Iew paid him And Arias Montanus paid Erostratus All Doctors should bee readie in that to defend their ground wherevpon all their doctrine must stande Of Law vowelled and vnvowelled The Law Copies were some vowelled and accented the commune vnvowelled and vnaccented because the tongue may by vse be read reasonablie without them but in doubtes to small certeintie Rabbi Iacob the bringer of the Massoreth into a Dictionarie forme with notes sheweth that Moses gaue vowells but the people had few vowell'd copies till Ezra made them commune and Aben Ezra saith well He that set the vowells and accentes was a perfect wise man for He neuer missed of the best sense But the 70. translated by vnvowelled that they might hide their minde when dull heathen would quarrell with trueth Of the 70. differing thirtie sixe hundred of yeares from the strickt Ebrew Many blaspheme Gods worde by the 70. differing from it Gen. 5. and 11. in opusculis Patrum one worke blameth the Ebrew and all Grecia still followed the 70. so Arabia so Abyssini so Muscouia The text Gen. 5. faith Adam liued 130. yeares and begat Seth and liued afterwards 800. The Lxx. Adam liued 230. yeres and begate Seth and liued after that but 700. Our notes not well set 1603. haue this note Adam liued 230. yeares and begate Seth wherein Moses omitted 100. yea c. This note dasheth all Moses authoritie if he were not true in his narration S. Augustine could not tell the reason of the difference Ciuit. Dei I haue shewed it in Concent Scrip. Melchitzedeke though my recompense hath beene but vngratefull scophing of vncleane spirites DD. that know not a letter vowell or accent what authoritie they haue from God such vncleane spirites are good helpes for the king of Locustes when they hinder the grounds of all prophecying Of Perfection in Scripture The text hath perfect Diuinitie The holy in all their ages knew the Trinitie and that Christ would be made man of a woman according to our kinde as of Mary of Ely of Adam Heere Anabaptistes and Lutheranes are in an heauie case All the holy knew that mans soule returneth in death presently to God to receyue the Aboundance of grace of the gift of Iustice in Christ and ioy vnder Gods throne or Anger for their sin and contempt of Gods loue in Christ before Gods angrie face Leuit. 26. Apoc. 14. The ancients liued by the law grauen in all hearts some few they had deliuered tokens of redemption But for all life the heart lawes serued Ier. 31. Rom. 2. Iob telleth what store of lawes hearts helde Moses for an whole great nation gaue law written but the most bent to Leui imperfect without the Gospell Iob and the Apostles haue no Lawes but such as wise heathen all would commend Authores for tongue Christians may passe in Ebrew very rare Ebrewes because the Apostles translate much in speciall elegancie Besides they allow very much in the 70. What they handle not ancient Hebrewes make plaine And they who will expound Ebrew beyonde this warrant as some doe for Hell place and Hell torment in life do not well Prayer is our seruice of God Maymoni in prayer from all Rab. God forbid that any should pray but to God Menachen vpon Gen. and Deut. 6. Mat. 4. and 6. neuer any holy prayed to a Created Angell or man Men the best had great faultes as Abraham long worshipped creatures Philo and Maym. in Idoll Bechaia sheweth exceedeth sinne of his for Sarah for which his posteritie smarted in Egypt Of the New Testament The soundnesse of text playnenesse in foure Dialects I handled in our Lordes familie against which booke I hope none will raue but for Ioakims buriall Conclusion Poperie hath no defence by any sound groundes of studie not to any one article Blasphemous groundes of Popistrie 1. That they say the Scripture is corrupt in text The Massoreth or Dictionarie for euery letter prick and accent checketh that for the old Testament And the new Testamēt can none blame but to his shame as I haue shewed Princes in Latin 2. That they say the scripture is doubtfull no booke was euer penned so certeine for Lawes meaning Visions Allegories bring no new rules as Ezekiel and Cantica The New Testament hath not one phrase but the easiest to learned Iewes not one from the beginning to the end 3. That they say the scripture is imperfect they might as well say God made not the world perfect But the Pope can make moo Creatures and better as Archangelles and Purgatories and soules departed to vnderstand our heartes and bold to teach God whom he should pitie and to make Mary commaund Christ Satan in his owne person durst neuer be so bold 4. They plead from the Law of Sanedrin where a man must stand to their iudgement The Sanedrin might be without any Leuit as Ierusalemy noteth though the Law speak of that which most vsually falleth out that Leui should bee readie in his owne profession But Esay saith to them who was so blind and Mallachi speaketh to the same effect the Leuites whole condemnation of holy Ieremie where one of Israel cleared him But the Pope his Cardinalls Archbuishops haue no more to do with Leui then apes to stand for men 5. The Pope maketh a spiritualtie a Clergie to tie learning to them Dauid had his warriers the best learned in Moyses that by foresight of Christ thence one frighted 1000. and kill'd 800. And in Babel Iuda in Daniel Ananias Azarias and Misael before Ezechiel of Leui came thither were the glorie of men 6. All wealthy should be brought vp in the Bible in frame of art to know it throughly what lawes it hath what disputations are vpon those Lawes what stories and how the sentences of Iob Dauid and Salomon comment vpon the stories All our nation might haue seene this plaine if wicked had not hindred by their spirituall keyes And in Popes proceeding they make him knowne to be wicked 7. By Gods Law Ecclesia the Sanedrin court should rule in all matters And old Wicklife in Walsingham did hit the naile vpon the head saying That if the Commune Lawes of England might take place the Pope should haue no more to do with vs then any other Yet frō Satan he will rule all and make Ecclesia to be not ciuill courts but his courtes Our commune Lawes praemune that sagely and the lawlesse resist God 8. The Pope from Rome will rule and the Rome-free-borne Apostle after he taught the Thessalonians of Pope from Rome giueth a charge to the Romans to keepe euery soule in obedience to the ciuill gouernement and by Ciuill gouernement S. Paul escaped from death by Scribes traditions How yong men learned in liberall artes might be rarely exquisite in the greeke new Testament GOD perfect in wisedome knew that the Iewes would marueile why the New Testament should be all in Greeke and not any whitt in Ebrew Therefore to shew
