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.

2 CHRON. XXVI. from vers. 16. to the end of the Chapter. And 2 KING. XV. vers. 5, 6, 7.

[World 3252] [Uzz. 52] UZZIAH is this year struck with Leprosie, and this year dieth. The Holy Ghost hath given a close intimation, that Uzziah's Leprosie befell him in the last year of his reign, and not before 2 King. 15. 50. where it is said that Hosea slew Pekah in the twentieth year of Jotham, upon which arise these two scruples: 1. How Jothams twenti∣eth year can be spoken of when he reigned but sixteen, 2 King. 15. 33. this shall be looked after when we come thither. And 2. how can Pekahs twentieth year be called the twentieth of Jotham, when Pekah began to raign a year before him, and so Pekahs twentieth is but Jo∣thams nineteenth?

Answ. Why, here is the hint that the Holy Ghost giveth of the time of Uzziahs being struck Leprous, namely, in the last year of his raign: for here by this very expression is shewed that Jotham reigned in the last year of his fathers life; and the Text plainly expresseth the occasion, because the Lord smote the King with Leprosie, so that he was a Leper un∣to the day of his death, and Jotham the Kings son was over the House, judging the people of the Land.

ESAY VI.

IN the year that King Uzziah died, Esay seeth the glory of Christ in the Temple, John 12. 41. filling the Temple with smoak in sign of the burning of it, and Angels called Seraphim, that is, Burning ones, because of the firing of the Temple, which was there foretold, do proclaim the Trinity to be Holy, Holy, Holy, yet had the Jews so un∣holily behaved themselves toward it; that they are deemed to blind∣ness and obduration till they be utterly destroyed.