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
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
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
knowen to God a company innumerable shal be witnesse to the truth martyrs in hartes sadnesse as if they had shead their blood Why Dan is omitted is shewed in Scripture Concent Thence they that despise not the work wil fetch a resolutiō How in the West the Church falleth Six seales shewed the Romans violence against CHRIST his seruants plagued with warres death pestilence and ouerthrow of Empire The seauenth sheweth a sinful state in al Satans might deceiuing the West wherof 7. trumpets giue warning which the sealed before will take others will not CHAP. VIII AS Daniel Chap. 4. was amazed a while that Nebuchadnezar a starre should be 7. yeres a beast so the Church the Heauen on Earth is amazed as half an houre to what passe badnesse of scholars in vnlearned ambition will come 7. trumpeters standing before God will sound that vnto the world that the world shall haue a warning long afore the matters come in practise The summe of the Gospell contempt of which causeth God to cast off the open Church CHRIST a sacrificer for euer the Angel of the couenāt maketh his humanity the golden Altar vpon which he layeth the incense of our prayers receiued in a golden censor of his pure mercy they come before the Father for the 144. thousand Iewes innumerable heathen whereof the trumpeters for 7. commune places compaines of holy Doctores be the principall Now because Rome would teach with forcefull deceit not to receiue the abundance of the grace of the gift of iustice of Christ that by faith we should be iustified to haue peace with God to reigne with his Sonne but must seeke helpe from our selues who bee children of wrath Christ turneth his mediation into wrath against the seed of the serpent whose City pierced his handes and feete and by their occasion made others fall As the loue of God in Christ for bredth length depth and height passeth all knowledge so the contempt of the tree of life and of the man a little inferior to Angels in death but after ascention crowned with glory as to the rebellious Angels disdayning mans glory it gaue eternal woe it giueth to men that follow that company called Satan the old serpēt The anger of Christ is heare voices thunderings lightnings earthquake in states as at the Law-giuing Because Christ the end of the Law is contemned This could neuer haue fallen out if the Ebrew Bible with the Massoreth orthographie dictionarie for accents vowels had beene vsual in churches ouer the earth and the N. T. the marrow of all Greeke and sunnes bringhtnesse to the old had beene scholes studie also in all nations But slothful contempt to make translations from translations bred vncertainti and it disdaine it blindenesse it contempt of Christ it reiection Machmad soone turned away all the East whereof old GOD was knowen and God hath for that cast them of for euer The Grecians were so proud of Greeke brauery that of Origens Octaplun of Ebrew in Ebrew letter in Greeke letter in the 70. in Aquilas Symmachus Theodotion and other two vncertaine translations they little cared for the Ebrew but from Greek vncertaine they marred their commenting and gaue Arrius great aduantage And when Arabians Aethiopians and Muscouites translated the 70. not the Ebrew the difference of 1500. and more yeares excesse aboue truth by the 70. in Genes 5. and 11. caused Greece and the other and much of Romish soyles to blaspheme the Ebrew as corrupt so disdayning bitter rootes they missed to gather fruit of nourishment This bred the thundering anger of the Eternall Word which was with God aey and made all things and gaue words Ebrew and Greeke each as pearle and shyning Iewels Hence vnlearned scholars turne all to Ambition and Heresie polititians to profanenesse Of the VII Trumpets As one trumpeter telleth of a kinges power in milliones so heer 7. represent 7000. as might fall out still learned men gaue warning but when the roote of Iessai was contemned the waters of grace were not sent into vncleane hearts The first Trumpet Buishopps stroue for superioritie Monachi fall to idlenesse and extolling of Sainctes Princes giue wealth that way painefull scholers be hated and persequuted their voices make alowd trompet Athanasius Chrisostome Basill Nazianzene sound out matter against herefies and forged Monastiques and contempt of scripture and how the possessor of the West Empire should be taken away and a policy all sinfull should be erected in Rome Andreas Caesariensis doth more plainly shew that being at the rising of it about the 600. yeares of Redemption Patriarches affected supremacy but the city that crucified Christ and now plagued Christians was to afflict in the end and to be a trapp for all coastes to fall The contempt of learned warnings Romes supremacie made east south north fear least old tyranny from Rome should be reuiued So Machmad turned much of the world to fall away that haile of state as in Esai and fyer and blood of warrs come to the world And most of all Popes supremacie challenging Empire raineth haile fyer and blood to this day that men grounded as trees for the third parte and all the weake as grasse fell into Gods anger So this is a commune place of the Popes supremacy The next trumpet soūdeth that poinct more fully The scholars that inueighed against Phocas the murderer for erecting Boniface 3. supreme Papes or Father Of the names Papas and Pope The name Papas in the Greek fathers epistles is from one to another this much Right Reuerend father But when one would haue all to himselfe not by learning in Ebrew or Greeke for Gods worde but for strong hand in supremacy then the name rested in him but turned into Pope which in Homer as Eustachius well noteth is Damon a Deuil The Prouidence of God in mens tongues for names fitted vnto matter is to be regarded much That Pope and Daemon is all one Add vnto this that the Pope is called holines Marke for this S. Paul THE SINFVL MAN THE WHOLE ENEMIE HE THAT EXALTETH HIMSELFE ABOVE ALL THAT IS CALLED GOD OR WORSHIPPED A NEWE ANTIOCHVS EPIMANES SETTING FORTH HIMSELFE IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD AS IF HE WERE GOD. THIS AND POPE OR DAEMON GONCVRRE The second Angell or Company of Scholars sheweth howe hee commeth vp for the Emperour The second blast expounding the first A Mountaine an huge one burning with fire is cast into the sea Mountaine signifieth an Empire as Babylon is a mountaine destroying Burning with fire is causing hoate warres as in taking the Empires land to become a Mountaine and casting himselfe into the sea of kingdomes to be to this day a firebrand of all our warres The sea is politique states for this sea of our troublesome life as Tully translateth Euripides Si mihi nunc primum tristis illuxisset dies Nec tam arumnoso nauigassem salo esset dolendi caussa c.
Talmudiques in description maketh a figure of the eternall wight He as Aharon went through the veile of his flesh into the holy from the Altar of the Crosse and performed all measures of justice That is heere taught by measure with a line of Temple and Altar Matters visible were to expresse the inuisible So Christ telleth that he is the Temple saying Destroy this Temple and I will build it againe in three dayes This Law Ye shall reuerence my Tabernacle Leuit. chap. 19. 30. and 26. 2. Commaunded to reuerence infinitly the Tabernacle of Christ And Ben Arama noteth truely vppon Exod. Port. 52. That God soone did cast off Moses Tabernacle and Salomons Temple to shew that he would rest in the Tabernacle or temple of Christ Now the Iewes to make Christ Aharon and Melchitzedek make this death that Christ said Destroy this Temple and in three dayes I will build it vp againe The highest grace for life the slaues of Sathan turne to death whereupon they were neither forgiuen in this world nor in the world to come Profane states bee commonly forgiuen in this world as the Epicure Luc. chap. 16. though in the world of soules they parch for euer but the Iewes sinning against the light of the holy Spirite and grace of saluation perish openly in this world surer of eternal woe in Haides the world of soules in which Abraham in Haides in the kingdome of heauen will tell them that they are not his sonnes For he in Izhak receiued from death saw the resurrection of Christ and reioyced But the Iewes gaue money to Souldiours to haue the resurrection of CHRIST denied Of measuring the faithfull The Curtaines in Moses Tabernacle were made fitt for the number and the number of men aged twentie and aboue was thus the sonnes of REVBEN 1. 46500. 151450. SOVTH Summa totalis 603550. Simeon 2. 59300. Gad. 3. 45650. IEHVDAH 4. 74600. 186400. EAST Issachar 5. 54400. Zabulon 6. 57400. EPHRAIM 7. 40500. 108100. WEST Manasses 8. 32200. Beniamin 9. 35400. DAN 10. 62700. 157600. NORTH Aser 11. 41500. Nephtaly 12. 53400. Thus God in Num. 1. and 2. twise reckoned his chosen of the XII tribes besides Leui. And the Curtains were fitted to such a number So heere Iohns Doctrine shall teach a certaine number such as God hath chosen and no more the other will folow the God of this world A man by mans witt might maruaile why Princes would suffer such a deceiuer as the Pope to stand one yeere his doctrine being altogether against all light and each Prince being able to cast him from his territories But God hath chosen a few only and none can come to Christ vnlesse the Father draw him Of the Court within the Temple to be cast out in condemnation of Iudaisme Maymonides in Bethabechica or treatise of the Temple about 430. yeer agoe wrote how the Iewes yet look for returne to Ierusalem and to haue a temple like Ezekiels or Salomons For Ezekiels Saint Peter telleth Chap. 1. 