to build the house of the Lord in Ierusalem in the second moneth and the second day in the fourth yeere of his reigne 2. Para. 3. verse 1. and 2. The fift age The fift age from the building of the temple to the captiuitie of the Iewes in Babylon containeth 432. yeres whereof this is the demonstration King Salomon raigned after that hee beganne to builde the temple 37. yeeres 1. King 11. verse 42.2 Para. 9. verse 30. but hereof we must abate one moneth and one day because hee beganne to build the temple in the second day of the second moneth of the fourth yeere as is already prooued Roboam or Rehoboam reigned 17. yeres 2. Par. 12. v. 13. Abias raigned 3. yeeres 1. King 15. verse 2. Asa raigned 41. yeeres 1. King 15. verse 9 and 10. this Asa was a vertuous and zealous prince he sought the Lord with a perfect heart he deposed Maachah his mother from her regencie because she had made an idoll in a groue hee brake downe the idoll and stamped it and burned it at the brooke Kidron He gathered all Iudah and Beniamin and the strangers and made them sweare vnto true religion vnder the paine of death 2. Par. 15. per totum Iehosaphat or Iosaphat raigned 25. yeres 2. Par. 20. ve 31 Iehoram raigned 8. yeres 2. Par. 21. v. 5. 2. Kin. 8. ve 26 Ochozias or Ahaziah raigned 1. yeere 2. Kin. 8. verse 26. Athaliah the mother of Ochozias raigned 7. yeeres 2. King 11. verse 1. and 21. for king Ioas or Iehoash was 7. yeres old when he beganne to raigne This Athaliah destroyed the kings blood and was sister to wicked Achab. Ioas or Iehoash raigned 40. yeeres 2. King 12. verse 1. Amaziah raigned 29. yeeres 2. King 14. verse 2 Azariah or Ozias raigned 52. yeeres 2. King 15. verse 2. Ioatham or Iotham raigned 16. yeeres 2. King 15. ver 33 Achas or Ahaz raigned 16. yeeres 2. King 16. verse 2. Ezechias reigned 29. yeeres 2. King 18. verse 2. Manasses reigned 55. yeeres 2. King 21. verse 1. Amon raigned two yeeres 2. King 21. verse 19. Iosias reigned 31. yeeres 2. King 22. verse 1. Ioachaz or Iehoahaz reigned three months 2. Ki. 23. v. 31. Ioachim or Iehoiachim or Eliachim reigned 11. yeeres 2. King 23. verse 36. This Eliachim was a very wicked man he was made king by Pharao Nechoh who turned his name to Eliachim 2. Ki. 23. verse 34. and 37. in the dayes of this Ioachim beganne the first captiuitie of the three whereof see more at large in the seuenth chapter next following Iehoiachim or Iechonias or Coniah the sonne of Iehoiachim raigned three moneths and tenne dayes 2. Par. 36. verse 9. 2. King 24. verse 8. Ierem. 37. verse 1. In the time of this Iechonias beganne the second captiuitie which 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hath simply the name of captiuitie and therefore do I followe the same in this my supputation of the first age See the second booke and first chapter in the fourth section Sedechias or Zedechias reigned 11. yeeres 2. King 24. ve 18. he rebelled against the king of Babel ibid. ver 20. wherfore after the siege of two yeeres Nebuchad-nezar carried him captiue to Babel in the eleuenth yeare of his reigne his owne eies were put out his sonnes were first slaine in his sight and then hee was bound in chaines and so led away to captiuity 2. King 25. ve 1 2 7. he was vncle to Iechonias and his name was Mattanias but the king of Babel changed it to Sedechias 2. Kin. 25. verse 17. The first addition We must first adde to this supputation for the complement of the first age eleuen yeeres of the inter-reigne which are found wanting betweene the death of Amaziah and the reigne of Azariah for so long was the kingdome of Iuda voide as holy Writ heareth record I proue it thus Amaziah reigned 29. yeares 2. King 14. verse 2. and he beganne his reigne in the second yeare of Ioash king of Israel and liued 15. yeares after him 2. King 14. verse 1. and 17. Ieroboam the sonne of Ioash was made king ouer Israel in the fifteenth yere of Amaziah and he reigned 41. yeres 2. Kin. 14. verse 23. Let vs adioyne hereunto that Azariah beganne his raigne in the seauen and twentieth yeare of Ieroboam 2. Ki. 15. verse 1. and then perforce shall we finde 11 yeres wanting from the death of Amaziah til the first yere of the raigne of Azariah These things I grant be very intricate yet if my wordes he well marked the Reader may conceiue the matter with al facilitie the cause of the inter-reigne was the traiterous conspiracie against Amaziah 2. King 14. verse 19. The second addition Although Iechonias in whome I beginne my supputation of the captiuitie be said in some place of the scripture to haue reigned but three moneths and ten dayes yet do I ascribe one whole yeare to his reigne my reason is this because he was not carried away to Babel vntill the whole yeere was expired 2. Par. 36. verse 10. these are the wordes and when the yeere was out king Nebuchad-nezzar sent and brought him to Babel with the pretious vessels of the house of the Lorde and hee made Zedechiah king ouer Iudah and Ierusalem The first obiection The scripture saith in one place that Iechonias reigned but three moneths 2. King 24. verse 8. in an other place that hee reigned three moneths and tenne dayes 2. Par. 36. verse 9. in another place that he was eighteene yeeres old when he began to reigne 2. King 24.8 in an other place that he beganne to raigne in the eight yeare of his age 2. Par. 36. ve 9. all which can neither agree with three moneths nor yet with one onelie yeare The answer I answere that hee beganne to reigne when hee was eight yeares old and reigned tenne yeares with his father and after the death of his father he raigned three moneths and ten daies which was in the nineteenth yeare of his age and so euery text of holy Writ is cleare This my answer is confirmed by the expresse wordes of holie scripture 2. King 25. verse 8. where it is saide that Nebuzaradan chiefe steward to the king of Babel came in the nineteenth yeare of the kings raigne to make hauocke of the citie and to carry Sedechias into captiuitie for Iechonias was carried away in the eight yeere of the king of Babel 2. King 24. verse 12. and Sedechias reigned eleuen yeeres 2. King 24.18 this case is so euident as euery childe may perceiue the same The replie The scripture telleth vs that the king of Babel caried Iehoiachim into captiuitie in the third yeere of his raigne and yet do you ascribe eleuen yeeres to his raigne The answer I answer that Iehoiakim was carried away in the eleuenth yere if we reckon from the time in which Pharao Necho made him king but in the third yeare if we reckon from that time in which
he became seruant to the king of Babel 2. King 23. verse 34 and 36. 2. King 24. verse 1. The second obiection The scripture calleth Sedechias the brother of Iechonias therefore it is not consonant to the trueth to say hee was his vncle The answer I answer with saint Austen and saint Hierome that the custome of the scripture is to terme kinsemen by the name of brothers and therefore Sedechias is indifferently called vncle 2. King 24. verse 17. or brother 2. Par. 36. verse 10. 37 17 3 41 25 8 1 7 40 29 52 16 16 29 55 2 31 11 11 11 1 443 Make addition and the summe will be found 443. To the which adde three monethes for the raigne of Ioâ—chas The sixt age The sixt age from the beginning of the captiuitie till the sacred passion of Christ Iesus conteineth 660. yeares whereof let this be the demonstration The captiuitie in which are inuolued the eleuen yeares of Sedechias continued the space of 70. yeeres Ierem. 25. vers 11. and 29. Daniel 9. vers 2. Esdr. 1. verse 1. 2. Paralip 36 verse 22. This is confirmed by the raigne of the Monarchs for Nebuchad-nezzer from the beginning of whose eight yeare the second and chiefe captiuitie beganne reigned 45. yeeres Euilmerodach his sonne reigned 30. yeres And Balthazar reigned 3. yeares Al which put together make the 70. yeeres of the Iewish captiuitie For in the first yeare of king Cyrus who succeeded Balthazar the Iewes were set at libertie Esdr. 1 verse 1. S. Clement Eusebius and all approoued writers do constantly affirme the same The seuentie weekes in Daniel make iust 490. yeares as al writers do affirme Concerning which weeks because there is verie great varietie amongest historiographers I will here suppose that which by Gods grace I shal proue effectually when I come to the fourth chapter of the third booke of this first part whither I referre the Reader for his full resolution in this intricate and important controuersie In the meane season remember that the 490. yeares are but 475. yeares after the course of the Moone From the ende of the captiuitie vntill the twentieth yeare of Artaxerxes Longimanus inclusiuè where I hold that the 70. weekes doe beginne are iust 115. yeares and two moneths all which put together do make iust 660. yeres For the weeks make no more but 475. yeares after the course of the sunne which must be marked attentiuely and which shall be prooued hereafter accordingly 70 475 115 in al 660 Thus wee haue it perspicuously prooued euen by the testimonie of holy Writ that from the beginning of the world vntil the time that Christ suffered on the crosse for our sinnes be iust â—ure thousand foure score and seuenteene yeares three monethâ— and sixteene dayes The first age 1656 The second 353 The third 505 The fourth 480 The fift 428 The sixt 660 in all 4082. Now because the exact knowledge of the raigne of the kings of Iudah dependeth more then a little of the raigne of the kings of Israel I purpose in God to adioyne hereunto a manifest declaration of the same specially because without the knowledge thereof the bookes of the Kings and Chronicles can neuer be rightly vnderstoode The Kings of Israel Ieroboam raigned 21. yeares which I prooue thus Asa king of Iudah beganne to raigne in the twentieth yeere of Ieroboam 1. King chapter 15 verse 9. and Nadab the sonne of Ieroboam beganne to raigne ouer Israel in the second yere of Asa 1. King chapter 15 verse 25 therefore Ieroboam his father whom he succeeded in the kingdome raigned before his death 21. yeares Nadab raigned 2. yeares 1. King 15. verse 25. Baasha raigned 24. yeares 1. King 15. verse 33. Elah or Hela raigned 2. yeares 1. King 16.8 Zimri raigned 7. dayes 1. King 16. verses 15 and 16. daye 7 Amri or Omri raigned 12. yeares 1. King 16.23 Achab or Ahab reigned 22. yeeres 1. King 16.29 Ochozias or Ahaziah reigned 2. yeeres 1. King 22.51 Ioram or Iehoram raigned 12. yeeres 2. King 3. verse 1. both these two to wit Ochozias and Ioram were the sonnes of Achab. Iehu reigned 28. yeeres 2. King 10. verse 36. Ioachas or Iehoahaz reigned 17. yeeres 2. Kin. 13. ve 1. Ioas or Iehoash reigned 16. yeeres 2. King 13. verse 10. Ieroboam the sonne of Ioas or Ioash reigned 41. yeeres 4. King 14. verse 23. where we must note well by the way that the other Ieroboam was the sonne of Nebat 1. King 12.2 We must heere obserue as a necessarie rule that betweene Ieroboam and Zachariah was an inter-reigne of 23. yeeres I prooue it because we reade 2. Kin. 15.1 8. that Azariah king of Iudah beganne his raigne in the seuen and twentieth yeere of Ieroboam as also that Zacharias beganne his raigne in the eight and thirtieth yere of Azariah to which we must adde that Ieroboam raigned 41. yeeres and so the kingdome perforce was voide 23. yeres For if we make abstraction of 14. from 37. the remainder will be 23. yeres for the inter-reigne moneths 6 Zachariah reigned 6. moneths 2. King 15.8 moneth 1 Sellum or Shallum reigned 1 moneth 2. King 15.13 yeeres 10 Menahem or Manahen reigned 10. yeeres 2. King 15.17 Pekahiah or Phaceas reigned 2. yeeres 2. King 15.23 Pekah or Phasee raigned 20. yeeres 2. King 15.27 Osee or Hosheah reigned 9. yeeres 2. King 17. verse 1. In the dayes of this king about the yeare of the worlde 3304. beganne the captiuitie Of the ten Tribes whereof see more at large in the eight chapter next following in the sixt Section CHAP. III. Of the state of the Hebrewes The people of y e Iews the elect people of God liued vnder the protection and empire of Patriarkes Chiefetaines or Gouernours Iudges Kings againe Chiefetaines after the captiuitie Priests before the captiuity and Priests after the captiuity had to doe with the kings of the Persians Egyptians Syrians strangers and with the emperors of Rome The Israelites were gouerned 3. wayes by Iudges from Iosue to Saul Kings from Saul to the captiuitie Priests from the captiuitie to Christ. For exact vnderstanding of this chapter it is expedient to note well the fift booke of this first part from the second chapter to the end of the same booke CHAP. IIII. Of the Patriarkes â—he Patriâ—â—kes of the â—ebrewes were Abraham Isaac liued yeeres one hundred begat Isaac Ge. 21.5 threescore and begat Iacob Ge. 25.26 Iacob caled also Israel Ge. 35.10 he had 12 children with Lea Ruben Ge. 35.22 these were the heads of the twelue Tribes Simeon Ge. 35.22 these were the heads of the twelue Tribes Leui Ge. 35.22 these were the heads of the twelue Tribes Iudah Ge. 35.22 these were the heads of the twelue Tribes Isachar Ge. 35.22 these were the heads of the twelue Tribes Zabulon Ge. 35.22 these were the heads of the twelue Tribes Zilpha the handmaid of Lea Gad Ge. 35.22 these were the heads of the twelue Tribes Aser Ge. 35.22 these
so long For from the building thereof vntill the captiuitie be onely 432. yeares and eleuen yeares after that was it burnt as is prooued in the second doubt of this present chapter The captiuitie began the fourth yeare of Ioachim aliâs Eliachim Iere. 25. ver 1. Daniel with others of the Nobilitie were carried captiues Dan. 1. ver 3. yea Ioachim himself was bound with chaines and so carried to Babell 2. Paralip 36. ver 6. Nabuchodonozor carried away into Babell Ioachims mother his wiues his Eunuches and the mightie of the land carried he away into captiuitie from Ierusalem vnto Babell 4. King cap. 24. verse 15. The king of Babell made Matthanias his vncle king in his steed and changed his name to Sedechias verse 17. ibid. The first doubt The captiuitie beganne when Ieconias was carried away captiue to Babylon as it seemeth in S. Mathew cap. 1. v. 11. And yet was he eight yeares old when he was caried into Babylon 2. Par. 36. ver 9. before which time hee did not reigne ibid. Therefore the captiuitie could not beginne in the 11. yere of Sedechias as Iosephus and the Hebrews reckon neither at the birth of Ieconias as S. Mathew writeth The answere For the manifestation of this difficultie we must obserue that Ierusalem was thrise taken by the Babylonians to wit in the daies of Ioachim Iechonias and Sedechias 4. King ca. 24. 25. By reason whereof some reckon the beginning of the captiuitie from Ioachim some from Ieconias other some as the Hebrewes doe generally from the 11. yeare of king Sedechias See the answere of the third doubt heereof I haue spoken more at large in the second chapter in the handling of the fift age The second doubt The Prophet Ieremie writeth that the Citie of Ierusalem was burnt togither with the kinges pallace and the temple in the tenth day of the fift moneth in the 19. yeare of king Nebuchad-nezar Iere. 52. verse 12. but as the booke of Kings saith it was burnt in the seuenth day of the said moneth 2. Kin. 25. verse 8. The answere I answere that the citie was three daies in burning to wit from the seuenth day vntill the tenth Ieremie therefore speaking of the end is not contrarie to the booke of the kings speaking of the originall thereof The third doubt The prophet Daniel saith that the calamitie began in the third yeare of king Ioachim or Iehoiakim Dan. 1 ver 1. but the prophet Ieremie affirmeth that it was in the fourth yeare of Iehoiachim and in the first yeare of Nabuchad-nezar king of Babell Ier. cap. 25. verse 1. The answere We must here obserue that the captiuitie the first of the three was in the end of the third yeare of Ioachim as Daniel truely writeth in rigour of supputation yet may it be well said that it began in the fourth yeare as we reade in Ieremie because the remnant in the third yeare was in effect nothing at all The second Section Of the time of the siege The citie of Ierusalem was besieged the space of two yeres that is from the ninth yeare vntill the eleuenth of king Sedechias 4. Kin. 25. ver 1 2. during the time of which siege the famine was so sore and vrgent that the handes of pitifull mothers sod their own children to be their meate Lam. Ier. ca. 4. verse 10. which thing seemeth so repugnant to nature as it were ineredible to be tolde if holy writ had not first reported it The like horror was among mothers in murthering their children when Titus in the second yeare of Vespatianus his father besieged it and manie murthered themselues because the famine was so great The 3. Section Of Noe his floud The scripture recordeth that when God saw the wickednes of man to be great on earth and all the thoughtes of his heart to be naught continually it repented him that he had created man Wherefore his holy will was this to destroy from the face of the earth the man whom hee hadde made from man to beast to the creeping thinges and to the foules of the aire And this God purposed to doe by drowning of the world with a generall floud of water Yet Noah found fauour in Gods sight so that himselfe his wife his sonnes and their wiues eight persons in all with cattell foules and all liuing things two of euery sorte were saued in the arke Gen. 6.7 Noah was 600. yeares olde when the floud was vpon the earth Gen. chap. 7. ver 6. the floud preuailed on the earth 150. dayes Gen. 7. ver 24. The floud continued a whole yere Gen. 8. ver 13. It was in the yere of the world 1656. For from Adam to the birth of Noah are 1056. Gen. 5. And from the birth of Noah till the floud are 600. yeares The fourth Section Of the building of the temple King Salomon builded the temple in the fourth yeare of his raigne which was in the 480. yeare after the children of Israel were come out of Egypt 3. Kin. 6. ver 1. And in the yeare of the world after Iosephus 3102. after others 3149. but after the exact supputation 2994. as is already prooued While the temple was a building K. Salomon appointed seuentie thousand to beare burdens foure score thousand to hew stones in the mountaines and three thousand sixe hundreth ouerseers to cause the people to worke Par. cap. 2. ver 18. The fift Section Of the abode of the Israelites in Egypt There is a great controuersie and varietie not to be dissembled amongst Historiographers and learned writers concerning the time that the Israelites were in Egypt For Moses saith that the Israelites were in Egypt 430. yeares In Genesis it is said that they were there only 400. yeares S. Stephen saith that Abrahams seed should be a soiourner 400. yeares in a strange land And yet it is very certaine by authenticall supputation of the Scriptures that they were in Egypt only 215. yeares so that we want two hundreth yeares and odde of the accompt made in Genesis Exodus and the Actes S. Hierome confessed freely that he knew not howe to reconcile these places of the holy scripture S. Chrysostome reconcileth the places thus to wit that God appointed the Israelites to abide 400. yeares in Egypt yet for the heynous sinnes of the Egyptians he shortened the time euen as he abridged the 120 yeares which he graunted before the floud vnto men that they might repent and brought them to one hundreth Neither was Niniuie destroied after 40. daies Neither died Ezechias as God had said I answere therefore with Saint Austen and other learned writers that the 400. yeares mentioned in Genesis and in the Acts must be reckoned from the birth of Isaach vntill the departure out of Egypt and the 430. from Abrahams going out of his countrie For the seed of Abraham was so long afflicted in a land not their owne as the scripture speabeth Partly in Palestine partly in Mesopotamia and
dominioÌ„s read the holy bibles in their vulgar tongues and cause their subiectes to doe the like a thing neuer heard of by any writers of approoued antiquitie A doubt S. Peter saith that certaine places of S. Paules epistles be hard to be vnderstood and S. Hierome in his Commentaries vpon Ezechiel saith that amongst the Iewes none could be permitted to reade the beginning of Genesis the Canticles the beginning and ending of Ezechiel vntill he were 36. yeres of age The answer I answere with S. Austen that whatsoeuer is necessary for mans saluation is plainly set downe in holy scripture and that which is obscure in one place is made manifest by another his words I haue alledged in my book of Motiues in the tenth chapter and second conclusion The fourth section of the Prophet Daniel Daniel was a prophet of the tribe of Iuda descended of noble parentage and being a childe was carried from Iurie to Babilon Epiphanius de vit interrit Prophet Of Daniel hee was called Balthazar Which name was giuen him either as Iosephus saith of king Nabuchodonozor or as Lud. Viues saith of the kinges Eunuche who had charge of the kinges children This is certaine that hee was called Balthasar in Babylon Orig. in Num. cap. 31. hom 25. Daniel preached in Babylon in the very time of the captiuitie Dan. 1. ver 7. Daniel departed out of this life in Babylon and was buried with great honour his sepulchre is this day to be seene in Babylon renowmed throughout the world Epiphanius vbi supra CHAP. XI Of the Prophets called the lesser The first section why some were called the greater and other some the lesser FOure to wit Esay Ieremie Ezechiel and Daniel were called the greater Prophets because they wrote greater and larger volumes Twelue to wit Osee Ioel Amos Abdias Ionas Micheas Nahum Abacuc Sophonias Aggeus Zacharias Malachias were called y e lesser because they wrote smaller lesser volumes Aug. de ciuit lib. 18. c. 29. in princ Of these Prophetes as the latter were neerer the time of Christ so had they clearer reuelations of Christ then the former Gloss. in 1. Reg. 3. The second Section of Osee. Asarias who was also called Ozias of the stocke of Dauid reigned in Ierusalem ouer the two tribes which were called Iuda 52. yeares After him Ioatham his sonne reigned 16. yeares after Ioatham Achab his sonne reigned in like maner 16. yeares in the eleuenth yeare of whose reigne the ten tribes which were called Israel were taken of Salmanasar the king of the Caldees and placed in the mountaines of the Medes After Achas reigned his sonne Ezechias 28 yeres whereby it is cleere that when Osee Esay Ioel Amos Abdias Ionas and Micheas prophesied who were all at one time then was the kingdome of the ten tribes ended Which continued from Ieroboam the first king vntill Osee the last the space of 250. yeares The same time that Osias began to reigne ouer Iuda Ieroboam king Iehu his Nephewes sonne reigned the 12. yeare ouer Israel because God had promised that his seede should reigne vntill the fourth generation for smiting two wicked kinges of Iuda and Israel this I write 〈◊〉 S. Hierome to shew that Osee wrote both before and 〈◊〉 the captiuitie of Israel Hier. in 1. cap Osee. see the eight â—â—â—pter and sixt section per tot sect Osee prophesied that the Iewes should be conuerted at the latter end of the worlde He preached against the tenne tribes of their fornication and of the destruction of Samaria he spake something also of the other two tribes Gloss in princ 1. ca. Osee. Osee foretolde the comming of the Messias and that this should be the signe of his comming To wit if that oake in Selom be clouen of it selfe into twelue partes and be made so many oake trees and it came so to passe Epiphan de Prophet vit eter The third section of Ioel. The Prophet Iohel the sonne of Phatuel was borne in the territorie of Bethor descended of the tribe of Ruben He prophesied much of Ierusalem and of the consummation of the Gentiles He died in peace and was buried with honour in his owne countrey Epiphan vbi supr Like as in Osee vnder the name of Ephraim the prophesie is extended to the tenne tribes who are often called Samaria or Israel euen so whatsoeuer Ioel saith pertaineth to Iuda and Ierusalem Hier. in 1 cap. Ioel. Ioel prophesied in the daies of king Ioatham who succeeded king Ozias Aug. de ciuit lib 18. cap 27. but S. Hierome extendeth the time further euen to the reignes of Ozias Ioatham Achas and Ezechias Hier. in Ioel. The fourth section of Amos. Amos was borne in Thecue descended of the tribe of Zabulon he was father to Esay the Prophet so saith Epiphan de prophet vit inter but saint Austen and saint Hierome think otherwise as I haue shewed Amos was of Thecue six miles South from holy Bethlehem where our Sauiour Christ was borne Hier. in comment Amos. S. Basill saith that Amos was a shepheard but God instructed him with his holy spirite and so aduaunced him to the dignitie of a prophet Basilius Epist. 55. Amos prophesied in the daies of Ozias when Esaias began his prophesie Hier. in Esaiam lib. 3 cap. 7. Aug. de ciuit lib. 18 cap. 27 He prophesied also in the time of Ieroboam the sonne of Ioas king of Israel Hier. in 1. cap. Amos. The fift section of Abdias Abdias or Obadiah was the steward of king Achabs house the king of Israel 3. King 18. verse 3. he hid Gods prophets in caues and fed them with bread and water ver 4. he gaue ouer the kings court ioyned himselfe to the prophet Elias and became his disciple Epiphanius Hieronymus Abdias is briefe in wordes but pithie in matter because he hid the 100. prophets in caues he was aduaunced to the dignitie of a prophet and where before hee was the captaine of an armie he now became the captaine of Gods Church then hee fed a little flocke in Samaria nowe he feedeth Christes churches in the whole world Hier. in Abdiam yet saint Hierome vpon Osee maketh Abdias 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Esaias which seemeth verie probable The sixt section of the Prophet Ionas The prophet Ionas was appointed of God to preach to the Niniuites that the citie after three daies shoulde be destroied but he being afraid to preach to that great city of the Assyrians fled from the presence of the Lord and went downe into a ship that went to Tarshishe but when a great tempest arose the marriners cast Ionas into the Sea and hee was in the belly of a great fishe three daies and three nightes and after that he was deliuered out of the Whales bellie and brought to the dry land TheÌ„ the word of the Lord came to Ionas the second time he preached to the Niniuites and they by repentance appeased the wrath of God Ionas cap. 1. 3 Athanas.
