dye without the Church do perish, and arc eternally dammed, wher- .„ rl,^rK„,.^u upon S.Hierom, amon";ftotherFathcrs, flicweth thatal within thcChurch, ^/ *''^'^' that communicate with the Sea Apoftohque ( wncnn S. Dam.alus late then ' . gouernour) are as rhofe in the arke of Noe, and al SchifmatikeSjHeretikes *"*/**! Nofaluation ^^^^ other Infidels are in like cafe, with the reft of the world, that were out of the drowned with th? floud. •^^"^^ Thcciidofthcfirftagc, A BR.IEFE
Gin ISIS. ip
A BRIEFE REMONSTRANCE OF THE
STATE OF THE CHVE-CH, AND FACE Of
Religion, in the firft age of the \rorld .
From the creation to Noes fioud:thc
fpacc of I 6 5 ^. ycaics.
H
Ere according to our purpofe mentioned before, wewilhrlefyrt-
Cite cert iine principal points of I{eligion, taught and ohferiied in the
firft a^e. In "^hich the foundations of the true maner cffermnr God ( th^l
should he continued to the end of the '^•orld) "^ere UidyAnd projferedm
fome, <vs 4ppearcth in thefe feuen frfl chapters ofccnejls. But JirHoftil,
y^e ihalmtwo yi;ord.\ repete [a^itU clerly feathered m the fame holte Scrip'
tare) the j} ate of man before ^ dnd immediAtly ajter his fall, bem^ the ftibte^
to "^hom at thin fertayneth.
^fter the rf ore that God had created other things, both in heatiendnd "^^^^ made C(J
earth, U(l of al he made Man, to hif cjvne ima^e and Ukenes, yt>ith ynder- ^^^^ image , . ■'r /, I J ■ I 1 1 ^ J r ■ I J and in happi«
fandingand freewil, therm itke to ^ngeis, and fitperior to al other crea- ^.^^^^
tures, and fo made him Lord and maifler ofal earthlie things. Neither were thefe thegreatefl benefts which God bejlowed on man: for his dminegoodnes indued alfo this hU reafonahle creature, with mnocencie c?" original mfi^ice, whereby al things were mofl rightly ordered Withif^ him, and about him. Man obeyed His mind, wil, and reafon were obedient to God, hisfenfes Cr inferior pari God, and al oj his faille werefiibiefh to reafon \ his flesh and bodie obeyed thejfirite •, and carthhc crea* al earthlie creatures obeyed him . God alfo adorned t»an mith excellent ^
k^noxvledge, both natural and fuptrnatitral. ^nd albeit hit bodie wa4 of corruptible fnbj^ance, yet the f^me, and dl hispoferitit^if they had not fin- ned, should hauebenne conferned^ and Without dying,haHe bennetranf.a- .. ted to euerla fling life. Thus man w^ placed in Par^dife, and Eue there p.^"fw^ ^ made of a ribbe of his fide, to be his mate dndynfeparalle companion, at man and '^ife loyned m Manage, with Gods bUfh-i^^for tncreafe and mul^ tiplication. ^s appeareth in thetwojirft chapters of this bookf. 2cde. 7, ^^^^ Q^^ hauing made man right, he intangled him felfe (a^s holie ^an fcl br x,i.4f. Scripture If eaketh) with infinite queftions. For the diuel enuying mans yelding to fehcitie tnuegled our mother Eue^ith ^neflio^s and lies, and then by her., tcnution*. f-rfl feducedanddeceiued, allured alfo ^dam to the tranf^ref^ion of Gods commandment, ^ndfo th:y lofi original itiflice, ^hch ^lam had receimi for him felfe and dl mankjnd'.dnd al proceeding from them bj nutttralpropa-
$0 Genesis^
Original gatiort are home tie children of'^rathy in origin aI fwne coniucledfrm ^^^' ^damyjlaues of the diuel, not only fiibie^ to temporal death, hut dfa
dre excluded for eiierfrom hemenly hlife andglone: except by chrifs redem- ption particularly applied^ they be reftored fo^ace O^ infiice in this life, ^nd touching yCdam and Eue, ^hofeftnne "^as not original but aBua!^ Adam and direStly committed by them felues, Gods mercie [o reclamed them by new nitent^^^*^ ^^°^'*"'«^f> ^^^' ^hey dejfarednot { as Cam, andfome orhers did afterwards ) but Tiffithhope of remifionTlfere Jorte and penitent, and accordingly receiued penance, and redemption. For G"o^ brought Adam from his Cmne ( m sap, 19, holie'^ritte teftifieth ) and the fame is (oUefled of Eue, God shewinn the like/tgnesofbis prouident mercie towards thembothf of "^hich Tve shal ly und by note fame for example,
Noiv let ys fee the more principal points of faith and I{eltgionprofe(fed
Faith la one dndohferued by the Church of God before Noesfoud. Firfi they bcUeued m
QoA. one Eternal and Omnipotent God, Ti>ho made the "whole "World and al things
therin of nothing, "which is eafely confejfedofalthat are not plains ^theifls,
and may be proued again/} them by reafon . ^ad therfore ^dam and
other Patriarches could not erre in this Article ^nor others be ignorant therof,
except theyxt ere "Very "wicked.
The blcflcd j'lje My(}crie alfo of the Bleffed Trlnitie, three Diuine Perfons in one God,
ixmitic. though farre aboue the reach of mans reafon, yet Was beleited more exprefly
by fome, more implied by others, and conprtted from age to age by tradition,
at leaf amongjl the chief e heades and leaders, ^herupon Moyfes afterrvardes
inftnuated the fame great Myfterie, by diuers Wordes andphrafe^. Writing
of God and his 'Workcs. The two "Wordes God created // they be rightly con-
ftdered importefo much. For the "Word Elohim,God, in the plural number^
ftgntfyeth plfiralttie of Perfons {for manie Gods it can not ftgni fie, feeing
there is but one Gcd ) and the lierbe bara, created, in the ftngular number
firnfyethoneGodmnautreandfubflance, albeit three Perfons. For what-
Though the r g ^^^ j^ff^ ;^ creatures, is the tVork,e of the whole Trinitie : thouirh k lie
B. Tnnine J . , r ■ ■ r 1 ^ ■ r. r r
workc ioynt- Scnptures do oftentimes appropriate- jomeWorke to one Diufne Perjon,jome -
ly in al crea- to an other.'which alfo proueth di(lin[lion of Perfons m God. So the wordes turcs.ycr di- Qq^ created heauen and e:inhfignifiethe Father, to ^ihotj po^rre is Gen. i. ueis workes attributed. Ill the besinning, ftznifie the Sonne, to whom wildome is fo aiUindl appropriated, andtheWords, The Sprite of God moued oner the \ra- V^iiQjna. ters,Jfgnife the HoHe Ghoft, by whofe bountiful goodnes, the "Waters
y»erema4efruiflful . Lik^Wife Godi owne Worde^ : Let vs make man
pgnife the pluralttie of Perfons, and Image and likenes in the ftngular
number yfigmfie one God.
Men alfo .(new by ftith man'ie thirds perteynin^ to them flues. ^> that
fiht bodie was mudc oftheflime of the earth : the fouk not produced of anie
thing
Genesis. 31
thinr formerly ext/!injry hut created in.medtatly of nothingand naturally By faith the irr.morial: that thefoi-.le of^dani n as indued jV'th grace andiujfice : that !^ ° °^p" hefelfrom that haffpie fate, hj y Iding to ttntatton, and brcakingCodi \^^^ ijxiowae- ' corrtmandmirtt of ahPimfnce : that for tic j-me j-nne ^dam and Eue Were caH forth of Farad ife,<;nd A nianlind (ulmfl to death, andother caUmtties,
Forrertitdie ,igatiifl ftt:nef C rejiaitraticn tog: etc, they Lelcetted in Chrift Beleefc in froTTjijed to be bo?ne cfthervomans feede,ivho by his death should conquer Chrift to theivicl{ed frpent,delit.c) man fomcaptiuitie^andrcfiorehim to fpiritual *^0"^^« life, ^p.d ibis is ihe eanje of the perpetual cnmitte hiiWcn the wcman {e(fccu!ly the mojlblefftd Ftrpn Mother, of TV Lorn Cbrift tooke fiesh) and the jerpent, andbefH>en her fcede, the ffintat'- children of Chnsf, and the ferpentsfeede, the '^hole compame of tie Wicked. ofthii battle andeonqiteU T^rghnTn Hltrofo!imit;'.numthusJj>eaketh.T\\QiQ fl-al bercmedicand liealrh ro the children of wcmcn, but to dice, oferpentjthcrc ihaJ ^<^"^^^'^ ror be no medicine, yea they (hal tread thee vndcr their fcerc, in the foiAneels that latter dayes, by the powre of Cbrift their King. Lileitfe Codsfamt' fel. Hcb.i,u. liar Conner fation Ti;:th diners men in mdns shape {Gen. i. 5. 4, 6. snd 7. wns A ftgne ofchrifs incarnation ^nd the Sacrifces immoUtcd did p n jig- irate jfpoc. his death, iniefpeB 'jihercf it is faid in the ^fpoialips, ThcLzmht '^'as ij.|. flaine From the btginniing of the vforld. But more cxprefly s. Fml tefi ijiethytl at yCi>el, Enoch, and Noe leleened in Chri?l,nirntno them for example ofib fi-ft age, and others cf other times, and in the cndonlndeth^ Hch. II. tharmimi mjreiDdn^ approued by the fime faith, receiuednot the
proniife ( to wit in thc:r lifetime } God prouiding that they without None R^mit* others ( ofchc ni w L *w ) thould nor be confaramatc, that i<, not ad- ted into hca» ht-aaen'ie ioyes Cr fruition of God,'\ntd the way of eternal "cn before
mil tea inio .
glone were opened by our Lords P.,J^ion and ^frenftor;. Cbalt^
Neither did the true feruants ofCodj in tbofe frsf d.-yes, only heleeue in
hart, but they alfo profefied their faith, cr Reli^ian by r* ternal Rites, name^ ^ , „
, • ^, ■ r i, *i ,1 J^ ■ I } "^ r ■ ^ I It Externals**
ly in off cm g of Sacrijicc {the rKdji jfecul kom^tg' zsr \trf.ice to God) nkich criCcc.
>V c'.cily tcjlified, (ha. ^ . (tf %V:l hloudie inf^hre o- chr./ls raJ?:or7,i(^ vnblo-ii
die m figure of the hoLeEuchariff ^Ifo 1 he accepting of the cne nghtly ofe-
tid by iyf'e!, cr reie fling the other not donmftncerly by dir, wa declared
hy external fgnes, "^hich Cam d-ifd.tyning and cnujirgh'u brenhers ^oad
"Wor/^f, k^noWing hisowneto be n aught, ofrr. ere malice k.iU^'d htf b,9ihcr,
Befides Sacrifce tbn had alfo other J^l^tes inpidlejue ^pmb!ies,prajing VuhWqttt
/nd inuofdtmg the name of cur Lord, inmore foUmne naner,from Enos prayer witJt
timt and fo forward, according to that if recorded of limyin thi end of the d^cr Rite*.
fourth ehdpter, for douteles ^dam, ^bcl, and Scth did alfo pray andcd2
YponCod,4nd therfore it yip 04 fvme addition or iocrcife of fokmnitic in
thefermce 0/ Goij Jfbicb is referred to £nos^
5^ Genesis.
