An exposition on the fourteene first chapters of Genesis, by way of question and answere Collected out of ancient and recent writers: both briefely and subtilly propounded and expounded. By Abraham [sic] Rosse of Aberden, preacher at St. Maries neere South-Hampton, and one of his Maiesties chaplaines.
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- An exposition on the fourteene first chapters of Genesis, by way of question and answere Collected out of ancient and recent writers: both briefely and subtilly propounded and expounded. By Abraham [sic] Rosse of Aberden, preacher at St. Maries neere South-Hampton, and one of his Maiesties chaplaines.
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"An exposition on the fourteene first chapters of Genesis, by way of question and answere Collected out of ancient and recent writers: both briefely and subtilly propounded and expounded. By Abraham [sic] Rosse of Aberden, preacher at St. Maries neere South-Hampton, and one of his Maiesties chaplaines." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A11058.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2024.
Contents
- title page
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TO THE RIGHT
Honourable, FRANCIS, Lord VERVLAM, Lord highChauncellor of ENGLAND, &c. - THE ARGVMENT.
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Questions on the first
Chapter. -
W As the world created, or eternal? -
Q. Could God make more worlds then one? -
Q. Why in Hebrew saithMoses, Gods created? joyning the noune plurall, with the verbe singu∣lar? -
Q. Why in the beginning of this booke, speakethMoses only of heauen and earth? -
Q. Did God create the earth moveable or not? -
Q. Of what figure is the earth? -
Q. Is the earth vnder the water or not? -
Q. Why cannot the whole earth moue? -
Q. What is vnderstood by the spirit that moued vpon the waters? -
Q. Why is God brought in, speaking in the cre∣ation? -
Q. Why was the light first created? -
Q. Was this light spirituall, such as God is sayd to inhabit, as Christ is called the light of the world, and the Apostles light, the regenerate light? -
Q. Then what light was this? -
Q. How did this light before the 4. day, di∣stinguish the day from night? -
Q. In what place of heauen was the lightre∣ated? -
Q. When was heauen and earth created? -
Q. What is meant by the firmament that se∣parateth the waters from the waters? -
Q. What are these waters aboue the firmament? -
Q. How made God drie land to appeare? -
Q. Then were there mountaines before the flood? -
Q. Is the earth or seas highest? -
Ob. ButPsal. 104. and 33. it seemes that the waters are higher then the earth. -
Q. Were briers, thornes, and poysonable hearbes created before mans fall? -
Q In what time of the yere was the world created? -
Q. Were the starres created the fourth day? -
Q. Why were the stars created after the planets? -
Q. Did God create the Moone in the Full, or in the Change? -
Q. Haue the starres their light wholly from the Sunne? -
Q. Why are the Sunne and Moone called great lights? -
Q. Of what figure is the heauen? -
Q. How many heauens are there? -
Q. Shall the heauens be abolished in the day of Iudgement? -
Q. Are the starres innumerable? -
Q. Is the Sunne hot or cold? -
Q. Haue the starres life reasonable, becauseGod is brought in, speaking to them in Scripture? -
Q. Doe the starres moue of themselves, as it seemeth by these places,Psa. 19. Iob 9. Ios. 10. or are they moued by the spheres▪ -
Q. Is the heauen and the earth corruptible or not? -
Q. Shall the Sun and other starres moue as they doe now, after the day of Iudgement? -
Q. How are the Sun and Moone signes? -
Q. Were the starres made for signes to the A∣stronomers, to fore-tell things to come? -
Q. Why is this kinde of Astrologie condemned? -
Q. Can the Astrologers foretell things to come by the starres? -
Q. But if they had the perfect knowledge of the starres, could they notell what is to come? -
Q. Are not then the starres naturall signes of things to come? -
Q. Can the Astrologers foretell nothing true? -
Q. Is it not lawfull then to consult with A∣strologers and Sooth-sayers? -
Q. Whether are the beasts or fishes perfectest? -
Q. Why then were they created before the beastes? -
Q. Why speakethMoses of the creation of some particular fishes, and not of trees and beasts? -
Q. How doe the waters bring forth the fi∣shes? -
Q. Why were the birds created the fift day with the fishes, and not the sixth? -
Q. Were the Birds created of the Water? -
Q.
But it seemes the birds were created of the earth the sixt day, by these words of the 2. chapter. (And the Lord hauing formed out of the ground euery beast of the field, and euery bird of the aire, brought them toAdam. ) - Q. How doth the earth bring forth liuing creatures?
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Q. What difference is there betweene the beast▪ cattell, and creeping thing?
verse 25. - Q. Why did not God blesse the earthly crea∣tures, as he did the fishes?
- Q. Why was man particularly blessed?
- Q. Did God create in the beginning, imper∣fect creatures, as Bees, Waspes, and such like?
- Q. Were Mules now created, or not?
- Q. Why was man and the cattell created in the same day?
- Q. How doth Gods goodnesse and wisedome appeare in the creatures?
