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A14282	Ten introductions how to read, and in reading, how to vnderstand; and in vnderstanding, how to beare in mind all the bookes, chapters, and verses, contained in the holie Bible. With an answer for lawyers. Physitions. Ministers.	Vaughan, Edward, preacher at St. Mary Woolnoth.	1594 (1594)	STC 24599; ESTC S119031	61,414	222

the whole is 490 yeares The same Angel for plainnesse deuides the same seuen weekes Dan. 9 25. into three parts after this manner The first part shall be seuen weeks that is to say forty and nine yeares from the going forth of the commaundemēt that the people of Israel should be freed in the first yeare of Darius vnto the building and finishing of the temple at Ierusalem the proofe wherof is thus The Iewes confesse fortie and six yeares Ioh. 2 20. Ezra .. 4 Nehc. 4 Ezra 6 Neh. 7 8.9.10 13. Dan. 10 1.2 in which the temple was a building in the other three yeares they were hindered from their worke in which three yeares of trouble Sirus raigned yet according to the Almighties former reckoning it was finished The kings and rulers that were in this age or deuision of time appeareth thus Armes and breasts of siluer being part of the image which Nabucadnezer saw Dan. 2 39. signifieth ten kings of the Medes and Persians who continued one hundred and thirtie yeares who are these 1 Cirus or Darius 2 Artaxerxes or Cambises 3 Assuerus or Darius 4 Histaspes 5 Xerxes These raigned twentie and nine yeares in the twentith yeare of Artaxerxes or Darius the Temple was built being full fortie and nine yeare These other kings were after the building who made vp the hundred and thirtie yeares 6 Ochus 7 Artaxerxes 8 Ochus 9 Arses 10 Darius the Persian These kings which seemed to the world to be glorious as the armes and breasts of siluer Daniel sees them like a sauage and a cruel beare with iij. ribs in his mouth saying Arise let vs deuoure much flesh so did they macerate the saints of God but at their death the armes and breasts of siluer is said to be cut off being kings of Madai and Paras The second part of the Angels deuision of time Dan 2 16. Sixtie and two yeares shall be a troublesome time for Gods people after the which the prince of peace the king of glorie shal be slaine euen he shall destroy the citie and the sanctuarie The bellie and thighs of brasse doth signifie king Alexanders power To this belongeth the vision of Daniel 8 3.4 a Goat buck with a horne which being broken off comes out in steed thereof foure heads signifying Alexanders foure captaines fighting two and two which two first is also the legges of yron and clay and their successours and the 4 beast with 10 hornes Alexander continued six yeares His legges of iron Dan. 7 7. Is the beast which Daniel saw verie fearefull and strong with yron teeth burst in pieces and stamped the residue vnder his feet who was the fourth kingdome in the earth subduing all to himselfe ●3 The tenne hornes are tenne king stronger than the Iewes that shall rise out of Siria and Aegypt whereof one is said to be a little horne boasting against the most highest 8 7.11 Iron like 1 Solennicus Nicator 2 Antiochus Soter 3 Antiochus Theos 4 Solenicus Callicus 5 Solenicus Serauius 6 Antiochus Megas 7 Solenicus Philopater 8 Antiochus Epimanes Iauan kings of Aegypt yron like to make vp the ten horns 9 Ptolomeus Lagi 10 Ptolomeus Philodelphus His feet part of yron and part of clay were Iauan kings of Babell clay like in number twelue These kings as beasts ruled most beastly and vnnaturally verie strong 294. yeares to Cleopatras death who presumptuously confirmed Herod king ouer Iudah The third part of the Angels deuision of time consisting in these wordes He shall confirme the couenant with many for one weeke and in the midst of the weeke he shall cause the sacrifice to cease Dan. 9 27. These wordes hath plaine relation to Iesus Christ his death resurrection c. for one weeke in the account of the Iubile yeare aforesaid standeth for seuen yeares a yeare for a day In the midst of the same weeke that is to say in the midst of this last seuen yeares Christ was baptized and did preach this last halfe seuen yeares confirming his authority with miracles signes and wonders vntill the same three yeres and halfe the end of Daniels weeke was ended In which he suffered his passion according as it was before determined manie thousand years in the councell of the euerlasting Trinitie ❧ To the elect Lady Florence Herberd late the wife of a worthie