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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

beare And this one poynt where al the worlde is on my side Ebrewes al Greekes al Latines al ouerthroweth al his Chronicle and strife and as he ouerturned al religion in framing an vncertayntie for the Angels number So when he feigneth Ezra abnepotem Saraiae he might as wel giue a new Bible from his authority S. Augustine sayd that Ezra was borne in Captiuitie And so he might but begotten before as posthumus And any tyme of the Captiuitie woulde serue my turne But neuer any was towarde his minde VVhen the french heare that al their iudgement is disgraced their commending of Daniels 490. for a rare iewel for the certaine time of our Lord his death likewise for Ezra by one that brocheh a new opinion from his owne authority pretending to confute one man what wyl they say Not Caluin only and other wholly my partners nor Iunius and Scaliger onely his partners once but al the nation is of him confuted and al nations of the earth And I might turne ouer the cause to others whose hand was in it before mine And for my learned friende I must needes confesse this much that when he hath his owne side and al the worlde styl against him and yet hopeth of a victorie he hath a most valint courge But I as one In Homer would wyshe courage not to exceede safety So for Mardochai al Churches and natiue iudgement for Daniel and Ezra euery seueral man is agaynst him Now it wylbe an hard demaunde whether it were better to haue al Vniuersities with Helice and Bura or pestered with Studentes as M. Doctors hearers who triumph that manifolde testimonies of all the worlde brought to prooue the Sunnes seruice recorded vnto the Redemption haue bin confuted among them by their owne authoritie and courage The Sonne neuer sawe the lyke dealyng But tochyng your D. I woulde gladly shew him all reuerence not hynderyng fayth Iniuries of his hearers must be recorded whereof one Bacheler of D. meeting 1589 at Tocester with one H. T. of London and a Minister of Lancashire who founde comfort by my paynes that B. sayd Qur D. R. hath confuted all that Booke yet he could tell no one thing but sayd that he had that booke and coulde vnderstande nothing How diuinely he pleaded ignorance in his owne language and profession I let other iudge yet he would be a Bacheler of diuinitie I wyll ioyne a late like part M. Koph told that of my Apologie all you D D. thought the same How well others know If vntruly you must blame him Two of you one in writing the other in speach sent me tell the contrary that no one argument can be answered If he haue a desire to winn fame for resistyng the hart of Religion Gabriels lampe of all Scripture he must be censured as a Iulian or Lucian But I haue some better hope of goodnes in the man after that your D. publisheth his recantation And I trust he wyll regarde the common trueth Gods honour more then his owne Neuer any so disgraced Gabriel as his lectures do A like part hurtfull not to me but to your Scholers fame I wyl here ioyne At his readinges 1589. vpon my going to Germany by some of your young heades it was blazed ouer all London Omnibus lippis notum tonsoribus that your Doctors learned reading droue me away A Damasell put in Bridewell for refusing our Churches assemblies vpon mention of my iudgement could reply that your D. droue me away Yet I had sent him worde afore by two of New Colledge that if he were not foylde I would neuer more handle penne and a sharper warning by M. Kennel by which he made him make the tyme 490. yeeres iust as I did and dash all his former paynes VVoulde any of you take patiently sch sauage iniuries as to abide opprobrious speches where the confuter proueth good the cause of the confuted An other part no lesse grosse or rather fully the part of a bad man I can not omit A. M. of art of your breede being at London on Thames 1590. in a Bote with one M. A. Cot. and others sayd that I had yeelded vnto your D. for Mardochaj that not he but Kis was the captiued Then one knowing the contrary sayd Are not you ashamed to behe one so that the last weeke openly read with cleere reasons to the contrary Areye past shame I hen sayd the M. of his art You in London speake ill of M. D. R. and why should not we of Oxford speake so of M. B. Yf this must be so I must request all the graue of our nation to admit neuer any Oxford tesimony against mee The lyke part of one speaking to certaine