king of glory who made Heauen and Earth This was their first confirmation wherewith Moses the first king of Israell strenghtened them They rebell A law is giuen promising all earthly blessings even to the highest honour of a kinge But menacies are added Leu. 26. that they will fall from God continually continually they shall be beaten euen till theyr King shal be caryed captiue and they shall be in theyr enemies land seauenty yeares And then God will remember his covenant when they pray as Leu. 26. prescribeth confessing theyr sinnes and the sinnes of theyr fathers Then God would remember his couenant with Iacob Isaak and Abraham and how he brought Israell from Egypt This the law telleth and the story sheweth that the Kings failed quite from the earth And prophecies shewe through Daniel seauen times repeating the same matter that Chams house Sems house Iaphets Grekes shall rule Iuda till Christ cometh And that he shall giue him selfe for the sinnes of the world and bring to earth the kingdome of Heauen This Daniel saw and abridged Ieremies lamentations which after the Kingdomes fall the Iewes studied for the space of a Iubily in Babylon And when Iechonias was dead and in him all Salomons house and Zerobabel of Nathan was chief of Dauids house then Daniel is told at what day Moses policy shall end Gentiles shall be equall in the couenant where no Iewes might hope for an earthly superioritie ouer the kinges of the earth And all this gold is made dimme by our deriuing of the Salathiel from Iechonias So all that euer cōmented vpon the Kings or Chronicles will say that we must bring our Lord from Salomon and so we openly deny Saint Luke that bringeth our Lord of Nathan And confirme the Iewes article touched before which to teach our simple shal be set out with the Iewes further opinion Rabbi Asser vpon Sanedrin articule the twelueth writeth thus The Iewes faith THE twelft articule is concerning the dayes of Messias that requireth a constant beleef that he shall come and a man may not thinke that he will differ ab 2. if he linger expect him and a man may not prescribe him selfe a time gather vnto himselfe opinions by occurrantes to bring furth the time of his coming And our learned say Let the spirit faint in them that account the limit Also a man must beleeue that he shall haue excellencie and dignitie and glory aboue all the kinges that euer haue bene As of him prophecied all the Prophetes from Moses who resteth in peace our Doctor vnto Malachi who resteth in peace And who so doubteth of him or holdeth his honour small denyeth the lawe For so the lawe testifieth of him in the meaning of Balaams prophecy and in the meaning of the section you stand here all Deut. 29. and 30. And this is a rule of foundation That Israel shall haue no king but of the house of Dauid and of the seede of Solomon only And who soeuer will be a schismatique against this familie he denyeth the name of the blessed God and the wordes of his Prophetes Of our yeelding vnto this wicked article against the scope of the Old and New Testament DAniel as I shewed was taught by the Angel Gabriel the very exact and straight day for the kingdome of Christ and to disgrace that prophecy M. Liuely wrote a great book full of dotage from the beginning to the end yet highly cōmended by our Arch. auctoritie in the Libel written against the Scottish mist and Brettish nation Also the last fourtene which are in S. Matth. cha 1. all of Nathan Salathiel Zorobabel Abiud Eliakim Azor Sadock Achim Eliud Eleazar Matthan Iacob Ioseph Mary Iesus These were termed Dan. 7. The Kings of the most hige God which should possesse a kingdome for euer And for vrging those to bad religion and vexing of them the four Beastes were cast into fier And these had not so bene vsed if Christ his kingdome had bene of this world And Balaam spake of Messias that should vnwall all the sonnes of Seth. Which terme Iekarker in Ebrew to pull downe the walles S. Paul expoundeth 2 Cor. 10. The weapons of our warfarr are not carnall but mighty in God to the pulling downe of stronge holdes pulling down thoughts and euery high fort that exalteh it selfe against the knowledge of God and captiuing euery thought into the obedience of Christ Thus graciously Saint Paul expoundeth Balaams terme of pulling downe the wall But while wee deny Salomons house to end in Iechonias and make Salomon the youngest of Bethsebaes sonnes and Nathan his elder