great asseueration that if I went to Zwitzerland I should remoue war I went presently to Basil and Zurick and Berne heard and vsed me with all kindnes Mine host of Basil a D. of Law D. Iacobus Henric-petri had occasion to goe to Friburge to D. Pistorius and on a thursday at Supper spake much of me to him Then D. Pistorius sayd The scholers of England be learned in the tongues but it were better they knew the Fathers better On Fryday my Doctor telleth me what he sayd On Saterday I gaue a Greek reply to the Post as Pistorius triumphed in Greek to this summe The Greek Fathers were in eloquence vnmatchable and in handling of the Trinity and Incarnation of Christ and Iustification by faith and of holy soules passage hence to heauen and of wicked to Gehenna they all agreed and none euer of 1400. yeares thought of Purgatory as their oration in the Synode of Basil shewed 160. yeares ago which D. Iacobus Zwinger yet hath And so much learning as their age could vse against eloquent heathen God gaue them But they had no occasion to deale much for text of scripture with such and therefore lesse studied it But for the Lords Supper This was their common opinion that the Bread and Wine were Icones and Symbola Images and Tokens of the body and blood of Christ As Origen spake the consent of his age and Eusebius from his great Librarie the recorder of common graunts And eloquent Nazianzen and others by Typi and Antitypa and as the most sage Theodorite in sad disputation to clear other matters bringeth the same as a graunted common matter to proue douted so Macarius Monachus sheweth his dayes opinion calling the bread Symbolon of the body And none wise could doubt marking vpon what prophecy the Lordes Supper stood The Angell Gabriel told holy Daniel that after 490. yeeres Christ the King by his death would end sacrifice and offrings And the Iewes dated all dayes in common Epistles and conueyances the yeares since the returne from Babel as wee the yeres of our Lord in whose last yeare they By Daniel looked the Kingdome of heauen should appeare Luc. 19. though they knewe not in what manner Nowe when sacrifice was to end at the Supper of the Lambe our Lord to seale the end of sacrificing gaue for beasts flesh and blood which figured his body and blood bread and wine to bee in couenant speach his Body and Blood All Graecians knewe proper speach and civill that hee should bee bad that knew not the place of both In proper speach a Father begetteth his Son in ciuill speach Romulus was ancester to Iulian Apostata Baasa to Achab Iechonias Salomontiades to Salathiel Nathanides So the token of a Kings seale is called his seale This all the Greeke Fathers knewe and tottering Theophylact your onely turneth to this And the taking of the Lords Supper is our oth that wee beleeue hee died in due tyme to bury Moses by his buriall and that by grace his spirit is with vs to sure saluation as mighty as by his word it made the world More is needlesse and cannot bee but is wickedly forged So farr the Fathers were rare not alwayes in commenting vpon the Byble But extremely deceiued almost all in honouring the Apocrypha which Iewes kept to play for Iosephus against Appiones that denyed all the Iewes story Therefore not to plead with them from the Law full of paradoxes they object failes and humane workes to busy them for all And they meant litle further great matter in them The Greeke Fathers sawe not this much though Eusebius told the true law had but 22. bookes Nazianzen agreeth for the number but misseth in regarding one Apocryphon for holy Iudith as I remember and Athanasius casteth out holy Hester So we like of the fathers for learning controverted in their age not aey for comment And these groundes ye shall graunt me or combat The Hebrew text is kept by the Massorites so that nothing can be corrupted to alter one wordes signification The Iewes knew their owne tongue and teach vs the native of it In honour of the two tables of 613. letters they bring all speches of lawes bidding or forbidding into 613. And hold that all which faith or life may think of is in them And the New Testament never goeth further And no one syllable helpeth Rome but Italy is expresly cursed by your owne translation as by all Iewes exposition Numb 24. vpon which all the Apocalyps maketh a reuelation This England holdeth and will not give place to Rome but will dispute with D. Pistorius Protonotary of the Pope at Basil one day in Hebrew an other in Greek with penners of every syllable of our speach Protonotarius is stout in these tongues as he hath written de arte Cabalistica though he hath missed altogether and sayth all Rabbins say Melchisedek sacrificed bread wine where none ever thought so but all hold it offred to Abrahams souldiers to eat and drink as he was a King and blessed Abraham as a sacrificer And for Greek Protonotarius and Pope are yet to learne how to defend the purity of the New Testament and to see Antique Septuagint Thalmudique and Apostolique dialects And no Papist ever could speak or write Ebrew Greek as coūtrey speach Thou knowest if thou dare dispute I may overthrow the Pope Therefore tell thine own hart and write to him that an English man wrote to thee that the chalenger will give over his chalenge or hee bee counted a shamelesse lier To this effect I wrote to him a Greek oration and sent R. Rubens Chananean epistle which honoured England above all nations that he might see he had not to deale with a Thraso Three dayes after he wrote to Zurick great commēdations of my poor studies specially of Greek eloquēce as native Attique And at three monethes end after much combat in all Greek he writeth thus I will not dispute nor have our old Religion to be called into question Then both sides Cantones showted that the feare of war was gone seing the Popes chalenger putteth vp this that the Pope hath not one syllable in the Bible for his defence But is vnvinciblie accused and hath none that dare dispute in the holy tongues for his defence Now he dareth not for stark shame require supremacie being so broken After this what Basil spake to English of me how for one all England should heare better while Basil stood one M r Brand of Londen and M. Ward of Cornewall they told me and belike at home How they told Netherlanders that this combat ended warres and sware so they will never deny it noble Danes know and doubtlesse told their K. how they staying for me at a ferry neare Leopoldus buriall which they had seen and I would see a Zurick hearing my name sayd wee were in great feare of war till the Englander brake Pistorius I would gladly see his countenance which argueth the mind that in
A REVELATION OF THE HOLY APOCALYPS BY HVGH BROVGHTON The ships also shall come from the Coastes of CITTIM and afflict Assyr and shall afflict Heber and also he shall come to destruction Num. 24. 24. And the Woman which thou sawest drunken with the blood of the Saintes and with the blood of the Martyrs of IESVS is the great Citie sitting on seauen mountaines which reigneth ouer the Kings of the earth called spiritually Sodom Egypt where our LORD was crucified The sealed of God the wise will vnderstand PRINTED 1610. TO THE MIGHTY PRINCE IAMES BY THE GRACE OF GOD KING OF GREAT BRITANNIE FRANCE AND IERNE-LAND DEFENDOR OF THE FAITH c. MOYSES Maymonides Gracious K. a librarie of both former Talmudes the Ierusalemy and Babylonian which from hard languages vnknowen to his nation he made familiar Ebrew so that they say from Moyses to Moyses the like to Moyses was not his works are exceeding profitable to cleare the New Testament For as S. Paul saith he differed not from the Iewes common graunt but that they knew not God to be in Christ reconciling the world vnto himself So Maymonides hath infinite much that cleareth the Apostles trueth more fitly then Greek and Latin Fathers doe And where the Apostles confute Pharisees he recordeth their doctrine that all may see the holy Apostles had iust occasion In this sort he hath two sorts which the New Testament battereth Both he recordeth in his treatise of repentance One is this That Moyses law shall stand for euer vnchanged and Messias shall come to Canaan to conquer all nations The other is this That all his learned taught all the good things spoken by the Prophets for Israel in the dayes of Messias are but for the commodities of the body This is the common Iewes religion whose God is their belly They which worshipped starres thinking they had soules and would enrich their worshippers equally made their belly their God they who brought the flood and confusion of tongues vnto the prophane Caesars that made themselues Gods and the King of Locusts which say they bee Iewes Rom. 2. 28. 29. but by a Synagogue of Satan both are the great dragon Apo. 12. The new Test telleth that the old speaketh of Eternall blessing in Christ his death ending Moyses Dan. 9. And the Iewes sin against the holy Ghost For Aben Ezra could not deny this vpon Dan. 9. that the seaueny seauents are from Daniels prayer vnto sealing Messias the holy of all holines He endeth sacrifice and offring and left bread and wine for the flesh and blood of beasts and wee all sweare in the Lords Supper that sacrifices bee ended by our Lords death and by that Supper his flesh and blood is the food of our soules and hee would destroy Ierusalem that no place of sacrifice should bee That S. Stephen taught Act. 6. and 7. faithfull vnto death and found the crowne of life When Ierusalem is destroyed as the Angelique-faced Stephen taught from the Angel Gabriel Christ sendeth his Angel to teach Iohn of an heauenly Ierusalem against which Rome shall fight to the end of the world first by open tyranny against martyrs when the Empire is destroyed for that Satan will turne himselfe into an Angel of light and set a Vicar of Christ with two hornes of a Lambe but with the lawes or mouth of the Dracon to set vp the former Empire and to be the King of Locusts all bent to the wealth and ease of this world This Iohn teacheth whom Chapter by Chapter I expound first briefly by arguments vpon euery Chapter then a scholion much larger which I dedicate vnto your Maiestie for the increase of knowledge in your people still to come out of BABYLON confusion to IERVSALEM the sight of peace Your Majesties most humble subject Hugh Broughton THE AVTOVR TO THE READER IN all controuersies men should know what both sides graunt what they hold differing So where I turne all the Apocalyps against Rome and did so twelue yeres agoe against the Popes champion D. Iohannes Pistorius sent to moue warres in Zwitzerland reason would for facility of ending controuersie I shew how much they graunted me and knew they must that if any of mine owne nation come short and that with Satanean malice they be dealt with as endeuoring to make our Church a synagogue of Satan The matter shal be briefly told Doctor Iohn Pistorius holden a father of the Iesuites dwelling in Friburge of Briscouia distant twēty English miles from Basil was stird of the Pope to chalenge all our Cantons for disputation that they ought to yeeld to the Pope as the seauen did And vpon disputation refused hee would by war chalenge his supremacy This then was thought no pley Vpon this Syllogisme the mayn stood If the scripture bee corrupted another judge must be had that is the Pope who onely doth chalenge that But the scripture is most corrupted as Geneva graunteth in Rob. St. praef to the N. T. for Ebrew double readings 848. as Elias reckoneth them and Arias Montanus hath written an whole work in apparatu of the old Testament corrupted in Babylon in 52. yeares in so many places and Beza checketh and vnchecketh the new that none knoweth what to stand to and the enemies graunt is still strong against himself Therefore the Pope will require by warres that ye make him judge A Rhoetian brought vp at Berne named Caspar Clause-christi at Leyden saw my scripture Concent where I defend the old Testament to bee pure to euery letter by the Massorites and say the Apocrypha bee all lying workes or Ironies mackages of fooles I taught him so much English and expounded the matter at large to him and for reconciling the Creed with the Gospell D. Fr. Iunius had told him hee was euer of my mind and one M. Baudertius shewed my Theseis to the Vniuersity and the Vniuersity allowed them By this he saw the Pope was berest of hope to giue a charge to vs where he hoped of victorie or by Gehennean torment as Athean a dream as his that wrote our Lord had gone into the second death when God raised him vp 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Diuinitie may not be handled with respect of persons But if Quirites yeeld to me so far I will defend Rome and Mentz and if Lacus Lemanus make the fish dead and Wintonia haue but a sack full of wind which Aeolus gaue to Vlisses when his fellowes thought it full of a great treasure and forced him to open it and so by tempest drowned themselues that chester wil I leaue to the wind to bee shut vp in Vlisses sack and leaue Lemanus to the snow water of the wild Alpes The Rhoetian saw all the Popes hope gone by the scripture proued true in text and the Apocrypha to be workes of men that knew not Christ and all in sadnes to be foolish and the going of the soule to Paradise to bee spoken in the Creed and he told me with