Anno mundi 3197 32 Kings 36 Tantens Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres Anno mundi 3197 40 Kings 36 Thineus Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres Anno mundi 3197 30 Kings 36 Dercilus Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres Anno mundi 3197 40 Kings 36 Eupales Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres Anno mundi 3197 38 Kings 36 Laosthenes Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres Anno mundi 3197 45 Kings 36 Piriciades Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres Anno mundi 3197 30 Kings 36 Ophrateus Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres Anno mundi 3197 20 Kings 36 Ophratanes Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres Anno mundi 3197 50 Kings 36 Ocrazapes Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres Anno mundi 3197 41 Kings 36 Sardanapalê° Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres Anno mundi 3197 20 Kings 36 Sardanapalus was the last king of the Assyrians that possessed the whole monarchie he was a man of very bad behauiour and being â—â—ercome in battell by Arbaces hee burnt himselfe to death by fire This monarchie indured 1240. yeeres after Eusebius but see the fourth section following and marke it attentiuely After that Sardanapalus the vicious and effeminate monarke had burnt himselfe together with his riches Phul Belochus the president of Babylon and Arbaces ruler of the Medes diuided the monarchie betweene them Phul Belochus had Babylon and Assyria Arbaces enioyed Media and Persia. The kings that took part with Arbaces were termed the Kings of the Medes Such as followed Belochus the Kings of the Assyrians Chaldeans or Babylonians The court lay first at Niniueh after at Babylon Arbaces the Mede subdued the Assyrians and translated the Empire to the Medes From hencefoorth many alterations chanced in the monarkie After Herodotus the Assyrians held the monarchie 500. yeeres from which time now the Assyrians now the Medes now the Chaldeans had the vpper hand At the length the Medes being more mightie then the rest subdued Babylon and quietly enioyed the whole empire The kings of y e Medes Arbaces Anno mundi 3195 raigned yeres Anno mundi 3456 28 Sosarnus Anno mundi 3195 raigned yeres Anno mundi 3456 30 Medidus Anno mundi 3195 raigned yeres Anno mundi 3456 40 Cardiceas Anno mundi 3195 raigned yeres Anno mundi 3456 15 Diôcles Anno mundi 3195 raigned yeres Anno mundi 3456 54 Phaortes Anno mundi 3195 raigned yeres Anno mundi 3456 24 Cyaraxes or Cyaxares Anno mundi 3195 raigned yeres Anno mundi 3456 32 Astyages Anno mundi 3195 raigned yeres Anno mundi 3456 38 The monarkie of the Assyrians which is also called the monarkie of the Chaldeans and of the Babylonians because they sometime inioyed it though with small felicitie beganne about the age of the world 2008. and continued about 1470. yeeres at what time Darius king of the Medes with Cyrus his sonne in law wanne Babylon and killed Balthazar Dan. 5. verses 30 31. The third section of Balthazar Balthazar king of Babylon when hee was drinking wine commanded the golden vesselâ—es which his father had brough from the temple in Hierusalem to be set before him that hee his princes his wiues and his concubines might drinke therein they drunke wine and praised the gods of gold siluer brassâ— and stone But what followed al this idololatricall ioy in the very same houre there appeared fingers of a mans hand writing vpon the wall of the kings pallace so that the kings countenance changed and his thoughts troubled him The ioynts of his loynes were loosed his knees smote one against the other and he cried mightily Dan. 5. verse 2 3 5 6 7. Behold here the end of idolatrie and superstition Balthazar foorthwith after he had adored his false gods was tormented as is said the same night he was staine and Darius the Mede inioyed the kingdome verse 30 31. A wonderful example for al kings and monarkes euer to serue the liuing God and to set foorth his pure religion The fourth section of the diuersitie in computation Eusebius and some others reckon the monarchie of the Assyrians from Ninus and so it continued 1240. yeeres as is saide in the second section Yet others who seeme to followe Philo and Metasthenes beginne the monarchie in the 8. yeere of Nabuchodonosors reigne and then it indured onely seuentie yeeres for Nabuchodonosor raigned 45. yeeres Euil-merodach his sonne 30. yeres and Balthazar his sonne 3. yeres Such as will in this maner make their supputation must reckon the first monarchie to be of the Babylonians not of the Assyrians Genebrardus reckoneth the monarchie to haue continued 78. yeares that is eight yeares before the captiuitie because the first yeare of Nabuchodnosor fell in the end of the third yeare of Ioachim Dan. 1. and was the fourth of Ioachim Iere. 25. but so the veritie of the historie be granted it skilleth not much to varie the name CHAP. II. Of the kings of the Assyrians and Babilonians after the death of Sardanapalus and the diuision of the monarchie PHul Belochus was the first king of the Assyrians after the diuision of the Empire and death of Sardanapalus hee was a magnificall and fortunate Prince and Niniue was his pallace he was president of Babilon in the time of Sardanapalus after whose miserable death he enioyed halfe of the monarchie as I haue shewed in the first chapter and second section he ruled 48. yeares in all Phull Assar surnamed Tiglath was the second king of the Assyrians he was a verie bad king he destroyed Galile and led some of the tribes into captiuitie he raigned 23. yeares Salmanasar was the third king of the Assyrians hee was a tyrannicall and cruell king this Salmanasar destroyed the kingdome of Israel besieged Samaria tooke it battered it downe slew the king and led away into Media the people that remained after the slaughter for hee was ruler in that countrey and he raigned eleuen yeares Sennacherib the fourth king of the Assyrians was an arrogant wicked godlesse man he bent himself against god with sacrilegious and blasphemous speeches he sent a great host against Hierusalem but Gods Angell smote in his armie an hundred foure score and fiue thousand insomuch that he was enforced to retire and to dwell againe in Niniue For his blasphemie against god an horrible death befel vpon him for as he was in the temple worshipping his God Nisroch Adramelech and Saresar his owne sonnes smat him with the sword and they escaped when they had slaine him into the land of Armenia 4. King 18 19 chap. so was he murdered euen before the idoll whom he adored for God and by them by whom he ought by nature to haue bin defended he raigned 15. yeares That the wickednes of this Senacherib might be noted of all posterities his image was set vp in Egypt with this inscription ouer it as writeth Herodotus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That is to say Whosoeuer shall behold mee with his corporall eies let him learne by my calamitie to honour
the euerliuing God and not to blaspheme him as I did for which cause I made this miserable end being murthered by mine owne children Note heere that after Eusebius Senacherib was also called Salmanasar which I thinke consonant to the holy scriptures Assar-addon succeeded Senacherib his father but was not fortunate for the strength of the Assyrians began to decay euen while his father was yet liuing Besides this the mighty prince Merodach-baladan the Chaldee made wars both with him his father before him forthwith after the death of Senacherib hee wanne Babylon and enioyed it with other territories in Assyria vntill the death of Assar-addon from whose death hee possessed the whole Empire Hee raigned tenne yeares Merodach-baladan the first king of the Babylonians for the fame and memorie of the ancient kingdome of Assyria was called king of the Assyrians also as were likewise other kings that followed him He first transported the maiestie of the Assyrians to the Chaldees or Babylonians for the glorie of Niniue where the kings pallace was of olde was nowe translated to Babylon for which benefit Merodach after his death was honoured for a God of the Babylonians Ier. 50 ver 2. he raigned 40. yeares Ben-merodach the second king of the Babylonians was a milde and mightie Prince he raigned 21. yeares Nabuchodonosor the first or the old the third king of the BabyloniaÌ„s after Merodach was father to that Nabuchodonosor who subdued Hierusalem and erected the Babylonian monarchy he made two great battailes the one against Phaortes aliâs Arphaxad king of the Medes the other against Nechao the mightie king of the Egyptians Hee slew king Arphaxad in the mountaines of Ragau as the storie of Iudith maketh mention But Nechao ouercame him and enioyed all Syria he raigned 35. yeeres Nabuchodonosor the great sonne of Nabuchodonosor the first shortly after his fathers death wanne againe all Syria He was the mightiest king of all the kings of Babylon much spoken of in holy Writ Hee subdued the citie of Ierusalem and led away the inhabitants thereof captiues to Babylon This Nabuchodonosor as he was mightie in power so was he prowd in heart He made an image of golde and set it vp in the plaine of Dura in the prouince of Babylon Which done he commaunded all his princes nobles dukes iudges receiuers counsellers officers and all gouernors of his prouinces to come to the dedication of the image Hee appointed an herald to crie aloude that when they heard the sound of the cornet trumpet harpe sackebut psalterie dulcimer and other instruments of musicke then they should fall downe and worship the image And because the three holy Iewes Sidrach Misach and Abednego would not adore the image hee caused them to be cast into a very hote burning ouen from which fiery furnace God deliuered them myraculously In regarde whereof Nabuchodonosor magnified the liuing God made a decree that al people and nations which spake against the God of Sidrach Misach and Abednego shoulde bee drawen in peeces and their houses made a iakes Dan. 3.29 After this the king still swelled in pride so that he was cast out from his kingdome driuen from men ate grasse as oxen and his bodie was wet with the dew of heauen till his haires were growen as Eagles feathers and his nailes like birdes clawes Dan. 4. verse 30. After Nabuchodonosor magnus succeeded Euil-merodach after him Balthazar of which two see the first chapter in the fourth section CHAP. II. Of the destruction of Troy THe kingdome of Troy was of great antiquitie it began as sundrie Chronographers write a little before the death of Moses about the 32. yeare after the departure of Israel out of Egypt They write that Dardanus was the first king of the Troians and Priamus the last Alexander the sonne of Priamus surnamed Paris tooke away violently Helena wife to Menelaus king of the Lacedemonians which fact was the occasion of the most bitter and bloody battell of the Troyans This battel was fought of the most valiant people in Asia and Europe with mortall enmitie and inestimable losse on both sides with the bloud and destruction of many most flourishing regions Troy was taken burnt and vtterly destroyed 340. yeares before Rome was built in the age of the world 2935. From the captiuitie of Troy vntill the first Olimpias were complete 340. yeares albeit Liuiâ—s and some other haue their different supputations CHAP. III. Of the supputation of the Greeks THe olde Greekes did account as wee doe nowe by the yeres of our Lord the first Olimpias the second the third the fourth and so forth Some holde that Olimpias is the space of fiue yeeres but if thou wilt not be deceiued therin gentle reader reckon it but for the space of foure yeares The supputation of the Greeks by the Olimpiads is of all writers deemed true and therefore albeit before their Olympiads euerie one wrote as pleased himselfe yet after their Olympiads wee ought greatly to respect their account Africanus writeth that the first Olimpias was in the first yere of Ioatham king of Iuda and so it should be in the age of the world 3251. others dissent fro that computation affirme it to bee in the time of Ioas and then it chanced in the age of the world 3130. which supputation seemeth not so probable and therefore with Affricanus Eusebius and others I imitate the former but in reckoning the time of Iotham and Ioas I dissent from them both as is alreadie shewed CHAP. IIII. Of the citie of Rome ROme was builded in the end of the sixt Olympias in the age of the world 3218. after the destruction of Troy 340. before the incarnation of our sauior Iesus Christ about 729. yeares Romulus and Rhemus were brothers twinnes both of one age Contention and controuersie fell betweene them after whether of them the citie which they had newly built should be named The contention grew from words to tumults from tumults to strokes from strokes to bloudy battel insomuch as in the bickering Rhemus was slaine after his death Romulus enioyed the Empire alone of whome the City was called Rome Rome hath beene sundrie times sacked and ouerthrowne by the Gothes and Vandals first by Alaricus the Gothe in the yeare of our Lord God 412. This king besieged Rome and after burned it during which siege such famine was in the city that the mothers were constrained with hunger to eate their owne children It was besieged taken and sacked the second time by Gensericus the Vandal in the yeare of our Lord 456. It was besieged sacked and subuerted the third time by Totilas king of the Gothes in the yeare of our Lord 548. in the yeare after the citie was built 1300 in which siege as in the first the famine was exceeding great mothers were enforced contrarie to nature and kinde to kill and eate the flesh of their owne children Procopius Palmerius The same
Totilas about three yeeres after beganne to repaire and build vp the citie of Rome and gaue leaue to the citizens to returne into the citie in the yere of our Lord 551. The kings of the Romanes Romlus Anno mundi 3220 reigned was king of Rome Anno mundi 3438 38 244 Numa Pompilius Anno mundi 3220 reigned was king of Rome Anno mundi 3438 43 244 Tullus Hostilius Anno mundi 3220 reigned was king of Rome Anno mundi 3438 33 244 Ancus Martius Anno mundi 3220 reigned was king of Rome Anno mundi 3438 24 244 Tarquinius priscus Anno mundi 3220 reigned was king of Rome Anno mundi 3438 37 244 Seruius Tullius Anno mundi 3220 reigned was king of Rome Anno mundi 3438 44 244 Tarquinius Superbus Anno mundi 3220 reigned was king of Rome Anno mundi 3438 25 244 Kings first raigned ouer the Romanes 244. yeres After kings the common weale of the Romanes was gouerned by Consuls then by Tribunes and Dictators and againe by Consuls for the space almost of 464. yeeres euen vntil Iulius Cesar who was the first emperour of Rome and raigned 5. yeeres seuen moneths in the second yeere of the 183. Olympias and in the age of the world 3924. The first obseruation A Consul was a chiefe officer amongst the Romans wherof two were chosen yeerely to gouerne their citie A Tribune was an officer among the Romanes that had chiefe iurisdiction among the commons His office was to maintain the liberty of the poore people against such as sought to do them wrong A Dictator was a chiefe officer amongst the Romans who had a kings power hee was neuer chosen but in some great danger of the common-weale His authoritie indured but halfe a yeere which at the halfe yeeres end he was to yeeld vp vnder paine of treason The second obseruation Valerius fellow Consul with Brutus died in such pouerty as the Romans were inforced to disburse the common tresure for his funerall so writeth Eusebius What was the cause of his pouertie I doe not reade but this I say that many rich men are often oppressed with pouertie sodainely after the aboundance of their wealth and I adde further that no effect can be without the cause The explication Some men are verie rich in lands goods and possessions which they enioy either by their patrimonie or by dissent of blood which riche men are sodenlie afflicted with pouertie when oftentimes the cause is not knowne to any neighbour but as the prouerbe saith after great getters come great spenders and how is aboundance of riches so soone gone doubtles it falleth out commonly for a iust punishment of sinne Some rich men get their riches by vsurie some by deceitfull dealing some by extortion some by bribes and gifts for furthering euill causes some by niggardly and miserly locking vp in chests and coffers that which ought to haue beene bestowed for the reliefe of their poore neighbours All which because they are abhominable in Gods sight God punisheth the same diuersly sometime in the getters themselues though that chance but seldome and commonly in their successors so as it may be truely saide euill gotten goods seldome prosper to the third generation For some successors to those greedy vnconscionable getters spend their goods lasciuiously some by carding and gamning some by foolish bargaining some by prodigalitie some by flatterie some by credulitie and some by other meanes yet few or none were euer impouerished for bestowing their goods charitably vpon the poore for as Gods prophet wisely saith from his youth vp till his olde age hee neuer saw the righteous man forsaken nor his seede begging bread Psal. 37 25. but in these our dayes wee are so wedded to worldly riches that we will rather bestow twentie pounds vpon our owne inordinate pleasures then twentie pence vppon an honest poore needy neighbour and yet when rich men haue scraped together all the wealth they can sometime it so falleth out that some of them haue not at the houre of death to discharge the verie funerall euen as it befell to this honourable Consull of Rome It therefore behoueth al christian people that haue regard to their saluation first neuer to set their affections vpon worldly goods inordinately secondly to get their riches honestly and truely thirdly to dispense their riches liberally and chearefully to all their needy neighbours God is the giuer of all riches for as the Apostle saith Paul planted and Apollos watered but God gaue the encrease 1. Cor. 3 ver 6. he maketh some poore to try their patience and faith in him other some hee maketh rich to prooue their fidelity in disposing his treasures for the rich men are but stewards of their riches God is the chiefe owner and Lord thereof to whom they must one day make a reckoning and as Saint Hierom saith hee neuer knew man make an euill end that in his life time did the workes of charitie chearefully CHAP. V. Of the Emperours of Rome The names of the Caesars The raigne of the Caesars  1 Iulius Caesar was the first emperour of Rome of whome all emperours were afterwardes called Caesars Anno Mun. 3924 5 yeeres and 7 moneths 2 Octauius or Octauianus Caesar Augustê° was the second of whome all the rest were afterwards called Augusti hee died in the 76. yeere of his age and was buried in Campo Martio  56 yeeres 3 Tiberius Caesar Augustus was the third Caesar hee died in Campania in the village Lucullana in the 78. yeere of his age  23 yeeres 4 Caius Caesar surnamed Caligula was the fourth he was slaine by his protectors in his own pallace in the 25. yere of his age  4 yeeres and 10 moneths 5 Claudius Caesar was the fift who died in his pallace the 64. yeere of his age  13 yeres and 8 moneths 6 Nero was the sixt Caesar of the Romaines he flew him selfe in the 32. yeere of his age in him was ended all the familie of Augustus Anno Dom. 55 13 yeres and 7 moneths The names of the Caesars 7 Galba Otho Vitellius succeeded by murdering one another Anno Dom. 69 The raigne of the Caesars Anno Dom. 237 1 yeere and 9 moneths 8 Vespasianus Anno Dom. 69 The raigne of the Caesars Anno Dom. 237 9 yeres 11. mon. 22. daies 9 Titus eius filius Anno Dom. 69 The raigne of the Caesars Anno Dom. 237 2 yeeres and 8 moneths 10 Domitianus Anno Dom. 69 The raigne of the Caesars Anno Dom. 237 15 yeres and 5 moneths 11 Nerua Anno Dom. 69 The raigne of the Caesars Anno Dom. 237 1 yeere and 5 moneths 12 Traianus Anno Dom. 69 The raigne of the Caesars Anno Dom. 237 19 yeres and 6 moneths 13 Adrianus Anno Dom. 69 The raigne of the Caesars Anno Dom. 237 21 yeres and 10 moneths 14 Antoninus Pius Anno Dom. 69 The raigne of the Caesars Anno Dom. 237 23 yeres and 3
