could thinke that Iuda was in Babylon aboue 130. And their millions will rather come short then come so farre as 130. yeares And M. Livelies 230. marre the strongest prophecie for the salvation of the world and light of the New Testament So the holy story doth receyue extreeme disgrace What kinde of testimonies M. Liuely bringeth to rent all the last holy Prophetes the stretch the liues in them 100. yeares more then their liues will suffer MAister Liuely citeth Iulius Africanus for Cyrus first yere to be in Olympiad 55. And ill set by Beroldus in Olympiad 80. Aunswere to Olympiades MAister Liuely hath seene or might three treatises iustly checking them which holde Olympiades in any accompt or accompt by Rome or the Archontes of Apollodorus or the distances which Exatosthenes maketh betwixt Cyrus and Xerx thence to The Peloponnesian warres and how Thucidides and Demosthenes make fifty yeares for 35. And how from Lysanders vnwalling of Athens he maketh 34 yeares where Isocrates Strabo with Lysias would make but ten twelue thence to Phil. Macedon for never an one And the true accomptes of Greekes living in Persicq times were brought forth against one that had better skill then M. Liuely in Greeke and did all that Greeke could doe for defence that he might well say as Hector in Vergil Si Pergama dextrâ Defendi possent etiam hâc defensa fuissent And as careles VC-alegon had soone his house on fire for resistance past all hope so M. Liuely might haue seene what would become of his Librarie For Olympiades this was part EZekiel prophecied in Olympiad 48. by Clemens and by him Aggei ninety yeares after in Olympiad 48 So our Ecclesiasticall skill maketh Ezekiel and Aggei of one age This wil be small commendation for right reverend Fathers that haue taken so many hundreth thousande poundes sterling for teaching Diuinitie To make Ezekiel prophecying in the fift of King Sedekias kild by Nabucodonosor Aggei that built the Temple by his tongue to be of one and the same Olympiad in sad trueth and trueth to examine an Angels prophecie Reuerend Fathers should haue dealt more reuerendlie then to check Gods word for the very houre of our redemption set in Daniels time sure for all the world more reuerendly they should haue dealt then to alter the borders which Prophetes and Angels had settled More of this stuffe shal be shewed Xexes in of Esthers time and Oebotas a Greeke and Gelo King of Syracusa were of one time and dealers in the same warres Yet Oebotas warred then in Olympiad the sixt and so Gelo built Camarina in Olympiad the third by the commētarie vpon Pindarus So by our Ecclesiasticall men King Cyrus should be in Antiochus Epiphanes dayes Or Xerxes in King Ezekias time Thus we corrupt religion by ignorance of all groundes of study This ground is sure worthy of all interteynment which Thalmud Ierusalemy citeth but cōfirmed afore in the Gospel Ein dibre Thorah zaricin chizuk Thaaniut fol. 66. col 1. The words of the Law need no fortification So our Lord sayth I receaue no testimony from men When Abraham saw Ismael persecute Isaak he knew that that time four hūdreth yeares Israel should come from Egypt as well as Moses in the end So Ezekias knew fiftine yeres afore he died when he should die so well as they that saw his death So Ieremy knew seauenty yeares before Babel fell when it should fall as well as Daniel that saw it fall so Daniel knew that 490. yeares from his prayer Christ our Lord should confirme the covenant for Heathē as well as the Disciples knew that it was done And all Iewes of any religion in the Gospell looked at the same time for the kingdom of heaven to appeare by the plain proprietie of Gods word Further dotage in Olympiades may be wayed Chilon the wise the Old Lacedemonian of Solons age was Ephorus in Sparte in the fiftie sixt Olympiad of Solons age and much ancienter then Cyrus Sosigenes in Laertius is the authour By Pamphyla a learned Romane woman which wrote of Olympiades whose worke Photius honoreth in his Librarie it was the sixt Olympiade when this Chilon was Ephorus So by Olympiades there is a doubt of 200. yeares that is 50 Olympiades when Chilon one of the seaven sages florished Whose time without Olympiades helpe is knowen wel enough So for the deceaved these Olympiades if they be not farre enough out of the way by them selues these Olympiades would prick them forward And it must needes be counted a most grievous iniurie against the Maiestie of God