New Testaments elegancie The N. Testam in Greeke is so little that by one houre in the morning and euening in one weeke one may with ease and great delite read it ouer Yet this booke hath more seuerall wordes by the fishers of Galile and the Phisitian of Antioch and the tent-maker borne in Tarsus to be the first Apostle at Rome then 100. great Greek bookes aboue 4600. that all old Greekes haue some building in it and all extant now but for fragments kept cannot serue it More in mens names it learnedly openeth Ebrew to rare vse as Bosor for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. Pet. 2. by Babels pronouncing not Italy that any maide of Chaldea might see by the speach whence the Galilean wrote So Talmud names come as Lazar for Eleazar whose natioÌ„ is fitt for any one that maketh God his strength to feast in Abrahams Bosom when the soule departeth hence Moreouer the Macedonians spake Greeke wordes in east south hardly found as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and such such from Thalmudiques of Babell the N. T. had and east termes for politique matters from Seleucidae as Angareum to postseruice It hath aboue 50. of Syriaque for rare vse And to shew in what age eueÌ„ vnder the Romans empire beginning Greekes end Iewes haue Greeke names and some Latin as Philip and Andrew and Marc Iustus such This checketh the Talmud which from the depth of Satan persuadeth his sonnes that Iesus our Lord his dayes were long before in the Maccabees gouernement Foure Dialests the Booke hath Attique or commune Greeke for matters knowen to heathen as Spermologos to Paul at Athenes the deadliest that Demosthenes there aboue 300 yeres afore bestowed vpon Aeschynes So from Diphilus and Philemon and Sophocles some for speciall vse and from Epimenides Aratus Menander knowen testimonies briefly from al eloquent some as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for any passage Haides to conteine heaueÌ„ Hell Luc. 16. 4. and in Act. 10. tymes Luke praeuented 15. foolish brawles by Greek But men care not kicking against the spurre Act. 9. is often in Aeschylus Euripides and names of maners from all so that one cuÌ„ning in the N. Testa Greekes should froÌ„ the one still runne to the other in memorie see better vse of both And though one had so many eyes as Argus in Aeschylus 10000. all would heer be well occupied Another Dialect is froÌ„ the 70. wheÌ„ the speach is most to Iewes as Iechonias begate Salathiel so Zedekiahs the vncle 3. yer elder is sonne and Ioachaz first king yonger 2. yeres Ioackim is eldest So Vzziah is sonne to Ioram his fathers great grandfather So our Lord is sonne to Ioseph as men thought to Ely ' c. to Adam to God as sonne of Dauid For some of these the heathen haue the like so Iulian calleth Romulus his Ancestor as S. Maâ—h speaketh of Iechonias and Salathiel so for the word vntill for a matter neuer done Math. 1. and 5. and Homers Ili 5. in Agamemnon to Chryses that he should not haue his daughter vntill she spent her age with him in Argos So a iudge giueth sentence for one that oweth 10000. talents and hath not a peny to pay nor can gett in prison that he shall be in prison till he pay the vttermost farthing The prisoner will not plead that in tyme he must come out Starres be darkened by ignorance of Greeke to put going to Hell for going to Paradise a breeding of Purgatorie which Grecia of 1200. yeares neuer held The 70. Greeke is notable in this whom God raysed vp disannulling the sorrowes or hurtes of death Act. 2. from Psal 18. he that would say Peter spake of the second death or of hell Torment deserueth small thankes Briefly many a thousand of wordes haue the Apostles from the 70. calling vs to remembrance of so many places in the old Testament of them I haue made an Ebrew Greeke dictionarie and my friendes haue it in London and they who will giue securitie for the copy may write it out The old Ierom Erasmus and Beza missed much of lightes by not expounding 70. Greekes from their Ebrew that sun and ayer were much darkened The 3. dialect is the Apostles owne often do they expresse Ebrew in a new manner and S. Paul the Orator of Tarsus borne to be first Papas or father in Praetorio at Rome brought vp at Gamaliels feete to shew in the Epist to the Heb. the best Thalmudique that euer the sunne saw the Ebrew of Ebrewes fathers side and mothers side and rediest in genealogies true and profitable for his sisters sonne and other cousins three Rom. 15. This Iaspar of Beniamin the first foundation of the heauenly Citie shall be cited for clearing Moses Deut. 30. the holy Gospell by expressing Ebrew in new Greeke What to goe vp to heauen to bring Christ downe meaneth What to goe downe to the deepe to bring Christ from the dead meaneth Moses of Leui grauen in the Smaragd and in his Law a sunne In solio Phoebus claris lucentis Smaragdis forbiddeth Israel to leaue studie of the Law as though it were high or farre fetched in speach and thus telleth what Smaragd-light it hath Deu. 30. 11. This commandement which I commaund thee this day is not a wonder for thee neither is it farre off it is not in heauen to cause speach who can goe vp vnto heauen to take it and preach it to vs that wee may do it neither is it beyond the sea to cause speach who shall goe for vs beyond the sea to take it for vs preach it to vs that we may do it But the word is verie near vnto thee for thy mouth for thy heart to do it Thus Moses sheweth that the Smaragd of the Law shineth in the Couenant of the Rainebow Isai 54. for the waters of Noah That Christ in Genesis was knowen to the Patriarkes and all the Ceremonies went no further and the Ciuill lawes were most sensible and all might be acquainted with it The Scribes do teach it sitting in Moses chaire without their owne workes of traditions and such as liued in trauaile of handes might be able to judge Now Saint Paul giueth such testimonie that for the Law they were exact as he yet was a Pharisee but they not knowing that God was in Christ reconciling the world vnto himselfe by the death of Christ and resurrection missed of the end of the Law that blinde zeale to it made them fall froÌ„ God Now S. Paul imitateth Moses whose whole doctrine coÌ„meth to this summe do not say who can goe vp to heauen in high conceite to bring Christ to dwell in our Tabernacle below or who can goe in beleef to the deepe of the earth to bring vp Christ from the dead But what saith hee The word is neere thee for thy mouth and for thy
