Emperours open enemies And after their destruction a company making the corporation of the man of sinne preteÌ„ding the povver of Christ hauing hornes like the lambes yet practising the beastly Emperours povver being Adonikam standing vp as if he vvere God Ezra 2 13. Apoc. 13. VVherefore let none dreame that he riseth froÌ„ Dan vvhose Tribe vvas skattered a thousand yeeres before the Popes supremacie None of Israel forsake the idolles of Egypt Ezek. 20. Therefore God geueth ouer their children to the sworde Exod. 1. This is the only time since the Flood that SataÌ„ might with most liklihood brag that he had ouercoÌ„e the whole earth Satan the accuser of the brethreÌ„ Iob. 1. Apo. 12. goeth abont seeking vvhom he may deuoure 1. Pet. 5. MOSES is borne Exâ— 2 2. The 7 generation from ABRAHAM a newe HENOCH buried of God a new NOAH saued in the Arke 120 yeeres a preachyng to the worlde and euer afterwardes 2291 GENESIS endeth in Ioseph conteynyng yeeres 2369. The Booke of Iob though it vvas vvritten after Moses death yet in order of tyme falleth out before Exodus But Moses vvas to handle Abrahams blessing in Isaac and Iacob of vvhom our LORD descendeth after the flesh And not the other families of Abrahams seede by Keturah Neuerthelesse vvhere as God geueth Abraham a testimonie of carefulnes in teaching his house It vvas good for vs to haue holy monumentes to register their religion That doth the booke of Iob afforde in 23 vvyse orations VVhereupon the Lord him selfe coÌ„meth moderator of the disputatioÌ„ In the nevv TestameÌ„t their speaches be often cited to most vveighty purposes and the vvhole booke is a diuine commentarie vpon Genesis The chyldren of Israel filled the land and a nevv King arose that knevv not Ioseph vvho vexed theÌ„ and caused them to serue and coÌ„maunded the Midvviues to kil the male children and vvheÌ„ thus he profited nothing he charged his people to cast euery man child that sholde be borne into the Riuer SATAN compasseth all the Earth IOB in the land of Hus is sure that his redeemer liueth and that he shal stande the latter man vpon the earth Iob. 19 25. IOB is of Abraham by Keturah as may be gathered He can not be Iâ—bab who died some ages before Moses was king in Israell He is sayde to be the rychest of the sonnes of the East by which name the kinred of Madian is tearmed Ind. 6           310                                         1530           2400                  320                                         1520           2410                  330          ☜                               1510           2420      ‡            340                         ‡                1500           2430                  350        1       2       3       4       5     1490  6       7  2440    After the PROMISE Moses   WORLDE   Hosea Before the birth of CHRIST  8  Moses first receiued vvrote diuinitie vvith propheticall authoritie The booke of the Lords vvarres in Sichons victorie NoÌ„ 21 14. vvas after the Lavv and vvas some song made by Sichons fauourers yet true for an open action vvorthy citing as Aratus Act. 17. Menander 1. Cor. 15. Epimenides Tit. 1. Enoch his testimony vvhich S. Iude eiteth is not froÌ„ a more anciant theÌ„ Moses but as the doctors of Iuda did frame for Enoch a long speach froÌ„ those short sayinges that Moses vvriteth of Enoch The like they at this day haue for Satan disputing at Moses buriall as S. Iude folovveth HOSEA doth Moses call Iesus foreseeyng that he shoulde bryng the people into the land not him selfe As IESVS CHRIST not Moses â—awe of vs vnperformeable bringeth vs into the eternal rest NoÌ„ 13 Hosea vvas far froÌ„ couetousnes Ios 19. To him Christ said Ios 1. I wil not leaue thee nor forsak thee To vs. Eb. 12 MOSES visiteth his breathren Act. 7 23. BY fayth Moses when he was come to age refused to be called the sonne of Pharaohs daughter chose rather to suffer aduersitie with the people of God theÌ„ to enioy the pleasures of finne for a season esteeming the rebuke of Christ greater ryches then the treasures of Egypt for he had respecte vnto the recompence of the reward