Counsellers when the Court was at Oxford I put in print how one of yours sayd that I was ashamed of my cause and yeelded vnto your D. His eyes might haue tolde him that I wrote otherwyse to all Christians and specially to some Honorable in an other opinion The like part a third man playde An other borne in Hereforde towne of B. N. C. told one thence in Paules that his hart reioyced to see how your D. flouted mee as promising to lende my Rabbines and after for feare breaking promise If your D. did so this much I must tell him That all who know both our studies wil say that I haue spent more yeeres then he hours in the principal Rabbines It may be founde that neuer any Rabbine was of his minde for the cause then in strife of Mardochaj nor against mee He deemed that he had the Chaldy Paraphrast by which he was most notably condemned and thought that he had Aben Ezra but was deceyued By all argumentes that can be brought foorth from any Rabbine vpon Scripture or either Talmuds I trow he shal finde his condemnation sure Iupiter and Mercurj might soner make Amphitryo and Sosia beleeue others to be them selues then he make any from Rabbine recordes belecue Kis not Mardochaj to be of the Captiued Floutyng from your men I can not stay but I can shew to others that they haue no more stay for trueth in these studies for the holy story then Vlysses shyp had stay in a tempest when he knew not where stoode east or west I cannot abyde to sloute and I am sory that your D. woulde be counted pleasaunt that way But for sad trueth the blinde may see all kindes of study turned agaynst him euen such as in which he put al his trust and confidence His fayth stayed vpon Olympiades and by them he woulde gather 560. yeeres precisely But they are turned agaynst him and Phlegon taketh part with my syde in whom yf he rest not then I shew that Thallus Castor Phlegon Timaeus Philistus Xenophon Laertius Africanus Clemens Triclinius Sosigenes Pamphila Apollodorus Plutarch and such differ so exceedingly one from an other and from them selues hundrethes of yeeres for famous matters touching Olympiades that one myght wonder how your D. coulde misse to

MY duetie remembed to your Grace and Lordshyp It is knowen to all the Realme with what vehemencie and care D.R. labored to proue that a Concent of Scripture for certaintie of Chronicle coulde not be made By reason of his former credite he hath drawen many to deny that which they alwayes helde to be against them selues to countenance him and to disgrace mee I thought small skill might serue in an Apologie for all men and was so bolde as to pronounce him more grosely deceyued then euer I knew any man And content coulde I haue been to haue tryed by disputation or by printing not minding to leaue off vntil my booke to her Maiestie which he laboreth wholly to disgrace standeth by open iudgement or falleth to my continuall disgrace and last paynes in studie When he had long read to proue that Mardochai was not of Iechonias captiuitie and had made many commende his cause we both graunt that to ende our strife and they being called to reade the text loathed their owne inconstancie Yet then this was tolde me that some Oxforde men required answere of me Therevpon I wrote to D. Robinson Prouost of the Q. Colledge certaine Theses which might ende the cause requesting his alowance or reiection with this addition that I thought it iniurious that Oxforde men should require me to defende that which they euer helde vnlesse they woulde protest that eyther their mindes were altered or that they were vnable and of D. Reynoldes I wrote that he was extremely culpable in blaming me for differing frō him where none euer was nor wylbe of his iudgement and by his owne wordes he is vtterly condemned Vpon this D. Reynoldes commeth to London to me shewing that he was willing to take any iudge and both we agreed vpon your Grace you my L. B. of London that we might haue the cause fully ended without partialitie to the credite of either clearely to the glory of God and brightnes of his trueth That whether soeuer hereafter should make any stir in the cause he shoulde be openly culpable by all censures My matter is opened in my Booke of Scripture Concent in Gabriels oration Dan. 9. in the Preface and at the yeere of the worlde 3470. My accusation is that D. R. vniustly blamed that as all particulars depending therevpon which tende through the olde Testament yea from Moses to our Lord his ascention To all which