it Gods worke against whom none may plead he maketh one little booke exceed for varietie and elegancie of wordes aboue 4600. chosen wordes Thus the booke might be made easie 1. The wordes should be all in a table that all might read them quicklie 2. Appellatiues and propre should be sett in their colours 3. For Appellatiues all Attique and eloquent Speaches of them as Rom. 12. 3. Paul passeth all Athenes these should all come in their families 4. Next many thousand frō the 70. with Ebrew to them and in how many God followeth the 70. departing from the Ebrew This would carrie the Reader through all the old Testament 5. Thalmudique speaches be plentie and easie to a Rabbin as Forgiuenesse neither in this world nor in the world to come and girded about the brest second death and such these most trouble Greekes and would be easiest handled in their veines and they be very many 6. Sometimes the Apostles mende the 70. or speake more eloquently as in Iaspis Apoc. 21. vers 19 it is Beniamins stone after the Ebrew Exod. 28. But vers xj the Carbuncle Isai 54. So Sardonix for Zabulon and Chrysophrase for Nephtaly are the Apostle Iohns passing in Greeke skill And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eb. 1. 3. from Isai 4. Tzemach Lecabod and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 From Exod. 23. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 these S. Paul bringeth All this kinde settled together would bring light and delight to all godly learned Of propre names Many propre names be taken from the old Testament wherein the 70. is communely folowed Sarra will try a scholar and Phanuel from the margine reading and Ionanan Luc. 3. and the names from Israell in Egypt being full many shew they knew Ptolomies Egypt should fall many cōteyne Psal 89. as Zorobabelidae Mat. 1. many other speciall stories chiefly Townes full many call to Seleucidae and Lagidae as Antiochia Seleucia Philadelphia such Many are cleared by Thalm. Ierusalemy as Lazar for Eleazar and Alphai for Chalphai a. s in the fathers stead and such The Greeke and Latin in one familie Alexander and Rufus shew that the Thalmud lieth bringing Iesus our Lord his dayes to the Maccabees tymes The name Marck and Paul and all the Latin termes shew that vnder the Romans Christ was on earth Epilogue Thus when euery word should be handled alone and wordes tossed in disputatiō handled alone the whole booke would be soone eaten and millions would be able to Prophecie and to defend the faith against the Beast that commeth out of the pitt of Sathans deepenesse to make Seniorie of true Bishopps that vnlearned pseudo-piscopi should no longer pine better learned in prison sage and learned be lawfull Episcopi bestowing reuenues aright but nobles ought and lower gentrie to be the best learned and to keepe all in sage dealing So the King of Locustes would soone loose his crowne The 2. oliue trees in Zacharie which poure oile into the golden Candlestick are they who not by might but by Gods spirit as they vnder Aggei and Zachary built the Temple The chiefe ruler was holden as anointed so King Iosias though none but the first of the house as Dauid or in stirre as Salomon for Adonias and Ioash for Athalia Ioachaz for elder Ioakim were annointed The high sacrificer was of course so both states were vnder the two oliues and whē all be sacrificers Apo. 1. Then the gouernor that prouideth for bread and they who labor in word are the two oliues that giue matter of light to the golden Candlestick Clothed in sackcloth in sadnesse of their minde considering how the gold is darkened The restorers of the Gospell be as Elias And if any man will hurt them fire commeth out of their mouthes and eateth vp their enimies yea if any man will hurt them so he must be killed These haue power to shut vp the heauens that raine raine not in the dayes of their prophecying Heere the kingdome of the beast arising from the darke pitt is closselie compared with Israell in Achabs dayes when Baal was worshipped by so many false prophetes And Elias knewe none but him selfe left of true religion in Israell and the Altars which GOD tolerated extraordinarie were all broken downe The Papistes damne themselues mightilie when they cast in our teeth That our companie had not open policie still Sigibertus complayneth that at 1200. England admitted not the Popes supremacie So hee answereth Papistes And still our commune Lawes made it treason to appeale vnto the Pope and holy Wickliffe condemned him as freelie as any in our tymes Wickliffe that set ouer the Bible into English Wickliffe that taught how the cōmune Lawes would vtterly fall the Pope Wickliffe whose Bible many yet haue the Copiers of which shew where the Church of God was Such had the spirit of Elias which called for fire from heauen into Bohemia and Prage and Saxonie to burne much of Rome as Elias called fire from heauen to burne two Captaines and two fifties so Eliseus called fire from Hazael that brent vp Israell And Iohn Baptist called for fire from heauen that brent vp all Herodes house And as Elias staide raine three yeares and an half so Eliseus spirit brought famine to Samaria and the Christians in Claudius dayes and the martyrs by the black horse bring corne to be weighed as spice for dearth so still God sendeth famine for his martyrs The Martyrs be as Moses These haue power to turne the waters into blood and to strike the earth with any plague so often as they will This sheweth Rome to be a new Egypt still rebelling against Moses and therefore hath plagues to the same effect 1. Egypt had waters turned to blood so Rome chap. 11. and 16. 2. Egypt swarmed with frogges so Rome chap. 16. 4. Egypt was plagued with serpents and all sauage so the Locustes had tailes like scorpions and their plaguers had horses with Lions mouthes and their tailes had heads like to serpentes and the Caesares people were spent by the beastes of the earth 5. A plague killed the beasts of Egypt so the Caesares people 6. 6. Boyles vexed Egypt so the marked of the beast Apo. 16 7. Haile Fire vexed Egypt so Rome haile and fire mixed with blood chap. 6. and chap. 16. great haile 8. Locustes ate the fruites of Egypt Locustes strangers swarme Apo. 9. 9. Darkenesse vexed Egypt the throne of the beast is darkned Thus God compareth propre Egypt and the king of Locustes Egypt how they that folow Moyses Law and Prophecie and bid the king of Locustes grant freedome to Israel still plague their Pharaoh And when they had ended their martyrdome the beast which ariseth out of the deepe shall make warre with them and shall kill them and their carcasses shall lie in the large Common weale which is called spiritually Sodoma and Egypt where also the Lord was crucified For doctrine of vncleane spirites they are termed
