Josue — Chapter 1

will be with thee :1 wil notieaue nor forfake thee. 6. Take courage , and be itrong : for thou fhalt by lor divide to this people the Land, tor the whicn 1 {ware to their tachers , chat I would dcliner ir to them. 7. Take courage therfere , and be verv {trong : that thou keep and doe ai the Law , which Moyfes my fervant hath commanded thee : decline not from it tothe richt hand or to tle lett, tharthou mayeit vnderftand al things which thou docfi, 8. Let Kkk net at The firtt part, {OF the pafiage: of Ifacloucr Tordan, re (a) Befides Manna, which lyet ceaffed if they would prouide other- meate:prefigu- ring that in the primitiue Church, it fhould be law- ful to vfe legal ceremonies with cuange- lical rites fora time, tilthe old law were buried wich honour, 444 re not the volume of this law depart trom thy mouth: bur tiou {hale me- Mot,they might Ios VE Difcouerers fent ditate in it daies and rights , that thou maieft keep and doe al things that be writterin it : then {hale thou direct thy way , and vaderftand it. 9. Behold 1 command thee, take courage, and be ftrong. Feare not, and dread not: becaufe the Lord thy God is with thee inal the things to wharfoeuer thou fhalt goe. ro. And lofue commanded the Prirces of the people, faying : Paffe through the middes of the campe, -and command the people , and fay : 11. Prepare for your felues (4) vi- i Quals:: for after the third day you thal pafle ouer lordan, and ial enter to poffeffe the Land which our Lord your God wil giue you. 12. To the Rubenites alfo & Gaddites ,& halfetribe of Manaffes he faid:13.Re- member the word which Moyfesthe feruant of our Lord commanded you, faying: Our Lord your God hath giuen you reft , and al this Lad.

The end of the fiue bookes of Moy/es, conteming the Law. rein } knew the place of his burial : left rhe] Iewes prone co idolacrie might haue henoured him for God. THE 442 THE SECOND PART OF THE OLD TESTAMENT: CONTEINING HISTORICAL BOOKES. THE ARGVMENT OF THE BOOK OF IOSVE. 'Whofocuer e ‘was Authour, ithe authoririe 40f this book is 4certaine, ay { Books of ho HET HE R lojue bimfelf worit this booke (which is the common § opinion ) or fome other, st was euer held vnaouredly by al for Can nonical Scripture : and according to the diftribution of the whole Bible into Legal , Hiftorical , Sapiential , and Propherical Books, this 1s the firft of the hitortwal fort. But as the fine proce- ‘lie Scripture dent called Legal , befides the Law , comprehend alfo the buftorie of the Church, (Principally fromthe beginning of the world neer 2500, yeares , and withal conteme much Tearing of fe- dime Wildome, g* Prediction of things re come : fv thefe books now folow- ucralargu. ing, called Haktorical, and lakewife the Sapiential and Prophetical enfuing ithe fase partic after, partioparezach with others an therr feucral arguments : euerse one more \cipatecach fort’ oy leje mnduoing Gods feruants to keepe bis Law;recovaung things donesteaching jwith ethers, wharis moftmeete to bc done ; and foreshewung befureband things done after- ward, or which yet shal come to paffe. Soriss booke doth not only fet forth the The contents dies of lufut , whe fucceded Mey/es 1m temporal goucrnment of Gods people, of this book, ? j done by him, and his verie name ( as S, Hierome > other Euthers teach ) prefigure our Lord Le sv s Chrift, for im Heorew IEHOSVA 15 the name ' both of this Capteamne General , the leader of the fractes oxer lerdan into the Land of promife, andofour Lord aud SAVIOVR , who ly his Baptifme and ' other Sacraments ‘bringeth his.people of al Nations mito the true Land o if the laing , where ss life and felcsrze eucrlafting Touching therfore the biftorte thefe \Dinided into foure [pectal things are beve defcribed Prft, rhe paffage of the ifraclises eucr lor- Htoure parts. dan, i the fiue first chapters Secondly ,thear Conquest of the promifid Land , inthe feucen chapters folowing. Thirdly , the partition of the fame Land aiong nine Toles and a balf, from the 13.chap.tothe 22 Fuurthiy,wm the three lajt chapters, ee Ee EF 2 AR CER of Lurdar; wih Tofues lajt adnsonttion so them al, 0 ferne God fincerely , and bis and Eleaxars death. commanding and drrettmg them by Law and wsjedvmesbur alo the fame things — the verurne of the other two Tribes and a half to thetr poffeftois , on ihe caft fide THE}? [Scho daft, S. Hier. T pif. ad Dewiin, S Ane, lan Pfal, (47. S. ‘Aug.

paffe you ouer armed before your brethren, al that are ftrong of hand, and fight for them, 15, vntil our Lord giue reft to your brethren, as to you alfo he hath given , and they alfo poffeffe the Land which our Lord your God wil giue them: and fo returne into the Land of your poileffion , & youthal dwel in ir, which Moyfes the feruant of our Lord gauc you beyond lordan,againft the ryfing of the funne. 16, And they made anfwer to Tofue , & faid: Al things that thou haft commanded vs we wil doe: and whither foeuer thou halt fend vs , wewil goe. 17. As we obeyed Moyfes in al things, fo wil we obey thee alfo : ‘only be our Lord thy God with thee, 2s he was with Moyfes, 18, He that fhal gainefay thy mouth, and not obe althy words that thou fhalt command him , iet him die. thou only take courage ; and doe mantuily. —_——