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A14282	Ten introductions how to read, and in reading, how to vnderstand; and in vnderstanding, how to beare in mind all the bookes, chapters, and verses, contained in the holie Bible. With an answer for lawyers. Physitions. Ministers.	Vaughan, Edward, preacher at St. Mary Woolnoth.	1594 (1594)	STC 24599; ESTC S119031	61,414	222

the sting or the life of death the life of sinne is the law now take away the law take away sin take away sinne then death is dead death is gon and vtterly destroyed d Luke 7 and to conclude your husband sweete Lady is aliue he is not dead but liueth he was a knight on earth he is now a e Gal. 5 Re. 1 6. Cant. 5 1. king in heauen And since his chance was to make such an exchange good Madame be merrie though his companie was your comfort yet be not against his preferment and know this to be a common and a commendable saying Past cure past care Out of remedie out of remēbrance f 1. Sam. 12 20.21.22.23 Dauid whilst his sonne was aliue fasted and wept bitterly but when he was dead he was merrie and reioysed greatly As it is sure whilst your husband was aliue you did the one so now seing he is dead let it be surely seene for good example that you doe the other As Dauid said of his sonne I shall goe to him but he shall not come to me so say you good worshipfull Lady I shall goe to my husband my husband shal not returne to me Beare you the crosse valiantly which you haue taken vp zealously no manner of discōtentment is ioyous for the present time but grieuous neuerthelesse afterwards it bringeth quiet rest As fine Gold is wrought in flaming fire and white siluer in blacke pitch euen so glorie is to be gotten with the depth of danger and pleasure with the price of paine As the roots of a tree are bitter and the fruits sweete euen so of bitter annoy comes pleasant ioy and of an heauie sute happy successe That it may be a parcell of your ioy in heauē to see him which was your ioy in earth remēber the instruction he gaue you whilst he was liuing remēber the councell he gaue you whilst he was dying remember to keepe in practise seriously and sinceerely among your houshold the studie and the excercise of true religion according to the doctrine of Iesus Christ To whose holy tuition and mercifull prouidence I leaue your Ladiship with so many good desires for your godly deserts as miles hath seuered S. Iulian and S. Leonard Yours in the Lord Edw Vaughan Sir William Herberd knight his particulars vpon the tenth story to weet from the birth of Christ to the worlds end COnsider the times from the birth of Christ to the end of the world which by the doctrin of Elias amounteth to 2000 yeares the whole time may be deuided into seuen successiue ages according to the Seuen Churches Reuel 1 4. Seales 5 1. Trumpets 8 6. The two first are ascribed to the church of Ephesus and Smyrma which accomplished the first 300 yeares for it is manifest that the things spoken to those churches concerne the first 300 yeares after Christ that is to say The examination of false Apostles the hating of the Nicolaitans heresies the induring of the extreame malice of the Iews Reu. 2 10. and of the ten persecutions with patience and constancie is called the tribulation of ten daies The third deuision belongeth to the church of Pergamus to which as to each that follow we attribute 340 yeares which reacheth from the yeare of our Lord till the 640. That age is cōmended for constancie in the truth and because there were then some that doted vpon images and had ordained dedication to the Idols temple to the martyrs and vigils in their honour which was a spirituall fornication practised of the Nicolaitans this age was therefore thus reprooued I haue a few things to say to thee because thou hast maintained the doctrine of Balaam which taught Balac to put a stumbling blocke before the children of Israel and that they should eat things sacrificed to Idols and to commit fornication Reu. 2 14. The fourth deuision or age is appropriated to the church of Thiatira extending from the yeare 640 to the yeare 980. The church in this age is commended for hir great deuotion but because it permitted the church of Rome to vsurpe authoritie and to be another Iesabel in Samaria drawing people to Idolatrie it is therefore reproued the plagues that God would bring vpon the church of Rome are declared and the children of the true church exhorted to continue in the antient faith which they haue already receiued The fift deuision or age is the church of Sardic