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the Corner-stone is layd by the Prophets in the Church of God and how mightily Christ vpholdes the Scriptures that are built vpon him one by foretelling the other by fulfilling the written word how the liuing should be borne and liue and die should bee buried and raised and the Liuing word by so entring the wombe and his graue so liuing dying rising as was written so that if our Gospel be hid it is hid to those onely whose minds are blinded by the God of this world as the Apostle speakes But as our Christian Faith is much dishonoured by a company of rude and vnsettled Professours so it is vtterly ashamed of the multitude of false blind which is strange dumb witnesses the Church of God is pestered with I will end therefore with V. A iust Invectiue against all false blind and dumbe Prophets who are indeed no true Witnesses of the Lord. LEt the Iesuit now the Sophister of Christianitie cal to vs to beg light and sufficiencie and auritie to Gods word from their Romane Church tell vs tell vs that we must run to Rome to their Spirituall Man to enterpret the Scriptures who commonly vnderstands not the Tongues they were writ in Let their Apostolicall Cha●re vaunt it selfe it cannot fall from the Faith because the two noble Apostles S. Peter and S. Paul sate in it by their doctrine ymbrightened it by their example and with their owne blouds baptized it Alas did not our Sauiour himselfe sow Hierusalem with his doctrine grace it with his Miracles shine vpon it with the light of his vniuitable example water it with the showre the best showre that euer fell from heauen of his owne blood And yet is not that Vine-yeard become a wildernesse hath it not losse with the leaues the fruit with the power of Religion the profession of it And is it possible that Gods word should bee darke it selfe that giues light to the simple insufficient and vnperfect in it selfe that makes perfit the Man of God that Gods word should begge authorities from mans and such a mans who is either the man of Sin or the Beast drunke with the blood of the Saintes and Martyrs of Iesus from such a beastly and sinfull mans word That hee should bee the sole and Infallible Interpretour of Gods word and his diuine Lawe in whose chayre-sentence all our thoughts must acquiet themselues who by his dispensatory court of Faculties is the daily Cancelour of it and is therefore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 stiled by the Apostle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the lawlesse Man Who can make Apocryphal Authors Canonicall Humane Traditions of Diuine Authoritie disanulling in Princes holy Marriages and making Legitimate amongst them incestuous Contracts Inioyning his Fryars vnlawfull chastity forbidding his Seculars holy Wedlocke commending in his Cardinals royal excessiue pride commanding in his votaries abiect humilitie counsayling in his Iesuits blind and sinfull obedience countenancing in forrein Subiects secret and Sainctly Rebellion creating heere among vs a Religious murder and meritorious treason and making the bulletting of a whole Commonwealth vp into the ayre at a shot an Action not onely vndiscouerable and to bee sealed vp vnder the holy Signet of Confession but canonizing the father of the Action for a most heauenly and venerable saint All which to the word of GOD are most repugnant and gladiatorie Is this the man vpon whose lip of knowledge they would haue vs and all the Prophets hang to kisse whose toes and commit idolatrie with the golden Crosse vpon his Pantofle they would haue vs flye ouer the seas Well when wee heare say hee is better able to make good his Interpretations by the Lights of Art helpe of Tongues and authoritie of Scriptures rightly inferred from the Collation of places the significancy of phrases the light of circumstances the Ayme of the words and the Analogie of Faith and hath ioyned to all these a sincere loue of the Trueth without any siding and part-taking for gainefull and honourable respects and an vnwearied search for it without prae-iudicating affections all which together make vp not an infallible but the least fallible Interpretour we will then thinke whether it bee fit to put out all these Lights in other men thorough the whole Church of GOD and with the losse of our Christian libertie to imbondage our selues to his Romane Chayre It is best therefore to keep on this side the seas from the false and whorish Prophet of Babylon that beares onely false witnesse to Christ and to consider those Ecclesiasticall home-Droanes of our owne which hiue themselues vnder the shadow of our Church the wicked thiefe money that siluer dropsie that now raigns in vnconscionable Patrons making way for them so beare indeed either no witnesse to Christ at all or but very slight and rash witnesse