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A05312	An herbal for the Bible Containing a plaine and familiar exposition of such similitudes, parables, and metaphors, both in the olde Testament and the newe, as are borrowed and taken from herbs, plants, trees, fruits and simples, by obseruation of their vertues, qualities, natures, properties, operations, and effects: and by the holie prophets, sacred writers, Christ himselfe, and his blessed Apostles vsually alledged, and into their heauenly oracles, for the better beautifieng and plainer opening of the same, profitably inserted. Drawen into English by Thomas Newton.; Herbarum atque arborum quæ in Bibliis passim obviæ sunt. English	Lemnius, Levinus, 1505-1568.; Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607.	1587 (1587)	STC 15454; ESTC S108475	134,297	304

AN HERBAL FOR THE BIBLE CONTAINING A PLAINE AND FAMILIAR EXPOSITION of such Similitudes Parables and Metaphors both in the olde Testament and the Newe as are borrowed and taken from Herbs Plants Trees Fruits and Simples by obseruation of their Vertues qualities natures properties operations and effects And BY THE HOLIE PROPHETS SACRED WRITERS Christ himselfe and his blessed Apostles vsually alledged and into their heauenly Oracles for the better beautifieng and plainer opening of the same profitably inserted Drawen into English by THOMAS NEWTON Imprinted at London by Edmund Bollifant 1587 TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE MY VERIE GOOD LORD ROBERT EARLE of ESSEX and Ewe Vicount of Hereford and Bourgchier LORD Ferrers of Chartley Bourgchier and Louaine c. Your most humble THOMAS NEWTON wisheth increase of all spirituall gifts long life and happie daies with all felicitie in flourishing honour IF I WERE to yeeld a reason for my boldnesse in presuming to present by way of dedication this my poore trauaile vnto your Honor beside other of sufficient force to moue me thervnto I might and that truly say that the liuely sparks and tried proofe of your L. Heroicall spirite farre and neere with generall voice sounded out and emblazoned 〈◊〉 ●our thankefull welwillers your vndaunted cou●… and valour abroad your surpassing affabilitie and courtly curtesie at home and which most is of all your feruent zeale according to knowledge toward the glorious Gospell of Christ were causes mouing or rather vehemently thrusting me on by this meanes and in this sort dutifully to attempt your Honorable patience Of such force is true Nobilitie accompanied with hir proper adiuncts and inuested with hir peculiar titles that she draweth all men into the loue and admiration of hir So that all men to their incredible comfort do ioyfully note and euidently behold the liuely image and expresse paterne of that Mirror of Nobilitie your late most magnificent father brightly shining in you his sonne being like ynough through Gods good fauor mercifully finishing that which he hath alreadie graciously and richly begun in you if not in ech point to surmount which is scarcely possible yet at least to match which is most Honorable his martiall seruices valorous prowesse woorthie attempts venturous exploits inuincible courage renoumed bountie and most noble generositie The troupe therefore of Vertues deliuered vnto your Honor as it were by hand from your so noble a Parent and togither with the hereditarie succession of his lands left and by nature lineally descended vnto you was the Loadestone that mightily drew me being a rude lumpe of vnwrought Yron to admire your excellent graces and by such meanes as I am able to testifie this my zealous loialtie toward so Honorable a Gentleman so rare a Peere so sure a Botreaux vnto his Countrie so pretious a Paragon of perfect Nobilitie Not doubting but your good Lordship will dispence with my presumption ●…d accept in good part this small token of my faith●●ll hart and loyall minde which being most willing ●…d readie would not stay to performe euen to the ●…termost that which I ought if I could do that ●hich alas I cannot The worke my Lord in my simple opinion for the choise of the Argument raritie of the matter and profit of the circumstance deserueth to be aduisedly read attentiuely considered effectually ruminated and perfectly digested I am the bolder thus much to speake in the behalfe of it euen for Lemnius his sake the chiefe Author thereof whom especially I haue followed although for respects not alwaies as a Votarie precisely tyed my selfe vnto his sentence nor euerie where word for word religiously expressed his discourse But haue vpon occasion in some places added vnto him for the more perspicuitie in some taken away to auoid ●●diousnes and prolixitie in many by conference with other Authors at large explaned that which I thought was too compendiously couched and ouer mystically inuolued in termes of obscuritie but no where perdie otherwise haue I dealt than I knowe to be vsually tolerable and by good presidents a●…g the learned authentically warrantable ●…e frankly confesse and willingly professe my ●… haue beene singularly delighted in reading 〈◊〉 of this mans learned bookes and haue partly testified my good liking thereof tenne yeeres ago by publishing in print a profitable Worke of his vnder the title of The Touchstone of Complexions which I then translated out of Latine into English in my natiue Countrie of Chesshyre and dedicated vnto the Right