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Q. How is the power of God seene in the world? -
Q. Could God haue made the world better then it is? -
Q. Why was man the last of all the creatures created? -
Q. Wherein did man exceed all other crea∣tures? -
Q. Why speaketh God in the plurall number,Let vs make man? - Q. But how doe we know that he spake not here to the Angels?
- Q. Was man onely created to the Image of God?
- Q. Wherein doth the Image of God consist?
- Q. Whether is the Image of God most to bee seene in Angels or men?
- Q. If man be created to the Image of God, may he not be called the Image of God?
- Q. Is the Image of God seene in the woman as in the man?
- Q. Can the Image of God be abolished by sin?
- Q. Why did God create man to his Image?
- Q. Had Man before his fall, dominion ouer the creatures?
- Q. Had man also dominion ouer the creatures after the Fall?
- Q. Should not man haue had rule ouer man in the state of innocencie?
- Q. Why then doth not God speake of this do∣mn ion of man ouer man, but of man ouer beasts?
- Q. Should the wife haue beene subiect to the man in that state of innocencie?
- Q. Should mankinde haue beene multiplyed by carnall copulation, as now?
- Q. Should man haue only eaten of the hearbs, and not also flesh in Paradise?
- Q. Should the wilde bedstes, such as Lyons, haue fed on flesh, before the Fall, as they doe now?
- Q. How comes it now, that these kinde of beasts doe not feed on hearbs now, but on flesh?
- Q. How is it vnderstood, that all which God made, was very good?
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Q. Why did not God see that all things were very good, till man was created?
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Questions on the second Chapter.
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Q. DId God create the world at the sainstant, or in the space of sixe dayes? -
Q. How then is that vnderstood.
Ecclesiast. 18. He that liueth for euer, created all things to∣gether? - Q. Why did God spend so much time in ma∣king the world?
- Q. Did God make the world of necessitie, or of his owne accord?
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Q. Can it be gathered from hence, that as God created the world in sixe dayes, and rested the se∣uenth:
so likewise the world shall continue si ages, or sixe thousand yeares, and after shall be perpetuall Sabbath? -
Q. Were the Angels created, or are they eter∣nall? -
Q. Are the Angels reall substances, or onely good and bad motions in the minde, as thought the Sadduces? -
Q. What is meant here by the Host of Heauen and earth? -
Q. Were the Angels created before this visible world? -
Q. Were they created after the sixe dayes? - Q Then what day were they created?
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Q. Where were they created? -
Q. Why doth notMoses speake distinctly of the creation of Anels? -
Q. What is meant by Gods rest on the Sab∣bath day? was he wearie? -
Q. Did God rest from all his workes? -
Q. Did God create no other creatures since the Creation? -
Q. Why is it said here that God ended his worke the seuenth day, seeing they were ended the sixth day? -
Q. How doe you vnderstand that God sanctifi∣ed the Sabath? -
Q. Did God inioyneAdam to keepe this day holy? -
Q. What is meant here by she day wherein God made the heauen and the earth? -
Q. What is meant by a mist that watered the earth? -
Q. What is ment by this, that God made man of the dust of the earth? -
Q. Why was not the body of man rather made of heauenly then earthly substance, seeing the soule is so excellent? -
Q. Wherein doth the body of man exceed the bodies of other creatures? -
Q. Of what age created GodAdam andEua? -
Q. Whether was the body or the soule of man created first? -
Q. Why is the creation of mans soule called a breathing? -
Q. Is the soule of man, of the essence of God? -
Q. Why did God breathe the soule, rather in the face, then in any other part of man? -
Q. Why in the nosthrils rather then in any o∣ther part of the face? -
Q. Did God create one soule in man, or three? -
Q. Were the soules of men created long before the body, as thoughtPlato andOrigines? -
Q. Seeing the soule doth exist, after the cor∣ruption, why did she not exist before the creation of the body? -
Q. Whether are the soules of men infused in the bodies, or are they deriued and propagated one of another? -
Q. Is the soule of man immortall? -
Q. Is the soule of man immortall by nature, or by grace? -
Q. In what place of the world was Paradise? -
Q. Should man haue remained in Paradise onely, if he had not sinned? -
Q. Then to what end did God make Paradise, seeing he knew that man should presently fall, and be cast out of it? -
Q. Is Paradise yet extant,r not? -
Q. Why was the tree of life called so? -
Q. Why did God forbid man to eate of the tree of knowledge of good and euill? -
Q. Why was the tree, called the tree of know∣ledge of good and euill? -
Q. What riuers were those, thatMoses calls herePhison andGehon? -
Q. ThenPhison is notGanges ofIndia, norGehon, Nilus of Egypt? -
Q. What countrie is thisHauilah? -
Q. What isBdellium? -
Q. How is that vnderstood, that God did putAdam into the Garden? -
Q. Why did not God createAdam in Para∣dise? -
Q. Then why wasEuah created in Paradise? -
