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TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTIE PRINCE ELISABET, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, QVEENE OF Englande, France, and Irelande, defender of the fayth. &c.
THE whole Booke of GOD (most gratious Soueraigne) hath so great an harmony, that euery part of it may be knowen to breath from one Spirite. Al soundeth the same poynt: that by CHRIST the sonne eternall, we are made heyres of lyfe: whom they that knowe not, abide alwayes in wrath. Prophecyes in euery age, the first larger, the later narrower, all briefly tolde, all for euent fully recorded: these shewe the constancy of this trueth. The lyke reuolutions are of
Abraham, Iacob and his children togeather, of
Sems house: & againe to
Iapheths sonnes, and all families: wherein the former be stampes of the later: so that in one speach, an other thyng also is spoken. These shew the eye of IEHOVAH, and his spirite. The kinredes, places, and tymes, the lyghtes of narrations, are registred so profitably: that it shoulde be a blasphemy to affirme any one to be idle. Our LORD his Fathers are recorded from
Adam, by
Dauid and
Nathan, to his Grandfather
Ely: likewise they, after whom he is heyre to the kingdome of
Dauid, Salomons lyne so long as it continued: and afterwardes they who from
Nathan were heyres to
Salomons house. So other Families, who came all of one, as from them all come: they by
Moses and the Prophetes be plentifully expressed. In like sort the places of their dwellinges are cleerely taught. The course of time is most certaynely obserued: euen to the fulnes, the yeere of saluation, wherein our
Lorde dyed. Of which time the very houre was foretolde by an
[Page] Angell, not seauen yeeres before, but seauentie tymes seauen yeeres.
Dan 9. 24. To this all, other
Ebrewes and prophane
Grekes, beare witnesse strongly agaynst them selues. These helpes be starres in the Story. The frame of all this, with coupling of ioyntes and proportion of body, will much allure to study, when it is seene how about one worke all Families, Countries, and Ages, buylde or pull downe: and finde the kindnes or seueritie of GOD. For this worke I endeuored, to call auncient
Ebrewes and
Grekes, to further the buylding of iustice and peace, to come from
Salem and
Athens, to these endes of the earth, the possession of
Christe: to speake in
Englande the tongue of
Eber and
Iauan. This my paynes, I humbly present to your Maiestie.
FOR the better vnderstanding of DANIEL, who mentioneth large Kingdoms, and pictureth them: this Table of the North part will giue some light: which sheweth where NOE his sonnes dwelt, by the notes which you see at them. Those Families giue names to great Realmes, and are found in Greeke Heathen writers: placed of them as in this Table. The Kings which DANIEL speaketh of are ioyned to their pictures. A short Chronicle is added: but the breuitie will require diligence. A. B. C. D, printed in the Pictures, are expounded ouer the Beare, and placed in the Chronicle ouer the tree.
Iaphets sonnes.
[...].
[...]
I
Gomer, or Gamer, in the 70.
[...].
[...]
II
Magog.
[...].
[...]
III
Madai.
[...].
[...]
IV
Iauan.
[...].
[...]
V
Tubal.
[...].
[...]
VI
Meshech.
[...].
[...]
VII
Thiras.
[...].
Gomers sonnes.
[...]
VIII
Ascanas.
[...].
[...]
IX
Riphath.
[...].
[...]
X
Togarmah.
[...].
Iauans sonnes.
[...]
XI
Elisha.
[...].
[...]
XII
Tarshish.
[...].
[...]
XIII
Kittim.
[...].
[...]
XIIII
Dodamin, or Rho.
[...].
Sems sonnes.
[...]
1
Elam.
[...].
[...]
2
Asshur.
[...].
[...]
3
Arphaxad.
[...].
[...]
4
Lyd.
[...].
[...]
5
Aram.
[...].
Arams sonnes.
[...]
6
Vs, or Aus.
[...].
[...]
7
Chul.
[...].
[...]
8
Gether.
[...].
[...]
9
Mash.
[...].
Ioktans sonnes.
[...],
[...]
10
Elmodad.
[...].
[...]
11
Shalaph.
[...].
[...]
12
Hatzarmaueth.
[...].
[...]
13
Iatach.
[...].
[...]
14
Hadoram.
[...].
[...]
15
Vzal, or Auxal.
[...].
[...]
16
Diklah.
[...].
[...]
17
Obal, Ghobal.
[...].
[...]
18
Abimael.
[...].
[...]
19
Sheba.
[...].
[...]
20
Ophir.
[...].
[...]
21
Chauila, or Auila.
[...].
[...]
22
Iobab.
Chams sonnes.
[...].
[...]
a
Cush.
[...].
[...]
b
Mitzraim.
[...].
[...]
c
Put.
[...].
[...]
d
Canaan.
[...].
Cush his sonnes.
[...]
e
Seba.
Amongest these dvvelt the sons of Nachor, Lot, Ketura, Ismael,
and Esau.
The Preface, shewyng the summe of the Booke, directions to the Reader, and the olde reading of the Law and the Prophetes.
THE holy writers haue a perfect consent,
The summe of the Scripture. Iohn. 17. in their doctrine of lyfe eternall: which as from one mouth teach, how that standeth in knowing the true GOD, who is but one; and the sending of IESVS CHRIST. All Families were hereby to looke for grace, in all Countries and Ages. Some speciall the holy Writers do mention,
The olde vvorlde, & the vvorlde novv. for the olde worlde, and the worlde now. Ten of the fyrst are Fathers, not onely to our
LORD, but to all Nations. They were al faythfull, and shoulde mooue their Chyldren to beare in their brestes
VRIM and
THVMMIM, Fayth and Loue. They had
Abel an ensample of being faythful vnto death for Christ, to fynde an eternall crowne of life.
Cain and his house warned them of their corruption, taken from Parentes, that they shoulde looke for regeneration.
Iob. 22, 16. 1. Pet. 3, 19. The destruction of the men that delyted in
Caines wayes, whose bodyes wrinkled by the deluge, whose spirites are in prison: These shew that the eternall spirite of Christ, hath in long patience a
[...]ust kingly anger. Of this olde Worlde, the Writers olde and new, teach the same. Their places are lytle mentioned: but
Our Fathers ages. The beginning of
Genesis is fitted to the capacitie of chyldren. our Fathers ages are wonderfully layde downe by the heauenly Father, teachyng vs as babes be taught. Thrise they are reckoned: how olde they were when they begate their sonne: how long they lyued after: and how much those two numbers make. This sheweth that the Story is penned for the simple and chyldren. The sundry comparisons wyll occupy the wysest. The olde Families of the worlde now, are set foorth sufficiently.
Sem kepeth a name vntyl Christ
Luk. 3.Sem keepeth in one lyne a name vntyll he commeth, who is blessed for euer: whose name none knoweth but hym
Apo. 19, 12. felfe.
Gen. 9.
Babel. Vnto
Sem and his blessing al his Families,
Iapheths and
Chams were to looke: they soone turned asyde. For, buyldyng
BABEL to make them selues a
Shem or name, despising
SEM, they founde a Shame. Their tongues became seauentie of one: their dwellynges were parted accordyngly: their whole state was a Confusion, and they perished for euer, that repayred not to
Sems Tentes. The fyrst Families
Moses nameth, and their places: which the Prophetes describe where they dwelt, by their merchandize,
Virgil Geor. I
[...] vnder
Assur & Catrim are comprehended the generall oppressours: and the Churches chiefe stories are in the lov
[...] & high
Ierussalem. as to
Tyrus Eze. 27. or by their Warres. The Heathen kept styll a memory of these fyrst poyntes, but full of fables.
Coeum and
Iapet, they beare in mynde, whom they call the sonnes of the earth:
Sem they forgate, and all aboue. The Families scattered from
Babel, left their names vpon their Countries, which yet abyde in Greke writers. Their Warres generall agaynst the faythfull,
Moses prophecyed, vnder
Assur, and
Cittim. The Prophetes and Apostles recorde what fell out. Cities here, chiefly two for name are to be marked: the low
IERVSALEM, (which the faythfull styl helde, or looked to holde, vntyl the LORD came) and the high
IERVSALEM buylt by the GOSPEL euery where, which
Cittim or
Italy, that destroyed the low, shoulde labour alwayes to besiege, tyll GOD sendes his enemies a finall destruction. The course of times with the Lord his nation was truely kept of the faythfull and faythlesse. From the creation to
Abrahams promise: thence to the comming from
Egypt, to the foundation of
Salomons Temple, to the Captiuitie & burning of the Temple, to the returne to buylde it:
The generatie is in
Math,
[...] and
Luke 3. for the 490 yeere.
Dan. 9. shake the Grekes accōp
[...], vvho ouerreach 100
[...]. and thence to the death of our Lord. For euery partition of these tymes, auncient consent of
Hebrevves and
Grekes may be brought. I wyll labour to set foorth all these poyntes brefly, from the beginning, folowing the order of tyme measured by Stories of our Lord his kinred. The places of auncient dwellinges shalbe ioyned in one Map, of the north part, when
Chams house,
Sems, and
Iapheths, all three in
Daniel fight with the auncient kingdomes agaynst the blessed of
Sem and
[Page] kingdome of
Christ. That Mappe was to be larger in breadeth then the quantitie of this Booke.
One Mappe vvas to be made of the oldest names: & an other vvith later names of dvve
[...]lers. The Romanes are not in the Image
Dan. 2. or beast.
Da. 7. In it Pictures are grauen, onely of the tyrannous kingdomes that
Daniel speaketh of, who are consumed by the byrth of our Lord, whereof the
Romanes are no part. For all the Image, and fourth Beast was to perish before the incarnation of Christ.
Ievves do conclude agaynst vs, against trueth, and their owne saluation vpon that our errour. Doubtles
Rome in the ende reuiueth their impietie, folowyng their manners very neare: wherby many haue thought
Daniels Prophecy to blame the
Romanes. For playnnes and distinction herein, I wyll in a Mappe of an other quantity set downe
Rome, and some other later names of Countries, with some ancient, as the story shal require: and compare also by most liuely Pictures out of Scripture, the
Romans with
Daniels Kingdomes. This whole Vew I call A
CONCENT OF SCRIPTVRE, because it would shewe that. Through the booke are other Titles touching time & person, for the present matter. And wheras I often compare briefly, later writers with former: to shew the Reader how he him selfe may do that more at large: I lay downe fyrst in this Preface a table of the
Ievves, shewing how they read the Prophetes.
Pharisees they are at this day, who keepe a recorde of this: and of the
Pharisees of olde,
Math. 23, 2. for this much the Lord gaue a testimonie that they sate in the Chayre of
Moses. Elias in
Thishi in the worde
PETARAH, recordeth this occasion, to haue been the beginning of
Petaroth: that when
Antiochus Epiphanes forbade to reade
MOSES law (
Isaac ben Arama. fol 2 b which was the parted into so many
Those sections they call
Petaroth expositions. Directions for the Reader. Sections, as be Sabbothes in an yeere.) In steade of
Moses they chose a part of some Prophet lyke vnto it: which custome of readyng they kept styll, after their libertie restored to vse
Moses and his ceremonies freely. Before you come to that Table, I wyll here geue direction for the reading of this Booke, touching the two Tables conteynyng the Fathers ages, and certayne other poyntes. The number vnder the Father sheweth what his age was when the Sonne set in that lyne was borne. The other numbers shew his age at the Nephewes byrth ouer agaynst it: or at the issue of the matter, noted in that lyne. Afterwardes you haue sundry tytles of their tymes parted: as Promise, Egypt, Temple, Diuision, Captiuitie, Seauens, whereupon the chiefe knottes stande. Also the tymes are noted by our Lordes byrth,
Manifest faultes as
Luke for
Mat. Asa for
Achaz, and such, many the Readers gentlens must amende. by the age of the Worlde, and sundry perticuler men, which the Reader may know in markyng what man famous in Story is agaynst the fyrst number. Moreouer, touchyng the Columne, vnderstande that you shalbe often to marke by the matter, that the sayinges depend not vpon the next aboue them, but vpon those that be on the other Columne oueragaynst them. A marke you haue to note an vncertaynetie in the tyme of some Stories, that touch not Chronicle: this is the forme of it. ‡ as in
Hezron: but there the Corrector was deceyued, who placed his byrth neare
Iosephes death, though he was borne before
Iacob came to
Egypt. Other notes touchyng tymes, two of one kynde shewe, eyther that the Narration is dryuen from the due tyme: and shoulde looke to the marke of the same forme: or compareth one Kinges reigne with an others, as you oft shall fynde in
Iudah &
Israel. Testimonies I cite short: and in one clause drawen from sundry, I name but one Author, when about that place I had named some other, for most of the matter there layde downe. The common Latine translation, whose soeuer it is, I named it as the Title goeth,
Ierom. Abbreuiations chiefly be these. b. for borne, d. for dyeth, y. for yeeres. Once faulty C. for Ch. Christes. For other names,
Antiochus Epimanes, and
Epiphanes, Appian Archelaus, Artaxact, Athenaeus, Carthusianus, Clemens Alexandrinus in
Stromatibus, Cedrenus, Dio. for Dionisius, Hal
[...]carnasseus, Diodorus Siculus, Hystaspis, Elias Leuita, Epiphanius, Eusebius, Florus, Herodotus, Homer, Iliades Horace, Ierome, Iosephus, Ireneus, Iustin the historiographer,
Iuuenal,
[Page] Massecheth, once faulty for
Halacoth in
Maymony, Nazianzenus, Pausanias, Plato, Plutarch, Polybius, Ptolomy in
Almagesto, Rabbi Abraham, Sadaias, Strabo, Thucidides, Tully, Valerius maximus, Virgil, these be the most names, noted by abbreuiations: other wordes shortly named, by the matter may be gessed at, or be so common, that euery one knoweth them.
Now I wyll returne to speake of the ancient maner of readyng
Moses and the
Prophetes. S.
Iames sheweth
Actes 15, 21. that
Moses was of olde tyme reade in the Synagogue in euery Citie euery Sabbath,
Maymony writeth of that in Volume I.
Birchath Cohenim from Cha. 12. that
Moses ordeyned that custome: and that
Ezra renued it after the returne: and that in his tyme,
The
Rabbines cōmonly make
Ezra the autour of the
Petarothes distinctions: not agreeing vvith
Elias Leuita. (long before
Antioch Epiphanes) Lectiones of the Prophetes were by him chosen out, agreeable in number and matter to the Lectiones in
Moses. They beganin the Feast of Tabernacles, and in a yeere finished all. After the readyng of the Law and the Prophetes, they that woulde, hauing leaue of the ruler of the Synagoge, spake vpon those Scriptures. That we see was reteyned Act. 13, 15. I haue set downe their Sectiones, and Lectiones, as they part
Moses, and haue put forth their
Petaroth at Venice by
Bombergius in one Booke.
1. Samuel. 11, 14. to the 23. ver of the 12. chap.
39
chap. 19, 1.
39
Iudges. 11. to the 34. verse.
40
chap. 22, 2.
40
Micha. 5, 6. to the 9. verse of the 6. chap.
41
chap. 25, 9.
41
1. King. 19, 46. to chap. 20.
42
chap. 30. 2.
42
Ieremiah. chapter 1.
43
chap. 33, 2.
43
Ieremiah. 2. from verse 3. to verse 26.
44
DEVTRON. Cap. 1, 1.
44
Esay. 1. verses 28.
45
Chap. 4, 3.
45
Esay. 40. to verse 25.
46
chap. 7, 12.
46
Esay. 49, verse 15. to the 5. of chap. 51.
47
chap. 11, 26.
47
Esay. 54. from 11. ten verses.
48
chap. 16, 18.
48
Esay. 51. from 12. to 12. of chap. 52.
49
chap. 21, 10.
49
Esay. 60.
50
chap. 26, 1.
50
Esay. 61. from 10. to 10. of chap. 63.
51
chap. 29, 10.
51
Esay. 55. to verse 9. of chap. 56.
52
chap. 31, 1.
52
Hosea. 14. frō verse 2.
53
chap. 32.
53
or Ioel, from ver. 15.
54
54
or Sam. 2. the Psa 18.
As their Leape yeere fell, so they dealt with their three last Lectiōs, accordyng to the number of their Sabbathes: as they did cast their yeere.
The
Ievv that readeth the Section now in the Iewes Synagoge, beginneth with praysing GOD, who chose
Moses and the
Prophetes, and delyghteth in their most true wordes: lykewyse endeth praysing GOD, who speaketh and perfourmeth: sayth and stablisheth: so that no one worde fayleth. Then he prayeth for
ELIAS to come, and for the kingdome of
DAVID in
CHRIST. Yf the Caytifes would reade
Mel
[...]hies last ende, and fyrst oration of the new Testament, and try all the new Testament with the olde, the Gospel with
Moses, the Actes with the Kinges, and the Apocalypse with all, they myght see how
ELIAS, and that kingdome of
DAVID is come: And see that the perfourmauuce which they extoll, is not cleere, without the new Testament. Aud for an exposition of all their expositions, may they vse the oration of the Angel delyuered at their deliuery from
Babylon: Which I wyll translate agreeably to the
Ebrevv, that the Reader may see that, plainely at the first, to which through this Booke he must haue recourse.
Dan 9. 24.
SEAVENTIE SEAVENS (of yeeres) are cut out, for thy people, & for thy holy Citie: to consume wickednes, and to abolysh sinnes, and to make reconciliation for iniquitie, and to bring righteousnes euerlastyng, and to seale Vision and Prophet, and to shew
CHRIST the
HOLY of
HOLY. Know then and marke: from the outgoyng of the Worde, to returne and to buylde
Ierusalem, vnto
CHRIST the gouernour, shalbe seauen seauens (of yeeres) and sixtie and two seauens: in th' other it shalbe restored and buylded, Streete and Wall: and troublous shall these times be. In that after the sixtie & two seauens
CHRIST shalbe killed: and not for him selfe: thereupon the Citie and holy place shall be destroy, the
GOVERNOVRS owne people to come: and their ende shalbe with a Flood: and at the ende of warre, it shall haue a finall iudgement to desolation. But he shall confirme the Testament for many the last Seauen: when in HALFE THAT SEAVEN he shall ende the Sacrifice and Oblation. Afterwardes by an Armie abominable he shall make a desolation: euen tyll vtter destruction and finall iudgement flow vpon the desolate. And this much for the Preface.
THe heauenly Concent of holy Wryters, who haue penned for vs the booke of Trueth, is needefull to be knowen for to strengthen our Fayth, that we may see a constant agreement in seuerall ages,
Ebr. 1, 1. for matters often tolde in diuers partes and maner. Touchyng that, I labour in this Booke to lay downe certayne principall heades drawen through the whole body of Scripture. The beginnyng ought to be from hym who is A and
[...],
Apoc. 1, 8. the beginnyng and the ende: who filleth all with his goodnes. Thereof this is a true saying, and founde intertaynement of all the fayth full that GOD is one, and there is none but he. Of this, that is grauen on the Gate of that fyrst and great Commaundement:
Deut 6, 4. Mark. 12, 29.Heare ISRAFL, IEHOVAH,
our GOD IEHOVAH,
is one. Whom if we loue with all our hart, mynde, soule, and strength: and holde them happy whose
Psal. 33, 12. God
IEHOVAH is, we must learne to know him aright. The name IEHOVAH importeth
BEING, which the Eternal sayth is his name.
1. Iohn. 5, 7. Vnder this name and nature, there be three, the Father, the Worde, and the holy Ghost, and these three are one. The WORDE is the Sonne, and he is
Ramban the Cabalist noteth that
Christ is called
Iehouah, vpon Gen. 34. from Ier. 23 6. and 33, 16. IEHOVAH, as
Iohn Cha. 12, 41. expoundeth
Esay. 6, 9. The holy Ghost is
[...] IEHOVAH, as
Paule expoundeth the same text of
Esay, Acte. 28, 25. This name is opened thus:
[...] WHO WAS, WHO IS, WHO WILBE. The names
IAH, & EHIEH, [...] (I, AM) are of the same force. Though mens blynde hartes can not thus know God: The Scriptures are manifest, that teach the Trinitie, and the holy Tongues of all ages so spake of God. Most playnely is that shewed in the beginnyng & ende of our Lord his preachyng.
Mat. 3 1.
& 28, 19. For that purpose God geueth hym selfe a named
ELOHIM: which is in meanyng MIGHTY,
The forme plural in
Elohim is rightly noted of many learned in Ebrevv, to import the diuine persones, That should not haue been blamed of others. in forme plurall, as Gramarians speake: which as Prophane men speake it, by frame of language soundeth GODDES. God woulde neuer so speake of hym selfe, vnlesse he would haue vs to consider thereby the diuine persons. For the forme were dangerous, if necessitie required not knowledge of distinct diuine persons. The enemies graunt a mystery in that forme, with attributes plurall:
Aben Ezra vpon
Psal. 11. who also citeth
R. Iaphath, there.
This name hath also a forme singular
[...]ELOAH, & a shorter
[...] EL. These formes singular are fit to teach, of the vnitie of Godhead: and lykewyse the other when the attributes speake of one, as
ELOHIM, (GOD) he created. But to manifest distinct persons often do the
[...]earmes ioyned speake in the number of many, as yf I shoulde say THEY God.
The faythles
Iewes can not tel vvhat to say of these playne places, as appeareth in
Massecheth Sopherim, Cha. 4.Gen. 20, 13. They God caused 2.
Sam. 7, 22. They God went.
e SHADDAI also doth God call him selfe
MIGHTY, RICH, or
ALSVFFICIENT: Though the
Greke Diuines reteyne not the letters, but
[...]n a composition
[...].TZVRI SHADDAI, My rocke is God. The Heathen of olde heard of these names, and turned them to sundry Goddes. But
Israel did not so. All faythfull know that GOD is one, and the
[Page] persons three:
Ebr. 11, 6. and that he regardeth all them, that feeke him in spir
[...] and trueth: who is a spirite eternal, infinite, holy, iust, and mercifull. Vnsearchable are his iudgementes:
Iohn. 4, 24. Rom. 11, 33. Deut. 29, 29. Ephes. 2, 4. Act. 15, 18. Exo. 20. but the open thynges are for vs. GOD hath chosen vs in
CHRIST, before the worlde was made: and of eternitie knew all his owne workes. In sixe dayes God made all creatures, Man last, and gaue them a commaundement: which how soone they brake
Moses turneth to tell after mention of the Sabbath. The Lord rested the seauenth day from creatyng, and appoynted that day for holy rest: which the Fathers obserued before
Moses.
Now the man and his wyfe were both naked, & were not ashamed.
Ramban vpon Gen. 26 fol. 46. &
Abenezra vpon. Exo. 20. Psal. 91, 11. Iohn. 8, 44. 1. Iohn. 3, 44. 2. Pet 2, 4. Iud 6. Ephes. 2, 1. Ouer them God gaue his Angels charge: but some Angels stoode not in the trueth, nor kept their standyng, but fell as Starre
[...] from heauen, and became an enemious company, and staunderers of God. In Ebrew Satan, & in the Grake Deuels. Of beastes the Serpent was subtilest: into whom Satan entred: spake to the woman agaynst God, and his commaundement: perswaded her, who drew the man also to breake the commandement. Then they both became dead in sinne. So from the beginning, as sone as man was, Satan was a lyer and a murtherer: and therefore marueyle not that the wrath of God is so vehement vppon
ADAM through al his generatiō:, because quickly sinne was committed to the extremitie. The circumstaunces shew the spedines of it. Satan woulde omit no tyme: the woman if she had ben practised better woulde not so sone haue erred: their speach sheweth that no Fruite had been eaten before. Doubtles the woman fell a Virgin: and yf they had stoode but a short tyme, the blessing of God had not been in vayne for propagation. Aboue all reasones this must be confidered, that the Redemption was to be shewed presently vpon the Creation. For that is the fyttest to mooue men to holde it: and God omitteth nothyng that best helpeth to that. This shoulde moue all men to put no trust in them selues: for that
That in Psal. 49, 20.
is holden of Clem. R. Nathan, R. Menachem,
and Midrad Tillin,
to be spoken of Adam.Adam hauyng once iustice, and true holynes, did not lodge one nyght in honoure, but became lyke the Beastes that perysh. And the lyght that shyneth in darknes, mooued men of all religions to holde this. For this opinion hath been euery where receyued, that they fell the day of their creation. So the
Ievves generally holde. I heard neuer of one that was of an other iudgement: and yet many of them see not how fitly they say, for the Redemption by the seconde
Adam. The Heathen
Bibliander preface in Chro. Christians haue helde this from the beginnyng. The
Gre
[...]et Ireneus, Chryostome, Theodorus, Theophylast, and
Cedrenus age. They haue a common sentence at this day, in speache of
Adam: that in one day he was formed and deformed: by dryuing
out of the Garden. What shoulde I name
Latines, as
Augustine and
Bernarde? the
Euen
Chaucers pardouer. fol 66. They haue strange eares, eyes, & mindes, that holde this
[...] curious or vncertayne poynt. simplest learned this much.
Adam myght better then
Iob curse the day wherein he was made and yet
CHRIST is then promised a Redeemer. Therevpon
Adam nameth the Woman
LIFE: seeying how she redeemed from death shoulde be the mother of Chyldren that by
CHRIST myght lyue for euer. The affections of Chyldren to theyr Mothers should moue them to know the trueth of this poynt. I wyl once againe in fitte place repeate this: and hence to Christ his death wyll by yeeres expresse the direct state of the Worlde, repeatyng these last poyntes
[...] of the speedy fall, and comfortable Redemption.
Adam his yeeres. Adam falleth before the woman is called Eue:
130
Seth borne, Gen. 5, 3. And
Christ is promised a destroyer of the Deuils vvorkes.
235
105
Enos borne. Gen. 5, 6. * Sacrifice is a seale of iustice geuen by fayth. The faythful are called the children of God. Ioh. 2, 12
325
195
90
Kenan borne. Gen. 5, 9.
395
265
160
70
Mahalaleel
B. Gē. 5 * By
Enos birth religion is sorovvfully corrupted, through mariages vvith
Cains house
the seuenth from Adam. Iude
460
330
225
135
65
Iared B. Gē. 5.
622
492
387
297
227
162
Henoch B. Ge. 5
687
557
452
362
292
227
65
Mathuselah borne. Gen. 5, 21.
874
744
639
549
479
414
252
187
Lamech borne. Gen. 5, 25.
930
800
695
605
535
470
308
243
56
Adam dieth. Gen. 5, 5.
987
857
752
662
592
527
365
300
113
Henoch is taken away.
Gen. 5.
1042
912
807
717
647
582
355
168
Seth dieth. Gen. 5, 8.
1056
821
731
661
596
369
182
Noah, B. Gē 5. 29. Tho.
[...]. frō
Adā
1140
905
815
745
680
453
266
84
Enos dieth. Gen 5, 11.
1235
910
840
775
548
361
179
Kenan dieth. Gen. 5, 14.
1290
895
830
603
416
234
Mahalaleel dieth. Gen. 5, 17
1422
962
735
548
366
Iared dieth. Gen. 5, 20.
1536
The pacience of God abode 120 yeres, in vvhich the spirit of Christ preached vvhile the ark vvas in making, to the spirites novv in prison. 1. Pet. 3, 19.
849
662
480
CXX yeeres begin.
Gen. 6
1556
869
682
500
20
Iapheth B. Gen. 5, 32.
1558
871
684
502
22
2
Sem
borne.
1651
964
777
595
115
95
93
Lamech
D
1656
Mathuselah dieth, Gen. 5, 27.
969
600
120
100
98
The flood
Wor.
Noa.
Sem.
Flod.
Mans age is shortened halfe in halfe.
Noah prophesieth blessednes in Christ to
Sem, and
Iapheths, dvveling in Salem. Gen. 9.
1658
602
100
2
Arphaxad borne.
Gen. 11.
1693
637
135
37
35
Selah borne.
Gen. 11.
1723
667
165
67
65
30
Eber B. *
Babel is buylded by the cursse of
Cham,
1757
701
199
101
99
64
34
Peleg B. * the house of
Nimrod. Mich. 5, 6. Seuentie Families are distinguished into 70 languages. Ages borne. agayne halfed.
1787
731
229
131
129
94
64
30
Regu B.
1819
763
261
163
161
126
96
62
32
Serug
B.
1849
793
291
193
191
156
126
92
62
30
Nahor
1878
822
320
222
220
185
155
121
91
59
29
Terah B. Gen. 11, 24.
1996
940
438
340
338
303
273
239
209
177
147
118
Peleg
dieth.
1997
941
439
341
339
304
274
210
178
148
119
Nahor
dieth.
2006
950
448
350
348
313
283
219
187
128
Noah
dieth.
2008
450
352
350
315
285
221
189
130
Abram
borne.
2018
460
362
360
325
295
231
199
140
10
Sarai
borne.
2026
468
370
368
333
303
239
207
148
18
8
Regu
di.
2049
491
393
391
356
326
230
171
41
31
Serug
di
2083
525
427
425
390
360
Terah dieth.
205
75
65
Promise.
Abraham
Mans age the thyrd ☞. World. ☜
time is almost halfed.
Christ.
76
The Promise is geuen, that
CHRIST shoulde be the sonne of
ABRAM after the fleshe.
Gen. 12, 430 yeeres before
the
Lavve. Gala. 3, 17.
SEM in
Canaan called
Melchisedec king of
Salem, a figure
2084
The Lavv vvhich vvas 430 yeeres after,
cannot disanull the couenant, that it shoulde
make the promyse of none effect. Gala. 3, 17.
Senear serueth
Elam: Ellasar & Tidal vvith them fal before
Abrā: so do the same
nations fight & fal by the
Ebrewes. Dā. 7
being 4 troublesome beastes, vvhose Images
77
☞
78
79
80
1840
81
82
2090
After the PROMISE.
Abraham
Isaac
WORLDE.
Ismael
Before the birth of CHRIST.
83
of the son of God, blesseth
Abram. Gen. 14.
HAGAR the bondwomā
an Egyptian, is geuen to
Abram. Gen. 16, 2.
ARPHAXAD dieth being 438
yeeres olde. Gen 11, 13
Iust
Lot fretteth at the vngodly.
The cursse of
Cham vnto
Canaan here beginneth to appeare,
measure for measure: vvho mocked
his Fathers nakednesse: in
vvhose posteritie filthy nakednes
brake out. An ensample of filthynes
punished in euerlastyng fire
is shevved in the destruction of
SODOM &
GOMORA.
ISAAC bor. Gen. 21,
the seuenth
from Eber. They are not
all children that are
Abrahams seede. Ro. 9.
but in Isaac
shall
thy seede be called. Gen. 21.
ISMAEL & Hagar
are cast
out of Abrahams
house. Gen. 21, 14.
As then he that was borne
after the fleshe, persecuted
hym that was after the
spirite: euen so is it now.
But what sayth the Scripture?
Cast out the seruant,
and her sonne,
Gal. 4. 29.
SELAH dieth bieng 433
yeeres olde.
Gen. 11, 15.
ISMAEL hath 12 Dukedomes
in the land of
Cush, in whom
Sem ruleth
Cham. Vnto this time
Ismàelites folowing
Mahomet trouble the
Churches for their Idolatrie,
& are described.
Ap. 9.
For neare
Euphrates: Turkes &
Ismaelites, discōtent with
Iambrel king of
Babel, ioyne
force, & set vpon
EVROPE, then idolatrous.