Heb. 11 24. MOSES was faythfull in all his house as a seruant 2441 he called Bildad of Suach Abrahams sonne with the other disputers his brethreÌ„ Though Eliphaz be of Esau and Elihu of Nahor yet Iob must far rather be of Keturah and a token of Gods testimonie to Abraham for instructing his posteritie ELIPHAZ Iobs felovv is a Temanite of Teman of Eliphaz of Esau of Isaac of Abraham about the seuenth froÌ„ AbrahaÌ„ elder then Iobs father if he speake of him selfe Iob. 15. by vvhose age vve must conclude that Iob caÌ„not be many ages before Moses the seuenth in an other line from AbrahaÌ„ HOSEA is born the seuenth froÌ„ blessed Ephraim Thus his byrth tyme is gathered All the particulers of 480 Y. in 1. King 6. are noted sauing 17 for Hosea 110 froÌ„ the end of that he vvas borne For so long he lyued So long lyued lykevvyse Ioseph The equalitie of age dravveth vs to vveigh the equalitie of the personages Moab droue out the Gyants Emims and Ammon the ZamzuÌ„mims Deu. 2. Sems God not Camos did
Casluchim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 s Caphtorim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 T Philistim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Preface shewyng the summe of the Booke directions to the Reader and the olde reading of the Law and the Prophetes THE holy writers haue a perfect consent in their doctrine of lyfe eternall which as from one mouth teach how that standeth in knowing the true GOD who is but one and the sending of IESVS CHRIST All Families were hereby to looke for grace in all Countries and Ages Some speciall the holy Writers do mention for the olde worlde and the worlde now Ten of the fyrst are Fathers not onely to our LORD but to all Nations They were al faythfull and shoulde mooue their Chyldren to beare in their brestes VRIM and THVMMIM Fayth and Loue. They had Abel an ensample of being faythful vnto death for Christ to fynde an eternall crowne of life Cain and his house warned them of their corruption taken from Parentes that they shoulde looke for regeneration The destruction of the men that delyted in Caines wayes whose bodyes wrinkled by the deluge whose spirites are in prison These shew that the eternall spirite of Christ hath in long patience a â—ust kingly anger Of this olde Worlde the Writers olde and new teach the same Their places are lytle mentioned but our Fathers ages are wonderfully layde downe by the heauenly Father teachyng vs as babes be taught Thrise they are reckoned how olde they were when they begate their sonne how long they lyued after and how much those two numbers make This sheweth that the Story is penned for the simple and chyldren The sundry comparisons wyll occupy the wysest The olde Families of the worlde now are set foorth sufficiently Sem keepeth in one lyne a name vntyll he commeth who is blessed for euer whose name none knoweth but hym felfe Vnto Sem and his blessing al his Families Iapheths and Chams were to looke they soone turned asyde For buyldyng BABEL to make them selues a Shem or name despising SEM they founde a Shame Their tongues became seauentie of one their dwellynges were parted accordyngly their whole state was a Confusion and they perished for euer that repayred not to Sems Tentes The fyrst Families Moses nameth and their places which the Prophetes describe where they dwelt by their merchandize as to Tyrus Eze. 27. or by their Warres The Heathen kept styll a memory of these fyrst poyntes but full of fables Coeum and Iapet they beare in mynde whom they call the sonnes of the earth Sem they forgate and all aboue The Families scattered from Babel left their names vpon their Countries which yet abyde in Greke writers Their Warres generall agaynst the faythfull Moses prophecyed vnder Assur and Cittim The Prophetes and Apostles recorde what fell out Cities here chiefly two for name are to be marked the low IERVSALEM which the faythfull styl helde or looked to holde vntyl the LORD came and the high IERVSALEM buylt by the GOSPEL euery where which Cittim or Italy that destroyed the low shoulde labour alwayes to besiege tyll