to torment all the Byble by them and to deny the gracious light of Salvation whiche the holy Angel Gabriel left as mount Sion that can not be mooved And as the mountaynes are about Ierusalem so are holy Scriptures about that oration of the holy Gabriel who taught all at Babels fall that 490. yeares after that yeare the King of Glory should be kild but death should not holde him but his iustice should appeare by his Resurrection that he was kild not for him selfe but to make reconciliation for our sinnes and to seale Vision Prophet and to make Heathen syssoma one body with Israel The Lord knew that as plain a prefixed time as time could bee prefixed was needfull for all the world And the holy Angel might not speake deceipt as Iuppiter in Homer by a dreame deceaved Agamemnon by the word NOW saying Now thou shalt take Troy Agamemnon tooke it for THAT DAY but Iuppiter meant that yeare and so caused for amendes to Achilles infinite slaughter of Greekes By M. Liuely the Angel deceaued all that ever read his wordes till M. Liuely came to teach their right meaning and he should no more be an holy Angel then Iuppiters dreame was a God Our reverend fathers might haue spared the Princes authoritie frō cōfirming such Agamemnonean dreames They that adventure their eternall state on this that they will with all hart might and strength that Gods grace will graciously afford further the trueth and light of the Gospell will not reioyce to haue their authority vsurped to the Eternall destruction of their People and them selves This cosinage to check the holy Angel by Olympiades to turne the prophecy from light to darknes from trueth to falshood from Christ his name to prophane Atheistes from his covenaunt in the Lords supper vnto a covenant of Romane dogges with as dogged Iewes from the times beginning certen and cleare to all heartes of sage vnto one never knowen afore M. Liuely told and to end not at our Lordes death to ende Moses there but to ende at Ierusalems fall and sacrifice to be lefull so farre this matcheth Eves fall by the Serpent and passeth the building of Babel And Esay thought and taught that by Cyrus Decree Ierusalem should be built And seeing he gaue them vnder letters Patentes leave to returne to Ierusalem to builde the Temple the Decree for City and Temple
two seauens CHRIST shal be killed and not for him selfe therevpon the Citie and holy place shall he destroy the GOVERNOVRS owne people to come and their ende shal be with a Flood and at the ende of warre it shall haue a finall iudgement to desolation But he shall confirme the Testament for many the last Seaven when in HALFE THAT SEAVEN he shal ende the Sacrifice and Oblation Afterwardes by an Armie abominable he shall make a desolation even till vtter destruction and finall iudgement flow vpoÌ„ the desolate The heades of the Angel Gabriel his speach DAniel is taught how long Sion shal be holy for sacrificing how long Circumcision Sabbates the Pascha of Lamb or kid and all sacrifices shal continue at Ierusalem how many yeares even to the houre of the day from his prayer are vnto the death of our Lord for our eternall life to confirme the Testament for many and to end all Moses lawes that Iewes and Gentiles may be one body All this the booke called A true Chronicle commended by I.C. dedestroyeth whose wordes with the folio shal be shewed A deniall of the main vse of the prophecie fol 170. It is a great pitie that the message of the holy Angel conteyning a most excellent Prophecie from Gods owne mouth should be so perverted and depraved as it hath bene by those whiche pick out this sense as though he sayd there should be from the outgoing of the commaundement to Messias 69. weekes 483. yeares in all· A strange interpretation and such I dare boldly say it as by the Ebrew text can never be vpheld Reply for Messias HEre M. Lively sheweth as litle learning as euer did any that professed Ebrew as little Christianity as euer any of faith and as litle modestie as any can shewe that one man should check all Churches The Hebrician denyeth Messias to be CHRIST our redeemeer would make it an adiectiue Therein first his Hebrew cometh into question Either Messias is neuer a propre name of here it is a propre name and here twise In all other places a pronowne is affixed or a substantiue in the genetive case As myne annointed thy annointed his annointed the annointed of God the Priest which is annointed Here Dan. 9. twise there