The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

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The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.
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Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.
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London :: Printed by W. R. for Robert Scot, Thomas Basset, Richard Chiswell,
1684.
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Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.
Church of England.
Theology -- Early works to 1800.
Theology -- History -- 17th century.
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"The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A48431.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.

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CHAP. VII, VIII, IX.

The flood: the Beasts in the Ark live without enmity, which sheweth how the words, Gen. 3. 15. about enmity with the Serpent, are to be under∣stood, the Serpent and Noah are now friends each to other: this is alluded to, Esay 11. 6, 7. Noah is in the Ark just a compleat and exact year of the Sun, but reckon'd in the Text by the Lunary Months. Universal darkness all the forty days rain. The door of the Ark under water: The Ark draweth water eleven cubits. The waters when they came to abate while they lay above the Mountains, fell but one Cubit in four days, but far faster afterward. After their coming out of the Ark for a whole half year together, Noah and his family, and all the Creatures live upon provision that was still in the Ark, for they came out just upon the beginning of Winter, when there was neither grass corn nor

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fruits till another spring: The forbidding to eat flesh with the blood, condemneth the Doctrine of Transubstantiation.

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