wickednesse as high as the Diuels can goe Yet all that goe vnder Papists names are not of this minde nor Giltinesse but all well charged with error here are gilty without good change of mind While this standeth honor to Mary aboue her place The Popes throne Satans be all one For this maine poinct would I gladly haue a learned Papist to reply that all might see what can be spoken against the trueth Of the Dragons speach Lawes be the speach of a Policy and the Popes decretals ouerruling states are wicked commonly though all cannot be senslesse yet by vnlawfull men vrged they are all wicked Seeing the Pope can haue no more right thē a Teacher if he were learned al frō him is like an hand blackened with pitch And S. Paul taught the Romans that euery soule should submitt himselfe to the higher power Nero was then in place and S. Paul appealed vnto him And Nero the wicked man in politie sensible from natiue witt was S. Pauls gard the good of the world against the Scribes Synedrion to which all must stande Deut. 17. prouided alwayes that they speake sensibly from the Law otherwise all their right was lost and when they persequuted Christ He gaue the Romanes their auctority for life and death that Iewes might not kill any 40. yeares before Ierusalem fell So the heathen Lawes giuen for mans ciuill good be the earth that drinketh vp the riuer cast out of the Dragons mouth to drowne the Church Of the two hornes counterfaiting the Lambes The Pope praetendeth to folow Aharon and the Leuites and thence commeth his spirituall sword and he will without all color of warrant be a King of Kings and Lord of Lords His wickednesse in the first being detected should shew that the Dragon speaketh in him Aharon had no more to doe with gouernemēt then any other man nor any of his sonnes and it was death for any to meddle with his trade that was not of his seede that his house should be distinct till Christ of Iudah sacrificed himselfe through the veile of his flesh went not into the Limbum as the deceiued hold but into the very heauens after this Leuies office was wholly ended though M r. Eduward Liuely be commended for his Persian Chronologie Which maketh sacrifices of Gods house hindred in Emporour Vespasians dayes that they could not be done by whom they ought to be done or not so diligently as they ought He and his commēders missed strangely of Christianity vnto the depth of Satans badnesse and next them the Pope Aharons sonnes for strange fier were presently killed and were not forgiuen in this world but were in the world to come But the Pope blaspheming the Holy Ghost and the plaine trueth of Gods spirite shall neither be forgiuē in this world nor in the world to come but as Iscariot in this world is giuen ouer from sin to sin that he cannot come to the iustice of God and is expresly condemned to aeternall flames for the world to come Chap. 19. Of the Popes succession The Popes brag of succession euer since S. Peters dayes in vaine S. Peter was no Priest nor of Leui But an Elder 1. Pet. 5. and hauing no more honorable faith then those Elders Elders neuer had particular succession though he Thalmud in Aboth to proue wicked traditions feigne succession howe one deliuered ouer Lawe by mouth May. praef Tom. 1. Gamaliel had S. Paul S. Paul Timothie and millions who kept the Bible to this day And Christian Princes who truely knew God left succession in some of their policie and still there were some Apostolie or Angelie Ecclesiae that sagely read the Bible and Baptized and brake bread the Communion of the body of Christ and gaue the Cupp his New Testa blood The high Councill made Doctores and they were all either learned in Diuinitie or in great blame before God and one skilfull might make thousandes in few year that men should not brag of succession from one to know both Testaments pure in write sure for meaning by auctores of the tongue where enimies and friendes vse language alike and praeceptiue for all that ought to bee knowen this dutie a Doctor should performe to shew the face of Christ to shine like the sunne through all the Bible But neuer Pope to this day could doe this much Therefore they should not clayme the spirituall horne As holy Paul wished K. Agrippa and all the assemblie equall to himselfe sauing his bondes And S. Luke ioyed to pen S. Paules infinite witte therein and what an Asse he made of Tertullus so true Papae would haue reioyced to haue made all Princes that gaue them reuerence perfect in the word of God But they had not S. Ieromes spirite to goe by might to learne of a Iewe the Ebrew tongue and to write till 91. to open Gods worde Hee alone did more then euer were in Rome Papae Therefore hee deserued more reuerence then they all and the