of God If they had grace and to helpe many landes so to doe that in the Pope as in Elies sonnes a fall extreeme shall be Of Samuel c. When God hastening to shewe CHRIST from Iuda gaue Israel a minde to choose a King hee would giue one of Beniamin that Rachel should be aequall to Leah but soone remoue him then commeth DAVID of Iuda Dauid rare for faith and all humanitie whose Psalmes tell of Christ all that can be known from Stories past and in Prophecies for the state following That all men high and low rich and poore should still sing his psalmes And to him is promised an aeternall throne in Christ Now to prooue that this throne is not for this World Salomon hath all wisedome prosperitie and pleasure and writeth a song of songes that is all in continued allegories of true soules following Christ and Prouerbes to warne Ephraim from Idolls and Ecclesistes to tell that all vnder the sunne was vanitie To the same effect the historie of poore Ruth of Lot leauing Countrey kins folke and fathers house conteineth a sage hope in the songe for the Lambe And Salomons Temple is soone cast off to be despysed and the Kings of his seede in 1. and 2. of the Kings to shew that a King of Nathan Salomons brother should be the true King when Salomons Kings should cause captiuity to Babel and ouerthrow of all The Books of Kings and Chronicles shew that in euent Then Daniel sheweth 7. tymes ouer how vnder Kings Iuda shall bee in affliction till the King of Kings commeth In Prophecie Hosea telleth of his saluation how he shall be called from Egypt and destroy death and aryse the third day which matter Ionas in figure experienced before This saluation Osee teacheth and how Lo-Ammi should be Ammi and Lo-Ruchamah should be Ruchamach Ioel sheweth Gods fauor for the spirite vpon all flesh to speake of the resurrection chapter 2. and sharpe iudgement cited in this Chapter And Amos of erecting Dauids Tabernacle Isaiah is an Euangelist from chapter 40. specially chapter 53. and where not and who is like to Michah telling Herod of Bethlechem where the sonne of Dauid should be borne Nahum comforteth the true Iew with the faire feete of them that shew peace and sayth Aggie Aggeicha festiue thy festiuities though Niniueh scattred Israel yet Iuda should be built The name of Aggei the Prophet calleth that into minde Abbakuk embraceth the people with comfort against Babel and leaueth a messe of potage for Daniel and all good that the iust shall liue by faith Ieremie 40. year telleth Iudah their Ceremonies cannot turne their heartes from strange Gods But Babell shal bee their dwelling to consume the wicked to shew Gods glorie where the Towre brought shame to all nations built to worship Creatures and to forget the Creator Tzephain telleth that Tze-phan Iah the aeternall hath sealed vp iudgement for despysing the Redeemer taught by the Passouer in Iosiahs dayes therefore he will visite the Kings Children for close Idolatry the rulers for cruelty the false Prophets for lying vanities ouerthrow the state cary them to Babell but after confession of their sin he will leaue a poore and humble people that shall trust in Messiah the Lord. Obadiah telleth Edom that for helping Babell to destroy Ierusalem by Babell they should be destroyd yet in tyme Sauiours that is Apostles shall come from Syon to conquer and iudge them Luc. 22. 30. that is to bring them to the faith and that of that Kingdome Christ shall be King Ezechiel sheweth the sonne of man glorious aboue the Cherub Chap. 1. and from 40. a new Ierusalem and chap. 38. sheweth to the eye the resurrection touching his Ierusalem S. Peter tuneth the Harpe on Mount Sion that euery prophecie of scripture is not to bee expouded properly because the holy men of God spake caried by the holy Ghost Daniel expoundeth him that the death of Christ shall bring all nations to be an heauenly Ierusalem Of Daniel I haue written more then any since Daniel wrote how his holy Gospell sheweth Christ vnto Children The Copies of my last edition hee that vseth as the Persians the Prophete shall be commended of mee to the God of Daniel whom hee knoweth not For if he had knowen him he would not so haue crucified againe the Lord of glory So described king of the Iewes and first named CHRIST meere properly in Daniel Ages folowing shall enquire how God will deale with the men Aggei answering in name as was shewed to Nahums words sheweth that of Zorobabel the SIGNET shall come who shall shake the heauen of the Iewes policie and the profane earth Zachary and Malachy with him shewe what Zachary Malachy Luc. 1. should learne to begin the New Testament by the Angell Gabriel on whom they comment Ezra and Nehemias also record his trueth and celebrate the names of the chiefe returned and the number of all And Mordecai in Esther telleth how by faith in Christ they escaped the edge of the sword Thus vpon Mount Sion of old they tuned their harps in the strang land of this world knowing that God would receiue them hence into his Ourano polin yet they were not perfected in their musique heere to see and feele as 1. Ioh. 1. the word of life S. Peter writing to poore Iewes 2 Pet. 1. commendeth the reading of the old harpes as a light shining in a darke place till the morning starre Psal 22. Apo. 2. 