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book_n	authority_n	new_a	testament_n	2,897	5	7.9529	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68824	The oliue leafe: or, Vniuersall abce Wherein is set foorth the creation, descent, and authoritie of letters: together with th'estimation, profit, affinitie or declination of them: for the familiar vse of all studentes, teachers, and learners of what chirography soeuer, most necessarie. By two tables, newly and briefly composed charactericall and syllabicall. Of Alexander Top Gent.	Top, Alexander.	1603 (1603)	STC 24121; ESTC S119954	13,059	30

and in count fiue and bestoweth likewise He the other fiue on Abram so their names afterward remayned Sarah and Abraham Now whether it were darkly to include Jah the name of GOD in both their names or whether the Iewes had hitherto mist in writing or pronouncing of these names according to proprietie of the Lords intention and were here corrected or whether it was vpon the foundation of the Promise indifferently vpon them both Diuines must conclude Many other as secret things as these to the like purpose the Reader by a more diligent obseruation of the Hebrew text may apprehend Such was their estimation with Christ in the new Testament that he boasted of their ineffable and euerlasting constancie shewing that vntill Heauen Earth should passe and the Law by his Kingdome be fulfilled the least of these lytle-ones should not passe no not one tittle which is lesse then the least of them Neither is it like vnlesse the whole frame of these Hebrew Figures had been diuinely extant from God and more then humane from the beginning that Christ would in this place haue prophecied so long continuance and so necessarie lasting of them Moreouer the Lord God the Creator himselfe remembreth them in the eares of Iohn saying I am Alpha and Omega the beginning and the ende Hee that was is and shal be Where he not onely authorizeth their beginning but aloweth that they shall continue as instruments of his prayse vnto the worldes end Though in this place for the Gospels sake he applyed him to the capacitie of the Grecians rather then of the Hebrewes Also the Hebrew order of Alphabet is very renowmed among the Prophets as in the 119. Psalme of Dauid which is deuided according to the number of the letters into two and twentie euen sections to wit eight Verses in euery Staffe beginning orderly with some one of the Rew Likewise the Lamentations of Ieremiah in the same sort distinguished Many other proper instances if so be this Abce did want honour or preheminence might be brought out of the booke of Ezra Nehemiah Canticles Daniel which I altogether omit Notwithstanding I will something regard the number of fifteene Tu why the Hebrews heere interrupted their order of account in refusing Jah ten and fiue and challenging Tu nine and sixe whereof some opinion hath been that is was to spare the diuine waighty name of God from so vaine and idle a vse that would so often frequent both eye eare in all the prophane reckoning of man Neither will I neglect the care of the Massorits which so affected them for their singular operation and diuine employment that they studiously obserued for the preseruation of them how many they were and how oft euery of them was repeated through the old Testament so that in the Prophets they found the whole summe of them Eight hundred and fifteene thousand 280. And in all the old Testament the number of Aless to be two and fourty thousand three hundred seuentie and seuen and so of the rest of the Letters which numbers they both diligently and saythfully recorded to their posteritie besides many other agreeable conclusions resolutions and parallels may be drawen for the prayse of the Hebrew Abce Rew. As the two and twentie Fathers before and after the Flood as the two and twentie Pillars of all Common-wealthes seeing they being the recorded foundations of all Chronicles both the age of Times and order of the whole Worlde grew and waxed old together with them Neither altogether disagreeable hereunto are the Bookes of the New Testament as Cornishes to the former Pillars counted absolutly twentie two Hitherto of their estimation PEREGRINATION PRopounding alwayes that this Literature of whose beginning authoritie and dignitie we haue already spoken is the auncientest and Mother of all other kindes there remayneth something to be proued of their Demigration or Transportation which at a glaunce maketh them seeme rather like Nouices of some new inuention then the same such as they are in deed so much the clymat apparell and entertainement heir gate their facion and their face hath changed Before the Flood of what account soeuer they were or in what Landes soeuer they lyued and florished as I haue declared in this place is litle materiall to recite because all Monuments of prayse except such as Noah and his Sonnes could for the later ages by hand and hart preserue the Inundation wipt cleane away But in them and their Nephewes both Nature it selfe skill of substances and causes and hatty wisedome of Artes and skill haue been continued and reserued for vs. It is most cleare that in the Arke and presently after the Flood there could be but one Literature one Abce or Tongue which they would still be mindfull of and kindly commend it to their children as a glorious worke and famous remembrance of the other Worlde But after the Sonnes of Noah began to possesse and inhabite all parts of the Earth their tongue their voyce and hand-writing foorthwith by little and little by ignorance or negligence most easily declined For Of these were the Iles of the Nations diuided and replenished Who perceiuing the eminent diuersitie and variation of their tongue and wryting and as it seemes not willing the glory thereof should fall or decay they assembled themselues ready to buylde a Tower of rare height whereby euery Nation or Family might get renowne For before the worke they feared much the dispersion of their Families and ruine of their Learning when as they say Least we be scattered foreseeing the euent that happened But because the Lord did not allow their vnnecessarie prouidence in this enterprise being not contented with that successe which the Lord had in his infinite wisedome appoynted euen in this their warines least any should so much leane and trust vnto the handy worke of man and boast in a Name of their owne getting as Nebukadnezar by his Image did waxe proud in the Lords authoritie as did Moses at the Rocke the Lord of his meere will and diuine consultation descendeth to hinder the same saying Let vs confound their Lippes and Tongues that they vnderstand not one an other and let that which they feared come vpon them So were their Tongues confounded and their Families necessarily scattered ouer the face of the whole earth Neither was there any other confusion of Dialectes in after the worke then that which otherwise would haue happened And this was to shew the power of the Lordes prouidence in respect of the fraile meanes and purpose of man For in the beginning of the worke it seemed they all vnderstood not one another And not altogether improperly do we take their dispersion to be into that Vniuerse which we call the World and hath been diuided into three partes Asia Africa and Europa America then vnknowen or here included Sem Ham Iapheth obteined euery one his part to wit Sem Asia Ham the hot Country of Africa and Iapheth Europ