It was Eliahs speech from God to Ahab Hast thou slaine and also taken possession and it may well be his Churches to either of theirs Hast thou taken possession and wilt thou slay also not the body once but for euer the soules of innocent men Let no man quarrell with me as Ahab did with Eliah Hast thou found me O mine Enemie If he doe I must borrow Saint Paules answer Am I thine enemy because I tell thee the Truth No I speake not out of rash but charitable zeale thou art thine owne Enimie thou art Gods Enimie thou art the enimie of his Church For if thou didst loue him thou wouldst feede his flocke feede his Sheepe feed his Lambs If thou diddest loue his Church thou wouldest shew thy loue by thy obedience to it Who enioynes euery one eleuen moneths residence vpon his cure and graunts him but one months absence whereas it is a venture but without long search you may finde one that absents himselfe eleauen moneths and is resident but once a yeare and that is perhaps at haruest or peraduenture at Easter when his owne and not so much the Churches profit calles him to his benefit not his Benefice He would being resident preach euery Sunday as shee commaunds him in her 45. Cannon Hee would labour to cōuince Heretiques which now in his absence growes vppon her or see them at least censured as she bids him in her 65. and 66. Canons He would keepe the sound in safety and visit the sicke as shee directs him in her 67. Canon Thus he would do and not laugh at them that did thus and would haue him doe so as men more precise than wise of more heate than discretion I am not so intemperate as to rage against all Non-residency which in case of insufficiencie of one Liuing or publique and necessarie imployment either in Vniuersities or Court must needs be allowable but either our Church it selfe is precise that bids him doe thus or he that does the contrary without any ouer-ballancing reason prooues himselfe a Bastard and none of hir Children A double wound it is our church receiues from these men For as themselues haue not
witnesse of God his Word and Truth In the first and broadest walkes the heathen Idolator For diuide the World into thirty parts and he takes vp as is obseru'd by a iudicious Mathematician ninteen of them but we must vnderstand his Obseruation of the continued magnitude of the surface of the earth not of the discreet multitude of men contained in it In the next wide field of error walks the Mahumetan who dispreads himselfe into sixe parts of the thirty In the third the stragling Iew wanders who is discoasted into the bounds of all the rest And the Christian impaths himselfe in the last and least and narrowest tract holding but the proportion of fiue parts in the thirty parts The Heathen anciently mistooke the Oracles of the Diuell himselfe for the word of God and in a manner is blinded in that errour to this very day eyther by the illusision of Sathan himselfe or the collusion of his Priests The Mahumetan embraces the Alcoron for the vndoubted word of God and esteemeth that of Diuine and oracular authority The Iews retaine still the ancient word of God but they al reiect the New and are therefore called by the Fathers Archiua Christianorum The olde Records of the Christians being differenced among themselues into three Sects the first whereof are called Charraim and allow all and onely the olde Testament The second sew to the Bible all their fabulous Talmud make that of Scripture-authoritie and are therfore called the Talmudists The third defalke as much from Gods word as the second crowded to it leaue only the Pentateuch or fiue bookes of Moses for selfe-credible named by the rest Samaritans Neither can the little flocke of Christ the Catholique Church now professant in the world goe peaceably in their narrow path together but with Abrahams and Lots Heardsmen or Iacobs bretheren they will wrangling and scolding as they goe being dissundred into thirteene small or fiue maine different sects Protestants Latins Gracians Nestorians Iacobites whereof most of them darken that word of God that should enlighten themselues by carrying the Sunne in a clowd reading the Scripture in an vnknowne tongue eyther of Latine Greeke or Syriacke and so traducing all the authority of Gods Word from it self to the golden and empty Title of The Church As the Latins Nestorians Indians Iacobites the Cophti and the Mannites Some of these again spanging out of the Canon of the New Testament all the Reuelation of S. Iohn the Epistle of S. Iude the second Epistle of S. Peter the second and third Epistles of S. Iohn others farsing into the Canonicall writings Apocriphall and vnknowne Authors the Gospell of Nicodemus c. with a world of rotten and vnwriten Traditions To omit the populous Churches at this day of the Nestorians and Iacobites who commit the like error concerning