contempt of Godly teaching Christ was great Noe Sem Arphaxad Selah Eber Phaleg brother to Ioctan hath cast thē of hitherto The West-Indians seeme to come of the East as both speake some Ebrew Now God driueth vs to both Indians not for Pepper and Tobacho but in tyme to shew his name And the Iesuites in teaching the holy Trinity Person and Iustice of Christ may saue many and the Pope shall haue an outward reward of longer successe and some hundreths of yeares must be spent this way Of the old opinion of 6000. yeares God hath cast old ages into a pleasant frame of measures of them for Iewes and from Iewes I dedicated an Ebrew worke to the Landtgraue of Hessia Now thousandes I will touch In 3000. exactly the Temple was fully furnished euen to the Arke In 4000. exactly the Romanes destroyed the seconde Temple if without it Messias dayes haue 2000. yeares from the yeare of Christ 1609. of Adam 5536. One as Heber may come to the worlds end by 464. yer The trueth God only knoweth reason telleth affaires in worke require such tyme But no particular person is sure of one day but all should watch when the Bridegrome commeth And to destroy them that destroy the earth Although no Creature but Angells and men know God yet the close bent of all Creatures is framed to serue man for Christ God bending them so And in that sense euery thing is weary of their toyle Eccl. 1. and groneth looking for the Redemtion of the Children of God Rom. 8. and being turned to seruice of Idolls grone in Gods estieme as corrupted such was the old world in corrupting their wayes such were Babel builders till heathen came to God and almost all to this day And Apoc. 5. All creatures giue glory to the Lambe in seruice of Christians But alas men to this day would neuer search Gods word the wealthie and principall of state but remit that ouer vnto others as a base worke for themselues to regard whereby God cast off the world And the Temple of God was open in the heauen and the Arke of his Couenant was seene in his Temple and there were lightnings voices thunders earthquake great haile After papistries ouerthrow Christ who is the Temple and the Arke who hath the Law within him is the mercy seat shall be opened to the few saued and God will pay Papists with warres for the haile and fire that they mixed with blood troublesome meteores eloquently expresse troubles of state as before our Lordes first comming the Romans miseries destroying themselues were a wonder to historiques because Crassus robbed the Temple and Pompei afore made Israel serue Rome and Brutus with Cassius and Antonius with Cleopatra and againe Iulius so Rome that still will crucifie Christ shall haue as great stirrs to warne them of vtter ruine But by warres profanesse breedeth to all sides that when the SON OF MAN commeth he shall scant finde faith vpon the earth The best way to keepe faith is to exercise our vniuersities in the Ebrew and Greeke Testament and to leaue ciuill gouernement to sage courtes fitt for it as Zuricke in Zuitzerland doth that Scholars tyrannie make not new papistrie And thus once all is reueiled vnto the end New visions tell the same matter for better clearnesse CHAP. XII A description of the Church AND a great signe was seene in the heauen a woman clothed with the sun With the moone vnder her feet and a crowne of 12. starres vpon her head and beeing with child cried in trauaile and peigned to beare child THE woman is the church through the song of songes and there pure as the sun heere clothed with Christ the Sunne of Iustice And the state of the faithfull is called through this booke heauen and they are a great signe to the profane world to wonder at The Moone and all vnder the Sunne is contemned of the faithfull and the doctrine which the 12. Apostles equall in knowled and authoritie deliuered to the world is the Crowne and they be 12 starres Iudas Iscariot fell a starre from heauen and Matthias became a sonne of consolation in his stead to keepe still the number of XII for the XII tribes and as S. Paul trauailed of the Galathians that is of Christ to be formed in them that they frustrate not the Gospell by holding circumcision nowe abrogated So the faithfull trauailed in soule to haue Christ brought forth to heathens knowledge that all might knowe that all this world was made obedient to a man At the first which man fell from God his first day and then God opened his Counsell that the Sonne Eternall would be made man of a woman to destroy the workes of the Angels that fell who all are collectiuely satan the enemie Satan brought Adam to lose the life of his soule and his body to death and dust and all this world to corruption Christ kindled light in Adams soule and after 930. yeares heauinesse for sin tooke it to his ioy and will raise vp the body and make a new world that all men who will receiue the abundance of grace of the gift of iustice may reigne by Christ and all who will not regard this mercy so cleare as the sunne they all by Adams fall dead in sin shal be damned for euer with the Diuils This is the trauaile of the Christian minde Speach of this is in all books of the Old Testament in Adams tongue in all the newe in Greeke made most common for this Gospell And Lawe with Gospell expounded by groundes of art which enemies grant should bee the trauaile of our minde And if Academies had brought vp their scholars in Ebrew and Greek exercises for the holy eternall Trinitie in Vnitie and for kissing the SON to happinesse Psal 2. By likely-hood of mans reason the world had benefull of true Christians where as now our Papes Archbuyshopps and Buyshopps know not one letter prick accent of the Law what authoritie it hath from God A pitifull matter that such blinde should bee leaders But the blinde will no other leaders So God cannot pittie them who will make knowen them that be his and despise them that despise him that they poore Caytifes shall perish for euer and feele the aeternall wrath of him whose mercy they haue despised while they counted the mercies offred in Christ to be but folly Of the Prophane Caesar and Pope reuiuing of him both comprised in the body and taile of one Dragon Another signe was seene in the heauen For beholde there was a great ruddie Dragon with 7. heades and ten hornes and vpon his heades seauen diademes And his taile draweth a third part of the Starres of heauen and cast them vnto the earth Iohn saw with his eyes in Vision that which hee and all the Apostles as S. Paul 2. Thess 2. saw in their minde That from Rome the Ruler should rule till hee were taken away After thence man of
