170. NUMBERS XX Y I. used inGen.46.we (hall fee 5 families rooted out; one of Simeon,Leahs Con; one of Afer,the fon of Leaks hand-maid;and three of Benjamin,Rachels Gin ; whofc ten families are decayedunto leven. In there numbers, increale and decreale of the tribes and families of Ifrael,we may behold that which lob faith of Gods works ; Who Jvowetbnot I in all the fe, that the hand of the Lord bath wrought this ? in whofe band is thefoule of every living thing, and the breath of all f efb if man. Bel old he breaheth downe,and it cannot be built againe : he fsuttetb up a man and there can be no opening. He ihcreafeth the nations, and defiroy- eth them : he enlargeth the nations, and f raitneth them, lob 12.9.10.14.23, 51 Verf. 51. Veto theft the land fhall be divided] So the naturals Potts of Ifrael only had inheritance ; but under the Gofpell it is prophefied, that the ftrangers allo fhould have inheritance among the tribes, Ezek.47.22.23. By this allo it appeareth, that the tribes diminifhed had a double punifh- ment, loffe of men,anda leffer inheritance in the holy land : both which areoppofed to the cove- nant and pomife made to their fathers, which flood on there two branchés, multitude of chil- d ten, and inheritance of the land, Gen. I 2. 2.7. and 53.15.16. and '5.5. 8.18. and 17.2.6.8. and 22.17. and 26. 3.4. and 28. 13.14. and 35.11.12. Sol. Iarchi herefaith, To theft and not to them that are lee than twentyeares old , although they came to full twenty 'before the dirifton of the land. For loe the land was few ye.ires in conquering,&c. yet none bad portion in the land but there fix hundred thoufand,and one tboufand : land if one of them bat/ fix firms, they received but their fullers portion only. But Ghazkuni referreth it to the £insilies, raying; Tothefe the 57 families recko- ned here Phot(! the land bot divided fir inheritance by the number of names, 57 portions according to the 57 beads of families. So it is written in Numb. 33. 54. Tee fball divide the land by lot, for an inheritance amongyour families. This figured , that only filch fhall have their part in the kingdome of heaven, as are cho- fen and called of (sod, and have their names written in the lambs book¢ of life,Rom.8.28.29. 3o. 1 Pet.1.2.3 4.5. Rev - 21.27. 54 Verf. 54. To' the many] To the tribe and family which bath many perlons in it,Thou fhaltgive them the more (Hebr. thou (halo multiply his) inheritance. So the portions were not all equal! in quantity, but proportioned to the multitude of men in the tribes and faniilies..To the tribes which had the grea- termultitudes, tbey gaze the greater portion , thoughthe portions were not ¢quail : for Ive every tribe bad hm por- tion according to bis multitude, faith Sol. Iarchi on Num.26. Hereupon the Fons of Iofeph complai- ned of their fmall portion in refile& of their great multitude, Iof.17.14. . 55 Verf. 55. by ht] Although Eleazar the high Prieft,Iofua the governour, and 12 princes ache tribes,(appointed of God, Nuns. 34. 17.18. &c.) were to divide the land;yet to cut offcontention, & to thew the providence & difpofition of God, according to the purpofe of his will,he comman- deth lots tobe call ; for, The lot eaufeth contention to ceafe, andparteth between the miglxy,Prov.18.1 8. and The lot is raft into the lap, but the whole difpofirg thereof it of the L0RD,Prey. 16.33. And the Hebrew Dehors fay The portions mere not made but by lot, and the lot war ?Jibe mouth of the holy Ghof. Sol. Iar- chi on Numb. z6. The manner of doing it was thus ; Firft the land was by men divided into parts , according to the number of the tribes; as Iofua rent men to divide the land which remai- ned into fever parts and to defaribe it according to the inheritance of therm, and fo tes bring the defcription unto bins, t hat bee might oafs lots for them before the Lord. And theydefcribtd it by cities, into feien parts, in a book, and brought it toIofiìa who calf lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord ; and fo every tribe received as their !meanie up,according to their families, It'll 8.4.--1 r. &c. Moreover, in the He- brew records it is faid,tliat it mat not dix ided but ly Vrim and Thummint [which was the oracle of God in the brefs -plate of the highPrieft, Exod. 28. Num.27.21.2 al itiofaid(inNom.26.56.)Aeror- ding to (or et the mouth f) ¡helot. When Eleaaear was clothed with Vrim and Thummim, and Iofua andall Ifrael flood before him, there was a Kal,bi[acelle!! whereinto the lots were put,whereof fee the An- notations on Levit.i 6.8.3 of the tribes names , end a Kalphi of the names of the limits ( or bounds of the countrey) fitbefrire him; and he being dirdhledly. the holy C,hof faid; Napbtali commeth up, the limit Genafaretk eommeth up : bee toohe out of the Kalphi of the tribes , and 2Kapbtali came up in his hand ; out of the Kalpbi of the limits , and the limit Gena fareth cams up in hisband. And fo for every tribe. Talmud. Bab. in Baba bathra , chapter 8. in Gemara, and Sol. Iarchi on Nttnib, 26. But obferve that the land within Iordan was divided only to nine tribes , and an half¢, becaufe two tribes and anhalte had their portion on the outfide of Iordan, Numb. 34.13. t 4.15.Byrealen of this dividing the land by lot, the Scripture talleth inheritances by the name of Lots; as, Come up with me into my lot, Iudg.t.3.And not lands only, but whatfoever befaileth unto men from the hand of God, is called a lot; as, This is the portion of them that fpoile ut, and the kt of them that rob Of , Eloy 17. 14. and, T hose haft neither part nor lot in this matter, Ati. 8.21 and, That they may receive forgiveneffèof firmes, and a lot (that is, in- heritance) among them which are fanslìfed by faith, &e. _ Aft.26.18. and, The part of the be, (that is, of the inheritance) of theSaints, inlight, Col. i t 2. So that in the GIeeke,ttfed by the Apoftles,Clero:,a lot,and Cleranamia,adivifionby lot , is the common name of. an inheritance, 1 Pet.5.3, Ephef.1.14.18. VerC56, According to the lot] Hebr. At (or Vpon) 56 themouth of the lot: as the let (whereon the name of the tribe, or of the inheritance is written) Ihall fpeake. This lot being of theLord, figured the diverfities of gifts in the Church, which the Spirit of God divideth es every man fit entry a bee wills .Cor. 12.4 - -s 1. as afro the dilpen Cation of his graces concerning our heavenly inheritance, which the Eletlion onely obtaineth, that thepurpofe of God according to eleilion might fond, not of wort/5s, but of him that callerh, Rom. 11.7. and 9.11. Ver£
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