Cedremus,
Volaterranus.
2901
Rome bears for armes
[...] one,
cutting
Christiās: Ap. 13. as
Cittī should
Eber. Nū. 24.
ISMAEL is borne. Gen. 16.
It is vvritten
Abra. had tvvo
sonnes, one by a seruant, an other
by a free vvoman: these are the
tvvo Testamentes:
Sina &
Ierusalem. Gala. 4, 22.
Fayth vvas imputed to
Abra. vvhen he vvas vncircumcised:
after receiued he the seale of
righteousnes of his former faith,
that he should be the Father of
the beleeuing, circume
[...]sed and
vncirumcised: that righteousnes
myght be
imputed to
them also.
Ro. 4, 11.
ABRAHAM and
Ismael are
both circumcised.
Gen. 17. 16.
Moab & Ammon B. The
childrē of iust
Lot vnavvars.
HERE beginne the first manifest
afflictions of
Abrahams seede, by
Ismael the
Egyptian by
Hagar 400 yeere,
before the commyng from
Egypt. Gen 15, 13. & Act. 7, 6.
400 yeres
Abrahams seede
vvas to be a soiourner in a land
not theirs. that is, not
Egypt only, but also first
Canaan: vnto vvhich in the 4 age
Israel should returne, to holde it
their ovvne. These 4 are
Kohath 1,
Amram 2,
Aaron, 3,
Eleazar 4, vvho parted
the Land. Ios. 14.
Kohath vvas one of the 70, Gen. 46.
he liued 133
[...].
Amrā 137,
Moses 80, vvhē
Israel came
foorth, all is but 350 in extremitie.
VVherefore in
Egypt they coulde not be 400 yeeres.
215 after the comming of
Abraham into
Canaan, but
70 soules of
Abrahās loynes
go into
Egypt. 215 yeeres
after that, 600000 valiant
men come foorth.
84
10
85
86
87
1
88
2
89
3
90
4
1830
91
5
92
2100
6
93
7
94
8
20
95
9
96
10
97
11
98
12
99
13
100
*
14
1820
101
1
15
102
2
2110
16
103
3
*
17
104
4
18
30
105
5
☞
19
106
6
20
107
7
21
108
8
22
109
9
23
110
10
24
111
11
25
1810
112
12
2120
26
113
13
27
114
14
28
40
115
15
29
116
16
30
117
17
31
118
18
32
119
19
33
120
20
‡
34
1800
121
21
35
122
22
2130
36
123
23
37
124
24
38
50
125
25
39
126
26
40
127
27
41
128
28
42
129
29
43
130
30
44
1790
131
31
45
132
32
2140
46
After the PROMISE.
Abraham
Isaac
WORLDE
Ismael
Before the birth of CHRIST.
133
33
ISAAC is bound, & layde
vpon the Alter to be sacrifisced.
Gen. 2, 29.
So Christ
vvas bound. Mar. 15.
SARAH our mother D. being
127 Y. old. Gē. 33, vvhose daughters
the faythful are. 1. Pet. 3, 6
REBECCA is maryed to Isaac Gen. 25. to
Rebecca vvhe
she had conceyued by one, euē our
father
Isaac before the Children
vvere borne: and vvhen they had
done neither good nor euil, it vvas
sayd,
The elder shall serue
the younger. Rom. 9, as it is
vvrittē,
Iacob I haue loued,
Esau I haue hated. Mala. 1.
SEM dyeth beyng 600
yeeres olde.
Gen. 11, 11.
Of him many thinges are
to be said, which are hard
to be vttered, because we
are dull of hearing.
Heb. 5.
GOD vvas not ashamed to be
called the God of Sem.
and Sem
is the first in this honour.
Gen. 9.
IACOB &
Esau are B. Gē. 25
the 22 generation from
Adam, vvhich 22 ages are compared to
the 22 letters of the
Ebrew tongue
Epipha. in
Ancorato the old Testamēt is parted accordingly
into 22 bookes.
Euseb.
Naziā. Iero: the
Apocrypha reiected: vvhich vvere not knovvē
vvhē the
Massorites reckoned
al the letters in the
Prophetes.
Elia. Massoreth.
Iacob toke his brother by the heel
in the vvōbe, & by his strength he
had povver vvith God. Hose. 12, 3.
ABRAHAM dieth at the
age of 175 yeeres.
Gen. 25.
God vvas not ashamed to be
called
Abrahās God. Heb. 11.
EBER dyeth being 464
yeeres olde.
Gen. 11, 17. the
seuenth frō
Enoch: and not
far inferiour to hym in
2141
Abraham shevved his loue in
not sparing his only sonne:
God shevved his loue in not sparyng
his only sonne. Rom. 8, 32.
The only vvoman vvhose vvhole
age is recorded in Scripture.
After
Sarahs death
Abrahā marieth
Keturah: and to his
chyldren by her geueth substance,
and sendeth them forth into the
East.
Suach is of his sonnes, of
vvhom cōmeth
Bildad. Iob. 2.
These families, I thynke,
are tearmed the Children
of the East. Iob. 1.
VVhereas the holy Ghost noteth
Moses d
[...]scription of
Melchisedec: that he hath no mention
of his father nor mother
some thinke that
Melchisedec can not be
Sem: because his father
is mentioned. But they are
deceyued. For it is spoken, not of
the vvhole Scripture: that he
hath no els vvhere a father, but
of that particuler text of
Melchisedec. Gen. 14. Novv vvho
but
Sem shoulde be that most
royal king, king of iustice, sacrificer
to the high God: euen vvhen
Terah had fallen, vvith the
rest to strange gods? vvho should
be lykened to the sonne of God,
and greater then
Abraham, Heb. 7, 7, rather then
Sem, to
vvhom the sonne of God vvas
promised? vvhiche therefore
shoulde be the fyttest to deliuer
the promise to
Abraham. Besides, seeyng that
Iapheths sonnes fetch their religion from
Salem. Actes. 2, vvhom God
vvoulde persvvade to fetch it
from
Sems tentes: vvho should
rule
Salem, vvhere God his
Tabernacle shoulde be Psa. 76,
rather then
Sem? Therefore
tht
Hebrewes hold him
Melchisedec,
47
134
34
☞
48
60
135
35
49
136
36
50
137
37
☞
51
138
38
52
139
39
53
140
40
54
1780
141
41
55
142
42
2150
56
143
43
57
144
44
58
70
145
45
59
146
46
60
147
47
61
148
48
62
149
49
63
150
50
☞
64
1770
151
51
65
152
52
2160
66
153
53
67
154
54
68
80
155
55
69
156
56
70
157
57
71
158
58
72
159
59
73
160
60
74
1760
1
61
75
2
62
2170
76
3
63
77
4
64
78
90
5
65
79
6
66
80
7
67
81
8
68
82
9
69
83
10
70
84
1750
11
71
85
12
72
2180
86
13
73
87
14
74
88
100
15
75
89
16
76
90
17
77
91
18
78
92
19
79
93
20
80
94
1740
21
81
95
22
82
2190
96
After the PROMISE.
Jacob
Isaac
WORLDE.
Ismael
Before our L. Bir. CHRIST.
73
133
though he sought it vvith
teares. For he found not the place
of repentance: but sayde I vvyll
kill my brother.
IACOB goeth to
Laban, he seeth a ladder reach vp
into Heauen, and the Angels
of God ascending &
descending by it.
Gen. 28, 12.
Iacob
fled into Aram
and Israel
serued for a vvife. Hos. 12.
LEAH is geuen to
Iacob in stead of
Rachel for his
wyfe,
Gen. 29, 23.
IVDA is borne. Of him after
Ieroboams vvithdravvyng of
ten tribes, the fathful
Ebrewes as
Mordecai, of
Beniamin, Hest. 2. and
Paul Act. 22,
and all Tribes Rom. 1 are called
Iewes. Saluation commeth of
the
Iewes. Ioh. 4.
Christ is the
Lion of the tribe of
Iuda. Ap. 5.
IACOB goeth from Laban,
he wrestleth with the
Angell, and is called ISRAELL. Gen. 32▪ 28. By his
trength he had povver vvith
God: had povver ouer the Angell:
vvept: & prayed vnto him:
the Lorde God of Hostes is his
strength. Hos. 12, 3.
Iacob the
Aramite peryshing Deut. 26,
bought groūd of
Hamor Ge, 33
that possession
Iacob gaue to his
son
Ioseph: & there vvas
Iacobs vvel. There
Iesus talked
of the mountaines and
Ierusalems vvorshyp: and of the true
vvorshypers. Ioh 4.
IVDA his incest. PHARES
is borne of
Thamar his
daughter in law.
Gen. 38.
Thamar can not be
Sems daughter, for she must be
elder thē
Iacob, if she were.
ISAAC dyeth.
Gen. 35, the
longest lyuer of any since
Terah, that the strength of
2241
Esau
or Edom
his seede hated Iacobs:
vnto Herode
vvho
vvas an Idumean
as Iosephus
vvriteth.
CHRIST shevveth
Nathanael vvho is that Ladder.
Ioh. 1, 51. He founde
Iacob in
Bethel: & there he spoke vvith
vs. Hose. 12, 4.
Iacob vvould be content vvith
meat & clothes So
Paul. 1. Ti. 6
RVBENS prerogatiue in time
turneth to
Rachels sonne, vvhō
Iacob thought he embraced
Gen. 48, 5. and
Ruben is a punishment
to
Iacob for his necligence,
in vsing
Bilhah. Gen. 30
22.
IOSEPH is borne. Gen. 30.
Of Christ God spake by the
mouth of his holy Prophetes,
that the Lorde shoulde aryse
from
Iuda. Ebr. 7, 14.
ESAV terrifieth
Iacob.
BENIAMIN. B. Rachel dieth
at
Bethleem. Ge. 35, 18.
VVhen our Lord is borne there:
and children killed:
Rachel vvil
not be comforted. That is, the
mothers there: afflicted as
Rachel vvas, vvhen she called her
sonne,
Ben-oni her sonne of
sor
[...]vv.
Herod is a nevv
Esau Mat. 2.
IOSEPH is solde for a slaue.
Gen. 37, 2. 28. vvhen he had been
norished 17 yeeres of his Father.
VVhen they thought euill agaynst
hym, God disposed it to good: to
saue much people alyue. Gen. 50,
20. The Patriarkes moued vvith
enuie sold
Ioseph into
Egypt. But
God vvas vvith him: and
deliuered him out of all his troubles.
Act. 7. They helde his feet
[...] in the stockes, the counsel of the
Lord tryed hym. Psal. 105, 18
IOSEPH expoundeth
Pharaohs Dreame. Gen. 41. 4
[...].
74
134
75
135
160
76
136
77
137
☞
78
138
79
139
80
140
1680
81
141
82
142
2250
83
143
84
144
☞
170
85
145
86
146
87
147
88
148
89
149
90
150
1670
91
151
92
152
2260
1
93
153
2
94
154
☞
3
180
95
155
4
96
156
5
97
157
6
98
158
7
99
159
8
100
160
9
1660
101
161
10
102
162
2270
11
103
163
12
104
164
13
190
105
165
14
106
166
15
107
167
16
108
168
17
109
169
18
110
170
19
1650
111
171
20
112
172
2280
21
113
173
22
114
174
23
200
115
175
24
116
176
25
117
177
26
118
178
27
119
179
28
120
180
29
1640
121
30
122
2290
31
After the PROMISE.
Jacob
Isaac
WORLDE.
Ismael
Before our L. Bir. CHRIST.
23
83
godlines. He was the longest
lyuer of all that was
borne after the Floodde,
and none after BABELS
buylding exceeded much
halfe his yeeres, for
Peleg the longest had but 239
yeeres.
Gen. 11, 19.
He vvas a great Prophet foretellyng
the diuision of Tongues.
Ebers name continued in
Abrahams faythfull posteritie:
vvho vvere called of
Eber, Ebrewes.
Adams language remained
vvith them vnto the last
Prophetes: though neare lost in
Babel.
ESAV taketh his wiues of
Canaan. Gen. 25, 34.
&. 26, 46.
Which were a griefe to
Rebecca: & displeased
Isaac, therefore went
Esau to
Ismael, & tooke his daughter
Maalath to wyfe.
Gen. 28, 8.
ESAV solde his byrthright
for a messe os red Pottage,
therefore was his name
called
EDOM. Gen. 25, 30.
LET no man be prophane as
Esau vvas, vvho for a portion of
meate solde his Byrthright.
Hebr. 12, 16.
OF
Esau, eyght Kinges successiuely,
& after that many Dukes
togeather ruled: before
Moses vvas king in
Israel Gen. 36.
GOD gaue to
Esau the lande of
Seyr Gen. 36, and by his svvord
did he liue. Gen. 27, 4.
ISMAEL dyeth beyng 137
yeeres olde. Gen. 25, 17. The
onely vvicked vvhose vvhole
age is recorded in the Lavv.
IACOB stealeth the blessing
from
Esau, who shall
in tyme breake the yoke.
Gen. 27.
VVhen
Esau vvould haue inherited
the blessing he vvas reiected:
2191
the vsuall iudgement
of the
Latines, and the auncient
English vvriters doth so.
The
Grecians fyrst resisted,
being deceyued by their Translation
700 yeeres, betvveene
Arpharads byrth and
Abrahams: vvhich Trnslation for
a close purpose differed from the
Hebrewe, vvhereof to speake
it vvoulde be a long and an hard
speach.
Though many hold that
Abraham bre the name
Ebrew, not of
Eber, but of passing ouer
Euphrates: of vvhich opinion
the
Greke translators are: yet
that cannot I allovve, for these
causes: An action common to many,
as to change
Soile ouer
Euphrates: should not sone geue a
proper name. Besides a trop
[...] should not be sought: vvhen proprietie
standeth vvell enough
Moreouer: these tvvo texts conclude
playne:
SEM was the
Father of all the sonnes of
EBER. Gen. to.
CITTIM
shall afflicte ASSVR, and
EBER. Nū. 24. Here
Moses calleth
Israel to consider
Sem: and to remember them selues named
of
Eber. If the
Iewes had
considered
Sem and
Heber. hovv glorious they vvere: before
Abraham had circumcision:
the Epistle to the
Ebrewes vvould haue persvvaded them to
leaue
Abrahams ceremonies:
vvhen
Christe had confirmed
the couenaunt for
Many D
[...]. 9
as vvell as for
Abrahams seede Psal. 105, Beyng a sacrificer
for euer, after the order of
Melchisedec: to vvhom all
Famylies, before
Abraham vvas, myght haue accesse.
97
24
84
98
110
25
85
99
26
86
100
27
87
101
28
88
102
29
89
103
30
90
104
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91
105
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92
2200
106
33
93
107
34
94
108
120
35
95
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109
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96
110
37
97
111
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98
112
39
99
113
40
100
114
1720
41
101
115
42
102
2210
116
43
103
117
44
104
118
130
45
105
119
46
106
120
47
107
‡
121
48
108
122
49
109
123
50
110
124
1710
51
111
125
52
112
2220
126
53
113
127
54
114
128
140
55
115
129
56
116
130
57
117
131
58
118
132
59
119
133
60
120
134
1700
61
121
135
62
122
2230
136
63
123
☞
☜
137
64
124
150
65
125
66
126
67
127
‡
68
128
69
129
70
130
1690
71
131
72
132
2240
After the PROMISE
Jacob
WORLDE.
Joseph
Before the birth of CHRIST.
123
the promise might appere:
Iob is much in his case, who
being broken with sorow,
yet is restored to longer
lyfe of 140 yeeres.
Iob. 42, 6
The famine beginneth through all
the earth. Gen. 41, 54.
&. 45, 6.
IACOB goeth into
Egypt. Gen. 47, vvith 70 soules. Deut.
10, 22. The
Greke translatours
borovv fiue more frō the
Chronicles: namely
Suthelah and
Tahan, Ephraims sons: and
Edē a nephevv. To
Manasse,
Machir a sou, &
Galead a
nephevve: to shevve hovv
Ioseph savv his children to the
[...] age. Gen. 50.
S. Luke folovveth
that. Act. 7. but fevv haue marked
it, vvhereby most thought the
text coroupted.
17 Y.
Iacob is kept by
Ioseph that shepheard: feeding
Israel as
meate is put into a babes mouth.
IACOB dyeth in
Egypt, in his last vvyll he foretelleth
his sonnes of their estate,
tearmyng them by sundry notes,
& proph
[...]sieth of
Siloh: vvhich
is
CHRIST. Gen. 49, to.
Iudah hath the prerogatiue, and is
preferred before al the Tribes for
gonernemēt, therefore the
Maccabees vvere to blame to make
Kinges of their families. their
punishmēt vvas to be
Saduces: and to be ouerthro vven by
Antipater their ovvne seruant, &
his posteritie the
Herods. Iacobs vvill is an abridgement
of his sonnes euentes: vvho speaking
of
Baracks victorie vnder
Naphtali: VVhy should he
omit
Tobi, yf his matters had
been true? or
Iudith vnder
Symeon, vvhom he curseth for
that cause, For vvhich
Iudith blesseth him?
Beniamin in
Mordecai, and
Hester, is
famous: vvho saued the
Iewes
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Compare
Ioseph vvith
Daniel. Both in holde, shevve skil of
dreames: both their kings after 2
yeeres dreame: both their Magitians
can say nothing: both they in
haste are brought to their kinges:
both are demanded of their skill:
both say it is not in their vvisdōe:
but
God by thē vvil shevv it to
their kinges: both thereupō ruled
those kingdōes: both vvere before
hand sent of
God for the comfort
of their brethren that should
come after, to those countreys.
Ioseph Iacobs sonne feedeth
Iesus our Lorde an infant in
Egypt Math. 2. Thither
Abraham vvent: thither
Iacob to
Ioseph: and the Lord vvent
vvith him. Thither vvent
Ioseph the son of
Iacob: & t
[...]ke
our
L. vvith him. VVhen
Israel vvas a child I loued him, & called
my son out of
Egypt Hos. 11
TO
IACOB the vvorldes age
is reckoned by 22 perticuler
men, vvhiche are that to the
Chronicle: that the 22
Ebrew letters are to the language.
Aftervvarde by greater
summe
[...] the bandes of times doth
God tie: But the knots are no
lesse famous nor no lesse certaine,
vntyl the Lorde: death, then the
accomptes dependyng vpon these
perticuler mens ages.
VVhen
Iosephs brethren savv
that thier Father vvas dead, they
sayd, forgeue the trespasse of the
seruantes of thy fathers God. Thy
Father commaunded before his
death, saying Forgeue the trespas
of thy brethren. To vvhom
Ioseph sayd: Feare not: for am I to
you like
God? I may not hurt
you vvhose doinges
God ruled
to common good. And he
comforted them, & spake kindly
vnto thē. Gen. 50. If ye do forgeue
men their trespasses. your heuenly
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34
126
35
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2300
41
133
42
134
43
220
135
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45
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46
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47
139
48
140
49
1620
141
50
142
2310
51
143
52
144
☞
53
230
145
54
146
55
147
☞
56
57
58
59
1610
60
2320
61
62
63
240
64
65
66
67
68
69
1600
70
2330
71
72
73
250
74
75
76
77
78
79
1590
80
2340
81
After the PROMISE.
WORLDE.
Joseph
Before the birth of CHRIST.
from the
Heathen: Also in
Paul: and his systers sonne, to
vvhom all the vvorlde is beholden,
vvho by an Heathen saued
Paul from the
Iewes. Andronicus,
Iunias, &
Herodion, are also in the euenyng of
tymes noble deuiders of spoyles
agaynst
Satan. Rom. 16, 7.
SAMSON of
Dan, is to the
Philistines a Serpent by the
vvay, an Adder by the path: byting
the Horse heeles, so that his
rider shall fall back vvarde.
Ioseph is a fruiteful bough: tvvo
boughes: vvhereof ech do reach
vnto the vvall: By reason of
Manasses and
Ephraim: vvho not only make tvvo Tribes,
vvherby they had officers double,
and authoritie according: but also
encreased so in number, that
Ephraī ouermatched sōe vvhole
Tribe and thereafter had his portion
of the
Holy land. Compare
vvith this
Iacobs speache, the
blessing vvhervvith
Moses blesseth
the chyldren of
Israel, vvho
speaking of
Iosephs tvvo sons,
as tvvo Tribes: omitteth
Symeō: because more thē tvvelue,
neyther he nor any Prophet reckoneth
together.
Symeon for
euyl behauiour at that time vvas
vvorthiest to be vnnamed. Aftervvardes
Dan deserued most
contempt, that first brought in Idolatrie.
VVhē tvvelue Tribes be
reckoned in Ap. 7, vvherof tvvo
are for
Ioseph, that more thē 12
shoulde not be reckoned,
Dan is
left out, in detestation of his Idolatrie.
VVherefore some thought,
that the
Antichrist shoulde
come of
Dan. In trueth he follovveth
that Idolatrie, & by imtation
is his sonne, but in proprietie
Abaddon Ap. 9, is of
Cittim or
Italy, Nū. 24, called
in Ebrevv
Adey-obed. VVho
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father vvil also forgeue your trespasses.
But if you do not forgeue
men their trespasses, no more vvil
your Father forgeue your trespasses.
Iesus praide for thē that crucified
hym,
Father forgeue
them: for they knowe not
what they do. Luk. 23, 34
VVhen they heard
Peter, they
vvere pricked: and gladly receyued
his vvordes and vvere
baptised: and the same day there
vvere added 3000 soules. Act. 2
Steuen prayed for them that
stoned him:
Lord lay not this
sinne to their charge. Act. 7.
And
Paul cōsented to his death:
and breathed threatninges against
the brethren, yet the lyght of the
Lord shined about him: & cōuerted
him, & he preached
Christ. Act. 9.
Forgeue ye one an
other, as God
in Christ
forgaue
you. Eph. 4.
HEZRON. 1.
Chro. 2, 5.
IOSEPH dyeth in
Egypt. being 110 Y. olde. Gen. 50, 26.
By Fayth
Ioseph vvhen he died,
made mention of the departyng
of the Chyldren of
Israel, and gaue commaundement of his
bones Heb. 12, 22. His bones vvere
buried in the lande of Promyse.
The Fathers also vvere remoued
into
Sychem, and vvere put in
the Sepulchers that vvas bought
for money of
Hamor the
Sychemite. Act. 7, 16. The archers
greeued
Ioseph, and shot,
& hated him. His Bovve abode
in strength, and his armes had a
golden might: through the God
of
Iacob vvhence he fed: from
the stone of
Israel The blessinges
of
Iacob vvere stronger then the
blessinges of his fathers. Gen. 49.
82
83
260
84
85
86
87
88
89
1580
90
2350
91
92
93
270
94
95
96
97
98
99
1570
100
2360
101
102
103
280
104
105
106
‡
107
108
109
1560
110
2370
290
1550
2380
300
1540
2390
After the PROMISE.
Moses
WORLDE.
Before the birth of CHRIST.
shall perishe in the ende: at our
Lordes appearyng. 2. Thess. 2.
AS
Christ is the chiefest of
Eber, vvhen at his birth
Cittim in
Augustus afflicted,
compelling
Ioseph and
Mary to repayre to their ovvne to vvne
to be taxed: and vnder
Tiberius crucified, euen the King of
glory: Reason vvoulde that the
Kingdome by vvhich the
Lord vvas killed, should be continually
punished, both vvith manifest
and spirituall Plagues. The Empire
of
Rome, both by
Paul, &
by the
Apocalyps, is discouered
to afforde Emperours open
enemies. And after their destruction,
a company making the
corporation of the man of sinne,
pretēding the povver of
Christ, & hauing hornes like the lambes:
yet practising the beastly Emperours
povver: being
Adonikam, standing vp as if he vvere
God. Ezra. 2, 13. Apoc. 13.
VVherefore let none dreame that
he riseth frō
Dan: vvhose Tribe
vvas skattered a thousand yeeres
before the
Popes supremacie.
None of Israel
forsake the
idolles of Egypt. Ezek. 20.
Therefore God geueth ouer
their children to the
sworde. Exod. 1.
This is the
only time since the Flood:
that Satā
might with most
liklihood brag that he had
ouercōe the whole earth.
Satan, the accuser of the brethrē
Iob. 1. Apo. 12. goeth abont seeking
vvhom he may deuoure. 1. Pet. 5.
MOSES is borne. Ex
[...]. 2, 2.
The 7
generation from ABRAHAM,
a newe HENOCH,
buried of God: a
new NOAH:
saued in the
Arke 120
yeeres a preachyng
to the worlde, and
euer afterwardes.
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GENESIS endeth in
Ioseph, conteynyng yeeres 2369. The
Booke of
Iob, though it vvas
vvritten after
Moses death: yet
in order of tyme falleth out before
Exodus. But
Moses vvas
to handle
Abrahams blessing in
Isaac and
Iacob: of vvhom our
LORD descendeth after the
flesh. And not the other families
of
Abrahams seede by
Keturah. Neuerthelesse vvhere as
God geueth
Abraham a testimonie
of carefulnes in teaching
his house. It vvas good for vs, to
haue holy monumentes to register
their religion: That doth the booke
of
Iob afforde in 23 vvyse orations.
VVhereupon the
Lord him
selfe cōmeth moderator of the disputatiō.
In the nevv
Testamēt their speaches be often cited to
most vveighty purposes: and the
vvhole booke is a diuine commentarie
vpon
Genesis.
The chyldren of
Israel filled the
land, and a nevv King arose that
knevv not
Ioseph, vvho vexed
thē, and caused them to serue, and
cōmaunded the Midvviues to kil
the male children: and vvhē thus
he profited nothing, he charged
his people to cast euery man child
that sholde be borne into the
Riuer.
SATAN compasseth all
the Earth. IOB in the land
of
Hus is sure that his redeemer
liueth, and that he
shal stande the latter man
vpon the earth.
Iob. 19, 25.
IOB is of
Abraham by
Keturah: as may be gathered.
He can not be
I
[...]bab, who
died some ages before
Moses was king in Israell. He
is sayde to be the rychest
of the sonnes of the East:
by which name the kinred
of
Madian is tearmed.
Ind. 6
310
1530
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1520
2410
330
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1510
2420
‡
340
‡
1500
2430
350
1
2
3
4
5
1490
6
7
2440
After the PROMISE.
Moses
WORLDE.
Hosea
Before the birth of CHRIST.
8
Moses first receiued & vvrote
diuinitie, vvith propheticall authoritie.
The booke of the Lords
vvarres: in
Sichons victorie
Nō 21, 14. vvas after the Lavv:
and vvas some song made by
Sichons fauourers: yet true for an
open action: & vvorthy citing: as
Aratus Act. 17.
Menander 1. Cor. 15.
Epimenides. Tit. 1.
Enoch his testimony, vvhich S.
Iude eiteth, is not frō a more anciant
thē
Moses: but as the doctors
of
Iuda did frame for
Enoch a
long speach frō those short sayinges
that
Moses vvriteth of
Enoch. The like they at this day
haue, for
Satan disputing at
Moses buriall: as S.
Iude folovveth.
HOSEA doth
Moses call
Iesus, foreseeyng that he
shoulde bryng the people
into the land: & not him
selfe. As
IESVS CHRIST, not
Moses [...]awe of vs vnperformeable,
bringeth vs
into the eternal rest. Nō. 13
Hosea
vvas far frō couetousnes.
Ios. 19.
To him Christ
said,
Ios. 1. I wil not leaue thee,
nor forsak thee.
To vs. Eb. 12
MOSES visiteth his breathren.
Act. 7, 23.
BY fayth
Moses, when he
was come to age, refused
to be called the sonne of
Pharaohs daughter, & chose
rather to suffer aduersitie
with the people of God,
thē to enioy the pleasures
of finne for a season, esteeming
the rebuke of
Christ greater ryches then the
treasures of
Egypt: for he
had respecte vnto the recompence
of the reward
Heb. 11, 24.
MOSES was faythfull in
all his house as a seruant.
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he called
Bildad of
Suach Abrahams sonne, with the other
disputers, his brethrē.
Though
Eliphaz be of
Esau, and
Elihu of
Nahor, yet
Iob must far rather be of
Keturah, and a token of Gods
testimonie to
Abraham for
instructing his posteritie.
ELIPHAZ Iobs
felovv, is
a Temanite:
of Teman,
of Eliphaz,
of Esau,
of Isaac,
of Abraham:
about the seuenth
frō Abrahā:
elder then Iobs
father, if he speake of him selfe.
Iob. 15.
by vvhose age vve must
conclude that Iob
cānot be many
ages before Moses,
the seuenth
in an other line from Abrahā.
HOSEA is born, the seuenth
frō blessed
Ephraim.
Thus his byrth tyme is gathered.
All the particulers of 480
Y. in 1.
King. 6.
are noted, sauing 17
for Hosea: 110
frō the end of
that he vvas borne. For so long he
lyued. So long lyued lykevvyse Ioseph.
The equalitie of age,
dravveth vs to vveigh the equalitie
of the personages.
Moab droue out the Gyants
Emims: and
Ammon the
Zamzūmims Deu. 2.
Sems God not
Camos did this.
CALEB, B. in Eg. Aram, & Aminadab,
D. Naassō, & Salmō B.
MOSES age vvhen he killeth
the
Egyptian, is recorded of S.
Steuen to be 40 yeeres. And
of most lykelyhood so holden of the
Ebrewes in that tyme: othervvyse
the holy man vvoulde not
haue troubled men, and aduersaries
vvith a nevv matter: yet the
later
Ebrewes of purpose differ,
taking heede least they agree
vvith vs, vvhere soeuer vve haue
not expres vvords. But the cause
it selfe may vrge thē, seeyng God
in his gouernement vseth most
9
360
10
11
12
13
14
15
1480
16
17
2450
18
19
370
20
21
22
23
24
25
1470
26
27
2460
28
‡
☜
1
29
2
380
30
3
31
4
32
5
33
6
34
7
35
8
1460
36
9
37
2470
10
38
11
39
12
390
40
13
41
14
42
‡
15
43
16
44
17
45
18
1450
46
19
47
2480
20
48
21
49
22
400
50
23
51
24
52
25
53
26
54
27
55
28
1440
56
29
57
2490
30
After the PROMISE.
Moses
Egypt
WORLDE.
Hosea
Before our L. bir
[...]. CHRIST.
58
But
CHRIST is
GOD, who
made al.
Nō. 12.
Eb. 3.
MOSES saw
Christ the Angell, the
God of
Abrahā, Isaac, &
Iacob, in the bush.
Ex. 3.
Deu. 33.
MOSES taught that
Christe shoulde suffer by death to
ouercōe death.
Eb. 2. Death
reigned frō
Adam to Moses,
Rom. 5. He that beleeueth
not
Moses, will not beleeue
though one should rise frō
the dead.
Luk. 16. But whē
Moses is read a couering lieth
vpon the
Ievves hartes.
2.
Cor. 3, 14.
Of Christ
God
spake to Moses: I sende my
Angell before thee: My
name is in him.
Exod. 23, 20.
He is the ingraued forme
of Gods person.
Ebr. 1, 3.
Iannes & lamb. cause to plagues. MOSES brīgeth
Israel out
of
Egypt, by the blood of a
Lambe
Exod. 12, 42. figuring
the
Lambe of GOD, which
taketh away the sinnes of
the worlde.
Iohn: 1, 29.