Honorable my singular good Lord the Baron of Cobham Receiue now therefore Right Honorable into your protection and patrociny these my poore labors and if they seeme woorthie shrowd them from the criticall doome of waiwarde Wranglers and surly Areopagites that without looking into my intent will perhaps be busie ynough to condemne mine attempt Which humble sute as I doubt not but to obtaine at your Honors hands so enioying the same I shall thinke my paines sufficiently recompenced my selfe to enterprise some other thing to your L. liking encouraged and to be ech way as surely garded as Vlysses euer thought himself vnder the shield of noble Aiax From my poore house at Little Ilford in Essex the 26. of May. 1587. Your L. at commandement THOMAS NEWTON MONARCHES KINGS PRINCES PROPHETS AND SACRED Writers haue been singularly delighted and profoundly seene in the skill of Plants and Herbs as by the sundry Metaphors Similitudes and Parables by them in their Works Prophesies and Writings vsed it doth manifestly appeere The first Chapter THat noble Kings and renowmed princes in the old time euen otherwise most busily encombred with garboyles of wars haue beene studiously addicted and singularly delighted in the serch and knowledge of the nature of Plants and Herbs both ancient histories doe sufficiently witnesse and the books of the sacred Bible do largely testifie For the search and skil of these things carrieng with it such pleasant store of delectable varietie and furnished no lesse with profit than pleasure seemed nothing at all derogatorie from the maiestie of Kings nor any whit vnsitting the honorable estate of Princes somewhiles to solace and recreate themselues with these kinds of studies namely specially when and so often as they could as it were breath from their other most vrgent affaires and haue either time or leisure to intermitte their other weightie and serious proceedings And by this kind of studie whereby not onely their minds but their bodies also were singularly solaced their fame and memories became as glorious and renowmed and their honorable magnificence as highlie dignified as by anie other their woorthie acts noble conquests or triumphant victories whatsoeuer Heerby Mythridates the noble king of Pontus hauing vnder him 19. kingdoms through excellent skill in herbs and for that his most singular inuention of the soueraigne Triacle and cordiall preseruatiue against poison and all other contagious and infectiue diseases hath woon vnto himselfe an immortall name among all posterities Lysimachus Eupator Gentius the

high tree and exalted the lowe tree that I haue dried vp the greene tree and made the drie tree to flourish I the Lord haue spoken it and haue done it Heerby signifieng that the Lord exalteth the humble and contemptible and bringeth downe the proud and arrogant The selfe same thing did the blessed Virgin also acknowledge leauing it in memorie in that hir most godly and heauenly Hymne to all posterities that God extendeth his mercie vnto all them that feare him but scattereth the proud and arrogant in their owne wicked imaginations that he filleth the hungrie with good things and suffereth the rich to continue hungrie A litle after the same Ezechiel prosecuting stil the same argument thundreth out a prophecie against the proud periured and cruell princes Iehoas Iehoiakim and Zedechiah For he doth depaint them in their right colours and liuely set them downe according to their peeuish dispositions so that in them was verified the olde prouerbe Mali corui malum ouum Wherefore lay thy mother that Liones among the Lions she nourished hir yoong ones among the Lions whelpes One of hir whelpes she brought vp and it became a Lion it learned to catch the pray and to deuoure men The heathen heard of him and caught him in their nets The Mother seeing hir selfe disappointed of hir hope and expectation tooke another of hir whelpes to wit Iehoiakim and made him a Lion that is a tirant Who went among the Lions and became a fierce Lion and learned to catch the pray and to deuoure men and to make widowes and destroy cities who at last was caught and brought in chaines to the king of Babylon And the more to exaggerate the heinousnes of this thing and to amplifie the crueltie of the king which he had sucked as it were from his mothers breast he goeth to the very groundworke of the matter vsing a Physicall metaphor thus Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood Which metaphor and the other that immediately follow no man can rightly expound that is not skilled in Phisick and the works of nature For he there alludeth to the naturall maner of a childe being yet within the mothers wombe which is nourished with a menstrous blood His meaning therefore is that his mother from whom he sucked crueltie was exceeding fruitfull and abounding with bloode as a plentifull vine planted by the water side whereby it came to passe that by reason of his ranke nourishment wherewith he was franked and glutted he became to haue great strength and robusteous might As that which followeth doth witnes She brought foorth fruit and branches by the abundant waters that is through the abundance of nourishing humours in hir wombe And she had strong rods for the Scepters of them that bare rule thereby meaning his regall dignitie princely preeminence and courtly pompe And hir stature was exalted on high among