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A17000	A require of agreement to the groundes of divinitie studie wherin great scholers falling, & being caught of Iewes disgrace the Gospel: & trap them to destruction. By H.B.	Broughton, Hugh, 1549-1612.	1611 (1611)	STC 3882; ESTC S105815	59,597	104

the 70. had Iaspis which terme had caused great disturbance Iohn applyeth Iaspis to the Hebrew Iaspeh the stone of Beniamin and to Iahalom hee giveth Sardonix and Chrysophrase for Nephthaly in steed of common Achates a white Achat with a Golden list some Greenesse So precious is Iohns style And this much particularly Now generally the style is from the Prophetes shewing from old matters past how the like shall come againe which is the surest way of teaching And the lāguage wil be easie to you Iewes because you know the Prophets speach but is hard to Heathē because the 70. did not translate nor ever meant the Law plainlie because the wicked would hold it folly Now I will come to shew the counsell of the booke Rabbi And vpon what Prophecy doeth it depend Br. Vpon Es 25. where God promiseth to take away the covering that covered all Nations The Gospell sheweth how God was in Christ to take away the covering of the Law Now that Temple and Nation is destroyed and Iesus Christ him-selfe in this book calleth all Nations to him the terme of vncovering is a fit tytle for that Prophecy Rab. Elias This verie title might shew God to be the Author of the book Br. The drift of it is to comfort all holy Iewes as S. Peter did from Babylon that the heavenly Ierusalem is not a materiall Citie but made of mens heartes knowen to God and praying to him frō good vnderstanding and vsing open sage profession while God bridleth hinderance and vsing circumspection against bad Tyranny made stronge by Satan turned into an Angell of light It conteyneth beside Iohns preface in propre speech visions for the present institution of the world in cha 1 2 3. And afterward for ages following For the present age Iesus Christ appeareth as he did to Daniel chap. 10. when the Temple was hindred from building and applyeth that vision to seaven churches in most heavenly sweatnes and expoundeth all the Song of Songes by knocking at the dore that he is the Salomon who conforteth the daughters of Ierusalem The Prophecies following twise goe over the state to come vnto the end of the world The first endeth with the eleventh chapter the next with the nineteenth The twenty lappeth vp the mischief of Satan and the last two the glorie of the afflicted and obscure to the world by pear-like speaches for the Prophetes Ierusalem Of the Nations by name saluted in this booke The God of all knowledge vseth light in all his stories The house of rich Craesus sprange from a King most famous for riches who ruled from many Isles of the Midle Sea to Armenia Esai promised Cyrus all his wealth in Rich Craesus that fell out who being in amitie with Nabynetar as Herodote harped at his name he provoked Cyrus to warre and of Craesus became Irus So Persia ruled that Soile long Now when Ezekiel had comforted the Iewes that they should have a returne as a resurrection he warneth them that they should looke for no kingdome in this world but that the Lande of Gog or Gyg and Magog by Graecians should afflict them with Great helpes from many coūtreys as you know In the Kings of the North and South Dan. xj this fell out whereof Antiochia was neare Magog the Towne built by Antiochus the mischievous The other Townes here named were the old courtes of rich Gyges The Kings of the South Ptolemei Lagidae And the Kinges of the North Seleucidae both held as it were in equall portion these soiles and filled them with Iewes forced to learne Greeke So these being nearest to Ierusalem of Greeke countreyes and full of Iewes scattered to teach the old storie were fittest to bee taught first to save the rest of Greeke speach and all they knew Daniels Prophecie of his last kingdome boisterous in these quarters And the God of all knowledge began in wicked Antioch to make a godly church that Christians thence first bare the name and endeth his speech to men in the other end of the legges last dominions which they could holde The Lande of old God and Magog vnder Macedonians and fit to looke for a new Gog and Magog from further West Rab. Eli. I gladly heare this Now tell at large who be the oppressors Of the Oppressors in the Apocalyps Br. You know ô Rabbi how closely Daniel taught who the Nations should be who should