of Israel and Juda and would if that had been too little have given thee much more Wherefore then hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord to do evil in his sight Thou hast kill'd Urias the Hittite with the Sword and hast taken his Wife to be thy Wife and hast slain him with the Sword of the Children of Ammon Now therefore the Sword shall never depart from thine house because thou hast despised me and taken the Wife of Urias the Hittite to be thy Wife Wherefore thus saith the Lord Behold I will stir up evil against thee even out of thine own house and will take thy Wives before thine eyes and give them unto thy Neighbour and he shall lye with thy Wives in the sight of the Sun For thou didst it secretly but I will do this thing before all Israel and in the open Sun-light Then said David I have sinned against the Lord. Well said Nathan the Lord hath also put away thy sin thou shalt not dye Howbeit because of doing this deed thou hast given the enemies of the Lord a cause to blaspheme the Child that is born unto thee shall surely dye And so Nathan departed Finally at what time Adonijah had taken upon him to rule the Kingdom unknown to his Father David Nathan came to the King and said My Lord O King hast thou said Adonijah shall reign after me and he shall sit upon my Seat For he is gone down this day and hath slain many Oxen David had a Son called Nathan also 2 Sam. 5.14 and fat Sheep and hath called all the King's Sons and the Captain of the Host and Abiathar the Priest and behold they eat and drink before him and say God save King Adonijah But me thy Servant and Sadock the Priest and Benajah and thy Servant Solomon hath he not called Is this thing done by my Lord the King and thou hast not shewed it unto thy Servant who should sit on the Seat of my Lord the King after him And when the King had declared his mind and will Nathan and Sadock the Priest went and anointed Solomon King Nathan Given or giving Nathanael John 1.45 c. which was a Man wonderful desirous of Messias coming was brought to Christ by Philip who finding him under a Figg-Tree said O Nathanael I can tell thee tidings we have found him of whom Moses in the Law and the Prophets did write even Jesus the Son of Joseph of Nazareth Is that true quoth he can there any good thing come out of Nazareth If thou dost not believe me quoth Philip come and see thy self And as Nathanael was coming with Philip to Jesus he saith of him thus Behold an Israelite indeed in whom is no guile Nathanael perceiving that Jesus knew him said How knowest thou me I knew thee said Jesus before that Philip called thee I saw thee when thou wast under the Figg-Tree Then said Nathanael Rabbi thou art the Son of God thou art the King of Israel Nathanael the gift of God Nehemiah a Jew born 2 Esd 1. cap. was Cupbearer to Artaxerxes King of Persia a Man of great Learning and Holiness who being in great favour with the said King obtained both Licence and Aid to re-edifie the City of Jerusalem Nehemiah the comfort or rest of the Lord the Lords direction Nicanor being a great Prince under Demetrius 1 Mac. 7. cap. and an utter enemy unto the Jews was sent with a mighty Host against Judas Machabeus who notwithstanding the hatred that he had to the Jews yet unto Judas himself he bare a secret good will and love in his heart 2 Mac. 14. cap. and counselled him when they met together to talk of Peace to take a Wife and to beget Children But for all that his malice was so great against the rest of the Jews and his heart so puft up with pride thorow his invincible power and strength that he held up his hand against the House of God making an Oath that-he would destroy it and break down the Altar and consecrate the Temple of God to Bacchus And thinking all this but a trifle to bring to pass 8 cap. sold the Jews before he came at them promising to every one that would buy them four-score and ten Jews for one Talent But this Blasphemer who had brought a thousand Merchants with him to buy the Jews was by the help and power of God for all his stout brags shortly overthrown and so discomfited that he himself was fain to change his Apparel and to flie alone to Antioch 1 Mac 7. cap. 2 Mac. 15. cap. with great dishonour and shame Finally attempting to fight again with Judas upon the Sabbath day he was at last by the mighty hand of God slain Nicanor which was one of the seven Deacons Act. 6.5 Whose Head Judas commanded to be set upon the Castle at Jerusalem and his threatning hand to be hanged against the Temple and his blasphemous Tongue cut in pieces and cast to the Birds to be devoured Nicanor a Conqueror Valiant Nicodemus Joh. 3.1 2 c. was one of the head Men among the Sect of the Pharisees but not the best Learned although his mind were lesser corrupt than the other This Man favoured Christ but durst not be known thereof for fear of the Jews wherefore he came to Jesus by Night secretly saying Rabbi we know that thou art a Teacher come from God for no Man could do such Miracles as thou dost except God were with him Jesus answered Verily verily I say unto thee except a Man be born from above he cannot see the Kingdom of God Nicodemus