The Law was geuen by
Moses, but grace and trueth
came by
Iesus Christ. Ioh. 1, 17
Nisan
the 7,
is hence the first. The Fathers were al baptized
vnto
Moses, in that
cloude, and in that Sea: &
did al eate the same spirituall
meate, and did all
drinke the same spirituall
drinke: for they dranke of
the spiritual
Rocke that folowed
them: & the
Rocke was
CHRIST. 1
Cor. 10, 2, 3.
The Fathers did eate
Manna, a spirituall meate,
bread frō Heauen: the Father
geueth the true bread
from Heauen, and geueth
lyfe vnto the worlde.
IESVS is the bread of
lyfe.
Ioh. 6, 31.
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playne numbers in mens ages and
yeeres most fit for the affayres.
This busines required the countenaunce
of a stayed age, to make
an agreement ber vvene striuers.
The peregrinatiō of the childrē
of
Israel vvhich vvere soiourners
in
Egypt, vvas 430 Y.
Those being expired, the selfe
same day they departed. Ex 12. 40
Chams sonnesdelt vvith them
as the Kites vvoulde haue done
vvith the carkeises of
Abrahams sacrifices: but God iudged
the nation, and brought
Israel foorth vvith great substaunce:
as Gen. 15, 14. There vvas not
one feeble persō among thē: vvho
vvere aboue sixe hūdred thousād
men, besides vvomen & children.
Leui his sonnes, their atyre, the
Tabernacle, vvith Arke, Table,
Altars, Candlesticke sacrifices,
these vvere a shadovv & should
cease frō vse at
Christs death.
Moses telleth that vvhen they
are to come frō
Babylon, God
vvil remember them of that to be
his couenaunt. Leu. 26, 42. That
falleth out in
Daniel Dā. 9, 24.
Then they might knovv the very
houre of the ceremonies ended:
Christ the body entring into the
most holy, euen the heauens. Eb. 9.
Rome is called
Egypt. Ap. 11
RACHAB borne.
SICHON taketh Cities from
Vaheb K. of
Moab. Nō. 21.
that
Israel might take them frō
Sichō. othervvise
Israel might
not medle vvith
Moab. Deu. 2.
Moses calleth humane testimonies
for these vvars, takē in hand
by a speciall purpose of God, the
booke of the vvars of
Iehouah. Mans age is brought to 70 yeres,
Psa. 90. vpon the misbelefe of the
ten spies, and the people the seconde
yeere. Nō. 13. Then vvas
Caleb 40 yeere olde.
31
59
32
410
60
33
61
34
62
35
63
36
64
37
65
38
1430
66
39
67
2500
40
68
41
69
42
420
70
43
71
44
72
45
73
46
74
47
75
48
1420
76
49
77
2510
50
78
51
79
52
430
80
*
53
Exod. 12, 41. Since the cōming frō Egypt.
81
1
54
82
2
55
83
3
56
84
4
57
85
5
58
1410
86
6
59
87
7
2520
60
88
8
61
89
9
*
62
90
10
63
91
11
64
92
12
65
93
13
‡
66
94
14
‡
67
95
15
68
1300
96
16
69
97
17
2530
70
98
18
71
99
19
72
20
100
20
73
101
21
74
102
22
75
103
23
76
104
24
77
105
25
78
1390
106
26
79
107
27
2540
80
Since the cōming from EGYPT.
Moses
Egypt
WORLDE.
Hosea
Before the birth of CHRIST.
108
28
As
Moses lyft vp the
Serpent in the Wildernes, so must
the
Sonne of man be lyft
vp.
Ioh. 3, 14.
NAASSON dieth.
Balaam speaketh of
Christ: his Starre: his Scepter. Nō. 24.
The 40 y. in the vvildernes, is
named in Ex. 16. No. 14. Deu. 1.
Ios. 5. Ne. 9. Psa. 95. Act. 13.
By fayth
Phinehas stayed the
Plague. He begat
Ezra. Ez. 7.
MOSES dieth. Deut. 34.
HOSEA, Ioshua,
or Iesus
of Ephraim,
ruleth 17
Y. and
executeth the cursse Gen. 9.
making Caanā
a seruant to Sem. The Sunne stayed. Hab. 3.
The Sun lost his lyght. Mat. 27.
THE seuenth yeere the Lande
shall rest. Leui. 25.
YF Iesus had setled the people
in rest, then vvould not
Dauid after this, haue spoken of an other
rest. VVe haue a great Sacrificer,
vvhich is entred into heauen,
euen
Iesus the sonne of
God: Let vs study to enter
into that rest. Heb. 4, 8.
IESVS dieth 110
Y. olde.
OTHONIEL of Iuda
iudgeth Israel 40
Y. Iud 3, 11
40 Yeeres after the death of
Iesus, Othoniel iudgeth and
reuēgeth the cause of
Israel: as
a rare Captaine: not as a cōtinual
officer. The high coūsel & ordinary
officers vver to rule. vvherof
Otho. might be a special mā.
OTHONIEL
the vanquisher
of Chusan
sheweth in good
part that Iudah
is a Lyon
for Shiloh:
whom they obeyed
not, nor droue out
the Heathen as Christ
that Shiloh
cōmaunded thē, but
learned of the Heathens
workes, and serued theyr
Idols, which were their
ruine. Psal. 106, 34.
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BALAAM speaketh of destruction
to
Amalek, Edom.
Moab, Assur Cittim in the
end OBED, cōming to destructiō.
By
Cittim afflicting
Heber, vvhose chiefe son
Christ vvas:
he meaneth chiefly
Italy: vvhose
first name vvas
Cittim. VVith
this agreeth
Ierom. The
Hebrewes,
Onkelos, Iarchi,
Ezra, Sadaiah, Isaac, Rambā,
Bochai: vvho saith: he sealeth
his prophecie in
Abaddon
Cittī: vvhich is the povver of
Rome &c. as
Paul doth. 2. Th.
and Ap. 9. in
Abaddō, &. 17.
Balaam taught of a Beast:
myght teach that Beast. Ap. 11.
vvho is that bad
Abaddon. CALEB is 85 Y. olde. Ios. 14.
IVBILEES BEGIN.
Thou shalt number seuen
Sabbaths of yeeres vnto
thee, euen 7 times 7 yeres:
and the space of the 7 sabbaths
of yeeres wilbe 49
yeeres. Then thou shalt
cause to blow the Trumpet
of the
Iubilee in the 10
day, the 7 moneth: euen in
the day of the reconciliation
shal ye make the trū pet
to blow, throughout
al your lande. And ye shal
hallowe that yeere, euen
the 50 yeere, & shall proclayme
libertie in the land
to all the inhabitaunts
thereof: It shall be the
Iubilee vnto you, and ye shal
returne euery man to his
possessiō, & to his familie.
For it is the
Iubilee, & shall
be holy vnto you.
Leu. 25.
Seeyng euery promise of
God in
Christ is
yea and
amen, the
Iubilee must be referred to
Christ his death, sealing euery
phrophesie. Dan. 9. Therfore men
are bound to marke the due accompt
81
109
29
82
30
110
30
83
111
31
84
112
32
‡
85
113
33
☞
86
114
34
87
115
35
88
1380
116
36
89
117
37
2550
90
118
38
91
119
39
92
40
120
40
93
1
94
2
95
3
96
4
97
5
98
1370
6
99
7
2560
100
8
101
9
102
50
10
103
11
104
12
105
13
106
14
107
Rest.
15
108
1360
16
109
☞
17
2570
☜
110
1
2
60
3
4
Rest.
5
6
7
8
1350
9
10
2580
11
Rest
12
70
13
14
15
16
17
18
1340
19
20
2590
Since the cōmyng from EGYPT.
Othoniel
Ehud
WORLDE.
Chushan
Before the birth of CHRIST.
21
*
BY this time the elders are
dead in 42 yeres after the
conquest. Here aboutes
Moses house bringeth in Idolatrie:
for
Ionathan the
Nephew of
Gerson the son
of
Manasses was Priest to
the tribe of
Dan, vntill the
transmigratiō of the land.
That is, while the Arke
was in
Silo Iud. 18, 30.
IN this age, though
Phinehas were yet aliue, they knew
not God.
Iud. 20.
Gibeah destroyed
65000. They folowed
Baalim. God solde
them to their enemies.
SALMON begat
Booz of
Rachab, now holy.
Eb. 11.
S. Mat.
citeth cōmon recordes. EHVD of
Beniamin a man
lame of his right hande,
iudgeth
Israel. 80 yeeres
Iud. 3, 30.
DO not thynke that
Ehud ruled 80 yeeres, for so you should
deceiue your selfe. Since the shortenyng
of mans age to 70 or 80
yeeres: none in Scripture is recorded
to haue ruled any thyng
neare 80 yeeres.
Iosepth in
Egypt vvas the last in all the
Scripture that bare rule so long a
season. But after the fourtie
yeeres mentioned vnder
Othoniel, it vvas 80 yeeres to the
ende of
Ehuds affayres.
IVDA and
Beniamin hauing
the fyrst glory in defenders,
Othoniel and
Ehud reuiue
the memory of
Iacobs last speche, wherein they
two are shewed to be the
holders of their soyle, as a
Lion, and a
VVolfe: vntyll
Shiloh come, euen to the
euenyng.
Gen. 49.
BENIAMIN had neede of
great comfort: after their great
slaughter at
Gibeah. They
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of
Iubilees beginning: &
to ioyne the last to the L. death.
The
Ebrewes red
Moses for
Ma
nases lifting
na, to
shevv
Gerson Moses son:
& their quicke deadly fall:
S.
Ierome reuerenced that:
& layeth do vvne there
Moses for
Manases, Marke
the
Ebrewe in
Venice Print: and
Ieroms translation
there. Iud. 15, 30.
CHVSAN risathaim
king of
Aram-naharaim oppresseth
Israel 8 yeeres.
Iud. 3, 8.
Because of sinne I saw the
tentes of
Chusan. Hab. 3.
IN the
Iubilee they returne
to their possessions: by ouercommyng
Chusan. Here
the Ceremonie and the
Historie agreeth.
Likewise in the seuenth, vvhē
Samuel ruleth: and in the 28
vvhen our
Lord dieth. Then
vve returne to open recouerie of
Paradise: from vvhiche ADAM
vvas driuen Luk. 23, 43.
Then vvas a resurrection for
some turned once to dust: and
that vvas a vvonderful yeere:
a tyme vvhich the Lorde had
made. The
Iewes vpon Leu. 25.
vvrite of singuler blessinges for
that yeere vvhich fall out in the
yeere vvherein our
Lord died.
in most strange & heauenly sort.
Then the
Lord hauyng ouercome
death, vvas seene 40 dayes:
and of 500 breathren at once:
but neuer of any vvickedmen: to
vvhom the resurrection turneth
not to glory & ioy, but to shāe &
vvoofulnes euerlasting. 1 Cor. 15.
Esay teachyng of
Christ shevveth
the notation of his name:
and contriueth all to
Christ his
death, saying:
The spirite of
22
80
23
24
25
26
27
28
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1330
29
30
2600
31
Rest.
32
*
90
33
1
34
2
35
3
36
4
37
5
38
‡
6
1320
Rest
39
7
IVB.
40
2610
8
1
1
2
100
3
4
5
Rest
6
7
8
1310
9
10
2620
11
12
110
13
14
15
16
17
18
1300
19
20
2630
Rest.
21
22
120
23
24
25
26
27
Rest.
28
1290
29
30
2640
Since the comming from EGYPT.
Ehud
WORLDE.
Eglon
Before the birth of CHRIST.
31
vvere then so actiue, that left
handed they coulde sling stones at
an heares breadth, and not fayle.
Iud. 20, 16. God deliuereth them
by one of
Beniamin lame of
his right hand.
NOTE for
Salmon, Booz,
Obed, and
Iesse, that they beget
their sonnes being each one about
Abrahams yeeres vvhen
he begate
Isaac. This mooued
them to thynke vpon some speciall
grace of God: though they
had not since
Iudah Gen. 49.
vnto
Dauid 2. Sa. 7. a distinct
persōnamed, of vvhō our
Lord after the fleshe shoulde aryse.
For theyr foure ages, vve haue
eyghteene from
Korah to
Samuels sonnes. Marke hovve
Samuel cōmeth of
Korah. IN this order. 1, is
Korah, 2
Assir, 3
Elkanah, 4
Ebiasaph, 5
Assir, 6
Tachath, 7
Vriel, 8
Vziah, 9
Saul, 10
Elkanah, 11
Amasai, 12
Tzophai, 13
Nachath, 14
Eliab, 15
Ierocham, 16
Elkanah, 17
Samuel, the 18,
Vasni or
Ioel. 1. Chr. 6.
Note that the congregation gate
them avvay from the Tabernaels
of
Korah, Dathan, and
Abiram. And the earth svvallovved
them vp, vvith their
Families, and all the men that
vvere vvith
Korah. Nom. 16,
27. But the sonnes of
Korah dyed not. Nom. 26, 11. Therefore
they fledde from their Father to
Moses. Of them commeth
Samuel: and the makers of certayne
Psalmes, all of comfort.
Israel is steyned vvith their
vvorkes. Their foes
Moab. &
Amalek Nō. 25. Iud. 3. Ex. 17.
are Lordes ouer them, yet God
vvhen they vvere in affliction
hard their cry: and remembred
his couenant. Psal. 106, 39.
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the Lord God is vpō me,
thereforc hath the Lorde
annoynted me: he hath
sent me to preache good
tidinges vnto the poore,
to bynde vp the broken
harted, to preach libertie
to the captiues, and to thē
that are bound, the openening
of the prison, to
preache the acceptable
yeere of the Lord. Isa. 61.
THE
Lord shevveth in
Nazareth hovv he then preaching
of the acceptable yeere of the
Lord: did performe that in their
hearng. And as for preaching the
doctrine of
saluatiō, the
most
holy vvas to be killed: euen of
his ovvne: vvho vvoulde not
knovv him: so they of
Nazareth shevved presently their
inclination: vvho bearyng vvitnesse
to his gracious vvordes,
led hym to an hill to cast hym
dov vne headlong Luc. 4.
The terme
Iubal signifieth carrying,
or a streame. This
Iubilee cannot be named of a
Rams horne by the
Ebrew: but of
Iubal, a streame or dravving, as
vvhich leadeth vs to
C. death.
EGLON Kyng of
Moab, and with him
Ammon, &
Amalek oppresseth
Israel 18
yeeres.
Iud. 3, 13.
His name is a Calfe, and so like
a fat Calfe he vvas: his slouenlike
ende is an ensample for them
vvhose God is their belly: vvhose
belly
God filleth vvith his hid
treasure, vvho are of the vvorld,
and haue their portion in this
lyfe. Psal. 17.
Such a mōstter vvas
Pt. Physcon, that ended the Iron legge of
Egypt. Dan. 2.
Athenaeus.
SAMGAR killed 600
Philistines with a Goade, &
helped
Israel. Iud. 3, 31.
32
130
33
34
35
36
37
‡
38
1280
39
40
2650
41
42
Rest.
140
43
44
45
46
47
48
1270
49
Rest.
50
2660
IVB.
51
2
52
150
53
54
55
56
Rest.
57
58
1260
59
60
2670
61
62
160
63
1
Rest.
64
2
65
3
66
4
67
5
68
6
1250
69
7
70
2680
8
Rest.
71
9
72
10
170
73
11
74
12
75
13
76
14
77
15
78
‡
16
1240
79
17
80
2690
18
Since the comming from EGYPT.
Samgar, etc.
Gideon
WORLDE.
Sisera
Before the birth of CHRIST.
1
The 40 Y. beginne here,
which after mention of
Samgar, Iael, Deborah, Barak, are reckoned after
Siseras ouerthrow.
HERE the people vvoulde be
chosing strange Goddes. Therefore
shortly the Lord solde them into
the hand of Iabin
King of Canaan:
that the seruaunt of seruauntes
shoulde rule them, that
forsoke the blessed God of Sem:
hauyng tasted of such great saluation
continually. Now their
path fayled: their villages
fayled: the warrier was at
their gate: the noyse of the
Archer was among the
drawing welles. Yet God
gaue that remnant of
Canaan to the coragious
Barak: the Lord made
Deborah rule by the myghty
Iud. 5.
SAMVEL repeateth this story,
and others about it saying: vvhē
they forgat the Lord, he solde
thē to
Sisera, the
Philistines, and the King of
Moab. But
they cryed vnto the Lord to delyuer
them. Also the Lord sent
Ierubbaal, and
Bedan, that
is,
Samson of
Dan, Iephte, and
Samuel, and delyuered you
from your enemies 1. Sam. 12, 9.
Gideon, Barak, Samson,
Iephte, Dauid, Samuel, &
the Prophetes obteyned promises,
and receyued not the promise.
GIDEON, or
Ierubbaal: That Barley cake, of
Manasses Iud. 6.
defendeth Israel. 40
yeeres. Iud. 8, 28.
Sancuniathon an olde vvriter
of
Canaan, in
Ierubbaals tyme, vvho vvrote in that
language, and vvas translated
into Greke by
Philo Byblios nameth one
[...]Ierombaal,
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A great Famine in
Israel maketh
Elimelech and
Naomi goe to
Moab vvith their tvvo
sonnes, vvho maried there, and
dyed there also,
Elimelech died,
vvidovv
Naomi, after ten
yeeres returneth to
Bethleem
Iuda: and
Ruth vvith her, a
Moabite, vvidovv to
Machlon. This daughter, of
Lot that blessed
Abraham & left
his countrey for him, Gen. 12,
leaueth Parentes & countrey, to
be couered vnder the
Lordes vvinges. The Lorde vvas her
recompence
Christ commyng
of her. Math. 1. O depth of vvisdome,
that
Lots vvine, or this
vvant shoulde be a meanes that
Christ should come of him.
SISERA chiefe Captaine
to Iabin
king of Canaan
oppresseth Israel 20
yeeres. Iud. 4, 3. He had 900 iron Charets:
& in
Israel among 4000
vvas not a Shylde or Speare.
Yet
Deborah arose a mother in
Israel, vvho styrred vp
Barak of
Nephthali, to vvrestle the
vvrestlynges of
God, and to goe
lyke an Hart loused agaynst
Sisera and all his Charets. GOD
vvould goe before him: the Stars
shoulde fight: the vvaters of
Mageddō the riuer
Kishon shoulde svveepe them. Iud. 5.
GOD prouiding a better thing
for vs, that they vvithout vs
should not be perfect. Ebr. 11.
MAGEDDONS fielde was
fought by
Barak wherein
Sisera was ouer come.
This victory at
Mageddon that is the place of cutting in
peeces is reuiued
Apo. 16. by
the like against the
Antichrist, at the moūt of
Mageddō, vvhē
lyghtnyng and voyces are heard:
vvhich notably fell out this yeere
1588. agaynst the 7 hilled
2
180
3
4
5
6
7
8
1230
9
10
2700
11
Rest.
12
190
13
14
15
16
17
18
1220
Rest.
19
IVB.
20
2710
3
21
1
22
2
200
23
3
24
4
25
5
26
6
Rest.
27
7
28
8
1210
29
9
30
2720
10
31
11
32
12
210
33
13
Rest.
34
14
35
15
36
16
37
17
38
☞
18
1200
39
19
40
2730
20
Rest.
1
2
220
3
4
5
6
7
Rest.
8
1190
9
10
2740
Since the comming from EGYPT.
Abimelech
Gideon
WORLDE.
Madian
Before the birth of CHRIST.
11
sacrificer to
Iehouah [...]. This must needes be
Gideon of any recorded in Scriptures,
though he vvere not of
Leui, Euseb. 1
Dem. NOTE vpon this poynt, that of
most auncient tyme
Iehouah vvas pronounced, not
Adonai but
Iehouah: Therefore
Pagnine and our learned men do
better then the
Pseudocatholiques, in pronouncing of it.
It may be that the
Heathen corrupting the terme, the
Iewes myght reade it seldomer to keepe
it from their mouthes.
GIDEONS valiāt souldiers drinking
vvithout bovving dovvne,
is alluded vnto in phrase. Psa. 110
He shall drynke of the
brooke in the way: he shal
lyft vp the head. His fayth
staying vpon thinges vnseene is
renovvmed. Ebr. 11.
GIDEON had 70 sonnes by
his vviues, and
Abimelech by a Concubine.
ABIMELECH is King
three yeeres.
Iud. 9, 22.
TOLA of
Issachar defendeth
Israel. 23 yeeres.
Iud. 10, 1.
HE hath no great matter recorded
of hym. Marke hovv
God parteth his graces amongst the
Tribes. He shevveth some glory
to al
Leahs childrē sauing
Ruben &
Symeon: None to her
handmaydes: because
Rachel vvas to haue some equalitie frō
vvhose ovvne sonnes: & sōnes by
her mayde: Iudges are stirred vp.
In
Tola Issachar vvas a strōg
Asse: in vvhose dayes they reioyced
in their Tentes, and savv
rest that it vvas good: beyng
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Mountayne, vvhen the Dragon
and the false Prophet had styrred
Kinges of the earth to syght
vvith Shyppes hygher thē hilles:
vpon the vvaters vvhere they
vvere cut in peeces: thē flames of
pouder vvere seene, & thundering
of Gunnes vvere hard: But chiefly
vvynde and vveather made the
Papistes starke mad: that
Canaan can neuer recouer their
strength. So God hath cut them in
peeces, that novv the blynde may
see
Babel fall. Curse
Meroz O
Lord, and all that fauour
Babel likevvise destroy: but let them be
as the bright Sunne that loue
Ierusalem. Direct ELIZABET
our Q. to buylde it: vvhom thou
hast made a Lampe to all
Israel through
Europe. Let that cursed
Canaan the seruaunt of
seruauntes knovve hym selfe a
Beast. Amen.
MADIAN oppresseth
Israel 7 yeeres.
Iud. 6, 1.
AMALEK assist, and the east,
vvhō I holde
Keturahs chyldren.
Oreb and
Zeb are an
ensample for Gods fooes Psa. 83.
This ABIMELECH slevve all
his breathren, sauing
Iotham: and is made King in
Sichem. The Oliue, the Figge tree, and the
Vine: The former Iudges vvhich
had the iwyce of grace, vvould not
reigne, but vvoulde haue
God theyr king: but the Bramble
vvoulde, from vvhō a fire consumed
the Cedars:
Abimelech his braine pan is broken by a vvoman
in
Tebez. He biddeth his
Page kil him out right Iud. 9, 54.
Dauid repeateth that: 2. Sam.
11, 21.
12
230
13
14
15
16
17
18
1180
19
20
2750
21
22
Rest.
240
23
24
25
26
27
‡
28
1170
29
Rest.
30
2760
IVB.
31
4
32
250
33
34
35
‡
1
36
2
37
3
Rest.
38
4
1160
39
5
40
2770
6
1
☞
7
2
3
260
1
Rest.
2
3
4
5
1150
6
7
2780
8
Rest.
9
10
270
11
12
13
14
15
1140
16
17
2790
Since the com̄ing from EGYPT.
Jair
Tola
WORLDE.
Philistines
Before the birth of CHRIST.
18
kept in the quietnes vvhich
Gedeon had gotten.
IAIR of Manasses
defendeth Israel. 22 Y. lud. 10, 3.
HE is thought to be called also
Bedan, named 1. Sam. 12, 11.
and 1. Chr. 7, 17. In Nomb. 32.
There is a former
Iair of
Manasses: & hath there cities called
Chauoth Iair, after his
ovvne name. 1. Chr. 2. An other
Iair: is sonne of
Segub, vvhich
toke a vvifein
Gilead: by vvhō
he helde 23 Cities. This man is of
posteritie: as tyme vvell argueth,
and had 30 sonnes and Cities.
I can not thinke
Iair to be
Bedan: for from his tvvelfth yere,
Ammon afflicted
Israel: and
vvere not deliuered: but by
Bedan they vvere.
ELY borne.
IEPHTE of Manasses the only
Harlots son commended of God.
Ebr. 11. ruleth 6 Y. Iud. 12. 7.
He sacrificed not his daughter,
but made her a perpetual virgin.
Da. Cimchi in
Thanah.
IBSAN of Iuda
& of Bethleem
7
yeere. Iud. 12, 9. He had
30 sonnes and 30 daughters, all
maryed.
Booz, he cannot be,
by age: though many dreame of
that.
ELON of
Zabulon 10
Y. Iud. 12, 11. He hath no perticuler
recorde of any exployte therefore
vve must referre his actiuitie
to such enemies as vvere named
in generall. I did put you
partly in mynde hovv God choseth
these Captaynes vvith speciall
regarde to deuide his blessinges
among the Tribes,
vvhose Patriarkes by birth or
behauiour, or some other cause
had not great inferioritie.
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ISRAEL agayne vvorshyppe
the Goddes of
Aram, Sidon,
Moab, Ammon, and the
Philistines, therefore
God gaue them to the
Philistines and the
Moabites. Eyghtteene
yeeres the
Moabites oppresse
them, vnsubdued by
Iair, vntyll
Iephte. The
Philistines vnmighty
hitherto since
Othoniel afflict them vnto
Samson, &
Ely: a lytle vnder
Samger. OBED of
Ruth, or such other
godly, being the foundation of the
state, make
Israel acknovvledge
their sinne. So
God regardeth
them.
ABOVT
Iephte his victorie
Samson is borne: and declared
from God to be a reuenger.
IEPHTE citeth
Sichons story:
vvhich citatiō
Moses prepared.
THE 300 yeres since the
commyng of
Israel out of
Egypt Iudg. 11, 26.
This place sheweth that
Hosea cannot haue 28 Y.
as the
levves in their historie
Cahalah thinke, which
wilfully disturbe all. Besides
that, S.
Paul geuing
Saul 40 yeeres.
Act. 13, 21.
leaueth to
Hosea but 17
yeeres of the 480 mentioned
in the 1.
King. 6.
Note that the 40
Y. in the vvildernes
are ioyned as one tyme
here, and els vvhere, that a thing
done in any part of it may be reckoned
from the beginning.
PHILISTINES oppresseth Israel 40
Y. Iud. 13, 1.
IESSE B. Christ is of
Iesse:
Nazer, a goodly spring. Isa. 11.
The tovvne
Nazareth alludeth
vnto that Luk. 2.
19
280
20
21
22
23
1
2
1130
3
4
2800
5
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6
290
7
‡
8
9
10
11
12
‡
1120
Rest.
13
IVB.
14
2810
5
15
*
16
300
17
18
19
20
Rest.
21
*
22
1110
1
2
2820
3
4
310
5
Rest.
6
1
2
3
4
1100
5
6
2830
1
7
2
1
3
320
2
‡
4
3
5
4
6
5
7
6
8
Rest.
7
☞
9
1090
8
10
9
2840
11
Since the com̄ing from EGYPT.
Abdon
Samson
WORLDE.
Philistines
Before the birth of CHRIST.
10
ABDON of Ephraim 8
Y. His countinance & vvealth in 70
knights of his loynes is his prayse.
He shevveth Gods goodnes in
multiplying
Ephraī. If he oppressed
not, he repressed the
Philistines: yet sone they here aboutes
freshly oppresse 40
Y.
SAMSON of Dan
iudgeth
his people 20
Y. Iud 16, 31.
A Serpent to the
Philistines: in the Foxes, Asseiavv, & house
postes: the heeles of that Horse
vvhervpon 3000
Philistines rode, & fellbackvvard. Gen. 49.
IACOB looked for
God to be
his saluation in
Christ: vvho
in death shoulde ouercome his
enemies: and saue him selfe.
From
Zora &
Estaol Dans idolatrie sprang, and from
Ephraims eleuen hundred sicles:
for vvhich
Israel suffered oppressours
an hundred and eleuen
yeeres: and
Dalilas eleuen hundrethes
of Sicles ouerthrevve
Samsō Vpon vvhō at
Zora &
Estaol Gods spirite came.
ELY of
Leui of
Ithamar 40
yeeres. 1.
Sam. 4, 18.
HE in zeale is vnlike
Phinehas of
Eleazar: vvho killing the
Fornicators, stayed the Plague, &
receiued from God a couenant of
peace. Nō. 25.
Ely stayed not his
sonnes from adultery: vvherefore
God brought death vpon him &
thē, vvith 34000 of
Israel, and shame vpon his house.
SAMVEL borne. 1. Sam. 1
Anna vvas a Prophet, & spake
of
Christ 1. Sā. 2. vvhō
Anna
Panuels. D. savv. face to
face.
Mary folovveth
Annas song. Lu. 1. vvhich helpeth much
to knovv her meaning.
Samuel is a nevv
Moses: &
cōparable to him in many poynts.
Both of
Leui, vvere kings 40
Y.
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Ephraim needed no glory:
& yet for
Ioseph &
Iosuahs sake God vvould geue them one
Iudge:
Ephraī despised
Manasses: nothing regarding
Iair for iudgshyp: nor his Cities nor
sonnes: nor
Gideon for discō fiture
of
Madiā &
Amalek: nor
Iephte for
Ammō though
for their lisping pride therein,
42 thousand smarted.
Michas Idolatrie frō mount
Ephraim infecting
Leui &
Dan, might
haue humbled them: vvhereby
they three have the last and least
glory among the Iudges: vntyll
their idolatrie is by
Samuel remoued,
after the transmigration
of the Land. Also that Idolatry
might be a great cause, that God
gaue vp 4000 of
Israel in a
better cause to
Beniamins svvorde. That Historie is ioyned
to
Samsons death, to geue a
close vvarning of Gods displeasure
in
Samson: &
Ely: & in
remouing the Arke frō
Syloh. Yet for due time is must be placed
as I haue set it: though great men
olde & nevv thinke othervvise.
This one reason of many may
serue:
Phinehas vvas then aliue:
and about 90 Y. aged: In
Chusans first yere, to haue 266
yeeres more by
Samsons fall: it
vvere strange. The
Ebrews that gaue him so many, spake as
the phrase lyeth, accordyng to
their maner, not as they thinke,
in proper trueth. So they make
Naamah Noahs vvife: and
Dina Iobs: Thamar Melchisedecs daughter: because in
open phrase better men cannot be
named▪ though in truth it cannot
be so. So in Phrase
Melchisedec cōtinueth for euer as GOD.
In
Zoar vpō Gen. 14. & Heb 7.
So folovving the phrase in 18 seuerall
Scriptures of the Iudges
12
1
☞
13
330
2
14
3
15
4
16
5
17
6
18
7
19
1080
8
20
1
2850
21
2
22
3
23
340
4
24
Rest.
5
25
6
26
7
27
8
28
9
29
1070
10
30
Rest.
11
2860
31
IVB.
12
32
6
13
33
350
14
34
15
35
16
36
17
37
18
38
Rest.
19
39
1060
20
40
1
2870
2
3
360
4
5
Rest.
6
7
8
9
1050
10
11
2880
12
‡
Rest.
13
370
14
15
16
17
18
19
1040
20
21
2890
Since the com̄ing from EGYPT.
Ely
Samuel
WORLDE.
Before the birth of CHRIST.
22
fought, killed kings, prated for
Israel. Both their byrth, educatiō,
& cōfirmatiō had great notablenes:
to shevv thē restorers of the
state.
