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An apologie in briefe assertions defending that our Lord died in the time properly foretold to Daniel For satisfaction of some students in both vniuersities. H. Broughton.
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Broughton, Hugh, 1549-1612.
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of our Parliament who thought that all myght and must aduenture their soules vpon the proprietie of Gods worde and thereby setled vs lawes for Religion VVe may not dispute agaynst our owne groundes our owne frame our owne pyllers our owne whole buyldyng for triall or brauery of skill from colored old Astrologers This matter shalbe made so playne that euen the simplest may see the weakenesse of that iudgement which leaneth vpon such rotten reedes Ptolomy was a man cunnyng in the course of the yeere which men are taught to measure by the course of the Sunne His dexteritie was late For his dayes were about 130. yeeres after our Lord his redemption yet to make his art honorable he bryngeth to vs recordes not heard of before his tyme of Chaldeans commyng neare the antiquitie of a thousande yeeres For he nameth not Robbin-hood but Nabonassar yet one of Vtopia or no place matching in ancienty Ezekias king of Iudah His first yeere of gouernement he placeth 424. yeeres before the death of Alexander Macedon The same Ptolomy hath an accompt from Nabonassar to one Darius the first whose yeere of reigne 31. he maketh to be 256. from Nabonassar and by a consequent 168. before the death of Alexander Thus standeth Ptolomyes testimony How an aduersary doth cite this agaynst the proprietie of Scripture Thus the aduersary doth reason IF from Darius that folowed Cyrus sonne Cambyses who reigned 7. yeeres after Cyrus tooke Babylon vnto Alexanders death yeeres be 168. it must needes be granted that the Persians reigned aboue 130. yeeres ouer the Iewes and seeing 360. thence are agreed vpon to our Lordes death and the limites of Daniels seuens agreed vpon also betwixt both parties it must needes be that the Angell meant vncertenly Answere Many thinges for this testimony must be explaned Simply this wyll stande That neuer any Darius was beginnyng to reigne 7. yeeres after Cyrus tooke Babylon whose reigne was 168. yeeres before Alexanders death But for shewyng how the testimony is nothyng worth these poyntes may be layde downe 1 A testimony vnknowen or despised neare 1000. yeeres and afterward despised more then 1000. yeeres is more vayne then vanitie Such is this of supposed Chaldeans 2 Christians may admit no testimony where proprietie must beare sway agaynst Scripture For playne ought that to be which playneth the rough But by Daniel Darius the first came none after Darius the Mede who tooke Babylon 〈…〉 who then was 62. yeeres olde But his age 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 this accompt of 32. yeeres reigne 〈…〉 3 The Queene of Englande sworne to the Gospell is to satisfie her subiectes and they in obedience to satisfie her by proprietie of Scripture To regarde the most lying nation of Chaldeans neuer before cited to crosse proprietie of Scripture it is no part of the learned and godly This might haue warrented mee 4 A Shypmans hose wyll not elegantly distinguyshe and set foorth the legges But this Chaldean testimony is such For of Nabonassar and Nabopollasar Scal. 1584. condemneth al former opinions Christmannus holdeth them forged names Genebrarde thinketh them forged or corrupt H. Wolphius learnedly damneth all such helpe from Heathen for Scripture A sounde iudgement shoulde not trouble his Countrey with such stuffe Obiection But Clemens 1. Strom. hath a Darius the first after Cambyses Therefore Chaldeans onely are not to be blamed Answere 1 The Grecians could not so well take notise of Chaldean kinges as Chaldeans myght For whom Daniel had penned his sixt Chapter in the Chaldy tongue but they meant the first Darius that they heard of 2 That Darius Hystaspis cannot be meant by Darius the first Herodotus conferred with Ctesias wil proue For Ctesias a Physician in the Persian court and hauing as Diodorus writeth of hym the court rolles for warrant recordeth that Darius Hyâ—taspis liued but fourty three yeeres and reigned from his princehood at twelue yeeres of age but 31. yeeres Now Herodotus in Clio maketh him about 20. yeeres olde when Cyrus presently vppon Babels conquest prepareth Tomyris warres And this vtterly ouerthroweth my Aduersaries cause 3 Maximinus Monachus somwhat folowyng Grekes yet more reuerencing the open phrase of most holy Scripture and lothing rediculous distinctions where playnenesse ought to be he maketh Darius