To
all
the
learned
Nobilitie
of
England
,
HVGH
BROVGHTON
wisheth
all
increase
of
knowledge
,
that
they
may
esteeme
the
vnderstanding
of
Gods
worde
,
and
care
for
synceritie
in
it
,
to
be
the
head
of
wisedome
and
true
Religion
in
CHRIST
.
WHEREAS
many
(
right
Honorable
)
from
the
high
to
the
low
,
of
all
sortes
haue
bene
desirous
greatly
and
a
long
time
,
to
haue
the
holy
booke
of
God
,
which
for
the
old
Testament
is
in
Ebrew
,
for
the
new
all
originally
in
Greeke
,
to
be
translated
and
beautified
with
all
furniture
for
playnes
and
ornaments
:
that
such
as
studie
it
,
should
in
no
place
be
snared
by
the
translater
:
but
rather
in
all
poinctes
might
haue
at
the
first
layd
cleare
before
them
all
that
studie
can
affoord
:
It
may
be
thought
a
good
help
to
the
bringing
of
their
desire
to
passe
,
by
ioyning
of
al
effectuallie
in
execution
of
the
worke
:
to
shewe
what
in
this
paynes
may
be
better
done
then
yet
we
haue
in
Englande
.
And
as
bare
shortnes
is
soonest
viewed
:
so
matter
of
large
,
longe
,
high
&
deepe
quantitie
,
shal
be
brought
into
speach
of
no
greatnes
,
but
narrow
,
short
,
lowe
&
shallowe
,
that
the
meanest
may
in
good
part
iudge
,
what
ought
to
be
censured
.
Moses
,
Dauid
,
Salomon
,
Esay
,
and
all
former
,
Pe
,
and
Ain
,
two
going
togither
,
but
the
later
going
afore
:
so
the
fourth
Chap.
is
most
exact
in
the
same
sorte
,
for
Pe
and
Ain
:
and
all
the
other
in
due
order
:
that
by
this
doubled
matter
,
studie
should
be
stirred
vp
.
The
Chap.
3.
hath
thrise
euery
letter
in
ord●●
:
that
by
three
witnesses
Gods
looking
too
his
letters
might
be
seene
.
These
being
matters
of
Elegancy
more
then
bare
necessitie
,
Christians
be
lothsome
that
slander
the
holy
prouidence
,
as
not
prouiding
wel
for
them
:
where
vnspeakeable
care
is
shewed
,
for
their
tendering
.
22.
times
Naar
in
the
Ebrew
text
is
read
Naarah
.
that
Christians
no
longer
followe
Kimchi
and
Ephody
the
Iewes
,
whom
Barbinel
&
Elias
Leuita
damne
of
great
iniurie
done
to
Gods
holy
Maiestie
,
for
sayinge
that
the
text
was
corrupted
in
Babylon
.
Any
may
see
that
no
Scribe
would
twentie
two
times
of
negligence
write
Naar
,
a
Gyrle
,
for
Naarah
:
the
margent
terme
read
for
Naar
:
which
signified
a
Boye
or
Gyrle
:
and
for
weightie
cause
was
read
Naara
a
Gyrle
.
The
filthy
towne
Zebyim
,
burnt
from
heauen
,
named
of
the
pleasaunt
situation
,
the
Roes
,
a
name
of
Christ
in
Salomons
songe
,
was
read
Zeboyim
,
all
the
foure
times
that
scripture
hath
it
.
Errour
could
not
fall
into
such
wisedome
.
Likewise
when
Rabsakes
filthy
termes
are
in
the
text
to
be
seene
,
but
clearer
in
the
margent
to
be
read
,
they
who
say
,
that
corruption
bred
this
vrbanity
,
weigh
not
but
cast
lottes
what
to
speake
.
So
for
bookes
written
after
the
captiuitie
,
past
times
of
bondage
:
where
the
Samaritanes
speach
against
the
Temple-builders
,
is
as
they
spoke
it
,
doubtfull
Ebrew
:
We
doe
not
sacrifice
:
or
,
Sacrifice
we
not
?
there
in
Loa
,
and
Lo
,
the
word
of
the
text
and
margent
expound
one
the
other
.
And
againe
in
Zacharie
speaking
of
Ierusalems
destruction
&
womens
vsage
by
souldiers
grosse
to
speake
:
the
text
telleth
the
terme
to
be
seene
:
the
margent
,
what
the
holy
Spirit
would
haue
read
.
Thus
for
ciuilitie
or
facilitie
in
sense
:
the
margent
reading
is
giuen
with
equall
authoritie
as
the
other
.
Moreouer
,
wheras
the
Prophetes
deepe
skill
,
that
omits
the
particle
Vau
,
that
is
And
,
in
a
speach
of
two
members
,
or
hath
a
worde
too
sharpe
for
the
common
sorte
,
in
orthography
straunge
,
&
differs
in
a
letter
from
the
vsuall
manner
:
the
margent
hauinge
the
vsuall
sheweth
what
care
the
holy
Synagogue
had
,
that
no
one
syllable
should
amaze
the
simple
,
but
were
all
taught
from
God
to
couple
diligence
with
easie
sense
.
These
poinctes
,
some
touche
euery
tounge
,
some
onlie
Ebrewe
grammer
:
where
a
learned
professour
would
as
soone
looke
to
swallowe
a
camel
,
as
to
escape
blame
,
in
vnheedines
herein
.
Aggei
,
Zachary
,
Ezra
,
&
such
would
haue
an
eye
to
the
text
his
soundnesse
.
Wherefore
translatours
herein
fall
fouly
,
when
they
say
that
Michal
is
put
for
Merob
:
or
vpon
Iude
complaine
of
bookes
lost
,
for
Enochs
speach
:
or
Michaels
.
That
is
a
principall
poinct
to
be
looked
vnto
:
the
obseruations
wherevpon
will
lighten
eyes
to
much
further
sight
into
Gods
worde
.
In
this
matter
the
Massorites
care
should
be
opened
:
Grammarians
of
Ebrew
sprong
from
Ezra
and
long
continued
:
who
reckoned
euerie
letter
howe
often
in
the
holy
Ebrewe
it
came
:
howe
ofte
wordes
of
short
or
full
writings
were
diuersly
written
&
where
:
and
what
strange
texts
would
seeme
corruptions
to
the
vnstayed
:
and
for
Eth
and
Vau
,
little
particles
howe
often
they
come
together
in
sort
easie
to
deceyue
a
copyer
,
without
a
table
of
direction
:
such
poinctes
are
a
brasen
wall
to
saue
from
doubt
of
scriptures
certeintie
:
and
from
extreeme
rashnes
:
that
condemne
as
faultie
,
things
of
heauenlie
synceritie
.
So
when
we
come
to
translate
Achaz
king
of
Israel
:
Iuda
:
and
checke
the
Rhemist
,
that
marking
that
title
in
Achaz
but
not
in
Iosaphat
,
rageth
against
the
text
as
though
it
had
bene
corrupt
and
would
therevpon
drawe
vs
from
Gods
worde
vnto
a
Church
,
and
to
Rome
:
The
holy
Ghost
in
Greeke
speaketh
thus
:
Iocob
dyed
in
Egypt
,
and
the
Patriarches
,
&
they
were
caried
to
Sychem
:
And
they
were
put
in
graue
:
That
which
Abraham
bought
for
price
of
mony
,
That
from
the
sonnes
of
Emor
of
Sychem
.
Here
the
Pronowne
They
,
the
close
repetition
of
the
Pronowne
,
That
,
&
omission
of
the
copulatiue
,
vsuall
in
Prophetes
,
rare
in
common
speach
,
caused
vs
to
amende
the
holy
text
:
to
leaue
Iacobs
buriall
vntold
,
who
yet
was
principal
in
the
narration
:
to
say
that
Abraham
was
put
for
Iacob
:
and
to
falsifie
the
buying
For
price
of
money
:
as
though
Iacob
had
bought
his
plot
for
money
and
not
for
Lambes
,
as
the
Greeke
translation
expoundeth
Iacobs
price
.
Sy●hem
.
Here
appeareth
an
errour
:
for
Abraham
seemeth
to
●e
put
in
the
text
in
the
steede
of
Iacob
,
Barbinel
,
doth
therein
defende
him
full
learnedly
:
but
we
commonly
seeke
qualifications
vnartificial
,
whereby
a
Turke
or
Iewe
would
say
that
we
made
him
but
a
lier
.
Saint
Stephen
sayth
,
that
Abraham
was
brought
by
God
from
Charan
after
his
fathers
death
:
but
we
make
the
speach
vttered
Gen.
12.1
.
to
be
spoken
in
V
R
,
a
calling
as
wel
of
Therah
,
as
of
Abraham
,
yet
Moses
order
of
speach
defendeth
:
who
sheweth
that
Terah
died
in
Charan
,
vpon
whose
death
he
endeth
his
The
Lord
had
sayde
vnto
Abraham
,
get
thee
,
&c.
being
referred
vnto
his
calling
from
Vr
,
prooues
the
Perasha
or
Ebrew
section
very
vnfit
,
in
the
middle
of
a
matter
:
as
doubtles
it
should
be
most
vnfit
.
So
,
this
speach
may
properlie
belonge
to
the
writt
and
letter
.
But
this
matter
doeth
most
touche
the
second
poinct
,
of
making
scripture
false
by
ill
translating
,
rather
then
blameth
the
text
.
One
place
more
hath
the
holy
martyr
,
as
Saint
Luke
did
penne
it
,
where
some
blame
the
writt
,
about
450.
and
in
a
kinde
of
speach
it
was
exactlie
so
,
and
not
about
450.
And
these
examples
may
bee
sufficient
to
shew
a
Translators
care
for
defence
of
the
text
.
Many
are
ready
from
both
Testaments
.
One
kinde
I
cannot
passe
ouer
,
which
Daniel
hath
in
two
examples
:
Bel
is
the
authour
of
wealth
:
and
Bel
is
a
fyre
of
sorrowe
these
are
cleane
contrarie
,
as
darknes
and
light
:
sinne
&
iustice
:
idols
and
the
throne
of
God
.
The
like
is
in
Daniels
Chaldean
name
:
which
breaketh
out
a
fyer
of
sorrowe
,
from
Gods
fierie
throne
against
such
as
held
Bel
a
protectour
of
store
&
treasure
:
Vnlesse
we
ioyne
both
the
Great
Venetians
Bibles
,
none
printed
will
here
giue
a
Translator
that
which
he
must
performe
,
right
writing
for
notation
:
in
the
former
name
.
But
in
Daniels
Chaldy
name
the
text
in
Plantines
Bible
is
syncere
:
marking
the
difference
of
it
Cha.
1.
and
Chap.
10.
And
this
poinct
onely
being
so
full
of
wisedome
in
Daniel
,
should
mooue
anie
wise
nation
to
peruse
their
translation
,
though
it
had
no
other
imperfection
.
Then
matter
is
a
pearle
,
and
an
holy
thing
:
where
hogges
and
dogges
shall
see
no
peace
of
the
heauenly
Ierusalem
:
and
such
as
contemne
this
matter
wil
be
no
better
in
Daniels
eyes
:
whose
rare
commendation
from
men
,
and
Gabriel
is
for
vs
,
not
for
him selfe
.
Sem
,
Gen.
10.21
.
where
Sem
should
be
brother
to
Iapheth
the
eldest
.
The
record
of
yeares
,
the
situation
of
the
wordes
,
the
Greekes
vniuersall
consent
vnaltered
in
any
of
their
translations
knowen
,
the
preualent
consent
of
Ebrewes
,
for
the
most
that
way
,
&
noted
in
Chimehi
the
king
of
Grammarians
in
Gadal
,
the
custome
that
God
preferreth
not
the
Eldest
to
be
Christ
his
father
:
these
and
such
things
should
haue
caused
to
lothe
not
to
folowe
the
vulgar
Latin
.
