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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12351	Gods arrovve against atheists. By Henrie Smith	Smith, Henry, 1550?-1591.	1593 (1593)	STC 22666; ESTC S119953	81,568	135

come to the Machabees who were both gouernors and Priestes for that they were by the mothers side of the Tribe of Iudah and by the fathers side of the Tribe of Leui as Rabbi Kimbi affirmeth and so from these men downe to Hircanus King of Iewrie who was the last King which was lineally descended of the house of Dauid and of the Tribe of Iudah For after Hircanus came the afore-named Herode a meere straunger whose Father as Iosephus who well knew reporteth was called Antipater and came out of Idumaea hée came into acquaintaunce and sauour with the Romanes partly by his sayde Fathers meanes who was as Iosephus sayth a well monyed man industrious and factious and partly by his owne diligence and ambition béeing of himselfe both wittie beautifull and of most excellent and rare qualities by which commendations hée came at length to marrie the daughter of Hircanus aforesayde King of Iewrie and by this marriage obtayned of his Father in lawe to bée chiefe gouernour and ruler of the prouince and land of Galilee vnder him But Hircanus afterwardes in a battaile against the Parthians fell into theyr handes and was taken and carryed prisoner into Parthia Herode then tooke his iourney to Rome and there hée obtained to bée created king of Iurie without any title or Interest in the worlde for that not onely his father in Law Hircanus was then liuing in Parthya but also his yonger brother Aristobulus and three of his sonnes viz. Antigonus Alexander and Aristobulus with diuers others of the blood Royall in Iurie were aliue also Herode then hauing procured by this meanes to be king of Iurie procured first to haue in his hands the king Hircanus so put him to death He brought also to the same end his yonger brother Aristobulus and his thrée sonnes likewise Hée put to death also his owne wife Mariamnes which was king Hircanus daughter as also Alexandra hir mother soone after two of his owne Sonnes which hee had by the same Mariamnes for that they were of the blood royall of Iuda And a little after that againe hée put to death his third sonne named Antipater Hée caused also to be slaine forty of the chiefest Noble men of the tribe of Iudah And as Philo the Iew who liued at the same time with him writeth Hee put to death all the Sanhedrin that is the twenty seauen Senators or Elders of the tribe of Iudah that ruled the people Hée killed the chiefe of the Sectt of the Pharisées Hée burned the Genealogies of all the kings and Princes of the house of Iudah and caused one Nicolaus Damascenus an Historiographer that was his seruaunt to drawe ●ut a petigrée for him and his line as though hée had descended from the auntient kinges of Iudah Hée translated the Priesthoode and sold it to strangers And finally hée so razed dispersed and mangled the house of Iudah in such sort as no one iote of gouernement or principalitie remained therein Now then in the daies of this king Herode and not till then was the Scepter that is the gouernement departed from Iudah and therefore then and not till then was the Messias to appeare according to that prophecie of Iacob and so it came to passe accordingly For Christ Iesus the very true vndoubted Messias was then borne viz. in the time of Herode king of Iurie In vaine therefore doe the Iewes or any other looke for any other Messias to come after the daies of that Herode in whose time and not before was the Scepter and all principality and gouernement departed vtterly from the house of Iudah and therefore in his time and neither before nor after was the Messias to appeare and come according to Iacobs prophecie Daniell the Prophet yet goeth néerer to worke and foresheweth euen the very day and time of the day when the Messias should bée slaine for the sinnes of his people for in the first yeare of Darius sonne of Ahasuerus king of the Medes about the time of the euening oblation he prayed to his God for the people and their deliuerance inasmuch as then hée perceiued that the seauentie yeares of their captiuitie foretolde by Ieremy were now come to an ende So Daniel thus praying about that time of the euening Oblation God sent his Angell Gabriel to signifie and show vnto him that at the very beginning of his Supplications the commaundement came foorth for the returne of the people from their captiuitie and to build againe Ierusalem and sheweth likewise that as the people had nowe béene in the captiuitie of Babylon seauentie yeares and then were deliuered from that their earthly bondage So it should come to passe that within seauentie wéekes of yeares the Messi●s should come who should finish wickednes seale vp sinnes blot out iniquitie and bring in euerlasting righteousnes and bée a deliuerer not onely from the outward but from the spirituall Babylon and hellish Aegypt The wordes of the Angell bée these following At the very beginning of thy Supplications the commandement came forth And I am come to shewe thee for thou art greatly beloued Therefore vnderstand the matter and consider the vision Seauentie weekes are determined ouer thy people and ouer thy holy Citie to finish wickednesse and to seale vp sinnes and to blot out iniquitie and to bring in euerlasting righteousnes to seale vp vision and Prophesie and to annoint the HOLY OF HOLYES or the MOST HOLY Know therefore and vnderstand that from the going forth of the commandement to bring againe the people and to builde Hierusalem vnto MESSIAH THE PRINCE there shall bee seauen weeks and three score and two weekes c. After these three score and two weekes shall MESSIAH be slaine and not for himselfe c. Hee shall confirme the couenant with many for one weeke and in the middest of the weeke hee shall cause the Sacrifice and the Oblation to cease For the better vnderstanding of which wordes it must bée remembred that this worde Hebdomada signif●yng a weeke or seauen is sometimes taken for a wéeke of daies that is seauen daies and then is it called Hebdomada dierum a wéeke of daies as in this prophecy of Daniel hee sayth of himselfe that he did mourne three weekes of daies But at other times it signifieth the space of seauen yeares and then is it called He●domada Annorum A weeke of yeares as in Leuiticus where it is said Thou shalt number vnto thee seauen weekes of yeares that is seauen times seauen yeares which make fortie and nine yeares Nowe it is most certaine that these seauentie wéekes are to bée vnderstoode wéekes of yeares and not of daies for that euen by the Iewes owne confession as also by the bookes of Esdras it is manifest that the Temple and Hierusalem were many yeares in building before they were finished These seauentie wéekes of yeares therefore are seauen times seauentie yeares which make in a summe totall foure hundred and