slow bellies should be ashamed to be such Kinges of Locusts in the world and all Cardinals Buyshopps that crosse that crosse the common Lawes of nations And People must needes be wicked that honor the prelate in Iudgement Esai 32. repeteth Moyses law and saith for the Gospell that vnder it Nabal shall not be called Nadib The foole shall not be called most reuerend or right reuerend But hee shal be such whose studie standeth in most reuerend or right reuerend matters I now translate Nadib a generall terme of high title Isai 13. to particular speciall vse euery commandement of God hath his Maiestie which created the World and they breed Monsters that make crosse lawes Of the ancient facilitie in teaching the Law The holy Iewes did as all men should honor the finger of God in the two tables wherein all wisedome of faith manners is conteined And a late worke Tiphereth glory of Israel telleth that Ebrew letters vowels prickes accents are at this day as God set in the two tables All Popes Academies deny this their owne glory and would make mans witt auctor of these three that all should bee accursed who make man their strength So wise is the Church that cannot erre as to deny the pillar of truth But still God kept in the company of some that belonged to the Church the ground of trueth This being setled wee may go on to shew how the godly did honor the tables of God There they reckon letters 613. And because the ten Commandements for faith and workes conteine all Diuinitie the holy Scribes drew all Lawes of Moses into the number of 613. They might haue made them moo or fewer But by Gods spirite in honor of Gods writing they bring them to his letter 613. to shew Gods care in the Law that one Iod or prick should not perish so wee see that God honoreth the Alphabet order psalmes 25. 34. 37. 111. 112. 119. 145. Prou. 31. Lam. 6.
great asseueration that if I went to Zwitzerland I should remoue war I went presently to Basil and Zurick and Berne heard and vsed me with all kindnes Mine host of Basil a D. of Law D. Iacobus Henric-petri had occasion to goe to Friburge to D. Pistorius and on a thursday at Supper spake much of me to him Then D. Pistorius sayd The scholers of England be learned in the tongues but it were better they knew the Fathers better On Fryday my Doctor telleth me what he sayd On Saterday I gaue a Greek reply to the Post as Pistorius triumphed in Greek to this summe The Greek Fathers were in eloquence vnmatchable and in handling of the Trinity and Incarnation of Christ and Iustification by faith and of holy soules passage hence to heauen and of wicked to Gehenna they all agreed and none euer of 1400. yeares thought of Purgatory as their oration in the Synode of Basil shewed 160. yeares ago which D. Iacobus Zwinger yet hath And so much learning as their age could vse against eloquent heathen God gaue them But they had no occasion to deale much for text of scripture with such and therefore lesse studied it But for the Lords Supper This was their common opinion that the Bread and Wine were Icones and Symbola Images and Tokens of the body and blood of Christ As Origen spake the consent of his age and Eusebius from his great Librarie the recorder of common graunts And eloquent Nazianzen and others by Typi and Antitypa and as the most sage Theodorite in sad disputation to clear other matters bringeth the same as a graunted common matter to proue douted so Macarius Monachus sheweth his dayes opinion calling the bread Symbolon of the body And none wise could doubt marking vpon what prophecy the Lordes Supper stood The Angell Gabriel told holy Daniel that after 490. yeeres Christ the King by his death would end sacrifice and offrings And the Iewes dated all dayes in common Epistles and conueyances the yeares since the returne from Babel as wee the yeres of our Lord in whose last yeare they By Daniel looked the Kingdome of heauen should appeare Luc. 19. though they knewe not in what manner Nowe when sacrifice was to end at the Supper of the Lambe our Lord to seale the end of sacrificing gaue for beasts flesh and blood which figured his body and blood bread and wine to bee in couenant speach his Body and Blood All Graecians knewe proper speach and civill that hee should bee bad that knew not the place of both In proper speach a Father begetteth his Son in ciuill speach Romulus was ancester to Iulian Apostata Baasa to Achab Iechonias Salomontiades to Salathiel Nathanides So the token of a Kings seale is called his seale This all the Greeke Fathers knewe and tottering Theophylact your onely turneth to this And the taking of the Lords Supper is our oth that wee beleeue hee died in due tyme to bury Moses by his buriall and that by grace his spirit