For
as
a
dead
flye
putrifieth
a
boxe
of
precious
oinctment
,
so
one
such
oversighte
doth
vnto
an
whole
booke
,
and
is
a
thorne
to
the
side
and
eyen
.
An other
thorne
pricking
the
hart
of
good
Iosephs
fame
,
is
in
Gen.
44.5
.
by
not
marking
the
plaine
&
exact
proprietie
of
the
Ebrew
,
touching
Iosephs
siluer
cup.
Is
not
that
it
,
in
which
my
Lord
drinketh
:
and
for
which
he
would
search
throughlie
.
So
the
wordes
in
their
first
signification
meane
:
so
olde
Onkelos
tooke
them
:
so
the
sence
is
sensible
.
And
again
in
Iosephs
speach
the
same
is
alike
:
Know
you
not
that
a
man
as
I
,
can
search
throughly
?
But
we
haue
in
our
best
:
Is
not
that
the
cup
in
which
my
Lord
drinketh
,
and
for
which
he
consulteth
with
prophecies
:
or
,
in
which
he
prophecieth
.
And
what
man
would
euer
speake
so
senselesse
.
There
the
note
goeth
thus
:
He
went
not
to
the
coniurers
for
any
matter
:
but
this
is
sayde
by
dissimulation
,
to
increase
the
crime
.
So
vers.
15.
Wote
ye
not
that
such
a
man
as
I
,
doe
consult
with
propheci●●s
.
This
speach
had
no
witt
,
lesse
religion
:
howe
should
●hey
think
it
:
and
why
should
he
boord
with
edged
tooles
,
●o
fauour
witchcrafte
?
There
our
note
hath
these
wordes
:
●hough
hee
did
not
the
thing
:
he
should
not
haue
nourished
the
opi●ion
that
he
did
so
.
Thus
we
slaunder
the
holy
Ioseph
,
Nichash
,
the
terme
that
caused
doubt
,
●●gnifieth
first
,
to
try
out
,
or
finde
out
:
and
in
that
sense
Laban
●sed
it
to
Iacob
.
And
in
a
second
sense
:
to
search
too
farre
,
as
●y
curious
artes
.
Nowe
they
that
would
looth
blottes
in
a
fayre
picture
,
should
much
more
loth
blottes
and
wrinkles
which
our
drowsines
bringeth
vpon
the
storie
,
whiche
the
spirit
of
Grace
hath
penned
in
most
heauenly
beautie
and
facilitie
,
as
of
purpose
alluring
all
to
looke
on
,
and
to
studie
it
:
and
to
enter
into
the
open
porch
of
the
Bibles
temple
.
But
we
make
an
hedge
of
thornes
to
shut
men
out
:
whence
we
can
not
gather
figges
and
reasins
:
but
many
doe
gather
prickes
to
anoyance
of
such
as
tender
the
ioyance
of
Religion
.
Such
thorny
dealings
must
looke
for
that
euent
that
Dauid
in
his
last
speach
tolde
,
That
they
may
not
bee
touched
,
without
iron
or
shafte
of
speare
:
but
beeinge
as
thornes
must
bee
burnt
in
their
place
.
The
honny
in
the
honny-combe
,
or
the
hidde
Manna
,
will
not
soone
bee
founde
in
the
Prophets
languages
,
where
the
speache
is
worse
then
any
Heathen
would
speake
.
And
these
staynes
Genesis
had
by
vs
:
being
whiter
then
anie
snow
in
the
originall
,
and
a
goodlier
body
of
story
,
then
any
Apelles
pencill
could
painct
for
a
fayre
Lady
.
In
Exodus
one
poinct
hath
longe
troubled
many
:
and
at
the
last
deceyued
our
Bishoppes
,
to
sett
in
the
argument
a
flatt
vntrueth
,
whiche
should
cut
,
as
it
were
,
all
Moses
in
pieces
.
And
hardlie
can
a
man
finde
anie
parte
of
the
Lawe
,
where
an
historique
errour
would
more
disturbe
.
The
place
lyeth
in
Exod.
12.40
These
wordes
we
make
to
be
the
text
:
The
dwellinge
of
the
children
of
Israel
,
which
they
dwelt
in
Egypt
,
was
foure
hundred
and
thirtie
yeares
.
The
fault
was
not
ours
,
but
the
Papistes
,
that
brought
it
into
honour
:
and
some
Greekes
,
at
whom
I
marveyle
:
seeing
the
Septuaginta
cleared
the
sense
by
a
large
paraphrase
,
and
the
most
of
their
owne
had
gone
aright
.
And
yet
the
fault
was
ours
,
that
in
a
matter
of
such
infinite
helpes
as
be
for
the
trueth
herein
of
Ebrewes
,
Greekes
,
Latines
,
wee
would
dash
all
Moses
authority
:
and
that
so
manifestly
,
as
to
saye
in
the
argument
thus
:
They
dwelt
in
Egypt
foure
hundred
and
thirty
yeeres
.
Moses
knewe
that
his
Ebrewes
would
thus
vnderstande
him
:
The
peregrination
of
the
children
of
Israel
,
whiche
soiourned
in
Egypt
,
was
foure
hundred
and
thirtie
yeeres
.
The
Lawe
beinge
spirituall
,
regarded
Christ
promised
to
Abraham
,
who
therevppon
left
his
countrey
:
which
peregrination
alwayes
concerned
Israel
,
and
therefore
is
called
The
peregrination
of
the
Children
of
Israel
.
Moses
teacheth
in
Cohath
,
who
was
with
Iacob
and
liued
133.
yeeres
,
and
his
sonne
Amram
,
who
liued
137.
&
his
own
80.
all
350.
that
Israel
could
not
be
430.
yeeres
in
Egypt
.
Ezrom
,
Aram
,
Aminadab
,
and
Naasson
fresh
at
the
comming
from
Egypt
,
drawe
in
succession
foure
hundred
and
thirtie
yeares
?
Thus
,
Saint
Matthewe
and
Saint
Luke
for
our
Lords
Fathers
,
with
Ruth
and
first
Chron.
and
Moses
in
families
infinite
,
should
be
disgraced
.
Againe
,
Saint
Paul
the
Apostle
of
IESVS
Christ
,
should
lose
his
authoritie
,
who
from
Abrahams
promesse
of
Christ
elder
then
Circumcision
vnto
the
Law
,
maketh
it
but
foure
hundred
and
thirtie
yeares
.
And
that
our
owne
Bibles
note
obserueth
vppon
Genes.
Chap.
15.
very
well
.
So
it
must
needes
be
a
great
fault
,
to
crosse
our selfes
and
all
holy
authoritie
,
and
all
the
best
of
all
sortes
,
in
so
large
a
storie
,
drawing
infinite
absurdities
vpon
a
ground
of
one
.
The
Septuaginta
expresly
telleth
what
peregrination
of
Israel
was
meant
:
euen
theirs
and
their
Fathers
,
repeating
it
,
Theirs
and
their
Fathers
in
the
lande
of
Chanaan
and
in
Egypt
.
And
this
their
doeing
is
euident
in
the
Greeke
tongue
vnto
this
daye
.
Moreouer
,
both
the
Talmuds
in
Megilah
recorde
this
their
paraphrase
.
Wherefore
a
translation
disturbinge
all
,
must
not
bee
defended
:
howe
so
euer
Genebrard
and
Adricomius
bringe
in
theyr
Chronicle
all
the
worldes
age
to
this
errour
.
Iewes
would
skoph
such
Ebrewe
professours
:
that
marke
not
howe
fables
are
made
of
purpose
vpon
Moses
phrases
:
that
children
should
better
marke
them
.
Thus
a
Rabbin
is
feined
in
the
Talmud
to
reason
afore
great
Alexander
,
against
Egyptians
complayninge
that
Israel
robbed
them
&
requiring
restitution
.
The
Rabbin
obiecteth
the
text
as
an
vnskilful
man
would
take
it
:
the
dwellinge
of
the
children
of
Israel
in
Egypt
servantes
there
was
430.
yeares
:
and
all
their
spoyles
were
little
enough
for
so
long
seruice
.
This
fable
made
for
skil
of
phrase
wil
make
vs
simple
,
if
we
be
in
deede
babes
.
Now
seeing
Israel
multiplying
like
fishe
,
had
of
70.
but
about
sixe
hundred
thousand
strong
men
,
how
could
that
be
a
miracle
in
430.
yeres
space
.
Abraham
fought
with
many
kings
,
about
430.
●
.
after
three
Sem
,
Cham
,
and
Iapheth
,
lefte
the
Arke
:
and
those
kings
had
many
:
infinite
moe
were
on
the
earth
,
of
great
troupes
:
So
that
by
our
version
sixe
hundred
thousand
absurdities
would
folowe
.
And
furthermore
this
one
thinge
should
be
sufficient
to
vrge
amendement
,
that
none
of
our
nation
reade
that
,
but
are
deceyued
or
grieued
:
and
weakened
in
zeale
to
religion
.
Wherfore
they
must
lay
their
hande
vpon
their
mouth
,
that
say
,
The
Queene
will
not
haue
the
translation
bettered
.
Her
Maiesties
footemen
knowe
that
shee
sent
an
othergates
worde
to
Sir
Frauncis
Walsingham
,
euen
to
consyder
of
furthering
the
matter
:
and
Bishop
Elmer
the
best
Ebrician
of
all
the
Bishops
,
was
very
earnest
with
my selfe
to
take
the
matter
in
hande
:
and
deserueth
this
mention
for
honoring
Gods
word
.
Now
that
the
good
,
of
Bibles
(
which
truly
deserue
great
commendation
,
though
not
of
absolute
perfection
)
bee
not
in
any
parte
hindered
,
which
lightlie
are
not
faultie
but
where
Papistes
erred
before
,
Nachor
,
I
haue
shewed
at
large
in
a
treatise
of
Sem
or
Melchisedek
,
and
in
my
little
booke
of
long
paynes
,
●hewing
scripture
concent
.
And
I
iudge
this
a
Translatours
●uetie
,
to
shewe
the
right
meaning
of
old
hid
doeings
,
whiche
by
mistaking
blame
the
holy
letters
.
Ioas
:
while
it
endeth
Salomons
house
in
Ioas
:
casting
downe
six
testimonies
of
him
whose
worde
made
all
the
frame
of
nature
too
stande
.
That
table
would
flee
in
a
storie
that
needes
must
speake
properly
vnto
a
straunge
vse
of
wordes
:
but
comon
reason
should
haue
taught
,
that
a
strange
kinde
of
speach
is
not
often
vsed
in
one
and
the
same
matter
:
neither
may
it
be
vsed
,
but
where
the
narration
was
cleared
afore
.
Ezra
,
when
he
penned
the
Chronicles
from
the
plain
story
of
the
Kinges
,
vseth
termes
in
rare
elegancie
,
and
hard
:
but
for
the
matters
familiaritie
;
when
he
nameth
the
six
&
thirtie
yeres
Malcuth
Asa
:
when
Asa
had
not
passed
seauentene
in
reigne
.
Nowe
Malcuth
being
kingdome
or
reigne
,
and
the
time
agreeing
with
six
and
thirtie
yeares
from
Iudahs
kingdome
,
parted
away
from
Ieroboams
:
the
matter
telleth
what
Ezra
meaned
:
and
his
round
summe
from
many
particulars
,
in
a
narration
knowne
,
had
great
clearenes
.
Whereas
the
kings
storie
might
not
haue
bene
penned
at
the
firste
so
.
Nowe
,
where
in
a
carefull
narration
of
longe
discourse
,
Ioas
commeth
sonne
to
Achaziah
,
saued
by
Achaziahs
sister
at
an
yere
olde
:
and
after
a
tyranny
of
sixe
yeares
,
at
seauen
,
is
made
king
:
the
denying
of
sonages
proprietie
here
is
nothinge
lesse
then
to
make
a
flat
lye
:
and
for
six
places
of
one
tenour
a
sixfold
stumbling
against
the
holy
Ghost
,
who
hath
planted
in
man
a
spirit
that
should
teach
him
knowledge
:
against
which
they
that
striue
,
shal
be
condemned
of
their
owne
harte
.