Q. Should man haue wrought in Paradise? -
Q. Doth these words,You shall eate of euery tree of the Garden, containe a precept or a per∣mission? -
Q. Was this commandement of not eating the tree of Knowledge of good and euill, inioyned toEua also? -
Q. How could this precept belong toEua, see∣ing she was not yet created? -
Q. Why did God forbidAdam to eate of this tree? -
Q. But seeing God knew thatAdam would violate this precept, and bring himselfe and his po∣sterity to perpetuall miserie, why would God in∣ioyne it to him. -
Q. How is it vnderstood, that whatsoeuer dayAdam should eate of the Forbidden tree, he should die? -
Q. Why did not God expressely threaten
Adam with death eternall? -
Q. Why did God threatenAdam with death? -
Q. Then what death is meanhere? -
Q. How can death corporall bee a punishment for sinne, seeing it proceeds of naturall causes, as of contrary qualities? -
Q. Why was it not good that man should bee alone? -
Q. How were the creatures brought toA∣dam? -
Q. Why did God bring the creatures toA∣dam? -
Q. Why were not the fishes brought toAdam? -
Q. HadAdam the knowledge of all things, as soone as he was created? -
Q. ShouldAdams Pesterity▪ in the state of in∣nocencie, haue knowledge ingrafted in them with∣out labour? -
Q. HadAdam the knowledge of supernatu∣rall things? -
Q. HadAdam more wisedome than any man euer since? -
Q. HadAdam the knowledge of the hea∣uens, and their operations, as hee had of earthly creatures? -
Q. What were the effects of that originall righteousnesse, in the whichAdam was created? -
Q. Hath Christ brought vs more happinesse by his Iucarnation, thanAdam lost by his trans∣gression? -
Q. WasAdam mortall or immortall before his Fall? -
Q. How was he immortall? -
Q. Then this gift of immortality whichAdam should haue inioyed, was not naturally due to him? -
Q. Why would God formeEua ofAdam slee∣ping? -
Q. Why wasEua made rather of the side, then of any other part of the body? -
Q. Of what side was she taken out? -
Q. Why wasEua made of the man, and not of the earth, asAdam was? - Q. What is meant by the rib?
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Q. How did God of one rib make a whole wo∣man? -
Q. Was this rib, whereofEua was created, one ofAdams naturall ribs, or was it a superfiuous rib? -
Q. IfAdam lost one of his ribs, how comes it▪ that the posteritie ofAdam haue all their 24. ribs? -
Q. How come it, thatAdam▪ in losing his rib, did not feele paine? -
Q. Why doth notMoses speake as well of the creation ofEua's soule, as of her body? -
Q. Why wasEua brought toAdam? -
Q. HadEua reasonable soule as Adam had? -
Q. Why did not God createEua as soon asAdam? -
Q. Is man and woman of the same kinde? -
Q. How couldAdam andEua bee married, seeing they were so neere a kin? -
Q. Why was there but one woman created? -
Q. How is man and woman one flesh? -
Q. Why was notAdam andEua ashamed of their nakednesse?
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Questions on the third Chapter.
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Q. WHat is meant by the Serpent? -
Q. Why was notEua afraid to conferre with the Serpent? -
Q. Why did Satan vse rather the Serpent, then any other creature? -
Q. Seeing it was the diuell in the Serpent, that deceiuedEua, why doth notMoses signifie so much? -
Q. What doe these words meane,Your eyes shall be opened▪ -
Q. What is that,You shall be as Gods? -
Q. Did notEua see that this tree was good till now? -
Q. Why did God sufferEua to be tempted? -
Q. What was the first sinne ofEua? -
Q. Why was the Diuell so earnest to temptEua? -
Q. Why didAdam eate of this fruit? -
Q. WasAdam deceiued also, as the woman was? -
Q. Was the same ofAdam andEua the grea∣test,? -
Q. Whether was the sinne of
Adam orEua greatest? -
Q. How were their eyes opened after the ea∣ting of this fruit? -
Q. Why did they couer their members, after the eating of the forbidden fruit? -
Q Why did they couer their priuy members? -
Q. Why did theythe leaues of the Figge tree? -
Q. What is meant here by the noyse of God? -
Q. What signifieth the winde of the day? -
Q. How did God speake toAdam here -
Q. Why did not God accuse Satan, as hee did the man and the woman? -
Q. Whether did God curse the Diuell, or the Serpent? -
Q. How could the creeping on the belly, and the eating of the dust, be a punishment and a curse, seeing this was naturall to the Serpent before mans fall? -
Q. Why did God curse the Serpent? -
Q. What is meant by the Womans Seed, and the Serpents seed? -
Q. What is meant heere by the Head, and the Heele? -
Q. How can the multiplication of the womans consceptions be a punishment for sinne? -
Q. What is the reason that women doe bring forth their children in sorrow? -
Q. Wherein was the ground cursed forAdams sake? -
Q. Why didAdam call his wifeEua, the mother of liuing? -
Q. Did God make coates of skinnes forAdam and his wife? -
Q. Why did God clothe them with skinnes? -
Q. Was it needfull thatAdam should be cloa∣thed now after his Fall? -
Q. Why did God say, thatAdam was like to him? -
Q. Why did God driueAdam out of the Garden? -
Q. When wasAdam cast out of Paradise? -
Q. Why would God haueAdam to till the ground? -
Q. What is meant here by the
Cherubins and the sierySword? -
Q. Why are these Angels called Ch
rn∣bins?
