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Show TheSecond Bookeof thejfirst part Cuar.s. G8, ~ notinthis cafe the helpe of eiquinocation or Mental Referwation. For whathe fwate,ht reing ith; but he {ware nothing; nor made anypromife at all tothe Grbeontes, rathcend oe the faithlefle fatniltie of man fhould borrow ifme inthe i; ture. from his example; who knowing well, that the promifes hee an oe heer God, were madeto the liuing God, and not tothe dying Man, hee heldt aire inuiolable, notwithftanding that they, to whom he had {worneit, were worfhippersof -bie as faithleffe men take dt,that he which {weareth toa Man,toa Societe, to.a State,or toa King,andfweareth by thenameofthelining Lord,and inhis prefence, That this promife (if irbee broken) isbrokentoa man, toa Socictie, toa State, or toa t Prince ; but the promifein the name of God:made}is broken to God. It is God, thatwe therein negle& : wetherein profeflethatwe feare him not, and thatwefet him at naught of the Hiflorie oftheWorld, volume will notholdithe repetitionof Gods iudgements vpon' 27 faith-breakers } bee it'a- gainft Infidels\Turks; or Chriftians of diners Religions.La mentableitis, chat tlne taking ofoathes now-a-dayes, isirather madeamattér of cuftomethano f confcience: Irisalfo vel'y remarkeablé;Thatit pleafed: God toleaue fo many Cities of the-CGanaanites vaconquered by Ifiael; to feourge and affli@ them, by fore: feeing their Tdolatric, and. asitis faidinthe {eriptutes;To be Thornesiin their eyes to prone them, and toredch them Rais tovnake Warne. For thefeGities hereafter nameddid.not oaly remainein the Cataanites Iudg-1,& poffeffionalt the'time of Jofuies bir fooneafter his death the Childrewof ine! wetiedequ1"4s-3-12 tenour @f che plaine Counrriés, and enforfttoiohabite the Mounta and defighim.1fhe that without Referuation of honour giuetha lie in the prefenceofte indsy 4nd places off xo hardeftacceffe. And thofe of luda were notabl e ta be Maftersiofiitheir! oie: Val lies; becaufé,-as:itds written inthe Judges, Phe Canaanires had Chariots:of Trom.- And thote Tudg. 1279 4s principall:Cities whichtood on thé Sea-fide, adioyn ingvaro Tuda;.were filled pyrladry-r9. to his Superiour ; how-much more dothhe breake Faith with God, that giuethFaithin Sam. 1. 17,4, King,or of his Superiour, doth in point of Honoir giue the lie to the King himfelfe, or the prefence of God; promifeth imhis name, and makes him a witneffe of the Couenant made? ; Out of doubt,irisa fearefullthing fora Sonnetobreake the Promife,Will, ot Deed of theFather; fora State, or Kingdome, to breake thofe Contracts which haue been made informertimes, and confirmed by publike faith. For though it were 400 yeers! ‘after Jo/ua, that Saul;cuen outof deuotion, flaughtered fome of thofe people defcended of the Gibeonites : yer God; whoforgat not whatthe Predecefforsand Fore-fathersof Saul andthe J/raclites had fworne in hisname; affliged the whole Nation with acontue ming faminesand could not beappeafed, till fenen of Sawls fonnes were delineredtothe Gibconites gricned, andby them hanged vps j And certainely,ifit be permitted by the helpeofa fridiculous diftinGion, ot by aGotmocking equiuocation,to fweare one thing by the nameofthe lining God,andto teferue infilencea contrary intent: the lifeof man, theeftatesof men,the faith of Subieast0 Kings, of Seruantsto their Mafters, of Vaflalstotheir Lords, of Wiuesto their Hut bands,and of Children to their Patents; and of albtrialis of right,will only bemadeyo ‘vncertaine,but all rhe chaincs wherby: free mematetied inthe world, not betorneafunder Teisby oath (when Kingsand Armiescatinot paffe) char weeenter into the Cities of out enemies,and into their Armies it is by-oath that-Warres take end; which weapors cate not end. And wharisitor ought ittobeethatmakes anoath thus powerfull; biitthis; Thathe that fwearethby thenameof God, dothdffiite others that his words arc trie, the Lordof all the Worldis trae: whom he calleth fora hethat taketh the oaththath promifediy:Tamnor ignorantwitneffe, andin whofe prefent oftheir pooréeuafions,whict play withthe feuerity of Gods commandements inthis kinde? But this indeed is chebef an(wer,»Phat heebreakesno faidliy-chat hath none to breake.' For whofoeuer hath fit andthe féare of: Gods dares notidowits{ # TheChriftians inthe Hol) Land when they wereatthe greateft, and had brought the Caliph of- Egypt torpay themribites did not only lofeitagaines but were fooneattet beateniourof the Hélp Land it felfe+ by reafon'/faith wiliais of Tyre,a veuerend Bilhop which wrorethatStorie chat Almevick the fiftieth'ing after Godfrey brake faithiwith the caliph Elhadech,anid his Vicegerent!The sofdan Samar; whobeing faddenly jniaded by OAlmierick; drewitithe