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A16992 Obseruations vpon the first ten fathers. By H. Broughton Broughton, Hugh, 1549-1612. 1612 (1612) STC 3874; ESTC S114816 10,908 24

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Obseruations Vpon The first ten FATHERS By H. BROVGHTON Imprinted at London by W. White dwelling in Cow-lane 1612. OBSERVATIONS Vpon Adam Seth Enosh Kenan Mahalaleel Iared Enoch Methuselah Lamech Noah the first ten Fathers 1. Chro. 1. 1 IN that all men which haue beene since the Hood come of those tenne Patriarches all may be counted faultie that regarde not the Historie of such their owne and most noble Ancestors all faythfull Christians all recorded thrise in the Writ of trueth for their age Gen. 5. and 6. And all recorded in three Bookes for their line Gen. 3. 1. Chr. 1. Luk. 3. 2 Seeing Iewes and Gentiles both agree that CHRIST is the glory of all men all should thinke that the Holy spirit would not begin his Line to leaue it afterwarde vnperfect as the wicked Iewes now know it not but would continue it through vnto himselfe as in S. Luke it is chayned from Ely Maries father vp to Zorobabel Nathan Dauid Adam 3 While these men liued in the world there was but one Tongue that in which Adam spake and was fit to argue his Angel-like witte which the same the holy Spirit vsed in all the Bookes of the old Testament and hath not left it in any other Writer extant but hath ended it with the old Testament Their Language so wittie and so sanctified should be knowen of all their not bastardly race what worthinesse it hath In some generalitie 4 That Adams Tongue was the same which Moses vsed the Notations doe shew in Adams wordes Hee calleth her which was taken out of his side Isha in the morning presently vpon her creation because she was taken from Ish That Language helde vnto Malachy Ish for Man Isha for Owman or Of man 5 The same appeareth in the name which he giueth to the woman in the euening of the same day vpon the promise of Life Eua or Ch-Eua Life from a tearme of lyuing Chaya flowing out of the same spring 6 Eua declareth the same Tongue to be her Tongue For she nameth her first sonne Kain Possession from the verbe Kanah to possesse shewing that to be the reason of his name because she possest a Sonne by the Eternall 7 The other names Adam Earthie of Adama Earth Habel Vanitie are plaine of them selues and often touched in glaunces as Col Habel Col Adam the whole that commeth of Adam is wholly Vanitie Psa 39. 6. And all Adam Man is Habel Psal 39. 11. And truely the sonnes of Adam are Vanitie Psal 6. 2. 11. Adam is like to Habel Man to Vanitie Wee may not thinke it a small matter when the matter is so often handled by the spirit of all Wisedome perfect that hath nothing superfluous Thus we may finde the ●●●guage of our first Parents what it was ● and moreouer how it was most fit for perfect Wisedome and how the first persons conteine all mans estate Adam the earthy man what possession Kynian soeuer he gate all is Habel vanitie The Man Chaya liueth by the promise in CHRIST The words of Rabbi Bochai touching Kain and Habel are in mine opinion worthy citing and the enemies owne testimonie for a trueth should be not the worst Thus Bochai sayth In a wittie sense Kain Habel conteyne in their names aduertisementes close glaunses for matter of true continuance and corruption Kain betokeneth Possession in this world Habel betokeneth one humbled in minde and holding such possession vayne Such was his offering Sheepe kinde the gentlest of all lyuing beastes and therefore the fauour of God folowed him And the offering of Kain was of the fruict of the Earth as he loued the possession of this worlde and the seruice of the body which yet can haue no continuance and followed after body lustes Therfore the blessed God fauoured him not This the Rabbin speaketh glauncing at their names Diuiner matter from their persones doing we are taught That Kain was of the Serpent and hated his brother because of good workes Also iust Habels slaughter the first that dyed was an effectuall proofe that for beng iust the best should die as our Lord telleth the Iewes how Habels blood shou●● be required at them murhterers of him And the faythles Hebrew Docters are at their wits ende as touching what Gods counsell was in that good Habel should so be kilde The Apostles compare them with Cain Habel with Christ suffering for goodnes But my degression drawing vnto the ten Fathers to collateral men may not be long I will go to the right lyne 1 Seth commeteh Adams heyre His name in Adam tongue and ours falleth a like Set or setled sure Eue named him Seth because God hath Set mee an other-gates Seede in stead of Habel for Kain slue him and prooued his dayes to be Habel Vanuie Gen. 3. 