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Questions on the fourth Chapter.
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Q. WHat is the subiect of this Chap∣ter? -
Q. When wasCaine borne? -
Q. Why didEua say, I haue obtained a sonne of the Lord? -
Q. Why is it said, thatAbel was a feeder of sheepe? -
Q. Wherein wasAbels sacrifice better thenCaines? -
Q. How didCain know, that God respected the sacrifice ofAbel? -
Q. Why doth God say, thatAbels desire should be subiect to his brother? -
Q. Why didCaine kill his brotherAbel? -
Q. Wherein wasCaines answer to God, euill? -
Q. Why is it said, thatAbels bloud did crie to God? -
Q. What isCaines punishment? -
Q. WasCaines sine greater than he could heare? -
Q. What meanethCaine, when he saith, he shall be cast out from Gods face? -
Q. Why wahe afraid to be killed, seeing there were no more men now but Adam? -
Q. What is meant by the seuen-fold punish∣ment, that they shall suffer who shall killCaine? -
Q. But why would not God haueCain killed? -
Q. What marke was this, that God set vponCaine? -
Q. How is it vnderstood, thatCaine went out from Gods presence? -
Q. Why didCaine build a Citie? -
Q. When didCaine build this Citie? -
Q. Why didee call his Citie Henoch, andnot by his owne name, Caine? -
Q. How is it vnderstood, thatIabel was the fa∣ther of them that dwelt in Tents, and had Cattell? -
Q. Who were the first Inuenters of Musicke, and Smiths Craft? -
Q. Was it lawfull forLamech to haue two wiues? -
Q. What is meant by these words,I would slay a man in my wound, &c? -
Q. What meaneth these words,If Caineshall be auenged seuen-fold, then Lamech&c. -
Q. WasSheth the third sonne ofAdam? or had he any more besides those three mentioned inGenesis? -
Q. Why dothEua say, that God hath put ano∣ther Seed to me, in stead ofAbel; speaking ofSheth, and not of any other of her sonnes? -
Q. What didEnoch signifie? -
Q. Why dothMoses say, that in his dayes men began to call on the Name of the Lord?
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Questions on the fift Chapter.
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Q. WHy dothMoses rehearse the ten ge∣nerations ofAdam? -
Q. Why dothMoses say here, that God did both create and make man? and what is meant byAdam here? -
Q. How is it vnderstood, thatAdam begat a sonne after his image? -
Q. Why is it not sayd, thatAdam did begetCaine andAbel after his image? -
Q. What doth this nameSheth signifie? -
Q. Why are the yeeres ofAdam and the rest called Dayes? -
Q. What is the cause, thatAdam, and the rest here named before the Floud, liued so long? -
Q. What kind of yeeres were those thatMoses mentioneth here? -
Q. Why didMoses subioyne vnto euery one of their liues this Particle(and he died?) -
Q. What is the cause of the great difference be∣tweene the Hebrew Copies, and the translation of the Septuagints, in the computation of the yeeres betweeneAdam and the Floud? -
Q. DidHenoch die▪ or not? -
Q. Why did God translateHenoch, that hee should not see death? -
Q. Whither wasHenoch translated? -
Q. What signifiethNoe? -
Q. How wasNoe a comfort toLamech, con∣cerning the sorrow and worke of his hands, and touching the Earth, which the Lord cursed? -
Q. Which ofNoes three sonnes were eldest? -
Q. Why did the Patriarchs here named,∣staine so long from begetting children; as Noe, till he was 500. yeeres old, &c?
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Questions on the sixt Chapter.
