made From Psal 18. 45. 110. Isai 31. That the Romanes now be the enemies they who pierced the handes the feete of the morning starre Ps 22. by Kimchies exposition from all the Thalmud and Apoc. 2. 22. So the Prophecie there for Creatures to refuse worship is bent against Rome which stil would worship Creatures None told so distinctly Romes case as now it is handled Balaam in Nu. 24. but generally So S. Mat. 24. S. Paul a litle more at large for the present possessor Caesar till he were gone and then for new Antiochi froÌ„ Daniel 11. to bring al to heathen folly But none told that Christ would plague the Caesares infinitely more theÌ„ euer gouernors were plagued that a King of Locusts idle bellies deuouring the fruites of the earth should come to reuiue the empire These things were sealed for the LAMBE himself to open how he would vse Hypocrites Pilates Murtherers yet washers of handes as innocents in depth of mischiefe murtherers of the king of glory and yet confessors that Iesus of Nazaret is King of the Iewes The revenge is fitted to this cruelty and Hypocrisie against Diuos Caesares a new Empire of hoâ—inesse in title of boldnesse to make Diuos Diuas Christ by his holy martyrs sheweth white might and speede they are a white horse hee gaue them crowns as he wan a crowne Psal 21. a crowne through thornes and thorny in this world but golden for the soule in the world of soules And he hath a Bowe with arrowes sharpe in the heart of the kinges enimies to make people fal vnder him That is one sealed coÌ„mune place The reuenge of the Diui Caesares is three fold in speedy might a red horse and his rider hath a great sword and auctority to take away peace that men should kil one another The Romane stories tell how miserable the Emperors were and often in hazard to ouerthrow the Empire euen at the first persecutions A step further commeth in the black horse on whoÌ„ the rider bare a balance in his hand to sel corne as deere as spice shewing what famine should come greater then was in Claudius dayes Aurelius Victor sheweth of 30. chosen Emperors at once by their soldiers who kill'd one another till all came to one and so in warres famine must be as Virgil saith Quippe vbi fas versum atque nefas tot bella per orbem Tam multae scelerum facies non vllus aratro Dignus honos squalent abductis arua colonis Et curuae rigidum falces conflantur in ensem For where right 's ouerturned and wrong takes place So many warrs through th' world so many a face Of wickedness appears no due regard Is then vouchsaf'd the plough the fieldes are marr'd The Husbandmen drag'd thence now forged are The crooked sithes into stiffe swordes for warre A vehementer degree of miserie followeth in the fourth common place or Seale where the speedie and deadlie vengeance of God is a pale horse death sitting vpon him and the gulfe of the graue following of him and he had power to kill the fourth part of the earth with sword famine and pestilence and with the beastes of the earth That was the punishment of Ieruschalami vnder Tzedekiah when the whole state perished The cause of all this vengeance is expounded in the fift seale The holy martyrs soules lay vnder the Altar Christ our Altar calling for vengeance The Rabbins vniuersall sway placeth holy soules going hence immediatly as Moses soule vnder Gods throne This speach vnder the Altar is in matter the same but distinctly sheweth that by Christ our Altar and sacrificing of our selues wee haue place of rest in Paradise Purgatorie was vnknowen to Iewes and Grecians that was kept for the starr that should turne the waters of Scripture into wormwood This calling for vengeance against the beastes of the earth Diuos Caesares hath an answere that they must be content a while till moo martyrs blood becommeth the seed of the Church till the greater part of the commune weale be true Christians an Emperor fauorable should bee too much troubled with Heretiques as Arrians proued that true Vnder Martyrdome the zeale was an white horse the Church was holy and cleere and heretiques holden heretiques But yet now the martyrs prayer coÌ„meth in short tyme to passe that the Emperors and their great and all idoll policy is shaken their sunnes their moones their starres all their heauen as of old Isai 34. come to nothing That vnder the Gospell by Constantine commeth a new world of al Creatures ioy that they shall serue Christ That starres be no more Gods Nor Caesares come of Venus nor Ayer be Iuno nor Aeolus God of winde nor Neptune of Sea nor Apollo of grasse nor Pan of sheep c. But God shall be One in holy Trinitie and Vnitie This went currant 300. yeares But that Satan blinded euen the learned not to see the Eternall sonne Eternall God Creator of all thinges to bein Adams seed by Dauid Nathan Zorobabel Ely Mary Redeemer of the world Iscariotae in quietnesse would be kicking against our Great GOD and Sauiour CHRIST himself therefore at the last he casteth of the outward power of the Church and returneth all to the badnesse of old Rome And sheweth that the true Church shall be hid in Gods sealed as in Tzedekiahs dayes Ezeck 4. that the windes which in Cant. 4. 16. blew north and south vpon the spices of the garden should be stayed in all quarters that the church should be hid in Gods sealed in all quarters but in men not of sway in commune weales obscure in the world knowen to God and brethren holy and few This commune place reaching to the end of Popes glorie is handled before the fall of the Church yet in time it commeth when the Pope is full King of his Locusts after Satan had beene bound after a sort for generall deceit 1000. yeres The commune place shall be handled in a seuerall title The fall of the Church to be hid is handled in Chapter VII Four messingers of Gods justice Empires wicked stay the spirits of grace from blowing vpon men to be trees which the hand of God planted In the East Machmad in North Tartaria in South Abyssines reuolted in the West Italy stayeth The Iewes of old were scattered by the Macedonians and Assyrians South East North planted there the Gospell that the reuolters vpon open streÌ„gth for the belly should be cast off for euer as the builders of Babel Daniels Image ruled in these parts felt the power of CHRIST the Stone that brake the image to dust and seeing they would to shake of West gouernement shake of the Gospel also those Arabique contreies are shaken of for euer from open cleere sway But the West that last heard of GOD shall haue vnder combat fight by scripture and in all quarters Iewes and Gentiles
contempt of Godly teaching Christ was great Noe Sem Arphaxad Selah Eber Phaleg brother to Ioctan hath cast thē of hitherto The West-Indians seeme to come of the East as both speake some Ebrew Now God driueth vs to both Indians not for Pepper and Tobacho but in tyme to shew his name And the Iesuites in teaching the holy Trinity Person and Iustice of Christ may saue many and the Pope shall haue an outward reward of longer successe and some hundreths of yeares must be spent this way Of the old opinion of 6000. yeares God hath cast old ages into a pleasant frame of measures of them for Iewes and from Iewes I dedicated an Ebrew worke to the Landtgraue of Hessia Now thousandes I will touch In 3000. exactly the Temple was fully furnished euen to the Arke In 4000. exactly the Romanes destroyed the seconde Temple if without it Messias dayes haue 2000. yeares from the yeare of Christ 1609. of Adam 5536. One as Heber may come to the worlds end by 464. yer The trueth God only knoweth reason telleth affaires in worke require such tyme But no particular person is sure of one day but all should watch when the Bridegrome commeth And to destroy them that destroy the earth Although no Creature but Angells and men know God yet the close bent of all Creatures is framed to serue man for Christ God bending them so And in that sense euery thing is weary of their toyle Eccl. 1. and groneth looking for the Redemtion of the Children of God Rom. 8. and being turned to seruice of Idolls grone in Gods estieme as corrupted such was the old world in corrupting their wayes such were Babel builders till heathen came to God and almost all to this day And Apoc. 5. All creatures giue glory to the Lambe in seruice of Christians But alas men to this day would neuer search Gods word the wealthie and principall of state but remit that ouer vnto others as a base worke for themselues to regard whereby God cast off the world And the Temple of God was open in the heauen and the Arke of his Couenant was seene in his Temple and there were lightnings voices thunders earthquake great haile After papistries ouerthrow Christ who is the Temple and the Arke who hath the Law within him is the mercy seat shall be opened to the few saued and God will pay Papists with warres for the haile and fire that they mixed with blood troublesome meteores eloquently expresse troubles of state as before our Lordes first comming the Romans miseries destroying themselues were a wonder to historiques because Crassus robbed the Temple and Pompei afore made Israel serue Rome and Brutus with Cassius and Antonius with Cleopatra and againe Iulius so Rome that still will crucifie Christ shall haue as great stirrs to warne them of vtter ruine But by warres profanesse breedeth to all sides that when the SON OF MAN commeth he shall scant finde faith vpon the earth The best way to keepe faith is to exercise our vniuersities in the Ebrew and Greeke Testament and to leaue ciuill gouernement to sage courtes fitt for it as Zuricke in Zuitzerland doth that Scholars tyrannie make not new papistrie And thus once all is reueiled vnto the end New visions tell the same matter for better clearnesse CHAP. XII A description of the Church AND a great signe was seene in the heauen a woman clothed with the sun With the moone vnder her feet and a crowne of 12. starres vpon her head and beeing with child cried in trauaile and peigned to beare child THE woman is the church through the song of songes and there pure as the sun heere clothed with Christ the Sunne of Iustice And the state of the faithfull is called through this booke heauen and they are a great signe to the profane world to wonder at The Moone and all vnder the Sunne is contemned of the faithfull and the doctrine which the 12. Apostles equall in knowled and authoritie deliuered to the world is the Crowne and they be 12 starres Iudas Iscariot fell a starre from heauen and Matthias became a sonne of consolation in his stead to keepe still the number of XII for the XII tribes and as S. Paul trauailed of the Galathians that is of Christ to be formed in them that they frustrate not the Gospell by holding circumcision nowe abrogated So the faithfull trauailed in soule to haue Christ brought forth to heathens knowledge that all might knowe that all this world was made obedient to a man At the first which man fell from God his first day and then God opened his Counsell that the Sonne Eternall would be made man of a woman to destroy the workes of the Angels that fell who all are collectiuely satan the enemie Satan brought Adam to lose the life of his soule and his body to death and dust and all this world to corruption Christ kindled light in Adams soule and after 930. yeares heauinesse for sin tooke it to his ioy and will raise vp the body and make a new world that all men who will receiue the abundance of grace of the gift of iustice may reigne by Christ and all who will not regard this mercy so cleare as the sunne they all by Adams fall dead in sin shal be damned for euer with the Diuils This is the trauaile of the Christian minde Speach of this is in all books of the Old Testament in Adams tongue in all the newe in Greeke made most common for this Gospell And Lawe with Gospell expounded by groundes of art which enemies grant should bee the trauaile of our minde And if Academies had brought vp their scholars in Ebrew and Greek exercises for the holy eternall Trinitie in Vnitie and for kissing the SON to happinesse Psal 2. By likely-hood of mans reason the world had benefull of true Christians where as now our Papes Archbuyshopps and Buyshopps know not one letter prick accent of the Law what authoritie it hath from God A pitifull matter that such blinde should bee leaders But the blinde will no other leaders So God cannot pittie them who will make knowen them that be his and despise them that despise him that they poore Caytifes shall perish for euer and feele the aeternall wrath of him whose mercy they haue despised while they counted the mercies offred in Christ to be but folly Of the Prophane Caesar and Pope reuiuing of him both comprised in the body and taile of one Dragon Another signe was seene in the heauen For beholde there was a great ruddie Dragon with 7. heades and ten hornes and vpon his heades seauen diademes And his taile draweth a third part of the Starres of heauen and cast them vnto the earth Iohn saw with his eyes in Vision that which hee and all the Apostles as S. Paul 2. Thess 2. saw in their minde That from Rome the Ruler should rule till hee were taken away After thence man of
wickednesse as high as the Diuels can goe Yet all that goe vnder Papists names are not of this minde nor Giltinesse but all well charged with error here are gilty without good change of mind While this standeth honor to Mary aboue her place The Popes throne Satans be all one For this maine poinct would I gladly haue a learned Papist to reply that all might see what can be spoken against the trueth Of the Dragons speach Lawes be the speach of a Policy and the Popes decretals ouerruling states are wicked commonly though all cannot be senslesse yet by vnlawfull men vrged they are all wicked Seeing the Pope can haue no more right thē a Teacher if he were learned al frō him is like an hand blackened with pitch And S. Paul taught the Romans that euery soule should submitt himselfe to the higher power Nero was then in place and S. Paul appealed vnto him And Nero the wicked man in politie sensible from natiue witt was S. Pauls gard the good of the world against the Scribes Synedrion to which all must stande Deut. 17. prouided alwayes that they speake sensibly from the Law otherwise all their right was lost and when they persequuted Christ He gaue the Romanes their auctority for life and death that Iewes might not kill any 40. yeares before Ierusalem fell So the heathen Lawes giuen for mans ciuill good be the earth that drinketh vp the riuer cast out of the Dragons mouth to drowne the Church Of the two hornes counterfaiting the Lambes The Pope praetendeth to folow Aharon and the Leuites and thence commeth his spirituall sword and he will without all color of warrant be a King of Kings and Lord of Lords His wickednesse in the first being detected should shew that the Dragon speaketh in him Aharon had no more to doe with gouernemēt then any other man nor any of his sonnes and it was death for any to meddle with his trade that was not of his seede that his house should be distinct till Christ of Iudah sacrificed himselfe through the veile of his flesh went not into the Limbum as the deceiued hold but into the very heauens after this Leuies office was wholly ended though M r. Eduward Liuely be commended for his Persian Chronologie Which maketh sacrifices of Gods house hindred in Emporour Vespasians dayes that they could not be done by whom they ought to be done or not so diligently as they ought He and his commēders missed strangely of Christianity vnto the depth of Satans badnesse and next them the Pope Aharons sonnes for strange fier were presently killed and were not forgiuen in this world but were in the world to come But the Pope blaspheming the Holy Ghost and the plaine trueth of Gods spirite shall neither be forgiuē in this world nor in the world to come but as Iscariot in this world is giuen ouer from sin to sin that he cannot come to the iustice of God and is expresly condemned to aeternall flames for the world to come Chap. 19. Of the Popes succession The Popes brag of succession euer since S. Peters dayes in vaine S. Peter was no Priest nor of Leui But an Elder 1. Pet. 5. and hauing no more honorable faith then those Elders Elders neuer had particular succession though he Thalmud in Aboth to proue wicked traditions feigne succession howe one deliuered ouer Lawe by mouth May. praef Tom. 1. Gamaliel had S. Paul S. Paul Timothie and millions who kept the Bible to this day And Christian Princes who truely knew God left succession in some of their policie and still there were some Apostolie or Angelie Ecclesiae that sagely read the Bible and Baptized and brake bread the Communion of the body of Christ and gaue the Cupp his New Testa blood The high Councill made Doctores and they were all either learned in Diuinitie or in great blame before God and one skilfull might make thousandes in few year that men should not brag of succession from one to know both Testaments pure in write sure for meaning by auctores of the tongue where enimies and friendes vse language alike and praeceptiue for all that ought to bee knowen this dutie a Doctor should performe to shew the face of Christ to shine like the sunne through all the Bible But neuer Pope to this day could doe this much Therefore they should not clayme the spirituall horne As holy Paul wished K. Agrippa and all the assemblie equall to himselfe sauing his bondes And S. Luke ioyed to pen S. Paules infinite witte therein and what an Asse he made of Tertullus so true Papae would haue reioyced to haue made all Princes that gaue them reuerence perfect in the word of God But they had not S. Ieromes spirite to goe by might to learne of a Iewe the Ebrew tongue and to write till 91. to open Gods worde Hee alone did more then euer were in Rome Papae Therefore hee deserued more reuerence then they all and the slow bellies should be ashamed to be such Kinges of Locusts in the world and all Cardinals Buyshopps that crosse that crosse the common Lawes of nations And People must needes be wicked that honor the prelate in Iudgement Esai 32. repeteth Moyses law and saith for the Gospell that vnder it Nabal shall not be called Nadib The foole shall not be called most reuerend or right reuerend But hee shal be such whose studie standeth in most reuerend or right reuerend matters I now translate Nadib a generall terme of high title Isai 13. to particular speciall vse euery commandement of God hath his Maiestie which created the World and they breed Monsters that make crosse lawes Of the ancient facilitie in teaching the Law The holy Iewes did as all men should honor the finger of God in the two tables wherein all wisedome of faith manners is conteined And a late worke Tiphereth glory of Israel telleth that Ebrew letters vowels prickes accents are at this day as God set in the two tables All Popes Academies deny this their owne glory and would make mans witt auctor of these three that all should bee accursed who make man their strength So wise is the Church that cannot erre as to deny the pillar of truth But still God kept in the company of some that belonged to the Church the ground of trueth This being setled wee may go on to shew how the godly did honor the tables of God There they reckon letters 613. And because the ten Commandements for faith and workes conteine all Diuinitie the holy Scribes drew all Lawes of Moses into the number of 613. They might haue made them moo or fewer But by Gods spirite in honor of Gods writing they bring them to his letter 613. to shew Gods care in the Law that one Iod or prick should not perish so wee see that God honoreth the Alphabet order psalmes 25. 34. 37. 111. 112. 119. 145. Prou. 31. Lam. 6.