Sonne
,
or
Belonging
too
:
and
that
in
great
varietie
.
So
Achaziah
is
Ben
,
a
sonne
of
twentie
two
yeares
,
when
his
father
died
at
fourty
.
Nowe
when
Ezra
,
shewing
how
he
came
of
Athaliah
the
daughter
of
Omry
,
properly
daughter
to
Achab
(
but
he
nameth
Omry
,
to
call
the
reader
to
consider
his
purpose
for
Omries
kingdome
:
whose
kingdome
at
Iorams
death
,
stood
fourtie
two
yeares
,
layd
downe
by
manie
parcels
in
the
kings
,
&
often
Synarchies
)
when
Ezra
the
learned
shewing
the
troubles
of
all
this
kingdome
,
sayth
:
He
was
Ben
of
fourty
two
yeares
:
the
terme
left
his
first
signification
,
for
his
vsuall
in
a
trope
:
Affected
vnto
:
or
Belonging
vnto
the
famous
two
and
forty
yeares
.
This
dealing
in
Ezra
declared
not
onely
his
owne
readinesse
in
the
story
,
but
also
his
nationes
common
readinesse
.
They
knewe
well
that
Ezra
could
not
haue
from
God
any
authoritie
to
check
Gods
former
authoritie
:
nor
yet
to
speake
any
thing
but
that
they
might
iudge
off
.
And
doubtles
he
would
speake
as
they
at
the
first
might
allowe
:
and
the
blinde
acquainted
with
the
Scripture
would
not
stumble
.
And
so
the
ordinarie
Commenter
in
Ebrew
Ralbag
playnneth
all
vpon
this
:
Two
and
twentie
yeares
old
was
Achaziahu
when
he
reigned
:
and
one
yeare
raigned
he
in
Ierusalem
:
and
his
mothers
name
was
Athaliahu
the
daughter
of
Amri
king
of
Israel
.
Ben
of
two
and
fourtie
yeres
.
And
marke
that
his
count
in
the
Chronicles
was
not
of
the
birth
of
Achaziahu
,
but
from
the
time
of
the
arising
of
the
kingdome
of
[
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*
Amri
and
Omri
I
doe
vse
for
the
same
:
as
he
is
translated
by
A.
&
O
.
Omri
.
And
because
he
was
of
●is
seede
,
it
befell
him
that
he
was
killed
with
the
king
of
Israel
.
And
thus
goeth
the
summe
:
After
thirtie
and
one
yeare
of
Asa
,
Omri
raigned
ouer
all
Israell
:
and
raigned
after
that
,
sixe
yeres
:
and
Achab
his
sonne
twentie
two
and
Achaizahu
two
yeares
:
and
Ioram
●ame
to
the
twelueth
.
Beholde
then
the
two
and
fourtie
yeares
of
the
kingdome
of
Achab.
And
for
:
His
mothers
name
was
Athaliahu
the
daughter
of
Amri
:
that
sheweth
the
reason
of
his
phrase
.
For
she
●as
properlie
the
daughter
of
Achab.
Thus
the
Rabbine
sheweth
,
howe
Ezra
expoundeth
the
Kinges
storie
for
Amries
daughter
,
being
properlie
Achabs
:
leauing
the
propre
time
as
vnmoveable
as
anie
rocke
:
and
for
memory
bringing
many
parcells
to
one
summe
.
And
therein
must
a
Translatour
be
so
fullie
settled
where
propertie
can
not
be
altered
:
as
carefull
,
to
allowe
and
followe
the
trueth
of
the
Ebrewe
copy
.
[
*
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*
Pretence
of
reconciling
,
breding
endles
variance
,
is
most
daungerous
,
against
truth
of
holy
storie
.
And
if
the
Lord
tell
six
times
,
that
Ioas
the
King
was
sonne
to
Achaziah
,
tables
pretending
to
reconcile
Saint
Matthew
&
Saint
Luke
,
breaking
of
Salomons
house
in
Achaziahu
:
and
bringing
Ioas
to
Nathan
,
though
Europe
embraced
them
,
and
our
Bibles
bare
them
in
their
harte
afore
the
holy
Gospell
,
yet
a
sounde
Translatour
must
loth
them
as
a
leprosie
.
How
circumspectlie
we
haue
done
herein
,
wee
should
consyder
,
to
abolishe
with
publique
authoritie
,
our
ouersightes
and
vnskilfulnes
,
mother
of
lothing
all
religion
.
Many
that
finde
vs
rawe
in
matters
of
plaine
storie
,
the
grounde
of
all
,
and
sett
before
our
eyes
,
will
lesse
thinke
that
,
in
matters
of
collection
and
plyable
affection
of
argumentes
,
and
things
of
the
worlde
to
come
,
we
should
be
of
any
sound
iudgement
.
And
Christians
should
not
be
as
the
Athenians
,
whom
Demosthenes
taunteth
for
being
like
doggs
that
bite
the
stone
flong
at
them
,
and
not
the
flinger
:
blaming
not
the
authours
of
the
fault
,
but
the
tellers
what
is
committed
.
Symeon
,
Leui
,
Matthat
,
Iorim
,
Eliezer
,
Iose
,
Er
,
Elmodam
,
Cosan
,
Addi
,
Melchi
,
Neri
,
who
was
Salathiels
father
,
the
table
maketh
all
these
to
be
the
Kinges
from
Ioas
to
Iechonias
.
A
greater
matter
of
storie
could
not
be
,
then
our
Lordes
right
line
:
neyther
did
Iulian
with
Porphyri
take
Christians
euer
so
tardy
in
any
their
imperfections
,
as
that
they
confounded
the
Gospell
by
ignorance
therein
.
And
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*
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*
Mine
answere
to
them
will
come
anone
.
Iewes
obiected
vnto
my selfe
,
for
this
forged
table
,
our
badnes
,
their
gladnes
,
(
for
they
knowe
it
full
wel
)
that
by
our
Euangelists
none
could
proue
that
Christ
came
of
Dauid
.
And
they
seeke
no
more
to
disturbe
all
Christianitie
,
then
to
haue
Salathiel
naturally
Iechoniahs
sonne
.
For
,
then
Christ
must
come
of
Salomon
:
and
all
Saint
Lukes
Gospell
,
and
,
with
all
,
Christianitie
fayled
.
And
Christ
should
come
of
the
worst
that
euer
could
bee
:
who
commeth
of
none
vnfaithfull
.
He
should
come
of
Iehoiakim
that
burnt
Gods
worde
,
and
killed
a
Prophete
:
of
Manasses
the
sawer
of
Esai
,
of
Achaz
that
fyered
to
Deuils
his
owne
children
:
of
Amatziah
,
in
religion
an
Edomite
:
and
of
Ioas
,
that
killed
Zachari
,
as
Cain
did
Abel
:
of
such
,
the
shame
of
the
worlde
,
the
King
of
glorie
should
become
king
of
the
Iewes
,
the
prayse
of
GOD
among
men
.
Though
we
see
howe
careful
God
was
to
commend
Rahab
in
the
olde
and
newe
:
Ruth
,
equall
to
Abraham
for
leauinge
,
Countrey
,
kinsfolke
,
and
fathers
house
:
to
commend
Bathshebah
,
Pro.
31.
least
some
inferioritie
of
faultes
should
not
●uffer
her
to
match
the
best
.
Such
commendation
was
needfull
.
Moreouer
,
the
counsell
of
God
was
to
leaue
Salomons
Kinges
to
their
owne
race
,
that
Dauids
Throne
might
bee
holden
a
Celestiall
and
not
like
the
foole
Roboams
:
and
the
Kinges
pronounced
to
eternall
life
,
Dan.
7.
Ierem.
22.30
.
A
confident
learned
Translatour
,
would
●ot
beleeue
all
the
worlde
,
that
Iechonias
had
naturall
chil●●en
after
Gods
oath
and
three-folde
charge
to
the
contrari●
▪
So
this
table
dashinge
all
authoritie
,
trueth
,
story
,
olde
and
newe
:
breaking
off
against
a
six-fold
testimonie
,
trans●●bstantiating
eleuen
or
twelue
Kings
into
an
other
Line
,
●●eeding
aboue
a
thousand
grosse
lyes
,
by
shufling
two
&
●●ftie
with
18.
personages
:
and
18.
into
them
:
continuing
stocke
against
an
othe
and
threefold
charge
to
end
it
:
and
●hat
for
a
kingdome
,
whose
ruine
al
the
earth
was
to
marke
,
●or
a
better
kingdome
,
this
table
by
ignorance
of
Scripture
grounde
hath
hardened
Turkes
:
whose
sworde
the
worde
would
haue
turned
to
our
good
:
hath
hardened
Iewes
,
to
despise
the
ioyance
of
the
Gospel
:
hath
weakoned
Papistes
to
thinke
the
Gospell
and
Scripture
vnexplicable
:
hath
weakened
euen
our selues
to
burst
out
into
haynous
notes
,
and
barbarous
rage
against
the
openers
of
the
trueth
.
Not
as
though
he
had
no
children
,
for
afterwardes
hee
begate
Salathiel
,
Mat.
1.
If
we
know
not
when
a
writer
must
speak
pro
pre
,
or
be
counted
a
lier
:
and
when
wordes
may
bee
taken
in
freer
vse
,
to
great
grace
,
we
haue
not
settled
our
groundes
of
studie
,
for
translating
.
The
first
penner
of
the
matter
and
all
writers
of
it
must
vse
all
certen
and
sure
plainnes
,
vntill
all
doubtes
be
remoued
.
And
so
the
Kings
storie
is
most
exact
:
The
abridgers
grace
standeth
in
short
speache
:
with
close
helpes
to
call
vnto
the
larger
declaration
.
When
Aggei
and
Zacharie
had
cleared
Ieremies
prophecie
,
that
Zorobabel
,
who
fanned
Babels
golden
head
was
not
of
Iechoniah
,
but
of
Nathan
Dauids
sonne
,
then
Ezra
more
freely
bringeth
in
speach
of
the
kingdomes
right
,
Zorobabel
to
be
Iechoniahs
sonne
:
but
with
two
close
warninges
:
for
first
he
maketh
the
Vncle
Zedekias
,
sonne
:
as
folowing
in
the
kingdome
:
at
Iechoniahs
removing
:
next
,
he
sheweth
howe
Iechoniah
was
strait-prisoner
,
assyr
:
when
he
made
Salathiel
his
sonne
.
And
so
the
Thalmud
taketh
assyr
,
in
Sanedrin
,
for
an
adiectiue
,
bound
,
kept
vp
,
and
harde
kept
.
And
Seder
Olam
Zuta
telleth
in
Catalogue
of
Iechoniah
for
sonage
and
fatherwood
:
Dibberu
Abothenu
:
Neri
,
and
the
nation
all
generally
knewe
that
:
and
then
none
of
his
nation
would
mistake
him
:
and
hauing
in
hande
to
shewe
howe
Christ
was
king
of
the
land
promised
to
Abraham
,
reigned
of
Dauid
,
at
the
which
fame
of
king
,
Herode
feared
:
hee
was
to
follow
the
phrase
of
his
nation
,
which
termed
the
heyre
,
sonne
,
〈◊〉
vnwilling
to
let
heathen
know
the
line
to
be
broken
off
:
●nowing
why
Ezra
did
so
before
.
And
all
nations
would
●●mmende
that
shortnes
.
Thus
the
Table
that
stayned
our
●●ble
,
our
religion
,
our
nation
,
convicted
,
I
trowe
sufficientlie
should
stirre
better
looking
to
our
taklinges
,
vnlesse
〈◊〉
meane
to
make
a
shipwrack
of
all
fayth
.
I
hope
I
haue
●●nished
it
,
from
beeing
anie
more
printed
:
though
I
can
●●t
call
it
in
.