GOD sendes his enemies a finall destruction The course of times with the Lord his nation was truely kept of the faythfull and faythlesse From the creation to Abrahams promise thence to the comming from Egypt to the foundation of Salomons Temple to the Captiuitie burning of the Temple to the returne to buylde it and thence to the death of our Lord. For euery partition of these tymes auncient consent of Hebrevves and Grekes may be brought I wyll labour to set foorth all these poyntes brefly from the beginning folowing the order of tyme measured by Stories of our Lord his kinred The places of auncient dwellinges shal be ioyned in one Map of the north part when Chams house Sems and Iapheths all three in Daniel fight with the auncient kingdomes agaynst the blessed of Sem and kingdome of Christ That Mappe was to be larger in breadeth then the quantitie of this Booke In it Pictures are grauen onely of the tyrannous kingdomes that Daniel speaketh of who are consumed by the byrth of our Lord whereof the Romanes are no part For all the Image and fourth Beast was to perish before the incarnation of Christ Ievves do conclude agaynst vs against trueth and their owne saluation vpon that our errour Doubtles Rome in the ende reuiueth their impietie folowyng their manners very neare wherby many haue thought Daniels Prophecy to blame the Romanes For playnnes and distinction herein I wyll in a Mappe of an other quantity set downe Rome and some other later names of Countries with some ancient as the story shal require and compare also by most liuely Pictures out of Scripture the Romans with Daniels Kingdomes This whole Vew I call A CONCENT OF SCRIPTVRE because it would shewe that Through the booke are other Titles touching time person for the present matter And wheras I often compare briefly later writers with former to shew the Reader how he him selfe may do that more at large I lay downe fyrst in this Preface a table of the Ievves shewing how they read the Prophetes Pharisees they are at this day who keepe a recorde of this and of the Pharisees of olde for this much the Lord gaue a testimonie that they sate in the Chayre of Moses Elias in Thishi in the worde PETARAH recordeth this occasion to haue been the beginning of Petaroth that when Antiochus Epiphanes forbade to reade MOSES law which was the parted into so many Sections as be Sabbothes in an yeere In steade of Moses they chose a part of some Prophet lyke vnto it which custome of readyng they kept styll after their libertie restored to vse Moses and his ceremonies freely Before you come to that Table I wyll here geue direction for the reading of this Booke touching the two Tables conteynyng the Fathers ages and certayne other poyntes The number vnder the Father sheweth what his age was when the Sonne set in that lyne was borne The other numbers shew his age at the Nephewes byrth ouer agaynst it or at the issue of the matter noted in that lyne Afterwardes you haue sundry tytles of their tymes parted as Promise Egypt Temple Diuision Captiuitie Seauens whereupon the chiefe knottes stande Also the tymes are noted by our Lordes byrth by the age of the Worlde and sundry perticuler men which the Reader may know in markyng what man famous in Story is agaynst the fyrst number Moreouer touchyng the Columne vnderstande that you shal be often to marke by the matter that the sayinges depend not vpon the next aboue them but vpon those that be on the other Columne oueragaynst them A marke you haue to note an vncertaynetie in the tyme of some