the Liuing word as they doe about the written the first diuiding Christ into two Persons by a separation the second cōfounding him into one Nature by the Adunation of his Humanity and diuinity Now all these selfe-arrogating to themselues the word of God either by oracular Reuelation as the Heathen or written Tradition as the Mahumetan Iew and Christian how in such a world of open Warre and ciuil mutiny about GODS Word should blinde soules such as wee all come into the World with be euer able to center themselues immoueably in the Diuine Truth of God and not be carried about with some one winde or other of these erronious doctrines Giue mee leaue with the mighty Angell that held open in his hand the little booke of Prophecies Reuel 10. to sweare by him that liueth for euer and euer Either the means how to effect this is here set downe To him giue all the Prophets witnesse or there is none in the earth or vnder heauen For as in it selfe the least tittle of Gods word is more firmely pillard and lesse passable then the whole fabrique of heauen and earth Heauen and earth shall passe c. So to vs this certaintie can no way bee more infallibly euident then by the Prophesies that are storied in it And as the Prophesies are the greatest argument of all the rest so this is the greatest of all the rest of the Prophesies to argue by For here both Gods words are met together The dead word hath met with the liuing the old Testament kisses the New either to other one by fore-telling the other by fulfilling giue mutuall witnesse of their irrepugnable Truthes Since therefore there is so great vnitie in the words and the Prophets are all ioyned in one witnesse Christ to whom they witnesse is vndiuided I industriously spare to make any diuision either of the words or among the Prophets Only I will set this one truth in the Light That Christ is the Center to whom all of them standing round about him as a compassing clowd of witnesses draw all the lines of their Prophecies then briefly gather such Instructions as shall bee thence deducible Wee might see this golden circle of all the Prophets geaphically described by the last of the Prophets himselfe Reuel 4. and 5. chapters where in the midst of 4. Beasts and 24. Elders a glorious Lambe standeth and sends forth the 7. Spirits of God into al the Earth That Christ is the Lamb himselfe the Passeouer of the Iewes wil tell vs. And that the foure Euangelists are the foure beasts their euen number and their standing neerest the Throne as waiting immediately on the Lambe of God our Sauior and the strict keeping of decorum in figuring them like beasts such as the Lamb himselfe is sufficiently proues And doubtlesse the 24. Elders can be no other then the 24. Prophets of the Olde Testament both because they are called Elders being more ancient then the foure Euangelists and stand in a greater distāce farther off frō Christ their number being iust the very same as S. Hierome obserues And because as themselues sing to their golden Harpes the Lambe had made them Kings in matters of Life Priests in Points of Doctrine to rule the Earth hauing before redeem'd thē to God by his bloud which is not appliable to the stedfast Angels but onely to such who had beene yong sinners before they became saintly Elders And to conclude the seuen spirits sent forth into all the Earth must needs be the seuen gifts of Gods Spirit precisely set down by S. Paul 1. Cor. 12. 28. Apostles Prophets Teachers Miracles Guifts of healings Helps in gouernment Diuersities of tongues which are therefore named by Saint Iohn in the very same place seauen Lamps and the seauen hornes and eyes of the Lambe because by them Christ giues Light to his Church and exerciseth a visible power in all the Earth And heere wee see all our Sauiours witnesses are met together The twenty fower Prophets hold out the first Lights to discouer the Lamb of God least they should be obscure the Euangelists sets the truth of the story by
the grace to correct their owne sinne so they haue commonly in their roomes certaine vnder-curats so grossely ignorant as not to know theirs They that know nothing thēselues are set by these to teach others of whom we cannot say dies diei but nox nocti indicat scientiam One night teaches another a blinde Prophet a blinde People yet I haue seene some of these not onely stand high vppon their bare and solitary honesty but peremptorily censured graue and worthy Ministers as Demosthenes an Arrian the Cooke of Valens the Emperours kitchin did Saint Ambrose as men not throughly gifted for their place which reproach Saint Ambrose smiling put vp and off with this merry answere 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I haue met with to day a barbarous Demosthenes but to the common virtues of a Christiā vpright feet and honest hands it were good these