prowesse and heroical vertues surnamed the Great began to reigne in Macedonia when Darius Arbelas was made king of the Persians He made warre with the said Darius he conquered and slew him in Asia and so translated the Monarchie from the Persians vnto the Greekes The monarchie of the Greekes began in the seuenth yeare of Alexanders reigne in the age of the world 3641. The histories of the Greekes are much more recent then the stories of the Iewes For all their histories are after the first monarchie of the Babylonians and Assyrians neither haue they any thing certaine which is more auncient then their Olimpiades Which Olimpiades had their beginning in the first or second yeare of Ioatham king of Iuda as Glareanus Paulus Phrigio Bibliandâ—r and others doe write though some writers otherwise of credite holde the contrary in the age of the world 3251. which was about 230. yeares before the monarchie of the Persians This Monarchie tooke the name of king Alexander and was termed indifferently the monarchie of the Greekes or of Alexander because he so excelled all others in power valure fortitude and other vertues as none in the world were deemed comparable to him He is highly commended by the prophets Iâ—remie and Daniel as a most valiant and happie emperour Daniel describeth a Goate which ouercame the Ramine and hee declareth manifestly that the goate was the king of the Greekes the Ram of the Persians His fathers name was Philip his mothers name Olympias Olympias was the mother of Alexander and was also taken for the space of 4. yeres as I haue already proued But Olympias is a mountaine in Greece between Thessalia and Macedonia aboue the which there appeareth no cloud In regard whereof it is vsurped of the Poets for heauen This hill as Plutarchus writeth is tenne furlonges in height The prophet Daniel speaking of the goate that is of Alexander foretold that his Empire shoulde be deuided into foure kingdomes and so it came to passe For Cassander had Macedonia Seleucus Syria Antigonus Asia the lesse and Ptolemeus Egypt For the exact vnderstaÌ„ding of Daniels prophesie it is necessarie to vnderstand the succession of the kings and their reignes especially of the kinges of Syria of whom the Scripture maketh precise mention King Alexander reigned sixe whole yeares and died in the seuenth after his death the nobles had mortall domesticall warres amongst themselues striuing for the space of thirteene yeares who should haue dominion This chaunced after that the Empire was deuided as is already said and shall appeare more at large in the third chapter following CHAP. II. Of the kinges of Syria succeeding Alexander The kings of Syria and Asia 1 Seleucus Nicanor Anno Mun. 3647 the reign of euerie king of Syria and Asia Anno Dom. 3877 31 yeares 2 Antiochus Soter Anno Mun. 3647 the reign of euerie king of Syria and Asia Anno Dom. 3877 19 3 Antiochus Theos Anno Mun. 3647 the reign of euerie king of Syria and Asia Anno Dom. 3877 15 4 Seleucus Gallinicus Anno Mun. 3647 the reign of euerie king of Syria and Asia Anno Dom. 3877 20 5 Seleucus Ceraunus Anno Mun. 3647 the reign of euerie king of Syria and Asia Anno Dom. 3877 3 yeares 6 Antiochus Magnus Anno Mun. 3647 the reign of euerie king of Syria and Asia Anno Dom. 3877 36 7 Seleucus Philopator Anno Mun. 3647 the reign of euerie king of Syria and Asia Anno Dom. 3877 12 8 Antiochus Epiphanes Anno Mun. 3647 the reign of euerie king of Syria and Asia Anno Dom. 3877 12 9 Antiochus Eupator Anno Mun. 3647 the reign of euerie king of Syria and Asia Anno Dom. 3877 2 yeares 10 Demetrius Soter Anno Mun. 3647 the reign of euerie king of Syria and Asia Anno Dom. 3877 10 11 Alexander filius Epiphan Anno Mun. 3647 the reign of euerie king of Syria and Asia Anno Dom. 3877 5 12 Demetrius Nicanor Anno Mun. 3647 the reign of euerie king of Syria and Asia Anno Dom. 3877 2 13 Antiochus Sedetes Anno Mun. 3647 the reign of euerie king of Syria and Asia Anno Dom. 3877 3 14 Tryphon Anno Mun. 3647 the reign of euerie king of Syria and Asia Anno Dom. 3877 3 15 Antiochus pius Anno Mun. 3647 the reign of euerie king of Syria and Asia Anno Dom. 3877 12 yeares 16 Demetrius Nicanor Anno Mun. 3647 the reign of euerie king of Syria and Asia Anno Dom. 3877 4 17 Alexander Anno Mun. 3647 the reign of euerie king of Syria and Asia Anno Dom. 3877 2 18 Antiochus Gryphus Anno Mun. 3647 the reign of euerie king of Syria and Asia Anno Dom. 3877 29 19 Seleucus sonne to Gryphus was at strife with his vncle and others of his kinred for the space of ten yeares Anno Mun. 3647 the reign of euerie king of Syria and Asia Anno Dom. 3877 10 yeares The first obseruation Seleucus the sonne of Gryphus king of Syria warred against Cyzicenus the sonne of Antiochus Sedetes whom after hee had taken him hee put to death By and by mortall wars arose between the brethren Wherwith the Syrians were so grieued and so annoyed with the ciuill warres that they knew no other fitter meanes to redeeme their vexation then to yeeld vp the kingdome to Tygranes the king of Armenia Which Tygranes enioyed Syria vntill such time as hee was ouercome of Pompeius who deliuered Syria vp to the Romaines This kingdome of Syria continued about 240. yeares and was deliuered into the handes of the Romaines 17. yeares after Iulius Cesar was first Emperour of Rome The second obseruation Seleucus Callimcus the sonne of Antiochus hadde two sonnes to wit Seleucus surnamed Ceraunus and Antiochus Magnus Seleucus Ceraunus liued but three yeres and then left y e kingdom to his brother Antiochus Magnus Which Antiochus made warre against Ptolemeus Philopator the king of Egypt and his sonne Epiphanes by meanes whereof the Iewes and church of God was in continuall affliction This Antiochus had the repulse in his first attempt yet after y e death of Ptolemeus who before his death commended his sonne to the protection of the Romaines he returned with a great armie into Egypt By this occasion long warres were betweene the Romaines and Antiochus Hanniball and many Regions in Greece ioyned themselues to Antiochus Neuerthelesse hee was so often discomfited in battaile that he was enforced to seek for conditions of peace And besides this hee was glad to send his sonne Epiphanes to Rome for an hostage In the end when he went about the sacking of the rich Temple of Belus in Syria the multitude of the Citizens slewe him and all his guard The Iewes saith Carion liued in great peace from the time of Alexander to Antiochus Magnus But when warres beganne betweene the Assyrians and Egytians then y e Iewes being seated in the middes were oppressed on both sides At length saith Iosephus Antiochus was victor and brought the Iewes vnder his
kings of Macedonia after the death of Alexander the Great Philippus Aridaeus Anno mun 3647 The raigne of the saide kings Anno mun 3805 7 yeeres Cassander Anno mun 3647 The raigne of the saide kings Anno mun 3805 19 yeeres Alexander and Antipater or after others Antigonus Anno mun 3647 The raigne of the saide kings Anno mun 3805 4 Demetrius Anno mun 3647 The raigne of the saide kings Anno mun 3805 6 Pirrhus Anno mun 3647 The raigne of the saide kings Anno mun 3805 6 moneths Lysimachus Anno mun 3647 The raigne of the saide kings Anno mun 3805 5 yeeres Ptolomeus Anno mun 3647 The raigne of the saide kings Anno mun 3805 1 Meleagres Anno mun 3647 The raigne of the saide kings Anno mun 3805 2 moneths Antipater Anno mun 3647 The raigne of the saide kings Anno mun 3805 1 yeere Sosthenes Anno mun 3647 The raigne of the saide kings Anno mun 3805 2 Antigonus Gonatas Anno mun 3647 The raigne of the saide kings Anno mun 3805 36 Demetrius Anno mun 3647 The raigne of the saide kings Anno mun 3805 10 Antigonus Anno mun 3647 The raigne of the saide kings Anno mun 3805 15 Philippus Anno mun 3647 The raigne of the saide kings Anno mun 3805 42 Perses Anno mun 3647 The raigne of the saide kings Anno mun 3805 10 Note here that some thinke Aridaeus to haue succeeded Alexander yet that Cassander was his immediate successour I repute more probable CHAP. IIII. Of the kings of Egypt PTolomeus the sonne of Lagus began his raigne in Egypt immediately after the death of Alexander though not without bloudshedding and great warres for sundry yeares as is areadie said He was one of Alexanders captaines as were also Antigonus Nicanor and Cassander The names of the kings of Egypt Ptolomeus Lagi Filius Anno Mun. 3647 the time of their reigns Anno mun 3921 40 yeares Ptolomeus Philadelphus Anno Mun. 3647 the time of their reigns Anno mun 3921 38 Ptolemeus Euergetes Anno Mun. 3647 the time of their reigns Anno mun 3921 26 Ptolomeus Philopator Anno Mun. 3647 the time of their reigns Anno mun 3921 17 Ptolemeus Epiphanes Anno Mun. 3647 the time of their reigns Anno mun 3921 24 Ptolomeus Philometor Anno Mun. 3647 the time of their reigns Anno mun 3921 35 yeares Ptolomeus Euergetes Anno Mun. 3647 the time of their reigns Anno mun 3921 29 Ptolomeus Soter aliàs Physcon filius Cleopatrae Anno Mun. 3647 the time of their reigns Anno mun 3921 17 yeares Ptolomeus Alexander Anno Mun. 3647 the time of their reigns Anno mun 3921 10 Ptolomeus Phiscon aliàs Lathurus Anno Mun. 3647 the time of their reigns Anno mun 3921 8 Ptolemeus Dionysius Anno Mun. 3647 the time of their reigns Anno mun 3921 30 Cleopatra Anno Mun. 3647 the time of their reigns Anno mun 3921 22 yeares The first obseruation It is to be obserued that as of Iulius Cesar euery Emperour of Rome was afterward called Cesar and of Octauius Augustus Augustus so was Artaxerxes the common name of all the kinges of Persia so was also euery king of Egypt called indifferently Ptolomeus or Pharao Which obseruation helpeth more then a little to vnderstand sundry textes of holy scripture The second obseruation We must obserue secondly that albeit a monarche haue the chiefest soueraigntie on earth yet is he not the sole and vniuersall gouernour so as there is no other king ouer anie other nation For though the highest and supreme power authoritie and dominion be in euerie monarchie so as no other power no not independent is able to ouerrule or preuaile against the same yet were there euer powers independent ouer and besides the said monarchies not subiect to the iurisdiction thereof In the time of the monarchie of the Babylonians or Assyrians worthie kings though of lesse might and authoritie raigned in Egypt in Israel in Greece and else where In the time of the Persian monarchie the Macedonians and the Romaines had their authoritie so likewise when the Greekes and Romaines hadde the monarchicall and imperiall seate with them other kings had their seueral dominions albeit very small in respect The third obseruation Cleopatra the Queene of Egypt expelled her sonne Lathurus from the kingdome by reason of his tyrannicall regiment and made his brother Alexander king of Egypt in his place Lathurus fled away into Cypres Alexander raigned not long for he was so afraide of his mothers crueltie that hee forsook the kingdom and fled away And so Cleopatra for the greater part of the 18 yeres ascribed to Lathurus Alexander had hir raigne alone But at length Alexander her son stew hir and possessed the kingdome againe Yet this Alexander was expulsed by the Egyptians for his crueltie and Lathurus againe restored who raigned a fewe yeares and then dyed This must bee diligently obserued for the clearing of many difficulties which otherwise will not easily be vnderstood touching the yeeres and raignes of the kings The fourth obseruation Cleopatra was the last Queene of Egypt succeding her brother Dionysius But after that she loued Antonius and rebelled against Augustus he ouercame both for which cause they murthered themselues and so Egypt became subiect to the Empire of the Romaines The fift obseruation Ptolomeus Phisco was a cruel filthie beast he married his owne sister lay with his owne daughter killed his children with his owne hands gaue them to be eaten of his own wife their mother This Ptolomeus some thinke to be all one with Euergetes some deeme him to be his successor otherwise called Soter which opinion I preferre as more probable CHAP. V. Of the Septuagints PTolomeus Philadelphus had a librarie so well furnished with al kind of good books as the like was not to be found in al the world this king was highly renowmed for his manifold vertues especially for his peaceable gouernment and for his forwardnesse in furthering of learning Hee was verie beneficiall and friendly to the Iewes Learned men of all nations had concourse vnto him whome he euer receiued honourably and rewarded them bountifully he sought diligently the originall of all nations arts and religions and he perceiued that the Iewes were most ancient and that no certaintie touching the creation of the worlde could be founde any where but in their histories and among them Wherefore hee desired of the Iewes that their scriptures might bee translated into the Greeke tongue and that they woulde sende him 72. of their best learned men for that end and purpose To which godly motion the Iewes did willingly condescend and sent vnto him 72. learned men verie expert in the Hebrew and Greeke language These learned men the king receiued honorably and by their helpe hadde the holy Bible translated into the Greek tongue Of this interpretation called the Septuagints diuers write diuersly some writers otherwise learned and of great account as Ireneus Chrysostomus Iustinus Augustinus and others doe
This state was by the Machabees in time of Antiochus and his successors the kings of Syria vntill Aristobulus the first king among the Iewes after their captiuitie They were gouerned thirdly by kings being partly of their owne bloud and partly strangers This state continued from Aristobulus vntil king Agrippa albeit the birth of our sauiour befell in the 32. yeare of king Herod which quadruple variety I will set down in foure seuerall sections for perspicuitie sake The first Section of the gouernours of the Iewes from the captiuitie to the Machabees The names of the gouernors or rulers of the Iewes Zorobabel Anno mun 3425 the time of their rule Anno mun 3610 67 yeeres Rhesa Miseolana alià s Mensonla Anno mun 3425 the time of their rule Anno mun 3610 66 Ioanna ben Resa Anno mun 3425 the time of their rule Anno mun 3610 52 Iudas Hircanus the first Anno mun 3425 the time of their rule Anno mun 3610 30 yeeres Note here that these foure gouernours were before the monarchy of Alexander the great whereof Zorobabel was he that conducted the Iewes from the captiuitie and encouraged them to build the temple These other eleuen were after Alexander The names of the gouernours or ruâ—ers of the Iews after King Alexâ—nder Ioseph the first An. mundi 3641 The time of their gouernment An. mundi 3788 7 yeeres Abner Semei An. mundi 3641 The time of their gouernment An. mundi 3788 11 Eli Matathia An. mundi 3641 The time of their gouernment An. mundi 3788 12 Asar Mahat An. mundi 3641 The time of their gouernment An. mundi 3788 9 yeres Nagid Artaxat An. mundi 3641 The time of their gouernment An. mundi 3788 10 Haggai Eli An. mundi 3641 The time of their gouernment An. mundi 3788 8 Maslot Nahum An. mundi 3641 The time of their gouernment An. mundi 3788 7 yeeres Amos Syrach An. mundi 3641 The time of their gouernment An. mundi 3788 13 Matathia Siloah An. mundi 3641 The time of their gouernment An. mundi 3788 10 Ioseph the second An. mundi 3641 The time of their gouernment An. mundi 3788 60 yeeres Ianna Hircanus the second An. mundi 3641 The time of their gouernment An. mundi 3788 16 yeeres This Hircanus was the last prince of the Iewes that descended of the blood royall and posteritie of king Dauid The catalogue of the priests who executed priestly function amongest the Iewes after the captiuitie shall be set downe in the chapter following The second Section of the Machabees The names of the Machabees Iudas Machabeus Anno mun 3805 the time of their rule Anno mun 3837 6 yeeres Ionathas Anno mun 3805 the time of their rule Anno mun 3837 18 Simon brother to Iudas Anno mun 3805 the time of their rule Anno mun 3837 8 yeeres Io. Hircanus the sonne of Simon Anno mun 3805 the time of their rule Anno mun 3837 31 yeeres These foure were priests of the tribe of Leui not of Iuda or the blood royall which ought euer to be kept in memorie as hereafter better shall appeare The third Section of the Kings of the Iewes that descended of the Leuiticall tribe The names of the kings who were Iewes Aristobulus the sonne of Hircanus An mundi 3868 The time they ruled An. mundi 3909 1 yeere Alexander the second son of Hircanus alias Ianneê° An mundi 3868 The time they ruled An. mundi 3909 27 yeeres Alexandra the wife of Alexander An mundi 3868 The time they ruled An. mundi 3909 9 yeeres Aristobulus An mundi 3868 The time they ruled An. mundi 3909 4 yeeres Hircanus An mundi 3868 The time they ruled An. mundi 3909 22 yeeres The fourth Section of the Kings that were strangers The names of the kings Herodes magnus An. mundi 3937 The time of their raigne An. mundi 4014 37 yeeres Archelaus dux An. mundi 3937 The time of their raigne An. mundi 4014 9 Herodes Tetrarcha qui Antipas An. mundi 3937 The time of their raigne An. mundi 4014 24 Agrippa Herodis filius An. mundi 3937 The time of their raigne An. mundi 4014 7 Agrippa rex Agrippae filius An. mundi 3937 The time of their raigne An. mundi 4014 26 yeeres As there is great varietie in Historiographers and Chronographers in other matters so is there no where more obscure difficulties to be found among them then about the contents of this present chapter The exact knowledge whereof is neuerthelesse so necessary as without which sundry places of the new testament can neuer be rightly vnderstoode which obscuritie together with the difficultie shall I hope be manifest by the obseruations annexed thereunto The first obseruation No gouernor amongst the Iewes would after the captiuitie weare the diademe and be called King vntill Aristobulus the son of Hircanus a vertuous priest did aduance himselfe to royall dignitie and put the crowne vpon his head But alas godly children do not alwayes succeede godly parents For not onely Hircanus his father but Symon also his grandfather were very vertuous priests gouernours of great fortitude and zealous fauorers of the common weale yet was this Aristobulus a wicked and cruell man hee made no account of religion he put his owne mother and brethren in prison and because hee feared that his vertuous brother Antigonus would take the kingdome from him hee slew him sodainely as Cain did his brother Abell The second obseruation Seleucus surnamed Nicanor the first king of Syria after the diuision of the Empire began his raigne that is the kingdome of the Greekes in the 14. yeare from the death of Alexander which was the second yeare of the 117. Olympiade and in the 3660. yeare of the age of the world Heere beginneth the authour of the first booke of the Machabees his supputation calling the kingdome of Syria the kingdome of the Greeks which must be well remembred or else many things will remaine both confuse and obscure The Empire of king Alexander was deuided as is already said into foure parts according to the prophesie of Daniel Ptolomeus had Egypt Antigonus Asia Seleucus Syria and Philippus Arideus had Macedonia and Grecia which is the cause that Chronographers begin these kingdomes in the first yeere of the 114. Olympiade immediatly after the death of Alexander Yet the trueth is that Antigonus and Seleucus began not so soone to raigne For mortal warres amongst the gouernours continued 12 or 13. yeares and then they began to beare rule indeede not before The third obseruation Hircanus had three sons Aristobulus Antigonus and Alexander Aristobulus would needes be called and crowned king and slew his brother Antigonus lest he shuld get the kingdome from him Alexander had two sonnes Hircanus and Aristobulus this Aristob was brother to Mariamne who was married to K. Herod for which cause Herod about two yeres after the death of Antigonus his vncle made him hie priest shortly after this Aristobulus was drowned and so the family
Egypt This age of Ioseph is thus made manifest he was 17. yeres of age when he was sold Gen. 37. verse 2. he was 30. yeeres olde when hee became gouernour of Egypt Genes 41. vers 40 41 46. to which adde the seuen yeeres of plentie and three yeeres of famine Genes 41.42 and 45. at which time Leui came into Egypt with his father and the number of 40. yeeres will be compleate I note secondly that if we graunt Leui to haue beene 100. yeeres olde before hee begate Caath and affirme the same of Caath and Amram which thing surpasseth the course of nature Ge. 17. v. 17. and therefore neede it not be granted we must for al that come short and neither find the abode of the Israelites in Egypt to be 430. neither yet 400. yeeres in all I note thirdly that if we grant Caath Amram and Moses to haue beene begotten in a competent age we shall easily finde the number of 215. yeres which Eusebius and Marianus Scotus haue put downe An other probation of this difficultie Iochebed was the owne daughter of Leui and the naturall mother of Moses for so we reade in the 26. chapter of the booke of Numbers and in the sixt chapter of the booke of Exodus and yet if we grant Leui to haue bin 120. yeres old when he begat Iochebed and Iochebed to haue bin 100. yeres old at the birth of Moses both which are impossible by the course of nature and if we adde thereunto eightie yeares the full age of Moses at the departure out of Egypt yet will all this be no more but bare 300. yeres so then we are short of the supputation mentioned in Genesis by one ful hundred yeres and of the reckoning specified in Exodus by an hundred and thirtie yeares Therefore the vndoubted meaning of those scriptures must needes be as I haue already shewed The corollarie First therefore since Moses brought the Israelites out of Egypt secondly since he was the sonne of Iochebed thirdly since Iochebed was the daughter of Leui fourthly since Leui was with Iacob at his going into Egypt we must perforce deduce the time of their abode from Leui Iochebed and Moses Let vs therefore assigne 85. yeeres to Leui when hee begate Iochebed 50. yeeres to Iochebed when she bare Moses and 80. yeres to Moses when he brought them out of Egypt which is as much as can be granted by the course of nature and wee shall find the iust number of 215. yeeres and so the supputation of this third age is consonant The obiection Eusebius and Marianus Scotus say plainely that the Israelites abode in Egypt no more but 144 yeeres The answer I grant that some otherwise very learned haue so written but I thinke their meaning is according to the wordes of the authors plainely vttered For albeit they both say that they abode but 144. yeres there yet do they affirme alitle after that that their whole abode was 215. yeeres So then when they terme their abode but 144. yeres they meane of their greuous seruitude after the death of Ioseph for Eusebius whom Scotus doth imitate hath these expresse words Postcuias interritum Hebraei Aegyptijs seruierunt annis 144. fiunt autem omnes anni quos Hebraei in Aegypto fecerunt 215. qui ab eodem tempore computantur quo Iacob cum filijs suis descendit in Aegyptum After the death of Ioseph the Hebrewes or Israelites were in bondage to the Egyptians 144. yeeres but all the yeeres that the Hebrewes were in Egypt make 215. which we must reckon from that time when Iacob with his children went into Egypt The fourth age The fourth age from the comming out of Egypt vntil king Salomon beganne to build the temple containeth 480. yeres hereof this is an euident demonstration Moses gouerned the Israelites in the wildernesse the space of 40. yeeres after they came out of Egypt Deute 1. verse 3. and Deut. 29. verse 5. Iosue and Othoniel iudged Israel 40. yeres Iud. 3. v. 11 for Iosue was ouer them 32. yeeres and Othoniel 8. some giue but 18. yeres to Ioshua and the rest to Othoniel but that skilleth not much because it is certaine that from the death of Moses till the death of Othoniel were 40. yeeres compleate which no writer doth or can deny for holy writ hath so reuealed Ehud or Shamgar the son of Anath iudged the Israelites fourescore yeres Iud. 3. verse 30 31. but of these 80. we must ascribe 18. to the inter-raigne in which time Israel was in bondage to Eglon king of Moab Iud. 3. verse 14. Deborah and Barak iudged Israel 40. yeres Iud. 5. v. 31 Gedeon iudged the Israelites 40. yeres Iud. 8. ve 28. but in this time the Midianites oppressed them 7. yeres Iud. 6. v. 1 for feare of which ennemies the Israelites made them dennes in the mountains and caues strong holds Iud. 6. ve 2. This Gedeon is termed also Ierubbal Iud. 7. vers 1. Iud. 8. ve 35 Abimelek iudged 3. yeeres Iud. 9. verse 22. Thola the sonne of Puah iudged 23. yeres Iud. 10. verse 2 Iair iudged 22. yeres Iud. 10. verse 3. from this time the Israelites were afflicted with the Ammonites and the Philistines for the space of 18. yeres together Iud. 10. verse 7 8. Iephtee iudged sixe yeeres Iud. 12. verse 7. Abesan or Ibzan iudged 7. yeeres Iud. 12. verse 8 9. Elon iudged Israel 10. yeeres Iud. 12. verse 11. Abdon iudged the Hebrewes 8. yeres iudg 12. vers 13 14 Samson iudged 20. yeres Iudg. 16. ver 31. his wife Delilah betrayed him and deliuered him into the hands of the Philistines who put out his eies bound him with fetters and made him to grinde in the prison house but in the end when they called him out to make them pastime and to be a laughing stocke to them he pulled downe the two pillers of the house and so with the fall of the house killed more Philistines at his death then he had slaine in all his life before Iudg. 16. ve 18 21 29 30 31. Eli the priest iudged Israel fortie yeares 1. Sam. 4. ve 18. Samuel and Saul reigned fortie yeeres Act. 13. verse 21. Dauid raigned ouer Israel fortie yeeres 1. King 2. ve 11. The whole summe of yeeres is 477. 40 40 80 40 40 3 23 22 18 6 7 10 8 20 40 40 40 477 Make addition and this will be the summe 477. To these we must adde three yeares of king Salomon because in the fourth yeere of his raigne hee beganne to build the temple and so the whole number will be 480. to which must be added one moneth and one day This summe is confirmed by the testimonie of holy Writ in thefe expresse termes in the 480. yeere after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt and in the fourth yeere of the raigne of Salomon ouer Israel he built the house of the Lord 1. King 6. ve 1. Againe it is thus written so Salomon began