21. and Dauid Kimchi vpon Psal 22. arise in our hearts The Popes contrarietie S. Peters most deadly enimie the Pope which would make him the Rock or God and will not learne how he expoundeth Rock to be the Creator 1. Pet. 4. from 2. Sam. 22. will not suffre the people to read the Law a Pope or Daemon openly bent against the goodnesse of God Of the New Testaments musique The Gospell The holy Publican maketh in his first Chapter a stately porch to the new Temple shewing from Abraham to Dauid that the Fathers of Christ were all afflicted in this world and knew the holy Trinitie and foresaw Christ and his kingdom which ariseth from David by Nathan not from Salomon whose house would not be vpright with God 2. Sam. 23. All be faltie but Ioakim so wicked that because hee ouerthrew the state the Iewes enacted not to name him in their narrations and so S. Matthew left him out Now when Nathans house commeth in for whom all Daniels Visions speake in them wee see heauen opened and howe God sate vpon a Throne as if he were like Iasper and Rubi with the Rainebow like Moses Smaragd about the Throne and his harpe hath all tunes of Law till Christ be taken vp So Marke playeth vpon Gabriels harpe Dan. 9. till CHRIST is King in heauen Luke playeth first
thirstie I will giue of the fountaine of the water of life freely Heere all excuse is cut off from the wicked that they are called to the waters of life but refuse Rome begging landes thirsted not to haue the waters of the Lawe to refresh the soule but made them bitter Therefore their condemnation is iust And for these waters be our fightes from Tiberius to this day since Ierusalem came from heauen He that ouercommeth shall possesse all thinges and I wil be his God and he shall bee my sonne Heere is a valiant combat The waters of life of the Hebrew and Greeke Testament are drawen from a deepe well many fadom of yeeres deepe and policies still will haue will haue their owne deuices and bestow death on such as offer men life Heere the faithfull vnto death shall haue a kingdome as the Sonnes of God But the cowards and the faithlesse and the lothsome and murtherers and fornicators and witches and Idolaters and all the false shall haue their portion in the lake burning with fire and brimstone They who take not vp their crosse and felow Christ are not worthie of him they who belieue not the Gospell are not worthie of him certaine beasts foules fish forbid to Iewes to distinguish them in diet from heathen are called vncleane or lothsome so be all without the Gospell in their high learning as Socrates Plato Cicero Varro Plutarch and the ciuilest Murtherers of the Martyrs specially wherein the Spanish Inquisition is the deepest Fornicators in Rome Venice and all Italy haue open freedome and of old Horace age and all epicures still as Turkes wallow in that and therfore S. Peter to the Iewes of Arabia giueth sharp warning against that and witches in all common Weales are hated and the subtilest witchcraft is that of the Popes TRANS-SVB-STAN-TIA-TION a monstrous terme for a monstrous matter besides all other their coniurations Of Idolaters Idolaters be the Papists the grossest that euer were and where Christ had infinite griefe to bee seene on the Crosse though in glory he darkened the Sun and shooke the earth and rent the stones yet Papists think that gold as in Nebuchadnezar his Image Daniel chap. 2. or siluer or Alablaster or stone or wood is a goodly worship Christ in whom is hid all the treasures of wisdome and knowledge could haue commanded that if he had liked of it and we should not be better learned then Alpha and Omega The Popes brabarous Answere An Idol is heathenish and vnlawfull an Image is lawfull as no man saith the Idole of God but may say the Image of God Answere Neither Attique Greek translated by Tulli nor 70. Greek nor the Apostles Greeke nor any Talmudique will suffer this distinction therefore it is for Witches not for Doctores 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Aratus is Corâ—i Imago 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Plato is forma species in Tulli offi 1. Idolum Dei is in Apian Imago simulachrum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chal. Imago figura corporea vel incorporea Targ. idem and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is in Num. 33. 