men would adde the tongue of the learned Esay chap. 50. v. 4. else the Greeke Epigram will finde fault with their sermons and tell them sound hands and feete will not excuse lame heades and crackt braines 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I do not deny but that God is able to perfect his power in these mens weakenesse For it is not impossible for our spirituall Sampson as hee ouercame his enemies and was refreshed with a iawe of the seely beast so to make the waters of Life spring between the teeth of these simple creatures but these vnsent Runners might do well to content thēselues with one Cure and not to be too busie in trudging between many as some of them are for to bee so officious must needs proue offensiue to the church till they know better how to applie more seasonably than yet they can the sacred word of God to the pretious soules of their Hearers and to set those Apples of siluer into these pictures of golde Neyther doe I denie but that such trading Preachers may find work enough for their mouths by making other mens labours runne through them But this is to get their Liuing by the sweat of other men to wipe it off to their owne browes And if we should see a rude Carter offer to play vpon the instrument of a fine-fingred and dactrycall Musitian suppose one of these Trades-men vpon the golden Harpe of the sweet Singer of Israel who could but laugh at him and say as the Greeke Prouerbe goes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Asinus ad lyram But such derisorie reproofes are too milde for such tayles of Ieroboam more fit indeede to make Priests for Baal thē Prophets for God who intrude themselues into the Ministery for meere necessity and therefore may say indeede with St. Paul A necesesitie is layed vpon me But whereas the Apostle proceedes And woe vnto me if I preach not the Gospell How much better may they say to themselues and woe vnto mee if I preach the Gospell And lest wee should feare to speake against such vagabond Shepheards as are not able to feed the flockes they are fed by Prophesie against them saies the Lord woe to the Shepheards that feede themselues that is their end but Gods end in appointing Shepheards followes Should not the sheepheards seed the flocks Nay what can they exspect but the double woe of Ieremy and Ezekiel woe woe to the Shepheards that destroy and scatter my sheepe But as these blinde Guides are most insensible of their owne maladies because ignorance is a disease as the Greeke Tragedian calls it that neuer paines a man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so it is no lesse then a myracle to a man of vnderstanding to see the great zeale and little knowledge some well but weake minded people vse to defend these Trades-men with Was not our Sauiour say they a Carpenter Marke 6. 3. before he was sent to preach S. Peter a Fisherman Matthew a Publican S. Paul a Tent-maker True indeed but our Sauiour ventured not himselfe to preach before the Spirit of GOD sent him Luk. 4. 18. and lay'd a most district charge vpō his Apostles to tarry at Hierusalem till by the commission of the Holy Ghost they should be indued with power from on high Luk. 24. 49. But these men as they cannot arrogate the ordinary means to make their Calling iustifiable so I suppose no man euer saw the Spirit of God descending vpon them and fitting them with extraordinary and infused gifts of knowledge Christ indeede was a Carpenter but to build heauen and earth and his Church in them both S. Peter was a Fisher but to angle in all the Circumcision to the Faith of Christ to circumcise not their fore-skins but their hearts 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as an ancient Father alluding to the fifth and second of Iosua where the Israelites were circumcised with kniues of stone most elogantly speaketh of him Mathew was a Publican but to gather the precious soules of men into the Heauenlie Treasury of the King of Kings Saint Paul was a Tent-maker but to perswade Iaphet to dwell in the Tents of Sem and to spread Christs Tabernacle all the world ouer among the Gentiles But in the great day of their Reckoning when the Disciples of our Lord shall bring in their Accomps and S. Paul shall say I haue gathered to the faith all the Riches of the Gentiles and S. Thomas I haue gained all the treasures of India and S. Peter I haue gathered the dispersions of Iudah What shall these hirelings say but wee in our little flocks haue scattered so many and we haue destroyed so many and we haue wasted prey'd vpon deuour'd so many And therefore as the feete of these wise Stewards shall shine like the Starres of heauen for brightnesse so these had need to take heed least their heads for the clowdes of ignorance they are wrapt vp in meet not with Marcellus his fate apud inferos Cui non atra caput tristi circum