is with vs to sure saluation as mighty as by his word it made the world More is needlesse and cannot bee but is wickedly forged So farr the Fathers were rare not alwayes in commenting vpon the Byble But extremely deceiued almost all in honouring the Apocrypha which Iewes kept to play for Iosephus against Appiones that denyed all the Iewes story Therefore not to plead with them from the Law full of paradoxes they object failes and humane workes to busy them for all And they meant litle further great matter in them The Greeke Fathers sawe not this much though Eusebius told the true law had but 22. bookes Nazianzen agreeth for the number but misseth in regarding one Apocryphon for holy Iudith as I remember and Athanasius casteth out holy Hester So we like of the fathers for learning controverted in their age not aey for comment And these groundes ye shall graunt me or combat The Hebrew text is kept by the Massorites so that nothing can be corrupted to alter one wordes signification The Iewes knew their owne tongue and teach vs the native of it In honour of the two tables of 613. letters they bring all speches of lawes bidding or forbidding into 613. And hold that all which faith or life may think of is in them And the New Testament never goeth further And no one syllable helpeth Rome but Italy is expresly cursed by your owne translation as by all Iewes exposition Numb 24. vpon which all the Apocalyps maketh a reuelation This England holdeth and will not give place to Rome but will dispute with D. Pistorius Protonotary of the Pope at Basil one day in Hebrew an other in Greek with penners of every syllable of our speach Protonotarius is stout in these tongues as he hath written de arte Cabalistica though he hath missed altogether and sayth all Rabbins say Melchisedek sacrificed bread wine where none ever thought so but all hold it offred to Abrahams souldiers to eat and drink as he was a King and blessed Abraham as a sacrificer And for Greek Protonotarius and Pope are yet to learne how to defend the purity of the New Testament and to see Antique Septuagint Thalmudique and Apostolique dialects And no Papist ever could speak or write Ebrew Greek as coūtrey speach Thou knowest if thou dare dispute I may overthrow the Pope Therefore tell thine own hart and write to him that an English man wrote to thee that the chalenger will give over his chalenge or hee bee counted a shamelesse lier To this effect I wrote to him a Greek oration and sent R. Rubens Chananean epistle which honoured England above all nations that he might see he had not to deale with a Thraso Three dayes after he wrote to Zurick great commēdations of my poor studies specially of Greek eloquēce as native Attique And at three monethes end after much combat in all Greek he writeth thus I will not dispute nor have our old Religion to be called into question Then both sides Cantones showted that the feare of war was gone seing the Popes chalenger putteth vp this that the Pope hath not one syllable in the Bible for his defence But is vnvinciblie accused and hath none that dare dispute in the holy tongues for his defence Now he dareth not for stark shame require supremacie being so broken After this what Basil spake to English of me how for one all England should heare better while Basil stood one M r Brand of Londen and M. Ward of Cornewall they told me and belike at home How they told Netherlanders that this combat ended warres and sware so they will never deny it noble Danes know and doubtlesse told their K. how they staying for me at a ferry neare Leopoldus buriall which they had seen and I would see a Zurick hearing my name sayd wee were in great feare of war till the Englander brake Pistorius I would gladly see his countenance which argueth the mind that in
Talmudiques in description maketh a figure of the eternall wight He as Aharon went through the veile of his flesh into the holy from the Altar of the Crosse and performed all measures of justice That is heere taught by measure with a line of Temple and Altar Matters visible were to expresse the inuisible So Christ telleth that he is the Temple saying Destroy this Temple and I will build it againe in three dayes This Law Ye shall reuerence my Tabernacle Leuit. chap. 19. 30. and 26. 