52. and the same is in Gen. 1. 26. 2 Kin. 11. 18. 2 Chron. 23. 17. Dan. 3. 2. Isai 40. be all vnlawfull They who would haue People to adventure their aeernall state vpon such quirks against all teachers of speach are pestilent witches and most impudent teachers He that cannot remember Christ by all thinges made ours for Christ is no Christian The starres serue Man for CHRIST the Ayer Lande Sea Plantes Beastes Foule Fish and what neede wee an Image which can represent but a base man in base sort No Iewe for Ebrewe no Attique for Greeke will cleare the Pope therefore he is Popes and teacheth doctrine of Deuils and Rome is a meere Babel confusion to holy speach And all liars haue their portion in the lake all who misse of Gods trueth are liars and perish The Thalmudiques who agreed with Paul for all iustice of the Law Rom. 10. yet missing of Christ lost all Now the Papistes be most impudent in lying as when they teach to vse Latin for Hebrew in the Law and for the Greeke in the Gospell their lies be of infinite number in their Purgatorie and where Haides hath but heauen and hell in the bread and wine against eisight the witnesses of God and their whole policie is a lie therefore chap. 19. the beast and false prophet was cast into the fire The second death The phrase second death is a Talmudique vsed in Onkelos vpon Deut. 33. and Ionathan vpon Isai 22. and in Zohar and later infinitelie And no soule goeth to it but perisheth for euer Of this I wrote vpon great occasion in an Epistle to Doct. Whitg to which he gaue great testimonie though one vnlearned brent the Copies after his death which flame may bring him and is very like to the fiery water Dan. 7. and heere And there came to mee one of the seauen Angells which had the seauen Cuppes full of the seauen last plagues and hee spake with me saying Come I will shew thee the Bride of the Lambe The same art it is to plague Rome and to build Ierusalem and in vision an Angell doeth this visibly learned trueth wherein Iohn him selfe is the principal Angell The Church hath heere a goodly name warning to be carefull of a wise holy soule the Bride of the Lambe All the song of songs goeth vpon this and the end of Isai Such Concent of Scripture Bellarmine and all that Brackmunim that would not haue all to know may looke for fire and brimstone to bee their portion All be bound to praise God and to doe that skilfully And his word teacheth that the Pope and each such is a Buy-shop from Satan not a Bishop from God which would not haue the word of God to dwell richly in vs. And he caried mee in the spirit into a mountayne great and high and he shewed me the Citie the great the holy Ierusalem descending from heauen from God and hauing the glorie of God This expresseth that which Ezekiel wrote of old concerning the building of the Church vnder Christ The Iewes to this day looke for a building in Chanaan Against that Saint Peter giueth this rule That euery Prophecie of Scripture is not to bee expounded properly because the holy men of God spake as they were caried by the spirit of God This place strengthneth Saint Peter and so expoundeth Ezekiel that all Iewes â—ight see Christ spake by the fisher of Galilee the deare to Christ Ezekiel was brought to an high mountaine so Iohn and our Lord Math. 17. when he would shew his glory tooke Peter Iames and Iohn and caried them into an high mountaine alone Visions must agree with spirituall matter Buildings of Princes be vpon mountaines stately to behold and hard to be come to by enimies to vex And wicked Rome braggeth twise in Virgill Septem quae vna sibi muro circumdedit arces This Rome
kinsmen Rom. 15. and his companie al Grecia and the West and nameth expreslie Spaine And besides Ioseph of Arimathea Pauls scholar might teach our West the endes of the earth to be the possession of Christ That Albion Frāce martyrs of Spaine haue now 3. gates in extreme West that the Ebrew and Greeke Testaments were neuer so much studied as in Albion and France Germany Cambridge Duresme Yorke London will beare one record that thirtie yeares he cleered the Reuelation that Papistes made great meanes to be further taught By the Maior of Duresme by others at London offring as good as a Bishoprike if without danger in further matter they might And I know there had beene but few Papistes in England if a few had opened the old Testament by the new as the Apostles veine required And if the new Testamēt were translated into such Hebrew as the Apostles made Greeke and the Old into perfect sense in Greeke all nations would sweare that