as a lampe is kindling of wrath the waters be the Scriptures falling into them is wresting of them to mainteyne his kingdome so the sense is bitter and the D. is wormwood that many finde deadly haeresies by this wormwood The fourth trumpet Great fall They which were principall as the sun moone and stars Iacobs familie in Iosephs dreame lose much light Gagnaeus a Papist telleth this to touch Popes Cardinals Bishops A preparation to marke triple woe vpon this An Angell flyeth in the open sky telleth of three woes vpon this CHAP. IX The V. common place The Angel or Doctor falling from heaven the Church hath giuē to him not S. Peters keyes of knowledge but keyes of a deepe pit to darken sun and ayer the office of Christ and law by which we see him So infinite millions of mōkes and fryers come forth locusts for devouring the earth with scorpions stings to torment harts when Christ is obscured and Scripture that men find no comfort but bee worse for their soule then Iob for his body Iob 3. To make warres their wealth will make many horses and they have authority as Kinges with their crownes though they pretend to be as private men Dan. 7. The Chaldean stript of Kingdome is so termed And Antiochus having no right to the kingdome and they keep within doores as of womens hayre but they have Lyons teeth to hold fast all forged and wringed giftes openly forged as Constantinus donation and wringed of kingdomes which they help vp and from deceived by terrour of purgatory They have brest plates of iron to defend themselves and the noyse of their wings is like the noyse of horses running to warres while stil they set Kings by the eares for the first common place that haile and fyre be mixed with blood And their scorpion stinges sting men five moneths till Princes compell them by a cold winter to hide themselves in hedges as Nahums Locustes of Ninivy hide them by enemies An excellent name of the Pope THE ANGEL OF THE PIT KING OF LOCVSTS ABANDDON APOLLYON Our common name which we give the Pope is Daemon in Greek for Popes be Daemones in Eustathius from the Commentaries of old Aristarchus and Didymus and others His Commentaries are from ancient Heathen not from himself as Erasmus well noteth in his observations vpon the Apocalyps Whereas I cited Homers Commentary followed by S. Peter D. B. the learned thought that a foolish oversight as though I must mean Eustathius who was of late And he doubteth whether S. Peter read Homer I am out of doubt he never read him But the holy Ghost gave words of old for S. Peters vse afterward by instinct not by reading And so much a simple Doctor might have knowen B. L. shewed himself in his vnlearned skophing most Athean And as Iannes and Iambres Symon Magus Elymas and Alexander the Coppersmyth are for eternall memorie in the hart of the Bible so deserve such for to be Now as wee vnawares and Papists call the Pope Daemona a Divel vnawares we call him so GOD ruling our tongues that is specially worthy noting When Iulian the Apostata was kild and Libanius commended him that he now was with the Daemones the Greek Doctors took him vpon his word and what an asse he was to speak that which the enemy would wish D. Iohannes Pistorius the Popes chalenger wrote to me that IOHN CALVIN was Dactylodeictes of Antichrist Who shewed by the finger who was Antichrist I took his graunt that so the Pope was For Calvins finger aymed at him So the Popes chalenger overthrew the Pope The same wrote to me the Anathema But God dealt with him as with Balaam the son of Beor in Italy pronuntiation of Bosor in Chaldean where S. Peter kept where the Galilaean his voice told he wrote not from Rome The Doctours Anathema was this to me I Anathematize thee as Paul did Barnabas I take it sayd I. And so thou makest me better then any Pope that ever was at Rome Paul thought him of the same faith and happines But I anathematize D. Iohn Pistorius as S. Paul did Anathematize Elymas Magus Vpon this he yeelded as Helvetia knoweth And to his dying day spake most reverently as some English heard of his checker So here we must mark not what men call the Pope Holy father and vicar of Christ and head of the Church and King of Kings and Lord of Lords but what GOD doth call him and God taught Adam to give fit names Here the Popes names be many One is the Angel of the pit as the star falling had the keyes of the Pit to bring forth his Locusts And the King of Locusts is the fittest name for him In Ebrew he is called Abaddon Num. 24. and Abdan in the Thalmud is the worst name Aruch will teach the place Also he is called Abaddon chiefly for remembrance of Num. 24. where Balaam endeth his prophecy in Italy going on to destruction Iohn Chap. 17. 8. 11. translateth Balaam most properly as D. Kimchi in hard Grammer Adey obed goeth on to destruction In Greek he is another Apollo a Divel of Delphos destroying such as seek to him as Apollo destroyed rich Craesus deceiving him to war against Cyrus He knew well enough that Cyrus should have the victory Esay had told him so and though Craesus gave to Apollos temple very great gifts yet when he asked him whether he should fight with Cyrus he answered Craesus passing over Halys shall overthrow a great King So he did in hope of good But overthrew his own kingdome and rich Craesus became poore Irus So the Pope maketh but a mock of Kings Thus one who of the sixt seale is fully described what the Pope is and what he meaneth to do as Chap. 11. shall tell And this first of the three woes thus set forth reacheth from the Popes supremacy after the yeare of our Lord 600. vnto Ierusalems war ended at 1200. For which 600. yeares the Pope still made haile and fyre to be mixed with blood Now the second woe is in his punishments by the Turk and by the Gospell and Martyrs teaching Princes to cast him off The sixt trumpet and common place Of the Turks comming vp and dealing Cedrenus and Volaterranus in Arabia triplici teach of the Turks and Saracens conjunction and sundry others how they afflicted Spain and Italy Their history I have touched in my book of Scripture Concent I would any of cleane spirit that rageth not against the Concent which GOD gave to Scripture I do but shew to have my best help thence There is a full explication of the second woe Bibliander in Chronologia sheweth that after the Popes supremacie graunted by wicked miserable Phocas to impudent Boniface the third Machumed began to be as gratious a Father as the Pope in Rome Machmad is in Cant. the title of Christ Graces it self And Chamudoth partaker of graces to rare Daniel Chap. 9. by the Angel Gabriel
praise our God all his seruants and they that feare him both small and great This short summe of Diuinitie distinguisheth vs from Papists who make Gods of Creatures and giue praise to them where God only will be feared And I heard the voice of a great multitude and as the voice of many waters as the voice of strong thunders saying Halelu-iah for the Lord God of hostes doth reigne let vs reioyce and be glad and let vs giue him glory For the mariage of the Lambe is come and the wife hath praepared her selfe and it was giuen her to put on white linen pure and shining For the linen is the iustice of the sainctes When whole kingdomes call vpon God and fight for the Gospell with successe it is fitted to continual noise of waters as Ezekiel 1. 24. the kingdomes that made Gods iudgements knowen are likened to much water the thunder of Gods power is well expressed by thunder of the ayer Psalm 29. All tendeth to Aleluiah Praise God in whom wee breath for rescuing vs from Satan with manifestation of his kingdome And let not England forget the goodnesse of the Lord but acy remember it and not hide it from their children but to the generation to come to shewe the prayses of the Eternall his power also his wonderfull workes that he hath done The light of the Gospell now these hundred yea hath bene exceeding great to greater knowledge then euer since the Apostles tymes the Church had And all reformed Countreies flow with learned men And sage cariage is heere laid out to the eye in white linen This short rule must alwayes hold God will make known who bee his and all must depart from sinne that call vpon the name of God And he saith vnto mee write Blessed are they that are called to the supper of the mariage of the Lambe This should be written in all hearts that they only be happie which in the Lords Supper protest the aboundance of grace of the gift of iustice The bread bare wine bare taken in the sage vse that our soules feed vpon his incarnation and redemptioÌ„ is as strong as the frame of the world to stay vs in Christ The auctority of the speaker who made the world by his word must be looked vnto and as our eyes iudge of the frame of the world and our minde to what inuisible vse all was made subiect to a man so our eyes must iudge of bread wine our minds that Christ suffring for vs ended sacrifice offring By seale of things without life by bread and blood of the grape by the terme supper the whole tenor of Christianity is meant but the acceptation of the seale is an open action to distinguish vs froÌ„ others The Pope corrupted from the playnesse that is in Christ and making Priest sacrifice hath missed wholy of the trueth in Christ as Iannes â—nd Iambres resisted Moses Papists would make fooles belieue that Calvin bread this symbolum corporis and in other matters if Calvin hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a rash word they vrge that vpon whole Churches Their eyes might tell that the ancient Grecians neuer made question heere neither had combat with haeretiques heere Eusebius after Origen recorder of the whole Churches opinion in praep calleth Bread and Wine Icones symbola Neither did any after him striue against that but full many followed him God is light and all the Bible is so plaine to a sound student that none can moue doubt but to his plague The Papists cary in a siluer chest a wafer of meale as the bodie of Christ making themselues a scoffe to God and his Angels and the barbarous thinke by vnlearned prating to make their cause good They come 40. yer short of learning to defende the common groundes against a subtill Iew or Turke as to this syllogisme of Machmad If the scripture be corrupted another iudge must be had The Pope not only granteth but vrgeth also this this But the scripture is corrupted Therefore another iudge must be had I will ioyne with Turke Iew and Pope to grant the Preposition But against Turke Iew and Pope our side I deny the assumption and hold the text pure This no Romist yet euer saw Therefore their studies must bee holden vnfitt to rule in Diuinity And he saith to mee these words of God be true By reason that the carnall man cannot see the glorie of the wisedome which is in the couenant of CHRIST in plaine simplicitie full of heauenly trueth The Angell stayeth vpon this doctrine as opposite to Rome working Romes fall handled chap. 18. And I fell downe at his feete to haue worshipped him he saith to me do not For I am fellow seruant to thee to thy brethren which haue the testimonie of IESVS Worship God for the spirite of prophecie is the testimonie of IESVS Heere Iohn sheweth mans weaknesse to Idol-seruice in his transe ready to worship the Angel And telleth that Angells be ministring spirites for our saluation God only must bee worshipped The spirites that teach teach of Christ that he only must bee worshipped In the old Testament Christ is called an Angel and is worshipped but no created Angel is worshipped The warres of Christ and Christians against the Empire and Pope And I saw the heauen opened and behold a white horse and hee that sate vpon him was called faithfull and true and in Iustice doth he iudge war And his eyes were like a flame of fire he had vpon his head many Diademes hauing a name written which none knew but himselfe and clothed in a garment dipped in blood and his name is called the WORD OF GOD. The heauen opened sheweth what shall be opened in the Church the white horse is sincere might the Ryder is called faithfull and true to assure vs of victory against mighty states and he iudgeth warreth in righteousnesse vnable to abide sinne still to reigne his eyes bee a flame of fire searching in iustice to the bottome as Daniel 10. for the ouerthrowe of Xerxes armie and Apo. 1. and 2. And his many Diademes sheweth that he will rule Kinges in many Countreyes And the name written which none knoweth but himselfe signifieth the Godhead dwelling in light that none can come to His garment dipped in blood is expounded Esai 63. shewing that the enemies blood shall make him known as vnder old Assur and Cittim And his name is the WORD OF GOD as in Iohn the first and infinitely in Onkelos Iehouah is the WORD of IEHOVAH These mightie titles comfort the Church that they shall bee sure of a victorie Reigne still O King MESSIAS for we rest on thee reigne still O King of Sainctes and wee will folow after thee And the armies in the heauen folow him vpon white horses clothed in linen white and cleane The valiant Christians with speed and courage folow Christ and in synceritie of truth though Lutherans
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there and Psal 18. and 2. Sam. 22. and often is GOD only And in Deut. 32. a Prophecie is laid of the Rock a defender against the foure beastes that come out of the sea vpon which Rock the Church stood vntill the SON of Man like in body Dan. 10. to Tharshish or sea-like stone tooke part of their afflictions Now the WORD Eternall that gaue all reason the onely teacher in demaunding teacheth to answere saying Whom do men say that I the Sonne of man Dan 7. by Rabbins generall am The fisher of Galile that heard Daniel often read said from Dan. 9. Thou art CHRIST and holinesse there of all holinesse and therefore Psal 2. The Son of the liuing God Then CHRIST calleth him to Deut. 32. speaking Rock in Iobs Ebrew Vpon this Rock wil I build my Assembly that no courts by terrour of death shal be stronger then it Christ is Ceph thou as all that know him to be the Rock Cepha and as the Sanedrin maketh Doctor saying Take thou authoritie for thy keyes of knowledge to teach which is loose what is bound whom thou teachest that God was in the Rocke reconciling the world to him selfe he hath his sinnes loosed by thee on earth by the Rocke in heauen and who so beleeueth not that thou bindest his sinnes in earth and in heauen This matter is the summe of all and Greekes in Photius tell that Andrew was the Rocke before Symeon was And Cephas answered with all thought as well as hee wherefore all had equall comfort and so all godly And because this new sentence hath no new Diuinitie hee leaueth all after confession of the Rocke as knowing him selfe and Theophilus to haue as good right to the name of Cephas But hee by senioritie was to speake first for all and so the name for all must bee tolde to him that they who builde their house vpon the Rocke shall bee shaken with no Windes stormes waues The Sun is not brighter then this meaning for these wordes Let any who dare trye by a conference of holy Scriptures as I doe Now the Popos Daemon denying that Rome crucified CHRIST as Saint Peter denyed that Christ ought to dye and was termed Sathan for that Hee would haue this beleeued of all that Peter had a praerogatiue aboue all the Apostles and was at Rome and left to the Citie that crucified Christ for their good seruice a successour to pardon or to tye sinnes Fiftlie Hence Landes are giuen by Princes and specially in wast wilde groundes for Monasteries where men before rebelled that Monasteries giuing a chiefe rent and superstitious people being fed with hospitalitie wan much in three hundreth yeares that after Buy-shop Gregorie by Creontophonos Phocas helde Sathans throne and became stronger then the Emperour by this proceeding The Bible must not bee studied in Ebrew The Iewes marred it and in Greeke haeretiques As though there were not most learned Christians that could looke to both And this was pretence to pray still neuer to teach trueth and to giue the people in Latin Niene commandements for Tenne And the Creed with a translation that white was blacke that to goe to Paradise in the Greeke Creed should be translated to descend to hell to Gehenna in olde Chrysologus and that the Fathers were there So the Popes Clyents are the tayle of the great Dragon Moreouer the Lordes prayer for many thousande poundes Landes they might haue but maymed to disgrace all auctoritie of the New Testament But they neuer taught the meaning of the Lordes prayer that when we pray we pray vnto the Father which is in heauen That did Pope Daemon disannul sitting in the Temple of God as if HE were God And he teacheth to pray to all from whose name he could get any lande to Marie though Rome killed her sonne to Peter though Rome by auctoritie made him a martyr farre off to Apostles and other Martyrs that Rome martyred as though Apoc. 6. vnder the fift seale all these did not craue vengeance against the beastes of the earth that killed them Moreouer to busie Princes they say If Popingayes sayd ouer Pater noster so often they should haue so many yeares pardon in a new inuented fierie bath of Purgatorie stinging poore soules like scorpions fiue hundred yeares before their Diuels doctrine was espied About the yeare 600. they tamed East proude Prelates and goe on thus From Leui they will make an order and haue an altar and an Aharon with a cope and holinesse in the forehead and Levites in Linnen and the name Priest and of bread they can make flesh and of wine blood and they breake Abben Ezraes rule praef to Moses allowed of all that nothing must be taken properly which goeth against all sense So they will not have the Lordes death to end all sacrifice by the supper But will make the supper a sacrifice against all witt and learning And the Pope is an Aharon and the Priests lippes will keepe knowledge Mal. 2. where hee tells them they did not but should therefore the Grecians would consume them as stubble Also they are flat Arrians praying to Michael who holdeth it not robbery to be equall with God as if he were a created Angell and not the Eternall Son the Angell standing at the golden Altar of incense his humanitie to receiue in the censor of grace our prayers These and such other treacheries against all the Byble first brought the third part of sunne moone and starres to be darkened in the third part but soone Christ the true sun and all ayer for brightnesse of Scripture And by these degrees Man of sinne became able as now 600. yeares wee finde to stirre haile and fire mixed with blood in the earth missing wholy of Religion and not as Turkes by ignorance but by couetous malice A crie expounding the first trumpets warning of fire and blood by scholars made a mountaine of fire cast into the sea by the star falling from his place a burning torch falling into the waters of scipture and making them bitter to darkening the third part of profession of Christianitie Iohn saw an Angell flying in the middes of the heauen saying wo wo wo to them that dwell in the earth from the voyces of the trumpet of the three Angels whose trumpet shall be heard In the open Church companies of godly were martyred for resisting the Locusts deceyuing of the world nowe leaving the zeale that Ephesus once had and the first Doctores in Italy and following Smirnean Iewes haeresie in apish renuing Leuitiques inflat Atheisme of altar cope linen priest sacrifice reuiuing Pergamus Balamites who for wealth and wantonnesse bred Monasteries ioyned to Nunries when Thyatirean Iezabels are with Baals Priests setting vp a newe Sardian dead wealth in profane riches and contemning Philadelphias true loue to saue soules But reuiuing Laodiceas falling to the manner of the world neither hoat in true zeale nor cold as open contemners but Chananean