euen to trie them in the fire to purifie them to whitten them Twise the very same termes be told Heere is the same matter That God would trie the pacience as Dan. 12. of the holy Holy Peter writing from Babylon to the Iewes scattred telleth them of their happinesse in belieuing in Christ whose kingdome tryeth his as gold is tryed The witty wicked Poet could tell so much as Menander Epimenides and Aratus other poinctes Scilicet vt fuluum spectatur in ignibus aurum Tempore sic duro est inspicienda fides That is As yellow Gold in fier men doe trie So Faith is prou'd in miserie Euery trueth hath Gods warrant whosoeuer doth speake it Now the Popes religion standeth in prosperiti no common weale hath their wealth and quietnesse Therefore they are not of S. Peters faith who from Babylon wrote to the neere scattred Iewes of affliction Although at the first some Doctores of Rome were afflicted and martyrs is too But after quietnesse they still labored to bring home from the East to old Rome and pleaded from the Iewes manner of Fables that the first called Apostle was in the Principall Citie to make him a most wicked man that foreseeing as a Prophet combatts where hee hath beene would not in his owne tyme make that matter past all doubt As Saint Paul Bishoppe of Rome and Saint Luke of Antioh maketh it past all doubt that Peter was neuer neare Rome Clemens and Tertullian made Eusebius write that he was And all who folow them haue but rumores auctoritie And he is cursed that makes mans auctoritie his arme and Melchior Canus a Rhomist maketh a sounde common place that our Churches stories of men are weake testimonies In the 300. yer persequution it was not safe for any to write of others because enemies by such would search out more how to persequute Christians Paul of Romane name borne free in Rome who would not build in others fundations who was carefull for to strengthen the Romans as not hauing yet an Apostle who first told the Synagogue Acts 28. whereupon the Gospell stood sheweth that HEE brought the name of Christ to Caesares pallace Phil. 1. and was told Act. 23. that hee should so doe And saluting 25. Rom. 16. neuer giueth token of one word touching Peter but cleane otherwise Gal. 2. and Peter telleth expresly that from Babylon he wrote his first Epistle chap. 5. whereby all maner of speach all men would require proprietie that the most knowen Babylon should be there meant Yet as Pindarus saith that men belieue fables more then trueth so experience of sage men prooue that true men otherwise sage hold that true that Peter was in Italy as the Chaldi Iob saith hee was at Constantinople and the forged Ben Vziel vpon Num. 24. and millions of milliones after them whereas we despise Iewes Iewes equally despise Romists where any could not misse to haue knowen the trueth if Peter had euer bene at Rome They who say by Babylon he meant Rome would make him a simple Fisher that knewe not where a trope would make a wickedlie and afflict all ages where men neuer date cōmon bookes for all Ages from a misnamed place where the Reader would count the speaker a lyer so the 2. Epistle was written from Chaldea where the letter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was an S. in Bosor Beor in the 70. and that S. Peter would haue folowed liuing in Greeke landes And I saw another Beast comming vp from the earth which had two hornes like a lambe and spake as a Dragon and practised all auctority of the first beast before him and causeth the earth and them that dwell in it to worship the first beast whose wound to his death was healed c. to the end of the Chap. A most plaine description of the Pope 1. by the beast arising from the earth First his state is a beast as all armes of state are figured by beasts such So the King of Locusts ch 9. is a beast cōming out of the earth ch 11. earth opposition to the sea signifieth a quiet state So the Pope by quietnesse gate lands to be aboue all Emperours yet Ceph the Rocke aeternall would be a seruant And Peter Cephas a fisher but the vnlikest vnder their name would be the vnlikest next the Diuell the God of this world so his a great state vpon the earth in the City which crucifyed Christ By the Lambes two hornes The Lambe signifieth the S. of God Iohan. 1. Apoc 5. Hornes power Psalm 18. Dan. 8. So he that chalengeth to be in steade of Christ and to haue double power from him Ecclesiasticall and Temporall in Ebrew ADONIKAM My Lord is set vp he is heere described He so sheweth himselfe in the Temple of God as if he were God among many millions who knewe him to bee the wicked man But as in old Babel men were of Angells match the three nobles that quenched the fier and made Nemrods sonne confesse their God and gracious Daniel admitted to familiaritie with Christ and his Angells and Ezechiel and Ezra and men like Angells so where the Diuel had his Chappell God had and hath his Church to tell how Satan ruleth the Pope and hath strong worke in error OF ONE ERROR IN THE POPE WHICH MAKETH HIM NEXT THE DIVEL WHERE THE DIVEL WOVLD TREMBLE TO BEE SO IMPVDENT OPENLY The ground of our saluation standeth in belieuing this of the womans seede a destroyer of Satans workes Gen. 3. HEE shall bruise thy head that is spoken twise in Adams tongue in the masculine gender Some late Popes I thinke knewe so much Ebrew though of old few did when they made first the translation called S. Ieromes to be ignorant of this So not SHEE is meant but HEE The aeternall God as the Zoar from Iewes there note God in Christ and againe and againe thou Serpent shall bruise HIS foote-stepp and not HER foote-stepp yet the Popes translation corrupteth that which they call S. Ieromes and say shee shall bruise thy head 1. So the Latin called S. Ieromes goeth though Arias Mōtanus had a better Conscience put forth the true Ebrew 2. Of all Ebrew copies that euer haue bene heard of none herein was noted to differ as by them full many which we read wee may iudge of the rest who would not passe ouer difference in Silence if any difference had bene 3. All Greekes vniversally follow the Ebrew yet against all the Pope would haue not HE but SHEE Marie in his translations in a treatise foisted into Plantines great Bible 4. Satan is broken thus he brought Adams soule to death by sinne the restorer must giue it iustice 5. Satan brought mans body to corruption that HE must restore it in resurrection 6. Satan by Adams fall brought all this world to corruption the restorer must bee able to make a newe world But an HE not a SHEE must doe this wherfore this error conuicteth the Pope of