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Q. WHat is vnderstood by men, that be∣gan to multiply? -
Q. What is meant here by the sonnes of God? -
Q. What sort of men were these, that are called the sonnes of God? -
Q. Why is the posteritie ofSheth called the sonnes of God? -
Q. Was it vnlawfull for the sonnes of God to take to themselues wiues of the daughters of men? -
Q. How doe we know, that these were not An∣gels, which are called here the sonnes of God? -
Q. Some do thinke they haue bodies, and there∣fore are here vnderstood to haue taken them wiues of the daughters of men: how then is it, that they haue no bodies? -
Q. Cannot Angels beget children? -
Q. What is meant by these words.My Spirit shall not alwayes striue with man? -
Q▪ What then is meant by flesh heere? -
Q. Why saith God, that the daies of man should be an hundred and twenty yeeres, seeing that after the Floud, many did liue till they were aboue? -
Q. It seemes there was an hundred yeeres from the vttering of this speech, till the Floud: forSem, after the Floud immediatly, was an hundred yeeres old; and hee was borne when this speech was vt∣tered. -
Q What were these Giants that are here men∣tioned? -
Q. Then is it true, that there haue beene such mightie men of great stature, which wee doe call Giants? -
Q. But were these Giants begotten of Diuels and women, as some haue thought? -
Q. What was the sinne of the first World? -
Q. How is it vnderstood, that God was sor∣rowfull, and repented? -
Q. Why did God say he would destroy the beasts and the fowles? -
Q. What meane these words; Noahfound grace in the eyes of the Lord? -
Q. Wherein didNoe find grace in Gods eyes? -
Q. What is meant here, by the Generations ofNoe? -
Q. How isNoe called a iust and perfect man? -
Q▪ Hw is vnderstood, that the Earth before God? -
Q. Why is it said now, that God looked on the Earth? -
Q. What is meant here, by all Flesh? -
Q. What is meant by Way? -
Q. How is it vnderstood, that God destroyed the Earth? -
Q. Why would not God saueNoe by some other meanes, but by the Arke? -
Q. Was this Arke like our Ships? -
Q. What kinde of Tree was the Arke made of? -
Q. How large was the Arke? -
Q. How couldNoe and his three sonnes build so great an Arke? -
Q. Was there a Window in the Arke? -
Q. What is this(And in a cubit thou shalt finish it aboue?) -
Q. How many Roomes, or Stories, were there in the Arke? -
Q. Why would Gool establish his Couenant withNoe, before the Arke was built? -
Q. What Couenant was this, that God made withNoe? -
Q. What sorts of creatures wasNoe com∣manded to receiue within the Arke? -
Q. How didNoe gather together all these creatures? did he hunt for them? -
Q. If all kindes of meate were layd vp in the Arke for the creatures; then whether, or not, was there also flesh for those creatures, that liued onely on flesh? -
Q. Why was God so carefull to prouide foode for those dumbe creatures? -
Q: What is the commendation that
Noe hath heere in the end? -
Q Whereof was
Noe and the Arke a ripe or figure?
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TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE, AND REVEREND FATHER in God, IOHN Lord Bishop of
Lincolne, Lord Keeper of the Great Seale ofEngland, and one of his Maiesties most Honorable Priuie Councell. - To the Reader.
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QVESTIONS ON THE SEVENTH CHAPTER.
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Question. WHY would God haue
Noah and his familie to enter into the Arke? -
Quest. How wasNoah righteous before God? - Q. How many cleane beasts were rere and in the Arke?
- Q. Why would God haue more cleane then vncleane beasts in the Arke?
- Q. How is it vnderstood that some beasts are cleane some vncleane?
- Q. Was there any distinction of cleane and vncleane beasts before the flood?
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Q. How kn
w the fathers before Moses which were cleane and which vncleane? - Q. Why would God haue seauen cleane beasts saued, and neither more nor lesse?
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Q. Why in the sixt Chapter speaketh
Moses but of two, and here of seauen? -
Q. How were so many kinds of creatures
brought into the Arke? - Q. Why was God so carefull that euery Male should haue his Female?
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Q. Why doth God giue to
Noe yet 7. daies? - Q. Why would God haue it raine fortie dayes.
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Q. What yeare of the world was the sloud s
nt? - Q. What month was this which Moses calleth the second month?
- Q. What is meant by the great deepe?
- Q. What is meant by the windowes of hea∣uen?
- Q. What doth this flood signifie?
- Q. How high was the water of the flood?
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Q. Did all the creatures dye that were not
the Arke? -
Q. Was this flood all one with that of
Ogy∣ges andDeucalion. - Q. Was this flood sent by Gods immediate power, or was it wrought onely by naturall can∣ses?
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Q. How long did the flood preuaile vpon the
arth?
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Question. WHY would God haue
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Questions on the eighth Chapter.
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Q. HOw did God remember
Noah and the creatures? - Q. Why did God remember also the beasts?
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Q. Was this a wind that God vsed to dry the earth, or was it the immediate power of the
holy Ghost? - Q. Why did God stay the raine and stoppe the windowes of heauen?
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Q. What mountaines are these which are called
Ararat? - Q. How doe wee reckon this seuenth month in which the Arke rested?
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Q. Why did
Noah open the window for theRauen and theDoue, and did not looke out of it himselfe? -
Q. Why did
Noah send out theRauen, ra∣ther then any other fowle? -
Q. Did theRauin returne againe into the Arke or not? -
Q. How is it vnderstood that the
Doue could finde no rest for the sole of her foote? -
Q. What signe did the
Doue giue toNoah that the waters were abated? -
Q. Why did
Noah send out theDoue so often? - Q. How can this stand, that the ground was drie in the first day of the first moneth of the 601. yeere, as it is set downe in the 13. verse, and the next verse showeth that the earth was dryed on the 27. day of the second moneth?
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Q. Why did not
Noah goe out of the Arke till God spake to him? -
Q. Did the beasts also come out of the Arke at
Noahs command? - Q. What is the mysticall signification of the comming out of the creatures?
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Q. Why did
Noah build an Altar to God? - Q. Of what matter was this Altar made?
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Q. Had
Noah any expresse command to build an Alter? - Q. Why would God bee worshipped by Sa∣crifices?