25. Adam approoued the same name as knowing that hee should be the sure-setled when all other Familyes should ende by the Flood 2 Therefore Balaam speaketh that all the Sonnes of Seth that is all Nations all come of him sh●lbe vnwalled by Christ and taught by doctrine or experience that all their strength is nothing Num. 24. 3 It is a good meditation to thinke of Adam Habel and Seth how the Scripture conferreth all three with our Lordes cases Adam the earthy with the heauenly Habels blood with our Sauiours and Seths families with his conquestes 4 Adam and Eue both agreeing for the name Seth gaue a doble witnessed warning to the world that as Kain was cursed so other families ioyning with his should feele in the Flood the curse of all the earth that they should better regard Seths right line 5 The Scripture telleth in Seth onely in plaine sort that after Adams image and likenesse he was borne because hee was the fittest to shew what all Adams ●ace was beeing the first in the line continued still and as hee was so must all be 6 The Iewes commonly peruert the meaning of the tearmes The Image and likenes of Adam Thus Abrabbaneel expoundeth it pag. 39. Because Adam was excellent in his likenesse and Image intellectiue God like Seth came foorth like vnto him in that image and likenesse which God made in him For he was a wise sonne in his wisedome and vnderstanding hee was like his Father which was wiser then all men being the frame of the handes of God And hereupon it is sayd And hee beg●t according to his owne likenesse according to his owne image That is hee begot a Sonne which should issue in the likenesse and wi●te of Adam the wit●e and of knowledge and therefore his name was called Seth by a tearme of stablishment and setling because he saw by his Wisedome that his seede should be setled in the world And therefore it was not spoken so of Kain or Habel because they were not after the likenesse of Adam and should not haue continuance in the World but their end should faile This doctrine is badde Euery man is borne the Foale of
should be Hee walking with God was doublesse a most zealous Preacher of righteousnesse and told of the Flood to come S. Iude eloquently frameth an Oration for him by the matter as Oratours may lawfully doe thus it standeth Iude 14. Behold the Lord commeth with his holy thousandes to execute iudgement against all men and to reproue all the wicked of them for all their workes which they haue committed and for all their hard words which wicked sinners spake against him This is a most sweete Oration framed from Moses for this our holy Father In the Flood God shewed iudgement and as on Sinai hee came with thousandes of his Holy-ones so doubtlesse at the Deluge against men that cast oft and scorned trueth of Religion and holy Patriarchs admonitions and liued wallowing in all badnesse Also the tearme Behold may haue a close glaunce at the notation of Methuselah Then first Enoch walked with God as a Prophet and holy Teacher 16 Meth He dying V then Shelah He God sendeth what the matter spoken of iudgement vpon the wicked The Scripture is full of close glaunses And well might Enoch name his Sonne so as Iared gaue him a name fitted to his euent While Methuselah liued the Flood came not few dayes after his death it came when he had skant begun his last yeare of 969. For memory of the phrase the Iewes say that he lay vpon the Arke For being iust he perished not onely eight were in the Arke and he could not haue his full yeares 187. to Lameches birth 182. thence to Noahs his 600. compleat but as vpon the Arke This is the meaning of their fable the shewing how his age reached into the Flood And I thinke that the mockers which S. Peter speaketh of skoffed the prophecie conteined vnder his name when they said Where is the appearance of his comming For since the Fathers dyed the world continueth in the same state Now the Fathers all and his Sonne dyed before the Flood and for the sadnesse of that hee gaue to his Sonne the name Lamech 17 La-Mech of Mach Striking Tubalcayns father that would kill a man in his wounde had the same name as a Striker but this man was stroken with all calamities Hee saw Adam turned to dust Seth set in his rest Enosh