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A17010	Tvvo epistles vnto great men of Britanie, in the yeare 1599 Requesting them to put their neckes unto the work of theyr Lord: to break the bread of the soule unto the hungry Iewes, by theyr writinges, or by theyr charges, through such as be ready to declare all that theyr necessity doth require. Printed now the second time, in the yeare synce the creation of the world 5532. Or yeare of the Lord 1606. Translated by the auctour for the use of such as would & should know what in this cause ought to be performed.; Two epistles unto great men of Britanie, in the yeare 1599.	Broughton, Hugh, 1549-1612.	1606 (1606)	STC 3891; ESTC S120311	12,445	22

listned what wil be awnsweared from England geveth all heed of attention The last petitiones cōteyned closly the Thalmudiques For them a learned book should be made to allow the right and to damne the wronge while the Apostles maner is shewed how they handle Moyses 613 Lawes and all their speches are called to those comō places so to shew all theyr wordes rule upon rule rule upon rule line upon line line upon line how they rule the Thalmudiques A liuely man of good valour wold performe all this The King of Togarmah or Turky wished desireth and wold have the knowledge of our faith the Quenes Ambassadour is the reporter a Iew wrot it again and again we hahe the praises of our God and of our Quene he calleth for a guid he hath geven us the honour asking instruction of us And now the eyes of all look upon you low high mark you what you will awnswear for the glory of our God and Kingdome wisdome of our nation All Kinges in the world will marke how you will cary this matter whether to glory honour for ever or to eternall shame reproch To the christian Reader FOr better understanding of this Turky cause a narratiō of the whole matter may be added There was one M. Ed. Barton made the Quenes Agent at Constantina called Byzantium before Constantin our glory hating the Idoles of old Rome removed the Empire seat thither called it Constantines city new Rome This Agent ther being a special wise man grew in great favour with the great Turk whose mother as report is was a Iew. Also he fell into acquaintance with the chief Rabine of the Iewes Synagoge to whom he had expounded the book of Scripture consent as the Iew himself in effect recordeth greatly moved him to affect Christianes Now L. Barton the Rabbin the Iewess Quene mother all three dealt with the Turk to consider that all Turkes perish for ever how unnaturall a thing it was for a Father to have his Funerall celebrated with the death of an exceeding great troupe of Sonnes and told how Christianity were better by peace with the Emperour change of countreys his sonnes might be amonge Christianes theyr Princes sonnes wold gladly dwell in his territories The Turk began to consult how his owne side could be brought to that Then L. Barton gave him this intelligence that ther was one in England who from a child had night day studied the Ebrew Bible with all Iudaique Hebrewes the Grek holy Testament Equally expounding the tōgue matter of the old Testamēt with all kindes of Greke auctours which in the university he professed after one yeres abode there For he was of his acquaintance knew all his affayres Then he bad ●●nd for him he should teach in Ebrew or Greke in what Church ●e wold in Byzantio with safe garde all countenance that by Iewes Grekes assent the Genisares might come to theyr Parentes faith be glad to live for a better hope All Germanie knew ●hat in the Turkes court strange alteration was he suffred Buda ●nvictualed three dayes that it might have ben taken but that our Generall stayed to have the Duk Mathias to come thither to have ●hat glory But before his coming it was victualled This L. Bar●ons auctority as Mardochais Germanie knew Novv to allure the Christian thither the learned Ievv is set on He shevveth him self ●o be as learned a Rabbin as any in the world Cōstantinopole Iewes ●ccused by Chrisostome very wisely from Dan. 12. by sundry very learned narrations that therin God reckoning the very dayes of An●iochus rage as for the 400. yeres affliction Gen. 15. for the 70. in Babylon Ieremy 25. wold not suffre them voyd of time limited in ●urther affliction from God those Byzantian Ievves styl provided for the chief city a chief Rabbin as for Ierusalem Nehardeah in Mesopotamia upon Euphrates Th●se three places have the chief Rabbines in the world And he of Constantinopole shevved him ●elf such He writeth an Epistle full of Rabbish elegancy And with more reverence then any Ievv might give a Christian that forsoke ●ot his ovvne side For they have a Canon that none seke Physik of 〈◊〉 Christian for body or soule in Maymony The sum of