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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.
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Speed, John, 1552?-1629.
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thus being seuerally seperated that Christ from Iudah might bee certainely knowne his immediat parents are accordingly recorded from Dauid and Bethlehem the one of them in expresse words by the Euangelist and the other so acknowledged by the Iewes themselues and lastly the Apostle so confirmes it when hee saith that hee of whom these things are spoken appertained to another tribe whereof no man serued at the Altar Neither did the Pharisees who daily waited occasions against Christ euer cauill at his kindred or tribâ—… otherwise then calling him the sonne of a Carpenter a Seducer and a friend to publicans and sinners But to satisfie Suidas and such as think that by his grand-mothers line he might supply the office of a Leuite in the Temple let vs heare what Rambam writeth concerning their Customes who recordeth the Canons that the Iewes obserued in their Synagogues thus 1. Onely a Leuite must offer the Sacrifice 2. But any of Israel might expound the law 3. The expounder must be an eminent man and of great estimation 4. He that expounded might not leane vpon any pillar deske or board 5. Neither must any reade vntill the Master of the Sinagogue had commanded him 6. He that was to reade was to open the booke to reade the text and to roule vp the booke againe These obseruances done the people with silence attended the exposition vpon which customes doubtlesse Saint Iames spake when hee said that Moses of old time had in euery city them that preached him being read in the Sinagogue euery Sabbath day And according to that custome Saint Luke recordeth the actions of our Sauiour in these words And he came to Nazareth where he had been brought vp and as his custome was he went into the Sinagogue on the Sabbath day and stood vp for to reade And there was deliuered vnto him the booke of the Prophet Esaias and when he had opened the book he found the place where it was written The Spirit of the Lord is vpon me because hee hath annointed me to preach the Gospell to the poore he hath sent me to heale the broken hearted to preach deliuerance to the captiues and recouering of sight to the blind to set at liberty them that are brused To preach the acceptable yeere of the Lord. And he closed the booke and he gaue it againe to the Minister and sate downe and the â—…yes of all them that were in the Sinagogue were fastned on him And he began to say vnto them This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your eares And all bare him witnesse and wondred at the gracioâ—… words which proceeded out of his mouth And said is not this Iosephs sonne Note here how many things of the Hebrewes traditions our Lord then obserued he stood vp to reade the booke was deliuered to him he opened the booke and found the place hee closed the book and the eyes of all that were in the Sinagogue were fastned on him Thus wee see by many circumstances that our Lord read as any of Israel might as well as Leui. So Paul and Barnabas the one doubtlesse of Beniamin though the other were of Leui both at Antioch and neither of them knowne for Apostolike calling were desired by the Rulers of the Synagogue to speake words of exhortation after the reading of the Law If Suidas then had obserued this text or had knowne this practise in the Iewes Sinagogue he would neuer haue thought that a man by the line of his mother might bee accounted a Leuite or by that right vse the function on of a Priest And whether Hismeria the mother of Elisabet that bare the Baptist and Anna the mother of the blessed Uirgin that bare Christ were Sisters and both of them the daughters of Issachar a Leuite as some affirme is not canonicall and therfore I hold it no Article of faith For Christ that was to fulfill all righteousnesse so came and carried himselfe in his office and actions as in that searching age the Prince of the world could finde nothing amisse in him and the seuere punishments shewed vpon them that assaied to beare both the Scepter and Censer in one hand might haue staied their pennes that make this Prince of Iudah to be a sacrificer from Leui. For see we not the death of Uzzah only for touching the Arke and the leprosie of Vzziah for attempting to burne incense both of them of Iudah and not consecrated to minister before the Lord as they of Aaron were And contrariwise