^Kr*"^°"^^^ 7*^9 hadmoreouer other ceremonies: ofthefeumth dayfrnUuhrly hUffed Get*.i,f»
Fcaft«^"°"^* rfWy4«/?^fi/ hy God, kfj^t holie by ^dam and other Patriarckes, a^ ^Uen Abftinencc. ^^ fvitnejfeth in his commentaries "ypoa th< tenne CGmmandements. ofdb- cen. 19, Cleanc & yn- Jfa^nin^Jjom meates, for it femeth the more god lie forte dideate no fi^sh, cm, 5, *^'""^ yejfore the fioiidyfffhichle<t4 after permitted, obfiruation of cleane and '\n- ^^^l'"*-'
xzill prater' ^^'^^^^^^?'^f^^ ^*<^^fi"' of peculiar pUces dedicated to reltgiom "V/fi where ^^^' ^'
' people mette together to pray. Liljvife diuers other things in thefirfi age were Figures of fi^^^t^of ChriRs Sacraments : the Spirite of Godgeuingpowre to the waters, cen, 1. Chrifts Sacra- ( 04 TertuUtan S. Biercm and others expound it) andthefloud of Noe,by S. ments. Peters teJJ-imoniey werefgures oj Baptijme, Manage in/^ttuted in Paradtfe, is i . Vet.^,
Eapn mc ^^^ -y^^^^ pateme ofholie Matnmonie, a Sacrament in the church of chriff^
^ ' where one man and one "^'ife are onlie Utvfuly and not rttore at once in ante
Wife yChriH reforming that '^'hich tn MoyfesUw '^ as tolerated {for hardnes xt4t r«, of mens hartes, andforazoydingmurther, fput away one "^ifcy and take an other ) to thisfrfi infnuiion as it was in the beginning, wo in one flesh, ce. 1,14 f cnancc. ^"^ ^^^^^ ^^^ more. The repentance of^dam and Eue '^ai a perfect andex-
amplarefgurt of the Sacrament of Ptnance. FirH they '^ere ashamed, coue- Contrition. ringtheir mkeines^ and hiding them felues,^7hich shewed their grief e and cett. j.
forow forthejinne committed. Secondly thty confej^ed their fault, and by ConfcfTion. Jirhat meanes it happened. For God examining ^dam, he anfweredJruly and Jimp ly famg ; The >roman which thou gaueft me, to be my companion, gaue mc of the tree and I did eate. LihvifeEueconfejied fincerly, faying :Thc ferpent decciued me, and I did eate. Thirdly SatkFadlion. Godgatu them penance (bfjidfidcdthbeftre threatned and other penalties dnntxed) that Eue ihould in paine and trauel bring forth her chil- dren •■, and Adam ihould eate his bread, in the fweate of his face. ^nd Tvithal cafl them forth ofParadife. But not forth of kit fauoure, ^ dp' feared by his making them garments ofskjnnes, granting them and their ^0- Irom hence is Jferitie, the refl of the earth to liue and labour in, effectally to feme him, and ta '^'''^ ^_^^ '^^' flopf„^„ce. With admomiticnto remember, that of duF!m.w wa^ made, and ashes on into duf he shalreturnt. ^l which werifgnes of loue, and that finally he Ashwcnefday. would bring them, andmanie more to eternal faluation.
The prjlbi.rne and heades of families were Prtfjlsal the time of thelan- of PricHhood. nature, '\ntil the Uw being changed,- God took.' Priefis on^y of the flockof
y€aron,andth€rejl ofihe Lewte^to afijithemin that funclton, Aaron & w?<»» j. Pricfthood& his fonnes thou fhalt appoint, faith our Lord, oucrthe feruice of '°' '** chrnaeToa^ Priefthood, for I hauc taken the Lcuites of the children of Ifracl +^- th.(iT° ° forcucrie firft borne. ^A'nds. Pttul teac^eth, th.it changing if Pnefrhood and chanrmrof the U\V goe alrvayes together, shewingenidently thut euerie Uwful com'Kknitie orcommonwi'idth vnder God, hath external PrieflLood. So that if there had benne no dijHnil order of exttrnd Priefihood in the law
ofnaturCy
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lutherii, ofndtttre, or now Jif ere none in the Urv of grace ( at Trotejf antes fay then u
de abro' ^Qf) there ^ere no Uw <*t al. See more of thu point m the yCnnottttionSf
Vi^iTa. ^^^P' 7* *^' ^f^^^* ^^'^ ^^ of'h o^frtu that ^IpcI, Setb, Enoi^ and other
Patriarches'Were Priejfes y and exercifed prieflie funflions: yea Cam alfo
"Jifas a Prieft { thou'rh a bad one ) and offered Sacrifice.
But extremal offices or miniferiey "Without a ^el di/po/ed mind, and fit' cere Itertues producing Goodworkes, did neuer lufhfie anie man. ^ni <;oo<i vvnccs Om.*,. therf ore Cams Sacnjiccy offered TV ith a peruer/e mmd^ ^<u not rtf^eVted hy n«:<^C"''^^'^- Cod^ oi ^adilVM: '^herupon he hecomin^yporje, and more matictoiff, God sh^r^ly reproued hit anger and enmey conceitted Without tuff cxufe^ fay- ing: If thou docftwel, (halt thou not receiueagaine: butifchou doeft il, {hal not thy finne forwith be prcfent at the dore Jc/er/y iheiVtng that euerie one shai recetue according to his Tljory^w.
ThiifUcealfo euidintly sheweth Free>x'il, yea in a wicked man. For this Prccu-iL expo^iiUtion had neuer benne I'tteredy by our moft reafonable Lordy and Maimer, if Cain had benne depriued of freewd. For he might haue excufed b^mfelf^y and mufi needa hake benne holden excufed, if he had benne forced to do 4'ihidid. But God charged himoi mexcufabUy and tn one that k'let^y or ought to know, that he had freerviL ^nd doth further inculcate y that »
hi hady andsbo.dd haueporvre, andjreetvil ouerhis concupifcencey to correB thef-tmeyifhe tvou'dy faying :ThQ hift thcrof ihal be vnder thee, li it fir- and thou llialt haue domion ouer it. So that no fmntVy be he neuer fo uo arhit . ivickfjy much Itffe a iufl mAn , lack^thfi-eewU.yet Luther abhorreth the liery /L^ ^'" ^^^'^' ^"^^ Calutn miheth (tout of '.hi Wodi. far. s. Temooral punishni'^nt ii proued to bt due for finne remittedy by that Temporal
0*».i. both death, and »ther penalties are inflicted., by Gods iuf^ice ypon rnen, after ^r^^"^ ^^- °^ • /I r • II' -lilt '■ , ,•' iinne rcmit-
iu!tification,andbyt e particular punuhmtnts laid ')>pon ^damandEuey ted.
conftfii n r their f, u 'tt^ .
Purgatorie is alfoproued by the fame iufice of God. For when anie dieth Purgatoric. penitent y andycthaaenot madefulfatifiaHiony they mttJifuffer for that re- mameth after dejth , and be pugedy before they can enter into refi. which Uat-i. remnant of debt our B. Saiticur calleth The laft farthing, andfaithy it mufi he payed. The lewes alfo at this day hold the doBrin of Purgatorie by tradi- tion, ^ndconfequently they Pray for foulcs departed, not only to God, Prayer for the htitalfo to the ancient Patri arches (which likewife sheweth Inuocation of *^*^^^' ^^^^.^ Siinds ) m thefe wordes : Yee fathers which flecpe in Hebron , ^"'^^o^^i"'^*- f £'X °P^^ ^° ^"""^ f ^^^ g^'es of Eden, that is of Paradije, which no* pUnted JHiiOu . tn Eden. ^<id Hebron is the place where .xlam Was buriedy and h>s fepul- Sepulchers of icfuen. cher rehgioufty conferu^d m t'bi time of lofuey aboue i^oo yeares after his Patriardics Oft'». ij. death. The jam; is the place which yCjraham bought y and there buried Sara : religioufly where alfo himfelfe, and ifaac, and Jacob were buried : and to which finally ^^^^^^"^^^^
E tkeb9-
j4 Genesis,
thehodiesofthetipeluefonnesoflacoh n ere trdnflated from Stchem, ^yfi /<)• /'.icS'w- fephM wnteth. ^nd iicbem alfo "^OtiS fpediUy honored^ hecAufe ftuh ^fr- "5*"* J fons hjid benne [;tiried there, at S. Uterom Jitnnejseth, of his owne k.non Itdge Bpijt. a^^ tnh'^time. Tum.tit^i
Enoch tranf- ^gtune by rcUgicHi cure of burying the dead in this firfi age^ Enoch latcd ahue. -^a^ more certatnlj knowen to be Tranflated aliue , dnd not to be de.d.
For the feuentie interpreters, and S. Pauljay He was not found, Vii'/rJ& '" ^' importet h that theji fought diligentljf.for. hfWf: and that his bodie xoitld net ,ro he found, for God tranflated him.
By al. "^htch 'Vee fee wutual ojfices, and communion of roodyporkesa-^ cc^^^ ' mong'fi p-ood men alitie and dead, ^htch ii caUed Comunion of Saintls.
orbaincts. »/''-'« i i ; i t ■ rr- 1 r i ; /
,,, .„ . r- ^ndherem Anzeis lacked not their off icii. For God et Cherubms to k.epe Gen.jy Minifterieof , - 7 /- j ■ 1 ' 1 1 1 n J i ■, .
Ano-eU. the gate of Paradijey tOAt neither man should enier, being mpLy expelled ^^'
for ftnnty nor diuels, di S. yfugujiin natetb, lej} they should tai^rfuite of H 11 de
the tree of life, andgeuingit to men, allure them to more Jinne, ^nd now ^'^^ "
Honour of; Sai\i6tsbeiog exalted t<^y€ngehglorie, haue like honorable offices torvanh ' ' •♦ *
Saiucb. other men, 4i Angels haue i Tea the blond of ^bel yniuflly shed by,Cairfy <^»-4'
anditillly lobe reitengedly God, shevreth the peculiar honour, yehub God be/frfVeth >fpo» his Saints, for their ^/ertues and merita in th'u life, er eft>e- ciallym their death, for Precious in the fight of our Lord, is the Y^!' death of his SainAs.
General lud- Hence alfo is proued, that feeitigin this life the good are aff^t^ed^and
gcrneat, fhe bad oftentimes proffer temporally, there mufi nedes be an other Court
of fxaSh lujlicey and an other Reaconing day, wh^rin eneneone shal re<eiHey accorduig 04 thiy h^nce donne good or euiL which rva4 fnffmentfy intmatedby Gods difcupng, and mantfefling ^hels and Cains deferts, which were hidden before^ and in part rewarding them accordingly, yet refriiinT the fid nWard (f the one , and punishment of the other to the
luclgeoftlie next world, ofthe ludge and his fentence Enoch ( alleadged by S. lude the g. -;
world. ^poflle) p-^ficied clerly , faying: Behold our Lord comcth in his i^d^. y,
hohc thoufands, to doe iudgement aganftal, and to reproue al M* the impious, of al the workes of their impietie, wherby they haue donne impioufly, and of al the hard things which impious fmners haue fpoken againft him. Thnt holie Enoch preached touching the Wicked ytvhich thought thert W46 no Ji^dgement to come, nor ludge f hefeared,'.
