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.

§. The Wheat he will gather.

By Wheat and chaff, might very well be understood true and false doctrine, and the ra∣ther because the Scripture elswhere calleth them by such terms, Jer. 23. 28. and maketh the fire of the Word of God, the trier and touchstone of them both, 1 Cor. 3. 12, 13, 15. from Deut. 33. 2. and the rather still, because the words are spoken to Pharisees and Sadduces, which were both very erroneous in their tenets: but that it will be very harsh to apply the gathering into the Garner, and the unquenchableness of the fire in refe∣rence to doctrine: therefore the two different titles are severally and properly to be understood of righteous and wicked mens persons differenced in those their several qua∣lifications: and under this interpretation may the truth or falsity of doctrine be also understood: Now the righteous or Saints of God, are fitly compared to Wheat in di∣verse respects, as in goodness, usefulness, weight and fulness, whereas the wicked on the contrary are like chaff, in being refuse, vile, unprofitable, light, empty, and fittest for the fire.