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
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
eyes whereof one shall see more then millions of Papists full of courage readines to be sacrificed as Timotheus at Ephesus and Polycarpus at Smyrna and at Pergamus Antipas and full of wise pleading as Paul to King Agrippa and of high flight into the heavens carying soules thither not as in Campus Martius when for the Caesars funeral a summer house is made and full of spice and in a corner an eagle is and when it is set on fyre the eagle is let out and fleed high and is sayd to cary the Caesars soule to the Gods Herodian lib. 11. These have a true hight and have six wings two to cover their face from looking into Gods counsell aboue reach two to cover their feet that their wayes be not called into sight two to flee in their course as Vzielides expoundeth Es 6. And the whole bent of these tendeth to honour God And by their examples the common congregation acknowledgeth the holy Trinity and the Creator where the heathen have no lamp of grace not the best learned of them not one spirit of seven Their sage as Pythagoras in tongue confessed God to be one But they knew not the trinity and that the Sonne would be manifested in the flesh to come a man looking through our walles and to come a Iudge of all nor that he framed the world for man because he would dwell in a tabernacle in vs. In the heavenly policy of the Gospell this must be proper to true Christians who finding a victory cast down their crownes when they come before God The Scribes confesse all that we cōfesse The trinity of old confessed they as their workes yet shew which might have broken the Arians necks if Greek pride had submitted them to learne Thalmudique studies One errour in the root maketh a million in the branches CHAP. V. The counsel of God is hid how he will vse the prophane Caesars and how man of sin will afterwardes exalt himself in the Temple of God Moyses by Balaam tould but briefly that Italy should afflict Heber be perishing vnto the end Daniel speaketh nothing of the Romans afflicting the faithfull But shewing that the Image and four beastes being cōsumed by our Lords first comming into the world by implication he sheweth that Italy should kill Christ destroy Ierusalem and so breed a new Image of a beast But his pictures end in the Macedonians Our Lord in Math. 24. only toucheth deceit and vexation and S. Paul 2 Thes 2. sheweth that Emperour shall hould on till he be taken away then shall man of sin shew himselfe in the Temple as if he were God Adoni kam a Lord standing sure But how the Emperour should be vsed and Pope come vp and fall that Daniel meddled not withall who dealt most of kingdomes And proclamation that none in heaven nor on the earth could open the book telleth that he medled not with Antichrist nor Caesars punishment Iohns weping that none could open the book telleth that the matter is of great vse that they shall have weeping and gnashing of teeth which contemne the matter Now one of the 24. Bishops hearing the person of a Doctor said to him being in his traunse now as a child that the Lyon of Iuda spoken of through the Prophets and specially Num. 24. how he should vnwall and subdue al the sonnes of Seth and is the roote of David his figure who conquered all resisters set vp religion he will tell what Esay spake of his conquests So Christ standeth at the mids of Gods throne in a playn description a lambe Iohn 1. as one that had been slain Mat. 27. slain by Rome vpon whom the revenge must goe having seven horns of power to revenge Satan with his sevē heads and seven eyes which be seven spirits of his providence sending Angels over the earth as in building Ierusalem Zach. 1. and 2. and 6. And he taketh the book from God as Chap. 1. 1. as Mediatour now though he were in the glory of GOD and held it no robbery to be equall with God and then the rare wightes and 24. Doctours pray him to open the state to come and all creatures shew that they shall serve Christ when Idolaters be destroyed CHAP. VI. The Lyon harted the pacient ox the wise man the high fighted eagle tell how by his martyrs he buildeth the Church and for their prayer the Caesars shall have war stil bloudy warre great famine that corne wil be as deare as spice that a bath choenix a pottle wil be sold for the Romane Denarius about half a french crown though GOD strike not vines and olives but in wrath remembreth mercy Such warre that bloud death famine and pestilence shall make a riddance of the fourth part of men This cometh in revenge of the martyrs In Aboth Rab. Nathan in Moses life all the just soulesly vnder the throne of glory Here the terme Altar teacheth that by Christ the Altar they have justice Neyther Scribes nor Apostles knew purgatory Covetousnes bred the teachers slouth and contempt of truth the beleevers They are told that they must have patience a while till martyrs blood be seed to make a Church of a sufficient number to have a Christian empire Then the prophane policies shall have an earthquake their sun of stately empire shal be turned to blacknes their moone of Princes into blood their starres shall fall as olives shaken their heaven shal be lapped vp as a rowl al Ilands and mountaines shal be changed for them Iohn from Esa 2. and 14 and 34 and Ose 10. seeth a vision fitted to their speches that by considering Iudaes fall the ten tribes fall Assurs fall and Daniels Image we may be sure of the Caesars fall and he expoundeth himself the Prophets That Kings great men rich and Coronelles the mighty shall hide themselves and wish as Samaria that mountaynes might hide them from the anger of the Lamb. And so he teach Iewes that for contempt of Christ their destructions came The five seales are not distinguished in time but in common place of victory war famine and both with plague and martyrdome all these in times come sometimes at once The sixt toucheth Constantines dayes Then an vnspeakable riddance was made after Dioclesians persecution that twelve Augusti and Caesars consume one another till all came to the sonne of our Helena who in the ends of the earth made the possession of Christ cometh to York to Constantius his Father that had Christians his chief men and by him is made his heyr of empire and by them and our nation and the neare in the end is alone the Emperour of the world and leaveth the Rome that crucified by the Gospell and 2. Thes 2. where in 100. yeares the slothfull Popes could not make Caesar good but were caught in their lying that Peter should long sit at Rome who expresly writeth that he kept about Babylon Rome in Italy is hated for Idolatry
Now this false Prophet forging himself taught by the Angel Gabriel taketh Daniels terme in the highest sense Machmad delite it self Rashi telleth that because he humbled himself before GOD in fasting and prayer he was so called But Turk and Pope will have the holynes of Apollo past repentance CHAP. X. Now commeth a most lively description of Christ opening himself from Esa 19. and 54. and Genes 9. and Apoc. 4. Daniel 10. and Exod. 14. and Dan. 12. and Es 31. and Iob for the thunder of his power which is past vnderstanding and shall not be perceived of the Pope till the next trumpetter or common place teacher soundeth and endeth the world Now the Angel biddeth Iohn take from Christ the litle book of the Gospell and to eat it which was sweet in his mouth in preaching but bitter in affliction and to the enemy also as Ezekiels book CHAP. XI Iohn sheweth that the Church shall be built as Ierusalem freed from Babel vnder Zorobabel and Iesus when Zachary seeth an Angel with a reed meating the length breadth So Iohn hath a reed to meat the tēple and altar that is from the litle book to shew the breadth and length and depth and height of the love of God in Christ Christ himself is the temple Therefore to check Thalmudiques which to this day look for a third temple as sheweth Rambam whom vpon Koheleth Salomon the oratour I have cited and translated to check them he sheweth court of sacrificing is geven to the heathen and Ezekiels goodly citie is a city of affliction as Christ was afflicted 42. monethes Zacharies olive trees Zorobabel with Israel and IESVS with Levi and candelstick of Gods fauour Churches Chapter 1. revived Here is a new Elias a new Moyses to call fyer from heaven and to stay all dew of grace and successe and to turne their waters of armies into blood to plague their enemies with all kind of plague The experience followeth The combat of the King of Locusts with the Martyrs When the Martyrs begin to revive the Gospell the city which is called for spiritual vncleannes of religion spiritually Sodoma for cruelty against Israel Aegypt setteth fourth the King of Locustes who commeth with his Locustes winges of chariots and warre horses and fighteth in all nations with these two captaynes of Martyrs and killeth them and their case is playne how they are murthered as if a Crowners quest went vpon the policy that crucified Christ after his preaching 42. moneths or dayes 1260. or yeares three and an half Now as Beda and Carthusianus well note in three yeares and an half all time of preaching Christ in memorie of his preaching so long so the time of their noted death while their ashes may be seen and they are not put in grave is in a proportion called three dayes and an half Now that all may know that two yeare is not proper twise one but as all the returned from Chaldea Babylon be two Zach. Ch. 4. and 5. So the witnesses of truth that leave spirituall Babel all are in that sense called two and the citie which killeth them in peoples tribes tongues and nations is not a building of houses but a building of policie So the two be not two men but two companies and the dwellers in earth would not reioyce and send giftes one to another as Iewes against Haman in Ester for two but for the companies of two sorts rare wightes full of eyes 24. Bishops and the troupes that give glorie to God and the Lambe and pray onely to the Lambe the great God and Saviour these in all nations where the king of Locustes tyranny reacheth are the two Prophets who vexe them whose mindes dwell on earth and cannot see the heavenly policy of Christ In that sense after three dayes an half spirit of life from God entred into them and they stood vp and feare fel vpon their enemies and they heard a great voice from heavē saying vnto them come vp hither and they ascēded vnto heaven in a cloud and their enemies saw it Iohns vision went vpon two and vpon one city one beast But Romes policy the king of pit keyes with his Locustes and the states that write and fight against them must be meant of whom when one is dead an other is alive iump in the same veine as though it were the same man and their enemies see they goe vp to heaven and the beast which is ascended out of Abyssos that is all his corporatiō millions of millions these visions represent corporations and vnder one millions of men be told all Papistes goe from their Abyssos of black ignorance vnto Abyssos Luke 8. and Zohar vpon Genes 1. 2. whither the Divels shall come in their time but are yet in this world to be tormented for ever and ever After this teaching and fighting a great earthquake shaketh a tenth part of the king of Locusts city which crucified Christ and prayeth to the virgin Mary to commaund her sonne the Eternall God by the right of a mother as though she were mother to the godhead because shee was mother to the Person one of two natures And they are very wise who thinke the mother of God in schoole phrase can finde no better speculation in heaven then to listen to the Citie that crucified the Lord of glory Iscariot the traitour confessed his fault yet Christ gave him over to hang him selfe Rome that kild Christ after justifying him sinning so against the holy Ghost and sinning more then if they had kild all the men in the world yet is worse then Iscariot and wil not cōfesse sin but clayme right to rule the world because once they durst crucifie the maker of the world and pray to the Virgin Marie to forgive the Popes holynes the Vicar of Pilate In Elias 7000. bowed not the knee to Baal and live In this Citie 7000. that bow the knee to Baal dye are kild in vision 7000. in storie seaventie millions of thousandes with this 120. yeares of the Gospell revived And full many give glory to God and leave the virgin Mary alone to be happy as other faithfull Bathshebagh Ruth Thamar and Sarah al her mothers and who more in sin yet stayed vpō her sonne who was then in their loynes Thus the second woe is past The Popes fall the seaventh trumpet of common place Since Kingdomes match the Pope in strength and have brought him that he dare not queck but be content to hold his owne An open voice is in kingdomes that whereas the Pope hath been once cast out and now God reigneth wee looke for no chaunge till the resurrection at 6000. by old guesse Hence at 463. For our Lord was borne at 3927. adde 1610. then now Adams soule and dust hath 55 37. at 463. the gesse will shew it self At 3000. the Arke was brought into Salomons Temple at 4000. exactly the Romanes destroyed Zerobabels temple And as the Pope falleth by steppes as he
of incense and in his golden Mediation receyuing the prayers of the holy that with his incense they come before God so he sitteth a sacrificer for euer figured in Sem described as God without father without mother without beginning of dayes without ende of life witnessed in Moses description that he liueth for euer a King of Iustice and a King of peace so S. Paul to Scribes after their owne manner yet extant in Zohar and Menachem and others describeth his Vicar Sem the great as Rabbins terme him to haue figured the Redeemer to the world now of Noahs house The SON thus knowen in our Sonne How the old Testament came turned into wormewood Of the age before the flood God said I repent me that I made man therefore water tooke their bodies prison aeternall their spirits The tower-masons making Gods of starrs in contempt of SEM the high sacrificer and prating daylie against his faith were cut off froÌ„ Sems tongue to let it alone and in Babels captiuitie ended it from commune vse and soone after Daniels age from speach of all but schole learned But Moses by Sabbath reading was some what knowen to the people Besides God made Sems tongue so hard that a mans whole life will hardly catch it and left no authors of it but Sems prophets to make vs search how rare wordes in them open themselues and they vsed but once by the argument So Sems tongue is an hid pearle of it Iob cost me more paines alone then all Greeks who now coÌ„meth to open iudgemeÌ„t Churches had no Hebrew Rabbins for graÌ„mer of yer neare 1000. nor graÌ„mars or dictionaries Origen did put forth Ebrew in Ebrew letters and spell'd in Greeke much cited in Epiphanius with six Greeke translations The 70. hid their minde much specially in 3600. yeres alteration of liues from Moses truth as thus Adam liued 230. yeares and begate Seth. And afterwardes 700. for 130. in Moses and 800. our notes say Moses omitted 100. y. before Seths birth they may as well say he gaue 100. too many afterwardes and so in 3600. yeres Yet though Arabique were neare Hebrew and Aethiopian they translate the 70. And not the Ebrew and Greekes with Muscouia follow them But if Princes had allowed in euery land so big as Canaan 42. great Cities for Hebricians only they had beene Ezdrae for readinesse in the Law and had beene Atlantes to beare vp heauen God saw that his justice could chose but few and of eternitie did set many to anger and therefore gaue not Princes that iudgement nor to scholars one of a thousand millions a minde to such hard paines but to be such monachos as Nazianzenus taunteth giuen all to feed them selues and to enuie all paines and Athanasius Gregorie and his deare brother Basil felt for the holy Trinitie And West Monachos rested in Ierome for text and in S. Augustin for explication Of the New Testament The New Testament penned in Greeke by the H. Spirit is to be esteemed in Greeke better then all the world can euer conceiue Part I hope to vtter but conceiue more The preparation to bring Greeke ouer the world must heere be knowen To Iapheths Iauan God left it and spread his race from Cilicia ouer the West that Bardi Caesar CoÌ„ in France and our Cambria kept Greeke Philosophi And when God meant in open action to end by Babel Sems tongue which he kept in Canaan 500. yeares that Babilons coÌ„fusion hurt not the Kings house but the Chananean dialects twelue came neare his when God would end this tongue in holy Daniels age when hee had shewed the strict yeare and Pascha day of Christ his Pascha who being the first from the dead would shew light vnto the world And Aggei Zacharie and Esdras Malachi had commented vpon holy Gabriels oration when God would haue no more Diuinitie written all being spoken that could bee told he sheweth a miraculous prouidence to fiâ—t the Greeke tongue to the Gospell by Athenes and all Grecia Pisistratus of holy Iosiahs time brought noble Homers wit into more reuerence then Monkes the holy Gospell that children should learne him euery whit without booke and parted him twice in Iliade Odissea into Alpha Beta c. As the vnknowen God dealt Psal 25. 34. 37. 111. 112. 119. 8 tymes 145. Pro. 31. Lamen 6. tymes And Aristarchus made a commeÌ„tarie vpon his hard wordes so that S. Peter by Gods reuelatioÌ„ vseth his noble phrase and him not Eustathius I cited though Bil. and Bar. would win spurres to prick their owne sides Didimus elder then S. Peter kept Aristarchus remnants and froÌ„ Didimos not from Eustathius I brought Aristarchus and Homer whom I am sure S. Peter neuer read but the holy Ghost read him and led Peter This honor to Homer set on Solon to write senteÌ„ces and Theognes Phocillides Minermus that ciuill groundes were made pleasant in braue Greeke to make all eloquent in speach Then arise tragiques Aeschylus an Heroique equall to Homer or old Corinnos of Troyes age and P Alamedes scholar who in other warres gaue Homer his timber Euripides the painter of mans lot and Lyriques rare and Commediques as witty Aristophanes Phisitians Historiques from Hesters age Hellanicus and Herodotus and Plato and Aristotle and tenn Oratores and Theopompus innumerable of all sortes while Iuda was in Babilon and vnder Persian taught Dan. 10. that soone they should bee vnder Grecia till Christ came in some parte and therefore they taught their children Greek that the 70. flaunted in store setting 80. seuerall Greek sometime to one Hebrew tree as to Shub 70. 60. 50. 40. 30. 20. 10. and so to very many Now Macedonians of Selleucus Nicatores people being in 72. Kingdomes East and North were forced to knowe Greeke and by the Ptolomies South learned Greek and the Iewes scattred by them brought the 70. ouer all and mention of Moses So before our Lordes redemption tyme all nations as Tully for Archi saith knew Greek when Latin was kept in a narrow compasse And thus a fundation was laid for elegant timber to the N. Testament The Iewes note in Ierusalemi Megila that Noah prophecied how Sems house should bring Iapheth to faith in the tongue of Iauan the Greeke And Midras Rabba citeth the same and in Megilah theysay that no tongue but Greeke can giue Hebrew fitt termes Christians should vrge their owne testimonie that as a Tribe failed not from Iuda till Messiah came so all nations then spake Greek but not many ages after that And as Abben Ezra confesseth vpon Dan. 9. that the 70. seauens are 490. yeres from Daniels prayer to sealing of Messias the holy of holy wherein not one of a hundreth thousand millions speaketh so truely for our victorie as the sharpest enimy doth So Ierusalemi should haue confessed that the fishers of Gallile were to write in Greeke from Ierusalem after 490. yeres And before it should be destroyed as we see Actor 15. Of the
heart This is the word of fath which we preach for if thou confesse with thy mouth that IESVS is the Eternall and that God raised him from the dead thou shalt be saued Without marking imitation of Moses and 70. phrase Psal 71. 20. Paul will not be vnderstood heere And heere he before had allowed the Scribes for all other Diuinity while they sate in Moses chaire for holy Trinity and works and law and passage of all just hence to Paradise to perfection of ioy to the City which they had desired the heauenly City which God prepared for them Though they had not openly the Gospell the perfection But the Scribes saw not that our Gospell was the perfection to the Law And by that they perish I might bring a volume of examples But my digression may not bee too long The fourth is the Thalmudique kinde when speach is to Iewes The olde Testament neuer named expresly and properly place for soules because infidels would mocke at that But thus God saith Leuit. 26. If yee keepe my commandements I will be your God and walke amongst you that is simplie and for euer as God is the good God to Abraham Izhak and Iacob not to dead but to liuing Nowe when the Prophets had ended all that was to be spoken to open congregations and the faithfull were few vnder Macedonians and Sadducees denyed soules immortalitie and reiected Prophets comments vpon Moses The holy learned enacted these tearmes The Law for all the old Testament So is Psal 82. Ioh. 1. 15. so Es 8. Rom. 9. Also world to come Paradise Gehenna Day of Iudgment life eternall second death and many such which all the pretious Greeke Testament hath And in all GOD applieth it to mans capacitie in infinite mercie when the Redemptiō manifested made the profanest leaue mocking Examples of all foure come Apo. 21. in the 12. Iewells Rubens Sardius is Attique 70. Simeons Topaz is attique and 70. Leuies Smaragd is attique 70. But this by the way Smaragd Ex. 28. in Aharons shoulders holding 6. tribes on the one and so many on the other is the Beryll of King Ioseph as the K. is the stay of the Commune Weale and the Emperour in Constantinople not S. Chrisostome whom in Photio the Dialect deceiued not decerning the 70. from Attique Iudahs Chalcedon in Thalmudique as in Thargum Ierusalemi vpon Exod. 28. for the Carbuncle Isachars Saphir is Attique and 70. Zabulons Sardonix is Apostoliq Dans Hyacinth is Attique 70. Neptalies Chrisophrase is Apostolique Gads Amethyst is Attique and Apostoliq Asers Chrisolite is Attique and Apostoliq Iosephs Beryll is Attique Apostolique Beniamins Iasper is Apostolique fitted to the Ebrew Isachar had it in 70. Exod. 28. Iuda in Isai 54. and Apo. 21. in the first place where the walles were like Iasper Christalling And thus glorious is the Greeke Testament which a tetractys of most learned studies maketh a building all of Gold in the streetes of pearle in the gates and wainscotted with Carbuncles for Promisses in the SON the Sun of iustice and with other states for warriers for states men and for nauigation I cited many Rabbins for this placing of the stones to the tribes then I had not Arias Montanus bible by me nor remembred him Otherwise I had made reuerend mention of his learned paynes as I hold it a dogged atheisme to raue against trueth for humane respectes How the Papes of Grecia vsed the Bible And the Popes refused it The holy New Testament the learned Papae as Athanasius great Cyril and elder Origen and Basill and his owne-soule Gregorie celebrate with Attique Greeke equall to Libanius Porphyrie and the best heathen that euer Athens bred all Monasteries were busied in copying it with such care that where paradoxa came they left it vnchainged and where they had no old Testament but the 70. against enemies which knew not Ebrew they were most readie in it And had also Origens octaplun whence men of leisure might be reasonable in Ebrew the Christians Iewes synagogue thus dealt They read Moses in Ebrew and expounded him to their townes language So Iewes in Maymoni did and S. Paul described the like and his discipline and theirs was all one The wealthie Iewes that brought not vp their sonnes in Moses were holden godlesse And of multitudes learned a sufficient number were chosen by all Elders for al matters They were Ecclesia Zakenim Episcopi ouerseers And one their best learned to read the Law with skil choise of conferences with Prophets and Psalmes fitted he was chosen to be the Messinger of the Congregation He dealt for matters that touched all In expositions the Archysynagogue requested the best in estieme to expound the Law by another text or to some commune place Where heathen Officers brideled authoritie they did excommunicate and neuer the chiefe but bade him keepe house and saue his honor And they made Rabbies or Doctors two or three laying handes vpon him and saying Learned Rabbi take thou authoritie to teach what is loose and what is bound And in the Synagogues Leuy had no particular stroke but went from their 48. townes to Ierusalemi at their courses and the high sacrificer was not of the Sanhedrin but as they esteemed of his learning And all the Synedrion might be of Israel or all of Leuie and many Synagogues had not a Leuite but all Doctores were of Israell In Grecia the Greeke Bishops caried them as seruantes so Policarpus martyr at Smyrna and all a long time But let vs marke The Citie that crucified Christ what corruption of Doctrine it had with Egyptian tyrannie First the Greeke new Testament the ioy of mans minde they excluded And brought in steed rude Latin of open lies leauing out Mat. 6. a sentence from Dan. 7. Of Kingdom power and glorie howsoeuer loiterers will excuse this the golden balance of iustice would beare reading of Latin to people of other speach and the babling and Babels building in equall peise Secondly Italie had Greeke commune when S. Paule wrote to the Romans The Papes continuing Fathers had brought vp youth in Gods word not in drosse of mans speach to charme to men of other tongues that must needes stoppe their eares as deaf adders though the charmers charmed neuer so wisely But Popi Daemones will answere to their name and shew what the only cursed Citie 2. Thes 2. Apo. 11. and 17. meant to do Thirdly Because Clemens and Tertullian were Eusebius auctores that Peter was at Rome though Luke Act. 23. and 28. and S. Paul speak in other tenour and first Peter telleth that he was at Babilon and might not without infinit sinne vse a metaphore to deceyue his reader and when trueth is a storie to Psal 87. that Babel shall haue Gods Church Yet Popes begged great reuenues for buildings and scholars by S. Peters name Pauls man of sinne will do this Fourthly The Rock eternal Deut. 32. 〈◊〉