2. Epist That euery Prophecie is not to be expounded properly because the holy men of God spake as they were caried by the spirit of God Now Dan. 9. telleth that the Iewes Temple should be vtterly destroyed and all sacrifice ended So by Daniell they should know that the Messias should be the building wherein God would delite as the very Iew Izhak Ben Arama noted aboue in Port. 52. Iohn preuenteth Iudaisme in shewing that this Temple hath no Leuites court to sacrifice nor separation for Israell But all be heere kings and sacrificers and their Court reacheth ouer all the Citie And old Iudaisme is now profanenesse A digression to compare the old Temple or Tabernacle with the spirituall The Temple of Salomon imitateth Moses Tabernacle and all Ierusalem within the walles the space within Israels curtaines as the Thalmud noteth Christ is the Temple Ioh. 3. High sacrificer Heb. 3. who went through the vaile of his flesh by his own blood into the Holy He is the Arke golden within and without and conteyning the Law grauen in him And all growen into Christ should haue the Law in their heart and looke for the crowne of the Law In the outer Tabernacle or Temple were the Candlestick of gold lightned with beaten pure oile by the high sacrificer and the table of xij loues set openly that had crowne worke and the Altar of incense couered with golde The Candlesticke the golden people beaten pure oile the spirit of grace that commeth by afflictions the kindler CHRIST him selfe Shem Tob the Iew commeth in words thus farr though he knew not God to be in Christ The Table expresseth the gouernor who prouideth bread for the xij Tribes the xij monethes And that paines findeth a crowne So King Ioseph feeding Israell held the xij Tribes in his Beryll on Aharons shoulders King Moses King Iesus King Samuel King David and King Salomon ware the Crowne for this Table The Altar of incense was proper to Aharons sonnes high Sacrificers and lower as Zacharie of Abia the eighth of 24. courses This worke had his crowne Now Christ is our Angell only to stande at the golden Altar that our prayer as incense may come before God In the court an altar was of sacrificing where daylie sacrifice the Pascha of flocke beast Kidd or Lambe a duetie to all and voluntarie Pascha of Oxe and Ram voluntaire and of two dayes feast Ioh. 18. were killed had their fatt brent on the altar and blood shed at the foote of the altar where pypes conueied it away Christ is our Lambe Oxe and Altar and when he ended sacrifice he gaue bread and wine which his Disciples did eate and drinke in tast like other bread and wine to be his body and blood for our soules Symbolon Typus Antitypus Icon in Greekes who durst not looke for a knot in a bulrush Of the holy Synagogues The Synagogues sauing in 48. Leuites townes vsually were of Israel no Leuite and they were Bishopps all the Ancient learned one Sergeant of the cōgregation he read the Law and the Archbishop requested the other in estieme to speak to the Law how all tended to MESSIAS So a sabbath dayes iourney would draw all the Law vnto Christ And all were holden wicked who being of wealth brought not vp their children frō 7. year in the law Their cōmentaries to this day in peecemeales agree with the marrow of the New Testam Abben Ezra is wōderful Dan. 9. speaking better for our maine battel thē any of ours Where he saith the 70. seauens are from the beginning of Daniels prayer vnto the sealing of Messias the holy of holy Our Acadamiques might be ashamed that a Iew in Rhodes now 500. year ago spake better thē they for our Gospel Zohar on Gen. 1. Elohim in these words Let vs make man may be likened to a father a mother of the work The father saith what wilt thou make man he will rebell and an ill
as a Citie brent from heauen for many plagues by Egypt for good note a broad Citie as Romes policie was broad and large And for a most sure note the Citie policie and authoritie large in which the Lord was crucified This name striketh the naile vpon the head Of the Citie which crucified the LORD Thalmud Ierusalemy noteth in Sanedrin and Maymonie that fouretie yeares before the destruction of Ierusalem causes of life and death were taken away from Israell so they teach that Christ was not crucified in the policie of Ierusalem but vnder Pontius Pilate in the Roman policie as the foure Evangelistes record carefullie When the Sanedrin concluded to kill Christ they brought him to Pilate he cleared him yet whipped him and deliuered him to bee crucified And the Romā soldiers shewed all wickednesse 1. They brought him into the Common hall 2. They gathered the whole band against him 3. They put off his owne apparell put in mockage a scarlat robe vppon him 4. They platted a crowne of thornes and laid it vpon his head 5. They kneeled in mockage and said All haile King of the Iewes and spate vpon him with a reed they stroke him on the head and when they had ended mocking of him they put off the robe and put his owne clothes on him and brought him to be crucified and pierced his handes and his feete and pierced his side with a speare and cast lotts for his coate These so great contempts from Romanes the vilest in the world against the Lord Eternall could neuer be put vp But that Rome should bee the miserie in tyrannie while the world stoode Pilate kill'd him selfe and the Emperours for 300. yeres were miserable And Rome by many spoiled and since Popes supremacie a new Egypt Now as the Iewes who betrayed Christ are slaues ouer the earth so Rome that went further was to bee revealed to haue all curses the old serpents poyson chap. 12. Cains murder of Abel chap. 13. a Deluge chap. 12. Biting of tongues chap. 16. consumption as the cursed brent Cities cha 11. Egypts miserie told aboue Iosuahs haile cha 16. Siseraes fall at Mageddon chap. 16. Iezabels miserie from Elias chap. 11. Daniels beasts miserie chap. 13. and the Romans miserie by Pompei and Iulius Psal 97. handled in Appian fullie and as the Pope knew more then the Caesares so his sinnes were more strong against the holy Ghost and he should be openly Man of sinne to all sage in this world The foure Euāgelistes might teach the simplest this much That seeing Rome grieued Christ as he complayned Isai 49. Psal 22. and felt too most high griefe Rome should bee Sathans throne while this world stood and all reliques of theirs a curse And people tribes tongues and nations shall see their Carcases three dayes and a halfe So this Citie must meane a very large Common Weale and Kingdome and the two in generall may be full many thousandes in particular And as all the time of persequution of the liuing is three yeares and a halfe the bodie is heere three dayes and a halfe And they shall not suffer their carcases to be put in graue This plainely sheweth the burning of Martyrs whose bones and ashes may be seene three dayes and a half and are not put in graue So good Bucers bones in this honor were taken out of the graue not to rot there but with pure fire to haue consumption as Elias in his fierie chariot had his body consumed and our Father Henoch that in his life matched the dayes of the sunne 365. was without paine dissolued when God tooke his soule to heauen and Moses had not mans buriall God prouiding somewhat better for the ancient that they with out vs were more perfect and for rare honor to their persons though by the doctrine of the Gospell aboue the Law we haue the perfecter but no whit to soules ioy But as they with smaller helpes passed vs farre in following God so their minde heere was infinitely fuller of graces then ours though the ioy of aeternall life is aequall to all In not suffering the best men in the world to be buried the Citie that crucified Christ is openly the throne of Satan And they that dwell on the earth shall reioyce ouer them and be glad and send giftes one to another because these two prophetes tormented the dwellers vpon the earth The dwellers on the earth are the Locustes their friends earthly minded and feared the companies of sound Christians because they taught Princes to hate the Popes religion and Pride and Wealth Monasteries The Hypocrites immitated the Iewes who vpon the death of Amalekites kept in open Townes the xiiij of Adar with ioy and banquet and wake day and sending of giftes one to another These two Doctores of Diuinitie Prophet is heere in that sense were such a torment to the Papistes as the first martyrs to the prophane Caesares who taught that they were not Diui and had no religion but from vncleane spirites And after three dayes and an halfe spirite of life from God entred into them and they stood vpon their feete and great feare fell vpon them that beheld them In his Vision of the Lordes day he hath by light and darknesse three dayes an halfe resembled vnto him for viewing of the martyrs from the eye-sight to the minde thus we must turne it When men behold the bones and ashes of the martyrs they hold them not dead but passed from death to life because they died for honor to Gods plaine religion teaching to honor GOD onely and to receyue aeternall life onely by his mercie in CHRIST the onely Rocke and to pray onely to GOD and to haue a sure faith in him and to lothe all proceeding that is not agreeable to Gods holy worde and that it hath a plaine and sure meaning The old Martyrs for these groundes were in honor with the Pope these two armies of Doctores died in the same cause therefore their enimies heartes must needes confesse that they are gone to heauen euen as if they had heard them called vp and seene to ascend as followeth And they heard a loud voice from heauen saying vnto them Come vp hither and they went vp to heauen and their enimies saw them As the case of Elias was to the body so the Martyrs is to the soule expressed bodily in this vision Of all soules passage at death It is appointed for all men once to die and then cōmeth iudgement Eb. 9. so all soules must when they leaue the bodie returne to God that gaue them to iudgement for euery hid thing good or euill Ecc. 12. 2. Cor. 5. so all ascend Ecc. 3. And onely the soules of the beast descend The commune place is called in Greeke Haides and the happie part of it is heauen to Abraham Eb. xi Luc. 18. And a place of burning torment to the wicked The faithfull went hence to Gods eternall tabernacle Leuit. 26. 2. Cor.
place gainesaid This sheweth that Peter was neuer at Rome And Saint Pauls iourney telleth Rome that God hated them If he had not beene sought to bee killed Lysias had not sent him to Caesarea and if the Iewes had not againe there sought to haue killed him hee had not appealed to Caesar God would not that hee should come to Rome but vpon extreamities So the iourney thither shewed that Christ hated the Citie that crucified him was strange in calamities and Paul was brought thither as a prisoner and kept in prison though somewhat free CHAPTER XIIII And I saw and behold a Lambe stood vpon mount Syon and an hundred fourty foure thousand were with him hauing the name of their father written in their forehead THEY which were called afore two Prophets are now 144000. hauing the name of God written in their forehead the same number is said before to be sealed ch 7. by a speach from Ezekiel ch 9. 4. There in the 70. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the terme of chap. 13. in Kimchy a signe or writing S. Paul expoundeth the speach that God will make them knowen who be his that they who professe the name of God shall depart from wickednesse So they who haue Gods name are made knowen who bee his and expound his word and follow trueth of worship due to him bearing a marke in open profession as sacrificers such as Aharon had In this sort the holy Church still had some nūber to professe the summe of saluation though on mount Sion a small hill for the mountaines of the world not one to a million of ADONIKAM and his Children of three fold as storie 666. that number chap. 13. to beare the number of his name was vsed for any number of Apostatique profession So heere the 144000. twelue tymes twelue is vsed for any Company that trusteth in Christ as the Patriarches did And I heard a voice out of heauen as the voice of many waters and as the voice of a great thunder and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harpes and they sing as it were a new song before the throne and before the foure liuely wightes and the Elders The heauen commonly in this booke is the Church waters voice is continuall so heere continuall singing is meant harpes signifie song with agreement the new song is for mans praeseruation euery day The foure wightes are the rare as Daniel Ananias Azarias and Misael and all the Euangelistes and S. Paul full of courage of Lions so were all the Apostles of rare patience ready to be sacrificed euery day and they were the true Philosophers thinking what should befall them after death and they were the Eagles of high flight sight The Elders are the Bishops or Teachers the sage in gouernement and skill in the holy Hebrew and Greek Testaments The song none could vnderstand but the 144000. as no Papist soundly thinketh of all things made for Gods glorie in Christ and how by him wholy iustice commeth and he onely must be worshipped When this is told them they are like vnto men that dreame and know not who they are that are bought from the earth not what their religion meaneth Thereupon it is written And none could vnderstand the song but the hundred fourty and foure thousand which were bought from the earth What this songe was Through the whole scripture this song is one and the same that IEHOVAH our GOD IEHOVAH is ONE The FATHER the SON the Holy Spirite be one Coaeternall and Coessentiall the SON is called the WORD by the WORD the Father made the World and by the Spirite beautified the heauens And because the WORD would become flesh the World was made to serue once Adam the first The Angells that grudged at that fell for euer and deceiued Adam and made him dead in sin and brought him to be turning dayly to dust vntill he dyed and for him the whole frame of the Creature was pronunced corrupt But he belieued that Christ made of a woman made vnder the Law God being in him to reconcile the World to himselfe should giue Adams soule iustice by faith should raise vp his Bodie and make a new World by his power whereby hee can subdue all things to himselfe This is the summe of the song tolde through all Bookes of the Bible A Digression to shew the Concent of all the holy Bookes Geneses sheweth how by the WORD of IEHOVAH the heauens were made and all the settled army of them by the Spirite of his mouth and when man fell the WORD telling that to destroy the workes of Satan he would be made flesh and haue a Tabernacle in vs. In which point the Fathers faith vnto the charge of Iosephs bones to bee caried vnto the Land wherein our Lordes resurrection should be a Testimony of a new World taught by Ioseph in his bones long after his death By faith he taught by his dead bones of the new world and therein Geneses end hath a new Geneses All simple should learne CHRIST from the Gospell of Geneses wher 's his Godhead so familiarly delited in the holy Prov. 8. and shewed in appearances that he would be man All yong men brought vp to be Bishops of the Kings armies or Church would reioyce to haue learned Geneses in Ebrew by heart In old age they should gather the fruit Obiection of them that are not bought from the earth S. Ierome saith Iewes read not the three first chapters of Geneses till they be 30. yeeres old Answere None should cite Ierome to make him a foole or to win the Whetstone Maymony in Morch Nebuchim hath this sentence that none did Darash read as a Doctor expoundeth Genes 1. and 2. and 3. and Ezech. 1. before he was aged 30. So S. Ierom meant Iewes all teach their Children from seauen to read all Moyses It were better that Rome were with Helice and Bura then Popes should be suffred so to bring most wickedly the word of life into a deadly hatred Of Iob. Iob is a booke for all holy to take notice of for instructing their families in the knowlede of Christ which Abraham carefully did as God testifieth the comfort of it their posterity shall finde as the booke setteth forth the faith and loue the effects of the Gospell 1. Thes 1. of his posterity euen before the Lawe was giuen to shewe that the godly had alwaies the Law written in their hearts 2. Cor. 3. Ier. 32. Rom. 2. Iob is a patron to all the faithfull in prosperitie for loue compassion iustice and equity c. in his afflictions his faith and hope in the Redeemer the seed promised whom he knew would take our nature vpon him to dy for him and by his Godhead rayse himselfe from death and that by his resurrection he should be raysed in the last day be made like his glorious body and that he euer liued to make intercession for him these thinges were his comfort in his greatest
miseries and patience and constancie the fruite of his hope he shewed Rom. 5. and commended to vs Iam. 5. And in Iob God describeth the state of the Church nowe florishing nowe wholly afflicted yet by faith in the Redeemer finde recouery vnto eternall life Briefly the whole booke is a diuine commentary on Geneses both for Creation and Redemption Of Exodus Exodus sheweth how God performed promisse to Abraham of multiplying his seed of their affliction in Aegypt for his hainous sin as Rabbi Bechai saith in giuing Sarah to Pharaoh of reuenging Aegypt of bringing Israel thence by the blood of the Lambe drowning Pharaoh wher they sang the song of the Lambe The Tables with letters 613. Vowels Accents as we haue this day in the same forme in the first Law teach how we come from the Aegypt of this World and the Tabernacle how the WORD would haue his Tabernacle in vs. Romes error against this song of the Lambe barbarous Their Latin sayth The dwelling of the Children of Israell while they dwelt in Egypt was 430. year yet Cohach came with Iacob Gen. 46. and liued but 133. year Amram 137. Exod. 6. Moses 120. Deut. 33. all in extremity maketh but 390. year So Moses must be buried 40. year before he receiued the Law So the Pope maketh all the Old Testam nothing worth Saint Paul maketh it but 430. year from the Promisse Gen. 12. vnto the Law Gall. 3. 17. So the Pope would make both Testaments of small force as his knightes in Gen. 3. say shee shall bruse thy head to be the ground of hope that so the Virgin Marie might lawfully be worshipped Error Athean The heauy Commandement Thou shalt not make vnto thy selfe any grauen Image in the Popes decalogue is left out The Chaldean who destroyed the Temple that all of Gold was caryed to Babel so the couering of the Arke and the rest of the Gold that the timber and Tables seeme broken by the wicked those wicked are not more wicked then the other Babylon in a mysterie which to receiue Idolatry would take away one commandement from the tenne Of Leuiticus When the Tabernacle was sett vp the voice of Christ which was terrible on the mountaine speaketh softly to Moses how Leui should cōtriue all the Law by sacrifice hither that when the Iewes had destroyed Christ his Tabernacle hee would rayse it againe the third day and end Leuies trade and the Angell commenting vpon Leuit. 26. telleth the very houre when Christ by death would end sacrifice and offring How the Pope disannulleth all Leuiticus The Pope will haue Priest Altar Cope Leuitique linnen flesh of Bread and Blood of Wine to be for sacrifice against all the light that Christ planted in soules for sense of eye sight tast feeling smelling and hearing of wordes and common reason when words of possessions must be expounded lawyerlike not in naturall sorte He that should vrge naturall proprietie in this Iechonias begate Salathiel should bring infinite absurdities vpon the genealogie He is more senselesse that knoweth not speaches of a couenant how the thing signifying hath the name of the signified Typus antitypus simbolon Icones old greeks Dionysius the forged Origen Eusebius Nazianzene Theodoret. c. could terme the Bread and Wine seales of ending Moses Policie which had the auctority of God equall in wisedome to his wisedome in the Creation of the World Now where God endeth all sacrifice and Moyses policie performing by our Lords death and testifying by S. Stephens martyrdome Thence the beast arising from the profane earth would with the mouth of the Dragon erect a policie ouer the World to make by Satan imitation of Moses policie to turne all Common weales to apish mockage of the sage wisedome in Moses vnto the deceite of Satan who transformeth him selfe into an Angell of light Thus the harpes on Mount Syon will not agree with the Popes Policy by Leuiticus Of Numery When Moses had shewed in figures that Christ was to suffer and being the first from the dead should shew light vnto the World the people were to trye whether by this faith they would conquer Chanaan not by mans strength They are numbred in persons a miraculous number to proceed in 215. yer whence onely 70. male soules arose in 215. yeares 603550. men of warre besides Women and Children But they misbelieue and so come short The Like Popery teacheth that merits of sainctes must be helpes to conquer the Land of Rest And trust not to the Promisse giuen to Abraham Of Deuteronomie Deuteronomie repeateth to the sonnes the fathers religion in an abridgement shewing that all ages should doe soe and giueth an expresse Law that fathers should teach their Children the Law And so many psalmes and many places of the New Testament abridge the heauenly wisedome of God for all former doctrine The Contrarie No Cardinales of Rome nor Princes that gaue them honor knew this much Therefore their gold is in high gilt Of Iesus The booke of IESVS sheweth how IESVS conquered the Land by a lesser number then the first that man should not haue the prayse but only God Psal 44. And their towns 324. as some reckon them in Chananean names shew all commodities of soyle for a land The Contrarie The Iewes were told by Dauid that IESVS settled not the people in the true rest but biddeth them enter into a Rest from mans Ceremonies where Baptisme for Circumcision and Bread with Wine tokens as stronge as the worlds frame vpon Gods word of life to faithfull receiuers are all that religious policie requireth that wee haue a Rest from the infinite toyle of Moses Policie But the City that crucified Christ denyeth this Rest and bringeth from mans wicked braine wicked toyes innumerable to be religiously obserued wherof the least were as bad as the strange fire that Aharons sonnes did kindle Of the Booke of the Iudges Ioseph in his Beryll bare the XI I. Patriarches names as a King and stay of the common Weale when the people fell away other tribes Iuda Beniamin Isachar Zabulon Nepthaly and Dan in part and Leui to alteration vpon ouerthrow in Elies sonnes The 70. for a speciall reason set in Greeke for Iosephs Beryll the Emerauld of Leui that heathen might not say the God of Israell did not foresee what would come to passe Ioseph bare the sway and Ephraim of Ioseph caried except Iuda all tribes landed away Vpon the Greek translation Chrysostome sharper witted then skillfull in the originall in Photius liberary would make the high sacrificer the stay of the state where his office was for the World to come and vpon this the Patriarkes would be checking not teaching the Emperor till both came to nought as Elie his sonnes ouerthrew all the glorie of the states vnder the Iudges The Pope passeth all Greeke Patriarches ouer Kings by whom they stand and by whose guiftes they had means to study the word
of GOD and for the testimonie which they had he saw them vnder the Altar who is Christ. The Thalmud of Rabbi Nathan in Moyses saith that his soule and all the iust are vnder the throne of God So as Saint Paul saith Rom. chap. 10. The Apostles doctrine is confirmed by Thalmudiques directly in all thinges sauing the Person and office of Messias Chap. 7. The martyrs haue white garments and palmes in their hands they be before the throne of God c. Chap. 11. They are called vp into heauen and their enimies see them going vp in a cloud Hence purgatorie is confuted which hath no ground from the old Testament as any Talmudique did euer expound it For Leuit. 26. telleth that hence men goe to Gods tabernacle to ioy or before his throne to feele aeternall anger Reuenge for Christ his Iustice And I saw and behold a white Cloud and one rode on the Cloud like the SON OF MAN hauing on his head a Crowne of gold and in his hand a sharpe sickle The cloud is Gods chariot Isaiah 19. as I told chap. 1. and this place telleth what Person was there described Heere he hath a crowne of gold as in Psalm 20. a token of victorie by death so chap. 6. In Maym. Poenit. the iust haue Crownes in the World of soules So to Talmudiques the New Testam would bee cleare The sharp sickle in Ioel is Gods vengeance vpon Iudahs enimies Assur the Image yea and the Image of the beast heere For he speaketh of all enimies The roaring like a Lion and the 7. thunders tell the same thing and chapter X. and the earthquake and destroying of them that destroyed the earth Reuenge for the prayers of the Church Another Angell came forth from the Temple crying with a great voice to him that road vpon the Cloud cast fourth thy sickle and reape tyme is come to reape for the haruest of the earth is ripe The Church be the faithfull the Angell is the representer of their state So Nebuchadnezar saw one watchfull and holy Who telleth that his punishment of 7. yer beastlinesse came by the prayers of the iust Spaine perceiued in the Low Coūtries the force of this is like to feele as good at home What shall befall our Buuy-shop that vrgeth better learned to othe then himselfe neuer heard of in Iuda by either Testament and imprisoneth better learned then himselfe that will not profane the name of God pineth vnto death in cruel prison them who deny him to be lawfull Buy-shop and put by Teachers of saluation from their maintenance 400. What shall become of this man from whom the heart of a man hath bene taken 7. yer Nabuchad dyed two yeares after hee came to himselfe so may this man How prayers of the iust be heard the next verse telleth And he that roade vpon the cloud cast forth his sickle into the earth and the earth was reaped So the crye of the poore ascendeth into the eares of the Lord of Hostes Reuenge by the iniuried themselues And an other Angell came out of the Temple which is in heauen hauing also a sharpe sickle The faithfull heere haue equall strength and try combat with Pope as this yeare for Clieue and Iuliaque All the Protestāts against the Pope Oh that our Albion would thrust in the sickle of good Laws against those Popoi lest they be still prickes in our eyes thornes in our sides as they haue bene And an other Angell came forth from the altar hauing authoritie vpon the fire and cried with a great voice to him that had the sharpe sickle saying Cast forth thy sickle cut the clusters of thr earth for her grapes be ripe In Daniel the Angell telleth chap XI that in the first yeere of Darius the Mede chap. 5. hee was a strength and might to him Iacob had a campe of Angells which story Dauid turneth to all faithfull One paid Sanacharib one strengthneth our Lord One saued Peter Act. 12. So heere the liuely speach of the Angell is an open token of assistance from the Angells of Christ as they be all ministring spirites sent foorth to seruice for them that shall inherite saluation Angells rule fire as that which brent Sodom Gen. 19. and Babel in Xenophon compared with Dan. XI And water in S. Pauls voiage So all anger from God is fire and Angells his seruants The sure euent So the Angell did cast his sharpe sickle into the earth and snapt off the Vine of the earth and cast it into the great wine-presse of the anger of God and the wine-presse was troden out of the Citie and the blood came forth from the wine-presse vnto the horse bridles ouer stadia furlongs a thousand six hundred The Citie is the assembly of the holy the place out of it is the dwelling of the faithlesse The stadia or furlongs 1600. are taken from the quantitie of Chanaan which Talmudiques calling to a square make Ris that is Stadion euery way The place I haue cited in my Concent where I abridge the Apocalyps CHAP. XV. A plaine exposition of the Womans fleeing into the wildernesse And I saw another great and maruelous signe seauen Angells hauing seauen the last plagues for in them the wrath of God is finished Chap. 6. expoundeth this and how when the Church hath a seate in the wildernesse and their Citie there they make the wine-presse of Gods anger out of the Citie And I saw as it were a sea of glasse mixed with fire and them which ouercome from the beast and from his image and from his marke and the number of his name standing by the sea of glasse hauing the harpes of God and they sing the song of Moyses the seruant of God and the song of the Lambe saying great and wonderfull are thy workes O ETERNAL the God of Hostes iust and vpright are thy wages O King of saints who would not feare thee O Lord and giue glory vnto thy name for thou only art gratious for all nations shall come and worship before thee for thy iudgements are manifested Sea signifieth troubles as Dan. 7. glasse clearly considered of God the allusion is to the Red sea at which Israel was persequuted by Pharaoh The addition by fire is an open distinction for the Popes sea of fire and faggott the song of Moyses Exod. 15. is a thankesgiuening for deliuerance from Pharaoh by the blood of the Lambe and the songe of the Lambe conteyneth all the songes in the Bible But most directly they of his incarnation and soules passage from the body to heauen and resurrection and sitting on the right hand of God The workes of God be great and wonderfull that the wicked whom he hath sett vnto wrath beare sway heere for a tyme but soone come to aeternall flames And they who in short affliction professe his name cary away an aeternall peise of glory wicked Babel worshipping creatures had a great reigne that Gods seruants might
teach there the trueth of saluation That which Ierem. speaketh chap. X. of our Gods prayse against idolls is heere repeated That Egypt and Babel teach the Pope what to look for Thus the holy protest their honor to God and labor to increase the Church that all nations may come and worship him And afterwardes I saw and behold the Temple of the Tabernacle of Couenant was opened in the heauen and the seauen Angells came forth hauing the seauen plagues from the Temple and they were clothed with cleane and pure linen and girded about the breast with golden girdles As Angells help Gods seruants to victories so proper Angells considered with men whom they strengthen may heere be meant Their clothing signifie syncere holinesse which men should desire and the golden girdle about the brest signifieth the binding of the minde in golden syncerity of heart Maymo in Beth Bechira handling Aharons garment citeth traditions from them that saw the high sacrificers manner that Aharon was girded about the brest that sheweth Iohn to speake most learnedly chapter 1. and heere 15. and wiser then any who would forge a booke could doe And one of the foure liue-wights gaue to the seauen Angells seauen golden cupps full of the anger of God who liueth for euer and euer The liuely wight is heere as orator of the whole Church and after the acknowledging of Gods goodnesse by Gods charge the Angells take in hand to poure Gods wrath vpon his enimies visibly by men but vnseene as the armie that guarded Elisaeus So as I told the punishment of Nabuchadnezar Daniel chap. 4. commeth by the decree of the watchfull and the petition of the holy What the Angells desire in reuenge for the Church God appointeth them to help forward in assisting men that be the fighters So millions of millions waite vpon Gods throne to rule the foure beasts that the house of Zorobabell afflicted should know that the heauens ruled and tyrants should soone be tamed by them The Pope should from Dan. 7. learne this and from Apo. chap. 6. where the profane Caesares be destroyed and know that after long angring of God hee must haue full payment Mortall Princes soone fade as a floure But God is euerlasting 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Daniel 7. 9. and liuing for euer Dan cha 12. and Apoc. X. and XV. who because men did not receiue the loue of the trueth to be saued sendeth workfull error that they belieue falshood that all may be condemned which belieue not the trueth but delite in badnesse This Booke was penned in such a style that it openeth not onely it selfe but also teacheth how all the old Testament belongeth to Christ And the Temple was filled with a smoke of the glory of God and of his power and none could goe into the Temple till the seauen plagues of the 7. Angells were finished When the Tabernacle of Moyses and the Temple of Salomon were consecrated then Moyses and the Leuites could not goe in while the glory of God filled them Here a cloud of Gods anger filled with defense the Church in the wildernesse that God will not giue the wicked grace to ioyne with them vntill they be cōsumed the sturdy wicked who fight against open light and be of the 666. sonnes of Adoni-kam which had rather haue 666. talents of Cethem from Ophir then all the knowledge of Iohns Reuelation such that striue against the light shall neither be forgiuen in this world nor in the world to come but heere haue a conscience stinged as by scorpions and in the world of soules death aeternall CHAPTER XVI As the Popes manner of rising plagued the World in a like manner God consumeth him As the Popes arisinge plagued the world vnder Angells Trumpets as 1. The earth 2. The Sea 3. Fountaines of waters 4. The Sun 5. By kingdom of Locusts 6. By raising vp the Turk 7. By earthquake So to him plagues come vnder the same terms but in another signification as 1. His earth hath boyles 2. Sea blood 3. Fountains blood 4. Susnn parching persecution 5. By darkned throne of spoile 6. By Euphrates by Turke 7. By whole earthquake And I heard a great voice from the Temple saying goe poure out the cupps of the anger of God into the earth In the heauen Christ is the Temple and the Church by him By his commandement and the Churches care the Popes world is plagued spirits being Gods messengers inuisiblie men visiblie And the first went and poured his cup into the earth and there came boiles sore and painefull vpon such as hath the marke of the beast and worshipped his image The plague of Egypt vnder Iannes and Iambres resisting Moyses is now vpon the minds of Papists which resist Law and Gospell the discouery of which Idolatry becommeth a sound meanes for Kings that made the beast a King of Locusts to eate vp the flesh of the beast The West Kings made the Pope mighty to ouerthrow the East weakned so that Machmad and Turcke ouerhtrew it And euer since the Pope came to be mighty he became auctor of haile and troubles and brought haile and fire of warre to be mixed with blood So now he looseth many Countreies vpon Martyrs telling that he held Satans throne and vpon diligent scholes detecting him in euery part bringing the Apocalyps to be dayly read and all the eloquent N. Testament in Greeke founteine of heauenly water to baptise the minde by the spirit into the kingdome of heauen And the second Angell poured his cuppe on the sea and it became blood as of the dead euery liuing soule dyed in the sea When the poore father of Rome forging S. Peters being there became by Saint Peters name of low and poore an high mountaine he became fiery and cast himselfe into the sea of Empires that by all his warres a third part of the liuing in one age were kill'd and destroyed Till a thousand yeeres hee became not a full mountaine till then Satan was tyed but in Ierusalems warre he was loose that 200. y. warres turned the third part of politicall sea and shipps into blood and destruction And what warrs haue bene since in Europe which the Pope hath not kindled So he payeth for it so hee looseth whole countreies as Netherland with the blood of 40. yeeres warres and wast of the Spanish nation That scant a third part escaped death in them that could warre for his killing of K. Philips sonne bent to heale the boyles of his religious This did they dead in blindnesse and known to be such And a third Angell poured his Cup into the riuers and fountaines of waters and blood came of it Heere lesser waters are lesse forces that continually he hath bad successe and great losse The yeare 1588. gaue him an open token of wrath in this sort and Flanders 1600. And if he had gone forward Venice had taught the same and Iuliaque will 1610. if he goe forward dayly litle riuers of 700.
Vbiquitie and others iourney to hell be great spotts yet many are free from these and mo wil be in tyme. And out of his mouth commeth a sharpe sword to strike the nationes with it and hee shall bruise them with an yron Sceptre The sword of his word hath in all ages told that euery trespas should receiue iust recompence and by stories past wee should assure vs of them that be to come and the yron Sceptre taught by Dauid how Christ his enemies should fall And the Image beaten to dust Dan. 2. and the Romane ciuill warres taught them what it was to meddle with the Iewes and with Tully to say Barbara Iudaeorum superstitio Gens nata seruituti So Diui Caesares for 300. yeares were brused and now the Pope for 400. to come may still looke to bee plagued that by 6000. yeeres of the world he shall be as the Macedonians at our Lords birth voyd of all authoritie This short vision may endure a long time as that in Ezekiel of Gog and Magog 38. and 39. contayned matter of 300. yeeres And hee treadeth the presse of the wine of the anger and indignation of God of hostes and hee hath vpon his garment and vpon his thigh a name written KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS Esay 63. telling of the winepresse teacheth now by story of old euents and the other Attributes Nabuchad Dan. 2. giueth to Daniels God and the stories shew the works And students of iudgement would bee ready in heathen which open the holy Bookes from the first Greek stories to the last By garment and thigh written vpon open dealings of Christ teach men to contemne his mediation and to feele that hee ruleth all An open proclamation of the Popes destruction And I saw an Angell standing in the sun and hee cried with a great voice saying to all the birds that flee in the ayer come and assemble vnto the supper of the great God to eate the flesh of Kings and the flesh of Coronels and the flesh of the Mighty and the flesh of horses and of their Riders and the flesh of all free and bound This speach Ezekiel vsed ch 38. speaking of Macedonians that should afflict Iuda specially vnder Antiochus Epiphanes after whom that Kingdome fell dayly more and more with horrible destruction And as the speach in Ezekiel is caried hither so the names of Gog and Magog be in the next Chapter where the Popes chiefe ripenesse commeth to let Satan loose And I saw the beast and the Kings of the earth and their armies to make warre with him that sate vpon the horse and with his armie This short prophecie telleth that the Pope and Empire shall fight against the Restorers of the Gospell and still haue the worse Albion and Ierne haue shaked him off and much of Germanie and Netherland and halfe Zwitzerland and all Denmarke and his murthering of the French King will haue reuenge In Ireland his stirring of Papists vnder Desmond to rebell made greater death then kites wolues doggs could deuoure or men bury or riuers wash without poysoning their fish And Brabant now 40. yer hath seene great slaughters and the Kinges putting of his owne son to death was more losse to his house then many millions And his owne death was of a strange sicknesse So many French that persecuted the Gospell had strange death And one after another while they fight against Christ shall haue strange successe as the Popes haue strange deaths and boyles at home An abridgement of all Gods iudgements in one And the beast was caught and with him the false prophet which worketh signes before him by which he deceiueth them that receiue the marke of the beast and worshippeth his image Both were cast aliue into the lake burning with fire and brimstone Andreas vpon chap. 13. teacheth plainely that Antichrist setting vp the Empire is there meant So Pope Emperor must needes be meant heere to as euident destruction as if they were cast aliue into eternall flames this should be a faire warning for men to come out of Babel to vse no garments no prayers no lawes of the Popes making And the rest were killed with the sword of him which sate vpon the horse which went out of his mouth and all the foules were filled with their flesh The principall had open terrible miserie the others in vision had but death So in Daniel chap. 7. the fourth beast was cast into the fire and the common sort in Ezek. are eat of foules CHAPTER XX. The Diuells are not simply bound And I saw an Angell comming downe from heauen hauing the key of the Pit and a great chaine in his hand and he laid hold vpon the Dracon the old Serpent which is the Diuell and Satan and he bound him a thousand yeeres and cast him into the Pit and shut him vp and sealed vpon him that he should not deceiue the nations any more vntill the thousand yeeres were ended Afterwards he must be loosed a litle while THAT the Diuels are not simply bound one houre Iob. 1. and 1. Pet. 5. teach vs when they fell the sixt day misliking the charge of care ouer man the darke ayer wherin we breath a black Tartarus without starre-light is their lodging in chaines of Gods prouidence as if they were in prison So wee may not thinke that the Diuels were euer simply bound but they were in the Pit whence at the last the locusts came foorth among the company of the profance that they deceiued not the great number sealed chap. 7. and former martyrs ch 6. But for a thousand yeeres some reigned in all ages with Christ and many were martyred and moo vndeceiued to worshippe the beast and his Image to take the marke in the forehead or hand They liued the true life by the Gospell where all faithlesse aliue be dead in sinne as S. Peter saith and Zeror Hamor infinitely The Apostles in their ages liued reigned with Christ and Iustine Martyr and Athenagoras and such in their ages Athanasius and many of his tyme and so others in their ages liued heere the Christian life and reigned as Kinges sacrificing their owne affections chap. 1. Some in all partes of the thousand yeeres not altogether a thousand yeeres The rest of the dead did not reuiue vntill the thousand yeeres were ended as the profane Caesares and Idolatrous Locusts who had great occasion offred to the first resurrectiō with Christ Rom. 6. Eph. 2. But they being dead in sin despised the truth and reuiued not The first resurrection is by faith to be risen with Christ He is happy and holy that hath his portion in the first resurrection The second death shall haue no power ouer them but they shal be sacrificers of God and of Christ and there shall be such to reigne with him for a thousand yeares From Adam of 1000. yer Satan deceiued not generally while the Fathers liued that the flood was denounced in the old world
in the world now of 900. Chanaans sinne was growing to ripenes Amalek of 1000. came not to Amans pride as Israel bred not Sadducees of 1000. yer nor Rome gate rule to deceiue whole states of a thousand yeres Now the text will be cleare The Pope deceiued not generally till 1000. yerees And I saw thrones on which men sate and iudgement was giuen to them and the soules of them that were beheaded for the testimony of IESVS and for the word of God and which worshipped not the beast nor his Image nor tooke the marke in their forehead or vpon their hand but they liued and reigned with CHRIST the 1000. year The rest of the dead did not reuiue of the 1000. year This is the first resurrection Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection The second death hath no power ouer them but they shal be sacrificers of GOD and CHRIST and reigne with him a 1000. year Heere then be martyrs and holy for 1000. year But the starre-worme-wood and the darkened starres and the locusts they continued in profane heathen lot and the Diuels were in their pit helping them to sett him loose to vex the holy Church for the old Ierusalem which Christ pronunced that it should be Iebus or troden downe for euer And when the thousand yeres are finished Satan shall be let loose out of the Prison and shall goe foorth to deceiue the nations ouer the foure corners of the earth Gog and Magog togather them vnto warres whose nūber is as the sand of the sea The Pope to weaken Princes did set them on to recouer the holy land which God would haue to abide cursed that Iewes might see their sinne killing Christ this would the Pope haue recouered and Rome in a thousand yeeres could not learne this one chapter nor remember old Gog and Magog how the Pope now reuiueth that warre in my Concent I haue shewed the termes meaning Thence the Reader may fetch it The Iewes Ierusalem was holy but now the Christian Church is the beloued Citie and the tents of the holy which to besiege and weaken hee stirred this warres for desolate Ierusalem The Pope weakened the West in superstition prouoking to warre for as he termed it the holy Land And they ascended ouer the breadth of the earth and compassed the Tent of the holy and the beloued Citie All the strength of the West was deceiued by superstition to goe fight in the East for Antioch in the land of Magog and other soiles neere Ierusalem and all the force of Machmad from the East assembled and 200. yea the poore Church was afflicted that afterwards Popes might set Kings vp and down as they would And Machmad still since hath vexed the West and the king of Locusts now hath 300. yeares beeing a new Gog and Magog vexed the Church And a fire came downe from heauen and ate them vp As Satan dealth with Iobs sheepe he dealth with the Popes sheepe to eate them vp with fire Euen thence to the worlds end chap. 19. which matter is heere briefly repeated and in that which followeth The Pope is a Beast of Empire by his might And the Diuell which deceiued them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the Beast and false prophet and they shall be tormented day and night for euer and euer The Pope is a Beast of Empire by his might and so the eight is also the seauenth and hee with his Clergie is also the false prophet Heere Papists