knight Sir William Herberd of S. Iulians in the Countie of Munmoth disceased AS a pretious * Cant. 1 2 1. Ioh. 2 20.27 ointment being poured foorth casteth out and spreadeth abroad a sweet a fragrant and an odiferous smell farre and near euen so good Christian Lady the name and fame of such as are annointed with the holy Ghost doth cast out and spread it selfe farre and near verie sweet to the nosthrils of the Almightie and verie delightfull to the members of Christ Though the distance of place and the conueniencie of time hath not ministred vnto me any acquaintance with you nor occasions to see you yet your b Act. 10 2. deuout behauiour your fulnesse of almes and your continuall praying with other your modest and chast conuersations being cast out and spread abroad farre and near makes me bold to write vnto you as to one perfectly knowne and wel acquainted and that with no lesse than three speciall and waightie occasions mouing and vrging me The first is to assure you and to protest vnto you that I haue truely sincerely and faithfully published this your husbands labour annexed with my owne as he desired by the fauour of a worshipfull gentleman who hath vndertaken to patronize the same with the rest The secōd is to desire pardon of your Ladiship for the long delaing thereof sithence my importunities are iust and my excuses reasonable The third is in the mercifulnesse of Christ Iesu to exhort you and to comfort you onward in the good way and right course which your Christian husband hath left you He hath broken the yse to his pains you may see the cleare water at your pleasure he hath crazed the shell to his verie death you may take the kernell all your life and he hath sauored of the sauce that was soure now you may assay and eate of the sweete His pains hath brought him at the last to drinke of Christ the water of life his continuall hungring after righteousnesse hath brought him to eate of spirituall Manna the food of his soule and his bitter annoy is changed into heauenly and eternall ioy c 1. Cor. 15 49. He that bare in the earth the image of the earthy now beares the image of the heauenly He once was subiect to sinne because he was subiect to the law and being subiect to the law he was subiect to death but thanks be to God who hath giuen him victorie in Iesus Christ. Death is now dead death is swallowed vp his death is dead and how 1. Cor. 15 57. Hos 13 14. Esa 25 8.9 1. Cor. 15 54.55.56 Sinne is

the sting or the life of death the life of sinne is the law now take away the law take away sin take away sinne then death is dead death is gon and vtterly destroyed d Luke 7 and to conclude your husband sweete Lady is aliue he is not dead but liueth he was a knight on earth he is now a e Gal. 5 Re. 1 6. Cant. 5 1. king in heauen And since his chance was to make such an exchange good Madame be merrie though his companie was your comfort yet be not against his preferment and know this to be a common and a commendable saying Past cure past care Out of remedie out of remēbrance f 1. Sam. 12 20.21.22.23 Dauid whilst his sonne was aliue fasted and wept bitterly but when he was dead he was merrie and reioysed greatly As it is sure whilst your husband was aliue you did the one so now seing he is dead let it be surely seene for good example that you doe the other As Dauid said of his sonne I shall goe to him but he shall not come to me so say you good worshipfull Lady I shall goe to my husband my husband shal not returne to me Beare you the crosse valiantly which you haue taken vp zealously no manner of discōtentment is ioyous for the present time but grieuous neuerthelesse afterwards it bringeth quiet rest As fine Gold is wrought in flaming fire and white siluer in blacke pitch euen so glorie is to be gotten with the depth of danger and pleasure with the price of paine As the roots of a tree are bitter and the fruits sweete euen so of bitter annoy comes pleasant ioy and of an heauie sute happy successe That it may be a parcell of your ioy in heauē to see him which was your ioy in earth remēber the instruction he gaue you whilst he was liuing remēber the councell he gaue you whilst he was dying remember to keepe in practise seriously and sinceerely among your houshold the studie and the excercise of true religion according to the doctrine of Iesus Christ To whose holy tuition and mercifull prouidence I leaue your Ladiship with so many good desires for your godly deserts as miles hath seuered S. Iulian and S. Leonard Yours in the Lord Edw