Stories that touch not Chronicle this is the forme of it ‡ as in Hezron but there the Corrector was deceyued who placed his byrth neare Iosephes death though he was borne before Iacob came to Egypt Other notes touchyng tymes two of one kynde shewe eyther that the Narration is dryuen from the due tyme and shoulde looke to the marke of the same forme or compareth one Kinges reigne with an others as you oft shall fynde in Iudah Israel Testimonies I cite short and in one clause drawen from sundry I name but one Author when about that place I had named some other for most of the matter there layde downe The common Latine translation whose soeuer it is I named it as the Title goeth Ierom. Abbreuiations chiefly be these b. for borne d. for dyeth y. for yeeres Once faulty C. for Ch. Christes For other names Antiochus Epimanes and Epiphanes Appian Archelaus Artaxact Athenaeus Carthusianus Clemens Alexandrinus in Stromatibus Cedrenus Dio. for Dionisius Halâ—carnasseus Diodorus Siculus Hystaspis Elias Leuita Epiphanius Eusebius Florus Herodotus Homer Iliades Horace Ierome Iosephus Ireneus Iustin the historiographer Iuuenal Massecheth once faulty for Halacoth in Maymony Nazianzenus Pausanias Plato Plutarch Polybius Ptolomy in Almagesto Rabbi Abraham Sadaias Strabo Thucidides Tully Valerius maximus Virgil these be the most names noted by abbreuiations other wordes shortly named by the matter may be gessed at or be so common that euery one knoweth them Now I wyll returne to speake of the ancient maner of readyng Moses and the Prophetes S. Iames sheweth Actes 15 21. that Moses was of olde tyme reade in the Synagogue in euery Citie euery Sabbath Maymony writeth of that in Volume I. Birchath Cohenim from Cha. 12. that Moses ordeyned that custome and that Ezra renued it after the returne and that in his tyme long before Antioch Epiphanes Lectiones of the Prophetes were by him chosen out agreeable in number and matter to the Lectiones in Moses They beganin the Feast of Tabernacles and in a yeere finished all After the readyng of the Law and the Prophetes they that woulde hauing leaue of the ruler of the Synagoge spake vpon those Scriptures That we see was reteyned Act. 13 15. I haue set downe their Sectiones and Lectiones as they part Moses and haue put forth their Petaroth at Venice by Bombergius in one Booke THE LAVV. THE PROPHETES 1 GENESIS Chap. 1. 1 ESAY Chap. 42. Verse 5. to the 31. 2 chap. 6 8. Verse 2 Esay 54 1. 10. 3 chap. 12. 3 Esay 40 27. to the 16. of 41. 4 chap. 18. 4 2. Kinges 4 1. to the 38. 5 chap. 23 5 1. Kinges 1 1. to the 31. 6 chap. 25 20. 6 Malachi 1 1. to the 7. verse of the 2. chapter 7 chap. 28 10. 7 Hosea 7. to the 15. verse of the 12. chap. 8 chap. 32 2. 8 Obadiah all Also Hos from 11. 12. 6 chap. 37 1. 9 Amos. 2. to the 9. verse of the 3. chap. 10 chap. 41 1. Da. 2. 10 1. Kinges 3 15. to the ende of the chapter 11 chap. 44 18. 11 Ezekiel 37 15. to the 38. chapter 12 chap. 47 27. 12 1. Kings 2 2. to the 12. 13 EXODVS Chap. 1 1. 13 Esay 27 6. to the 14. verse of the 28. chap. 14 Chap. 6 2. Verse 14 Ezekiel 28 25. to the 30. chapter 15 chap. 10 1. 15 Ieremiah 46. from 13. to the ende 16 chap. 13 17. 16 Iud. 4 3. to the 6. chap. 17 chap. 18. 17 Esay 6. all the chap. 18 chap. 21 1. 18 Ieremiah 34 8. to the ende 19 chap. 25 1. 19 1. King 5 12. to the 13. verse of the 6. chap. 20 chap. 27 20. 20 Ezekiel 43 10. to the ende of the chap. 21 chap. 30 11. 21 1. King 18 1. to the 39. verse 22 chap. 35 1. 22 1. King 7 12. to the 26. 23 chap. 38 21. 23 1. King 7 50. to the 21. verse of the 8. chap. 24 LEVITICS Cha. 1 24 Esay 43 22. to the 23. verse of the 44. chap. 25 Chap. 6 1. 25 Ieremi 7 6. to the 2. of 8. 26 chap. 9 1. 26 2. Samuel 6 1. to the 17. verse of the 7. chap. 27 chap. 11 1. 27 2. King 4 41. to the 20. verse of the 5. chap. 28 chap. 14. 28 2. King 7 3. to the 8. chapter 29 chap. 16. 29 Ezekiel 22. to the 23. chap. 15. verse 30 chap. 19 1. 30 Amos. 8. from 21. to the ende of the chap. 31 LEVIT Chap. 30 1. 31 Ezekiel 44 15. to the ende 32 chap. 25 1. 32 Ieremiah 32 6. to the 28. verse 33 chap. 26 3. 33 Ieremi 16 19. to the 14. ver of the 17. chap. 34 NVMERI Chap. 1. 34 Hosea 2 1. to the 22. verses 35 Chap. 4. verse 31. 35 Iud. 13 2. to the ende of the chapter 36 chap. 8 1. 36 Zach. 2 14. to the 8. verse of the 3. chap. 37 chap. 13 1. 37 Ioshua 2. all the chapter 38 chap. 16 1. 38 1. Samuel 11 14. to the 23. ver of the 12. chap. 39 chap. 19 1. 39 Iudges 11. to the 34. verse 40 chap. 22 2. 40 Micha 5 6. to the 9. verse of the 6. chap. 41 chap. 25 9. 41 1. King 19 46. to chap. 20. 42 chap. 30. 2. 42 Ieremiah chapter 1. 43 chap. 33 2. 43 Ieremiah 2. from verse 3. to verse 26. 