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A12716	A cloud of vvitnesses and they the holy genealogies of the sacred Scriptures. Confirming vnto vs the truth of the histories in Gods most holy word, and the humanitie of Christ Iesus. The second addition. By Io. Speed.; Clowd of witnesses.	Speed, John, 1552?-1629.	1620 (1620)	STC 23032; ESTC S107808	157,859	378

is by Saint Mathew and Sai●…t Luke deriued from Abraham Iudah and Dauid and by the foure Euangelists in that his double right is 〈◊〉 times foure times recordded stiled and called King of the Iewes An●… thus much of the third point Now remaineth the last in the acknowledgment of that title to rest onely in the person of Iesus the expected sonne of Dauid whose raign doth continue for euer The first acknowledgment then of this promised King was obserued by the Gentiles when by his Starre they were led vnto the new-borne Babe King of the Iewes which was in the forty two yeere of Augustus Caesar when Cere●…ius was Gouernour of Syria and when in token of a vniuersall peace the Temple of Ianus stood shut in Roome Which peace was so famous as the mostfamous among the heathen Writers found matter enough to enlarge their wits vpon as Virgil in his Aeneidos and speech of Iupiter doth make him a Prophet to foreshew the peace that should be enioyed when as Mars his Temple should bee neglected and his hands bound in chaines of brasse And in his Eclog speeches of an vnspotted Maide a blessed Babe and of golden daies And Marcus Tullius Cicero as himselfe reporteth saw in his dreame A Childe of an engenius and beautifull countenance let downe from Heauen by a golden chaine And Suetonius after him from Iulius Marathus obserued that euen then Nature was about to bring forth a King that should raigne ouer the whole World And albeit these men in their flatteries did appropriate these their speeches either to the Emprour Augustus himselfe or vnto some of his fauourites yet Micah tels vs that in these daies the weapons of Warre should be made the instruments of Peace for saith he in the last daies Swords shall bee broken into mattockes and speares into Sithes and that euery one should sit vnder his owne Vine and vnder his Fig-tree and none should make them affraid And Isaiah speaking to the same purpose particularly applieth it vnto Christ for saith he Vnto vs a Childe is borne vnto vs a Sonne is giuen the gouernment is vpon his shoulder and his Name is wonderfull Counseller the mighty God the euerlasting Father the Prince of Peace Which Peace was declared to the world by the Angels from Heauen in this last age of the Iewes common wealth when the Stone cut without hands fell vpon Daniels Image that then stood but vpon his toe of Clay Euen then and at that time the wisemen of the East comming from Chaldea in whose language Daniels vision was writ followed his Star into Iury and in Ierusalem inquired for him that was borne x King of the Iewes Which title was acknowledged without any contradiction confirmed by the Priests and Scribes themselues both in affirming the place of his birth in acknowledging his office to be a Ruler in Israel And the malicious Iewes to hinder his right to that kingdome could name none but Caesar a stranger and that contrary to their own law enioyned by Moses which said Thou shalt not set a strāger which is not thy brother to be King ouer thee And that Iesus was the acknowledged King of the Iewes these speeches and demands of Pilat the Gouernour doth manifestly shew Behold your King Will yee that I release vnto you the King of the Iewes What shall I doe vnto him whom yee call King of the Iewes Shall I crucifie your King and the like Yea and the holy Ghost enforced his own wicked hand to subscribe his most iust title thus IESVS OF NAZARETH KING OF THE IEVVES which he wrote in Hebrew Greeke and Latine that all might reade and fixed it ouer his head vpon the Crosse and that all might see as himselfe had said behold your King And being admonished by the Iewes States-men to alter the in scription as too much derogatory vnto Caesars title and no lesse then a matter of high treason in himself answered What I haue written I haue written euen to the danger of his owne life And Christ himselfe that needeth no testimony of men answered Pilat to his question Art thou a King thou sayest that I am a King To this end was I borne and for this cause came I into the World that I should beare witnesse vnto the truth and euery one that is of the truth heareth my