is no pronown and here it must be a propre name Messias or Christ And it is neuer vsed for an adiectiue being set before the substantiue as here Messias Nagid Messias the King And hence Saint Iohn tooke the name And hence all the Talmudikes in all their commentaries though coÌ„menting vpon this place they directly do it not Yet Rabbi Iuda commenting vpon Daniel here saith Messias Nagid is Messias the hope of Israel Nagid forgoer coÌ„mander of the natioÌ„s Es 55. The very Iew coÌ„fesseth this much And the Zohar vpon Genesis talking of the serpent saith By the serpent Messias shal be kild and many of Israel with him And al the churches in Christendome hold Messias here to be the son of God our Redeemer and our England helde that the last seaven of 70. had our Lordes preaching Our Church Scotland Fraunce Spaine Heydelberg Geneva so doth M. Liuely should liue in more modesty then so to pitie vs for holding the rock of salvation as the Angel taught this saying In the end of Seaventie seavens from Daniels prayer CHRIST or MESSIAS shal be slaine not for him selfe but consecrating him self for the redeemed or anointing or shewing him self the sonne of God For that doeth the terme annointing shew in that place M. Liuely dareth despise all Christendome where he is most vnlearned and senseles borowed the oth of Q. E. by I.C. to his iudaisme Of a bad translation and foolisher sense fol. 156. Ver. 25. from the going forth of the word to build againe Ierusalem vnto Messias the governour shal be seaven weekes he meaneth seaven seavens of yeares but loveth darknes three score two weekes it shal be builded againe street and wall Thus he translateth And having differed extreemely from all Christendome and all reason thus he would overcome by boldnes Maister Livelies boldnes fol. 171. THat interpretatioÌ„ which I haue made leauing a stay or rest at seuen weekes as the halfe sentence being past and continuing the 62. weekes with the other part of the sentence following to the end of the verse not referred to the former as part of one whole number with them by the Hebrew text is most sure and vndoubted and iustifiable against all the world contayning that which God himself in his owne words hath vttered neither more nor lesse but the verse same which Gods Angell deliuered to Daniel by word and Daniel to the Church by writing in the holie tongue and this once againe it is From the going forth of the word to bâ—â—ld againe Ierusalem vnto Messias the gouernour shall be seauen weekes and threescore two weekes it shall be builded againe street and wall and in troublesome times Marke the words consider their order and weigh well the rests As I finde in the Hebrew so I haue Englished that is the trueth of interpretation bee it vnderstood as it may Reply MAister Liuely setteth such a face vpon errour as never was heard in Christendome to disturbe the graunted rule of salvation And it is great pitie that some tooke him not in hand that know bitternes of style and are eloquent in that kinde His outfacing of the trueth and Christianity drew Iohn Cant to subscribe vnto him He might with as good learning haue subscribed to the Alkoram Machmad bragged that Gabriel taught him And chalenged Daniels name Chamudoth whiche the Angel Gabriel gaue him Machmad and Chamudoth in Ebrew bee all one The false prophet had some other name Or by some close iudgement of God his parents gaue a name helping to deceipt As for my poore skill in reprehending the deceaued extreemly I hartely confesse that I want due vehemency will borow Ovid as Vergil translating Homer to confesse how I come short of abilitie to blame the subscribing to M. Liuelies Ebrew Divinitie Historie Non mihi si centum Deus ora sonantia linguis Ingeniumque capax totumque Helicona dedisset Omnia prosequerer Si vox infragilis pectus si firmius esset Both poëtes both the best translate Homer iliad 2. Could I tell how to shew how much I. C. his subscription to M. Liuely hath iniuried Christianitie and particularly the Church of England Positions of old graunted new doctrine from Maister Liuely subscribed by I. C. shal be laid downe First The Church of England beleeved that the Angell Gabriel told Daniel of a Decree past in Gods word and to ensue by Cyrus presently to restore and builde Ierusalem And that from this Decree from Daniels prayer should be 70. seavens of yeares vnto our L. his death Whether he should die in the middest of the last seaven or last yeare that doth not shew much