But
nowe
I
must
returne
to
handle
more
at
●●ge
the
place
of
Ezra
2.
Chro.
22.
And
I
must
craue
leaue
●re
for
a
long
spech
:
as
Homers
warriers
,
Diomedes
&
Gla●●●●
make
afore
they
fight
,
for
the
matter
here
is
rare
,
Cethem
,
Paz
&
other
terms
ful
goody
of
gold
)
which
knitteth
all
nerues
of
●auids
house
in
due
vse
of
motion
:
and
all
from
Moses
to
●●r
Lorde
.
I
must
shewe
howe
to
hinder
all
this
treasure
&
●●re
of
good
,
vnhedines
marred
that
rare
wit
of
Ezraes
pu●nes
:
labouring
of
purpose
to
make
famous
the
foure
and
●wentie
yeres
of
Omries
house
:
Full
of
calamities
six
seauens
●f
yeares
:
and
drawing
Iudah
vnto
ruine
:
that
Ioram
kild
his
●rethren
,
Achaziah
was
killed
in
his
first
yeare
,
the
Kinges
●●ine
in
Salomons
house
,
but
Ioas
,
was
rooted
out
:
and
hee
strangely
kept
,
and
Athalia
reigned
:
that
after
six
seauens
of
Calamities
in
Omri
,
&
that
kingdome
ended
:
Iudah
should
begin
their
stirres
in
the
seauenth
seauen
,
&
hold
it
throughlie
:
when
such
a
wicked
broode
of
Iezabel
reigned
in
Iuda
,
that
God
killed
three
:
Leprosed
the
next
:
plagued
the
people
&
Kinges
stocke
:
left
the
good
K.
Ezekias
longe
sonne-lesse
,
shewing
how
vnwilling
he
was
to
continue
the
kingdome
:
left
Manasse
to
shed
blood
,
calling
(
as
Abels
)
for
Babylon-punishment
,
and
for
some
tast
,
carieth
the
King
thither
:
killeth
Amon
,
&
telleth
Iosias
plainly
of
captiuitie
:
and
by
Sophonie
of
paying
his
sonnes
:
prisoneth
Ioachaz
,
giueth
Ioakim
the
burial
of
an
asse
:
captiueth
and
blindeth
Sedekias
,
killeth
his
children
:
sweareth
that
Iechonias
shall
dye
childlesse
:
biddeth
all
the
earth
,
the
earth
,
the
earth
to
marke
it
:
that
none
should
think
Christ
the
king
of
glorie
,
to
descend
after
the
flesh
of
Iezabel
.
Al
these
mischiefes
the
Iewes
knew
and
consydered
full
well
:
that
the
two
and
fourtie
yeares
was
most
famous
among
them
:
that
to
be
called
a
Babe
of
that
two
and
fourtie
yeares
was
to
be
noted
as
most
openly
cursed
from
(
as
we
saye
)
his
mothers
belly
:
and
if
that
had
bene
consydered
,
Ezra
had
bene
cleared
:
and
the
curse
vpon
the
later
Kings
weighed
:
neither
would
men
euer
haue
bin
so
senselesse
,
as
to
haue
brought
in
Nathans
house
,
the
holy
seede
at
the
first
to
be
plagued
,
in
the
first
yeare
of
coming
to
the
kingdome
,
yea
and
the
first
yeare
of
comminge
into
the
world
.
For
they
that
make
Ioas
to
bee
of
Nathan
,
must
graunt
that
absurditie
also
.
If
the
swift
Scribes
readines
had
bred
in
vs
heedinesse
,
al
these
calamities
had
not
made
Iews
triumph
in
disputation
(
where
myne
eyes
and
eares
were
ten
witnesses
)
that
by
our
Euangelistes
we
could
not
proue
that
Christ
came
of
Dauid
:
If
Ezra
had
bene
marked
Ieremie
for
Chonias
had
bene
marked
:
Troiaque
nunc
stares
Priamique
arx
alta
maneres
:
The
Church
had
increased
and
not
lost
:
and
the
pen
had
kild
more
Turkes
then
our
sworde
:
and
made
Iewes
to
haue
made
vs
better
Iewes
,
the
Achabs
,
would
,
in
Achaziah
,
ruinate
his
house
,
that
one
such
matter
should
ouerthrow
the
kingdome
:
so
scholers
litle
though
that
one
syllable
,
Ben
:
being
vnpropre
in
the
two
and
fourtie
yeres
,
but
supposed
pro●re
:
and
contrary-wise
propre
in
Ioas
but
supposed
in
our
cursed
table
vnpropre
,
should
disturbe
all
the
Bible
.
●et
,
as
the
little
sparke
of
the
tongue
enflameth
the
whole
whele
of
the
creation
:
so
one
syllable
beeing
mistaken
,
Vc-alegon
,
that
hindereth
shal
finde
a
greater
fyer
from
the
white
iudge
in
Daniel
:
before
whom
●ookes
are
opened
,
which
will
note
all
errours
.
But
now
,
seeing
I
haue
,
as
my
entrance
of
speache
shewed
,
many
●●inctes
to
handle
besides
clearing
of
the
original
writ
,
or
●●tter
:
and
the
bewaring
least
in
our
translation
or
notes
,
●●e
make
lies
:
I
may
not
pursue
our
oversightes
for
these
●●inctes
with
any
further
discourse
.
Israel
:
which
are
swallowed
vp
:
and
thervpon
foure
&
twentie
in
the
time
of
Azariahs
reigne
:
and
therevpon
for
Amatziahs
reigne
:
whereof
he
would
haue
full
eleuen
years
spent
in
banishment
:
and
therevpon
the
swalowing
vp
of
eleuen
yeres
Anarchy
which
in
trueth
should
be
betwixt
Amaziahs
death
and
Azariahs
reigne
:
and
thervpon
:
seeing
he
maketh
Azariah
eight
and
twentie
yeere
a
lepre
:
&
Iotham
raigneth
after
his
fathers
death
in
the
seconde
of
Pekach
:
being
but
fiue
and
twentie
yeares
old
,
&
rayneth
but
sixteene
yeres
:
he
twise
wresteth
the
text
further
then
natiue
light
wil
suffer
.
In
the
same
tenour
we
,
&
the
French
folowing
him
,
must
wrestle
:
whether
we
saye
better
for
Osee
that
he
preached
seauentie
yeares
,
or
they
,
for
fiftie
yeares
.
The
simple
must
be
taught
whether
is
deceyued
,
otherwise
they
wil
cast
off
both
.
So
for
the
sinne
of
Israel
:
in
Ezechi
.
4.
whether
Ieroboams
calues
,
or
somewhat
in
Salomons
27.
be
meant
.
And
herevpon
all
the
autoritie
of
the
second
of
the
Chronicles
:
howe
natiue
iudgement
can
defende
it
in
his
sense
:
and
likewise
whether
he
ouerthrowe
not
Ezra
,
Nehemiah
,
Ester
,
Aggei
,
Zachari
,
and
puts
Daniels
seauens
to
a
plunge
,
and
Mat.
1.
and
this
proposition
:
God
hath
recorded
the
worlds
age
from
the
creation
to
the
redemption
.
Hitherto
the
Chayne
of
Iubilees
will
belonge
:
and
such
other
matters
as
will
folloe
in
their
sequel
.
These
poinctes
must
needes
be
named
:
least
fame
of
straungers
drawe
vs
hereafter
to
denie
our
owne
good
,
as
it
hath
done
heretofore
:
into
all
the
former
errours
:
that
hereafter
we
may
looke
to
trueth
and
auncient
warrant
,
stronger
then
any
late
professours
,
&
examen
it
before
our
people
be
troubled
with
any
new
edition
:
in
which
euery
one
,
who
wil
,
should
haue
ful
speach
:
for
all
poincts
of
doubt
.
Thus
I
blame
this
worke
,
for
novationes
not
his
owne
.
Asa
.
That
is
reckoned
by
comparison
of
Iuda
with
Israel
,
in
the
kings
booke
:
by
Iuda
onely
in
the
Chronicles
.
And
by
one
summe
in
the
fourth
of
Ezechiel
:
from
the
sinne
of
Israel
vnto
an
end
,
Bezeleel
:
that
reasted
in
the
shadowe
of
God
,
then
it
was
burst
:
Tyre
,
the
Father
of
Salomon
,
&
Chyram
the
Tyrian
artificer
,
made
to
Salomon
:
the
one
by
procuration
,
the
other
by
trade
,
all
these
goodlie
thinges
left
the
Temple
:
&
shewed
Christ
his
wrath
.
Then
Sedekias
lost
his
eyes
,
that
neuer
would
see
:
Then
Saraias
,
father
to
Ezra
,
was
killed
for
badnes
in
high
sacrificehood
:
the
death
of
whom
being
in
recorde
,
killeth
all
comon
receyued
greke
accomptes
,
thence
to
great
Alexander
,
by
Ezra
one
man
liuing
thither
:
then
Sedekias
children
were
killed
,
the
only
hope
of
Salomons
stocke
.
And
this
was
a
famous
marke
to
ende
the
third
chayne
vpon
such
a
famous
punishment
of
idolatrie
,
and
end
of
Moses
ceremonies
,
poore
elementes
in
deed
,
that
Christ
from
Ezekiels
vision
full
of
eyes
,
might
appeare
in
the
ambre
light
and
purenes
.
This
marke
was
a
goodlie
piller
,
at
which
the
thirde
chayn
might
be
fastened
:
Iuda
,
Israel
,
both
in
parcells
,
Iuda
sole
,
and
one
totall
summe
.
Which
chaine
if
a
Translatour
breake
,
as
Ralbag
,
Iarchi
,
Seder
Olam
,
and
others
malicious
doe
:
stealing
linkes
nowe
from
the
one
,
nowe
from
the
other
,
Ezekiel
:
and
shall
roove
at
such
dimme
markes
,
for
beginning
,
and
ending
Ezekiels
three
hundred
and
nientie
yeares
:
as
neuer
can
argue
any
golden
chaine
to
drawe
the
world
vnto
Christ
:
but
be
worse
then
a
cankred
wier
one
,
of
linkes
all
broken
asunder
.
And
as
a
good
harte
would
bleede
to
see
the
Massorites
,
directing
the
copyers
that
they
neuer
misse
)
to
be
cut
in
pieces
,
and
all
authoritie
of
them
for
euer
abolished
:
So
a
good
heart
would
grone
&
closely
weepe
,
to
haue
the
sense
of
the
holy
story
all
chopped
as
hearbes
to
the
pot
.
And
who
so
euer
hath
a
cleare
tast
in
Scripture
,
will
thinke
that
neuer
any
wormewood
made
waters
bitterer
,
then
such
senses
would
be
to
the
tast
of
an
Eliu
and
a
Iob
:
which
would
iudge
by
eares
as
the
palate
by
taste
.
And
nowe
by
three
Chaynes
,
Nowe
,
they
that
graunt
a
fiue-parted
chayne
thus
to
●each
,
must
needes
graunt
that
they
who
breake
it
in
anie
one
place
,
make
all
the
rest
to
be
vaine
and
voyd
of
counsell
:
and
they
that
thrust
idle
linkes
of
their
owne
copper
,
be
as
counterfaiters
,
and
forgers
of
metalles
:
and
if
they
drawe
the
time
farre
longer
then
the
particulars
will
beare
it
out
,
Chaldeans
.
This
standing
thus
,
I
trust
euery
man
of
harte
will
require
in
a
translatour
much
care
and
skil
for
euery
one
of
those
linkes
;
no
lesse
then
faith
and
skill
in
a
goldsmith
:
yea
and
so
much
more
as
the
matter
is
more
precious
:
though
not
a
small
number
shewe
,
that
they
would
rather
haue
the
trueth
of
God
to
perish
,
then
former
ignorance
detected
.
But
such
must
be
vtterly
contemned
with
as
good
stomaches
as
they
bring
.
The
Iudge
that
sitteth
vpon
the
fierie
throne
can
,
as
all
men
knowe
,
Lachis
,
bannished
all
the
rest
.