is a sin most high to crucifie Christ againe and to make him an open shame the Crucifix through all popery sheweth heere that he is Apollyon Pilate knew as Mary that Christ was crucified But that holpe nothing But he could not consider the L. of glorie crucified And the Crucifix cannot expresse that but leaueth only a base obiect Heerein hee is an Apollyon and so in all Pointes A digression to our Prayer booke made from the Popes Our prayer booke was made when Papists were the more in Parliament and allowed by our side for mens infirmitie as Luc. 3. alloweth Cainā a sonne to Arphaxad And Acts. 7. soules 75. for 70. And as S. Paul allowed circumcision for Timothie But Christ should profit the Galathiās nothing if they simply did it allow The whole booke is bent to the Popes veine if there were nothing false in wordes the frame draweth hate with it For weaknesse in other I would allow it vntill I could persuade to better But seeing prayer is our seruice to God the Lords prayer and his Psalmes learnedly chosen for all occasions should serue the turne Tobie is a fable and pēned full of lies of purpose that the reader should hold it no better Yet because Antiquitie saw some vse in the fable ours suffered it till better light came When simple put a Parliament in trust the Parliaments ouersights should be no plague to the simple Al who feare God will stick only to his word vrge no more I haue taught most vnthankfull Buyshopps the Creedes article that soules go vp not downe and the holy to heauen not to hell Archbi Whitgift yeelded by M r Geoffrey King and knew that I cared not for voices of men sure to perish if they stood to their error And thirteen year agoe I knew not of an other liuing of my minde but I was sure I could make them worthy of Ioakims buriall that durst burne my writing and Anathema Maran Atha while they liued and for euer Spedily the best ouer Christendome flocked to my minde although some of Geneua Marpurg Hanaw for rancour deny all helpes for their owne victorie make them selues enimies to God and al good men to make a Gehennean torment of a going to the most happy dead in Abrahams bosome The learned Fath. L. T. Winton hath cleared this cause shewed that neither Westminster nor Rhodanus Alpin through-flowen towne should binde men to their witts Our speach to God is our only cōfort in this world and they who will hinder vs from the best in this kinde shall haue their portion with profane in weeping gnashing of teeth Since the King came to England the Realme might haue had the Bible well translated 5. yeares agoe with euery mans freedom to speak for the best a table for psalmes for all the ordinarie yeare all particular occasions and for reading Law with Prophets Gospel Epistles and both Vniuersities by this day ready in both Testaments But they had rather rent one another thē haue the peace of God to guard their tongues in the eloquence of Gods worde But now let vs returne to our Popes Of Antichrist his Chaldy name Ionathan Ben Vziel a rare Ebrew Doctor elder then S. Pauls Gamaliel expoūdeth Isaich xi When he saith Christ shal consume the wicked with the spirit of his mouth He sheweth what wicked euen wicked RHOMILVS he knew that Balaam made but East Assur West Cittim Grecia Grecia Maior Italy to afflict the holy therfore speaketh vpon a most sure groūd that that wicked was Rhomilus Arias Monta. knew that heere he brake the Popes neck if he came forth truly vnder the Popes grant therfore leaueth out the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Romylus And what be our Papae of Croydon other Parochies that could neuer spie this dealing If the K. Roial vow to the Bibles honor had not bin hindred by Bishops the Ebrew with Massorit the Caldy in true copie had been seene by this day in work But whē Buishopps crossing hindereth the workman what can the Kinges money doe when the dogges neither eat hay nor suffer the oxe yet heere the old Prouerbe taketh place Mendacem memorem esse oportet Boderianus the fellow-laborer in his Chaldie dictionarie he not priuie to the guile citeth the Chaldi perfect But spelleth it subtilly not Romylus which Ionathan expressed most learnedly to any Rabbin but he spelleth it Armilus to make nothing of it but Antichrist or Antideus or by some Gog or Magog But Gamaliels scholar who to the Hebrewes passeth in Talmudiques all Ebrewes that none but by Talmudikes helpe shall euer vnderstand him speciallie in Melchitzedeke liuing still as God whom he describeth in office euen as they who in storie knew to be SEM this Talmudique of Salem Orator of Tarsus borne to be Abba Abba Papa for Rome as Peter for Babell Psal 87. He expoūdeth Isai xi and Ionathan most soundly that when the present gouernour should be taken away 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is any gouernour that restrayneth others 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 then man of sinne should come And although God still plagued Rome by Alaricus Gensericus Thodoricus and Totilas specially yet the Papae still begged land and tooke Imperiall name as Pontifex in Sozimus and by wealth ouermatched Constantinus Popes that whē no punishment made Rome humble but would haue there the Empire againe set vp and cared not for the trueth spirite of deceit should worke to their destruction that would not receyue the loue of the trueth to saluation SO THENCE WAS THE REBELLION TO ARISE MAN OF SIN APOLLYON SONNE OF PERDITION ENIMIE LAVLESSE KING OF LOCVSTS THE NEW ANTIOCHVS EXALTING HIM SELFE ABOVE ALL THAT IS CALLED GOD AND NOT SETTING THE IDOLL OF IVPITER OLIMPIVS IN THE TEMPLE BVT VAVNTING HIMSELFE AS IF HE WERE GOD to expound scriptures to loose or fasten sin to sett vp or depose States And to haue a people of his owne frame and to burne the true Temple of God The Epilogue for the description of the Pope Fiue Trumpets described the Popes greatnesse how it grew to be a kingdome of Locusts able to sting and to ouerrule in warres his last mischiefes are tolde first how in his high power he bringeth haile of troubles fire mixed with blood when he is made a mountaine of Empire cast into the sea from a starre or Doctor of the Church falling into Idolls worship and soone darkening a third part of the chiefest in quicke processe a smoke of blindnesse darkeneth Sonne and Sunne and Scripture that the Pope is to mightie to bee ouerthrowen As when he sent Princes to warre for Ierusalem and to spend all their strength there since now 600. yeres his might is high Now follow three poinctes Machmads inuasions and martyrs fight and lastly Christians Policies in warre his match Of Machumed or Machmad or Moamed in Piel Hiphil Hophall the participles three are vsed in Arabique Rabbins The