2. Commaunded to reuerence infinitly the Tabernacle of Christ And Ben Arama noteth truely vppon Exod. Port. 52. That God soone did cast off Moses Tabernacle and Salomons Temple to shew that he would rest in the Tabernacle or temple of Christ Now the Iewes to make Christ Aharon and Melchitzedek make this death that Christ said Destroy this Temple and in three dayes I will build it vp againe The highest grace for life the slaues of Sathan turne to death whereupon they were neither forgiuen in this world nor in the world to come Profane states bee commonly forgiuen in this world as the Epicure Luc. chap. 16. though in the world of soules they parch for euer but the Iewes sinning against the light of the holy Spirite and grace of saluation perish openly in this world surer of eternal woe in Haides the world of soules in which Abraham in Haides in the kingdome of heauen will tell them that they are not his sonnes For he in Izhak receiued from death saw the resurrection of Christ and reioyced But the Iewes gaue money to Souldiours to haue the resurrection of CHRIST denied Of measuring the faithfull The Curtaines in Moses Tabernacle were made fitt for the number and the number of men aged twentie and aboue was thus the sonnes of REVBEN 1. 46500. 151450. SOVTH Summa totalis 603550. Simeon 2. 59300. Gad. 3. 45650. IEHVDAH 4. 74600. 186400. EAST Issachar 5. 54400. Zabulon 6. 57400. EPHRAIM 7. 40500. 108100. WEST Manasses 8. 32200. Beniamin 9. 35400. DAN 10. 62700. 157600. NORTH Aser 11. 41500. Nephtaly 12. 53400. Thus God in Num. 1. and 2. twise reckoned his chosen of the XII tribes besides Leui. And the Curtains were fitted to such a number So heere Iohns Doctrine shall teach a certaine number such as God hath chosen and no more the other will folow the God of this world A man by mans witt might maruaile why Princes would suffer such a deceiuer as the Pope to stand one yeere his doctrine being altogether against all light and each Prince being able to cast him from his territories But God hath chosen a few only and none can come to Christ vnlesse the Father draw him Of the Court within the Temple to be cast out in condemnation of Iudaisme Maymonides in Bethabechica or treatise of the Temple about 430. yeer agoe wrote how the Iewes yet look for returne to Ierusalem and to haue a temple like Ezekiels or Salomons For Ezekiels Saint Peter telleth Chap. 1. 2. Epist That euery Prophecie is not to be expounded properly because the holy men of God spake as they were caried by the spirit of God Now Dan. 9. telleth that the Iewes Temple should be vtterly destroyed and all sacrifice ended So by Daniell they should know that the Messias should be the building wherein God would delite as the very Iew Izhak Ben Arama noted aboue in Port. 52. Iohn preuenteth Iudaisme in shewing that this Temple hath no Leuites court to sacrifice nor separation for Israell But all be heere kings and sacrificers and their Court reacheth ouer all the Citie And old Iudaisme is now profanenesse A digression to compare the old Temple or Tabernacle with the spirituall The Temple of Salomon imitateth Moses Tabernacle and all Ierusalem within the walles the space within Israels curtaines as the Thalmud noteth Christ is the Temple Ioh. 3. High sacrificer Heb. 3. who went through the vaile of his flesh by his own blood into the Holy He is the Arke golden within and without and conteyning the Law grauen in him And all growen into Christ should haue the Law in their heart and looke for the crowne of the Law In the outer Tabernacle or Temple were the Candlestick of gold lightned with beaten pure oile by the high sacrificer and the table of xij loues set openly that had crowne worke and the Altar of incense couered with golde The Candlesticke the golden people beaten pure oile the spirit of grace that commeth by afflictions the kindler CHRIST him selfe Shem Tob the Iew commeth in words thus farr though he knew not God to be in Christ The Table expresseth the gouernor who prouideth bread for the xij Tribes the xij monethes And that paines findeth a crowne So King Ioseph feeding Israell held the xij Tribes in his Beryll on Aharons shoulders King Moses King Iesus King Samuel King David and King Salomon ware the Crowne for this Table The Altar of incense was proper to Aharons sonnes high Sacrificers and lower as Zacharie of Abia the eighth of 24. courses This worke had his crowne Now Christ is our Angell only to stande at the golden Altar that our prayer as incense may come before God In the court an altar was of sacrificing where daylie sacrifice the Pascha of flocke beast Kidd or Lambe a duetie to all and voluntarie Pascha of Oxe and Ram voluntaire and of two dayes feast Ioh. 18. were killed had their fatt brent on the altar and blood shed at the foote of the altar where pypes conueied it away Christ is our Lambe Oxe and Altar and when he ended sacrifice he gaue bread and wine which his Disciples did eate and drinke in tast like other bread and wine to be his body and blood for our soules Symbolon Typus Antitypus Icon in Greekes who durst not looke for a knot in a bulrush Of the holy Synagogues The Synagogues sauing in 48. Leuites townes