^t this Indgcment al shal appeare in bodie and foule returning to life,
Refurreftioa. For that Al men shal rife ^"ow death is proued, by the immortalitie of mans foule, "^hich God did not make nor produce of corruptible matter^ but immediatly Breached into his face the breath of life, and man be- ^'"- ^'7p came a liuing foule. /o/^f/o^/e being immortal, and hatting a natural
Genesis. ^y
inclination io the hoilet mam nAturAlferfeElion re^u'ireth the coniunBion of hodte and foule» for neither foule nor hodie fefiarated ii a many but both ioynedin one fubftflence are d many info much that mjtnkjnd should pcrtshy except the bodies shal rife a^aine, and liue with the fotilcs. ^nd then shul the bodies be qualified according to the fi ate ofthefouleSy hafpie or mfera^ hie for ener. it ». J. of Eternal Ii fe the tranjlation ^f Enoch l< a figure. For feeing Cod pre- Euei laftijig ' feruetb his corruptible bodiefo longy from death and infrmitie, it if a token'^^^^- ■ and manife^i fi^ncytlut by the fame powre of God, the bodies of men shul The blefTcd ia at la ff day, after that al men are once dead, rife agd're, and rcmatne with ctcinalioy. thefoulesforeuer. The good m Eternal ioy : the '^ichedin Eternal paine. The wicked ' oen.), Both ftgmfied by the cujhdie of the gate of Faradife by ^noels -^"W ho for inenJlcs : * *"♦' etterkepe out tbofe, that are Jill deflc\d with ftnne, and fo they depart into P^^"^'
fre euerlaftng y and admit the innocent and lufl into ^e ktnedo-me of hea- uen, yh)hich p< eHerlafingioy and {rerfeflfe'icitie.
Thu6 we fee the face and brief e fumme of I^ltg. on, tn the beginning of q^^^^^^}^^^^^ the^orld,tilth?foud:andthefateofthe Church, "^hich rroi a Iwayes y[{ih\c. Viiible, conjtfiingof men good and bad. With a continual Succe fdon of Succe(Ciono£ J^titers, Oi weljj>irttual as temporal. For thefrfl borne were both Prreftes and Pauiarches. fnnces m euene famdie. S^nd amonrfl the fame one etter chief of al. From Onefupreme whithranke Cam xv.is excluded, or rather excluded htm f elf e, by Goinff headofrhe j^" "*' forth from the face of our Lord, "^herupon holie Moyfes rcrteth this C^*"^^"" Celt y. Monarchical fuccef I on nf one chief e, and Su^VQ\x\t Headjjffcw Adam^j the line fif Stihy Enos, Cainan, Malaleel, lared, Enoch, Mathu- Cfn.j^y fala, Lamcch, <<».'/ Noe. Neuenheles he fetteth downe alfo the prop'enie ^7- ^ of Cam y thefrH beginner of a tvorldlie y fcbifmatical , and heretical con ll.deVA- «f«^^''^f > oppofite to the Citie of God. He denied Gods proutdence ( as Cains cega- fiare.c. Thargum H'.erofolomitanHmteflifieth ) protejling to ytbel y That there tiucdodnn. 8. &. \ras no luftice nor ludge , nor other >yorld then this , no re- *®- ward for vertue , nor punishment for /)nne,and fo dcfnerat- ly he killed Abel, of thefe negatiue principles proceeded other likt detefahle opinions , and mofl wicked life, fanage and barbaroM crttel- tie, and al l^ind of impietie. ^nd in procefe of time albeit w4»/> True faith Ail remained in true faith , and '\nitie of the Church, yet by conuerfation remained in
c, , ^'/^/^'^^ ,'^'^^7;'"; 'Jt'f^ by cccafion of Manages betwen thesZcko iuft fatthfMlandirJidels, almoit the ^hole World was corrupted in maners. andpcrfed. Suf Noe Wis tuff and^erfeFt. In punishment therefore offo great and enor' , miousfmn'-s, Gndfent thegeneralfloud, wherly al Cams progenie, and al of hcrencaT other t-nfidels mere wholly deflrnyed and extingmshtd, and the true C/f-«rf/; Sinagogucs. n<9t-ibly purged \ onlie iiift Noe and his familie referued. By "^hom the Came ^ - • ' , _/' P^. ^- I I I ^J } I ■ I ■ J , . ^ Cotinuanceof
true Church U** continued, and the ^^orldagaine replenished ^ith men. the Church .
' E i Chap.
Genesis. Noc^
The fccond ^' M''<^'^5 diminishing hj title and litltyC Noe fendtth forth d (roPPy %\ acre of^thc After htm a Joite, thn/e : i8. L/ll^ ^^octh forth yvith al that ^cre '^itb
^orld. ijtfn in the arkc, lo. ereBeth an ^Itar^ and offereth S4cnf(c.
The rhird parr jk JsJ ^ God rcmcmbrcd Noc, and al trie beafts, and ai the \
Of t!>c new!- -^ C^"^^' ^'^^^^ "^^^^^ '^'"^ ^^'"^ "^ ^^^ ''^^'^^^^ '^^^'^ brought crcafe &"miil- a winde %'pon the earth, and the vaters dccrcafcd. f And the r tiplication of fountaines of the depth, and the floud gates of heauen, the w'orU. -ij^rere (hut vp : and the raync from heauen was ftayd. f And 5 the \raters returned from the earth goirg 8c comming : .and they begane to decreafe after a hundred fiftiedayes. f And 4 the arkc reftcd the feaucnth moneth, the feaueii &C tvemith dayofthemoncthvpon the raountaincs of Armenia, f But $ the waters for al thatwerc going and decrcafing vntil the tenth moneth: for in the tenth moneth, the firft day of the moneth, the ropps of the inountaines appeared, f And aftc^ 6 that four tic dayes were palled, Noe opening the windowe of the arke, which he had made, let forth a cxowe: t which 7 •• '^"'^ c'o^^c ^pj-^j. forth, and did '■'■ not returnc, til the waters were dried into th.c cirkc, "^'P°" ^^^ earth, f He ient forth alfo a doue after him, to fee 8 but(asappca- if the waters were ceafcd yet vpon the face of the earth. lethbytheHc | which fmding not where her loote might reft, returned p bicw'text)go- j.q{-,jjjj into the arke: for the waters were vpon the whole mie'rcftedT <;arth : and he ftretched forth his hand, and caught her and ponthcitikco brought her into the arke., f Andhauingexpededyerfea- 10 uenmoe dayes, a^a.ine he let forth a doue out o( the arke. t But ihe came to'him at cuentidc , carrying a bough of an 11 oliue tree, that had greeneleaues in her mouth. Nocther- t:Thev enrrea fore vnd'erftood that the waters, were ceafcd vpon the earth, into tiie arke -j- And he cxpeded yet neuertheles other fcauen dayes : and it' the 17- day, ^^ f^j^j forth a doiLe,which returned not any more vnto him. ?crhof tliTo- tTherfore in the fixt hundred and one yeare, the firft mo- 15; rheryearcrfo' neth, the firft day of the moneth the waters were cleanedi- thcy'remaj- minishcd vpon the earth : and Noe opening the roofe of the red there ii. gj-l^^^ looked, and fawe that the face of the earth was dried. ^^nucda'r'^ t In -the fecond moneth, the fcuen & twentyth day of the 14 ccmic ayc«. ^^^^^^.j^ ^.^^^ ^^^^x^ ^^^ dried.j And God fuake to Noe,faying: ij. , tGoc
Noc. Genesis. '57
16 t Goc fortli of the arkc, thou & thy wife, thy Tonnes and the
17 wiucs of thy fcnncs >»'irh ihee. f Ai cattle, that are with thee of al flesh, as wcl in fonh.s,as in bcn(lcs,&al creepers, that
CC^epe vpon the earth-, bring oiit with thee, & goc yec vpon "Inthex^Kok
18 the earth rincrcafe and mulxfplie vponit. f Noc rhcrfore f^p^^^^^j,^^ went forth, and his fonnes : his wife, and the wiues of his fouingnor
i^ fonnes with him. f Yea and al cattle, heaftcs , and creepers reaping, nor that crepe vpon the earth, according to their kindc, went pUaiant varic-
20 forth out oi the arke. f And Noc'biiilt an Altnr to our Lord: b^,°j j"'^"'^^ and taking of al cattle and foules that were cleane, offered &xnircrablct
2:1 Holocaulbvpon the Altar, -f Andour Lordfmelledafwecte heuccfortk fauour, and faid : l wil no more curfe the earth for men : for God piomi- the fenfc and cogitation of mans hart are prone to euil from [5^'^ "'ore lea- their youth: T wil no more therfore itnke euerie Jimng s.Amb.H. <le.
22 foule as I haue done, f Al the daycs of the earth, - feed- Noc & Asc*. time and harueft, cold and heatCj-fommer and winter^ night c- ^3* and day fl)al not rcfl.
c u.d 1.V.UU.. ANNOTATIONS. ^':?''^ \ Chap..: VJIL
10. nUfU an ^har] "Moewithonti^if^Ve'ffe commandment, an<J \x'ithou-t Nocslacnfiee' Adzji ofFereth. Sacrifice to God, foi- the benefite rcceiued, in his, and his fa- "1^"^<= ^^Y* mihcffcouferuation, v/ith the othci liuing creatures, in that general dduge cf c^^-''^° ^ ^• I»Je "Koe th£. vy Olid, .rrdi^oyrinr ( fai rh S> Ambrore)T'''»^ to be true thjnktjgemn^y-vVhuh i . Voluntarie, (y yArcA iiprtfintei, notcommanjid: therfore he made vo delay- Tor the yen »e cf a gratjtd z.Speedic. » 11, mind excludith deu^ful dfUher.niotJ, and he th^rt txftClfth, til the d btof ihitrUeshe
exaSletf, if an -vn^-at^ut perfon Tor more folemmticy he dedicated anr.pt and , Solcmnc, pcrmancnrplace, forthispeculiardiuineieruice, Bmldtn-^Ait jthario eur Lcrd. , The Hebrcv/ word %Ii:;be,ich { of the vcrbe Zabach, tokil, ormakefacriHcc)
• ^'* andtheGreekcr/j'yj'«a/?fr(o;j, figniiTe 3n Altar to facrificc en, not a common ^*'* table for meatc. He offered cf.theclcanc and beft things bccaufe pure and 4. Pure.
deuourSacrificeisdueto God.Mbreouc.i it vcas large :and bountiful, for he r, , 't \ ofFercd of al the kindes of cleane bcaftes andfoulcs. Finally he offered them '' *
iaHe/oc^«yTfS where al was burned and confumed in the honour of God. Kovr ^.Holocaulb £/«>>. T. S^^iful aJ r^^is was to God, Moyfes fignincth faying : C/o- lor*/ /wfjlcrfrf/rvft-/* Tfal .so. /'"♦<"*^'- not that either anic fwcetc corporal fauour could of it fclfe delight Sacrifice is jjahe I. God, who is the moft fpiritual fabftance, or that the burning of ficfn, bones, plcafantto ^mosi. and bowels of bcaRcs could yeldfwccte faiiourjbut the deuout mind dccla- God : not foJr t^Al.T, redbr fuch external dutie greatly pleafed God. For God reauirc:h both, but ^"C exterrial JnflXiar- fpecially afincere hart. As not only diuine Sciiptarcs, and liolic Fathers, but things bur foJ| itiq 4. alfo moral Philofophcrs teach VS. IC -rytre a ^retttus t/j;n^ (faith Plato writing ^^'^ fioccrc S.Hnre ofCiCxificcs) lfGodh4drfff>e£}r4iheriothe^Jtesjat$d/a(rifKcsefmcn, theu to then nuad* o, j/^t, mittd, lib.fmtts frqJ^tKhti, '
E 3 .Ch/.p.
3^ Genesis* K6i,
Chap. IX.
