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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§ To flee from the wrath to come.

In this speech, John seemeth to refer to the last words in all the Old Testament: where Malachi prophecying of the Baptist, and of his beginning to preach the Gospel, He shall turn, saith he, the hearts of the Fathers to the Children, and the hearts of the Children to the Fathers, Lest I come and smite the Land with a curse. This meaneth, that wrath to come, which should surely fall upon them, if they should disobey the Gospel, which was now the last means offered them for their conversion, and so it came to pass with them, when about forty four years after this, they were destroyed by the Romans.

Matth. 3. Vers. 9. Say not, we have Abraham to our Father.

This was their common boasting: as John 9. 33. the Chaldee Paraphrast, and R. Sol. on Isai. 62. 6. And so doth Rabbi Solomon conceive, that the Edomites were proud of their descent from Abraham as well as the Jews: for thus he expoundeth those words in the Prophecy of Obadiah, ver. 3. Which dwellest in the clefts of the Rock: He leaneth upon the staff of his Fathers, Abraham and Isaac, and they will not profit him.