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A17017	The first part of the resolution of religion devided into two bookes, contayning a demonstration of the necessity of a diuine and supernaturall worshippe. In the first, against all atheists, and epicures: in the second, that Christian Catholic religion is the same in particuler, and more certaine in euery article thereof, then any humane or experimented knowledge, against Iewes, Mahumetans, Pagans, and other external enemies of Christ. Manifestly convincing all their sects and professions, of intollerable errors, and irreligious abuses.	Broughton, Richard.	1603 (1603)	STC 3897; ESTC S114320	118,360	300

his eternal generation he was begotten of the father and was true God Saieth that he was giuen to all faithfull people to be worshiped And an other Sibill hath these words Auton son ginosche Theon Theou ijon ionta Know him to be thy God which is the sonne of God The same and like speeches Lactantius citeth out of Trismegistus or Hermes from the Oracles of Apollo Esculapius and others And touching the Passion of Christ Sibilla vttereth these words hee shall fall into the wicked handes of Infidels and they shall giue blowes unto God with incestuous handes and with vncleane Mouth shall spit venemous spittings He shall giue his innocent backe to bee beaten and taking blowes shall holde his peace for his meate they shall giue him gall and vineger for his thirst And rebuking the land of Iurie for such vsage of their Messias vseth these speeches For when thou foolish didst not know thy god dissembled to mortal mindes thou didst crowne him with a crowne of thornes and mingledst horrible gall And concerning the miracles at his Passion saith that the vaile of the Temple shall bee torne and at middaie there shall be a wonderfull nighty darknesse three howres together And yet when these thinges were done for all these Celestiall wonders they woulde not knowe their wicked offence Hee shall ende his death with a sleepe of three dayes and then arising from the dead shall come to light the first that shall shew a beginning of resurrection to such as bee called These bee the verye wordes of the Sibilles and prophets of the Gentiles which prosecute the coming of Christ to iudgement the rewarde for the good punishmēt for the wicked other Mysteries of Christian Religion as wee beleeue condemning all other worships to bee false and superstitious And least any man shoulde imagine that these so manifest prophesies of Christ shoulde be deuised by any follower of his after his comming it is most manifest in the Pagan Authors themselues Erastothenes Cicero Crisippus Apollodorus Neuius Euripides Heraclites Virgill Varro Suetonius and almost all Historians of the Gentiles before Christ that they were both extant in the worlde and famouslye knowne before and most reuerently regarded and kept in their greatest places euen of the Cesars and Emperours themselues what was the reason that the Pagans did not vnderstande these thinges I haue cited out of their owne wordes And such as those Sybilles were we cannot doubt to haue beene in other times and places amonge the Gentiles to bee witnesses of these things as is manifest in their most certaine and vndoubted prophesies registred in irreprooueable Authors found and promulged in such sort as they cannot bee denyed There vvas founde in the tombe of Plato that greate Phylosopher a plate or golde vpon his breast with these words engraued Credo in Christum nasciturum ex Virgine passurum pro humano genere tertia die resurrecturum I beleeue in Christ which shall be borne of a Virgin shall suffer for mankinde rise againe the third day Yet Plato was dead and buried 370. yeares before the Incarnation of Christ And in his workes were conteyned these euangelicall wordes that followe In the beginning was the worde and the word was with God and God was the worde This was in the beginning with God All things were made by him and without him was made nothing That which was made in him was life and the life was the light of men and the light shineth in darkenesse Which word for worde is the beginning of the Gospell by S. Iohn And in the time of Constantine Hyrene there was founde in the city of Constantinople where many Iewes inhabited an ancient tombe and vppon the body of him that was buried therein a plate of golde wherein these words writtē before the coming of christ were engraued Christus nascetur ex Virgine Maria ego credo in eum O soliterum me videbis sub Constantino Hyrene Christ shall be borne of a Virgine called Mary and I beleeue in him O Sunne thou shalt see me againe vnder Constantine and Hyrene which was aboue 780. yeares after Christ And in the yeare 1230. a naturall borne Iewe and professed enemy of Christian Religion at Toletum diging in the ground found a stone wherein there was a booke for time continuance difficult to be read in which amonge other thinges these wordes were written In tertio mundo filius Deinasce●● ex virgine Maria pro salute hominum p●tietur In the thirde age of the worlde the Sonne of God shall bee borne of a Virgine named Mary and shall suffer for the saluation of men And moreouer that the booke shoulde bee founde in that verie time