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A68824 The oliue leafe: or, Vniuersall abce Wherein is set foorth the creation, descent, and authoritie of letters: together with th'estimation, profit, affinitie or declination of them: for the familiar vse of all studentes, teachers, and learners of what chirography soeuer, most necessarie. By two tables, newly and briefly composed charactericall and syllabicall. Of Alexander Top Gent. Top, Alexander. 1603 (1603) STC 24121; ESTC S119954 13,059 30

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The Oliue Leafe OR Vniuersall Abce Wherein is set foorth the Creation Descent and Authoritie of Letters together with th'Estimation Profit Affinitie or Declination of them for the familiar vse of all Studentes Teachers and Learners of what Chirography soeuer most necessarie By two Tables newly and briefly composed Charactericall and Syllabicall Of Alexander Top Gent. Imprinted at London by W. White for George Vincent dwelling in great Wood●●●●… at the signe of the Hand in hand where they are to be sold 1603. The Author to his Booke FAre well my little Booke and tell thy friends The Deluge of the deepe Confusion ebs Then shew thy Leafe to all but haile the best And safely leaue it in their holy hands That will vpright thy language cleere thy sense As matter but of meere preminence Yet as the Starre that onward bringes the Sunne Thou hast perfection where thy light begunne This tell thy friendes and litle Booke farewell A. Top. Vnto the Author DIuine Conceite I wish thy selfe hadst drawen This Grammatique before it past to presse It came to me as ●… were by interception And as I thinke not two lynes puncted right Which in so strange a subiect would haue plundgd Ou● English Presse and maz'de the Reader much Something my hand hath done but God knowes small Good-will did it and that was best of all O're this it restes for here is Alpha sole O mega wants thy selfe do adhibet The Light it selfe whose rayes we yet possesse For we vnable farre to walke by this Who knowes the things of Man but sprite in Man We well may guesse but vnsure what thou meanes This Ohue-leafe bringes tydinges of some Good Set Noah out for ceased is the Flood Who reuerenceth all Students of Holy-tongue HENOCH CLAPHAM To the vvise harted Reader Grace Vnderstanding and Comfort from him that ruleth all vnto all Amen GEntle Reader seeing meanest Subiectes by authoritie are aduaunced I presumed so much the rather to offer this the lowest of all to thy grauer iudgment not onely for the extraordinary power I finde in them although verely it be great in deede but for the mightie authoritie that hath supported and susteyned them hitherto euen since the beginning of the world I meane of this vniuersall Abce which at first peraduenture for the name sake thou wilt despise as friuolous idle and childish it being nothing lesse for the authoritie thereof is very needfull to be knowen the waightiest businesse of the earth is built thereon children vnderstanding it not and it affoordeth much matter for the wisest But as they are counted childish because of their doctrine and education so I hartely desire that euen children may either by this or some other greater paines obtaine the right vnderstanding of these Principles with the full vse and authoritie of them First therefore If I be demaunded whether through the world there were not many sundry Abces inuented of diuers men I answere there was but one and that one of God himselfe the true Hagiography or Hieroglyps of our first Fathers to wit the two and twentie seuerall vncorrupted Formes or Letters of the Hebrew tongue Which being graunted the eldest consequently must be thought the Mother and very Matrix of all other so that the authoritie of all Abces ryseth from hence as this from God And as nothing can preuaile without authoritie which indeed is God which our elders well foresaw by comparing their owne indeuours therewith so must we conclude that nothing euer by man could be made so constant and so durable as to outlast the very Heauens for glory and the Earth that can not be mooued Therefore when you seeme to beholde in this mirror at the first aspect diuers Abces as if diuers men had faigned or created new formes figures at their pleasure thinke not so for they be all one and the same generation going foorth as the dayes of the yeere which the Sunne bringeth vnto all Countries of a diuers complexion or as graund Nephewes to the thousandth degree that haue their continuance of both their Parents that is of their first author and peregrination or confusion But that I may the better explane my purpose I will handle their Creation their Authoritie their Dignitie their Peregrination and