and the second death Chrysologus missed grossly for Gehenna that Abraham should bee there whom expresly S. Paul Ebr. XI after the Gospell Mat. 8. and Luc. 13. and all Talmudiques from Leui. 26. placeth in heauen N. N. and his commenders missed most atheanly more then anyeuer since the Diuel deceiued Adam to say that our Lord was in the second death The Diuells trembled till their time to speak so blasphemously he may brag he at the last hath made them next himselfe and more open Of forgiuenesse in this world what Talmudiques meane Maymonides cited by me in poenit Perek 6. saith there be sinnes whereof iudgement determineth that punishment shall bee taken for a man in this world in his body or in his wealth or in his yong children which are his possession and there is a sinne whereof punishment is taken in the world to come And there is a sinne which is punished in this world in the world to come This was an old Ebrew speach and to the Scribes our Lord speaketh in their owne phrase that they sinning against the Holy Ghost should not bee forgiuen in this world nor in the world to come Old and late who hence breed Purgatorie shew that from Babel not from Salem they speak The same sin is said in sinning wilfully 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Core Dathan Abiram did whom the earth swalowed and heat of fire consumed their remnant That punishment haue the Iewes to this day for sinning against the holy Ghost in betraying of Christ and now a dayes many resist the trueth as Iannes and lambres resisted Moyses Such neuer knew him who is O MEGA bringer of all things to passe Of the Apostles pecular Greeke The Apostles peculiar Greeke is wonderfull as in the Lords prayer Giue vs this day 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bread neither in superfluitie nor wanting The terme was made by the holy Ghost by the frame of Greekes to Pro. 30. in Agur the sonne of Iakeh Giue me 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bread fitlie measured for me Of Saint Paulls most eloquent expressing of Moses to shew a short way to expound the new Test S. Paul saith that he differeth in nothing from the Iewes generallie but in not doubting of the incarnation and resurrection In his speach he foloweth Deut. 30. and doubteth not what minde can goe to heauen to bring Christ downe or what mind can descende to the deepe of the earth Psal 71 to bring Christ from the dead But he confessed with his tongue that Iesus was the Eternall and beleeued in his heart that God raised him from death and assured him selfe and others of a sound way to truth by this Of Thalmudiques agreement with the new Testament Neither the holy Gospell nor holy Epistles teach any thing for Ecclesiasticall gouernement but as the holy Synagogues did many superfluities of ambition the Scribes and Pharisees had as they had in right sort al that the Apostles held taught of old by them and godlier sitting in Moses chaire So that by olde grantes all Diuinitie questions might bee soone ended And this doth Paul in his imitation of Ebrew speak Gamaliels scholar at Ierusalem and the Greeke orator bred in Tarsus free in Rome that none other Apostle should be Papas of Rome but he so called rarely of God and tendered by Coronel Iulius Sergius Paulus and the Proconsull of Melita and the barbarians for a prosperous iourney to Rome to which and of which he wrote more from God then anie sauing Saint Luke Act. 23. and 28. And if Saint Peter had bene there hee knowing the state to come would haue left monumēts of his being there would haue cōmented vpō S. Paul 2. Thes 2. as he cōmented vpon all his Epist 2. Pet. 3. And thus Christ by taking the name from Alpha and O Mega requireth knowledge in the tongues wherein hee speaketh The direct and proper vse calleth vs to an higher matter The beginning and the end He created all thinges and they were very good And created Angells that when man should bee created they should take care of him misliked mans superioritie were condemned to Tartarus are kept in chaines in the blacke aire vnto the iudgement of the great day he hath an end for them that although they sinned of infinite pride and vnthankfulnesse and euery whit from their owne motion yet they ouer raught not the decree of Christ who told the day of their fall and Adams fall that in humanitie he would bee a litle inferior to Angells by suffring of death but would haue all things subdued vnto him In Adams fall all were to be borne dead in sin that all should for euer perish but for further mercie All hee inuiteth to seeke vnto God that they might feele him but al being dead in sinne only they whom he quickneth belieue in him hee still inuiteth the wicked to goodnesse but they rebell against his spirit thinking his wisedom foolishnesse yet hee ruleth them that their sinne shall not haue the rayne to open mischiefe but as he wil. And one open iudgement he shewed in Noës dayes an other he will shew in fire Apoca. 20. And all whom he hath not chosen of eternitie called in due time and quickned from dead and sanctified by his spirit he condemneth for their wicked works and this helpeth them nothing that they doe his decree they did not that which hee telleth plainlie by doing they should liue and their owne conscience damneth them that they iustly perish for euer And in their stubburnesse after long patiēce he sheweth his power And these his wayes bee vnsearcheable But as the letters from Aleph to Tau haue all their forme and sound in speciall vse order and not two the same So from the beginning to the end he ruleth the world in a most wise course to shew his iudgement and mercie wherein this last booke calling old speaches to new matter goeth through the Alphabet of all ages and sheweth how Iapheth hath fellowship with Sems house and Cittim or Italie shall bee perishing when they afflict Heber that he may be seene to ioyne first last in wise order The Concent which is in Moyses and the Prophets and New Test is wonderfull in places tymes and families I wishe all Preachers to follow the holy mens veine but the tongues and stories require much tyme that for Diuinitie the most vse commoration of plaine Ethiques known naturally and litle studie how the Prophetes comment vpon Moses S. Paul vpon the Gospell and how all foure haue their harmonie And if Daniel and Iohns Apoc. should bee made plaine ouer a kingdome that paynes would kill millions of papists The one I haue made plaine in my last edition by which since it was printed many might haue seene light But the God of this world darkened some mindes to hinder that not regarding the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone To him that is a