when it was in the daies of Feranda the Virgin of Castyll The times places the finders proposers and all other circumstances of which prophesies were such that no man can deny them to bee the effectes of a true propheticall spirit And so I might recount of others Whereby it is manifest that euen in the greatest swaye of the Pagans Idolatrie there vvanted not true beleeuers in Christ and such as gaue testimony to his comming Concerning Mahumetanes we haue heard before how their prophet and proposer of their lawe Mahumet as they esteeme him in his Alcaron hath auouched the same that Christ was the Messias and Prophet which in the lawe was promised to the worlde borne of the virgine Mary shee still remayning a Virgine that he was the greatest Prophet that euer was or shall bee greater then Mahumet himselfe the worde of GOD Spirit of GOD taught true Religion came to supplie the defectes of the lawe of Moyses and the Gospell was the perfection thereof and perfecte doctrine Christes myracles were true and giuen vnto him for confirming his doctrine and enforce all Iewes vvhich will prosesse the Religion of Mahumet firste to acknowledge and proteste in expresse wordes that Iesus was the Messias of the worlde they affirme he was the worde wisedome Spirit and vnderstanding of God a Prince to the Iewes and head of all men Whosoeuer amonge them blaspheameth eyther Christ or his Mother besides a great forfeiture of mony is beaten with threescore blowes with a clubbe Mahumet further affirmeth that the Religion of Iews and Mahumet shall vtterly perish only the Religion of Christ perseuer to the end The keepers thereof shall be saued Christ is exalted aboue all creatures in heauen and shall come to destroie Antechrist and restore generallie true Religion and in the day of Iudgement be pronouncer of the sentence and doome of God That his Mother was the holiest of all women moste puer that shee was one of the miracles of the worlde saluted and certified of the conception and birth of Christ by the Angell Gabriell that emonge all the children of Adam onelie Christ and She were vndefiled Shee neuer committed anie sinne that Shee was a virgine not onlie

Crosse the piercing of his side the nayling of his handes and feete His descending as a Conqueror into hell his victorius rysing from death tryumphant ascending to heauen and the verie time and place by markes infallible and other matters that passed either about his natiuitie life death or after as the chusing of Matthias to supplie the place of Iudas the miraculous comming of the holy Ghost in the feaste of Pentecoste and the rest Howe all these and many others foretolde by the Hebrewe Prophets so long before of their Messias were verified and fulfilled in Iesus the Sonne of the blessed virgne Mary I neede not to set downe the newe Testament where they are recorded by the Euangelists and Apostles beeing in the handes of euery Englishe Reader in his owne language and not onlie written by Christians but remembred by Gentiles in their wrightinges recorded in Libraries and Monumentes of Pagan Prynces and Emperours Confirmed by the verye testymonie of Pylate himselfe that put him to death Witnessed of our greatest enemies Mahumet in his Alcaron the Iewes in their Thalmud and by so manye Historians both of Iewes Pagans and Christians and could not possible either bee deuised of our friendes or denied of our enemies chauncing for the most part before thousandes of witnesses in or about Hierusalem a place so famous where the President was resident and whether resorted Proselytes and others of all knowne Nations in the worlde Therefore we conclude against the Iewes by theyr owne Prophets and foundation of theyr Religion againste Pagans by their Prophets and Oracles and against Mahumetanes by theyr Mahument and Alcaron and all Infidelles by the cheife Rules and Proposers of theyr Religion that Iesus Christ is the true mesias and Redeemer of the world that only the Religion of Christians is true haueing such a Peace-maker and Mediator betwene God vs as was able to make the atonemente beeinge both God and Man as a Redeemer must needs be and such as both his owne workes and operations and the predictions of those holy Prophets foretolde and described by the attributes and properties of both natures diuine and humane His diuine nature by his Eternitie Omnipotencie Impossibillity Infinitnes Power ouer all creatures and to produce all supernaturall effects to alter and establish religion to saue to condemne to be honored with diuine adoration and al names and titles due and belonging to God as appeareth in theyr description I haue recited confirmed and be expounded generallie by the auncyent Rabines beefore Christ As likewise his humane nature is decyphered by the same prophets by all properties and qualities of man sin excepted Therefore seeing by no possibilitie the wisdome of god can bee deceaued or his bonity and goodnes leade others into error and infidelltie and he had appointed those properties to be the notes signes and tokens to knowe the Mesias by and they were performed onelie in Iesus our Sauiour and no other hee must needes be the Redeemer of the world onlie christian Religion true and all other