equall partes He spent fourty in the court of Pharaoh So much S. Stephen durst affirme from the vsuall manner of God to governe matters in sortes equall for equall matter So Moses had time enough to see what court life was full 40. yeres And the Rabbins agree with S. Stephen As Symeon Ben Iochai being nere S. Stephens time in Siphri fol. 63. Col. 251. And Midras vpon Gen. 50. fol. 115. Col. 3. of the Crake edition And Midras Exod. fol. 118. Col. 4. and again fol. 119. Col. 1. where this saying is added Ben Ambaim Sanah Le Bynah He should be fourty yeres of age that should be of ripe iudgement Now seeing he spent forty with Pharaoh and 40. with Israell the remnant for Madian or Iobs nation was fourty and well might he be acquainted with Iobs Eliphaz Sophar Bildad and Elihu For Iobs sorowes fell about Moses birth Doubtlesse he was not idle in the land of Madian but vsed all meanes for mans salvation So for court Moses was tryed 40. yeares for quietnes in tending simple shepe 40. yeres and 40. yeares in being a servant to Israell That phrase SIMMESS he served is vsed Mat. 20. Let him that is the geatest of you bee the servant of all And thus in Moses God sheweth how fitly for mans memory gracious wisedome diuideth times So God gaue Chanaan 215. yeres to learne faith of Abraham and Isaak and Iacob and gaue Egypt 215. yeres to beholde multiplying vnto six hūdred thousand valiant men besides women and children These heavenly distinctions of times should not be confounded And the like be through the old Testament and by vs confused alike though God be the God of order and not confusion Of the miracle of multiplying extinct by our translation WHereas of Abraham there were but 70 soules of the line of grace and promise to see Egypt in 215. yeres it was a great miracle that 600000. men sprang in the same space that only seaventy sprange So they must multiply like fish But to multiply so in 430. yeares that had bene no miracle at all For after the flood 427. yeres was Abrahams calling and many countreys were full of people And many mighty Kings made warres with great companies Now by vs all this grace of multiplying like fish were extinct And endles be our absurdities that a simple reader may say that of Naso Tot premor aduersis quae si comprendere coner Icariae numerum dicere coner aqua For the sea-waues may as well be numbred as the grosse errours of our most reverend and right reverend Fathers But so reverend and so learned Fathers will not stand in them but yeeld a translation that shal be square settled and sure how soeuer it be turned to be examined And further warning in other matters will doe no harme Of S. Stephen crossed by the Geneva both the translation and notes where the Church-Bible hath the right OVr Church-Bible noteth very well that Abraham was not borne at the seaventieth of Tarach which yet the Geneva held but 130. yeres later and so it translateth that the promesse of Christ might well be after Tharahs death as S. Stephen telleth that Abraham was called to goe himselfe to Chanaan from Charan after his Fathers death presently being 75. yeres old so his Father was 130. elder then hee This matter is of great importance to defend S. Stephen where the Thalmudiques haue to this day most deadly conspired to haue him counted a lyer that he might be counted no martyr and the N. Testament no Testament They say truly that if it hath any vntrueth it is not from God that cannot lye But they not S. Stephen are the wicked And their owne Greek Philo the true not the forged auctour fighteth for Saint Stephen in this testimony following 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Idē de Abrahami aetate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fol. 284. Which wordes in Britane sound this much It is not like that any who haue reade the law can be ignorant how Abraham first remooving from the Chaldean land stayd in Charan and when his Father dyed there hee remooved also from that land that now he hath left two places And soone after Hee leaueth it being seaventy fiue yeares olde This auncient testimony of old Philo who was Ambassadour from his owne nation to Caius Caligula and might as well haue seene S. Stephen as Paul did doeth confute all the Thalmud euen where they goe about to confute all Christendome and in perpetuall date of the worlds age lay an accompt that being accepted denyeth most surely the New Testament To