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A17017	The first part of the resolution of religion devided into two bookes, contayning a demonstration of the necessity of a diuine and supernaturall worshippe. In the first, against all atheists, and epicures: in the second, that Christian Catholic religion is the same in particuler, and more certaine in euery article thereof, then any humane or experimented knowledge, against Iewes, Mahumetans, Pagans, and other external enemies of Christ. Manifestly convincing all their sects and professions, of intollerable errors, and irreligious abuses.	Broughton, Richard.	1603 (1603)	STC 3897; ESTC S114320	118,360	300

but briefly because it is handled at large in a late englishe treatise did not theyr highest and renounedst Oracle answere to the Archeslamen at Delphos and disclose the holie misterie of the Trinitie of the Father his deare Sonne and Spirit conteining all as their owne writers Suidas Plutarch Porphiry and others giue euidence And that deare sonne of God would be theyr ouerthrowe and destruction Like answere was made to Augustus Caesar himselfe about the diuinity of Christ how at his comming the gods of the Oracles should goe to hel Porphiry that aduowed enemie of Christians is a witnesse that generallie the Gods and Oracles of the Gentiles gaue testimony to his Sanctitie and that where men beleeued in him the oracles were silent and gaue no answers Such are the testimonyes of Iuenall Strabo and others And it is generallie verified by all infallible experience by the ceasing of all Oracles ouerthrowe of Idolatrie and confession of their Gods in all countries in the world where Christian Religion hath bin preached either in those that haue so long beleeued or the Indies those Nations that were lately conuerted which was prophetically fore tolde many hundred years before by the holy Prophets Isaias Saphonias Ezechiel Osee Zacharias others that in the time of the Messias al such oracles should haue an end Idolatry be takē away the name thereof forgottē as we se it is presently vpon the birth of Christ began to take effect For as Palladius Euagrius which of them soeuer it was that wrote that History witnesseth that according to the Prophesie of Isaias the Idolles of Egypt a most Idolatrous Nation shoulde then be ouerthrowne he himselfe had seene a Temple by Hermopolis in which when when Christ with his mother and Ioseph in his ●●ying thither in his Infancie entered into the Citie presentlye the Ido●●●s f●ll downe to the earthe which wo●●● since hathe beene broughts to passe in the whole Ch●●sti●an worlde some Oracles c●●sing with frien●e and s●ying nothinge others protesting they were comp●●●ed by Christ to departe others ●●k●●●ledging and confessinge him and all one waie or other affirming and confirm●ng his Religion to bee true and theyr owne Rites Religion wicked Idolatrous which in morall iudgement is the greateste argument can bee giuen for no Man a professed aduersarye to an other such as those Pagans and theyr Oracles were to Christ and his Religion especially if the Quarrell and Contention growe for honuor and worshippe which all couer and desire will be commanded by his enemy to giue place except there be a power and superioritie in the commaunder to doe it And it i● a constant Tradition that Hieronne the Prophet prophesyed in Egipt and foretolde to theyr Kings that their Idole should be ouerthrowne when a virgine had a child and from that time the priests of Egipt in a secret place of their temple adored the Image of a virgine with a childe in her Armes And Sibilla Tiburtina shewed to Augustus the Emperor a 〈◊〉 before the time of the ●●ti●ity of Christ a moste beautifull Virgine houlding a childe i● her Armes and said vnto him this Childe is greater than thou art worship him And in the time of his being an Infant an Egipt the very insensible things acknowledged him At Hermopilis a city of Theha● where was a tree called Persi● whose fruite leaues or barke healed all diseases beeing very great and highe so sonne as Christ approached to the gate of the Citie it bowed downe to the grounde and adored him Balsamum miraculouslie grew in the orcharde watered with the well wherein his cloathes were washede the stone whereon they were beatē dried was had in great reuerence euen of the Sar●cens Mahumetans to this time The place of his habitatiō alwaies hath a burning lamp by the Mahumetanes order Touching true Prophets that liued among them what is more auncient then the booke of Iob liuing in the primatiue age of the world and yet what more plaine then his prophesies of Christ vttered with such vehemensie and desire of eternall continuance for all posterity that hee requested his