were the heads of the twelue Tribes Rachel Ioseph Ge. 35.22 these were the heads of the twelue Tribes Beniamin Ge. 35.22 these were the heads of the twelue Tribes Bala Dan Ge. 35.22 these were the heads of the twelue Tribes Nephtali Ge. 35.22 these were the heads of the twelue Tribes he liued 147. yeres Gen. 47. ve 28. hee was 70. yeeres in Egypt Ioseph was ruler of Egypt 80. yeeres he died when he was one hundred and tenne yeres old Gen. 50. verse 26. After these Patriarks the Hebrews liued in bondage to the Egyptians but 144. yeeres albeit as is already prooued their whole abode in Egypt was 215. yeares See the third age and the probation thereof CHAP. V. Containing a Table of the Princes and Iudges of the Hebrewes The princes of the Hebrewes were these two Moses he ruled 40. yeares Iosue he ruled 27. yeres or 40 together w t Othoniel Moses and Iosue are not reckoned among the Iudges because they did not onely iudge but also rule the people Lyranus There were 13. Iudges ouer the Hebrewes amoÌ„g whom Othoniel A. M. 2572 ruled yeres A. M. 2852 40 Aioth A. M. 2572 ruled yeres A. M. 2852 80 Barach A. M. 2572 ruled yeres A. M. 2852 40 Gedeon A. M. 2572 ruled yeres A. M. 2852 40 Abimelech A. M. 2572 ruled yeres A. M. 2852 3 Thola A. M. 2572 ruled yeres A. M. 2852 23 Iair A. M. 2572 ruled yeres A. M. 2852 22 Iephthe A. M. 2572 ruled yeres A. M. 2852 6 Abesan A. M. 2572 ruled yeres A. M. 2852 7 Ahialon A. M. 2572 ruled yeres A. M. 2852 10 Abdon A. M. 2572 ruled yeres A. M. 2852 8 Samson A. M. 2572 ruled yeres A. M. 2852 20 Heli y e priest A. M. 2572 ruled yeres A. M. 2852 40 All this is prooued in the second chapter aforegoing in the fourth age Here is to be obserued that from Iair to Iepthe there was no iudge which was for the space of eighteene yeeres together Iud. 10. verse 4 5 8 seq The prophet Elias was Gods messenger in Samaria in the dayes of Asa and Iosaphat the good kings of Iuda 3. Ki. 15.24 and in the time of Achab the bad king of Israel 3. Ki. 18. the heart of king Asa was perfit all his dayes 2. Paralip 15.17 and king Iosaphat sought the Lord and walked in the wayes of his father Dauid 2. Paral. 17. about the age of the world 3088. CHAP. VI. Containing a Table of the kings of Iuda and of Israel The kingdome of the Hebrewes vnited vnder king Saul with whom was Samuel Acts 13 Dauid Salomon deuided into the kingdom of Iuda or the two tribes of Iuda and Beniamin whose kings were Roboam Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3410 17 yeeres Abias Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3410 3 Asa Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3410 41 Iosaphat Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3410 25 Ioram Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3410 8 Ochozias Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3410 1 Athalia Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3410 7 Ioas Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3410 40 Amazias Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3410 29 Ozias Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3410 52 Ioathan Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3410 16 Achaz Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3410 16 Ezechias Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3410 29 Manasses Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3410 55 Amon Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3410 2 Iosias Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3410 31 Ioachas Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3410 3 moneths Eliachim or Ioachim Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3410 11 yeeres Iechonias or Ioachim or Coniah Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3410 3 moneths Sedechias Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3410 11 yeeres Israel or Samaria whose kings were Ieroboam Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3283 21 yeeres Nadab Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3283 2 Baasa Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3283 24 Hela Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3283 2 Amri or Omri Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3283 12 Achab Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3283 22 Ochozias Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3283 2â— Ioram Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3283 12 Iehu Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3283 28 Ioachas Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3283 17 Ioas Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3283 16 Hieroboam Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3283 41 Zacharias Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3283 6 moneths Sellum Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3283 1 moneth Manahen Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3283 10 yeeres Phacêas or Pekahiah Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3283 2 Phacêe or Pekah Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3283 20 Oseâ—or Hosheah Anno mundi 3030 and raigned Anno mundi 3283 9 yeeres Peruse the second chapter aforegoing where these things are prooued sufficiently CHAP. VII Of the captiuitie and circumstances thereto pertaining The first Section Of the time of the Captiuitie THe Babylonians besieged the citie of Hierusalem and tooke it in the eleuenth yeare of the raigne of Sedechias in the ninth day of the 4. month to whom Nabuchodonozor had giuen commission for the siege while himselfe was at Reblatha The city being taken king Sedechias with his wiues children nobles and friendes fled away by night into the wildernesse But the Babylonians pursued after them and Sedechias with his wiues children and friendes were brought before the king Nabuchodonozor whom after the king had sharply reprooued for the breach of promise he caused his children and friendes to be slaine before his eies That done he caused Sedechias to be bound in chaines his eies to be pulled out and so to be carried to Babylon In the first day of the first moneth he commanded to burne the citie to bring away all the vessels of gold and siluer out of the temple and to leade all the people captiue vnto Babylon Ioseph 10. lib. antiq cap. 11. The temple was burnt after the building thereof 470. yeares monethes sixe dayes ten after the departure out of Egypt 1062. yeares moneths sixe dayes ten after the deluge 1950. yeares moneths sixe dayes ten after the creation of Adam 3513. yeres monethes sixe daies ten so writeth Iosephus who was himselfe a Iew a Priest otherwise of good credite and wrote the thinges that were done in his time neuerthelesse I haue prooued in the second chapter where the fift age is handled that the temple could not stand
Ioatham Amos prophesied against the nations adiacent to them in the time of Ozias Esaias prophesied against Iuda and Iurasalem in the time of Ioatham Ioel prophesied to Iuda and Ierusalem in the time of Ozias Michaeas prophesied against Ierusalem and Samaria in the time of Ioatham Nahum prophesied to the Assyrians and Niniuites in the time of Ioatham Abacuc prophesied against Babylon and Nabuchodonosor in the time of Manasses Ieremias prophesied to the citie of Ierusalem in the time of Iosias and Zedechias Sophonias prophesied against Iurusalem and Iuda in the time of Iosias Ezechiel prophesied to the captiues in Babylon in the time of Ioachim Daniel prophesied to his countrey men in Babylon in the time of Ioachim Haggaeus prophesied to all the people in Ierusalem and Iuda in the time of Zorobabel Zacharias prophesied to the people of Ierusalem and Iuda in the time of Zorobabel Malachias prophesied to the people of Ierusalem Iuda in the time of in the end of the captiuitie 〈…〉 CHAP. X. Containing a particular description of the time of the Prophets called the greater The first section of the Prophet Esay THe Prophet Esay was the sonne of Amos not of that Amos who was the third of the 12. lesser Prophetes but of another Amos hauing different characters with the Hebrews Aug de ciuit libr. 18. cap. 27. Hier. in 1. cap Esaiae Esay prophesied to Ierusalem and Iuda that is to the two tribes of Beniamin and Iuda Hier. in 1. cap Esaiae Esay who was also called Azarias Osee Ioel Amos prophesied at the selfe same time in the daies of Osias Ioatham Achas and Ezechias kings of Iuda Hier. in princ Esaiae The wicked king Manasses caused the prophet Esay to be sawed in peeces with a wodden saw Wherefore that which the Epistle to the Ebrewes saith of the tortures of Gods Saintes that they were hewen in sunder is very fitly referred to the prophet Esay Hier. lib. 15. cap. 57. in Esaiam The second section of the prophet Ieremie Ieremie prophesied to y e two tribes of Iuda Beniamin he foretold their captiuitie in Babylon hee began his prophesie in the daies of Iosias he continued the same in the daies of Ioachim and vntill the eleuenth yeare of Sedechias in the time of the captiuitie Orig. hom 1. in Hier. Aug. de ciu lib. 18. c. 33. Betweene the time of Ieremias and Esaias were one hundred and fiftie yeares Hier. lib. 9. cap. 30. in Esaiam He was the sonne of Helkias the priest cap. 1. Iere. v. 1. the tradition of the Hebrewes is that whensoeuer the father or graundfather of any prophet is put in the title such a one was also a prophet himselfe Gloss. ordinar Sophonias prophesied at the same time with Ieremias Athanas in synop Aug. de ciu lib. 18. cap. 33. Iehoiakim king of Iuda burnt the book which Baruc wrote wrote at the mouth of Ieremias in which booke the prophet shewed what punishment God had determined to bring vpon Iuda and Israel if they would not returne euery man from his euill way and bring forth worthy fruites of repentance But Ieremie at Gods appointment wrote another book which contained the afflictions of Iuda and Israel in a farre larger maner Ierem. cap. 36. Where we may note by the way that the wicked do euer kicke against the preachers of Gods word especially when their sinnes are reprooued But at length they tast of the cup of Gods wrath for their great contempt and disobedience And our papistes are now become Iehoiakims as who both burne the writers of all bookes that reprooue their superstitions and idolatry and also cast the bookes into the fire Yea euen the holy bibles if they be once translated into the vulgar tongue Ieremie began to prophesie when he was a childe in the 13. yeere of Iosias king of Iuda hee continued his prophesie during the reigne of Iosias the sonne of Amon. 19. yeares and after that vnder Ioachim 11. yeres and vnder Sedechias 11. yeares who was the last king of Iuda The three moneths of Ioachaz and Iechonias are reckoned in the yeares afore named So that from the beginning of his prophesie vntill the captiuitie of Ierusalem in which himselfe was taken he prophesied 41. yeres ouer and besides that time in which he was carried away into Egypt and prophesied in Taphins Hier. in cap. 2. Ierem. at which Taphins in Egypt as some write hee was stoned to death But before that time he was put in a deep dungeon of myre Iere. 38. The third section of the prophet Ezechiel Ezechiel followed Ieremie and began to prophesie in the fift yeare of the transmigration of Iechonias which was the same yeare of the reigne of Sedechias Hier. lib. 5. cap. 29. in Ieremiam in the 30. yere after some of his age Ezechias c. 1. but as S. Hierome writeth the 30. yeares whereof the Prophet speaketh are not the yeares of the age of Ezechiel himself but the yeares from the 18. of king Iosias at what time the booke of the law was found vntill the fift yeare of the captiuity of Iechonias Hier. in cap. 1. Exech 2. Ezechiel was carried away captiue into Babilon togither with Iechonias Daniel and the three children Hier. in princ Ezech. Aug. de ciu lib. 18. cap. 34. This holy prophet foretold the destruction of Hierusalem and the captiuitie of the Iewes for their manifold sinnes and wickednesse earnestly exhorting them to repentance For which cause the Iewes were so exasperated against him as the wicked are this day against the preachers of Gods word that they trailed him on the ground amongst the stones till his braines went out Author oper imperf in Matt. cap. 23. hom 46. prop. finem A golden obseruation In the dayes of Iosias king of Iuda Helkiah the Priest found the booke of the lawe of the Lord giuen by the hand of Moses Which when the good king vnderstood hee gathered togither all the inhabitantes of Ierusalem and of Iuda and the Priests and the Leuites and all the people from the greatest to the smallest and he read in their eares all the words of the booke of the couenant that was found in the house of the Lord and the king caused all that were found in Ierusalem and Beniamin to stand to it and hee compelled all the people of Israel to serue the Lord their God 2. Par. 34.4 Kin. 22. Thus saith the holy scripture By which we see euidently that the ouersight of all persons in all causes aswell ecclesiastical as ciuill pertaineth to the king and that the king hath the charge of religion committed into his handes and also that he may compel priests and Leuites to doe their dueties in that behalfe On the other side we may note the intollerable impietie of our disholy fathers the late bishops of Rome Who most irreligiously and very impudently excommunicate christian kings and monarches because they appoint the word of God to be preached in their
alledged by Gratianus in the popes owne Decrees Solent plures qui se ieiunare putant in quadragesima mox vt signum audierint ad horam nonam comedere qui nullatenus ieiunare credendi sunt fi ante manducauerint quam vespertinum celebretur offâ—cium Many who thinke they fast in Lent vse to eate so soone as they heare the bell at the ninth houre who by no meanes can be thought to fast if they eate before the euening praier Out of which wordes of the auncient holy councill I note this constant decree to wit that whosoeuer eate before the ninth houre cannot truely fast And consequently that no papists fast in their holy Lent howsoeuer they bragge or boast thereof The reason hereof is euident because all papistes vsually dine at noone that is three houres at the least before the time appointed by the councill I say at the least because they vse to anticipate noone some more some lesse For better explication whereof wee must obserue two thinges the one concerning noone the other concerning the euening praier I say therefore that by the ninth houre the councell with all antiquitie vnderstandeth three of the clocke at afternoone for in the time of the Apostles and long after them the day was deuided into twelue houres which day was againe distributed into foure Vigils whereof euery Vigil contained three houres so that their ninth houre was with vs three of the clocke in the after noone Now for the obscuring of this euident confutation of the popish supposed fasting the papistes of latter dayes haue deuised this miserable shift a fit inuention of their newly hatched Romishe religion The Pope forsooth hath dispenced with his greedy religious godlesse people who will needes be thought deuout fathers albeit they fast not one day in the whole yeare that they may huddle vp their vespertine houres or euening praier at anie time before twelue of the clocke and then at their pleasures to eate drinke and make good cheere And if it please your worships this done with full panches to beginne their discontinued disholy fast againe The ninth proposition Of fastinges some are priuate and some publicke Priuate fastes may be vsed of ones owne accord when and so often as shall seeme conuenient so they be referred to the glory of God and true mortification of the bodie or bee vsed for the good of our neighbour Thus fasted king Dauid all the time his childe was sicke After the death whereof hee surceased from praier and fasting and ate meate 2. King 12. Thus fasted Nehemiah when he vnderstood the affliction of the Iewes he sate downe wept and mourned certaine dayes hee fasted and prayed before the Lord of heauen Nehem. 1.4 Thus fasted Daniel when hee perceiued the captiuitie of his countriemen spoken of by the prophet Ieremie He confessed his owne sinnes and the sinnes of the people and turned to the Lord in fasting heartie prayer Dan. 9. vers 2 3 4 5. Publique fasts are appointed either by God in his holy word or by the magistrate hauing his authoritie Thus did Samuel appoint the Israelites to fast at such time as the Philistims did greeuously afflict them 1. Kin. 7. ver 3 6. Thus king Iosaphat proclamed a fast throughout all Iuda when the Ammonites Moabites and Idumeans oppressed them 2. Par. 20.3 10 22. Thus did queene Hester appoint a publique fast to all the Iewes by the mouth of Mardocheus Hest. 4. v. 16. Thus did the king of Niniueh command a publike fast after he vnderstood Gods wrath by his prophet Ionas 3. verse 7. Here endeth the first Booke containing yeeres 3426. The second book containeth the description of the first Monarchie that is of the Assyrians or Babylonians The first chapter of the originall and continuance of the monarchie The first Section of the reason of the inscription ALbeit this first Monarchie was either wholy or in effect expired before the accomplishment of the captiuitie of the two tribes Iuda and Beniamin yet haue I thought good to had le it in a seuerall tract after the saide captiuitie so to auoide confusion and for perspicuitie sake The second section of the originall of the monarchie King Ninus the sonne of Belus was the first king of Asia except the Indians whome the Assyrians named their god he reigned 52. yeeres and in the 43. yeere of his raigne was Abraham borne He builded the citie Ninum in Assyria nowe called Niniueh Euseb. in chronico When Ninus was dead Semiramis his wife raigned she feared lest for the tender yeres of her sonne Nunas and for hir feminine sex the people should reuolt from their due loyaltie For which cause she clad her selfe in mans apparel and fained her selfe to be the kings sonne She excelled in heroicall feats and raigned 42. yeeres in great felicitie She fortified the citie of Babylon which Ninus had conquered from the Chaldeans with rampires ditches and walles After her death Zameis aliâs Ninias reigned 30. yeres in all peace and tranquilitie Euseb. Carion The kings of the Assyrians Ninus Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres Anno mundi 3197 52 Kings 36 Semiramis Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres Anno mundi 3197 42 Kings 36 Ninias Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres Anno mundi 3197 â—8 Kings 36 Arius Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres Anno mundi 3197 30 Kings 36 Arelius Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres Anno mundi 3197 40 Kings 36 Xerxes Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres Anno mundi 3197 30 Kings 36 Armametres Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres Anno mundi 3197 38 Kings 36 Belochus Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres Anno mundi 3197 35 Kings 36 Baleus Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres Anno mundi 3197 52 Kings 36 Altadas Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres Anno mundi 3197 32 Kings 36 Mamitus Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres Anno mundi 3197 30 Kings 36 Mancaleus Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres Anno mundi 3197 30 Kings 36 Ipheréus Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres Anno mundi 3197 20 Kings 36 Mamylas Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres Anno mundi 3197 30 Kings 36 Spaâ—êtus Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres Anno mundi 3197 40 Kings 36 Ascades Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres Anno mundi 3197 40 Kings 36 Amyntas Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres Anno mundi 3197 45 Kings 36 Belothus Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres Anno mundi 3197 25 Kings 36 Bellepares Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres Anno mundi 3197 30 Kings 36 Lamprides Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres Anno mundi 3197 32 Kings 36 Sosares Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres Anno mundi 3197 20 Kings 36 Lampares Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres Anno mundi 3197 30 Kings 36 Pannias Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres Anno mundi 3197 45 Kings 36 Sosarmus Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres Anno mundi 3197 19 Kings 36 Mitreus Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres Anno mundi 3197 27 Kings 36 Tantanes Anno mundi 1948 reigned yeres
