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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Title: 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.
Publication: London :: Printed by W. R. for Robert Scot, Thomas Basset, Richard Chiswell,; 1684.
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Subject terms: Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.; Church of England.; Theology -- Early works to 1800.; Theology -- History -- 17th century.
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§. And wrapped him in swadling cloaths.

This passage is one ground-work whereupon Expositors conclude that Christ was born without pain to his mother: for that she performed the Midwives part her self, and none to help her. A second is this, That he was born without his Mothers pain, because he was con∣ceived without her pleasure. A third Argument may be fetched from the blessing of pro∣pagation given to our first Parents in the Garden. And a fourth from the example of the delivery of the Hebrew women in Egypt: For first, When God gave this blessing to Adam and Eve in their innocency, increase and multiply, Gen. 1. 28. it inabled them to beget children agreeable to their own perfection; that is, holy, righteous, and without any symptoms or consequents of sin, either in themselves, or in the mothers. But they never begat any child thus, because of their sudden fall. What, did this first blessing then ut∣terly fail, and never take effect, in its proper sense and full extent? Could such empha∣tical words of God to man in innocency, fall to the ground without performance? No, they took place in the second Adam, who was born according to the full extent and in∣tent of that blessing to our innocent parents; in perfect holiness and righteousness, and without pain to his mother. Secondly, If the Hebrew women in Egypt had so quick and easie a delivery, as that they were not like to other women: much more may we think the travail and delivery of the Virgin to have been quick, lively, miraculous and painless; as Esa. 66. 7. Before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.