our endes of the earth are the possession of Christ And the walles of the Citie had twelue foundations and in them the names of the Lambes twelue Apostles These foundations are the 12. precious stones which folow in which Exod. 28 the xij Tribes are named So the verie stones ingrauen inferre the Tribes from Exod. 28. And heere the Apostles names shew that they taught no new doctrine but the same which the Tribes had of old And he that spake with me had a golden reede to measure the Citie and the gates of it and the wall of it and the Citie standeth square and the length of it is so much as the breath and he measured the Citie with the reede in furlonges twelue thousand and the length and bredth and height of it be equall When the Iewes came home from Babylon the like restoring of the Citie Zach. 2. is expressed by an Angell hauing a reed So the restoring of the high Ierusalem after the Citie which crucified Christ had made it low is expressed by an Angel hauing a reede Now twelue thousand furlongs make as we may suppose 1500. English miles A Citie so high so long and so broad would hold an infinite companie of men and since Satan was bound from supreme rage The first 300. year by martyrs bred an infinite company of millions in quiet long after moo and when Angells held the foure windes 144000. of Israel and so many heathen as none could number now after restoring when mo in number professe saluation in Christ by breaking bread and pray onely to Christ for iustice by his gift then papists be in nūber it must be a great Citie that shall hold all If all old holy bee taken in also And if some by enuie had not hindred opening of both Testaments in Ebrew and Greeke in the Talmudique veine which others might translate into many tongues manie poore Iewes and Turkes had seene the xij tribes over our gates the Apost doctrine to be fastened in Aharons Iewels and had taken Chambers in the large building of our square Ierusalem 1500. miles high and so square When Christ taught Noë to make the Arke of 300. cubites length and 50. cubites breadth the sixt of the length and thirtie high the tenth to the length hee shewed Noë hee had all beastes and foules and their fodder in measure So hee that weigheth all the dust of the earth knoweth how many soules hee hath chosen and how large his heauenly Citie shall bee and how many hee was to reiect that their carcases should bee fewell for Gehenna The Citie was square This alludeth vnto the Tabernacle and Temple where Dabir the Arkes place was square and now we all haue the Law in the Tables of our hearts and see the Cherub as hauing seauen cuppes of wrath fighting for vs know Christ to bee the mercy-seate and golden Altar and wee are all sacrificers to make our owne prayer of incense and the lifting vp of our handes to be the euening offering and we our selues to bee the golden Candlesticke and our hope is the anchor of the soule sure and fast going within the vaile whither IESVS our forerunner is gone being a sacrificer for euer after the order of Melchitzedek So we leaue imitation of Aharon in Linnen Cope Mitre Altar Flesh and Blood substantiated Priest and Sacrifice to them that will toy with imitation of Aharon and remember not the fire that brent Nadab and Abihu for strang fire The Popes fire is a thousand tymes stranger Therefore an whole lake of fire and brimstone remaineth for him Of Arias Montanus placing in Altar of Incense in the most holy Arias Montanus knewe well enough that the Altar of incense was set in the outer holy yet in Apparatu hee doth place it in the holy It is marueile why he durst spare a trueth This I guesse that the simple papists should not see the birth of Christ cast out of course This I will but touch I tolde Iewes that his conception and his birth is all one for treueth of saluation And Christ would haue neithe exactly known because it would trouble the Mathematicians of the world too much As of late double rekonnings made Turke and Iewe thinke wee haue no trueth of storie Seeing annus salutis commeth as well from Conception in December as from birth in September the old accompt may bee well kept But wee should haue no lies in our heauenly Ierusalem though men estieme more of custome then of him whose eyes are a flame of fier Eighteene weightie arguments one learned man a Ciuilian hath brought to settle the tyme better Because Iewes should not gather absurdities from our Gospell that a wise fauorable Prince taking order that all mens wealth should be rated that Soldiers pill'd not any but rested in set portion should cause euery one to repaire to his natiue towne at midwinter in my booke to the Landt-Graue I place the conception in December That as their Midras Rabba