kinges without all color of warrant from God shew himselfe in the temple of God as if he were God beeing in all policie sinfull and blaspeming true teachers so he must needes be hated of Princes that euery one will draw from him all that they can That is to eate the flesh of the Idolatrous towne and burning it in the fire For God hath giuen it vnto their heartes to doe his minde and to doe one minde and to giue their kingdom to the beast vntill the wordes of God be brought about Because they did not receiue the loue of the trueth vnto right happinesse to studie the Lawes of God day and night God gaue thē ouer to a foolish minde to pull downe the East Empire and to set vp one in the West and to set the Synagogue of Rome aboue all to rule all Empire and Kingdomes And to this day that cursed blindnesse abideth in men that they thinke it a shame for a King to be learned or for Noble men True Kingdome standeth in knowledge of the kingdome of heauen and Princes of cunning education might know both Testaments in Greek and Hebrew and veine of storie in yong yeeres that their hearts might a thousand times in a day runne ouer the heauenly frame of Gods booke and see their Ancestors from Adam to Noë the pillars of the world Then the noble warrier Abraham King Moses King Iosuah King Samuel King David King Salomon and noble Daniel the mightiest subiect in the world and greatest warrior best learned And his noble Cousins that quenched the fire refusing Idols should haue taught nobles to haue in equal sort hated Babelish idolatrie of cursed Rome that crucified Christ and by the serpents biting pierced his footestepp and handes and would naile fast all feete and handes from walking in Gods wayes and working in his trueth What a shame is it for Kings that they know not the familie of David penned of purpose to make kings wise David Salomō both wise began the glorie Ioakim Ioachin both vnwise ended the glorie all betwixt are a glasse for Kings to see their owne case Againe the pompe of this world is eminēt in Daniels Image afflicting the holy house of Nathā but beatē to pouder for their paines that madnesse of Counsell is expressed in Nebuchadnezars open madnesse His open madnesse of seauen yeres was not so madd as the Persians or Alexander that made themselues Gods and the parted Macedonians are a patron of slauery to Satan Heere in one Image all Greek and Latin to Liuie is cōteyned and Kings might make their teachers to bring such stately matter into commune knowledge to make a Bridge from the fall of Salomons house vnto the setting vp of Nathans Nabuchadnezar honored Daniel to Iudahs good For chiefe heads of this matter Kings further called should further delite in this kinde So for the Image of the beast Apoc. 13. if Kinges had bene happy they had learned from storie what Iohn foretold but because they despised Gods exhortation to read the Booke God gaue it into their hearts to giue their kingdome to the beast if they would make their people learned in this Booke the flesh of the harlot should soone be eaten All true soldiers should be Doctores of Diuinity such all will conquer with small losse as Israel vnder Iosua which studied Moses 40. yer And Dauids Capteins by knowlede of Moses were mighty in battell Doctors in bare title the Popes and ours deserue so much reuerence as so many apes and all that put any trust in them are like vnto them Now commeth a plaine condemnation of Rome The woman which thou sawest is the great Citie which hath the Kingdome ouer the Kings of the earth All be past shame that see not Rome heere damned vnto the end of wrath CHAPTER XVIII The King is Angelus to cause the word to be sounded After this I saw an Angell comming downe from heauen hauing great auctority and the earth was lightned by his glorie and he cried mightily with a great voice saying BABYLON the great City is fallen is fallen and is become a dwelling of Diuells and a prison of euery vncleane spirit and a prison of euery vncleane and hatefull bird because she hath caused all nations to drinke of the wine of the anger of her fornication and the Kings of the earth committed fornication with her and the merchants of the earth became rich by the might of her wealth c. THE like speach is in Ezekiel chap. 47. where the glorie of the Gospell shineth from Christ and waters of doctrine flow with life And the Angels glorie lightned the whole earth cha 10. taught this same matter where Iohn eateth the litle booke And Christ is the Angell he cōmeth downe when he setteth vp the light of his word by which hee shineth ouer the earth Though in vision sundry Angels expresse him And when Ierusalem is builded Babylon must needes fall and where the mighty Gospell is taught of millions there Christ speaketh with a great voice Anabaptistes be the chiefe helpe that the Papists haue to dispute that it is dangerous for the common people to medle with Gods word But a learned officer would with sagenesse soone teach them how they misse burning in fire the obstinat in haeresie Maymo in the treatise Chagigah Perek III. sheweth how the King should read the Law before the people in the feast of Tabernacles and in what sage reuerence A pulpit of wood was made for him in the court where all might come men and women and the synagogue keeper brought forth the booke of the Law gaue it to the Archisynagogue and he to Sagan of the Temple Strategos Act. chap. 4. 1. Chancelor we may terme him he to the high sacrificer and hee to the King and hee read Deuteronomie and of the King he saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That is The King is Angelus to cause the word of GOD to be sounded If the Iew could thus honor the Law and shew the Kings duty which Iew saw not the true glorie of it by the SON of GOD how much more should wee bring vp our Kings to honor the holy Gospell to read speciall places as the first of Saint Matthew of 1800. yer story and 3. Luke of 3957. or Act. 7. or 2. Thess 2. or some speciall place to stirre nobles a learned reading would be as good as a commentarie And chapters expounding one another and Psalmes might so be chosen that by bare reading great light would come So millions would say that Babylon the great is fallen and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Daemones be all one and Rome is a dwelling of Diuels and Cardinals bee vncleane spirits and Archbuy-shopps be vncleane and hatefull birdes and their keies be keies of the pit and their Idolatry making Peter the Rock against this THERE IS NO ROCK BVT THE ETERNALL had made the Kings of the earth madde in Idols from one error that