A REVELATION OF THE HOLY APOCALYPS BY HVGH BROVGHTON The ships also shall come from the Coastes of CITTIM and afflict Assyr and shall afflict Heber and also he shall come to destruction Num. 24. 24. And the Woman which thou sawest drunken with the blood of the Saintes and with the blood of the Martyrs of IESVS is the great Citie sitting on seauen mountaines which reigneth ouer the Kings of the earth called spiritually Sodom Egypt where our LORD was crucified The sealed of God the wise will vnderstand PRINTED 1610. TO THE MIGHTY PRINCE IAMES BY THE GRACE OF GOD KING OF GREAT BRITANNIE FRANCE AND IERNE-LAND DEFENDOR OF THE FAITH c. MOYSES Maymonides Gracious K. a librarie of both former Talmudes the Ierusalemy and Babylonian which from hard languages vnknowen to his nation he made familiar Ebrew so that they say from Moyses to Moyses the like to Moyses was not his works are exceeding profitable to cleare the New Testament For as S. Paul saith he differed not from the Iewes common graunt but that they knew not God to be in Christ reconciling the world vnto himself So Maymonides hath infinite much that cleareth the Apostles trueth more fitly then Greek and Latin Fathers doe And where the Apostles confute Pharisees he recordeth their doctrine that all may see the holy Apostles had iust occasion In this sort he hath two sorts which the New Testament battereth Both he recordeth in his treatise of repentance One is this That Moyses law shall stand for euer vnchanged and Messias shall come to Canaan to conquer all nations The other is this That all his learned taught all the good things spoken by the Prophets for Israel in the dayes of Messias are but for the commodities of the body This is the common Iewes religion whose God is their belly They which worshipped starres thinking they had soules and would enrich their worshippers equally made their belly their God they who brought the flood and confusion of tongues vnto the prophane Caesars that made themselues Gods and the King of Locusts which say they bee Iewes Rom. 2. 28. 29. but by a Synagogue of Satan both are the great dragon Apo. 12. The new Test telleth that the old speaketh of Eternall blessing in Christ his death ending Moyses Dan. 9. And the Iewes sin against the holy Ghost For Aben Ezra could not deny this vpon Dan. 9. that the seaueny seauents are from Daniels prayer vnto sealing Messias the holy of all holines He endeth sacrifice and offring and left bread and wine for the flesh and blood of beasts and wee all sweare in the Lords Supper that sacrifices bee ended by our Lords death and by that Supper his flesh and blood is the food of our soules and hee would destroy Ierusalem that no place of sacrifice should bee That S. Stephen taught Act. 6. and 7. faithfull vnto death and found the crowne of life When Ierusalem is destroyed as the Angelique-faced Stephen taught from the Angel Gabriel Christ sendeth his Angel to teach Iohn of an heauenly Ierusalem against which Rome shall fight to the end of the world first by open tyranny against martyrs when the Empire is destroyed for that Satan will turne himselfe into an Angel of light and set a Vicar of Christ with two hornes of a Lambe but with the lawes or mouth of the Dracon to set vp the former Empire and to be the King of Locusts all bent to the wealth and ease of this world This Iohn teacheth whom Chapter by Chapter I expound first briefly by arguments vpon euery Chapter then a scholion much larger which I dedicate vnto your Maiestie for the increase of knowledge in your people still to come out of BABYLON confusion to IERVSALEM the sight of peace Your Majesties most humble subject Hugh Broughton THE AVTOVR TO THE READER IN all controuersies men should know what both sides graunt what they hold differing So where I turne all the Apocalyps against Rome and did so twelue yeres agoe against the Popes champion D. Iohannes Pistorius sent to moue warres in Zwitzerland reason would for facility of ending controuersie I shew how much they graunted me and knew they must that if any of mine owne nation come short and that with Satanean malice they be dealt with as endeuoring to make our Church a synagogue of Satan The matter shal be briefly told Doctor Iohn Pistorius holden a father of the Iesuites dwelling in Friburge of Briscouia distant twēty English miles from Basil was stird of the Pope to chalenge all our Cantons for disputation that they ought to yeeld to the Pope as the seauen did And vpon disputation refused hee would by war chalenge his supremacy This then was thought no pley Vpon this Syllogisme the mayn stood If the scripture bee corrupted another judge must be had that is the Pope who onely doth chalenge that But the scripture is most corrupted as Geneva graunteth in Rob. St. praef to the N. T. for Ebrew double readings 848. as Elias reckoneth them and Arias Montanus hath written an whole work in apparatu of the old Testament corrupted in Babylon in 52. yeares in so many places and Beza checketh and vnchecketh the new that none knoweth what to stand to and the enemies graunt is still strong against himself Therefore the Pope will require by warres that ye make him judge A Rhoetian brought vp at Berne named Caspar Clause-christi at Leyden saw my scripture Concent where I defend the old Testament to bee pure to euery letter by the Massorites and say the Apocrypha bee all lying workes or Ironies mackages of fooles I taught him so much English and expounded the matter at large to him and for reconciling the Creed with the Gospell D. Fr. Iunius had told him hee was euer of my mind and one M. Baudertius shewed my Theseis to the Vniuersity and the Vniuersity allowed them By this he saw the Pope was berest of hope to giue a charge to vs where he hoped of victorie or by Gehennean torment as Athean a dream as his that wrote our Lord had gone into the second death when God raised him vp 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Diuinitie may not be handled with respect of persons But if Quirites yeeld to me so far I will defend Rome and Mentz and if Lacus Lemanus make the fish dead and Wintonia haue but a sack full of wind which Aeolus gaue to Vlisses when his fellowes thought it full of a great treasure and forced him to open it and so by tempest drowned themselues that chester wil I leaue to the wind to bee shut vp in Vlisses sack and leaue Lemanus to the snow water of the wild Alpes The Rhoetian saw all the Popes hope gone by the scripture proued true in text and the Apocrypha to be workes of men that knew not Christ and all in sadnes to be foolish and the going of the soule to Paradise to bee spoken in the Creed and he told me with