volat vmbra Pardon mee right deerely beloued in our Lord and Sauiour if when Thorns Thiftles grow vpon Gods Altar as the Prophet Hosea speakes I am forced to vse a little fire of Zeale to consume them I am sorry there is such a necessity still for Gods spirit to descend in fiery Tongues O that it might alwaies flie down with the wings of a Doue from heauen vpon vs. But as long as common Customes lawfully robbe the Churches Treasure and commit open sacriledge euery day more then other vpon Melchisedcks Tithes the Patrimony of Christ insomuch as it is verilie thought the Church within these threescore yeres by concealements incroachments and customary thefts hath been spoyled of no lesse then 40000. yearely What hope can there be of sufficiency of the Prophets when the insufficiency of their meanes will not afford it when one Subiect into whose cofers 20000 pounds when a Lay Parson into whose Cofers 20000. pounds annually flow in and therefore if he were but a Pharisee in profession should out of his aboundant streames of wealth cast in much into the common Treasury of the Church shall taken into his owne possession fifteeene houses of God and sticke downe but the bare feathers of ten pounds or twenty Nobles a yeere for the needy seruice of Gods Altar Can all the flourishing and pragmaticall wits in the world if they were headed in one braine shew by what iust right a Laye hand can inuade coast vpon Gods portion of Tithes which he hath giuē to those that wait vpon his Altar for the food of their bodies and the poore people change with vs for the foode of their soules Is not this the reason why in the great haruest there are so few Laboures For the Psalmist had no sooner said They haue sent fire into thy Sanctuary meaning perhaps the fire of Couetousnesse that deuoures all or as he speaks of them in another Psalm Let vs take to our selues the houses of God in possession but presently it followeth There is no more any Prophet neither is there among vs any that knowes But GOD perswade those whom it most concernes to regard in time the common pouerty of the Church and to set a sea-banke against this diluviating euill of Satan who as GOD drowned all the world in the beginning of it and sau'd aliue onely the Arke of his Church so now in the end of it would the Diuel drowne the Arke and Church of God it selfe with these inundations of blinde Seers dumbe Teachers betraying Patrones Sacrilegious Customes Lay-Parsons theeuish Tithings and which by the abuse of them were become so many Chappell 's of Sathan where many a soule turn'd the Sabbaoth of God into the Deuils holi-day drunken Tap-houses vnder the weight of which sinne the whole Land staggered and the Churches of God like poore Sion euen vpon his own day lay desolate and waste But these gates of Hell shall neuer preuaile against the Suburbs of Heauen Gods sainctly Colony here on earth and therefore wee will end as Dauid doth Psa 20. 9. Say Lord Let the King heare vs when we call FINIS
the wordes of their Prophecie and that Christs Church may see this truth Christ sends out into the whole earth these seauen guifts of his Spirit as Lamps to giue Light both to his Prophets and Apostles So that if any Spirit of Antichrist obtrude vpon the Catholique Church any other witnesses or blinde Light of gouernment interpretation besides these or think that Christ sent his seuen spirits forth into Rome not forth into the whole earth it is to be held a Spirit of Error and not of Truth But to close vp this generall shadow of the Prophets which I haue vnawares vnfolded beyond my first purpose and to open the particular substance of their seuerall Prophecies we shall find thē all so signally point at our Sauiour that if Moses veyle were not taken frō his face and layd vppon their hearts if they did not by a wicked 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the olde Prophecies set the last comming of our Sauiour in glory before his first in humility that so they might grow proud by him who would first learne them to be humble Learne of me for I am humble they could not but now at length see him to be the Glory of Israel who hath beene so long a time already the Light of the Gentiles all the Circumstances of his Birth the Miracles Offices Doctrine and Humilitie of his life the causes manner and other cōcurrences of his death the Place of his buriall and the assurance of his rising againe being so cleerely praeassigned by their owne former Prophets liuing so long before Let vs therefore diligently search into III. The seuerall Prophecies concerning the Birth Life Death and Resurrection of the Sauiour of the world FIrst that his Mother should be a Virgin was foretold Isay 7. 14. and we shal finde it Mat. 1. 