Amazias
was
killed
,
and
when
his
sonne
was
sixteene
yeares
old
,
the
people
of
the
lande
made
him
king
.
The
notes
make
him
reigne
all
the
time
of
his
fathers
banishment
.
The
text
telleth
,
that
he
began
to
reigne
in
the
seauen
&
twentieth
of
Ieroboam
:
that
he
was
then
sixteene
yeares
olde
:
and
so
he
should
be
about
foure
at
his
fathers
death
:
&
a
regentship
of
eleauen
yeares
should
goe
betwixt
.
The
notes
make
him
raigne
foure
&
twentie
yeares
afore
that
time
:
that
is
eight
yeres
afore
he
was
borne
.
The
text
maketh
him
reigne
two
and
fiftie
from
Ieroboams
seauen
&
twentie
.
The
notes
make
him
then
stroken
with
a
leprosy
&
to
continue
eight
&
twentie
yeares
.
The
text
teacheth
that
Iotham
,
at
his
fathers
death
,
was
but
fiue
&
twentie
yeares
old
.
So
,
by
the
former
note
,
he
should
iudge
the
people
afore
he
was
born
,
three
yeres
.
The
notes
,
to
auoyd
that
,
expounde
the
text
thus
:
Hee
was
fiue
and
twentie
yeares
olde
when
he
reigned
,
that
is
,
when
he
ruled
the
kingdome
in
his
fathers
leprosie
:
and
he
raigned
sixteene
yeres
:
that
is
,
after
his
fathers
death
.
If
this
had
bene
done
in
myne
owne
nation
,
I
would
haue
blamed
it
more
largely
:
But
I
loth
to
disgrace
a
learned
paynes
,
but
for
infinite
necessity
.
And
our
trauels
might
haue
more
cleared
the
regentship
of
Azarias
and
the
two
and
twentie
yeares
of
Anarchy
:
that
earthquake
of
the
state
,
and
the
styrres
called
Iezreel
:
and
likewise
for
Ezekiels
390.
yeares
,
where
the
French
notes
returne
to
the
right
trueth
:
against
their
owne
particulars
in
all
these
errours
,
wee
in
a
fewe
wordes
might
haue
kept
our
nation
from
liking
strange
opinions
.
Other
matters
of
this
Latin
worke
for
the
last
Prophetes
times
&
Zorobabels
house
,
I
haue
written
,
against
his
learned
defendor
therin
:
though
not
here
.
D.R.
whom
I
name
for
honors
sake
.
He
deserued
great
commendation
for
hazarding
his
fame
:
whether
2000.
yeares
errours
holden
almost
generally
ouer
all
Greekes
and
Latines
Libraries
,
could
be
set
on
flame
with
a
fire
of
iudgement
taken
from
the
holy
authour
.
And
,
I
trow
,
all
of
hart
and
our
language
,
will
confesse
that
parte
cleared
,
by
my
paynes
:
how
so
euer
some
feared
to
stande
to
an
arbitrement
:
reported
that
they
had
passed
,
as
learning
would
require
them
and
all
to
determine
.
Yet
hearing
what
infinite
millions
were
against
me
:
they
thought
it
the
safest
way
to
haue
all
in
suspense
.
But
I
thought
it
a
duetie
vnto
God
and
my
countrey
,
to
cleare
not
only
the
cause
,
but
all
the
Bible
,
by
Gods
helpe
,
in
our
tongue
:
and
to
seeke
for
the
next
kingdomes
helpe
,
if
that
labour
at
home
should
be
blasphemed
.
Experience
in
Daniel
the
hardest
booke
,
cleared
(
I
hope
)
in
the
very
dedication
,
may
shewe
how
soone
and
easilie
,
much
holden
past
hope
of
achieving
,
may
be
accomplished
.
And
now
to
leaue
strangers
,
I
will
returne
to
our
owne
vpon
Daniel
:
where
I
blame
our
paynes
,
that
while
we
make
two
Nebuchadnezars
:
and
misse
of
the
Images
time
,
and
fourth
Monarchy
,
and
ill
translate
Gabriels
oration
for
redemption
:
and
in
our
argument
,
Cha.
12.
taxe
Daniel
for
obscuritie
:
who
hath
the
greatst
plaines
that
euer
the
matter
could
suffer
:
While
this
runneth
currant
,
all
the
Bible
wil
complaine
that
we
doe
exceedingly
darken
it
.
The
third
care
in
a
Translatour
,
which
ought
to
bee
,
Lagidae
,
as
the
●eptuagint
:
who
liuing
in
those
styrres
of
the
iron
&
clay
●egges
of
Daniels
image
,
not
cleauing
togither
,
and
of
the
warres
of
Seleucidôn
and
Lagidôn
,
which
the
Angel
vttered
vnto
Daniel
of
purpose
in
harde
phrases
,
for
the
Iewes
safetie
:
they
,
liuing
in
these
very
times
,
had
crossed
all
the
Angels
wisedome
:
if
they
had
opened
vnto
their
prophane
●art
that
which
Gabriel
hid
for
their
good
.
But
our
case
●owe
is
nothing
like
theirs
:
in
christian
kingdomes
.
Wherfore
a
Translatour
should
aboue
all
thinges
be
ready
in
all
●●riptures
where
such
hidinge
of
the
minde
is
vsed
.
〈◊〉
ready
Ebrician
,
that
seeth
one
of
vnperfect
studie
labouringe
to
translate
,
will
tell
almost
for
euery
place
where
a
Translatour
would
misse
.
And
touchinge
●●ch
as
in
Daniel
haue
deceyued
translatours
,
them
I
haue
●●ted
in
my
commentationes
vpon
him
:
Vau
,
one
letter
,
was
a
key
to
open
or
shut
the
sense
.
So
in
Daniel
againe
,
Ch.
7.
ver.
12.
As
concerning
the
other
beastes
,
they
had
their
dominion
taken
away
,
but
their
liues
were
prolonged
for
a
certen
time
and
season
.
This
speach
vnspeaketh
it self
.
For
the
beast
is
the
Empire
:
and
when
the
Empire
is
gone
,
the
beast
is
no
more
a
beast
,
but
standeth
on
his
feete
,
as
a
man
:
when
a
priuate
mans
heart
is
giuen
him
:
as
in
ver.
4.
of
ch.
7.
Agamemnons
man
in
Euripides
beholding
the
Emperour
writing
for
Iphigenia
his
daughter
,
to
come
to
bee
sacrificed
,
and
by
fatherly
affection
blotting
:
&
againe
writing
:
and
againe
razing
:
marveyleth
at
his
crosse
dealing
.
This
dealing
i●
more
marveylous
:
no
naturall
affection
here
caried
,
but
vnacquaintance
with
Daniel
and
with
the
Ebrew
tongue
.
And
reason
might
tell
that
the
speach
crosseth
it selfe
.
And
herein
I
must
commende
my
L.
of
Canterburies
grace
:
who
though
he
thought
it
not
an
officers
parte
,
to
admitte
soone
a
new
translation
:
and
when
I
had
presented
vnto
him selfe
and
his
patronage
the
seauen
first
chapters
,
all
the
Chaldy
part
,
and
the
first
chapter
with
somewhat
more
about
it
:
he
wrote
in
deed
to
stay
the
worke
:
yet
when
I
debated
what
his
place
required
him
to
doe
,
he
wrote
againe
to
licence
the
worke
:
his
grace
saying
,
that
he
would
not
defend
it
:
I
should
stand
to
the
defence
of
it
.
And
full
readie
am
I
to
doe
that
.
And
I
dare
defend
his
grace
for
that
translation
:
that
it
is
bettea
then
the
vsuall
in
the
Church
.
And
whereas
a
certen
Printer
feared
,
least
in
time
it
would
come
into
the
Bibles
,
he
needes
no
more
to
feare
,
then
least
in
time
our
nation
will
commonly
learne
Daniel
in
one
houre
:
which
without
an
heyfer
,
that
manie
pricke
,
will
not
so
soone
be
cleare
:
and
was
long
sealed
vp
in
our
nation
.
Full
is
the
Prophet
of
examples
,
biddinge
heedines
,
but
finding
headdines
.
And
Moses
had
the
like
occasion
,
as
he
liued
,
when
skant
any
in
the
world
belee●ed
that
the
world
was
created
,
or
ruled
by
God
,
or
that
any
God
was
.
Lesse
did
they
thinke
of
the
state
and
condition
,
in
which
the
wicked
Spirites
and
soules
are
in
eternall
chaynes
,
and
darknes
with
paynes
:
which
state
as
they
●hought
not
off
,
they
had
no
propre
tearme
for
it
in
their
●peach
.
And
likewise
for
the
state
of
ioye
,
the
portion
of
●he
faithfull
in
the
sight
of
Gods
glorie
:
the
wicked
world
●newe
it
not
:
and
therfore
had
no
terme
for
it
.
In
this
case
Moses
hydeth
his
mynde
from
the
wicked
:
as
touchinge
●ny
one
propre
terme
for
either
Eternall
death
,
or
Eternall
●●fe
.
But
he
by
matter
and
argument
doth
spread
it
abroad
●nto
such
as
loue
the
appearing
of
the
iust
iudge
.
By
the
●●rme
DEATH
,
he
meaneth
Eternall
death
,
when
leaues
〈◊〉
the
sore
be
not
fetched
from
the
tree
of
life
:
and
so
by
●fe
in
promises
fastened
vpon
Christ
,
he
meaneth
Eternal
●fe
:
Euen
as
Adam
closelie
meant
by
the
name
of
EVE
:
●hich
the
Septuagint
translate
LIFE
.
So
by
the
curse
v●on
the
Earth
,
he
meaneth
an
Eternall
curse
with
it
,
for
all
●he
Serpents
broode
.
And
for
this
the
Iewes
generally
,
Sheol
,
that
is
,
The
verbe
,
the
root
of
it
is
Shaal
.
to
require
and
Scheol
is
the
state
which
euery
life
with
sense
payeth
,
as
a
debt
:
when
it
is
spoken
of
a
body
,
whether
of
man
or
beast
,
as
in
the
companie
of
Coreh
,
Dathan
,
Abyram
,
the
destruction
from
this
life
is
meant
.
If
sequell
of
matter
bring
more
,
by
the
matter
,
not
by
the
word
,
it
must
be
admitted
.
In
mens
case
we
terme
it
commonly
the
graue
:
though
fishe
in
Sea
,
or
fier
in
earth
,
or
Hyrcanyan
dogges
panches
,
or
Egyptian
Glasses
,
were
their
tombe
:
or
they
were
,
as
Iakym
,
that
with
his
penknife
did
cut
Ieremies
lamentations
,
cast
away
as
the
buriall
of
ashe
:
fit
for
such
as
hate
such
diligence
about
Gods
worde
,
as
by
Ieremies
example
wee
may
see
,
that
the
Eternall
doeth
require
.
That
state
to
the
body
is
Scheol
:
to
the
soule
,
the
losse
of
this
worlde
in
such
as
knew
not
the
soules
immortalitie
is
Sheol
:
to
men
of
further
reach
:
the
world
of
the
Soules
:
the
worlde
vnseene
of
vs
that
be
here
:
without
distinction
of
lotts
there
.
For
fewe
knewe
that
:
the
hidden
of
God
called
in
Ebrewe
,
psal.
Cxi
,
Sod
,
the
mysterie
of
righteousnes
.
And
they
the
Lillies
among
thornes
spake
as
the
common
worlde
:
and
commonlie
of
the
soule
by
termes
fit
for
the
body
,
for
such
as
graunted
no
further
continuance
,
&
for
such
as
graunted
that
there
was
an
other
world
.
And
as
dying
is
holden
a
degree
lower
then
life
:
and
daily
speach
ought
to
be
such
,
as
the
greater
part
be
not
troubled
with
it
,
to
descende
to
Scheol
is
to
leaue
this
world
.