vsually were of Israel no Leuite and they were Bishopps all the Ancient learned one Sergeant of the cōgregation he read the Law and the Archbishop requested the other in estieme to speak to the Law how all tended to MESSIAS So a sabbath dayes iourney would draw all the Law vnto Christ And all were holden wicked who being of wealth brought not vp their children frō 7. year in the law Their cōmentaries to this day in peecemeales agree with the marrow of the New Testam Abben Ezra is wōderful Dan. 9. speaking better for our maine battel thē any of ours Where he saith the 70. seauens are from the beginning of Daniels prayer vnto the sealing of Messias the holy of holy Our Acadamiques might be ashamed that a Iew in Rhodes now 500. year ago spake better thē they for our Gospel Zohar on Gen. 1. Elohim in these words Let vs make man may be likened to a father a mother of the work The father saith what wilt thou make man he will rebell and an ill
the Pope be sitting vpon the Empire by litle and litle And England at 1200. yer would not grant him supremacy Sigibert And good father WICKLIFE now 200. yeares ago preached that if the commune lawes of England might stand the Pope should haue no stroke in England And good Lady Margareth a pearle for a woman the mother to K. Henry the seauenth when she built Christs Colledge S. Iohns in both which I was fellow and owe them this dutie she in those dayes made lawes to aduance knowledge to ruinate the Pope And the valiant Henry VIII trust him out from being head or taile in our Church so the Empire ridden by the Pope stood but a litle while in sundrie places And all the while of the arising the Grecians as Chrysostome Andreas Oecumenius taught that the Romane Empire would be reuiued though in Greek stories Sysimus and the ecclesiasticall Alaricus Giezerichus wrought much harme and there Antichrist should reigne And if the Greeke old Doctores had bene well known the Pope had neuer gotten peny by his Masse Areopagita taketh the worde in the Law sense the token of the body so Eusebius the Image and Symbolon and so elder Origene and later Nazianzene Antitypes and later Theodorit in a full disputation and Macarius the Greeke Monke calleth it Symbolum and full many moo Then the Pope had no auctoritie for turning bread into the body of Christ to make him haue 1000. bodies and to make Religion a stage to Angels and men This long warning of the Popes arising was a warning to all ages that they should not suffer the starr falling to make bitter the waters of the Law nor darken the starrs and in all ages he had gainesayers And both Princes and People who contemned the warning of this book were worthie to be giuen ouer to all force of error And the Beast which was and is not the same is also the eight and one of the seauenth The Pope shall be the eight chaleng place aboue all follow all heathen superstitiō in name staffe apparel of Caesares and Temples setting but a face of Christianity vpon them A plaine description of the Popes comming vp And the tenne hornes which thou sawest are tenne Kings which haue not yet receiued the kingdome but receiue auctoritie as kings one houre with the beast These haue one minde and shall part their power and auctoritie to the Beast These shall make warre with the Lambe and the Lambe shall ouercome them for he is Lord of Lordes and King of Kings and they which are with him are called and chosen and faithfull Steuchus against Valla reckoning the Countries which held of the Pope bringeth them to ten But we must know that ten vsually is a great number about ten fewer or moo These kingdoms vnder the first Caesares were not so parted as when Iulian the Apostata kept at Paris who neuer heard that his Fathers brother the great Emperor Constantine gaue the West to the Pope and if any such matter had bene it could neuer be hid from him But when the Pope of Rome by long begging for S. Peter and so for Monasteries in many Countreies had gotten much wealth and ready good wills in Rome and the West to set vp againe the Empire at Rome He picketh quarrels with the Patriarch of Constantinople for procession of the holy Ghost and Pascha day and supremacy still of old labored to extinguish the Greek tongue and puritie of Latin and weakneth the East Empire that barbarous Gothes reigned whom to ouerthrow Princes gladly ioyne with him and he with them still for great Countreyes that in the end they sweare to helpe him to hold Constantinus donation and to bring the East the Greeke to agree with Rome And after 1000. yea the king of Locustes hath Satans throne in such power that his winges bee chariots and horses to cause kinges to doe what hee will As for Ierusalem warrs to ouerthrow all their kingdomes And in