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spirit_n	faith_n	grace_n	lord_n	6,870	5	3.6136	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16975	To the most high and mightie prince Elizabet, by the grace of God Queene of Englande, Fraunce, and Irelande, defender of the fayth. &c.	Broughton, Hugh, 1549-1612.	1594 (1594)	STC 3861; ESTC S105851	14,036	26

TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTIE PRINCE ELIZABET by the grace of God Queene of Englande Fraunce and Irelande defender of the fayth c. I Presented vnto your Highnes most gracious Soueraine the Concent of the holy Storie endeuoryng there to shewe that all the Booke of trueth breathed from one spirite That coulde not be declared vnles the times had a most exact playnnes which I recorded to be certaynly chayned euen from the fall to the Redemption For that I layde downe the pure wordes of the text whereof an angel tolde That from the ende of Iudahs captiuitie 490. yeeres are pared out vnto our Lordes death Against this last part a Learned man of Oxford long disputed not denying the wordes to haue Gods authoritie in them nor yet differing from mee for their beginning and ende but affirming That the Angell meant no certaine tyme. And setting aside the Angels wordes he affirmeth That from Olympiades 560. yeeres precisely may be gathered by the Greeke affayres And going on by the Iewes common weale maketh a partitiō He maketh the Temple a marke most famous the limit of both partes as I had done but not in lyke tyme. From Zorobabel and Iosuahs returne from Babel he maketh yeeres an hundreth and seauen vnto the buylding of the Temple There I say that ancient Ebrewes vniuersally ancient Greekes vniuersally and Latines most generally olde and late keepe them within 32. yeres and that Scripture and lyues of all famous men agree with that After the buylding of the Temple are by him to our Lordes death 453. yeres which I wyll grant him and fiue more In this laboure of his I blame his endeuour of two generall errours That he disanulleth the propriety of the Angels wordes and affirmeth that the returned from Babel lyued 107. yeeres to buylde the Temple He read twelue monethes as his hearers triumphed Some of his Lectures he sent me by which I might iudge what matter could be in the rest I could haue wished that he woulde eyther haue spoken where I myght reply or haue printed his opinions that rumors myght not preuayle aboue iudgement I haue printed many seuerall workes against him The summe of them is this That all his gaynsaying is extreamely erroneous and that he hath not blamed with any colour of sounde learning one worde of my Booke Those small workes of my Defences for our Religion and common trueth oppugned by one pretending peculiar differing from me who for these two poyntes haue all Nations Religions and Studies on my side Them I humbly commende to your Highnes that they may be censured by some Learned countenanced as trueth requireth and considered according to the honour of your gracious gouernement A priuate censure hath passed betwixt vs all ready For my Lord Archbyshop of Canterburies grace was chosen vmpier and examined both sides argumentes I hope I may with modesty pleade his testimony though for my selfe yet in a publique cause where it is good for all to knowe the full strength of the trueth His Grace did wholly approue the Concent for euery whit where his wisedome saw Heathen that deceaued Diuines confuted most plentifully by most ancient Heathen of their owne kinde and vniuersally by all Iewes And touching former Christians folowyng Gentiles on Daniel folowing Iewes in Ezra his Grace saw them holpen from errours by their owne graunt that when the D. and I ioyne issue for the space betwixt the Alter and Temple Prophane heathē haue there no worke but olde Diuines Ebrew Greeke Latine tell him that he went very farr further then they woulde wish him And touching crossing the Angels propriety I can not thinke that Europe beareth one learned Christian or that Iury which trembleth at Gabriels oration hath now one man that holdeth the number vncertaine I thinke his Grace will tell your Highnes so much And your Maiesties signification of your Princely determination woulde more breake young brauing Studentes whom reason in such vnexpected soyles can not bende I greatly reuerence my learned aduersarie and commende him that he woulde not haue all libraries set on flame by fire of iudgement in few wordes without tryall in one twelue monethes fight But I shoulde more commende him now if at the last he woulde tell how playne the Scripture lay alwayes though no heathen before setled Iubilees aright with the Chronicle His fame of Learning and my more confident resistance maketh many thinke that the Scripture is hard where our long labours differ The fault is vntolerable in the one of vs two eyther in him or in mee and the faulty shoulde be forced to yeelde that none thinke amisse of Gods worde I refuse not to abyde all disgrace yf my trauels be not founde true for the story profitable for the quietnes of the state and fit for a Prince reigning in these west endes of the earth the possession of Christ Our Marchantes that passe ouer all Nations can not carry into the East more noble marchandise from the West then skil of teaching Greekes vpon what occasion euer hitherto they missed 1500. yeeres in 4000. and marred all the holy story and lost religion and caused the Christian Arabians to follow and fayle alike And that poynt hath been hence first opened in that lytle worke to your Maiestie and in a further explication of it Likewyse where by the tyme and kinred of Christ they may moue any Iewes there I trust that I may affirme without chalenging more then due that to your Highnes first both poyntes were declared in full and constant Concent What the paynes hath been to contriue vnto agreement so many most intricate pointes as for this harmony of Scripture haue been ioyned from east writers of hard and diuers tongues and subtilties not Ebrew onely but Syriaque and Chaldean in sundry Dialectes from Greekes and Latines of all sortes auoyding the errours