So
Iacob
would
descende
to
Scheol
vnto
Ioseph
:
so
Iudah
feared
to
bring
his
fathers
graynes
to
Schecol
with
sorrowe
:
so
Gods
anger
in
Deut.
32.
and
in
the
same
syllables
in
Ieremie
,
speaking
of
Ierusalems
fall
,
is
a
fyer
that
burneth
vnto
the
low
Scheol
.
Not
determininge
of
their
soules
:
though
their
case
were
daungerous
in
warres
brought
for
idolatrie
:
men
dying
in
contempt
of
the
couenant
.
The
argument
might
determine
:
the
terme
did
not
determine
.
Haides
in
the
Greeke
is
the
very
same
:
and
neither
of
them
is
euer
in
Scripture
,
directlie
the
state
of
Eternall
torment
:
but
as
king
Ezechias
describeth
it
:
The
●utting-off
from
this
life
:
the
not
seing
of
Iah
,
in
the
lande
●f
the
liuing
:
the
remouing
of
their
dwelling
hence
as
a
●ente
:
the
shearing
of
life
,
as
the
weauer
doeth
his
webbe
●●ckes
from
the
Thrummes
.
And
in
Iob
,
Aethan
,
psal.
89.
●●lomon
Eccles.
all
men
doe
descende
to
Sheol
,
as
Ioseph
,
Iacob
,
●●echias
.
And
in
a
speach
of
death
,
when
life
is
soone
reco●●red
,
descending
to
Scheol
,
signifieth
that
the
soule
fully
●ent
from
the
body
,
euen
to
the
worlde
of
the
dead
:
and
〈◊〉
diuinitie
meaning
to
appeare
before
God
.
In
that
sense
●ery
mans
soule
,
by
Salomon
ascendeth
,
&
the
beastes
des●●ndeth
.
So
that
the
worldes
common
language
:
To
des●●nde
into
Scheol
,
and
the
Prophetes
:
ascend
vnto
Gods
●one
or
to
returne
vnto
God
,
leauing
the
body
to
the
〈◊〉
:
these
differ
not
in
substance
one
hayre
breadth
.
Eu●●s
Act.
20.
fell
from
the
third
height
,
dead
.
But
his
soule
〈◊〉
yet
within
him
:
and
then
had
not
descended
into
〈◊〉
.
The
souldiour
buried
by
Elyseus
was
dead
:
but
whe●●●r
his
soule
had
fully
leaft
the
body
,
that
may
be
further
●ired
.
Our
Lord
being
dead
,
had
not
his
soule
resting
●e
dead
body
,
but
voyde
of
all
controversie
,
it
went
to
〈◊〉
worlde
of
the
soules
,
through
the
tabernacle
of
his
●e
,
and
to
paradise
:
the
ioye
of
happy
soules
.
Which
●g
to
testifie
,
some
of
them
returned
to
this
world
.
The
●ell
and
his
Angels
might
well
perceyue
it
:
But
the
●ch
or
article
,
Descended
into
Haides
,
meddleth
not
〈◊〉
one
or
other
,
but
maketh
sure
a
full
and
absolute
de●ure
vnto
the
worlde
of
the
soules
.
His
sufferings
were
●●●peakeable
,
and
the
agonie
of
his
soule
:
as
hee
tolde
at
●r
beginning
to
his
Disciples
:
and
when
skopers
were
●ut
him
,
and
dogges
,
he
declareth
by
turning
his
speach
vnto
God
,
how
to
vnspeakeable
extremitie
his
tormentes
went
on
:
Why
O
my
God
doest
thou
forsake
me
!
The
phrases
of
both
,
the
first
from
Psal.
42.
the
verse
repeated
Psa.
43.
(
for
the
Greeke
of
it
is
the
Greeke
of
the
newe
Testament
)
the
next
from
Psal.
22.
these
two
be
the
saddest
phrases
of
the
language
.
And
we
must
thinke
,
that
as
much
is
vnder
them
as
can
be
conteyned
:
for
the
suffringes
of
our
Lorde
,
and
that
he
spake
of
his
owne
person
.
But
I
am
not
nowe
to
runne
into
a
common
place
:
if
any
stirre
be
of
late
risen
,
that
way
,
men
of
preferrment
for
their
paynes
,
must
looke
to
the
defence
of
the
trueth
.
And
it
is
iniurious
to
require
anie
to
warre
on
their
owne
charges
:
as
some
haue
requested
me
to
deale
herein
.
But
for
a
Translatour
,
he
must
be
careful
in
such
poinctes
:
where
for
the
maner
of
the
world
the
Scripture
hath
termes
generall
,
that
the
vnlearned
in
tongue
,
and
the
vnstayed
in
the
groundes
,
wil
turne
often
times
into
a
wrong
sense
.
In
this
sorte
the
terme
,
Hell
,
thorough
the
olde
Testament
,
should
be
well
looked
.
He
that
thinketh
it
euer
vsed
for
Tartaro
or
Gehenna
,
otherwise
than
the
tearme
Death
may
by
Synecdoche
importe
so
:
hath
not
skill
in
Ebrewe
or
that
Greeke
,
which
breathing
and
liue
Graecia
spake
:
if
God
hath
lent
me
any
iudgement
that
way
.
And
who
so
euer
can
not
cleare
the
Apostles
words
by
men
indifferent
:
as
Old
Greeks
,
Rabbines
,
&
such
like
is
vnsetled
in
his
study
.
Saint
Peters
place
in
his
first
Epistle
and
thirde
Chapter
affoordeth
a
good
example
for
heede
in
places
harde
.
Christ
suffred
,
&c.
being
made
dead
in
the
fleash
,
made
aliue
by
the
Spirite
,
in
which
spirit
he
had
gone
&
preached
to
them
that
now
are
spirites
in
prison
:
because
they
disobeyed
when
the
time
was
:
when
the
pacience
of
God
once
wayted
in
the
dayes
of
Noe.
I
assure
my selfe
that
there
is
not
anie
learned
Iewe
in
the
world
,
nor
was
,
since
Saint
Peters
time
,
but
would
thus
vnderstand
him
.
For
all
these
poinctes
are
plain
with
them
:
the
Spirit
of
God
,
Gen.
1.2
.
Ze
Ruho
Shel
Melech
Ha
Mashiah·
This
is
the
Spirit
of
Massiah
the
King
.
So
,
the
spirit
of
God
that
preached
to
Noe
,
should
be
that
spirit
of
Christ
,
whom
Saint
Peter
in
expounding
his
minde
,
calleth
God
,
whose
patience
wayted
.
Also
they
haue
this
most
famous
,
howe
God
long
shewed
his
pacience
,
while
●he
Fathers
were
aliue
:
howe
the
holy
Ghost
preached
by
Noe.
and
first
by
Noe
since
the
day
of
Adams
fall
,
&
day
●f
pronouncing
the
curse
vpon
the
earth
:
telling
Noe
the
●●me
of
Execution
:
and
that
that
generation
stroue
against
●he
spirit
of
God
:
&
that
God
brought
vpon
them
double
●●aues
:
of
water
and
of
Gehennah
fier
.
And
in
the
text
of
●oth
Talmuds
this
matter
is
layde
as
a
common
article
Dor
〈◊〉
-
mabbul
ein
lahem
chelek
le
Olam
ha-ba
.
The
generation
●●at
died
in
the
deluge
,
they
haue
no
hope
of
blessed
por●●on
in
the
world
to
come
.
Nowe
,
seeing
all
these
positi●●s
be
true
,
that
by
the
Eternal
spirit
of
Christ
,
his
humane
●●ule
came
to
the
body
and
so
it
was
made
aliue
:
and
that
●he
Eternall
spirit
is
about
ten
times
noted
in
the
Lawe
to
●ue
gone
done
:
(
whence
Saint
Peter
diuinely
taketh
the
●●each
of
Christe
his
going
in
the
diuine
nature
,
vnto
o●her
as
famous
matters
)
&
shewed
pacience
:
and
brought
〈◊〉
Deluge
vpon
the
worlde
,
voyde
of
Religion
,
and
prea●hed
not
in
any
man
with
expresse
calling
afore
Noe
,
and
●herefore
his
story
was
the
fittest
for
an
example
:
and
damneth
for
euer
all
that
be
out
from
the
couenant
:
seeing
all
this
matter
is
true
,
&
the
proprietie
of
Saint
Peters
wordes
in
their
most
exactenesse
,
will
abide
this
:
and
the
Iewes
,
to
whose
nation
he
wrote
,
admitted
all
this
:
and
neuer
would
admit
anie
other
meaning
of
these
his
wordes
:
which
for
matters
in
visible
,
must
be
plaine
and
in
graunted
senses
:
A
learned
Translatour
,
who
from
childhoode
should
be
acquainted
with
the
holy
Ebrewe
&
Greeke
:
and
for
it
with
all
writers
for
both
tongues
,
such
a
Translatour
would
be
better
then
many
commenters
.
Saint
Peter
would
acquaint
his
nation
,
that
the
Spirit
of
Christ
was
in
the
Prophetes
,
whom
they
called
Iehovah
.
And
in
a
matter
of
so
great
weight
,
to
translate
so
that
the
humane
soule
of
Christe
should
nowe
be
meant
spirit
:
and
that
to
bee
made
aliue
,
which
dye
can
not
,
and
to
take
a
iourney
vnrecorded
in
the
penners
of
the
Gospell
:
and
to
preach
among
soules
,
gon
hence
&
to
Noes
age
peculiar
:
as
hauing
disobeyed
once
:
but
after
as
better
aduised
:
If
Saint
Peter
had
anie
such
meaning
in
glaunses
vndisputed
out
:
the
scattered
Iewes
,
who
admit
no
doctrine
but
taught
in
Moses
&
the
Prophetes
;
they
would
haue
reiected
all
the
Apostles
autoritie
.
But
in
this
place
we
make
cloudes
:
he
bred
none
.
And
in
our
cloudes
we
might
sooner
enable
Iob
to
bring
about
all
propounded
by
God
,
as
aboue
his
reach
:
as
defende
Saint
Peter
against
anie
Iewe
:
which
thing
he
that
can
not
doe
,
is
but
a
raw
Doctor
of
the
newe
Testament
.
A
man
might
as
soone
tell
vpon
what
foundation
the
earth
was
layde
:
what
measure
it
hath
:
how
the
Sea
was
shutt
with
dores
:
howe
it
is
swadeled
with
the
darke
:
howe
to
giue
the
morning
his
charge
,
and
to
shewe
the
day
spring
his
place
:
yea
and
may
as
soone
open
the
gates
of
death
and
see
the
dores
of
the
shadowe
of
death
:
as
tell
howe
Christes
humane
soule
could
dye
,
and
be
made
aliue
:
and
what
sermon
he
should
make
enioyned
from
Moses
&
Elias
doctrine
:
or
why
peculiarlie
to
men
of
the
fludds
age
:
or
defende
constantlie
any
such
thing
,
at
all
,
done
by
Christes
humane
soule
:
of
any
conference
or
speach
among
the
dead
.
And
Saint
Peter
knewe
that
Moses
commaunded
to
leaue
the
hid
things
to
Iehovah
our
God
:
and
knew
that
our
Lorde
him selfe
neuer
taught
his
Disciples
to
breake
that
:
and
might
not
breede
leappers
ouer
the
threshell
.
And
for
this
very
poinct
of
our
affirming
that
Christ
went
to
Gehennah
,
the
Iewe
Isaak
Ben
Arama
,
who
writeth
ful
excellent
things
for
Christianitie
in
Shaar
52.
vpon
Exod.
and
sheweth
that
all
his
nation
since
Ierusalem
fel
,
haue
mistaken
all
the
Prophetes
:
and
is
cited
for
our
side
by
Munster
and
Nebiensis
vpon
Psa.
110.
he
disputing
vpon
Leuit.
