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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

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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
24. 2. The glory of the worlds computation taken from the Fathers a Gal. 3 17 b 1 Kings 6. 1. c 1 Kings 11. 42. d Ezech. 4 2. 5. e Ier. 25. 11. f Dan. 9. 24. g Gen. 15. 13. h Gen. 15. 13. The promise for deliuerāce accomplished in the fourth generation p Exod. 12 Moses his meaning expounded q Gal. 3. 17 The promise 4 o yeeres before the Law a Gen. 12. 4. b Gen. 21. 5. c Gen. 25. 26. d Gen. 47. 9. * Polichro lib. 2. cap. 12. Halfe the yeers of the promise was spent before the Israelites went into Egypt The Septuagints exposition of Moses a Aug. quest 47. in Exodū * Ioseph Antiq. lib. 2. cap. 6. Gen. 22. 17. Gen. 14. Exod. 12. 40. The Israelites dwelt not in Egypt 430 yeeres a Gen. 46. 11. b Exod. 6. 18. 20. c Exod. 6. 20. Iochebed the daughter of Leui and mother of Moses Leui his age gathered by Iosephs Leui his age when he came into Egypt Iochebeds age disanulleth the 430 yeeres abode in Egypt The Peregrinations of the Patriarks and the abode in Egypt together make 430 yeeres a Leuit. 26 34. b Ier. 25. 1. 11. c Ier. 27. 7. Daniel his prayer vpon occasion of Ieremies prophecie d Dan. 9. 24. Daniels seuens diuided into three parts Daniels seuens miscast D. R. in M. S. e Mat. 18. 22. * Hierom vpō Dan. 9. Daniels seuens mistaken * Origen hom 29. vpon Mat Ezra 6. 1. Ezra 7. 12. Nehem. 2. * True Religion chap. ●…9 Daniels seuens began in the first yeere of Cyrus f Ier. 29. 10 g 2 Ch. 36. 22. 23. The Edicts of Cyrus successors but confirmations of his h Ezra 6. 1 Daniels seuens ended at Christs death i Ier. 27. 7. Foure Passeouers mētioned in Iohn The first in cha 2. 13. the second in chap. 5. 1. the third in chap. 6. 4. the fourth in chapters 11. 13. 18. k Reu. 12. 14. l Esay 1. 3. m Ier. 8. 7. n Luk. 19 11. Daniels Seuens the onely Chronicle to the new Testament o Rom. 13. 36. In what Monarchies Daniels Seuens fell Clem. Alex strom 1. Alexanders death 280. yeeres before Augustus his raigne The Gre●… an Monarchy began at the slaughter of Darius The Grecian Monarchy continued 300. yeeres Romans 60 490 Grecians 300 Persians 130 The Persians ragne most trouble Daniels accounts p Dan. 5. 30. q 2. Chro. 36. 22. r Nehem. 12. 22. The number of the Persian Kings not agreed vpon Tertul. lib. aduers. Iudaeos Isidor lib. 5. Etimol Rab. Zota The raignes of the Persian Kings vncertaine s Esay 8. 6. The Genealogies giue passage to Daniels propriety t Ezra 6. 15 * Iunius in his annotation vpon that text of Haggai in his last edition u Apoc. 11. 1. No account to be made of profane Writers for Daniels Seuens The cause too waighty for the he athen to witnesse Apo. 11. 12 The Heathen Writers may serue as handmaids to the Scriptures text u Dan. 9. 25. A certenty in the first diuision of Daniels Seuens x Ioh. 2. 18 * Bullinger Scaliger y Ezra 4. 24. * Alleaged by D. Willet vpon Dan. 9. fol. 304. Zerubbabel of yeers sufficient to gouerne the returned z Ezra 3. 8 Zerubbabel laid the Temples foundation a Zech. 3. 