hypocrites To this end the Popes clergie is described in a plaine painting forth of them and of their warres for Ierusalem at yeeres 1100. Next are all the Turkes warres handled alone next reuiuing of the Gospell against both vntill the end of the world before which tyme neither Turke nor Pope shall fall They flatter themselues that write otherwise But as the Antiochi who reigned about 300. yer after 150. were so weake that they stood by the Romans courtesie so Lagidae in the tutelage of Rome till the set yeere of Christ his first comming so though the Pope bee weakned in many places Italy shall remaine a continuall plague that shall appeare in the seuenth Trumpet But now let vs consider the first Trumpet CHAP. IX The 5. Trumpet sounding out the Popes cleerly The fift Angell sounded the trumpet and I saw a starre fall from heauen and the key of the deepe of the Pitt was giuen him and there came a smoke out of the deepe and the sun and ayer were darkened by the smoke that came out of the pitt THE haters of the Papes turned to Popes from fathers to Diuels to be the wicked Isai 11. Romylus in learned Ionathan from Cittim Ieroms Italy Nu. 24. Onkelos Iarchi Romans They be for this commune place the fift Trumpet in order of handling but in an explication of the first in tenor of matter The starre fallē from heauen was in the third trumpet the messinger of the cōgregation fallen from the kingdom of heauen Dan. 2. Mat. 3. in Christ and by Kimchi vpon Hosea 4. Key is power of gouernement in soules case Isai 22. Mat. 16. Apo. 2. The deepe is darkenesse Gen. 1. 2. in Zohar cōparing visible with inuisible darkenesse bringing to Gehenna euen as the commanding of light to shine out of darkenesse is compared with shewing Christ to our soules As Rattes suo indicio pereunt Terent. so heere the Pope and all that beare his keyes Keyes heere be damned but not such keyes as haue Gods warrant Whence the Pope chalengeth Keyes Nothing is more commune nor euer seene more impudent thē the Popes chalinging of Keyes from Mat. 16. first saying that Peter is there the Rock 1. All holy will hold him therin Abaddon Apollyon autor of destruction For the Son of man Dan. 7. Christ the holy of all holinesse Daniel 9. The son of God Psal 2. calleth himselfe the Rock from Deut. 32. translated in the 70. God six tymes in one chapter and the Rock was Christ 1. Cor. 10. there is no Rocke but the Eternall in Psal 18. and Rock is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Creator S. Peter chap. 4. vseth that terme for God onely teaching Papes not to be babes nor Popes but to know how he vnderstood the wordes of Christ yet the Pope will make Peter to take Gods name to be the chiefe of the Apostles and to haue power in new sort to binde and loose sinns as though all that truly teach Christ do not the same though they know it not But the first teachers of the son Ps 2. were to haue the first commencement of Doctorshipp in Thalmud knowen speach And all kinges who should read the Law preach as Salomon did all his life are the true Papae and Episcopi One appointed man should be the sergeāt of the Church to looke to businesse speciall But all that gouerned should be are called Episcopi as well as hee should be as well learned God is Episcopus Iob. 20. Pakid any of charge as Eleazar is Episcopus communely in the 70. Iudas office was Episcope Antigonus in Diodo was like to be Episcopus of all Asia And when the Greeke Papae would be Episcopi alone they were neuer quiet They had beene stronger if all learned had beene Episcopi with them as at Zurick now one ruleth none but is chiefe sergeant for teaching sacraments but accountable as any other for cariage But Pope Romane thus goeth on to teach that Peter came to Rome that he left keyes to one and he to successores that they be the Rock to sitt in the Temple of God as God to make men sweare otherwise then any of Gods people euer heard to allow Priests after our Lords death to reiect the Ebrew and Greeke Gods gift and to accept a Latin deadly falty translation Exod. 12. Act. 7. 13. to deny that the Bible which God gaue is extāt to vse Latin in Landes of other Languages to giue the people no vse free in it But 9. of 10. commun And Pater noster as to parrats and with the last verse stollen away the verse from Dan. 7. shewing all Kingdom Power and Glory giuen to Christ So the summe of faith they had in Latin as Parrats in the maine pointe for the soules going vp to the Father a going downe to hell with beliefe that the fathers till then were there Before I reckon more Popish that is diuelish points I wil heere shew how Iewes haue disgraced our Gospel by the wicked translation Descended to Hell by barbarous wresting of Latin from the true vse in Tullies dayes A digression to shew a scandal laid to Iewes Izhak Ben Arama saith Behold the string vpon which the law of Christians hangeth is this the famously knowen that for the sin of Adam the first death of the soule entred vpon all ages and they fell all fathers and sonnes first and later Prophets and holy into the sorrowes of Gehenna vntill Christ went and redeemed them These be strictly his wordes vpon Leui. 26. where Moses expresly telleth that the Godly should goe hence to Gods Tabernacle and Saint Paul 2. Corint 5. translateth him in a most heauenly and comfortable sort and telled expresly of Abraham and the commended that they desired an heauenly Citie and God prepared it for them although they were not perfected in this world with manifestation of the Gospell Some Greekes mistaking S. Paul held Limbum and wrested Greek from old vse to that as Basill vpon Psalm 49. Yet he spake well vpon Psal 15. As Maymoni tract poenite That all holy went hence to Gods Tabernacle and Chrisostome though he said Christ opened Paradise to the thiefe saith vpon 2. Corint Hom. 6. Thus Lazarus was poore and verie poore and he was rich that passed by him lying in the gate now whether entred into the Kingdom and ioyed in the bosome of Abraham Herein Chrisostom is very sound and laid no trap for the Iewes Athanasius Cyrill Theodorite and others vpon the Psalmes and many in Theophilact vpon Luke 23. And he vpon Iohan in this I goe to the Father and very many in Photius library and Hegessippus vpon the Maccabees yet Romes aduancing Latin to abolish knowledge of the Greek Testament caused old Chrysologus to say that Abraham was in Gehenna till Christ went thither and the 3. day brought him out So the Iew had caught the Latin company enemy to all the Bible for
