vi Commentary upon the Gof el Chap. u. . flock, fò neither was difparaged by his Progenitours ;btu took. flefh of thefegreatefl fanners, to thew that we cannot commit more then he can remit and that by his purity he waiheth off all our fpots;like as theSun-walleth and wipeth awayall the ill vapours of the earth and aire. Farms in Gen. And Phares begat Efrom,] When hewas but 14 years ofage, Funcaus in the year before they went down to Egypt, fay Tome : Others Owl G ro,a.Cera 4 it otherwife. Let him that readethunderfland as he can.Chrift (the n to Zia;. Arch- Prophet)when he comes again,fhall teach usall things. Efrom begat aAram] While they fojourned in the Land of f- gypt; a miferable home, where was nothing but bondage and tyranny. And yet, in reference to it, Mofes ( who was likewife bornthere) calls his fon,Ger/hom,or aflranger there, becaufe born in Madura.. The fons of' Ephraim, about the birth ofc'lofes, sought to break prifon before Gods goal-delivery : but this pro- ved a great mifchief to themfelves, and no (mall heart-break to their aged father, t Chron.7.2I,22, P,V.78.9. Betides that, it gave occauon, likely, to that cruell edi&ofPharaoh ; Let its deal 't 7 rttavvcúrt mifs'i (S t Stephen faith, fophiflically,fubtilly) left they multiply gas. '' g Ads 7 and join alfo to our enemies, and fghtagainft its (as now they have fought againfl the Gittites, their own enemies, who detain- ed from them the promifed Land, till their fins were fùll) and fo get them up out of the Land, as lately they had affayed to do. Therefore they d d fet over them taskmaflers, to af;lift themwith xoJ,r. their burdens, and tokeep them from fawning fo f aft, after the manner of fi(hes. (as theword imports) which multiply beyond meafure. But God turned their wifedom into folly ; they took a wrong courfè. For whoknows not that your labouring men have the moll and the Ilrongeft children? And not this new Pharaohs craft and cruelty. Verle 4. Aram eat Aminadab-, and e"fminadab begat Na- ¡Ton] Who was hang'd up in the wildernelle, among th4 reff of the Rulers, for folly committed with their miftrefits of Moab. Neither fcaped the common fort. fcot-tree, for they fell in one a Cor.: s. day threeand twenty thoufiind, faith St Paul. Four and twemy thouj.nd,faithMoles; whereof a theufand were the chief Princes,' the other were inferiours, provoked to fin by their example. But why Both the Apoille it: ìft in the fpeciall puniflrmentof the peo- Ptrallel 3 Z, pie ?. to (hew, faith learned lunitss, how frigid and flender their P,37 deftuce is, how fborr .hair covering, w-. pretend for
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