voyce And the same opinion of his kingly title after his resurrection it seemeth the Iewes in Thessalonica had when they accused Iason before the Rulers that against the decree of Caesar hee subborned them that taught there was no other King euen one Iesus Thus then we conclude that this Iesus the Sonne of the Virgin was the expected King of the terrestriall Kingdome the reall King without any Competitor to that Crowne And the acknowledged King of the Iews both by the Gentiles and by the Iewes themselues But because in Dauid and in the rest there was a figure of a Priestly or spirituall King and Kingdome aswell as of a reall and earthly Some haue thought the figured only and not the real did belong vnto Christ for that himselfe disclaimed all regall authority vpon earth But if we well consider that he alone is the Alpha and Omega through whom and for whom all that is writ was writ in whom all the promises of God are vea and Amen wee must then include as much vnto him the substance as was propper vnto Abraham and his other figures else was not Christ the heire of all and the first among Brethren Therefore as we began in Abraham for the Terrestriall let vs likewise begin in him for the Celestial who in his daies was both a King and a Priest and in them both a true figure of him his seede that was to come That Abraham was a King his kingly authority in his leagues ofensiue and defensiue made with the Kings of the Canaanites doth sufficiently shew For as a King he bare himselfe among those his con●…ederates both in the victory and deuision of the spoiles gotten and taken at Sodom in the recouery of his brother Lot And a Priest likewise he was for he built Altars and sacrificed vnto the Lord and would haue done his owne sonne Isaac had not his hand beene stayed by an Angell from heauen so that in both hee was really a King of that earthly Canaan and personally a Priest in his ministeriall Sacrificings and in them both was tipically a true figure of Christ. To both these functions Isaac was his heire Iacob his and Iudah his for the three brethren Ruben Simeon and Leui were disinerited both of kingly Priesthood and Lay Kingdome vpon their trespasses against Iacobs bed and in Sh●…chems slaughter But the ministeriall setled vpon Leui Iudah possessed not for these were seperated when Moses wa●… the messenger

mention of Iacim at all Concerning then the persons omitted wee see they were foure Kings of Iudahs Throne Three of them in a direct line of succession and the fourth nine discents following which were Ahaziah Ioash and Amaziah and the last Iacim the son of Iosiah For whereas Saint Mathew saith that Ioram the sonne of Iehoshaphat begat Ozias it is most manifest by the Bookes of the Kings and of the Chronicles that Ioram begat Ahaziah and not Uzziah and Ahaziah begat Ioash and Ioash begat Amaziah and Amaziah Vzziah 68 yeeres after the death of King Ioram But why these foure particular persons aboue the rest should be omitted is questionable some thinking that it was the mistaking of St Mathew in writing Ozias for Uz. ziah and by obliuion left that line of Ioram vnto his third descent which in no case may be admitted For God forbid that the first writer of the new Testament should be ignorant of that which the olde wrote whose pen though his and he a man yet was the Inditer the Spirit of Truth and farre from all imperfections of men Some likewise alleage that for the Iewes weaknesse Christ would not haue his holy publican Mathew to name the wicked Ahaziah the Cain-Ioash the foolish Amaziah nor the Atheist Iehoiakim in that catalogue vnto which himselfe was the onely heire but as the scumme of the World vnworthy of remembrance leaues them vnnamed as though they had neuer beene And some again iudge these foure to be omitted for their many impieties both in their liues and raignes and for their euill ruling to be left out of that holy Text as worthlesse of names or remembrance Whereunto we answere that the Iewes were not weake in the Texts of their stories we see by their many Comments though in the applications many times they missed but especially in the line of their Kings were most ready from whom they expected their potent Messiah And had they beene ignorant yet Christ the truth would not haue smothered the truth in regard of their follies Neither doth their silence for bad life and euill ruling onely satisfie for many other Kings as wicked or more are notwithstanding by the Euangelist recorded as Ioram that compelled