An Handfull of Gleanings out of the BOOK of EXODUS. Probable solution of some of the mainest secrubles, and explanations of the hardest places of that booke. Scarcely given by any heretofore. By John Lightfoot, Staffordiensts, Minister of the Gospel at St. Bartholomew Exchange, London [2:] A Chronicle of the Times, and hte order of he texts of the Old Testament. Wherein the Bookes, Chapters, Psalmes, STories,Prophecies, & c. are reduced into their proper order. . . ; [a 206 page work dealing with the first book of Samuel, Kings I; the kingdoms of Judah and Israel, the Prophesie of Obadiah; etc.]

Lightfoot, John (March 29, 1602 Stoke on Trent - December 6, 1675)

Published by Printed by R. Cotes, for Andrew Crooke, and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Green Dragon in Pauls Church-yard, the signe of the Green Dragon in Pauls Church-yard, London, England, 1643

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(4), 58, (2); 108, (2); 206 pages. 193 x 158 mm. John Lightfoot (29 March 1602 - 6 December 1675) was an English churchman, rabbinical scholar, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, was educated at Morton Green near Congleton, Cheshire, and at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was regarded as the best orator among the undergraduates. After taking his degree he became assistant master at Repton School in Derbyshire; after taking orders, he was appointed curate of "Norton-under-Hales" (i.e. Norton in Hales) in Shropshire. There he attracted the notice of Sir Rowland Cotton, an amateur Hebraist, who made him his domestic chaplain at Bellaport. Shortly after the removal of Sir Rowland to London, Lightfoot, abandoning an intention to go abroad, accepted a charge at Stone, Staffordshire, where he continued for about two years. From Stone he removed to Hornsey, near London, for the sake of reading in the library of Sion College. In September 1630 he was presented by Cotton to the rectory of Ashley, Staffordshire, where he remained until June 1642. He then went to London, probably to supervise the publication of his work, A Few and New Observations upon the Book of Genesis: the most of them certain; the rest, probable; all, harmless, strange and rarely heard of before. Soon after his arrival in London he became minister of St Bartholomew's Church, near the Exchange. Lightfoot was one of the original members of the Westminster Assembly; his "Journal of the Proceedings of the Assembly of Divines from January 1, 1643 to December 31, 1644" is a valuable historical source for the brief period to which it relates. He was assiduous in his attendance, and, though frequently standing alone, especially in the Erastian controversy, he exercised considerable influence on the outcome of the discussions of the Assembly. He was made Master of Catharine Hall (renamed St Catharine's College) by the parliamentary visitors of Cambridge in 1643, and also, on the recommendation of the Assembly, was promoted to the rectory of Much Munden, Hertfordshire; he kept both appointments until his death. In 1654 Lightfoot had been chosen vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge, but continued to live at Munden, in the rectory of which, as well as in the mastership of Catharine Hall, he was confirmed at the Restoration. While travelling from Cambridge to Ely, where he had been collated in 1668 by Sir Orlando Bridgeman to a prebendal stall, he caught a severe cold, and died at Ely. Lightfoot bequeathed his library of Old Testament books and documents to Harvard University. It was destroyed in the great fire of 1764. John Lightfoot. Opera omnia. Rotterdam: Reinier Leers, 1686. His first published work, entitled Erubhin, or Miscellanies, Christian and Judaical, written in his spare time and dedicated to Cotton, appeared in London in 1629. In 1643 Lightfoot published A Handful of Gleanings out of the Book of Exodus. Also in 1643 he was appointed to preach the sermon before the House of Commons on occasion of the public fast of 29 March. It was published under the title of Elias Redivivus, the text being Luke 1. 17; in it a parallel is drawn between the John the Baptist's ministry and the work of reformation which in the preacher's judgment was incumbent on the parliament of his own day. In 1644 the first instalment of an unfinished work was published in London. The full title was The Harmony of the Four Evangelists among themselves, and with the Old Testament, with an explanation of the chiefest difficulties both in Language and Sense: Part I. From the beginning of the Gospels to the Baptism of our Saviour. The second part, From the Baptism of our Saviour to the first Passover after, followed in 1647, and the third, From the first Passover after our Saviour's Baptism to the second, in 1650. On 26 Aug. 1645 he again preached before the House of Commons. . .

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• Title: An Handfull of Gleanings out of the BOOK of EXODUS. Probable solution of some of the mainest secrubles, and explanations of the hardest places of that booke. Scarcely given by any heretofore. By John Lightfoot, Staffordiensts, Minister of the Gospel at St. Bartholomew Exchange, London [2:] A Chronicle of the Times, and hte order of he texts of the Old Testament. Wherein the Bookes, Chapters, Psalmes, STories,Prophecies, & c. are reduced into their proper order. . . ; [a 206 page work dealing ...
• Publisher: Printed by R. Cotes, for Andrew Crooke, and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Green Dragon in Pauls Church-yard, the signe of the Green Dragon in Pauls Church-yard, London, England
• Publication Date: 1643
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket