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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16964	A concent of Scripture, by H. Broughton	Broughton, Hugh, 1549-1612.; Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612, ill.	1590 (1590)	STC 3850; ESTC S106737	99,386	77

from Babylon Which I wyll translate agreeably to the Ebrevv that the Reader may see that plainely at the first to which through this Booke he must haue recourse Dan 9. 24. SEAVENTIE SEAVENS of yeeres are cut out for thy people for thy holy Citie to consume wickednes and to abolysh sinnes and to make reconciliation for iniquitie and to bring righteousnes euerlastyng and to seale Vision and Prophet and to shew CHRIST the HOLY of HOLY Know then and marke from the outgoyng of the Worde to returne and to buylde Ierusalem vnto CHRIST the gouernour shal be seauen seauens of yeeres and sixtie and two seauens in th' other it shal be restored and buylded Streete and Wall and troublous shall these times be In that after the sixtie two seauens CHRIST shal be killed and not for him selfe thereupon the Citie and holy place shall be destroy the GOVERNOVRS owne people to come and their ende shal be with a Flood and at the ende of warre it shall haue a finall iudgement to desolation But he shall confirme the Testament for many the last Seauen when in HALFE THAT SEAVEN he shall ende the Sacrifice and Oblation Afterwardes by an Armie abominable he shall make a desolation euen tyll vtter destruction and finall iudgement flow vpon the desolate And this much for the Preface A Concent of Scripture THe heauenly Concent of holy Wryters who haue penned for vs the booke of Trueth is needefull to be knowen for to strengthen our Fayth that we may see a constant agreement in seuerall ages for matters often tolde in diuers partes and maner Touchyng that I labour in this Booke to lay downe certayne principall heades drawen through the whole body of Scripture The beginnyng ought to be from hym who is A and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the beginnyng and the ende who filleth all with his goodnes Thereof this is a true saying and founde intertaynement of all the fayth full that GOD is one and there is none but he Of this that is grauen on the Gate of that fyrst and great Commaundement Heare ISRAFL IEHOVAH our GOD IEHOVAH is one Whom if we loue with all our hart mynde soule and strength and holde them happy whose God IEHOVAH is we must learne to know him aright The name IEHOVAH importeth BEING which the Eternal sayth is his name Vnder this name and nature there be three the Father the Worde and the holy Ghost and these three are one The WORDE is the Sonne and he is IEHOVAH as Iohn Cha. 12 41. expoundeth Esay 6 9. The holy Ghost is IEHOVAH as Paule expoundeth the same text of Esay Acte 28 25. This name is opened thus WHO WAS WHO IS WHO WILBE The names IAH EHIEH I AM are of the same force Though mens blynde hartes can not thus know God The Scriptures are manifest that teach the Trinitie and the holy Tongues of all ages so spake of God Most playnely is that shewed in the beginnyng ende of our Lord his preachyng Mat. 3 1. 28 19. For that purpose God geueth hym selfe a named ELOHIM which is in meanyng MIGHTY in forme plurall as Gramarians speake which as Prophane men speake it by frame of language soundeth GODDES God woulde neuer so speake of hym selfe vnlesse he would haue vs to consider thereby the diuine persons For the forme were dangerous if necessitie required not knowledge of distinct diuine persons The enemies graunt a mystery in that forme with attributes plurall Aben Ezra vpon Psal 11. who also citeth R. Iaphath there This name hath also a forme singular ELOAH a shorter EL. These formes singular are fit to teach of the vnitie of Godhead and lykewyse the other when the attributes speake of one as ELOHIM GOD he created But to manifest distinct persons often do the ●earmes ioyned speake in the number of many as yf I shoulde say THEY God Gen. 20 13. They God caused 2. Sam. 7 22. They God went e SHADDAI also doth God call him selfe MIGHTY RICH or ALSVFFICIENT Though the Greke Diuines reteyne not the letters but ●n a composition TZVRI SHADDAI My rocke is God The Heathen of olde heard of these names and turned them to sundry Goddes But Israel did not so All faythfull know that GOD is one and the persons three and that he regardeth all them that feeke him in spir●● and trueth who is a spirite eternal infinite holy iust and mercifull Vnsearchable are his iudgementes but the open thynges are for vs. GOD hath chosen vs in CHRIST before the worlde was made and of eternitie knew all his owne workes In sixe dayes God made all creatures Man last and gaue them a commaundement which how soone they brake Moses turneth to tell after mention of the Sabbath The Lord rested the seauenth day from creatyng and appoynted that day for holy rest which the Father 's obserued before Moses Now the man and his wyfe were both naked were not ashamed Ouer them God gaue his Angels charge but some Angels stoode not in the trueth nor kept their standyng but fell as Starre● from heauen and became an enemious company and staunderers of God In Ebrew Satan in the Grake Deuels Of beastes the Serpent was subtilest into whom Satan entred spake to the woman agaynst God and his commaundement perswaded her who drew the man also to breake the commandement Then they both became dead in sinne So from the beginning as sone as man was Satan was a lyer and a murtherer and therefore marueyle not that the wrath of God is so vehement vppon ADAM through al his generatiō because quickly sinne was committed to the extremitie The circumstaunces shew the spedines of it Satan woulde omit no tyme the woman if she had ben practised better woulde not so sone haue erred their speach sheweth that no Fruite had been eaten before Doubtles the woman fell a Virgin and yf they had stoode but a short tyme the blessing of God had not been in vayne for propagation Aboue all reasones this must be confidered that the Redemption was to be shewed presently vpon the Creation For that is the fyttest to mooue men to holde it and God omitteth nothyng that best helpeth to that This shoulde moue all men to put no trust in them selues for that Adam hauyng once iustice and true holynes did not lodge one nyght in honoure but became lyke the Beastes that perysh And the lyght that shyneth in darknes mooued men of all religions to holde this For this opinion hath been euery where receyued that they fell the day of their creation So the Ievves generally holde I heard neuer of one that was of an other iudgement and yet many of them see not how fitly they say for the Redemption by the seconde Adam The Heathen Christians haue helde this from the beginnyng The Gre●et Ireneus Chryostome Theodorus Theophylast and Cedrenus age They haue a common