courses I blame him as iniurious Imoued him to sende to your Grace and Lordship the booke of his Lectures I trow reason wil moue him to do so much yf he meane to defende him selfe I haue sent herewithall a briefe in Theses and short declarations to giue an insight to the matter a copie whereof I coulde wish D. R. yf he would as I would gladly giue him any thing for a Booke of his whole Lectures against mee If these be not sufficient I am ready by Lecture Disputation or Printing to open any poynt hid in my cause Thus requesting your Graces and Lordships free report to her Maiestie and my L. Treasurer touching my Booke wherefore we striue after your conuenient leasure I humbly commende your Grace and Lordship to the spirite of trueth London Nou. 4. 1591. To the worshypfull and learned the Vicechauncelour and others the gouernours of learning-houses in the Vniuersitie of Oxeforde LFarned Fathers you know that I put foorth sundry defences of my doctrine touching the harmonie of Scripture to cleare my booke which I wrote to her Maiestie that I might proue my selfe not vnaduised in offering that doctrine to her Highnes but carefull of duetie to the Church and state And God is my iudge that I had desire and hope therein to haue aduanced not a litle the knowledge of Christ the peace of the Church and honour of all humane good learning My defenses I hope proue my cause to be sounde And not onely that but a more playne dealing vsed then I haue founde from your Studentes I wyll touch what I wrote and your mens iniuries and require your censure First the treatise of Mardochai wrytten without open noting any perticuler aduersarie proouing all Churches and Synagoges and the natiue iudgement of all playne folke to be of my syde myght haue quietly appeased all stryfe or haue dryuen all you to haue defended your owne cause Moreouer I though I stoode in possession of the ancient opinion and by that onely myght disgrace the replyer consented to abyde arbitrement which commonly would part stakes Besides I chayned holy testimonies for the seruice of Shemesh vnto that blessed seruice of redemption that the cause myght match the Sunnes brightnes in the simplest sight and the speach of euery part appeare of one tenour in phrase that he which wold be tropique in one poynt should be guilty of threatning the lyke to all Some learned strangers thought that paynes the best of mine But some sayd that your D. disdayned to answere that being whole the expresse worde of God Such reuerence holy Euthyphrones gaue Gods worde Besides your D. affyrming that there was not a Chronicle in the Bible disputed vpon Abrabams tymes and the Iudges to proue them vncertayne I marueyled what he should meane to disturbe the trueth in that most famous place where God vpon Terahs death bagan a new accumpt from Christes promise The Sunne differeth not more from the dimmest Starre then that poynt differeth from obscuritie And the ancient Grekes saw it so wonderfull a matter that Moses should tell of Terahs death telling in the eight aboue onely all their yeeres that to hide the wonder they put in eight tymes and he dyed S. Stephen and Philo in Abrahams peregrination might haue tolde your D. that antiquitie therein made no doubt Neyther did euer any Englyshe differ from me for S. Stephens wordes For the Iudges times my Booke woulde haue tolde him by perticuler accomptes where S. Paul bringeth 18. stories to one worde that no Virginalles were better in tune then that harmonie of time though your D. would needes be busie with me for the seauen yeeres of Conquest and the seauen Iubilees to Samuel feauen Seauenties to Nebucadnezars warre the seauenty of Captiuitie and thence the seauen Seauenties But for Abrahams Promise I most labord to reforme him that he might not preuayle to marre the two most heauenly Promises and noblest ioyntes of all the Bible that and the other to Daniel In a disputation vpon Melchizedek I conueyed a redresse of his opinions which because some litle marked afterwardes I graued in brasse by reason of some Pictures a view of the whole Bible freendly amending his breaches of all the buylding This also being vnregarded directly do I reproue your Studentes as denying the Redemption by a strong consequent who holde that it fell not out in the time properly tolde whereas men and Angels wyll holde that otherwise it coulde not be from God and the Iewes seeke no more colorable defence then to proue that the proper time cannot be