How can a Man be born when he is old can he enter into his Mother's Womb and be born again Jesus Verily verily I say unto thee except a Man be born of the Water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God that which is born of the Flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit Marvel not thou that I said unto thee ye must be born from above The Wind bloweth where it listeth and thou hearest the sound thereof but canst not tell whence it cometh or whither it goeth So is every one that is born of the spirit Nicodemus How can these things be Jesus Art thou a Master in Israel and knowest not these things Verily verily I say unto thee we speak that we know and testifie that we have seen and ye receive not our witness If I have told you earthly things and ye believe not how shall ye believe if I tell you of heavenly things c. This Man afterward answered for Jesus and said to the Pharisees 7.50 what time as they had sent Ministers to apprehend him doth our Law judge any Man before it hear him Finally at the Death of Christ to honour his Burial he bought of Myrrhe and Aloes mingled together about an hundred pound weight 19.39 and came with Joseph of
such power and might that all Lands stood in awe of him And whereas no man durst presume to lay hands upon this King yet Apame sitting by his side upon the right hand took off his Crown from his Head and set it upon her own head and smote the King with her left hand who in the mean time did nothing but gape and look upon her if she laughed upon him he laughed if she were angry then he flattered to win her favour again Apame Expelling or driving forth Apelles Rom. 16.10 was a faithful Christian Brother and one as it seemeth that had sustained trouble for the Gospel sake For Saint Paul sending salutations to the Christians at Rome saith thus Salute Apelles approved in Christ Apelles Expelling or driving away Apollonius the Governour of Syria 1 Mac. 3. came against Judas Machabeus with a great Host of the Heathen and in the end was slain Whose Sword pleased Judas so well that he kept it for a memory and used it for his Weapon all the days of his life in time of War Apollonius Undoing or destroying Apollonius the Son of Thersa 2 Mac. 4. c. 5. Governour of Celosyria and Phinehas a Man set all upon Tyranny was sent to Jerusalem against the Jews whom he hated with an Army of twenty thousand Men and commanded by the King Antiochus to kill all that were of perfect age and to sell the Women Maidens and Children who at his first coming to the City made a shew of peace and lay still till the Sabbath-day And then knowing the Jews would not break their Law to make resistance he fell upon them and did his commission with all extremity Apollos was an eloquent man a Jew born at Alexandria Act. 18.24 and well instructed and had but as yet the first principles of Christian religion which was the Baptism or doctrine of John only The same being somewhat entred in the way of the Lord began to be fervent in the spirit and to speak boldly at Ephesus where Aquila and Priscilla chanced to hear Him and perceiving he was not fully instructed in the precepts of the Gospel they * This great learned and eloquent man disdained not to be taught of a poor Crastsman took him home with them and expounded unto him the way of the Lord more perfectly which was the way to salvation And when he was christened in the Name of Jesus and had received the Holy-Ghost he was desirous to go into Achaia where at Corinth he did valiantly set forth the Gospel confounding the Jews with plain evident Testimonies of Scriptures that Jesus was the same Messias whom the Jews had so many hundred years looked for Aquila was a certain Jew born in Pontus Act. 18. cap. lately come out of Italy with his Wife Priscilla to Corinth because the Emperour Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome His Craft was to sow together Skins to make Tents and Pavillions withal Paul who was of the same occupation when he came to Corinth lodged in this Man's house and wrought with him And after a year and a half they departed from Corinth and went together to Ephesus where Aquila and Priscilla made their aboad And remaining there behind Paul who had taken his Journey towards Jerusalem it fortuned Apollos an Alexandrian born an eloquent Man and well learned to come to Ephesus and preached Christ so much as he had learned of him by John's Baptism for more he knew not And when Aquila and Priscilla had heard his preaching and perceiving him not to be as yet fully instructed in the knowledge of Christ they took him home with them and severally taught him more perfectly the mysteries of the Gospel Aquila an Eagle Aran Gen. 11.28 was the Son of Terah Brother to Naher and Abraham and Father to Lot and the first Man that Scripture maketh mention of that by the course of nature died before his Father Aran an Hill or hilly Archelaus Matth. 