0od remweth the llefmgf^fmuUiplicationyydlLQpfthtUe^hng
bnt not of lloud. 8. promifith neuer a^aine to defiroy the "^oild by "^ater 21. CbamTaW, and reported huf fath'rs nakednes, phich Sem and lit^beth comred. i^.fof yvhuh he his citrfed, and they are hlejfed.
AN D Gpd blefTed Noe And his Tonnes. And hefaidto t tliera: •• Increafe, &c multiplie, and replenish the earth. manc5ment,or f And your terror and dread be i't vpon al the beads of the t
tations. chap,. Vpon the earth : al the fishes of the fea arc deliuered to your ^f.t.iS. hand, j And" al that mouech,and liueth ihal be yours for 5
meat : euen as the grene herbcs haue I deiiuered al to you. t-^Saumg that "flesh ^p'ith bloud you ilial nor eate. fForl 4 f wil require the bloudofyour foules at the hands of al beafts: Uuitt-j,
and at the hand of man, at the hand of eech man, arid of his brother, wil I require the foule of man. f Who foeuer Ilial 6 fheed mans bloud, his bloud ibal be ihed : for to the image of God man was made, f But ihcireafe you and multiplied '7 and goe vpon the earth, and fil it_. . -
tThusalfofaidGodtoNoe,andtohisfonneswith him: 8 '\ Behold I wil eftablish my couenant with you, and wirh 9 - your fecde after you :f and with euerie huing foule, thatis'i©^ t .'.:v;>-. with you, as welin al foules as in cattle <S<: beafts oFthe earth ,!.'! ' ' ' '' '; thatarecomeforthoutofthearke, and in al beafts of the earth, f I wil eftablish my couenant with you, and al flesh ix fbal be no more deftroyed with the waters of a floud, nei- • . ther thai there be from henceforth a flqud to waft the earth.
/ Y/if" t And'God faid: This isthcfitrnc of the couenant which I 11 bow was be- ' ," , o • 1 •• r 1
fore, but vK'as geuc betwen me and you, and betwen euerie Immg toule, aotafigncjas that is with you, for perpetual generations: f -mybowe 15 • God faith "sjf.ll I fet in rhe clouds, and it (hal be the figne of a couenant ' - • ' '•♦'•'^ • ifi^"uTibl'\or betwen me and betwen the earth, f And when I il^alcoucr '^'''': ^t' men to re- ^^^ element with cloudes , my bowe flial apprare in the member liis cloudes : f and I fhal remember my couenant with you, and 15 promife. with eueric liuing foule that beareth flesh : ^ud there i^jal no %7rTrl^ more be waters of a floud, to diftroy al flesh, t And my, jf, ^^^'^^ Quodiib. '° howc fhal be in the cloudes, and I llial fee it, and I (hal le^'^riw ^4^^^ _^, A.jiQ, '^ member the euerlafting couenant, that was made betwen
God,
Gen&S!i:s. 59
God and cucrieliuing foule of al flesh \rhich is vpon the' 17 carrh..t AndGodfaJdroNoe; This Ihalberhe ligneofthe
couenanr, which I eflablishcd, betwen mc & al Hesh of the' iS earth. . t The fcnnes therfore of Noe, that came out of the l'jtwj\ ■ -•>;
aikcj-NsercSem, Cham, and laphtt: and Cham he is thefa-i -«^'^ '-^ '; 15) thcr of Chanaan. f Thefe three are the fonnes of Noe : and
••■ of thefe was ai mankind fprcdouer the whole earth. .-rBjtliis it 13
.4,0,!,. t AndNoeahufbandman began to til the grounde, and.^l^j'^^li^tNoc ii. planted ia vineyard, f And drinking of the wine was made children"afccr 11 "drunke, and naked in his tabernacle, f "Which when thefloudS.
Cham the father of Chanaan, had feene, towit that his fa- Chnfoft.ho.
thcrs priuities were bare, he told it to his two bretheren ^9i" G*^"* 23 abroad, f Butindfde Sem and lapheth put a cloakevpon
their tlioulders, and going backward, couered the priuities
of their father : and their faces were turned away, and they
i4 fawe not their fathers priuities. f And Noe awaking from
:'the wine, when he had learned what his younger fonne had
-i; done to him, f he faid: "Cmfed be Chanaan, a fcruant of fer-
16 uantes (hal he be vnro his bretheren. f And he faid : Bleifed
ij be the Lord God ofSem, Chanaan be his feruanr. f'^God
enlarge lapheth, and dwel he in the tabernacles of Sem, and
28 Chanaan be his feruanr. t And Noe lined after the floud
29 three hundred fiftie yea res. f And al his day cs were in the whole nync hundred fiitie ycares : and he died.
ANNOTATIONS. Chap. IX.
M. 7. ? j/lthatmeueth] S. luftinus Martyr, S. Chrifoftom, and other anfijnt Volontare .-iB> 119. Dodorsproue, that fieflivc^as lawful to be earen before the floud: but being ftinencevp-jtit- Ho. 17. not neceilaricjbecauf^ men were ftron^er, and other things aUo of more outcomanA- m titn. force, thebetter forte which were of Sechs race abftaincd from it. But after ^^j^^^ the floud flelli being more neccilarie, God altereth that cuftome ot abftinence, vith this limitation and commandment, that they (Kal noteatcbloud.
4. Flesh y-fith bloud ] Though this pofitiue precept, of not eating bloud, feniedwel to make men more abhorre manflau^hter (which is forbid by the Ahflinenfa lawofnaiure, an ithcreuengetherof here and'in other places feucrly thre- from blond atned ) yet it was fpeciallyr^euen both immediatly after the floud, and in the Tome timr« , •. law of Moyfcs (with manic the like) to cxcrcifc men in obedience. And the commanded * lamcwas renewed, for a rime, by the Apoflies, to appease a controucrfie in notalvacjJU the primitiuc Church. For that the Icwcsconuertcd 10 Chrift, hauin^ bennc *^^- ^S long accuftomed to this obfcruation, could not indure to fee it broKcn, by tkc:iifclues, or othei CktiAions, aad being no great burden, for tke Gentiles,
40 Genesi'^. Noe
irwas decreed tkatalfliould kcpc it. And fo peace vas made Neuenhclcsh vffasaboUilicdwhcntKecaufeceafied.AsS.AuguRindcc'.aictliagainftFauftus //..,t.r. theMaiicIice.Sacliistheaiichoritieof tbc'Ckuich to decree, and againe to ^.' N r d '^^^'^^"^ ^^'^'^^'ctuationofachingofitfclfeindifferciu.
■ ^^"^ ii- Orww'f ] No2 finned not, by the ctjmmanuidgement of ancient Fa- , .
: ocm dimi- ^j^^j.^^ -.^ ^j^^j. he^_j5 oueicomc mth winc,.bccaure he kievsr nor the force f '/,?'*" cnncs: therof, h.uiing drunck only water al his life before. But this .external rebuke, '"^ '
and vforiaiie difgrace happened to Noe, in figure of Chrift naked on the ^^^ . Naca-figurc CroQe. As S. Cyprian (Epift, ^j. ad Caecdium) S. Auguftin(Ii.i6. deciuit. c. z. '^•y'"*- bfChriit &:U.tt. contra Fauftum Manicheutn. c. 13. &; 14) Eucherius, E.upercusand ^ [.' ,
Scm and la- others ( ypon this place) do teach. And [ik\vi[c that Sem and lapheth werc.a ^' T" pt'.eta figure figure of the Church confi;tiHg of levies and Gentiles, and Cham of Here- *'-5°- ** oftheChurch, tikes, and othcr.Infidels, that deride the infitmirics, which our Sauiour fu- ^J"^ Cham oflnfi- ftayncd. Goe to nov/ ( yce Manichees, faith S. Ausruain) obiea calumnies r^'**^'*' <^k. „ to tbeaiicicnholie Scriptures, doefo, yec children of Cham, to whom naked " ^^"
,, flefli fctncrh vile, by vhich your feluefc .^»'ere begorrea.' Tor neither could '^' ^^' ,, yccby anic meanes haue benne called Ghriaians, except Chrifts as he was "'^i „ fortold^by the Prop hctes, had come into the world, had drunck thatcuppe '*'*^- ,, of his viny^rd, which could not pafie from him, had llept in liij pafTion, as in ,, drunkenncs of folie ( which is -wifer then men ) and fo the infirmitie of mortal „ flelh ( which is ftrongef then mtti}' had become naked, by tht fecret^counfcl „ ofGod,whicli infirmitie vnlcs the word. of cod had tak^ri vpon him, the „ very name Chtillian, whcrof yeealfo gloric, had not benne acal iiithcearrli. ^vVi r\ ^^' ^'*'^*^'^^''*^'""*'''*"] ^"^^^X Chanaan the fonne is curfed, andniot his
VVhyChana- father Cham, diucrs yeld diners reafons. S.Theodorctus rcpoiteth otftofthc an js curtcd Hebrew Dodors , that Chanain a boy firft faw his grandfathers mkcdnes, ?• 57- *• ^ther then andtoldthe fame to his father, and fo they both d-rided that they ftioukl ^"»' ;Ciura. hatrecouer.cd,Chaais other fonncsnotoiF^iuhng.andthcrforc not his-v/holc
progcniebutonlyChanaan&hispoTteritie were here curfediby Noe. S. Chri- ho. if^ ibftome fuppofeth thatfor fo much as Goa had blcTcd Noe & his three fonncs coming forth ofthe Arks, he could not prefurac to curfe anie ofthofe, whom God had bIc(rcd,rlicrfore curfed Chanaan who in wickednes was like to hisfa- Sinncs puni- thcr. S.Gregoricbringcth this, forexampleofwicked men, cfcapingpunifli- {hedinthepo- meat in this life, andare puniflicdin tbcncxt, andintlic'irpoftcriticfolowing fteritie. . their vices, ff^hat meaneth n (tk'nh US') that chxm (Inning, chdiMun his foune Lt.it. hadfentence ofreMn^t, hut that thefinnff of the rept obate t>ro!f>tr here in this hfe -vnre- %1oral, ThecfFe(S^of w*",?"^? '''"'''»■' /'«*'»"'>*'^'*A"">''v-<»ij.^ And cicre it is thatChanaans moftwicked c.it. Llcffmo- and pofteritiC wercfubduedinthecnd, and mod of them deflroied by the chil- corfing. drenoflfraelfwhowereofScm) vnd^r the conduft of lofue, according to ^ct. tj."
Noes prophetical blclfm^ of Sem, and curfing of Chanaan. Hom.ri.
laphctht'blef- ^^' ^"'^'^"''''■c?''] ^l^'*bls'^i"got*/4;'/>ef^ was literaly fulfilled, when (accor- iphef.x. ^P ' ding to his name, which fignificthLrffiwi^ or enlargement) his plentiful illiic Tradu
Literal poffcd'ed moft ample countries, both inthe Continent, and Ilandes. Butmy- Hebra.
Mvftical 'ft'cally it had efFcd ( As S . Hieiom . S . A'U";uftin. Rupertus and others u.\6.ci^
*' ^ • .cxpcund It) when the ApoMcs, being Icwes ofthe race of Sv:m, firft bail- mt. c.t,
rdedtheClviiftianChurch, whcrin the raoft part of that nation rcfufed to dwcl, i*. r t e^ contemning Chrifts Gofpel& grace, and the fulncs of Gentiles cntred in, and t^.cont tE^ow Hereri- vere madeinhcritcrs. Finally Chanaan isferuant to both Scm and lapheth, in Eaufl. Iscs fcrue Ca- tli^tHerctikcs being vnder the lurifdifbionofthc Church, gearhered of le- Li ^.c, ^h^iigues. wcs and Gentiles, feruc to fturvpCatholiques diligence to more exa£t knov- j8. i» Lcdgcofalt;-iith> and their patience to more mcrice and gloric. c*».