kinges of Persia as Pharaoh was the common name of all kinges of Egypt and as Caesar was the common name of all the Emperours of Rome The second obseruation The custome of the Persians was this that when anie king went to warre against any strange nation hee left his sonne or the next of the bloud royall to bee king in his place Cyrus therefore when hee had warre against the Scythians and marched towarde them appointed Cambyses his sonne king of the countrey in his absence according to the custome of the Persians Xerxes likewise the sonne of Histaspis succeeded his father but left his kingdome to his sonne Longimain when hee went to warre against the Greekes in regarde heereof sundrie writers doe not place Cambyses and Xerxes in the lineall order of succession which point must bee well obserued to auoide obscuritie and to reconcile the dissenting historiographers CHAP. II. Of the time of repairing the temple in Hierusalem KIng Cyrus in the first yeare of his raigne as hee was the Persian monarke set the Iewes at liberty and appointed them to build the Temple againe in Hierusalem I say as monarke because as learned men write hee had raigned certain yeres in Persia before he tooke Babylon became the monarke Cambyses and other aduersaries did a long time hinder the building of the Temple so as it had not the accomplishment vntill the sixt yeare of Darius Assuerus Esdr. 6. vers 15. Albeit Darius in his second yeare gaue commandement that the worke should go forward Esdr. chap. 4. ver 24. The first difficultie The Iewes obiected against our Sauiour Christ that their temple was 46. yeares a building Ioh. 2. vers 20. yet by the supputation already made in the fourth section of the first chapter and second booke it cannot be so much The answere I say first that concerning the supputation of yeeres there is great varietie amongst historiographers Eusebius reckoneth the time from the 55. Olympiade to the 64. Olympiade inclusiuè that is 40. yeres others reckon 21. yeres others 23. others 30. neither agreeing with the account of the Iews neither yet with the raign of the monarks I say secondly that the teÌ„ple was 46. yeres in building as the Iews affirmed who best knew the time and their assertion is not dissonant from the raigne of the monarks for Cyrus raigned 30. yeares Cambyses 8. yeares Smerdes 7. moneths Darius sixe yeares and Nehemias after that builded vp the walles The replie The temple was finished in the sixt yeare of Darius as recordeth Esdras and so wee want one whole yeare and fiue months of the 46. yeeres whereof the Iewes spake The answere I answer that the temple is said to be finished in the 6. yere of Darius because all the worke in effect was then accomplished neuerthelesse some part thereof was left vndone because Nehemias after that builded vp the walles as wee reade in the first second and third chapter of his booke The second difficulty Cambyses Esdras 4. verse 6.7 is called Assuerus and Artaâ—â—rxes so as the names seeme to be confounded The answere I say first that Cambyses successor to king Cyrus a louing and mercifull Prince who furthered in all respectes the godly desire of the Iewes was a naughtie wicked and tyrannicall regent one that wholly bent himselfe against God and against his peculiar flocke Wherein appeareth the vncertaintie of mans felicitie in this worlde while a godly father hath to his successor a wicked and vngodly sonne a sonne that reuoketh the priuiledges which his father gaue to the people of God But his life was short miserable and bloudy the proper reward of all brutish tyrannie For as hee mounted vppon his horse hee sodainly fell vpon his disâ—ased sword and so had a bloudie end I say secondly that Artaxerxes is a name common to all the kinges of Persia to which name Assuerus is equiualent with the Hebrewes and so Cambyses is indifferently called Artaxerxes or Assuerus as is saide in the first obseruation The third difficultie Esdras writeth that the Iewes were appointed by three seuerall kinges of Persia to reare vp againe their temple Esdras 6. verse 14. and therefore not only at the first by Cyrus and afterwardes by Darius but also by Artaxerxes the third The answere I aunswere as I said before that Artaxerxes is the common name to all the kinges of Persia which obseruation if it once be forgotten many difficulties will ensue thereupon When Esdras therefore saith by the commaundement of Cyrus and Darius and Artaxerxes it is all one as if hee had saide and Darius which is also called Artaxerxes for the particle and is there not copulatiue but expositiue as in other places also CHAP. III. Of the continuance of the monarchie Darius Ochus was a tyrannicall and bloudthirstie king he murdered his two brethren that so he might enioy the kingdome Hee made warre with the Egyptians and by that meanes cruelly vexed the Iewes By this prince and vntil the time of Alexander the great the church was euer in great miserie and affliction All the priuiledges graunted by Cyrus and Darius were vtterly taken away but God who neuer wil forsake his church though hee suffer it to be tossed and turmoiled for a time in the end brought solace and true ioy vnto the Iewes For shortly Darius Ochus was slaine of Bagoses by whom also Arsames was murdered and Darius Arbelas the last king of the Persians was ouercome and slaine of Alexander the Great So that the monarchie of the Persians endured 249. yeares and eight moneths after the supputation of others 191. whereof more at large hereafter The resistance was so great that the Iewes were enforced to builde with one hand and to holde their weapons in the other Nehe. 4. verse 17. The Monarchie of the Persians reached from India euen to Ethiopia ouer an hundred and seuen and twentie prouinces Est. cap. 1. verse 1. Darius Assuerus king of the Medes Persians and Chaldeans to shewe the riches and glorie of his kingdome and the honour of his maiestie made a feast to all his princes and seruauntes and to all captaines and gouernours of his prouinces for the space of an hundred and fourescore dayes And when these daies were expired the king made another feast to all the people of Susan the chiefe citie both vnto the great and small none excepted This he did for the space of seuen daies in the court of the kinges pallace vnder an hanging of white greene and blew clothes fastened with cordes of fine linnen and purple in siluer ringes and pillers of marble The beds were of golde and of siluer vppon a pauement of porphirie and marble and alabaster and blew colour They gaue them drink in vessels of gold and chaunged vessell after vessell and royall wine in aboundance according to the power of the king and none was compelled to drinke more then as best pleased him Est. cap. 1. v. 3 4 5 6 7 8. The
subiection But so soone as Philopator was dead his sonne Ptolomeus Epiphanes sent a mightie armie into Syria vnder the conduction of Scopa who recouered certaine Cities in Syria and a good part of Iudea Yet within a short space after Antiochus skirmishing with Scopa neere to Iordan had the vpper hand and tooke the cities againe from Scopa Then the Iewes yeelded them selues to Antiochus receiued his armie voluntarily within the walles and affoorded him large helpe against the garrisons of the said Scopa In respect of which fauour Antiochus dealt very fauourably with them gaue them rich giftes and graunted them libertie to call home againe all the Iewes that were in dispersion The third obseruation Antiochus Epiphanes was hostage at Rome where he learned by the Example of the Romaines flatterie deceite and other bad qualities to accommodate himselfe to the time and maners of men Hee was famous not for his vertues but for his naughtie dealing He was called as some write for his dissolute life not Epiphanes but Epimanes that is not noble but madde He beganne his reigne about 134. yeares after the death of Alexander at which time his brother Seleucus ceased by death to reigne in Syria At the same time Ptolemeus Epiphanes dyed in Egypt leauing behinde him to young sonnes Philometor and Physcon Ptolemeus hadde these sonnes with his wife the queene Cleopatra who was sister to Antiochus Vnder this pretence Antiochus went into Egypt and by faire speeches got the regiment during the nonage of Philometor the yong prince And when hee had contriued all thinges so as he might take the kingdome vpon him at his pleasure hee went to Hierusalem at the intreaty of Iason who sought ambitiouslie to be made the high priest by his procurement euen as popes of late yeares are made at Rome as hereafter shalbe prooued Where as writeth Iosephus so soone as hee came the gates were opened to him by men of his owne faction Which vsurped dominion hee exercised cruellie and sacrilegiously neither sparing the goods nor the liues of those that willingly opened the gates vnto him The fourth obseruation Demetrius Nicanor the twelfth king of Syria was driuen out of his kingdome by his brother Antiochus Sedetes by the aid and meanes of Tryphon Yet afterward hee was restored to his kingdome againe and ruled Syria peaceably vntil Alexander surnamed Sabineus of the house of Seleucus tooke him prisoner at Tyrus where he put him to death CHAP. III. Of the kings of Macedonia and of the diuision of the Empire after the sixt yeare of Alexander THe holy will of the liuing God was that foure mightie kings shoulde succeede Alexander the Great after the sixt yeare of his raigne whereof euerie one should possesse a part and no one be so mightie as himselfe which thing was euidently foretolde by the Prophet Daniel The foure kings that succeeded Alexander to wit Cassander who raigned in Macedonia and Grecia Seleucus who raigned in Syria Ptolomeus who raigned in Egypt and Antigonus who raigned in Asia did all descend of the house Petigree and bloud royall of Alexander that most puissant and valiant Emperour and for that cause surnamed the Great Cassander caused Olympias daughter of Neoptolemus and mother to Alexander a most chast and vertuous Queene to be beheaded cruelly that so hee might raigne more licentiouslie but God the iust iudge who for his wisedome seeth all things and for his iustice sake letteth no sinne passe vnpunished did so in his eternall prouidence dispose of Cassanders issue as it was a worthie spectacle to the world For Antipater and Alexander his sonnes had mutual mortal bloudie warres the one against the other as concerning the kindgome of Macedonia But what was the ende Antipater was slaine by Lysimachus his father in law and Alexander by Demetrius the sonne of Antigonus who both were their owne complices to whom they trusted and sought for helpe at their hands A worthie obseruation King Alexander the great was not onely full of valure and prowesse but throughly garnished with heroicall and morall vertues amongst which this was not the least that so often as he heard the complaint of one against another the accused partie being absent his continuall custome was to open one onely eare to the plaintife and to keepe the other closely shut by which ceremonie he liuely expressed vnto the world the office of euerie good Prince and righteous iudge to wit that they should neuer haue respect of persons as holy Writ beareth witnesse but heare all parties indifferently and iudge euer according to lawe and equitie Which indifferencie king Alexander fitly practised euen with the admiration of his auditory while as hee graunted to the accuser one eare so did hee to the accused reserue the other neuer condemning the one nor iustifying the other before hee vnderstood perfectly the truth of the matter But in our time wee may iustly exclaime with holy Polycarpe O God to what worlds hast thou reserued vs for nowadayes iudges lawyers are so corrupt with bribes that when a poore man crieth he can not be heard with neither eare because both are shut at once on the other side so soon as they grope the rich mans gold they open both the one eare the other there is no stay at al. Of such iudges magistrates and lawyers speaketh wise Salomon when he saith that many reuerence the person of the mightie and euerie one is friend to him that giueth gifts When a rich man commenceth any sute against the poore man euerie iudge euerie lawyer euerie iustice euerie bailife will for money be readie to further his cause for golde and money with a becke they come anone and with a winke they will bee gone though their matter were verie badde in the beginning yet wil it be right good in the ending money worketh so forcibly with them that it may bee saide to alter the case and to change the nature of the thing Gifts saith Saint Ambrose dazle the eyes of iudges and weakeneth the force of their authoritie Contrariewise when the poore man commeth to them either without money or but with a little they are dumbe deafe and sencelesse they can neither heare see nor vnderstand they will vse such dallying such demurring such shiftes and delayes vntill the poore man bee exhaust and spent so as perforce he must let the matter fall and sit downe with the losse For albeit his cause were right good in the beginning yet will it be starke naught in the ending Wherefore Innocentius his wordes are well verified in this kinde of people You respect saith he not the causes but the persons not lawes but bribes not what reason prescribeth but what will affecteth not what the minde thinketh but what it coueteth not what should be done but what yee list to haue done your eie is not single which should make your body bright but euer ye mingle a peece of leauen which corrupteth the whole dowe The
thinke that these 72. Iewish priests sent by Eleazarus the hie priest brother to Symon Priscus into Egypt to king Ptolomeus to translate the old testament out of their vulgar tongue that is the Hebrew into Greeke did translate the same seuerally being placed in 72. distinct celles so as no one coulde know what another did without diuine inspiration This notwithstanding they all agreed so perfectly when their interpretations were compared together as if they had beene all in one place and one acquainted with anothers act Which if it were true the decision whereof I leaue in suspence to the iudgement of the reader it coulde not but prâ—ceede of the holyghost Others as saint Ierome Aristeas Iosephus and all the Iewish Rabbins hold the flat contrarie opinion and auouch boldly that the report of the 72. celles and of the translation accomplished in so many seueral places is nothing else but a fable Which latter opinion seemeth more probable though not certaine because the Iewes could best tel the case of whom S. Hierome receiued his opinion Howsoeuer it was two things are certaine first that the Hebrew text is the foundation and originall and onely to be stoode vpon so often as any difficultie ariseth in the olde testament Secondly that howsoeuer they did translate yet was there such corruption of their translation euen in saint Hieromes time and before his dayes as it was found in very many places to swarue wholly from the Hebrew Which thing not only Saint Hieerome but Origen and other writers do witnesse for which cause Saint Hierome and Saint Augustine do verie wisely and grauely exhort to haue recourse to the Hebrew in the old Testament and to the Greeke in the new Testament so often as any varietie doth appeare And here wee must note two things first that those priests which Eleazar sent to Ptolomee were 72. in number as sundrie thinke albeit the two odde persons be omitted of others for breuitie sake Secondly that they translated onely the Pentateuche as writeth Iosephus in his first booke of antiquities Adde heereunto with the same Iosephus that they were sent to his librarie at Alexandria where if wee will beleeue Genebrardus were 54. thousand and 800. bookes CHAP. VI. Of Esdras Zorobabel and Nehemias God albeit hee doth often afflict and exercise his people with the crosse of temporall punishment for their good that so they may beholde their owne vnworthienesse and appeale to his mercie and wholly depend vppon his holy prouidence yet for his mercie sake hee doth in all ages and at all times excite worthie persons for their great commoditie and solace For after that he had visited the Iewes and kept them in bondage seauentie yeares in a strange countrey among infidels and idolaters hee raised vp diuers excellent men for their preseruation to wit Zorobabel Esdras and Nehemias Zorobabel was the captaine that brought them home and caused the temple to be builded Nehemias builded vp the walles of the citie deliuered the people from oppression and prouided that the law of God was put in execution among them This Nehemias was in great fauour and authoritie with king Artaxerxes and so obtained most honourable and ample letter patents for the accomplishment of whatsoeuer he did desire Esdras descended of the kinred of Aaron hee was a priest well learned in the law of Moses Hee was called Esdras the scribe that is one who had authoritie to write the lawe and to expound it Saint marke calleth such a one a Scribe Saint Mathew tearmeth such persons Lawyers and doctours of the lawe which is a point well worthie the obseruation This Esdras performed the office of a true priest indeed for he collected the bookes of holy scripture which were dispersed after the destruction of Hierusalem in time of the captiuitie without which bookes pure and sincere religion could not consist Yea so soone as the temple was builded againe vnder Zorobabell he is noted as Hierome recordeth to haue found out the Hebrew letters we now vse whereas vntil that time both the Samaritans and the Hebrewes had the selfe same characters Eusebius Caesariensis a man as well of great antiquitie as of learning calleth Esdras the most excellent diuine and skilfull doctour among the Iewes affirming that hee changed the Hebrew letters for this ende and purpose lest the Iewes should conuerse with the Samaritans He addeth further that his memorie was so great as he could recite the scriptures without the booke Some write that he inuented the prickes annexed to the text but others hold the contrarie The fift booke of the Monarchie of the Greekes from the Machabees vntill Christ. CHAP. I. Of the partition of the Monarchie and the reason of the same THe former part of the Monarchy of the Greekes which is from King Alexander the great vnto the Machabees conteineth 155. yeares and may be proued exactly by the chronographie of holy Writ The latter part of the Monarchie which is from the Machabees vnto Christ or if yee will from Antiochus Epiphanes to Herodes Magnus which is al one contayneth 173. yeares but cannot be proued out of the holy scriptures as the former part which is the cause of this my partition for perspicuitie sake yet may it bee gathered sufficiently out of the bookes of the Machabees Iosephus Iulius Africanus and Egesippus The obseruation As Alexander began this monarchie in the seuenth yeare of his raigne in the age of the world 3641. so did Antiochus Epiphanes sonne to Antiochus Magnus the sixt king of Syria beginne the time of this partition that is the second part of the Monarchie in the age of the world 3749. He was hostage at Rome from whence he fled and vsurped the kingdome of Syria from his brothers sonne he pretended to protect his sisters sonne Philometor the yong king of Egypt by that meanes sought craftily to get the kingdome of Egypt into his hands For better expedition of his wicked purpose he procured certain cities to be yeelded into his hands In his returne from Egypt he tooke Ierusalem and spoyled it The Agyptians peruing his craftie dealing receiued their cities againe in regard whereof hee entred Egypt with a strong armie but had the repulse by aide of the Romans after which repulse he retured in great rage and tyrannically bent his force against Hierusalem he constrained the Iewes for the space of two yeares vtterly to forsake the law Machabeus therefore and his sonnes being priests rose vp in armes against his brutish crueltie and deliuered the people CHAP. II. Of the gouernment of the Iewes after the captiuitie A triple gouernment was among the Iewes betweene the captiuitie the aduent of our sauior Christ Iesus for they were gouerned first by princes of the tribe of Iuda and royall stocke of Dauid from the captiuitie vntill Antiochus After that they were gouerned by priests who were not of the royal petegree of Iuda but of the tribe of Leui.
