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A17009	A treatise of Melchisedek prouing him to be Sem, the father of all the sonnes of Heber, the fyrst king, and all kinges glory: by the generall consent of his owne sonnes, by the continuall iudgement of ages, and by plentifull argumentes of scripture.	Broughton, Hugh, 1549-1612.	1591 (1591)	STC 3890; ESTC S105849	61,881	91

diuinitie are fitter for the cataloge of his folowers The three folde thred of Carion Melanthon and Peucerus wyll not sone be broken Melanthons wordes bring a great light to Moses narration Isuppose Noah came from Armenia into the olde Countrey that is the places neare Damascus where he had Iyued before and where he knewe that the first Fathers were made For it is certayne that Sem the sonne of Noah lyued agayne in that Region seeing that he was king of Salem which was afterwardes called Ierusalem For Sem is the very same man that was called Melchisedek Therefore the Church of God was in that place where was Noah Sem and Sems sonnes so long as they kept the true doctrine Doubtles Sem kept the lyght of doctrine But whereas his posterite were in Babylon there by a lytle and lytle true doctrine was extinguished and wicked religion receiued and established Therfore God brought Abraham from Babylon to Sem the father of his ancestours to ioyne agayne a notable company of the Church soone after the death of Noah Now when Abraham with his Cosen came to Sem what a goodly Colledge had Sem who had seene the Flood and such descent of posteritie Let vs consider the sweete company of Sem Abrabam and their kinsmen when Sem saw the eight of his Nephewes in descent called to the societie of the Church and the promyse of the Messias renued for whom death being destroyed eternall lyfe shoulde be restored These good meditations good Melanthon yeeldeth Victorinus Strigellius in his notes vpon Genesis 14. and vpo Melanthons Chronicle is no lesse plentifull to the same effect And Chytreus a long student in story yet alyue but very aged N c a reuerencer of Melanthon deserueth that reuerence to haue his wordes set downe and fyrst for the name what it meaneth SEM a name in whose posterite the name of God sholde alwayes remayne vntyll that name which is aboue euery name should come downe from heauen and in Sems posteritie take fleshe And Melchisedek it is a nowne appellatiue the epithet of Sem the sonne of Noab which dwelt in the citie Salem which was called afterwardes Ierusalem and was distaunt fiue myles from Hebron where Abrabam dwelt Therefore those firstlyghtes of the Church myght often meete and conferre of great matters and teach and strengthen theyr hearers Seln●●●rus an other Witenberge man shall conclude my Latine testimonies who for his reuerence to Melanthone opinion touching the Sacrament shall not for the ouersight of his owne iudgement therein be neglected for his great paynes and large comment vpon Genesis Take his wordes Melchisedek signifieth a king of Iustice And it is the vsuall iudgemt of the godly Doctors of the Church that this Melchisedek was Sem the sonne of Noah who was the greatest Patriarch of that tyme for he lyued before the Flood nintie eight yeeres and outlyued Abraham thirty sixe yeres and was a keeper of true doctrine saw great calamities change of Tongues a new Empire Idoles of Babylon horrible lust the destruction of Sodom The name Melchisedek he had by his office which he bore because he alone though poore in respect of other kinges specially his neighboures was a iust king looking to his Churches and callyng and gouerning them well And also because he bare the type of the Eternall king I meane Christ Now that the simple may knowe that our Nation beareth no blunter beastes then others nor the Sunne dryueth his Chariot so farre from Englande I wyll lay downe their testimonies of our countrey who neuer thought that the Apostles woulde forbyd to search a Story nor thynke that a greater then Abraham coulde be out of the ryght lyne of the Fathers Thus sayth an olde Chronicle Sem the sonne of Noah other why le is called Melchisedek the which first after the Flood made the citie of Salem and now it is called Ierusalem An other olde Englysh Chronicle specially deserueth accompt his letters speake thus Mee redeth that Abraham yaf first tithinges but Abel yaf rather the first that God sent him of all maner kinde The Hebrewes tell that this Melchisedek was Sem. Noahs son telleth that he lyued vnto Ysac Those Hebrewes agree with S. Stephen and Philo And they who differ from them about Abrahams byrth tyme to make Sem see Iacob greatly entangle the narration Wherfore this olde Chr●nicle