44 DEVTRON Cap. 1 1. 44 Esay 1. verses 28. 45 Chap. 4 3. 45 Esay 40. to verse 25. 46 chap. 7 12. 46 Esay 49 verse 15. to the 5. of chap. 51. 47 chap. 11 26. 47 Esay 54. from 11. ten verses 48 chap. 16 18. 48 Esay 51. from 12. to 12. of chap. 52. 49 chap. 21 10. 49 Esay 60. 50 chap. 26 1. 50 Esay 61. from 10. to 10. of chap. 63. 51 chap. 29 10. 51 Esay 55. to verse 9. of chap. 56. 52 chap. 31 1. 52 Hosea 14. froÌ„ verse 2. 53 chap. 32. 53 or Ioel from ver 15. 54  54 or Sam. 2. the Psa 18. As their Leape yeere fell so they dealt with their three last LectioÌ„s accordyng to the number of their Sabbathes as they did cast their yeere The Ievv that readeth the Section now in the Iewes Synagoge beginneth with praysing GOD who chose Moses and the Prophetes and delyghteth in their most true wordes lykewyse endeth praysing GOD who speaketh and perfourmeth sayth and stablisheth so that no one worde fayleth Then he prayeth for ELIAS to come and for the kingdome of DAVID in CHRIST Yf the Caytifes would reade Melâ—â—hies last ende and fyrst oration of the new Testament and try all the new Testament with the olde the Gospel with Moses the Actes with the Kinges and the Apocalypse with all they myght see how ELIAS and that kingdome of DAVID is come And see that the perfourmauuce which they extoll is not cleere without the new Testament Aud for an exposition of all their expositions may they vse the oration of the Angel delyuered at their deliuery
this CALEB B. in Eg. Aram Aminadab D. NaassoÌ„ SalmoÌ„ B. MOSES age vvhen he killeth the Egyptian is recorded of S. Steuen to be 40 yeeres And of most lykelyhood so holden of the Ebrewes in that tyme othervvyse the holy man vvoulde not haue troubled men and aduersaries vvith a nevv matter yet the later Ebrewes of purpose differ taking heede least they agree vvith vs vvhere soeuer vve haue not expres vvords But the cause it selfe may vrge theÌ„ seeyng God in his gouernement vseth most     9      360 10       11       12       13       14       15     1480  16       17  2450     18       19      370 20       21       22       23       24       25     1470  26       27  2460     28 ‡ ☜  1   29    2  380 30    3   31    4   32    5   33    6   34    7   35    8 1460  36    9   37  2470  10   38    11   39    12  390 40    13   41    14   42  ‡  15   43    16   44    17   45    18 1450  46    19   47  2480  20   48    21   49    22  400 50    23   51    24   52    25   53    26   54    27   55    28 1440  56    29   57  2490  30  After the PROMISE Moses Egypt  WORLDE   Hosea Before our L. birâ— CHRIST  58  But CHRIST is GOD who made al. NoÌ„ 12. Eb. 3. MOSES saw Christ the Angell the God of AbrahaÌ„ Isaac Iacob in the bush Ex. 3. Deu. 33. MOSES taught that Christe shoulde suffer by death to ouercoÌ„e death Eb. 2. Death reigned froÌ„ Adam to Moses Rom. 5. He that beleeueth not Moses will not beleeue though one should rise froÌ„ the dead Luk. 16. But wheÌ„ Moses is read a couering lieth vpon the Ievves hartes 2. Cor. 3 14. Of Christ God spake to Moses I sende my Angell before thee My name is in him Exod. 23 20. He is the ingraued forme of Gods person Ebr. 1 3. Iannes lamb cause to plagues MOSES briÌ„geth Israel out of Egypt by the blood of a Lambe Exod. 12 42. figuring the Lambe of GOD which taketh away the sinnes of the worlde Iohn 1 29. The Law was geuen by Moses but grace and trueth came by Iesus Christ Ioh. 1 17 Nisan the 7 is hence the first The Fathers were al baptized vnto Moses in that cloude and in that Sea did al eate the same spirituall meate and did all drinke the same spirituall drinke for they dranke of the spiritual Rocke that folowed them the Rocke was CHRIST 1 Cor. 10 2 3. The Fathers did eate Manna a spirituall meate bread froÌ„ Heauen the Father geueth the true bread from Heauen and geueth lyfe vnto the worlde IESVS is the bread of lyfe Ioh. 6 31. 2491 playne numbers in mens ages and yeeres most fit for the affayres This busines required the countenaunce of a stayed age to make an agreement ber vvene striuers The peregrinatioÌ„ of the childreÌ„ of Israel vvhich vvere soiourners in Egypt vvas 430 Y. Those being expired the selfe same day they departed Ex 12. 