their vse in their proper places and of their vniuersall Kindred and posteritie in the last place generally CREATION BEcause all Antiquitie is to be giuen to the Hebrew Learning and their Letters mine only endeuour shal be to calculate their birth day for the vse of diuers other Rewes their progenie that as they are truely the Mothers of all and haue the preheminence so all their ofspring how diuers soeuer may reioyce alike of their first begetting and continuance wherefore of any other Antiquitie sauing this I meane not to dispute But hereof because the Holy Scripture hath some Argument it shall not be amisse first to consider somewhat of that First that Cain had his Forehead marked which marke should likely be Tau the last of the Hebrew letters or at the least Tau that in that tongue did signifie a Signe or Marke Whethersoeuer because the Marke was notably knowne and easie to be read it may most properly be applyed to my purpose For the Lord marked Cain to this end that such as met him should not kill him Here had the Lords writing been vaine if men could not read the Marke Hence peraduenture we vsed to intitle the Foreheads of our forsworne Men and Theeues with F. for Forgerie or Furtum like as this Letter what a one soeuer it was might import on Cain Brother or Man-slaughter who was guiltie of both or his endles punishment of a roguish life or eternall banishment from the Saintes of God to liue a forraigner both in Countrey and Religion Other marking in the Forehead hath been vsed to the like and contrary purposes Ezek. 9. 4. Apoc. 13. c. In the same Chapter is mention made of Tubal-Cain the cunning Caruer both in Brasse and Iron And also ●ubal the Organist who doubtlesse were cunning not only in the formes and proportion of these but also of their effect in working whether in Arithmeticke or Proportion in Musicke or Portraying in Notes or Lines both by eare and eye for they are the Abce and principall Rudiment of all workmanship aswell as of Learning And what Instrument of commendation or profit was euer made What Musicke What workmanship was euer inuented how witty or rare so euer that by effect in these receiued not his onely prayse Wherefore it is manifest that this auncient Literature florished in the time of these men which reaped such prayse profit by the skill therein And most like it is that the commendable cunning which Tubal-Cain shewed was in some Geographicall Hieroglyphicall or Astrolabicall engine exactly prepared to designe the Heauens and describe the Earth and the bodyes thereof by euen partes and proportion And to prooue that nothing at that time could be deuised more necessarie
or to greater vse I may recite the Chapter of Creation where the Lord created a vse for them to wit the two vnequall Lightes and the Starres for signes for seasons for dayes for yeeres which to our sense may be thus For Minutes Howers Dayes and Yeeres That is Othoth as if a man should faigne for proportionall Figures or legible Letters for the full scope of Gods Creation especially was that Such thinges as erst lay hid in Confusion Rude and Vaine Tohow vabohow of no manner of shape or facion might then by his Word of life most clearely appeare and be distinguished Not that their sundry qualities should be admirable to the outward sense onely but that the very hart and minde of man should be mooued to consider the deapth of so strang a separation when euery thing was so rightly weighed by his owne poyse and as the vpper face of any thing contented the sense so the inwarde proprietie with due cogitation should content the hart that as well in kinds as in facions both sense and vnderstanding might by comparing the substaunce with the pourtrayture be lightned Seeing that all thinges which the Lord wrought or commaunded in the first weeke exceeded not the number of two and twentie And as I gather by the text he delighted to rest in the most complet and correspondent summe of the letters of this Abce From hence may much glorious matter arise but I note onely this that the Lord hereby described all his worke for the most capacious vse and profite of man whom he placed in honour Wherefore I may conclude that euery of these seuerall Hebrew letters should signifie or import some speciall workmanshyp of the Lordes Creation And the rather because the Lord concluded euery one of his actions or creatures with this proper demonstration Eth which is taken for a Signe Figure Letter Forme or Marke beeing the extremities of the two farthest letters of the Rew. As if all things were to be comprehended by this limitation or circumscription Bara Elohim Eth hashamaim God created the figure signe or letter of the Heauens c. Or the very hieroglypsis of them this