Ely heareth tvvise from
God, that his sonnes shal die in one
day: that his house shalbe
Ichabod vvithout glory for euer: that
a true one shalbe set vp euen
Sadoc, vvho is of
Eleazar. Therin
God againe remembreth
Phinehas Nū. 25. For vvhose sōnes
necligēce God set vp
Ely, vvhose
Achimelec is deriued from
Ithamar. 1. Chr. 24. & 1. Sā. 2
BARZILLAI B. is 80 Y. olde
vvhē
Absalō rebelled 2. Sā 19.
thē his strength vvas but sorovv.
TRANSMIGRATION
SAM. & Saul 40
y. Act. 13.
Midras. Ps 24. & Cimchi Ps. 99.
Samuel reuiueth prophecying:
vvhich is the Horses & Charets
of a Kingdome: and a recreation
of the vvorlde: vvhich thing appeareth,
and so is tearmed, in
the seuenth age, vvhen ELIAS
vnder
Iosaphat is taken vp.
DAVID the seuenth sōne
of
Iesse, & 14 frō
Abraham is borne in
Bethleem, where
the Lord should be: whose
dignitie maketh the lytle
towne great.
Mich. 5.
Mat. 2.
Since the Arke vvas taken and
brought to Cariath Iarim
the
vvooddy fielde from Syloh Ephratha.
Psa. 132.
vntyll 20
yeeres the Philistines
vvere
hard enimies. But then they fall
and are oppressed for all the tyme
of Samuels
sole gouernement. 1.
Sam. 7.
Samuel vvaxing olde, his sōnes
Ioel &
Abiah ruled: but corruptly:
thereupon
Israel desired
a King, not as
Moses and the
Iudges vvere, but as the
Heathen had.
God appoynteth
SAVL of
Bēiamin. 1. Sā. 9.
2891
and oppressours: For the vvhole
tyme 339 yeeres vvhich is reckoned
vvith the Iudges or defendours.
VVe haue
III yeres more:
for
Chusan 8,
Eglon 18,
Sisera 20,
Madian 7,
Ammon 18,
Philistines 40, after
a sort 450 Act. 13. euen so
Iosep. Ant. 8, 2. includeth the
same accompt exactly in a greater
sūme, reckoning frō
Moses dealyng vvith
Pharaoh to the
foundation of
Salomons Temple
592 yeeres for the 480. 1.
King 6. This shevveth the number
Act. 13. to conteyne no fault:
but plaine heauenly vvisedome:
that in one vvorde reckoneth all
the Iudges and all the troublers.
MARKE vvhat God hath done
to
Syloh. 1. Sā. 4. 34000 die.
The Arke is taken:
Hophni &
Phinehas are killed,
Ely breaketh
his necke: his daughter in
lavv nameth her childe
Ichabod no glory, and dyeth.
AS
God hath done to
Syloh: so vvil he do to
Ierusalē. Iere
[...].
Hytherto the Arke vvas in
Ephraim. Novv God despiseth
Syloh the Tabernacle of
Ioseph: & choseth not
Ephraim but
Iudah from vvhom
Shiloh vvas to arise. Gen. 49.
HERE
Theoderetus may be
cited vpon
Leuiticus: vvhat
meaneth:
Then shal the land
rest & pay her Sabbothes; He sayth, you shalbe in your enemies
land, for in
Babylon they
serued 70 Y. Novv from
Sauls reigne to the Captiuitie, are 490
yeres vvhere in are 70 seauens.
AS
Israel despised
God in
Samuel to finde
Saul: so
Iuda despised
Christ for
Caesar. God geueth suche
Kinges in vvrath and remoueth
them in his anger.
Hose. 13, 11.
23
380
24
25
26
‡
27
28
29
1030
30
31
2900
32
Rest.
33
390
34
35
36
37
‡
38
39
1020
Rest.
40
IVB.
1
2910
7.
2
☞
3
400
4
5
6
7
Rest.
8
9
1010
10
11
2920
12
13
410
14
Rest.
15
16
17
18
19
1000
20
21
2930
Rest.
22
23
420
24
25
26
27
28
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29
990
30
31
2940
Since the comming from EGYPT.
David
Samuel
WORLDE.
Before the birth of CHRIST.
32
DAVID is vncted in
Bethleē: killeth
Goliath: harpeth avvay
Sauls feende: marieth not
Merob but
Mical: shūneth
Saul: to
Gath, Moab, Ammon: vvandring as
Kedar. Psa. 120.
RVBEN & GAD glory ouerthe
Hagarims. 1. Chro. 5. 10.
SAMVEL duth. Seder-lam.
DAVID is vncted K of
Iuda in
Hebrō at 30 yers as
Christ vvas at his baptisme.
Many of altribes run to
Dauid: Though
Isbosheth resisted him
7
Y. in the end he vvas killed, as
he liued a man of shame. 2. Sā 4.
DAVID vncted K at
Ierusalem, exactly a thousande yeeres
before
Christ vvas baptised:
reigneth our Lords yeeres 32, 6.
moneths. He tamed the
Philist. at
Perazim Esa. 28.
Aram,
Moab, Ammon, Edom, in
him riseth that Scepter for all
Seths sōnes. He delt as a Lion
ascending frō his pray. Gen. 49.
CHRIST the Liō of
Iuda
Apo. 5. is promised by
Nathan to be of
Dauids loynes:
who hath the keyes of
Dauids kingdome.
Apo. 3.
SALOMON B. of Bethseba,
wyfe once to Vriah,
of Canaan:
now a possesion
to Dauid
of Sem.
Dauid nameth
that sonne NATHAN,
vvho shoulde be father after the
flesh to the sonne of
God. For
Vriahs vvife and lyfe:
Satan stirred griefe in
Thamar deflovvred,
Amnon killed after
tvvo yeres,
Absalō arebel after
5 yere. His rebellion fell out somvvhat
before
Dauids 40 Y.
Barren
Michals children, as
Nephevves vvhich one bare, not
she but
Merob, to
Adriel, are
vvithout partialitie hanged.
2. Sam. 21. Blame not the Text.
SALOMON 40 yeere
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SAVL saueth thankfull
Iabes frō miserable
Ammō. Ionathā discomfiteth
Philistines. Heb. 11.
Saul vvylbe a sacrificer,
tender to
Amalek, cruel to
Ionathā, Dauid, Leuites,
Gibeonites: vvanteth an
Ephod folovveth a
witch: seeth
a
Samuel: goeth to destruction.
DAVID for his 40 yeeres vvas
a nevv
Moses, or
Samuel.
He alludeth to
Moses saying,
He toke me as he did Moses
frō many waters. Psa. 18, 16
This Patriarke & Prophete in
holy Psames speaking by the spirite
of God. 2. sam. 23. Mat. 18.
taught his people the histories
past, and the prophecies to come:
vvhich dravv vnto
Christ: as
if the matters vvere present.
Christ he called his Lord. Psa.
110. The sonne in vvhom they
that trust are happy. Psa. 2. Also
after
God had promised hym
Christ, he called him
Dauid:
Beloued. Psa. 132. Mat. 3, 17.
Moreouer he spake of the Angels
vvorshipping of him at his comming,
of his body ordeyned for a
Sacrifice: Zeale, for Gods house▪
Hosanna cry, by Babes: conspiracie,
by
Herode and
Pilate: betraying, by one of his Table:
garmentes, lotted: vvordes, Ely,
Ely: bystanders flovvting in
vvordes & gesture: drinke, Gall:
sacrificehood, figured by
Melchisedec: resurrection, ascentiō,
Gentyles beleife: lastly, praying
for
Salomon the King, turneth
his speach to
Christ: Israelites are thornes:
Dauids Kinges bad: yet
Gods couenant
cōstant. Of
Dauids loynes
Fathers to
Christ onely
Nathan,
Salathiel, Pedaiah, and
Zorobabel, are in the
Ebrew, for speciall purpose.
ROBOAM borne.
THE HOVSE OF DAVID VNtill our Lords daies: both his naturall line, and them after whom by right he was heire to the Kingdome.
DAVID.
[...] Salomon.
[...] Roboam.
[...] Abia.
[...] Asa.
[...] Iosaphat.
[...] Ioram.
These thre & Iehoiakim killed for euill ruling S. Mat. omitteth.
[...]
They are greatly deceaued that end Salomons house with Achaziah: and bring aboue six hundreth errors into the genealogie. Besides, they deriue our Lord from most wicked folke: though he honored all his true fathers with the gift of faith, being the roote of goodnes, whom we are to follow in the honouring of our parents, & can not go before him.
Achaziah.
[...]
That Ioas was sonne to Achaziah, and that Salomons stocke did not faile in Achaziah: we are taught by sixe plaine testimonies of Scripture 2. King. 11, 2 13, 1. 14, 13. 1. Chron. 3, 11. 2. Chr. 22. 11. 23, 3.
Ioaz.
[...] Amaziah.
[...] Ozias.
[...] Ioatham.
[...] Achaz.
[...] Ezekias.
[...] Manasses.
[...] Amon.
[...]
VVhereas Iosias begetteth Iechonias & his brethren: Matt. 1. Vnderstād by brethrē cousins: that Iosias the grādfather begate vncles to Iechonias; as Tzedekias, called his brother, 2. Chr. 36. 10. but was properly his vncle & brother to his father, 1. Chr. 3. 15. and 2. King. 24. 17. & is also his sonne for succession. 1. Chr. 3. 16. Tzededekias died before the 37. yeres of Iechonias deliuerāce out of prison: in which prison after Tzedekias death Iechonias declared Salathiel his heire.
Iosias.
[...] Iakim, or Iehoiakim.
[...] Iehoiachin, or Ie-Chonias.
He ended Salomons race: Ier. 22. Though Chonias were a signet vpon my finger, I will plucke him thence. O earth, earth, earth: write him childles. For none of his seede shal sit vpon the throne of Dauid or beare rule any more in Iuda.
In that day I wil powre vpon the house of Dauid the spirite of grace & prayer: and they shall looke vpon me, whom they perced (saith Iehouah) & they shal bitterly mourne for that, euerie familie a parte: the familie of Nathan, of Dauids house apart &c. Zach. 12. 10.
[...] [...] Nathan.
[...] Mattatha.
[...] Mainan.
[...] Melea.
[...] Eliakim.
[...] Ionan.
[...] Ioseph.
[...] Iuda.
[...] Simeon.
[...] Leui.
[...] Matthat.
[...] Iorim.
[...] Eliezer.
[...] Iose.
[...] [...] Er.
[...] [...] Elmodam
[...] [...] Cosam.
[...] [...] Addi.
[...] [...] Melchi.
[...] [...] Neri.
[...] [...] Salathiel.
[...] [...] Pedaiah.
[...] [...]
When Babels 70. yeres were ended Da. 9. In Zorobabels first yere: an Angel telleth of seauentie seauens exactly decreed, for
[...], Christ the Soueraine, to be killed, not for him selfe, but to take away sinne, to bring iustice, to seale visiō & prophet: after 3. yeres & a halfs preaching in confirming the Testament for many. D
[...]. 9.
Zorobabel.
[...] Abiud.
[...] Eliakim.
[...] Azor.
[...] Sadoc.
[...] Achim.
[...] Eliud.
[...] Eleazar.
[...] Matthan.
[...] Iacob.
[...] Ioseph.
The husband of Marie the mother of our Lord Iesus Christ, who being to be holden Iosephs sonne by all law, was borne King of the Iewes. That he acknowledged: Pilate graunted: and the Iewes could name none but Caesar to hinder his right. Before the starre shewed, and Herod sought one borne a King. Afterwarde a further Kingdome is shewed. At that day when the halfe seauen came: Dan. 9. that the sonne was sealed, or was made as a signet, Agg. 2. Cantic. 8. 6.
Then he is called Christ, Ioh. 1. 17. & hauing cōfirmed the Testament for many by his bloud: when they looked that the Kingdom of heauen shoulde appeare: then is he made heire of all, ouer all powers in this worlde, and in that to come.
Iehouah sayd to Aggei: Speake vnto Zorobabel Duke of Iuda, saying: I will shake heauen & earth, and ouerthrowe the throne of kings, (cōteined in the Image Daniel. 2. and beasts. Dan. 7.) At that day, saith Iehouah of hosts: I will take thee Zorobabel the sonne of Salathiel. O my seruant, saith Iehouah, & wil make thee as a signet: for I haue chosen thee saith Iehouah of hostes. The Apostles do 20. times record our L. to be of DAVID.
[...] Rhesa.
[...] Ioanna.
[...] Iuda.
[...] Ioseph.
[...] Semei.
[...] Mattathias.
[...] Maath.
[...] Nagge.
[...] Essi.
[...] Naum.
[...] Amos.
[...] Mattathias.
[...] Ioseph.
[...] Ianna.
[...] Melchi.
[...] Leui
[...] Matthat.
[...] Eli.
[...] Marie.
Iesus promised to Eue, Noe, Sē, Ab
[...]han, Isaac, Iacob, Juda, Dauid, Zo
[...]o
[...] bel, Marie, that truely beloued
[...].
Sal.
vvas vncted K. vpō strife.
So Ioas
and Ioachaz
vvere.
THE foundation of the
temple is layde on
Mount
Sion, the shoulders of
Beniamin,
Deu 33. 480 yeeres
since
Israel left
Egypt. 1
Kin 6
Salomō
being an holy Prophet
must be holden to be in heauen.
THE Temple wholly finished,
wherein 7 yeeres
were
spent. 1.
King 6, 38.
SALOMON prayeth and prophesieth
of
Daniels tymes.
Dan. 6, & 9. Fyre falleth from
heauen & burneth the sacrifices.
The glory of the
Lord filled
the house: so that the sacrificers
could not enter therein. So vvàs
it vvhē Tabernacle vvas set
vp. Exo. 40.
God agayne appeared
to
Salomon, & confirmeth
hym, thereupon he began a
Palace of 13 yeres vvorke.
Salomō excelleth al kings in vvomē,
riches, & vvisedome.
Salo. one
of the vvisest of the sōnes of God
falleth to Idolatrie, & is corrupt,
by the allurementes of the daughters
of the sōnes of mē.
Salo. repēteth:
vvriteth the
Prouerbs and
Ecclesiastes: shevveth his
people that all pleasure, vvealth,
and vvisedome are but vanitie,
sauing the feare of
God. Salo. vvrote his
Songes in his olde
age, after he had buylt the tovver
of
Libanus. Canti. 7. He reigned
40
Y. 1. King. 11. 42.
ROBOAM reigneth ouer
the two tribes 17 yeeres. Three Y.
Iudah vvalked in the
vvayes of
Dauid & Salomō.
Sisak K of
Egypt after that
for their Idolatry vvith 1200
Chariots, 60000 Horsemen, and
innumerable people frō
Egypt,
Succiim, Lubī, &
Chush, commeth agaynst
Iudah, and
spoyleth the Temple. 2. Chro. 12.
2991
480
Noah began the
Arke. 480 to the 2 Temple. Ezra. 3.
Ralbag vpō 1. Kin. 6. 480
thence to the last seuen begīning:
vvherin
Ch. buylt his Temple.
THE
Lambe is the
Temple. Apo. 21. tovvardes vvhō he that
looketh in prayer shalbe heard.
The Christians are the
Temple of
God. 1. Cor. 3. Apo 15.
NEBCHADNEZ. that burnt
it, for 7 y. vvas mad. Dan. 4.
Tvvo Pillers
Iachin &
Boaz shevv, as Apo 3. that by trueth
vve are steaddy as Pillers to serue
God in his Temple.
In this sort is expressed Apo. 15.
the spirituall confirmation of the
faythfull agaynst
Pilats Vicar,
dryuyng thē through a sea of fire
(as vve haue seene in
Smithfeelde.
The
Temple vvas full of the
smoke of the glory of God, & of
his povver, and no man vvas able
to enter into the Temple tyll the
7 Plagues of the 7 Angels vvere
fulfylled, suche reuerence the
Christians stryke to the plagy
& plaged
Pseudocatholiks.
Menelaus came to
Chanaā in
Salo. dayes,
Clem 1. Strō.
vvhereby
Dauids 37 vvorthyest
are auncienter then
Achilles or
Hector & such other.
THE queene of
Sheba shal condemne
the
Iewes that vvoulde
not heare a greater then
Salomon. Mat. 12.
IEROBOAM of
Ephraī for
Salomons idolatry, and
Roboās tyrany is confirmed K.
ouer
Israel: He ordeyned Alters,
Feastes, and Sacrificers of
his ovvne head.
Iosias is named
331 yeeres before he vvas
borne. The
Prophete is killed
by a
Lyon for breaking
Gods cōmaūdement.
Israel shalbe shaken
as a Reede & caried avvay.
3
480
1
4
☞
1. King. 6. Since the Temple.
2
5
3
6
4
7
5
8
6
9
*
Adams yeeres at his death 930 are hence to our L. Byrth: who is the second Adam and the third Temple.
930
7
10
11
3000
12
☞
13
Rest.
10
14
15
16
17
18
☟
19
920
20
Rest.
21
3010
IVB.
22
9
23
20
24
☝
25
26
27
28
Rest.
29
910
30
31
3020
32
☞
33
30
34
35
Rest.
36
37
38
39
900
36
40
1
3030
1
Iuda or
Asas Kingdome,
[...]vvise called
Israel.
2
2
Rest.
3
Israel or
Ephraim once is called
Iuda.
3
4
4
5
5
6
6
7
7
8
8
9
9
890
10
10
10
11
3040
11
from the DIVISION.
Roboam
Abiam
Iuda.
WORLDE.
Israel.
Jeroboam
Nadab
Before the birth of CHRIST.
12
SISAK or
Sesace is famous in
Heath
[...]n vvriters called
Sesos of
Diod. Sicul. by vvhom his
great army in like sort is descr
[...]bed
at here vve read, Bok. 1. lef. 35.
ABIAM 3
Y. He slevv fiue
hundred thousand of
Israel.
ASA 41
yeere. 1. King. 15.
He greatly clensed his kingdome
from Idolatrie, and disgraced
Maacha, his graceles Grandmother.
IOSAPHAT borne. AS A made a lavv, that euery
one that sought not
Iehouah thoulde dye:
Iudah had peace
ten yeares:
Asa had. 500000
vvarriers, dicomforted
Zerach vvith 1000000 of
Cush &
Lubim. Cursed
Cham might
not subdue blessed
Sems sone.
THE 36 yeere of
Asas kingdome,
2. Chro. 16, 1.
Baasa vvould haue buylt
Rama. Benadad hyred by
Asa spoyleth
his Countrey:
Chanani blameth
Asa: is put in Prison: after
Benadads departure
Baasa renueth troubles to
Asa, continuyng
it all his lyfe.
OMRI surmounted
Ieroboam in vvickednes. His
statutes and all the maner of
the house of
Achab in time
and their counsels corrupt
Iudah. Mich. 6, 16.
IORAM borne. He coulde
not be 42 at
Omries house ruine:
much lesse coulde his sonne
then be 42. VVaigh the phrase,
2. Chro 22, 2.
ASA falleth into a gout, vvhich
holde him vnto his death.
IOSAPHAT 25
Y.
Rome Apo. 11. killeth martyrs
3041
Ieroboams hand vvithereth:
The Alterrenteth a sunder.
Al
Israels kinges vvorship his
Calues sauing
Sallum and
Hoseah. The
Popes Idolatry
Apo. 9. is in the lyke impietie
and fal from
Iudahs Shyloh. Many thinges hence are taken, to
reueale
Rome in the Apo.
NADAB of
Ierob. 2 yeeres.
BAASA killed
Nadab, and reigned ouer
Isra. 24 yeere.
He performed
Achiahs vvords
vpon
Ieroboams house. Iehu telleth him of the lyke for him
selfe. At the besiege of
Gibbethon
Nadabs house perished:
vvhen
Gibbethon is besieged
doth
Baasas house peryshe.
Though
Elah vvere not there
fightyng agaynst the
Philistines, but drinking in
Tirza. ELIAS B. of vvhō the vvorlde
vvat not vvorthy. Ebr. 11.
BENADAD this mans sonne
remembreth this to
Achab, naming
Baasa father to
Achab: that is predecessor in aucthoritie
1. Kin. 20. 34. So
Iechonias is
father to
Salathiel the sonne of
Neri. Mat. 1. & Lu. 3.
ELAH of
Baasa 2 yeeres.
ZIMRI,
Omri, & Tibni.
Omri begīneth that famous 42
Y. not cōmonly marked, & is sole
King. After 4 Y. in 31 of
Asa. He buylt
Samaria Aholibamah, and made her sister to
Ierusalem Aholibah Ezeki. 23.
Iudahs Kinges match to their
ruine, vvith
Iezabels house.
ACHAB of
Omri 22 yeeres.
CHIEL buildeth
Iericho vvith
the price of his eldest & youngest
son, as
Ios. foretold it should cost.
ELIAS prophecieth.
He vvas clothed in heare, fed by a
12
13
13
14
14
15
15
Rest.
16
16
17
17
¶
1
18
¶
2
19
880
*
1
3
20
*
20
2
☾
3050
21
1
☽
3
*
22
2
*
Rest.
4
2
5
3
6
4
7
5
8
6
9
7
10
8
870
Rest.
11
9
IVB.
12
*
3060
10
10
13
11
14
12
15
*
‡
13
16
14
17
15
18
☞
16
Rest.
19
17
20
18
860
21
19
40
22
3070
20
23
21
24
22
25
23
Rest.
26
1
24
27
◃
¶
2
1
▹
28
2
2
29
☜
3
3
30
4
4
850
31
¶
¶
5
50
32
3080
6
Rest.
33
7
34
8
35
☞
9
36
10
37
11
38
♓
‡
12
1
♓
39
2
Rest.
40
3
840
41
1
¶
☜
4
¶
60
2
3090
5
From the DIVISION.
Joram
Josaphat
Iuda.
WORLDE.
Israel.
Achab
Joram
Before the birth of CHRIST.
3
clad in heary coates, and hath no
raine in 42 moneths, persecuteth
D. 1260 as
Achab did
Elias, frō vvhose mouth fire d
[...]uoureth
the enemy, & an Earthquake killeth
7000, such as bovv to the
Beast. The martyrs slaine seeme
agayne to be alyue, as
Eliseus hath a double portiō of the spirite
of
Elias taken vp.
Rome hating
Elisabets Christian seruants
folovveth
Iezabel, dronke
vvith the blood of
Aaron and
Elisabets sonnes.
IORAM thrise viceroy and
Roy 17, and 22, and 25 of
Iosaphat, neuer prospered.
He learneth by an Epistle from
Elias of his heauy ruynes & sorrovves
for killing his 6 brethrē.
Edom rebelled: and
Esaw brake
Iacobs yoke. Gen. 27.
Arabians carry avvay his
vvyfe and all his sonnes sauing
Achaziah. After tvvo yeeres
tormentyng sicknes he dyeth.
Achazia is in 42, being 22, & D.
ATHALIAH the daughter
of
Achab and Grandmother to
Ioas killeth the Kinges seede,
and reigneth 6
Y. 2 Kin. 11, 3.
She had sonnes by an other
vvhich she tendered, 2. Chr. 24.
IOAS the naturall son of
Achaziah, beyng hyd in the
Temple by his fathers sister
6 Y. is vncted King
in the 7. 2.
King. 11. and
reig. 40 Y. His age & the
womā that saued him argueth
that he is not of
Nathans house. That forged
Philoh which
Annius hath,
that endeth
Solomons house
in
Achaziah, must be detested,
as drawyng vs to innumerable
errors, against
playne Scriptures, and to
be ridiculous to all
Ievves cūning in the Prophetes.
3091
Rauē, fed a vvidovv, quicked her
child, fasted 40 D. seeth a vvind,
earthquake, & fire, & by fire frō
heauen burneth sacrifices, killeth
Baalistes, & souldiers.
Iohn
Elias, seeth heauē opened, vvhē
our L. begā to preach 42 mōths or
1260 D. vvho feedeth the hūgry,
quickneth the dead, hath a firenot
to burne
Samaria: but a gracious
fire of iudgemēt, bringeth
Elias &
Moses to him, is killed,
ariseth, ascendeth, sendeth fire,
Act. 2. & seuē Epistles. Apo. 2.
ACHAZIAH 2
Y. [...] Kin. 22.
IORAM the sonne of
Achab reigneth 12 yeere. 2. King. 3, 1.
A great Famine 7 yeeres is in
Samaria, 2. King. 8.
Note that
Iosaphat is called
King of
Israel. 2 Chro. 21, 2.
So
Asa is called King of
Israel. Both vvhich places the 70 transate:
Iudah, least the strangenes
shoulde trouble the vulearned.
The famous 42 y. ende.
IEHV as word of God, is
vncted king and reigneth
28 yeeres.
He slevv Iezabel,
Ioram: 70
sonnes of Achab,
vvith 42
of Achaziahs
breathren:
his vncles sonnes.
Tvvo vvayes the 42
Y. ar
[...] reckoned, one by the open phrase,
an other by comparing the tvvo
kingdomes. For in the 31 Y. of
Asa, Omri is full King (4 Y.
before he begā to reigne) reckō by
Iudah thus.
Asa 9 Y.
Iosophat 25,
Ioram 8: al is 42.
Or thus by
Israel. Omri 6,
Achab 22,
Achaziah 2,
Ioram 12: in all 42 Y. Novv
as
Iorā of his 8
Y. had 4 cōmon
vvith
Iosaphat: so in
Omri his house 4 Y. must be likevvise
cōmon to fathers & sōnes, as you
may see, and 4
Y. sooner from
Zimries death must you begin
6
4
7
5
☞
8
6
9
7
10
8
11
9
12
10
13
830
11
14
70
12
3100
15
13
16
14
17
Rest.
15
18
16
19
¶
1
17
20
¶
¶
2
18
21
1
¶
3
19
22
2
4
20
3
820
5
21
4
Rest.
80
1
22
3110
5
IVB.
2
23
☞
6
11
3
24
7
4
25
8
5
9
6
10
7
11
8
1 †
†
12
Rest.
1
1
810
2
2
90
3
3120
3
4
4
5
5
6
6
1
¶
7
¶
Rest.
2
8
3
9
4
10
5
11
800
6
12
100
7
3130
13
8
14
Rest.
9
15
10
16
11
17
12
18
13
19
14
20
15
21
790
16
22
110
17
3140
23
From the DIVISION.
Joas
Amaziah
Iuda.
WORLDE.
Israel.
Jehu
Joachaz
Before the birth of CHRIST.
18
who finding vs vnable to
bring the right fathers of
our L. and to reconcile
S.
Mathevv &
S. Luk: through
our falt reiect those must
holy writers & religion.
Io AS repayreth the Temple
2. Chro. 24. He falleth to Idolatrie,
& vnthankefulnes, after the
death of Iehoiadah, Iohn,
or Barachias,
vvho died 130
Y.
olde. 2. Cho. 24, 15.
reuiuing
the memory of Adam
at Seths
byrth, of Terah
at Abrahās,
of Iacob
entring into Egypt.
ZACHARIA the son of
Iehoiadah is stōed to death
betwene the Temple and
the Alter by K.
Ioas. Mat, 23
Syria
spoyleth Ierusalem.
AMAZIAH Viceroy &
Roy 29
yeeres, 2 King 14.
Ioas is killed.
Amaziah killeth
20000 of
Edom: souldiers
dismissed, kill & spoyle
Iudah.
Amaziah vvorshippeth
Edōs Gods.
Ioas ouercōmeth
Amaziah, robbeth the Temple: and
disvvalleth the Citie 2 Chr. 25.
Amaz. is killed his sonne being
but 4 y
[...]olde, vvhom some regent
gonerned vntil he vvas 16 Novv
the vvhole body of
Iudah is
sicke, & they destroyed as
Sodō ▪ but for aremāt, Esa. 1. And this
for
Zach, his death. vvorse they
are for our L▪ his death. Rō. 11.
ROME is buylt by
Romulus vpon 4 hyllet, vvhich are
Palatinus, Capitolinus,
Auentinus, &
Exquilinus
Seruius Tullus enlargeth it
compassing vvithin the vvalles
three other hylles, vvhiche are
Coelius, Viminali
[...], and
Quirinalis. Galen, Plut.
Liuy. Virg. Ouid. Dio. ha
[...] dle
these These are called
seuen
heades in Apo. 17.
THE kingdome of Iuda
3141
the stile of the holy story, seeming
to be intricate lyuely expresseth
the intricate state of these kingdomes:
& in one some relieueth
the Student.
IOACHAZ 17
Y. Vnder him
Chazael and
Benadad performe
Eliseus teares vpō
Israel. Them
Amos remēbreth.
THE
Olympiades, that is
ganet, after 4
Y. ended vsed in
Olympia: there are to be placed:
yf in
Olympiade 202 the
fourth
Y. our
L. died. But
P
[...]utarch in
Numa sayth truly,
that they are nothyng to be regarded:
they are most vncertaine
& vnreconed of many hundred
Y. vntyll
Xenophons time.
IOAS
of Ioachaz
raigneth 16.
yeeres. 2. King. 13, 10.
Vnder him olde
Eliseus dieth:
vvho vvrought miracles to turne
Israel: In the vvaters of
Iordan by
Elias Cloake: and
Naaman his Leprofie. Luk. 4. in
the vvaters of
Moab: in the
vvaters vvherin the axe svvam:
in the potage made healthy: in
bread & cyle multiplyed: in victuals
procured to
Samaria: in
pūishing
Gehazi vvith a Leprosie
& 42 of
Bethel by tvvo
Beares, in raysing tvvo frō death.
IEROBO AM of
Ioas 42
yeeres. 2 King. 14, 23.
NABONASSAR king 424
yeeres before
Alexander died.
Ptol. 3. His name neare a thousande
yeeres vvas obscure: yet
novve Chroniclers make him a
grounde: though they cānot finde
vvho by Scripture he shoulde be.
About
Mardocempad and
Nabopolassar, like discentiō
is. None of all their accomptes in
Ptol can be by scripture proued.
Chaldean lyers fayned them
of purpose to obscure
Daniel.
Lachis gilty: as
Israel. Mich. 1
24
19
25
20
26
21
27
22
28
23
☾
☽
1
24
2
25
3
780
26
4
120
27
3150
5
28
6
Rest.
29
7
30
8
[...]
31
9
32
10
33
‡
11
34
12
35
13
770
Rest.
36
14
IVB.
37
‡
3160
1
15
12
38
1
¶
2
16
¶
39
2
3
17
40
3
4
4
5
5
6
6
7
Rest.
7
8
8
9
760
9
10
140
10
3170
11
11
*
12
12
13
13
14
Rest.
14
15
¶
15
16
1
¶
16
2
17
3
18
4
750
19
5
150
20
3180
6
Rest.
21
7
22
8
23
9
24
10
25
11
26
12
27
13
Rest.
28
14
740
29
*
15
160
1
3190
16
From the DIVISION.
States
Ozias
Iuda.
WORLDE.
Israel-Iuda.
Jeroboam
Before the birth of CHRIST.
2
is 11 y. ruled by the states vntill
Ozias first y. touched the 27 of
Ierob. That fell out partly for
his youth and partly because the
states hated their K. as
Israel did. VVherof
Lachis is blamed
for yeelding vp
Amazias to thē
that killed him. Many sorovves
they suffred by their 4 last kings.
IOEL
prophecyeth.