of our countrey shoulde not be disdayned for some lyes but embraced in some woorthynes Maister Bale deserueth well for his true detecting of the Popes antichristianity If we folow him therein we shoulde not thinke him worse aduised where y ● very Romistes with their greatest aduersarixs N l our best learned agree with him In his Preface of the Englyshe Votaries Melchisedek a iust and a peaceable king is Noahs sonne As many read his workes and that to very good vse so they shoulde take all before them and holde that not the weakest where he hath most consent with him Ioyne to him Lanquets Chronicle wherein also the iudgement of the reuerent father Thomas Cooper B. of Winchester is to be weighed This is Lanquets voyce Pag. 5. b. Sem the Prince of Asia called also Melchisedeck a iust and peaceable king and Priest of Almighty God from whom Christ lynially descended possessed all Asia with his chyldren And agayne Pag. 11. a. openeth the Apostles meanyng saying Abraham receyued with blessing of Melchisedek king of Salem and high Priest of Almighty God called also Sem the sonne of Noah Bread and VVine to whom Abraham gaue the tenth of his pray The Apostle sayth that this Melchisedek was without Genealogie because his progenie vnder the name Melchisedek is not rehearsed in the Scripture Some I passe ouer for brcuitte sake but here I wyll not omit the speche of a learned man a friende of myne M. D. Peny a D. of Phisicke a man of great iudgement and gyftes in Diuinitie who now is with the Lorde and re●eth from his labours Of him I take occasion to speake partly to leaue some token behinde of our Christian friendshyp and agreement in Scripture partly to shew his experience how the teaching of this matter obscurely caused some to blame the most part He tolde of a Gentewoman that said thus to him VVhy do the Preachers now teach that Melchisedek had neyther father nor mother Of olde time they taught otherwise for I haue seene an Englysh booke founde in Douer Castle 400. yeeres olde that affyrmeth Melchisedek to be Sem the sonne of Noah He marked offence geuen to the Matron in the chiefest story of our Lordes Grandfathers after the fleshe in that the phrases for a type figure taken from the description of Melchisedek are not cleerely distinguished from that which in story from other Scriptures must be gathered To her he gaue a right erposition in what sense the Preachers of his iudgement so spake and how by the type they did not ouerthrow the trueth

Greekes shoulde learne Religion was Sems tentes of olde tyme as I haue touched before their owne wordes from a threefolde aucthoritie And this their obseruation is good to helpe them For as the blessing was performed before Salem was abolished and the worde of the Lord did not fayle so they and we were to looke vnto the cursse Moses telleth that vpon denying the Lord the Lande shoulde haue an eternall desolation Gabriel telleth their particuler denyance in killing of Christ not esteeming of the couenant blood wherewith we are sanctified Our Lord tolde that by the abomination of desolation Math. 24. an host besieging Luk. 22. Ierusalem should be destroyed and continually abyde desolate whyle the Gentiles calling continued Great errour hath been herein committed by not marking the force of Noahs wordes pursued by Moses Gabriel the Lord and full euent and the glorious erecting of the Church tearmed The heauenly Ierusalem in steade of it The Apostata Iulian to falsifie our Lord his wordes stirred faythles Iewes to repayre Ierusalem being him selfe at great charges but Christ shewed his trueth For the Moulde which thousandes caried on the day time was on the night remoued lykewise their Morter and their Playster wyndes tempestes and stormes dispersed Their further madnes an Earthquake terrified Vpon many their buyldinges fallyng quelled them and playne tokens of Christ were agaynst them The Apostata woulde neuer haue been so mad yf he had knowen how long Noahs graunt for Sems place to heare a prerogatiue did continue The Popes when they had fallen as Starres from heauen and brought from the pit a smoke to darken the Starres euen when that Helbrande was manifested to haue the throne of Satan and all his power then they woulde falsifie our Lorde his wordes and would recouer Ierusalem to set vp there a superstition They styre warres for to recouer the low Ierusalem to weaken Princes that their Cleargy myght afterwardes haue Emperours and Kinges at their commaundement So the force of the West was sent to the East and there the foure quarters of the earth made greater warres for the Citie which had been once beloued then the Seleucide