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lord_n	honourable_a	majesty_n	privy_a	10,396	5	9.6495	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12716	A cloud of vvitnesses and they the holy genealogies of the sacred Scriptures. Confirming vnto vs the truth of the histories in Gods most holy word, and the humanitie of Christ Iesus. The second addition. By Io. Speed.; Clowd of witnesses.	Speed, John, 1552?-1629.	1620 (1620)	STC 23032; ESTC S107808	157,859	378

A Cloud of VVitnesses AND THEY THE HOLY GENEALOGIES OF THE SACRED SCRIPTVRES Confirming vnto vs the truth of the Histories in Gods most holy word and the Humanitie of Christ Iesus The second Addition MATTH 22. 45. If Dauid then call him Lord how is he his Sonne By Io. Speed LONDON Printed by Iohn Beale To the most reuerend Father in God George Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Primate and Metrapolitan of all England and one of his Maiesties most honourable priuy Councell THe manifold fauors that your GRACE hath extended to me euen from before I was knowne vnto you by face and euer since hath continued them abundantly without any my deserts hath imboldened me most reuerend Father in God to Dedicate vnto your GRACE and gracious protection these my last labours in this cloud of witnesses of Gods truth An argument it is vnto some of some seeming difficultie and a rough path vnto many vnusuall trode in and therefore requireth a far more able meanes to smooth the way then either my wit or weake ability can any waies aford That the Scriptures Genealogies are vaine some that follow their owne vaine in preferring zeale before knowledge would haue the Apostle to pronounce Others besides their authority for that they are penned by Gods Spirit account them vselesse and empty either to bee knowne or taught To meete with both my selfe of many thousands the least haue assaid first in drawing the lineall descents of all the Tribes and of euery family from first to last to illustrate the text and especially theirs of Iudahs that lead vnto Christ. And now in this small treatise doe endeauour to shew their vses both in the holy stories to whom they are staies and in confirmation of Gods promises to whom they are a great cloud of witnesses But for my refuge against the oposers of this my so weak a performance to whom shall I flie but onely to your Grace whom God and his Maiesty hath appointed to the helme of Christs ship in these Brittish seas And who formerly was one of those reuerend Commissioners that approued and authorised the publication of my draughts of the Scriptures Genealogies vnto the world That I am not a Leuite I confesse and farre vnworthy to offer or to come neer vnto the Altar I acknowledge yet am I not thereby quite exempted from seruice but am inioyned as all others are to labour and to lay hand to the forwarding of Gods worke For not onely the Leuites ministred to the prouision of the first Tabernacle but euery one of them also that were numbred from twenty yeers old and aboue among sixe hundred thousand three thousand fiue hundred fiftie men did offer his halfe shekell for the setting forward of the Sanctuary And for the increase of Gods treasurie the poore widdow did minister as well as the rich Pharisee The seruant that had but one Talent in charge for hiding that one was condemned the frutlesse fig-tree withered in one night The very heathen man could say That man is not borne onely for himselfe we know that all must labour in the Lords vine-yard and not stand idle all the day And sure I am that your GRACE as another Moses wisheth that all the people in the Host could prophesie with Eldad Medad as Gods high Priest continually shaketh the Censer of sweet prayers for the wealth of his Zion peace of our Church in whose hand I pray that Aarons rod may long bud that from your forehead may long shine Holinesse to the Lord. That God therefore who hath indued your GRACE with many blessed graces in this mortall life continue them long to his glory your own comfort and our consolation and after your Pilgrimage in this vale of teares crowne you in the life of immortality to reigne with his Christ and as a starre to shine among his elect and chosen children for euer Your Graces in all most humble and dutifull seruises to bee commanded IOHN SPEED To the Christian Reader Grace and Peace THe holy ascents mounting into those sacred buildings which are laid vpon the foundations of the Prophets and Apostles Christ Iesus himselfe being the Corner stone are the Times the Persons and the Places of the Scriptures Records which are as strong stayes to mount into the historicall sight of the sacred Scriptures as were the steps though supported with twelue Lions that led into Salomons Throne Any of which either so laid or mistaken hindreth the eye of some perfect obiest that otherwise from them lye open to the sight so no man can deny but that in all humane descriptions these are the Sinewes of the narration and in the sacred Text these also are the Cement that couer together the well squared Stones in the Lords building without noise or stroke either of Axe or Hammer And doe still make knowne how sure by Text the holy Spirit vttereth a vniforme truth For the euent of Prophecies falling in any Age vpon any Person People or Place and meeting in the Center of a perfect performance declares the constant accomplishment of Gods determined decrees whether it be in his Iustice vpon the sons of reiection and death or in his mercy vpon the children of Election and life and are to the mind of the thirsting searcher as the watersprings were to Dauids heart and more to be desired then the gold refined in the fier seauen times The discents of the persons the Genealogies annexed to the new translated Bible doe shew and what part they beare for illustration of Scriptures this present Treatise in some part doth witnesse which had it beene written with a more learned pen would haue giuen I know farre more satisfaction especially to such as thinke their doctrine condemned by the Apostle or atleast of lesse vse then other studies of Scripture Upon which occasion and the desire of others more moderatly minded these paines were vndertaken and gone wherein I haue rather chosen to confirme their vses in a continual discourse then to rippe vp the assertions of an ignorant zeale lest in opening the obiection the opinion proposed proue little lesse then blasphemy as Solon in his lawes forbare to mention the punishment for the murtherers of Parents lest in naming the Fact the thoughts of the children might be corrupted And albeit I haue not curiously carued but rather rough hewen the stones to this worke as the least labourer and in the last houre of the day yet the foundation being laid vpon the sacred sure Text cannot bee tempest-shaken howsoeuer for manner and stile it may bee found faultie in the searching eyes of this learned age And the thing especially aimed How God became Man and how the Immanuel Iesus was the Messiah of the world and King of the Iewes beside the ho●…y Prophets many testimonies the Iewish Rabb●…ins themselues apparantly grant whose owne reports in their many Talmuds as they are collected from the skilfull in that tongue are here laid down without any fainings or