40 Chams sonnesdelt vvith them as the Kites vvoulde haue done vvith the carkeises of Abrahams sacrifices but God iudged the nation and brought Israel foorth vvith great substaunce as Gen. 15 14. There vvas not one feeble persoÌ„ among theÌ„ vvho vvere aboue sixe huÌ„dred thousaÌ„d men besides vvomen children Leui his sonnes their atyre the Tabernacle vvith Arke Table Altars Candlesticke sacrifices these vvere a shadovv should cease froÌ„ vse at Christs death Moses telleth that vvhen they are to come froÌ„ Babylon God vvil remember them of that to be his couenaunt Leu. 26 42. That falleth out in Daniel DaÌ„ 9 24. Then they might knovv the very houre of the ceremonies ended Christ the body entring into the most holy euen the heauens Eb. 9. Rome is called Egypt Ap. 11 RACHAB borne SICHON taketh Cities from Vaheb K. of Moab NoÌ„ 21. that Israel might take them froÌ„ SichoÌ„ othervvise Israel might not medle vvith Moab Deu. 2. Moses calleth humane testimonies for these vvars takeÌ„ in hand by a speciall purpose of God the booke of the vvars of Iehouah Mans age is brought to 70 yeres Psa 90. vpon the misbelefe of the ten spies and the people the seconde yeere NoÌ„ 13. Then vvas Caleb 40 yeere olde  31   59    32  410 60    33   61    34   62    35   63    36   64    37   65    38 1430  66    39   67  2500  40   68    41   69    42  420 70    43   71    44   72    45   73    46   74    47   75    48 1420  76    49   77  2510  50   78    51   79    52  430 80  *  53  Exod. 12 41. Since the coÌ„ming froÌ„ Egypt 81 1   54   82 2   55   83 3   56   84 4   57   85 5   58 1410  86 6   59   87 7 2520  60   88 8   61   89 9 *  62   90 10   63   91 11   64   92 12   65   93 13 ‡  66  Â
a number attributed vnto a maÌ„ shevveth a name expressing the vsurping Vicar of Christ DARIVS and Cyrus Artaxast Prince Daniel stoppeth Lyons mouthes Eb. 11. The returne is graunted for buildyng Ierusalem hyndered somvvat by Artaxast in Cyrus third Then Messias vvho shoulde suffer appeareth to Dan. Chap. 1. as vvhen he had suffered he vvas seene of Paul contemning Stephen hauyng the counteneunce of the Angell and his vvordes from Dan. 9. But more alyke doth he appeare agayne to Iohn Apo. 1. He is called Michael the Archangel His Angell telleth of the Iewes sufferinge vntyl Epimanes death ACHASVEROS the third K. and Xerxes the fourth Dan. 11.  40       41       42       43       44       45      1       2  480    Cyrus maketh Crâ—â—sus Tutor to Cambâ—ses 3      3450 4  Belshazar She-â—â—ac Ier. â—5 That is vvhich kept a drunken Feast drinketh Dan. 5. That Feast is mentioned in Atheneus 14 froÌ„ Berosus Cresias and in Her 1. Strabo also booke 11 expoundeth Saca a Bacchus Feast and recordeth a victory     5       6       7       8       9 of Cyrus by his enemies unsober banquetyng      10       11       12   IVB.   Here Cyrus dreameth of Darius Hyst reigne Her 1. 13   18   3460 14       15       16       17       18       19       20     onely in Daniel is a dealer against the Iewes Try that and it vvill appeare  21       22   Babel falleth by Sems ElaÌ„ and Iapheths Madai an Angel helping Dan â— 6 9 11. Both proclayme Sems God Cyrus buyldeth hâ—â—â—â—â—se Eâ—â— â— 6. Ierusalem shal be destroyed in the next age after our Lord his death Dan. 9. Thâ—â—â— Rome  A Ramme is Paras A Goate Buck IauaÌ„ Da â— Â 1  70   3470  2   1  Here first the Grekes knevv the BarbariaÌ„ stories Sâ—â— 15.  3  The first returne Gabriels 70 seauens 2    The Head Lyon Trees time is ended   3       4       5       6       7 1  ‡    1   Sanballat B. vvho savv Alexander    2 *      3  3480     4  Thucid. Paus Athen. hold Grekes of no certainty     5       6       7 2      1      * Dariâ—â— Artaxast b. 2 *      3       4       5       6  3490    IVDA Gabriels 70 SEVENS Michaels people WORLDE Brest Beare Ram.   