English Puritan & Reformed

Commentary on Genesis and Exodus

Andrew Willet (1562-1621) · 1,177,075 words · 5231 min

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Questions upon the eight and thirtieth Chapter.

1. QUest. Whether there were more than one Laver made.

2. qu. Of the form and fashion of the Laver.

3. qu. How the brazen Laver is said to be made of the women's looking-glasses.

4. qu. How the women are said to watch at the door of the Tabernacle.

5. qu. Of the meaning of these words, The heighth in the breadth.

6. qu. What ministry of the Levites is here understood.

7. qu. Whether the gold or silver only were given according to the number of the people.

8. qu. When the people were first numbered.

9. qu. Whether this numbering of the people, and that Numb. 1. were the same.

10. qu. The sum of the gold and silver offered to the Tabernacle, as it is valued with money now currant.

11. qu. What things were made of silver.

12. qu. Of the quantity of brass which was offered.

Questions upon the nine and thirtieth Chapter.

1. QUest. At what time the work of the Tabernacle began, and when it was finished.
2. qu. Why they brought their work to Moses.
3. qu. How Moses is said to have blessed them.

Questions upon the fortieth Chapter.

1. QUest. When the Lord spake • o Moses to set up the Tabernacle.
2. qu. Why so often rehearsal is •• de of the Tabernacle, and the parts thereof.
3. qu. Why all the parts of the Tabe •• acle are not said alike to be sanctified.
4. qu. Whether it be lawful for one i • sue for a Bishopric, or other Ecclesiastical pref •• meant.
5. qu. When the Tabernacle began the set up.
6. qu. What Testimony was put into 〈◊〉 Ark.
7. qu. Whether the tables of the law • re put into any other Ark, beside the Ark of the • estament.
8. qu. When the Priests were consecrated, whether at the erecting of the Tabernacle, or after.
9. qu. Why the Priests were commanded to wash their hands and feet.
10. qu. What cloud this was which covered the Tabernacle.
11. qu. How the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle.
12. qu. Why it pleased God to make the cloud a sign of his presence.
13. qu. Why Moses could not enter into the Tabernacle.
14. qu. In what order the campe marched.
15. qu. Why it is called the Lord's cloud, and of four miraculous things in it.

T • e end of the Table.

THE EXPLANATION AND RECONCILIATION of that point of theft, handled pag 3. and pag. 5. of this Commentary.

W Hereas pag. 3. lin. 32. Piscators opinions misliked, which would not have simple theft punished by • ath, and yet, pag. 5. lin. 13. the same seemeth to be affirmed: in • he first place understand by simple theft, such theft as concur • h not with another sin, as the • t, violence and such like: in the other, that is • lled simple theft, which is only upon extreme necessity, and committed in •• mplicitie. In the first sense, simple theft may be punished by death, not in the •• cond.

Neither in that place, pag. 5. is any exception take to the laws of the Realm, as too rigorous against simple theft: but it is main •• ined, that the laws of the land intend not the punishment of death for such imple theft, as is more at large shown, pag. 412. quest. 3. chap. 22. but alloweth • he favor of the book. Only a request is made to Reverend Judges, that • o great exactness be not required in reading, of such simple Clearks. B • it will be objected, that such as steal for necessity, being once acquitted, an • burnt in the hand, if they be deprehended in the like again, do die for it: a • d therefore the law of the land punisheth simple theft with death. The answe • is, tha • now it is not simple theft, being joined with obstinacy, and custom 〈◊〉 sin.

Again, it will be objected, that women • tealing for necessity, being not admitted to the privilege of their book, though they steal only for necessity, do suffer death for such theft. It may be • nswered, that in women, such kind of theft argueth great boldness and impu • encie, to whom their natural shamefastness and impotency ought to be a br • lle, more •• an unto men, and therefore in them it is a greater fault: and yet if • he like favor were extended to them, as to men in the like cases, no great inconvenience nee • to be feared. Thus much in this place I thought good to advertise the Reader o • , lest there might be any mistaking.

This laborious and painful work was finish • by the Lord's grac • ous assistance, the fifth of June, Anno Domini 1608. aetatis Authoris, 46. P •• ysed be God our • eavenly Father, with the holy Spirit, through Christ Jesus our most blessed Lord and Savior forever, Amen.

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