when the Leuites Machabees lastly vsurped the Scepter of Iudah and set his Crowne vpon their owne mitred heads they not onely made way by emulations and slaughters each of others vnto an Idumean Herod to obtaine the Kingdome but also became Saduces themselues in Religion which Sect 〈◊〉 â—…he Resurrectioâ—… of the bâ—…y 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that the soules of men perished wâ—…h their bodies and that there was neither Angell nor Spirit But that Christ was a Priest wee denie not yea our great high Priest which made a reconciliation for the sinnes of the whole world we acknowledge him yet after another order then Aarons was and of another Tribe then that of Leui euen of the Tribe of Iudah and order of Melchisedeck for it is euident saith the Apostle to the Hebrewes that our Lord sprang out of Iudah concerning which Tribe Moses spake nothing touching the Priesthood In which his office hee continueth a Priest for euer and in whom likewise the gouernement of his peace was prefigured so as in his person alone is accomplished the attributes that Isaiah Dauid giue the one prophecying of his Priesthood and the other of his Kingdome thus Touching his Priest-hood saith Isaiah The Spirit of the Lord is vpon me because hee hath annointed mee to preach good tydings to the meeke he hath sent me to bind vp the broken hearted to proclaime liberty to the Captiues and the opening of the prison to them that are bound And of his Kingdome saith Dauid Thy throne O God is for euer and euer the Scepter of thy Kingdome is a right Scepter thou louest righteousnesse and hatest wickednesse Therefore God thy God hath anointed thee with the oyle of gladnesse aboue thy fellowes Lord seale them both by thy Spirit in our hearts that with thee wee may raigne Kings and Priests as himselfe the true witnesse hath promised CHAP. VIII That Salomons House was rent and all his posterity vtterly extinct long before the comming of Christ in his flesh and that neither from Salomon nor any of his successors the Kings of Iudah Christ Iesus tooke any part of his humanity WHen Dauid was fully established vpon his Throne had brought vp the Arke to the prepared Tabernacle and intended to haue built that more faire and conuenient this message was brought him by the Prophet Nathan from the Lotd Thou shalt not build a house for me to dwell in
beene if Israels abode had beene in Egypt fully foure hundred and thirty yeeres with no greater increase God promising to multiply that seede of Abraham as the starres of Heauen and the dust of the earth For in the like space of foure hundred and thirty yeeres the World from the floud was replenished onely by three persons Iaphet Sem and Ham with farre greater increase For in Abrahams story we reade of the preparation of nine Kings and of sixe Nations in Canaan and the Countries adiacent And that the earth was peopled and replenished both continent and Ilands long before wee see by the dispersions of Noahs sonnes through the world neither doth the Text being aduisedly read inforce any such continuance in Egypt for thus doth Moses write and our last translation reade The soiourning of the children of Israel who dwelt in Egypt was foure hundred and thirty yeeres But that the Israelites dwelt not in Egypt foure hundred and thirty yeeres as Genebrard vnderstandeth Moses a second foundation by the holy Genealogies is laid for Kohath accompanied Iacob into Egypt and his sonne was Amram and his son Moses Then seeing Kohath is the enterer and Moses the departer the time cannot extend to foure hundred and thirty yeeres for Kohath liued but one hundred thirty three yeeres Amram his sonne but one hundred thirty seuen and Moses his son was eighty at the departure All which added together make but three hundred and fifty and yet some of them also must bee deducted where they liued together These ages therfore are so sure and true witnesses of Moses his meaning that Genebrard mistaking it affirmeth some betwixt Kohath and Moses to bee omitted To such extremity Genealogies enforceth And yet further to illustrate the text for story a weake woman may serue to support the truth namely Iochebed the mother of Moses who was the immediate daughter of Leui borne vnto him in Egypt by Elishebah his wife Nom. 26. 59. Now the life of Leui extended but to one hundred thirty seuen yeeres Exod. 6. 16. whereof forty three were spent before hee came into Egypt which thus may be collected Leui was borne of Leah in the third yeere of the second seuen of Iacobs seruice with Laban in the end of which seauen Ioseph also was borne Gen. 30. 