locusts if they might haue good maintenance to hold vp better truth and liberall artes that serue trueths honor Of the third woe and last Trumpet The second woe is past behold the third woe commeth And the seuenth Angell sounded the Trumpet and there were great voices in the heauen saying the Kingdomes of the world are now of our God and his Christ And he shall reigne for euer and euer Where the kingdome of the beast Abyssigena bred from the Pit is gone all the Church proclame that CHRIST will haue no more alterations vntill he shew heauen to all his So the speach passeth to the worlds end The Prophets communely passe ouer matters of cōmon state as needlesse to be handled specially and stepp from one thing of plague presently to Messiahs kingdome as notably in Hosea after mention of Israels scattring the kingdom of Messias is ioyned So wen Esay had spoken of Babels fall after Sanecheribs then he steppeth thence to CHRIST his preaching By the voice of a crier in the wildernesse So Daniel telleth of his kingdomes their comming vp their vrging of Idolatrie their chastisement their ouerthrow omitting matters of ordinarie course where the present age would looke to it selfe So Apoca. 6. handleth the prophane Caesares and thence omitteth the Churches sliding away till it come to an absolute fall And then telleth of tyranny and after tyrannies end steppeth to the worldes end The third woe is the plague of the enimies by Kings of good religion continually vnto the end The summe of the Bible Great voices expresse the voice of whole nations and the Kingdome of God Christ the matter of all the Bible Adam had that theme to preach 930. yeares Sem the great by S. Paul and Gamalies likened to the eternal author of iustice peace figured this matter and confirmed Abraham in this 75. year reioyced in Elam troden downe by Abraham And all the large writings breathed by the holy Trinitie teach no other matter but this and punishments for contempt of this and nothing should be suffred in the Church but to this summe In the prayer which our Lord prescribed for a cōmon forme to the whole Congregation this conteyneth all Thy Kingdome come thy will be done on earth as it is in heauen So when Iohn Baptist opened the kingdome of Christ when the Leuiticall policie was to cease and all nations should serue God by Lawes writtē in the heart Rom. 2. Ier. 31. Then the kingdome of heauen is said to come when men humble themselues to receiue the iustice of Christ and to be clothed with the SVN The fulnesse of kingdome cōmeth when the holy soule 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 leaueth this world goeth to God and there reigneth for euer and seeth the Locusts pitt-bred in Haides torment fryed in fire for euer and euer The pitt-bred beasts had sunne and aire much darkened when they knew not whether mans soule ascendeth or descendeth and whither the holy goeth to heauen or to hell This saying Caterchesthaeis haidon is neither more nor lesse then to goe to God when the godly haue a light place of ioye and the godlesse a darke place of torment And this exposition cutteth off at the least fifteene bad opinions direct bad for this article by consequents fifteene score The Kingdome heere spoken off is termed Haides in the Creede and wee may not put Hell for Heauen nor descending for going to God Purgatorie falleth when Haides hath but two partes Heauen and Hell and with it all Poperie Satan entred into many vnthankefull Caytifes that could not suffer the holy soules going into the kingdome to be most eloquentlie spoken in the Greeke Creede if they descend not to Hell as our Lord did in the Creede they shall ascend vp and before Gods throne haue an hell for euer and euer And the 24. Elders which sate on their thrones before God fell vpon their faces and worshipped God saying Wee praise thee O Eternall who is and who was and who will bee that thou takest vpon thee thy great power and doest reigne As the Nations haue kept a stirre thine anger is come and the tyme of the dead to be iudged and to giue rewardes to thy seruants the Prophetes and to the holy and to such as feare thy name The Elders be the Gouernors of Gods people in all offices specially in sage vsage of Scripture on assembly dayes all learned in the scriptures and able to giue faithfull exhortatiō out of it and all borne in wealth are brought vp amisse that are not gronuded in yong yeares to read with delite in the holy Booke Albion seeth who hath opened that way and faithlesse Iewes cōfesse though Atheā pāches for enuy burst These haue thrones before God not Buyshops and Archbuyshops of Papists But chosen of the holy congregation to teach what God telleth but as Moses gaue no commandement of his owne head nor Christ in the flesh but as he taught in Moses so these speake all frō scripture few wordes by old playne warrant and yet in few lines shake of all poperie all errores In number they be 24. as knowing the XII tribes story how the tribe should not depart from Iudah till his childe came and how the XII Apostles gathered the XII tribes to make them the foundation of the heauenly Ierusalem These are not many but 24. yet a resonable good number Many nobles in Albion and others that liue by their owne reuenues studie the Bible with as good dexterity as any feed-men and know it better then some after 42000. Brabant Gilders charges againe 40000 crownes charges such be humble and know Iehouah who is who was who will bee still the same to rule all ages to one summe of saluation in Christ how in him GOD was manifested in the flesh and taken vp in glory and the saluation of all ages Enosh age the flood Babel Ieroboam felt the price of despising this life And after the great saluation begun by the Lord himselfe to be spoken and confirmed by his hearers with all guiftes of the spirit for contempt the world was soone giuen ouer to Arius Pope and Turke yet God sealed a few and at length placeth them in open kingdomes to be seene though stil the greater part in open policy careth but for this life as in Salomons dayes all were of great shew but soone after his death Ephraim turned all but Iuda to worship calues not God So great Constantinus holpe Christians but few of his men cared for God So heere Popes Idols murder of the saincts cause God to shake him to dust as he shoke the Macedonians after Antiochus Epiphanes persequution That the Iewes receiued their owne kingdome vnder the Maccabees and that meanes the psalmes 97. and 99. and others about them howe the power of Christ breaketh Idoll kingdomes that God should take the protection of all into his owne handes So heere Elders shewe Popes strength cast of that others be so