Vaughan Sir William Herberd knight his particulars vpon the tenth story to weet from the birth of Christ to the worlds end COnsider the times from the birth of Christ to the end of the world which by the doctrin of Elias amounteth to 2000 yeares the whole time may be deuided into seuen successiue ages according to the Seuen Churches Reuel 1 4. Seales 5 1. Trumpets 8 6. The two first are ascribed to the church of Ephesus and Smyrma which accomplished the first 300 yeares for it is manifest that the things spoken to those churches concerne the first 300 yeares after Christ that is to say The examination of false Apostles the hating of the Nicolaitans heresies the induring of the extreame malice of the Iews Reu. 2 10. and of the ten persecutions with patience and constancie is called the tribulation of ten daies The third deuision belongeth to the church of Pergamus to which as to each that follow we attribute 340 yeares which reacheth from the yeare of our Lord till the 640. That age is cōmended for constancie in the truth and because there were then some that doted vpon images and had ordained dedication to the Idols temple to the martyrs and vigils in their honour which was a spirituall fornication practised of the Nicolaitans this age was therefore thus reprooued I haue a few things to say to thee because thou hast maintained the doctrine of Balaam which taught Balac to put a stumbling blocke before the children of Israel and that they should eat things sacrificed to Idols and to commit fornication Reu. 2 14. The fourth deuision or age is appropriated to the church of Thiatira extending from the yeare 640 to the yeare 980. The church in this age is commended for hir great deuotion but because it permitted the church of Rome to vsurpe authoritie and to be another Iesabel in Samaria drawing people to Idolatrie it is therefore reproued the plagues that God would bring vpon the church of Rome are declared and the children of the true church exhorted to continue in the antient faith which they haue already receiued The fift deuision or age is the church of Sardic which beginneth at the yere 980 continued till the yeare 1332. In this age the spirit of Iesabel was growne so strong and hir Achab so wicked that the visible church bare onely the name of a church the doctrine generally corrupted and things reduced touching the publicke worshipping of the Almightie vnto that miserable estare that they resembled the raigne of Achab and Iesabel wherein Elias had so greatly complained yet God had then his secreat elect expressed in these wordes I know thy workes and where thou dwellest Reu. 2 13. euen where Sathans throne is thou keepest my name and hast not denied the faith The sixt deuision appertaineth to the church of Philodelphia which containes the times that we liue and all the yeares from 1320 till the yeare of our Lord 1660. In this age of the church the truth of the doctrine is replenished and the truth of the Gospell florished notwithstanding all indeuours against it the faithfull are endued with spirituall strength thus I haue set before thee an open doore and no man can shut it for thou hast a little strength and hast kept my works Reu. 3 8. and hast not denied my name The seuenth deuision or age is attributed to the yeare 2000 this age forgetting the mercie of God wil proue to be carelesse of heauenly things being neither hote nor cold Therefore God will loath and abhorre this age manifest in these wordes I know thy workes and tribulation and pouertie but thou art ritch and I know the blasphemie of those which say they are Iews and are not Reu. 2.8.9 but are the synagogue of Sathan Besides these mysteries of the seuen churches let vs receiue farther instruction in the opening of the seuen seales concerning those things from the birth of our sauiour vnto the end of the world THe first seale being opened is discouered the preaching of the Gospell and the victories of Christ in subduing multitudes to his truth I beheld and loe there was a while horse and he that sate on him had a bow and a crowne was giuen vnto him Reu. 6 1.2 and he went out conquering that he might ouercome Hereof speakes that princely prophet Dauid Psal 45. Good lucke haue thou with thine honour ride on because of the word of truth of meekenesse and righteousnesse thine arrowes are verie sharpe and the people shal be subdued vnto thee euen in the middest among the kings enemies thy seal O God endureth for euer the scepter of thy kingdome is a right scepter 1.