of the Iews was at an end about 30. yeeres before Christs incarnation Herode the stranger was successor to this Aristobulus in the kingdom and priesthood of the Iewes In the third yeere of the 186. Olympiade and in the age of the world 3937. yeeres then in the 32. yeere of Herod was our Sauiour borne The fourth obseruation Herod the great had many children Aristobulus Alexander Antipater Antipas Philippus and Archelaus Of which Aristobulus and Alexander were his children by his beloued wife Mariamne which Mariamne he put to death causing his children Alexander and Aristobulus to be strangled in Samaria Archelaus Herodes called Antipas Antipater and Philip yet liued amongst whom the kingdome was diuided Herodes the Great designed his sonne Archelaus to be king by his last will and testament but the Emperour Augustus would not confirme Herodes will and so hee was not king at the first yet Augustus was content that he should be Tetrarke and vpon hope of his good regiment to be king afterward This Archelaus saith Rhegino did reigne in Iudea when our Sauiour was brought out of Egypt for feare of which king he returned into Nazareth a towne in Galile where hee abode till his baptisme This was done in the seuenth yere of Christ and in the 15. yeere of his birth Archelaus being accused of treason before Augustus was banished out of Iewrie the kingdome was diuided among his 4. brethren Herod Antipater Lysanias and Philip. Yet this Antipater after Carion was slaine long before The first obseruation Whether Antipater was slaine as writeth Carion or liuing stil with Philip and the rest as saith Eusebius certaine it is that foure only are mentioned in the holy scripture to wit Archelaus who raigned in Iurie after Herod the great Antipas whom S. Luke calleth Herod who was Tetrarke of Galilie Philip who was Tetrarke of Iturea and Trachonitis Lysanias who was the Tetrark of Abilene Pilate being then president in Iewry which Lysanias after Eusebius was one of the brethren albeit other writers affirme no such thing CHAP. III. Of the 2300. daies Daniel had a vision of great persecution that shoulde come vnto the church that the daily sacrifice should cease and Gods trueth be troden vnder foote And that the sinnes of the Iewes were the cause of such horrible afflictions Yet for the solace of Gods children whom he neuer forsaketh finally the time of the desolation is appointed and pronounced in these obscure words Vnto the euening and morning two thousand and three hundreth then shall the sanctuarie be cleansed Sundrie as S. Hierome witnesseth trouble themselues miserably about the exposition of this place Some for 2300 read 2200 least sixe yeares and three monethes abound Other some vnderstand the place of Antichrist and that this shalbe reallie complete in him which was spoken typically of Antiochus And this childish imagination doe our late Iesuites and other papistes imitate whose fantasticall interpretation was confuted by S. Hierome before they were borne But the meaning is plaine and easie that is vntill so many naturall daies be past which in all make sixe yeares three monethes and an halfe For so long was the temple prophaned vnder the wicked king Antiochus And that this is the true sence of the place I prooue by two reasons First because that vnto the morning and to the euening cannot possibly be vnderstood of either yeares or monethes and yet can the same be truely and simply verified in so many natural daies Secondly because the prophet of God doth expound the rest of the vision euen of the kinges of Syria And my reasons are confirmed by S. Hieromes testimonie whose expresse words are these Vespere autem manè successioneÌ„ diei noctÃsque significat The euening and the morning doth signifie the succession of the day and the night And in the very same place hee prooueth by Iosephus and the bookes of the Machabees that the setting vp of Iupiters Image in the Temple and the time of the desolation wrought by Antiochus is correspondent to the 2300. daies CHAP. IIII. Of the priestes of the Iewes after the captiuitie vnto Alexander the Great The names of the priests Iesus Filius Iosedech Anno mun 3427 the time that they liued Anno mun 3645 72 yeares Ioachim Anno mun 3427 the time that they liued Anno mun 3645 30 Eliasib alià s Nechasib Anno mun 3427 the time that they liued Anno mun 3645 40 Ioiada Anno mun 3427 the time that they liued Anno mun 3645 24 Ionathan alià s Ioannan Anno mun 3427 the time that they liued Anno mun 3645 52 Iaddo alià s Iaddua Anno mun 3427 the time that they liued Anno mun 3645 28 yeares Iesus or Ieshua was the high priest in the returne euen as Zorobabel or Zerubbabel was the ciuill gouernour Diuers thinke diuersly of this succession but I deliuer plainly what I iudge most probable CHAP. V. Of the priests of the Iewes from king Alexander vnto the Machabees The names of y e priests Onias Priscus A. M. 3643 the time that they liued A. M. 3805 25 yeares Simon Priscus A. M. 3643 the time that they liued A. M. 3805 13 Eleazar A. M. 3643 the time that they liued A. M. 3805 20 Manasses A. M. 3643 the time that they liued A. M. 3805 27 yeares Simon Iunior A. M. 3643 the time that they liued A. M. 3805 28 Onias Iunior A. M. 3643 the time that they liued A. M. 3805 39 Iason A. M. 3643 the time that they liued A. M. 3805 3 yeares Menelaus A. M. 3643 the time that they liued A. M. 3805 7 yeares This Menelaus was a very wicked priest whom Antiochus put to death at Berytus Antiochus moreouer inhibited Onias his sonne to succeed him and appointed Alcimus aliâs Iacimus the high priest which Alcimus was of the race and petigree of Aaron but not of the same familie Onias therefore sonne to Menelaus went into Egypt and insinuating himselfe into the amitie of Ptolomee Philometor and Cleopaâ—ra his wife perswaded them to build a temple in Heliopolis like to that of Hierusalem and to make him priest in the same place Iacimus after he had been high priest three yeares died leauing no successor behinde him and so the citie of Hierusalem was seuen whole yeares togither without a priest Afterward the gouernment of the Iewes was committed to the familie of the Assamoneans and then they rebelled against the Macedonians and made Ionathan the high priest These points and specially the case of Iacimus or Alcimus ought diligently to be marked against the mangled and fondly commended popish succession whereof by the power of God more shalbe said hereafter From about this time vntill Herod the great Iudas Machabeus and others of his race had the gouernment and priesthood among them From Herode vntill Christ our redeemer were yeares 32. plus minus During which time priests were not made of the line of the Assamoneans
partly in Egypt This answere is confirmed by the testimonie of S. Paul in his Epistle to the Galathians where he saith that the law was giuen 430. yeres after y â— the promise was made to Abraham For the law was giuen when the Iewes came out of Egypt as all writers agree with vniforme consent and the promise was made to Abraham in his sonne Isaac The sixt Section Of the captiuitie of the ten Tribes About the yeare of the world 3292. the Israelites or the ten tribes that were in Samaria were carried away captiues in the third yeare of the siege vnto Ashur or Assyria in the ninth yeare of Hoseah or Osee the sonne of Elah king of Israel in the fourth yeare of Ezechias king of Iuda At this time ended the race of the kings of Israel for after this captiuitie did the ten tribes neuer returne see the 12. chapter in the end of the first section The captiuitie of the tenne tribes saith Iosephus endured 240 yeares seuen monethes and seuen daies after their reuolte from king Roboham their lawfull Soueraigne For they would neither be subiect to law nor obey their Prophets of God that reprooued their sinnes and therefore were worthily afflicted by the Assyrians see the second chapter in the end thereof In the daies of king Osee was the kingdome of Samaria that is of the ten tribes ended For then was Samaria vtterly destroied which afterward the Assyrians did inhabite of whom came the Samaritans those wicked heretiques Which subiection of the said ten tribes may be a parpetuall document to all christian people euer to exhibite loyall seruice to their Soueraignes and due reuerence to Gods ecclesiastical messengers the preachers of his sacred word which thing notwithstanding is little regarded in these daies through the antichristian doctrine of seditious semenaries CHAP. VIII Of the Prophetes and Priestes of the Hebrewes vntill the captiuitie The Prophets and priestes of the Iewes Prophetes Ionas who liued in the time of both kingdomes that is to say of Iuda and of Israel especially in the time of the captiuitie of Babilon Oseas who liued in the time of both kingdomes that is to say of Iuda and of Israel especially in the time of the captiuitie of Babilon Abdias who liued in the time of both kingdomes that is to say of Iuda and of Israel especially in the time of the captiuitie of Babilon Amos who liued in the time of both kingdomes that is to say of Iuda and of Israel especially in the time of the captiuitie of Babilon Esaias who liued in the time of both kingdomes that is to say of Iuda and of Israel especially in the time of the captiuitie of Babilon Iohel who liued in the time of both kingdomes that is to say of Iuda and of Israel especially in the time of the captiuitie of Babilon Michaeas who liued in the time of both kingdomes that is to say of Iuda and of Israel especially in the time of the captiuitie of Babilon Nahum who liued in the time of both kingdomes that is to say of Iuda and of Israel especially in the time of the captiuitie of Babilon Abacuc who liued in the time of both kingdomes that is to say of Iuda and of Israel especially in the time of the captiuitie of Babilon Hieremias who liued in the time of both kingdomes that is to say of Iuda and of Israel especially in the time of the captiuitie of Babilon Baruch who liued in the time of both kingdomes that is to say of Iuda and of Israel especially in the time of the captiuitie of Babilon Sophonias who liued in the time of both kingdomes that is to say of Iuda and of Israel especially in the time of the captiuitie of Babilon Ezechiel who liued in the time of both kingdomes that is to say of Iuda and of Israel especially in the time of the captiuitie of Babilon Daniel who liued in the time of both kingdomes that is to say of Iuda and of Israel especially in the time of the captiuitie of Babilon Aggaeus who liued in the time of both kingdomes that is to say of Iuda and of Israel especially in the time of the captiuitie of Babilon Zacharias who liued in the time of both kingdomes that is to say of Iuda and of Israel especially in the time of the captiuitie of Babilon Malachias who liued in the time of both kingdomes that is to say of Iuda and of Israel especially in the time of the captiuitie of Babilon Priestes Sadoch in the time of all these the children did euer succeede their fathers vntill the captiuitie but after the captiuitie it was otherwise Achimaas in the time of all these the children did euer succeede their fathers vntill the captiuitie but after the captiuitie it was otherwise Ioram in the time of all these the children did euer succeede their fathers vntill the captiuitie but after the captiuitie it was otherwise Auxieramus in the time of all these the children did euer succeede their fathers vntill the captiuitie but after the captiuitie it was otherwise Nidaeas in the time of all these the children did euer succeede their fathers vntill the captiuitie but after the captiuitie it was otherwise Sudaeas in the time of all these the children did euer succeede their fathers vntill the captiuitie but after the captiuitie it was otherwise Hilus in the time of all these the children did euer succeede their fathers vntill the captiuitie but after the captiuitie it was otherwise Ioathan in the time of all these the children did euer succeede their fathers vntill the captiuitie but after the captiuitie it was otherwise Vrias in the time of all these the children did euer succeede their fathers vntill the captiuitie but after the captiuitie it was otherwise Nerias in the time of all these the children did euer succeede their fathers vntill the captiuitie but after the captiuitie it was otherwise Odaeas in the time of all these the children did euer succeede their fathers vntill the captiuitie but after the captiuitie it was otherwise Sellum in the time of all these the children did euer succeede their fathers vntill the captiuitie but after the captiuitie it was otherwise Helchias in the time of all these the children did euer succeede their fathers vntill the captiuitie but after the captiuitie it was otherwise Zara in the time of all these the children did euer succeede their fathers vntill the captiuitie but after the captiuitie it was otherwise Iosedech in the time of all these the children did euer succeede their fathers vntill the captiuitie but after the captiuitie it was otherwise CHAP. IX Of the Actes and times of the Prophetes iâ— briefe maner A. M. 3180. The Prophets of the old testament A. M. 3504. Ionas prophesied to the Niniuites in the time of Ozias Osee prophesied against Samaria in the time of Ioatham Abdias prophesied against the Idumeans and other enemies of the Israelites in the time of
in synop Ionas liued in the daies of Elias who reprooued Achab the king of Samaria He was the sonne of the widow of Sarepta whom Elias restored to life for her hospitalitie towardes him So writeth Epiphanius but others thinke otherwise Let the Reader vse his owne iudgement herein Ionas did prophesie Christes death and resurrection more significantly by his passion then by his worde or preaching For to what end was he swallowed vp of the Whale and restored againe the third day but to signifie Christes rising from the dead the third day Aug. de ciuit lib. 18. cap. 30. Yea Christ himselfe interpreted the prophesie of Ionas euen as S. Austen doth For he obiected against the Iewes for their incredulitie Ionas his comming out of the Whales belly as a most vndoubted signe of his resurrection Mat. 12. ver 40. Luc. 11. verse 30. The Hebrewes say that Ionas was the sonne of the widow of Sarepta whom the prophet Elias restored from death They also write that Osee and Amos Esay and Ionas prophesied at the selfe same time Hier. hic in prooem The seuenth Section of the Prophet Micheas Micheas the Moralist which is by interpretation humble and fellow heire with Christ was a prophet of the tribe of Ephraim Epiphanius He was so charitably affectced towards the Israelites his brethren that he wished himselfe to haue bin destitute of the spirite of Prophesie to haue been reckoned amongst the false Prophets to haue preached an vntrueth and himselfe to haue perished alone so that such a multitude should beleeue in Christ and not be deliuered to captiuitie euerlasting Hier. in cap. 2. Mich. Albeit Micheas was of the same time with Osee Amos and Esay who prophesied in the time of Osias king of Iuda yet did not Micheas preach in the daies of Ozias but in the time of Ioatham his sonne after whom Achas reigned Ezechias succeeding in the empire of his father Achas in whose daies the ten tribes felt their captiuitie amongst the Assyrians Hier. hic in cap. 1. Aug. de ciu lib. 18. cap 27. Micheas prophesied against Ierusalem and Samaria and against Achab. Mich cap. 1.3 Reg. 22. Athanas in Synopsi The eight Section of Nahum Nahum euen as Ionas did directeth his prophesie to Niniuie the great citie of the Assyrians which is now called Ninus And because y e Niniuites after God had mercifully released the punishment foretold by Ionas committed greater offences then before this Prophet Nahum doth denounce vnto the said Niniuites to al y e persecuters of Israel Gods iudgment and euerlasting captiuitie And withall hee comforteth the faithfull shewing that the destruction of their enemies shall be for their consolation Nah. cap 1.2.3 Hier. in proaem Nahum was the sonne of Helkeseus who after the tradition of the Hebrewes was also himselfe a prophet He prophesied in the time of Ezechias Hier Gloss. After Iosephus he prophesied in the time of Ioatham king of Iuda Ioseph antiq lib 9 cap. 11. All thinges foretold of Niniuie were fulfilled in the hundred and fiteenth yeare Iosephus Ibidem The 9. Section of Abacuc Like as Nahum whome Abacuc followeth prophecieth against Niniue and the Assyrians who destroyed the ten tribes called Israel euen so Abacuc prophecieth against Babylon and king Nabuchedonosor by whom the two tribes called Iuda as also the temple were ouerthrowen Hier hic in proaemio Abacuc prophecied many things of the aduent of our Sauior 2. yeres before the Iews returned from Babylon he died and was honorably buried in his owne house Epiphanius The 10. Section of Sophonias Sophonie was of the tribe of Simeon borne in the mount Sarabatha Epiphanius Sophonias the prophet descended of noble progenitours Chusa was his father Godolias his grandfather Amarias his great grandfather Ezechias father to his great grandfather who all by the tradition of the Hebrewes were also prophets Hier. in 1. cap. Sophon Sophonias prophecied in Hierusalem and in all Iewrie he foretold the day in which all their idolles should be ouerthrowen and affliction come vpon them He also prophecied of our Sauiour and of his resurrection After that hee preached against Gaza Ascalon Azoto Accaron Moab Ammō Damascus Niniuie against the Aethiopians Athanas. in synopsi Sophonias prophecied in the dayes of Iosias the sonne of Amon the king of Iuda and so it is euident that he prophecied before the captiuitie of Babylon cap. 1. Sophon Lyranus ibidem The 11. Section of the prophet Aggaeus Aggeus directed his prophesie specially to Zorobabel and Iesus the sonne of Iosedech and then to all the people in Iuda and Hierusalem commaunding them to build vp againe the temple of the Lord. Lyranus in princ S. Austen saith that these three prophets Aggeus Zacharias and Malachias prophecied in the end of the captiuitie Aug. de ciuit lib. 18. cap. 35. which yet must be vnderstood after the returne from the captiuitie whereof saint Austen could not be ignorant since it is plainely said in the first of Haggai that in the sixt month of the second yeare of the raigne of king Darius he receiued the gift of prophecie This case shall appeare more clearely in the second booke in the discourse of the first monarchie In which place marke this point attentiuely Haggeus so soone as he saw the temple of Ierusalem builded with his corporall eies for he saw it before in vision so soone did hee sing praises to the Lorde and that doone ended his life in the same place where he was very honourably buried Epiphanius The 12. Section of the prophet Zacharias Zacharias sonne of Barachias the sonne of Addo the prophet beganne to prophesie two moneths after Aggeus that is in the eight moneth of the second yeere of Darius chap. 1. Zachar. There were sundry Zacharies one the sonne of Ioiada another the sonne of Barachias an other the father of saint Iohn the Baptist. Whereupon ariseth a great controuersie amongest the learned which of all these was that Zacharie whom the Iewes as Christ chargeth them in the 23. of Mathew murdered betweene the temple and the altar Hier. in Matt. lib. 4. cap. 23. prope finem Zacharias after hee had prophecied many things of Ierusalem and animated the people to builde the temple and had also reprooued the sluggishnesse of the prophets and priests hee died in his decrepite age and was buried with Aggeus Epiphanius The 13. Section of the prophet Malachie The prophet Malachie was of the tribe of Zabulon borne after the returne of the Iewes from Babylon in Sopha the land of Zabulon Epiphanius Malachias was the last of all the prophets who after the returne from the captiuitie and building againe of the temple foretold the desolation therof and the ceasing of their sacrifice Hier. apud Eder Malachie prophecied of the day of iudgement and of the incarnation of our Sauiour he foretold that Elias to wit Iohn the Baptist shoulde be sent before his aduent Athanas. in synopsi CHAP. XII Of the diuerse names
fruits of a liuely faith which solution is effectually comprised euen in the text it selfe Exod. 1. verse 21. neither could an officious lie committed by humane frailtie make frustrate their liuely faith Moses when he was fortie yeres olde fled from king Pharaoh and was a stranger in the land of Madian Acts 7. verse 23. verse 29. Moses being a faire childe was hidde three moneths in his fathers house Acts 7. verse 20. After three months the mother of Moses because she could hide him no longer from the tyranny of the king made a basket of reedes and laide the child therein and put it among the bulrushes by the riuers brincke where Pharaohs daughter espied him and caused him to be brought vp as her own child Yea by Gods prouidence his owne mother became his nurse Exod. 2. verse 3.7 10. The Egyptians made the Israelites wearie of their liues by sore labor in clay and in bricke and in all maner of bondage which they laide vpon them most cruelly Exod. 1. verse 14. but God whose prouidence is neuer wanting to his children raised vp Moses who in the 40. yeere of his age auenged the cause of his brethren the Israelites and slew the Egyptian that smote an Hebrew Exod. 2. verse 11. Act. 7. ver 23. The children of Israel were 40. yeeres in the wildernesse by the holy and valiant conduction of Moses in which time neither their clothes waxed old vpon their backes neither their shooes vpon their feete such was the omnipotent power and mercifull goodnes of their good God and ours Deut 29. vers 5. They were fed with manna fortie yeres in the wildernesse vntill they came into the land of Canaan Exod. 16. verse 35. The law was giuen 430. yeares after the promise made to Abraham Galat. 3. verse 17. in the age of the worlde 2513. which was 480. yeares before Salomon built the temple 3. King 6. verse 1. It was giuen in mount Sinai which was al on a smoake the Lord came downe vpon it in fire and all the mount trembled exceedingly Thunders and lightnings were vpon the mount and the sound of the trumpet exceeding loud so that all the people in the campe was afraide Exod. 19. ver 16 18. which fearefull signes God shewed in exhibiting his law as well to cause it be had in greater reuerence as also to make his maiestie more feared The law written with the finger of God in tables of stone was giuen the third day of the third month after the comming of Israel out of Egypt so that from the 14. day of the first moneth in which the Israelites eate the passeouer vntill the day in which the law was giuen are reckoned iump 50. daies First 17. of the first moneth then 30. of the second moneth lastly three dayes of the third moneth The law therefore was giuen the 50. daie after the departure of the Israelites out of Egypt August tom 4. libr. 2. quaest supr Exod. cap. 70. pa. 103. Moses died when he was 120. yeres olde neither was his eie dimme nor his naturall force abated Deuteronomie 34. verse 7. Moses was buried in a valley in the land of Moab but no man knoweth of his sepulchre vnto this day Deut 34. ver 6. least the Iewes shoulde thereby haue occasion to commit Idolatry as people most prone thereunto euen as they adored the Serpent which he had made Aug. lib. 1. de mirab S. Script cap. 35. The whole life of Moses is deuided into three quadragenaries For he learned fortie yeares in Egypt in the house of king Pharao He was fourtie yeares in exile in Egypt in the house of a priest of Madian and he was 40. yeares in the desert leader to the Israelites Aug. vbi supra There was not a prophet since in Israel like vnto Moses whom the Lord knewe face to face He did miracles and wonders before Pharao in the land of Egypt and before all his seruauntes Deut. 34. verse 10. The blessed man Moses in his infancie was put in a basket daubed with clay and so exposed to Gods prouidence vpon the water Whereupon he was so called for Mo in the Egyptian tongue signifieth water and Yses signifieth saued So that Moyses in the Egyptian language signifieth saued out of the water Iosephus lib. 2 antiquit cap. 5. The ninth section of Ioseph Ioseph was the sonne of Israel otherwise called Iacob beloued of his father aboue all his brethren his brethren hated him mortally because he cōplained to his father of their naughtie dealing they consulted to slay him and to tell their father that a wicked beast had deuoured him But Ruben being more mercifull then the rest willed them not to shed his bloud but to cast him into a drie pit in the wildernesse thinking by that meanes to redeeme him After by the aduise of Iudah they sold him to the Ismaelites who sold him to Putiphar steward to Pharao king of Egypt Gen. 37. The doubt In the 37. of Genesis verse 28. and in the 39. of Genesis verse 1. It is said that the Ismaelites bought and sold Ioseph but in the 37. of Genesis verse 36. it is said that the Madianites sold him into Egypt I answere that Moses speaketh indifferently of the Madianites and Ismaelites vsing them both for one and the same people Ioseph was blessed of God and all thinges prospered vnder his handes Which when Potiphar saw he made him ruler of his house and put al that he had in his hand Yet by the naughty dealing of Potiphars wife he was cast in prison Gene. 39. verse 2.3.20 Ioseph expounded Pharaoh his dreames for which cause he was deliuered out of prison highly honoured of the king and made the chiefe gouernour of the land of Egypt Gen. 41. ver 25.43 Ioseph was a figure of our Sauiour Christ liuely declared by S. Austen For as Iosephes brethren when they saw him consulted to put him to death euen so the Iewes when they saw Christ tooke counsell him to crucifie Iosephes brethren tooke from him his motly coat and the Iewes took from Christ his corporall coate Ioseph spoiled of his coate went downe into the pit and Christ spoiled of his body descended into hell Ioseph comming out of the pit was bought of the Egyptians and Christ arising from the dead was bought of the Gentiles by faith Ioseph was sold for 30. pence by the counsell of Iudah his brother and Christ was solde for 30. pence by the trecherie of Iudas his Apostle Ioseph saued Egypt from famin and Christ saued the world from sinne If Iosephs brethren had not sold him Egypt had starued euen so if the Iewes had not sold Christ the world had perished Aug Serm. 81. de temp Ioseph was 80. yeres ruler in Egypt Gen. 41. verse 46. Gene. 50. verse 22. He liued a 110. yeares he died in Egypt was there enbalmed and chested Gene. 50. verse 22.26 But he was carried thence and buried with his auncestors Exo. 13. verse 19. The