the branches and she appeered in hir height with the multitude of hir branches meaning his power and maiestie which shoulde stretch and extend very far and His stature exalted on high among the branches signifieth that in magnificence he far surmounted any of his neighbour kings and princes bordering vpon him and that he victoriously enlarged the limits of his kingdome and iurisdiction But when As he being thus aduanced to honor began to forsake the Lord his God he although he were as a goodly and broad spread Vine yet was he plucked vp and his rods withered and it selfe transplanted in a dry thirstie and desert place to wit into miserable thraldome and seruile banishment into the which he was carried away captiue and entierly depriued of al his estate and Roialtie which is shewed in these next wordes He hath no more any strong rod to be as a scepter to rule that is he shall be lest vtterly without any maiesty honor magnificence dignitie or authoritie to protect or countenance him from contempt Thus far of the roote and of the branches of the Vine from whence our Sauiour taketh Similitudes resembling the godly which are graffed into him by faith and doe bring foorth the fruits of good works vnto fruitfull branches And the wicked void of faith and charitie he compareth vnto dry withered and vnprofitable slips which are accordingly to be cast into the fire Whereof we spake afore in the Chapter of the Vine wherin was explaned that place of S. Iohn the Euangelist The Boughes also which like armes proceede and spred out from the trunke or body of the trees are by the like metaphore as branches be vsed in the Scriptures And vnder this worde is signified might strength firmitie safetie health beauty honor and ornament of the whole race or family togither with the propagation of posteritie and continuance of the stocke and kindred in one ligne and pedagrew So doth the Wiseman vse it whereby he promiseth felicitie and prosperous yeeres to him that ensueth and embraceth Wisedom The feare of the Lord saith he is the roote of Wisedome and hir branches are long life that is the date of his daies shall be prolonged and his life shall be lengthened The Apostle vseth also a notable metaphoricall speech taken from the boughes broken off from the naturall Oliue tree and others graffed into their place whereby by a most strong argument he prooueth and sheweth that the Iewes are not so intirely cut away and broken off that no manner of hope is left for their recouerie but rather that they shall againe be graffed in if they abide not still in vnbeleefe For if the first fruits be holie so is the whole lumpe and if the roote bee holie so are the boughes and branches If Abraham the father of beleeuers beleeued God and it was imputed to him for righteousnes why should not his successors and posteritie expresse their fathers faith and imitate him in his godlie example But as faire spreading boughes do sometime signifie felicity and prosperous successet so sometimes againe in the Scriptures they are applied to the contrarie that is to say to aduersitie and do signifie calamitie miserie and trouble that shal light vpon the wicked And in this sense doth holie Iob vse them saieng The wicked man is all the daies of his life as one trauelling of childe but he shall neither be rich neither shall his substance continue neither shall the prosperitie therof be prolonged vpon earth The flame shall drie vp his boughes and deuoure his branches that is to say all things shall go backward with him and turne to his confusion And although the wicked seeme for a while to flourish and lustily to spreade out their branches yet shall sudden destruction in the end ouertake them and all their iollitie in a moment be turned topsituruie The same as the Wiseman pronounceth shall befall to the froward and peruerse generation of the wicked saieng Bastard plants shall take no deepe roote nor lay any fast foundation And though they bud forth in the branches

fruite afore Sommer For as rath ripe fruits and Apples are not long lasting nor of any great continuaunce so likewise shall not their felicitie continue in any long prosperitie Nahum the Prophet likewise by the same Similitude sheweth that there is nothing in the world so braue gallant beautifull and amiable but that God can and will destroy and bring it to nothing when his wrath is kindled against the obstinate and wicked insomuch that all the flowers and buds that is the pompe and glorie of huffing Roysters be with a trice dispatched dispersed defeated and adnihilated which in these words he setteth downe and describeth Basan is wasted and Carmel and the flower of Lebanon is wasted that is all the power and strength is decaied and all the brauerie brought to nothing After flowers are the Fruits and Seedes next to be spoken of whereof for that there be thence Similitudes vsually fetched and borrowed wee must note this by the way That Seede as also the Fruit in the Scriptures is taken for the tribe kindred stocke pedagrew and ofspring from whence a man is issued and descended the which God in his word promiseth to blesse with all welfare and prosperitie in those that folow his lawes and obserue his commandements As the Prophet Dauid in one of his Psalmes witnesseth saieng I haue beene yoong and now am old and yet saw I neuer the righteous forsaken nor his seede begging their bread His seede shall