Turke Syrai i ephew Seladine, aftethad made! Egypt his owne; bearthecbriliiaws out ofthe Holy Landsneither world ™ wooden Grofle (¢he Very Crofé, fay they, that Chrift died on) pisethern vidorie ee they broughtit ir ore Pfal. 5.6, Widurr. Cuariorg 8. themfeliies the holy Ghoft, Th eld as theirlattrefice % feéing they had fo" ucified thereon. And if it be a difectionfo" allbeef ojedsand that the mouth which he reth them flaieth thefautes how ieiteas pede HUEany peril be greater ea deftroy the fouile) todiwearea lice TewasEnyeniacrhie Pope, that perfwaded, of os cotecnaaalati saaSe deaftersehispreat victory-ouer uomuraiche Turkj the faid King ce hadKiley contpelled hifivte hiodelass wir a ee ‘sit for the Chiiftians, to'breake:his) Rare peace, themol aduantagious that cu dte prove he Turke And though the faid King was farre ltronh,an the Ware" iger in nae i toWetrenew hee loftthe a taile with30000 Chri tans, and hisdwhel ifes Boe kwill ftay miy Rand : For d vo. the remainder of the Anakims,or tims: as A zzah;GathyA{dodsou t ofoneoie CH Cities came Goliath, remembredin Szmnel, ithe children of a/e ouer Iordan expell the Gefhurites, nor the Maa- chathitcs: which inhabited the Northipayts ofBafan,afterward Traconi tis. Nor the Nepthalims poflefle themf{elues of Beth/bemilb,norof Bethawah-butel 1¢} thofe Canaauites to paytheystribbte.Neithendid Afeerexpeclbcb e Zidonians, of Acho,or Acon,Athlab, Achzib,Heblah,Aphike,3 Rehob, norinforcethe I 36 Normorecould Zabulo Tolr ry 19s Tud:-1.v.33. n enioyKitron, and Nahalol) but receiued tribute from the 7. Tof16.y.10. Alfo the Canaanites dwelt in Gezeramotiat he Ephraims : and among the chil ; dren of Manaffe,on the Welt of lordas,the Canaanites held Bethfhean, Taacnach, Do: sli leat, Tud, 2.y. 27 and Megaddo; yea, Hierufalemit felfe did the Iebulites defend aboue four Ure hundred yeeres, even till Dawids ne. y NowJoféatiued one umdred andteh yeares, cightecne of whith hewoueracd I-acl andthen changedthis life for a betters" The time oF hi tila is Not exprefied in the Scriptures, which caufeth diuers to conieéture diuerfly of the continuance. Lofephus vines him fiue afid twenty 'yecres's'Seder' ‘Olam Rabbi the Authois 6fthé Apap Chropplorie cightand twenties and! htayfeus fixeandtwentic = rdalononine cited by ALa/sins, fonres Za teenes' Joawnes Luciduss{euentcené': Caietanys tens ‘Eufebius giveth Him feuenSctwenties: "and fodoth S-Aigiftine: Melantthontwo and'thirtie » Codon? fiue and twentie; But whereas there pafled 48oiyeares fromthe deliueryof Iifael oie OF Egypt, Yotothe building of! tht Temple, ivis eeeMlaryithatwee as finding thereft'{upplied otherwife; which allow t6 Jofua onely eighteenc ofthem; tomze' feemes the moft likcly, and as thinke;a weHapproued opinion, I The fameneceffityof retaining precifely 480. sypevaté thebuildingof the Pemplescontitic yeeres from' the départure-ont! of He etli Of érrour, ich us Hane inferted yeerés } betweene' Yo/waland Othonielof who m Exfebixs fitides ight yetres:to Whic h 4yizg DOG ufer. Prep, tauus adhereth and forwhich lee gitieth his reafon in his fotire and twentieth and' Lif Euers, qo Chapters vpon vo/ia': Bantiog rech ons it nine yeeires Codomanvwende,a :{' Bachilzer and Réafner brie one: nd Nicephorus no leffethiatit fare direétiomo tthe! 4.80 syeerestherecan hiee and thittie whereas followingthé beno voide yeeres found bétiveend Yo/ea! and Orhenieh vnlefle they beraken oat'ofthofe cightecneaftrib edyvnto tofiz by tHe acs counralreadyfpecified: Thepray(esanda cts of /o/ua are briefly written inthe fixe and fortieth Chapter of E cclefiafticns ;whe teamong manyorherthingsit is fart of hits #5 was there before him ihe to him. for he fou sht the battels of the Lord? Thathe wrote the bookecalted by this hamey ix wad the Ofpinion! of ‘Avins Montinus, becaufe itis faid in the! lit Chaptet;d 4 6.4nd lola wrote thefe words in the booke Of the Law of Gid-which feémethrather to hanebeené meantbythet¢ouenant4vhich Jofue made Be with I {racl in Sichenywhere theyall promi fedro {erué & dbey the Lotds whié 4o/ua caufed to be written in thebooke hprotnife dfthe Law:and ofthis opinionwe teCatetan and Abslenfis:Theedoret dothli kewite conceiife that the book 6k ofa Was ColleGed outdfan ancient Volamein tituled Lslér Ja fféran) reméembred by Sofsa Viitn fel fesaind others thar it. Was theworkot 52 muel:for whereas Mogtanus proutideth his Opinion'vpon thele Words 10, 13, Of D the 26.verle, And lofua wrote thefe words rc. this placehath nothing in it to propre' ff: for when the people had anfwercd Yofyiz; "The Lordour God wyiff we [chub awd WE OOLe Yojl] weacer. tt followetli that tofkiniidea 5 alt vinges couenant with the people; and wrote thehe jh? the booke ofthe Law of God. u , : There |