Talmudiques in description maketh a figure of the eternall wight He as Aharon went through the veile of his flesh into the holy from the Altar of the Crosse and performed all measures of justice That is heere taught by measure with a line of Temple and Altar Matters visible were to expresse the inuisible So Christ telleth that he is the Temple saying Destroy this Temple and I will build it againe in three dayes This Law Ye shall reuerence my Tabernacle Leuit. chap. 19. 30. and 26. 2. Commaunded to reuerence infinitly the Tabernacle of Christ And Ben Arama noteth truely vppon Exod. Port. 52. That God soone did cast off Moses Tabernacle and Salomons Temple to shew that he would rest in the Tabernacle or temple of Christ Now the Iewes to make Christ Aharon and Melchitzedek make this death that Christ said Destroy this Temple and in three dayes I will build it vp againe The highest grace for life the slaues of Sathan turne to death whereupon they were neither forgiuen in this world nor in the world to come Profane states bee commonly forgiuen in this world as the Epicure Luc. chap. 16. though in the world of soules they parch for euer but the Iewes sinning against the light of the holy Spirite and grace of saluation perish openly in this world surer of eternal woe in Haides the world of soules in which Abraham in Haides in the kingdome of heauen will tell them that they are not his sonnes For he in Izhak receiued from death saw the resurrection of Christ and reioyced But the Iewes gaue money to Souldiours to haue the resurrection of CHRIST denied Of measuring the faithfull The Curtaines in Moses Tabernacle were made fitt for the number and the number of men aged twentie and aboue was thus the sonnes of REVBEN 1. 46500. 151450. SOVTH Summa totalis 603550. Simeon 2. 59300. Gad. 3. 45650. IEHVDAH 4. 74600. 186400. EAST Issachar 5. 54400. Zabulon 6. 57400. EPHRAIM 7. 40500. 108100. WEST Manasses 8. 32200. Beniamin 9. 35400. DAN 10. 62700. 157600. NORTH Aser 11. 41500. Nephtaly 12. 53400. Thus God in Num. 1. and 2. twise reckoned his chosen of the XII tribes besides Leui. And the Curtains were fitted to such a number So heere Iohns Doctrine shall teach a certaine number such as God hath chosen and no more the other will folow the God of this world A man by mans witt might maruaile why Princes would suffer such a deceiuer as the Pope to stand one yeere his doctrine being altogether against all light and each Prince being able to cast him from his territories But God hath chosen a few only and none can come to Christ vnlesse the Father draw him Of the Court within the Temple to be cast out in condemnation of Iudaisme Maymonides in Bethabechica or treatise of the Temple about 430. yeer agoe wrote how the Iewes yet look for returne to Ierusalem and to haue a temple like Ezekiels or Salomons For Ezekiels Saint Peter telleth Chap. 1. 2. Epist That euery Prophecie is not to be expounded properly because the holy men of God spake as they were caried by the spirit of God Now Dan. 9. telleth that the Iewes Temple should be vtterly destroyed and all sacrifice ended So by Daniell they should know that the Messias should be the building wherein God would delite as the very Iew Izhak Ben Arama noted aboue in Port. 52. Iohn preuenteth Iudaisme in shewing that this Temple hath no Leuites court to sacrifice nor separation for Israell But all be heere kings and sacrificers and their Court reacheth ouer all the Citie And old Iudaisme is now profanenesse A digression to compare the old Temple or Tabernacle with the spirituall The Temple of Salomon imitateth Moses Tabernacle and all Ierusalem within the walles the space within Israels curtaines as the Thalmud noteth Christ is the Temple Ioh. 3. High sacrificer Heb. 3. who went through the vaile of his flesh by his own blood into the Holy He is the Arke golden within and without and conteyning the Law grauen in him And all growen into Christ should haue the Law in their heart and looke for the crowne of the Law In the outer Tabernacle or Temple were the Candlestick of gold lightned with beaten pure oile by the high sacrificer and the table of xij loues set openly that had crowne worke and the Altar of incense couered with golde The Candlesticke the golden people beaten pure oile the spirit of grace that commeth by afflictions the kindler CHRIST him selfe Shem Tob the Iew commeth in words thus farr though he knew not God to be in Christ The Table expresseth the gouernor who prouideth bread for the xij Tribes the xij monethes And that paines findeth a crowne So King Ioseph feeding Israell held the xij Tribes in his Beryll on Aharons shoulders King Moses King Iesus King Samuel King David and King Salomon ware the Crowne for this Table The Altar of incense was proper to Aharons sonnes high Sacrificers and lower as Zacharie of Abia the eighth of 24. courses This worke had his crowne Now Christ is our Angell only to stande at the golden Altar that our prayer as incense may come before God In the court an altar was of sacrificing where daylie sacrifice the Pascha of flocke beast Kidd or Lambe a duetie to all and voluntarie Pascha of Oxe and Ram voluntaire and of two dayes feast Ioh. 18. were killed had their fatt brent on the altar and blood shed at the foote of the altar where pypes conueied it away Christ is our Lambe Oxe and Altar and when he ended sacrifice he gaue bread and wine which his Disciples did eate and drinke in tast like other bread and wine to be his body and blood for our soules Symbolon Typus Antitypus Icon in Greekes who durst not looke for a knot in a bulrush Of the holy Synagogues The Synagogues sauing in 48. Leuites townes vsually were of Israel no Leuite and they were Bishopps all the Ancient learned one Sergeant of the cōgregation he read the Law and the Archbishop requested the other in estieme to speak to the Law how all tended to MESSIAS So a sabbath dayes iourney would draw all the Law vnto Christ And all were holden wicked who being of wealth brought not vp their children frō 7. year in the law Their cōmentaries to this day in peecemeales agree with the marrow of the New Testam Abben Ezra is wōderful Dan. 9. speaking better for our maine battel thē any of ours Where he saith the 70. seauens are from the beginning of Daniels prayer vnto the sealing of Messias the holy of holy Our Acadamiques might be ashamed that a Iew in Rhodes now 500. year ago spake better thē they for our Gospel Zohar on Gen. 1. Elohim in these words Let vs make man may be likened to a father a mother of the work The father saith what wilt thou make man he will rebell and an ill
as a Citie brent from heauen for many plagues by Egypt for good note a broad Citie as Romes policie was broad and large And for a most sure note the Citie policie and authoritie large in which the Lord was crucified This name striketh the naile vpon the head Of the Citie which crucified the LORD Thalmud Ierusalemy noteth in Sanedrin and Maymonie that fouretie yeares before the destruction of Ierusalem causes of life and death were taken away from Israell so they teach that Christ was not crucified in the policie of Ierusalem but vnder Pontius Pilate in the Roman policie as the foure Evangelistes record carefullie When the Sanedrin concluded to kill Christ they brought him to Pilate he cleared him yet whipped him and deliuered him to bee crucified And the Romā soldiers shewed all wickednesse 1. They brought him into the Common hall 2. They gathered the whole band against him 3. They put off his owne apparell put in mockage a scarlat robe vppon him 4. They platted a crowne of thornes and laid it vpon his head 5. They kneeled in mockage and said All haile King of the Iewes and spate vpon him with a reed they stroke him on the head and when they had ended mocking of him they put off the robe and put his owne clothes on him and brought him to be crucified and pierced his handes and his feete and pierced his side with a speare and cast lotts for his coate These so great contempts from Romanes the vilest in the world against the Lord Eternall could neuer be put vp But that Rome should bee the miserie in tyrannie while the world stoode Pilate kill'd him selfe and the Emperours for 300. yeres were miserable And Rome by many spoiled and since Popes supremacie a new Egypt Now as the Iewes who betrayed Christ are slaues ouer the earth so Rome that went further was to bee revealed to haue all curses the old serpents poyson chap. 12. Cains murder of Abel chap. 13. a Deluge chap. 12. Biting of tongues chap. 16. consumption as the cursed brent Cities cha 11. Egypts miserie told aboue Iosuahs haile cha 16. Siseraes fall at Mageddon chap. 16. Iezabels miserie from Elias chap. 11. Daniels beasts miserie chap. 13. and the Romans miserie by Pompei and Iulius Psal 97. handled in Appian fullie and as the Pope knew more then the Caesares so his sinnes were more strong against the holy Ghost and he should be openly Man of sinne to all sage in this world The foure Euāgelistes might teach the simplest this much That seeing Rome grieued Christ as he complayned Isai 49. Psal 22. and felt too most high griefe Rome should bee Sathans throne while this world stood and all reliques of theirs a curse And people tribes tongues and nations shall see their Carcases three dayes and a halfe So this Citie must meane a very large Common Weale and Kingdome and the two in generall may be full many thousandes in particular And as all the time of persequution of the liuing is three yeares and a halfe the bodie is heere three dayes and a halfe And they shall not suffer their carcases to be put in graue This plainely sheweth the burning of Martyrs whose bones and ashes may be seene three dayes and a half and are not put in graue So good Bucers bones in this honor were taken out of the graue not to rot there but with pure fire to haue consumption as Elias in his fierie chariot had his body consumed and our Father Henoch that in his life matched the dayes of the sunne 365. was without paine dissolued when God tooke his soule to heauen and Moses had not mans buriall God prouiding somewhat better for the ancient that they with out vs were more perfect and for rare honor to their persons though by the doctrine of the Gospell aboue the Law we haue the perfecter but no whit to soules ioy But as they with smaller helpes passed vs farre in following God so their minde heere was infinitely fuller of graces then ours though the ioy of aeternall life is aequall to all In not suffering the best men in the world to be buried the Citie that crucified Christ is openly the throne of Satan And they that dwell on the earth shall reioyce ouer them and be glad and send giftes one to another because these two prophetes tormented the dwellers vpon the earth The dwellers on the earth are the Locustes their friends earthly minded and feared the companies of sound Christians because they taught Princes to hate the Popes religion and Pride and Wealth Monasteries The Hypocrites immitated the Iewes who vpon the death of Amalekites kept in open Townes the xiiij of Adar with ioy and banquet and wake day and sending of giftes one to another These two Doctores of Diuinitie Prophet is heere in that sense were such a torment to the Papistes as the first martyrs to the prophane Caesares who taught that they were not Diui and had no religion but from vncleane spirites And after three dayes and an halfe spirite of life from God entred into them and they stood vpon their feete and great feare fell vpon them that beheld them In his Vision of the Lordes day he hath by light and darknesse three dayes an halfe resembled vnto him for viewing of the martyrs from the eye-sight to the minde thus we must turne it When men behold the bones and ashes of the martyrs they hold them not dead but passed from death to life because they died for honor to Gods plaine religion teaching to honor GOD onely and to receyue aeternall life onely by his mercie in CHRIST the onely Rocke and to pray onely to GOD and to haue a sure faith in him and to lothe all proceeding that is not agreeable to Gods holy worde and that it hath a plaine and sure meaning The old Martyrs for these groundes were in honor with the Pope these two armies of Doctores died in the same cause therefore their enimies heartes must needes confesse that they are gone to heauen euen as if they had heard them called vp and seene to ascend as followeth And they heard a loud voice from heauen saying vnto them Come vp hither and they went vp to heauen and their enimies saw them As the case of Elias was to the body so the Martyrs is to the soule expressed bodily in this vision Of all soules passage at death It is appointed for all men once to die and then cōmeth iudgement Eb. 9. so all soules must when they leaue the bodie returne to God that gaue them to iudgement for euery hid thing good or euill Ecc. 12. 2. Cor. 5. so all ascend Ecc. 3. And onely the soules of the beast descend The commune place is called in Greeke Haides and the happie part of it is heauen to Abraham Eb. xi Luc. 18. And a place of burning torment to the wicked The faithfull went hence to Gods eternall tabernacle Leuit. 26. 2. Cor.
5. Mat. 8. Luc. 13. our Lord Ioh. 15. and 16. Luc. 23. Eb. 9. Of Purgatorie The impudencie of them which would establish Purgatorie is vnspeakable Moyses hath not one syllable that way therefore it can not be in religion They that wrote in Iudah for the Maccabees storie make but two states as resurrection to honor and shame from Dan. 12. Saint Paul professing difference from Scribes but in the incarnation and resurrection of Christ where they hold but Paradise and Gehenna concludeth that he helde no moe places for soules Where Saint Paul handleth a commune place of teachers what doctrine will abide sound what fire of iudgement will consume as stubble they that hence would haue soules fier out of this world little regard Paul He taught nothing but what Moses and the Prophetes taught But no Thalmudiques who best knew their tongue could finde a purgatorie in thē therefore Saint Paul taught it not Of the second of the Maccabees The second of the Maccabees doth the Pope must aestime chap. 12. for sacrifice for the dead but litle considereth the vilenesse of that booke Iewes would tell him that it was Hagada a fable made vpon phrases as where they sacrifice Ezr. 2. and no mention is of fire he feigneth a most ridiculous fable of fire hid by the sacrificers when they were caried to Persia forsooth not Babilon and found by their posteritie turned into a thicke water which when wood and sacrifice was brought Nehemias bade them annoint both with this water and the Sunne shone and kindled a great fire Who would not iudge this to be a most ridiculous fable By what witt could the sacrificers dreame of such matter that fire could be turned into water or by shun-shining kindled please God It must be kept vnquenched The whole consent of Iewes in the chaine of their Cabala saith fire from heauen kindled the sacrifice A man would thinke the whole Nation in a sensible matter should be of more credite then obscure Iason of Cyren Moreouer Zorobabel of Salathiel not Nehemias of Chilkia was gouernor at the returne But iesters vpon phrases in Iarchi make Cyrus and Artax all one because Cyrus end is not recorded So in Iarchi they make Zorobabel and Nehemias to be all one for memorie of phrase that Zorobabels remoning is not recorded They that cannot iudge betwixt a ridiculous fable and a sad storie are in great darknesse So the fable of Ieremias hiding the Tabernacle and the Arke and Altar of Incense in mount Choreb is not heard of in the Thalmud nor agreeable to reason And the Law of the eternall God not to regard Iewes fables heere taketh place and they bee lawlesse that breake that Law This much for the whole booke made one frō fiue of Iason of Cyren that little knew Moses or yet Ierusalems storie Of Iudahs sacrifice In Iudahs sacrifice the Writers speach doteth Iudah doubted not but that they slept in godlinesse Chapter 12. 45. And what foole euer spake so senselesse as this is if hee had not hoped for the resurrection it had beene in vaine to pray for the dead vers 44. Now what sense can bee in that speach that sacrifice should helpe the resurrection The storie durst not touch any ease to the soule for that had strouen with all Talmudiques Maymony sheweth they offred for the dead the heir did in Siphra Col. 31. But no otherwise then as paying a debt which the predecessor should haue payed heere And that when they doubted not of the others saluation but honouring him in paying that which the other should haue payde And Iason of Cyren harped at such a string but could not bring his minde about Now the Popes Purgatorie is holpen nothing hence from a trifling booke and sencelesse speach and wrested beyond all religion of the Iewes Epilogue As the two Prophetes were seene called vp into heauen in vision so all faithfull soules by scripture trueth are to be seene called hence into the ioy of Christ What the Greeke Fathers thought of Purgatorie The Greeke Fathers should bee thought to vnderstand the Greeke Testament better then Latin and none of them could finde Purgatorie there but grant all holy a passage hence to the Kinglie Palaces some staggered at the speach Ebr. chap. xj They without vs were not perfected Saint Paul in all that heauenly Epistle disputeth of the Gospell perfection to the Law and of perfection of Doctrine in this world and he had shewed in the same Chapter That the Fathers desired the heauenly Citie God prepared that for them so they who denie the Fathers perfection by S. Paul marke him not well Basill did once vpon Psal 49. but called himselfe backe vpon Psal 15. and often And Chrysostome who seemed to stagger placed Lazarus and Abraham in the kingdome of heauen 2. Corinth homil 6. Mat. 8. Luc. cap. 13. and the principall Diuines in Theophyl vpon Luc. chap. 23. and vpon the Psalmes and in Photius Librarie Philo in Greekes and Iosephus I haue cited and Azarias who turned into Ebrew Philoes wordes And the Greekes bee greatly iniuried when Limbus Patrum is fastened vpon them Hegesippus and others that wrote the Maccabees martyrdome doubted not but that they went hence to saluation Dan. 12. And it had beene an infinite disgrace to our Greeke Doctores if they could not see so much by the New Testament Now let vs returne to the text And at that houre there was a great earth quake and a tenth part of the Citie fell and there were killed by the earth quake 7000. persons of men and the rest were afraid and gaue glorie to the God of heauen When the Popes persequution came to ripenesse then Princes by warres shake him off as in Germany Englande Zwitzerland and Netherland And Christ heere roareth like a Lion and the 7. thunders tell the thunder of his power In Venice he is now a mockage and hath but Spaine to his strength Queene Maries persequutiō is now turned against the Pope and his stirring Irish to rebell vndid Ireland And now his men the chiefest in learning sticke litle to him and speake to his ouerthrow not much lesse then we doe And now the Dukedome of Cleaue will make him weake in Germanie If Geneueans would leaue their Gehēnean torment and our side prophecie soūdly we should weakē him more by learning then by strength of speare seeing the best learned of his owne side labor for vs as Arias Montanus hath done in much about Plantines great Bible the best learned Papistes reioyce to see Daniel his 7. fold comfort of Nathans house and the certen yere of the Lordes supper to haue no more the body and blood of a Lambe his body and bloud of Couenant but Bread Wine to shew that no more flesh bloud may bee in sacrifice In Ebrew Greek Latin they saw Iewes request answered and were very thankfull in speach and letters and shew that now they would soone cast off the king of
locusts if they might haue good maintenance to hold vp better truth and liberall artes that serue trueths honor Of the third woe and last Trumpet The second woe is past behold the third woe commeth And the seuenth Angell sounded the Trumpet and there were great voices in the heauen saying the Kingdomes of the world are now of our God and his Christ And he shall reigne for euer and euer Where the kingdome of the beast Abyssigena bred from the Pit is gone all the Church proclame that CHRIST will haue no more alterations vntill he shew heauen to all his So the speach passeth to the worlds end The Prophets communely passe ouer matters of cōmon state as needlesse to be handled specially and stepp from one thing of plague presently to Messiahs kingdome as notably in Hosea after mention of Israels scattring the kingdom of Messias is ioyned So wen Esay had spoken of Babels fall after Sanecheribs then he steppeth thence to CHRIST his preaching By the voice of a crier in the wildernesse So Daniel telleth of his kingdomes their comming vp their vrging of Idolatrie their chastisement their ouerthrow omitting matters of ordinarie course where the present age would looke to it selfe So Apoca. 6. handleth the prophane Caesares and thence omitteth the Churches sliding away till it come to an absolute fall And then telleth of tyranny and after tyrannies end steppeth to the worldes end The third woe is the plague of the enimies by Kings of good religion continually vnto the end The summe of the Bible Great voices expresse the voice of whole nations and the Kingdome of God Christ the matter of all the Bible Adam had that theme to preach 930. yeares Sem the great by S. Paul and Gamalies likened to the eternal author of iustice peace figured this matter and confirmed Abraham in this 75. year reioyced in Elam troden downe by Abraham And all the large writings breathed by the holy Trinitie teach no other matter but this and punishments for contempt of this and nothing should be suffred in the Church but to this summe In the prayer which our Lord prescribed for a cōmon forme to the whole Congregation this conteyneth all Thy Kingdome come thy will be done on earth as it is in heauen So when Iohn Baptist opened the kingdome of Christ when the Leuiticall policie was to cease and all nations should serue God by Lawes writtē in the heart Rom. 2. Ier. 31. Then the kingdome of heauen is said to come when men humble themselues to receiue the iustice of Christ and to be clothed with the SVN The fulnesse of kingdome cōmeth when the holy soule 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 leaueth this world goeth to God and there reigneth for euer and seeth the Locusts pitt-bred in Haides torment fryed in fire for euer and euer The pitt-bred beasts had sunne and aire much darkened when they knew not whether mans soule ascendeth or descendeth and whither the holy goeth to heauen or to hell This saying Caterchesthaeis haidon is neither more nor lesse then to goe to God when the godly haue a light place of ioye and the godlesse a darke place of torment And this exposition cutteth off at the least fifteene bad opinions direct bad for this article by consequents fifteene score The Kingdome heere spoken off is termed Haides in the Creede and wee may not put Hell for Heauen nor descending for going to God Purgatorie falleth when Haides hath but two partes Heauen and Hell and with it all Poperie Satan entred into many vnthankefull Caytifes that could not suffer the holy soules going into the kingdome to be most eloquentlie spoken in the Greeke Creede if they descend not to Hell as our Lord did in the Creede they shall ascend vp and before Gods throne haue an hell for euer and euer And the 24. Elders which sate on their thrones before God fell vpon their faces and worshipped God saying Wee praise thee O Eternall who is and who was and who will bee that thou takest vpon thee thy great power and doest reigne As the Nations haue kept a stirre thine anger is come and the tyme of the dead to be iudged and to giue rewardes to thy seruants the Prophetes and to the holy and to such as feare thy name The Elders be the Gouernors of Gods people in all offices specially in sage vsage of Scripture on assembly dayes all learned in the scriptures and able to giue faithfull exhortatiō out of it and all borne in wealth are brought vp amisse that are not gronuded in yong yeares to read with delite in the holy Booke Albion seeth who hath opened that way and faithlesse Iewes cōfesse though Atheā pāches for enuy burst These haue thrones before God not Buyshops and Archbuyshops of Papists But chosen of the holy congregation to teach what God telleth but as Moses gaue no commandement of his owne head nor Christ in the flesh but as he taught in Moses so these speake all frō scripture few wordes by old playne warrant and yet in few lines shake of all poperie all errores In number they be 24. as knowing the XII tribes story how the tribe should not depart from Iudah till his childe came and how the XII Apostles gathered the XII tribes to make them the foundation of the heauenly Ierusalem These are not many but 24. yet a resonable good number Many nobles in Albion and others that liue by their owne reuenues studie the Bible with as good dexterity as any feed-men and know it better then some after 42000. Brabant Gilders charges againe 40000 crownes charges such be humble and know Iehouah who is who was who will bee still the same to rule all ages to one summe of saluation in Christ how in him GOD was manifested in the flesh and taken vp in glory and the saluation of all ages Enosh age the flood Babel Ieroboam felt the price of despising this life And after the great saluation begun by the Lord himselfe to be spoken and confirmed by his hearers with all guiftes of the spirit for contempt the world was soone giuen ouer to Arius Pope and Turke yet God sealed a few and at length placeth them in open kingdomes to be seene though stil the greater part in open policy careth but for this life as in Salomons dayes all were of great shew but soone after his death Ephraim turned all but Iuda to worship calues not God So great Constantinus holpe Christians but few of his men cared for God So heere Popes Idols murder of the saincts cause God to shake him to dust as he shoke the Macedonians after Antiochus Epiphanes persequution That the Iewes receiued their owne kingdome vnder the Maccabees and that meanes the psalmes 97. and 99. and others about them howe the power of Christ breaketh Idoll kingdomes that God should take the protection of all into his owne handes So heere Elders shewe Popes strength cast of that others be so
sin should arise Both be heere in one dragon which the profane Caesares and the Popes can not perceiue They who be of the heauenly state they all do see the Dragon is the Diuill or accusar of God the great is the Diuells power by Rome the ruddy bloodie persecution His seauen heades are seauē states of Rome ouer THE FAITHFVL as the Iewes knew their story full well Pompei by Rome was an Emperour in the East But perished neere in the land of Cham. So in Iudah M. Crassus was after him armed ouer Iudah as a King for Rome who robbed the Temple of Salem of Abrahams house but at Abrahams Charan he and his army had a most famous destruction Iulius Caesar made Cleopatra Lady of Iudah who perished in Capitolio for that Brutus Cassius force after was a King for Rome They by Antoni perish Antoni hath the East and marieth Cleopatra and ruleth Iuda and both perish So fiue diademes of the Dragon perish The 6. state is the wholle power which crucified Christ and his members till our Helenaes sonne left Rome and New Troy to be a pillage to Alaricus Giezerichus Theodoricus Totilas for old persecuting of martyrs The seuenth is the Popes wealth getting landes by S. Peters forged supremacy and setting vp the Empire in the West These be the seauen diademes spoken to the Iewes plaine vnderstanding Heathen stories may fitt Romes 7. other states The more fall out fitt as often many do to one speach the more Rome that crucified Christ is condemned when GOD turneth continuall reuolution to haue Rome called into minde Moreouer the allusion is to Daniels foure beastes which had 7. heades The Lion one the Beare one the Leopard foure the fourth beast one The Roman state winning all those contreyes of the East are fitly noted by their armes And specially by the then hornes The Seleucidae by fiue kinges vexed Iudah by warres against Lagidae and Lagidae by so many againe wasted Iuda So that Greeke beast in one parted Kingdome had 10. hornes From that beast the Roman beast hath also ten Kingdomes at the least and vnder Augustus and vnder the Pope rekoned to that number Strabo 17. Steuch contra Vallum Lib. 2. so these matters be all most plaine Of the tayle The prophane Caesares persecution moued few Christians the starres of heauen to fall But the taile of the Empire the false prophet that speaketh lies he as Antiochus Daniel 8. maketh many fall from heauen praetending religion with much praetense and no substance The combat of the Roman Empire with the Church And the Dragon stood before the woman beeing in trauaile that when she bore her childe he might deuour it And she bare a manly sonne which will rule all nations with a sceptre of yron And the child was taken vp to God and to his throne The allusion is from the dayes of Christ borne in Bethleem when Satan by Herodes swords would haue deuoured him but his mother fled with him to Egypt after that Satā hoped to deuour him in the graue he was taken vp into heauē so when Christians soules trauailed to breed Christ the Emperors stormed to deuour that doctrine as Dauid told Ps 2. But they brought forth into the light of the world the SON would bruse all nation-with an yron sceptre as he did bruse the image in Daniel And shewed that his throne is in heauen being taken vp vnto the aeternall King And the Christians fled into the