2.22 was the Son of Herod King of the Jews In whose time Joseph * This King reigned ix years over the Jews and finally was banished into France through his insolency with Glafira his Brother Alexanders widow whom he had married Lanquet returned out of Egypt with the Child Jesus to go into the Land of Israel But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Jewry in his Fathers stead fearing left he had succeeded in his Fathers cruelness like as in his Kingdom durst not go thither but turned aside into the parties of Galilee and dwelt there in a City called Nazareth Archclaus a Prince of the People Archippus was the * Col. 4.17 Instructor of the Colossians and admonished by Paul to take diligent heed to the office which was committed unto him to perform it whereof he should yield an account to the Lord at the last day Archippus the Chief or Master of Horses Arefna look Ornan Arioch was King of Ellasar Gen. 14.1 9. and one of the four Kings that fought against Bera King of Sodom and other four more in the Vale of Siddim and the lesser number overcame the greater and so took all the spoil of Sodom and Gomorrha and went their ways But being pursued by Abraham and his Confederates they were all taken and slain Arioch Long or tall or fulness or the drunkenness or the lyar Arioch was Captain of Nabuchodonosor's Guard Danicl 2. and being sent by the King to destroy all the Wise men and Soothsayers in Babylon because they could not interpret his Dream Daniel went to Ariech and desired him a little to stay until he had obtained of the King some leisure to shew unto Him the Interpretation of his Dream Daniel's request being granted and the thing revealed unto him by God he after thanks given unto God for the same went to Arioch and said Destroy not the wise men of Babylon but bring me before the King and I shall shew him the Interpretation of his Vision Then Arioch brought Daniel before the King in all hast and said thus unto him I have found a Man among the children of Juda that were brought captives that will declare unto the King the Interpretation of his Dream And so the wise men of Babylon were saved Aristarchus Act. 19.29.20.4.27.2 Col. 4.10 was a Thessalonian born and one of Paul's companions and in great hazard of his Life with him at Ephesus through the sedition of Demetrius But that overcome he accompanied Paul into Asia and so forth to Rome where he was his Fellow-prisoner and never shrunk from him Aristarchus The best Prince Aristobulus â— Mac. 1. King Ptolomies Schoolmaster came of the Generation of the anointed Priests unto whom the Jews which dwelt at Jerusalem sent an Epistle exhorting all the Jews which dwelt in Egypt to give thanks and praises unto God for the death of Antiochus which had been so cruel unto them Aristobulus Rom. 16.10 of whom Paul maketh mention in
threw it over the Wall to Joab and so the commotion ceased Sheba vanity or little accounted of or uproar Sceva Act. 19.14 was a Jew born and the chief Priest among the Jews This Man had seven Sons who for lucre sake and to purchase unto themselves a great name thereby attempted to cast out evil spirits by invocation of the name of the Lord Jesus as Paul did saying unto the Man possessed We conjure you in the name of Jesus whom Paul preacheth that ye depart out of the man To whom the spirit answered and said Jesus I know and Paul I know but who are ye And as soon as he had spoken these words the man in whom the evil spirit was ran upon them and got the upper hand on them In so much that they had much ado to escape with their lives and scarce got at the last naked and wounded out of the house And this example of the Sons of Sceva being bruted abroad among the Jews and Gentiles many which believed came to Paul and confessed their offences And beside that divers other which had used such curious crafts of Conjurations brought their books and burned them before all men the price whereof were counted at fifty thousand * A silverling was in value about a groat sterling or more Silverlings Shelah the youngest Son of Judah Gen. 38.5 11. being grown to perfect age and not given to Thamar in marriage according to his Father's promise was the occasion of Thamar's playing the Harlot with Judah her Father-in-law Shelah dissolving Selah Gen. 11.12 c. the Son of Arphaxad of the generation of Shem was the Father of Eber whom he begot when he was thirty years of age and lived after the birth of Eber four hundred and three years Which make in the whole four hundred and xxxiii years Shem Gen. 9.18 23.11.10 He is called also Melchisedeck And did first build the City of Salem which after was called Jerusalem the eldest Son of Noah received praise of his Father because he covered his nakedness as he lay uncovered in his Tent. Shem at the age of an hundred years begot Arphaxad two years after the Flood and lived after five hundred years Shimei the Son of * 2 Sam. 16.5 c. Gera of the kindred and house of Saul dwelt in a City called Bahurim And as it chanced David to flee thither for fear of his Son Absalom this man came out against him cursing and railing out of measure with such spiteful words as these Come forth come forth thou bloud shedder and man of Belial The Lord hath brought upon thee now all the bloud of the house of Saul in whose stead thou hast raigned The Lord hath delivered the Kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy Son And behold thou art come to thy mischief because thou art a murtherer And for all this would David suffer no man to do him harm So that Shimei went on still cursing and railing and hurling of stones and dirt at David like a mad-man But when the time came that David should be restored to his Kingdom again then Shimei that in his adversity was his most cruel enemy was now in his prosperity one of the first that met him to bring him home again And being passed over Jordan he fell down flat before David saying Oh let not my Lord impute wickedness unto me nor remember the thing that thy servant did wickedly when my Lord the King departed out of Jerusalem that the King should take it to heart for thy servant doth know how that I have done amiss And therefore behold I am the first this day of all the house of Joseph that am come to go down to meet my Lord the King So David forgave him Here he saith he was of the house of Joseph and before he saith he was of the house of Saul Of the Fathers side saith Lyra he was of the house of Joseph that is to say of the tribe of Ephraim but of the mothers side he was of the house of Saul But when the time of Davids departure out of this world drew nigh among all things which he spake to Solomon his Son he remembred Shimei saying Behold thou hast here with thee Shimei the Son of Gera the Son of Gemini of Bahurim which cursed me with an horrible curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim but he came to me at Jordan and I swre unto him by the Lord that he should not dye But thou shalt not count him as unguilty for thou art a Man of wisdom and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him His hoar head shalt thou bring to the grave with bloud And so Solomon being set in his Kingdom called Shimei and said Build thee an house in Jerusalem and dwell there And see thou pass not from thence any whither for be thou sure that the day thou goest out and passest over the River of Kidron thou shalt dye and thy bloud shall be upon thine own head Shimei thanked the King and dwelt in Jerusalem the space of three years and then it chanced two of his servants to run from him to Achish King of Gath whereupon Shimei sadled his Ass and went for his servants and brought them home again Then Solomon hearing of his doings commanded Benajah to put him to death for the wickedness he had done to his Father David Shimei bearing or obedient Sennacherib King of Assyria was a mighty Prince 2 King 18.13 which seeing that Salmanasar his Predecessor had conquered the King of Israel and made them Tributaries thought it good to set upon the King of Juda who at that time was the godly and most noble Ezechias And when Sennacherib had gotten into his hands all the chief Cities of Juda and Benjamin save only Jerusalem he besieged that also with such might and power that Ezechias was fain to submit himself to the mercy of Sennacherib offering him tribute so much as he would demand Upon which offer Sennacherib promised Ezechias that if he would pay him three hundred talents of silver and one of gold his land should be safe and in quiet which promise he kept truly till the mony were payed But as soon as he had received the money he sent back again three of the greatest Captains he had to make fresh War against Ezechias And when they had pitched their Tents about Jerusalem they sent for Ezechias to come and speak with them who fearing his own life sent three of his Noble-men unto them to know the matter And when they had heard all the blasphemous words of Rabshekah 2 King 19. they returned and told them to Ezechias Who hearing those evil news rent his cloaths and put on sackcloth and fell prostrate upon his face and prayed unto the Lord to help him and to have mercy upon his people and beside that he sent to Esay the Prophet desiring him to pray unto the Lord for them whose Prayer the Lord
be now shut that no man can see us and we burn in lust towards thee therefore consent and lye with us if thou wilt not we will bear witness against thee that a young Man was in the Orchard with thee and therefore thou sentest away thy Maidens Then Susanna sighed and said If I do follow your minds it will be my death and if I consent not unto you I cannot escape your hands It is better for me to fall into your hands without the deed doing than to sin in the sight of the Lord. And with that cryed out with a loud voice and the Elders cryed out against her which clamour on both parties was so great that it was heard among the Servants without which ran to the Orchard door and burst it open to see what the matter was And when the Servants had heard the Elders report of Susanna they were greatly ashamed for there was never such a report made of Susanna before And so on the next morrow the two Elders full of mischievous imaginations declared the matter to Joachim her husband to bring her to death And when she was come with her Father and Mother her Children and all her kinred to be judged according to the law she stood before the two wicked Judges with her Face covered who commanded to take the Cloth from her face that at the least they might be satisfied