and Patriarch and inferiour to his younger and againe giue yeares of gouernement to Rhesa without all story and bring the Kingdomes right to marie and talke of Iewes mariage in their tribe for profe of kindred by this pretensed help of reconciliation we haue disturbed all the Bible and become a skorne to all the Iewes But one word of your Maiesties gracious mouth will banish that Table for euer Now that the simple may perceaue S. Matthew and S. Luke their purpose shal be told briefly S. Matthew would teach Herodians Pilateans concerning Christ the king of the Jewes that earthly emperours should feare no lesse from him for that his kingdome was not of this world That may be kowen by considering his owne ancestours from him to whom Chanaan was promised after the kings which were not of his line againe his ancestours two and their house From Abraham to Dauid all the fathers were godly and Thamar Rachab Ruth and Bathsuagh examples of faith for all David in rest had nere ouerthrowen his house But Solomon with his house soone brede ruine fewel for Ieremies lamentations and funerall verses for the buriall of Salomons race in Iechonias Then cometh in Nathans house in Zorobabel and Salathiel fathers two to our Lord after the flesh but turneth in Abiud c. out of our Lord his line yet all were godly and poore and the saincts of the high Trinity Dan. 7. For whom God overthrew the iron legged Macedonians and the former partes belly brest and head of the image And so telleth how in pouerty standeth the kingdome of heauen and Kings need not to feare losse by Christ. K. of Chanaan receaving thence no peny but vexed at his comming into the world Now S. Luke going to shew his victory over Sathan bringeth him by Mary and Ely to Adam taught in his first day who should destroy Sathans workes This meaned the Evangelist whom the former Table reiected A right and plain Table shall follow The right reconciliation of Saint Matthew and Saint Luke DAVID Salomon the eldest sonne of Bathsheba Roboam Abia. Asa Iosaphat Ioram * Achaziah * Ioaz * Amaziah Ozias Ioatham Achaz Ezekias Manasses Amon. Iosias Iehoiakim Iehoiachin or Ie-Chonias Here Salomons house ended as though it had never bene Nathan the yonger next brother Mathatha Mainan
Prophetes had so many corruptions in longer time more would grow The learned man dealt here not learnedly A prosessour of Ebrew 30. yeares might haue shewed that the text was still most exact and in many places far the more curious Ebrew and he should not weaken the glory of Gods providence whose watchfulnes hath preserved every letter of all the holy Hebrew that his Prophetes wrot for the vse of all ages Many booke-prophetes wrote for the vse of Israell while their tongue families and townes stood which afterwardes would not profit when Israell perished and heathen should be vexed in searching stories not plain Those bookes the last Prophetes extinguished and made vp an absolute pithie storie fit for all ages And so much we must defend to every letter Ecclesiasticall authoritie in a certen libell commendeth M. Livelies booke Bishops that know Ebrew will not assent nor any who vse advisement Authoritie should make Lively recant This blamer knoweth that he hath read thrise mo Ebrew auctours then he and will defend each of the 848. words blamed by M. Lively And a worke titled Tiphereth Israel would haue told M. Lively more thē he knoweth for this matter and much more to speak better of the holy text And the right reverend fathers should write of the Bibles purenesse first how the text is sound before they dispute of further matter All thinges must be done in order in the Church of God And if men regard money not learning Gods face will be vpon them Of Tzau an Ebrew worde in Hosee rashly blamed IEroboam the first bade Israell worship calues at Dan and Bethel vpon his word they did so That Hosee touched in one syllable Tzau a charge M. Liuely writeth that the text is corrupt Shau by him it should be No Ebrew told him so Only he told him selfe so By equall authoritie he might make a new Bible of his owne head Hee bringeth the Lxx. for his warrant They translate Vaine thinges as Shau The answere is easie They translate cōmonly for Heathen capacitie where Iewes stories would be hard for them So they entitle the bookes of Samuel The Kings Because Heathen would not soone perceaue how Core his sonne should haue such a title So Heathen would not soone see how