words might be engraued in the most harde and flinty stone and the places engraued to be filled with plates of lead that the letters and writing might be durable and to be read of all And his wordes which hee woulde haue so surelie registred are these For I knowe that my Redeemer liueth and in the last day I shall rise againe with my skinne and in my fleshe shall see God whome I my selfe and in my flesh shall see and my eyes shall beehoulde c. in which wordes a whole compendium and breuiate of Christian Religion is conteined First Christ liued then and so was God and is called his Redeemer and so the Mesias that was expected Hee should see him when he was compassed with his skinne and with his fleshe and his eyes shoulde beholde him and he must be Man and that in the day of Iudgement when hee shall rise againe thereby acknowledging a resurrection of the bodie a finall Iudgement and that Christ shall iudge the worlde And in all his miseries he susteyned this was his hope as he affirmeth Of what authoritie the prophesie of the Sibilles were emong them is it not vnknowne as also how euidently they foretolde the whole summe of the misteries of Christ so particularly as if they had been present As to cite some of theyr wordes Panta c. Doeing all things with his worde healing all infirmities the dead shall bee raysed and the lame shall runne apace the deafe shall heare the blinde shall see Those which could not speake shall speake With fiue loaues and twoo fishes he shall feede fiue thousand men in the desart and taking vp that which is left shall fill twelue baskets For the hope of manie Hee shall commande or bridle the windes hee shall goe and treade vppon the rageing Sea with his feete Hee shall walke vppon the waues Resolue the diseases of men rayse those that bee deade to life driue griefes from many hither to be the wordes of Sibilla their prophetesse And shee recountech so many miracles to be performed by christ that shee hir self did affirm the Pagans with whom shee liued whose gods could not doe miracles and shewe such effectes woulde mocke hir and saie shee were madde hir wordes are these Phisousi Sibillen menomemenin they will call me a mad Prophetesse or Sibill thaet I am a liar but when al these things shall come to passe they shall remember mee and then no man will call me a liar any longer but a Prophetesse of the great God And foretelleth further that at his comming the lawe of Moyses shall cease in these wordes When all these thinges shall bee finished which I haue spoken of Him then the Lawe shall bee dissolued And Sibilla erithrea speaking of the same Iesus sonne of the virgin as they called him how in

holy Prophesy of the Messias which being set downe in scripture must by al rules be expounded by such cōputatiōs as we find in Scriptures otherwise if any man at plesure might Imagin other strange accomptes neuer harde of before all things wold be vncertayne And yet if we should alow that wanton liberty to any brainsick mā this prophesye could neuer be applied or verified of any other which wil be euidēt if any idle person wil frame to himselfe a weke of weks or a weke of months which were twelue times sooner expired hundreds of yeares before Christ was borne whē none claimed to be the Messias Therfore where some Iews are so rediculous to make conceits of years of decads or centures of yeares that is euery weke to consist of 70. wekes or 700. wekes as some are not ashamed to doe they make them selues a mockery to al the world For first the Scripture speaketh of such weeks Secondly it ouerthroweth al certainty in this case of so greate importance Thirdly it is one impossibility in their owne religion for in their Thalmud which whosoeuer with them denieth as they say denieth god him self It is recorded not onlye that the Messias should rule 2000. years but that the world was onelye to continue for 6000. years 2000. before the lawe of Moyses 2000. vnder the same law 2000. after that vnder the Messias By which account not onlye Christ is the true Messias cōming about that time but these weeks of the Iews by their decads and centures cannot be compleated in thowsands of yeares after by their Thalmud the world is ended such be the fooleries of this people Therefore by all reckonings accounts only Iesus christ is the Messias Redeemer of the worlde all other Religions false erronious THE 4. ARGVM Howe all particuler articles of christian Catholicke Religion for which Iewes Mahumetanes Pagans deny it are demonstrated to be true by their own groundes and professions BVT because no Infidell shall denie any one point of Catholicke Religion but by their owne groundes confesse euery article thereof to bee most true and holy Therfore as