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Q. Where did
Noah offer this sacrifice? -
Q. What doth it signifie that God melled a sauour of rest in
Noahs sacrifice? - Q How is it vnderstood that God would curse the earth no more for mans sake?
- Q. Which is the imagination of mans thought euill from his youth?
- Q. Why will not God destroy all liuing things as he did?
- Q. Is God the cause that mans imagination is euill from his youth?
- Q. What doth God besides promise Noah?
- Q. Shall there be summer and winter, night and day, &c. so long as the earth remaineth?
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Q. Why doth
God speake onely of summer and winter, and not of the other two parts of the yeare? -
Q. Doth God promise to
Noah onely these temporall blessings, as heate and cold, summer and winter, and not spirituall?
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Q. HOw did God remember
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Questions on the ninth Chapter.
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Q. VVHy doth God first of all blesse
Noah with increase of children? - Q. Is this blessing all one with that which Adam had in paradise?
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Q. How could this blessing belong to
Noah, seeing he had no children after the flood? - Q. Is euery increase the blessing of God?
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Q. Which is the second prerogatiue that God giueth now to
Noah and his sonnes? - Q. Hath man this dominion ouer all the creatures and at all times?
- Q. Then how is it that the feare of man is vpon the creatures?
- Q. Seeing then God hath deliuered the crea∣tures into our hands, may wee vse them as wee lust?
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Q. Which is the third prerogatiue that
Noah hath? - Q. Is flesh more conuenient for mans body then hearbes?
- Q. Is it lawfull then to eate flesh?
- Q. Was it not lawfull before the flood, to eate flesh?
- Q. How shall we lawfully eate flesh?
- Q. How is it vnderstood that blood is the soule or life of the creature?
- Q. Why is the life preserued in the blood?
- Q. Why did God prohibite the eating of blood?
- Q. Is it not lawfull for Christians to eate blood?
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Q. Then why did the Apostles prohibite ea∣ting of blood.
Act. 15. - Q. What is meant by this, that God will re∣quire the blood of our liues?
- Q. May wee not then shed our owne blood vpon a iust occasion?
- Q. How is it vnderstood that God will re∣quire our blood at the hands of beasts?
- Q. How will God require the life of man at the hand of a mans brother?
- Q. Shall his blood bee shed that sheddeth the blood of man?
- Q. Then what shall we say of the magistrate that sheddeth blood, and of him that sheddeth blood against his will?
- Q. Why must not the blood of man be shed?
- Q. Why doth God againe repeate this bles∣sing of increase and multiplication?
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Q. Why did God make a couenant with
Noah? - Q. Why did God make a couenant with the beasts and foules?
- Q. Why did God confirme his couenant with a signe?
- Q. Which was this signe of the couenant?
- Q. Why did God set his bow in the clouds?
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Q. Is that opinion of
Ambrose sound, who thinketh that this bow is not meant of the raine∣bow, but rather figuratiuely of the secret power of God? - Q. Doth the raine-bow naturally signifie that the earth shall not bee drowned with wa∣ter?
- Q. Why did God rather make the raine∣bow the signe of his couenant, then any thing else?
- Q. Was the Raine-bow before the flood or not?
- Q. Shall there be no Raine-bow as some haue thought, fortie yeeres before the last iudgement?
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Q. What relation is there betweene the Raine-bow and
Christ? - Q. What vse should we make of the conside∣ration of the Raine-bow?
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Q. How will God remember
Noah when he seeth the bow? -
Q. Nhy doth Moses make mention of the three sonnes of
Noah? -
Q. Had
Noah any more sonnes besidesthese three? -
Q. What was the cause that
Noah had no more children? -
Q. Why amongst all the children of
Cham, onelyCanaan is named here? -
Q. Was
Canaan borne in the Arke asChrysostome thinketh? -
Q. How is it vnderstood that
Noah began now to be an husbandman? -
Q. Was
Noah the first inuenter of drinking wine? -
Q. But seeing the earth was spoyled with the flood, whence had
Noah vines? -
Q. Why was
Noah so desirous to plant a vineyard? -
Q. Did
Noah ill in drinking of the wine? -
Q. Did
Noah drinke wine a purpose to make himselfe drunke, as ourPriests ofBacchus now adayes doe, that altogether do sacrifice their throates and bellies to him? -
Q. Is
Noah then to be excused for his drun∣kennesse? -
Q. Seeing
Noah a iust man fell into this sinne but once, and that partly of ignorance, why would notMoses conceale it? -
Q. What relation is there betweene the sinne of
Adam, and this ofNoah? -
Q. Wherein did the greatnesse of
Chams sinne consist? -
Q. Wherein wereShem andIapheth wor∣thie of commendations? -
Q. How could
Noah know what his yonger sonne had done to him? -
Q. What reward had
Cham for scorning his olde father? -
Q. Why is
Canaan cursed and notCham? -
Q. Wherein was
Cham accursed? - Q. Is it then a curse to serue?
- Q. Seeing then inuoluntarie seruice is the effect of sinne, is this a pretence for seruants to reiect altogether there seruice?