Osee spake of Ieroboams charge and therefore the Lxx. take for Tzau Shau for Charge Vain things dealing most wittily This work of M. Lively is solde in Paules But the auctor should amend that We may not crosse our owne ground that the Scripture is all pure cleare in one copie or other and here in all that haue bene spokē off And M. Liuely alone fighteth against all the world But that our Ecclesiasticall authority fighteth in his allowance for him against our good Of Daniels seauens the right meaning and corruption commended by our Ecclesiasticall and Stationers SInce Adamfell on the day of his creation and brought death before he walked in any obediēce to kindle Gods anger to the full yet God in mercy vsed many meanes to breed faith in the redeemer beside the warnings of his word The flood destroyed all but eight of all the men nothing remaineth but spirites in prison except eight saued in the Arke That severity might haue made them all wise Yet Cham was not bettered but his race called out Idolatry and Babels Tower for that wherevpon God bereft these builders of the tongue that spake of hope in the redeemer that they should no more heare of him till Babel should fall by Sem in Cyrus and by Iapheth in Darius when Persians and Medes tooke Babell And amongst his owne people he reckoned the worldes age to that time most exactly and plainly yeares 3470. And then his Angell telleth Daniel for Darius and Cyrus and all nations of the kingdome of Salvation and nameth the redemer the most holy Messias the Governer Messias that shall confirme the covenaunt with many and telleth of his kingdome how it shal be in sufferings Iudah saw the fall of Salomons kingdome their hope and the fall of Babel the glorie of nations and now first experience might teach that the kingdomes of this world vnder the sun had nothing but vexation of spirit At that time it was fit to tell all the world of the kingdome of heauen when Iewes Gentiles saw all the earth cursed The Iewes kingdome had fallen and they were told they should never haue an earthly kingdome more and Hethen kingdomes were shewed to be as savage beastes coaming out of the great sea tossed with many windes So in that opportunitie an Angel called Gabriel the mighty man of God whom Daniel had seene before cometh in the Evening to Daniel praying for a return home for his people to restore their religion and telleth him that his prayer was heard that Ierusalem shal be restored as Esaie foretold Cyrus should do it that mount Sion should haue sacrifices seaven times the space of seaventy yeares captivity that is 490. yeres But exactly then the Son of God would consecrate him selfe to end Moses and to bring in an Eternall redemption and as he had Oxen and sheepe in sacrifices for his body and their blood for the blood of his covenant hee would confirme a covenaunt for all nations As the Gospell recordeth what he hath done leaving bread for his body in seale of covenaunt and wine for the new testament by his covenant So at his death he should end Moses Lawes and all Leviticall function that no Mosaicall sacrifice should afterwardes be lefull And the time of all this matter is clearely and strictly set downe that Cyrus Darius knew when the sonne of God would worke redemption in which hope 49000. Iewes leaue Babel for Ierusalem and so many of Israel as had hope of Salvation thought of Ierusalem in all countreys where they were scattered Also the Sonne of God is called by Gabriel as was said Messias in such Ebrew as it must needes be a propre name which it is not againe in all the old testament and Saint Iohn for Messias cha 1. and 4. forceth vs to looke vnto the Angells speach and still the name of CHRIST through the new Testament in so much that to deny MESSIAS here to meane Our Lord and Saviour that is nothing els but to deny all the New Testa Besides for certainty of all God telleth that by the tenth part of this time exactly from the leaue to returne Ierusalem shal be walled but not without much adoe so forty nine yeres are set alone with the stories of 4900. thousand Iewes interlaced least Heathen lyes should break the trueth of the Chronicle When God had given Cyrus all the kingdomes of the earth then he maketh a decree to build the Temple and to giue a subsidie throw 120. nations to helpe the Iewes home Long warres had Cyrus afore he became so great Esay did name him by his name and foretold of his victories And Heathen doe record them and Lucian recordeth that Cyrus liued