Chap.
GsiTESIS
Chap. X.
The geneAlogle ofN^es children , bj whom the ^'orld rv^i increajed dgAtne, 4fter the fond,
t 'Tp H E s E are the generations of the fonnes of Noc, Sem, X Cham, and laphefh : and children were borne to them z after the floud. f The children of lapheth; Corner, and Ma- gog, and Madai, and lauan, andThubal, and Mofoch, and
5 Thiras. f Morcouer the children of Comer: Afcenez and 4 RiphathandThogorma. f And the fonnes of lauan : Ehfa
; and Tharfis , the Cetims and the Dodanims . f Of thefc were diuided the lies of Nations in their countries, ech one according to his tongue and their families in their nations.
6 f And the I'onnes of Cham : Chusi and Mefraim, and Phut,
7 and Chanaan. f And the fonnes of Chus: Saba, and Heuila, & Sabatha,and Regma,& Sabathaca.The fonnes of Regma:
8 Saba, and Dadan. f Moreouer Chus begat " Nemrodthe be-
9 gan to be mightic in the earth, t and he was a valiaunt hun- .
ter - before our Lord . Therofrofe a prouerbe : As it were " That is :
10 Nemrod the valiaunt hunter before our Lord, f And the ^", " ^S^^ beginning of his kingdome was Babylon, and Arach, and bedecduci'.
.II Achad, and Chalanne in thelandof Sennaar. f Outof that ■ "'
land came forth" AlFur, and builded Ninme, and thefireets
II of the citie, and Chile, f Refen alfo bctwen Niniue and
15 Chale : this is the great citie . f But Mefraim alfo begat
the Ludimj, & the. Anamimsj <Scthe Laabims, the Nephthu-
14 ims, t and the Phetrufuns , and the Cafluims: of whom
15 came forth the Philiftims ScT the Caphtorims . f And \6 Canaan begat Sidon his firfl: begotten , Hetharus , f and
17 lebufarus, and Amorrh^Eus, and Gergefa^us, t Hcu^eusand
18 AraciEus: Sin$us', t and Aradius, Samara'us, and Hama- thxus : and aftcrwardes were fpred the people of the Chana-
19 nits, t And the limitts of Chanaan were from Sidon as we -^eiiceS.Aa-
' „ ._, ., , r> 1 • s;ultin2;eatlie-
ccmetoGeraraeucn to Gaza, vntil thou enter to Sodoma reththac the
20 &c Gomorrha, and Adama, &c Seboim euen to Lcfi. f Thefe people of IC- are the children of Cham in their kinrcds, and tongues, and' i-^' ^^^^c cal-
11 generations dc lands, and nations, f Of Sem alfo ::\fither of J,f\i^3^"^// al the children of Hcrber, the elder brother of Lipheth were °j^^ c. 3. ciuitl
12. bprnc^ . t The children of Sem : /Elam and Ailur , and
F Arpha-
4L Genesis' Sem*
ArphaxaJ, and Lud, and Aram, f The children ©f Aram : 2j Vs, and Hul, and Gcther, and Mes. f And Arphaxadalfo 14 hegat Sale, of whom was borne Hebcr. f And to Heber ij srHebcr ha- were borne two Tonnes: the name of the one was Pha- uinsra fonnc jg^^ :: becaufc that in his daycs was the earth diuided : and 5'he'ron'^ues ^^"^ brothers name was ledan. f The which ledan begat 16 were diuided Ehuodad) and Saleph, and Afarmoth,. larc, -f s^nd Aduram, ij called him and Vzal , and Decla, f ^""^ Ebal, and Abimael, Saba, 28 Fhalc2,winch I and Ophir, and Heuila, and lobab. al thefe were the chil- 29 iln s'auI' h' ^^^" of ledran. f And their dweUing was from Melfa as we 30 i6^c. II. cluitgo^^^"^'^' ^^^ ^^ Sepharamountaineintheeail. f Thefe are 3J the children of Scm according to their kinred and tongues, and countries in their nations, f Thefe are the famiUes of ji Noe,accordingto their peoples 6(rnations. Of thefe wcj:c . " the nations diuided on the earth after the floud..
ANNOTATIONS. Chap. X.
Ncmrodkjns ^- '^•^"'^''"^■] To this Nemrod the fonnc ofChus,fiiflbuildcrandkin«; "of j|^;.j.f,^.; of Babylon, a ^-'•^/^O'^j lofephus, S.Epiphanius, S.Hieiom, S. Auguflin, and generally al jinti(jit.. futtic Ic crJcl ^^^'^"'^^'^^'^"^"^'^"^^'^^^^''^'^y'^*"'*^'^' ^"^firft letting vp of an earthliecitic l.^ntiq. criant, oppofitctothc Citieof Godaftcrthefloud.Hcwasar<:/»a»f,orrathcrar»». chalda.
^ ' Imt hunter n giant huuter( faith S. Auguftin, according tothc feucntic Intcrprc- Li.i.c.i^.
tcis) M'hobyfaliLoodand force brought manic vnder his dominion. For he inofee. fturrcdvp pride {faith lofephus) and contempt of God in men, auochingthat //.j^ r.j. An Arch-hc- theywere not beholding to God for prcfentfelicitie, but to their ownc ver- ^.(<^ij^ rctike. tuc; andfofuppofuigmen\roaldfal fromGo<itohimj,if heoflFercdhim felfc ciuit.
a leader, and helper againft a ne\s7 floud, by litleandlitlc drewal to tyrannic. Eerojus He was otherwife called Saturnus, and was at length amon^ft others ac- jinMiastc. counted a god. After hin-\ hisfonneBclusIupitcr (as moftauthors affirmc ) U_ 4.^5. raigned 6$. yeares. And then fucccdcdNinus the firft king of the Affirians. Ettfthius
II. ^ffur buUdedKiniue ] Her? is great di/ficultic, and much difputc a- in chron,. mongftwrit.ers, whothis Afluris. Briefly, wc may either fay with lofephus, (^al^. AiTur, fonnc an*l S.Auguftin, tbatAflur the fonnc of Sem builtacitic, which afterwards of Sem , or Ninus of Chams race enlarged, enriched, and changing the name called it /;.j^^„- Minus king Ninumror elsthatrhisword^y/rnhcrcfignifieth (as.4.Rcg.T;.rfal. 81. Efais ,, '^^ ^,. •f Ailirians. lo- & 31- ) the king of AfTirians, to wit Ninus the fonne of Belus,who asal hifto- /_; 'j^.p* ries greeke and barbarous reporte ( faith S- Hicrom) was the firft that raigned j_^,-^,>^ oner al Afia, & among the Afllrians built Ninum a citie of his owne name, £ufeb.i'tf which thcHebrewcscalNiniue. He fet vp the Monarchic of the Allirians, f/„.p„, called the golden kingdom, which ftood 1140. yeares. And made his father BcIustobehonoredforagod.To whom thcBabilonians, asPlinic teftificth, r,. firft ercacaaatuas,altarcs,& temples. Of this BehuorBelof Babylon were ^'*«- IJ>'
Iirft falfc ^ji^-^ dcriued other falfe goddcs, as Belial the god of Libertines, or without ^"«'"' iJ-
gudries. y^].^^ BeclphcgorgodofthcMoabitcs,BeelzebubofthcAcharonitcs,Baalin 4-1f?i.
Somalia, BaaUm ainongft the Philiftims ; and the like in other nations. J.«.f^-i^
}i. Tlje
Sem. Genesis^ 43
31. TheTiattons] Hov manie Nations and tongues jrerc in titcvorld im- mcdiatly after the towrc of Babylon, is more comonly fuppofcd, thca cleriy ji^^ common flicwed ky old or late writers . Only it femeth ccrtaine and euident, that opinion of*-i . there were iuft as manic tongues as Nations .But to finde prccill y ( as the com- tonrnes is not mon opinion holdcthj 71, is hard. For in this chapter (where they vould clcre in Scrip- countthisnumberjarcnotmentionedfomanic.Neucrthelesif we addc cer- jm-^^ taine that bcganc diftind Nations afterwards , til lacob with his children Yet this ni'm- wcnt into ^gyptf in whom only the Hebrew Nation and Tongue continued berof-nations S. sMug- to Chrifts time, the number wil come right. Of lapheth were borney.fonne.s -^^(1 ton^rucs i^-<"-5- chiefe of Nations. Againe of Gomer(befides his ruppofcdfuccedbr, who can ^^ay ^e proba- ^^*^' not be counted begmner of an other diftincft nation) came z. other heades. bly aeathered LikwifeofIauan(bc/ides his firft fonne) rofe j.more nations. Of Cham by in this and o- hisfirftfonneChuswerc 6, nephewcs princes of nations. Ag.iine of Regma ^h^r places of (befideshisfucceflor) came one more. And Ncmrod befidcs liis kingdom of (3 j^gfis. Babylon, rayfedvp other tf. Bv his fecond fonne Mefraim came 8. nations, Chams third fonne Phut made ouly one nation. And Chanaan his fonnes made II. wiore. Of Sem (laft mentioned for better conneding the maine Hiftorie, andfucce/uon ofthe Church) camethc chife and principal Nation The Hebrews the Kebrewes^dcf-ending from him by Arphaxad, Sale, Heber,andfodiredly chiefe of thcfc to lacob- OfSemaUb were borne 4. other Tonnes beginners ofrations.Againc nations, of Aram (befides his Srft fonne) were 3 fathers of nations. Likwife of Heber { befides the Hebrcwes defcending by Phaleg ) were borne to his other fonne lecian 13. heades ofnations.Thefcarcalthatarenamed in this place: to wit, «»». 14. of lapheth, II of Cham 33. and ofSem II. which make in al 66. wherunto if ij. we adioyneNachor (Abrahams brother ) Moab, and Ammon(Lots fonnes)
17. alfo Ifmaelf Abrahams eldeft fonne) and his ilfutby Cetura, and finally Efau
af,tf. (lacobs brother) who made 6. moredi{lin(fc nations, the whole number is ij, 15. 7i. This probable collcdiion, with the reft, we fubmit to bctteriudgemenc.
Chap. XI.
Cod hindcreth the l^aine purpofe of building A hie^h totVre^ 7. by confcun- xhc fourth ding mens tongues, 5?. 'Sfherof it is exiled B Abel. 10. The gene xlogie of part of this Sem to ^br Am, booke.
Of the diui-
1 A N D the earth >ras of one tongue, and al one fpeach. ^^°? oftoguc*
2 X\^'\ And when they remoued from the eaft, they found ^" 5 aplainein theland of Sennaar, anddweltin it. f Andeech
one faidto hisneighboure : Come, let vs make bricke, and
bake them with fire. And they had bricke in ftced of ftone,
4 and bitumeinftecdofmorter: f and they faid: Come, "let vs
make vs a citie and a towre , the toppe wherof may reach to
heauen : and let vsrenowne our name before wc bedifper-
5 fed into al lands, f And our Lord defcendcd to fee the citie
^ and the towre, which the children of Adam builded, f and
he faid; Behold, it is one people, and one tongue is to al: and
F 1 they
44. ^Genesis. Scm,
they haue begunnc to doe this, neyther \ril they leauc of from their determinations, til they accomplish thcmindedc. t Come ye therfore, " let vs goe do\f ne, and there confound 7 their tongue, that none may heare is neighbours voice. •:Hcthatfpca f And to our Lord difperfed them from that place intoal S J^^^'^^o'^o"^"- lands, and they ceafed to build the citie. f And therforc ^ 's not vnSei^- ^^^ name therof was called Babel," becaufe there the tongue ftoodisfaidto of the whole earth was confounded : and from thcnccour bable. Lord difperfed them vpon the face of al countries.