sonne will be the sorrow of his mother then the Mother saith his rebelliō be vpon me This matter is deepe for a Iew to speak The same saith vpon Gen. 49. IAH is in Shiloh And vpō Gen. 3. By the serpent Christ shall be kild and many of Israel with him And a rare saying of God Rediemer in a Iubilie I graued in a brassen abridgment of the Bibles concent from Zohar vpon Leu. 25. In the Iubilie yere God dwelling in our tabernacle wil be remission Redemption and ending of Sabbath to Israel fol. 53. Col. None of ours of old saw Iubilies sitted to our Lords death the Iewes knew it must be so Ours scoffe it being shewed after that be highly extolled S. Paul describing Sem in the person of Melchitzedeck to be as God hath Rabbins phrases yet extāt in Zohar for his warrant that he held the man and person as they did And for all that epistle Rabbins speak the same that he doth And Rabbins haue bin a bridle to keepe Daniel sound that only holy Iewes bee the afflicted in him and when the image afflicting holy Iewes ended thē Messias should be borne in Bethlechem They might haue taught vs the right meaning of Daniel So for ending the house of Salomon in Iechonias lalkut bringeth Gods oth Maimoni in poenit Gods decree so Barbinel Kimchi and Iarchi vpon Ier. 22 and vniuersally they conclude that the first Adam the first day fell So the first day Christ is called heire of all In this sorte the Bishopps of the Synagogues taught as learnedly as any of Leuie Of the Synedrion Tha◠Ierusalemy in Sanedrin sheweth that the Sanedrin of 70. might be all of Israel without any one of Leui. And that the high sacrificer was not of the Sanedrin but as another if he were rarely learned and sage And for all faltes he was iudged and punished as another and that often they were so simple that the councill taught them their duety on expiation day The high sacrificer might be excommunicated but the King might not but in Ieroboams case Where Mallachi telleth they should aske the Law at Leui that is because they were alway at the Temple and bound to be learned But Samuel of Korah and Daniel of Iudah were not inferior to any Of Athean imitation of Aharon It was death for any of Israel to meddle with Aharons office Samuel of Korah and Elias whose tribe is vncertaine had Gods dispensation Otherwise they had neuer sacrificed And nothing about the Temple might be in Israels houses no building like the Temple arke candlesticke table of bread Altars or Leuites attire yet the father of Rome will counterfaite he will haue a Candlesticke Cope Linen garments precious stones mitre girdle Priest sacrifice Altar Sathan taught him so to dally with Gods Law Greeke fathers began the name Priest and high Priest to be fitted to their Doctores but in the end the gangrene crept to harme vnspeakable that Satan by Turke and Pope ruled the world How Bishops were made in Israel Maymony in Sanedrin sheweth how the Bishops of the Sanedrin made a D. to teach the people that they called him Muphla wonderous learned and held him so first then some of the Sanedrin laid their handes vpon him and said Rabbi take thou auctority to teach what is bound and what is loose Our Lord vseth that speach in making his Apostles Bishopps in giuing them auctority to teach what is loose and what is bound But Iscariot let another take his Bishoprike the rest were faithfull Bishops Of excommunication In King Moses tyme and other Kings Ciuill punishments were vsed but when heathen ruled then the congregation could doe no more but remoue the party from the companie by open voice in their Ciuill court Kehelah in Adams tongue Ecclesia in Iauans Any of the seniors might excommunicate but if the excommunicated complayned of iniurie the Sanedrin examined the cause and vpon iniury they excommunicated the excommunicater A iust but strange doctrine Thal. Ierusal in Illu Megallechim writeth of a Rabbin who fell into an haunt of Iewe thieues They took his mony from him he pronoūced the Anathema for them they returned the curse vpon himselfe that amazed him and comming home he asked Rabbies whether he were in danger of curse doubtlesse said they a money matter where Lawes be open giueth no Anathema so the false Anathema returned sound vpon thy selfe On this he went to the thieues haunt and confessed sinne that for money he gaue them to Satan and requested absolution then said the thieues absolue vs wee will they agreed to both There a woman commeth by a scholmaister beating a boy cruelly saith thou art Anathema the scholmaister asked a Rabbi whether that could binde him frō the Synagogue the ordinary time A mounth doubt lesse said the Rabbi not the person but the matter giueth the authoritie go and confesse thy fault to the woman and thou art free and so he did Thus reason not politique authoritie giueth the force and the Law 1. Cor. 16. If any loue not the L. Iesus Christ let him be anathema Maran atha The Pope the greatest murderer Idolater in the world he will be excommunicating Princes They should returne the curse vpon his owne head and leaue God iudge others may deale alike with al of the Pops keies and God will make knowen who be his so Moses vsed Pharoh so Elias vsed the soldiers so Eliseus vsed the 42. of Bethel so Ieremie vsed Ierusalem so S. Paul vsed Alexander so the martyrs heere deale with the king of Locustes A digression to expound the terme Bishop Much strife is for the Bishop of Rome and for others The manifold sense of the terme must be opened to end the strife In Iob EL the Almighty God is translated Episcopus A looker to mans dealing In the Law PAKID a man of charge as Eleazar or the bishop of the armie is trāslated Episcopus Iudas had Episcopon as I mentioned afore therefore the Apostles were Episcopi in S. Paul 1. Tim. the terme Episcopus is translated in Arabique Zeken a senior that is the right meaning Policarpus the messinger of the congregation of Smyrna is in Greeks Episcopus And so the great teachers so Caluin was and Beza in Geneua was Bishop or yet Archbishop though they tooke other names as high Pastor is vsually the ciuill Gouernor and for Moses that is vsed he was Meparnes to Israel 40. year that is Feeder So Bishop is a terme for Lawfull calling and commēdable if learning tender care of people be to it Otherwise Ananias shal be excommunicated of S. Paul as a painted wall And they shall tread downe the holy Citie two and fouretie monethes Heere by Citie is meant folke as Ebr. 12. the Citie of the liuing God the heauēly Ierusalem so in this chap. where the tenth parte of the Citie falleth people not wall is meant So when the Citie is called spiritually
it Gods worke against whom none may plead he maketh one little booke exceed for varietie and elegancie of wordes aboue 4600. chosen wordes Thus the booke might be made easie 1. The wordes should be all in a table that all might read them quicklie 2. Appellatiues and propre should be sett in their colours 3. For Appellatiues all Attique and eloquent Speaches of them as Rom. 12. 3. Paul passeth all Athenes these should all come in their families 4. Next many thousand frō the 70. with Ebrew to them and in how many God followeth the 70. departing from the Ebrew This would carrie the Reader through all the old Testament 5. Thalmudique speaches be plentie and easie to a Rabbin as Forgiuenesse neither in this world nor in the world to come and girded about the brest second death and such these most trouble Greekes and would be easiest handled in their veines and they be very many 6. Sometimes the Apostles mende the 70. or speake more eloquently as in Iaspis Apoc. 21. vers 19 it is Beniamins stone after the Ebrew Exod. 28. But vers xj the Carbuncle Isai 54. So Sardonix for Zabulon and Chrysophrase for Nephtaly are the Apostle Iohns passing in Greeke skill And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eb. 1. 3. from Isai 4. Tzemach Lecabod and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 From Exod. 23. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 these S. Paul bringeth All this kinde settled together would bring light and delight to all godly learned Of propre names Many propre names be taken from the old Testament wherein the 70. is communely folowed Sarra will try a scholar and Phanuel from the margine reading and Ionanan Luc. 3. and the names from Israell in Egypt being full many shew they knew Ptolomies Egypt should fall many cōteyne Psal 89. as Zorobabelidae Mat. 1. many other speciall stories chiefly Townes full many call to Seleucidae and Lagidae as Antiochia Seleucia Philadelphia such Many are cleared by Thalm. Ierusalemy as Lazar for Eleazar and Alphai for Chalphai a. s in the fathers stead and such The Greeke and Latin in one familie Alexander and Rufus shew that the Thalmud lieth bringing Iesus our Lord his dayes to the Maccabees tymes The name Marck and Paul and all the Latin termes shew that vnder the Romans Christ was on earth Epilogue Thus when euery word should be handled alone and wordes tossed in disputatiō handled alone the whole booke would be soone eaten and millions would be able to Prophecie and to defend the faith against the Beast that commeth out of the pitt of Sathans deepenesse to make Seniorie of true Bishopps that vnlearned pseudo-piscopi should no longer pine better learned in prison sage and learned be lawfull Episcopi bestowing reuenues aright but nobles ought and lower gentrie to be the best learned and to keepe all in sage dealing So the King of Locustes would soone loose his crowne The 2. oliue trees in Zacharie which poure oile into the golden Candlestick are they who not by might but by Gods spirit as they vnder Aggei and Zachary built the Temple The chiefe ruler was holden as anointed so King Iosias though none but the first of the house as Dauid or in stirre as Salomon for Adonias and Ioash for Athalia Ioachaz for elder Ioakim were annointed The high sacrificer was of course so both states were vnder the two oliues and whē all be sacrificers Apo. 1. Then the gouernor that prouideth for bread and they who labor in word are the two oliues that giue matter of light to the golden Candlestick Clothed in sackcloth in sadnesse of their minde considering how the gold is darkened The restorers of the Gospell be as Elias And if any man will hurt them fire commeth out of their mouthes and eateth vp their enimies yea if any man will hurt them so he must be killed These haue power to shut vp the heauens that raine raine not in the dayes of their prophecying Heere the kingdome of the beast arising from the darke pitt is closselie compared with Israell in Achabs dayes when Baal was worshipped by so many false prophetes And Elias knewe none but him selfe left of true religion in Israell and the Altars which GOD tolerated extraordinarie were all broken downe The Papistes damne themselues mightilie when they cast in our teeth That our companie had not open policie still Sigibertus complayneth that at 1200. England admitted not the Popes supremacie So hee answereth Papistes And still our commune Lawes made it treason to appeale vnto the Pope and holy Wickliffe condemned him as freelie as any in our tymes Wickliffe that set ouer the Bible into English Wickliffe that taught how the cōmune Lawes would vtterly fall the Pope Wickliffe whose Bible many yet haue the Copiers of which shew where the Church of God was Such had the spirit of Elias which called for fire from heauen into Bohemia and Prage and Saxonie to burne much of Rome as Elias called fire from heauen to burne two Captaines and two fifties so Eliseus called fire from Hazael that brent vp Israell And Iohn Baptist called for fire from heauen that brent vp all Herodes house And as Elias staide raine three yeares and an half so Eliseus spirit brought famine to Samaria and the Christians in Claudius dayes and the martyrs by the black horse bring corne to be weighed as spice for dearth so still God sendeth famine for his martyrs The Martyrs be as Moses These haue power to turne the waters into blood and to strike the earth with any plague so often as they will This sheweth Rome to be a new Egypt still rebelling against Moses and therefore hath plagues to the same effect 1. Egypt had waters turned to blood so Rome chap. 11. and 16. 2. Egypt swarmed with frogges so Rome chap. 16. 4. Egypt was plagued with serpents and all sauage so the Locustes had tailes like scorpions and their plaguers had horses with Lions mouthes and their tailes had heads like to serpentes and the Caesares people were spent by the beastes of the earth 5. A plague killed the beasts of Egypt so the Caesares people 6. 6. Boyles vexed Egypt so the marked of the beast Apo. 16 7. Haile Fire vexed Egypt so Rome haile and fire mixed with blood chap. 6. and chap. 16. great haile 8. Locustes ate the fruites of Egypt Locustes strangers swarme Apo. 9. 9. Darkenesse vexed Egypt the throne of the beast is darkned Thus God compareth propre Egypt and the king of Locustes Egypt how they that folow Moyses Law and Prophecie and bid the king of Locustes grant freedome to Israel still plague their Pharaoh And when they had ended their martyrdome the beast which ariseth out of the deepe shall make warre with them and shall kill them and their carcasses shall lie in the large Common weale which is called spiritually Sodoma and Egypt where also the Lord was crucified For doctrine of vncleane spirites they are termed