ioyne with the Atheist Iewes against our selues this was in the Latin Church an exceeding blindnes Of two further errours in the Genevah THey who place Abrahams birth at Tharahs 70. crosse S. Stephen and deny the new Testament So doe they that make Isaak mocked of Ismael at his birth 400. yeres before Israell came from Egypt for so they ascending thirty higher bring the promesse fiue yeres into Tharahs life Yet by the promesse Abraham was called from Charan as it hath bene shewed after his fathers death So these poinctes must be held all alike 1 That Abraham was 130. yeres yonger then his Father 2 That he liued 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an idolater by S. Paul and Philo and Maymony 40. yeres Tom. 1. tract de idol 3 That God appeared vnto him in the vale of the Chaldeans and sayd Get thee from thy countrey and kinsfolk S. Stephen gathered that speach by the argument from Gen. 15. and citeth not Gen. 12.1 4 That Abraham taught his Father of Gods appearance that his Father took him Sara and Lot Harans children and they two went furth with THEM two Abraham being indeed principall of the iourney 5 That Tharah going for Chanaan stayed in Charan some few miles off from V R and not another countrey both were Abrahams countrey aged sick dyed 6 God continueth the iourney saying to Abraham Goe thy selfe from thy countrey kinsfolk and Fathers house that is from faithles Nachor vnto a land which I will sheew thee 7 That from this iourney to the Pascha be 430. yeres 8 That the first thirty are to the sixt of Isaak 400. thence from Ismaels persecutiō or mockage of Isaak for his hope vnto Pharoahs last persecution 9 That Abraham Isaak and Iacob spent in Chanaan halfe 430.215 encreased but vnto 70. soules Theirs in Egypt 215. multiplied like fish into six hundred thousands valiant men besides women and children These positions being holden great light and delight cometh to the story and some to the translation Of V R that it is in the propre Mesopotania and that our notes are idle for defending S. Stephen where the Iewes defend him THE terme V R is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Act. 7. and in Philo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Lxx. Ghemek or Bikeghah that is vale or valley in Salomoh S. to Melec Sat. a learned
sonne for succession as Salathiel 37. degrees of being heirs is called sonne * Sabtile Kimchi to disturbe all the N. Test taketh assir for Assir a mans name and not a prisoner Wee simple soules follow him to overthrowe our foundation that Salomons house is not gone for Nathans to come in * Herodotus lib 1 telleth of the BabyloniaÌ„s honestie * Herodotus lib 1 telleth of the BabyloniaÌ„s honestie †No bitternes can be bitter against Iudaique Atheisme and mockers of Scriptures concent In the Thalmud Babylonian in R. Aser fo 18. B articule 12. Fol. 18. of the coÌ„ment The Iewes yet looke for Christ to be borne The Iewes ground to overthrowe all the New Testament is graunted by our right reverend Fathers that also the table prefixed to the Gospell The house of Nathan should haue had more pompe then Salomons if the Kingdome of Christ had bene of this world § To AbrahaÌ„ first Chanaan was promised * Salomons kings were farre from our Lordes kindred off 1000. yeres * Salathiel and Zorobabel * Abiud Eliakim c were kinges by right but farre from our Lord in kindred Rabbi Nehumias in Pet. Gal told This time 50 ye Messias shal be borne so theÌ„ mâ—ght all the natioÌ„ haue tolde by Moses Dan 9. Ma. tom 4. tract de regib * A Britane word for three horses to every captaine vsed in Pausanias * Salomon had noâ— ben omitted if Zorobabel had come of him * Which is to be vnderstand that he reigned twenty yeres his father yet liuing but after his fathers death was confirmed King wheÌ„ he was fourty and two yeares old Lxxii are in shortnes called Lxx. By not marking the Ebrews shortnes we seemed to Abr. Zac to giue Saul fourty yeres So the Iewe despiseth the N. Testament by our fault And in Kimchi vpon Ps 99. Midr sp 72 froÌ„ his name Nun teacheth that Messias shal raise vp the dead Daniel and they y e quenched the fyer are the glory of the first captivity * R. Abraham Ben David in Gabalah Ezekiel and Mardochai ar the Gold in the secoÌ„d captivitie Darius borne when Nabycadnezar would be making a King over Gods people Then to him a reveÌ„ger is borne that Madi Elam of Iapheth and Sem may punish Cham. * The third captiuitie is