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An aduertisement of corruption in our handling of religion To the Kings Majestie. By Hugh Broughton.
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Broughton, Hugh, 1549-1612.
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Melea. Eliakim Ionan Ioseph Iuda Simeon Levi. Matthaâ— Iorim Eliezer Iose Er. Melchi Neri Salatthiel Elmodam Cosam Addi * These bad three and worse Iehoiakim Saint Matthewe omitteth ZOROBABEL Abiud Abiud or Mesullam 1. Chro. 3. to whom the Crowne belonged and from whom Heathen toke it Eliakim Azor. Sadoc Achim Eliud Elâ—azar Matthan Iacob Ioseph * Ioseph should haue bene King if Tyrants would haue given all men their right and our Lord his Sonne by lawes esteeme so had bene Kinge of the Iewes And would haue it in no other right that his heavenlie Kingdome might bee knowne Rhesa Ioanna Iuda Ioseph Semei Mattathias Maath Nagge Essi Naum. Amos. Mattathias Ioseph Ianna Melchi Levi. Matthan Eli father in lawe to Ioseph only y e note was good in the former table Marie IESVS our Lord Thus the Table neuer had doubt For seeing Salathiel was the sonne of Neri by S. Luke a priuate man who must needs be a father naturally not as K. Baasa whose family was rooted out was father to King Achab in the speach of King Benadad and seeing God sware that Iechonias should dye childlesse as auctour of the Kingdomes ruine there and not in Ochosias should the Iewes place the Catachresis of begetting Our Lord doeth nothing but he telleth his servants the Prophetes But he told not that hee would end Salomons house in Ochosias and would not passe so great a matter in silence a matter the greatest for the kingdomes of this world Therefore Salomons race ended not in Ochosias but our right Reuerend Fathers are vnspeakably to seeke for the trueth of holy story And Aggei with Zacharie help S. Luke to be vnderstood Aggei bringeth wordes from God for Zorobabel that he shal be a signet vpon the finger of God at the day of glory when the Macedonian kings should be shaken and our Lord should come into the world 29. yeares by Num. 4. before hee entred into the worke of the Tabernacle And so by Moses and Daniel in Aggeis time his nation knew in what yere the west Cittim named Num. 24. generally and Dan. xi more distinctly should haue a full token of Empire the Macedonians should be vtterly bestript of all gouernement Then Zorobabel in Christ should be a signet vpon the finger of God Zorobabel a poore gouernour of 49000. captiues which left Babel hauing litle but what Daniel gote by his wisedome to help the Iewes home Zorobabel poore in spirit and looking for a citie whereof God was the builder soone called away from Sion to Susan as a Pilgrome and stranger on the earth But God sware as was noted from Ier. 22. that if Iechonias were a signet vpon the finger of the Lord he would pluck him thence Therefore Salathiel may no further be sonne to Iechonias then a succeeder in governement as Achab is sonne to Baasa rooted out 1. K. 20.34 Heathen vsed Adoption but Dauids house was bound to the next man of kindred And in adoption the terme begetting is vsual as in a naturall father So Ovid the mirrour of plaine Latin speaketh of Iulius and Augustus Metam 15. being of seuerall families by the father side and Augustus is progenies of Iulius and Nec enim de Caesaris actis Vllum maius opus quam quod Pater extitit huius And againe Scilicet aequoreos plus est domuisse Britannos c. quam tantum genuisse virum As they are very simple in learning that know not Britanie famous 2000. yeares agoe Before Brennus spoiled Delphos and Graecia with his Trimarchiâ of our Britanie and are bare Chorographers that know not all borne within our Iland seas to be Penitus toto diuisos orbe Britannos So they haue litle stomake against Italy that would not remember this place of Naso And as the Emperours are famous Diui So the first beginning in Diuus Iulius and Diuus Augustus is famous thus Ne foret hic igitur mortali semine cretus Ille Deus faciendus erat Hence to all learned and specially to vs the terme of begetting for a successour should bee familiar Thus I speak only for the simple as for our right Reverend Fathers they doe take it for successioÌ„ in all after Ochosias as begotten of him by succession and all that like of them for the phrase there caÌ„not mislike the Catachresis in Iechonias and Salathiel And all must graunt that Salomons house must be brokeÌ„ off vnlesse they will make two Salathiels and two