Iudah vnto Idolatry for which his guts by peece-meale daily fell out and his life so loathed as it is said of him He liued not being desired Ahaz that shut vp the doores of the Lords House and made him Altars in euery corner of Ierusalem and high places in euery City of Iudah to burne incense vnto other gods and to sacrifice vnto the gods of Aram. The periured Zedekiah whose eyes were pluckt out himself bound in chaines and carried to Babel where hee died a naughty figge as Ieremiah calles him And Ieconiah so naught that hee is called a despised Idol a vessell wherein was no pleasure and the Signet pluckt off from Gods right hand Saint Augustine in his questions why of seuenteene Kings three are left out answereth It may be thought saith he that the Euangelist followed the meaning in●…oram ●…oram so continued in Ochozios and the rest so that none of these either for any respect due to themselues or for any good desert of their fathers ought to be accounted in the number of the Kings To this may be answered as Ezekiel doth the prouerbe The Fathers haue eaten sower grapes and the childrens teeth are set on edge As I liue saith the Lord all soules are mine both the soule of the father and the soule of the sonne and that soule that sinneth that soule shall die the sinner for his owne sinnes and not for his fathers And the Gospell preaching saluation in Christ regardeth the sinnes neither of Father nor sonne though neuer so many but beginneth with the saluation of sinners in such of the Mothers as were most tainted with sinne And if the goodnesse of the Father be regarded in the Son why was not wicked Iehoiakim the sonne recorded for his fathers sake good Iosiahs And therefore we may think some other cause moued the Euangelist to omit their names Saint Ierome likewise from the letter of the Law doth gather the reason of the thre●… first omissiōs namely from the threats therein contained against Idolatrous posterities where it is said The Lord is a iealous God visiting the iniquity of the Fathers vpon the children vnto the third and fourth generation And these saith he being the seede of most wicked Parents vnto the fourth generation are omitted by the holy Pen of Grace For Ioram King of Iudah had to wife Athaliah the daughter of Ahab King of Israel and of Idolatrous Iezebel the Zidonian worshipper of Baal And of Athaliah was borne Ahaziah who begat Ioash and hee Amaziah the fourth in descent from that wicked bed of marriage To this collection of Ierome I could well assent if it did likewise include the fourth man Iehoiakim But hee being the twelfth in descent of the bloud of Iezebel is notwithstanding omitted whereas nine betwixt them and Iechoniah after him are in Saint Mathewes Catalogue recorded and therefore this his obseruation fitteth not well for the same cause that moued their omissions moued his but that did not therefore that was not the cause Neuerthelesse wee know Ahabs seed by Iezebel had a manifest curse of vtter destruction that his house should be swept from the earth as dung from the dung-hill as were the Houses of Ieroboam and of Baasha till all were gone If then these exceptions may be iustly taken against these diuers expositions by diuers men alleaged let vs yet heare further what may be saide was the cause though not vrging consent without further examination It is most apparant that the Euangelist Saint Mathew to answere this demand of the Wise-men Where is hee that is borne King of the Iewes sheweth the babe Iesus of Iudah Dauid Bethlehem to be the said King confirming his assertion by his tribe parents and place of birth from the Prophets that spake it and the most lawfull right hee had vnto Iudahs Kingdome from those lawful Kings that without debarre of title or exceptions of the people had sate vpon Indahs throne And that the affections of the people is to ioyne with his title at a Kings inauguration the most learned King of all the Worlds Kings our Soueraigne Lord King Iames hath set it for a speciall obseruation in his Maiesties Booke so intituled for saith he though Monarchies or hereditary kingdomes cannot iustly be denied to the lawfull successor whatsoeuer the affections of the people be yet it is a great signe of the blessing of God when he enters in it with the willing applause of his subiects and raignes by the loue and acknowledgement of his people But it seemeth so had not Ahaziah Ioash Amaziah nor Iehoiakim done but had exceptions against either in their owne titles or in