which beginneth at the yere 980 continued till the yeare 1332. In this age the spirit of Iesabel was growne so strong and hir Achab so wicked that the visible church bare onely the name of a church the doctrine generally corrupted and things reduced touching the publicke worshipping of the Almightie vnto that miserable estare that they resembled the raigne of Achab and Iesabel wherein Elias had so greatly complained yet God had then his secreat elect expressed in these wordes I know thy workes and where thou dwellest Reu. 2 13. euen where Sathans throne is thou keepest my name and hast not denied the faith The sixt deuision appertaineth to the church of Philodelphia which containes the times that we liue and all the yeares from 1320 till the yeare of our Lord 1660. In this age of the church the truth of the doctrine is replenished and the truth of the Gospell florished notwithstanding all indeuours against it the faithfull are endued with spirituall strength thus I haue set before thee an open doore and no man can shut it for thou hast a little strength and hast kept my works Reu. 3 8. and hast not denied my name The seuenth deuision or age is attributed to the yeare 2000 this age forgetting the mercie of God wil proue to be carelesse of heauenly things being neither hote nor cold Therefore God will loath and abhorre this age manifest in these wordes I know thy workes and tribulation and pouertie but thou art ritch and I know the blasphemie of those which say they are Iews and are not Reu. 2.8.9 but are the synagogue of Sathan Besides these mysteries of the seuen churches let vs receiue farther instruction in the opening of the seuen seales concerning those things from the birth of our sauiour vnto the end of the world THe first seale being opened is discouered the preaching of the Gospell and the victories of Christ in subduing multitudes to his truth I beheld and loe there was a while horse and he that sate on him had a bow and a crowne was giuen vnto him Reu. 6 1.2 and he went out conquering that he might ouercome Hereof speakes that princely prophet Dauid Psal 45. Good lucke haue thou with thine honour ride on because of the word of truth of meekenesse and righteousnesse thine arrowes are verie sharpe and the people shal be subdued vnto thee euen in the middest among the kings enemies thy seal O God endureth for euer the scepter of thy kingdome is a right scepter 1.

was called Simeon the son of Iohn the fisher Christ did name him Caephas which is Peter Marke 3. he was one of the Apostles and the chiefest for diuerse causes He spake of works after iustification as S. Iames doth he descendeth into the dueties of each degree and to the conuersation of the Gentils It was written vpon the occasion of Siluanus being long with S. Paule and trauelling to Babilon met with S. Peter who deliuered him this Epistle generall The Argument of the second of Peter HE exhorteth all men from day to day and from degree to degree to increase in the works of regeneration to beware of false teachers the state of the last times He thought his death to be at hand wherefore he wrote to the glorie of his maister Christ The Argument of the first of Iohn THis Iohn was one of the foure Euangelists he was the sonne of Zebedeus beloued of Christ he wrote the Reuelatiō he exhorteth to faith brotherly loue to trie and approue the spirits to auoid false teachers hypocisie and small offences and to decke themselues with godly liuing The Argument of the second of Iohn HEre he handleth mutuall loue the duetie of widowes to beware of false teachers a way to know them he did write especially to a godly widow who with hir children and hir houshold laboured after Christ The Argument of the third of Iohn HE exhorteth his familiar friends and his host Gains to diuerse points of doctrine and to good works thanking God for the great comfort receiued at his hands he commends him for a harberour of Gods people The Argument of Iude. HE was one of the Apostles he instructed the Godly to continue in well doing he shewes the iustice of God against sinners and reuolters as the Angels the Iewes The Argument of the Reuelation THis booke containeth all the doctrine of the prophets concerning Christ which was to be accomplished after his comming the comfort that comes by his death the marriage of the church with the sanctified members the prouidence of God and the force of his word The third Introduction WHat may be said of the other books called Apocrypha you may easely iudge by the consideration of the authours and especially by the matter not consonant with other scriptures The word Apocrypha according to the Aetymologie thereof signifieth a mysterie a matter hid secreat or kept close They are books to be read at home and not in the congregation The first and second of Esdras 1 Esd 7 6. 