may see what shall become of them A liuely description of the latter Iudgement And I saw a great white throne and one sitting vpon it from whose presence the Earth and the Heauen fled and no place was found for them and I saw the dead small and great standing before God and bookes were opened All mens doings are in record before God as written in bookes the like speech is in Daniel chap. 7. And another Booke was opened which is of life and the dead were iudged by the things written in the bookes according to their workes All that put not on Christ are condemned for their works Now the sea had giuen vp her dead and death and the graue had giuen vp her dead And they were iudged euery one according to his workes and death and Haides 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 were cast into the lake of fire this is the second death Death and Haides are expounded in Arethas sensible Men which commit matter worthie of death destruction And if any were not found written in the booke of life hee was cast into the lake of fire This sheweth that only the chosen in Christ haue life euerlasting and what there companie is euen the heauenly Ierusalem in this world the chapters folowing doe shew And I saw a new heauen and a new earth for the first heauen and the first earth passed and the sea is no more This speach may well be referred to the new world which for vs to search of what sort it shall bee the Law Deut. 29. to leaue hid things to the Lord our God forbiddeth vs to search curiously Of the heauenly Ierusalem I haue made a treatise in Greeke alone at large which I made turne to other tongues This worke is made to conuict Rome to be damned through all and I hastened in the beginning to that and I would not draw the Readers minde from that The last end may bee handled best seuerally So this paines shall heere haue an end AN EXPLICATION OF THE HEAVENLY IERVSALEM SHEWED APOCAL. CHAPTER 21. AND 22. BEING of larger discourse then the former Commentarie made by the same auctor to shew Romes condemnation and with small strife against Rome and such as Rome will not refuse to reade By H. B r. After the destruction of Babylon Let vs behold the saluation of Sion A Commentary vpon the Apocalyps Chapter 21. and 22. CHAPTER XXI The second discourse of 21. and 22. Chapters And I saw a new heauen and a new earth for the first heauen and the first earth passed away and the sea was no more ISAIAH chap. 66. compareth the Gospell hauing the rest of Christ for the Iewes Ceremonies vnto a new heauen and the earthly heathen state called to the church a new earth as God will make indeed a new world And ioyneth the doctrine of both together So heere after mention of heauen and earth passed the wordes import the new world and praesentlie turne to the Gospell in saying the sea shall be no more that is a troubled state shall be no more For the peace of God which passeth all vnderstanding guardeth our heartes in the loue of Christ that no sufferings for him is a griefe or trouble and we read chap. 16. that his Angels haue seauen cups of wrath to poure vpon the helhounds that bite his seruants they shall not care for the sea whence the Romane beast ariseth And I Iohn saw the holy City Ierusalem new comming downe from God
from heauen as a bride praepared for her husband trimmed Iohn began the New Testament Iohn endeth it The terme soundeth grace or mercy fitt for the argument So in Zachary at the building of the Temple acclamation should bee Grace Grace be to it And none but a Iohn in heart one that is made gracious Eph. 1. the Hebrew to that is Iehonan and Iohn Iochanan can see the holy Ierusalem The worldly doe looke to worldly pompe as the Pope to rule princes in deed euery teacher should rule Princes by sage aduise not by auctority Of Iohn Iehoiadah the stately high sacrificer is called also Iohn and sundry others and that name is in the 70. Ionan and one of our Lords fathers is called by that name others too Ianna and Ioanna bee of the same notation Grace giuen by fathers that still looked to the grace of God in Christ and all should in heart bee So euery one should be in heart Petros building vpon Petra the Rock Eli Tzur Tzuri-shadday Num. 1. 5. 6. teach that My God is the Rock My Rock is God One word of Hebrew had broken the Popes keies as the Pharisees keies of the Kindome of heauen and all take a foolish course for Diuinity which seeke it from Latines rather then from Ebrew Of Ierusalem Of Ierusalem I wrote at large in my treatise of Melchitzedek where also I shewed why the 70. altered the Hebrew 36. hundred of yeres adding to the Patriarkes at fatherhood to many 100. As Adam at 230. begate Seth where Moses proper truth wrote 130. Our note 1603. hath flat atheisme saying that Moses omitted 100. yer so the note might haue said for Seth Enosh Caynan Mahalaleel Enoch Arphaxad and all to Nachor and that he gaue many hundreds too much to their ends It is trange that most reuerened FF and right reuerend FF after plaine demonstration of trueth will be such fooles as to vtter such athean lies to the people and it is more strange that the people giue them any regard after their vtterance of such blindnesse These teachers are not for Ierusalem the sight of peace but for Abyssus whence the king of Locusts and his swarmes came Salem was the townes name in Sems dayes and the place where Izhak was offred was called by Abraham lireh and of that famous action the towne inlarged was called IERVSALEM the sight of peace Maymony writeth in Bethbechira the chosen house or place where the Temple was built as by historie Isaack was offred there so by tradition Adam and Habell offred there and Noë cōming out of the Arke and that may well be for God troubleth not his people with many places but contriueth all points for helpe of memory and for like matter for our dulnesse As for Rome that crucified Christ God would not plague another Citie but would haue Rome once destroyed to shew his anger vpon it reuiued to be a throne of Satan to plague them that cared not for his warning but would haue all to depend vpon it Of Melchi-Tzedek and Izhak causing glory to Ieruschalaim Sem the great in the title of iust King and King of peace described as God as the very Rabbines note and Saint Paul vpon their grant draweth all vnto Christ in his humanitie how the sacrificer is taken from men and so resembleth not Iehouah Michael in heauen barely but as he should come to his office on the earth being the SEM the great Sem heere conteyneth all with Isaack receiued from death and their story crieth out vnto all Iewes that they should know that God was in Christ reconciling the world vnto himselfe and that Christ was to suffer and being the first from the dead should shew light vnto the world S. Paul most eloquently draweth Moses speach hither Deut. 29. Say not in thine heart who can goe vp into heauē for to bring Christ downe or who can goe to the deepe to bring Christ from the dead but if thou confesse with thy mouth that IESVS is the ETERNAL and belieue in thy heart that God hath raised him from death thou shalt be saued So Melchi-Tzedek and Izhack in their story teach all that God giueth the sight of peace to make the City of God vpon the earth For heathen in Abraham our father as hee and wee belieue that God raiseth Christ from death and that matter is sweetly told in calling Christian Policy Ierusalem So Zachary saith Ierusalem shal be built in Ieruschalaim The sight of peace shal be taught in the soile where SEM dwelt and Isaack was receiued as by a resurrection The low Ierusalem is called holy when our Lord was baptized tempted and when after his resurrection many Izhaks arose and were seene of many But after our Lord his ascension the terme is not bestowed vpon it though in Pentecost the spirit came plentifull to teach Iewes and Proselytes of all nations the resurrection Of S. Pauls heauenly Ierusalem S. Paul in his Epistle to Ierusalem telleth them that the earth which breedeth briers and brambles shall come to be brent vp that so the Low Ierusalem should haue an end And that we are come to the heauenly Ierusalem c. In that terme he expoundeth the Prophet Isay for his Ierusalem Of the Iewes error to this day Maymony and all the vnbelieuing Iewes to this day expect a returne to Mount Sion to restore a Citie there Maymonie may be read in Ebrew and English vpon Ecclesiastes in my disputations from Isaiah with them they said hee speaketh for the world to come in higher matter then that which touched building of stone And they be guilty of S. Steuens blood to this day holding it blasphemie to say that Iesus of Nazaret should end Moyses Law and sacrifice Maymony in the fundations of the Law writeth the Iewes common error thus it is a matter plaine and expounded in the Law that it is a commandement which standeth for euer yea for euer and euer To teach them better vnderstanding of Moyses God brought them to Babel with losse of all Ceremonies sauing circumcision and before he brought them home hee told them to the last yeere when God would end their Ceremonies which made the heathen to hate them and told that their Citie should bee destroyed This matter S. Paul vrgeth through all the Epistle to Ierusalem And I should haue had occasion to haue examined all Talmudiques vpon Moses 613. Lawes and to shew how all the Ceremonies God hath abolished and giuen in the New Test Lawes written in all hearts moo then 613. That we neede not come to Talmudique This argument would require all opened in the New Testament to which of Moyses 613. each thing belonged and would shewe all wherein Talmudiques yeeld to the Apostles and teach Iewes and Greekes how all the New Test translateth Hebrewes He that threatned to stay the king from alowance this way shall in fame bee buried with the buriall of an Asse There is
