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A cloud of vvitnesses and they the holy genealogies of the sacred Scriptures. Confirming vnto vs the truth of the histories in Gods most holy word, and the humanitie of Christ Iesus. The second addition. By Io. Speed.; Clowd of witnesses.
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Speed, John, 1552?-1629.
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Kingdome of God should shortly appeare and that then Iesus from their Isaiah at Nazaret did preach it they bare him witnesse and wondred at the gracious words that came out of his mouth And surely if wee begin to account them as wee must from the seuenth yeere of Ioshuah when the Lands full conquest was accomplished we shall find twenty eight fiftieths vnto that of the Passion where al freedome was purchased when Christ in his last words vpon the Crosse cryed It is finished Besides these agreements of figure and substance the Prophet Daniel declaring the change of states by the metaline Image shewed to Nebuchadnezzar giues limits to the kingdoms therin contained till a Stone cut without hands from the mountaine should fall vpon and breake to powder the Gold the Siluer the Brasse the Iron and the Clay al which should bee blowne away as the chaffe of the Summer flowers but the Stone that so fell should fill the whole earth Now that the euent was according is euidently seene for Cleopatra the proud and lasciuious Queen of Egypt the last successor or Toe of the Image for the death of Antonius stung herfelfe to death with a Serpent what time Egypt the one legge by Octauian was made a Prouince to Rome as Syria the other by Pompey before had beene And that a full dissolution of euery part of the Image vpon her death happened the taxing of the world then laid by Augustus doth testifie when the Roman Monarchi with acknowledged subiection first began and vpon which occasion Christ was borne in Beth-lehem two yeeres before the death of Herod And that this Stone was Christ all almost acknowledged neither doth the euent fall in any other the Gospell being the Mountaine that spred his kingdome ouer the face of the whole earth And what that Stone signified Daniel told Nebuchadnezzar as Iosephus writeth which though himselfe thought not fit in that his discourse there to expresse yet afterwards in the com motions of the Iewes against Pilat hee speaketh both of Iohn Baptist slaughtered by Herod and of Iesus condemned to the Crosse in these venerable words At that time saith he was Iesus a wise man if it bee lawfull to call him a man For he was the performer of diuers admirable workes and the instructer of those who willingly entertaine the truth and hee drew vnto him diuers Iewes and Greekes to bee his followers This was Christ who beeing accused by the Princes of our Nation before Pilat and afterwards condemned to the Crosse by him yet did not those who followed him from the beginning forbeare to loue him for the ignominie of his death For he appeared vnto them aliue the third day after according as the diuine Prophets had before testified the same and diuerse other wonderfull things of him and from that time for ward the race of the Christians who haue deriued their Name from him hath neuer ceased What testimony can bee greater then this so agreeing with the Miracles death and resurrection of Christ especially from his pen who wrote the History of the Iewes from Moses the first vnto the destruction of Ierusalem and last times of their estate being as all men know by birth a Iew himselfe and in his yong yeeres might haue seene the same Iesus of whom he giueth such commendable reports But to confirme the fall of the Image which Daniel had affirmed by the fall of the Stone is the testimony of the Angel sent vnto him to shew the times that were to succeede For the Prophet praying for a present releasement from Babels captiuity was answered by Gabriel aboue his request namely that after seuentie seuens of yeeres a perfect deliuerance should bee wrought by the death of the Messiah which shoulâ—… end Sinne and the Ceremonies of the place and should bring an euerlasting freedome to all that beleeue And that these yeeres so predicted fell in number weight and measure euen 490. we haue shewed before and now further affirme that the very houres by a skifull Arithmetician may be exactly calculated from the message of the Angell deliuered at the time of the euening oblation vnto the voice vtteâ—…ed by Christ vpon the Crosse at the ninth houre of the day when hee cried aloud and gaue vp the ghost Another marke set forth for the time of Christs