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.
Author
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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SECTION IV.
Moses his birth, supernatural, Exod. 2. 2.
MOSES was born when his mother by the course of nature was past child-bear∣ing: For if Levi begat Jochebed at an hundred years old, which is hardly to be conceived, as Gen. 17. 17. yet is Jochebed within two of fourscore when she bare Moses. But it was more than probable that she was born long before Levi was an hundred, unless we will have Levi to be above half a hundred years childless, betwixt the birth of Merari and Jochebed: And thus the birth of Moses was one degree more miraculous, than the miraculous and supernatural birth of the other children of the Hebrew Women, and so was his brother Aarons not much less▪ wondrous. She then having a goodly child, at so great an age, saw the special hand of God in it, and therefore labours his preser∣vation against Pharaohs decree: for by Faith she knew he would be preserved for some
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special instrument of Gods glory, but the manner of his preservation she knew not yet.
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