spirites which haue names in the Law And they only in heauenly Daniel called Son of man as admitted vnto Angells company so Ezekiel and only they two From Daniel chap. 8. and 9. Gabriel is brought to Luc. 1. For most rare vse The wise will vnderstand it but the wicked will neuer vnderstand Dan. 12. Michael is vsed thrise in Daniel twice chap. 10. and one chap. 12. Dan. 10. vers 13. Beholde MICHA-EL the principall or only of the chiefe Princes is come to aide me Daniel saw a glorious vision of Christ before which he fell as dead then an Angel in the forme of a man that is Gabriel speaketh how Christ shewed his assistance against Cambises inhibition of the Temples building and giueth him a notation Hee that is in the forme of God from Exod. 23. The Angell which hath the name of God in him The character or forme of Gods person Ebr. 1. 3. That doth MICAEL signifie In our Lords wordes Ioh. 10. from Dan. 12. The Father and I am one As I haue shewed vpon Dan. 12. In Dan. 10. vers last the matter is playner in these wordes there is none strong for you in these affaires but MICHA-EL YOVR PRINCE Daniel acknowledged no creature of spirites his PRINCE therefore Micha-el must bee the Son of GOD. So he is called chap. 12. in the same Angells speach Michael the great Prince that standeth vp for his people No created spirite dare chalenge a princehood ouer people so here in the exposition of praise MICHAEL is expounded Christ Of Tobies fable The Iewes as I haue written in Ierusalemi vpon Dan. 8. say their Fathers brought with them Angells names from Babilon Michael and Gabriel Then if Angells had no names before Tobie that bringeth Asmodaeus for a spirite must bee a late fable Neither Thalmud Ierusalemy nor Babilonian hath that name Only late Rabbines Yet the fable of Tobie cited by Clemens of Alexandria is elder then the compiled Talmudes But they are made from Writers all Elder then Tobies fable Thargum Eccl. is a late worke and eldest Iew for record of Asmodai the Prince of Diuells The Pharisees had Beelzebub Prince of Diuells And later Iewes made Prince of Diuells Ben Tzirgha sonne of Leprosie To disgrace our faith of the SON Prince among the holy Angells The wicked Rabbines feigne a Prince among wicked spirites But wee make no created Angell Prince the Eternall Sonne Creator of all is the only Angell Prince And hee is the Arch-angell that could not suffer Satan to speake bad speach of Moses the first King in Israel But Iehouah before Iehouah said The Eternall rebuke thee Satan The Iewes in Midras Rabba Deut. chap. 33. feigne pleading from Satan before God for Moses and in Abboth Rabbi Nathan S. Iude telling Rabbins that they would destroy the Nation by resisting rule bringeth their owne commentary how Michael the Archangel checked Satan for contempt of Moses King of Israel and giueth him the high checke from Zach. chap. 3. The Eternall rebuke thee Satan So the Eternall Sonne before the Father spake in Zacharie what in Iudes Rabbins in a like cause Michael the Arch-angell speaketh and Zohar Gen. col 46. saith Where Michael is head of the holy Angells there Gods maiestie is meant This hath Zohar And we should not fauor Arias more then our enemies would Tobies fable disturbing Scriptures glory where euen Rabbins speake for it should no more come among holy workes then a worke of Beelzebub Asmodaus or Ben Tzirgha being a leprous wicked worke from the principall mischiefe of the Diuel Of Michaels Angells All the true Christians are called Michaels Angells they fight by the two edged sword of Gods word which originally in the Ebrew and Greeke new Testament is pure in writ cleare in meaning and perfect to discusse all sage matters Caesares Diui were soone confuted because all knew their profanesse they were soone by all sides excluded from all mens regard for any hope of happy state But the great fight here is with the King of Locustes and his garrisons Satans Angells that they may be knowen not to be the People of God Here is a sore combate that of the two Prophets ch XI Of the wicked spirites names Dragon old Serpent Diuel Satan bee the names of the wicked spirites companie King Pharaoh Esa 27. is a Dragon as old Pharaoh who for all Moses Rod would bee but a Serpent So the king of Madai and Paras worshipped in Babel that for a moneth none should pray but vnto him is in the Apocrypha fable a Dragon worshipped in Babilon So the Roman Diui Caesares and the Pope shewing himself in the Temple of God as if he were God make a Dragon as the old enimie worketh in them Of old Serpent The old Rabbins as Zohar and Aben Ezra and many moo confesse that the Angells which fell spake in the old Serpent And that company is called the old Serpent or Tempter as Adam gaue the Serpent from his nature the name Tempter The Rabbins whom I haue cited in an Hebrew treatise of fitting Iubilees to the yeare of our Lordes death so terme the Tempter later Aben Ezra though late wicked Iewes turne all to fables of a naturall Serpent who may be musselled by their owne ancient Of Diuell Diabolos in Greeke is the commune name of any slanderer but applied by Iobs translater chap. 1. to the Ebrew Satan enimie where our enimie the false accuser goeth about like a roaring Lion seeking whom hee may deuour There Diabolos expresseth enimie by occasion taken from Satan slandering of Iob. Saint Pet. 1. 5. taketh both names The Zohar telleth vpon Gen. 3. howe the Diuell accuseth each one from his comming into the world all his life So by the Iewes hee accused Christ as an enemie to Caesar and made him pay for robbery Psal 69. though it was not robbery for him to say hee was the Sonne of GOD. Christ held it no robbery to bee eaquall to God but the Diuell the Slanderer made Caiphas vrge this as a deadly matter so the Christians were slandered to the Caesares as athean and the reformed now are haeretiques to Papistes some trapps we lay in their way wherby Gods iustice doth whipp vs by their tongues Of trapps laid by our selues Whereas Catelthein eis haidon in the godly is all one as to remoue hence to the father Geneua denying Christ a passe Catelthein eis haidon denieth in tongue that he went to the Father And so denieth all religion Likewise Lutherans by Vbiquity for the humanity of Christ wound all the doctrine of incarnation wherein the humanity is according to our kinde sin onely excepted Besides we grant to the Papists that text of both Testaments is corrupt and so wee weaken the auctority of scripture and make no end of checking the holy Greek Testam that the Iesuits binde not it but Ieromes Latin with Ebrew in octauo Also where the Apostles speake plainly to all learned Iewes wee expound them as if
