We might for the further proof of this point, muster up a multitude of Examples: uAbraham's leaving his own Country and Kindred, to wander up and down he knew not whither himself, in hope of an inheritance that xhe never had as long as he lived: and ythe causing of himself to be Circumcised, when he was almost an hundred year old, together with his young son, and the rest of his family, a thing that was never heard of before, and such as would of any natural conceit be deemed not zridiculous only, but most undecent: King aDAVIDS dancing before the Ark, for which Micol derided him: The Prophet bIsaiah's going naked (though not so naked as many imagine,) cwithout his upper garment, his prophetical habit, and without shoes on his feet: dJeremies breaking of a bottle for the confirmation of his Prophecy: ⟨p. 114⟩his ewearing of a wooden yoke, and going up and down with it about his neck: And fhis making of yokes and fetters, and sending them with such strange messages to foreign Princes, and those Infidels, by the hands of their own Ambassadors: gEzekiels laying siege-to a model of the City, upon a tile or a table, and making battery against it, and placing an iron pan between him and it: hHis lying and sleeping upon his left side alone, for a long time together: iHis making and eating bread of corn and pulse of all sorts mingled together, (meat fitter for beasts, than for any man to feed on,) and kbaking it with cow-sherds in the open and public view of his people; even of those that desired nothing more than matter to laugh and leer at him: lThe cutting of his hair, dividing it by weight, burning in the fire a third part, smiting with a knife another third, and scattering another third abroad into the wind; then taking a few of them and binding them up, and yet of them again, pulling some out again and throwing them into the fire: mThe carrying out of his household stuff on his shoulders, through a hole digged in the wall, by day-light, and removing it himself from place to place, while a multitude of all sorts should stand by and look on. And, to pass by all others, Hosea as nmarrying first of a light housewife, a common harlot; and after oone that had been false to her former husband; pimposing strange names on the children that he had by them: these, I say, and many other beside these might be alleged: but I hasten;
We might for the further proofe of this point, muster vp a multitude of Examples: uAbrahams leauing his owne Countrey and Kindred, to wander vp and downe hee knew not whither himselfe, in hope of an inheritance that xhe neuer had as long as he liued: and ythe causing of himselfe to be Circumcised, when hee was almost an hundred yeere old, together with his young sonne, and the rest of his family, a thing that was neuer heard of before, and such as would of any naturall conceit be deemed not zridiculous only, but most vndecent: King aDAVIDS dancing before the Arke, for which Micol derided him: The Prophet bEsaies going naked (though not so naked as many imagine,) cwithout his vpper garment, his propheticall habit, and without shooes on his feet: dIeremies breaking of a bottle for the confirmation of his Prophecie: ⟨p. 114⟩his ewearing of a woodden yoake, and going vp and downe with it about his neck: And fhis making of yoakes and fetters, and sending them with such strange messages to foraine Princes, and those Infidels, by the hands of their owne Embassadours: gEzekiels laying siege-to a modell of the Citie, vpon a tyle or a table, and making batterie against it, and placing an iron pan betweene him and it: hHis lying and sleeping vpon his left side alone, for a long time together: i
- uGen. 12. 1, 4. Hebr. 11. 8.
- xAct. 7. 5. Hebr. 11. 9.
- yGen. 17. 23, 24.
- zHinc Verpi, & Apellae (ut quidā volunt) etiam per irrisionem Judaei dicti.Hinc Verpi, & Apellae (ut quidā volunt) etiam per irrisionem Iudaei dicti.
- a2 Sam. 6. 16, 20.
- bIsaiah. 20. 2.Esai. 20. 2.
- cAbsque cilicio, i. tegumento villos•, quo Prophetae ferè utebantur. Jun. ex Zech. 13. 4. Visantur Drus. observ. l. 14. c. 14. & Fuller. miscell. l. 2. c. 11.Absque cilicio, i. tegumento villos•, quo Prophetae ferè utebantur. Iun. ex Zech. 13. 4. Visantur Drus. observ. l. 14. c. 14. & Fuller. miscell. l. 2. c. 11.
- dJer. 19. •, 10, 11.Ier. 19. •, 10, 11.
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