wildernesse as CHRIST did in the tyme of his preaching or halfe seauen Dan. 9. and often handled in the Gospell in Eusebius handled and of Beda who cited the Apoc. allusions M. Scaliger and others that make mo yeares of our Lordes preaching spent ill good houres All tyme of affliction is sweetly termed by our Lords affliction to be as his of dayes 1260. though it were of 300. yer vnder Caesares resistance and 600. vnder Popes enimies to Iohns Apocalyps The speach is full of comfort calling vs vnto the afflictions of Christ himselfe who reckoned all his owne dayes and will haue all our teares in his bottle and pay all dogges and Doegs for Cerberean barking A Commentary vpon the former vision And there was warre in heauen MICHAEL and his Angells made warre with the Dragon and the Dragon and his Angells made warre but held not strength neither was there place found any more for them in the heauen And the great Dragon the old Serpent called the Diuell and Satan who deceiueth the wholle world he was cast out againe I say he was cast and his Angels were cast with him into the earth The state of the faithfull heere is sweetly called hēauen to shew our certeinty of hope for the propre heauen as the word of Law and Gospell is as sure to vs as if we saw the third heauen that aboue the ayer and aboue the starres as S. Paul did at his first calling to a comfort against all his following afflictions so the holy Daniel that in one image made abridge from the end of the old Testament vnto the beginning of the new called the state after abrogation of Moises the Kingome of heauen Iohn Baptist doth begin with his tongue The kinddome of heauen is come And the aeternall WORLD the essentiall WORDE who spake and all was made he confirmeth the same speach to shew that Daniels Image was ended and the GOD of heauen setteth vp a kingdome that cannot be corrupted The obseruation of this speach had kept Daniel in a cleare meaning and not brought the West Empire of Christians for East Greeke Seleuco-Lagides athean Nor tymes after Christ for stories teaching when he would come The termes of the Bible be pearles still beate vpon the open story for noblest matters So Saint Paul Ebrew XI speaking of the Maccabees martyrs famous in the Talmudiques and after his dayes historied by Greeke Iewes saith from Daniels last speaches of double resurrection That they would not be deliuered because they looked for the better resurrection So he sheweth that Antiochus persequutions were the last mentioned in Daniel The Romans hindred not the Iewes holy religion till by the Pharisees they vexed our Lord himselfe when he opened the kingdom of heauen dayes 1260. They who without knowledge of Daniel would know the Gospel are as men that would goe from one Land to another parted by great waters without a shipp All that care for the kingdome of heauen will care for him And my paines in a third commentary an English a Latin a shorter in English came forth by my care and charges By the third milliones of our simple might haue knowen the Prophets whole heart But that Bargulus Illyricus would cast him into the Lions den If Lions rent not his bones I will commende him to the God of Daniel and the firy flames streaming from his throne for his fighting for the dragon against MICAEL and his Angells Of MICAEL Michael and Gabriel are the only holy
Seleucolaegidae in ten hornes fiue of each side vexing Iuda But there were tenne particular Kinges heere Kingdomes noted by a crowne vpon euery horne Now exactly fiue Seleucidae are not notable but fiue Lagidae bee So for the strict number God would not haue all the world vexed in men not worthy strict regard of storie But aboueX Kinges of old Kingdomes now be noted And Strabo lib. 17. noteth that Augustus diuided all Proconsulships into X. And Steuchus against Vallu diuideth the Popes in the same sort As I haue in Con. Scr. shewed The color of Leopard is from Alexander Beares foote from Paras Lions mouth from Babell Hornes color feete mouth meane all tyranny demeanour course lawes alike As Babel deified the Image Dan. 2. Paras their King Alexander would bee a God And Antiochus would haue Iupiter Olympius So the Caesares would still be Diui And termed the Christians Atheists as when martyrs were moued to abiure Christ this was the recantation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That is away with the Atheists As a speach vnto Caesar to hold Christians Atheists and to request their destruction Eus Eccl. Histor In this sort the Caesar hath a name of blasphemy holding Gods seruants whose conuersation is in heauen to be not Gods seruants but wicked men as the text will shew anon And the beast which I saw was like a Leopard and his feete as a Beares and his mouth as the mouth of a Lion the Dragon gaue him his owne power and his owne throne and great auctoritie Heere we see why Satan bare armes from the Romanes armes Euen because Satans autority was executed by them The god of this world had such auctority giuen to trye the elect that the Gospell might be knowne to be hid to none but to whom the God of this world blinded vnderstanding This farre reacheth the profane Empire which our great Constanstine made dead when he left old Rome and made Bizantiū new Rome By the death of one head the exposition following sheweth the whole beast once dead Pompei with Romes force oppressed Gods people there Iuda felt one head and he perished in Aegypt M. Grassus with Romes army made another head and robbed the Temple of Abrahams sonnes who came from Charran or Carrae At Carrae the Parthians ouerthrew his whole army to the aeternall shame of the Empire Iulius Caesar tamed Aegypt and disposed Cleopatraes Gouernement to haue Iudae vnder a toe of that legge a third head he was kild in the Senate house Brutus Cassius the chiefest of his murtherers their Romane host oppressed Iuda and they made a fourth head Antonius he with the Romane force being made a mighty King in the East maried Cleopatra and made Herod for Her King of Iuda that Daniels Image might haue some remembrance till Christ came He as Pompei perished in Aegypt a fift head Then came the state of Rome to one Person and so continued one head from Augustus vnto great Constantine And in that head when he left cursed Rome the beast there was dead So the sixt head had beene and was not and yet was restored to be a seauenth head and the Pope is in that head with all his power and also will be a seuerall power aboue all and make also an eight head chap. 17. That is heere once told And I saw one of his heades as slaine vnto death and his deadly stroke was healed that admiration was through the whole earth after the beast they worshipped the Dragon which gaue his power vnto the beast and they worshipped the beast saying who is like to the beast Who can warre with him And a mouth was giuen him speaking great thinges and blasphemies and auctority was giuen him to be doing 42. moneths and he opened his mouth to blasphemy against God to blaspheme his name and his Tabernacle and them whose Tabernacle is in heauen And it was giuen him to make warres with the sainctes and to ouercome them And power was giuen him ouer euery tribe tongue and nation That all who dwell in the earth should worship him they whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb which was slaine fromt the beginning of the world Heere the tyrannie of the profane Caesares caried by the spirite of Diuell is fully described well knowen by Diuus Nero Diuus Domitian and the rest of Diui or Diuels vnto Diocletian That Christians reading this might looke for such troubles as the holy in Daniel susteined This needeth no exposition but it selfe expoundeth chap. 12. for the vpper part of the Dragon And as Dan. 7. God sate vpon a fiery throne shewing a reueng vpon all the afflicters of his people So Apoc. 6. warre bloody black and pale and a gulfe of a graue was opened shewing how the Caesares warred and perished miserably 300. year with their great armies The Romane stories tell all most plentifully and Rome after their destruction felt it by Alaricus in Zozimus by Giezricke in the Eccles story from Lybia a new Hanniball by Theodoricus Totilas THAT AS STEVCHVS CONFESSETH ROME HAD BEENE MADE A MOST FILTHY LODGE OF OXEN AND HOGGES BVT FOR THE POPES Now the Caesares punishment followeth with a seuere taunt of dulnesse to them that will not marke stately speaches From Mat. 13. and Apoc. 2. and 3. If any man haue an eare let him heare Hee that carieth captiuitie shall goe into captiuitie Abb. 1. 2. for the Chaldean if any kill with sword hee shall bee killed with sword Gen. 9. When Antiochus the vile slew Iewes faithfull to God had affinitie with Egypt God plagued both houses more notablie then any families that euer were before Heathen did note it though they knew not that they made a cōmentary to make Daniel a most cleare booke so Aurelus Victor commonly read with Iustine in Grammar scholes sheweth howe the Caesares were plagued to the astonishment of the world since Rome crucifyed the Lord of Glory And Herodian handleth an Iliad of their plagues for 70. yer how the Emperores were so vile as dogges Sozimus sheweth litle better successe And before our Lordes dayes in the fleshe when their Empire made an head ouer Iuda Pompei Crassus Iulius Brutus Antonius and their Ciuill warres were wonders of misery And Plini recordeth what miseries made Augustus weary of his life full often These rules should be a bridle for Buyshopps of Rome and all of their Caius Heere is the faith and constancie of the holy Our gratious aeternall Spirite here meeteth with the weak that they should not iudge of Gods fauor by prosperitie in this world From Cain to Tuualcain or heathen smith Vulcain the wicked bare sway Which Spirite went and preached in the dayes of Noe to them that are now Spirits in Prison Nemrod the Rebel had first dominion and Niniueh and Babel at the last Nemrods house and in Dan. 11. 35. and 12. 10. the faithfull are told what God meant to let wicked Magog so afflict his
the gates of death shall not praeuaile against Rome where the speach meant that terror of Romes persecution should not stay the building vpon Christ the Rock Buy-shopps should be knowen how wickedly the merchants become wealthy blinde leaders of the blinde vnto eternall destruction Vncleane spirits and hatefull birdes if Esay 13. 14. 21. 23. 47. and Ier. 51. Ezek. 27. and againe Ier. 7. should bee read comparing old traffique with the Popes ritches and ruyne this chapter would haue great light which of it selfe needeth not further exposition For the next cha telleth how Rome falleth by the ioy of the godly which in order of tyme handleth matter whence the ruyne of Rome cōmeth The terme witchcraft bestowed vpon the Popes doctrine is to be noted They who say bread after wordes spoken is no longer bread would haue men bewitched and so for the wine Sense is a diuine testimony and if two men should witnesse that others did worshippe bread or wine no hypocrisie should saue them Christ gaue the Law in Moyses and will not the tokens to bee worshipped that must be kept for God onely Where Rome killed men for the Prophets doctrine and holy Apostles they are as gilty as if they had killed them and all holy in the same faith All the holy spake of Christ and Rome by Pilate killing him was worthy to haue for Popes neither forgiuenesse in this world nor in the world to come but heere to be openly cursed as Iscariot and in the world to come eternall flames This kind of speach troubled great Doctors I wil therefore digresse a litle to this phrase Maymoni in treatise of repentance saith there is a sin whereof sentence passeth that he shall be punished in the world to come no harme passeth ouer him in this world and there is a sin which is punished in this world and in the world to come as be the Iewes that betrayed Christ the Romans that crucified him The Iewes are plagued with blindenesse and slauery and Rome with horrible Idolatries and tyrannies and warres and blood CHAPTER XVIIII I say Ieremy and Ezekiell compared with this ch bring great light And after this I heard a great voice of much people in heauen saying Allelu-iah saluation and glorie and honor and power belongeth to the Lord our God for his iudgements are right and iust because hee hath iudged the great whoore which corrupted the earth by her fornication and reuenged the blood of his seruants out of her hand And againe they said Allelu-iah And her smoke ascended for euer and euer c. WHEN the Angell filled the earth with his glorie then much people prayseth GOD for reuenge against Rome and the 24. Bishopps sage learned and the speciall rare the foure wightes full of eyes and tell of the Lambs supper and his mariage with the Church which matter Psalm 45. and Cantic directly handleth and all the scripture runneth vpon that Now for the terme Hallelu-iah It is vsed first in Psalm 104. where the verse afore wisheth the wicked to bee destroyed out of the earth And the old Hebrewes turne that speach of the Psalm to haue beene the preaching in the dayes of Noë when the flood came and Midras Tillin noteth that Allelu-iah was neuer vsed till Psal 104. after prayer that the wicked should be taken away out of the earth The auctoritie of the book is litle but the peise of the argument is much So in the New Test Aleluiah is neuer vsed till speach commeth of the Popes destruction The sinfull to haue Pyrrha the wife of Deucalion The fable which made Noë Deucalion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his wife 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 conteined a fable which Ouid hath Esse quoque in fatis reminiscitur affore tempus Quo mare quo tellus immensaque regia coeli Ardeat mundi moles operosa labores That is Iupiter bethought him how tyme should come When Sea and Land and great Heauens pallace Should burne the worlds workemanship decay As once the world perished by water so it should by fire Sem and Iaphet taught that in sadnesse But their sonnes turned it into a fable yet S. Pet. 2 Epi. 3. restoreth the matter vnto old trueth And as the Midras turneth in fable Halelu-iah to be vsed at holy preaching in Zohar vpon Gen. 6. by the argument and first Psal 104. vpon the destruction of the wicked so heere first vpon the destruction of the man of sinne the word is vsed And that foure tymes Of the Hebrew terme God only wise contriued the world vnto Macedonian victories and reigne of 300. yea from West vnto all partes that Greeke was made common ouer all the world by the tyme that the Apostles were to write the Gospell that in the Greeke tongue and only in the Greeke tongue they might write it for all nations Yet God would haue the tongue which Adam spake and Heber kept and that in which the Law was penned to be still studied Therefore the N. Test hath many yea full many wordes that require Ebers helpe and in expressed letters about 50. And whereas Esai 19. telleth that in Egypt they shall speake the tongue of Chanaan he meaneth that with the Gospell they shall haue the Hebrew tongue and Origens Octaplun eightfold worke in Epiphanius Ancorato had Hebrew in Hebrew letters and the same spelled in Greeke and six Greeke translations so here the studie of the Hebrew Prophetes to open the Gospell doth fell the Pope and the Pope is closely touched by the word Allelu-iah Praise God in whom wee breath and not Idoles which haue no breath in their nostrills Of the best way to ouerthrow the Pope The Turkes Princes moued Q. Elizabeths agent L. Barton of godly memory to the known way by common witt to open the trueth in causing a Rabbin to demand a proofe of the New Test by Ebrewes The Apostles proued all by Ebrews so should all expounders of them And the Pope vnable therin falleth and all his Cardinales and Archbuyshops And our King tooke once a noble course that way the hinderer shall abide iudgement and that a most heauy shall not haue his shame forgiuen in this world nor in the world to come An Ebrew explication of the N. Test by sayings granted of Iewes would moue Iewes Gētiles to hold one truth My Hebrew explicatiō of Nathans house Mat. 1. Luc. 3. from Dan. 7. fold shield and the Hebrew chayning of the Chronicle hath moued Salem and Rome though Nazaret would bring the auctor to the top of a Rock This matter is worthie of record that Gods vengeance may bee marked while the world standeth how he will deale with so gratefull babes But now let vs abridge the text People Bishops rare godly praise God for calling to the Mariage that the Church is married to Christ and clothed in white iustice and Christ warreth to ouerthrow Rome Amen Aleluiah And a voice came from the throne saying
