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A05312	An herbal for the Bible Containing a plaine and familiar exposition of such similitudes, parables, and metaphors, both in the olde Testament and the newe, as are borrowed and taken from herbs, plants, trees, fruits and simples, by obseruation of their vertues, qualities, natures, properties, operations, and effects: and by the holie prophets, sacred writers, Christ himselfe, and his blessed Apostles vsually alledged, and into their heauenly oracles, for the better beautifieng and plainer opening of the same, profitably inserted. Drawen into English by Thomas Newton.; Herbarum atque arborum quæ in Bibliis passim obviæ sunt. English	Lemnius, Levinus, 1505-1568.; Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607.	1587 (1587)	STC 15454; ESTC S108475	134,297	304

high tree and exalted the lowe tree that I haue dried vp the greene tree and made the drie tree to flourish I the Lord haue spoken it and haue done it Heerby signifieng that the Lord exalteth the humble and contemptible and bringeth downe the proud and arrogant The selfe same thing did the blessed Virgin also acknowledge leauing it in memorie in that hir most godly and heauenly Hymne to all posterities that God extendeth his mercie vnto all them that feare him but scattereth the proud and arrogant in their owne wicked imaginations that he filleth the hungrie with good things and suffereth the rich to continue hungrie A litle after the same Ezechiel prosecuting stil the same argument thundreth out a prophecie against the proud periured and cruell princes Iehoas Iehoiakim and Zedechiah For he doth depaint them in their right colours and liuely set them downe according to their peeuish dispositions so that in them was verified the olde prouerbe Mali corui malum ouum Wherefore lay thy mother that Liones among the Lions she nourished hir yoong ones among the Lions whelpes One of hir whelpes she brought vp and it became a Lion it learned to catch the pray and to deuoure men The heathen heard of him and caught him in their nets The Mother seeing hir selfe disappointed of hir hope and expectation tooke another of hir whelpes to wit Iehoiakim and made him a Lion that is a tirant Who went among the Lions and became a fierce Lion and learned to catch the pray and to deuoure men and to make widowes and destroy cities who at last was caught and brought in chaines to the king of Babylon And the more to exaggerate the heinousnes of this thing and to amplifie the crueltie of the king which he had sucked as it were from his mothers breast he goeth to the very groundworke of the matter vsing a Physicall metaphor thus Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood Which metaphor and the other that immediately follow no man can rightly expound that is not skilled in Phisick and the works of nature For he there alludeth to the naturall maner of a childe being yet within the mothers wombe which is nourished with a menstrous blood His meaning therefore is that his mother from whom he sucked crueltie was exceeding fruitfull and abounding with bloode as a plentifull vine planted by the water side whereby it came to passe that by reason of his ranke nourishment wherewith he was franked and glutted he became to haue great strength and robusteous might As that which followeth doth witnes She brought foorth fruit and branches by the abundant waters that is through the abundance of nourishing humours in hir wombe And she had strong rods for the Scepters of them that bare rule thereby meaning his regall dignitie princely preeminence and courtly pompe And hir stature was exalted on high among the branches and she appeered in hir height with the multitude of hir branches meaning his power and maiestie which shoulde stretch and extend very far and His stature exalted on high among the branches signifieth that in magnificence he far surmounted any of his neighbour kings and princes bordering vpon him and that he victoriously enlarged the limits of his kingdome and iurisdiction But when As he being thus aduanced to honor began to forsake the Lord his God he although he were as a goodly and broad spread Vine yet was he plucked vp and his rods withered and it selfe transplanted in a dry thirstie and desert place to wit into miserable thraldome and seruile banishment into the which he was carried away captiue and entierly depriued of al his estate and Roialtie which is shewed in these next wordes He hath no more any strong rod to be as a scepter to rule that is he shall be lest vtterly without any maiesty honor magnificence dignitie or authoritie to protect or countenance him from contempt Thus far of the roote and of the branches of the Vine from whence our Sauiour taketh Similitudes resembling the godly which are graffed into him by