name of three Tribes Dan Nepthaly and Gad. And the fourth row was Chrysolite Beryll and Iaspes There was written vpon them the name of three Tribes Aser Ioseph and Beniamin Thus sayth an old auctour not vnknowen to the Eloquent Cyril nor despised of him Of Thargum Cant. Chap. 5. AN other Chaldy paraphrast vpon the Song of Songs though hee agreeth in no Chaldy name to the vndoubted Ebrew stones order yet hee applyeth the Patriarks to them iust as the former did seeing how so the Tribes armes told them what part of the land each one should haue and dignitie according Whose record keepeth vs from fastening folly vpoÌ„ Ezekiel by our blindnes and from moving the simple to despise the revelation Of Midras Rabba MIdras Rabba is a most curious work for the depth of the Ebrew tongue bringing witty fables to teach memory of sentences This Midras vpon Exod. 28. telleth of the Patriarks engrauement in the twelue stones iust as Thargum Ierusalemy doeth and is an auctour of high esteeme and drawing the consent of many So this auctour here may fight for Dan with his Leshem to keepe all stories togeather by right settling of one Patriark to his stone Of Maymonides in the holy Iewels R. Moses Ben Maimon often cited he most curiously handleth the same in two workes one not yet printed written vpon the mysteries of the twelue Iewels and to the former order An other printed and famous in tract of the holy implementes Him also R. Moses M. kozi citeth though he would haue bred a confusion to Moses Ezekiel and all the Bible he citeth him as mistrusting his owne iudgement Of R. Eleazar Wormatiensis MAymonides in Spain Egypt Arabia was knowen â—423 yeres agoe as was mentioned and Eleazar a Rabbin at Wormes about the same time He hath writteÌ„ vpon the Law and on Exod. 28. folowing the former order For Lâ—shem and Dan he handleth Gods providence Dans dulnes very sharply even to the letters LE SEM follow God and turned into Semel Idol Of Salomoh Iarchi SAlomoh Iarchi is elder then both them Hee liued in the time of the holy warre As Barbinel recordeth vpon Obadias Vpon Iud. 18. thus he writeth Laisha was the name of the city And in the book of Iosuah they called the name of it Leshem Because they found there a precious stone called Leshem it was set in the brest care of iudgement for the Tribe of Dan he knew that in trueth that should be their inheritance Thus writeth this old Rabbin whom Elias Mizraki and Chizkuni follow and vrge vpon others that would confound the Iewell of all holy story Of R. Isaak Karo ONE Rabbi Karo keepeth the same order and writeth brauely in applying the stones notation or nature to the story Specially in Achlemah I WILL KEEPF SAF how needfull it was for Gad to haue that precious promesse Of R. Bechaiah ONE R. Bechaiah writeth very many good things This one that all euer glorious in the Fathers came by Faith And convicteth Abraham of want of Faith that obiected Sara to daunger and of other great imperfections But that this Rabbi saith in his hart Who can goe vp to Heaven to bring Christ downe or who can goe to the deepe to bring Christ from the deepe of the earth as Ps 71. speaketh but that the incarnation and resurrection was incredible to him hee had soone learned our doctrine This Rabbin foloweth the Thalmud Thargumes two Maimony Eleazar Iarchi vpoÌ„ Iud. 18. and the true light of Scripture to be a frontyer against those late men that to vndermine the New Testament would not stick to coÌ„found all their glory Of the contrary with confutation THE Iewes of late haue put foorth vpon Moses a short paraphrast a forged work bearing the name of Ionathan the old most learned paraphrast who wrote vpon the Prophetes Of whom the Iewes saye that he wrote not vpon the Law He was no lesse ancient then the holy Apostles Yet the forged Ionathan mentioneth Constantinopole vpon Num. 24. This forged work breaketh the stones order and some of the malicious and willing to disgrace our Testament follow him The true Ionathan bare sway so great that no Thargum nor Thalmudist durst check him and whereas he translateth nyne stones Ezek. 28. onkelos vpon Exod. 28. followeth him in every one of them Against this Elymas I cited this troupe that troupes should trouble them and they be troubled vnto their end Of the Onyx ill set for Beryll in Exod. 28. by the Bishops Bible THE Lxx. naming Iosephs stone Beryll being