Zorobabels the one couple fathers to Ioseph the other to Mary So doe some learned but vnlearnedly For Zorobabel Aggei 2. was both heyr to Salomon and father to our Lord. And they had bene rash namegeuers that should name a couple of ech family with the same names to disturbe all the world Now that Zorobabel the gouernour in Salomons house cometh of Nathan Zacharie sheweth naming Leui and his chief family Simeon Dauid with Nathan as chief in his family Ch. 12.10 So this cause is past doubt to cleare the Table that in Iechonias not in Ochosias Salomons house was buried that family kingdome should end togeather That Ier. 22. all lam might be plain And an other as great a dotage as any euer came from brainsick head haue the right revereÌ„d Fathers sold to torment the simple who over the realme haue marked them how they make Ochosias to be two yeares Elder then his Father and many yeares Elder then his Mother Of Ochosias or Achaziah made Elder then his Father OF King Ioram thus it is written 2. Chr. 21.20 When he beganne to reigne he was thirty and two yeres old and reigned in Ierusalem eight yeres and liued wretchedly Howbeit they buried him in the city of David but not among the sepulchres of the Kings And the inhabitants of IerusaleÌ„ made Achaziahu his youngest sonne King in his steed for the men of warre that came with the host of the Arabians had slayne all his eldest sonnes and so Ahaziahu the sonne of Iehoram King of Iuda was made King Two and fourtie yeares old was he when he began to raigne and he raigned one yeare in Hierusalem his Mothers name was Athalia the daughter of Amry Of the errours how many very grosse follow vpon one 1. OChosias is called the youngest and made king by the people That had bene needles if he had reygned twenty yeares afore 2. Besides his father reigned but 8. yeres And foure of them with Iosaphat And it were senseles to make him reigne 16. yeres or 12. at the lest afore his father 3. MoÌ„reover nether was Iosaphat king in Iuda nor Achab king of Israel nor Ioram borne 42. yeres afore Achazias death So elder then his Father and Mother and Mothers house should he be For Omri was not theÌ„ setled King but only made King by his souldiers vpon the death of Zimri And Tibni was made King by his men and foure yeares were spent before the people made Omri King Now by our Bishops notes
Prophetes had so many corruptions in longer time more would grow The learned man dealt here not learnedly A prosessour of Ebrew 30. yeares might haue shewed that the text was still most exact and in many places far the more curious Ebrew and he should not weaken the glory of Gods providence whose watchfulnes hath preserved every letter of all the holy Hebrew that his Prophetes wrot for the vse of all ages Many booke-prophetes wrote for the vse of Israell while their tongue families and townes stood which afterwardes would not profit when Israell perished and heathen should be vexed in searching stories not plain Those bookes the last Prophetes extinguished and made vp an absolute pithie storie fit for all ages And so much we must defend to every letter Ecclesiasticall authoritie in a certen libell commendeth M. Livelies booke Bishops that know Ebrew will not assent nor any who vse advisement Authoritie should make Lively recant This blamer knoweth that he hath read thrise mo Ebrew auctours then he and will defend each of the 848. words blamed by M. Lively And a worke titled Tiphereth Israel would haue told M. Lively more thē he knoweth for this matter and much more to speak better of the holy text And the right reverend fathers should write of the Bibles purenesse first how the text is sound before they dispute of further matter All thinges must be done in order in the Church of God And if men regard money not learning Gods face will be vpon them Of Tzau an Ebrew worde in Hosee rashly blamed IEroboam the first bade Israell worship calues at Dan and Bethel vpon his word they did so That Hosee touched in one syllable Tzau a charge M. Liuely writeth that the text is corrupt Shau by him it should be No Ebrew told him so Only he told him selfe so By equall authoritie he might make a new Bible of his owne head Hee bringeth the Lxx. for his warrant They translate Vaine thinges as Shau The answere is easie They translate cōmonly for Heathen capacitie where Iewes stories would be hard for them So they entitle the bookes of Samuel The Kings Because Heathen would not soone perceaue how Core his sonne should haue such a title So Heathen