faith and doe bring foorth the fruits of good works vnto fruitfull branches And the wicked void of faith and charitie he compareth vnto dry withered and vnprofitable slips which are accordingly to be cast into the fire Whereof we spake afore in the Chapter of the Vine wherin was explaned that place of S. Iohn the Euangelist The Boughes also which like armes proceede and spred out from the trunke or body of the trees are by the like metaphore as branches be vsed in the Scriptures And vnder this worde is signified might strength firmitie safetie health beauty honor and ornament of the whole race or family togither with the propagation of posteritie and continuance of the stocke and kindred in one ligne and pedagrew So doth the Wiseman vse it whereby he promiseth felicitie and prosperous yeeres to him that ensueth and embraceth Wisedom The feare of the Lord saith he is the roote of Wisedome and hir branches are long life that is the date of his daies shall be prolonged and his life shall be lengthened The Apostle vseth also a notable metaphoricall speech taken from the boughes broken off from the naturall Oliue tree and others graffed into their place whereby by a most strong argument he prooueth and sheweth that the Iewes are not so intirely cut away and broken off that no manner of hope is left for their recouerie but rather that they shall againe be graffed in if they abide not still in vnbeleefe For if the first fruits be holie so is the whole lumpe and if the roote bee holie so are the boughes and branches If Abraham the father of beleeuers beleeued God and it was imputed to him for righteousnes why should not his successors and posteritie expresse their fathers faith and imitate him in his godlie example But as faire spreading boughes do sometime signifie felicity and prosperous successet so sometimes againe in the Scriptures they are applied to the contrarie that is to say to aduersitie and do signifie calamitie miserie and trouble that shal light vpon the wicked And in this sense doth holie Iob vse them saieng The wicked man is all the daies of his life as one trauelling of childe but he shall neither be rich neither shall his substance continue neither shall the prosperitie therof be prolonged vpon earth The flame shall drie vp his boughes and deuoure his branches that is to say all things shall go backward with him and turne to his confusion And although the wicked seeme for a while to flourish and lustily to spreade out their branches yet shall sudden destruction in the end ouertake them and all their iollitie in a moment be turned topsituruie The same as the Wiseman pronounceth shall befall to the froward and peruerse generation of the wicked saieng Bastard plants shall take no deepe roote nor lay any fast foundation And though they bud forth in the branches

away by a kind of strange worship and friuolous manner of religion displeasant and detestable to Almightie God Therefore the Lord seeing them thus lewdly to contemne his precepts so disobediently to transgresse his lawes so vainely to fode themselues in their helplesse hope and to nuzzle their foolish and fantasticall minds in deuise of such deceiueable meanes whereby they thought to make themselues pure and cleane and thereby to haue all things cocksure on their sides as they fondly persuaded themselues God therefore I say bicause he would not see his honor so defaced his glorie so profaned nor his maiesty and magnificence so despised reprooueth them for the same and sharpely expostulateth with them for that they had forsaken him and fled to others that they had gone away from him being the fountaine of liuing waters and digged to themselues broken cesterns and pits that can hold no water And he doth so effectually deale in this his expostulation that he toucheth and reprooueth euery one of them by name I had planted thee saith he a noble Vine whose plants were all naturall how then art thou turned into the plants of a strange vnkindlie and bastard Vi●… And bicause he would shew that this their reuolt defection and apostacie could not easilie be done away he addeth further saieng Though thou wash thee with Nitre and multipl●● vpon thy selfe the herb Borith or vse much sope yet shalt thou be stained filthie and spotted before me in thine iniquitie As if he should thus saie Although in outwarde shew and at the first sight thou seemest through this thy superstitious worship of thine owne deuising and whereby thou dishonorest the glory of God with thy hypocriticall and visured Religion to haue satisfied for thine offences and to haue washed away thy sins and transgressions yet neuer perswade thy selfe that God is appeased and pleased with any such maner of dealing neither think that thou shalt euer by this meanes recouer that cleere and cleane estate that thou