OZIAS 52
yere. His first
great vvorks are said to be after
his fathers death, to vvarne vs
that he ruld not vvith his father
Tvvo Y. before an Earthquake
Amos telleth
Aram of captiuitie
to
Kyr, and
Ieroboā house of a ruine, &
Iuda to be
captiued: yet fully restored
[...] Christ, vvith
Edom or all
nations. Act. 15.
ZACHARY shevvyng the
Iewes destruction by
Rome, (before vvhich the Lord on moūt
Oliuet told of Earthquakes to
come) sayth: ye shal flee,
Iehouah standing on moūt
Oliuet, as ye fled in
Ozias dayes for
the Earthquake. Before
Amos, IOEL telleth of svvarmes of
Caterpillers, like Horses & vvith
Lyons teeth, causing famine.
The Locustes Apo. 9 (vvhich arfensed
as bard Horses, and vvith
Lyons teeth, and haue
Abaddon of
Cittim, their King)
cannot agree to any but to the
Popes spiritualtie: vvho strong
by policie & vvealth, denoured
the fruites of other mens labours
in moste of their kingdomes.
IOTHAM b. 28 of Ozias.
OZIAS yet can not be in
that Leprosy for sacrificing. Besides
a long time he must needes
haue to conquer the Philistines
strong tovvnes: the
Arabiās, in
Gur-baal, and
Meünim, and to humble
Ammon: and
to buylde his great vvorkes:
3191
IERO. recouereth
Chamath to
Iudah in
Isra. Here the only
place is that his kingdōe is called
Iudah. Dauid vvan Chamath,
to
Iudah: & by
Iudahs ryght vvas he to fight for it.
IONAS sent to
Nineue, fled
to
Ioppe: hopeles to con
[...]ert
Nineue, vntyll he had been 3
dayes & 3 nightes in the VVhales
belly as
Christ shoulde be in
the belly of the Earth.
SIMON
Bar Ionas likevvise
fled from the Heathen: vntill at
Ioppe God altered him. Ac. 1
[...] PV L might be that repenting
K. to vvhō God g
[...]ueth povver
ouer
Israel. Arā hitherto vvas
mighter thē
Assur. Heathē stories
before
Cyrus are but tales.
Homer knevv neither
Nineue,
Babylō, nor
Ecbatanas vvealth: els he vvould not haue
brought
Thebas Agyptias for an example. Il. 10 Stra. 15.
THE kingdome is by seditiō 22
Y. vvithout a king, vntill 38 of
Ozias, thē
Zachary reigneth
the fourth from
Iehu 2. K▪ 10.
The Earthquake in
Amos had
in
Israel his euentes. Here their
state is tolde
Ose. 1. to be
Iezreel of
Gomer the Harlet: and
God breaketh the bovv of
Israel for the valley of
Iezreel: vvhē
Iehus vvicked house smarteth
for
Achabs, as did his for
Nabothes. Notvvithstanding
yet they be pittyed
Ruchama, &
Apeople-Ammy, as the
faythfull heathen are Rom. 9.
1. Pet. 2. But they shalbe vnpit
[...]ied
Lo-Ruchama, & No-People
Lo-Ammy: as vve
vvere from
Noes dayes, before
God taught all nations to repent,
and to seeke
Dauid. Act. 27.
ZACHARY 6
months. SALLVM 1 month.
MENACHEM 10 yeeres.
17
3
18
4
19
Israel called Iuda
5
20
6
21
7
22
8
23
9
Aram falleth. Assur riseth.
24
10
25
170
11
‡
3200
26
☾
1
27
☾
2
28
3
29
Rest.
4
30
PVL.
5
31
‡
6
32
7
33
8
34
720
9
35
Rest.
180
10
3210
36
IVB.
11
37
13
‡
12
38
13
39
14
40
15
41
*
16
1
17
2
Rest.
18
3
710
19
4
190
*
20
3220
5
21
6
22
7
23
8
24
9
Rest.
25
10
Iezreel born of Gomer.
26
11
27
12
*
28
13
700
29
14
200
30
3230
15
31
16
Rest.
*
32
17
33
18
34
19
35
20
36
21
37
22
¶
38
¶
1
690
☾
*
39
*
1
☽
210
40
3240
2
From the DIVISION.
Jotham
Ozias
Iuda.
WORLDE.
Israel.
Pekachiah
Menachem
Before the birth of CHRIST.
41
vvhereof some engines vvere, in
force lyke Gunnes, to shoote arrovves
and stones.
ESAY prophecyeth. Of Christ
he speaketh as an Euangelist: of
heathen cōmon vveales, he shevveth
that their potentates that
seeme to be their starres shal fal
as a Fig tree casteth her Figges,
as in Apo. 6. the
Romans do.
IOTHAM 16
y. 2. Kin. 15
CHRIST fylleth the Temple
vvith a smoke of āger: vvhich to
Salomō he filled vvith a gracious
cloude.
Seraphim vvith
sixe vvinges crying
holy, holy,
holy, prayse his iustice, vvho
ten times punisheth
Iudah: that
vvill not yet see, vntyll they be
destroyed. Esa. 6. Mat. 13 Mar. 4.
Luk. 12. Ioh. 12. Act. 28. Rō. 11
The going to
Babel, & the afflictions
vnder
Iauan: vntil the
cōming of
Christe, the brightnes
of glory. Esa. 4. Ebr. 1, 3. All
are shevved in
Iothās times.
ACHAZ 16
yere. 20
Y.
olde when he reigned. ESAYS chyldrē are geuen for a
signe.
Sear-iasub &
Mahersalal-chas
baz. Esa. 7. and 8.
Beholde the chyldren that God
geueth to
Emmanuel. Eb. 2.
Achaz disdayned the soft flovvyng
vvaters of
Siloam, vvhich in Ioh. 9. vvash blind eyes
of one sent thither, to see
Em̄anuel:
Achaz hyreth
Assur, vvho vvill ouerflovve the lande
of
Emmanuel. Esa. 7.
EZEKIAS 29
y. Novv 25
yeeres olde. (Vnder him
Assur thaued & ouerfloovvde,
Em̄anuels land: taking 330 Talentes:
and destroying many
tovvnes) He vvas to the
Philistines a Cockatrise: as
Ozias vvat to them a Serpent, he obteyned
health frō ficknet. Eb. 11.
3241
About this time liued
Homer,
Hesiod, &
Gyg, the first that
vvas called Tyrannus.
Clem. 1.
Str. vvho reigned in
Lydia: vvhose sōnet reigned vnto
Halys the ryuer: vvhere first setled
the most of
Iaphets house. Of
him the lande is called
Gog. Eze. 38.
PEKACHIAH 2
yeere. PEK ACH hath part of the 51,
but more of the 52 at the comparisons
after vvill shevv.
REZIN of
Aram recouereth
Eloth from
Achaz: & vvhen
Pekach had killed 120000 of
Iudah both besiege
Ierusalē:
Achaz trembled: vnstayed and
vnbeleuing not vvilling so much
as to demand of God for triall
a miracle.
Esay telleth of Gods
fauour for
Dauids house, that
a virgin shal beare
Emmanuel, as Mat. 1. vvho is a child
and a sonne that beareth on his
shoulders principalitie, a vvonderfull
counseller, mighty God,
father of eternitie, prince of
peace, of vvhose mysticall large
principalitie and peace in
Dauids throne there shalbe no end.
Tiglath Pileser captiueth
Galily, to be
Lo-Ruchama tyl
Christ beginneth to preach
vvhere Captiu
[...]tie began. Esa. 9.
Mat. 4.
Pekach is kild by
Osee.
Aram captiued to
Kyr 56 y. after
Amos foretolde it.
OSEEK▪ 9 y. in one sort, & agayne
to the ninth after once he
vvas remoued. The kings of
Assur are called for
Isr. &
Iuda
Iareb that is defender. Ose. 5.
Osee sends Oylefor a present to
So King of
Egypt: to vvin
his fauour.
Salmanasar captiueth
him. His first y. vvas the
20 of
Iotham. His thyrd in the
second sort of gouernēent, othervviseh
[...]s
12 vvas
Ezekias
3
42
4
43
5
44
6
Rest.
45
7
46
8
47
9
48
10
680
49
220
☾
50
3250
1
☽
51
2
1
Rest.
1
52
2
2
The 1 of 10 calamities.
3
3
4
4
5
5
6
6
7
7
8
670
Rest.
8
9
IVB.
9
3260
10
14
10
Achaz k▪ of Israel. 2. Ch. 28. Blame not the text: but learne.
11
11
12
12
13
13
14
14
15
15
16
Rest.
16
1*
*
17
17
2*
18
660
ACHAZ so young a Father as
Elisabet an olde mother, should haue hoped in
Emmanu
[...]l of a virgin.
18
3
19
Vnpitied
Lo-R
[...]h
[...] b. as we once were.
19
4
3270
1
20
20
5
2
6
Salman-asar King of princes.
Os. 8. 10.
3
7
4
8
5
9
6
10
7
11
8
12
9
650
¶
13
1
14
3280
2
15
3
1
16
The second and third of the ten calamities.
☽
4
2
5
Loammi borne. Israel is no people.
3
6
4
¶
¶
7
5
8
6
*
*
9
Rest.
7
8
260
9
3290
From the DIVISION.
Ezekias
Manasses
Iudah.
WORLDE.
Emmanuel.
Before the birth of CHRIST.
10
and to knovv his ende of lyfe.
Yet one fault caused an open denoūcing
of captiuity to his seede:
seruing
Babels king. Esa. 39.
Sanacharib loseth 185000.
The last part of
Ezek. 14.
y. might be a rest: at
Ralbag gathereth
by 2. King. 19.
Vpon
Ezekias sicknesse the
Sunne goeth backe 10 houres:
30 Y. after
Achaz vvould not
take a signe: also after
Emmanuel vvas promised. After
Emmanuels birth 30 y. on
the tenth houre of a certaine day
in an yeere vvhē heauen opened
Iohn Bap. shevveth
Christ. The like reuolutiō of time st
[...]rreth
vs to marke those matters.
MANASSES 55
yeere. Vnder hym
Esay vvat savved
to death.
Talmud in
Iebamoth lefe 49. That it touched
Ebr. 11. They vvere cut vvith a
savve. Of him doth
Oecumenius vnderstand it.
Iustine martyr also obiecteth the same
to
Trypho.
Manasses vvas once vvorse
then any
Chananite, and is
caryed by
Assur to
Babel. Thē
he repented. The K. of
Assur novv ruling, seemeth to be
Asarcha-don, or
Sardan.
He is that
Osnappar that sent
more dvvellers to
Samaria: vvho vvere continuall molesters
of the
Iewes. Ezr. 4. Neh. 10.
and lothed of them. Ioh. 4.
Babel at this time vvas of smal
reputatiō: dvvelt in by strangers:
the Palaces turned to vvatch
tovvres, and brought to ruine.
Esa. 23, 13.
TIRKANA, K. of
Cush or
Ethiop may vvel be that
Tearcon that
Strabo shevveth
to haue been of great povver:
Geogr. 15. vvhere also he recordeth
3291
his first: his 7, the others fourth.
Then is
Samaria besieged. His
ninth the sixt of
Ezechias. Then
Gomer Israel beareth
Loāmy. They myght vvish the
Moūtaynes to fal on thē. Ose. 10.
So might
Ierusalem Luk. 23.
for their destruction by
Rome: and the prophane
Romanes for persecutyng. Apo. 6.
Herodotus in Egypt heard
Sanacharibs story: but corrupted.
Likevvise of the Sunne turned
backe: and of a King that
vvas tolde from God hovv long
he should lyue. Herod. 2.
CYRVS is named long before he
it borne, declared a destroyer of
Babel: and deliuerer of
Israel a buylder of
Ierusalem, and
vncted of God. Esa. 44. & 45.
Here novv
Iudah is saued in
part for the
Oyle. That it
Christ. Esa. 10. By
Iehouah their God. Ose. 1. But
Israel is skattered amongst the Heathē
To
Calach and
Abor and the
Cities of
Madai. 2. King. 17.
Further then
Damascus vvho
vvere caried to
Kyr, Amos 7
and beyonde
Babylon. Act. 7.
I agree vvith them that take
Calach and
Abor here for
Colchis &
Iberia as heathen
name Countries, and vvith their
obseruation out of
Herodotus the oldest
Greke story: vvho
speaking of Circumcision vsed in
Colchis, is thought therein to
meane
Israel skattered there.
Abrahams sōnes multplying
lyke as the starres are in number,
myght sone fill
Togarmah, &
Turkes Countreys: vvho
novv holdyng Circumcision, and
reteining the names of
Abrahā,
Selyman or
Salomon, Ioseph, and such, shevve vvhence
they come for great part: and
ioyne vvith
Ismael. VVhere
11
12
13
Rest.
14
15
1
16
2
17
3
630
18
4
270
19
3300
5
Sanacharib or Sargon.
20
6
21
☞
7
Rest.
22
8
23
9
24
‡
10
25
11
26
12
27
13
620
28
14
Rest.
280
29
3310
15
IVB.
1
15
2
3
4
5
6
7
Rest.
8
610
9
290
10
3320
11
12
The fourth of the ten calamities.
13
Asarchaddon, or Sardan.
14
Rest.
15
16
17
18
600
19
300
20
3330
21
Rest.
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
590
29
310
30
3340
from the DIVISION.
Amon
Manasses
Iuda.
WORLDE.
Before the birth of CHRIST.
31
Nabocodrosor to haue
ben coūted of the
Chaldeās as
famous as
Hercules vvas to
any▪ Before
Pul Arā had greater
fame thē
Assur as vve reade
in the stories of Gods Booke.
VVhereby vve must iudge that
the late vvritinges, supposed old,
that make
Assur the first of 4
Monarches, and frō aūcient time
great, those deserue smal credite.
Since
Pul, Assur pilde ma
[...]y
coūtries, & grevv to be a tree, as
Ez. 31 but novo they begā to fal.
NAVM prophecyeth of a ruine
to
Nineue, and
Abakuk of
the
Chaldeans to arise: vvho
soue grevv to be as great a Tree,
Dan. 4. as
Assur had bene. That
vvould the
Iewes then no more
beleeue that
Babel should master
them: Then they beleeued
Paul. Act. 13. citing
Abakucks vvordes, of Gods vvrath
to make an ende of them.
AMON 2 yeeres.
IOSIAS 31 y. VVho vvat
named long before: vvhen the
Alter at
Bethel rented. 1. Ki.
13. It may very vvell be that
Manasses the grādfather after
his repentance, did thinke of that
Prophecy, and savve that vvell
might his nephevvo performe it,
after that
Israel vvas captiued.
In the 8 y. of his kingdome,
vvhen he vvas a very chyld (yet
he vvas Father to
Eliakim)
thē he sought the God of
Dauid in his 12 y. he destroyed Idoles,
and brent Popel
[...]ke
Baalistes bones. In his 18 y. he kept a
very solenne Passeouer.
MOSES original that vvas hid
in the Temple is read to
Iosias, vvho vveepeth at the prophecy
of transmigration.
Mathanias, or
Tzedek. b.
SOPHONY prophecieth.
3341
marke, that as for Idolatry they
fell: so in
Europe men fallyng
from
Christ by Idolatrie, are
punished then as th
[...]y vvere by
Assur, for the same sinne: for
they rysing from
Euphrates, Apo. 9. and 16. ouerthrovve
Rome or
Babylon for vvorshypping
of Images.
Touchyng the stoying of the
Sunne, it vvas for that age vvhē
Christ vvas promised to come
of a Virgin, to the first King that
did beleeue it, the same in force:
that the Sunnes Eclipse vvas to
the
Centurion. Mat. 27. to
make him acknovvledge the Son
of
God. Consider novv the
malice and folly of the Heathen.
Merodac king
[...]f
Babel sent
to
Ierusalem to demaunde of
this matter. That in Scripture
vve learne Yet the
Chaldean Astronomers vvoulde suppresse
all this: vvho in
Ptolomy often
mentionyng Eclipses about
these tymes, passe ouer this miracle.
The
Grecians turne all
to a vvicked tale: That for
Hercules byrth the Sunne
made a longer nyght.
Lucian. yet here their tale somevvhat
toucheth a trueth.
ELIAKIM,
or Iehoiakīb.
IOACHAZ, Iohn, or
Sallum borne. Elder then his eldest
brother in reigne. 1. Chr. 3. though
in byrth tvvo yeeres younger.
IEREMY prophecieth. Iere. 1, 3. He laboreth to keepe
Iudah from beyng caried to
Babel, as into a vvildernes, 40 y.
before the thyrde Captiuitie,
that vvhich folovveth the Temples
burnyng. To that looketh
Ezek. 4. After that, three or
fore yeeres, he laboreth to keepe
the remnaunt in the land: but
preuayled not.
32
33
34
Rest.
35
36
DAVID
[...]
37
38
580
39
320
40
3350
41
Rest.
42
43
44
45
‡
46
47
48
570
Rest.
49
IVB.
50
3360
16.
51
52
53
54
55
1
Rest.
2
1
560
2
340
3
3370
4
5
6
Rest.
7
8
9
10
‡
11
550
12
350
13
3380
Rest.
14
15
16
17
☞
18
19
20
Rest.
21
540
22
360
23
3390
[Page] THE state of the fourtie yeeres of
IEREMIE is more largely handled in Gods booke,
Ezek. 4, 6. thē that euery yeres story may be touched once in one line: wherefore I wyll so farre breake of the Chronicle, as to make some discourse of thinges fallyng out within it.
Iere. 7, 14. All IOSIAS dayes
IEREMY taught freely,
2. King. 23, 21. 2. Chro. 34, 21. Sophe. 1. that
IERVSALEM should be as
SYLOH. The king reformed his state, kept a most solenne Passeouer, and looked for captiuitie: but God reiourned it vntyl his death. SOPHONY after reformation, warneth the kinges sonnes of Gods iudgement,
2.
K in. 23, 29. The fyfth calamitie. and blameth many for closse Idolatrie. On
EGYPT they stayed, whose king NECHO killed at
MAGEDDON, IOSIAS the vncted of
IEHOVAH. That
ZACHARY remembreth.
2 Chro. 35, 20. 2.
King 23, 34 The syxth calamitie.Cha. 12. and sheweth, that such shalbe their mournyng for killyng of
CHRIST: but to better cōfort. Then
Necho helde
CARCHEMYS against
ASSVR, and displaced king
IOACHAZ, carrying him into
EGYPT, and placed
ELIAKIM king in
IVDAH, changing his name vnto
IEHOIAKYM. In the first yeere of
Iehoiakym Ieremy doth prophecie, that
SALLVM or
IOACHAZ shall not returne from
EGYPT but dye there.
Chr. 22. That NABVCHADNEZAR shalbe king of
BABEL:Iere. 27, 12. & TZEDEKIAS of
IVDAH: that
IERVSALEM shalbe made as
SYLOH. VRIAH is kylde, &
IEREMY quit. His thyrd yeere endyng, and much of his fourth,
Iere. 26, 23. Dan. 1, 1. Iere. 25, 1. is the fyrst of
Nabuchadnezar. Then
Ieremy prophecieth that
NECHOS Garrisons of
CARCHEMYS, and al
EGYPT shalbe subdued by
Nabuchadnezar. The former presently tooke effect.
Nabuchadnezar commeth agaynst
Ierusalem, and
Ieremy telleth againe more particulerly of
Nabuchadnezars power and kingdome to be great for seauentie yeeres:
Dan. 1. The seuenth calamitie. and of
Ierusalems desolation for seauentie. Then
Ierusalem besieged his taken,
IEHOAKIM, DANIEL, ANANIAS, AZARIAS, and
MISAEL, with others of the kinges stocke, are brought to
BABEL. The king is sent home agayne, & made tributarie to
Nabuchadnezar.Iere. 36, 15. Iere 22, 19. 2. King. 24, 1, 2. Chro. 36, 6. Dan. 1, 8. Leuit, 11. The same yeere: and the next
Ieremy lamenteth
Ierusalem. BARVC is his Scribe, readeth his Lamentations: which
IEHOAKYM cut in peeces: thereupon God telleth that he shal be buried as an Asse. Three yeeres
Iehoakym serued
Nabuchadnezar, the next herebelleth. Three yeeres
Daniel, Ananias, Azarias, and
Misael, bestowe in Chaldean studies: hauyng shewed rare care and courage in straight obedience to MOSES ceremonies. When
Iehoakym rebelled, then the other are found ten tymes better learned then the
Chaldeans, by the kyng: and appoynted of hym to serue in his Court.
Esa. 39, 6. So
Esays prophecy is fulfylled. 2.
King. 20.
DANIEL had also skill in Visions and Dreames: whose case I compared before with IOSEPHS for tyme of shewyng skyll, for kinges affection, for excellyng Magicians, for aduauncement to the mayntenaunce of their brethren. Two yeere after he had shewed the kyng the dexteritie of his studie,
Consider
Daniel, Chap. 2. vvith the 7, 8, and 11. The king in one dreame seeth how
BABEL alone,
MADAI and
PARAS ioyntly,
IAV AN fyrst ioyntly, after parted, in
EGYPT and
BABEL shoulde rule many Nations, & afflict EBER vntil the birth of our Lord, the king of all kinges: as
Esa. 9. This he saw in one Image, and forgate his dreame. DANIEL saw the same: remembred it: taught it the king: is made a great man: preferreth
Ananias, Azarias, and
Misael, to be rulers in
BABEL. Sone after the king setteth vp a great Image: and casteth
Ananias, Azarias,Dan. 3. and
Misael, into a Fornace of flaming fyre, accused to refuse the worshypping of it.
Esa. 43, 2.
[...]hr. 11, 34. When they went into the Fire IEHOVAH went with them: and
Nabuchadnezar saw one like the sonne of God. By fayth they quenched
[Page] the force of fyre. The king is amazed, maketh it death to speake amysse of their God: yet
Iehoakym in
Iudah repenteth not, of oppression, & bloodshed,
The eyght calamitie. and sacrilege, and vnloyaltie.
Ierusalem is agayne taken:
Iehoakym bound fyrst: at the last, cast away vnburied, as an Asse deserued.
IEHOIACHIN his sonne is now eyghteene yeeres olde,
2.
King. 24, l. The ninth calamitie. who was ten when HE (the Father) was made king: he was king three monethes: of hym
Ieremy tolde, that none of his seede shoulde sit vpon DAVIDS throne, and that he shoulde die chyldles.
Iere. 22, 30. 2. Chro. 36, 10. 1 Chro. 3, 15. 2 King. 24, 17. Iere. 27, 5. Iere. 28,
[...]. verse 17. MATHANIAS his brother by generall terme of coosenage: His fathers brother properly, in successiō his sonne is made king by
Nabuchadnezar, as God tolde
Ieremy. Foure yere
Ieremy laboureth to teach how nations must beare the yoke of
BABEL: After
Iechonias and
Mordochay were caryed away. In his fourth yeere
ANANIAS prophecyeth falsely: that within two yeeres God will breake the yoke of the king of
BABEL, and restore
IECHONIAS home, and all that were caryed with hym:
Ieremy telleth
Ananias that for his false prophecie he should dye that same yeere: which death of his fell out as it was foretolde. The same yeere
Ieremy writeth to
Israel caryed to
Babel, that they shoulde looke for the ende of seuentie yeeres before they looked to returne. Also, he sendeth to
Babylon a prophecie of the fall of
Babylon,Iere. 50. and, Chap. 51. larger then that in
ESAY. Chap. 13.
& 14.
& 21. Or that in
ABAKVK Chap. 2. and charged the bearer
SARAYAS ruler of
Menucha, who was sent from
TZEDEKIA
[...] to
Babel that he shoulde reade the Prophecie at
Euphrates: then shoulde he tye it to a Stone, and cast it into the myddle of
Euphrates, saying: Thus shall
Babylon be drowned.
Apoc. 18, 21. Apoc. 17, 5. The lyke are we taught,
Apo. 18. touching
ROME, called
BABYLON in a mysterie. Then a myghty Angell tooke vp a Stone lyke a great Milstone, and cast it in
[...]o the Sea, saying: with such violence shal the great citie
Babylon be cast and shalbe no more found. As
Ieremy writes to
Babylon to keepe
Israel in true patience,
Iere 28, 17. and hope of deliueraunce: so false Prophetes in
Babylon resisted him: One
ACHAB and
TZEDEKIAS,Iere. 29, 22. of whom he prophecyeth that
Nabuchadnezar will make them an ensample, and a byworde of myserably cursed: burnyng them in fyre. We may be sure so it fell out, because they styrred men to fall away from his obedience. He that spared not the
Chaldeans, Dan. 2. would not spare them. Also in
Babylon there was a man called
SAMAIAH, who wrote to
Ierusalem agaynst
Ieremy, that he shoulde be clapt vp in Lytle-ease, for writyng to
Babel that their captiuitie shoulde be long.
IEREMY from God sendeth him a bitter answere: He calleth him a
Neclemite: which is, a Dreamer. It may be his family came of
NACHAM 1.
Chr. 4, 19. and as he pretended, that the punishers of
Ieremy shoulde folowe
Iehoiada:Iere. 29, 32. so myght
Ieremy taunthim, that he was rather to be called a dreamyng
Neclemite, then a Noe-like
Nachamite: for of
Nacham, (which meaneth comfortyng) had
NOE his name.
Gen. 5. Of him
Ieremy wryteth, that in
Babylon his family shall peryshe.
When
Ieremy had ben thus resisted,
Ezek. 1, 1. by false Prophetes, God styrreth vp
Ezekiel to perswade the remnant by wryting, that they shoulde be caryed to
Babel.Est 2, 6. He was captiued when
Iechonias and
Mardochai were. His example,
Eze. 40, 1. and the experience of two Captiuities myght haue warned them not to store vp wrath: but to marke how
Israel pylde by
PVL, captiued and pylde in part to strayght slauery by
Tiglath-Pel-esar, had ful payment to bondage by
Salman-asar. So
Iudaht Citie already surprised twise by
[Page]IEHOIAKYMS frowardnes, was now past hope of abilitie to resist one set vp a Conquerer for their sinnes, when they dayly more and more prouoked Christ agaynst them.
Ezeki. 1. The thyrteth yeere after the solenne Passeouer, & fyndyng of
MOSES originall,
EZEKIEL seeth the glory of God and Christ: also he seeth the mynistery of the Angels, which in wit excell, in might are strong, in seruice vnweary, in quicknes flit: them he saw in forme of bodyed weightes, bearyng in part the forme of a Man, of a Lyon, of on Oxe, of an Egle: they had also wynges: and a voyce was heard: of the blessed glory of IEHOVAH from his place. The Christians redeemed from the Heathen,
Apoc. 8, 7. haue much the lyke.
Apo. 4. Here were also wheeles within wheeles with fellyes full of eyes: whereby the creature ruled by an endles foresight, ought to be meaned. There appeared besydes vpon a Sapphyre throne the lykenes of a man, with the sight of fyre myxt with the Raynebowes coloure. So Christ sheweth hym selfe afore the ende of ten Calamities named
Esa. 6.
Ezeks. 3. & 4. Now
Ezekiel in Table, Dyet, and lying on his Sides, betokeneth that
Ierusalem by siege, and famyne, shalbe taken: wherein note specially the tyme, applying a day to a yeere. Three hundred and ninetie dayes represent so many yeeres from the fallyng away by
IEROBOAM. By so many yeeres shall
Ierusalem be destroyed, and left defolate. In the ende of them, when you are within fourtie of the last, on the other syde, was
Ezekiel to lye fourty dayes for a new remembraunce of the sinne of
IVDAH: who shoulde be destroyed as aforesayd: and that when fourtie yeeres shoulde be accomplyshed in the preachyng of
Ieremy, whom they so much despised. Famous woulde God haue the paynes of that his seruaunt.
Ezeki. 5. The same tyme
Ezekiel shauyng his head, and partyng the heare, sheweth
IVDAHS case. One part
[...]he burnt with fyre: an other part he cut with a sworde: the thyrde part
[...]he skattered into the wynde. One part he bound vp: and soone after
[...]he brent also that part. So
Israel shoulde peryshe in besiege by famyne, pestilence, and such dispertion, and a small remnaunt for a whyle left with Gedaliah, shoulde soone by
Ismael come to nothyng.
Iere. 41, 2. The next yeere agayne he seeth the glory of Christ, leauyng the Temple, the Cherubim accompanying, and goyng to Mount
Oliuet. The lyke forsakyng of the Temple Christ shewed with his Disciples in the dayes of his
[...]eshe.
Mat. 24. But
Iudah knew not God in Christ, reconcyling the worlde vnto hym selfe. Thus the two yeeres confute
Ananias the false Prophet. In the seuenth of
Tzedekias Ezekiel telleth that
Israel brought from the Wildernes into the PLEASANT LANDE, shalbe brought agayne into the Wildernes of the Heathen. Note that to be the name of
Chanaan,Ezeki. 20, 7. Dan. 8, 9. Dan. 11. 16. Ezeki. 21, 26. the PLEASANT LANDE in
Eze. 20. &
Dan: 8 and PLEASANT Mountayne.
Dan. 11, for
Syon or
Ierusalem. In that yeere
Ezekiel calleth
Tzedechias a prophane bad man: and telleth of his abasing, &
Ie-chonias aduancement: & the Crowne ouerturned, & that the Kingdōe shal be no more vntyl HE commeth to whom it belongeth. He meaneth thereby CHRIST:
Luk. 1, 32. who shall fit vpon the throne of
DAVID for euer.
Luk. 1. To this place of
Ezekiel respected
Nathanael, when he sayth to the Lord:
Iohn. 1, 49, Thou art the Sonne of GOD: thou art the king of
ISRAEL: acknowledgyng that he was come
[...]o whom it belonged.
Deut 15, 12, Iere. 34, 14. In the yere of Rest, Seruantes were made free according to
Moses: whom their Maisters made bound againe against the Law: thereupon
Ieremy telleth of their bondage.
[Page] In the ninth yeere of the second Captiuitie,
Est. 2. that is since
Iechonias Mard
[...] chai, and
Ezekiel, were carryed captiues, and
Tzedechias was made king: the tenth month,
2. King. 25, 1. the tenth day of the month,
Iere. 52, 4.Ezekiel is tolde in
Mesopotamia that,
Iere. 39, 1.Nabuchaduezar that very day in
Iudea layde siege to
Ierusalem.Ez. 24, 2. 6, 16. Then God lykneth
Ierusalem vnto a pot seethyng full of flesh, vntyl al be marde.
Ezekiels wyfe dyeth: for whom he is forbid to mourne, as his peoples sorow for the chyldren of
Ierusalem shoulde be greater then open mournyng myght expresse. Notwithstanding al this, at
Ierusalem litle thought they that their Citie should be destroyed: and
Ieremy is in Prison, for saying that God woulde deliuer
Ierusalem into the hand of the king of
Babel. First in straight prison.
Iere. 37. & 38Cha. 37. after in the court prison, after that in a dungeon, thence is brought againe to the court prison, wherein he tarieth vntyll the Citie is taken.
Iere. 32, 7. The 19 of
Nabuchadnezar. In
Tzedechias tenth yeere the Prophete buyeth a peece of ground of
Chanameel his vnckles sonne,
Iere. 32. and 33. in token that after their cariage to
Babel, there shal be for
Iudah a returne, and policy to buye & sel. The same tyme he confirmeth the people in expectatiō of Christ: which couenaunt is stronger that the heauens order. The same yeere
Ezekiel
[...] prophecyeth that
Pharoah king of
Egypt (who had ben as a Reede to the house of
Israel) should be ouerrun, as before
Ieremy had tolde.