no studie so good as this nor so much desired of all sortes Hee knew neither the Low nor High Ierusalem that would threaten to hinder this studie and is worthy to be recorded foreuer for an example to others The treatise of Dauids family and Nathans comforted through all Daniel of the Rome-Beast one made of foure sauage vnto Constantinus the great This shewed more thē any Academique in Ebrew and Greek or either euer the way to the heauenly Ierusalem The right honorable S r. Iohn Fortescue reading the workes told the bearer thus Tell the auctor I will obtaine of the King a very great stipend for him The honorable Gentleman knew what a priuy Counsellor should doe death praeuented him yet as it seemeth from his motion the Kinges kingly promise came and for Ierusalem his memory shall not die Dressed as a Bride trimmed for her husband The Citie for a ruler is trimmed as a Woman to be married for her husband Esai 52. Rules of saluation are a greater trimming for the minde then any outward trimming can bee for the body The holy Prophets wordes haue all trimnesse that speach can conteyne in language The promises of Christ all trimnesse of sharpe wisedome the stories of contemners endlesse to destruction and of Embracers few to saluation all trimnesse of storie and so the New Test for the age heere meant all trimnesse of wisedome and learning and cariage rules of faith haue wisedom passing all heathen and Christian true policie is more ciuill then all heathens So the Citie is trimmed for a Citie as a bride for the bridegrom And I heard a great voice from the heauen saying Beholde the tabernacle of God is with men he shall dwell with them and they shall be his people and God himselfe will bee with them their God and God will wipe all teares from their eyes and death shall be no more nor mourning nor crye nor paine shall be any more for the first thinges are past In Leuiticus 26. God telleth that if they keepe his Lawes God will haue his Tabernacle with them and they shall be his people and he shall be their God So before the captiuitie of Babel they that conquered the lande with Iosuah and the Iudges and vnder Dauid and his house many were And Ezekiel telleth that after they haue bene in Babylon to teach the Creation of the world and returne from Babel in the hope of Messias they should be the people of God and the same is heere spoken for vs heathen comming vnto CHRIST And now that men be taught of Christ plainly no affliction will make them weepe as in Babylon they wept at the Riuer sides Psal 137. not knowing cleerly Gods counsel how the Lord sent them thither to teach by Babels punishment that ONE the God of heauen ruled all and when men see the death of Christ to giue life that they who belieue in him die not but passe from death to life then death mourning cry paine will be nothing as the first case is altered Andrew was Petros before Symeon in Photius because he first acknowledged Petram all who do so are sure that the courtes to kill Christians the gates of Haides shall not preuaile against them When they knew that in Haides God hath Paradise for the Godly So Athanasius telleth that the Martyrs feared not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The going to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And he that sate vpon the throne said Behold I make all things new Isai 43. and 2. Cor. 5. Turne this to a new life heere and in that sense Christ about fourteene yeares after Ierusalems fall spake to Iohn in this vision that although the Church in the sight of the world should be base it should be a new heauē The Iewes see a new light in Moyses and the new Testament calleth vs from the toile of Moses to the rest in Christ that Daniel chap. 9. 24. shineth as Saint Stephens face as the face of an Angell and the minde which by the new Testament doeth see the old seeth a new world aboue that which was seene in Poperie Where Bellarmine and his labor to disgrace the scripture the waters from which they that be not baptized by the spirit shall not enter into the kingdome of heauen And he saith vnto me write for these wordes bee true and sure When the Apostles were all dead but Iohn and the Disciples were in great affliction and the God of this world was mightie in persequution the naturall man would thinke it harde to looke that the Bible should bring a new world Therefore the WORD who made this worlde and will make a new world would haue this written that in this world first he will make a new world And he saith vnto mee it is done I am Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end The learned note Ebrewes as Kimchi and Greekes as Eusebius that the Prophets spake in the praeterperfect temps for things to come because with God all is praesent and as sure as thinges past So should men haue regarded this booke that all in it though strange should come to passe That the Romane Emperours should bee plagued to ouerthrow that a new Rome should bee built for Empire neere old Troy that a beggerly scholar by lies and false miracles should set vp an Empire making himselfe as if he were God and deceiue the world men feared not this But Christ what hee spake in the beginning bringeth it to passe in the end Of ALPHA and OMEGA In that Christ nameth himsefe by the Greeke letters the first and the last he giueth great honor to the Greek tongue that they who seeke not from his words but from barbarous Latin his wisedome should be guilty Many Latin termes haue greatly deceiued as sacramentum for mysterion dispensator for Oeconomus Descendere ad inferos for Cateltheim eis Haidon and such hence come seauen sacraments dispensing with Gods word and going downe to Hell Briefly the smoke from the Pit is bred by wrested Latin as that an Image may be worshipped not an Idoll When Papae Cardinales Arch-buyshopps and Buyshopps rule the sheepe ignorant of Gods words they become wolfes and the most deadlie enimies to the truth The Pope hath an auctor in opusculis patrum which by the LXXII reiecteth the Ebrew truth adding an hundred of yeeres more then Moyses gaue at Seths birth and he allowed this blasphemie That Moyses omitted an hundred of yeeres His notes for soules 75. Act. 7. teach by Gregorie Martyn that either the old Testament or New faileth and his translation not the Septuagint taught that the dwelling of Israel which they dwelt in Aegypt was 430. year And their translation checking S. Pauls Greeke for 450. after a sort made Beza and our BB. after Bibliander and others hold the text corrupt and their rude translation made Achaziah two yeeres elder then his father and 20. yeer elder then himselfe And their barbarousnesse not knowing
manifold and vnsearchable is the wisedome of God The Iewes seeing Ioseph gone for Ieroboam might feare lest Iuda should fall more for killing of Christ that now only Saint Pauls Bishopricke of the West is best in Christianitie he foretold how Rome would deceiue and bad them not to be proud but feare and not ouerrule the ciuill officer but be subiect all this is vaine to many Iosephs Beryll the glorie of Paradise is now abiect Of the Topaz Simeon hath the ninth place to be very base yet afore manie of the handmaides children Of the Chrysophrase The Chrysophrase is a white Achate with a golden lace and part greene Achate simply is in Exod. 28. for Nephtaly Iohn giueth the trimmest of Achates as God shewed him And Nephtali is set before Dan because Dan first fell away Of the Hyacinth Leshem was Dan his stone and in notation it is Folow God and in the partition of the lande Leshem the Towne was giuen to Dan as prophecied in the name of his stone though it were farre from the other soile of his where Samson dwelt Semel is an idole Alpha and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mega gaue him warning that he turned not the Letters But none can stand longer than God stayed him Ionathan the some of Manasses of Gerson of Moses who would thinke it he and his house were Priests to the idole till the remouing of the glorie from Ephraim and Ieroboam regarding not that set vp a Calfe in Dan. The Antichrist by imitation of idoles is Dans childe Barbarous Rome cannot auoid that but by a ridiculous distinction of Idole and Image Of Gads Amethyst God of ordinarie course should folow Dan and Aser the yonger being set before him for Anna the daughter of Phanuel Thus Iohn comforteth the 12. tribes in their owne veine of speach calling all their stories of 1700. yeeres often reuolued in the same desert to shew the Constancie of God to encourage the 12. tribes not to be amazed that Rome hath crucified Christ and destroyed the lowe Ierusalem but to know that it also shall be destroyed after vnwilling furthering of the Gospell by martyring and when ease and wealth bringeth blindnesse and error it shall vnder praetense of holinesse and by persequution cause more study of Law then all former ages had The Iewes soone would climme into the mountaine of Tabâ—r in minde to acknowledge this description to be all from the Prophets and most easie to vnderstand And this cutteth off all Iudaisme which the Rabbins haue to this houre who from Ezekiel 40. looke still for a returne to Canaan But against that S. Peter told them that euery Prophecie of Scripture is not to bee expounded properlie And the twelue gates were twelue pearles euery one seuerall gate was of a pearle The wordes of the holy Apostles open the way into the Citie and the spirit of God spake in them and no one could be aboue the other but euery one stood a foundation vpon the Rocke By them which haue written we know that the others had wordes also as pearles When the Pope buried the stile of the Apostles and brought in Romes tongue and neither that pure then the pearles lost their gaynesse And the street of the Citie was pure gold as cleere glasse The open lawes are agreeable to the soules frame in iudgment from God and rules of faith bee cleere Rome hath scant one rule of either But their lawes crosse commune reason and their speaches of faith be either false or litigious And a Temple I saw not in it for the Lord God of hostes is the Temple and the Lambe Earthly buildings profit not as all S. Stephens oration telleth and the faithlesse Iew Izhak Ben. Arama Port. 52. shewing how the Tabernacle thrise described and set vp did litle helpe they presently misbelieuing And Salomons Temple after his death was robbed by Shisak King of Egypt and rejected of the tenne Tribes And this as the Iew confesseth to shew that God rested in CHRIST a goodlier Temple the heauen and the earth whose teÌ„ple when it should be once pull'd downe he would raise it vp the third day Moyses Law ye shall stand in reuerence of my Tabernacle tooke effect for punishment in Ephraim for Elies sonnes defiling of women waiting there that God foresooke his Tabernacle in Shiloh and Ephraim fell in the day of battel 34000. 