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Q. What reward hath
Sem for couering his fathers nakednesse? -
Q. What is the reward that
Iapheth hath for his duty to his father? -
Q. What is meant heere by the Tents of
Sem? -
Q. Wherein was
Noah the tipe ofChrist? -
Q. How long liued
Noah after the flood? -
Q. How olde was
Noah when he died?
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Q. VVHy doth God first of all blesse
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Questions on the tenth Chapter.
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Q. WHat is meant by this word
Generation, which is so of∣ten vsed in the Scripture? -
Q. Why doth
Moses set downe thisgenea∣logie, seeingPaul doth command vs not to giue heede togenealogies. 1. Tim. 14. -
Q. What profit is it for vs to know the
ge∣nerations of Noahs sonnes? -
Q. Was this propagation of mankinde by
Noahs three sonnes in so short a time, miracu∣lous? -
Q. Doth
Moses rehearse here all the heads or fathers of the Nations? -
Q. What order keepeth
Moses in rehear∣sing thisGenealogie? -
Q. What was
Gomer? -
Q. What was
Magog? -
Q. What people came of
Madai? -
Q. Of what people was
Iauan the father? - Q. What people came of Thubal?
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Q. What people came of
Meshec? -
Q. Who were the sonnes of
Thiras? -
Q. Which are the three sonnes of
Gomar here mentioned? -
Q. Which are the foure sonnes of
Iauan? -
Q▪ What is meant by the Iles of the
Gen∣tiles? -
Q. Which was
Chams first sonne? -
Q. What was
Mizraim? -
Q. What people came ofPhut? -
Q. What was
Canaan? -
Q. What was
Seba? -
Q. What other sonnes had
Cush? -
Q. What sonnes had
Raamah? -
Q. What was
Nimrod? -
Q. Why is
Nimrod called a mighty hunter beforeGod? -
Q. Is
Nimrod all one withBelus, of whom prophane histories make mention? -
Q. Which are the four
cities that were sub∣iect to Nimrod? -
Q. Who was the builder of
Niniuie. -
Q. When was
Niniuie built? -
Q. What other cities built
Ashur besides the great citieNiniuie? -
Q. What sonnes had
Misraijm? -
Q. What posteritie had
Canaan? -
Q. Which were the borders of the land of
Canaan? -
Q. Why is
Sem called the brother ofIapheth here, and not also ofCham? -
Q. Why is
Sem called the father of the sons ofHeber onely, seeing he had more sonnes thenHeber? -
Q. Which are the sonnes of
Sem? -
Q. What sonnes had
Aram? -
Q. What sonnes had
Arphaxad? -
Q. What sonnes had
Heber? -
Q. What countries did
Ophir andHauilah possesse? -
Q. What are
Mesha andSephar? -
Q. Was there such a diuision of nations be∣for
the flood, as now is after?
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Q. WHat is meant by this word
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Questions on the eleuenth Chapter.
- Q. WHat was that one speech that was spoken before the confu∣sion of tongues?
- Q. Did the Hebrew tongue remaine in vse after the confusion?
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Q. Why did the people remooue from the East into the plaine of
Shinar? - Q. Of what matter did they build their Tower and Citie?
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Q. Of what height did they inte
d to build their Towre? - Q. For what end did they build so high a Tower?
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Q. What doth the Tower and Citie of
Ba∣bel signifie? - Q. Did God descend locally from heauen to see the Tower?
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Q. Why are the builders of the Tower cal∣led here the sonnes of
Adam? -
Q. How is it vnderstood that the people
one? - Q. How, and to whom did God speake here, when he sayes let vs goe downe?
- Q. To what end did God come downe?▪
- Q. Were their tongues so diuided that eue∣ry man who was there did speake a particular language?
- Q. What relation is there betweene this di∣uision of tongues, and that which was visibly done vpon the Apostles?
- Q. What did follow vpon this diuision of tongues?
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Q. Why was this tower called
Babel? -
Q. Why are the generations of
Sem set downe here? -
Q. Whether shall we hold with the
Hebrew text, that Selah was the sonne ofArphaxad, or with theGreeke which affirmeth thatSelah was the sonne ofCainan, and grand-childe ofArphaxad? -
Q. How many yeeres li
ed Sem, after heebegat Arphaxad? -
Q. What sonnes had
Terah? -
Q. How doe we know that
Abraham was the youngest of these three? -
Q. What shall we say to the
Hebrewes: who hold thatAbrahams age of 75. yeeres, is not counted from his birth, but from his departurefrom Vr ofChaldea? -
Q What signifieth
Vr of the Chaldees here? -
Q. Was
Sarai Abrahams halfe sister, by his fatherTerah, and not by his mother, as thinkethClem. Alexand. lib. 2. Strom. -
Q. What was
Iscah, whomMoses calleth the daughter ofHaran? -
Q. Why is there mention made here of
Sa∣ries barrennesse? -
Q. Was
Terah the cause whyAbraham tooke his iourney toCainan? -
Q. Whether went
Nachor withAbra∣ham and the rest of his kindred fromVr, ornot? -
Q. Why did
Abraham and the rest of his company stay atCharran, and went not immedi∣ately toCanaan?