Cha. 44. And in these tymes of siege,
Ezek. 5, 10. extreame sorow befell in
Israel by plague, famine, and sworde. Fathers did eate their chyldren, and chyldren their fathers.
Moses foresaw and foretolde that.
Deut 28, 53. A greater desolation is after told,
Dan. 9, 27. 2 whe
[...]CHRIST is vtterly denyed by them.
King. 25, 2. In the eleuenth yeere of
Tzedechias▪ the fourth month,
Iere. 39, 3. the Citie is taken:
Iere. 52, 5. Then
Nergal, Sarezer & other Noble of
Babylon enter into it. The Heathen make
Nerighsarus one of the kinge
[...] of
Babel: a pettie king well he might be vnder
Nabuchadnezar, but none o
[...] the chiefe three, for whose reigne only
Iudah should be in
Babel. These Potentates of
Babel executyng the iudgement of Christ,
Iere. 26, 8. by the close assistanc
[...] of his Angels, are perfourmers of that vision which
Ezekiel saw in
Tzedechias sixt yeere: when Angels lyke men come from the north Gate, the
[...] another man marketh them in the Forehad that mourned for the sinn
[...] of the Citie,
Ezek. 9, 3, 4. that they might be kept safe. That falleth out in
Ieremy, Bar
[...] Abdemelech, and such godly. So in the spirituall fall from the fayth to Idolatry, which the
Apocalyps reuealeth: An Angell commeth from th
[...] East,
Apoc. 7, 8, 9. and sealeth a great number: who makes seuen Trumpeters agayns
[...] king
Abaddon. Now by nyght
Tzedechias fled through the kinges Garden▪ and through the gate betweene the two walles: and he went through th
[...] fieldes:
1 King. 25. the
Chaldeans ouertooke him at
Iericho: brought him to
Riblah, condemned him, slew his chyldren before his eyes, and brought him to
Babe
[...] ▪ but he neuer saw
Babel, being made blynde before. This,
Ezekiel wa
[...] taught in
Tzedechias sixt yeere,
Ezek. 8. when he was commaunded to prepare instruments of transmigration: and to change place before his peoples ey
[...] on the day lyght: and in the night to goe foorth before them, and dygg
[...] hole in a wall, and to bring those that beheld him through that hole: th
[...] he was to couer his owne face, that he should not see that Land. Th
[...] the wheeles of Gods gouernement appeare ful of eyes, that so accordingly ruled
Tzedechias case.
The tenth calamity. The nintenth yere of
Nabuchadnezar the first mon
[...]Nebuzaradan burned the house of
IEHOV AH, the kinges house, and all th
[...] Nobles houses. Now we are come to the fourtie yeeres
Ez
[...]. 4.
Novv I vvill returne to
Iosias times.
Daniel Ananias,
Azarias &
Misael, vvere b.
about
Iosias solenne Passceouer,
if 21 y. aged they serued
Nabuchadnezar. In yoūg yeeres
the youths manifested thē selues.
Ioachaz made eldest, k 3. m
[...]n.
IEHOIAKYM reigneth by
Necho 11 yeere.
The first desolation of
Ierusalem. Dan. 1. & 9. Iere. 26. The
dayes of Gods slaughter. Soph 1.
The middle of the tyme. Aba. 3.
The space frō
Samuel to
Nabuchad. and that frō
Cyrus to
Tyberius eightenth is the
sam;, euen seuen seuenties.
CHONIAS k. 3
months.
TZEDEKIAS 11
yere. Sardan-pul loseth Assur. Belesis
or Baltasar stirreth Babel to this
victory, foretelling it from God.
EZEKIEL
prophecieth 30
yeeres after the findyng
of the Booke of the law.
This
Rest is vvorthy marking.
IERVSALEM
is besieged.
EZRA b. before
Seraia dieth
IERVS ALEM is taken, & the
Temple burnt▪ then the visionie
fire of
Ezekiel taketh effect
Cha. 10, 2. So Apo
[...]. vvhē Antichrist
riseth,
Christ frō him
selfe the Alter casteth afyre agaynst
the prophaners of
Ierusalem. sent frō Heauen, Ap 3.
Israel seeming to be dead bones
shal returne.
Gog &
Magog shal vexe thē: so
Iauā in
Asia, for
Gygs house novv myghty
in
Croesus, is tearmed: Hence
Gog &
Magog is borovved
Apo. 20.
Obadias telleth
Edoms ruine, and a restoring to
Iacob: to inhabite
Chanaā from
Sarepta to
Separad.
In the 25 y. of
Ezekiels captiuitie
14 y. after the citie vvas
stroken (That time, as the 18 of
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Herodotus in
Euterpe somvvhat harpeth vpō the story
of
Necho, that kilde
Iosias at
Mageddon: saying, that
Nechos fought vvith the
Syriās at
Magdol, and ouercame
them. Moreouer he recordeth
that
Necho heard a prophecy
that his vvorkes should turne to
the benefite of a
Barbarian. That prophecy might be Ieremies
NABVCHADNEZAR King of
Babel, the lande of
Nimrod, Mich. 5, 6. VVhere
the Tovvrebuilding confounded
the mother tongue into 70: his
kingdome ouerthrevv
Dauids outvvard kingdome, and helde
Iudah 70 y. in captiuity from
the first desolation, or
Daniels transmigration. There
Daniel beginneth: and describeth the
troublers of
Dauids house vntil
our
Lord his byrth. Them I
haue expressed in a Mapp, vvith
the seats of
Noes sōnes, vvhose
Countries in
Moses tyme repleni
[...]hed,
are called all the
Earth. I suppose, that paines vvil
ease him that delyghteth in
that kinde: and vseth it from
this place forvvarde.
Nabu. His kingdome is a Mountaine destroying;
a Lion vvith vvinges,
comming out of a Sea: and the
head of the Image. From hence
in part
Rome hath the Image
of the Beast, the mouth of a Lion
commyng out of the Sea, and i
[...] the
Popes supremacie a Mountaine
of fyre cast into the Sea.
Also, hence
Rome is called
Babylon in a mystery.
Apo. 17
Egypt after
Ierusalems si
[...]gec, o
[...]tended vvith
Babel: agaynst vvhom
Ezekiel prophecieth
in
Chonias 11 y.
Cha. 31. Thē also against
Tyrus Cha. 26, 27, 28. againe in
Chonias 27. or
Nabu. 34. Cha. 30.
25
26
27
28
Rest.
29
30
‡ Epmenides b.
31
530
1
The Lions deuouring men.
Eza 19.
370
2
3400
3
That Egle
Eza▪ 1
[...].
[...] ▪
But
Phar
[...]oah is an Egle.
ver. 7.
Ezek. 4. in the
4
The first captiuity.
1
5
Babel is the land of Merchandize.
Eza. 17.
2
6
3
7
4
8
5
An Image is of gold, syluer, brasse, iron.
9
6
10
7
520
11
He &
Mar
[...]chai &c. are the cedar twigs
Eza. 17
8
Rest.
The second captiuity.
1
3410
9
IVB.
2
10
17
3
The basket of good Figges
Ier 27
11
☝
4
12
5
13
6
14
7
15
Rest.
8
16
9
17
10
18
Ba
[...]sasar Daniel, may wel be
Belesus in
Diod▪ Sic 3.
390
11
3420
Darius Madai is borne vvhē
Nab maketh a K. in
Iuda▪ Dā 5.
19
From
Israels sinne vnder
Ieroboam 40 y. since
Ieremy preached
E
[...] [...].
The third captiuity.
20
427 y. from the Temples foundation.
The basket of bad Figges.
Ier. 24.
21
22
23
24
25
26
Reade for
Ierusalem now
Ieremies lament.
27
500
28
3430
29
30
31
32
*
33
34
35
36
Amasis k. in Egypt.
Poly
[...]r
[...] friende,
Herod. 3.
Iosias vvas the middle of
Iubilee)
then
Ezekiel seeth a
citie called IEHOVAH There.
That
Christ buildeth. Heb. 11.
and Apo 27.
Nabuchadnezar after
Egypts fal, being at rest, dreameth
of a great Tree cropt: bearing
the hart of a beast seuē yeres.
Daniel expoundeth it of
Nabuchadnezar, vvho after
tvvelue monethes bosting proudly
of
Babels [...]uylding: & nothing
repēting for destroying the Temple,
that seuen yeeres vvorke:
Falleth into a madnes: so continueth
seuen yeres among beastes.
After that he proclaymeth his
shame, and Gods glory But styll
[...]he holdeth
Bel his God.
Dan 4.
The
Chaldeans in
Abydenus fragment recorde that he
vvas blasted by some God: and
spake of
Babels fall, by the
Persians: But the Aey-lyers
make the
Babylonian Gods
offended the Authors of that:
and vvill not recorde Gods Prophetes
for
Babels fall.
The
WORD is named
Messias by an Angel. That is in
Greke
CHRIST. The time of
his death shalbe after seuen seuenties.
Into three partes he deuideth
these seuens: and ioyneth
proper stories to the first and the
last part: Seuen of them from
Cyrus first yeere, and permission
to returne to buylde
Ieruslem. Esa 44, 45. & Ezr. 4, 12
shall passe before they shall haue
builded it. Thence are sixty tvvo
seuens to the last seuen, set a part
for the Lord his preaching. Of
that last seuen the first part is
past in silence: as for a preparatiō:
that latter halfe doth
Christ bestovv in confirming the Testament
for many: Beginning at his
baptisme: ending at his death.
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Then vvas
Tyrus ouerthrovven.
From the destruction of
Tyrus may speches are borovved
Apo. 18. to assure vs of
Romes fall Sone after
Tyrus,
Egypt is subdued.
Euilmerodac taketh
Iechonias
out of Prison Ier. 52.
He and his sonne
Belshazar make vp the rest to touch seuēty
In
Bel
[...]hazars first yere foure
beastes rising out of a Sea, Dā. 7.
are the Images foure Metalles. a
Lion, Beare, Leopard and one ten
horned. They being cast into fire,
The son of man cōmeth to take
a kingdome.
Romes empire is
one beast compoūded of those 4.
Amongst the fathers of
Iudahs families in
Babylō, one is
Adonikā: his name is
A God-rising: his children are 666.
Ezr. 2, 13 VVhen the
Pope reuiueth
the empire beast, & riseth
as a God in the Church, falling to
Babel: Then is he the beast horned
like a Lambe. And 666 being
a number attributed vnto a
mā, shevveth a name expressing
the vsurping Vicar of
Christ.
DARIVS and
Cyrus: Artaxast Prince.
Daniel stoppeth
Lyons mouthes. Eb. 11. The
returne is graunted for buildyng
Ierusalem: hyndered somvvat
by
Artaxast in
Cyrus third.
Then
Messias, vvho shoulde
suffer, appeareth to
Dan. Chap.
1. as vvhen he had suffered: he
vvas seene of
Paul: contemning
Stephen, hauyng the counteneunce
of the Angell, and his
vvordes from Dan. 9. But more
alyke doth he appeare agayne to
Iohn Apo. 1. He is called
Michael, the Archangel His Angell
telleth of the
Iewes sufferinge
vntyl
Epimanes death.
ACHASVEROS the third K.
and
Xerxes the fourth. Dan. 11.
40
41
42
43
44
45
1
2
480
Cyrus maketh
Cr
[...]sus Tutor to
Camb
[...]ses.
3
3450
4
Belshazar She-
[...]ac Ier.
[...]5. That is, vvhich kept a drunken Feast, drinketh Dan. 5. That Feast is mentioned in
Atheneus 14, frō
Berosus & Cresias, and in Her. 1.
Strabo also (booke 11) expoundeth
Saca a Bacchus Feast: and recordeth a victory
5
6
7
8
9
of
Cyrus by his enemies unsober banquetyng.
10
11
12
IVB.
Here
Cyrus dreameth of
Darius Hyst. reigne
Her. 1.
13
18
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14
15
16
17
18
19
20
onely in
Daniel is a dealer against the
Iewes. Try that, and it vvill appeare.
21
22
Babel falleth▪ by
Sems Elā, and
Iapheths Madai (an Angel helping.) Dan
[...], 6, & 9, 11. Both proclayme
Sems God: &
Cyrus buyldeth h
[...] [...]se. E
[...].
[...]. & 6.
Ierusalem shalbe destroyed in the next age after our Lord his death Dan. 9. Th
[...]Rome
A
Ramme is
Paras. A
Goate Buck Iauā. Da
[...]
1
70
3470
2
1
Here first the
Grekes knevv the
Barbariā stories S
[...]. 15.
3
The first returne. Gabriels 70 seauens.
2
The Head, Lyon, Trees time is ended.
3
4
5
6
7
1
‡
1
Sanballat B. vvho savv
Alexander.
2
*
3
3480
4
Thucid. Paus. & Athen. hold
Grekes of no certainty.
5
6
7
2
1
* Dari
[...] Artaxast. b.
2
*
3
4
5
6
3490
IVDA,
Gabriels 70 SEVENS.
Michaels people.
WORLDE
Brest, Beare, Ram.
Before the birth of CHRIST. The son of man.
7
3
Achasueros decreeth, that all
Iewes in his 127 coūtries should
die in one day, because their
lavves differed frō the Heathen
Mardochai, and
Adossa, turne it on
Haman the Amaleakite
Num 24. and by fayth do
the
Iewes escape the edge of
the svvorde. Ebr. 11.
DARIVS Artaxast is king
of
Persia: of
Assur Ezr 6. of
Babylon. Neh. 13. He knevv
that Gods vvrath vvas vpon his
predecessors for hinderyng the
Temple. In his second the Temple
is taken in h
[...]nde, is finished
in his sixt Ezr. 6. In his seuenth
Ezra returneth vvith aucthoritte
to imprison, amerce banishe,
kil the disobedient to the Lavv:
Taketh order to put avvay all
vvomen and their chyldren of
natient impure in
Moses.
That rule &
Nehemiahs is a
Booke for the eues and svvearers:
Sinne is a vvoman cast into a
Bushel, prest by Lead: and caried
to
Babel by tvvo.
Zach. 5.
IERVSALEM is buylt by
the seuenth seuen: and the Cloysters
about the Temple: vvherefore
the Temple is sayd to be
49 yeere in buyldyng
Clem.
Str. 1.
Eusebius, Ioseph,
Cedr. as the City:
Abenezra vpon Dan. 9. That vvas 46
from
Cyrus thyrde, vvhen
Daniel mourned for the hinderance
of it: to vvhich time vve
may referre that 46 yere. Ioh. 2.
Frō
Cyrus third to the ende of
the 62 seuēs, & to the 7 vvherin
our Lord buyldeth his Temple.
are y. 480.
Cedrenus reckoneth
out of
Iosephus from the
seuē seuēs end, to
Ierusalēs destructiō,
by the Romanes 480
y. VVhereby
Iosephus she vveth
hovv rightly in his age
Gabriels seuens vvere counted.
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Xerxes his name in Greeke
vvriting agreeth vvith this
name
Achasueros, as it is
vvritten in Ebrevv, Est 10 yet
that vvhole booke argueth, that
Achasueros to be rather
his father: as Grekes set forth
Darius Hystaspis. VVell
might
Xerxes beare that his
fathers name: so the other sonne
Esters child (at the
Ebrewes vvel thinke) bare the name
Darius.
Xerxes stirreth
Paras against
Iauā, that Messias vvho
hath his handes most pure may
revvarde them, vvith quicke &
sharpe dealing, according to their
vvorkes for hindryng the buylding
of his Temple, and putting
his people in feare of death.
AGGAI and
Zachary teache.
Iehouah vvas vvith
them; and the
Worde, and the
Spirite. CHRIST shall
come of
Zorobabel, vvho is
of
Nathan, and before that
Temple shalbe destroyed. Ag. 2.
ZACHARY telleth of
Babel to haue bene at a pit vvithout
vvater.
Chaldeans vvere
hornes:
Persians to them Smithes.
Christ is an Angell, and
Iehouah. Angels attende.
Iesus signifieth him. The Temple
and
Ierusalem shalbe buylded
It hath bene vnvvalled to shevv
both God a fyerie vvall: and the
number to come vncumpassable.
The Candlesticke hath tvvo
Oliues vvhich stande before the
Lord of the vvhole earth. Therby
the Church vvith full graces it
meant. Al that testifie the truth,
Apo. 11. are for number & gracet
tearmed hence. Gods forecare,
povver, and speede, by his Angels,
in diuers sortes for
Iudah at home, and in
Babel is exprest
by foure Charets commyng out
of moūtaynes of Steele: and Horses
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
4
430
1
Reade the booke of
Esther for this King.
2
3500
3
*
4
5
6
7
5
1
2
3
420
4
Many that savv
Sal. Temple vvere yet aliue. Ag. 2, 4.
5
3510
IVB.
6
* Here place the
Pelopon warres.
19
7
6
1
2
2 Returne.
3
4
5
6
410
7
7
To the walling of
Ierusalem, Eliasib first stept: and bylt at the Shepgate poole: & sanctified that portion.
Ne
[...]. 3. Here might wel begin the miracle of the Angel making healthy the waters to all diseases for him that first stept in
Ioh. 5, 2.
1
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2
3 Returne.
3
4
5
6
7
8
1
2
3
4
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5
Neh. returneth to
Artax. in his 32. Ch. 5. & 13.
6
7
9
1
2
3
4
5
6
20 generations are frō
Nathan to
Neri, & frō
Dauids death to the captiuity 410 y.
Zorobabel and
Mary make other 20. and frō
Cyrus fyrst to our Lordes byrth are yeres 457 in S.
Mathevv but 10 generations. Those confute them that bryng 557 yeres. Those men be stars.
7
10
3540
Gabriels 70 SEVENS.
IVDA, holy people.
WORLDE.
Brest, Beare, Ram.
Before the birth of CHRIST. The son of man.
1
After this
Artax. Only
Darius
Persa the last K. is named
in Scripture: Neh 12, 22. Then
vvas
Iaddua hygh Sacrificer,
vvho met
Alexander. Ioseph Ant. 11. Ch. 7, & 8.
Ezra savv their vvhole times Ne. 12,
26 and vvrote 1. Chr. 9. in
Iochanās age, father to
Iaddua. He vvas b. 50 yeeres before
Babel fell: for so long afore his father
vvas k
[...]lde. 2. k 25. vvherfore
they must stretch his age aboue
Isaaes 180 y. that geue
Madai &
Paras aboue 130 y.
Nehemias a captaīe in
Cyrus first vvriteth of their last
Kinges.
Sanballat his aduersarie
vvas great vvith
Alexander. Halfe a skore of seuerall
men liued from the time of
Ioakim father to
Eliasib, to the
ende of the
Persians. Neh. 12.
The
Grekes exceedingly geue
too many yeres to
Cyrus, Artaxast, &
Achasueros. The
reprouing of them then is needefull,
seeyng they thoulde disanull
Gabriels prophecy: and easely
are they disproued. Fyrst by the
age of
Mardochai, Zorobabel,
Iesus, & them in Ag. 2, 4.
And through
Ezra and
Nechemias. Conferre Heathen.
In
Spart Anaxandrides it
of
Croesus age. His couragious
sonne
Leonides died agaynst
Xerxes. Her. 7.
Polycrates vvealth, (He vvas
Amasis friende) In
Socrates olde age vvas graunted
Ismenias.
Pla. Epimenides cited
Tit. 1. aduiseth
Nicias of
Niceratus for an Alter to an vnknovven
God. Laertius. Act 17. The vvhole successiō of
lyues vvill disproue their deceiteful
Olympiades: vvhich
made olde
Grekes and
Latines to misse in 100 yeres.
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of diuers coloures. The lyke
for Horses i
[...] in Apo. 6.
Syria shalbe plagued by
Iauan, and
Iauā Gog-Magog for
Iudah.
Christ vvil come riding
vpon an Asse: shalbe solde for
thirtie Sicles: He the shepharde
shalbe striken, and the Apostles
the she
[...]pe shalbe skattered: his
side shalbe pearsed: They shall
mourne vvhen they consider it.
Act. 2. Apo. 1. The blind
Iewes at this day in the
Talmud.
Mass. Suchoth meane it of
Christ the some of
Ioseph, The sonne of
Dauid, vvhich
vvas kilde: vvho asked of God
lyfe for euer, and had it: and all
the earth his possessions. They
seeyng vvill not see.
Ierusalem shalbe destroyed, the Lordes feete
standyng on
Mount Oliuet. There the Lord telleth the same
thing. Mat. 24. A
Ierusalem for all shalbe buylt. This is the
summe of
Zachary.
Malachi in Greeke
Angel, endeth the Prophetes. In him
Iohn Baptist is once called
Malachi: and agayne
Elias in
the end of his Prophecy.
Marke beginneth vvith
Malachi, or
Angel:
Gabriel vvith
Elias in the first spech of the nevv Testament.
So svveetely in spechet
hath God ioyned the old & nevv
Testament. They vvho holde the
hid
Apocrypha to be breathed
by Gods spirite, can not holde this
true. The late Ebrevves reiect
them: for ska
[...]t heard of them. In
Ebrew they are not. The nevv
Testament citeth thē not, othervvyse
then
Homer or
Demosthenes. The old Ebrevves
heard not of any of them, vvho in
Ezdras age, toke order for preseruation
of euery letter in the
Prophetes: & brought the vvhole
summe to 805 380. Rab. Sad.
2
3
4
5
6
7
11
1
380
2
3
3550
4
5
Nicias of Niceratus is kilde.
T
[...]u. 7.
6
7
12
1
2
3
4
370
5
IVB.
6
3560
20
7
13
Socrates d. Laertius.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
14
360
1
2
3570
3
4
5
6
7
15
1
2
3
350
4
5
3580
6
7
16
1
2
3
4
5
6
340
7
17
1
3590
Gabriels 70 SEVENS.
Iuda, The Mountaine.
WORLDE.
Grecia.
CHRIST.
2
Now the Angell goeth from
Paras, and God nūbreth, wayeth,
& deuideth their power.
Darius the
Persian gaue rewardes
for inuentors of new
pleasures, and thereby he was
not ware how he had sold his
kingdome, vntyll another
was proclaymed to beare his
Scepter
Athen. He caried with
him in Campe 350. Concubines.
Diod. Sic. In him worthely
the Siluer is made dust.
The Beare is cast into fyre:
and the Ramme cast downe.
Dan. 2. 7. 8.
3591
Iauan by 6 yere ruleth
Paras. And
6 yere more
Alexander doth vvhat
he vvil. Then he dyeth, and his house.
His Captaynes part the spoyle: foure
are chiefe.
Perdiccas and
Antigonus tvvo of the foure chiefe vvere
in tyme killed by
Ptolemy Lagi and
Seleucus Nicator, the tvvo
other chiefe: vvho ioyned povvers,
and continuall affinitie. This much
is in
Daniel touchyng
Iauan, in
the Belly & Sides: Leopardes foure
heades, and Bucke of sundry hornes.
The tvvo standyng
Seleucus and
Pto. make the tvvo Legges & fourth
Beast.
3
4
5
6
7
18
1
2
3
4
3600
5
6
7
19
1
2
3
The Angel
Dan. 11. disauthorizeth the Macabyes by
1. Ma
[...] 1, 7. way both diligently.
4
Iuda, high Saintes
GOG-North.
World.
South, Egypt.
5
Alexander toke order
vvith
Iuda for token
of subiection, that each
sacrificers childe borne
that y. should be named
Alexāder. R. Abr.
Alexander licenced
Sanballat to buylde a
Temple for
Samaritans and fals
Iewes. The sonnes of
Iesus of
Iosadak had contracted
affinitie vvith thē.
Those
Ezra and
Nehemias excommunicated.
R. Abr. Therefore
the
Iewes of
Ierusalē myght not vse
familiaritie vvith thē.
That religion doth our
Lord confute Ioh. 4.
Alexander vvrought
trobles to
Chadrach; countries about
Iuda,
Damascus, Tyrus,
Sidon, and
Gaza to
teach that God hath an
eye vpō almen. Zach 9.
Alexanders act are
vvritten by
Plutarch,
Diod. Sic. Arrian,
Curtius, &
Iustin.
SELEVCVS
Nicat. He is that one of
Alexanders Princes, mightier
then the king of
the South: and of greater
dominion. Dan. 11.
Appian vvriteth of
al his house: and noteth
him to be the mightiest
of all
Alexanders successours. VVhen he
slevv
Antigonus,
Iudea fell to be vnder
him, because
Antigonus had gotten it from
Ptolemy. His kingdome
is playnely spoken
of in Ezekiel in
Gog and
Magog. Gyg is
famous in
Hero. Plat.
Tul. Gyg-Pole &
Gyg-Mount is no
lesse: in
Hom. &
Str.
Magog, or
Hierapolis, or
Bambyce is
as much famous for the
Idolatry to
Derceto: Therefore these tvvo
names
Gog &
Magog playnely note
Seleucus kingdomm: at
doth
Meshech, Tubal,
Paras, Gomer,
Sele
[...]cus Nicator his armes vv
[...]re an Ancore: but on his Image vv
[...]re gr
[...]ē Hornes He buylt
Antiochia. Str. vvhere the faithful vvere first cald
Christians. Act. 11. to shevv that
Christvvas great ouer
Gog.
PTOLEMY Lagi k. of
Egypt: of him spake
the Angell.
Dan. 11.
The king of the
south shalbe mighty.
Diod: Sie. noteth
that by speciall diuine
fauoure he
stode. Humane he
was, and receyued
his reward. He at
the first gate
Iudea, entring into
Ierusalem on the Sabboth
as a friende: but
dealt as a Beast
with teeth of Iron.
Thousands of
Daniels people caryed
he to the lande of
Cham: and placed
them in Garrisōs.
Strabo Geogr. 17. reckoneth
al the
Ptolemyes vntyl
Egypt becōmeth
vnder the
Romans. The poseeritie
of this
Ptol
[...]my claymed
Chan
[...]an, pretending that he
holpe
Sel
[...]ue
[...] on
that conditiō, that
the shoulde be sure
320
6
7
20
IVB.
1
21
2
3
4
5
6
7
21
1
310
2
3
4
5
6
7
22
1
2
Ioseph. Ant. 12▪ 1.
3
4
300
5
6
7
23
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
24
290
1
2
Gabriels 70 SEVENS.
IVDA, Daniels people.
Gog, Ironleg.
WORLD
South, Ironleg.
Before the birth of CHRIST.
3
IN this age came vp
Saduces: a sect that
sayd there vvas no resurrection,
nor angel, nor
spirite. Act. 23 The father
of that sect vvas
one
Sadduc. This
Sadd. vvas taught of
Antigonus, to do as
not loking for revvard.
He meant that goodnes,
for the vertue vvas to
be folovved. But the bad
mistake
[...] sayd he vvas
taught to looke for no
recompence: and despised
the povver of the
vvorlde to come. This
sect, fearing to be stoned
by the people, pretended
to leane vpon
Moses: but not admittyng any
exposition.
R. Abra.
Talmud Pirke Aboth, and
Aboth R.
Nathan. The Lorde
confuted them by the
first Oration that euer
God spake to
Moses.
I am the God of
Abraham. VVhereas
God is not the God of
the dead, but of the lynyng:
Abraham must
in Spirite liue. Mat. 22,
In the dayes of
Malachie this vvickednes
vvas arysing, then stoute
vvoydes vvere spoken,
that it vvas in vayne
to serue God: that the
proude vvere blest: the
vvicked set vp: the
tempters of God delyuered.
To vvhom a day
vvas tolde, that should
burne them roote and
branch as stubble. Mal. 3
That novv dravveth
on vnder
Iauan, vvhē
and
Togarmah.
The Tovvnet buylt
through the East by the
Prince of
Magog, and
bearyng Greke names,
all should teach vs to
marke Eze. 39 & Dan.
11. for his house falling
by the tyme of the promise.
At the last
Seleucus conquered
Lysimachus king of
Thrace, once
Croesus reigne.
Ptol. Ceraunus kild
Seleu. ANTIOCHVS
Soter
K. He maryed his Fathers
vvyfe: vvhich
thyng vvas infamous
amongst the Heathen.
1. Cor. 5. She vvas called
Apamea. Ant.
Soter nāed the tovvne
Apamea after her
name.
Str. 12. By this
Apame
[...] he had a son
and heyre
Antiochus
Theos. Such is the
breede of the fourth
Beast: vvhich goeth to
destruction.
Magas the brother of
Ptolemy
Philadelphus maryed a daughter of
Soters: him
Soter vvas: fayne to helpe in
vvars agaynst the brother.
His sonne in lavv,
claymed to be King of
Cyren pau. in
Att. Thereupon the
[...]vvo
legge
[...] began to knocke
one agaynst the other:
At the ende of tymes
they agreed
[...] and Berenice
the daughter of Philadelphus
vvas
maryed to the King of
the norths son Antiochus
Theos,
to make
3641
of it. But
Selcucu
[...] house pleaded that
Cassander, Lysimachus and
Seleucus dyd
vppon a common
agreement conclude,
when they
ouercame
Antigonus that al
Syria should
be vnder
Selcucus.
Polyb. 5. Then the
PLESANT LAND fell to be troden
cōtinually of these
two Legges.
PTOLE Philadelphus. for him the 70 turned
the Prophetes
into Greke. Much
they altered: Yeres
Gen. 5. and. 11. they
faigned 1350 least
the oftē halfyng of
ages shoulde trouble
the faithles. For
persōs, they faine
to
Sem one
Caynan [...]an other
Caynan betwene
Arphaxad, &
Selah. Also they
[...]ayne
Ioseph a third
generation when
Iacob came to
Egypt, and
Ioseph had ben
maried but nine y.
This moued them.
They helde in cō mon
speech from
Gen. 10. that 70
tonges & families
sprang by
Chams cursse: that therevpon
Iacobs house
went to
Chams land
with 70 soules:
Deu, 32. That those 70
matched in value
all families of the
earth: that none
myght rule ouer
When
Sel. placed Iewes
[...]remen in al the Cities which he buylt.
Iosep. A
[...]. 12. Chap. 3. Christ wrought the mystery of saluation and glory ouer
Gog: In that Iewes were skattered among
Iaphe
[...] sonnes: and Greke made a com̄on language.
4
5
6
7
25
1
*
2
3
280
4
5
3650
6
7
26
1
2
3
4
*
5
6
270
7
27
IVB.
1
3660
‡
Menander writeth, that euyll spech marreth good maners.
1, Cor. 15. Aratus writeth, that we are the kinred of God.
Act, 17.
22
2
3
4
5
6
7
28
1
2
3
4
3670
5
6
7
29
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
30
3680
1
Seleucus Callinicus K.
2
3
4
5
6
7
31
1
240
2
3
3690
Gabriels 70 SEVENS.
Iuda, Stars of heauen.
Gog-horned
WORLD
Egypt-horned.
Before the birth of CHRIST.
4
these Saduces
come
to extremity. Dan. 8.
The godly vvho vver
[...]egrave;
contrary to these, vvho
said styl, God marketh,
hath all vvritten in a
Booke for them that
feare God, Mal. 3. Dan.
7. They did commonly
vse in this age the terme
of the
WORLDE
TO COME: at
the vvyng that therein
stoode the perfect blessing.