1. Sam. chap. 4. and Psal 78. Nabuchadnezar that destroyed the Temple was so many yeeres like a beast as the Temple was in building And his Babell for the holy Temple was destroyed The carnall Iewes vrged Moyses Law against Christ as to death That he said destroy this Temple and I will build it againe in three dayes He spake of his owne Temple For which the Law of Moses was made and the Tabernacle and the frame of the world and because they stood not in reuerence of his Temple hee destroyed them By the former Law as they martyred S. Stephen for saying Iesus of Nazareth would destroy the Temple And they meant as much for S. Paul for speaking teaching against the Temple and they thought he had brought Trophimus a grecian of Ephesus into the Temple and so polluted it But the true Temple they saw not till theirs was destroyed And here Iohn expoundeth Moses That God the Lord of hostes the Angels and goodly frame of the world That CHRIST in whom all fullnesse it selfe dwelleth is the Temple And they that crucifie a picture as his making him vile or worship a piece of bread as his body being a mockage to Angells and men shall finde no place in Ierusalem The Temple of the Lambe must be vsed as hee teacheth It sitteth in shining light in heauen and may not be made base in this darke ayer by our foolish inuentions his owne commanded works as Salomons Temple cannot conteine God 1. King 8. Act. 7. Esai 66. This one rule ouerthroweth all Talmudiques by the Prophets whose words they reuereÌ„ce A plaine conclusion from Esai 60. and 51. and Ezeck 47. of the Gentiles Ierusalem And the Citie shall haue no neede of the sun to giue light in it for the glory of God lightneth it and the Candle of it is the LAMBE Isai 60. Arise be lightned for thy light is come and the light of the ETERNAL riseth ouer thee Ephes. 4. He saith arise thou that sleepest and stand vp from the dead and Christ shall shine to thee Many Rabbines as S. Paul draw Esaies words to Christ and when Iohn wrote 144000. Iewes faithfull would so take it Isai 60. The Sun shal be no more thy light on the day and the brightnesse of the Moone shall not giue light vnto thee But the ETERNAL shal be thy continuall light and thy GOD shall bee thy honor Thy Sun shall no more sett and thy moone shall not be hid for the Eternall will be thy continuall light and the dayes of thy mourning shall be gone worldly ioy shall not bee thy
and blood by scholars made a mountaine of fire cast into the sea by the starr falne from his place c. 81 The 9. Chap. pag. 82. THe fift Trumpet sounding out the Popes cleerely ibid. Whence the Pope chalengeth keies pag. 83. A digression to shew a scandall laid to Iewes 84 Of the Locusts most liuely describing the Popes subiects to make him King of Locusts distinguished from all other policies that be c. pag. 86 A distinction of those Loc. from the proper Locusts in Ioel that these be as scorpions 87 A further illustration of distinction from naturall Locusts and scorpions ibidem A further distinction how their sting is not of naturall scorpions but of spirituall ibidem Of the scorpions stings 88 Of the Locusts strength and auctority 89 Of the Loc. King 90 Of Oathes ibidem Of the Popes aduancing learning pag. 91 Of Popes blindenesse in Ebrew easiest matters ibidem How blindely the Papists wrest Ieroms words that c. 92 Of the Popes names ibidem Of the Popes Greek name 93 A digression to our prayer booke made from the Popes 94 Of Antic his Chaldy name 95 The Epilogue for the description of the Pope 97 Of Machumed or Machmad or Moamed in Piel Hiphil and Hophal the participles three are vsed in Arabique and Rabbins 98 Chapter 10. ibid. HOw Christ helpeth his Church by ruling warr and guile not to passe boūds c. ibid. Of Angell Christ ibidem Comming downe from heauen 99 Of the cloud ibidem Of the rainebow about his head ibid. Of the face of Christ like the sunne pag. 100 Of his feete like a pillar of fire ibid. Of the litle booke opened ibid. Of the right foote set vpon the sea and the left vpon the Land 101 Of the little bookes eating ibidem The XI Chap. pag. 102. THe measuring of the Temple pag. 102 Of measuring the faithfull 103 Of the Court within the Temple to bee cast out in condemnation of Iudaisme 104 A digression to compare the old Temple or Tabernacle with the spirituall 105 Of the holy Synagogues 106 Of the Synedrion 107 Of Athean imitation of Aaron 108 How BB. were made in Israel ibid. Of Excommunication 109 A iust but strang doctrin ibidem A digression to expound the terme Bishop 110 Of the 42. mone 111 Of Prophecying 112 Of the Decalogoue ibid. Of the Popes theft 113 Grounds which all should know that soundly prophecie or expound scripture ibid. Of Arias Montanus works of diuers readings 115 Of Lindanus quarreling with the text and one Erostratus ibid. Of Law vowelled and vnvowelled ibid. Of the Lxxij differing 3600. yeares from the strict Ebrew 116 Of Perfection of script ibid. Autores for the tongue 117 Prayer is our seruice of God ibidem Of the New Testam 118 Conclusion ibid. Blasphemous groundes of Popery pag. ibid. How yong men learned in liberall artes might be rarely exquisite in the Greek N. Testam 120 Of Poper names 121 The Epilogue ibidem The restorers of the Gospell be as Elias 122 The Martyrs be as Moses 123 Of the Citie which crucified our Lord 124 Of all souls passage at death 128 Of Purgatorie ibid. Of the 2. Macca 129 Of Iudahs sacrifice 130 The Conclusion 131 VVhat the Greeke Fathers thought of Purgatorie ibidem Of the third wo and last trumpet pag. 133 The sum of the Bible 134 Of the worldes end 137 Of the Iewes calling ibid. Of our Kings rare bent to the honour of the Bible 139 Of the Popes scholars 140 Of Daniel 141 Of the poore Indians calling ibid. Of the old Opinion of 6000. yeares pag. ibidem Chap. xij pag. 143. A Description of the Church ibid. Of the profane Caesar Pope reuiuing of him both comprised in the body and taile of one Dracon pag. 145 Of the taile 147 The combat of the Romane Empire with the Church ibid. A Commentary of the former vision of MICA-EL defending the Church 148 Of MICA-EL 150. Of Tobies fable 151 Of Michaels Angels 152 Of wicked spirits names ibid. Of old Serpent 153 Of Diuel ibid. Of trapps laid by our selues 154 The Diuell and his Angels by Michael are banished from the Church pag. ibidem A plainer exposition of the Dragons war ibid. Of the Dragons short tyme 157 Of the tyme of the persecutions by the Dragon 158 Chap. 13. pag. 160. OF two speciall points to be noted 161 The second point 162 How the Romans armes are taken from the Kingdomes in Daniel pag. 163 A most plaine description of the Pope by the beast arising from the earth pag. 169 Of the Lambes two hornes ibid. Of one error in the Pope which maketh him next the Diuell where the Diuell would tremble to bee so impudent openly 170 Of the Dragons speach 171 Of the two hornes counterfaiting the Lambe 172 Of the Popes succession 173 Of the Ancient facility in teaching the Law 174 An application of the Popes calling to that 178 A doubt for the manner of policy now what way is best to be taken 179 The answere ibidem What may we thinke of BB. of which sort many Popes and Cardinales bee 180 Of the Pope King of Kings 181 How long the Popes the starres falling could not become mountaines of fire to cast themselues into the sea of Empire 182 By what Iudaique cursedly reuiued Ceremonie the chiefe Diuinitie D. of Rome bewitched Emperors 184 Of Papists Miracles 186 An oration of the Popes Legate very remarkeable 194 Of subiection in all matters to the Pope ibidem Of the marke in the forehead 196 Of the name of the beast and Number of his name ibidem A repetition of the terme Rock 199 A Digression to a disputation at Mentz 200. Chap. 14. pag. 205. THe heauen cōmonly in the Aposignifieth the Chruch 206 What the song of the rediemed was 207 A Digression to shew the Concent of all the holy bookes and first of Geneses 208 Obiections of them that are not rediemed from the earth against that ibid. Of Iob 209 Of Exodus ibid. Romes error against the song of the Lambe barbarous 210 Error Athean ibid. Of Leuiticus ibid. How the Pope disannulleth all Leuiticus 211 Of Numeri ibid. The Contradiction of the Pope against that book 212 Of Deutero ibidem The Contrarie also ibid. Of Iesus son of Num. ibid. The Popes contrarie 213 Of the booke of Iudges ibid. Of Samuel c. 214 The Popes Contrariety 217 Of the N. Testaments musique the Gospell ibid. Of the Acts 218 Of the Ep. Romanes 219 Of the 1. Corint 220 Of the 2. ibid. Against Purgatoris ibid. Of the Epist to the Galat. 221 To the Ephesians ibidem To the Philippians ibidem To the Colloss ibidem To the Thess 1. and 2. Epist. 222 To Timothie 1. and 2. Epist 213 To Philemon ibidem How the seruant of seruants is concordant to Onesimus 224 Of the Epistle to the Hebrews 225 The Popes contrarietie ibidem Of the Epist-Iames ibidem Of 1. and 2. Pet. 226 Of 1. 2. and 3. of