his letter was ●hat the party wold come to Byzantian Rome to bestovv his Ebrevv ●tudies among Ebrevves not live wher none knevv theyr use He should be a Ietro to the Ievves in theyr wildernes And he should ●ule all Divinity scholes ther. It had ben death to him to have writ●en so unless the Turk bade him and the Ievves in all places had sone ●en his accusers This Epistle was sent to England as a litle booke to ●ALD STAPERS by L. Barton writing that yf the party came to Constantinopolin it might turne to the good of Christendome These fevv wordes might tell all not Atheā by envy what the matter was The LL. savv it none of theyr scholers could read it as it hath strange writing a style most strange Archb. wh bade that it should be sent to me I was then at Basil I left England being persecuted for sayng that Barovv Greenvvood wer pardon for all as they were but for denying that our L. went to Hel. And the very Iesuites of Mentz in a Grek letter to my self say the Church never beleeued that our L. went to worse lodge then the Fathes had All living are superi all dead inferi and against Epicures we confess our L. went to inferos the soules departed Before execution of Barovv greenvvood tvvo dayes B. Elmer requested a chaplein of N. N. to request me from him to talk with the tvvo bent to die saying as sure as I live yf he talk with them he will save theyr life The Chaplein promised to move me but did not Othervvise he had requested me by an other But the Chaplein had rather tvvo should dye then N. should be detected what imprisonment coile his Gehēna kindled as his slime still rageth in the same badnes madnes vvishing as Nero that all might be kild at a blovv that is not of theyr heresie To be revenged of him requesting leave of my L. keper I went over sea at Midelburg I printed of the Kinges Right of the Grek Credes phrase that by Heathen 70. Apostles or Thalmudizing Greke it never meant more or less in writers of esteeme then to go hence to God And that in the Godly it was all one with this to ascend into Paradise From Middelburg I went to Helvetia for this cause An Helvetian told me ther that the Pope had sent one D. Pistorius to dispute that the Scripture was corrupt therfore the Church must iudge yf our halfe wold not yeld to that he wold fortify his side to fell ours The Helvetian told me that foyling him I should hinder warres I went thither he provoked me upon occasion of spech being at Fribourge when I was in Basil 20. miles off I wrote to him in Grek wherin he gloried how he was led amisse He three dayes after commēded my poore studies most highly to our Tigurines who sent me his letter but in the end he wrot in Greke he wold not dispute That was shewed to the Popes Captaines then they sayd so our cōmissiō for war cesseth seing the Popes D. is broken A learned man Lodovicus Lucius will testify and sweare this the LL. of Berne Zurick Basil offred all sufficient hut I told I was bent to an other This was my basil voiage wher I printed the two Eb. Epistles Finis

theyr begining with the creation of the world unto the end of the last book which is called the Revelation of S. Iohn which sealeth up all The joyning of the curtines in the Tabernacle was not better fastened with stringes or clasping together then all the bookes one enter into the other And three bookes specially are full of the brightnes of Christ beames of his glory the book of Daniel The foreworke Gospell the vision of S. Iohn How denty unto the palate be theyr wordes how swete unto the soule be theyr speches They are more worth then Gold much Fess Ore sweter then hony the dropping of the combe For Daniel shewed how Michael stode for his people under Babel Madaj Macedon the Kinges of the North with the Kinges of Egipt how they walked in an image became as chaff were eaten up of fier But the people of Christ was still saved they who feared God were more honored in Babel then ever any should have bene under the Kinges of Iudah Also they were taught of the very day when Christ who was holy above the sonnes of David shold consecrate himself for us Yea all nationes knew whē the King of glory should come into the worle Also Flavius Iosephus beside his testimony that Christ arose again the third day he confesseth that in his dayes expectation was of a King who should reigne over all the world Also Romanes wrote in the same sort And all this bred from the book of Gracious Daniel whose vesiones are sweteness it self his expositiones are as clear as chrystall concerning what should befall the Iewes untill the Redeemer came into the world Also the Grekes recorde all that Daniell prophecyed to have fallen out And as he himself shewed in work the force of his name when he transposed one Letter to make Balat Esh tzar he hath