R. Aba. & God
comforted particulerly
the efflicted by the
prince of
Magog.
Such as be vvritten in
his booke: in that all
vvhich sleepe in the
dust shall ryse: the iust
to glory euerlastyng, and
the other to shame euerlastyng
Dan. 12.
Accordyng to that the
Martyrs vnder
Antiochus
Epimanes (as the sones of
Anna)
often mention the resurrection
1
Mach. & 2.
Mach. &
Iosippus.
The Epistle to the
Ebrewes doth recorde
properly theyr comfort:
that they vvould not be
delyuered because they
looked for the betterresurrection.
Cha 11.
Pharises oppose them
selues agaynst the
Sadduces in an other extremitie,
& vnskilfully.
They said that
Moses receiued an other Lavv
besides the vvritten geuen
by traditiō; vvhi
[...]h
from
Iosuah, Samuel,
Ezra, and such,
came to them. They
vnitie: but it vvoulde
not stande. For
Theos had a former vvyfe, named
Laodicea: vvho
poysoned her Husbande,
and styrred her sonnes to
kill
Berenice vvhich
in tyme they dyd; and a
childe of hers. The Angell
foretolde this: Heathen
Appian &
Iustin recorde it. Christians
shoulde better
marke it. Herein the
tvvo Legges of the parted
Kingdome of
Iauan ioyned in mans
seede cleaue no better
together then Iron
vvoulde vvith Clay.
Nab. foresavve that,
and vve mistake it.
SELEVCVS
Callinicus is ouercome by
Ptolemy Euergetes: vvho spoyled his
Countrey, and caried
his Nobles to
Egypt, as also the Angel foretold:
Sel. dyeth by a fal.
Iust. 27. SELEVCVS
Ceraunus, and
Antiochus
Megas, both
set vpon
Egypt: but
the first soone died. After,
Megas setteth vpō
Grece, clayming that,
his: vvhich
Sel
[...]ucus
Nicator vvan from
Lysimachus. The
Consul of
Cittim or
Rome foyleth him. He
spoyleth the
PLESANT
LAND, and a Temple, vvhere
he is kilde.
Strab. 16.
Iust. 32.
Mach. SELEVCVS
Philopater is that taxer that
vvithin fevv dayes is
3691
them rightly more
then ouer al other.
Zohar vpon
Ex. To
auoyde danger, by
the king of
Cham his land, though of
Iauans seede, they
altered the text.
R.
Abra. in
Kabalah.
PTOLEMY Philo. He
set foorth an huge
army agaynst
Antioch
[...]s
Megas, who
fought with an other
great army.
Pol. 5. 3
Mach. 1.
Antiochus is discomfited:
that
Berenices death myght fully
be reuenged. Notwithstandyng,
Philopator prospered
not: but is kylled
by
Cleomenes a banished
king of
Spart.
Antiochus Megas prospered
sūdry times
against
Ptolemy Epiphanes the sonne:
whom
Philopater dying, bequethed
to the tutelage of
Rome. They compell
Megas to be
quiet, who placeth
in mariage to
Epiphanes one cald.
Dā. 11.
Bath-Nasim, a
daughter of speciall
womanhood:
Cleopatra, the glory
of a Countrey,
Thinking by the
mariage to destroy
his sonne in law.
But the daughter
fauoureth the husband,
and both fauour
Rome agaynst
him.
Liuy. 37.
5
6
7
23
1
2
3
4
230
5
6
3700
7
33
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
34
220
1
2
3710
IVB.
3
23
4
5
6
‡ The booke of
Iesus the sonne of
Syrah is written: which many be vsed as the writing of a learned
Ievv, but not vrged as faultles.
7
35
1
2
3
210
4
5
3720
6
7
36
1
2
3
4
5
6
200
7
37
1
3730
2
3
4
5
6
7
28
1
2
190
3
4
3740
Gabriels 70 SEVENS.
Iuda, Starres falling.
Gog-clayleg
WORLD
Egypt-clayleg.
Before the birth of CHRIST.
5
vvere Bl
[...]nd, leader
[...] of
Bl
[...]nde. A thyrde sect
there vvas, called
Esseni, lyke Monkes.
Plin. These three Shephardes
vvas
Christ to destroy.
Zach. 11, 8.
Epimanes abrogateth
Moses: and confirmeth
Heathenisme
in
Iuda. That helde
dayes 2300 Dan. 8.
from 142 vntyll full
148 of the
Greciās. The ende vvas
Cisleu 25. 1.
Mach. 4.
Maymon. Sederolam. Three yeeres
& an halfe before that,
the Sacrifice vvas renoued:
Thence begin
tvvo Accomptes for
tvvo destructions of
Syria: One after dayes
1290: An other after
dayes 1335. Dan. 12.
Happy vvas
Daniels people that patiently abode
to see Gods dealyng
then. The dedication
began vpon that
25 of
Cisleu. Our
Lord vvas at it. Io
[...]. 10
and then he shevveth
that he is
Michael, one vvith the Father,
and that none can take
his Sheepe from him:
vvhē he standeth vp for
his people. VVith
Epimanes is
Antichrist compared. 2. Thes. 2.
The Angel told the perticul
[...]r
state of
Iudas sufferinges hitherto.
Dan 11. and 12. His
spech is an abridgment,
or rather a key of Diuine
& humane Greke
Stories.
cut of: He is called the
Foreman of the Cousnauat.
He sent his son
Demetrius to redeeme
from
Rome,
Epimāes: by vvhose
meanes he vvas poysoned:
and his sonne defeated.
Epimanes sister, queene of
Egypt had
[...]vvo somet
Philometor and
Physcon. They stroue for
the gouernment.
Epimanes, vnder pretence
of defendyng
right, inuadeth
Egypt thrise: The seconde
tyme onely he lost his
Laboure. The
Romās called of the Angell,
Cittim, sende
Popilius to stay him vvith
a letter, commaunding
hym to depart: he chafed:
and turned his choller
agaynst the holy Couenant.
To vvhat extremitie
of sinne vvas
Iuda come to, that one
shoulde dravve them
from
God by terrour,
vvhom one letter might
stay. The legende of
Iudith do the
Rabbines referre to this
age in
Col-bo, out of
Hagadah. That she
cuttyng of the head of
the king of
Iauan, frighted his Garrisons
from
Ierusalem: and
caused the feast of
Dedication. This they
fayne to deface the
Greke vvrit of
Iudith: vvhich though
of long tyme it vvere
vsed, can neuer be
rightly defended.
3741
Of the
Romanes.
Thrise in
Daniel be the
Romanes spoken of: once,
where the discomfiture
of
Megas is
handled. Agayne
where Shippes frō
Cittim come against
Epimane
[...].
There they are rather
helpers then
hynderers to
Iuda. agayne, where by
them
Ierusalem is
destroyed. Here
they come vp to be
mighty: where the
myght of
Grecia is
at an ende. This
tyme is called in
Dan. 8. The ende of
wrath, & the ende
of the kingdome
of
Iauan: for hence
by their neighbours
curtesie, rather
then by their
owne strēgth they
reigned. The name
Cittim is common
to the
Grecians, and
to the
Romanes. Of
Cittim Iauan his son
Macetia or
Macedon sprang. And the
inhabitantes of
Italy came frō
Achaia
Portius Cato, Caius
Sempronius, Diōis. Hal.
Ouid. in Fast. telleth
that
Italy was great
Grece. Suidas in
Latino sheweth that
Italj were before
called
Cetii. By the
name of
Cittim afflicting
Assur: the
former and later
Cittim are meant.
6
7
39
Ant. Epiphanes causeth starres to fal.
Dan. 9. So doth Antichrist.
Apo. 8.
1
Matathias.
Cornelius Taci
[...]us recordeth that
A
[...]ochus Epiphanes laboured to bring the
Iewes to the fashion of the Heathen: vvhich from performyng he vvas
[...]red by the
Parthian vvarres. That badman testifieth, that the Angels vvordes had their effect.
2
3
4
5
6
7
40
Of
Iudah
[...] misery in these tymes spake
Esay. Chap. 4. and of Christ sone after to come. They be calde wyse, who marke this state.
Dan. 12.
1
2
3
Iudas Machabeus.
4
5
6
7
1
2
IVB
3
3760
24
4
Antiochus Eupator, Dime
[...]rius Soter.
5
6
7
42
1
2
Ionathan.
3
4
5
6
3770
7
43
Alexander false Ephiph. Demetrius Nicator.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
44
150
1
2
3780
3
4
Antiochus Theos: Trypho.
5
6
7
45
1
Symeon.
2
3
140
4
5
3790
Gabriels 70 SEVENS.
Leuies tyranny.
Gog-clayleg.
WORLD
Egypt-clayleg.
Before God taketh Emmanuel
Zorobabel in
Mary
6
SYMEON, as
Iudas and
Ionathan made
a leage vvith
Rome, and
Spart. That pleased
not God. All the
brethrē dyed by svvord.
Iohn, Symeon his
son became a Sadducy,
and made inquisition
for all Pharisees, and
did put them to death,
and despised the sacrificehood.
Aristobulus vvare a crovvne
as a King first of any
Leuite: then he kilde
his brother
Antigonus, and shortly dyed
vvith torment of conscience,
and vomityng
of blood. His brother
ALEXANDER reigned
after him, and kilde
50000 of the
Pharisees, being a
Sadducy, reiected by them.
ALEXANDERA his
vvyfe reigned after
him. She bare him tvvo
sonnes,
Hyrcanus &
Aristobulus. Both
stroue for the kingdome
a long time, and drevv
sundry Nations to their
factions.
Hyrcanus had partakers
Antipater an Idumean,
belonging to his fathers
house, and
Arethas King of
Arabia.
Scaurus, Pompeys legat
[...] fauoured
Aristobulus: but aftervvardes
Hyrcanus altereth
Pompey, vvho came vvith an
h
[...]ast to
Ierusalem, and surprised the Citie
on the Sabboth day, and
placed
Hyrcanus in
Alexander, Demetrius
Nicators brother
kilde
Trypho: him selfe (as the former)
is kilde, in vvars
agaynst
Parthia.
Cleopatra Philometor bare to hym,
Antiochus Cuzicenus: and to false
Epiphanes Ant.
Theos kilde. To
Nicator,
Seleucus and
Grypus. Nicator &
Seleucus [...]he kild:
vvoulde haue poysoned
Grypus: is compelled
to poyson her selfe.
Grypus is troubled by
Physcon, adnauncing
one
Alexander: but
he sone altereth: and
geueth
Grypina to
Grypus. Cuzicenus maryeth his other
daughter
Selene. The
halfe brethren vvarre,
& their vvyue
[...].
Grypina killeth
Selene, being captiued: successe
altered,
Cuzicenus killeth her, and vanquitheth
Grypus. Ant. of
Grypus dryueth
him out: and for tyranny
is kilde. Then reigned
Antioch, of
Cuzicenus vvho maried his
fathers vvife: an other
Selene: vvas calde in
floute
Eusebes. And
God
[...] him
by
Tigranes, vvhō
Syria chose King.
Lucullus a Roman
[...] droue out
Tigranes: & made K.
Antioch
Asiaticus of
Eusebes: but
Pompey suceeding, disanulled
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PHILOMETOR was
kylde in warres against
his sonne in
law. Then his son
succedeth not: but
PHYSCON, who
had bene king of
Cyren. This
Phys. maried
Cleopatra, his naturall syster,
wyfe once to their
brother. On the
mariage day he
kilde her sonne by
Philometor: in tyme
he doth loath her,
and marieth her
daughter
Cleopatra. Extreme crueltie
he sheweth to his
people that made
hym king: and filleth
al with blood
and banishment.
After banishing others,
he fleeth
with the Queene
his wyfe: he sendeth
for his eldest
sonne from
Cyren: and least
Alexandria shoulde make him
king, he kylleth
him. Therevpon
the people cast
downe all Images
of hym: whiche
thyng he suspectyng
to be done
by his sisters procurement,
kylleth
his sonne by her,
and caused him to
be minced and
brought to the
mother as a dyshe
of meate on her
birth day. That
Cleopatra the syster
therupon fleeth to
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Mat. & Luk. lyued about these tymes, and taught many to looke for the redemption of
Israel.
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Leuies tyranny.
Gog-clayleg.
WORLD
Egypt.
Before SHILOH
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the Regiment, and Sacrificehood:
and caried
Aristobulus vvith
his tvvo sonnes
Antigonus &
Alexander captiues to Rome.
Thence sundry escapes
they made, and mooued
vvar
[...]es in
Iudah.
Alexander mooued
couetous
Crassus to
surprise
Ierusalem: vvho spoyled the Temple
of 60 tūnes of Gold.
Crassus & his campe
vvere vvholly ouerthrovven
at
Charan by the
Parthians: and
Alexander vvas
kilde by
Scipio. Aristobulus the father
fauoured by
Iulius
Caesar, vvas poysoned
by
Pompeys side.
Antigōus requested
of
Iulius Caesar the
kingdome of
Iudah; in vvhich
Pompey setled
Hyrcanus. But
Caesar bestovved it
vpon
Antipator once
Hyrcanus seruaunt,
an
Idumean. After
Caesar died,
Antipater vvas poysoned
by
Malchus. Him
Cassius slevve.
ANTIGONV Sholpen
by
Pacor king of
Parthia, reigneth in
Ierusalem. Hyrcanus [...]ntised to go to
Pachor, it of him
kept prisoner. Novv
HERODE escaped to
Rome, there is proclaymed
king of
Iuda: brought into the Capitoll
betvveene
Antonius and
Octauius:
that, and ended the
gouerament of
Syria.
Novv
Gog troubler of
Israel, vvith his evvne
svvord found destruction
and God sent sixfold
Iudgementes, Plague,
Blood, Raine, Hayle,
Fire, Earthquakes. Also
the Foules of the ayre
be called to e
[...]te their
carcases. VVhen they
fall by
Rome, novo
prosperout: In tyme
Rome hath the name
Gog &
Magog, &
most of these punishments,
in the
Apocalyps. Skilful vve ought
to be to diserne the proper
Gog &
Magog Eze. 38. from that spoken
spiritually in a mystery.
Apo. 20. The
Grekes vpō Eze. 38.
may stay the vnstayed,
vvho by
Mesech
Tubal, and
Togarma mean
[...]Cappadoceans,
Armenians,
Galathians,
Iberians, knovven
nations of
Seleucus subiectes. Novv for
Ezechiels Earthquakes:
Fyfty seauen
Earthquakes vvere in
one yere, vvhē
Romani &
Poeni fought at
Thrafimenus, yet
Neyther of them felt
it. Them
Arsaces robbed
Gog of the East:
and shortly
Megas vvas made of lytle
povver in the vvest by
Rome: then first grovving
to povver, and
quaking at his greatnes,
but nothing at al, at the
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Demetrius her sonne
in lawe for helpe
Physcon ouermatcheth
hym.
Prolemy Latharus, hi
[...] mother defeated
him for a time, &
made
Alexander K.
who kild his mother,
and was banished.
Than
Lathurus reigneth.
After
Pt. Piper, is banished:
his daughter
Berenice maryed
to
Cybiofacte
[...] of
G
[...]ypus: strangled that
clowne.
Pompey holpe
Piper home.
Piper kilde
Berenice die
[...]hsone
Cleopatra his daughter raigneth
&
Dionys. He
kild
Pompey: & perisheth.
Cesar vseth
Cleopatra: & begetteth
Caesario. That
strengthener of
Egypt is also kilde.
Antonius maryeth
her: she stryuyng
with hym for a
wager who could
inuent the costlier
diet: did eate one
of the two Pearles
which she had, of
an vnestimable
valew, and would
haue eaten the other,
if one
Plancus had not helde her
hande.
Pliny. 9. 35.
Antonius and
Cleopatra fight by Sea
with
Egypt, Arabia,
Herod, Bactra, India, and the strength
of the east agaynst
Italy. Italy ouercommeth
Greke is cōmon.
Tul. for Po
[...]Arch. Th. Apostles vvrite i
[...] that cōmon tongue. Their vvordes must be try
[...] by former A
[...]o
[...]es: so they are cleare.
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Luk. 2.
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Heauens kingdome.
Gog-dust.
WORLD
Egypt-Dust.
Before the cōming of the son of man. CHRIST.
1
vvhen
Domitius
Caluinus, and
Afinius
Pollio vver
[...] Consult. Then
Virgil aegl. 4. vvrote of a
Chylde that shoulde
come from Heauen, and
of a golden vvorlde.
Many nations dealyng
novv vvith
Iudah, learned the tyme and
fame of the kingdome
of Heauen.
Herode brought home by
Vencidius, and holpen by
Sofius, taketh
Ierusalem.
Antigonus is brought to
Antonius, and of him beheaded,
as an enemy to
the people of
Rome.
Herode is aftervvardes
confirmed by
Antonius and
Cleopatra, rulers of
Egypt. And so
Egypt hath some part
of the Imaget to
[...], vntyll
our LORDE his
byrth: and the
Machabees that robde
Iuda of the regement:
and left the Sacrifice
hood, be rooted out by
theyr sornauntes. Rā.
Ban. vpon. Gen. 49
SHILOH is come
IESVS is borne: The
VVORD is made flesh:
The
Seede promised
to
Eue a virgin is
borne of a virgin, and
made vnder the lavve,
to redeeme vs from the
curse of the Lavv: The
blessed God of
Sem the
king of iustice and K.
of peace, vvhom
Sem resembled, at tvvelue
yeeres of age commeth
Earthquakes, a greater
vvonder. This
Pliny noteth. Also vvhen
Tigranes vvas chosed
King in
Syria and
Selēucus house perithed,
an Earthquake
destroyed 170000
men, and many Cities.
Iust. 40. That vvhich
Ioel speaketh, of the
darkenyng of the Sun:
and Moone turned to
Blood:
Cimchi and
Rambam expounde
of sorovves to
Gog-Magog and
Iuda before the Lordes day
commeth. And further
D. Cimchi agreeth
vvith
Peter. Act. a.
but knovv no more thē
Cayphas, vvhat he
spake. At
Gog vvas
plagued so vvas
Iuda frō the time of
Chasmonay
Machabes. Before
Iuda had been
bout, and
Ephraim furnished vvith bovv
agaynst
Iauan. But
since, CHRIST brake
both his stanet, Delight
and Bynders. VVhereas
he had delyghted, and
bounde
Iuda vvith
Ioseph: Since, seeing
they loathed hym, he
left the lost Sheepe to
poryth, that vvoulde
neede
[...] be perishyng.
Zach. 1
[...]. vvhom yet
he pitieth.
Math. 10.
Zachary & his
Malachi
Iohn, begin the
nevv Story. Luk. 1.
The redemption by
Christ shoulde be
(thought mere glorious)
yet in many things
[...].
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them, to
make
Egypts legge
dust. They both
kill them selues.
Augustus kilde
Cleopatras
Caesario: and
Antony by
Fuluia: Her sōnes by
Anthony he spared and
cherished as his
cosins. After
Alexāders death 294 y.
Plat. 3.
Clem. Strom. 1.
this sea fyght betweene
them was
fought.
Aeneas Shylde is trymde
with that victory.
Am. 8. and snudry
others do write of
it.
Cleopatra would
needes before
Egyptes fall show her
pride, and prouo
[...]ed
Anthony to
make her Queene
of
Italy. Plut in Ant.
Val. Max. Ouid. Her.
Iuu. Zonaras.
Sundry warres
had
Augustus after
this, to quiet the
world: But al from
Parthya to
England
[...] by the time of our
Lord his birth
were content to
haue friendshyppe
with the
Romanes. Read
Stra. 4
& Flor. They do taxe
Bethle
[...]m whē the bread
of lyf
[...] doth there
appeare. The
kinge
[...] son shoulde
be free: but
Cittim was to afflict
Ebus chiefest.
Archelaus
is banished
to [...]
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Virgil is thought to folow &
La
[...]tantius citeth, may well be made by some wittie man, taught of a Iew. Or the Spirites otherwyse myght well speake of these tymes, what
D
[...]iel taught playnely.
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IERVSALEM called IEHOVAH-There. Eze. 48 Apo. 21.
Gabriels 70 SEVENS.
Jesus
World
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into his ovvne temple at
Salem Ag. 2. apposeth at 12 y Doctors:
after is a Carpender. Mar. 6.
Beginning to be 30. Is baptized,
manifested by the spirit, and by
the father appoynted the teacher,
vvhom vve must heare.
VVhen he teacheth, he reformeth
the corruptions of the Doctors:
teacheth fully vvhat
Moses shortly taught: Of the
Gentiles election: of him selfe destroying
by death,
Satans vvorkes, and
Salems ceremonies. His miracles
proue him to be
GOD. His
parables are after the Psalme 75.
THE
L. is baptized, in
Tisri, seeing the fourth passouer ended
halfe a seuen: vvhen the lambe of
God CHRIST is kilde, leauing Bread and VVine for the Lambe. He dyed the day that
Satan murdered
Adam in the beginnyng.
All tyme after this halfe seauen is called hence three yere and an halfe.
Beda and
Carth. vpon
Apo. 11. for Satan
[...] vvhole rage. Apo. 12.
Romes Apo. 13. The
Popes proper. Ap. 11.
Gen. 3. Ioh. 8. and by death ouercame hym that had the povver of death. Of
Adams day agree
Ebrewes, Chaldeans, Arabians, Grekes, Latines, Barbarians, of all Religions and ages: and sundry Scriptures that may not be vvrested. The Startuppe
[...] that vvould not haue
Christ proclaymed heyre of all, the first day of man, blaspheme that vvhich they knovv not. Our first Mothers name might teach them that auncient vvay to the doctrine of lyfe. The Sabbath vvholly the
Lord resteth, vvhich
Adam neuer savv vvholly kept. Therein he finished that Ceremony. The first day of the vveeke his resurrection maketh the
Lord his day. Apo. 1. He appeareth fourty dayes: is taken vp into the Heauens, and sitteth on the ryght hande of the maiesty in the hyghest, vntyll he maketh his enimies his footestole. His openest enemies novv, vvere the
Iewes that denyed hym, and the
Romanes, by vvhose policy he vvas crucified. The King vvas vpon this to destroy the kinges ovvne Nation, Citie, and Sanctuarie. Of that he foretolde them, that their place shoulde be desolate. Mat. 24. and of the proper token: vvhen
Ierusalem should be besuged of an host. Luk. 2
[...] And referreth men to
Daniel. 9. vvherein
Gabriel teacheth the full doctrine touchyng
Christ, and of the destructiō of the
Iewes. The vvhole state spake the same, saying: yf vve let him goe (by his resurrection they coulde not chose) all men vvill beleeue on hym and the
Romanes vvyll come and destroy our Place, and Nation. Ioh. 11. Yet vvhen
Stephen sayd, that IESVS of
Nazareth vvoulde destroy that Place: they helde it blasphemy in an other to speake so of their Place, though he had the countenance and vvordes of the Angell
Gabriel. Act. 6. The
Lord closely limitted the tyme, tellyng hovv that generation should not passe, vntyll all those thinges shoulde be perfourmed. By the most mens accompt it vvas fourty yeres: so it falleth a day for an yere, for misbeleeuing there surrection. Of the
Romanes speaketh
Paul of the remouing of the Empire, and of the sinfull rysing, in lieu of hym. Of that mischiefe spake our
Lord. Mat. 24. and the matter myght tell that the Citie by vvhich he vvas kilde, vvasvvorthiest to be in this curse.
Of this I wyll ioyne here a narration, somewhat large: and after conclude in the doctrine of the kingdome.
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like that frō
Egypt. Bochai vpon Gen. 49.
Mary is here
greater then
Moses sister.
Elisabet
Maries cosen matcheth
Elisabet the other
Maries cosen: for
Iudah and
L
[...]ui it is
alike. Here
Ioseph of
Iacob feedeth a better ISRAEL in
Egypt then thother did. Gē. 47.
The godly in a synode conclude
that
Christ is novv come: vvho
vvas spoken of by the Prophetes.
By mistaking the tyme of
Zacharyes ministerie our Lorde
his byrth is mistaken. For by a
tale that he ministred in the feast
of Tabernacles,
Iohns byrth is
cast to Mydsommer, and the
Lordes to sixe monethes after
Tongues novv buyld, at
Salem.
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The fulnes of tyme the kingdome of heauen.
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Satan is tyed for Christians a thousande yeeres, that some Churches holde
Christ, vvithout Idolatry.
Apo. 20.
Here properly are they named that folow y
e head & lion Babel
The Ramme is the Kinges of Madai and paras. The buck is the Kinge of Iauan. The horne betwixt his eyes is the first King Alexander. y
e foure are the foure Cheife Kingdomes, one lytle horne is Antiochus Epiphanes *
ROME, BABYLON in a mystery, which crucified CHRIST. Apo. 11.
In the deluge of
Ierusalems destruction do ende
Daniels last sayinges,
Daniels booke cōteineth 600 y. 70. 490. 40. Gen. 5, 29. touchyng order of tyme.
Chap. 9, 27. His whole booke conteyheth so long a warnyng geuen to the
Ievves, as GOD by
Lamech gaue to the olde worlde, when he named
Noah A speciall Comforter. But the
Ievves went in the misbeliefe of the olde worlde. The Lorde by these times had shaken not only the Earth,
Heb. 12, 26. Him that came not in the name of the father, but in his ovvne name, they receyue. Ioh. 5. Dan. 9, 27. Math. 14, 15. Mark. 13, 14. Zacha 11, 1, 2. Ezek. 47. and earthly Emperours, but also the Heauens & the olde Ceremonies, that figured the doctrine of the kingdome: that such as shoulde not be shaken myght be setled. Yet the
Ievves denying the true Messias, cleaue to
Bar-chozba, who sayd that he was
Christ: for him they rebelled, though after he reigned two yeeres and an halfe, they kylled hym.
Talmud in Sanedren. Cha. Chelek. Pa. 93
& 97. Thereupon the
Romane abominable infidels with force of desolation come to the mountayne and place once holy: and worke a finall iudgement vpon it. Then
Libanus did open the gates: fyre brent the Ceders, the Firre, and Oke houled: when Nations warred agaynst
Ierusalem, tooke the Citie, rifled the houses, defiled the women. And now is the day of liuely waters issuing from a
Ierusalem from east to west: To which Citie they who wyll not come from all the families of the earth to worshyp the king
IEHOVAH of hostes, their flesh, eyes, and tongue shall consume.
Zach. 11. 14. accordyng to this, after the fall of that
Ierusalem God reuealeth to
Iohn beyng in obscure
Patmos:Apo. 20, 19. Apo. 21. How the
Romanes wyll fight also agaynst the heauenly
Ierusalem: the glory of which he seeth most goodly. Concernyng the
Romanes: these two thynges he discouereth, the prophane
Emperours tyranny: and after their fal, the
Popet double impietie poysoned with hypocrisie. The Stories of both, be most manifest of any Stories: and the
Pseudo-catholikes owne testimonies wyll confirme the matter.
Apoc. 1. Tren 5. Eus. Chr. 3, 18 That
Rome is condemned in the beginnyng for banishyng
Iohn, all graunt, that know
Domitian. That
Rome holdeth on to the ende, in the Cup of the last wrath it is euident:
Apoc. 12, 3. and 13, 1, 11. Apoc. 8, 3. Apoc. 17. Kinges. 1 Consules. 2 Decemuires. 3 Dictators. 4 Triumuires. 5 Caesares. 6 Popes & Emperours 7 & 8 L
[...]uy. 1. Tul. Off. 3. Apoc. 17. Dan. 7. when the citie shall peryshe which had the reigne ouer the Kinges of the earth.
Cha. 16
& 17. Let vs consider the state of
Rome, and marke how sitte armes it hath, in two beastes of small difference: both seauen headed: in one horned lyke a Lambe: in a Woman, Locustes, and in the Serpent: whose power extreamely is executed.
Rome stoode vpon seauen Hilles, and had the policie altered fiue t
[...]mes before
Casares, they make the fixt: After
Emperours and
Popes togeather, made a seauenth, which after a sort should be an eyght. That power is noted by a beast of seauen heades: wherupon the Angel expoundeth it of seauen Hilles, & seauen Kinges. Any political state is in the Ebrew phrase calde a King, as
Dan. 8, 21.
Rome was infamous for cruelty euer since
Romulus kylde his brother: but specially in the ten Persecutors and the Popes. The one beast the later hath for that, purple coloure. The beast
Chap. 13. hath a cleere note from famous stories. Whereas the Image of the Emperours in
Daniel were a Lion, Beare, Leopard, & abeast with ten hornes:
Rome hauing subdued all those Countries, thereaftet is a Beast with ten hornes, lyke a Leopard, footed lyke a Beare,
Apoc 17, 12. Steuchns agaynst Laur. Valla booke. 2. mouthed like a Lion. Also the other Beast hath ten hornes very fitly: both for the ten Persecutors, and ten Kingdomes that
Iohn foresaw should be vnder the
Popo: and
Steuchus doth pretely confesse: and the Greke
Scholiast foretolde that it would fall out so. The kingdomes
[Page] 1. of
Spayne and
Portugall. 2. of
Hungary. 3. of
Englande. 4. of
Denmarke. 5. of
Ruscia. 6. of
Creatia and
Dalmacia. 7. of
Aragon. 8. of
Bohemia. 9.
Sueuia and
Noruegia. 10. of
Dacia: These
Steuchus recordeth to haue geuen their power to the Beast. For they payde tribute to the
Pope, who calde his throne the Apostolike seate,
Apoc. 13, 5. & had the mouth of the Dragon. The Greke
Scholiast speaketh most fitly vpon this place: saying, that the ten Hornes are ten Kinges, which in the later times shall arise from the Romane power, among whom the
A
[...]tichrist shal ryse.
Areth
[...] was no Prophet, yet the playnnes of the matter caused him to say this much. And in these ten Kingdomes is reuiued a spice of the gouernement of the people of
Rome: Which then when
Iohn wrote had deuided their Countryes of Lieutenantshyppes into ten: as
Srabo, who saw
Iohnt dayes, lately had recorded
Geo 17. This Empire notwithstandyng their strength was ouerthrowen for the Emperours fylthy lyfe, specially for kyllyng them that had the testimony of
IESVS. For the Lord
Iesus fought agaynst them in iustice and power,
Apoc. 10. Apoc. 6, 2. The vvhyte Horse, the 1 and 5 seale. as riding on a white Horse, with a Bow, and Arrowes sharpe in the hart of the kinges enimies. The holy Martyrs, who had hartes lyke Lions, they layed vnder the Aulter, styrred vp the holy and iust
LORD, to iudge and reuenge their blood, vpon those beastes that ruled the earth. They in patience, as Oxen sacrificed, yeelding their blood, saw a iust recompence of bloodshed. For all their prophane Emperours almost (some somwhat fauoured Christians) brought their heades, with blood to the graue: as they came not vp without great bloodshed. The vēgeance of God was to them as a red Horse,
The red Horse the 2 seale. with a rider hauing a great sword▪ and a commission to take peace from the earth: that men should kyll one another. Famine in great warres is not greatly strange: but here scarcitie exceeding plentiful did they see who were men in deede, a punishment of the Gospel reiected. Many learned men of the heathē noted the pitifull state: but had not the iudgement of a man to know that for sauage cruelty agaynst the Gospell, this punishment was sent. The wyse myght see a blacke Horse sent from God,
The blacke Horse the 3 seale, with a ryder hauyng a balance weighing Corne, as Spice for dearth: though Oyle and Wine, and some sustenaunce of the earth was granted by the patience of God. Gods patience not being regarded, he sent among the
Caesaret vpon the persecution by
Diocletian, threefold iudgementes to the Emperours, as sword, hunger, and death all togeather. They who with Eagles eyes, woulde come to see Christ his iustice, myght now beholde a pale Horse▪ hauyng death and hell ryding vpon hym.