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Questions on the twelfth Chapter.
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Q. IN that God doth call
Abraham par∣ticularly fromChaldea, doth it fol∣low that there was more excellency and worth in him then in the rest? -
Q. How and to what end was
Abraham called? -
Q. How often did God appeare to
Abra∣ham? -
Q. How did God appeare to
Abraham and theProphets? -
Q. Why doth God command
Abraham to teaue his countrey? -
Q. Is it lawfull then for vs to forsake our countries and friends, if they
inder vs in Gods seruice? -
Q. In what countrey was
Abraham now whenGod called him? -
Q. How did
Abraham leaue his kindred, seeing they went with him? -
Q. What are the blessings that God doth pro∣mise to
Abraham? -
Q. How old was
Abraham when he went fromCharran? -
Q. What company tooke
Abraham with him toCanaan? -
Q. Did
Abraham well in taking with him toCanaan, all the substance that he had gathe∣red? -
Q. How farre trauelled
Abraham through the land? -
Q. Did this land belong of right to
Abra∣ham, Because he descended ofSem? -
Q. Which of the persons of the trinity appea∣red here to
Abraham? -
Q. To whom then did
Abraham build thiAltar? -
Q. Whether remooued
Abraham fromSi∣chem? -
Q. Why went
Abraham downe toE∣gypt? -
Q. What did the going downe of
Abraham into Egypt signifie? -
Q. Wa
Sarai beautifull at this time? -
Q. Did
Abraham sinne in perswading his wife to say she was his sister? -
Q. What hapned to
Abraham when he came toEgypt? -
Q. How was
Saraies chastity preserued? -
Q. Did
Pharaoh commit adultery withSarai? -
Q. Why did
Pharaoh giue charge to his men concerningAbraham?
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Q. IN that God doth call
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Questions on the thirtenth Chapter.
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Quest. HOw is it vnderstood that
A∣braham went vp, out of E∣gypt into the South? -
Q. Why didAbraham returne againe toBethel, where he was before? -
Q. Why could not
Abraham andLot dwell together? -
Q. Why is it added that the
Cananite andPerezite were in the land? -
Q. Why saith
Abraham toLot, let there be strife, for we are brethren? -
Q. Wherein is the plaine of
Iordan com∣mended? -
Q. Why did
Lot chuse the plaine ofIordan? -
Q. Wherein did the riuer
Iordan exceede all otherRiuers? -
Q. Why would Cod haue
Abraham andLot to be separated? - Q. How is it vnderstood that the Sodomites were sinners before the Lord?
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Q Did
Abrahams posteritie inioy no more ground, then that whichAbraham did now see? - Q. Why doth God againe renew the promise of giuing to him this land?
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Q. Whether was
Abraham heire onely of this land, orls heire of all the world, as Paul sce∣meth to affirme▪Rom. 4. -
Q. How long was
Abrahams seede to enioy this land? -
Q. Why saith God that he will make
Abra∣hams seed as the dst of the earth? -
Q. Why would God haue
Abraham to walke through the land, in the length and bredth of it? -
Q. What plaine was this, which is here cal∣led the plaine of
Mamre? -
Q. What was
Hebron? -
Q. What did
Abraham when he came to the plaine ofMamre?
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Quest. HOw is it vnderstood that
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Questions on the fourtenth Chapter.
- Quest. VVHy doth Moses so care∣fully set downe the warres of these kings?
- Q. What kings came against Sodome, and the other cities of the plaine?
- Q. Where did these kings ioyne battell toge∣ther.
- Q. May kings lawfully and with a good conscience make warre.
- Q. But may Christians vnder the Gospel raise warres?
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Q. Why did
Chedorlaomer raise armiesagainst these other kings? -
Q. Why did the king of
Elam with his con∣federates, kill theRephaims? -
Q. What was
En-mishpat? -
Q. What successe hvd
Chedorlaomer and his confederates against the Kings ofSodome andGomorrha? -
Q. What league made
Abraham the He∣brew withMamre, Eschol andAner? -
Q. But did
Abraham well to make a coue∣nant with theseAmorites being infidels? -
Q. Was it lawfull for
Abraham being both a priuate man and a priest, to raise warres? -
Q. How farre did
Abraham pursue his e∣nemies? -
Q. What successe had
Abraham in this battle against the foure kings? -
Q. What was
Melchisedec? -
Q. Where did
Melchisedech, and the king of Sodom meeteAbraham? -
Q. Of what place was
Melchisedech king? -
Q. Wherein was
Melchisedec the type of Christ? -
Q. Why did
Abraham giue tithes toMel∣chisedec? - Q. What kinde of tythes were vsed a∣mongst the Hebrewes?
- Q. Then is it lawfull to pay tythes to the preachers of the Gospel?
- Q. Why is God called the possessour of heauen and earth?
-
Q. Did
Abraham well to sweare that he would take nothing from the king of Sodom? -
Q. Did
Abraham well to refuse the king ofSodomes offer?