26.
for
the
end
of
the
Lawe
,
and
howe
all
those
curses
might
●e
avoyded
;
sawe
no
comfort
in
Iudaisme
:
and
then
hee
●urneth
toward
Christianitie
:
but
complayneth
that
wee
make
Christ
descend
to
Gehenna
:
and
to
bring
out
the
Fa●hers
thence
:
whereas
if
we
had
expounded
the
suffringes
of
Messiah
(
which
all
Rabbines
confesse
that
the
Psalmes
make
them
infintie
great
)
as
the
Euangelistes
penne
them
,
●olde
by
our
Lordes
owne
tongue
,
and
much
perceyued
●y
the
Disciples
:
such
a
Rabbine
would
haue
turned
ma●●e
,
and
by
such
meanes
we
Christians
should
haue
couered
infinite
many
of
our
sinnes
:
where
God
would
miti●●te
many
his
punishmentes
ouer
vs
for
turninge
sinners
●nto
the
right
way
.
I
wishe
all
that
loue
the
trueth
,
to
trye
●his
proposition
;
None
that
knowe
absolutely
,
as
a
profes●our
of
Ebrewe
and
Greeke
should
,
the
holy
phrases
of
●cripture
:
Sheol
and
Haides
,
Gehennah
and
Tartarus
,
and
whence
Paradise
for
Heauen
,
and
when
it
began
:
as
,
THE
WORLD
to
come
,
no
Linguist
,
a
true
Linguist
,
meting
with
his
match
to
be
tried
by
authours
indifferent
(
as
the
Disciples
spake
and
wrote
)
will
defende
,
that
any
one
syllable
in
scripture
doth
so
much
as
euer
glaunse
,
that
Christ
descended
to
Gehenna
.
Here
,
&
in
such
poinctes
a
translation
bearing
on
the
same
page
the
original
,
Ebrew
for
the
Olde
,
Iob
,
such
a
translation
in
one
word
would
calme
all
waues
.
The
Aethyopian
translation
may
be
an
example
vppon
Saint
Peters
place
,
whiche
hath
for
Spirit
,
Manphes
Kades
:
the
Spirit
Holy
.
The
plaine
Aethyopians
,
among
whom
manie
Iewes
dwelt
,
shewe
that
they
neuer
staggered
there
.
By
such
two
wordes
in
a
margent
note
,
all
strife
would
cease
.
So
in
the
Psalme
110.
The
Greekes
translated
diuinely
:
From
the
wombe
before
the
morning
starre
haue
I
begotten
thee
.
The
Ebrewe
was
hard
of
purpose
:
and
the
Greeke
Translatours
doe
shewe
their
great
diuinitie
.
I
would
herein
follow
them
:
either
in
the
text
,
or
lay
them
downe
as
paraphrastes
in
the
margent
.
For
their
authoritie
for
diuinitie
is
next
the
vndoubted
Prophetes
and
Apostles
.
Though
for
their
difference
from
the
Ebrew
,
accented
,
vowelled
,
&
sounde
in
euerie
piece
of
letter
(
so
neare
it
must
bee
examined
)
millions
of
poinctes
,
which
entangled
vs
,
must
bee
consydered
.
And
now
I
haue
handled
largely
three
poinctes
of
eight
:
wherin
we
must
confesse
oversightes
:
whiche
for
a
dry
causie
bring
vs
to
quabbemyres
:
and
we
may
not
refuse
amendment
:
for
feare
,
(
as
some
haue
spoken
in
effect
)
least
men
will
say
:
we
had
no
way
at
all
heretofore
.
This
obiection
was
made
.
Men
will
say
that
we
had
no
Bible
heretofore
:
if
we
nowe
amende
.
It
may
be
learnedly
disputed
,
whether
they
be
men
that
so
speake
.
For
they
that
reade
the
Bibles
translation
of
ours
,
best
knowe
by
their
owne
experience
,
where
they
sticke
faste
:
and
these
gainsayers
shewe
that
they
neuer
read
the
Bible
:
and
men
of
such
humours
are
not
to
be
counted
men
of
worth
in
tongue
:
and
they
that
plaspheme
the
certeintie
of
Gods
worde
so
pure
,
so
wise
,
so
watchfully
kept
,
little
knowe
what
they
doe
in
so
weighty
a
cause
:
&
they
iniurie
autoritie
,
when
they
hinder
●he
publike
good
.
But
this
labor
should
haue
a
milde
style
,
●o
winne
all
to
a
good
worke
.
Yet
thus
much
I
dare
saye
:
that
,
right
,
not
might
:
skill
,
not
will
:
paynes
,
not
gaynes
,
should
beare
sway
for
that
booke
which
the
Greke
terme
●alleth
Booke
(
Bible
in
Greeke
is
booke
)
as
being
the
only
●ooke
of
all
bookes
:
as
all
being
bables
in
respect
of
it
:
that
●nlearned
babling
may
not
be
thrust
vnto
it
:
but
such
as
hath
crept
in
,
must
be
taken
out
.
Seth
named
his
●ine
Sorrowfull
(
Enosh
)
.
Then
sprang
prophanesse
:
Concerninge
●lling
vpon
the
name
of
the
Eternall
.
Thus
he
proceedeth
to
●●we
howe
mans
wickednes
hastened
the
curse
,
which
●od
pronounced
vpon
the
earth
.
And
wheras
he
taught
●●e
Gospell
and
prayer
to
God
closely
:
because
the
wic●●d
would
neuer
vnderstande
but
skoph
,
if
it
had
bene
at
●ge
tolde
:
he
teacheth
the
fall
away
as
closelie
.
Ebrewes
●●ry
many
,
rightly
vnderstood
Moses
:
and
Kimch●
the
●●mmon
recorder
equall
vnto
a
thousande
:
and
Latines
●●anie
:
But
dog
Iewes
,
who
would
not
haue
Christ
Re●eemer
,
and
espye
our
strength
,
they
rebell
against
the
●●ght
:
As
Aben
ezra
with
others
,
of
like
rancour
.
Herein
●
marueill
,
why
Tremelius
hauing
done
well
,
was
altered
&
marred
after
his
death
.
As
likewise
in
Daniel
9.24
.
&
23.
I
could
wishe
him
restored
to
his
former
goodnes
.
Nowe
we
vpon
Gen.
4.26
.
say
,
Then
men
began
to
make
invocation
in
the
name
of
the
Lorde
.
But
Moses
expoundeth
him selfe
Ch.
6.1
.
(
the
Cha.
5.
is
but
a
parenthesis
in
the
narration
)
and
sheweth
when
men
began
to
bee
multiplied
,
God
sawe
that
their
malice
was
great
.
And
that
is
the
reason
why
our
father
Seth
termed
his
sonne
Enosh
:
Sorowfull
.
It
had
bene
senselesse
to
call
him
sorrowfull
:
vpon
calling
on
Gods
name
.
Nowe
the
Prophetes
call
Man
Enosh
:
still
expounding
the
text
.
So
that
a
corruption
of
it
,
greeueth
all
the
rest
.
An other
example
of
this
kinde
I
will
bring
from
the
newe
Testament
.
Mary
Magdalene
had
that
affection
towardes
Christ
,
which
euery
full
faithfull
soule
hath
in
the
Canticles
.
When
she
was
a
litle
past
the
watchmen
:
she
founde
him
whom
her
soule
loued
:
shee
layde
holde
vpon
him
:
as
not
willing
to
let
him
goe
.
Our
Lord
sayeth
,
cleaue
not
to
me
:
or
fasten
not
so
on
me
.
I
doe
not
yet
presently
ascend
.
The
holy
and
wise
Euangelist
left
out
her
action
,
to
bee
gathered
by
our
Lorde
his
speach
.
So
Daniel
omitted
his
hinderance
of
Hereby
Christ
correcteth
her
carnal
affection
,
looking
too
much
to
his
bodily
presence
,
and
therefore
he
pulled
her
from
outward
&
externe
offices
,
towardes
his
bodily
presence
,
and
willed
her
to
bee
mindfull
of
his
ascention
.
The
translation
of
the
text
is
senselesse
:
Touche
me
not
,
for
I
am
not
yet
ascended
vnto
my
Father
.
Euery
linguist
will
confesse
,
that
two
grosse
faultes
are
here
committed
.
For
the
Greeke
Verbe
of
touching
is
such
,
as
timber
workes
fastened
touche
:
and
is
,
To
fasten
vnto
:
to
be
ioyned
vnto
.
And
so
Saint
Paul
doeth
vse
it
,
sayinge
:
It
is
good
for
a
man
not
to
touche
a
woman
:
that
is
,
not
to
bee
fastened
by
mariage
as
one
.
And
so
,
Haphe
,
a
substantiue
of
this
verbe
,
is
translated
,
a
ioint
.
Ephe.
4.16
.
This
was
a
grosse
ouersight
:
not
to
cleare
the
equiuocation
.
And
some
who
haue
a
minde
to
Descend
to
Gehennah
,
and
can
not
abide
that
Christes
soule
should
goe
to
Paradise
,
as
the
theefe
beleeued
it
should
:
and
as
all
Iewes
would
sweare
,
his
wordes
ought
to
meane
,
haue
cited
this
text
against
that
:
●s
though
Christ
spake
of
his
soules
ascention
,
denying
it
ascention
:
where
all
soules
that
euer
were
,
ascend
to
Gods
iudgement
.
The
speach
folowing
sheweth
,
that
our
Lord
●●ake
of
his
bodyes
ascention
.
Nowe
for
the
terme
in
the
Greeke
,
ill
translated
,
I
am
not
ascended
:
all
of
Ebrew
studie
knowe
,
that
the
tense
Abar
is
vsed
infinitelie
for
a
time
not
past
,
but
quickly
to
come
.
And
the
Greekes
,
Eusebius
,
●●ocopius
,
and
such
,
note
that
:
but
the
Doctours
of
Ebrew
●kill
,
euen
to
their
Babes
,
so
plaine
it
is
.
Nowe
our
Lorde
●●ake
all
in
Syriaque
Ebrew
,
sauing
the
reuelation
.
And
his
phrase
vttered
after
the
resurrection
,
sheweth
that
:
●hich
thing
Iohn
would
expresse
in
Greeke
:
but
for
vs
it
●ould
be
,
I
doe
not
yet
presently
ascende
.
●
stande
the
more
vpon
this
matter
,
for
that
a
scholler
of
●●asonable
good
accounpt
in
speach
for
one
of
you
No●es
,
Psa.
16.
wher
you
meant
Scheol
the
world
of
the
dead
:
●ere
he
sayd
he
would
burne
in
this
opinion
,
that
Christ
●●scended
to
Hell
,
meaning
Gehenna
hell
.
I
would
not
●●ish
him
to
stand
to
his
wordes
.
One
is
ready
to
bring
●gainst
him
:
Millia
,
quot
magnis
nunquam
ven●re
Mycaenis
.
I
will
defende
Bucers
bones
of
Doctrine
,
that
they
are
●urified
with
the
fyer
of
iudgement
,
against
any
that
will
disturbe
them
,
in
our
nation
,
for
Psal.
16.
and
Act.
2.
But
I
must
returne
to
translating
:
where
two
grosse
faults
in
one
short
speach
stayne
much
the
glory
of
Gods
worde
.
Because
it
was
an
Herculean
labour
at
Augaeas
stable
to
toyle
in
this
part
:
I
noted
about
three
score
chapters
of
Esay
,
Ecclesiastes
,
and
others
with
lines
what
I
blamed
in
this
kinde
:
and
sent
them
to
an
whole
nation
to
be
looked
vnto
:
and
will
here
lay
down
an
Epistle
written
afore
vnto
me
from
them
by
the
consent
of
their
most
Noble
King
,
for
that
kinde
of
studie
which
I
felt
paynefull
&
costly
now
thirtie
yeares
:
though
some
of
ours
despise
it
:
and
for
their
resolution
to
haue
this
worke
to
goe
forward
.