allowed of the holy Ghost Apoc. 21. should not haue bene refused Yet our translation hath Onyx Though the enemies to the New Testament haue the Greek plain or by transposing of one letter The Chaldy of Iob. ch 28. hath Berylin Ionathan Ezek. 28 Byrela onkelos in Gen. 2. and Exod. 28. Byrela And Aben Ezra citeth the Syriaque comon auctority for Byrela And by transposition the Arabique hath Belyr in Sadaias in the Persian Arabique vpon both places and in an old Ebrew Arabique dictionary that I haue brough for me from Arabia Also a most learned commentary of Sal. S. of Melec Sat. recordeth Belyr to be the Arabique Thus the enemies favour S. Iohn But we haue not marked how the New Testament is the best auctour for the Ebrew tongue and haue refused to follow God and obscured the Symphonie of Moses Ezekiel Iohn and made all three to speak as sounding brasse no distinction of matter The learned translaters will amend this Why the Lxx. set Smaragd for Shobam Exod. 28.10 where Beryll is in v. 20. AS the Greek Philo doeth apply Aharons attyre to deep significations so did the former and the later Now Ioseph stood in glory 600. yeres in Egypt his house bare sway and Iesus or Iosuah was King after King Moses dyed and conquered the land and Ephraim and Manasse of one Patriark made two Tribes And 350. yeres the Ark was in Syloh Besides Debora Gedeon Abimelec Iephthe Abdon defended the People and halfe Manasses ioyned with Ruben and Gad and found glory in Sauls time over Hagarenes Thus Iosephs Beryll might well beare all names on Aharons shoulders as he like Atlas bare all the peise on his shoulders For this Israel saw a plain reason why the ShohaÌ„ of Ioseph still should beare sway And Ephraims kingdoms fall told that Iudah should fall and Heathen come in their rowme as HeatheÌ„ only in Iobs time stack to God But HeatheÌ„ could not see a reason of this For their weaknesse the Lxx giue Levies shoulders his own stone Chrysostome in Photius thought Moyses truth did so whence Patriarches Popes will be Shoham which stone is the Kings Of an open betraying of our Lord and redeemer and befooling the rock of salvation THE Pascha was to be kild not in private townes wheÌ„ altars were free as in Samuels time but where God settled his name as in Ierusalems Temple And there the Lambe could
new rageth vpon him that forced him to faith in these wordes in his Sermon booke against M. Iacob folio 419. Tell then your abettor that all the Realme will take him not only for a rayler against all honestie but a lier against all duty that voucheth so confidentlie King Edw. the sixt and his subiectes held that Christ his soule neuer went to Gehenna and the Realm knoweth the Qu. oath as also the Q. adventureth her eternall state These be no states to come within his vnclean mouth He may doe wel to remember who they be of whom it is written They despise governement and speake ill of them that be in authority as raging waves of the sea foming out their own shame Now to confute him the Zurick confession shal be sufficient it was allowed in England Thus it standeth Per inferos intelligimus non locum supplicij designatum impijs sed defunctos fideles quemadmodum per superos adhuc superstites in vitâ Proinde anima Christi descendit ad inferos id est delata est in sinum Abrahae in quo collecti fuerunt omnes defuncti fideles Ergo cum Latroni secum crucifixo dixit hodie mecum eris in Paradiso promisit ei consortium vitae beatorum spirituum Licet enim Dominus descendisse dicatur fit tamen ex more loquendi Confitemur in hoc articulo animas esse immortales easque protinus à morte comporeâ transire ad vitam To this may come his own wordes fol. 219. Wee haue no warrant in the word of God so to fasten Christes soule vnto Hell for the time of his death that it might not bee in Paradise before it descended into Hell And for his new these fol. 154. The sense of the Creed may must be that Christ after his body was buried in soule descended vnto that place which the Scripture properly calleth Hades HEL The Lybian sandes may aswell be reckoned as Bilsons heresies vpon this course His pen telleth all learned he is a babe and he deliteth to shew his folly Archb. WH could confesse errour send Geffrey King his Chaplein for Basill to confesse so when he saw all the world should force him D. Bilson hath a mind to be famous for millions of errours But your Majestie will make him yeeld Francfurt mart would make all loth