Common Places, Propositions · Section 36
Propoſitions out of the xvi. chapter of the booke of Exodus.
Neceſſarie.
proposition 1 GOd forſaketh not thoſe which obeie his calling, but rather ſuccoreth them according to their neceſſitie.
proposition 2 Other good things alwaies are to be deſired of God, not as a principall reward, but as neceſſarie helps for the performance of our calling.
proposition 3 When in the Lords praier, our dailie bread is required, temporall good things are deſired, temporall good things are aſked.
proposition 4 Albeit that God commanded, that Manna ſhould be dailie gathered, yet is it not therefore forbidden, to laie vp in barnes, or ſtorehouſes, the fruits which come yearelie for the neceſſarie vſes of this life, ſo that we auoid couetous carefulneſſe, the hinderance of our neighbours, and infidelitie.
proposition 5 They fall into the carefulneſſe forbidden vsus of to morrowe, which leaue their vocation, or doo not diligentlie execute the ſame, to the intent they may get themſelues ſubſtance, or elſe to obteine a more delicate eſtate.
proposition 6 Whereas Manna being preſerued till the morrowe, became corrupt, and was full of wormes, it was doone by miracle.
proposition 7 It is a weake argument of ſome of the Papiſts, that therefore the ſacrament muſt be kept in churches, bicauſe it was commanded the children of Iſraell, that Manna ſhould be kept for a perpetuall monument.
proposition 8 The miracle of giuing Manna, by reaſon that it comprehended manie other miracles, it alſo indured longer than all the reſt.
proposition 9 It is a wicked opinion to affirme, that by the merit and force of certeine words, though they be taken out of the holie ſcriptures, men doo obteine ſome certeine benefits of God.
proposition 10 The ſelfe-ſame thing was the ſacrament, as touching the ſubſtance of Manna with the old fathers, that the Euchariſt is in the new teſtament.
proposition 11 Whereas Chriſt ſaith in Iohn, that They which eate his fleſh, ſhall not die, but ſhall hauehave life, he vnderſtandeth the ſame of true and ſpirituall eating, which ſhall neuer be deſtitute of fruit.
proposition 12 And on the other ſide, when he ſaith, that the fathers which did eate Manna in the wildernes, are dead, this he meaneth touching them which did vnworthilie eate the ſame.
proposition 13 Among the fathers which did eate Manna in the deſert, ſome of them which did ſpirituallie and woorthilie eate, are not dead euerlaſtinglie.
proposition 14 Manna, which was an outward meat, could not giuegive eternall life, but in reſpect that it had Chriſt ioined therewith.
proposition 15 We muſt beware that we attribute not vntounto elements or ſignes, being conſidered apart from Chriſt, thoſe things which agrée to Chriſt himſelfe: but when as well Chriſt as the ſigne be receiued iointlie togither, then be the properties communicated.
Probable.
proposition 1 WHen the people are commanded by Moſes & Aaron to come vntounto the Lord, I vnderſtand it not to be vntounto the cloud, but vntounto the holie aſſemblie.
proposition 2 Quailes are therefore giuen in the euening, bicauſe in the daie time they flie ouer the ſea, and are accuſtomed at the euening tide to light on the ſhore: and Manna was commanded to be eaten in the morning, when it came downe with the dew.
proposition 3 When the children of Iſrael had heards and flocks of cattell, they deſired fleſh, either bicauſe their beaſts would not hauehave ſufficed ſo great a multitude, or elſe bicauſe they deſired delicate and deintie fleſh.
proposition 4 Manna mentioned in the holie ſcripture, is like vntounto that which the Arabian Phyſicians doo vſe, but not to that which Galen and the Gréeke Phyſicians call Manna.
proposition 5 Since God deſcribed to euerie particular man, a certeine meaſure of gathering Manna, he ſheweth that in policie there ſhould be no great inequalitie of liuing.