■f- Thcfe are" -the generations of Sem:Sem was an hundred i© riMoyfcs here yeares old when he begat Arphaxad,. two ycares a^'ter the fucceSon of ^^^^' t And Scm liued after he begat Arpl^axad, f uehun- 11 Patriaiches, <^^c<i yeares : and begat fonncs and daughters, f Moreoucr 11 from Ssm to Arphaxad liued thirtie Hue yeares, and "begat Sale. I And 15 t^'^A^A^'f^ Arphaxad hued after he begat Sale, three hundred three from^AdanTt'^o^^'^'^^^' ^^^ begat fcnncs and daughters, f Sale alio liued 14. Noc. S. Aoa;. ^^^^^'^^^ yeares, and begat Heber. f AndSalcliucdafterhe 15 Jl If c.io. ci. begat Heber, foure hundred three yeares: and begat fonne^
and daughters, f And Heber hued thirrie fourc yeares, and i^ begat Phaleg. f And Heber hued after he begat Phaleo ,» -17 foure hundred thirtieyearv>s : and begat fonnes and daugh- ters, f Phaleg alfo liued thirtie yeares , and begat Reu. 18 t And Phaleg hued after he begat Reu , two hundred nine 15? yeares, and begat fonnes and daughters, f And Reu hued 20 thirtie two yeares, and begat Sarug. -f Reu liued alfo a^ter 11 he begat Sarug, two hundred feauen yeares: and bcgat_. fonnes ScT" daughters, f And Sarug hued thirtie yeares, and ii begat Nachor. f And Saru^ hued after he begat Nachor, 25 two hundred yeares : and begat fonnes and daughters . t And Nachor liued nine and twentie yeares, and begat 2^^ Thare. f And Nachor liued after he begot Thare, an hun- 2j dred and nintene yeares : and begat fonnes and daughters, f And Thare liued feauentie yeares , and begat AbraiTL* x6 and Nachor , and Aran, f And thefe are the generations 27 of Thare: Thare begat Abram, Nachor, ScT^Aran. More- oucr Aran begat Lot-,, t And Aran died before Thare his 2S :: Vr a citie, father, in the land of his natiuitie in-- Vr of the Chaldees. or teiritorie -f An -I Abr'am & Nachor maried wiues : the name of Abram 25? of Cnaldea. l^is wife was Sarai : and the name of Nachor his \(''ifc_x, and lofephus Mclcha the daughter of Aran the father of Melcha, and the Jj, I Antiq. father of lefcha. -f And Sarai was barren, neither had (lie 50
chil-
Scm. Gekesis. 4y
51 children, t Thare therfore •• tooke Abram his fonnc, and Abram\fa Lot the Tonne of Aran, his fonnes fonne, d<. Sarai his daugh- commanu ter ifilaw, the wife of Abram his fonnc, and brought them ^^f ^l^^ai jca] out of Vr of the Chaldees , for to goe into the land of ^5 appeaieth Chan;ian : and they came as farre as Haran, and d^x'cllcd AA. 7- v, 4.
ji there, f Andthedayes of Thare came to two hmidrcd fiue Though this
yeares, and died in Haraa. . 1°"'"'^- ']
' -^ ticrc alcri-
, bed to Thare
astheprinci-
ANNOTATIONS. palpafon.
Chap. XI.
4. tcfXOT^f] Hcicwcmayfecin Nemrod the common caufes of he- ^^^f '? ^^ y refics.anJthemanciofHertikcsptoccding.For hehauingafutlc proud, and oflchilmeand alpiringmindjfirft detracted from God, pcrfwading men (as is noted before) ^^.^^ « noitoclepcnd vpon Gods prouidencc, and finding (omc others of like hu- •C^'i^P'^cten- S. Chrif. "^our, they conlpircd together, and drew more folowcrs, by bearing the fim- *■" deceiue ho. lo. pier forte in hand (for it was vnpoflible wifcmen fhouldbelcue it) that they ^^^^'^''P ^' in Gtn. *'ould make a towre of defence againft anew floud, if God fliould thinck to Heretikcs C'iGtan. drowne the world againe. But their principal intention was to make thcmfel- profper for a ctlUt.jL. ucs great and flrong for the prefcnt, and famous to pofttritie. Al v hich Cod time, but are cuerthrew neither fufFering them to build vp their imagined caftlc of ftrength confounded cor to be praifed for their workc, but made them infamous to the worlds end. in the end.
7. LetyiCO'ifuund'^ God in diilipating this vaine workc of men, would vfc Miniftric of thcminifterieofAngcls. As not only Philo ludeus, and Origcn, but alfo S. Angels.
Mk
tt it 10-
fHf.Un
', •^" Auguftin, S. Gregorie, and other fathers expound thefc wordes, Come, let
defiend, and fonfoitnd tilth tongue, where they alio note Godsfingular wildomc, Qq^ turncth .. '* mercie, and iufticcjfopunifhing the offence, that he turneth it to his ownc ^^^ offence of •' V glorie, and thepiofitcofalmcn : Ihewinghis powre and foueraigne Maieflic j^-jgj^ jQ go(,(J. J- .' by two great maacles. F;rft by foluddainly and vttcrly depriuir.gal thofcbuil- -t^^q miracles .■,'. ' dels, of then vfual tongue, that prefcntly they could neither fpcake it, nor vn- jj^ priuation '', ■ derflandit. Secondly, by geuingdiuersdiftindllanguages to feucral fortes or QfQ,-,e tongue families.whichtheyimmcdiatjy vnderftood,andfpoke moft promptly, as if ^^^^j crcuino- a they had longbeforelerncdandvfed the fame. But to no man was geuenmore ^^^.-^^^ ° then one language . And To, to the more commodine of al mankind, they were forced to part mto fundric coaftcs of the earthj which they inhabited :;nd re- .^ _i..„;n,„J .,.,;,u J;a;„a xt-,,; — , k,..; — ,u. r^^^ a .,„ J. .u„;. r„;,.;^.,^i -n.^ Diuilion a-
plenifhed with diftinft Nations, hauing the fame Angels theiifpiritual Pa-
mono; eui
I.J.J4. troncsandProteiflors, whichhadfeuciajly changed their language. In parti- \- /._
hloral. cular, it was profitable to the good who being before opprelledby thevnited ^f!^^^ ^ »M. f.4t. powreofmanie wicked, were rclecucd ( as S. Gregorie tcacheth) when their ^•^°^^' leh. perfecutors were diuided. Thefc good were the fa'.Tiilic of Heber, as S. Chii- The membex
ht.ii.in lbftom,andS. Auguftin proue For fcing the change of tongues was inflifted offending ii Cen . for picniH^ment, it appcareththatHeberand hisfamilicwereinnocentof the punilKca. I.16C.11 vaine attempt, whofe tongue was not changed, but remained the fame, and of j^^berand hif Crlt.iS' him was called the Hebrew tongue for diflincftion fake after there were manie fjfnilie cofers- f.j^.fj. tongues, which before had no diftindl name being the only tongue of al men. tej not to thf X. >^i*^> Againe touching the offenders (who were pimiflied in their tongues, that building' q£ It.e.c.^. they could not be vnderRood commanding one an other, bccaufe they would g^tj^^l^ ^ muit, aotYndcrftand God iuftijcoiaxuanding them al) they alio reaped this ptofitc,
? 5 * lUat
4^ Genesis. Sena.
> that they wereforccd to leauc of that bad workc, and "a^ithal to feeke more "
ample habitations, who If they had there more increafed in nnmher and Jlreingtb, yyoitldyrtthoutdouht [fihhS.ChnCoRom] hai^eattempttd vyorfe things . And in- ^t .JO. » _ ^ finite manflaughtcr would hauebenne committed, amongftfomanie for pof- »» Ge».
n.° ^f"^*^^ fcffionofthatonecitic&towre.Pinally the fathers note that as God wrought S. Greg. mo.t pronta- here much good by diuifion of tongues : (o he wrought much more by com - ht.'^o m Die to the munion oftongucs,geucn to the Apoftles,thcrby inabling them to eether one £«"«».
Church. Church ofal Tongue and Nations.
II. Renriitsale'\ Here isan intricate difficultie. For the Hebrew and Latin Scriptures text, both here and inPalalippomenon, faying Arphaxad begat Sale, the 7%. x.Par.il liard Interpreters and S. Luke place Cainanbetwen them, as fonnc of Arphaxad,
and father ofSalc.Eufebiusalfo in his Chronicle, with moH: Greeke Dodors, ^^^-J- and S. Auguftm, count Cainan in this Gcnealogie of Scm.VVherupon manic '*\^^' Some think donumberhimin this ranck, and fuppofe that Moyfes omitted him for fomc ^•^^•*"' Movfes omir- ^y^c^'^^'^j ^"'1 yet writeth truly, that Arphaxad begat Sale, not his proper i*^-"**'** tedCainanfor ^°""'^' ^^^ ^^^ fonnesfonneras S. Mathew fayth, loram begat Ozias, who MAt.i, a mvftcrie washisncphewes nephew. But againft this folution it is replied,, that then Arphaxad (hould hauc bene a grandfather at 35. ycarcs of age : which were _ - . ftrange in thofc daies, how foeucr it is now. And a greatter difficultic, or
Rcmtation. rather abfurditie muft alfo be granted, that Arphaxad begat both Cainan atthcagcof j;. ycares, according to the jz. Interpreters, and that Sale was alfo begotten the fame yeare, according to the Hebrew, being botji true. Which inconucnience is not in the Gencalogic written by S. Matthew, ©therscofie- ^^^^^^^^^^^^o^" according to the Hebrew and Latin text, with moft Latin (fturcCai Doftors, omit Cainan in this place, and Paralipomenon, namely with Si Hie- Ouf^,
fliouldnot be ^°™'^^°'^'^^'g^"^''y ^^^"^i"i"g^"<i reconciling varictics,betwcn the Hebrew j/ftri*. in the text f *"^^^^^^^^e,makcthnomcntionat al of this difference. Which makcth the 70 ** fometo coniedlure,that in S.Hlcroms time Cainan was not in the Greeke
copies, at leaft not in thofc that he had, and held for the beft. Andatthisday fbme hauc him not. Which may be admitted for a probable anfwere tou- ^"**'*. But ncuera- chingthc Hebrewand Greeke of the old Teftament. But for fo much as al V^"^ me Cathoh- copies, both Greeke & Latin, alfo S. Hieroras Edition of S. Lukes Gofpclhaue '"'^^'f'*'** <}ue (norhc- Cainan, thediiiiculticftilremainerhbctwen Moyfcs and S. Luke. Howthen rctiKe before flial this doubt be folucd? wccamiotfolue it. Andnomarucl. For rcnerablc BezajputCa- Bcde could not. Whofe wordes.are thefe :S. Lukevfeth rather the Greeke Prefat. man out of S. teftimonics then the Hebrew: wherof hapcneth that I much maruelat, and coment. Lukes Golpel. for duines of wit, being ftrikcn with great admirrtion, I can not throughly in jt6la\
fcan, feeing in the Hebrew veritie arc founed only tenne generations from the jthoSl. A memorable floudvnto Abraham, by what mcanesS. Luke, who (the Holie Ghoftgouer- fcntcnce of S. ning hispcnnc) could in no forte write falfe, would rather fee downe eleuen Beda. genexationsintheGofpcl, Cainanadioynedaccordineto the feucntic Inter-
preters. Thus writeth S. Beda, reuerently admiring thathecould not vnder- ftand. For being aflured thatthe Holie Ghoft gouerncd the pcnnes both of ^ - .. . Moyfesand S. Luke,andrhatheisnotcontrarictohim(clfc, itmufl ncrles be ^ ^ *^?'' true which cchofthcmv-riteth, chough other learned men can not reach the
7 pf<"i • profoundnes of fome difiiculties that occure. And therfore Bcza was extreme faucie to dafli Cainan out of S. Lukes Gofpel, and that wittingly and moft The heretical impudently faying, in his Annotations: Ko»»£/»ft»M»<>nKf<r.v/>(*«5-rn'; ^f-^e douhted Englifli Editi- „ot to put it o*t. The former Englifh Editions, otherwife corrupt in manic t(^i, onsdifferia places, hauc Cainan in the text of S. Lukes Gofpel, but their latter tranfla- irjj, this^omt. tcrs arc m this poiut pure Bezitcs.