Before the birth of CHRIST The son of man  7 3 Achasueros decreeth that all Iewes in his 127 couÌ„tries should die in one day because their lavves differed froÌ„ the Heathen Mardochai and Adossa turne it on Haman the Amaleakite Num 24. and by fayth do the Iewes escape the edge of the svvorde Ebr. 11. DARIVS Artaxast is king of Persia of Assur Ezr 6. of Babylon Neh. 13. He knevv that Gods vvrath vvas vpon his predecessors for hinderyng the Temple In his second the Temple is taken in hâ—nde is finished in his sixt Ezr. 6. In his seuenth Ezra returneth vvith aucthoritte to imprison amerce banishe kil the disobedient to the Lavv Taketh order to put avvay all vvomen and their chyldren of natient impure in Moses That rule Nehemiahs is a Booke for the eues and svvearers Sinne is a vvoman cast into a Bushel prest by Lead and caried to Babel by tvvo Zach. 5. IERVSALEM is buylt by the seuenth seuen and the Cloysters about the Temple vvherefore the Temple is sayd to be 49 yeere in buyldyng Clem. Str. 1. Eusebius Ioseph Cedr as the City Abenezra vpon Dan. 9. That vvas 46 from Cyrus thyrde vvhen Daniel mourned for the hinderance of it to vvhich time vve may referre that 46 yere Ioh. 2. FroÌ„ Cyrus third to the ende of the 62 seueÌ„s to the 7 vvherin our Lord buyldeth his Temple are y. 480. Cedrenus reckoneth out of Iosephus from the seueÌ„ seueÌ„s end to IerusaleÌ„s destructioÌ„ by the Romanes 480 y. VVhereby Iosephus she vveth hovv rightly in his age Gabriels seuens vvere counted 3491 Xerxes his name in Greeke vvriting agreeth vvith this name Achasueros as it is vvritten in Ebrevv Est 10 yet that vvhole booke argueth that Achasueros to be rather his father as Grekes set forth Darius Hystaspis VVell might Xerxes beare that his fathers name so the other sonne Esters child at the Ebrewes vvel thinke bare the name Darius Xerxes stirreth Paras against IauaÌ„ that Messias vvho hath his handes most pure may revvarde them vvith quicke sharpe dealing according to their vvorkes for hindryng the buylding of his Temple and putting his people in feare of death AGGAI and Zachary teache Iehouah vvas vvith them and the Worde and the Spirite CHRIST shall come of Zorobabel vvho is of Nathan and before that Temple shal be destroyed Ag. 2. ZACHARY telleth of Babel to haue bene at a pit vvithout vvater Chaldeans vvere hornes Persians to them Smithes Christ is an Angell and Iehouah Angels attende Iesus signifieth him The Temple and Ierusalem shal be buylded It hath bene vnvvalled to shevv both God a fyerie vvall and the number to come vncumpassable The Candlesticke hath tvvo Oliues vvhich stande before the Lord of the vvhole earth Therby the Church vvith full graces it meant Al that testifie the truth Apo. 11. are for number gracet tearmed hence Gods forecare povver and speede by his Angels in diuers sortes for Iudah at home and in Babel is exprest by foure Charets commyng out of mouÌ„taynes of Steele and Horses     1       2       3       4       5       6       7 4    430  1  Reade the
Antiochus Theos Such is the breede of the fourth Beast vvhich goeth to destruction Magas the brother of Ptolemy Philadelphus maryed a daughter of Soters him Soter vvas fayne to helpe in vvars agaynst the brother His sonne in lavv claymed to be King of Cyren pau in Att. Thereupon the â—vvo leggeâ— began to knocke one agaynst the other At the ende of tymes they agreedâ— and Berenice the daughter of Philadelphus vvas maryed to the King of the norths son Antiochus Theos to make 3641 of it But Selcucuâ— house pleaded that Cassander Lysimachus and Seleucus dyd vppon a common agreement conclude when they ouercame Antigonus that al Syria should be vnder Selcucus Polyb. 5. Then the PLESANT LAND fell to be troden coÌ„tinually of these two Legges PTOLE Philadelphus for him the 70 turned the Prophetes into Greke Much they altered Yeres Gen. 5. and. 11. they faigned 1350 least the ofteÌ„ halfyng of ages shoulde trouble the faithles For persoÌ„s they faine to Sem one Caynan â—an other Caynan betwene Arphaxad Selah Also they â—ayne Ioseph a third generation when Iacob came to Egypt and Ioseph had ben maried but nine y. This moued them They helde in coÌ„mon speech from Gen. 10. that 70 tonges families sprang by Chams cursse that therevpon Iacobs house went to Chams land with 70 soules Deu 32. That those 70 matched in value all families of the earth that none myght rule ouer  When Sel. placed Iewes â—remen in al the Cities which he buylt Iosep Aâ—â— 12. Chap. 3. Christ wrought the mystery of saluation and glory ouer Gog In that Iewes were skattered among Iapheâ—â— sonnes and Greke made a comÌ„on language 4     5     6     7 25    1  *   2     3   280  4     5  3650   6     7 26    1     2     3     4  *   5     6   270  7 27   IVB. 1  3660 ‡ Menander writeth that euyll spech marreth good maners 1 Cor. 15. Aratus writeth that we are the kinred of God Act 17. 