taken with sorrowes of death Kenan lamented by mourners in the streete Mahalaleel depart thyther where Angels prayse God Iared descend to the low partes of the earth Enoch taken vp and knew that he should die before his Father when he named Noah the Comforter Whereas seeing his Father liued vnto the Flood without propheticall knowledge that he should die before his Father hee not Noah should haue been thought the Comforter And the saddest Oration that could proceed from a broken heart is that which hee maketh at Noahs birth saying This is hee that shall comfort vs concerning our workes and concerning the sorrowes of our handes and concerning the earth which GOD hath cursed So Lamech giueth sadnesse as his Sonne a remedie to sorrow 18 Noah the tenth hath his name arguing that Lamech spake Hebrew as Moses in the Notation Noah and Naham Great matters are to be considered in him Hee was long a single man When hee was 480. the spirit of Christ not recorded euer since the first day of man to haue spoken to any sauing to the cursed Kain neuer to any for effectuall Saluation speaketh to Noah Therefore S. Peter talking of Christ his Diuinitie had not an auncienter open record since the speach to Adam to talke of for Christ his open full speach speaking vnto men though the other nine were illuminated with propheticall knowledge Noah is 500. before he was a Father or maried as we may gather That argueth his great feare of Gods iudgementes farre vnlike his sonnes now adayes giuen as Horses to all voluptuousnesse and not caring for their owne most certaine destruction Twentie yeares before hee was maried hee had a warrant that his house should not perish His breathren and sisters yet would not take that warning for all that Lamech and Methuselah both could doe beholders of the Arke and witnesses doubtlesse of the wtath no come Lamech lyued not out the whole to 120. yeares as Methuselah but dying before his Father gaue a further warning that he spake as a Prophet touching the Flood The three witnesses were a full condemnation of the wicked world The further Stories of Noah may better be fetched from the fountaine of Genesis then abridged by any mans wit This much I thought good to speake seuerally of these ten Fathers some thinges common to them all may well heere be ioyned as their Religion long life and neare the same commeth the comparision of their ages togeather Their Religion was perfect and sinceere They knew the Creator to be one GOD and that the Sonne should bruse Satans power and that the Spirit was a person coequall and coeternall All that Moses recordeth for vs touching those times wee may know that they knew by the speaches vttered in Iob before the Law Eliphaz Zohar Bildad and Elthu spake no otherwise then the Fathers For they spake soundly of all Religion whereby wee may be sure that the first came not short of them in knowledge Adam knew the natures of all thinges the creation of the visible thinges and the vnuisible the fall of Angels and their eternall condemnation the corruption of mankind being the seed of the Serpent and a generation of Vipers And as Moses telleth that Elohim sayd Let Vs make man So hee knew that and why Elohim was a forme plurall for GOD. It were grosse to thinke that the Cabalistes which expound Elo him El-hem They be one God in Bachai vpon Gen. 1. should know more then Adam for names And the Hebrews vpon Middras Tillim bring in God talking with Adam as he gaue names asking What is my name To whom Adam sayd Thou art Elohim and Iehouah Whether God by expressed word named himselfe Iehouah and Elohim or gaue Adam wisedome so to doe we see that the names were knowen from the beginning For the Serpent nameth Elohim to Euah and turneth presently the forme plurall vnto Gods prophanely saying Yee shal be like vnto Gods that know good and euill Which pluralitie Adam and Euah referred to the holy Trinitie There the Greekes in the Serpents word Elohim the second time translate very learnedly Gods And so doe the Talmudistes hold it meant in Masseceth Sopherim Perk. 4. And we may be sure that Adam and Euah were not ignorant of Satans thoughts when by experience they found him out Now when Euah bare a Sonne she spake voyde of all doubt to the Vnitie I haue possessed a Sonne by Iehouah by the one Eternall yet we may be sure that she remembred the speach of the Trinitie Adam wil be like to one of VS now The late Iews haue Satans darknesse which will haue that tearme VS to be spoken of Angels The Angels