of all bringing nothing but matters of difficultie and all iudged faultlesse any may iudge that considereth but the hardnes of the least of these studies seuerally The payne is augmented by the greatnes of the charges not mainteined by great allowance of Diuinity but gotten through Ebrew skill and spent on Diuinity though it be a rule of God and man that none warre on their owne charges Yet duetie bindeth all men to further as they can celestiall knowledge But paynes in this sort loseth much of the due encoragement And some encrease of griese I felt that when I had a meaning to looke to my selfe by other meanes then Diuinity I was requested by one of your Maiesties honorable Counsellers a Diuine to take rather your Highnes preferment the delay whereof hath hindred myne owne course But all this may soone be cured when it is knowen to your gracious care ouer Learning Your Maiesties most humble Subiect Hugh Broughton An Epistle sent vnto the Archb. of C. and D. Elmer then B. of London chosen vmpires touching the D. that read against the Concent of Scripture and the Author of that Concent

Religion and knoweth tradesinen who be cunninger in the depht of the holy booke then the common sort of teachers whose zeale medleth not beyond their owne boundes I would not be thought to thinke that your D. could fauour such dealings But because they wil needes be shrowding vnder his winges I thought good to warne of that This euil sowen by mistaking your D. is like a Grangraena further growing A Cambridge man that liueth in Essex a Scholmaster and a Preacher meeting with a Gentleman that knew from Genesis to the Apocalyps the frame of the Bible better thē he was counselled by that Gentleman to make a declaratio of christianity how in al ages it was cleere before he trauelled to stir the simple vncertainly and to make the people know the euerlasting certainty of saluation by Moses the Prophets the Gospel and the Epistles He answered that some bookes of Scripture could neuer yet be vnderstood namely the Reuelation The Gentleman vsing an instance from some for that he sayd that your D. had confuted that paines though he medled not with one worde You may see what harme to himselfe and to the Church is wrought by his reading being mistaken and misreported I could wish that he would eyther reuoke all his gain-sayinges as I charge him that they be all iniurious erronious or print al his lectures which I saw for the one halfe an yeeres reading that all might see what is in controuersy Marke further infection of an other learned man I know not whether he were bred amongst you a certaine Gentleman whom I neuer saw writeth to a friend of his from Dunslei in Staffoideshyre to a Londoner thus Dec. 20. 1592. I hearde not long since a learned man yet ignorant and ouer swift in iudgement disprayse this Booke of Scripture Concent as needelesse and a superfluous worke of whom I demaunded whether he did know it or euer read it His answere was no. How can you giue iudgement then sayd I of that you know not He answered that he heard so Thus leauing the counsell of S. Iohn which biddeth vs try spirites whether they be of God or no such fall into the curse of the Lord that call lyght darknes and darknes lyght that iudge good euyl and euyll good Although he tooke himselfe learned I am sure he was not able of his owne pregnant wit so much as to reade ouer the booke in such order as it requireth without an instructer much lesse then to vnder stande the same and the drift therien The Gentleman that wrote this fauoureth much your studentes and hearing of my iust griefes wrote a request to beare with the losers But when he perceiued the strang dealinges of some from you and sauage barbarousnes he was of that mynde that pitty may not marre the citie VVhat some Doctors of Cambridge thought I recorded One being at London vpon your Doctors first Antilogy being asked of a Londoner what he thought of the Booke which your D. confuted sayd thus The argument is as profitable as could be chosen for this age Then sayd the Londoner yf it be so VVhy did none of you DD. or of the BB. take it in hande Then sayd he The man who tooke it in hande knew by reason of his studies in the tongues longer then any others that he was ablest to performe it Truely I woulde not for any preferment haue troubled her Maiestie with accepting any worke of mine aboue all others in the kinde in yeeres the youngest of dealers in so weighty affaires vnlesse I had thought my houres most of any in that study and my selfe able to keepe our nation from all foyle for accepting my paynes And I know that by that helpe an other may see more into Scripture by a learned guide in few monethes then I coulde before I founde the order in ten yeeres And acertaine Nobleman of my age tolde me that he learned more in two houres by that helpe with open speach vpon it then by all his former paines I hope you wyll beare with me the cause is not now mine owne And I may giue as good leaue to disgrace the cause as the defender Pericles or Nestor would do this vnprouoked Iob. Moses and Paul would in defence speake of them selues And as I made the cause from priuate by arbitrement to be publique so I wyll enterlace here the testimony of a publique person The Archbyshop of C●●terbury his grace you know was by both sides chosen vmpire you may soone know whether he thus censured That neuer any humane paynes was of greater trauell and dexteritie then against 1500. yeeres errours so to cleare the holy story as the booke of Concent hath done Of what spirite then shal we holde Studentes that cannot abide their owne Religion to go cleare forwarde nor the publique testimonie which standeth as the Princes owne I most humbly woulde intreate her Maiestie to commaunde that a publique testimonie which might be knowen ouer the Realme may passe betwixt ys But now I desire your goodnes to giue your testimony eyther in print or as you wil whether I holde not the trueth and haue bin more grosly iniuried then euer any by any of a contrary religion I hope all wyll so conclude who reuerence learning care for trueth honour Scripture and regarde Religion