5. Mat. 8. Luc. 13. our Lord Ioh. 15. and 16. Luc. 23. Eb. 9. Of Purgatorie The impudencie of them which would establish Purgatorie is vnspeakable Moyses hath not one syllable that way therefore it can not be in religion They that wrote in Iudah for the Maccabees storie make but two states as resurrection to honor and shame from Dan. 12. Saint Paul professing difference from Scribes but in the incarnation and resurrection of Christ where they hold but Paradise and Gehenna concludeth that he helde no moe places for soules Where Saint Paul handleth a commune place of teachers what doctrine will abide sound what fire of iudgement will consume as stubble they that hence would haue soules fier out of this world little regard Paul He taught nothing but what Moses and the Prophetes taught But no Thalmudiques who best knew their tongue could finde a purgatorie in thē therefore Saint Paul taught it not Of the second of the Maccabees The second of the Maccabees doth the Pope must aestime chap. 12. for sacrifice for the dead but litle considereth the vilenesse of that booke Iewes would tell him that it was Hagada a fable made vpon phrases as where they sacrifice Ezr. 2. and no mention is of fire he feigneth a most ridiculous fable of fire hid by the sacrificers when they were caried to Persia forsooth not Babilon and found by their posteritie turned into a thicke water which when wood and sacrifice was brought Nehemias bade them annoint both with this water and the Sunne shone and kindled a great fire Who would not iudge this to be a most ridiculous fable By what witt could the sacrificers dreame of such matter that fire could be turned into water or by shun-shining kindled please God It must be kept vnquenched The whole consent of Iewes in the chaine of their Cabala saith fire from heauen kindled the sacrifice A man would thinke the whole Nation in a sensible matter should be of more credite then obscure Iason of Cyren Moreouer Zorobabel of Salathiel not Nehemias of Chilkia was gouernor at the returne But iesters vpon phrases in Iarchi make Cyrus and Artax all one because Cyrus end is not recorded So in Iarchi they make Zorobabel and Nehemias to be all one for memorie of phrase that Zorobabels remoning is not recorded They that cannot iudge betwixt a ridiculous fable and a sad storie are in great darknesse So the fable of Ieremias hiding the Tabernacle and the Arke and Altar of Incense in mount Choreb is not heard of in the Thalmud nor agreeable to reason And the Law of the eternall God not to regard Iewes fables heere taketh place and they bee lawlesse that breake that Law This much for the whole booke made one frō fiue of Iason of Cyren that little knew Moses or yet Ierusalems storie Of Iudahs sacrifice In Iudahs sacrifice the Writers speach doteth Iudah doubted not but that they slept in godlinesse Chapter 12. 45. And what foole euer spake so senselesse as this is if hee had not hoped for the resurrection it had beene in vaine to pray for the dead vers 44. Now what sense can bee in that speach that sacrifice should helpe the resurrection The storie durst not touch any ease to the soule for that had strouen with all Talmudiques Maymony sheweth they offred for the dead the heir did in Siphra Col. 31. But no otherwise then as paying a debt which the predecessor should haue payed heere And that when they doubted not of the others saluation but honouring him in paying that which the other should haue payde And Iason of Cyren harped at such a string but could not bring his minde about Now the Popes Purgatorie is holpen nothing hence from a trifling booke and sencelesse speach and wrested beyond all religion of the Iewes Epilogue As the two Prophetes were seene called vp into heauen in vision so all faithfull soules by scripture trueth are to be seene called hence into the ioy of Christ What the Greeke Fathers thought of Purgatorie The Greeke Fathers should bee thought to vnderstand the Greeke Testament better then Latin and none of them could finde Purgatorie there but grant all holy a passage hence to the Kinglie Palaces some staggered at the speach Ebr. chap. xj They without vs were not perfected Saint Paul in all that heauenly Epistle disputeth of the Gospell perfection to the Law and of perfection of Doctrine in this world and he had shewed in the same Chapter That the Fathers desired the heauenly Citie God prepared that for them so they who denie the Fathers perfection by S. Paul marke him not well Basill did once vpon Psal 49. but called himselfe backe vpon Psal 15. and often And Chrysostome who seemed to stagger placed Lazarus and Abraham in the kingdome of heauen 2. Corinth homil 6. Mat. 8. Luc. cap. 13. and the principall Diuines in Theophyl vpon Luc. chap. 23. and vpon the Psalmes and in Photius Librarie Philo in Greekes and Iosephus I haue cited and Azarias who turned into Ebrew Philoes wordes And the Greekes bee greatly iniuried when Limbus Patrum is fastened vpon them Hegesippus and others that wrote the Maccabees martyrdome doubted not but that they went hence to saluation Dan. 12. And it had beene an infinite disgrace to our Greeke Doctores if they could not see so much by the New Testament Now let vs returne to the text And at that houre there was a great earth quake and a tenth part of the Citie fell and there were killed by the earth quake 7000. persons of men and the rest were afraid and gaue glorie to the God of heauen When the Popes persequution came to ripenesse then Princes by warres shake him off as in Germany Englande Zwitzerland and Netherland And Christ heere roareth like a Lion and the 7. thunders tell the thunder of his power In Venice he is now a mockage and hath but Spaine to his strength Queene Maries persequutiō is now turned against the Pope and his stirring Irish to rebell vndid Ireland And now his men the chiefest in learning sticke litle to him and speake to his ouerthrow not much lesse then we doe And now the Dukedome of Cleaue will make him weake in Germanie If Geneueans would leaue their Gehēnean torment and our side prophecie soūdly we should weakē him more by learning then by strength of speare seeing the best learned of his owne side labor for vs as Arias Montanus hath done in much about Plantines great Bible the best learned Papistes reioyce to see Daniel his 7. fold comfort of Nathans house and the certen yere of the Lordes supper to haue no more the body and blood of a Lambe his body and bloud of Couenant but Bread Wine to shew that no more flesh bloud may bee in sacrifice In Ebrew Greek Latin they saw Iewes request answered and were very thankfull in speach and letters and shew that now they would soone cast off the king of
spirites which haue names in the Law And they only in heauenly Daniel called Son of man as admitted vnto Angells company so Ezekiel and only they two From Daniel chap. 8. and 9. Gabriel is brought to Luc. 1. For most rare vse The wise will vnderstand it but the wicked will neuer vnderstand Dan. 12. Michael is vsed thrise in Daniel twice chap. 10. and one chap. 12. Dan. 10. vers 13. Beholde MICHA-EL the principall or only of the chiefe Princes is come to aide me Daniel saw a glorious vision of Christ before which he fell as dead then an Angel in the forme of a man that is Gabriel speaketh how Christ shewed his assistance against Cambises inhibition of the Temples building and giueth him a notation Hee that is in the forme of God from Exod. 23. The Angell which hath the name of God in him The character or forme of Gods person Ebr. 1. 3. That doth MICAEL signifie In our Lords wordes Ioh. 10. from Dan. 12. The Father and I am one As I haue shewed vpon Dan. 12. In Dan. 10. vers last the matter is playner in these wordes there is none strong for you in these affaires but MICHA-EL YOVR PRINCE Daniel acknowledged no creature of spirites his PRINCE therefore Micha-el must bee the Son of GOD. So he is called chap. 12. in the same Angells speach Michael the great Prince that standeth vp for his people No created spirite dare chalenge a princehood ouer people so here in the exposition of praise MICHAEL is expounded Christ Of Tobies fable The Iewes as I haue written in Ierusalemi vpon Dan. 8. say their Fathers brought with them Angells names from Babilon Michael and Gabriel Then if Angells had no names before Tobie that bringeth Asmodaeus for a spirite must bee a late fable Neither Thalmud Ierusalemy nor Babilonian hath that name Only late Rabbines Yet the fable of Tobie cited by Clemens of Alexandria is elder then the compiled Talmudes But they are made from Writers all Elder then Tobies fable Thargum Eccl. is a late worke and eldest Iew for record of Asmodai the Prince of Diuells The Pharisees had Beelzebub Prince of Diuells And later Iewes made Prince of Diuells Ben Tzirgha sonne of Leprosie To disgrace our faith of the SON Prince among the holy Angells The wicked Rabbines feigne a Prince among wicked spirites But wee make no created Angell Prince the Eternall Sonne Creator of all is the only Angell Prince And hee is the Arch-angell that could not suffer Satan to speake bad speach of Moses the first King in Israel But Iehouah before Iehouah said The Eternall rebuke thee Satan The Iewes in Midras Rabba Deut. chap. 33. feigne pleading from Satan before God for Moses and in Abboth Rabbi Nathan S. Iude telling Rabbins that they would destroy the Nation by resisting rule bringeth their owne commentary how Michael the Archangel checked Satan for contempt of Moses King of Israel and giueth him the high checke from Zach. chap. 3. The Eternall rebuke thee Satan So the Eternall Sonne before the Father spake in Zacharie what in Iudes Rabbins in a like cause Michael the Arch-angell speaketh and Zohar Gen. col 46. saith Where Michael is head of the holy Angells there Gods maiestie is meant This hath Zohar And we should not fauor Arias more then our enemies would Tobies fable disturbing Scriptures glory where euen Rabbins speake for it should no more come among holy workes then a worke of Beelzebub Asmodaus or Ben Tzirgha being a leprous wicked worke from the principall mischiefe of the Diuel Of Michaels Angells All the true Christians are called Michaels Angells they fight by the two edged sword of Gods word which originally in the Ebrew and Greeke new Testament is pure in writ cleare in meaning and perfect to discusse all sage matters Caesares Diui were soone confuted because all knew their profanesse they were soone by all sides excluded from all mens regard for any hope of happy state But the great fight here is with the King of Locustes and his garrisons Satans Angells that they may be knowen not to be the People of God Here is a sore combate that of the two Prophets ch XI Of the wicked spirites names Dragon old Serpent Diuel Satan bee the names of the wicked spirites companie King Pharaoh Esa 27. is a Dragon as old Pharaoh who for all Moses Rod would bee but a Serpent So the king of Madai and Paras worshipped in Babel that for a moneth none should pray but vnto him is in the Apocrypha fable a Dragon worshipped in Babilon So the Roman Diui Caesares and the Pope shewing himself in the Temple of God as if he were God make a Dragon as the old enimie worketh in them Of old Serpent The old Rabbins as Zohar and Aben Ezra and many moo confesse that the Angells which fell spake in the old Serpent And that company is called the old Serpent or Tempter as Adam gaue the Serpent from his nature the name Tempter The Rabbins whom I haue cited in an Hebrew treatise of fitting Iubilees to the yeare of our Lordes death so terme the Tempter later Aben Ezra though late wicked Iewes turne all to fables of a naturall Serpent who may be musselled by their owne ancient Of Diuell Diabolos in Greeke is the commune name of any slanderer but applied by Iobs translater chap. 1. to the Ebrew Satan enimie where our enimie the false accuser goeth about like a roaring Lion seeking whom hee may deuour There Diabolos expresseth enimie by occasion taken from Satan slandering of Iob. Saint Pet. 1. 5. taketh both names The Zohar telleth vpon Gen. 3. howe the Diuell accuseth each one from his comming into the world all his life So by the Iewes hee accused Christ as an enemie to Caesar and made him pay for robbery Psal 69. though it was not robbery for him to say hee was the Sonne of GOD. Christ held it no robbery to bee eaquall to God but the Diuell the Slanderer made Caiphas vrge this as a deadly matter so the Christians were slandered to the Caesares as athean and the reformed now are haeretiques to Papistes some trapps we lay in their way wherby Gods iustice doth whipp vs by their tongues Of trapps laid by our selues Whereas Catelthein eis haidon in the godly is all one as to remoue hence to the father Geneua denying Christ a passe Catelthein eis haidon denieth in tongue that he went to the Father And so denieth all religion Likewise Lutherans by Vbiquity for the humanity of Christ wound all the doctrine of incarnation wherein the humanity is according to our kinde sin onely excepted Besides we grant to the Papists that text of both Testaments is corrupt and so wee weaken the auctority of scripture and make no end of checking the holy Greek Testam that the Iesuits binde not it but Ieromes Latin with Ebrew in octauo Also where the Apostles speake plainly to all learned Iewes wee expound them as if