these tymes Satan bare sway that scant any learned were in the West But Monasteries and Collegies were built to fortifie haeresie that Greeke was vnknowen till our age and Ebrew to this houre for skill in the tongue able to hold water and to make a translation of good warrant to all learned iudgements In this blindnesse still some Abates and such fought well by pen and at the last by Martyrs whom the Pope damned and the secular power put to death But in the end Christ by his martyrs roareth like a Lion and seauen thunders tell his anger seauen Angels poure it out and men eate the little booke of Scripture and preach to nations and kinges to bethinke them how they did set vp Rome And hee saith to mee The waters which thou sawest where the Where sitteth are people and folke and nations and tongues The phrase is from Babel Ierem. 51. O thou which sittest vpon many waters and from Dan. 3. These phrases teach the simple how plaine Gods Law is lightning the eyes to call old matters into minde and to teach by old euents howe other matters will fall out Moreouer this open speach of manie waters to meane people and nations would making a commentarie in the margin vpon many places of the old Testament inlighten much Of the Popes fall And the tenne hornes which thou sawest vpon the Beast these shall hate the Whoore and make her desolate and naked and eate her flesh and shall burne her in the fire The same kingdomes which cleaued to the Pope for profite or deceipt when they see all profit gone and how he by terror of forged purgatorie gate Princes great lands wil alter their minde to hate the Pope Many millions in England hate his keies in Canterburies armes as a mockage to the true keies of knowledge so they hate the title grace in Scotland as doth the learned M. Meluin others hate Leuies Linen Cope Priest and Kneeling at receiuing bread which should bee receiued with most holy iudgement not in the Popes gesture others hate the Leprosie of the Apocrypha books the writers of which shew no more faith in Christ then did Flauius Iosephus nor so much Others hate the Popes forme of prayer patched vp for his vse to content the people not to spend that tyme in requiring of them opening of the Bible And many would haue our Bishops caught in praemunire to loose all Others make great sute to haue their lands Now if in England most reuerend right reuerend fathers so learned as they take vpon them to bee bee so hated for remnant of Papistrie what hatred shall open Popery haue where the Pope dareth excommunicate kinges Thal. Ierusal noteth that the King might not be excommunicated nor any chiefe Ruler But be sagely warned to keepe his house for a time and to saue his honor But the high Sacrificer was whipped with as many stripes as any other for his faultes Ierus in Sanedrin But our Pope will bee excommunicating
manifold and vnsearchable is the wisedome of God The Iewes seeing Ioseph gone for Ieroboam might feare lest Iuda should fall more for killing of Christ that now only Saint Pauls Bishopricke of the West is best in Christianitie he foretold how Rome would deceiue and bad them not to be proud but feare and not ouerrule the ciuill officer but be subiect all this is vaine to many Iosephs Beryll the glorie of Paradise is now abiect Of the Topaz Simeon hath the ninth place to be very base yet afore manie of the handmaides children Of the Chrysophrase The Chrysophrase is a white Achate with a golden lace and part greene Achate simply is in Exod. 28. for Nephtaly Iohn giueth the trimmest of Achates as God shewed him And Nephtali is set before Dan because Dan first fell away Of the Hyacinth Leshem was Dan his stone and in notation it is Folow God and in the partition of the lande Leshem the Towne was giuen to Dan as prophecied in the name of his stone though it were farre from the other soile of his where Samson dwelt Semel is an idole Alpha and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mega gaue him warning that he turned not the Letters But none can stand longer than God stayed him Ionathan the some of Manasses of Gerson of Moses who would thinke it he and his house were Priests to the idole till the remouing of the glorie from Ephraim and Ieroboam regarding not that set vp a Calfe in Dan. The Antichrist by imitation of idoles is Dans childe Barbarous Rome cannot auoid that but by a ridiculous distinction of Idole and Image Of Gads Amethyst God of ordinarie course should folow Dan and Aser the yonger being set before him for Anna the daughter of Phanuel Thus Iohn comforteth the 12. tribes in their owne veine of speach calling all their stories of 1700. yeeres often reuolued in the same desert to shew the Constancie of God to encourage the 12. tribes