Tbe pale Horse the 4 seale.
Sozimus, booke 2. noteth that
Licinius one of the striuers at once of his 130000. souldiers lost all sauyng three. The 6 seale. Then such slaughter made the
Caesaret, and the
Augusti, of them selues and of their people, that the Kinges, and Dukes, and Earles, and euery free man, and seruaunt, were fayne in all places to hyde them selues from them that fauoured Christianitie, whom God made the stronger. The prophane men for Idolatry felt such wrath as did
Samaria, when
Isra
[...]h kingdome ended: when they well myght say to the Mountaynes, fall vpon vs, and hyde vs. Yea, they that thought them selues to be the Sunne, Moone, Starres, Heauens, and Mountaynes of the Worlde, and to rule all Ilandes, are brought to such destruction, that the whole worlde as touchyng them is altered: The Earth is shaken, the Sunne blacke the Moone blooddy, the Starres fallen, the Heauen rowled as a
[Page] rowle,
Apoc. 6, 14. and euery Mountayne and Iland haue such alteration of dwellers as yf they were mooued from their place. These speeches may fitly be applyed to the tymes of
Constantius and
Constantinus, the fyrst Christian Emperours. The lyke tropes are in
Esa. 34. of matters fallen out before these tymes: though most properly it wyll fall out, when vpon the
Popes vtter destruction the whole worlde shalbe ended. But once it must be meant touchyng the destrustion of the Empire.
CONSTANTINVS hating the idolatry of olde
Rome,The Beast hath one head vvoū ded to death. Apoc. 13, 3. Sozimus bok. 2. Orosius. 7. Ierom to Placidia.
Rome became a pray, & sk
[...]ffe to most nations.
Sigibertus. Homer. Iliad. 8. ver. 448. Appi. in Libyc. The vvounded head healed. Steuchus against Valla. Booke. 1. Apoc. 13, 3. Apoc. 17, 11. made
Byzantium the princes seate: called it NEW ROME, and endowed it with the priuileges of
OLDE ROME: and gaue it also another name.
CONST ANTINO-POLIS. The Empire being there placed, the
OLDE ROME that in
Italy was litle set by, and by Gods iust iudgement often ouerrun. For
Alaricus and the
Gothes spoyled it, and so preuayled there, that they purposed to haue named it
GOTHIA. Genserieus and his
Vandales rifled it, that they bestowed fourtene dayes in ransaking it.
Odoacer with many nations surprise it, & reigne there many yeeres. But many more yeeres doth
Theodoricus with his
Ostrogothes rule it.
Totilas the
Goth brent it, as
Scipio did
Carthage. Then
Scipio spake verses of
Homer: which
Hector had forespoken of
Troyes ruine.
Polybius demaundyng of what Citie he spake: he sayd, of
ROME: that the day should come, that it should be made like
Carthage. That saying of
Scipio is applyed to
Alaricus his time: it might be to
Totilas, who brought ruinous
Rome to an extreamer ruine. And so the citie there was defaced. But when the
PONTIFICALITIE is set vp by the decree of
GOD, then all Heathen from east to west worshyp the Pope no otherwyse, then of olde t
[...]e they dyd the Emperours: whereas if it had not been for the pontificalt
[...]ie, ROME shoulde neuer haue bene reuiued, but left a most fylthy habitation of hogges.
This Steuchus
confesseth. So by the
POPE the Beast that was dead, is made aliue.
Chap. 13. And that which.
Cha. 17. for estimation once had bene and after had not bene, now againe for estimation is: and the
POPE rulyng ouer the Empire, maketh the seuenth and the eyght Policy in
ROME.Apoc. 13, 11. To make that poynt more playne, of reuiuyng
Rome by the
POPES, we haue a new vision. For they are a Beast with hornes lyke a Lambe, and the mouth of the Dragon: who maketh the image of the former Beast to haue lyfe, spirite, voyce, and worshyp of nations, with kylling the men, and confiscating their goods,
Reade the forged donation of
Constantine. that yeelde not to their ioyned power. Hereupon it hath bene clearly shewed by the Learned, that for Lawes, Apparell, and Idolatry, the
POPES are a lyuely image of the prophane
Emperours: with a religion more after
Homer, then after the Scripture. Moreouer to declare what should be meant by Hornes like a Lambe: in the vsurping
Vicar of Christ, we haue a certayne name poynted at: whose frame and force wyll shew the matter. Many mens names there be in the
HOLYBOOKE, of fit markes for thynges that men conceyue of God, or would fynde in them selues. And in the supposed barren places,
Ezra. 2, 13. as in
Ezra great fertility of wysedome groweth. From thence hyther God geueth vs a number attributed vnto a man, which wyll shew vs what mans name beyng opened for the force wyll vtter the state of the Beast: and we should make more accompt of the golden wisedome herein conteyned, then
SALOMON would of the 666 Talentes
[Page] of Gold,
As in the booke of Numbers, so in Ezra the names & numbers are to be diligently regarded. which he receyned yerely. 2.
Chr. 9, 13. The booke of
Numbers, as
Ierome marked, conteyneth the mysterie
[...] of Arithmetique. For that Booke
Midrat Tillin ryghtly obserueth great Religion conteyned, in the names that be therein: that they are not Egypticall, but fyt for Gods chyldren. As doubtles they are apt touching notation for the first borne, recorded in the Heauens.
Heb. 10.
ELI-TZVR, GOD-IS-MY-ROCKE:
TZVRI-SHADDAI, MY-ROCKE-IS THE ALSVFFICIENT, These shew how the summe of Religion is conteyned in their names, whereby that nation would not soone vnderstande the terme ROCKE,
Math. 16. of a bare man of
Abrahams seede, nor ioyne with
POPES for the supreame Rocke of the Church. The booke of
Ezra is much of the same kinde: but in that age men had lesse regard to the disigent wysedome of their Fathers, as the
Mid
[...]a
[...] also remembreth. Thence we haue a name marked by a number: wherin both must be considered. The number ordeyned is 666: by which we fynd out a mans name fyt for the wofull
POPES. In
Ezra Chap. [...] ▪ 13. it is written,
The sonnet of ADONI-KAM vvere 666. Here then a name of a man by a number is shewed: And what myght his name meane?
Adoni-kam, is by interpritation A God standyng vp.
What name can better agree with the
POPE, the man of sinne that speaketh with the mouth of the Dragon most tragically, I am a God vpon the earth.
Baldus in C. ecclesia vt sit peudeat fol. in cap. ego N. de Iurciur. Dan. 11.
[...]. Thessa. 2. 1. Macha. 1, 57. R. Abr. Adon
[...]. Zonaras. bo
[...]ke.
[...]. The
Pseudo-catholikes them seluessay: the
POPE is GOD vpon the Earth. The
POPE is Lord of Lordes, and hath the authoritie of the King of Kinges ouer his Subiectes. And is not he then the only man to whom properly belongeth the name
ADONI-KAM? Seeing he setteth vp him selfe in the Temple of God, as yf he were GOD.
Antiochus Epiphanes who started from
Rome and set in the Temple the Idole of
Iupiter Olympius, dyd not so much exalthym selfe aboue God. The
POPE began to stand vp a Lord, when impudent
Boniface gate the supremacy by the murtherer
Phoca
[...]. But that mystery of iniquity wrought further to the quickenyng of the Beast, in that sad tyme of
Gregory the thyrde. For he to strengthen Idolatry, excommunicated
LEO the Greeke Emperour, putryng downe Images, though he dyd that by the consent of councell, vpon the expresse commaundement
Exod. 20. That excommunication kindled sedition, which inflamed the
Longobardiet agaynst the Emperour.
After that he lost fyrst the
Exarchy of
Rauenna, and in processe of tyme the gouernement of
Italy. When the
Longobardi increased styrres in
Italy, and the Greke Emperours troubled at home, vpon the former sedition for Images, were lesse able to helpe
Italy &
Rome: Charle
[...] the great is mooued to warres vpon an iniury done by
Desiderius king of the
Longobardie
[...] to him selfe. And (as defenders prosper) He put
Defiderius besides his owne kingdome, and holdyng
Italy then by that conquest: kept it styll. This breach in the Empire came by the
POPE, and his Idolatry.
Charles the great gaue much reuenwes to aduaunce holy knowledge, being taught by Englysh
Alcoinus: and sundry of hi
[...] posterity folowed hym. All their liberality the
POPES labour to turn
[...] from paynefull study, to superstition and their owne power: And a
[...] the last perswade the people, that they had authority ouer the Empire: and prescribe Idolatry through al the Empire: reuiuyng the old Beast.
The empire Romania, the vsurping vi
[...]ar, y
• belly god cleargy, Satans Throne. Ap. 8. 9. 1. 12. 13. 17 *
[Page][Page] Now for the other poynt,
To beare the number of the beasts name vvhat it is. the bearyng of the
NVMBER of his name: it is all one as to haue a marke in hand or forehead, worke or any profession: but that the allusion is fetched from
Ezra. 2, 13. For as the sonnes of
ADONIKAM make vp the number 666: So they that be the
POPES babes, and holde hym to stande vp as GOD in the Church, are sayd to haue his names number. And for most cleere condemnyng of
Rome, marke who the Woman is that rideth vpon the Beast.
Apoc. 17. One running by may see. Any lyuing when
Iohn wrote would graunt
Rome to be there condemned.
Tertul. against the Ievves, and
Ierom. Ep. 17. Cha. 6. and the Greke
Scholiaste deadly cōdemnyng
Rome, made the
lesuites mad to seeke rediculous distinctiōs. See their Testaments notes. Apo. 17. There they byte theyr
[...]vvne tongue. In
S. Ieromes dayes it was doubtles, the
Grekes styll are of that iudgement:
Rabanus and
Albertus note how manifest it is: the
Iesuites can not deny it: but they shal striue against their owneselues. And that place is a key to opē a gate to the other visions: through al which
Rome is cōdemned extreamly.
From this
BABYLON came Idolatry, which caused CHRIST to cast fyre into the Earth. And though as it were seauen Trumpets sounded all poyntes of dealyng and doctrine, men would not heare what GOD spake to the congregations.
1. Trumpes. Full often dyd the Emperours badnes (specially in
Mauricius and
Phocas) cause hayle and fyre to be myxt with blood.
2. Trumpet. The supremacie of
POPES was a Mountayne of fyre cast into the Sea.
3. Trumpet. Their ceassyng to be Pastors maketh a Starre fall from Heauen. Thereupon to the Church closely, as openly by
Mahomet folow great harmes. The Starre fallen from Heauen, was an Angell of a congregation: his sedition is a Torch: his deadly corruptyng Scriptures is Woormewood making bitter waters. In a short tyme they that seemed to be as those in
Gen. 37. 10. the Sunne,
4. Trumpet.
Gagneus a Papist condemneth here Popes Cardinales, and Bysh
[...]ps. 5. Trumpet. Moone, and Starres, be much darkened. After this the Starre that fell from the heauenly congregation, the
Pope worketh strange thynges: by the Keyes of the Pit he loosed out a smoake of heresies, that darkened Sunne and Ayre: al brightnes of Scripture. Thence aryseth his Cleargie, which most lyuely is expressed. They be Locustes for their idle bellies, and troupes of loyterers: they be Scorpions for close poysonyng doctrine:
Esa. 9, 15. And the Tayle is the Prophet that speaketh lyes. They are for the Warres which they make, and strengthenyng of their owne Authority: as Horses ready for battell: with wynges of Charrets: with teeth of Lyons, with habergions of Iron. For ouerrunnyng Magistrates, they haue crownes of counterfeyte Golde: for priuate state in pretence: they haue faces of
Here the terme Man is vsed, as
Dan. 7 in the Lion, Ver. 4. and litle horne v. 8. compared vvith Cha 11, 21. for priuate, and vvithout right of gouernement politicall. men: for Cloysterkeeping & womanly life: and for many of woman sexe, they haue heare lyke women. These notes al agree most fitly to the
Pseudocatholiques.
Now consider
Moamed or
Muchumet, whom God gaue vp to a blynde mynde, and effect in errour, that by hym Christians myght see, what mischiefe myght aswel come by
Popes supremacy. This
Moamed an Ismaelite beyng a poore man, tyll he maryed a wydow welthy and of high countenaunce: hauyng the Fallyng sicknes, whereby the wydow was sory that she matched with hym, perswaded her by hym selfe and others, that his fyttes were but atraunce: wherein he talked with the angel
Gabriel. The woman made women beleeue that her husbande was a Prophet: afterwardes men by helpe of certayne Haeretiques set the false Prophet forward. From
Iudaisme, Arrius, Nestorius, and his owne brayne, he frameth a doctrine. Much he was opposite to the
[Page]Pope, as in polygamy agaynst his
Monachy: much in the same kynde, as that he hath the Keyes of
PARADISE: as the
Popes were then, somewhat talkyng of S. PETERS keyes. Both had Keyes of the Pit. He preuayleth so by force of his wilde company, and guile deceyuing the simple: that before his death he winneth
As
Ismaels 12 sonnes of olde dvvelt frō
Sur to
Chauilah.Arabia, and the countries about
Enphrates.6. Trumpet. The
Saracens be as naturally of
Sara, as the
Pope hath truely h
[...]lynes, and as the Papistes are
Catholiques. The sonnes of
Ismael ashamed of
Agars name, borow from
Sara the tearme of
Saracenes. The
Pope was bolder, that taketh from God the title HOLYNES. His sonnes of darkenes folow him that appropriate the name of
Catholikes, beyng but
Psendocatholiques. Both in their deceyte encrease much: the one by successe in warres, and one poynt of playne trueth: that Images might in no wyse be worshypped. Th
[...]other prospered by teachyng a short way, supposed of Saluation, to know and feare God so farre as an Idole did moue to vnderstandyng and reuerence. The
Pope was mighty in causing Starres to fall from Heauē.
Agarenet preuayled in conquest of the earth. These countries in speedy processe were ouerrun,
Phanicia, Palaestina, Ierusalem, all
Syria,Of
Moamed reade
Cedre. Fol. 633. and
Volater. Lib. 12. in
Arab.Persia, Armenia, Spayne, Sicily, Crete, much of
Italy, Calabria, and all
Longobardia: euen to
Rome once great. But God would haue there a throne for a vicar of
Pilates holynes: and
Cittim to holde such
Abadd
[...] vntyll the ende. At the last thus the
Turkes ioyne with them. When the
Saracene
[...] had conquered much they make fyue myghty Empires. In
Spayne, Lybia, Egypt, Babylon, and
Persia. Muchumet of
Imbrael king of
Persia hauyng warre agaynst
Babel and
India: hyreth three thousand
Turkes,Herodto. in Melp. to whom one
Tangolipex was generall. They by name and place shoulde ryse from
Togarma. In
Herodotus the name
Iyrkes is recorded: where the place somewhat argueth the men to be the same. These helping
Muchumet, at last fell to a mutany, and to auoyde punishment, shronke to a place of great vantage for safety. Whom
Muchumet seeking to represse, by vnheedines lost 20000 of his men: beyng angry, pulde out his Captaynes eyes, and threatned to put all the other Souldiers to open shame. The Souldiers fearyng, fled to
Tangolipex. Muchumet with all his power commeth agaynst him: is kylde in the fielde, and
Tangolipex proclaymed
Sultan: (That is, Ruler) of all that
Muchumet had. The terme
Sultan is in
Daniel 3.
In the Caldy. Dan. 3. The
Saracens description it much after the
Papistes. That
Israel was skattered neare the Turkes: I shewed before. Thus from
Euphrates, Saracenes and
Turke
[...] spring to haue thousandes of thousandes: to be foure Angels of Gods wrath vpon Idolaters, ready for houre, day, moneth▪ yeere: as Idolatry & other sinnes prouoked God. As their conuersatiō, so their description is after the
Pseudocatholiques rate. which through these fynde measure for measure. Their force is Horses: their courage is Lions heades. Their great desolation which they make, burnyng where they goe, is Habergions, fyery blew and brimstony. Their might, and doyng this vpon a worde, is fire, smoke, and brimstone, commyng out of their mouthes. Their false Doctor, guyding their rule, is the tayle lyke a Serpent, that draweth as Papistry to the seconde death.
The Greke Emperours vnderstood that for Idolatry they were punished:
Cedrenus &
Nicephorus tell this, though vvith malice. and by learned counsell did represse it vehemently: From
Leo Isauricus to
Theophilus: who coulde not abyde any Picture to allure the mynde: which ought to regarde not shadowes, but trueth. Yet after his death Idolatry confyrmed in olde
Rome, came so to new
Rome: that
[Page]Saracenes Angels from
Euphrates were let loose.
Papas is Father, &
Popes Deuels.
Eust. vpō.
Homer. The description of Satan by
Romes armes openly argueth
Rome to be
Satās throne. This came from
Papes turned to
Popes: from Fathers to
Deuels. The description of Satan the Dragon is therefore lyke the Romane power, with red coloure, seauen heades and Diadems, and ten hornes. Though Satan stryued by myght and guyle: yet from the tyme of our Lord his death he was tyed a thousande yeeres from deceyuing generally. For Martyrs and other faythfull that thousand yeeres learned the lyfe of Christ: and reigned with hym. As for the faythlesse dead in sinne, Satan was not tyed to them, who would not be holy and happy, in knowyng the first resurrection. But after a thousand yeeres, Satan was let loose euery where, and few found Martyrs that helde cleere the testimony of Christ.
Gregory the seauenth manifestly helde the throne by Satan. And
Vrbanus that confirmed his decrees, was in the same condemnatiō. He no lesse besieged the holy city of Christians in al his proceedinges, and became a mountayne of Fyrein the myddes of the Sea: Specially in kindlyng the
In they. 1085 Volater.
Of th
[...]s vvarres. vvriteth Guilhelmus Yyrius, Abbas, Vrspurgensis Benedict a Coltis, Paulus Aemilius, Volaterranus,
G
[...]o. 1
[...].
and in part Latine vvriters of Engl
[...]sh stories. Warres for
Ierusalem: and causing that place to be counted styll holy. There nygh 200 yeere fell the force of the West: whereby Emperours & Kinges were weakened, to be vnder the
Popes. Vpon the same the
Saracenes more hated the Christians of the east: When they marked our Idolatrous and supersticious conspiracies. So long sharpe warres neuer were in the worlde, of such calamities to both sides. The places by olde names, fal properly within the text: for plagy
Antioch was buylt by that
GOG Ezek. 38. And
Ierusalem was called the Holy Citie: notwithstanding here the foure quarters of the earth, & troublers of the Christians be meant.
So
[...]hat,
Ap
[...]: 14 the blood reaching to the Horse brydles 1600 furlonges, fitly is spoken of this vvarres for the lande of
Israel: for in
Salomons Temple blood reached to the horse brydles: and the vvhole land of
Israel, (through all vvhich this vvarre vvent) is holden 1600 furlongs large in
R. Menachem vpon Gen. fol. 60. Now the
Pope king
Abaddon of
Gyges sleight by mans helpe cannot be ouerthrowen. But
Michael that stoode on the waters, & calmed the old
Gogs waues, standeth and sweareth in like sort agaynst him. Seauen thunders declare the thunder of his power: seauen Angels power vpon the beast going to destruction, the last Plagues from seauen Cuppes of Gods wrath.
In quietnes they haue fylthy Boyles, in troubles lesse and more, their waters are turned to Blood. That holynes throne is vile in Satans darknes, and for trechery they finde burnyng affliction. For Idolatry styll they from East and
Euphrates myghtely preuayle: and when they styrre their Kinges agaynst vs in the West: their three froggy spirites, that of imperiall power, that of false prophecy, that of Satans sleight: all three bryng their Nauy, and other force, as to the waters of
MAGEDDON, to be cut in peeces. They shall feele the seauenth Cuppe of wrath, and heare the seauenth Trumpet: when Nations opprest by them, learne skylfully to syng,
HALLELV-IA: and with vnderstanding can prayse the Lord. Euen the Lord must consume this bad king
Abaddon of
Cittim Italy in the ende, at his glorious appearyng.
For lyght & comparison of both, you shall haue a fuller. Mappe, and Pictures. As those Beastes in
Daniel by the fyrst commyng of
CHRIST into the worlde, were wholly consumed: for whom God sate on a fyery Throne: So the Beast compounded of those Armes, shall perysh at the seconde: For whom a whyte throne of iustice is openly reuealed. By sentence thence the false Prophet
POPE, and the Beast of his auctority shall aye feele Gods wrath vntyll they both be cast to the Dragon into Brimstony fyre. Euen so, Amen. Holy and iust are thy iudgementes O Lord, the king of the Sainctes.
[Page] After the destruction of
Babylon, let vs behold the saluation of
Syon: which mountayne the Lordes death lyftted aboue all Mountaines:
Esa. 2, 2. Mich. 4, 1. Apo. 14. that all Nations might folow the Lambe vpon it. At
Ierusalem the Disciples receyued power from aboue: beyng togeather about an hundreth and twentie soules: to declare the great workes of God, in raysing his sonne from death. Then were
Ievves from all Nations vnder Heauen at
Ierusalem. Saint Luke reckoneth them much after the countryes, into which men were first scattered vpon the confusion of tongues, for the building of
Babylon: and according to the kingdomes that oppressed the faythfull
Ebrevvet after
Babels ruine by
Sem and
Iapheths posteritie. The number of an hundred and twentie to speake to all
Ievves, that from farre Countryes came to
Ierusalem: was fit to reuiue the story of their dispertion vnder
Darius and
Cyrus:Ierom vpon Dau. 6. Dan. 6. and 9. 2. Chro. 36, 22. Ezra. 1 3. Luke. 19, 11. when by decree of
Madai and
Faras the God of heauen was preached:
Cyrus sent
Iudah to buylde
Ierusalem: and
Gabriel tolde what yeere, day, and houre,
CHRIST shoulde dye. That Prophecy made them come that yeere to
Ierusalem, to looke for the kingdome of Heauen to appeare. Then from
Syon was the Law to goe foorth,
Esa. 2, 3. and the worde of the Lord from
Ierusalem, euen when the most Holy by his death had confirmed the testament for many. The learnyng of saluation by
Grekes hence fyrst taught: was that dwellyng of
Iapheth in
Sems tentes. Hytherto was that place glorious by the blessing of
Sem,That Melchisedec
vvas cmmonly holden to be Sem,
these Authors of sundry religions I had at hande to name, to stay such as thinke that a nevv opiniō. Hebrewes
vpon Gene. 14. Rabbi Leui, Ben-gersō, Abē Ezra, Baalhaturim, R. Symeon
ben Iochai, Ramban, S. Iarchi
from Hagada, Moses Hadarson in Pet. Galatin, Midras Tillin
Psa. 76. Cimchi,
Psa. 110. Seder-ol. Talmud
in Nedarim,
and Aboth R. Nathan,
[...]. Bochai
vpon Gen.
fol. 21.
vvho noteth for the phrase that in Sems
generations, Dying is not mentioned vntyl Thara (
vvhich vvas mentioned in all from Adam
to Noe)
because CHRIST
shoulde come of Sem,
vvho lyueth for euer. Consider Syrach, 49.
The learned Latines also commonly holde Sem
to be Melchisedec. Selneccerus
vpon Gen. 14.
Namely take th
[...]so, Ierom, Luther, Melanthon, Carion, Peucerus, Chytreus, Nau
[...]clerus, Lyra, Gul
[...]elmus Tyrius,
Lib. 23.
Cha. 9
Rigistrum Chroniearum, Aquinas,
[...]assamus,
bad Genebrard,
often vpon sundry occasions in Chro. fol. 27, 28, 36, 38, 39. 41, 46, 54, 58.
Contemne not our ovvne nation, Engl
[...]she vvriters 400
yeres olde, Bale
votar. Page. 3. Lanquet
in his Chro. and the Tables ioyned to the Bibl, collected by R. F. H.
Also the Calender translated from Arquery.
A lew
vvoulde loath him that vvoulde holde any man then aliue, greater then Abraham,
not beyng of the ryght lyne of the Fathers. Of the like mynde is S. Aug.
in qu
[...]st. ex vtro
(que) mixtim, Cap. 109. who vnder the persō of
Melchisedec, was styl alyue in description.
Gen. 14, 18. To which description the
Ievves were to looke, that
CHRIST myght be knowen to be God the iust king, heyre of the worlde, faythfull ouer his owne house, a fynisher of
Aarons office, of al Sacrifice & Offryng, an eternall sacrificer by once offeryng hym selfe. In this Citie they receyued power in a strong wynd, in fyery clouen tongues, were fylled with the holy Ghost, and could speake to euery one in his owne language. So the
Ierusalem from aboue was to be buylt, that all nations myght woorke in it, as contrariwyse by tongues not vnderstoode, the worke was but
Babylon a confusion: and men
[...]kattered caused the name
Synear: and were estranged from the Tentes of
Sem: and lyfe of God, without whom beyng their guyde, they perysh for euer. Hence the Disciples went foorth to teach how
CHRIST was to suffer: to aryse from death, and to geue saluation to the worlde.
That worke they perfourmed by the strength of God: who confirmed their doctrine with signes, wonders, powers, and gyftes of the holy spirite, accordyng to his wyll. Some of these godly Angels soone dyd seale their doctrine with their blood: some later ended their goodly combat: some lyued to see
CHRIST come in his kingdome with power: when the worde was fruitefull in all the worlde: & that citie was buylt by Fyshers of
Galilee, which is called
IEHOV AH-THERE.
[Page] Then Tongues, Nations, and people of all Kingdomes departed from the power of darknes, by fayth and obedience to the kingdome of Christ, geuyng honour and glory for euer to the king euerlyuing, holy, vnuifible, God, only wise. Of the
Ievves there helde styll the fayth an infinite number, tearmed by thousandes 144 after their reckoning of many. These with vs Heathen come to the feast of Tabernacles with Palme, crying
HOSANNA, Saluation to God, and to the Lambe. This company of faythfull s
[...]les, called to the blessed mariage of the Lambe, are a
Ierusalem from Heauen.
Apoc. 3.
& 21.
Ebr. 12. Though such glorious thynges be spoken concernyng this citie of God: the perfection whereof cannot be seene in this vale of teares, yet here God wipeth all teares from our eyes, and each blessing is here begunne. The name of this Citie much helpeth
Ievv and
Gentile, to see the state of peace. For this is called
IERVSALEM: and that in
Canaan hath Christ destroyed. This name should cleerely haue taught both the
Ebrevves not to looke and pray dayly for to returne to
Canaan: and
Pseudocatholiques not to haue fought for speciall holynes there. We lyue in this by fayth, and not by eye sight: and by hope, we behold the perfection. Of this Citie saluation is a wall, goodly as Iasper, cleere as Crystal. The foundations are in number twelue: of twelue precious Stones, such as
Aaron ware on his brest: all the woorke of the Lambes twelue Apostles. The Gates are twelue, each of Pearle: vpon which are the names of the twelue Tribes of
Israel: of whose fayth all must be, which enter in. Twelue Angels are conductours from east, west, north, & south: euen the starres of the Churches. The citie is square: of Burgesses setled for all turnes. Here God sitteth on a Throne, lyke a Iasper and Ruby, comfortable and iust. The Lambe is the Temple: that a thyrd Temple should not be looked for to be buylt.
Novv that
Melchisedec representeth
GOD, these very
Ebrewes graunt.
R. Symeon in Zoar, and
R. Menachem, fol. 45. that he represented CHRIST.
R. Isaac ben Arama vpon Gen. 47. and
Mose
[...] Hadarson vpo
[...] Num. 16. they holde that. Yet their darknes cannot comprehende the light of God dvvelling in Christ. Thrones twise twelue are for all the Christians: borne of
Israels twelue, or taught by the Apostles: who for dignitie are Seniores: For infinite, are tearmed but foure and twenty, in regarde of so many Tribes and Apostles. Here the Maiesty is honorable: as at the delyuery of the Law, from whose throne thunder,
[...]oyces, and lyghtninges, do proceede. Here oyle of grace is neuer wantyng: but burnyng with seuen Lampes, the spirites of
Talmud
in Sanedrin,
Cha. Chelec, fol. 73. b. Messias, of wit & wysedome▪ of counsell and courage, of knowledge and vnderstandyng, and of the feare due to the eternall. Here the valiant patient, witty, and speedy, with sharpe sight, are winged as those
Seraphim that wayted on Christ: when ten calamities, and vtter destruction was
[...]olde for the low
Ierusalem. They of this Citie are not as
Israel, after the flesh, which would not see for all the wonders that our Lord did. But these redeemed by his precious Blood are full of eyes, lyghtened by Lampes, the glory of
IEHOV AH, and beholdyng Christ through all the Prophetes:
[Page] a perfourmer of our fayth,
Iohn. 6. Dan. 9, 24. Apoc. 6. Esay. 60. Apoc. 21. Esay. 35, 8. Aggi. 2,
[...]. Dan. 2, 44. Ephes. 1, 4. Ephes 2, 19. Ioh. 7, 38. Cant. 4, 15. Apoc. 2. Psal. 95, 7. sealed of God: sealer of all vision, opener of seales for the stories of the Church. Here is the true lyght, where the saued-walke. Hither kingdomes bring their glory: Hither the blessed Nations cary their Iewels. This is a kingdome vncorrupted, which shall not be geuen to a strange and vncleane people. They must be written in the booke of the Lambe, and chosen of eternitie, sanctified of God, which here be citizens. Through this there gusheth a streame better then the foure in
Eden: a streame of lyuely waters by beliefe in Christ, as those waters flowyng from
Lebanon. Here is that Tree of lyfe in the myddes of the Paradise of God, with leaues to heale the nations, that wylbe cured, whyle it is sayd to day: with twelue fruites, to geue foode continually: to such as feede also vpon the h
[...]d Manna: who after death, receyue the crowne of iustice and lyfe,
2. Tim 4, 8. Apoc. 2. Apoc. 3. the mornyng starre, white clothyng, and the white stone: wherein a name is written, equall to all the Law.
Deut. 27, 2. The first state of the first
Adam in the first Paradise was glorious: This is better. And as
Moses began with the terrestriall, so the holy worde endeth in the celestiall: that to wheeles full of eyes, may the writ of trueth be compared. The full consent and melody of Prophetes and Apostles: how their Harpes are tuned on
Mount Syon, it wyll fully appeare in the full sight of peace: when our bodyes are made conformable to Christ his glorious body in the worlde to come:
Phil. 3, 21. and our eyes shall see the Lord in that
Syon. For that commyng, O thou whom my soule loueth, be lyke to the Roe vpon the mountaynes.
Cant. 1. &. 3. Amen, euen so come Lord Iesus. Then we shall in perfect holynes worshyp thee: to whom the Angels alwayes geue holy worshyppe: saying, prayse, and glory, and wisedome, and thankes, and honour, and power, and myght, be vnto our God for euermore.
Amen.
Imprinted at London, for Gabriell Simson and
William White.