that foloweth Cambyses to be Darius the Mede But to differ from the Chaldeans either forged autours or forgers geueth hym in all but twenty eyght yeeres 4 Aben Ezra vppon Daniel the 9. testifieth that he saw recordes for the Persian kinges by whiche he founde from the surprysing of Babel vnto the twentieth of Artaxerxes fourtie nyne yeeres These be his wordes And beholde Ninteene yeeres were of the reigne of Cyrus and Achashuerosh and two of Darius and he reigned twelue And so it is written in a Booke of the Kinges of Paras and 〈◊〉 yeeres of Artaxasta the king So beholde the whole is 〈◊〉 seuens vntill Neheâ—ias came as it is written in the booke of Ezra Thus testifieth Aben Ezra who liued aboue 400. yeeres ago a great Astronomer in Sebastian Munsters iudgement whereby he coulde not be ignoraunt of Ptolomyes Chaldeans A deadly enemy he was to Christ and therefore deserueth better credite speakyng for vs agaynst his owne purpose then Chaldeans more wicked and perpetuall haters of Daniel 5 All they who make 49. yeeres for the buylding of Ierusalem who are full manv wyl be founde as well damners of these Chaldeans whereof amongst Romistes in Spayne Hector Pintus gaue the same reuerence to Daniels playnnes as dyd Iohn Calum in Geneuah and careth not for humane credite where Greekes thought them selues strongest And the Diuines in the last Frenche edition haue despised this Chaldy dreame Genebrard for the French Romistes is no small man honored now as I heard at Rome whom Adricomius folowed in the Chronicle ioyned to his Mappes Henry VVolphius is a learned godly and zelous reuerencer of the Scriptures playnnes who friendly controlleth M. Scaliger and confirmeth Beroaldus departyng euen from his owne Fathers iudgement for the holy trueth Agaynst all this must it be my particuler lot in so many of myne opinion to be onely counted new 6 Learned men by them haue gon too farre For I. Sc. condemneth all the thousandes of Diuines who do thinke that Darius the Mede Dan. 5. gate Babylon by conquest A strange thing Such wryters shoulde be hated who deceyue so learned men as M. Scaliger is knowen to be of all Learned men Two more deceites from these Chaldeans deceyuing him and an other Scholer wel deseruing of learnyng should make vs thinke no better of these staâ—e Chaldy forgery then â—â—iamus shoulde haue done of Epeus wordy Horse and hurtfull Sinons tale Cateles Vcalegon his house with others was not more ouertaken thereby of Vulâ—anes flames then our wrytinges shoulde be yf those Babylonians might beare sway Take fyrst an example of Ezekiel where he writeth in this manner Ch â— 1. In the thirteth yeere I was in the Captiuitie From whence
Xerxes euen by heathen 30. was the most that likelihood would grant that from Xerxes warre to Alexanders of the supposed 140. by Grekes of that Age in sure and plaine reasons 40. full clearly might to the satisfaction of any heathen bee quite cut off 5 Touching heathen disturbances I turne them to serue the Church in Olympiades about Rome and such Phlegon fighteth for vs whose whole fragment because few had it I caused to be printed for Scholers vse 6 Pausanias likewise against himselfe exactly for my summe and the Greke Diuines I brought against theyr cited Olympiades yea Iulian and Lucian are brought to serue Daniel 7 The table of Archontes the malice of Philosophers the vanitie of the Chaldeans haue been detected 8 These points hee that holdeth not profitable for helping to ioyne Moses Daniel Matthew Paul and all together and specially the Iubilees beginning from the partition of the Land by Iesus vpon driuing out the heathen ending at the entring for vs into heauen by our Lord and Sauiour Iesus by texts cleare and plaine hee that would despise this hath courage not following but running afore learning and I thinke with none well aduised can finde commendation Obiection But this should not be put in print to the disgrace of a learned man priuate conference should rather end the matter Answere This Obiection may be cast off for manie causes 1 Mine aduersarie conferred priuately with me before I wrote of the Scripture concent and vpon occasion of some strange points in his Author whereby his accompt made yeres three-score for bare three he told me that he had not studied these points and requested me to write of them 2 Presently vpon the comming forth of my Booke he falleth a confuting it in open lectures amongst yong students vnable to iudge who as Nero sang the destruction of Troy when he set his own Citie on fire so those yong students triumphed when Daniel and Gabriel were in confuting If this partiality be tolerable in him to speak to yong men not to