worde beeing the singular of Othoth which signifieth Figures Letters Causes Signes or Tokens of all sortes Where note that God by his diuine insight hath diligently obserued the shapes the figures and the lines of euery of his workes because he vsed to commende the perfection of them so with his very finger hath he drawē them and with his spirit stamped them secretly in all creatures for vs. This worde Eth maketh the Pronowne demonstratiue Zoth i. this which is thus to be deriued and expounded Zou or Ze oth which properly signifieth This Token this Figure this Letter this Cause Here could I more at large dilate vpon this word Eth but this for my present purpose may suffice Hitherto of the Creation of these little Figures whereby men may coniecture that in the time of Cain they were playne to be read and vnderstood and that Tubal-Cain ingraued them in his costly Instruments And lastly that the Almighty God him selfe in the seperation of his Elementes vouchsafed to remember them and delighted most often to designe the constancie of them by Eth the particle AVTHORITIE WHereas many perchaunce of my sort will wayte for the approbation of diuers and sundry Abce-like authorities they shall surely vnawares deceiue themselues for I minde nothing lesse neither dare I willingly so much to diminish the glorie of the Holy writing because I well know that in these seuerall Rewes howsoeuer disguised is no new thing and that their inuentions which at this day are so famously faigned are meerely nothing else but counterfeiting of the Hebrew Rew in changing their bodyes or their power their places or their order as in my Table of Abces thou mayest well discerne For what cause vpon what deliberation or to what end except that Nations were wont craftily to conceale the knowledge of their Tongue from strangers I know not but a great cause of their metamorphosis may be the changing of the culture and race of Wryting which was from the left hand to the right being before contrary The alteration of their power may seeme to rise from Warfare or pollicie of Court where because silence will not serue secrecie of Language should be needfull and this yea in the same Countrey and Dialect where Ciuill-warres haue growen men haue been forced to study and practise least that the Watch-word either in Court or Campe be too easely apprehended of the enemie and by an vnlucky Alarme both Policie Armie confounded The example of the Gileadites is plaine whom the Ephraimites pursued to the foord of Iordan requiring passage with them which vpon good aduice denying the Gileadites bad them pronounce their Watch-word Shibboleth a Foord or Chanel which they wel knew was a proprietie of their owne tongue whereby it came to passe that by defect in pronuntiation as in Sibboleth an Eare of Corne for Shibboleth the Ephraimites receiued a wonderfull defeat and the Gileadites escaped safe For which cause peraduenture Kinges and Princes haue not onely endured and suffered in their litterature and language but at their pleasure and will haue ruinated and ouerthrowen the naturall stampe course thereof and by preposterous order changed the sound also Concerning the Hebrew writing it was vnpossible for man to inuent the like for of man there remaines no monument so memorable that euer I could find or imagine Wherefore I may well conclude That Almighty God who would scarcely be thought at leasure to attend so litle things is both the Author and Father of the Hebrew writing whether of substaunce or of forme Because in the Table of Ten Wordes or Commaundementes the Lord himselfe vouchsafed to write or carue these formes most seriously with his owne finger which grace he would not adde vnto the vile worke of man nor crowne his corrupt inuention with so Holy memorie DIGNITIE IT is most manifest that these principles haue in auncient time had no small estimation among Princes seeing so many of them haue as it were studied to inuent new formes or alter their course which by no meanes they could so well bring to passe but that the body of the Hebrew Figure would alway remaine and appeare This espying they were euer constrayned to allow the preheminence thereof Yea the holy people of God hath often in the Hebrew text of the old Testament prouerbially vsed the affinitie and iteration of these Letters as delighting in the very Echo of them as Nabal shemo Neblah gnimo A Foole is his name and folly is with him And it also seemeth that the Lord sometimes tooke great pleasure in shi●ting of them and that in texts of great matter and importance as in that of Abram and Sarai where God taking away Jod the last letter from Sarai which is in the Hebrew count the tenth so signifieth rewardeth her with He the first