was called Simeon the son of Iohn the fisher Christ did name him Caephas which is Peter Marke 3. he was one of the Apostles and the chiefest for diuerse causes He spake of works after iustification as S. Iames doth he descendeth into the dueties of each degree and to the conuersation of the Gentils It was written vpon the occasion of Siluanus being long with S. Paule and trauelling to Babilon met with S. Peter who deliuered him this Epistle generall The Argument of the second of Peter HE exhorteth all men from day to day and from degree to degree to increase in the works of regeneration to beware of false teachers the state of the last times He thought his death to be at hand wherefore he wrote to the glorie of his maister Christ The Argument of the first of Iohn THis Iohn was one of the foure Euangelists he was the sonne of Zebedeus beloued of Christ he wrote the Reuelatiō he exhorteth to faith brotherly loue to trie and approue the spirits to auoid false teachers hypocisie and small offences and to decke themselues with godly liuing The Argument of the second of Iohn HEre he handleth mutuall loue the duetie of widowes to beware of false teachers a way to know them he did write especially to a godly widow who with hir children and hir houshold laboured after Christ The Argument of the third of Iohn HE exhorteth his familiar friends and his host Gains to diuerse points of doctrine and to good works thanking God for the great comfort receiued at his hands he commends him for a harberour of Gods people The Argument of Iude. HE was one of the Apostles he instructed the Godly to continue in well doing he shewes the iustice of God against sinners and reuolters as the Angels the Iewes The Argument of the Reuelation THis booke containeth all the doctrine of the prophets concerning Christ which was to be accomplished after his comming the comfort that comes by his death the marriage of the church with the sanctified members the prouidence of God and the force of his word The third Introduction WHat may be said of the other books called Apocrypha you may easely iudge by the consideration of the authours and especially by the matter not consonant with other scriptures The word Apocrypha according to the Aetymologie thereof signifieth a mysterie a matter hid secreat or kept close They are books to be read at home and not in the congregation The first and second of Esdras 1 Esd 7 6. 2 Esd 8 4.5.6 THis Esdras was a Scribe and an expounder of the law when the people went from Babilon vnder the gouernment of Zarobabell in the time of Cirus and Darius Histaspis sonne he was in great report and bare credite among all people Concerning the authoritie of these books the matter it selfe hath no certaine ground especially That in the first of Esd the third and fourth of the three yong mens sentences In the first of Esdras the 4 and 1. the Angell reproued Esdras for his curious searching he was purposed to sorow and fast him selfe to death 2 Esd 10 4. both which things argued an vnperfect spirite in him This and the rest proues the books not fit to be matched with the Canonicall whose spirite was neuer found guiltie of controlment Tobias Tobias liued in the daies of Salmanser and Zenacherib his sonne kings of Assiria and was taken captiue at Niniuie This booke was penned by some godly man not perfectly knowne it was found in the Hebrue Assyrian and Chaldean tongues very antient yet with many blemishes and imperfections In the twelfth and fifteenth it is said That the Angels did present the praiers of the saints which none can do but Iesus Christ himselfe for he is our Aduocate and high sacrificer In the 4 and 10 old Tobias saith that Alms deliuered a man from death which is a matter contrarie to all holy scriptures In the seuenteenth he exhorteth to giue bread for the dead which in deed is a shew of Idolatrie notwithstanding the man is to be taken for godly and religious and his booke so far to be taken for credit as it doth agree with the Canonicall Iudith THis booke seemeth toward the last part to haue been penned after hir death by whome it is vncertaine the storie is in the Hebrue and Chaldean tongues yet not so receiued as the Canonicall because of the sundrie imperfections thereof Cap. 11 6.16 8.1.11 1. She tooke Gods name in vaine she denied the power of God and the authoritie of his Saints yeelding all to Holophernes Nabucadnezer was Emperour of Persia and his seat was at Babilon but not in Niniuie as is here laid downe For these and such like this booke cannot be allowed for sound yet many good things are therein therefore iudge soberlie and charitably Hester THis booke was written by some Graecian not truely knowne it is very friuolous it is annexed vnto the true story of Hester the variety thereof shewes the contrariety Wisdome IT is called in Greeke Panare●on that is to say The booke of all vertues Ierome writeth that Philoiudeus enlarged it with great wisdome and learning into Greeke being left before as a remnant or peece by Solomon this Philoiudeus liued in the daies of the Apostles and he embraced christian faith We must graunt that there are many excellent things done and spoken herein the author being eloquent and learned but yet euerie learned and eloquent booke may not be admitted among the saints Read Aug. de doct Christ lib. 2. De ciuitat dei lib. 17 20. Iunius preface in Apocrypha Baruck HE was secretarie to Hieremie This booke is not in the Hebrue but in the Greeke therefore it was not reckoned among the Israelits who were of that language It is not reckoned in the chronicles of the kings of Iudah nor yet accounted among the prophets Susanna IT is not knowne who did write this booke Although hir chastitie be commended yet the matter is not approued northe author canonized Bell and the Dragon THe author is not to be found and the matter is not likely The praier of Manasses HE is the author thereof as it is generally receiued It was in Greeke which did disanull the authoritie thereof among the Hebrues The first and second of Machabees THe first was written in Hebrue in the time of Iohannes Hircanus the sonne of Simon Machabeus It was receiued as a storie but not of credit to be with the books of God The second was in Greeke very friuolous and out of order The third was entituled Simon the high priest penned by all likelihood by Philoiudeus at Alexandria in Greek Mark their authority Iudas Machabeus offered for the dead and praied for them that their sinnes might be pardoned which thing is against all scripture 12 42. c. The sin which he praied for was mortall and not veniall as they say who would haue this booke to be canonicall yet they pray