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A10581	The sermon, which Christ made on the way to Emaus to those two sorowfull disciples, set downe in a dialogue by D. Vrbane Regius, wherein he hath gathered and expounded the chiefe prophecies of the old Testament concerning Christ; Dialogus von der schönen predigt die Christus Luc. 24. von Jerusalem bis gen Emaus den zweien jüngeren am Ostertag, aus Mose und allen prophete gethan hat. English	Rhegius, Urbanus, 1489-1541.; Hilton, W. (William), fl. 1578.	1578 (1578)	STC 20850; ESTC S115783	385,014	486

The Archangell Gabriel did rightly expound this prophesie in Luke For after he had saluted Mary he sayd Loe thou shalt conceiue in thy wōbe and beare a sonne and shalt call his name Iesus He shal be great and shal be called the sonne of the highest And whē Mary doubtfull of these things asked how that could be seyng she had not known a man the Angell by and by answered and opened vnto her a singuler strange and supernaturall way of conception saying The holy ghost shall come vpon thee and the power of the highest shall ouershadow thee Therfore also that holy thing that shal be borne of thee shal be called the sonne of God. ¶ Anna. This by the gift and grace of God I beleue constantly Neyther do I doubt but that Christ was borne of a pure and chaste virgin seyng the holy ghost himselfe doth beare witnes of the same And S Math. alledgeth this place out of the seuēth chapter of Esay interpreteth this Ebrue word Haalmah Virgin which interpreter we both ought and may certaynely beleue But whereas that faithles and obstinate people the Iewes enemies to Christ exclaime saying that Haalmah doth not signify a virgin but a maid or yong woman alredy maried to a man and whereas they contemne the virginitie of Mary and falsly accuse it as fayned and seyng they also wrast this prophesie other wayes then to Mary according as our frend Rabbi Antonius Margarita tolde vs I pray you let me heare how these false Iewes may be refuted and conuinced out of the old testament For they deny the autoritie testimony of the new ☞ Vrb. The Iewes as vtter enemies to the puritie of the gospell obiect in deed many thinges agaynst this prophesy but al without ground and reason But that you may better vnderstand the meaning of this prophesie I will first expound vnto you certaine Hebrue wordes and cleare the controuersie in some principall pointes wherof the ground of the controuersie doth depend The Iewes haue three wordes which signify maydes the first is Naerah which signifieth a yong woman mayd or no mayd For as Rabbi Lizhak Nathan testifieth the true signification of this word is generally Youth The second word is Bthulah which as the same Rabbi sayth signifieth a pure shamefast virgin The third worde is Haalmah which in this place the prophet vseth of Mary as most proper and fit for the purpose For it signifieth a virgine whose virginitie is pure and vntouched but ripe marigeable and able to beare children And it is worthy the obseruatiō that this worde is neuer taken in holy scripture for a yong woman that hath knowen a man This also is as well worth noting that Haalmah doth not signifie generally euery mayd which is pure and vntouched but as S. Hierome noteth a virgin close kept in whom the parents diligently carefully and watchfully retayne and kepe in at home This may be gathered of the worde Schoresth For Alam signifieth to hide couer keepe out of sight And so is Mary called haalmah not onely because she was a pure and vndefiled virgin but because the yōg mayd which is diligently and vigilantly kept vp of her parents is for the most part godly and holily brought vp vertuously instructed And the Prophet could not haue vsed a worde more to the purpose and fitter for this place thē this word Haalmah which most properly agreeth with Mary For Bthulah signifieth indifferently any mayde as well yonger as older whether she be fit for child bearing or not There be many maydes well striken in age of threescore or threescore and ten yeres old and so vnfit for to beare children but the prophet would here declare and set forth a virgin both yong marigeable and fruitfull Secondly the Iewes all without reason standing vpō no ground but only desirous to make braule being in hart obstinately impudently and wilfully blynded and hardened cauill and falsly say that haalmah signifieth a yong woman which in mariage hath already known a man But they may be conuinced and proued liers out of the olde testament In which haalmah neuer signifieth a yong womā that hath had the company of man but only a pure chast and vndefiled virgin As in Genesis Rebecka when she was not yet maried to Isaac is called haalmah And as then certainly she had neuer known man but was a pure chast virgin as the wordes of the text and history manifestly and without question do proue and conuince The text in Exodus vseth the same worde in the same sence speaking of Meriam Moises his sister so doth it in the 67. psalme and in the Canticles 1. and in many other places which were both laborious to recite yet not greatly needfull in so playne a matter But the Iewes alledge an other thing to wit that this prophesie imported and was ment of king Achas his sonne Ezekia they say that he was giuen to the house of Dauid as a signe by which they might know that they should be once deliuered from those two kings Rezin and Pekah ¶ Anna. They that faithfully beleue the Gospell be not troubled with this obiection at all Yet am I desirous to heare how it is refuted ☞ Vrb. The text in the 4. of the kings and 16. chap. wipeth away this obiection And I meruayle much at the shameles impudency and malipertnes of the Iewes in this place that they be not afrayd so grosly and manifestly to lye The history of the holy scripture testifieth plainly that king Achas raigned in Iuda but 16. yeres In which tyme this was prophesied as appeareth in that 7. of Esay After Achas was Hiskia placed on his father Achas his trone to gouern the people And he begā to raigne when he was 25. yeares of age Now conferre these together you shall see that this prophesy could not be fulfilled in Hiskia For he was .9 yeres old when his father began his raigne And so it appeareth plainly that Hiskia of whom they falsly affirm this prophesie to be geuen was at least 9. yeares of age when this prophesie was published How now I pray you can this prophesie then be either spoken or thought of Hiskia What nede many wordes The Iewes be blinded and their hartes are hardened neither haue they any knowledge or vnderstanding of the holy Scriptures God be mercifull vnto them Amen Thus haue you heard that the mother of Christ was a pure and vndefiled virgin and that this conception was not after the maner of other men by carnall copulation but by a new strange and marueilous maner euen by the holy ghost and yet the virginitie of his mother pure and perfect And so the prophet Daniel beholding her with spirituall eyes sayth in the vision of the 4. monarchies that he saw a stone cutte of a mountayne without hand Which wordes the holy church euer yet to this day interpreted of Christ and his blessed mother the