glorious by Ezra For Ezraes record of life confuteth al heathen millions that giue Elam aboue 130. yeares over Iuda Aben Ezra a malicious Iewe as it was noted expoundeth Daniel well against his will * 65. in Gen. 11.17 in y e Kings 90 from Daniels 490. S. Paules one saying Acto 13. keepeth all the Bible in a right frame Which yet wee corrupt to disturbe all Obiections w t answere The CristiaÌ„ Aarabique foloweth y e Lxx. euen where they hid theyr mind to bring yeares a thousand many huÌ„dereths in Gen. 5. and eleven moo thenever the sun measured The mocking is expounded by Saint Paul a persecution An opeÌ„ roâ—sing of the 430. yeares speÌ„t falsly by our Church-Bible not at all by trueth of time in Egypt with aâ— othermoâ—â— grosse impossibility and dotage Who ca◠〈◊〉 but 70. soules into Egypt * Also Midras Rabba vpon Gene. 11. fighteth for S. StepheÌ„ against their and our deâ—eaâ—ed The Iewes disgrace the N. Testam among the blind by false date of the world subducting 65. yeres in Ab. 17 in y e kings and 90. from Dan. 490. if wee dated in all our bookes 5531. with 1604. wee should protest a right plain trueth of Christianitie to comon good and clearing of much Scripture * vpon Es 24.15 * We translate Then men began to call vpon the name of God Seth shewed that bad calling vpoÌ„ the name of God should bring the flood by the name of Enoâ— vpon opeÌ„ apostasie * An epilogie of our many particular errors transition to some as infect further * Ierusalemy Thalmud fol. 65. col 1. v. antep An help them thâ— will traÌ„slâ— Exod. 28 * The Babylonian Thalmudin Sotah fol. 36 maketh this plain as did Philo of w c poinct more shalâ— spoken * One testimony of Philo for Isachars Saphir is worth 1000 Saphirs to strengthen trueth A. Rabbi the Archisynagogue of Constantinople When Israel fel away Ioseph bare none but all saue Iudah to destructioÌ„ Our traÌ„slation notes herein wander to great blame and folly * 〈…〉 translator I take the 〈◊〉 from Apo. 21. Gen. 2. Exod. 28. A maÌ„ wold not thinke that a reasonable creature would so rage against one for the comoÌ„ opinion of Christendome With the same skil hee maketh S. Paul RoÌ„ 10. speake matter senseles and Abysson nether after HeatheÌ„ nor Lxx Ps â—1 w c place he regarded nor any Ebrewe nor Thalmuâ—iques but after the Deuels Luc. 8. and Diuelish Zohâ—t vpon Gen. â—
new rageth vpon him that forced him to faith in these wordes in his Sermon booke against M. Iacob folio 419. Tell then your abettor that all the Realme will take him not only for a rayler against all honestie but a lier against all duty that voucheth so confidentlie King Edw. the sixt and his subiectes held that Christ his soule neuer went to Gehenna and the Realm knoweth the Qu. oath as also the Q. adventureth her eternall state These be no states to come within his vnclean mouth He may doe wel to remember who they be of whom it is written They despise governement and speake ill of them that be in authority as raging waves of the sea foming out their own shame Now to confute him the Zurick confession shal be sufficient it was allowed in England Thus it standeth Per inferos intelligimus non locum supplicij designatum impijs sed defunctos fideles quemadmodum per superos adhuc superstites in vitâ Proinde anima Christi descendit ad inferos id est delata est in sinum Abrahae in quo collecti fuerunt omnes defuncti fideles Ergo cum Latroni secum crucifixo dixit hodie mecum eris in Paradiso promisit ei consortium vitae beatorum spirituum Licet enim Dominus descendisse dicatur fit tamen ex more loquendi Confitemur in hoc articulo animas esse immortales easque protinus à morte comporeâ transire ad vitam To this may come his own wordes fol. 219. Wee haue no warrant in the word of God so to fasten Christes soule vnto Hell for the time of his death that it might not bee in Paradise before it descended into Hell And for his new these fol. 154. The sense of the Creed may must be that Christ after his body was buried in soule descended vnto that place which the Scripture properly calleth Hades HEL The Lybian sandes may aswell be reckoned as Bilsons heresies vpon this course His pen telleth all learned he is a babe and he deliteth to shew his folly Archb. WH could confesse errour send Geffrey King his Chaplein for Basill to confesse so when he saw all the world should force him D. Bilson hath a mind to be famous for millions of errours But your Majestie will make him yeeld Francfurt mart