sucuus Anno Dom. 333 The raigne of the Caesars Anno Dom. 743 15 88 Fridericus 1. Anno Dom. 333 The raigne of the Caesars Anno Dom. 743 37 89 Henricus 5. aliâs 6. Anno Dom. 333 The raigne of the Caesars Anno. Dom. 743 10 yeares 90 Otho 5. aliâs 4. Anno Dom. 333 The raigne of the Caesars Anno. Dom. 743 13 91 Fridericus 2. Anno Dom. 333 The raigne of the Caesars Anno Dom. 743 33 92 Rodulphus Anno Dom. 333 The raigne of the Caesars Anno Dom. 743 19 93 Aldulphus Anno Dom. 333 The raigne of the Caesars Anno Dom. 743 1 yeare 3. monethes 94 Albertus Anno Dom. 333 The raigne of the Caesars Anno Dom. 743 9 yeares The names of the Caesars 95 Henricus 6. Anno Dom. 752 The raigne of the Caesars Anno Dom. 998 5 yeares 96 Ludouicus 4. Anno Dom. 752 The raigne of the Caesars Anno Dom. 998 33 97 Carolus 4. Anno Dom. 752 The raigne of the Caesars Anno Dom. 998 32 98 Venceslaus Anno Dom. 752 The raigne of the Caesars Anno Dom. 998 22 99 Robertus Bat. Anno Dom. 752 The raigne of the Caesars Anno Dom. 998 10 100 Sigismundus Anno Dom. 752 The raigne of the Caesars Anno Dom. 998 27 101 Albertus 2. Anno Dom. 752 The raigne of the Caesars Anno Dom. 998 2 102 Fridericus 3. Anno Dom. 752 The raigne of the Caesars Anno Dom. 998 53 103 Maximilianus Anno Dom. 752 The raigne of the Caesars Anno Dom. 998 26 104 Carolus 5. Flandr Anno Dom. 752 The raigne of the Caesars Anno Dom. 998 30 yeares 105 Ferdinandus Anno Dom. 752 The raigne of the Caesars Anno Dom. 998 6 yeres 4. 〈◊〉 106 Maximilianus Anno Dom. 752 The raigne of the Caesars Anno Dom. 998 11 yeares Of these Emperours more shalbe said in peculiar 〈◊〉 when I come to the second part and first booke thereof The third booke containeth the description of the second Monarchie that is of the Persians CHAP. I. Of the originall of the monarchie and succession in the same GOd most mightie and most faithfull for his power doth whatsoeuer pleaseth him and for his promise sake hee vndoubtedly accomplisheth whatsoeuer he hath said He suffered the Iews his peculiar people to be long afflicted by the Babilonians but after that 70. yeares were fully complete and expired according to his promise Isai. 45 1.48.20 He with great ioy wrought their deliuerance He appointed king Cyrus to set them at libertie whom for that purpose he called his annointed Es. 45.1 Which Cyrus hauing conquered the kingdome of the Medes against Astyages left the said kingdome to Darius his vncle by whose aide he tooke Babylon and so transported the Monarchie of Babylon to the Persians Cyrus deliuered the Iewes from captiuitie the very same yeare that he took Babylon He also gaue them great treasures to build the temple of Hierusalem and sent them home againe vnder the conduct of Zorobabel Esd. cap. 1. cap. 2. 2. Par. 36. ver 23. Esd. 7. v. 15. He commaunded to giue them of his own reuenewes day by day so much as should be necessary Esd. 6. verse 8.9 Cyrus king of Persia brought forth by the hand of Mithridates the treasurer all the vessels of the house of the Lord which Nabuchodonosor had taken out of Hierusalem and placed in the house of his false God Cyrus numbred them vnto Sesbazer the Prince of Iuda To wit 30. Chargers of gold a thousand chargers of siluer 29. kniues thirtie basons of gold 410. basons of siluer and of other vessels 1000. all which with other rich gifts the king bestowed on the Iewes to build vp againe their Temple Esd. 1. 2. Par. 36. The building of the Temple was hindered by the aduersaries of Iuda and Beniamin that is the inhabitants of Samaria whom the king of Assyria had placed in the stead of the ten tribes which ten tribes he had carried away vnto Ashur and put them in Halah and in Habor by the riuer of Gozan and in the citie of the Medes for at that time the Medes and Persians were subiect to the Assyrians which vexation hindering of the Iewes in building their Temple continued about the space of thirtie yeeres that is vntill the sixt yeare of Darius the sonne of Histaspis surnamed Assuerus and Artaxerxes indifferently Esdr. cap. 4. The difficultie The Prophet Daniel who liued euen in the time of the captiuitie of Babylon affirmeth constantlie that the same night in which Balthasar the king of the Chaldees was slain Darius King of the Medes tooke the kingdome being 62. yeares of age Dan. cap. 5. vers 31. and the said Daniel saith that he vnderstoode the time of the captiuitie by the bookes of Ieremy in the first yeare of Darius sonne of Assuerus who was of the seede of the Medes Dan. 9. vers 1. but Esdras writeth plainely that Cyrus was king of Babylon and gaue the Iewes leaue to build their temple to whom also he gaue great treasure as is alreadie saide Esdr. 1. Esdr. chap. 6. vers 3. The answere I say first with Saint Hierome vppon Daniel that Cyrus gaue the title of honour to Darius as well in respect of his olde age as for kinred sake I say secondly that Cyrus went about warres in other Countreyes and so had not the title though he were king indeed I say thirdly that Darius died the same yeare that he and Cyrus wan Babylon so as the Monarchie of the Medes Persians and Babylonians descended wholly vnto Cyrus The names of the kings of the Persian Monarchie Darius A. M. 3426 the time of their reigne A. M. 3655 9 monethes Cyrus A. M. 3426 the time of their reigne A. M. 3655 30 yeares Cambyses A. M. 3426 the time of their reigne A. M. 3655 8 yeares Smerdes magus A. M. 3426 the time of their reigne A. M. 3655 7 moneths Darius Histaspis aliàs Artaxerxes alias Assuerus A. M. 3426 the time of their reigne A. M. 3655 36 yeares Xerxes A. M. 3426 the time of their reigne A. M. 3655 20 yeares Artabanus A. M. 3426 the time of their reigne A. M. 3655 7 monethes Darius Artaxerxes Longimanus A. M. 3426 the time of their reigne A. M. 3655 40 yeares Zerxes A. M. 3426 the time of their reigne A. M. 3655 2 monethes Sogdianus A. M. 3426 the time of their reigne A. M. 3655 7 monethes Darius Nothus A. M. 3426 the time of their reigne A. M. 3655 19 yeares Artaxerxes Mnemon aliàs Memnon A. M. 3426 the time of their reigne A. M. 3655 40 yeares Darius Ochus aliàs vagosus A. M. 3426 the time of their reigne A. M. 3655 26 yeares Arsames sonne of Ochus A. M. 3426 the time of their reigne A. M. 3655 4 yeares Darius Arsami filius aliàs Arbelas or Melas A. M. 3426 the time of their reigne A. M. 3655 6 yeares The first obseruation It is to be obserued that Artaxerxes was the commō name of all
difficultie In Ester the Prouinces are reckoned to be 127. but in Dan. cap. 6. verse 1. reckoning is made onely of sixe score seuen wanting of the number in Ester The answere I answere that the vsual maner and course of the holy scripture is this to recite the perfect number and to omit the odde and vnperfect Euen so Daniel expressing the perfect number was carelesse for the odde CHAP. IIII. Of the weekes mentioned in Daniel The first section The Monarchie of the Persians conteined the kingdomes of the Persians of the Medes of the Assyrians of the Chaldeans a great part of Asia and of other regions adiacent It began in the age of the world 3425. In the 20. yere of Darius Longhand aliâs Darius Artaxerxes beganne the seuentie weekes foreshewed by Daniel cap. 9. See the fourth section No place of holy scripture is more excellent more worthie or more necessarie to be vnderstood of euerie christian man then the 70. weekes reuealed by the angel to Daniel For no place in all the old testament doth more cleerely set Christ with al his glory and manifold giftes before our eies no place doth more firmely strengthen our faith no place doth more effectually conuince the Iewes no place doth more strongly confute all heresies all phantasticall opinions and all pestilent errors against our Sauiour Christ then this place of Daniel Worthily therfore ought we to employ our whole care studie and industrie for the exact vnderstanding of the same The second section All writers agree in these two points First that weeks in the ninth chapter of Daniel are not taken for common weekes but for weekes of yeares euen as we finde in Leuiticus cap. 25. verse 8. where it is thus written Thou shalt number seuen Sabbothes of yeeres vnto thee euen seuen times seuen yeare and the space of the seuen Sabbothes of yeares will be vnto thee nine and fortie yeares Secondly that the 70. weekes make seuentie times seuen according to the phrase of Leuiticus and so the iust number must be 49. yeares In this point the very Rabbins of the Iewes doe agree with our Christian interpreters and historiographers And necessitie without more adoe enforceth vs to admit this glosse and exposition of the weekes because otherwise the assertion of the angel of God notified to vs by the Prophet Daniel shoulde be absurd and vtterly swaruing from the trueth The third section Of the probation for the exposition of the seuentie weekes Dan. 9. verse 24. That 70. weekes doe neither signifie weekes as a weeke importeth seuen daies neither yet 70. weekes only as weekes be taken for yeares I prooue sundry waies First because an angel needed not to haue been sent from heauen to instruct Daniel if the 70. weekes had no mysticall nor secret meaning far aboue the common and literall signification of the wordes Secondly because the vision which Daniel had and which the angel came to expound conteined the duration of the second and third monarchies as appeareth in the eight of Daniel Which farre exceedeth both the number of 70. weekes and 70 yeares Thirdly because Gods mercie doth seuen fold exceed his iudgment which mercy he promiseth to his people who were 70. yeares in captiuitie and that it shalbe accomplished in the aduent of the true Messias Christ Iesus By whom and through whom wickednesse shall be finished sinnes sealed vp iniquitie reconciled and our righteousnesse purchased euerlastingly Fourthly because no other interpretation of the 70. weeks can possibly accord the wordes of Daniel Fiftly because albeit S. Hierome Clemens Alexandrinus Tertullianus Africanus and others doe muche dissent in determining the beginning of the 70. weekes that is in what yeare of what king we must beginne the supputation yet doe they all iumpe in the signification of the 70. weeks as who al do constantly write that they connotate 490. yeares Sixtly because the supputation of euerie writer bringeth vs to Christ which is the scope intended and plainly expressed in Daniel and consequently no other exposition can be true Obserue well the second section The fourth section Of the varietie in writers touching the time of the 70. weekes Some writers beginne the supputation of the 490. yeares in the second yere of the 80. Olympias which was in the 7. yeare of Darius Artaxerxes Longimanus Some beginne in the 32. yeare of Darius Histaspis Others begin in the first yeare of Cyrus Others sooner others later Some end their supputation in the birth of Christ some in his baptisme some in his preaching some in his death So that all agree in the substance of the thing though they dissent in the modification of the same Affricanus whose opinion I preferre beginneth the supputation in the twentieth yeare of Artaxerxes Longhand because then receiued Nehemias commandement to build vp the walles of the Citie of Hierusalem and to consummate the whole worke of the temple walles and cittie Nehe. 2.1.8 from which time if we reckon saieth he vntil Christ we shall find the 70. weekes But if we beginne out computation from anie other time neither the times wil be consonant and many absurdities wil insue thereupon And we must saith Affricanus reckon our yeares after the supputation of the Hebrewes who doe not reckon moneths after the course of the Sunne but of the Moone for from the 20. yere of the said Artaxerxes that is from the fourth yere of the 83. Olympias vnto the 202. Olympias and second yeere of the same Olympias and 18. yeare of Tyberius Cesar in which yeare Christ was crucified are gathered 475. yeares which doe make 490. yeares after the supputation of the Hebrewes and course of the Moone Whoso listeth may reade this matter handled at large in Saint Hierome in his excellent Commentaries vppon the ninth of Daniel where hee citeth the variaable opinions of Hippolitus Tertullianus Clemens Affricanus Eusebius and others and seeing the difficultie to bee great referreth the iudgement to the reader although hee seeme indeede to preferre the opinion of Affâ—icanus before the rest That this opinion of Affricanus is grounded in the true meaning of the prophecie of Daniel I will prooue by sundrie important reasons First because it agreeth verie fitlie with the supputation of the Persians and Romain monarchie Secondly because from the twentieth yere of Artaxerxes Longimanus vntill the passion of Christ be iust 490. yeares according to the course of the Moone or after the supputation of the Hebrewes Thirdly because no other opinion doth either iumpe with the death of Christ or with the computation of the monarchies Fourthly because the prophet speaketh expressely of the death and passion of Christ Iesus These are the words And after threescore and two weekes shall Messiah be slaine so then the true account of the weekes must so beginne as they may end iust with the death of Christ but so it is that no account saue onely this of Affricanus which I preferre doth or
of 30. dais This persecution indured sundry yeres to which the faithful soules seemed to allude in the Reuelatiō when they desire God the iust iudge to auenge their innocent blood Dioclesianus restored Egypt to the empire and when hee perceiued his authoritie to be weakened by reason of tumults and dissentious he sought to strengthen himselfe by ioyning Maximianus vnto him whome he made equall to himselfe in imperiall regiment These two Dioclesianus and Maximianus being nowe equall in authoritie were called Augusti they both afterward gaue ouer the administration of the empire and betooke themselues to the quiet state of a priuate life Dioclesianus chose Galerius to supply his place and Maximianus appointed Constantius in his stead Galerius and Constantius were not equal in power and authoritie but as viceroyes and substitutes and therefore they were not called Augusti but onely Cesars Maximianus would afterward haue returned to the administration of the empire to the end that he might haue aduanced his sonne Maxentius to the imperial regiment for which cause Constantius his sonne in law caused him to be slaine Dioclesianus hauing liued many yeares as a priuate man at length slew himselfe so to auoid the displeasure of Constantius and Licinius to whom hee was suspected to take part with Maxentius their enemie Constantinus surnamed the Great succeeded his father Constantius when hee had reigned foure yeares after the death of Dioclesianus This Constantinus was the first christian Emperour a zealous fauourer of Christes gospel and the onely patrone of Christianitie CHAP. IIII. Of the siege of Hierusalem by Titus Titus the sonne of Vespasianus the Emperour of Rome was a man of such valure prudence and humanitie so beautified with all kinde of heroicall vertues that he was commonly named in the mouth of euery man Amor delitiae humani generis the onely delight of mankinde In the second yeare of Vespasianus in the moneth of Aprill when the Iewes did celebrate their Passeouer at which time great concourse of people was assembled from euery coast hee besieged the citie of Hierusalem and the eight day of September he conquered the same by force and assault Although the citie of Hierusalem was fiue times taken and destroied before by Nabuchodonozor Asocheus Antiochus Pompeius and Herodes yet was there in the siege made by Titus such famine sedition and domesticall desolation as the like hath not been knowne in any citie The mothers murthered their owne naturall children and that done boiled them so to saturate their insatiable hunger This seemeth incredible but holy writ reporteth no lesse as I haue prooued in the first book and the eight chapter of the former part The wiues snatched meate out of the mouthes of their husbandes the children from their parentes and the mothers plucked it out of the mouthes of their infantes When they killed their children and one another for want of foode they could not doe the fact so secretly but it was espied taken from thē by others of greater force for so soone as their doores were shut others suspecting that they were eating meate came violently vpon them and tooke from them the meat alreadie chewed in their mouth Yea it is incredible to be tolde saith Iosephus what tortures and afflictions many suffered to enforce them to disclose where they had hid but one loafe of bread Iosephus being a Iew himselfe and greatly fauouring his countrey men being taken prisoner of the Romaines long before and at that time in great credite both with Titus and Vespasianus his father laboured by all meanes possible to perswade the Iewes that they well considering their own distresse and the mightie force of the aduerse part woulde in time while there remained place for mercie yeeld themselues to Titus and giue vp their citie into his hands But in vain was his oration he had not eloquence to perswade them From king Dauid to the siege made by Titus were 1179 yeares from the building of the city to the destruction therof 2177. yeres Yet such was the deformity of their sins and their ingratitude in Gods sight as neither the antiquitie of their Citie neither their wōderful riches neither their renown throughout the world nor the glorie of their religion was able to defend it from vtter desolation A noble woman Marie by name daughter to Eleazer dwelling beyond Iordan and flying to Hierusalem for aide was there besieged with others In the time of the great famine she killed her own son and when she had eaten part she reserued the rest Others perceiuing that shee had gotten some meate did manace death vnto her vnlesse shee woulde tell where it was hidde Which shee doing for feare they were all astonied at the sight thereof It is my sonne saith the woman eate thereof for I haue eaten before you I woulde neither haue you more effeminate then a woman nor more pitifull then a mother O horrible monster of the worlde What can bee more vnnaturall then the fact What more cruell then the wordes Ouer and besides those that were slaine in the famine plague and the sworde sixteene thousand were sent by Titus to Alexandria there to doe seruile workes as bondmen Two thousand hee carried with him for a triumph whom in publicke spectacles hee proposed to be deuoured of wilde beastes CHAP. V. Of Constantinus surnamed the Great COnstantinus for his pietie and heroicall vertues surnamed the Great was the first Cesar that professed Christ and christianitie He was a right christian in deed as who for a manifest signe of his true zeale in religion had the gospel of Christ Iesus caried publickly before him He commanded the holy Bibles to be copied out of his owne priuate charges and to bee sent into all partes of Christendome He called togither the learned men from all partes of the world to consult and giue their opinions concerning controuersies in religion During which time of disputation as also for their iournies to and fro hee graunted them free allowance of all necessarie prouision He withstoode the tyrannie of Maxentius and restored peace vnto the Church He builded the citie of Constantinople terming it by his owne name where was before a goodly mart towne then called Bizantium Thither was the empire translated and the citie called new Rome For he enuironed it with large walles and added magnificall building thereunto The obseruation The papistes here babling after their woonted maner tell vs a tale of Robin hoode and little Iohn that forsooth Constantine was baptized in Rome of Siluester that the very font in which he was christened is this day to be seene there and many other fabulous illations grounded thereupon To which I answere first with their owne deare frier and learned schooleman Victoria that such doctrine was first inuented by their flattering and beggerly Canonistes I say secondly that their owne canon law in the 96. distinction termeth this kinde of doctrine false counterfeite and not worthy of any
