Chap.'. Rccording to St MAT T x .avv. for their fins the example of their fuperiours. And Naaffon begat Salmon] Called i Chron. 2. Salmah. There was alto a Mount of this name (as touching the found, though with difference of one letter in the Originall) whither A- bimelech and his hott reforted,iudg.9.48.And whereof the Pfalm- i4 fpeaketh; when the Almighty fcattered Kenos, they fliall be *kitea fnow in Salmon. Now it is fforied of Andronicus, the, old Emperour of Conftantinople, that, all things going croffe with him, he took a Pfalter intohis hand, to refolve his doubtfuil minde: And opening the fame, as if it were of thatheavenly oracle to aske counfell, he lighted upon this verfe, and was thereby comforted and dire&ed what to do for his greateft fafety. To be Whiteas[nor, in Salmon,is to have joy inafiliáion,light in darknefle.Salmon fig - nifieth shady anddarke: fet this mount was with dens and glimnes; but made lightiome by (now. Hoc autem obitèr. Verte g. And Salmon begat Boos of Rahab.] This the Evan- gelifc might have by tradition. Salmons genealogy is fet down, a Chroaa.2. Ruth.. but whom he married,nothing isreported. AndBoos begat Obedof Ruth] Whiles Orphah wants bread in her ownCcuntrey, Ruth is grown a great Lady in Bethlehem, and advanced to be great grandmother to the King of kings. There's nothing loftby Gods fervice. And Obcd begat lef fe ] A good old man, but not very famous. Retired it Teems he was, anddrawn much up into himfelf; neither thinking great thingsofhimfelf, norfeeki,tggreat things for him- felf; but livingamong his own people ; much of his tonDavids difpofition, who loves his hook the better lince he faw the Court, and Pings, Beaus ile qui proculnogoti)s;&c. Non vixit malè,quinatimmorienff fifellit. Hee'snot the leaft happy that is leaft obferved. Verfè 6. And lefe begat David the King.] But that was not his chief title : He gloried more in failing hrmiei£ the fcrvant of the Lord, Pfal.36.1, &c. So Theodofins efteemed it a greater ho- nour,that he was membruamChrigi, then Caput Imperi» Naama etiam úßo cu' a ?1rÉi`u, exiltimabat. .Numa held the fervice of God the higheft honour. D avid the King begat Salomon] Whom Bellarmine reckoned: for a reprobate; but ( befides that he was Gods Corcultom, and by him called Iedidiah,) hecalleth himfelfin his fartedRetradations, Coheleth a whichbeing interpreted, The Preachcr,is a word of the B 3 tce.ninine Tuik. Mo. fa/.164, Pfa1.68. iq. explained. rj iive,ropar.ry- vénz bs v èa T» 4v?Ett-tid. Aâ9i . trove ttbr,quan tutxtg, pores, prz;uftriavi- ta. Horat. Plut. in vit,
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