they had coined Phrases to new vexation of our spirits and make the word seeme a nose of wax Thus we hinder our owne fight but some still hold the truth that the accusation cannot be generall The rest should be wise with them The Diuell and his Angels by MICAEL that standeth vp for his people who be his Angels are banished from the Church and knowen to be vnclean spirits A second and playner exposition of the Dragons warre And I heard a great voice saying in the heauen now is come the saluation and power and Kingdome of our GOD and the auctority of his CHRIST because the accusar of our brethren who accuseth them before GOD day and night is cast downe And they haue ouercome by the blood of the Lambe and by the word of his Testimony and despised their liues vnto death Therefore reioyce yee heauens and they who dwell in them wo be vnto them which dwell in the Land and the Sea because the Diuell is come to you hauing great wrath knowing that he hath but a litle while Where a company by Martyrdome shew that saluation commeth onely by the death of CHRIST and are constant in that Testimony then troupes that make the heauens kingdom heere protest they know how saluation cōmeth know Gods power that falleth the mighty state of the Pope and know wherein the Kingdome of God standeth And the auctority of Christ where the Pope had a Kingdome of Satan in his policy through all partes of all common weales euen from ruling Emperours to the poorest that had but a chimney to pay a Peter-peny The holy Testament playnelie shewing our Creatores And how the spirit of CHRIST flootereth vpon all the waters of both Testaments and cleared the holy story And cleareth our hearts to call vpon GOD with a good heart this sheweth in this plaine sum what the Kingdome of God and auctority of CHRIST is Gouernement standeth vpon plaine rules The wealthy that know CHRIST Kinges Dukes Earles Barons Knights will study to excell in Diuinity to be true Bishopps and Elders to eate vp the Booke of the Gospell and to see all miscariage sagely restreined being those that Saint Paul and the Talmudiques meant by Pastors And will see how by Church lands an infinite company may be made cunning in tongues and sense of both Testaments That the Angelos Ecclesiae and daylie Seniores may be so taught in Diuinity as men are in liberall artes to know the wholle facultie and the propre vse of euery holy booke And what concent all the scripture hath and where one error putteth all out of tune but may soone be remoued so a faithfull minde will often in a day runne ouer all the Bible and see all ages faithfull as trees planted by waters and all wicked as dust scattred by the winde And such will be true Bishopps as Cucullus non facit monachum so a courtiers fauor and title maketh not a Bishopp for saluation and power and kingdome of God and authority of Christ Buy-shopps mocke with GOD but all Mordecaies will vse them as Agagites and as leprous to the Church So when all Gouerners in state be learned Bishopps ioy will be in the Church that the Diuell must goe to Land or quiet state of the Pope or sea warres of Emperors bad to seeke whom he can deuour The learned dealers for the Church will finde for it meanes in persequution to be protected Yea and to make the Land or Papisticall state as King H. VIII did drie vp the riuers of the Popes persequution In the middle of Papistry he ouerthrew the Pope by Papistes Who were content to buy the Abbeies that fed Idolatrous Locusts could not for starke shame denie a common prayer booke made from the masse booke turned to English so so much was chosen from the masse booke to be in English as seemed not directly to fight with Gods trueth and subscription for allowance to that was no further meant but that the Papists could finde no fault with it Vnder K. E. 6. and Q. E. the best Bishopps allowed the communion booke no further and gaue others leaue to expresse that how they bare with it vntill fitt tyme of amendement Of the Dragons short tyme. This speach sheweth the tyme neere the seauenth trumpet for the worlds end by the Dragons tayle the Pope heere meant in his persecution that the Diuell is fierce knowing that he shall not be long the God of this world And the Pope feareth least his Kingdome shall soone fall And our Buyshopps that vrge his canons damned by our common Lawes are now in rumores that they incense some to begge all Buyshopps lands Leicester went farre to chaing 40000. lib. for rack rent but more harme is bred by Buyshopps tyranny now Bishopps vnder King Edw. haue beene such as none but of Satans spirite would deny them to bee lawfull Bishops And such as agreed well with Nobles Gentry and all The name troubleth none but the Barbarous They who hold the place without teaching the people the trueth and with tyranny breake the cōmon lawes of the realme which stand with reason that is the Law of God such should chainge their minde and obey the Gospell lest their short tyme be for Sarans seruice and for euer And when the Dragon saw that he was cast into the earth he persequuted the woman which brought forth the male child This common place toucheth all the Popes persequutions though it be vttered as at one tyme. The Pope had still ready cruell torment for all of his that descried wickednesse in his religion And to the woman were giuen two winges of an eagle to flee into the wildernesse into her owne place to bee nourished there a tyme and tymes and halue a tyme from the praesense of the Serpent The Pope driueth the Church into the Wildernesse as Pharaoh droue Israel Saul Dauid Antiochus the holy Iewes the Pharisees he Lord of glory for a tyme two tymes and halfe a tyme three yeeres and an halfe and as I shewed all tyme of persecution is called in remembrance of our Lordes a persecution of dayes 1260. as chap. XI or of a tyme two tymes and halfe a tyme As Beda and Carthusianus well noted In Exo. 19. God saith hee brought Israel from Egypt as with eagles winges so the persecutor heere is a newe Pharaoh and Rome is Egypt spiritually as in chap. XI And the Dragon Pharaoh is heere a new Dragon And the Pope which will bee worshipped for a God is as Darius Dan. 6. and in the fable vpon that as the Dragon which the Chaldeans worshipped The Phrase of the fable folowed a true storie Of the tyme of these persequutions And the Dragon did cast after the woman out of his mouth water like a riuer to make her riuer-caried But the earth holpe the woman and the earth opened her mouth and dranke vp the riuer which the Dracon cast out of his mouth And the Dracon was angry with the
handled a plaine story for this prophecie Lotharius saxo by persuasion or superstition cast himselfe at the Popes feete as hee tooke the Crowne The Romistes to make this a matter praeiudiciall to other Emperors set vp a picture when Lotharius was gone with this inscription Rex venit ante fores iurans prius vrbis honores Post homo fit Papa sumit quo dante Coronam That is The King before the doores doth come The Cities honors first hee sweares That done the Popes man he is made Of whom he takes the Crowne he weares Frederick the first was angry saying To bee the Popes man was all one as to be his seruant or subiect The Pope once tooke away the Picture but soone after fearing lest the Emperours courage would wholy shake him off thought to bridle him at the first and vpon strife by letters he warned him that he should haue before his eyes how hee had receaued the ensigne of the Imperiall Crowne from him And a stirre rising against this one of the Legates said Romanum imperium à Grecis translatum est ad Alamannos vt Rex Teutonicorum non antequam ab Apostolico coronaretur Imperator vocaretur Ante consecrationem Rex post Imperator Vnde igitur habet imperium nisi a Papa Ex electione suorum principum habet nomen regis ex consecratione Papae habet nomen Imperatoris Augusti Caesaeris Ergo per Papam imperat Recolite antiqua Zacharias promouit Carolum Magnum fecit ei nomen grande vt esset Imperator vt posthac perpetuò rex Teutonicus esset Imperator aduocatus sedis Apostaticae vt Romano Episcopo Apulia per eum pacata esset Subiecta quae Papae cum Vrbe Romanae est non Imperatoris Roma Papae sedes est Imperatoris est Aquis in Arduenna quae est sylua Galliae Imperator quod habet totum habet à Papa sicut Zacharias transtulit Imperium à Graecis ad Teutonicos Ita Papa potest iam transferre ab Alemannis ad Grecos Ecce in potestate eius est vt det illud cui vult propterea constitutus à Deo super gentes regna vt aedificet destruat plantet euellat That is The Romane Empire was translated from the Greeks to the Almanies that the King of the Germanes should not be called the Emperor before that he was crowned by one Apostolique Before the consecration he was King after Emperor whence then hath he his Empire but from the Pope By the election of his Princes he hath the name of King by the consecration of the Pope he hath the name of Emperor and Augustus and Caesar Therefore by the Pope he rules search antiquities Zachary promoted Charles the Great he gaue him the name of Grande that he might be Emperor and that euer after the German King should bee Emperor and aduocate of the Apostatique sea That Apulia brought to peace by him should be subiect to the Romane Bishop which is the Popes together with the Citie of Rome not the Emperors Rome is the Popes seat The Emperours seat is Aquis in Arduenna which is a wood in France That which the Emperor hath he hath wholy from the Pope as Zachary translated the Empire from the Greekes to the Germans so now the Pope can translate it from the Almaines to the Greekes Lo it is in his power that hee may giue it to whom hee will and for that cause hee is ordeyned by God aboue nations and Kingdomes that he may build and pull downe plant root out This Oration of the Popes Legate maketh a most liuelie commentarie vpon the text following And it was giuen him to giue spirite to the Image of the Beast that the image of the Beast should speake and cause that all who would not worship the Image of the Beast should be kill'd He quickneth the Empire to haue power of life and death against the reiecters of his allowed Emperour till he depose him and set vp others Of subiection in all matters to the Pope And he causeth all both small and great both rich and poore both free and seruants that hee may giue them a marke on their right hande or their forehead and that no man may buy nor sell but he that hath the marke or the name of the beast or the number of his name Marke in the hand is oth of fidelitie and subscribing to his Supremacy When Emperor Henry VII refused to take oth of fidelitie to obey Clement VII he was soone after poysoned in the hoast transsubstantiated from wholesome bread into poyson Because he called great Assemblies and Scribes and answered that this was a new matter and not seene in his praedecessors age That the Prince of princes and Lord of the world should be bound by an oth of fidelitie to the seruant of seruants The vicar of the Dragon who was a murtherer from the beginning shewed all his conscience that pretending to giue Christ our life gaue death After Henries death Clemens being terrible that Emperours should bee redier to sweare vnto fidelitie to the Bridgemaker of Rome putteth foorth the contents of that oth Vt Caesar Ecclesiam Romanam defendat Haereticos exterminet neque cum impijs vllum commercium habeat vt privilegia quondam Romanae Ecclesiae consessa quocunque tempore conseruet in primis ea quae profecta sunt à Constantino Carolo Magno Henrico Othone IIII. Frederico secundo Rodolpho nequid Iuris in illas Ecclesiae Romanae facultates atque possessiones quocunque titulo sibi vendicot vt reliquas etiam vbiuis Eccesias earumque libertatem ac Iura protegat c. in Clementius sub Tit. de Iure That is That Caesar defend the Romane Church expell haeretiques nor haue any commerce with vngodly men that hee should preserue the priuileges once granted to the Romane Church at what tyme soeuer and especially those which proceeded from Constantine Charles the Great Henri Otho 4. Frederik the secund Rodolph and that he chalenge not any right or power vpon any tytle ouer those priuileges and possessions of the Church of Rome That also he defend the rest of the Churches whersoeuer their liberties their lawes c. In Clem. sub Tit. de iure Thus Emperors must defend all Popes Lawes by which all his foes and haeretiques cannot buy nor sell And all must haue auricular confession and all housekeepers must pay a ricks-penny for euery chimney and Priests be the exchequer men Chauncelors for ecclesiasticall praefermēts Buyshoprickes Abbeies c. that Kings and Emperours should haue but small force And the Locusts should haue the Lions teeth to hold fast all that they caught and should be like Horses praepared to warres and should haue Crownes vpon their head thought their King called himselfe the seruant of seruants and bare the face of a milde priuate man the Locusts had winges of Camps and the brest plates of yron to command warre peace as
they would that none should be in the Commune Weale but of their marke by othe subscription or whole profession Of the marke in the forehead Aharon his garments conteined the summe of religion whereof one part was a plate of gold in his bonnet thus ingrauen HOLYNESSE FOR THE ETERNALL That is expounded chap. 14. where the Christians hating Idolatry haue the name of God written in their forehead As God will make knowen who be his and all who call vpon GOD must depart from wickednesse So heere the hauing of his name in the forehead is the profession of his decrees The saying of Aue Marie went ouer all to the poore beggars and reuerence to the Crosse and comming to their most wicked Masse and refraining from reading Gods Booke but for licenced and auricular confession briefly all differing from their Dracoes lawes was an heretique and might neither buy nor sell Of the name of the beast and the number of his name That is his owne name So vsuall in states the Antecedent is for the relatiue as Daniel chap. 9. The Gouernor shall destroy the Gouernor owne people for his owne Through the Bible the names giuen by the holy abridge the summe of their life God called the first man ADAM which is also our commune name MAN to tell vs euery moment that dust wee are and to dust we must returne Seth bare a warning that onely some of his should be setled when the flood made a moode of all the earth Enosh telleth of sorrow that profanenesse sprang instead of calling vpon the name of God Cainan telleth of Lamentation due for that Mahal-el how the Almighty bringeth a mixture by water vpon all Iared how all goeth downe He nameth his sonne Enoch consecrated to God to be an onely man in the cursed world and he told in his sonnes name when God would send the flood Methu-Schelach when he is deadp resently God sendeth it Lamech borne in tyme of all sorrowes in his dayes the fathers died and all to euery soule that called vpon God and looked to saue their life by the Arke els they had come to Noë to haue gone into the Arke Noë is conforter All these be fathers to all in the world and all degenerate who desire not to know the reasons of their names So through the old Testament the faithfull printed faith and story in their childrens names And the Booke of numbers hath vnder propre names moo sentences of faith then would make a great volume So that without Ebrew much of the Bible wil be vnknowen So before the Captiuity of Babell the Godly gaue names to their sonns shewing hope of their defense and helpe by Elam of whom came Cyrus one long before called his sonne Elam another also calleth his sonne Elam for instruction that Elam should send the Iewes home And God blesseth these two with most issue Ezra 2. Another calleth his sonne Bagoas by a famous Persian name Another calleth his sonne Adonikam God standeth aboue all Now the sonnes of Adonikam were 666. God then meant to apply that to further matter as seauens in the Bible call into minde the first Sabbath rested in hope of Christ so sixes are commonly a memory of the sad fall and vsed in sorrow Holy Lamech liued yeares 777. then he rested In the six hundreth of Noë the flood came Nabuchadnezar his cursed Image was in height 60. cubites In breadth 6. cubites The gold brought from Ophir to Salomon was 666. talents as no long blessing when after his death Sysac King of Aegypt hath all of the Temple for a spoyle Now Adonikam his sonnes 666. might shew that God would vse that text to some sad matter Let vs now examine the words of the Text. Heere is wisedome Let him that hath wisedome reckon the number of the Beast For it is a number attributed vnto a man And his number is six hundred sixty six Adams wisedome is shewed equall to Angells in giuing names to beastes and foules according to their nature so that mans first wisedome appeared how his soule bare the image of God in fit names His holy sonnes folowed that and all of wisedome will examine what names they haue giuen and see which of all them will fit the beast heere the mans name may soone be found by 666. for onely ADONIKAM of a man hath that number Now the wisedome standeth in the nation of Adonikam how the beast that hath hornes like a Lambe is fitted to that Let vs haue our stories to shew how the Pope is fitted to this Innocentius the third bragged to Emperor Philip that he would take from him the Diademe of the King or he should take from him the Apostolicall Apostaticall ensigne Christ saith by him Kings reigne and Princes decree iustice And he is truly ADONIKAM Lord standing vp sure for defense of his And Innocentius of Adam the earthly of Enosh the sorrowfull he will be ADONIKAM simply a Lord standing sure and haue two hornes of the Lambe though he speake like the Dragon Marke another when Albertus son to Rodulph following his fathers Example sought by entreaters the confirmation of his election of Boniface the eight which bragged that he was Lord of the whole world Then Boniface comming forth girded with a sword and wearing the Imperiall Crowne cryeth with a tyrannicall voice EGO SVM CAESAR ET PONTIFEX and in a chafe he reiecteth the election which was made without his Authoritie as of no force and friuolous and refuseth the confirmation and called the Emperour a murtherer so this Boniface had as brasen a face as Boniface the third which bought supremacie of the murtherer Phocas and vaunting that he is TOTIVS MVNDI DOMINVS LORD OF THE WHOLE WORLD the name of the MAN which hath 666. attributed ADONIKAM wil be his name with the two hornes of the Lambe A repetition of the terme Rocke Speciallie the terme Rocke claymed of the Pope to be his name proueth him to haue this name or notation of ADONIKAM In this Conceit thus hee reasoneth Peter is the Rock The Pope is as Peter Therefore The Pope is the Rocke So the Pope maketh himselfe God who only standeth sure ADONICAM A digression to a disputation at Mentz in the Promotion of a graduat in their commencement 1601. At Mentz in saluation yeere named a commencer gaue the question I then printing in their owne Towne a Greeke Oration of all my groundes in Religion was requested by Pater Nicol. Serarius their D. principall to come to the cōmencement There they requested mee most vehemently to dispute that Rector made shorte the first reply And I tooke the second This was the question Romana Ecclesia est vera Ecclesia Reply Quae facit hominem ex patris semine immediate Petram dici est hostis Dei At Roma facit hoc ergo est hostis Dei Promotus I deny the assumption Reply The terme Rocke is neuer vsed in commendation of Holinesse and Constancie but in God