in Deuter telleth the MESSIAS should come in Tisri and redeeme on friday by Bechai fol. 12. so he did and then Iohns trumpet proclamed him and at Pascha became our Pascha and at Pentecost gaue a firie law The old testam is so strong for Christ that the very Iewes speake thence the same that the new Testament doeth And he measured the wall of it an hundred fourtie foure cubites the measure of a mans which the Angels was And the inner building of the wall was Carbuncle A wall is a defense and so thicke a wall must needes bee a strong defense and beeing of shining Carbuncle it sheweth the Citie to be of glory and trueth inuincible Such is Diuinitie being skilfully handled Of Prayer The Place whither the people mett to prayer in Salomons Temple is called in Ebrew Azara Strength and in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the mercy-place Now seeing Prayer and Gods mercy bee our wall this should bee made of the Carbuncle of his that the Psalmes
yet the Pope would so vse the Church though heathen policy bridle him yet Pope Dracon is fierce against remnants as in his Spanish Inquisitions CHAP. XIII Caesars and Popes the Dracon and his tayle are expressed past all deniall who are meant The empire hath armes from the foure kindomes in Daniel So God forceth vs to be ready in Daniel and to compare together the brase of the Angelique men Then Greek Leopard had foure heades that of 23. Captayne 's al made Kings all came to fower quickly and every one dyed a violent death saving old Antipater to have blood for blood as the Romanes here The Beare had but one head the Lyon one and the fourth beast the parted Macedonians but one that beast is not named because it was the same nation with the former but is distinguished from the former by ten hornes or Kings five Ptolemies and five Seleuci or Antiochi that vexed Iudah From these the Romanes have their armes beginning with a beast with ten hornes with this difference Ten Diademes betokening so many kingdomes This beast was coloured like a Leopard footed like a Beare mouthed like a Lion As Nab. said who can deliver you from my hande was a Lucifer and would be equall to God So here it is sayd who can warre with the beast Alexander would be a God So Divi Iulij and Divi Augusti so the Persians And Antiochus Epiphanes hath a mouth speaking great thinges so hath this beast Now the sixt head being as dead sheweth that the Empire should be dead and revived otherwise five heads were gone and the seventh was not yet come But in a speciall sense one head seemeth as dead The time of Tyrannie was 300. yet by Metonymia meaning the argument of persecution from our Lords time it is called three yeares and an half Antiochus Epiphanes raged against the temple properly three yeares and an halfe as Elias plagued Israel properly three yeares and an half But the matter sheweth Ch. XI and twice in the XII and here that proper time cannot be meant Again I must advise the reader to learne Daniel before he learne this booke Twentie yeares ago I made him plain enough and plainer of late though the Dragon cast out of his mouth a river of water The whole Realme by this houre might else have knowne Daniel clearely The Tyrannie and blasphemie of the Caesars and their destructions are knowne The Popes description A beast arising from the earth that is without war having hornes like a Lambe that is Christes Vicar having the mouth of the Devill for divelish lawes restoring the Empire and working Miracles of deceit as though he were Elias a restorer of truth The Iesuites report of their miracles comment well on this And the Popes endevour since great Constantine left hateful Rome to set it vp by revived Empire to destroy the East this matter is famous in continuall stories And Canon lawe telleth that none may live vnder the Empire but by yeelding vnto the Popes lawes in subscribing or oth or some open token as a marke in the forehead And where a nūber given to a man as the sonnes of Adonikam were 666. that being called the number of the beast and to a sense of wisedome which is vsuall in notation A God stāding vp that is Adoni-kam this describeth plainlie the man that stands vp in the temple of God as if hee were God CHAP. XIIII The reviving of the Gospell by worship of God onely in Christ as on mount Sion of old religion taught with as great concent of law and gospell as any harpes can make by rare men of courage patience wisdome and high policie by virgin mindes vnstayned by Idolatry renued by Christ and following him is taught Ch. 14. as Ch. 7. 