take away the Iewes kingdome But in the end he nameth them yet so that hee wrote that part in Ebrew the tongue ended from the world in common vsage So here a longe while they are closely touched as vnder seales and from the last of them come seaven trumpets Seeing Iohn was banished into Patmos by Rome his comfortes in Plagues and vengeance should bee against Rome who is plagued with warre bloudy and pestilent and with losse of state for killing then after the fall of the Church ariseth by colour of scripture a king of Locustes or beast arising out of the earth by peace in the policie or Citie where Christ was crucified Next they are both as Pharaoh Es 27. set foorth by a Dragon with armes that will agree to none but Rome and this same Dragon hath two partes the vpper part in a policie alone the taile the prophet that speaketh lies Againe both be more clearelie set foorth in two severall partes The vpper part of the Dragon is compounded in a new one beast comming out of a sea cōpounded of the four in Daniel with a head like the Dragons and once made dead as the state vnder the seales was once overthrowen Then the taile of the Dragon is a beast alone comming out of the quiet earth bearing two hornes like a Lambes but the mouth of the former Dragon maketh the former beast aliue againe and suffereth none to vse policie but them that vse the markes of his Policie worship of Idoles now openly tolde And at the last all is made plaine The beast revived hath the hornes of the former and head but for crueltie all bloody in colour as Pope is the greatest murtherer that ever was in the worlde by warres all vniust and chalenge to kill all that will not fall downe and worship him Now vpon this red beast sitteth a woman drunke with the blood of the Sainctes and then all doubt is taken away The woman is the Citie which beareth rule over the Kings of the earth And this for the last affaires of the worlde Rabbi Elias I am sure the Nation is past deniall how so ever the particulars will fall out Now I beseech you tell me brieflie the whole summe of Iohns vision God is my iudge that I never heard Christian with so great delite and I thought so when you reasoned with mee in Francfurt Synagogue I never heard any Christian before you that could speal Ebrew readier then we Ebrewes and made good your doctrine by our Doctors and by Greekes that never saw Daniel As Abraham Ruben writeth so I think

at the Law giving it shewed terrour to the contemners Israell and Heathen that six hundred thousand died in the wildernes and Chananeans felt what it was to fight against Gods power and so all Kings in the lande of Assyr or East even to the Macedoneans last fall so here this must be shewed that the Romanes as you handle the storie shall perish likewise The Dragon head and tayle The Cittim one sea-monster made of the Danielean foure once dead and revived by an earth-bred horned in two hornes like the Lambe but having the mouth of the Dragō being purple coloured after the reviviving of the beastes with a bloudsucker woman rider not like the mans Image I speak vpon your former speaches by which you have made the visions plain and the comparison of Iohn with Daniel bringeth light delight vnspeakeable Br. And what must this meane Seaven Lampes of fier were burning before the throne which are the seaven spirits of God Rab. El. Iohn expounding it maketh it plain but we had guessed of the seaven spirits of Christ by our Thalmud Br. Ye had not missed The Godhead of the son hath all that the holy Ghost hath and so he hath seaven spirites to work by grace in them who handle his cause against the old serpent stinging by Pontifices Cesares Pontifices Popos Of the Sea like to Chrystall Brough What must this meane Before the Throne was a Sea like Chrystall Rabbi Elias All thinges in Allegories of Visions as in Ezekiel Daniel Zachary must touch dealinges of God with man The wicked are like a sea foming that is foming out their owne shame Es chap. 57. And indifferentlie the Sea signifieth many nations as The troupes of the sea shall be turned vpon thee And all the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of God as waters cover the Sea Es chap. xi whence the speach of the seaven Spirites be fetched which give fire lampes to teach vs the knowledge of the Eternall So here a Sea cleare before his Throne must be nations cleare in faith So Rabbi Ruben writeth to you that before he knew you he knew from Esaie chap. 24. From the endes of the earth the praises of GOD