would make all loth him If it please your highnes that shall discusse the Question I will defend your Maiesties Religion and accuse him of strange new fangled and most detestable heresie Of a greater iniurie to Christ and his nation THE Archisynagogue of Byzantum or Constantinople sent an Epistle to England desirous to be taught in the conference of both Testaments and how all things falling out in our life may bee discussed without traditions which Iewes say Moses gaue by word of mouth to Iosuah or Iesus and so man vnto man still Vpon this all the Thalm. speaketh And his demaund argued a scholer who knew that none of witt would medle with him that knew not the Prophets Thalmuds as well as he This Epistell was sent to England thence to me to Basil There I printed two impressions And gaue the copies to be dispersed quickly ouer Europe and Turky And I printed in Ebrew and Greek to Archb. WH and his brethren how they might honour Christianity handling such and such poinctes learnedly And I continually sent treatises to Constantina shewed afore to Iewes of Germany For this a libell was allowed against God against your M. termed the Scottish mist aganst my poore selfe that the printed Epistle was forged by me For this I gaue I.C. the Anathema Maran Atha and if he had done so in Germany an axe had cut off his head His G. protested he never spake never dealt against me and turned the Anathema vpon his Chaplein This contempt of Christianitie was the greatest that euer hath bene heard in Christendome and a Greek Oration complayning of it to all Christendom was allowed by the Lords of Francfurt a little before Q. Elizabeths death vpon that not printed that if iustice be shewed at home forrain complaintes may surcease God will plague all that put vp such iniuries against Christ and the clearing of all the Bible for Iewes and Gentiles wherein our Machmadean errours haue bene detected to be ridiculous to all Iewes How the Iew should be answered THE Lords of Bearne in Zuitzerland offred me a good place of professing Ebrew and all my charges for Printing aunsweres to this Iew But with this addition No stranger that meaneth not to dye amongst them shal be preferred who afterwards may greue them in opening of their affayres That I refused and told of my hope in your Maiesty Now if it be your highnes will to allow me a pension to buy all Hebrew and Thalmudiques helpes and to hyre comon Ebrew setters at Venice or Basil the Bible and the Thalmud shal be opened by Gods help to the contentment euen of the Rhomists or if your highnes graunt me but your princely letters of fauour to Germanie Princes they will deffray my charges A Prince to whose ancestors all the Iewes of the Empire payd for their dwelling sauing them of Francfurt hath many of them now his tenants would willingly haue employed me that way But without your highnes leaue I could not then resolue Epilogue THVS I haue shewed your Highnes of our corrupt dealing against our own Religion And your Maiesties bare word may cause the Bishops to put furth some litle book as amending faultes escaped Seeing many thousand copies translations of the Ebrew and Greek Testament haue bene solde their escapes will vex many vnlesse particular warnings be given of thē Only the time of our Lord his birth as we hold it where the conception should be this comon errour can not nedes not to be amended Seeing we reckon frō the conception And the memory of story we may celebrate as we hold it convenient But he that shall defend S. Luke must be circumspect herein Iewes haue long examined what to obiect I hope your M. shall see that by the right handling of this cause Iewes shal more cōfesse that your highnes kingdome in the ends of the earth is a chief possessiō of Christ and hath a Cherub an oincted defender of faith in the Garden of Eden in the holy mountain of God Sion the Heauenly fiery stones of noble Princes where one is the Beryl that beareth all the Tribes and the flaming carbuncle overshining all and that such shal be in your glorious Maiesty and in your most noble posteritie while the sun shineth Your Maiesties most humble harty and faithfull subiect HVGH BROVGHTON Amend the faultes thus A. pag. 8. hightened read lightened B. pag. 4. Athosskes read Atoss pag. 8. Alexander read Philip. C. pag. 2. greath reed great pag. 3. for in Babylon read vnder Persia pag. 4. the stretch read to Exatost read Erat. pag. 7. line vlt. for 10 rede 20. D. pag. 3.