place gainesaid This sheweth that Peter was neuer at Rome And Saint Pauls iourney telleth Rome that God hated them If he had not beene sought to bee killed Lysias had not sent him to Caesarea and if the Iewes had not againe there sought to haue killed him hee had not appealed to Caesar God would not that hee should come to Rome but vpon extreamities So the iourney thither shewed that Christ hated the Citie that crucified him was strange in calamities and Paul was brought thither as a prisoner and kept in prison though somewhat free CHAPTER XIIII And I saw and behold a Lambe stood vpon mount Syon and an hundred fourty foure thousand were with him hauing the name of their father written in their forehead THEY which were called afore two Prophets are now 144000. hauing the name of God written in their forehead the same number is said before to be sealed ch 7. by a speach from Ezekiel ch 9. 4. There in the 70. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the terme of chap. 13. in Kimchy a signe or writing S. Paul expoundeth the speach that God will make them knowen who be his that they who professe the name of God shall depart from wickednesse So they who haue Gods name are made knowen who bee his and expound his word and follow trueth of worship due to him bearing a marke in open profession as sacrificers such as Aharon had In this sort the holy Church still had some nūber to professe the summe of saluation though on mount Sion a small hill for the mountaines of the world not one to a million of ADONIKAM and his Children of three fold as storie 666. that number chap. 13. to beare the number of his name was vsed for any number of Apostatique profession So heere the 144000. twelue tymes twelue is vsed for any Company that trusteth in Christ as the Patriarches did And I heard a voice out of heauen as the voice of many waters and as the voice of a great thunder and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harpes and they sing as it were a new song before the throne and before the foure liuely wightes and the Elders The heauen commonly in this booke is the Church waters voice is continuall so heere continuall singing is meant harpes signifie song with agreement the new song is for mans praeseruation euery day The foure wightes are the rare as Daniel Ananias Azarias and Misael and all the Euangelistes and S. Paul full of courage of Lions so were all the Apostles of rare patience ready to be sacrificed euery day and they were the true Philosophers thinking what should befall them after death and they were the Eagles of high flight sight The Elders are the Bishops or Teachers the sage in gouernement and skill in the holy Hebrew and Greek Testaments The song none could vnderstand but the 144000. as no Papist soundly thinketh of all things made for Gods glorie in Christ and how by him wholy iustice commeth and he onely must be worshipped When this is told them they are like vnto men that dreame and know not who they are that are bought from the earth not what their religion meaneth Thereupon it is written And none could vnderstand the song but the hundred fourty and foure thousand which were bought from the earth What this songe was Through the whole scripture this song is one and the same that IEHOVAH our GOD IEHOVAH is ONE The FATHER the SON the Holy Spirite be one Coaeternall and Coessentiall the SON is called the WORD by the WORD the Father made the World and by the Spirite beautified the heauens And because the WORD would become flesh the World was made to serue once Adam the first The Angells that grudged at that fell for euer and deceiued Adam and made him dead in sin and brought him to be turning dayly to dust vntill he dyed and for him the whole frame of the Creature was pronunced corrupt But he belieued that Christ made of a woman made vnder the Law God being in him to reconcile the World to himselfe should giue Adams soule iustice by faith should raise vp his Bodie and make a new World by his power whereby hee can subdue all things to himselfe This is the summe of the song tolde through all Bookes of the Bible A Digression to shew the Concent of all the holy Bookes Geneses sheweth how by the WORD of IEHOVAH the heauens were made and all the settled army of them by the Spirite of his mouth and when man fell the WORD telling that to destroy the workes of Satan he would be made flesh and haue a Tabernacle in vs. In which point the Fathers faith vnto the charge of Iosephs bones to bee caried vnto the Land wherein our Lordes resurrection should be a Testimony of a new World taught by Ioseph in his bones long after his death By faith he taught by his dead bones of the new world and therein Geneses end hath a new Geneses All simple should learne CHRIST from the Gospell of Geneses wher 's his Godhead so familiarly delited in the holy Prov. 8. and shewed in appearances that he would be man All yong men brought vp to be Bishops of the Kings armies or Church would reioyce to haue learned Geneses in Ebrew by heart In old age they should gather the fruit Obiection of them that are not bought from the earth S. Ierome saith Iewes read not the three first chapters of Geneses till they be 30. yeeres old Answere None should cite Ierome to make him a foole or to win the Whetstone Maymony in Morch Nebuchim hath this sentence that none did Darash read as a Doctor expoundeth Genes 1. and 2. and 3. and Ezech. 1. before he was aged 30. So S. Ierom meant Iewes all teach their Children from seauen to read all Moyses It were better that Rome were with Helice and Bura then Popes should be suffred so to bring most wickedly the word of life into a deadly hatred Of Iob. Iob is a booke for all holy to take notice of for instructing their families in the knowlede of Christ which Abraham carefully did as God testifieth the comfort of it their posterity shall finde as the booke setteth forth the faith and loue the effects of the Gospell 1. Thes 1. of his posterity euen before the Lawe was giuen to shewe that the godly had alwaies the Law written in their hearts 2. Cor. 3. Ier. 32. Rom. 2. Iob is a patron to all the faithfull in prosperitie for loue compassion iustice and equity c. in his afflictions his faith and hope in the Redeemer the seed promised whom he knew would take our nature vpon him to dy for him and by his Godhead rayse himselfe from death and that by his resurrection he should be raysed in the last day be made like his glorious body and that he euer liued to make intercession for him these thinges were his comfort in his greatest
the gates of death shall not praeuaile against Rome where the speach meant that terror of Romes persecution should not stay the building vpon Christ the Rock Buy-shopps should be knowen how wickedly the merchants become wealthy blinde leaders of the blinde vnto eternall destruction Vncleane spirits and hatefull birdes if Esay 13. 14. 21. 23. 