and the second death Chrysologus missed grossly for Gehenna that Abraham should bee there whom expresly S. Paul Ebr. XI after the Gospell Mat. 8. and Luc. 13. and all Talmudiques from Leui. 26. placeth in heauen N. N. and his commenders missed most atheanly more then anyeuer since the Diuel deceiued Adam to say that our Lord was in the second death The Diuells trembled till their time to speak so blasphemously he may brag he at the last hath made them next himselfe and more open Of forgiuenesse in this world what Talmudiques meane Maymonides cited by me in poenit Perek 6. saith there be sinnes whereof iudgement determineth that punishment shall bee taken for a man in this world in his body or in his wealth or in his yong children which are his possession and there is a sinne whereof punishment is taken in the world to come And there is a sinne which is punished in this world in the world to come This was an old Ebrew speach and to the Scribes our Lord speaketh in their owne phrase that they sinning against the Holy Ghost should not bee forgiuen in this world nor in the world to come Old and late who hence breed Purgatorie shew that from Babel not from Salem they speak The same sin is said in sinning wilfully 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Core Dathan Abiram did whom the earth swalowed and heat of fire consumed their remnant That punishment haue the Iewes to this day for sinning against the holy Ghost in betraying of Christ and now a dayes many resist the trueth as Iannes and lambres resisted Moyses Such neuer knew him who is O MEGA bringer of all things to passe Of the Apostles pecular Greeke The Apostles peculiar Greeke is wonderfull as in the Lords prayer Giue vs this day 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bread neither in superfluitie nor wanting The terme was made by the holy Ghost by the frame of Greekes to Pro. 30. in Agur the sonne of Iakeh Giue me 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bread fitlie measured for me Of Saint Paulls most eloquent expressing of Moses to shew a short way to expound the new Test S. Paul saith that he differeth in nothing from the Iewes generallie but in not doubting of the incarnation and resurrection In his speach he foloweth Deut. 30. and doubteth not what minde can goe to heauen to bring Christ downe or what mind can descende to the deepe of the earth Psal 71 to bring Christ from the dead But he confessed with his tongue that Iesus was the Eternall and beleeued in his heart that God raised him from death and assured him selfe and others of a sound way to truth by this Of Thalmudiques agreement with the new Testament Neither the holy Gospell nor holy Epistles teach any thing for Ecclesiasticall gouernement but as the holy Synagogues did many superfluities of ambition the Scribes and Pharisees had as they had in right sort al that the Apostles held taught of old by them and godlier sitting in Moses chaire So that by olde grantes all Diuinitie questions might bee soone ended And this doth Paul in his imitation of Ebrew speak Gamaliels scholar at Ierusalem and the Greeke orator bred in Tarsus free in Rome that none other Apostle should be Papas of Rome but he so called rarely of God and tendered by Coronel Iulius Sergius Paulus and the Proconsull of Melita and the barbarians for a prosperous iourney to Rome to which and of which he wrote more from God then anie sauing Saint Luke Act. 23. and 28. And if Saint Peter had bene there hee knowing the state to come would haue left monumēts of his being there would haue cōmented vpō S. Paul 2. Thes 2. as he cōmented vpon all his Epist 2. Pet. 3. And thus Christ by taking the name from Alpha and O Mega requireth knowledge in the tongues wherein hee speaketh The direct and proper vse calleth vs to an higher matter The beginning and the end He created all thinges and they were very good And created Angells that when man should bee created they should take care of him misliked mans superioritie were condemned to Tartarus are kept in chaines in the blacke aire vnto the iudgement of the great day he hath an end for them that although they sinned of infinite pride and vnthankfulnesse and euery whit from their owne motion yet they ouer raught not the decree of Christ who told the day of their fall and Adams fall that in humanitie he would bee a litle inferior to Angells by suffring of death but would haue all things subdued vnto him In Adams fall all were to be borne dead in sin that all should for euer perish but for further mercie All hee inuiteth to seeke vnto God that they might feele him but al being dead in sinne only they whom he quickneth belieue in him hee still inuiteth the wicked to goodnesse but they rebell against his spirit thinking his wisedom foolishnesse yet hee ruleth them that their sinne shall not haue the rayne to open mischiefe but as he wil. And one open iudgement he shewed in Noës dayes an other he will shew in fire Apoca. 20. And all whom he hath not chosen of eternitie called in due time and quickned from dead and sanctified by his spirit he condemneth for their wicked works and this helpeth them nothing that they doe his decree they did not that which hee telleth plainlie by doing they should liue and their owne conscience damneth them that they iustly perish for euer And in their stubburnesse after long patiēce he sheweth his power And these his wayes bee vnsearcheable But as the letters from Aleph to Tau haue all their forme and sound in speciall vse order and not two the same So from the beginning to the end he ruleth the world in a most wise course to shew his iudgement and mercie wherein this last booke calling old speaches to new matter goeth through the Alphabet of all ages and sheweth how Iapheth hath fellowship with Sems house and Cittim or Italie shall bee perishing when they afflict Heber that he may be seene to ioyne first last in wise order The Concent which is in Moyses and the Prophets and New Test is wonderfull in places tymes and families I wishe all Preachers to follow the holy mens veine but the tongues and stories require much tyme that for Diuinitie the most vse commoration of plaine Ethiques known naturally and litle studie how the Prophetes comment vpon Moses S. Paul vpon the Gospell and how all foure haue their harmonie And if Daniel and Iohns Apoc. should bee made plaine ouer a kingdome that paynes would kill millions of papists The one I haue made plaine in my last edition by which since it was printed many might haue seene light But the God of this world darkened some mindes to hinder that not regarding the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone To him that is a
alone which mongst the Cities all Hath seauen hills encompass'd with a wall And Ovid is playner Quae de septem totum circumspicit orbem Collibus Imperij Roma Deumque locus Of Empire and of godds Rome is the place Which from seau'n hills all the world doth outface Propertius and Galen in Aphoris Hipp. and they who name the mountaines may be spared All serue Apo. 17. Now God that is One he from one mountaine will fight against seaven Psal 68. will tell what Mount Zion is The church hath high matter vnto whose height of studie the prophane cannot climme Alexander could match Porus vpon his high rock But he durst not medle with mount Tzion So Philosophers can speak much to the height of heauen but vnto Paradise aboue the heauens no thought of theirs could euer come And as heathen were amazed at starres worshipped them so Papists are amazed at Martyrs and worship them The Pope should studie the Bible and cause all scholars to do the same in Ebrew Greeke and conference of stories to passe all Martyrs sauing the Apostles age taught from God without studie should confirme in open studie the doctrine which Christ sealed by his blood So he had made an holy Citie But Rome begun with bloodshed of brother when Romulus killed Rhemus not as Salem with Sem and Izhak in peace redemtion would ende with bloodshed of brethren and to goe to heauen as Romulus and Iulian the Apostata in somnio Scipionis and in Sozimus and Apolline Delphico And as Libanius said that Iulian was with the Daemones and the Greeke Doctores granted that with heart and good will So we will grant with heart and good will that the Pope and his Martyrs shall be together Of the great Citie Ierusalem Though Nympha the Church in song of SS hide it selfe as a doue in cliffes of rockes as few yet when all of all ages are put togeather they make a great Citie And this Citie should haue holy Lawes to worship God in spirit and truth all sent from heauen and hauing the glory of God And the light of it was like a most pretious stone as the Carbuncle stone glittering The 70. in Isai chap. 54. 12. for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Codcod 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in Thargum Ierusalemy Nophec the stone of Iuda is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Christallos Thence Saint Iohn hath his matter and he that marketh not that teach that Iohn bringeth matter without warrant which he neuer doth thorough his booke but still confirmeth his matters from olde speaches So the stone of Iuda maketh the windowes that the sunne of iustice may shine in and the gates shal be of flaming stones cleere Doctrine that may call all vnto Christ And all thy borders shall bee pleasant stones for thy children shall bee taught of the Eternall so the taught of God be the precious stones such was Moses and Iosua such were Isai Ieremy Ezekiel Daniel such were Paul and all the holy Apostles and all that sincerely know and cleaue to their Doctrine But no Bellarmine that would disgrace the wit writ of the scriptures No such shall be any stones heere but be as common sandes parching in heat and dangerous in winde still fruitlesse And it had a wall great and high hauing xij gates and vpon the gates xij Angels and names written which are of the 12. tribes of the sonnes of Israel The wall is the defence by Christ as followeth anon that the inner building of the wall was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Carbuncle The gates haue Angels to conduct them that shall be saued and the true storie of the XII tribes taught heere by their names teach others a passage into the citie This matter expresseth Ezekiel 47. where the names of the tribes of Israel be vpon the gates and the gates 3. to each of the foure corners of the world From the East three gates from the North 3. gates from the South 3. gates from the West 3. gates Ezekiel beeing in Babel North from the East of Israell began that men should come to the holy Citie from the North where Israel was scattred But for vs in the West where the Church is best in our ends of the earth the possession of Christ Ierusalem beeing East was first to be named and next the North for holy Daniels sake the light of the world whom moo in Albion vnderstand then in the world besides and I hope moo shall by my inlargement nowe comming forth teaching how the new Testament commenteth vpon him Then the ordinary course the coast ioyned to the East the South where the Iewes were scattred by the Ptolomies and a long tyme Alexandria bare Patriarches Athanasius a wonder for holy Diuinity and Greeke eloquence and great Cyrill great though not equall to Athanasius whose long commentarie vpon Isai in Greek I haue and wish it printed Thence D. B. may see vpon Isai 38. what he meant by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to strengthen his owne most learned Syllogisme which breaketh the necke of Purgatory when Haides is knowen to haue but Heauen and Hell Alexandria in the South had glorie as Antioch North. That wheresin abounded grace should more abound Antiochi deserued no such fauor the head of Magog in Siria But God promissed Eze. 39. to glorifie his name about Magog And therfore would haue Christians to beare the name first from the place most hatefull and next Alexandria the next hatefull to bee high and Rome that crucified Christ yet for some helpe they had shewed the Maccabees and certaine good captaines Math. 8. and 27. and Act. 10. and 23. and 27. God would pity that cursed towne Though Constantinus new Rome bare sway a great while but the Buy-shop of Rome still worked to ouerthrow Bizantium that he might haue the throne of Satan in higher measure And Bizantium had not medled with Gods people and long had no occasion of high throne for God to shew later anger But had farre more learned then Rome euer and scant euer acknowledged Romes purgatorie And to the West from Chanaan in the Land Gyges or Gog as Croesus wealth enabled Cyrus when hee tooke Sardis to send Israel home from 120. nations So God by Iohn gaue Sardis his Apocalyps that it kept religion farre longer then Rome Now as God placed the tribes about the Arke three nobles of Leah Eastward the blemished to parching sun and the basest Northward and the last borne and dearest towardes Sun-set to shew that his mercy reacheth most to the furthest off Of these the Psal 80. speaketh before Ephraim Beniamin and Manasses stir vp thy strength come and helpe vs. That is as Shem Tob well noteth at the Sun-set of our state and our last birth as Ioseph and Beniamin were most tendered shew O Lord now the fathers fauour to the children Paul the Hebrew of Hebrewes of Beniamin he chalengeth for him selfe and his
manifold and vnsearchable is the wisedome of God The Iewes seeing Ioseph gone for Ieroboam might feare lest Iuda should fall more for killing of Christ that now only Saint Pauls Bishopricke of the West is best in Christianitie he foretold how Rome would deceiue and bad them not to be proud but feare and not ouerrule the ciuill officer but be subiect all this is vaine to many Iosephs Beryll the glorie of Paradise is now abiect Of the Topaz Simeon hath the ninth place to be very base yet afore manie of the handmaides children Of the Chrysophrase The Chrysophrase is a white Achate with a golden lace and part greene Achate simply is in Exod. 28. for Nephtaly Iohn giueth the trimmest of Achates as God shewed him And Nephtali is set before Dan because Dan first fell away Of the Hyacinth Leshem was Dan his stone and in notation it is Folow God and in the partition of the lande Leshem the Towne was giuen to Dan as prophecied in the name of his stone though it were farre from the other soile of his where Samson dwelt Semel is an idole Alpha and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mega gaue him warning that he turned not the Letters But none can stand longer than God stayed him Ionathan the some of Manasses of Gerson of Moses who would thinke it he and his house were Priests to the idole till the remouing of the glorie from Ephraim and Ieroboam regarding not that set vp a Calfe in Dan. The Antichrist by imitation of idoles is Dans childe Barbarous Rome cannot auoid that but by a ridiculous distinction of Idole and Image Of Gads Amethyst God of ordinarie course should folow Dan and Aser the yonger being set before him for Anna the daughter of Phanuel Thus Iohn comforteth the 12. tribes in their owne veine of speach calling all their stories of 1700. yeeres often reuolued in the same desert to shew the Constancie of God to encourage the 12. tribes not to be amazed that Rome hath crucified Christ and destroyed the lowe Ierusalem but to know that it also shall be destroyed after vnwilling furthering of the Gospell by martyring and when ease and wealth bringeth blindnesse and error it shall vnder praetense of holinesse and by persequution cause more study of Law then all former ages had The Iewes soone would climme into the mountaine of Tabâ—r in minde to acknowledge this description to be all from the Prophets and most easie to vnderstand And this cutteth off all Iudaisme which the Rabbins haue to this houre who from Ezekiel 40. looke still for a returne to Canaan But against that S. Peter told them that euery Prophecie of Scripture is not to bee expounded properlie And the twelue gates were twelue pearles euery one seuerall gate was of a pearle The wordes of the holy Apostles open the way into the Citie and the spirit of God spake in them and no one could be aboue the other but euery one stood a foundation vpon the Rocke By them which haue written we know that the others had wordes also as pearles When the Pope buried the stile of the Apostles and brought in Romes tongue and neither that pure then the pearles lost their gaynesse And the street of the Citie was pure gold as cleere glasse The open lawes are agreeable to the soules frame in iudgment from God and rules of faith bee cleere Rome hath scant one rule of either But their lawes crosse commune reason and their speaches of faith be either false or litigious And a Temple I saw not in it for the Lord God of hostes is the Temple and the Lambe Earthly buildings profit not as all S. Stephens oration telleth and the faithlesse Iew Izhak Ben. Arama Port. 52. shewing how the Tabernacle thrise described and set vp did litle helpe they presently misbelieuing And Salomons Temple after his death was robbed by Shisak King of Egypt and rejected of the tenne Tribes And this as the Iew confesseth to shew that God rested in CHRIST a goodlier Temple the heauen and the earth whose teÌ„ple when it should be once pull'd downe he would raise it vp the third day Moyses Law ye shall stand in reuerence of my Tabernacle tooke effect for punishment in Ephraim for Elies sonnes defiling of women waiting there that God foresooke his Tabernacle in Shiloh and Ephraim fell in the day of battel 34000. 