comming is gatheâ—…ed by the graces that should bee â—…euealed vnder the standing or conâ—…inuance of the second Temple which was built by b Zerubbabel after the returne from Babylon which worke though later and lesser then that of Salomons had notwithstanding a promise from GOD to exceed Salomons But how glorious his was the building guilding riches and beautie doth euidently declare and the cloud of Gods glory so filling the house as the Priest could not minister doth manifestly shew Whereas contrariwise this second was so inferiour as the olde men that had seene the former wept exceedingly at the laying of the foundation neither was it filled with any such glorious Clowd nor had the like Patternes of Gods diuine presence as Salomons had For in this second Temple as the Rabbins haue obserued these fiue great blessings were wanting 1 The fier from heauen to consume the Sacrifices the visible signe of Gods fauourable acceptance 2. The Vrim and Thummim most sacred monuments put in the pectorall or Brest-plate of Aaron 3. The Arke of the Couenant wherein the Tables of Stone Arons Rod and pot of Manna were kept 4. The Mercy seate and Cherubins from whom the oracles of God were reuealed 5. And the manifest breathing of the holy Ghost vpon the Prophets all which Salomons Temple had Contrariwise before the daies of Christ this later Temple was polluted and defiled by Antiochus Pompey and Crassus and after the death of Christ vtterly destroyed by Titus Domitian Hadrian and other Roman Emperours And being assaied againe to be built by Iulian the Apostata was with earthquakes and fier from heauen so hindred as the foundations of the first Temple left in the former destructions were so shaken asunder that a stone was not left standing vpon astone and the workemen by fier from heauen forced to leaue off the attempt Since which time in seeking to rebuild that which Christ had so accursed more Christian bloud hath been spilt then was in those wars of destruction which Iosephas writeth of and saw Wherein then was the glory of this second Temple greater then Salomons or what should moue the desire of all nations to come thereunto Surely it was the Lord whom they sought and the Messenger of the Couenant whom they desired to behold that should come to this his Temple euen the Messiah promised to restore the desolations of Israell and that should be giuen for a light of saluation vnto the Gentiles which was accomplished onely in the person of Christ Iesus who with his presence filled this later house with
beene if Israels abode had beene in Egypt fully foure hundred and thirty yeeres with no greater increase God promising to multiply that seede of Abraham as the starres of Heauen and the dust of the earth For in the like space of foure hundred and thirty yeeres the World from the floud was replenished onely by three persons Iaphet Sem and Ham with farre greater increase For in Abrahams story we reade of the preparation of nine Kings and of sixe Nations in Canaan and the Countries adiacent And that the earth was peopled and replenished both continent and Ilands long before wee see by the dispersions of Noahs sonnes through the world neither doth the Text being aduisedly read inforce any such continuance in Egypt for thus doth Moses write and our last translation reade The soiourning of the children of Israel who dwelt in Egypt was foure hundred and thirty yeeres But that the Israelites dwelt not in Egypt foure hundred and thirty yeeres as Genebrard vnderstandeth Moses a second foundation by the holy Genealogies is laid for Kohath accompanied Iacob into Egypt and his sonne was Amram and his son Moses Then seeing Kohath is the enterer and Moses the departer the time cannot extend to foure hundred and thirty yeeres for Kohath liued but one hundred thirty three yeeres Amram his sonne but one hundred thirty seuen and Moses his son was eighty at the departure All which added together make but three hundred and fifty and yet some of them also must bee deducted where they liued together These ages therfore are so sure and true witnesses of Moses his meaning that Genebrard mistaking it affirmeth some betwixt Kohath and Moses to bee omitted To such extremity Genealogies enforceth And yet further to illustrate the text for story a weake woman may serue to support the truth namely Iochebed the mother of Moses who was the immediate daughter of Leui borne vnto him in Egypt by Elishebah his wife Nom. 26. 59. Now the life of Leui extended but to one hundred thirty seuen yeeres Exod. 6. 