broken out a fyre to the foe shewed that ther none Bel Tash Azzar Bel a storer of wealth but Bel he is a fier of sorow to his worshippers the God of Heavē is Tash Atzar the storer of wealth as he calleth his name the Chaldeās King his name how they agree with Gods present judgemēt then that the very letters placing should be regarded so Heathen stories record that his prophecies be true the matters which he wrot of be famously knowē among them as the fall of Babel of Paras of Alexanders howse and all the warres of the Kinges of the North the Kinges of Egipt and all theyr mariages how they were mingled in the seede of man and cleaveth not together till the Romanes bestript them of theyr Kingdomes by the yere that Christ came into the world and was borne in Bethlechem Iehuda in the reigne of Augustus Any simple man might see the wisdome of our faith yf a ready Doctour should teach him the Prophecy of Belat Esh Tzar Daniel Tash Aozar had layd up store full great he is as it were a bridge from the end of the captiuity unto the dayes of Christ And thence springes the Gospell of the fower Evangelistes Mathew Marc Luke Iohn They are as the four beastes in the head of whose bookes is the similitude of the Throne of the Kingdome of David and on the similitude of the Throne the similitude of a man in dede He is Christ They have declared in few wordes the perfect knowledge of God with the Spirit of fier judgemēts a fierie Law was with theyr disciples How goodly are the steppes of Christ in theyr story how precious are his workes wonders his right hand wroght valiantly to subdue the old enemy that he should not deceave the sonnes of Adam They have gathered all the sweetenes of all the Prophetes to honour the honorable in strength synce the coming of the sonne of man with the cloudes of heaven and after his resurrection he went unto the auncient of dayes and was brought before him and to him was geven power and honour and kingdome and all people nations and tongues worshipped him Those things have they writtē and theyr true wordes be as light spred upon the mountaines Also Iohn in the Revelation buildeth the high Ierusalem after that Christ had destroyed the lower And he testifieth that the covenant for all nationes made them the servantes of God in every country under Heaven Only as in Daniel the sainctes of the most high Trinity wer alwayes in affliction so while the world endureth all that desire life of the world to come the world of recompence shal be whittened purified through distress anguish Moreover he comprehendeth the four beastes of Daniel a new by like dealinges in one beast compoūded of the foure first the dealinges of this beast wil be stirring untill light and darkenes have theyr end These thinges gracious Iohn setteth furth Your high honour shall wonderfully advaunce the glory of the Gospell yf you afford a declaratiō of these three workes in particular concerning the brightnes of the light of Christ whose glory covereth the heavens and his praise filleth the Earth And furthermore of Christ you hav an heavenly matter of spech His barres reach through all the curtines of the holy Scriptures Into which breath of life is inspired unto salvation as he hath bene the hope of the auncient Fathers since Adam was set upon the earth a bruser of the old serpentes head Also he is properly Melchisedek King of Iustice and King of peace in whom all the families of the Earth should be blessed And he is the unblemished Lamb and by his blood we are redeemed and God gave him for our sinnes but he shall sit upō the Throne of David for ever and he at the time prefixed was kild to make reconciliation for sin he confirmed the covenant for the many that is for all nationes he arise destroyd city temple to make an heavēly city that Ierusalem which cometh downe from heaven Great grace may be shewed in a true narration for all these poinctes The joy of hart in all the readers wil be pleasant permanent when they goe throw Law Prophet Hagiographa No old gold can match the price no silver can be wayed to the valew it cannot be peised with Ophirs Cethem with the precious Beryll or Isachars Saphir Doubtles a lerned man eloquent Oratour one of a thousand which could expound from the Apostles according to the brightenes of theyr wordes how all dependeth upon the salvation of Christ how ther is no other name under heavē for which God gave charge to give honour for the world to come by one booke of direction here should be of high price delightfull full of comfort and esteeme The joyes and price wold match all Iewells vessels of Fess Gold wold be geven for it The gold and Chrystall wold not match it the Ramoth and Gabish stones should not be regarded as it And all this doth the learned Rabbin comprehend who