be blessed and the righteous shall inherite the land as for the seede of the vngodlie it shall perish and be rooted out So Eliphaz one of Iob his friends that came to reason with him and to comfort him commendeth the chastisement of the Lord proouing the same to be very beneficial and profitable for man for that thereby hee is taught and schooled to submit himselfe vnder his mightie hand and thankfully to receiue his fatherlie correction being certainly persuaded that the same is sent vnto him for his amendement to trie his constancie and patience and thereby therefore doth man receiue singular blessing and commoditie Thou shalt see saith he that thy seede shall be great thy posteritie as the grasse of the earth Thou shalt go to thy graue in a full age as a ricke of corne commeth in due season into the barne that is thou shalt as a man of noble calling and high parentage be honorably buried with a great assemblie of Nobles solemnizing thy funerals Againe for that both herbs and trees doe beare and bring foorth seede which afterward produceth the like plant according to his kinde and so from one to another infinitely therefore the holy Prophets doe also vse it for the garnishing and illustrating of their Arguments and Sermons Seede therfore signifieth successe increase plentie foison and abundance As in the Prophet Isaiah we may euidently see where the Lord promiseth to al them that trust in him and imbrace his lawes all felicitie successe and abundance The Lord saith he shall giue raine to thy Seede when thou shalt sow the ground and bread of the increase of the earth which shall be fat and very plentious In that day also shall thy cattell be fed in large pastures The Oxen also and the yoong Asses that till the ground shal eate cleane prouender which is winnowed with the shouell and the fanne Signifieng that his worldly wealth and temporal goods should be maruellously increased and all things should prosper according to his harts desire The same reason is for the Fruit for in the Bible the Fruits of herbs and trees doe betoken and signifie plentie abundance fertilitie blessednes prosperitie works good and euill scarcitie dearth penurie iustice integritie wickednes impietie loosenes dishonestie and lewd maners which are also signified vnder the name of Corne or Graine So the Prophet Hosea exhorting men going astray and forgetting themselues to vertue integrity of life and righteous dealing saith thus Sowe to your selues in righteousnes and reape after the measure of mercie Breake vp your fallow ground for it is time to seeke the Lord. In which words he counselleth and aduiseth them to forsake their woonted maner of life and to liue in such sort as may be acceptable and pleasant to God For hitherto saith he you haue plowed wickednes you haue reaped iniquitie you haue eaten the fruite of lies By the which metaphore he sheweth how that they practised nothing else than fraud quarrels wrangling suttletie falsehoode deceite and how to entrap circumuent vndermine deceiue and oppresse the innocent Now heer therefore he admonisheth them to leaue their filthy practizes and to plucke vp by the roots all the wicked weedes and noisome tares out of their harts and in lieu thereof to sow in the furrowes of a pure conscience honest and Christian dealing mildenes lenitie curtesie righteousnesse and true neighbourhood The selfe same thing doth the Lorde likewise by his Prophet Ieremie earnestly command and strictly enioine saieng Breake vp your fallow ground and sow not among the thornes that is see that your harts be manured and garnished with the godly seedes of integritie righteousnes innocencie and goodnes hauing the thornes and briers of wickednes quite plucked vp by the rootes And this is further manifestly witnessed by the Prophet Isaiah where as the Lorde by a most notable kind of consolation assureth the minde and conscience of the godly that he shall not misse to obtaine saluation For thus proclaimeth he safegard and health vnto them in their great afflictions and almost desperate troubles Say to the righteous that it shall go well with them for they shall eate the fruite of their workes and studies Assuring him thereby of assistance and willing him to bee of good comfort and cheere bicause in the extremitie of famine or war when others shall be surprized in calamities and afflictions he shall quietly and safely enioy the thinges which he hath receiued from the Lord God by the worke and trauell of his owne hands But wo be vnto the wicked saith he for it shall be euill with him and the reward of his owne handes shall be giuen vnto him But Fruite is also sometimes taken in the Scriptures for children issue and posteritie which the princely Prophet Dauid testisieth to be an especiall blessing of God as by his words it plainly appeereth Behold saith he children and the fruite of the wombe are an heritage and gift that commeth of the Lord. Againe where God vnder the name of Dauid pronounceth that the kingdome of Christ shall be euerlasting The Lord saith he hath sworne in truth vnto Dauid and he will not shrinke from it saieng of the fruite of thy bodie will I set vpon thy throne There will I make the horne of Dauid to florish For I haue ordained a light for mine annointed As for his enimies I wil cloth them with shame but on him shall his crowne florish In which words he meruellously aduaunceth the honor