18. fulfilled Beholde a Virgin shal conceiue which the Iews most sillily translate a young woman as Trypho the Iew in his disputatiō with Iustin Martyr and Aquila and Theodotion both Iewish Proselites in their Translations But as Iustin replies it were no wonder for a young woman to conceiue whereas the Prophet speaks of it as a wonder Behold the Lord himselfe will giue you a signe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as your ancient Septuagint saith the Father reads it and not as your idle Rabbies newly translate it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Behold a young woman shall conceiue making that a very strange wonder then which nothing is more common and vsuall Besides to speake in grammer property 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Alma signifieth neyther a Virgin simply nor yet a young woman but one betweene both a Virgin already espoused but not married such as Mary was to Ioseph such as Rebecca was to Isaac when she veyled her face at his sight Gen. 24. 65. and is therefore deriued from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to veyl or hide This being the maiden ceremony of the olde world for Virgins after they had once made choice of their husband to couer their faces to be Nuptae before they were Maritae veyled from al other before they married their owne man The husbands being to become the veyle of her eyes as Abimelech speaketh of Abraham to Sarah Behold he is the veyle of thine eies And this was Gods owne Argument to prooue our Sauiour his Son the Messias Gen. 3. 15. Ier. 31. 22. and in the place now cited And as the person of his Mother so the person of his Messenger was as disertly fore-told by the Prophets Esay 40. 3. Malach the 3. 4. chapters and fulfilled by Iohn the Baptist Luke the 4. who is therefore called Eliah not because he was to be person aeliter but onely personate being to come in the spirit of Eliah and in the manner of his life Eliah fasted often so did Iohn Eliah was girt with a leather girdle so was Iohn Eliah spake all his Prophesie writ none so did Iohn Eliah reproued the people openly to their faces so did Iohn Eliah was sent to renew the worship of God then defaced and changed so was Iohn Eliah told Ahab and Iesabell of their faults plainely so did Iohn Herod and Herodias painted Iesabel sought Eliahs life to slay him dancing Herodias sought and obtained the life of Iohn and slew him So that in his place and apparell in his manners and Prophecies in the prosecution of his life and persecution at his death Iohn though he were not Eliahs persō yet did throughly personate Eliah And this was Iohns crying Argument to proue our Sauiour the Messias The voyce of a Cryer in the wildernes prepare ye the way of the Lord saith Esay Who art thou say the Iewes to Iohn The voyce of a Crier in the Wildernesse prepare yee the waies of the Lord saith Iohn to the Iewes But our Sauiour as he had two Natures so hee had two Messengers Iohn was a burning shining Light on Earth but the Starre burned shined to giue him Light from Heauen A Starre shall come out of Iacob saith Balaam Num. 24. 17. Where is the King of the Iewes saies the Wise men for we haue seene his starre are come to worship him Mat. 2. 2. And this is the heathen mans argument that so much troubled Herod and all Hierusalem with him Now if we search diligently eyther the time when this starre first appeared or the place whether it led the Wise men after it had brought them out of their owne Countrey was it not in the time of the first Herod Luke 3. 1. when the Scepter was departed from Iudah Gen. 49. 10. And the Land was forsaken of both her Kings Esay 7. 16. And this was olde Iacobs argument to proue Iudahs sonne the Messias The Scepter shal not depart from Iudah till Shiloh that is his Sonne come And went it not with them directly to a little Bethleem foretold by Micah the 5. the 2. and in the 2. and 5. of Mathew interpreted by the chiefe Priests and Scribes and people all gathered together at the commmand of Herod to this very purpose who making this quiry Where Christ stould be borne receiued this answere In Bethleem of Iudah And thou Bethleem art not the least among the Princes of Iudah for out of thee shall come the Gouernour that shall rule my people Israell And this was the Argument of all our Sauiours enemies met together against him Herods the chiefe Priests the Scribes and the Peoples to proue him the Messias Wee might now take our Sauiour out of the Cradle of his birth and looke vpon him in the Miracles Offices Doctrine and Humanity of his Life all which wee shall finde curiously foretold by Moyses Dauid Esay Zachary and witnessed not onely by the mouthes of Children and Wise men but forcibly arrested by the Peoples Pilates and the voyce of the very Diuells themselues crying Wee know thee what thou art euen the Holy one of God but because the great Rocke of Scandall whereat both the obstinate Iew