vpon the last string of Malachie and the same tunes as the other two The Sonne of thunder beginneth from before the beginning shewing that by the SON God made the world and harpeth most vpon that string and teacheth the Pope that hee not Peter was the best beloued and needed not a threefold incouragement to feed the sheepe Thus the man Leui the Lion Marke The Oxe Luke Eagle Iohn play all Dauids tunes That mighty Theophilus saw in euery one Man Lion Oxe Eagle as Ezekiel chap. 1. Of the Actes The Actes telleth that S. Luke was full of eyes specially for depth of Ebrew skill Act. 7. and 13. as in his Gospell ch 4. which poinctes I touch in a Latin Epistle to PP of Germany and to our K. Maiestie The Antiochian sheweth how Antiochia first had Christian name to shew that Christ would be great ouer Magog Ezek. 39. and he alone was a miracle of Gods mercy But Nicolaus stood not sound as Antioch by Pride had a fall Though Peter were there and an heauenly company of which if Rome might haue bragged a 1000. Martin Luthers and Zuinglians and Martyrs Bucers should not haue shaken the Popes pride who swelleth that Paul comforteth the small Company who had no Apostles to strengthen that yet their faith was sounded ouer the world And S. Luke endeth in Paules speach vnto Iewes who knew not what the Gospell meant till hee came thither that the Pope might be ashamed to say that S. Peter was there whose writing is all in Iewes veine and if hee had bene there but one day the Synagogue had heard what the Gospell was In that he telleth how S. Paul was borne free in Rome and thereby found great protection and freedome and how Iesus our Sauiour told that he should bee the Apostle to bring his name before Caesar of the famous course by appeale from Festus to Caesar known to king Agrippa by famous nauigation and miracles these shew the Popes badnesse that would put all this out of tune to beg landes to match Emperors by a lye that S. Peter should be at Rome whereof God hath not giuen one syllable of found The Testimonie of Origen Clemens Alexandrine Tertullian Eusebius all vnsound and nothing worth without testimonie from them that should see him there The Pope must cut of all the stringes of S. Lukes harpe on mount Sion and vse Poliphemus musique to Galatea from Aetna if hee will stand in his old forgery Epiphanius would not stay vpon that fable though Latin writers to glory of the West could foster the fable Of the Epistle to the Romanes As the stringes of the Wolfes entralles will neuer haue concordes with the sheepes the musicall so the fable from the Pope that belieueth not that Christ is the only Rocke Psal 18. will neuer agree with the stringes of S. Paules epistle It Catechiseth men as needy of stay and telleth of a long desire that way and giueth expresse Law that euery soule should obey Caesar in matters of gouernement as to Iewes not taught in that And Modestly sheweth his reasons of rules fitt for simple though he was persuaded they could teach one another He had not passed ouer S. Peter if hee had taught them And hee pleadeth for his Bishoprick charge ouer the Gentils from Ierusalem to Illyrico all ready gone ouer and the Romanes to be of his Bishopricke where the name of Christ had not bene sounded by any Apostle And in salutations to fiue and twentie not one syllable soundeth toward that S. Peter had bene or euer should bee at Rome If the Pope had knowen IAH IEHOVAH THE ROCKE OF ALL AGES this epistle had taught him the Ebrews songe and to auoide them that should make sedition and scandala from this doctrine Of the first to the Corinthians This teacheth that the authority of Cephas Paul Apollos the cunning lawyer might not be of auctority But with expresse doctrine of Ceph to Rocke whereupon they that build be Cephae set vpon the Rocke And for excommunication he followeth the Synagogues sage manner That the open Court not Angelus Ecclesiae should practise it Though the Pope will be excōmunicating kings which thing Thal. Ieru in Sanedrin holdeth neuer vsed nor lawfull Other Thalmudique questions he decideth many and for the Lords supper putteth transsubstantiation out of tune and sheweth how all the Church should be as one body full of charitie and goodnesse and exhorteth all to haue skill in the Bible Of the second to the Corinth It continueth in the same tenor and that afflictions be the adiunctes to teachers of saluation not the Popes ease and quietnesse and that the Gospell shineth to all whom the god of this World blindeth not though ignorance be the mother of the Popes holy deuotion Against Purgatorie Where he sayth we know that if this earthly house of tabernack hath an end we haue a building from GOD an house not made with hands euerlasting in the heauens The Rock Leuit. 26. powreth water of that Doctrine to Moyses So Haides to all godly is heauen Of the Epist to Gal. Galatae barbarous Canniballs in Strabo are brought by S. Paul to the Rocke of saluation by faith without workes of the Law and if they stick to any one of them as Circumcision Christ profiteth nothing By this Epistle Martin Luther shewed the Pope to be an enimy to saluation And where he saith after many yeares he found Peter at Ierusalem and that Peter was the Iewes Apostle to saue whom hee could before the nation should be scattred And so he was for Greeks This water from the Rocke should wash away the Popes lies And the whole Epistle might tell him that he might as well repete Circumcision as Priest high Priest Mitre Cope Linen sacrifice Of the Epistle to the Ephesians The Epistle to the Ephesians conteineth a perfect doctrine of all faith penned easie for all to learne and dashing all popery The Philippians Are taught to reioyce in afflictions as the martyrs by Rome Apoc. chap. 1. and 7. and 11. and 12. and 14. and 15. and 17. and Pauls afflictions brought the name of Christ into Caesars pallace Colossians Epaphras brought the Colossians to the Rocke the son of God of whose aeternity and dignity S. Paul speaketh heauenly and to their building into all riches of full vnderstanding in the mysterie of Christ about deceit of Philosophie Iewes Ceremonies for meate the Pope in both matters is busie that his Wolfes stringes make no musique but where Lupa gaue milke to Rome builders Of the first to the Thess They in affliction be an example for the Martyrs in Spaine haters of the Popes idolls The last glorious comming of Christ will be their comforts Second Thess They should not looke that the last dayes were come to the World as to the Iewes Common weale in Prophets Genes chap. 49. Dan. 2. and Ebr. chap. 1. Because not onely open
tyrannie shall try Lions and Oxen but also mighty deceite that they which receiue not the loue of trueth may be damned for loue to lies shall try man and eagle and who be full of eyes From this place Greekes tell Antichrist should arise from Rome see chapter 2. Th. 2. he maketh the matter plaine So at the first he shewed his care for Rome And as Daniel chapter 2. calleth the Counsell of God in the afflicters wicked a mysterie eloquent Paul taketh his terme thence teaching that as those matters had a most sure euent euen to Antiochus figure of Antichrist exalting himselfe aboue all religion So when the Emperour should fall The Papae or Diuinity fathers of Rome should be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with all force of Satan That text is an abridgement of the Apocalyps First and 2. Timothie and Titus Paul in Timothie telleth all what great learning they should haue which should gouerne others euery man of charge is Pakid 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Adams tongue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the LXX Elders Acts. 2. and Titus 3. In vertues of regeneration they should be rare and by study they should be learned Exod. chap. 18. is the ground Sanedrin Maymonie an explication Of these the King chiefly was Doctor Maymonie Hagigah And Archysynagogus and the rest chose one of their company to be Sheliach Zibbur Orator of the congregation he read the Law and dealt in exhortation and all prophecied and none should rule ouerthe people but in mildenesse 1. Pet. 5. Maymon in Sanedrin whose words for our Athean tyrany in BB. forcing othes c. I wrote in my Booke to I. C. of reuerend memory Titus is taught the same Now an ape is liker a man then the Pope Pauls Bishop in 2. Thes 2. 1. Tim. 2. Tim. Tit. The opening of S. Paul by the Talmudiques sitting in Moyses chaire would cleere him more then all others He in Greeke abridgeth them writing to Timothie and Titus who knew them at large Geneua doth well this farre that all should bee kept in order in excommunication farr from S. Paul and in letting the raines to Preachers to be Rome Popes Of Philemon After he had described the gouerners learned and louers of the people he handleth the cause of Seruants from Exod. 21. and Israel seruant in Egypt Exod. cha 20. whence in Talmudiques a long common place is of seruants The marrow of all which Gamaliels Scholar contriueth to one short epistle And heere the gracious prouidence of Christ in the notation of Philemon and Onesimus conteyneth the duty of Maister and Seruant so wiseing al to learne Pauls tongue Philemon is louing so should euery Maister be to his seruant Eph. 6. knowing that they haue a Maister in Heauen A famous Greek Poet much cited for Haides Heauen and Hell from Sophocles Herodotus with Menander and Diphilus was called Philemon Onesimus is by interpretation profitable such should all seruants bee to their maisters Not in ey-seruice as men pleasers but as seruing the Lord. The poore Daughter of Israel in Naamans house caused him to seeke Eliseus and GOD and when hee tooke peper in the nose for Iordan his seruants ouerruled him as Onesimus to saluation The name Onesimus is in Lysias the Attique as vsuall in Greekes Onesiphorus S. Pauls great helper is of the same notation How the Seruant of Seruants is Concordant The Seruant of Seruants is such an Onesimus that he bringeth all to pouertie by his treachery and by his Peter-Pence for Chimineies made millions of eyes dimme with smoke and can forge Constantinus donation for the kingdoms of the West If Iulian had heard any such matter he had set that among the chiefe schoffs for his Vncle But neither hee nor any Greekes could heare of such a matter which all the world had knowen in Constantines dayes if it had beene true The robber thus recompenced Constantine for bringing in Christian politie to destroy new Rome and to roote out from the East the holy Gospell Of the Epistle to the Hebrewes From Rome S. Paul the most reuerend Papas that euer was in Rome and S. Luke next him the Ebrew of Ebrewes telleth the Ebrewes that were vpon reuolt that all Moyses Policie ended in Christ and that no further sacrificer must be on the earth and that faith giueth true commendation from the Creation to the Maccabees dayes who in Dan. 12. hoped in the better resurrection In this Epist S. Paul abridgeth all the Bible The Popes Contrarietie The Popes whole doctrine as I shewed would make a new policie ouer the World by imitation of Aharon so that he commeth to the height of sin and denieth the whole doctrine of iustification by faith and that Abraham and the rest went hence to heauen against S. Pauls expressed words praetending chap. XI II. vlt. Where he speaketh as through the Epistle of perfection in the Doctrine which the Gospell hath aboue the Law and not a word hee nor any of reward in the World of soules Also Augustinus Nabiensis writeth wickedly that the Greeke is a translation and faulty in thou hast made him a little inferior to Angells He would haue it A litle inferior to God yet Christ could say how in humanity despised he was a worme as infinitely inferior to his Godhead though both together make the Person great GOD. Of the Epistle of Iames. S. Iames frameth his speach to Iewes who knew that no Bishops of Elder could be aboue another and bringeth a Law not to praeferre any before the rich in knowledge and where Iewes then and yet holde that beliefe in the trueth of the Law and reuerence to it iustifieth as Abr. Sabung in Zeror writeth of some and Moses de Kotzi praef in Talm. Hee telleth such a faith is a dead faith regeneration must follow as all teach Of the first and 2. of Peter Both Peters epistles are written in Iewes veine that by affliction not by the Popes pompe we get heauen and that Christ tooke that course beeing kill'd in the humanitie and made aliue by the spirite the holy Spirit in the Ethiopian and Oecumenius in which hee went ten tymes is that speach of God in the Law and preached to them which are now spirites in prison because they belieued not when Christ preached in the dayes of Noë And he biddeth vs commend our soules to the faitfull Rock chap. 4. teaching the Pope how hee vnderstood the terme Rock to bee all one as Creator where the Pope as I often told chalenging that name sheweth himselfe in the Temple of God as if he were God And chap 5. he telleth expresly that the chosen Church in Babilon saluted them and Marke And all speakers bee wicked deceiuers that vse not proprietie where all mindes require proprietie and otherwise the whole world should be deceiued And in the second Bosor with S. for Y vsed onely in Arabia and Chaldea telleth where he kept Of the 1. 2. 3.