47. and Ier. 51. Ezek. 27. and againe Ier. 7. should bee read comparing old traffique with the Popes ritches and ruyne this chapter would haue great light which of it selfe needeth not further exposition For the next cha telleth how Rome falleth by the ioy of the godly which in order of tyme handleth matter whence the ruyne of Rome cōmeth The terme witchcraft bestowed vpon the Popes doctrine is to be noted They who say bread after wordes spoken is no longer bread would haue men bewitched and so for the wine Sense is a diuine testimony and if two men should witnesse that others did worshippe bread or wine no hypocrisie should saue them Christ gaue the Law in Moyses and will not the tokens to bee worshipped that must be kept for God onely Where Rome killed men for the Prophets doctrine and holy Apostles they are as gilty as if they had killed them and all holy in the same faith All the holy spake of Christ and Rome by Pilate killing him was worthy to haue for Popes neither forgiuenesse in this world nor in the world to come but heere to be openly cursed as Iscariot and in the world to come eternall flames This kind of speach troubled great Doctors I wil therefore digresse a litle to this phrase Maymoni in treatise of repentance saith there is a sin whereof sentence passeth that he shall be punished in the world to come no harme passeth ouer him in this world and there is a sin which is punished in this world and in the world to come as be the Iewes that betrayed Christ the Romans that crucified him The Iewes are plagued with blindenesse and slauery and Rome with horrible Idolatries and tyrannies and warres and blood CHAPTER XVIIII I say Ieremy and Ezekiell compared with this ch bring great light And after this I heard a great voice of much people in heauen saying Allelu-iah saluation and glorie and honor and power belongeth to the Lord our God for his iudgements are right and iust because hee hath iudged the great whoore which corrupted the earth by her fornication and reuenged the blood of his seruants out of her hand And againe they said Allelu-iah And her smoke ascended for euer and euer c. WHEN the Angell filled the earth with his glorie then much people prayseth GOD for reuenge against Rome and the 24. Bishopps sage learned and the speciall rare the foure wightes full of eyes and tell of the Lambs supper and his mariage with the Church which matter Psalm 45. and Cantic directly handleth and all the scripture runneth vpon that Now for the terme Hallelu-iah It is vsed first in Psalm 104. where the verse afore wisheth the wicked to bee destroyed out of the earth And the old Hebrewes turne that speach of the Psalm to haue beene the preaching in the dayes of Noë when the flood came and Midras Tillin noteth that Allelu-iah was neuer vsed till Psal 104. after prayer that the wicked should be taken away out of the earth The auctoritie of the book is litle but the peise of the argument is much So in the New Test Aleluiah is neuer vsed till speach commeth of the Popes destruction The sinfull to haue Pyrrha the wife of Deucalion The fable which made Noë Deucalion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his wife 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 conteined a fable which Ouid hath Esse quoque in fatis reminiscitur affore tempus Quo mare quo tellus immensaque regia coeli Ardeat mundi moles operosa labores That is Iupiter bethought him how tyme should come When Sea and Land and great Heauens pallace Should burne the worlds workemanship decay As once the world perished by water so it should by fire Sem and Iaphet taught that in sadnesse But their sonnes turned it into a fable yet S. Pet. 2 Epi. 3. restoreth the matter vnto old trueth And as the Midras turneth in fable Halelu-iah to be vsed at holy preaching in Zohar vpon Gen. 6. by the argument and first Psal 104. vpon the destruction of the wicked so heere first vpon the destruction of the man of sinne the word is vsed And that foure tymes Of the Hebrew terme God only wise contriued the world vnto Macedonian victories and reigne of 300. yea from West vnto all partes that Greeke was made common ouer all the world by the tyme that the Apostles were to write the Gospell that in the Greeke tongue and only in the Greeke tongue they might write it for all nations Yet God would haue the tongue which Adam spake and Heber kept and that in which the Law was penned to be still studied Therefore the N. Test hath many yea full many wordes that require Ebers helpe and in expressed letters about 50. And whereas Esai 19. telleth that in Egypt they shall speake the tongue of Chanaan he meaneth that with the Gospell they shall haue the Hebrew tongue and Origens Octaplun eightfold worke in Epiphanius Ancorato had Hebrew in Hebrew letters and the same spelled in Greeke and six Greeke translations so here the studie of the Hebrew Prophetes to open the Gospell doth fell the Pope and the Pope is closely touched by the word Allelu-iah Praise God in whom wee breath and not Idoles which haue no breath in their nostrills Of the best way to ouerthrow the Pope The Turkes Princes moued Q. Elizabeths agent L. Barton of godly memory to the known way by common witt to open the trueth in causing a Rabbin to demand a proofe of the New Test by Ebrewes The Apostles proued all by Ebrews so should all expounders of them And the Pope vnable therin falleth and all his Cardinales and Archbuyshops And our King tooke once a noble course that way the hinderer shall abide iudgement and that a most heauy shall not haue his shame forgiuen in this world nor in the world to come An Ebrew explication of the N. Test by sayings granted of Iewes would moue Iewes Gētiles to hold one truth My Hebrew explicatiō of Nathans house Mat. 1. Luc. 3. from Dan. 7. fold shield and the Hebrew chayning of the Chronicle hath moued Salem and Rome though Nazaret would bring the auctor to the top of a Rock This matter is worthie of record that Gods vengeance may bee marked while the world standeth how he will deale with so gratefull babes But now let vs abridge the text People Bishops rare godly praise God for calling to the Mariage that the Church is married to Christ and clothed in white iustice and Christ warreth to ouerthrow Rome Amen Aleluiah And a voice came from the throne saying
Iohn ibidem Of Iude 227 Of the Combat of 144000. 228 Comparisons of Phrases for holy soules departed 231 Reuenge for Christ his iustice 232 Reuenge for the prayers of the Church ibid. Reuenge by the iniuried themselues 233 The sure euent of Gods iudgements 234 The 15. Chap. pag. 235. A Plaine exposition of the woman fleeing in the wildernesse ibid. The Chap. 16. pag. 238. AS the Popes manner of rising plagued the world in a like manner God consumeth him ibid. Chap. 17. pag. 251. IOhn like Daniel ibidem A plaine description of the Popes comming vp 259 Of the Popes fall 261 A plaine condemnation of Rome pag. 263 Chap. 18. pag. 264 THE King is Angelus to cause the word to be sounded pag. ibid. Chap. 19. pag. 267. ISai Ieremy and Ezekiel compared with this chap. bring great light ibid. Of the Hebrew terme of Hallelu-Iah 268 Of the best way to ouerthrow the Pope 269 The warres of Christ and Christians against the Empire and Pope 273 An open proclamation of the Popes destruction 275 An abridgement of all Gods iudgements in one 276 Chap. 20. pag. 277. THE Diuells are not simply bound ibid. The Pope deceiued not generally till 1000. yeares 279 The Pope weakned the West in superstition prouoking to warre for the holy Land 