and Ptolemei of olde tyme made brynging thyther the force of Gog and Magog who also wrought and suffered greater slaughter then euer the worlde saw before or after for the holding of one place And reason woulde that men going about to disanull the wordes of our Lord should know the price of their folly Seeing they would helpe the Citie that killed Christ to repayre Ierusalem where he was killed to proue the wordes of trueth vntrue to buylde there whereupon Christ had pronounced in Daniel and in the Gospell a perpetuall desolation Our Lorde in wrath agaynst that place remembred mercy towarde the sonnes of Abraham For whereas this was and is amongst the Iewes a grounde of all their errour that Moses Lawes and Ceremonies continue for euer vnchanged and yet them selues confesse that whyle they be out of their Lande their Law can not haue his practise and that they are bounde to affyrmatiue commaundementes only in thynges about their body as Phylacteries and post-writinges The Lord in Moses Deut. 28. and in the Gospell Math. 23. leauyng an unchangeable decree for a perpetuall desolation doth playnely tell them that Sems tentes hauing receyued Iapheth into the same dwelling must be enlarged on the right and on the left hande that they may dwell in desolate Cities ouer all the worlde and buylde a larger Ierusalem then that where Sem dwelt Wherefore it is a great ●mperfection in vs that in so weighty a cause Christians shoulde be founde vnskilfull vnable to expresse the open prophecies for the open place and continuance of Sems Citie and also for the perpetuall Desolation and the vse of that Prophecy If for the fyrst poynt we be founde ignoraunt where Sems tentes were we shall neuer eleerely conclude agaynst them when Sems tentes lose their glory Through our foolysh deuotion towardes Ierusalem in that Pilgrimages be continued thyther and we do not openly profe●●e that place a burden of impietie ouerslowen with an eternal Desolation Ramban a Iew writing vpon Leu. 26. sheweth him selfe stroken with blindnsse and astonyshment of hart For he sayth that God wyll not suffer Chanaan to be replenished with Heathen because God doth forsoth reserue it for Isra●l to returne thyther Because these poore soules are not mad enough of them selues Popyshe superstition wyshe pricking them forwarde which as it is bad not limityng the ende and tearme of Sems house so let vs not be founde vncertayne for the first places of it Concernyng Mount Sion how ancient the dwelling of the holy Fathers haue been there the same is spoken of Hebrew doctors that the old Latines haue deliuered vnto vs. Rabbi Moses Ben Maimon sayth It is a tradition holden of all handes that the place where Dauid and Salomon buylt the Temple in the floore of Arauna the same is the place where Abraham buylt the Alter and bounde Isaak vpon it and the same is the place where Noah buylt when he came out of the Arke and there was the Alter where Kain and Abel offered where also the first Adam offered soone after that he was created Then if this be holden true the seconde ADAM fi●lished his course where the first Adam began his By this we may vnderstande that the Apostle woulde not hope to perswade the Iewes of any to dwell at Salem but Sem in those dayes seeyng this was their vniuersall opinion and so fit for helpe of memory for the story And this much for the place Salem Most certayne of all notes poynting at Sem is the Sacrificehood which though I haue touched already tymes one two three yea and the fourth as Plato phrazeth in Timoeo I must somewhat yet handle it a new and ioyntly with it the continuance without beginnyng of dayes or ende of lyfe As the Sonne of God tooke not of hym selfe the function of Sacrificer but was called by him who said Thou art a Sacrificer for euer after the order of Melchisedek So neyther woulde Moses haue vs to thynke that Melchisedek had not a caller or had an obscure callyng But this open callyng and warranted in story and the highest that wordes coulde expresse was fastened by Noah vpon Sem wherefore it must needes be that he woulde holde it and not yeelde his honour vnto any other The Lorde was not ashamed to be called the God of Sem in his lyfe tyme yea and in his young yeeres in respect of his whole age Iapheth his elder brother being a Prophet as the Iewes rightly thinke and perswaded by God to preferre Sems tentes Now yf Iapheth were his inferiour woulde Moses haue vs to thinke any other man his superiour to represent a Sacrificehood of lyfe vndissolued Neyther Moses nor the Apostle woulde euer wysh any such thought to climme into our heades And seeing the Mightie the most High would be