should be heard So here many Nations cleare by knowledge of redemption must be meant Thus far the speaches be familiar to vs Iewes Of the foure Wightes of six Winges and full of eyes Br. What should be meant by this Before the Throne were foure Zoa livelie bodied wightes They are barbarouslie translated beastes A man is Zoon and an Eagle But not a beast As no reasonable bodied wight nor foule If we had regarded the tongue of A and ω we had not bene so barbarous The first was like a Lion the second like an Oxe the third with a mans face the fourth like a flying Eagle All each one had six wings about them and they were full of eyes Rab. In Esay cha 6. The Seraphim or Angels that should burne the Tēple had six winges two to cover their face because they could not behold the brightnes of God two to cover their feet as not being perfect in Gods eyen and two to flye about their duetie They be burners of the Temple in Esay which warne that to God belōgeth all holinesse in Ezekiel ch 1. the Cherubim be of these soure and Great terrible wheeles full of eyes are there Here I request you to open the matter Br. After that the Lambe openeth the book of Seaven seales these foure wightes praise him for redeeming of them by his blood Therefore men must bee meant here full of knowledge as Argus in Aeschylus of ten thousand eyes of Lyons courage of Oxens patience to sacrifice of mans quiet humanitie and of Eagles high flight to shew in the open Church the cause of Christ Such were the holy Martyrs which made al the world amased at them And for them the Seniours followe in praise to God Now these Martyrs followers of Christ the Lambe as kilde are knowen by his description Chap. fift and in ch sixt vnder the fift seale they call for vēgeance and be heard That the sixt seale sheweth how all their state is shaken Chap. 5. The worthines of the matter of the time to come The storie of the time to come is represented by a booke in the hande of him that sate vpon the Throne writtē within and without sealed with seaven seales Rab. That renueth in part Ezekies visions chap. 3. and the speech is easie to tell of much matter and good and hid Br. One Angel maketh proclamation Who can open the booke and loose the s●ale and none Angell none living nor dead could Balaam Num. 24. told how Italie should afflict Eber and still holde on to destruction But told not the particular sort Our Lord in Mat. 24. told of Ierusalems destruction of deceavers to deceave if it were possible the verie elect And Daniel had told of an Image and beastes but to end by Romes comming vp And Sainct Paul told the Thessalonians that the present hinderer should hinder till he should be taken away the prophane empire and then should come the wicked Romylus whom Ionathan vpon Esai nameth And all the Graecians holde to this day that the bridge-maker of Rome is there dāned And Plantins men have stollen from the Chaldy the terme Romylus because Ionathan and Sainct Paul and all the Graecians plague the brigemaker exceedinglie yet without new revelation the high Bridgemakers the Caesars and Senatours their policie in the high bridge-makers the Popes and Cardinales had not bene so distinctly damned but for this revelation And Iohn in his traunce wept shewing therein the profit of the booke Then a Doctor one of the Seniors telleth him that the Lion of Iudah that in David the noble Prophet figured his warres he should be holden worthy to teach his souldiers to open the booke to loose the seales And so in this heavenly company an opener of the booke commeth An heavenly description of Christ There stood a Lambe as one that had bene slaine having seaven hornes and seaven eies which are the seaven spirites of God sent forth into all the earth He is resembled by the Lambe as answerable to the Lambe killed in Paradise and the Pascha and how he being our Pascha was sacrificed for vs and wil be revenged of Rome for that and hath seaven hornes of Power to be able to tame the Dragon with seaven heades and ten hornes And for wisedome he will as in Zachary for building of his Temple send seaven spirites over al the earth And all the armie ioy and all creatures that now they shall obey Christ and his servantes CHAP. 6. The seales being opened six doe shewe the Caesars case the seaventh last hath seaven Trumpets to sound plainly a Policie altogether sinfull The Caesares though they were wicked men their policie was good while they kept their civill lawes and killed not the Christians vpon false accusations I.