25. Chap. 31. 41. So that Ioseph is but foure yeeres yonger then Leui. Now Iosephs age at his expounding of Pharoahs dreame was thirty Gen. 41. 46. And thence the seauen yeeres of plenty and the two of famine were expired Gen. 45. 6. So that Ioseph was aged when his Father and bretheren came into Egypt thirty nine yeeres and Leui his elder was at that time forty three whose continuance then in Egypt must be ninety foure yeeres for ninety foure added to forty three make one hundred thirty seauen his whole age to his death before which time it is manifest Iochebed his daughter must bee borne or be begotten Now if the abode in Egypt were fully foure hundred thirty yeeres then three hundred thirty six yeeres after Leui his death must be the departure thence but so long a time by Iochebeds age cannot be granted for she being borne but ninety foure yeeres after the first entrance and liuing to beare a sonne but eighty yeers before the departure the time betwixt the death of her father and the birth of her sonne must be the age of her owne life for had shee beene borne the day of her fathers death which is not likely and had died the day of her sonnes birth which wee know is contrary yet must shee haue beene two hundred fifty and sixe yeeres old when shee bare Moses A time by much too long for weomen to conceiue and her age farre vnfit to giue sucke or to bee chosen a fit nurse for a Kings daughters sonne And therefore it is certenly gathered by these holy Genealogies that the peregrinations of the Patriarks Abraham Isaac and Iacob for the space of two hundred and fifteene yeeres must be accounted with the time of the continuance in Egypt both which together make the sum of foure hundred and thirty What lights therefore Genealogies are for history let these here alleaged stand for witnesses wherein I appeale to the gaine-sayers themselues whether any text bee forced contrary to the true meaning CHAP. IIII. That the Scriptures Genealogies doe limit Daniels Seuens not to exceede 490 yeeres THE like vse and vtility shall we find in the succeeding times of the sacred Records and most especially in that which concerneth vs most namely â—…he time mentioned in Daniel which â—…oreshewed the death of the true Lambe Christ vnto whom all the sacrifices of the Law pointed and in whom all the Leuiticall rites ended â—…e being our high Priest farre aboue Aarons order Now among many other maleâ—…ictions threatned for the breach of â—…he Law this was one that the Land should lie waste to pay her Sabbaths of rest Which time of waste â—…he Prophet Ieremy affirmeth to haue beene seuenty yeeres and doth begin their account in the first yeere of Nebuchadnezzar King of Babel from whence all nations should serue him his sonne and sonnes sonne the space of seuenty yeeres which expired in the third of Belshazzar and first yeere of King Cyrus when the raigne of the Kingdome of Persia beganne as it is in 2. Chron. 36. 20. 22. Vpon which Text of Ieremie Daniel tooke his occasion of Prayer for their deliuerance and the Lord was as ready to accomplish his promise who sending his Angell euen in the same moment certified him that whilest his supplications were in making the Decree of deliuerance was in determining and that not onely from Babels seuenty yeeres captiuity but also thence after seuenty times seuen should bee a full deliuerance from spiritual thraldome by the doctrine and death of the Messiah These seuenty seuens Gabriel diuideth into 3. parts as followeth 1. To the rebuilding of the City and building the second Temple seuen seuens Secondly Sixty two seuens wherein a silence for Prophesie the want of fier from heauen the Vrim and Thummim should be had And thirdly one seuen in the halfe whereof Christ should confirme the Couenant for many and in the end thereof should seale vp mans redemption by his death and passion Notwithstanding this tripple account and plainnesse of Chronologie which the Angell aimeth at as to the true period of times fulnesse hath beene troubled with the vncertaine computations both of Iewes and Christians who haue both shrunke and tentered them from the iust number of foure hundred and ninety yeeres which seuenty seuens make in their owne propriety For some will haue them to containe no fixed certaine time at all but rather thinke they were spoken vnto Daniel as Christ spake vnto Peter in forgiuing his brothers offences I say not vnto thee vnto seauen times but vnto seuenty times