16. whereof forty three were spent before hee came into Egypt which thus may be collected Leui was borne of Leah in the third yeere of the second seuen of Iacobs seruice with Laban in the end of which seauen Ioseph also was borne Gen. 30. 25. Chap. 31. 41. So that Ioseph is but foure yeeres yonger then Leui. Now Iosephs age at his expounding of Pharoahs dreame was thirty Gen. 41. 46. And thence the seauen yeeres of plenty and the two of famine were expired Gen. 45. 6. So that Ioseph was aged when his Father and bretheren came into Egypt thirty nine yeeres and Leui his elder was at that time forty three whose continuance then in Egypt must be ninety foure yeeres for ninety foure added to forty three make one hundred thirty seauen his whole age to his death before which time it is manifest Iochebed his daughter must bee borne or be begotten Now if the abode in Egypt were fully foure hundred thirty yeeres then three hundred thirty six yeeres after Leui his death must be the departure thence but so long a time by Iochebeds age cannot be granted for she being borne but ninety foure yeeres after the first entrance and liuing to beare a sonne but eighty yeers before the departure the time betwixt the death of her father and the birth of her sonne must be the age of her owne life for had shee beene borne the day of her fathers death which is not likely and had died the day of her sonnes birth which wee know is contrary yet must shee haue beene two hundred fifty and sixe yeeres old when shee bare Moses A time by much too long for weomen to conceiue and her age farre vnfit to giue sucke or to bee chosen a fit nurse for a Kings daughters sonne And therefore it is certenly gathered by these holy Genealogies that the peregrinations of the Patriarks Abraham Isaac and Iacob for the space of two hundred and fifteene yeeres must be accounted with the time of the continuance in Egypt both which together make the sum of foure hundred and thirty What lights therefore Genealogies are for history let these here alleaged stand for witnesses wherein I appeale to the gaine-sayers themselues whether any text bee forced contrary to the true meaning CHAP. IIII. That the Scriptures Genealogies doe limit Daniels Seuens not to exceede 490 yeeres THE like vse and vtility shall we find in the succeeding times of the sacred Records and most especially in that which concerneth vs most namely â—…he time mentioned in Daniel which â—…oreshewed the death of the true Lambe Christ vnto whom all the sacrifices of the Law pointed and in whom all the Leuiticall rites ended â—…e being our high Priest farre aboue Aarons order Now among many other maleâ—…ictions threatned for the breach of â—…he Law this was one that the Land should lie waste to pay her Sabbaths of rest Which time of waste â—…he Prophet Ieremy affirmeth to haue beene seuenty yeeres and doth begin their account in the first yeere of Nebuchadnezzar King of Babel from whence all nations should serue him his sonne and sonnes sonne the space of seuenty yeeres which expired in the third of Belshazzar and first yeere of King Cyrus when the raigne of the Kingdome of Persia beganne as it is in 2. Chron. 36. 20. 22. Vpon which Text of Ieremie Daniel tooke his occasion of Prayer for their deliuerance and the Lord was as ready to accomplish his promise who sending his Angell euen in the same moment certified him that whilest his supplications were in making the Decree of deliuerance was in determining and that not onely from Babels seuenty yeeres captiuity but also thence after seuenty times seuen should bee a full deliuerance from spiritual thraldome by the doctrine and death of the Messiah These seuenty seuens Gabriel diuideth into 3. parts as followeth 1. To the rebuilding of the City and building the second Temple seuen seuens Secondly Sixty two seuens wherein a silence for Prophesie the want of fier from heauen the Vrim and Thummim should be had And thirdly one seuen in the halfe whereof Christ should confirme the Couenant for many and in the end thereof should seale vp mans redemption by his death and passion Notwithstanding this tripple account and plainnesse of Chronologie which the Angell aimeth at as to the true period of times fulnesse hath beene troubled with the vncertaine computations both of Iewes and Christians who haue both shrunke and tentered them from the iust number of foure hundred and ninety yeeres which seuenty seuens make in their owne propriety For some will haue them to containe no fixed certaine time at all but rather thinke they were spoken vnto Daniel as Christ spake vnto Peter in forgiuing his brothers offences I say not vnto thee vnto seauen times but vnto seuenty times