9 The Scriptures must warrant where we must credit a Nehem. 12. 1. b 1. Chro. 6. c 2. King 25. 8. 18. Ezra borne before the nineteenth yeere of Nebuchadnezzar d Nehem. 8. 3. Ezra his age will not admit the Persians raigne a boue 130. yeeres e Deut. 9. 15. f Ester 2. 5 g Est. 3. 7. Darius Histaspis holden to be Ahashuerosh * Herod lib. 3. Ester is called Atossa h Est. 7. 3. * Hellanicus i Est. 8. 9. Mordecai his age will not admit so many yeeres from the returne Herod l. 1 Est. 2. 5. Ioseph Scalliger de men tem lib. 6. Esters Apocrypha Twelue witnesses against the ouerlong raignes of the Persians Many of the returned aliue at the Temples building k Hag. 2. 4. 10. l Ier. 24. m Zach. 8. 4. The Persians scantelized almost to halfe their time n 1. King 6. 21. The holy Genealogies is a chaine as glorious as Salomons Nehemiah saw both the beginning and ending of the Persian Monarchy o Ezra 2. 2 p Nehem. 2. 1. q Nehem. 7. 5. r Nehem. 13. 6. Petrus Gal. contra Iud. lib. 7. c. 12. Ioseph Ant. lib. 11 * Iosephus antiq Iude lib. 11. cap. 8. f Psal. 55. 23. t Neh. 4. 1. u Chap. 6. * Ioseph antiq Iud. bel lib. 11. cap. 5. cap 8. Matth. 1. y Luk. 2. 24 Genealogies in the new Testament do confirme the time by the old z Luke 3. a In his tree-like Genealogie printed in Anno 1555. The vse of the holy Genealogies * Gregorie in Preface in Iob. Psal. 10. 5. * In his answere to Hiero King of Syracusa Tul. lib. 1 de natur Deor. a Iosh. 1. 8 b Iohn 5. 39. c Rom. 11. 33. d Heb. 2. 14. e cap. 4. 15. Profound deepenesse in the sacred Genealogies f Iob 21. 5 The fathers from Iudah to Hezron allowing Shelah mariageable were not aboue 〈◊〉 3. yeeres old when they were Fathers accounting the birthes of Er Onan and Hezron g Gen. 38. * For so by their births and raignes may be gathered Hezron Aram Aminadab Naassō saw each of them threescore yeeres before they were Fathers h Num. 26. 64. Salmon Boaz Obed and less were each of them an hundred yeeres old before they were Fathers * Broughton in his consent so placeth Ra chab as she is 830 yeers aged at Boaz his birth i 2 Sam 5. 4 k 1 King 6. 1. Salmon was borne in the wildernesse for in Egypt he could not all dying that came thence nor could hee be born in Canaan for he married Rachab in the first yeere of their entrance and Rachab marriageble then must be an old mother when shee bare her sonne The purpose of God in these vnusuall begettings must be considered l Ioh. 5. 39 m Mat. 5. 18. n Gen. 29. 10. o Exod. 34. 33. p 2 Cor. 3. 13. No apparant promise was made of Christ to any father betwixt Iudah and Dauid The mothers of Christ cōmended q Gen. 32. 26. r Gen. 30. 15. * Rab. Simeon cited by D. Willet vpon Gen. 38. * S. Ambrose of these mothers saith They onely desired to haue issue by that chosen Family s Gen. 17. 17. t Gen. 38. 14. u 2 Sam. 11. 2. Nature forced offen ded and broken x Luk. 1. 31. The Virgins Euah and Mary compared y Ioh. 6. Luk. 3. 36. A Cainan more then Moses hath Genebrard in 1 Chro. 3. Moses doth not omit Ioseph antic lib. 12. cap. 2. Iosephus followeth a true Copy Lippomā Canus li. 2. de loc Theo. cap. 18. The opiniōs of the learned Nichol. Lyra vpon S. Lukes Gospell August ciui Dei lib. 15. ca 13. Deut. 29. 29.