print that all may iudge they wil grant me good leaue to defend that truth in print which the Aduersarie did request me for to print at the first 3 My learned frend told his Auditorie that hee was bound to honor the truth more than our frendship and therefore would not spare euen a follower of a vniuersall opinion He that will not thinke the same as lawfull for me will seeme blinded with finister partialitie 4 Vpon a short Epistle to one A. T. prouing Mardochai captiued whose life would discusse our controuersie mine aduersarie promised to take the blame on him rather than I should print more yet soone after falleth on confuting it with some dealings that none indifferent would like off his admirers being called to their owne iudgement vpon Ester saw that they were deceaued and said that the fame of the learned man carried them to conclude as he wold Now all such as condemn all Ebrewes Grekes English and their owne hart must bee warned to deale better and other warning would they take none till I came to this manie did I send them 5 Another D. of Diuinitie who abridged Codoman flowing with errours yet condemning mine Aduersarie in all our chiefe differences granting me full manie points wherby mine Aduersarie would tell him that he ouerthrew himselfe vpon certain demands dashing all his paines tooke a right course he confessed that he had no skill in these matters and would yeeld vnto him whom he prouoked One Master Jackson a merchant can testifie that to him it was spoken and the Gentlemen of Grayes-Inne know reason why that was his best way And this mention would I haue spared but that one D. Ch. would haue him answered as though he had wonne the spurres the man himselfe tooke the best way I dare assure mine Aduersarie that he ought to haue done so if euer by resistance he make his cause good let the Reader thinke me of small iudgement 6 So many are infected with error vpon his Lectures to hold the Scripture vncertaine that not onely Printing must correct them but also he must be moued to acknowledge his ouersight 7 It is great pitie that one so well deseruing of the Church should be suffred by vnreasonable reuerence to build vp Jericho wheras in frendship iust reproofe bears great sway which must be giuen grauely and taken patiently 8 We tooke Vmperes the Archbishop of Canterburie and the Bishop of London By their arbitrement hee doth know or some may that neither hee nor anie will soon foile any ioynt of that Scripture Concent but for going about will take foyles manie When after their censures yong men shall sing as at Neroes flames what man of courage with learning would abide it He that wrote of Scripture Concent to her Maiestie vnles for ioining Ebrew and Greke studies he knew himself commonly holden inferior to none he might be blamed of imprudencie with taking away the first letter of Rhetorique that which Tully said Demosthenes could hardly pronounce for the boldnes of his enterprise taken before BB and DD. as a Doctor of Cambridge answered for him vpon commending the weight of the matter when one demanded why then the BB. or the DD. meddeled not with it He that in so weightie a cause would suffer rumors to quel the truth and yeeld to men not acquainted with his studies should not be thought of iudgment or loue of the truth Thus I trust the godly wilbe satisfied the fame or infamie from the bad should moue none of iudgement FINIS The amending of faults escaped THe number of sheetes are not duely marked by the letters by reason that a fragment of Phlegon printed in Greeke was the worke of a Printer dwelling farre off and of another then the other and latelyer printed then the sheet of the Chaldeans which by the vnheedines of the Printers both haue their reckoning amisle the one A. the other I. But for amending faults they may be noted thus Phleg. and Chald. the other leaues be in order Through all thus amend faults D. page 6. line 12. and 13. twenty three yeares while Iosue was vnder Persia In Phlegon line 25. reade end cure of the plague In the next page in the margent reade Homer Iliad 2. 595. for Odiss 2. F. 1. the second page in the margent rede Homer Iliad 3. for lib. 3. In G. 2. line 1. reade sunne of iustice for sonne on the next page line 13. reade sunne for sonne In H. 3. page 2. line 16. reade the mede Datis for Mardoâ—â—â—s In the next page in the marget rede Demetrius Phalereus In I in the margent rede 4. y. that is yeares for 4. 7. In Cald. line 7. reade places 30. for 32. and line 20. reade either knowen for knowen either And line 21. reade or thought vpon to the for or to the and in the margent wittingly for willingly And page 7. line 29. open for vpon In L. line