22 2     3     4     5     6     7 28    1     2     3     4  3670   5     6     7 29    1     2     3     4     5     6     7 30 3680   1  Seleucus Callinicus K.   2     3     4     5     6     7 31    1   240  2     3  3690   Gabriels 70 SEVENS Iuda Stars of heauen Gog-horned WORLD Egypt-horned Before the birth of CHRIST  4  these Saduces come to extremity Dan. 8. The godly vvho vverâ—egrave contrary to these vvho said styl God marketh hath all vvritten in a Booke for them that feare God Mal. 3. Dan. 7. They did commonly vse in this age the terme of the WORLDE TO COME at the vvyng that therein stoode the perfect blessing R. Aba God comforted particulerly the efflicted by the prince of Magog Such as be vvritten in his booke in that all vvhich sleepe in the dust shall ryse the iust to glory euerlastyng and the other to shame euerlastyng Dan. 12. Accordyng to that the Martyrs vnder Antiochus Epimanes as the sones of Anna often mention the resurrection 1 Mach. 2. Mach. Iosippus The Epistle to the Ebrewes doth recorde properly theyr comfort that they vvould not be delyuered because they looked for the betterresurrection Cha 11. Pharises oppose them selues agaynst the Sadduces in an other extremitie vnskilfully They said that Moses receiued an other Lavv besides the vvritten geuen by traditioÌ„ vvhiâ—h from Iosuah Samuel Ezra and such came to them They vnitie but it vvoulde not stande For Theos had a former vvyfe named Laodicea vvho poysoned her Husbande and styrred her sonnes to kill Berenice vvhich in tyme they dyd and a childe of hers The Angell foretolde this Heathen Appian Iustin recorde it Christians shoulde better marke it Herein the tvvo Legges of the parted Kingdome of Iauan ioyned in mans seede cleaue no better together then Iron vvoulde vvith Clay Nab. foresavve that and vve mistake it SELEVCVS Callinicus is ouercome by Ptolemy Euergetes vvho spoyled his Countrey and caried his Nobles to Egypt as also the Angel foretold Sel. dyeth by a fal Iust 27. SELEVCVS Ceraunus and Antiochus Megas both set vpon Egypt but the first soone died After Megas setteth vpoÌ„ Grece clayming that his vvhich Selâ—ucus Nicator vvan from Lysimachus The Consul of Cittim or Rome foyleth him He spoyleth the PLESANT LAND and a Temple vvhere he is kilde Strab. 16. Iust 32. Mach. SELEVCVS Philopater is that taxer that vvithin fevv dayes is 3691 them rightly more then ouer al other Zohar vpon Ex. To auoyde danger by the king of Cham his land though of Iauans seede they altered the text R. Abra. in Kabalah PTOLEMY Philo. He set foorth an huge army agaynst Antiochâ—s Megas who fought with an other great army Pol. 5. 3 Mach. 1. Antiochus is discomfited that Berenices death myght fully be reuenged Notwithstandyng Philopator prospered not but is kylled by Cleomenes a banished king of Spart Antiochus Megas prospered suÌ„dry times against Ptolemy Epiphanes the sonne whom Philopater dying bequethed to the tutelage of Rome They compell Megas to be quiet who placeth in mariage to Epiphanes one cald DaÌ„ 11. Bath-Nasim a daughter of speciall womanhood Cleopatra the glory of a Countrey Thinking by the mariage to destroy his sonne in law But the daughter fauoureth the husband and both fauour Rome agaynst him Liuy 37.   5     6     7 23    1     2     3     4   230  5     6  3700   7 33    1     2     3     4     5     6     7 34  220  1     2  3710 IVB.  3   23  4     5     6    ‡ The booke of Iesus the sonne of Syrah is written which many be vsed as the writing of a