11. And the Pope is told of fall and of eternall death to all of his bent and the Martyrs of present heavens ioy without purgatorie And Christ sitting on a cloud at prayer of the Church and an Angel comming out of the Church bid by an Angel Lord over fire and Gods heat with sicles cut off Papistes that their blood would reach to the horse bridles over a Land as Canaan made to a square by the Thalmud 1600. furlongs 400. every way The new Testament speaking to Iewes is applyed to their manner of speach plaine to a Thalmudique where it is hardest to vs. The destruction which rebellion in Ireland wrought by the Pope in Desmonds countrey if all the blood of the dead were poured out would a good way reach to horse bridles as that also of Ostend And what would al that war now 40. yeares yeeld in blood of Papistes going withall to eternall destruction Happie are the soldiers that dye with a good heart for the gospell for they rest from their labours CHAP. XV. A new vision telleth the gospels restoring and the enimies punishment persecution borne sincerely through fire and faggot is a sea of glasse mixed with fyre and praise is against Romes Aegypt and Dragon Pharaoh and Romes Babylon from Exod. 15. and Ier. 10. And seaven Angels clothed with pure Iustice come out of the temple in heaven Angels represent what God by men will doe vpon earth when sincere harted fight in his cause These have golden girdles about their brestes as the Sacrificers were girded Maymoni in the holy implements sweateth to prove from Ionathan vpon Ezekiel and Kabalah that the Sacrificers were girded about their brests Iohn made no doubt of the matter but as a Thalmudique taught from God telleth resolutely the whole truth Chap. 1. and here Such poincts shewed would make Iewes all learned Iewes confesse that God penned the New Testament All Christians bee Kinges and Sacrificers and should consider that they must weare crownes of golde which no goldsmith but Christ maketh to rule them selves in order and to obey all in Gods law and the girdle of truth to bind their hartes in stedfastnes Now where one of the fower wightes giveth the Angels seaven cuppes of Gods anger the learned full of eyes teach the people who are the temple to pray vnto God for vengeance vpon Christs enemies and vpon the peoples petition the Angels have charge to serve them as in Dan. 4 Heb. 1. and men are fortifyed by them as Darius Gabriel Dan. 11. 1. As the temple Es 6. was filled with a smoke of Christ his anger and Seraphim the Angels which were instruments of fyer did attend so here the smoke is in all the Church that the enemies shall not perceive the truth till they be cōsumed having sinned against the holy Ghost as the Iewes Esa 6. even by Rambam his graunt could not amend by ten chastisements till the temple was brent CHAP. XVI Vnder the seaven trumpets the earth the sea the fountaynes and rivers the sun the King of Locustes Euphrates and earthquake is celebrated The seaven Angels in plagues keep that order The Popes earth or earthly hold of his possessions is full
place gainesaid This sheweth that Peter was neuer at Rome And Saint Pauls iourney telleth Rome that God hated them If he had not beene sought to bee killed Lysias had not sent him to Caesarea and if the Iewes had not againe there sought to haue killed him hee had not appealed to Caesar God would not that hee should come to Rome but vpon extreamities So the iourney thither shewed that Christ hated the Citie that crucified him was strange in calamities and Paul was brought thither as a prisoner and kept in prison though somewhat free CHAPTER XIIII And I saw and behold a Lambe stood vpon mount Syon and an hundred fourty foure thousand were with him hauing the name of their father written in their forehead THEY which were called afore two Prophets are now 144000. hauing the name of God written in their forehead the same number is said before to be sealed ch 7. by a speach from Ezekiel ch 9. 4. There in the 70. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the terme of chap. 13. in Kimchy a signe or writing S. Paul expoundeth the speach that God will make them knowen who be his that they who professe the name of God shall depart from wickednesse So they who haue Gods name are made knowen who bee his and expound his word and follow trueth of worship due to him bearing a marke in open profession as sacrificers such as Aharon had In this sort the holy Church still had some nūber to professe the summe of saluation though on mount Sion a small hill for the mountaines of the world not one to a million of ADONIKAM and his Children of three fold as storie 666. that number chap. 13. to beare the number of his name was vsed for any number of Apostatique profession So heere the 144000. twelue tymes twelue is vsed for any Company that trusteth in Christ as the Patriarches did And I heard a voice out of heauen