from heauen as a bride praepared for her husband trimmed Iohn began the New Testament Iohn endeth it The terme soundeth grace or mercy fitt for the argument So in Zachary at the building of the Temple acclamation should bee Grace Grace be to it And none but a Iohn in heart one that is made gracious Eph. 1. the Hebrew to that is Iehonan and Iohn Iochanan can see the holy Ierusalem The worldly doe looke to worldly pompe as the Pope to rule princes in deed euery teacher should rule Princes by sage aduise not by auctority Of Iohn Iehoiadah the stately high sacrificer is called also Iohn and sundry others and that name is in the 70. Ionan and one of our Lords fathers is called by that name others too Ianna and Ioanna bee of the same notation Grace giuen by fathers that still looked to the grace of God in Christ and all should in heart bee So euery one should be in heart Petros building vpon Petra the Rock Eli Tzur Tzuri-shadday Num. 1. 5. 6. teach that My God is the Rock My Rock is God One word of Hebrew had broken the Popes keies as the Pharisees keies of the Kindome of heauen and all take a foolish course for Diuinity which seeke it from Latines rather then from Ebrew Of Ierusalem Of Ierusalem I wrote at large in my treatise of Melchitzedek where also I shewed why the 70. altered the Hebrew 36. hundred of yeres adding to the Patriarkes at fatherhood to many 100. As Adam at 230. begate Seth where Moses proper truth wrote 130. Our note 1603. hath flat atheisme saying that Moses omitted 100. yer so the note might haue said for Seth Enosh Caynan Mahalaleel Enoch Arphaxad and all to Nachor and that he gaue many hundreds too much to their ends It is trange that most reuerened FF and right reuerend FF after plaine demonstration of trueth will be such fooles as to vtter such athean lies to the people and it is more strange that the people giue them any regard after their vtterance of such blindnesse These teachers are not for Ierusalem the sight of peace but for Abyssus whence the king of Locusts and his swarmes came Salem was the townes name in Sems dayes and the place where Izhak was offred was called by Abraham lireh and of that famous action the towne inlarged was called IERVSALEM the sight of peace Maymony writeth in Bethbechira the chosen house or place where the Temple was built as by historie Isaack was offred there so by tradition Adam and Habell offred there and Noë cōming out of the Arke and that may well be for God troubleth not his people with many places but contriueth all points for helpe of memory and for like matter for our dulnesse As for Rome that crucified Christ God would not plague another Citie but would haue Rome once destroyed to shew his anger vpon it reuiued to be a throne of Satan to plague them that cared not for his warning but would haue all to depend vpon it Of Melchi-Tzedek and Izhak causing glory to Ieruschalaim Sem the great in the title of iust King and King of peace described as God as the very Rabbines note and Saint Paul vpon their grant draweth all vnto Christ in his humanitie how the sacrificer is taken from men and so resembleth not Iehouah Michael in heauen barely but as he should come to his office on the earth being the SEM the great Sem heere conteyneth all with Isaack receiued from death and their story crieth out vnto all Iewes that they should know that God was in Christ reconciling the world vnto himselfe and that Christ was to suffer and being the first from the dead should shew light vnto the world S. Paul most eloquently draweth Moses speach hither Deut. 29. Say not in thine heart who can goe vp into heauē for to bring Christ downe or who can goe to the deepe to bring Christ from the dead but if thou confesse with thy mouth that IESVS is the ETERNAL and belieue in thy heart that God hath raised him from death thou shalt be saued So Melchi-Tzedek and Izhack in their story teach all that God giueth the sight of peace to make the City of God vpon the earth For heathen in Abraham our father as hee and wee belieue that God raiseth Christ from death and that matter is sweetly told in calling Christian Policy Ierusalem So Zachary saith Ierusalem shal be built in Ieruschalaim The sight of peace shal be taught in the soile where SEM dwelt and Isaack was receiued as by a resurrection The low Ierusalem is called holy when our Lord was baptized tempted and when after his resurrection many Izhaks arose and were seene of many But after our Lord his ascension the terme is not bestowed vpon it though in Pentecost the spirit came plentifull to teach Iewes and Proselytes of all nations the resurrection Of S. Pauls heauenly Ierusalem S. Paul in his Epistle to Ierusalem telleth them that the earth which breedeth briers and brambles shall come to be brent vp that so the Low Ierusalem should haue an end And that we are come to the heauenly Ierusalem c. In that terme he expoundeth the Prophet Isay for his Ierusalem Of the Iewes error to this day Maymony and all the vnbelieuing Iewes to this day expect a returne to Mount Sion to restore a Citie there Maymonie may be read in Ebrew and English vpon Ecclesiastes in my disputations from Isaiah with them they said hee speaketh for the world to come in higher matter then that which touched building of stone And they be guilty of S. Steuens blood to this day holding it blasphemie to say that Iesus of Nazaret should end Moyses Law and sacrifice Maymony in the fundations of the Law writeth the Iewes common error thus it is a matter plaine and expounded in the Law that it is a commandement which standeth for euer yea for euer and euer To teach them better vnderstanding of Moyses God brought them to Babel with losse of all Ceremonies sauing circumcision and before he brought them home hee told them to the last yeere when God would end their Ceremonies which made the heathen to hate them and told that their Citie should bee destroyed This matter S. Paul vrgeth through all the Epistle to Ierusalem And I should haue had occasion to haue examined all Talmudiques vpon Moses 613. Lawes and to shew how all the Ceremonies God hath abolished and giuen in the New Test Lawes written in all hearts moo then 613. That we neede not come to Talmudique This argument would require all opened in the New Testament to which of Moyses 613. each thing belonged and would shewe all wherein Talmudiques yeeld to the Apostles and teach Iewes and Greekes how all the New Test translateth Hebrewes He that threatned to stay the king from alowance this way shall in fame bee buried with the buriall of an Asse There is
of that in memorie of the difference that the Reader may read it Thus Alpha is as curious in his word as in the frame of the world and requireth due reuerence to it and they are in great danger whose profession of life should be skilfull in it and will deale with it with vnwashed handes Of Iod not contemned The Iewes to shew Gods care ouer euery letter in the Bible bring in the Law cōplayning of loosing Iod with humble cry before God thus O Lord of the world this is thy rule that a Testament which faileth in a letter faileth in all Now in Sarai I had 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iod when shee is Sarah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iod is gone the auctority of the Law is lost God answereth thou hast no losse Iod was in the end of a foeminine and I set it in the beginning of a masculine when Hoshea was called Iehoschuah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thus they marke narrowly that which our Lord telleth one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iod of the Law shall not perish he that is Aleph and Tau will keepe all the letters from Aleph to Thau More of this is in Thal. Ierusalemie in San fol. 20. Of OMEGA He that nameth himselfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mega will require that his new Testament shal be regarded in due kinde to defende trueth of Copy elegancy of speach I defended trueth of Copie against Rhemistes translating Act. chap. 13. from the Latin in yeeres not about but after a sort 450. yet a thankfull Pseudographus wrote that I defended the 70. became a scorne none of 1200. yer held the 72. pure Satan was strong in him that would belieue a disputation for sinceritie of their copy and if euer any should bee thought to know the 72. hee that translated the Prophets a new into Greek should be thought to vse all the 72. copies easie to be had But 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in all vnthankfulnesse would be still cursed in lies The first aduiser of him sped ill Of Greeke stile Because none afore me haue noted Gods counsell in making Greeke common I will often handle that to haue it better vnderstood when God first destroyed Iudahs kingdome and speach hee stirred Greekes first to set vp theirs Then Pisistratus set Homer in honor that children learned him by heart Plato in Timao mentioneth one such Thence of 200. yea all kindes study to make braue Greeke that it came to perfection Then God sendeth Greekes to rule Gog or Gyges land and Magog with all Assiria and 72. kingdomes in the East and North and South to fill all 300. ye with Greek Armies and Colonies That Tully noted in his dayes the Greek to be common ouer all the world Now the Bible was by Iewes translated into Greeke and so read in all nations And the Iewes beeing caryed by the Macedonians into all quarters when the Apostles came to teach granted all saving God in Christ gaue life to all soules that did eate his flesh and drinke his blood feeding continually in soule vpon this and were baptised with the water of the Lawe So the Greeke tongue by O MEGA the ETERNALL taught Iapheth to dwell in the house of Sem. Ierusal in Megilah Midr Rabba ' Gen. 9. And the Iewes confesse in Megilah that no tongue but the Greeke hath words to expound the Hebrew So he that termeth himselfe by the Greeke and Hebrew Alphabet is much despised when Babell banisheth both tongues to a pedlers Latin in so much that the true Latin auctores were out of request Of 4. Dialects in the holy Greeke Of necessitie the Apostles were to speake to heathen in Heathen or Attique Greeke as all that will mooue others speake to their capacitie and they bee ridiculous and citizens of Babel not of the heauenly Ierusalē that will this deny When the Apostles tell stories of Ierusalem to the Church they were to speake in the 72. language And all of wit and conscience would so expound their wordes When disputations are had with Iewes the Talmudiques specially the Iewes schole-phrase doth our Lord vse and his disciples and when none of these three answere the Hebrew fitly then the WORD taketh heathen generall termes to apply vnto speciall Hebrew Reason forced these foure Dialects and they who confound these foure are fitter for Babel then for Ierusalem for confusion then sight of peace Of the Attique Greeke Haides in S. Luke 16. conteyneth the lodge of Abraham in heauen and the lodge of the rich Epicure in Gehenna Saint Luke an Heathen wrote to Prince Theophilus an Heathen And Heathen would iudge whether the Phisition of Antioch of Magog knew Greek in fit sense to teach Gog in Ephesus or Gyges Countrey and Magog in Siria that Christ in their owne language now doth conquer them so farr as to haue the first Christians named of Antiochia and S. Luke to bee the glory aeternall thence though God had no other occasion to honor his enemies towne but to shew that where sinne abounded there grace should once more abound But not often Nicolas the proselyte falling away taught that the towne deserued as much supremacie as Rome that crucified Christ or Alexandria for that Alexander would bee made a God So Haides conteining heauen and hell and nothing els in proprietie Old Chrysologus who placed Abraham in Gehenna and is tossed of Isaack Ben Arama fol. 205. and Purgatory and many opinions moo are confuted If Haides haue but Heauen and Hell Purgatory is gone which maketh a third place so the first Dialect in one word telleth the Pope 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let Greeks seeke to Eustathius what meaning is plaine for these wordes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Peter 2. is of heathen Greek in Homers commentary Iliad Of this I spake in Catechizing the modest Archbi Whitg which yeelded and sent M r. Geoffrey King ouer sea to confesse his error I spake generally of Homers commenter and should meane the principall Aristarchus from whom old Didymos made his commentary and Eustathius from both and many moo ancient and though hee were late his commentaries are made from these two and old heathen Two Petifoggers in Greeke would scoph as though I cited Eustathius to be followed of Peter far elder Such Midae bee fitter for Babel then Ierusalem Their further equalling of error to Lybian sandes shew an ill bent Of the Lxxij The Greeke of the 72. commeth often notably Act. 2. in this whom God raised vp 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 disannulling all paines that death brought The matter is taken from Psal 18. And thence would the Sadducees expound S. Peters word to proue him a wicked Sophister if hee had meant more They who proue the second death hence know not O Mega the auctor of speach Of the Thalmudizinge These be Talmudique speaches The dead for the profane often in Zeror once in S. Peter 1 Epi. chap. 4. In S. Paul the dead in sin Eph. 2. such is Gehenna