Infidelles Iewes Pagans and Mahumetanes seduced and deceaued For that which is onelye proper to one cannot belong vnto more for so it should not bee a proper and priuate but a common and vulgar thinge THE 2. ARGVM Howe all externall and most notorious Notes and Signes giuen by God to knowe the Messias by were onlie verefied of Iesus Christ and cannot possibly bee performed in any other BVT besides these personall and internall priuiledges and distinctions of the Messias because the redemption of mankinde to be effected by him concerned all people and nations in that all had offended so the infinite mercy and goodnes of God that no man should be ignorant of that which concerned him so much as the receauing of the Redeemer and working his owne saluation doeth had appointed many other most knowne and famous extrinsecal thinges to be the signes tokens of his comming whereof many were notorious in all the world and the rest at the least renowned to that nation of the Iewes from whome hee was to descende and other neighbouring countries to the Israelites all which were euidently verified in Christ Iesus cannot be effected in any other For breuity I will exemplifie but in fewe particulers the matter beeing manifest before First the Temple in Hierusalem was not only the most renowned thing in Iury but famous in all the worlde by reporte of Proselites and such as resorted thither especially when Iury was ruled by the Romanes as it was at the cōming of Christ Therefore when God gaue for a distinctiue signe to know the Messias by as not only the auncient Iewes and Rabbines but the Thalmudists themselues acknowledge that both in the time of his life he shoulde to that Temple then shall come the desired of all nations and I will fill this house or Temple with glory saith the Lorde of hostes And streight after shall come to his temple the Lord or Ruler whom you seeke the messenger of the testament whom you desire as the Prophets expreslie foretold as Iesus oftē did as the Iewes al Infidels acknowledge And further that soone after his death that Temple should be destroyed and left desolate neuer to bee builded againe as Daniell witnessed in these wordes Christ shall be slayne and a people with theyr Captaine to come shall destroie the Citie and the Sanctuary and the ende thereof shall bee vastity And after the warre ended there shall ensue the appointed Desolation And further expresse the verie time when this should be iust agreeing with the death of Christ And it is manifest that no other in those daies and with those circumstances is honoured for the MESSIAS eyther of Christyans Iewes Pagans or Mahumetans but only Iesus Christ and that the Temple was then destroyed as is moste euydent and not onely the temple in Hierusalem but that in Egipt called Onion as Iosephus recordeth it was hee that was to be distinguished by this signe For no power of God can cause that any pretended Messias to bee hereafter was hee that came to that Temple beefore it was destroyed or that the destruction of that Temple compleated aboue 1500. yeares agoe should bee done after the death of him that is not yet borne For things to be and not to be are vnpossible to be true Therefore against all Iewes and Infidelles only Iesus Christ was and no other can bee the Messias by that siigne Secondly as the Iews thēselues agree the holy Prophets giue for a like distructiue signe that he was to discend of the line of Iuda king Dauid and to be born in Bethlem his City This family was the linage of the kings most honorable in Israel And had endured in honour and gouernment aboue 1000. yeares without interuption And the towne of Bethlem was notable in all Iury being the cheefe city of the Tribe of Iuda but the Iewes themselues confesse in theyr

to Iuppiter amonge the Cypryans The Thaures did offer to Diana the straungers that came vnto them So did the Frenchemen to Esus and Theutantes and Italyans to Iuppiter the Romanes and Italyans both men and infantes to Saturne So did the Carthaginians as when they were ouercome of Agathocles Kinge of Sicylie thinking their GOD Saturne to be angrie with them they offered vnto him for a Sacrifyce to appease his anger 200. children of noble men Others cut off their shame and secrets and offered them in Sacryfyce Among the Rhodyans Hercules was honoured with a Sacrifyce of 2. oxen and cursing and bannyng and it was accounted a greate iniquitye for one worde of pietye or modestye to bee spoken And this was in memorye of the cursing and banning that a ploughman of that country vsed against Hercules taking two oxen from him by violence and so of others But to passe ouer those Idolaters and come to the Iewes which before Christ were the chosen people of GOD and had the true Religion their errors contayned in their owne Thalmud and higheste Iudgement they haue shall bringe witnesse against them And to omytte their blasphemous errors against Christ because they professe them selues enemyes to Christians and speake of those whiche thy maintayne against the moste sacred diuyne Maiestye whome they ackowledge for theyr GOD and maker of all thinges that gaue their lawe to Moyses Thus they wright and generally beleeue of him that before he made the worlde leaste