imaginest No no thou must take another course and practise another way if thou desire to appeere faire and beautifull in the sight of God and to be reconciled and at one with the Lorde thy Creator Thou must vtterly defie detest renounce and forsake all filthie Idolatrie all false Religion and counterfait worship all faith and hope in any other sauing onely in the true liuing God thou must leade a godlie and Christian life thou must embrace and follow the rules of honest and vertuous conuersation thou must extirpe and weede out of the garden of thy conscience all 〈◊〉 de opinions and wickednes thou must firmely ●… thy faith and assuredly ●… vpon God and ●… lie vnto him and stay assuredly vpon his diuine prouidence For to depend vpon any other helper and to looke for safegard protection or saluation at the handes of any other or by any other meane or maner of counterfeit superstitious worship neither required nor commanded by God is not onely vaine foolish bootelesse and helplesse but also damnable iniurious and derogatorie to the maiestie of God This herbe Borith or Struthion which we heere cal Sopewort or fullers weed doth naturally indeed whiten and scowre wollen clothes and that excellently so doth Sope supple and smooth the skin and taketh away the spots freckles or morphew in the face and bodie but no worldly thing can be found that hath such abstersiue facultie to wipe away and mundifie the spots and filth of the Soule He that refuseth to acknowledge his discase and wilfully contemneth the holesome direction and sound counsell of the faithfull and learned Phisition is incurable and in a desperate case to such an one Hippocrates for biddeth to appy any medicine Yea another maner of teacher than Hippocrates euen the heauenly Physition Christ our Sauior Redeemer chargeth vs to depart from them and to leaue them to their owne folly when as no labor care industrie paines and diligence bestowed vpon them for their amendment and recouerie will take place and be harkened vnto But God by his Prophet Malachie promiseth that he will sende his messenger or ambassador to prepare his waie by which prophecie was ment Iohn Baptist as Christ himselfe in the Gospell expoundeth it and that speedily thereupon the Lord and gouernor himselfe should come that is to saie Christ who at his cōming shuld renue many things and bestow much labor among them to amende their liues correct their sins direct their maners which haue the charge of the Lords flock to teach and instruct them with good and holesome doctrine For he is like a purging fire and like Fullers s●pe And he shall sit downe to trie and fine the siluer hee shall trie and fine the sonnes of Leui and purifie them as gold and s●●uer That is to say he shal make them pure cleane neate fine and trim without any rust or drosse of vices hanging vpon them euen as metals are scoured and burnished in a furnace or Goldsmithes forge It pleased him therfore first to polish and beautifie the Ministerie from all filth and drossines least they that should deale in the sacred mysteries of the Lord and expounde his worde to others shoulde be found themselues enblemished with crimes and ●…med with wickednes And this doth ●… Similitude as we see ●… things being ●… ses apply the same to the minde For this Herbe Struthion Sopewoorte or Fullers weede is a most excellent scowrer of spots and filth out of clothes and of an incredible and notable effecte for the whiting of Wooles or Wollen Yea it is so woonderfully abstersiue that it draweth Phlegme and other corrupt baggage out of the head scoureth and clenseth the breast of all grosse superfluities and so forciblie procureth neesing that it bringeth foorth a childe though it be dead The 11. Chapter Of Scarlet Crimsen Purple THere is a Plant or smal Shrub hauing slender boughes and sharpe prickly leaues whereon there groweth that which we terme call Graine yeelding a most gallant and orient red most delectable to behold and right amiable to the eie Heerewith they vse to die and engraine wool cloth silke and other stuffe into a most braue gallant beautiful and rich rednes Of this Graine is Scarlet denominated and heerewith is it died and of this is mention made many times and often in the Scriptures as also of Purple which were woont to be the peculiar colours for the Robes and Palles of Emperors Kings Potentates and Princes So in that excellent Song or Canticle of Solomon the ruddie lips of the Spouse are compared to a thred of Scarlet or Rose coloured Ribband Iosua being by God appointed to be the captaine and conductor of the Israelites after the death of Moses is saide to haue worne a Scarlet Cloake And Christ as though he had vsurpinglie affected a kingdome was in mockage and derision stripped and cloathed with a Scarlet Robe In the Reuelation also of Saint