Tkc cad of the fecond acjc
Genesis. Afj
THE CONTINVANCE OF THE CHVRCH
^K» KILIGION, IN THE SECOND ACE OfTHE VfroRLB.
Pxcm Noes floud to Abrahams going forth of his conntric. The (pace of j < 8. ) cares.
N,
Oman ea»"^el douh mr wil (Unify that the fame church ccn^
tinuedAltbefecondageTphicb n>ai inthe firjl^ (onftdering that Noe Noc an<3 Scm
liuedal/one 50. yeares after the birth of ^hr ah Am, andsem 150. more : and ^iuc<J in Abra-
that theft three, and fome others of that time are renonmed in hoUe Strip- ^^""^ *^^*
tkre,forftncereprofeiiors of true /{elision. But for more manifeflatjon of their
faith, and tbtt the church tv>u then >< rj confpicuous, we shal repete ceriAine
Jfrtncip/.lpowtesef J{tligion prof efed and prallifed al thxt time,hy a ccn- ^^^^^''^'c^o.Rt'.
linual knoivmlfifthle companieymted m one r»yf}icalhodie : though in the f^'j j^ \\^^ £^^
meane'^hile, the rvickfdfprong and grew in number and ^^orUlie force, cond age.
much opprefingyetTttuerfuppmJiwgthe good,
FiriliuiiNoecomirizforthoftheArkelvithhisfamHie.profefftd his re- r\^^ r^ r ^"»-8. ;• • • 7. /-» r-'^j t L- r . J r I 1 A^ • One God.
ligioiu mind to One God alm.ghtic, fupreme Lord of aly by Ottering ex- External
tcrnal lioluntane, fj'eedie, pure ^ folemne , and bountiful SsiCn^Ct of Ho- Sacrifice Gt» 9. ^0'^'*'*r^^y^ ^ P^^^^ft' '^P°'* ^« Akar. ^fter y^hich mofigratful office, God Pj^icfthood
making a cottenant ^^inthhimand hi^feede, neuer againg to defroy the y»orld ^1 '^ • «**
bj ^ater, confirmed the fame bj thejigne of the rainbow, ^hich reprefented CrofTc*.
the fecondPerfln of the B.TnniziQ, the Sonnzo^Godi, Chrift our Lord ThcB. Tr?. H(h. II. ^^ ^' home The Sone of man, ct' extended '\pon the CroiFe : in whom "^''*=-
Noebeleeuingwasinflituted heyre of the iuftice, \rhich is by ^'■'^<="^*^^-' j
faith in our Redemer. €e)*. p. We hatte here againe Go'ds operatiue blefling, ffiith the cffeH ofincre* Gods bleffing
afe and multiplication, the ijfue of Noe by his three fonnes, in short time ma- "peratiuc. f.y.v.ij. kingmdnie Nations. By the way alforvehaue an example of 'Siilh.ttsfolemne r^^^V^ r V
VAc'^mgandQ^tiCin^ their children. The effeSles ^herof fucceded after* '^ >*
r. 9. V.4. Wardes accordingly. Likjvife in this age T»a^geuen a particular precept Not Abflincncc f.?.T.xo to CAtchloud. ^nd Noe obferueddiJ}inflton of Clcznc beafles, offering bom hloviA.
Sacrifue in them only, at before thefloudy he wm comtnanded to take mo» of Cleane , and.
them into the arke, then of the Vncleaiie. fncleane:
r.10,10. In that fo ample mention U made of finne and "^ickednts, there is no - c.it. doubt, but NcCy f^r preacher of iuftice, admonished and exhorted ftnners chedaodiafl*^ i. Vet. 1. foRcpentance :yea he Punifhed cham cr Chanaan, by his curfe in their ded. pojleritie. ^nd God him felfe Thrcatned to exa^e the bloud of man l/n^ ' ^' iufllyshed. Inthemeane time lnli[iO:cd alfo fome punifhment l/pon the
builders of Babel, by confounding their tongues. .And tbut by tht Minifte- Minifierie © I
rie of Angels. Angck,
"Which punishment in p art f dndthre^tts ofmort mports d Genera!
" ~ RcfttJr^.
(.11.
4^8 Genesis.'
Rerure«9:ion Rcfurrcction, And ludgemcnt, "^here A th'ingi shal be exaBly d'lfcuf- ludgement. y^^^^^^ ludged. ^nd then wil foloW Eternal life to the g-oodi 4nd andpaine. h\itn^viing)^2.\nz to the damned.
^Itheje points »f l^eligion ( and others mentioned in the former a^ey Churchvifible and no douht tAught by Noe Cr hisfonnes ) shew clerly a, Vifible Church, Good and bad conftjling ofgood and bdd. Noe remaning the fame man 04 before thefloud ; Ca\>. I . in the Church Sem <<»/^Iapheth are commended and blejied for wel doing\ Cham bla- ^ ">-
medyCr' curjed in his pofieritieiyet neither he nor anie of hisfonnes or daugh- ^'^°*^^' ters fel into here/if, or other infdelitie,for ante thing that appeareth in Scrip -^ ture, or other authcntical tefiimonie. Heber alfo and his famiUe are particularly commended by Moyfts,a4 the right folowers^ and the fpiritual children of Sem ( "^ho had innumeral le other carnal children ) as t hofe that were innocent torn hmg the prefumptuous budding of ethers y t^ho for the farre fault lofl their old tongue, which thefamilie of Heber k^^t. ^s S. Chri- Wo. ja, AWaies feme fojhm and S. .Xugufiin doproue. ^gaine^ diuers of this famtlief (tiling af- J" ^'^"'' good. terwardsbylitle andlitleto other nationsy the FamiHe of Thare ,yd:/V^ ^'j ^i-^
the fames, ^uguflm ( h. i6, c. \i.).albeit notal, or not alwayesy jet euer i8.f.!>. fome of them, and .yCbraham continually , with Sem^ Heber^ Phalegy CT "'"'• manie others, not mentioned by Moyfes in his briefs defcription J^ as S. '^ )'"•??• ; Gregorie doubtcth not tofuppofe ) ^ereittU,and kfpt the true faith, and "jHf"* yndrfled l^ligion. Nemrod'an SHt Nemrod chams nephew y andfonne ofchus defcribedfor a "yalianf
Arch-heie- hunter, a "Violent giant y and tyrant, T^of an ^rchheretlhe y 4 deuifer and lofep'p IL tike. teacher offalfe doflrin, againft God and true faith. By futletie and tyrannte i . <•• 4.
he induced manie of likingor of feare to folow him, and fo in fchifme he '^"^H' MisvvonAhc-^^^^*^^"^^^^^^^^' That men were not beholding to God, but to lefie. them felues, for temporal profperitie.
Wherofbegane a new C^ cruel confederacie, againfi the Citie of God, C^ The firft Sed tffejecond great Seflr of InfJels. For Barbarifme being the frfi, begun by of Infidels cain and ended by thefloud; The fecond mother of al Seffes beginning
^\^^^^'f afterthefloud{a6S.Epiphaniu4 -^nteth) Was Scythi(mt:focaUedof^i'^'" me before the i „ A c± 1 ^ ^1 ^^L J- . r J 1 r , refibHi.
floud, the Scythians a most cruel people, woo according to Nemrods bereJte(not
The fecond thinckjngthsmfelues beholding to Gbd for temporal happineSy but to their
ScyihiGBe. owne forces ) tyrannil^d oner the weaker, and manie wicked banning toge-
■^ruelcie. thercxtremly opprefsed the more peacable,ej^ecially the Church and true fer^
uantsof God. ^ndihtslpss one fpecial caufe of building Babylon, befldes
their a-/nbicio:f^s defre ofperpctudfame, and their bearing the ftmple m hand
of.i defence af^ainst 4 nciv floud, to make it in dede, aflronghold for tjrants
to offend others, and to defend themfehes. ^herfore God [^ho before de-
flrcyed al Infl.dcls by thefloud) ^confounded thefe builders by diuiding their
Ungues f and fo forced iherh trbreakjij and pari iii'fdmmitcoithtries^
■ ■' ' ■ " ' Thus
Genesis. 45>
Thus mxnktnihein^ditiided'^pon the earth, opinions alfo tpere muln- fliedcencerningR^lmon.For shortly the perjwdtion of mrns trufl:n£ i» Vnnatlics arc them[elues\aadtn other mortal men appeared Ahjurdey euen thejlron^efffee- '^"^0'^^^^"^. Un^ddiierftties^orfayUn^jometimes of their purpofeSyfaw there '^m neede of fupernalhelpe, and that earthlie things depended much ypon diuine rvil and pan re. Bui hamng forfaken God ^Imt^hie , the onlie maker and conferuer of.-tly they begane tt imagine and Jerue fal/e goddes, both famopu dead men, xvhtch hddprofpered in this worlds and diuers other things, hy ^hich they receiued commoditie, or feared damage.