worship them And in Mathew Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him onely thou shalt serue For which cause S. Iohn could not be permitted to adore the Angel but was bidden to worship God For which cause Moses cast the Tables out of his hands brake them in peeces beneath the mountaine burned the calfe in the fire and grounded it vnto pouder For which cause the holy ghost commendeth Ezechias for breaking in peeces the brasen serpent For which cause Marcellina was condemned as an hereticke who worshipped as S. Augustine recordeth the Images of Iesus of Paul of Homere of Pythagoras For which cause S. Epiphanius seeing the image of a saint hanging in the Church tare the same in sunder and aduised the wardens to bury some poore body with the vaile and that no more any such vailes should be hanged vp in the Church Yea the same Epiphanius will not haue the blessed virgine Mary to be adored much lesse her image And if her image must be excluded what image I pray you can be approued for which cause the councill of Elibertine decreed grauely that nothing should be painted on the church walles which is adored of the people For which cause Lactantius pronounced freely that where images are there is no religion Neither will it help the papists to answer after their woonted manner that Lactantius speaketh of such images as are adored for gods For Lactantius maketh the selfe same obiection in the person of the Gentiles and inueyeth against it bitterly as a vaine friuolous and ridiculous thing And because I wil proceed sincerely in this point as in all other matters I thinke it conuenient heere to alleadge his expresse words which are these Non ipsa inquiunt timemus sed eos ad quorum imaginem ficta quorum nominibus consecrata sunt nempe ideo timetis quod eos in caelo esse arbitramini neque enim si dij sunt aliter fieri potest curigitur oculos in caelum non tollitis â—â—ur ad parietes ligna lapides potissimum quam illò spectatis vbi eos esse creditis We feare not say they the pictures or pourtraies but them after whose images they be made to whose names they are consecrated Doubtlesse ye therefore feare them because ye thinke they are in heauen For if they be gods it cannot otherwise come to passe Why therfore do ye not lift vp your eyes to heauen why doe ye rather looke vpon the walles vpon stockes and stonâ—s then thither where ye think they are In which words I note first that the Gentiles did not adore the images but the persons represented by the same for of fearing and adoring Lactan. speaketh indifferently throughout the whole chapter yet are they sharply reproued for their fact I note secondly that we must not adhere and fix our minds vpon stocks stones and the images of saints but lift vp our hearts to heauen where the saints now are Worthily therefore doe we condemne the Papists who do not only make images but also adore the same and that with the selfe same worship which is due and proper to God alone for so much auoucheth their owne deare doctor and canonized saint Aquinas of the image of our Sauiour Christ. For which respect Gregorie surnamed the Great who himself was a bishop of Rome sharply reproued the adoration worship of images albeit he admitted wel liked y e ciuil vse therof The second Booke of Christs birth baptisme preaching passion resurrection and ascension into Heauen with other things coincident CHAP. I. Of Christs birth ABout the time that Elias the Cabbalist foretolde in the age of the worlde 3969. the eight calends of Ianuary in the third yeere of the 194. Olympiade the 32. yeere of king Herode and the 42. yere of Augustus Cesar was our Lorde and Sauiour Christ Iesus borne into this world For albeit the 4000. yeres were not complete fully ended yet was his prediction true as some report it because he added that God would shorten the time for his elect Our Lord and Sauiour was conceiued by the holighost taking flesh blood bone of the blessed virgin Mary made like vnto vs in all things sinne onely excepted true man and true God hauing two perfect natures subsisting in one diuine person by reason of which hypostaticall vnion his holie mother was truely called deipara and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as well the mother of God as of man Christ assuming the perfect nature of man lost no part of his nature diuine and consequently he must haue two willes diuine and humane of God and of man Christ assuming the perfect nature of man must needs haue euery thing pertaining to the perfection thereof among which the sensitiue appetite is one which wee call sensualitie yet in Christ Iesus there was no motion of sensualitie which was not ordered by reason and wholy obedient to the same For the sensitiue appetite to be moued according to the course of it owne nature was nothing repugnant to the diuine and reasonable humane wil of Christ. The blessed virgin being 14 yeres of age conceiued Christ her son by the power of the holie ghost the 25. day of March He was before all worlds and by him al things were made yet was he incarnat in the end of the world borne after a new and miraculous maner of the virgin Marie who was Saint Iosephs lawfull wife Christ the sonne of the euerliuing God tooke vpon him the forme of a seruant was poorely borne in a stall and made him selfe of no reputation and all this he did for the loue of man to teach man humilitie and to abase himselfe as Christ his Lorde and master gaue him ensample In those dayes Cyrenius being gouernour of Syria Augustus Cesar sent out an edict to taxe all that were subiect to the Roman empire Then Ioseph being of the house and linage of Dauid went vp from Galile to be taxed in Bethlehem with Mary his wife being then big with childe where she brought forth Christ and wrapping him in swadling clothes laide him in a cratch bicause there was no roome for them in the Inne So soone as Christ was borne the angels of God nothing regarding the pride of mightie men declared to the poore shepheards the godhead and office of the childe lying in the cribbe how that he was borne to be the sauiour of the world After the departure of the angels the shepheards went to Bethlehem where they found Marie Ioseph and the sweete babe lying in the cribbe at their returne they published abroad that which was tolde them of that childe CHAP. II. Of the infancie of our Sauiour Christ. WHen Christ Iesus was but eight dayes olde he was circumcised euen then beginning to spend his blood for the loue of man for albeit he was the head of the church yet was he subiect to the law to
deliuer man from the curse of the lawe The 13. day after Christs natiuitie certaine wise men came a long iourney out of the East to adore the Sauiour of the world And albeit Epiphanius affirmeth constantly that this comming was the second yere after Christs birth yet S. Hierome S. Augustine and other learned writers receiue the former opinion as most authenticall and they haue great reason so to do because the scripture seemeth to say no lesse For first the wisemen or astronomers are said to come when Christ was borne Which phrase can not be fitly verified but of a thing present or lately done Againe the wisemen found the babe in Bethlehem and consequently they came before the day of the purification for after that time Christ is not knowne to haue bin in Bethlehem And though the papists hold by a vain tradition that these wise men were three kings of Cullen Gaspar Melchiâ—r and Baltasar yet is it neither certaine that they were kings neither yet that they were no more but three And their owne reason thereof is very friuolous because their bodies are chalenged to be as well at Millaine as at Colen But here I must answer to some obiections which seeme to fortifie Epiphanius his opinion The first doubt The parents of Christ were so poore at the day of purification that they were not able to offer a lambe according to the law for rich men but were enforced to offer a paire of Turtle doues or two yong pigeons and therfore doubtlesse they had not receiued the rich treasures which the wise men brought to Christ. I answer that the blessed and humble virgin as shee was free from all pride and ostentation so was she not willing to change her poore state and condition which she knew well pleased her sonne the sonne of God The second doubt King Herod slew all the male children in Bethlehem and in all the coasts thereof from 2. yeeres old and vnder according to the time which he had diligently learned of the wisemen Among the rest he slew his owne sonne as writeth Macrobius who therefore wished rather to be Herodes hog then his child which certes he would neuer haue done if there had bene but 13. daies betweene the apparition of the starre and the comming of the wisemen I answer which is the opinion of saint Austen and saint Chrysostome that the starre appeared so long before the natiuitie of Christ as was sufficient for the wise men to dispatch their iourney and to adore Christ shortelie after he was borne Neither is it of force to obiect as some do that the wise men could not come so farre in so short a space for first whether these wise men were of the posteritie of Balaam and so came from Mesopotamia as saint Chrysostome saint Ierome and saint Ambrose thinke or they came out of Arabia which is the constant position of Iustinus or they were Persians or Chaldeans which the very name seemeth to prognosticate yet might they haue dispatched their iourney in lesse then tenne dayes For Hierusalem is distant from Aram from whence Balak brought Balaam but 72. miles from Vr of the Chaldees 212. miles Againe the starre appeared long before Christs birth so that they might be there in time conuenient Thirdly in those countries they haue plentie of dromedaries one of which wil carie a man as writeth Philostratur 1000. furlongs in one day that is 125. English miles CHAP. III. Of the perfect age of Christ. IEsus Christ when he was 30. yeeres of age left Galilee and came to the floud Iordan where he was baptized of saint Iohn his precursor By which act he sanctified our baptisme in himselfe the outward signe whereof putteth vs in minde that we must change our liues and become better assuring vs as by a seale that we are ingraffed into Christ whereby our old man dieth and the new man riseth vp againe So soone as Christ was baptized a voice came downe from heauen saying This is my beloued sonne in whom I am wel pleased This done he was teÌ„pted in the wildernes of y e deuill Christ hauing fasted 40. daies and being tempted of the deuil returned by the power of God into Galile after that a great fame was spread abroad of him in all the region hee came to Nazareth where he had beene brought vp and as his custome was went into the synagogue on the sabbaoth day to expound the scriptures Christ the third day after he came to Cana a towne in Galile was present at a marriage where he made water wine the first myracle that euer he wrought After Christ was baptised he began to preach the Gospell being 30. yeares of age as is already saide Which holy exercise hee practised almost three yeares before his passion his preaching was in the yeare of Iubilee because he preached the glad tidings of the gospell the remission of sinnes the saluation of his people CHAP. IIII. Of Christs death and passion CHrist called twelue vnto him whom hee named Apostles and sent them into the whole world to preach the gospel to al nations that so they might be witnesses of his doctrine confirmed with many myrracles Which doctrine being accomplished hee offered vp himselfe an vnspotted sacrifice vpon the altar of the crosse for the expiation of the sinnes of the worlde And this he did the 18. yeare of Tiberius Cesar in the eight Calends of Aprill if wee follow Tertullians supputation against the Iewes Christs passion began not onely in his taking and deliuerie vnto death but euen from the verie instant of his conception and continued vntill hee yeelded vp the ghost For as Ludolphus writes learnedly when Christ as God foresaw in his diuine wisedome the cruell and bitter torments which hee was to suffer infallibly hee coulde not but naturally sorrow for the same as which were throughout all his body throughout all the members of his body and throughout all the inferior powers of his soule He suffered in all his time in all his body in all his works In time of his infancie basenesse of his mothers womb pouertie asperitie vilitie in the manger persecution of y e aduersarie flight into Egypt In time of his adolescencie frequent disputations painful peregrinations lothsome precipitations In his iuuenile age most bitter cruell death for in his whole body he sustained paines intollerable in his eies the effusion of teÌ„der teares in his delicate eares the hearing of contumelies and execrable blasphemies in his eie-lids the pangs of buffetting in his nostrils the stinch of vglie spitting in his sweete mouth the bitternesse of vineger and gall in his hands the prints of the nailes whipping and oft scourging throughout his blessed bodie What he sustained in his works cannot easily be expressed by the tongue of man For they reuiled his diuine preaching his most sacred conuersation his miraculous operation He was led as a lambe to
cannot erre neither all generally nor one finally 207 Emperours of Rome 86 Errour may be in the church 206 Errours how they come 342 The Eucharist giuen to infants 186 The Eucharist expounded by Chrysostome 461 The Eucharist is not Christs body 467 The Eucharist vnder one kindâ— 402 The Eucharist broken 484 Eutiches and his heresie 181 F Abrahams Faith did iustifie him 383 Sole Faith iustifieth 370 Faith can not be without good woorkes 399 The first Faith broken how vnderstoode 241 A true Fast 72 Fasting and choice of meates 60 The Fathers doe erre very often 342 Festiuall dayes 116 Fidelitie allegeance condemned by the pope 528 Free-will how it remaineth 358 G Grace that iustifieth is not inherent 370 The Grace of the Manicheâ—s 176 Saint Paul iustified by Grace yet a sinner stil 374 Grace infused may stand with sinne 350 The virgin Mary abounded with Grace yet not freâ— from sinne 28â— The Greekes and their supputation 8â— Gryphus at strife with his vncle 123 The Gouernement of the Iewes 135 H The Heresie of Arrius 178 Of Nestorius 180 Of Macedonius 181 Of Eutiches ibidem Of Mahomet 182 The Historie of Nectarius 509 Of Spiridion 64 Hierusalem besieged 153 Destroyed 25 Holy dayes and Sabbaths 116 I Iesuites are humble 144 Dissemblers 145 Images 139 Indulgences 270 Inuocation of Saints 319 Ioseph and his acts 57 Iosue 58 Of the Israelites but seuentie persons went into Egypt 53 Israelites 400. yeeres in Egypt 54 Iustice inherent 383 Iustice of the regenerate vnperfit 351 Iustification by faith 370 Iustification formall in Christ ibid. Iustification by workes 383 and 384 Iulianus Apostata 175 K Kings of the Assyrians 74 Of Egypt 128 Of the Iewes 135 Of Israel 20 24 Of Iuda 24 Of Macedonia 116 Of the Medes 76 Of the Persians 94 Of the Romanes 83 Of Syria 123 Kings are supreame gouernors in causes ecclesiasticall 34 and 426 Kings that afflicted the Iewes 147 Kissing the altar 483 The pax 482 The patine 483 The Popes feete 487 L The Law impossible after Adam 350 c. The Law fulfilled by faith 370 Euery transgression of the Law a mortal sin 381 What time the Law was giuen 56 The Lie in the midwiues 55 The Librarie of king Ptolomie 132 M Macedonius â—81 The Maniches 176 Marriage of Priests prohibited onely by mans lawe 216 Gratian alloweth priests marriage 231 The Nicene councell alloweth priests marriage 233 The Masse how it is called a sacrifice 428 The canon of the popish Masse 480 Masse in one kinde contrary to Christs institution and antiquitie 402 Popish Masse iniurious to Christs passion 417 Popish Masse is not a propitiatorie sacrifice 432.433 c. Popish Masse a clowted beggars cloake 476 Priuate Masse is diabolical 414 c. Masse ought to be saide in the vulgar tongue 476 Melchisedech what he offered 422 c. No Merit in mans worke 372 c. The Merit which the fathers ascribe to good workes 394 c. The Meritorious cause of iustification 345 The popish Miter 486 A Monarchie contained not all power in it 129 The Monarchie of the Assyrians 74 Of the Greekes 121 Of the Persians 92 Of the Romanes 149 Moses and his actes 55 N The seuerall Names of the ten tribes 43 Nectarius abolished confession 510 Nestorius 180 Nero and his wicked actes 150 Noah his floud 27 Nouatus the cause and beginning of popish confession 512 Nunnes may lawfully marry euen after vowes 235 O Olympias 116 The Olympiads 81 The Originall of confession 509 c. Of kissing the Popes feete 487 Of pardons 270 Of pilgrimage 341 c. Of popish masse 480 Of changing Popes names 486 The Originall of praying for the dead 296 Of praying to Saints 311 Of praying on beades 487 Of popish primacie 187 Of purgatorie 296 Of single life 224 Of transubstantiation 436 P Pardons 270 Pax vsed in poperie 481 Phocas author of primacie 188 Pilgrimage 341 c. Popes and their wicked dealing 529 Of kissing the Popes feete 487 Changing the Popes name 486 Praying to Saints 311 For the dead 296 In the vulgar tongue 476 Vpon beads 487 Primaâ—â—â— 187 Priuate masse 414 Purgatorie 296 Ptolomaeus his librarie 232 R Reliques of Saints not to be adored 349 Remus how slaine 82 The Romish church hath erred 203 c. The church of Rome holdeth many things whereof it can yeelde no reason 186 The church of Rome vseth to wrest the scripture ib. Rome how it had the name 82 Rome when builded ibidem S The alteration of the Sabbath 108 c. The Sacrifice of the masse 428 The Saracens 182 A Scribe what it signifieth 133 The Scripture must try euery trueth 342 The Sects of Romish religion and when they began 530 The Septuagints and their celles 131 Succession of kings See Kings Succession in the Romish church 194 c. Supremacie of the Romish church 187 T The Temple when it was built 2â— Transubstantiation when it began 436 The destruction of Troy 81 All Trueth to be tried by the scripture 342 V No sinne Veniall of it owne nature 381 Vestments and their colour 490 The Virgin Mary a sinner 287 Virgins may marry after their vowes 235 The Visible church clogged with superstitions See Church Vowes cannot dissolue lawful marriage 253 c. Vowes vnlawfull 265 W The Wearing of a Cardinalles hat 488 The seuentie Weekes in Daniel are declared 101 The scripture must Witnes trueth 342 A Woman pope of Rome 191 A Woman clad in mans apparell 74 Good Workes cannot iustifie before God 383 c Good Workes do not merit 392 Widowes damned for breaking their first faith 241 FINIS Among other faults escaped in the Printing these especially are thus to be corrected Pag. 2. for Cabatist reade Cabalist Pag. 13. for 432 443 Pag. 19 for 428 443 Ibidem for 4082 4097 Pag 21. The first two lines as part of the sentence afore-going Pag. 37. for Achab Achaz Ibidem for eight seuenth Pag. 74. for hadle handle Pa. 75. for Tantanes Tautanes Ibid. for Tantens Tantens Pag. 1â—â— deest made with other literall faultes which the ingenious Reader may easily espie and amend Act. 9.1 2. Act 9.4 1 Cor. 15.9 1. Cor. 2.8 1. Tim. 1.13 Gal. â— 10 Genes 2. vers The state of 〈◊〉 in his creation The vertue of the tree of life â—ugust de ciuit 〈◊〉 3 cap. 20. â—enes 2.16 â—enes 3.19 â—enes 1. â—9 â—enes 9.3 Aug. de ciuit libr. 22. cap. 30. The difficultie consisteth not in the ages but in the supputatâ—â—on of the yeareâ— Exceeding greâ—â— varietie of opinâ—â—ons 〈◊〉 first age second age August quaest sup Gen. q. 25. Mal. 1. verse 2 3. â— Par 4. v 1. Actes 7. verse â— The third age â—ee the Fift Sectiâ—n of the eight â—hapter where â—his is handled more at large This point must be well noted See Athanasius in synopsi Anno mundâ— 3088 4. Reg. 25. Ier. 52. Iosephus his â—â—â—putation 〈◊〉 be allowed 〈◊〉 from the 〈◊〉 to the 〈◊〉 be 〈◊〉 443. yeares 〈◊〉
my discoursâ—â— well obserueâ— â—â—sephus antiq 〈…〉 8. cap. 2. 〈◊〉 12. ve 40. 〈◊〉 15. ver 13. â—ctes 7. verse 6. Gen. cap. 5.32 cap. 6.3 c. 7.6 This appeareth to be so Ionas 3.10 Is. 38.5 Gen. 15. ver 13. Gal. 3. ve 16.17 Gen. 17. ver 19. A.m. 3292. 4. Reg. 17. v. 5. 4. Reg. 18. ver 9. Iosephus antiquit lib 9. ca. 14. Athanas. in synop The Israelites would neither obey their king nor Gods prophets A.M. 3307. A. M. 3380. â—he papistes are â—ecome Iehoiaâ—ims A.M. 3318. Kinges are supreme gouernors in causes ecclesiasticall A. M. 3397. Amos. 7.14 The floud came A. M. 1656 An. M. 2606 An. M. 1758 An. M. 2108 A. M. 2083 A. M. 2298 Exod. 12. ver 37 Iosephus lib. â— antiquit cap. 6. A. M. 2513 A M. 2434 A. M. 2474 A. M. 2513 A. M. 2554 A. M. 2574 A. M. 3373 Naturall fast Ciuill fast Christian fast Coactiue fast Religious fast 1. Tim. 4. verse 8. 2. Sam. 12. v. 5.17 Tit. 1. ver 15. 1. Tim. 4. verse 4. To make choice of meates for religion is the badge of an Infidell Sozomenus hist. lib. 1 cap. 11. trip hist. lib. 1. cap. 10. Nicephor lib. 8. cap. 42. Tit. 1. verse 15. Rom. 1â— ver 14. Rom. 14. ver 17. Gal. 1. ver 10 Gal. 2. ver 5. 1. Cor. 7. v. 2â— Math. 15. v. 3. 1. Tim. 4. v. 4. Deut. 4. v. 2. Tit. 1. ver â—5 One silly papist vrged by this reason said that the paschall lambe was a fish indeed Mat. 4. Marke 1. Luke 4. Trip. hist. lib. 9. cap. 38. Secundo principaliter Trip. hist. lib. 9. c. 18. Sozomen lib. 7. cap. 19. Euseb. â—ib 5. cap. 24. Primo principaliter At Rome they are more liberall in eating because the pope knowing their liberall collations and not reproouing them is deemed to dispense with the same This is sound popish doctrine I assure the reader See and note well Aquinas 22. â— 147. ar 6. ad 2. Secundo principaliter Rom. 10. ver 3. Mat. 15. v. 9. Rom. 14. v. 23. Tertio principaliter The art of phisick condemneth popish fast in Lent Calor natuâ—alâ— cibum digerit Winter Hippocrates Aphor. 15. sect Summer Autumne Spring time When their 〈◊〉 come 〈◊〉 Rhemes Popish moonk liued very delicately He yeeldeth a reason of his drinking of wiâ—â— Moonks proâ—e pouerty but 〈◊〉 feele none Hipocrisie gaineth soules to the diuell De consecr Disâ— 1. cap. Solent A great pollicie in a woman The kingdom of Assyria diuided A wonderful punishment for idolatrie See the first part first booke and second chapter in the fift and sixt age Phul Belochus Phul. Assar. Salmanasar Sennacherib Nabuchodonosor priscus Nabuchodonosor magnus Euil-marodaco Balthazar A. M. 2935 â—laricus Anno Dom. 412 Gensericus An. Dom. 456 â—otilas An. Dom. 548 Totilas built vp the city of Rome Iulius Caesar. A. M. 3924 〈◊〉 5.8 〈◊〉 7 2. An. mundi 3300 4. King 1â— The Hebrewes call Darius Assuerus Bergom lib 5. p. â—â—1 The custome of the Persians Esdras 6 vers 3. Esdras 6. ver 15. â—he Persian moâ—â—rchie endured â—49 yeares and â—â—ght monethes 〈◊〉 very magnifiâ—â—all feast and beâ—â—ming so mighâ—â—e a prince From the captiuitie to Christ. 490. yeares Accidentall varietie in fundamentall agreement â—ffr in 5. â—olum temp â—â—ntentia Affriâ—â—ni 〈◊〉 death of â—â—rist 〈◊〉 S. Hierome Dan. 9.26 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Intercalation euery third yere Let this be well noted Leuit. cap. 23. Leuit. 25. vers 11 â—1 13 14 15 16 c. The popish Iubilee An execrable plaine diabolical dispensation The principles of romish religion Fraudulent deeds of gift Dissembling magistrates â— Mat. 19.12 Genes 2. verse 3 Exod. 31. ver 17 Exod. 34. vers 4 Deut. 10. ver 1. Re exhibita â—esat figura Coloss. 2. ver 16. Gal. 4. vers 10 Rom. 14. vers 6 Hebr. 7. ver 12. Marke well this point Coloss. 2. ver 16 1. Cor. 16.2 Apoc. 1.10 1. Cor. 16.8 Exod. 12. ver 19. Act. 15. v. 6.20 Vide Socrat. 5. cap. 21. Coloss. 2. v. 16. Gal 4. vers 10. Histor. tripar libr. 9. cap. 38. Eusebius de laud. Constant. De vita Const. â—ib 3. cap. 13 â—â—â—inceps â—â—stor tripart â—ib 1. cap. 10. 〈◊〉 artic consâ—s â—â—gust The third 〈◊〉 Martir in 1. Coâ—â— cap. 16. Caluin libr. 2. cap. 8. § 34. Vrsinus in 4. prâ—cept p. 223. Vrsinus p. 23â— â—â—rsmus p. 226. â—â—ullingerus praecepto 4. â—oc 2. serm 4 An. mundi 3641 An. mundi 3251 Dan. 1. verse 5 20.21 Dan. 8. v. 8.22 Daniel cap. 8. ve 22. Cassander a cruel prince A worthie fact right seemely for a king Prouer. cap. 15. verse 6. Ambrosius â—nnocentius Anno mun 3608 â— beastly and â—ost cruel fact Anno Mun. 3643 The translation of the septuagints â—rer ad Chrom â—m 4. fol. 8. â—enebrarda â—eat papist conâ—â—steth no lesse Hier. praefat in libr. reg to 4. fol. 7. Euseb. in chroâ— 4â—4â— A. M. 3641. A. M. 3749. Dan. 11.21 Good parents haue not euer godly children A. M. 3660. Philippus or rather Caâ—lander see the beginning of the third chapter 30. yeares before Christ the family of the Iewes was at an end Anno mun 3937 Archelaus non rex sed dux Matth. 2.19 Luke 3.1 Matth. 2.19 Dan. 8. v. 12 13 c. The temple was prophaned sixe yeares three monethes and an halfe Hier. in cap. 8. Danielâ—â— Esd. 1. 3. vers â— Ioseph antiq lib. â—0 cap. 8. Iosephus lib. 20. antiquit cap. 8. Iosephus de Bello Iud. lib. 2. ca. 7. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iosephus de bello Iudaico lib. 2. Cap. 7. Our Iesuits can temporize The doctrine 〈◊〉 the Iesuits to dissemble with God and man 〈◊〉 our Iesuites humble holie 〈◊〉 A. M. 3909. Apoc. 6.10 Iosephus de bello Iud lib. 7.6 18 Ioseph vbi sup ca. 11. An horrible fact and vglie to behold Sozom. lib. â— c. â— Victor in relect 1. de potest eccles Dist. 96. cap. Constantinus Poperie hath long bewitched vs. Euseb. de vit Constan. lib. c. 22 Exod. 35. â— 30 â— Reg. 7. Exod. 25. v. 22. Num. 21. ver 8. Basilius in quadrag martyres to â— p. 397. Eusebius hist. eccles libr. 7. c. 1â— Euseb. de vit Const. lib. 4. Math. 22. Mark 12. Luke 20. Exod. 20. v. 4 Math. 4. v 10 Apoc. 19. v. 10. Exod. 32. v 20. 2. Kin. 18. ver 4 Aug. de haeres haer 7. Epiphan in epist. ad Io. Hier. haer 79. Concill Elibert can 36. Lactant. libr. 2 cap. 19. Lactant. lib. 2. de origine erroris cap. 2. Aquin. pa. 3. q. 25. ar 2. and 3. Gregor ad Seren. epist. libr. 9. cap. 9. Philip. 2. vers 7. 1. Pet. 2. vers 2â— Luc. 1.31 Matth. 1.18 Philip. 2.7 Luc. â— 1 2. Luc. 2.9 16 17 Luc. 2.21 Epiphan haer 51 The Papists claime the wisemens bodies in diuers places Leuit. 12.6 â— Luc. 2. â—4 Amb. in Luc. Iustin. in tryph Num. 23. vers 7. A dromedaries iourney Math. 3. vers