with her beauty which thing being done the Judges stood up and laid their hands upon the head of Susanna saying As we were walking in the Orchard alone this Woman came in with her two Maidens whom she sent away from her making fast the Orchard door after them Then started there up a young Fellow which lay hid in the Garden and went unto her lay with her Then we which stood in a corner seeing this wickedness ran unto them and saw them as they were together but we could not hold the fellow for he was stronger than we and got open the door and leaped out And when we demanded of her what fellow it was she would not tell us This is the matter and we be witnesses of the same Then Susanna cryed out and said O everlasting God thou searcher of hearts thou that knowest all things before they come to pass thou wotest that they have born false witness against me And behold I must dye whereas I never intended any such thing as these Men have maliciously imagined against me And as she was led toward the place of execution the Lord of Heaven which heard her prayer raised up the spirit of a little Child called Daniel who cryed with a loud voice saying I am clean from the blood of this Woman And when the People heard that they stayed to know of the Child what he meant by his words O ye Children of Israel said he are ye such fools that without examination and knowledge of the truth ye have condemned a Daughter of Israel return again to Judgment for they have born false witness against her Then the People went back again and the Elders took Daniel and set him among them in Judgment Who when he had commanded the two false witnesses to be severed that he might examine them he called the one before him and said O thou that art old in a wicked life now thy sins which thou hast committed afore time are come to light Tell me under what Tree thou sawest this Woman and the young fellow together he said under a Mulberry Tree Now verily quoth Daniel thou hast lied and art worthy of death in that thou hast oppressed the innocent and hast let the guilty go free contrary to the words of the Lord which saith The innocent and righteous see thou slay not Then he called the other and said O thou seed of Canaan but not of Juda Beauty hath deceived thee and lust hath subverted thine heart Thus have ye dealt with the Daughters of Israel and they for fear consented unto you but the Daughters of Juda would not abide your wickedness Now tell me under what Tree didst thou take them companying together He answered under a Pine Tree Now verily said Daniel thou hast lied also against thine head The Messenger of the Lord standeth waiting with the Sword to cut thee in two and so to destroy ye both And with that the whole Assembly cryed with a loud voice and praised God which so miraculously had preserved Susanna that day And so fell upon the two wicked Judges and according to the law of Moses put them both to death Susanna one of those godly Women which followed Christ and his Apostles relieving them with her substance as much as lay in her power T. THADDAEUS Matth. 10.3 was one of the twelve Apostles Thaddaeus praising or confessing Tertullus Act. 14.1 2 c. was a certain Oratour which Ananias the High-Priest had brought with him to inform Felix the Ruler against Paul And when Paul was brought forth Tertullus began to accuse him saying Seeing that we live in great quietness by the means of thee and that many good things are done unto this Nation through thy providence we acknowledge it wholly and in all places most mighty Felix with all thanks Notwithstanding that I be-not tedious unto thee I pray thee that thou wouldest hear us of thy courtesie a few words For we have found this man a Pestilent fellow and a mover of debate unto all the Jewes throughout the World and a maintainer of the Sect of the Nazarites And hath alsogone about to pollute the Temple whom we took and would have judged according to our law But the chief Captain Lysias came upon us and with great violence took him away out of our hands commanding his Accusers to come unto thee Of whom thou mayst if thou wilt inquire know the certainty of all these things whereof we accuse him Tertullus a false reporter or a teller of tails a lyar Terah was the Son of Nahor the Son of Serug Gen. 11.24 25 26 c. He at the age of seventy years begot Abraham but he had before by another Wife Nahor and Haran All the days that Terah lived were two hundred and five years Terah Smelling Look in the story of Abraham Tertius was the name of him that wrote the Epistle of S. Paul to the Romans while Paul indited it Rom. 16.22 saying on this wise I Tertius salute you which wrote this Epistle in the Lord. Tertius a Latine word Thamar 2 Sam. 13.1 2 c. the Daughter of David was so beautiful a young Woman that Amnon her Brother fell sick for her love And when she had visited Amnon at her Fathers commandment and drest him certain meat and brought it into his Chamber he began to force her to lye with him Then she seeing that said Nay my Brother do not force me for no such thing ought to be done in Israel commit not this folly For whither shall I be able to go with my shame