them saying He that slayeth his enemie or is slaine of his enemie let him enter possesse paradise he spake like a man with a carnal spirit teaching reuenge to the vttermost pr●mising paradise to such but no proofe of a diuine spirit appeareth in him 6 As Mahomets religion is defended by force of sword and fraud insomuch as hée made it death to cal it into question so likewise did it begin as by force of sword so likewise by notable fraud was established through wiles deceit subtiltie and lyes for first he hauing the falling sicknes perswaded his wife and others that it was the power of God the presence of the Angell Gabriel that caused him to fall downe Sergius the hereticall Monke was at hande and bare false witnes to the same saith Zonaras He told them that the same Deue which hee taught to féede at his care was sometime an Angell and sometime the holy Ghost He had thrée companions all of a confederacie to deuise and face out lyes with him When hee perceiued that men gaue eare to him he feigned that the Angell Gabriel had carryed him to Ierusalem thence to haue lifted him vp to heauen and there to haue learned his law Hee made the Saracens beléeue that before God made the world there was written in the throne of God There is no God but the God of Mahomet When hee had framed his Alcoran and bound it vp faire he caused secretly a wilde asse to bée taken and the booke to be bound about his necke and as he preached vnto the people vpon a sodaine hée stood amazed as if some great secrecie were reuealed to him from aboue he brake out and tolde the people Behold God hath sent you a lawe from heauen goe to such a desert there yee shall find an Asse and a booke tyed about his necke The people ran in great hast they found it so as hee had saide they take the Asse they bring the booke they honour the Prophet Touching diuorced and separated wiues hée tolde the Saracens he had receiued a paper from heauen He vsed sooth-saying and diuination the which at Fessa a Cittie of Mauritania vnto this day is called Zarragia He perswaded his followers that at the end of the world hée should bée transformed into the forme of a mightie Ramme full of lacks and long fléeces of wooll that all that held of his lawe should bée as fleas shrouding themselues in his fléeces and that he would iumpe into heauen and so conuey them all thither These and such like were his sleightes to beguile a foolish rude and barbarous country people the foolerie pride and vanitie of whose religion I trust euery one doth sufficiently perceiue 7 Mahomets Religion is no true Religion but a méere deuise of his owne and of thrée others his false conspirators for hée hath patched together his Alcoran of the doctrine of Heathens Indians and Arabians of superstitious Iewes of Rechabites of false Christians and Heretikes as Nestorians Sabellians Manichées Arrians Cerinthians Macedonians Eunomians and Nicholaits of illusions and inuentions of their owne and lastly for further credit hée borrowed some out of the old and new Testament But God will not thus bée serued for hée deliuered his mind of old vnto Israell and hée is not chaunged but continueth the same God still Ye shall not saith God doe euerie man what seemeth him good in his owne eyes Whatsoeuer I command you take heed you doe it thou shalt put nothing thereto nor take ought there from Satan béeing coniured to deliuer the truth of the Alcoran of Mahomet said that therein were comprised twelue thousand lyes and the rest was truth by all likelyhood verie little And therfore I conclude that there is no euidence to proue Mahomet a true Prophet many to proue him to bée a false Prophet and blasphemous and presumptuous and his Religion to bée a wicked carnall absurd and false Religion procéeding from a proud spirit and humane subtill and corrupt inuention and euen from the deuill the craftie father of lies a murderer and mankiller from the beginning And so much héereof may suffise CHAP. V. VVherein is shewed that the Church of Rome is not the true Church of God nor obserueth the right Religion I Am nowe entring into that great controuersie betwéene the Protestantes the Papistes whether of them should bée the true Church and true worshippers of God in Christ for they both acknowledge God and Christ his son and all the sacred and canonicall books of the scriptures they confes to come from God from his diuine spirit as indéede they could come from no other But whiles they both confesse this booke it is good reason that they shoulde both stand to the arbitrement and iudgement of these bookes for the trial of the true Church which if they doo as indéed they must this controuersie is at an end and not worthy to be made a question or to be doubted of for by the sacred canonicall writinges it shal by and by be manifest that the Church of Rome cannot bee the true Church possibly But first let vs hear what it saith for it selfe what good groundes it hath for the fortification thereof For if it bee not builded vpon a good foundation and vpon such sure groundes as will holde the whole building is like to lie in the dust and to come to ruine 1 They hold very stiffely but not so strongly that the Church of God militant here vpon earth is euer visible to the outward eye and may bee pointed out by the finger at al times in such sort as that any one may know thither to resort as to the congregation of Gods people there to ioine himselfe vnto them to praise and pray vnto God with them and to do those things which he requireth at their hands But al this gain of profit them nor hurt vs for as in the Primitiue Churches persecuted by those tyrannicall heathen Emperors there was a Church of God though not seem of them who had their meetings assemblies amongst themselues though secretly because of their enemies so likewise in the dayes of Quéene Marie as also in all other times of the persecution of our Church by the Romish Bishops and their partakers our Church no doubt was and might be and they likewise haue their méetinges and assemblies though both they and the place of their resort were vnknowne to those their persecutors In the time of Dioclesian the Emperour especially Christians were so wasted as to the iudgement of men none were remaining theyr bookes were burned the Churches destroyed and themselues put to death in the end when this great hauock was made and crueltie had wasted and destroyed all that could be found where was then the visible church It must néedes then bée enforced to hide it selfe and so it was and the glorie thereof so eclipsed that for a w●yl● it shined