280 The Pope is a Beast of Empire by his might 281 A liuely description of the latter Iudgement ibid. Chap. 21. pag. 284. THE second discourse vpon the 21. and 22. Chapters of the Apocalyps ibid. Iohn began the N. Testam and he likewise ended it ibid. Of Iohn 285 Of Ierusalem ibidem Of Melchitzedeke and Isaack causing glory to Ierusalem 286 Of Saint Pauls heauenly Ierusalem 287 Of the Iewes error to this day ibid. Of Alpha and Omega 292 Of ignorance in Alpha how it bred daylie error 293 Of Vowells 294 Of Tiphereth Israel ibid. Of Cethib and Kery 295 Of the Papists interlinear Bible 296 Of a most wicked slander ibid. Of Cetib and not Kery and Cery and not Cetib ibid. Of Iod not condemned 297 Of Omega ibid. Of Greeke stile 298 Of 4. Dialects in the Greeke 299 Of Attique Greeke ibidem Of the 72. Greeke 301 Of the Thalmu Greeke ibidem Of forgiuenesse in this world what Talmudiques meane ibid. Of the Apostles peculiar Greeke pag. 302 Of S. Pauls most eloquent expressing Moses ibid. Of the Talmudique agreement with the N. Testam 303 Of Idolaters 306 Of the Popes barbarous Answere pag. 307 An answere to his ibidem Concerning the second death 308 Of the great City Ierusalem 311 Of Arias Montanus placing the Altar of incense in the most holy 317 Of Prayer 318 The order of the Tribes 319 Reason of their order 320 Of the terme Iasper in the third place 323 Of the second fundation ibidem Of the Carbuncle 324 Of the Smaragde ibidem Of Sardomix 325 Of Sardius ibidem Of Chrisolite ibidem Of Beryll 326 Of Topax 327 Of Chrysophrase ibidem Of Hyacinth ibidem Of Amethyst 328 A plaine conclusion from Esai 6. and 51. and Ezeck 47. of the Gentiles Ierusalem 331 Chap. 22. pag. 334. THE Epilogue the Angells speach 336 How the Apoc. would force any Iew c. to yeeld c. 337 A sequell by any Iewes grant ibid. A digression to Iewes desire ibidem The greatnesse of the Iewes request pag. 338 The speach of Christ To whom be Kingdome power and glorie for euer and euer Amen 339. FINIS “ An Ebrician must teach the word to the simple the discourse would be harsh †Eph. 5. 27. In Iulian the Apostata †Beracoth Perek evening prayer fol. 28. †Iohn followeth the 70. most wisely hiding the Eb. propriety from dull heathen 2. Thess 2. Chap. 1. Chap. 2. and 3. Isai 54. 9. Chap. 4. Chap. 5. 2. Pet. 1. Chap. 6. Psal 21. Psal 45. 1. Seale 2. Seale 3. Seale 4. Seale 5. Seale In Aboth R. Nathan So the Israelites in Aegypt were sealed Exod. 12. 7. 13. 22. 13. 7. Seale Mat. 1. 11. Psal 141. 2 Rom. 5. Ephes 2. Psal 22. Ephes 3. Hebr. 2. Exod. 20. Iliad 3. †Chap. 1. the 7. stars be seauen sergeants of the Church Genes 49. Act. 17. 18 Attique Greeke The septua greek The Apostles Greeke 2. Cor. 5. Moses and Paul teach one thing Rom. 10. Psal 71. 20 Heb. 11. The Thalmudgreek Maymo Saned Mat. 18. compared with Rom 8. 38. 2. Cor. 11. 23 24. c. Act. 26. 21 22. Mat. 7. 2. Cor. 4. 6. Maymo in Hagigah 1. Tim. 3. 1. Cor. 2. 8. Iohn 3. So Babell and Antio Daniel 7. Isai 9. 1. Iohn 3. 2. Thes 2. Eph. 3. 16 17. 18. 19. 1. Cor. 5. Iohn 2. Heb. 9. and. 10. But when it pleased the Lord to make the Gentiles his people saith Esai Make larger Curtaines Chap. 54. 2. 1. Cor. 14. 22. Heb. 10. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 2. Cor. 5. 9 Mat. 16. Psal 109. Act. 1. Zach. 4. That the Popes iudgmēt must stād Heb. 11. By faith these turned to flight the armies of the aliens Mat. 12. Maymo poenit Apoc. 1. Maymo Beidh Apo. 20. Isai 22. Vzielides 1. King 19. 10. Rome hath all the plagues of Aegypt but two Note how and why Rome is called Egypt Sodom Babel ch 18. and compare the old stories of the old Test with Rome Hester 9. 1. Cor. 3. Such the Apost only speakes of Tit. 1. 14. many other places and he writing by the spirite could not crosse the spirit Rom. 15. 4. New Visions opening the former Gen. 3. 1 Iohn 1. 1. 3. 8. 5. 20. Eph. 2. 1. Rom. 5. The seauē heads afflicting the Church Rome is condemned both in these the other of Kinges Consuls Decemvires Dictatores Triumuires c. psalm 2. The Angell of his praesence saued thē Isai 63. †Commentarie or Register 2. Cor. 4. 3 The seauē heades afflicting 1. Pet. 1. 1 Ioh. 3. In Bar. his booke for D. Bil. syll 1. Chronic 24. 10 †This word signifieth an earnest pressing of men in suing for offices and bribing thē Adri. 63. distinct Auentinus lib. 4. Or Auentinus lib. 7. seq Naud others Naucler Gene. 44. A Miracle of the Popes transubstantiating the bread into Poyson These fables God hated and forbiddeth Tit. 1. 14. 1. Timoth 1. 4. and 4. 7. and so his people will Naucl. Gen. 44. C. 1. de Iure Iure in Clem. Abbas Vsp Naucl. Gene. 44. Cuspinianus in vitae Alberti Naucl. Genet 44. Psalm 2. The Concent of all the holy Bookes Geneses 1. Iohn 1. 1. 3. 8. Heb. 11. Exodu◠Exo. 15. Leuiticus Ioh. 2. Numbers Act. 26. 22. 23. Deutero Iosua Psal 95. Iudges Samuel Psalmes Canticles Prouerbes Ecclesiaastes Ruth 1. and 2. Kings Chronicles Daniel Hosea Ionas Ioel. Amos. Isaiah Michah Nahum Habba Ieremie Ezechiel Daniel Aggei Zacharic Malachie Ezra Nehemias Esther Matthew Marke Luke Iohn Acts. Romanes 1. Corint 2. Corint 2. Cor. 4. Galatians Ephes Philippi Colossi 1. Thess 2. Thess 1. and 2. Timot. Titus Philemon Hebrews Iames. 1. and 2. Pet. 1. 2. and 3. Iohn Iude. Ier. 10. Isai 21. Ier. 51. Psal 75 Psal 21 Esa 34. Ioel 3. 13. Against the law of nature against the lawe of England Rome cōpared to Aegypt the old Israel with the Spirituall This song is more fully described chap. 19. 2. Cor. 4. Ion. 3. 1 Cor. 15. 29. Rom. 6. 2. Coll. 3. 3. A myracle This Chap. is a plaine speach opening all the former Visions Iohn like Daniel Phll. 1. 27. Rome passeth al the enemies of the Church in cruelty and Idolatrie So Antio tooke away Moses Law The seauē heades afflicting * Walsingham Psalm 19. * Isa 41. 2. 3 Psalm 22. 2. Sam 22. The Gospell is the ioy of the godly As old Isratel praysed the Eternall IAH for their deliuerāce frō Aegypt Canaars Babel Antiochus all their enemies so heere the holy doe for deliuerāce frō Rome which is called and compared with Aegypt c. because that the cruelty Idolatr of all the enimies the the Gospel since the beginning was in Rome Psal 135. Psal 136. 9. 15. 24. Psal 78. 2 Tim. 2. This is made famous in 1588. and 1605. for our Albion Psalm 2. 1. Tim. 5. 6. Rom. 10. Paul taught nothing but Moses and the Prophets Act. 26. Rom. 4. 22. 23. 24 Heb. 12. Ier. 10. 11. Ioh. 3. The of God is not boūd consider the A post speach ◠Rō 15. 19. and the◠Lord gaue great victorie * that is perfected Heb. 2. 89. 1 Cor. 15. 27. Act. 14. 17. Eph. 2. 1 Cor. 1. 2 Pet. 3. Rom. 2. Rom. 11. Gen. 9. 1 Pet. 4. 3. Col. 3. 1 Virg. Georg. Lib. 2. This is the ancient faith this is that which the Apostle saith Eph. 2. 20. Heb. 6. Luc 2. 49. Luc. 2. 37 Iarchi vpō Iud. 18. from the Thal. Act. 2 20 Isai 61. 1. Iohn 3 Ezek. 47. 2. Chron. 2. 17.