him If it please your highnes that shall discusse the Question I will defend your Maiesties Religion and accuse him of strange new fangled and most detestable heresie Of a greater iniurie to Christ and his nation THE Archisynagogue of Byzantum or Constantinople sent an Epistle to England desirous to be taught in the conference of both Testaments and how all things falling out in our life may bee discussed without traditions which Iewes say Moses gaue by word of mouth to Iosuah or Iesus and so man vnto man still Vpon this all the Thalm. speaketh And his demaund argued a scholer who knew that none of witt would medle with him that knew not the Prophets Thalmuds as well as he This Epistell was sent to England thence to me to Basil There I printed two impressions And gaue the copies to be dispersed quickly ouer Europe and Turky And I printed in Ebrew and Greek to Archb. WH and his brethren how they might honour Christianity handling such and such poinctes learnedly And I continually sent treatises to Constantina shewed afore to Iewes of Germany For this a libell was allowed against God against your M. termed the Scottish mist aganst my poore selfe that the printed Epistle was forged by me For this I gaue I.C. the Anathema Maran Atha and if he had done so in Germany an axe had cut off his head His G. protested he never spake never dealt against me and turned the Anathema vpon his Chaplein This contempt of Christianitie was the greatest that euer hath bene heard in Christendome and a Greek Oration complayning of it to all Christendom was allowed by the Lords of Francfurt a little before Q. Elizabeths death vpon that not printed that if iustice be shewed at home forrain complaintes may surcease God will plague all that put vp such iniuries against Christ and the clearing of all the Bible for Iewes and Gentiles wherein our Machmadean errours haue bene detected to be ridiculous to all Iewes How the Iew should be answered THE Lords of Bearne in Zuitzerland offred me a good place of professing Ebrew and all my charges for Printing aunsweres to this Iew But with this addition No stranger that meaneth not to dye amongst them shal be preferred who afterwards may greue them in opening of their affayres That I refused and told of my hope in your Maiesty Now if it be your highnes will to allow me a pension to buy all Hebrew and Thalmudiques helpes and to hyre comon Ebrew setters at Venice or Basil the Bible and the Thalmud shal be opened by Gods help to the contentment euen of the Rhomists or if your highnes graunt me but your princely letters of fauour to Germanie Princes they will deffray my charges A Prince to whose ancestors all the Iewes of the Empire payd for their dwelling sauing them of Francfurt hath many of them now his tenants would willingly haue employed me that way But without your highnes leaue I could not then resolue Epilogue THVS I haue shewed your Highnes of our corrupt dealing against our own Religion And your Maiesties bare word may cause the Bishops to put furth some litle book as amending faultes escaped Seeing many thousand copies translations of the Ebrew and Greek Testament haue bene solde their escapes will vex many vnlesse particular warnings be given of thē Only the time of our Lord his birth as we hold it where the conception should be this comon errour can not nedes not to be amended Seeing we reckon frō the conception And the memory of story we may celebrate as we hold it convenient But he that shall defend S. Luke must be circumspect herein Iewes haue long examined what to obiect I hope your M. shall see that by the right handling of this cause Iewes shal more cōfesse that your highnes kingdome in the ends of the earth is a chief possessiō of Christ and hath a Cherub an oincted defender of faith in the Garden of Eden in the holy mountain of God Sion the Heauenly fiery stones of noble Princes where one is the Beryl that beareth all the Tribes and the flaming carbuncle overshining all and that such shal be in your glorious Maiesty and in your most noble posteritie while the sun shineth Your Maiesties most humble harty and faithfull subiect HVGH BROVGHTON Amend the faultes thus A. pag. 8. hightened read lightened B. pag. 4. Athosskes read Atoss pag. 8. Alexander read Philip. C. pag. 2. greath reed great pag. 3. for in Babylon read vnder Persia pag. 4. the stretch read to Exatost read Erat. pag. 7. line vlt. for 10 rede 20. D. pag. 3.