would not soone see how Osee spake of Ieroboams charge and therefore the Lxx. take for Tzau Shau for Charge Vain things dealing most wittily This work of M. Lively is solde in Paules But the auctor should amend that We may not crosse our owne ground that the Scripture is all pure cleare in one copie or other and here in all that haue bene spokē off And M. Liuely alone fighteth against all the world But that our Ecclesiasticall authority fighteth in his allowance for him against our good Of Daniels seauens the right meaning and corruption commended by our Ecclesiasticall and Stationers SInce Adamfell on the day of his creation and brought death before he walked in any obediēce to kindle Gods anger to the full yet God in mercy vsed many meanes to breed faith in the redeemer beside the warnings of his word The flood destroyed all but eight of all the men nothing remaineth but spirites in prison except eight saued in the Arke That severity might haue made them all wise Yet Cham was not bettered but his race called out Idolatry and Babels Tower for that wherevpon God bereft these builders of the tongue that spake of hope in the redeemer that they should no more heare of him till Babel should fall by Sem in Cyrus and by Iapheth in Darius when Persians and Medes tooke Babell And amongst his owne people he reckoned the worldes age to that time most exactly and plainly yeares 3470. And then his Angell telleth Daniel for Darius and Cyrus and all nations of the kingdome of Salvation and nameth the redemer the most holy Messias the Governer Messias that shall confirme the covenaunt with many and telleth of his kingdome how it shal be in sufferings Iudah saw the fall of Salomons kingdome their hope and the fall of Babel the glorie of nations and now first experience might teach that the kingdomes of this world vnder the sun had nothing but vexation of spirit At that time it was fit to tell all the world of the kingdome of heauen when Iewes Gentiles saw all the earth cursed The Iewes kingdome had fallen and they were told they should never haue an earthly kingdome more and Hethen kingdomes were shewed to be as savage beastes coaming out of the great sea tossed with many windes So in that opportunitie an Angel called Gabriel the mighty man of God whom Daniel had seene before cometh in the Evening to Daniel praying for a return home for his people to restore their religion and telleth him that his prayer was heard that Ierusalem shal be restored as Esaie foretold Cyrus should do it that mount Sion should haue sacrifices seaven times the space of seaventy yeares captivity that is 490. yeres But exactly then the Son of God would consecrate him selfe to end Moses and to bring in an Eternall redemption and as he had Oxen and sheepe in sacrifices for his body and their blood for the blood of his covenant hee would confirme a covenaunt for all nations As the Gospell recordeth what he hath done leaving bread for his body in seale of covenaunt and wine for the new testament by his covenant So at his death he should end Moses Lawes and all Leviticall function that no Mosaicall sacrifice should afterwardes be lefull And the time of all this matter is clearely and strictly set downe that Cyrus Darius knew when the sonne of God would worke redemption in which hope 49000. Iewes leaue Babel for Ierusalem and so many of Israel as had hope of Salvation thought of Ierusalem in all countreys where they were scattered Also the Sonne of God is called by Gabriel as was said Messias in such Ebrew as it must needes be a propre name which it is not againe in all the old testament and Saint Iohn for Messias cha 1. and 4. forceth vs to looke vnto the Angells speach and still the name of CHRIST through the new Testament in so much that to deny MESSIAS here to meane Our Lord and Saviour that is nothing els but to deny all the New Testa Besides for certainty of all God telleth that by the tenth part of this time exactly from the leaue to returne Ierusalem shal be walled but not without much adoe so forty nine yeres are set alone with the stories of 4900. thousand Iewes interlaced least Heathen lyes should break the trueth of the Chronicle When God had given Cyrus all the kingdomes of the earth then he maketh a decree to build the Temple and to giue a subsidie throw 120. nations to helpe the Iewes home Long warres had Cyrus afore he became so great Esay did name him by his name and foretold of his victories And Heathen doe record them and Lucian recordeth that Cyrus liued