comfort but the ioy of God As Iohn banished into Patmos hath in one day the Lordes day more ioy then all the world is worth when darkenesse couered Caesares and obscuritie nations But God shined ouer him and the glory of Christ was seene to him to shew him in wildernesse the state of the Church If he had not beene banished from Ephesus he should not haue had these visiones But now his comfort is the greater As one farre from his Countrey may study more in six yeeres then in 12. among much acquaintance at home and be lesse grieued from quarrelling of the wicked Now Iohn applying Esai vnto the LAMBE sheweth that all his comfortes cary vnto Christ And all the Prophets doe the same so this booke teacheth all the Myriades of Iewes that belieued to expound all the Bible So doe S. Pauls Epistles expounding all the Law and Prophetes how they speak of Christ And the chap. 61. ver 1. is plainly by our L. Luc. 4. of him selfe And the nations the saued shall walke in her light and Kings shall bring their glorie and honor into her Isai 60. And nations shall walke in thy light and Kings in thy brightnesse that ariseth to thee And her gates shall not bee shut in the day for night is not there that they may bring the glory honor of nations vnto her And they shall open thy gates continuallie day and night they shall not be shut that men may bring vnto thee the wealth of nations also their Kings shall be brought Thus God comforteth the xij Tribes from their knowen prophecies to goe forward to winne at the last so many as would furnish a Citie Fifteene hundred miles square in two thousand year Though the ten Tribes were scattred yet Hosea telleth them that as HE raiseth vp the dead so he can call them backe Cyrus called them from 120. nations vpon his owne charges and some of all Israel returned to haue hope in Christ at 490. yeares by holy Daniel And from all nations some were at Ierusalem the last yeare and men 120. receiued spirit to be sufficient to teach all nations many thousandes were turned and of them euery one would turne many thousand And Iohn stirreth vp their hope And there entreth not into it any common and practising lothsomenesse and lies But the written in the booke of life of the Lambe Prophane infidels vncleane in soule and lying in iudgements as all Papistes bee and old heathen estranged from Christ are not of this but they whom Christ hath chosen called and sanctified This matter is eloquently expressed by Manasses-saw-martyr chap 52. Arise arise put on thy glorie put on thy trimme apparell Ierusalem the holy Citie for no vncircumcised and vncleane shall come any more vnto thee This sheweth that they who be truely of the Church haue their minde brauely clothed and will haue none profane of their companie nor auctores of vntrueth vnfit for the Carbuncle walles of Ierusalem as the Apocrypha lies are with the Bible a meere leprous sorte whereby Papistes terme all the Bible lies yet they that can not read one word of the Law as a professor should will fight to keepe those wicked bookes with the holy and fight to hinder explaning of both Testaments in Saint Iohns Carbuncle veine and in Pauls Iaspers As none can be saued vnlesse hee be borne againe of water Isai chapter 55. so puddles of filthy pooles will marre those waters It is marueile that any dare chirpe to hinder the light of Gods worde seeing God is able and readie to reuenge The Pope putteth the wicked fable of Tobie in the heart of the holy Bible But it had beene better a milstone had beene hanged about his necke and that he had beene cast into the mayne Sea It is better to bee a dore-keeper in the holy Ierusalem then in Emperors Palaces in such mixture to the pure waters of Gods worde Iohn and Ezechiel shal be iudge CHAPTER XXII And he shewed me a pure Riuer of water of life so cleere as Christall issuing from the throne of God and of the LAMBE IN the song of songs liuely waters of CHRIST flow from Libanus they be waters of life Ioh. 7. to teach others life and the true MESSIAS commeth by waters blood and spirite 1 Iohn 4. Water of cleere doctrine blood of suffring and miracles of spirite And if a man bee not regenerated of this Water and Spirite he shall not see life And thus speaketh Ezekiel And he brought mee vnto the brim of a riuer and at the brim of the Riuer was much store of trees on both sides and hee said vnto mee these waters goe forth into Galile the first and descend to the plaine to sea of Tiberias then vnto another sea Lacus Asphaltites to the Ocean and those waters are made holesome And surely euery liuing soule which can creepe into any place where these Riuers come shall be liuely and the fish shall be great Thus Ezekiel telleth whence Christ shall begin to teach in Galilee And the Zohar vpon Geneses doth note that And Iohn saw the euent of this for at the sea of Galilee was hee and Iames and Peter and Andrew called to bee fishers of men And after the resurrection Ioh. chap. 21. at the sea of Tiberias Christ appeared to many of his Disciples fishing and all night they had taken nothing And in the morning the Lord commeth to the water side vnknowen and asketh whether they had any thing to eate they said No. Because they had taken nothing all night Then hee made them cast into the right partes and they make a draught of 153. great fishes whose spaume might match the 353000. Proselites in Chanaan Olde and late Prophecie and storie are thus contriued to make easie and sure the doctrine of life And God must needes hate the Pope that bent not all his wealth to haue so many as he could ready in the Law as were the Fishers of Galilee The Disciple whom IESVS loued hath now Apoc. 21. a third sight of Ezekiels prophecie In Iohn from the throne of God and the Lambe cometh the water In Ezekiel from the Temple so the Lord of Hostes and the Lambe bee the Temple In the middle of the streete of it and of the Riuer was a Tree of life bearing twelue fruites bearing his fruite euery moneth and the leaues of the tree did heale the nations Ezekiel chap. 47. And by the Riuer came forth at his brim on either side all kinde of trees for meate the leafe of none faded nor the fruite failed euery moneth they brought forth newe For the waters came forth from the Temple and the fruite was for meate and the leafe to heale The first psalme expoundeth this that the studie of the Law findeth Christ the tree of life and maketh others fruitfull trees to feede and heale An exposition followeth heere Chap. 22. And no Catanathema giuen ouer as cursed shall bee any more But
the throne of God and the Lambe shall bee in it and his seruants shall serue him and shall see his face and his Name shall be in their forehead They that were cursed are healed by the waters of repentance and by the leaues of the tree of life and their seruice to God only and sight of his fauor is meat and drinke to them and they haue Gods marke in forehead as Papistes haue theirs They Gods worde and Baptisme and breaking of bread Papist prayers to saintes and images and profaner theirs And night shall be not there neither shall they neede candle nor light of the Sunne for the Lord God lightneth them and they shall reigne for euer and euer They who know God in Christ shall not bee to fearch Philosophi for better happinesse in natiue studie nor Iewes Talmudique studie wherein they aduenture their soule But seeing Christ they see all and reigne with Christ first heere and shall reigne for euer The Epilogue The Angells speach And he saith vnto me These wordes be faithfull and true The Lord God of the holy Prophetes hath sent his Angell to shew what is to come quicklie Because this booke applieth all the Prophets vnto Christ and taketh away all couering from their meaning he calleth the Lord the God of the holy Prophetes This conuicteth all to be godlesse who contemne to know the Prophetes and to make them plaine by Iohn How the Reuelation would force any Iew or Gentile of learning without rancor to yeeld vnto faith First the learned stile of Iohn should be shewed and infinite fulnesse of eyes howe euery phrase from first to last is couched with circumspection admirable for common Greeke for readinesse in expressing the 70. for ouermatching Talmudiques in their kinde and prouing the Gospel by their grant and visions passing mans wit expressing plaine matter from 2. Thes 2. by all plainesse and maiestie that heauen can affoord This beeing granted the sequel foloweth The sequel by any Iewes grant When the visions are seene to passe the wit of men as Esai chap. 60. as Ezekiels as Daniels and Zacharies and all drawn to Christ with a commentary from God Iohn being a simple fisher and in transe no Iew nor Gentile could denie but that this booke hath Gods authoritie and expoundeth it selfe and sheweth how all the old Test speaketh of Christ A Digression to Iewes desire to know the proofe of the New Test by the Law Twentie yeeres ago I disputed in Francfurt Synagogue with a Rabbin the Iewes chosen for skill with this promise that I would make him confesse that Moyses draweth vnto Christ or speake against his conscience and we both agreed to call God to strike him presently that spake vntruely I requiring nothing of him but that which I well knew he perceived and might iudge all past denyall He was content and neuer crossed mee But desired a large treatise And ten yer agoe at Basill requested a full treatise and all the New Test translated in such Hebrew as I spake to him and the Apocalyps applied in order of bookes to all the old Test Also hee moued the Iewes of Germanie to request the same who haue made him their Orator they of Hanau that if hee yeeld they all will And the Iewes of Wormes and Mentz beeing commanded by the Bishops to read my Books said that they could deny nothing But requested Moyses the Prophets opened at large to full measure of their 613. Lawes shewing which stand still for all nations and ages and which were giuen as vnto children to be remoued in riper knowledge The Rabbi my friend chiefe requester of Catechese their Orator is called Rabbi Eliah Why nowe I accomplish not request I will tell omitting their particular iniuries because when all this age is dead this description of Ierusalem may stand The greatnesse of the Iewes request in due articles 1. The translating of the New Testament into Ebrewe should haue with it a Dictionary of foure Dialectes and I should haue many Scribes learned who by direction may helpe me much to speed 2. Faire Copiers of my translation and learned Printers will require States helpe 3. A treatise of MESSIAS from Gen. 3. to the end of Malachi from all Rabbins of whom often I neede but line out what I would haue copied that would require much money for learned Scribes 4. The comparison of all Moses 613. making a commentary from the New Testament vpon them and a table from them to the New Test this will bee of greater paynes then my goodly recompense can heartely take in hande 5. Iewes request me to require our owne side first to yeeld to mee which I could make them doe or refuse with shame enough But that I cannot force superiors to iustice 6. To these positions I must require consent that the text of both Test is pure that of the tongue the enemies may best be made iudges to their ouerthrow and our victorie For all speaches hard in the New Test to vs are easie to them That for gouernement of the Church to make many learned in the Law they and the Apostle haue yet to eye-sight the same rules 7. As the Iewes grant all that I haue yet printed in Ebrew I would request Princes to force their Scholars to yeeld from their crossing of their owne Gospell or to combat with me brieflie 8. Because vnlearned wightes shall not prate against any thing but that many nations may iudge I would haue abilitie for helpers to turne all that I doe into other tongues many Princes helping in this I would hasten the workes and till then I leaue all hinderers as murtherers of soules out of Ierusalem the holy Citie The speach of Christ Behold I come quickly c. vnto c. The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ bee with you all Amen Chap. 1. 23. needed no comment nor the chap. 18. nor this Epilogue Therefore I may not with idle wordes weary the Reader ΤÎλος A BRIEFE TABLE FOR THE MORE READY FINDING of the Chapters in their pages and some principall matters in the same Chapters handled THE 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Chapters are handled in the 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. pages The 8. Chap. beginneth to be handled in the 59. page conteyning these things principall as foloweth The sum of the Bible contempt of which caused God to cast off the open Church 59. Of the 7. Trumpets generally 60. The first Trumpet there handled ibidem Of the names Papas and Pope handled 61 The second trumpet expounding the first 62 The third trumpet expounding the second ibid. Articles of the Popes corruption of scriptures 63 The 4. trumpet expounding the third pag. 66. The occasions of the Churches fall from heauen ibid. How the old Testament came turned into wormewood 67 Of the new Testam 68 Of the new Testam elegancie 70 How the Papes of Graecia vsed the Bible and the Popes refused it pag. 76 A Cry expounding the first trumpets warning of fire