A Pisgah-sight of Palestine and the confines thereof with the history of the Old and New Testament acted thereon / by Thomas Fuller ...

CHAP. XI. Objections against Dan answered.

Philol.

YOu positively affirme that the land of Dan belonged primi∣tively to Iudah, yet produce no Scripture for the proof there∣of. We beleeve the same of Simeon, thea 1.1 Text affirming that their inheri∣tance was within the inheritance of Iudah, but no evidence appears of such de∣rivation of Dans possession originally from Iudah.

Aleth.

The same is infallibly collected from Scripture, because the Cities of Eshtaol,b 1.2 Zoreah,c 1.3 Timnah,d 1.4 Ekron were first bestowed on Iudah, ande 1.5 afterwards we finde the same places, (with the Countrey there∣abouts by necessary consequence) conferred upon Dan's posterity for their portion.

Philol.

Such an alteration seems utterly inconsistent with divine im∣mutab••lity,

with whom is no 〈◊〉〈◊〉, nor shadow off 1.6 changing. To give a thing and take a thing is unproportionable with his proceedings, whose Gifts are pronounced by the Apostle to be 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉,g 1.7 without Repen∣tance.

Aleth.

Indeed such gifts as amount to the notion of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 are unca∣pable of alteration, to which his other grants are subject. Besides, God never so passed away that land but he still reserved it as his own Demesnes. For the land (saith he) is mine; not was, but is, even after the Israelite, had long possessed the same. Is it not lawfull for him to doe as he will with his own,i 1.8 and to change at pleasure what tenants to rent, or rather what Bailifes to occupy his own ground?

Philol.

The faces of the Men which bear the great bunch of grapes, are set the wrong way. For being to goe south-east to Kadesh-••arnea, they look full west to the Mediterranean sea.

Aleth.

You put me in minde of a man, who being sent for to pass his verdict on a Picture, (how like it was to the person whom it was to resemble) fell a finding fault with the frame thereof (not the Limners but the Ioiners work) that the same was not handsomely fashioned. In stead of giving your judgment on the Map, (how truely it is drawn to re∣present the Tribe) you cavill at the History••properties therein, the act of the ••raver, not Geographer. Yet know Sir when I checkt the* 1.9 Graver for the same, he answered me that it was proper for Spies, (like Water-men and Rope-makers) for surety sake to look one way and work another.

Notes

• a 1.1

  Josh. 19. 1.
• b 1.2

  Josh. 15. 33.
• c 1.3

  Josh. 19. 57.
• d 1.4

  Josh. 19. 45.
• e 1.5

  Josh. 19. 41. 43.
• f 1.6

  James 1. 17.
• g 1.7

  Rom. 11. 29.
• i 1.8

  Mat. 20. 15.
• * 1.9

  Ro. Vaughan.