hee should fall to Idlenesse he exercised hym selfe in framing diuerse worldes which when hee had made he presently destroyed and renewed them againe vntill at length hee had learned to make this vvorlde which nowe wee haue That he spendeth the firste three howers of the daye in reading the Iewishe Lawe and that Moyses ascendinge to heauen founde him wrighting accents in the holye Scripture That on the firste daye of the newe Moone in the moneth of September he iudgeth the whole worlde and the nexte tenne daies he applyeth himselfe to wright the iust in the booke of life and the wicked in the book of death And many other like errors they holde that God hath a place in heauen seperate from all company in which at certaine times hee bewayleth with manye teares and afflicteth himselfe that hee was angrie with the Iewes ouerthrewe the Temple of Ierusalem and dispersed this people into captiuity And that daily he prayed deuoutly and putteth vppon his heade and armes fillettes or thonges of leather called Thephalin and putteth vppon his bodie a linnen coate named Zezith and so attyred falleth downe vpon his knees and prayeth that so often as hee remembreth the calamities which the Iewes suffer of the Gentiles he weepeth and letteth two teares fall into the Ocean Sea and for verye griefe knocketh his breast with both his hands That for his recreation the three laste howers of the daie hee vsed to plaie with a huge great fish called Leuiathan that the commaundement of the Sacrifice of the newe Moone was giuen to the Iewes to purge the sinne vvhich GOD committed when hee gaue that light vtno the Sunne which he had vniustlie taken from the Moone and that beeing angrie for a cause vnknovvne vvith his play-fellowe Leuiathan he killed him and powdered his fleshe vvith salte to giue to the soules of his Saintes That euery daye hee is angrie and at that time the combes of Cockes waxe pale coloured and they stande vppon one legge and if anye man shall curse an other at that moment hee shall presentlye fall dovvne deade When certaine Rabbines disputed againste Rabbi Eliezar GOD giuing sentence from heauen for Rabbi Eliezar the other Rabbynes beeing offended thereat excommunicated God whereat hee smiling saide my children haue ouercome mee That God disputing with the Rabbynes vppon a certayne kinde of leprosie iudgemente betweene them vvas referred to a very learned Rabbyne And that he hath beene deceaued by some Rabbynes and the like blasphemies That the Angell Gabriell committed a grieuous sinne for which GOD commaunded him to bee scourged vvith a fierie whippe That Dauid did not sinne either in his adulterye vvith Bethsabee or murther of her husbande and vvhosoeuer affirmeth he sinned is an Heriticke That a man may marry his daughter or sister that Rabbine which hateth not his enemies to death and seeketh not reuenge vpon him is not worthy the name of a Rabbine That they which contradict the words of their Scribes are more grieuouslie to be punnished then they which gainesay the law of Moyses and this man may be better absolued but the other must bee put to death If the greater parte shall condemne a man to death he must die but if all condemne him he must be dismissed That soules doe passe from body to bodye as Pythagoras helde onlie with this limitation that if the soule sinneth in the first bodie it goeth into a seconde if it sinneth in that it flitteth into a third body in which if it doth not cease to sin it is throwne into Hell And for example the soule of Abell did goe into Seth and from him to Moyses That in the resurrection the soules of the vnlearned shall not be vnited to their bodies Who soeuer shall eate thrise a day vpon the Sabaoth shal haue euerlasting life If anie man shall passe vnder the bellie of a Camell or betweene two Camelles or beetween two woemen he shal neuer learne anye thing out of the Thalmud wherein there is no ende of such blasphemies foolishe and ridiculous things hee that desireth more may peruse the places cited in the margine so that we may see the iust Iudgement of God executed vppon that people that they which before the comming of Christ were the chosen of God only seruing him in true religion since they reiected refused him are fallen into so many impious errors that except they were recorded by thēselues conteined in the very rule of their religiō their Thalmud no man would beeleue it and that euery man may knowe in what estimation the Thalmud wherin these and other errours are conteyned is with that people their owne wordes placed in the preface of that booke as these If any man shall denye the bookes of Thalmud to be most holye he denyeth God himselfe Lastlye to come to theeuish and laciuious Mahumet and his Mahumitans what other thing then such as I haue recited of the Iewes and Pagans can be expected of them if we eyther consider the occasion of his originall and beginning or the wicked and licentious lyfe eyther of Mahumet the scoller or his tutors and councellors Iohn an Heriticke of Antioch Sergius an Arrian and Apostata Monke and a Iewishe Astronomer or Necromancer Or the time when he came being borne in the yeaere of CHRIST 626 or the place and people where or whence he descended comming of the