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.

§ MATTH. Chap. III. from Ver. 13. to the end.

§ MARK Chap I. Ver. 9, 10. 11.

§ LUKE Chap. III. Ver. 21, 22.

[CHRIST XXX]

CHRIST is baptized being thirty years old initiant. Josephs Age at his ap∣pearing before Pharaoh, Gen. 41. 46. The Priests, at their entrance into their Office, Numb. 4. and Davids when he began to reign, 2 Sam. 5. 4.

He hath now three years and a half to live, and to be a publick Minister of the Gospel, as the Angel Gabriel had told, Dan. 9. 27. that in half of the last seven of the years there named, he should confirm the Covenant: R. Jochanan saith, Three years and an half the Divine Glory stood upon the Mount of Olives and cried, Seek the Lord while he may be found. Midr. Till. fol. 10. col. 4.

This space of time had been renowned before, by Elias his shutting up Heaven, Luke 4. 25. James 5. 17. and now Heaven is opened; by the persecution of Antiochus when all Religion was destroyed, Dan. 12. 7, 11. and now redemption and restoring is come.

Christ therefore living three years and an half, and dying at Easter, it follows that he was baptized in Tizri, about the Feast of Tabernacles, at which time of the year he had been born: and was now, when he was baptized, nine and twenty years old compleat, and just entring upon his thirtieth: to which add his three years and an half after his Baptism, and it resulteth, that he died, being two and thirty years old and an half: the exact time

of Davids reign in Jerusalem, 1 Kings 2. 11. The days that David reigned over Israel, were forty years; seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jeru∣salem: that is, in Hebron seven years and an half, 2 Sam. 5. 5. and in Jerusalem two and thirty years and an half: so the Jerus. Talm. counteth well, in Rosh hashanah, fol. 1. col. 2.

As Christ by Circumcision was admitted a Member of the Church of the Jews, so is he by Baptism of the Church of the Gospel: being withal installed into his Ministerial Function by Baptism, and Unction of the Holy Ghost, as the Priests were into theirs, by washing and anointing.