1. Sam. chap. 4. and Psal 78. Nabuchadnezar that destroyed the Temple was so many yeeres like a beast as the Temple was in building And his Babell for the holy Temple was destroyed The carnall Iewes vrged Moyses Law against Christ as to death That he said destroy this Temple and I will build it againe in three dayes He spake of his owne Temple For which the Law of Moses was made and the Tabernacle and the frame of the world and because they stood not in reuerence of his Temple hee destroyed them By the former Law as they martyred S. Stephen for saying Iesus of Nazareth would destroy the Temple And they meant as much for S. Paul for speaking teaching against the Temple and they thought he had brought Trophimus a grecian of Ephesus into the Temple and so polluted it But the true Temple they saw not till theirs was destroyed And here Iohn expoundeth Moses That God the Lord of hostes the Angels and goodly frame of the world That CHRIST in whom all fullnesse it selfe dwelleth is the Temple And they that crucifie a picture as his making him vile or worship a piece of bread as his body being a mockage to Angells and men shall finde no place in Ierusalem The Temple of the Lambe must be vsed as hee teacheth It sitteth in shining light in heauen and may not be made base in this darke ayer by our foolish inuentions his owne commanded works as Salomons Temple cannot conteine God 1. King 8. Act. 7. Esai 66. This one rule ouerthroweth all Talmudiques by the Prophets whose words they reuereÌ„ce A plaine conclusion from Esai 60. and 51. and Ezeck 47. of the Gentiles Ierusalem And the Citie shall haue no neede of the sun to giue light in it for the glory of God lightneth it and the Candle of it is the LAMBE Isai 60. Arise be lightned for thy light is come and the light of the ETERNAL riseth ouer thee Ephes. 4. He saith arise thou that sleepest and stand vp from the dead and Christ shall shine to thee Many Rabbines as S. Paul draw Esaies words to Christ and when Iohn wrote 144000. Iewes faithfull would so take it Isai 60. The Sun shal be no more thy light on the day and the brightnesse of the Moone shall not giue light vnto thee But the ETERNAL shal be thy continuall light and thy GOD shall bee thy honor Thy Sun shall no more sett and thy moone shall not be hid for the Eternall will be thy continuall light and the dayes of thy mourning shall be gone worldly ioy shall not bee thy
tymes to stirre all to spend their life in the word of life That euery thing heere might teach how God inviteth all to saluation And the very Geometrical forme of Aleph Beth Gimel Daleth Heb Vau Zain c. sheweth that when God gaue them their order he gaue them also the forme which wee haue now and the Ebrewe name is from the forme which we now haue and the Ebrew named Alphabet is followed in the Greeke Alphabet old in the dayes of Phisistratus when Aristarchus diuided Homers Iliad and Odyssea by Alpha Beta Gamma c. Now this was old before Ezra was borne and later then the Ebrew Alphabet that was later then the formes of Ebrew letters which wee now haue therefore Ezra inuented them not as Popes would persuade but they are as God gaue them in the Tables be 613. there whēce the Lawes 613. haue their order 248. bidding cōmandements telling what we should belieue or do 365. forbidding euil The Iewes say the bones in a man well anatomed be 248. which all should work what God cōmādeth That rule is only giuen for memory hath no further mystery the 365. call Henoch into mind that as a son walked with God had his yeeres as the dayes of the suns yeer and so shall they that walke with God as Messias psal 72. To these cōmandemēts all disputations are called all the N. T. The Law thou shalt make a King that commandement is for Messias chieflie handled in Maymonie Tom. 4. Nowe the Scribes knewe not that Messias was to bee God Therefore this Law IEHOVAH our God IEHOVAH is One. is vrged vpon the Pharises that Messias must not only be Dauids son but also his aeternall Lord from Psal 110. and so Mat. 1. sheweth a golden Candlesticke of 42. notes and Emanuell and chap. 2. MESSIAS the holy of all holinesse is sought for the K. of the Iewes And all the 613. Lawes are called into his life The N. Testa beeing so handled might bee laid in one view to make Princes admire it at the first when the yeares and promises of Christ and punishments for contempt and Oeconomie of states are laide in one light and children when they first read were taught to read his familie and the end of Salomons house and are taught the afflictiones of Sorobabilidae in Daniel seuen tymes ouer Thus an vnspeakeable loue of the Gospell would flame in Princes heartes when they should see euery thing that can bee disputed brought to this Law And the Law for the King that he must write a copie of Moses And once a yeere read it himselfe So states could neuer be deceiued millions might be skilfull in speaches of the holy Trinitie and in the storie of them from whose feede CHRIST was made after the flesh the blessed God in the Diuine spirite and so great God and Sauiour Moyses made three crownes one for the arke which kept the Law which for knowledge euery man should weare in heart and the oratores of the Congregations also in tongue to bring all the Bible to short speach as Matth. 1. Luc. 3. Act. 7. and the epistle to the Hebrewes doth to a readie minde The Table with shew-bread remembreth the King of care to feed all his xii tribes so Moses was King and still craving of God what the people wanted so Iosuah so Dauid so Daniel made rich by wisedome chap. 2. praeferred his zealous nobles hoater for Gods glory then the fier who kept their nation from further danger of Idolatrie And by Daniels wealth the returned aboue 49000. were inabled to restore their policie And God gaue Cyrus Croesus gold to bee abler to send the Iwes home to teach the houre of true happines by our Lordes death in Iubilie 28. such men weare the crowne no lesse learned then the sacrificer and these exalted the horne of Christ as much as hee that by the Crowne of the Altar of incense morning and euening brent perfume The third Crowne was on the Altar of incense touched now and honorable in zeale and skill of praying to God Zacharie father to Iohn Baptist not high sacrificer but of the eighth course of 24. had a Crowne of praise for his cariage in that office Nowe for these Crownes euery man should knowe the Arkes meaning the mercie seat the Cherubim and know who would beare this Law in a minde golden within and without But skill of speaking should be required only of the practised vnto ripe yeares not bearing of the Arke be laide vpon shoulders of Beastes To the maintenance of all by bread belonged gouernement for all offences That the court of all tribes vsed when heathen tooke away capitall causes then excommunication was all that could be done Otherwise hee that kept his Fathers wife had felt death at once Princes were neuer excommunicated Ierusal Sane The high sacrificer was whipped in all sortes iudged as any other man ibid. Leuies tribe was bound to be ready to answeare to all demandes for applying Ceremonies to their spirituall meaning But they were often worst as in condemnation of Ieremie and Elies Sonnes and Iehosuahs in Nehemiah and Zacharie and Malachie An application of the Popes calling to this It was death for any of Israel to meddle with Leuies propre dutie when his office is quite extinguished it is a most high contemt of God to reuiue it by imitation from mans braine so all the Popes Priesthood and Masse is cursed As Archisynagogus was chosen for the best learned so where many learned bee one to bee chiefe reason and practise allway suffred this but so that he should not ouerrule or doe any thing of his owne head Reuenues altered not the case which Lawes and reason require to bee spent for Christian good and not for purchase to idlenesse Numius Ecclesiae Sheliah Zibbur The Talmud terme is now the office of a Bishop or Elder and none can bee fitt that way without rare and chargeable education And neuer yet any Pope was so learned as with skill of the holy speaches to make a true narration for the strength of the Gospell They make their Cathedrals dennes of thieues when professing to teach saluation blinde leade the blinde into the ditch They who wrest S. Matt. 20. Marc. 10. Luc. 22. for condemning of Gouernours of nations deale most wickedly Our Lord. Prou. 8. that hee giueth Princes wisdome to gouerne and stories shew that heathen gouerned for this life and ciuill commoditie as well as euer anyother Neither any terme vsed of the three Euāgelists meaneth tyranny but as in the 70 answereth to ordinary Ebrew And Zebedes sonnes Mother requested not place of tyranny but of ciuill auctoritie as for to be great in Iuda And our Lord would neuer answere beside the Qu. Their barbarous blindnesse is vnspeakeable who wrest holy wordes to maintaine Buyshopps sauage and more then hagarene tyranny and how can such escape the fier of Gehenna A doubt for the manner of policie now
what way is best to be taken Seeing the common sort of welthy are bent to this world to bee rich in kinges seruice or Law or merchandize that many cannot be fitt Teachers but men bent altogether that way what is the soundest remedy heere Seeing the world will not admitt great chaing and great learning should bee plentifull before great change would be to any good Answere The Vniuersities should vrge great practise of the Hebrew Prophets Greek Apostles vsing all helpes of Thalmudiques and Heathen by chosen guides all of skilfull actes should haue good recompence And after certaine yeeres none should haue any praeferment but of speciall redinesse in the trueth of holy storie where error troubleth as haeresie the people should haue a most exact translation to which all the Realme should haue their consent so Scholars all should haue a voice in Bishopps proceedings reuenues be the only seniores in matters of learning but for al Court matters should haue common Lawyers other officers in Societie with theÌ„ by learned sermons should make al of good conceipt though not of learning to teach others But all that the scholar should do is to be Angelus eccles to kepe him within that compasse Some as in Geneua bare scholars would in wickednesse ouerrule the Senate more then any Pope was euer knowen to doe Men that will teach and speak not precious matter will be the destruction of the Gospell The zealous without knowledge haue in this kinde done much harme and when an vnlearned scholar is highly praeferred and not brideled he will hardly be kept from doing vnspeakable mischiefes Ciuill auctority should make a wall before such that they should haue no whit of Popes auctority where the Ciuill horne belongeth to the King and only the horne for the heart to Sheliach Zibbur or orator of the congregation So the Popes hornes be broken as the Seleucians Ptolomeans when they tyrannized ouer the holy What may wee thinke of Buyshopps of which sort many Popes and Cardinales bee The Talmud in Sanedrin concludeth that if any giue money to be a Senior they should hold him as an whipp for an asse Maym. fol. the People be the asse that suffre him and he is a scourge from GOD for some badnesse of theirs And Ambitus in Tulli was hated and Lege Iulia. And from Act. 8. called Simonia and one such man may cause God to be openly angry with many that he will not forgiue them in this world but send open punishment vpon them though ciuill wicked haue their open reward heere and the punishment reserued to the world to come that is the meaning of the phrase forgiuenesse in this world and in the world to come Math. 12. and Maymoni tome 1. Poenit. Perek I haue knowen mighty mightily plagued for Buyshopps some by their owne strange death some by many Children and Sanedrin saith others should not be quiet till they remoue such from their societie And the wordes thou shalt not make thee Elohim Iudges of Siluer or Gold are of the Thalm. applyed hither wittily And such Buyshopps in Diuinity be most high contemners of God and they cannot speake from God but from the Dracon Of the Pope King of Kings And the auctority of the first he practiseth all before him L. Inter Claras C. de summa Trin. so all the Emperors now are confirmed of the Popes which right in old tyme Emperores vsed ouer Popes As reason would though a D. of a great towne as Rome had great reuenues to be hospitall and to breed many learned that was the intent of Princes in their great Liberalitie And he causeth the earth and such as dwell in it to worshipp the first beast whose wound vnto death was healed In his confirmation of Emperours he giueth them S. Peters blessing and men worship them with title of Diui when the Empire was once dead in Rome and translated to Bizantium called new Rome so that old Rome had continued a most filthy habitation of hoggs and oxen but for the Popes supremacie when he was worshipped as the old Caesares As Steuchus confesseth against Valla lib. 2. BVT WHEN THE PONTIFICALITY WAS SET VP IN ROME THAT ALL NATIONS FROM EAST TO WEST DID WORSHIPP THE POPE NO OTHERWISE THEN OF OLD THE PROFANE CAESARES He taketh autoritie to confirme the Emperors to make them of better estieme with superstitious simple people That is here plainly fore-told How long the Popes the Starres falling could not become mountaines of fire to cast themselues into the sea of the Empire Before Christianitie came in policie to Rome the People and Doctores chose the Father as the Iewes did the Archisynagogue as all should bee and were vnder heathen gouernement And they should bee of the Dragons poison that would make any more adoe for their autoritie When Christians â—eld the Empire and Constantine lothing Rome that Crucified Christ and the vnlearned Popes that could not bring the Pallace to Christianitie in 300. yeares When holy Paul soone made Narcissus bad folke the best and Peter if euer he had come there had done as much So when Constantine remoued to Bizantium his house and lieuetenant of Rauenna confirmed the Popes whose election should bee authenticall so when Charles the great after the ouerthrow of Desiderius king of the Lombardes and of that kingdome and came to Rome Adrian the Father when Charles the great confirmed with greater priuileges all that Pipinus had giuen to Gregory the third to requite the benefites of Charles calling an hundred and fiftie Bishopps maketh a Perpetuall decree Nullum posthac fore neque aliorum Templorum Antistitem nisi quem Carolus successoresque eius sciuerint iusserint refragantes huìusmodi patrum decreto diris deuoti est nisi resipuerint adiecta proscriptio That is That there should bee no B. of Rome nor of other Churches except him whom Charles and his Successores should know and command to be so They that withstand such a decree of the Fathers are cursed and vnlesse they repent a proscription is added This constitution subtile Popes in great dissentions of Princes brake yet in the yeere 1314. Loduike Bauaras restored the Empires right much blotted vnto his whitenesse against Iohn 12. for when hee was excommunicated of the Pope for entring into Italy with an army and for setting Gouetners ouer Villages and Townes against his will And because he praesumed as soone as hee was chosen before hee was commanded of the Pope to take vpon him the name right of the Empire Hee with the Counsell of his Nobles made one Petrum Corbariensen a minorite Pope vsing his ancestores autoritie manner And assembling men that knew diuine and humane Lawes sheweth that the Pope hath no right aboue Caesare But cleane contrary the Pope with all spirituall high low should be subiect to the higher power Thus dealt this good Emperor mild enough or rather too