not to be amazed that Rome hath crucified Christ and destroyed the lowe Ierusalem but to know that it also shall be destroyed after vnwilling furthering of the Gospell by martyring and when ease and wealth bringeth blindnesse and error it shall vnder praetense of holinesse and by persequution cause more study of Law then all former ages had The Iewes soone would climme into the mountaine of Tabâ—r in minde to acknowledge this description to be all from the Prophets and most easie to vnderstand And this cutteth off all Iudaisme which the Rabbins haue to this houre who from Ezekiel 40. looke still for a returne to Canaan But against that S. Peter told them that euery Prophecie of Scripture is not to bee expounded properlie And the twelue gates were twelue pearles euery one seuerall gate was of a pearle The wordes of the holy Apostles open the way into the Citie and the spirit of God spake in them and no one could be aboue the other but euery one stood a foundation vpon the Rocke By them which haue written we know that the others had wordes also as pearles When the Pope buried the stile of the Apostles and brought in Romes tongue and neither that pure then the pearles lost their gaynesse And the street of the Citie was pure gold as cleere glasse The open lawes are agreeable to the soules frame in iudgment from God and rules of faith bee cleere Rome hath scant one rule of either But their lawes crosse commune reason and their speaches of faith be either false or litigious And a Temple I saw not in it for the Lord God of hostes is the Temple and the Lambe Earthly buildings profit not as all S. Stephens oration telleth and the faithlesse Iew Izhak Ben. Arama Port. 52. shewing how the Tabernacle thrise described and set vp did litle helpe they presently misbelieuing And Salomons Temple after his death was robbed by Shisak King of Egypt and rejected of the tenne Tribes And this as the Iew confesseth to shew that God rested in CHRIST a goodlier Temple the heauen and the earth whose teÌ„ple when it should be once pull'd downe he would raise it vp the third day Moyses Law ye shall stand in reuerence of my Tabernacle tooke effect for punishment in Ephraim for Elies sonnes defiling of women waiting there that God foresooke his Tabernacle in Shiloh and Ephraim fell in the day of battel 34000. 1. Sam. chap. 4. and Psal 78. Nabuchadnezar that destroyed the Temple was so many yeeres like a beast as the Temple was in building And his Babell for the holy Temple was destroyed The carnall Iewes vrged Moyses Law against Christ as to death That he said destroy this Temple and I will build it againe in three dayes He spake of his owne Temple For which the Law of Moses was made and the Tabernacle and the frame of the world and because they stood not in reuerence of his Temple hee destroyed them By the former Law as they martyred S. Stephen for saying Iesus of Nazareth would destroy the Temple And they meant as much for S. Paul for speaking teaching against the Temple and they thought he had brought Trophimus a grecian of Ephesus into the Temple and so polluted it But the true Temple they saw not till theirs was destroyed And here Iohn expoundeth Moses That God the Lord of hostes the Angels and goodly frame of the world That CHRIST in whom all fullnesse it selfe dwelleth is the Temple And they that crucifie a picture as his making him vile or worship a piece of bread as his body being a mockage to Angells and men shall finde no place in Ierusalem The Temple of the Lambe must be vsed as hee teacheth It sitteth in shining light in heauen and may not be made base in this darke ayer by our foolish inuentions his owne commanded works as Salomons Temple cannot conteine God 1. King 8. Act. 7. Esai 66. This one rule ouerthroweth all Talmudiques by the Prophets whose words they reuereÌ„ce A plaine conclusion from Esai 60. and 51. and Ezeck 47. of the Gentiles Ierusalem And the Citie shall haue no neede of the sun to giue light in it for the glory of God lightneth it and the Candle of it is the LAMBE Isai 60. Arise be lightned for thy light is come and the light of the ETERNAL riseth ouer thee Ephes. 4. He saith arise thou that sleepest and stand vp from the dead and Christ shall shine to thee Many Rabbines as S. Paul draw Esaies words to Christ and when Iohn wrote 144000. Iewes faithfull would so take it Isai 60. The Sun shal be no more thy light on the day and the brightnesse of the Moone shall not giue light vnto thee But the ETERNAL shal be thy continuall light and thy GOD shall bee thy honor Thy Sun shall no more sett and thy moone shall not be hid for the Eternall will be thy continuall light and the dayes of thy mourning shall be gone worldly ioy shall not bee thy