on thefirſt of them; and when we have come to it again in one or both the erher, we have only referred to our former Notes. Jobs { having little which the other Evangeliſts have ) we have conſidered by himſelf moſtly, yet ſometimes caking in ſomething from him. where we tound it Completory of any thing related by the other Evangeliſts.
Tz magnss voluiſſe ſat eſt. We cannot ſay that we have letr noroom tor others tocome afrer us, and add to or correct what we have ſaid. But this we can fay in truth, that we have not willingly baulked any obvious Difficulty.and have de- fened a juſt Satisfaction to all our Readers:and if any Knot remain yet untied,we have told our Readers what hath been moſt probably ſaid for their ſatisfaQtion in the untying of 1t.
If it had pleaſed God to have lent a little longer Life to our Revererd Brother, the Work bad very probable been done to greater advantage, and more general ſatisfatiun. We are bur entered upon his Harveſt, and have wanted his Sickle ; we cannot pretend to any double Portion of. rs Spirit. His Mamnile dropi from him before he was Tranſlated ( we mean
' his S»»opſes. ) We have taken that up; out of that great Work of his we have taken ſo much as we judged proper for his
delign in this Work, and made ule of a great number of other Authors, ſome of which he left our, - or very little confi-
dered in his Syop/7s, upon delign to make a further uſe of them in this Engliſh Work,as thinking their labours more proper
| for this. than his other Work.
Our deſign, goed Reader, was not to tell thee how the Fathers interpreted Texts, ( Aquinas, Juſtinianus, and others, have done that Work) nor yet to tell thee any Grammatical Nicities, or what Learned Men have critically noted upon Terms or Phraſes, (that isdone in the Synopſes Criticornm ) Nor yet to tell thee what Concluſions of Truth may be raiſed ; from the Verſes ( that hath been done profitably upon many Books of Scripture by Mr. DickJon, Hutchinſon, Ferguſon, | Guild, Durhazz, and ſome others) much leſs to handle the Controverſies that have riſen from any portion of Scripture. Our { Work hath been only togive thee the plain Senſeof the Scripture, and to reconcile ſeeming ContradiCtions where they {| occurrd, and as far as we were able to oper Scripture by Scripture, which 1s its own beſt Interpreter, comparing things | Spiritual veith Spiritual, That thy Faith might not fland in the wiſdom of men, but in the Wiſdom and Power of God. IF we have reached chis end, it isall weaimed at; if thou getteſt any good by what we have done, Remember thy Sacri» |
free is dueat another Altar, even his who mriniſtreth ſced to the Jower, who both watereth the furrows of the field, and bleſ- |
ſeth the ſpringing of the Corn; let him have the Praiſe, and we only thy Prayers, that we may live an uſeful Life, and dy
an happy Death, and attain to the Rejurrefion of the Dead, in which we ſhall all ſee and underſtand more perfeRly than we yet do.
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Colleted out of the Latin Synopſes Criticorum, and divers other Learned Inter ted to the uie of Vulgar Capacities.
preters ; and Accommode-
GENESIS.
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TON, 25.
XJG. 5, 146. 6,
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Zech 12. I. Atffs 14.
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The ARGUMEN T.
His Bosk 3s called Geneſis; i» e» Generation, or Birth, giving an accompl of paſſages during 2300 years,” ond upwards, Viz, From the Creation of all things, tothe death of Joſeph. Tn which Hiftory Moſes by divine in- ſpiration, treats of the Creation of the World, with alltheparts, anduſes init, and of it, but chiefly of Man, who alene 20as made after Ged's Image ; where be lays down Ged's Conceſſions, and Frobibitions to him : and Man's Tranſ- greſfſion, together with the woful effefts, and the remedy of them inthe promiſe of a Savieur; the Original, Progreſs, and Preſervation of the true Church ſpringing from Abcl, and carried on by Seth, Enech, &c. and the ground and. riſe of Apoſtacy begun in Cain, and carried on by his Pojterity, ſeparating themſelves from the Holy Seed, till by their monftruous Provocations they had brought an untverſ2l Deluge to deſtruy all Mankind from off the Earth, excepting only | Noah, and his Family ; eut of which, as ibeChurch did again ſpring forth, ſo another curſed Race carrying on the former enmity to @ greater height, mot only fell into Idolatry, after it had continued a conſiderable time in Sem's Race, but breaking out into all Outrages, and Tyranicall Oppreſſions, it was almoſt extinct among theſe numerous Nations that Noah's Peſterity ſprang out into, But God callug Abraham into the Land of Promiſe,2vbo as an Idolater in Chaldea, and giving him Temporal and Spiritual Promiſes, and eſpecially that of the Meſſiah coming out of his Loins, and aſ- ſuring it by a ſpecial Covenant ſealed by Circumciſion,che Church began now to take root, and to be imbodied in Jacob's Family under the name of Ifrael ; and bere Ged undertook the pretection of bis People and Worſhip, byxbe viſible pre« ſence of Chrift her Head, that Angel of the Covenant, going continually 2vith them, comferting and defending them,
zill they came into Egypt, where the Church continued until Joſeph's
CHAP, I
The whole viſible Creation aſſerted in general, v. x. Shemed in particular
the condition of the rude matter of it, v. 2. The formation of the ſwveral !