Hence therfore rofe the third principal SeB cnlled Grecifmc', heginning The thki\Sc&: alfo'm this fecond age, 06 the fame S. Epiphanitu wnteth.For ^inM thejirH'^^^^^^^^^^'^'^' kjng of the .yifirian great Monarchies brought topajfe that hts father Belus lupizcr yii^a^ cfiemed and ivonhippedfor the onliegreat God by the ^{iirt- ^'^°^^"^'=- am. To him the Babylonians erefledfrfi Temples Stares and Statuof. Nem- rod alfo by the name of Sztnznxis, as the progenitor ofBelm, and firfl great King or Tyrant cj Babylon^ Jl'.fj accounted a god, and the father of q-oddes. Dinaftar \rere ^bout this time lihyvife beganethe Dinafli&amongthe AgypiiAnsj <<«^ «e/ ^^^o^c that rai- fowneryO^ they liamlybrag to hauebenne before the fioud: yea much /onffr ^""^^^"^S'P^ then in dcedethe'^orld hath benne. Moreouer the chaldees Worshipped the policic"&" f- Jire. Others the fitnne, the moone^ and innumerable other feaned goddes. tcrwere great ^gainfl al Ivhich ( and likyvtfe againjl at hereftes) are two fpecial ar- goddes,andli- giiments . Firfl that they were not from the beginning, as the true God, and ^^^ goddes. al truthes are hjiowne and receiued by continual Tradition^ but brought in i^ \ • j afterwards by men, and comonly by d men . Secondly they 4re not accepted UeieCicavcco^ and effeemed forgoddes , or truthes , m al places, but "^ith great diuerfitie futed, by that and difention , one fort allowing that others defpice, as holie ^thanafttts ^^^^X beginnc notably -^riteth in his oration again/} idols m thefe 'hordes. Qupt funt '^"^rderlyj
fentes totidem deorum genera conpnguntur Crc. How mante nations{ faith fentioninthei e) Cf> manie k}ndes of goddes are feaned. ^Ijo the fame countrie, the fame imagined Ro eitiedijfenteth "tfiithinit felfe in fup erf it ion of idols. The Phenicians certes ligJons acknowledge not the Egyptians goddes , neither doe the E^iptians adore the »> fame idols "^ith the Phenicians: Nor the Scithiansreceiue the goddes of the a Perftans, nor the Perfans of theScithians : The Pelafgies refufe the Thraftan >» goddes y the Thrafans know not the Thebians. The Indians are againfl the >» Arabians y the Arabians againjl the ^thiophians: and in like forte the,, Ethiopians differ in their religious affaires from the Arabians. The Syrians „ Worship not the goddes of the Cilicians, and the nations of Capadocia befides „ aI thefe haue goddes of other names . The Bithinians alfo feaned diuers yy goddes, the Armenians againe diuers fom them, ^vhat ncde >^ manie "^or- j, deitrhofe th.it are in the continent honour other goddes fom the llandfeople. ,, InbrieJeechcitieandeechyUUgenot knowing the goddes of their neigh- „
G bonreSf
eir
yo Genesis.
» hottreSffettethforth the'tr owneyO^ ejiemeth them only inphee of^odde$. Thus
f*rnS. yfthanafms. Name^elike countries yprouinces^ cities^ and tofvnes
Luthcrspro- ,^ thefe partes of Europe , -where Lutherf fckoUrs haue fet their feete,
much in opi- ^o^J^^^r the forme of /{eUgton, and opinions which they holdy and We shal
nions of Reli- /^^ «** ')>norderlie he^mningSy And oi horrible dijftnttons in hertftes ( 'l^hich
gion,asPaini- s. Hierom cnUeth the idols of the NewTefiament) Mthe ancient fathers haue '»•<•• n.
^^^'^°^^^^'^^'^ difcryed tn Pa^anifme . For Lutherans orTroteft ants hauing no lawful gene- ®-'"'
^^^ ' ration^bHtprocedingofyaJlardsraeey'yp/^artesof'ynkpotvne progenie, are
no lejie at difcordes among them felues , only al agreing againfi Catholi-
quesy like fyhcretifantes againji their comon enimteSy or Herod^ Pilate, C^
S Si 'n En- *^^ ^''^^^ '^^'^''^/^ ^^^^fl' ^^^ ^^ England alone are diuersSeBes without
erland diucrs p^J^f^l' meanes to agree in one. For albeit the ciuilflate endeuoreth prudently
from Luther, and fenoufly to bring alto yniformitiey at leafi in puhlijSte shew, yet they
and eech one are but like manie faces ynder one hood, euerie forte keping their orvne opini-
tioxnmere . ^^^ .^^^^ almofl euerie preacher and meant fchoUr ( to fay nothing of artificers
and common mmififrs ) arrogating to be his orvne ludge, contemntth to
jiandto Luther OY CaUin, to Geneua orParUment, to Conuo'cation or Synod
• , , ^ oftheirorvneybutto his ofVne only linder fan ding, and interpretation of
tcntious fpi- ^''^'^ Scripture. Nor yet to that ahvayes \for ^hen he ifprejfed Tt^ith that he
rites arc har- oncffaid, he wilforgeteit, or eate his owne "Word, if he haue not written it^or
d4y perfwaded that yon haue readte rvitnts againji him^fo hard it is to make a deeeiued Pro-
to the truth, tejiant or Puritan confefe that he is conuinced, except by very pregnant mea-
Vnlerned Ca- nesyou canfirft caji out ofhim.or bindfafl the fp trite of prefumption, dtfen-
r ^°e^?he fame *^^"^ '^"^ contention : lufhera^ the ftmpliefi Catholi^ue in the "World hath the
fahh in^al ^'^ f'^f^ P"*^ f"^'^^ '" ^^ joints, with the whole Church, in which he remainetb,
points with ^f*d ypon Whofe iudgement he dependeth.
Ehelcrned. To returne t her f ore y from whence We are not vnnecej?drily digrej?ed,we
conclude With S. ^uguflm yr^hen Moyfes had shewed the beginning and ''• ^^: .'" progreffe of Nemrods earthliecttiejeauingit in Babylott , that is confu- ^®"'**^' f\on, as needles to profecute it futher^ he returneth to declare the pertnal The fucceiTi- fucceffion of the Citie of God, the Church, as before the jioud from -Mam
cheSi-rm n"c "* ^°'' ^y ^^^ ^^^ "-^ '^'^'^' ^^ "^^^^^ ^^^ pud from the fame Noe, by the lint
soAbraham. "/ Sem, Arphaxad, Sale, Heber, Phaleg, Reu, Sarug, Nachor,
Thare, and Abraham, rherefi of Sems children, and al the progenies of
Upheth and cham, as not pertaining to this pttrpofe, omitted, fo conneBing
ihofein order of generations, by "Whom the fucceponis direBly brought to
"Abraham a ^br ah ^m, Prince of the elefledpeople,a mofi fpecial Patriarch, to whom new
rincipal Pa- <*"'^ g''^'** promises are m^de of multiplication of hisfeede, andpofefion
iarch. of the land of Chanaan, but efpecially of chrijl our l^demer, and the fams
mjimgWfiifs confirmed, as wil appeare in the next age.
Chap*
(fXArc
Abram< Genesis,
Chap. XII.
[/(bum eommdnJeJ iy Gsd to leduehiicountrieywithfromifetobe hlejfed ^f t^^c^SirT ^ inhUStedey ^.t4k}*'g^i* 'Vftfe Sdrdt^ dnd hit nephew Lot y 6. Ipdndreth ^^^ in the Und of chdnadn, 7. ereffetb dn ^Itdr tn StchemyZ. d» other in Bethel. 10. Thence hy occdfion of f Amine pafethinto Agift, 14. ychere The fifth pate his T^ife ( CdUedhif fi^er) ts ta{en tnto the kjn^i houfe, i^. hut l/ntott- of this booke. ched is feared t. htm. ^ Of Abrahams
•' Icauinghis
coutric, Gods
I A N D our Lord faid to Abram : Goc forth of thy coun- blcfllngof his jTLtric, and out of thy kinred, and out of thy fathers fccdc&com-
X houfe, and come intoaland, vhich I wil (hew thee, f And ^f^"^^'"|5o°/ I \ril make thee into a great nation, and I wil blefle thec-^ ,
5 and magnifie thy name, and thou (halt be blefted . f I wil blefle them and blefle thee, and curflc them that curife thee,
and "In thee ftalal the kindreds of the earth be blefl'ed. l^^^^^^f^^^ 4 t Abram therfore \rent out as our Lord had commanded ha^es fccdc
him, and \rith him went Lot : feauentie Hue yeares old vras al nations arc J Abram -when he "went forth out of Haran. f And he tooke blciTcd. Gal. j. Sarai his \rife, and Lot his brothers fonnc, and al the fub- ftance which they had poflcfled, and the foules \rhich they had gotten in Haran : and went forth to go e into the land
6 ofChanaan. And whenthey were come into it, t Abrai-n_. pafled through the countrie vnto the place Sichcm, as farrc
as the noble vale: and the Cananite wasatthattimein the , 3 _
7 countrie. f And our Lord appeared to Abram, and faid ro ^'jcatcd Altars him:To thy ^qqA wil I giue this land. Who builded there •• an to God efpcci-
8 altar to our Lord, that had appeared to him. f And marching ally inthofe on from thence to amountaine, that was on the eafl fide of places where Bethel, there he pitched his tent, hauing Bethel on the weft, ,^Jn^ifes" or and Hay on the eaft: he builded there alfo an altar to our bcnefitcs! S.
9 Lord, and called vpon his name, f And Abram went for- Chtifoft.ha. 10 ward going, and proceding on to the fouth. f And there 3'^-ii»Gcti.
cameafiminein tne countrie : and Abram defcended into >£gypt, to be as a pilgrime there : for the famine was very
II fore in the land . f And when he was nere to enter into /Egypt, he faid to Sarai his wife : I know that thou art a
12 fayre woman: f and that when the /Egyptians flial fee thee, they wil fay : She is his wife : and they wil til mc, and referue
G 2 thee.
fi Genesis. Abram,
thee, t " Sa.7 therfore, I pray thee, that thou art my fiftcr : ij that I may be wcl vfed for thee, and that my foulc may Hue for thy fake.
t when Abram therfore was entred into i€gypt, the 14 v.CoAhv cor- itgipdans fawe the woman that Ihe was paffino; beautiful. ; ' v; iunl-iS Ph^^^ t And the princes told Pharao, and praifed her to him : and ly rao and his^"'^''^^ woman was taken into the houfe of Pharao. f And 16 men from do- they vfed Abram wel for her fake. And he had flieepe and ing violence o'xen and he alles, and men feru^n ts, and maid feruants, and ■ Ch^^ft I" ^^^ '^^^^^' ^'■^^,C*^™^^^c^s. t But our Lord - fcourged Pha- 17 5i.mGcn "* ^^o '*'if^'^ very fore plagues, and his houfe for Sarai Abrams
wife, t And Pharao called Abram, and faid-to him: "What fS is this that thou haft done to me ? Why didft thou not tel me tliat ihe was thy wife ? f For what caufe didft thou fay, '(he 19 was thy fifter, that I might take her to my wife ? Now ther- fore there is thy wife, take her, and go e thy ways, f And 20 Pharao gaue certaine men commandment in the behalfeof Abram : and they eondudled him, and his wife, and al thaJf he had.
ANNOTATIONS, Chap. XII.
I?, saytherfoft"] Abraham concealed that Sarai Mcas his wife, andlyed not Gsw.if. Mcnarchond in faying, {he \sr'as his fiftcr ; as he alfo called Lot his brother, being his bro- to do their thcrsfonne, andlhchis brothers daughter. VVheiby he prcuented danger of lawful cndc- his owne life, vfingfuch lawful meancs as lay in him, committing his wiues ,. uoures,andto chaftitie to Gods protcftion, which him fclf could notprduide for. In which ^^^' 5* commit the cafe if he had not donne his ownc endcuour, he had rather ttmpted God (faith ^^•""*^' reft to God S Auguftin) thentruftcdin God. AndfoGod prefcrucd her, though flic was ^?*^*^« in Pharao his houfe. V. 17. '* ®*"'
Chap. XIII.
1/f ^rrfjw O"* Lot returne from ^gypt into chdnaan, 6. And hcing richfepjtr/ite tbemfeluesy 10, Lot choofmg the countne about lordnlny ^ramdweU leth in cbanaan. 14. where agdioe God promifeth him that Und^ und ntulttpUcation ofhiffecde.iZ, ^'{nd he ere^ed&n ether ^Itar to God»
A
Bram therfore afcended out of i€gypt, he and his x wife, and al that he had, and Lot with him to the foutH
Abram. Genesis. y^
1 coaft. t And he \ras very rich in polTefllon of gold and.
5 filuer.^ t -^^^ ^^ returned by the way, that he came, from
thfrouthvnto Bethel, euen to the place where before h?
4 had pitched a tabernacle betwen Bethel and Hay : -f in the place of the altar which he