as the voice of many waters and as the voice of a great thunder and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harpes and they sing as it were a new song before the throne and before the foure liuely wightes and the Elders The heauen commonly in this booke is the Church waters voice is continuall so heere continuall singing is meant harpes signifie song with agreement the new song is for mans praeseruation euery day The foure wightes are the rare as Daniel Ananias Azarias and Misael and all the Euangelistes and S. Paul full of courage of Lions so were all the Apostles of rare patience ready to be sacrificed euery day and they were the true Philosophers thinking what should befall them after death and they were the Eagles of high flight sight The Elders are the Bishops or Teachers the sage in gouernement and skill in the holy Hebrew and Greek Testaments The song none could vnderstand but the 144000. as no Papist soundly thinketh of all things made for Gods glorie in Christ and how by him wholy iustice commeth and he onely must be worshipped When this is told them they are like vnto men that dreame and know not who they are that are bought from the earth not what their religion meaneth Thereupon it is written And none could vnderstand the song but the hundred fourty and foure thousand which were bought from the earth What this songe was Through the whole scripture this song is one and the same that IEHOVAH our GOD IEHOVAH is ONE The FATHER the SON the Holy Spirite be one Coaeternall and Coessentiall the SON is called the WORD by the WORD the Father made the World and by the Spirite beautified the heauens And because the WORD would become flesh the World was made to serue once Adam the first The Angells that grudged at that fell for euer and deceiued Adam and made him dead in sin and brought him to be turning dayly to dust vntill he dyed and for him the whole frame of the Creature was pronunced corrupt But he belieued that Christ made of a woman made vnder the Law God being in him to reconcile the World to himselfe should giue Adams soule iustice by faith should raise vp his Bodie and make a new World by his power whereby hee can subdue all things to himselfe This is the summe of the song tolde through all Bookes of the Bible A Digression to shew the Concent of all the holy Bookes Geneses sheweth how by the WORD of IEHOVAH the heauens were made and all the settled army of them by the Spirite of his mouth and when man fell the WORD telling that to destroy the workes of Satan he would be made flesh and haue a Tabernacle in vs. In which point the Fathers faith vnto the charge of Iosephs bones to bee caried vnto the Land wherein our Lordes resurrection should be a Testimony of a new World taught by Ioseph in his bones long after his death By faith he taught by his dead bones of the new world and therein Geneses end hath a new Geneses All simple should learne CHRIST from the Gospell of Geneses wher 's his Godhead so familiarly delited in the holy Prov. 8. and shewed in appearances that he would be man All yong men brought vp to be Bishops of the Kings armies or Church would reioyce to haue learned Geneses in Ebrew by heart In old age they should gather the fruit Obiection of them that are not bought from the earth S. Ierome saith Iewes read not the three first chapters of Geneses till they be 30. yeeres old Answere None should cite Ierome to make him a foole or to win the Whetstone Maymony in Morch Nebuchim hath this sentence that none did Darash read as a Doctor expoundeth Genes 1. and 2. and 3. and Ezech. 1. before he was aged 30. So S. Ierom meant Iewes all teach their Children from seauen to read all Moyses It were better that Rome were with Helice and Bura then Popes should be suffred so to bring most wickedly the word of life into a deadly hatred Of Iob. Iob is a booke for all holy to take notice of for instructing their families in the knowlede of Christ which Abraham carefully did as God testifieth the comfort of it their posterity shall finde as the booke setteth forth the faith and loue the effects of the Gospell 1. Thes 1. of his posterity euen before the Lawe was giuen to shewe that the godly had alwaies the Law written in their hearts 2. Cor. 3. Ier. 32. Rom. 2. Iob is a patron to all the faithfull in prosperitie for loue compassion iustice and equity c. in his afflictions his faith and hope in the Redeemer the seed promised whom he knew would take our nature vpon him to dy for him and by his Godhead rayse himselfe from death and that by his resurrection he should be raysed in the last day be made like his glorious body and that he euer liued to make intercession for him these thinges were his comfort in his greatest