I haue prooued before by the highest authority of their own professions that in general Christian catholicke religion is only true so in this present reason I will d●monstrat out of the chiefest groundes of those misbeleeuers al particuler articles of Catholicke Christianity namely the mistery of the B. Trinity the incarnation and death of Christ the Messias for the redemption of the worlde the continuall and daylie sacrifice of the Masse Christes reall presence therein transubstantiation changing of the former elements of bread wine into his most holy body and bloud and the rest for which these Infidelles denie our faith and which many heretickes in these and more auncient times haue disallowed The sacred misteries of the incarnation and death of Iesus our Sauior his diuine and humane nature the distinction of persons in diuinity are prooued already by the true Prophets of god which the Iewes receaue by the confession of the Sybils so reuerēced of the Gentiles and excepting the death of Christ which Mahumet for honor vnto him denieth by the lawe-maker of the Mahumetanes as is conuinced in the 1. Argumēt and therfore neede lesse probation in this Chapter But to make euident to al people that these most sacred doctrines are not the only collectiōs of Christians out of those vndouted aproued scriptures in the lawe of Moyses but the same exposition which the holy Rabbins that liued before Christ which the Iewes receaue with honour and which the Sybils and most auncient Philosophers among the Gentiles for many thinges approoue I will onlie vse their owne wordes for witnesse in this cause And to begin with that most vnscrutable secret of the nature of God and trinity of persons in him which we defend against all those blasphemous Infidelles which with one consent in impiety make him an vnperfect mutable changeable corporeous defectiue thing to which no honor or Religion can be belonging it is manifest that the holy Prophets Isayas Hieremias Zacharias Baruch Micheas Dauid and others doe assigne a distinction and trinity of persons giuing al attributes and properties belonging vnto God to euery one to be omnipotēt God by essence infinite illimited without beginning or end cause of all thinges equall one with an o●●er and the like in which manner as Christian Catholickes expounde those sacred writinges and beleeue of that vnspeakable mistery at this day So they were euer interpreted of the auncient and learned Rabbines before Christ Rabbi Ibba Rabbi Abb Rabbi Haccadas Rabbi Ionathas Abinuziel and others which euer agreed with our catholicke doctrine Rabbi Ibba as Rabbi Simeon writeth vpon these wordes of Deuteronomy God our Lorde is one God vseth this speech By the first worde God or his first tetragramaton name in this sentence our Lorde is signified God the sonne that is fountaine of all sciences and by the second tetragramaton name of God is signified God the holy Ghost proceeding of them both to all which there is added the worde one to signifie that these 3. are indiuisible And Rabbi Simeon himselfe vpon these words of Esay holy holy holy Lorde God of Sabaoth writeth thus Esay by repeating three times holy doth as much as if he had saide holy Father holy Sonne and holy Spirit which three holies doe make but one onlie Lorde of Sabaoth The wordes Rabbi Abinuziell Author of the Caldey Paraphrase known in the world before Christ and highly honoured among the Iewes vpon this prophesy of Dauid in his second Psalme where God the Father speaketh thus to Christ thou art my Sonne to day I haue begotten thee are these Thes Etohim the diuine persons expressed in the plurall number the Father and the sonne are three in one third person the holy Ghost and these three are one I saie one substance one essence one God And as the same Rabbine in that place is further witnesse when he was writing this sentence a voice spake vnto him from heauen saying Who is this that dareth reueale my secrets to the Gentiles to which Rabbi Ionathas answered O Lorde it is I which for the reuerence and glory of thy name haue presumed to doe it For in all religions there were some thinges concealed for secrets and thereby called misteries of which the auncient Rabbines acknowledge this mistery of misteries to bee chiefest and that it shoulde bee plainly reuealed at the comming of the Messias as nowe it is and not before as Rabbi Simeon is witnes not being lawfull for the Iewish people before christ to pronounce that tetragramaton name of god for the Maiesty and greatnesse of him that was ineffable as that name only cōpounded of quiescent insonant letters as Hebritians call them do witnes And yet this secret was not so concealed of the auncient Rabbines but from them it was