2 Esd 8 4.5.6 THis Esdras was a Scribe and an expounder of the law when the people went from Babilon vnder the gouernment of Zarobabell in the time of Cirus and Darius Histaspis sonne he was in great report and bare credite among all people Concerning the authoritie of these books the matter it selfe hath no certaine ground especially That in the first of Esd the third and fourth of the three yong mens sentences In the first of Esdras the 4 and 1. the Angell reproued Esdras for his curious searching he was purposed to sorow and fast him selfe to death 2 Esd 10 4. both which things argued an vnperfect spirite in him This and the rest proues the books not fit to be matched with the Canonicall whose spirite was neuer found guiltie of controlment Tobias Tobias liued in the daies of Salmanser and Zenacherib his sonne kings of Assiria and was taken captiue at Niniuie This booke was penned by some godly man not perfectly knowne it was found in the Hebrue Assyrian and Chaldean tongues very antient yet with many blemishes and imperfections In the twelfth and fifteenth it is said That the Angels did present the praiers of the saints which none can do but Iesus Christ himselfe for he is our Aduocate and high sacrificer In the 4 and 10 old Tobias saith that Alms deliuered a man from death which is a matter contrarie to all holy scriptures In the seuenteenth he exhorteth to giue bread for the dead which in deed is a shew of Idolatrie notwithstanding the man is to be taken for godly and religious and his booke so far to be taken for credit as it doth agree with the Canonicall Iudith THis booke seemeth toward the last part to haue been penned after hir death by whome it is vncertaine the storie is in the Hebrue and Chaldean tongues yet not so receiued as the Canonicall because of the sundrie imperfections thereof Cap. 11 6.16 8.1.11 1. She tooke Gods name in vaine she denied the power of God and the authoritie of his Saints yeelding all to Holophernes Nabucadnezer was Emperour of Persia and his seat was at Babilon but not in Niniuie as is here laid downe For these and such like this booke cannot be allowed for sound yet many good things are therein therefore iudge soberlie and charitably Hester THis booke was written by some Graecian not truely knowne it is very friuolous it is annexed vnto the true story of Hester the variety thereof shewes the contrariety Wisdome IT is called in Greeke Panare●on that is to say The booke of all vertues Ierome writeth that Philoiudeus enlarged it with great wisdome and learning into Greeke being left before as a remnant or peece by Solomon this Philoiudeus liued in the daies of the Apostles and he embraced christian faith We must graunt that there are many excellent things done and spoken herein the author being eloquent and learned but yet euerie learned and eloquent booke may not be admitted among the saints Read Aug. de doct Christ lib. 2. De ciuitat dei lib. 17 20. Iunius preface in Apocrypha Baruck HE was secretarie to Hieremie This booke is not in the Hebrue but in the Greeke therefore it was not reckoned among the Israelits who were of that language It is not reckoned in the chronicles of the kings of Iudah nor yet accounted among the prophets Susanna IT is not knowne who did write this booke Although hir chastitie be commended yet the matter is not approued northe author canonized Bell and the Dragon THe author is not to be found and the matter is not likely The praier of Manasses HE is the author thereof as it is generally receiued It was in Greeke which did disanull the authoritie thereof among the Hebrues The first and second of Machabees THe first was written in Hebrue in the time of Iohannes Hircanus the sonne of Simon Machabeus It was receiued as a storie but not of credit to be with the books of God The second was in Greeke very friuolous and out of order The third was entituled Simon the high priest penned by all likelihood by Philoiudeus at Alexandria in Greek Mark their authority Iudas Machabeus offered for the dead and praied for them that their sinnes might be pardoned which thing is against all scripture 12 42. c. The sin which he praied for was mortall and not veniall as they say who would haue this booke to be canonicall yet they pray