of that in memorie of the difference that the Reader may read it Thus Alpha is as curious in his word as in the frame of the world and requireth due reuerence to it and they are in great danger whose profession of life should be skilfull in it and will deale with it with vnwashed handes Of Iod not contemned The Iewes to shew Gods care ouer euery letter in the Bible bring in the Law cōplayning of loosing Iod with humble cry before God thus O Lord of the world this is thy rule that a Testament which faileth in a letter faileth in all Now in Sarai I had 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iod when shee is Sarah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iod is gone the auctority of the Law is lost God answereth thou hast no losse Iod was in the end of a foeminine and I set it in the beginning of a masculine when Hoshea was called Iehoschuah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thus they marke narrowly that which our Lord telleth one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iod of the Law shall not perish he that is Aleph and Tau will keepe all the letters from Aleph to Thau More of this is in Thal. Ierusalemie in San fol. 20. Of OMEGA He that nameth himselfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mega will require that his new Testament shal be regarded in due kinde to defende trueth of Copy elegancy of speach I defended trueth of Copie against Rhemistes translating Act. chap. 13. from the Latin in yeeres not about but after a sort 450. yet a thankfull Pseudographus wrote that I defended the 70. became a scorne none of 1200. yer held the 72. pure Satan was strong in him that would belieue a disputation for sinceritie of their copy and if euer any should bee thought to know the 72. hee that translated the Prophets a new into Greek should be thought to vse all the 72. copies easie to be had But 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in all vnthankfulnesse would be still cursed in lies The first aduiser of him sped ill Of Greeke stile Because none afore me haue noted Gods counsell in making Greeke common I will often handle that to haue it better vnderstood when God first destroyed Iudahs kingdome and speach hee stirred Greekes first to set vp theirs Then Pisistratus set Homer in honor that children learned him by heart Plato in Timao mentioneth one such Thence of 200. yea all kindes study to make braue Greeke that it came to perfection Then God sendeth Greekes to rule Gog or Gyges land and Magog with all Assiria and 72. kingdomes in the East and North and South to fill all 300. ye with Greek Armies and Colonies That Tully noted in his dayes the Greek to be common ouer all the world Now the Bible was by Iewes translated into Greeke and so read in all nations And the Iewes beeing caryed by the Macedonians into all quarters when the Apostles came to teach granted all saving God in Christ gaue life to all soules that did eate his flesh and drinke his blood feeding continually in soule vpon this and were baptised with the water of the Lawe So the Greeke tongue by O MEGA the ETERNALL taught Iapheth to dwell in the house of Sem. Ierusal in Megilah Midr Rabba ' Gen. 9. And the Iewes confesse in Megilah that no tongue but the Greeke hath words to expound the Hebrew So he that termeth himselfe by the Greeke and Hebrew Alphabet is much despised when Babell banisheth both tongues to a pedlers Latin in so much that the true Latin auctores were out of request Of 4. Dialects in the holy Greeke Of necessitie the Apostles were to speake to heathen in Heathen or Attique Greeke as all that will mooue others speake to their capacitie and they bee ridiculous and citizens of Babel not of the heauenly Ierusalē that will this deny When the Apostles tell stories of Ierusalem to the Church they were to speake in the 72. language And all of wit and conscience would so expound their wordes When disputations are had with Iewes the Talmudiques specially the Iewes schole-phrase doth our Lord vse and his disciples and when none of these three answere the Hebrew fitly then the WORD taketh heathen generall termes to apply vnto speciall Hebrew Reason forced these foure Dialects and they who confound these foure are fitter for Babel then for Ierusalem for confusion then sight of peace Of the Attique Greeke Haides in S. Luke 16. conteyneth the lodge of Abraham in heauen and the lodge of the rich Epicure in Gehenna Saint Luke an Heathen wrote to Prince Theophilus an Heathen And Heathen would iudge whether the Phisition of Antioch of Magog knew Greek in fit sense to teach Gog in Ephesus or Gyges Countrey and Magog in Siria that Christ in their owne language now doth conquer them so farr as to haue the first Christians named of Antiochia and S. Luke to bee the glory aeternall thence though God had no other occasion to honor his enemies towne but to shew that where sinne abounded there grace should once more abound But not often Nicolas the proselyte falling away taught that the towne deserued as much supremacie as Rome that crucified Christ or Alexandria for that Alexander would bee made a God So Haides conteining heauen and hell and nothing els in proprietie Old Chrysologus who placed Abraham in Gehenna and is tossed of Isaack Ben Arama fol. 205. and Purgatory and many opinions moo are confuted If Haides haue but Heauen and Hell Purgatory is gone which maketh a third place so the first Dialect in one word telleth the Pope 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let Greeks seeke to Eustathius what meaning is plaine for these wordes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Peter 2. is of heathen Greek in Homers commentary Iliad Of this I spake in Catechizing the modest Archbi Whitg which yeelded and sent M r. Geoffrey King ouer sea to confesse his error I spake generally of Homers commenter and should meane the principall Aristarchus from whom old Didymos made his commentary and Eustathius from both and many moo ancient and though hee were late his commentaries are made from these two and old heathen Two Petifoggers in Greeke would scoph as though I cited Eustathius to be followed of Peter far elder Such Midae bee fitter for Babel then Ierusalem Their further equalling of error to Lybian sandes shew an ill bent Of the Lxxij The Greeke of the 72. commeth often notably Act. 2. in this whom God raised vp 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 disannulling all paines that death brought The matter is taken from Psal 18. And thence would the Sadducees expound S. Peters word to proue him a wicked Sophister if hee had meant more They who proue the second death hence know not O Mega the auctor of speach Of the Thalmudizinge These be Talmudique speaches The dead for the profane often in Zeror once in S. Peter 1 Epi. chap. 4. In S. Paul the dead in sin Eph. 2. such is Gehenna