Thus
it
speaketh
:
written
by
one
speciall
learned
Scholer
:
I
thanke
God
,
who
hath
moued
your
heart
,
guid
Syr
,
to
communicate
with
vs
alwayes
your
most
godlie
&
learned
trauells
,
whereby
the
best
of
iudgement
and
most
consummate
in
learning
amangs
vs
,
findes
tham
selues
not
a
little
both
profited
and
delighted
.
The
word
of
your
Translation
,
here
moued
ane
verie
earnest
desire
of
all
efter
it
.
I
haue
shewed
your
affection
and
maide
report
of
all
the
guid
thinges
you
did
concredit
to
the
bearer
to
the
noble
Gentleman
you
wrote
of
,
which
were
al
most
gladlie
accepted
.
So
that
you
may
perswade
your selfe
,
if
you
resolue
to
come
in
this
countrey
,
you
shal
be
hartily
wealcome
to
him
,
and
to
vs
all
most
expected
,
wishing
earnestly
our
Inne
war
worthie
of
such
a
ghast
.
In
the
meane
time
we
all
doe
most
hartilie
thanke
you
,
and
imbreath
you
in
the
Lord
Iesus
.
From
Edingbrouche
the
xx
.
of
Nouember
1596.
Your
oblised
friend
,
I.M.
This
kind
letter
would
not
be
forgotten
:
specially
of
me
so
much
beholden
to
the
nation
:
and
much
more
then
yet
I
haue
shewed
,
which
nowe
I
can
not
stande
vpon
.
But
I
must
returne
to
the
foresaid
translation
:
yet
I
must
not
hope
to
bringe
in
this
kinde
where
all
will
runne
in
one
sorte
,
examples
one
of
a
thousand
,
that
I
might
:
where
the
Prophetes
short
speaches
to
stirre
diligence
,
are
by
vs
turned
from
Christ
to
Belial
,
from
vertue
to
sinne
,
from
the
temple
of
God
to
peors
religion
:
as
,
if
thou
hate
her
,
put
her
away
.
Ecclesiastes
,
he
differeth
in
style
from
all
.
●ob
is
also
in
his
very
letters
cited
very
much
of
Dauid
,
Salo●on
,
and
the
Heard-man
of
Tekoah
:
who
beginneth
with
the
End
of
Ioel.
Esay
likewise
hath
as
Ioel
this
swete
&
terrible
saying
:
Ce
shod
myshaddai
iabo
.
Shewing
how
he
hono●ed
the
spirite
which
spake
in
him
.
Micha
doeth
honor
him
●●
much
and
more
:
who
copyed
out
a
great
number
of
●●nes
from
Esai
with
very
little
change
:
And
Ieremy
folow●th
him
so
notably
,
later
by
seauentie
yeares
,
that
in
long
●lusions
of
Pachadh
,
Pachath
,
and
Pach
,
as
feare
,
care
,
snare
,
●●●en
tossed
in
the
sentence
:
he
solemnizeth
his
very
Let●rs
:
shewing
with
all
how
that
which
Esay
teld
,
they
felt
:
〈◊〉
in
Taaniah
and
Aniah
,
bewayling
and
wayling
Esay
pro●hecyed
,
Ieremy
recorded
,
both
to
Iudah
.
So
for
Moab
he
●ath
Esaies
eloquence
:
and
Abakuks
very
syllables
for
Babel
.
So
Abakuk
too
hath
Esaies
for
the
knowledge
of
God
covering
as
water
doth
,
in
the
Sea
:
so
Micha
the
seconde
beginneth
with
that
straunge
Grammer
and
letters
of
Micha
the
first
.
Heare
ô
ye
people
,
all
they
.
The
Ebrewes
chaunge
the
pronownes
sodenly
,
now
and
then
:
as
the
two
Michahs
doe
,
ô
YEE
,
and
all
THEY
.
Nowe
,
the
vsing
of
the
same
syllables
,
biddeth
to
looke
vnto
the
same
euent
.
Micha
sonne
of
Imlah
proued
true
in
Achab
,
and
the
fall
of
Israel
for
the
time
then
,
though
foure
hundreth
false
prophetes
thought
and
taught
otherwise
.
So
should
the
Iewes
thinke
of
Micha
the
Morasthite
,
that
his
wordes
would
prooue
equally
true
.
Tippaghem
,
was
Troubled
,
vsed
onely
afore
in
Pharaohs
spirite
,
placed
again
in
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Seauen
wayes
scripture
writes
his
name
:
which
to
imitate
none
of
grace
wil
forbid
.
Nauocodrosors
he
calleth
into
minde
:
Pharaoh
,
his
Chartummim
,
or
coniurers
,
Ioseph
and
infinite
comparisons
with
Nauocodrosor
,
his
Chartummim
,
and
Daniel
:
yea
the
whole
stories
for
both
kingdomes
are
called
into
mynde
by
one
worde
,
Be-hammered
the
worde
properly
signifieth
.
But
how
so
euer
it
should
be
translated
in
the
margent
of
the
later
from
the
first
it
should
be
noted
.
So
when
he
prayseth
God
,
as
dwelling
in
light
that
none
can
come
too
,
which
thing
God
handleth
in
Iob
in
speaches
reaching
through
the
frame
of
nature
,
Daniel
vseth
a
phrase
vsed
onely
of
God
:
Iadagh
Binah
:
to
knowe
vnderstanding
:
teachinge
thereby
howe
he
that
will
,
may
prooue
true
his
saying
of
Gods
wisedome
,
from
Gods
owne
declaration
of
it
:
a
peculiar
longe
speach
vsed
of
purpose
in
that
argument
.
So
Mauz
,
the
name
of
might
and
almighty
vsed
of
Dauid
,
Salomon
,
Esai
,
Nahum
,
Ezekiel
,
with
attribes
commonly
of
rock
,
life
,
saluation
,
and
such
.
So
in
Daniel
in
the
plurall
number
incresing
the
force
.
Maüzim
,
and
the
temple
is
called
the
sanctuarie
of
Maüz
,
and
fortes
of
Mauzim
:
wherein
while
the
Seauentie
hid
their
minde
,
an
errour
intollerable
came
in
,
in
Dan.
11.
which
thus
should
stand
:
As
for
the
God
Maüzim
(
that
is
almightie
)
in
his
place
he
shall
worship
,
yea
a
God
shall
he
worship
whom
his
fathers
knewe
not
:
and
he
shall
cause
the
holdes
or
fortes
of
Maüzim
to
haue
a
straunge
God
.
Here
the
Angel
comfortes
the
Iewes
against
Antiochus
strength
,
by
the
very
name
of
God
,
twise
laying
attributes
of
the
Temple
to
cleare
the
speach
.
But
I
may
not
tary
in
Daniel
,
Nehemias
repeateth
that
terme
in
honour
of
Daniel
,
&
memorie
of
him
.
But
of
all
,
Ezra
,
is
most
herein
,
whose
whole
worke
of
the
Chronicles
is
infinite
much
in
the
very
syllables
of
the
former
:
and
when
he
changeth
the
phrase
,
that
change
hath
great
vse
,
and
should
be
marked
in
a
translation
.
Such
is
the
newe
Testament
:
whose
first
oration
fasteneth
to
the
last
speach
of
the
olde
.
For
Gabriel
to
Zacharie
beginneth
the
newe
Testament
where
the
olde
ended
.
And
this
should
haue
made
the
Church
to
haue
hid
the
●idde
Apogrypha
,
according
to
their
name
:
and
neuer
to
●aue
let
them
see
the
sunne
of
the
Church
.
They
breake
the
chayne
:
and
make
monstrous
all
the
body
of
the
Testament
,
absolute
without
it
:
and
not
admitting
any
word
of
it
:
for
language
to
any
one
letter
,
nor
to
any
wit
in
style
,
articles
or
story
.
Infinite
much
of
the
newe
testament
might
haue
in
the
margent
the
Ebrew
which
it
translateth
.
As
this
:
Grace
and
peace
from
God
:
Aarons
blessing
,
&
this
:
God
knoweth
who
be
his
:
from
Moses
speach
to
Coreh
:
and
God
hath
not
forsaken
his
people
.
Be
thou
perfect
as
thy
Father
in
heauen
is
perfect
:
from
this
,
Thou
shalt
be
perfect
with
the
Lord
thy
God
,
and
so
infinitely
.
A
Translatour
should
haue
all
this
in
tables
before
him
.
So
the
Bible
should
bee
shorter
for
memorie
by
a
quarter
:
when
the
minde
should
see
what
was
plaine
afore
,
and
is
but
repeated
.
And
in
facilitie
ten
times
easier
:
shewing
no
newe
matter
to
be
in
handlinge
,
but
a
commentarie
of
the
old
.
Moses
song
,
Deut.
32.
might
be
shewed
al
through
in
the
Prophetes
,
Paul
,
Peter
,
Iude
,
&
others
.
Howe
we
haue
contemned
all
this
:
examples
wee
haue
like
the
sande
of
the
sea
,
that
can
not
bee
numbred
.
Two
I
could
bring
too
haynous
:
eyther
ouerturning
,
the
one
the
maine
of
faith
,
in
a
Translation
:
the
other
in
a
note
casting
out
the
canonical
with
a
Semicycle
,
as
lesse
profitable
,
and
drawing
in
Tobyes
Legenda
aurea
,
made
as
other
Iewish
,
forbid
fables
,
to
breake
all
the
frame
and
honor
of
Gods
counsel
:
wherein
we
shewe
that
wee
neuer
knewe
,
howe
the
families
guide
the
holy
story
,
in
a
most
sensible
dignitie
:
and
what
families
might
not
excell
the
rest
,
nor
yet
in
any
dignitie
come
neare
the
chiefe
.
And
thus
fiue
partes
of
my
eight
are
concluded
.
Their
destruction
sumbleth
not
:
and
their
iudgement
of
olde
is
not
slowe
.
The
holy
Ghost
his
translation
here
should
stande
.
Many
such
places
come
where
the
strict
propriety
is
too
harsh
.
As
,
If
the
iust
haue
his
payement
(
that
is
doubtfull
to
the
simple
)
in
Greeke
,
is
hardly
saued
:
very
learnedly
.
Ignorance
herein
caught
of
late
two
sides
of
striuers
tardy
,
about
this
:
God
called
for
darknes
and
it
came
,
and
they
were
not
disobedient
vnto
his
worde
.
Therein
some
defend
the
Ebrew
,
Batrachomy●machiā
:
wher
a
Grāmarian
kite
would
cary
awaye
both
striuers
as
they
may
:
but
marked
not
the
verbe
plural
put
impersonallie
.
The
Greekes
altered
the
relation
of
disobedience
vnto
the
Egyptians
thus
:
As
they
disobeyed
his
worde
.
Herein
we
had
a
very
vnseasonable
strife
:
with
bitter
contention
,
and
extreme
vnskilfulnes
in
the
offenders
and
defenders
.
The
Greekes
knew
well
what
the
Ebrewe
had
:
but
sawe
it
harsh
for
the
Greeke
phrase
:
and
that
made
them
departe
from
proprietie
,
as
paraphrastes
may
,
retayning
the
sense
.
And
here
I
think
it
good
to
digresse
a
litle
vnto
the
Septuagintaes
story
,
for
great
vse
of
our
present
matter
.
Ptolemy
Philadelphus
desirous
of
a
famous
Library
,
sent
to
Iu●ah
for
their
best
authours
and
translatours
:
and
had
them
●●nt
.
They
translated
seuerall
partes
about
fourtene
chapters
,
as
nowe
we
distinguish
them
:
or
some
one
might
goe
●●rough
some
little
booke
alone
.
The
copyes
which
they
●ad
with
them
in
Egypt
,
were
not
vowelled
nor
accented
:
●ut
as
some
Printes
yet
are
without
eyther
.
Where
both
●●lpes
are
not
,
none
without
exceeding
great
paynes
can
●●t
vpon
the
trueth
alwayes
.
The
want
whereof
lefte
the
●●ptuagint
vnto
infinite
errours
.
They
were
not
all
of
like
〈◊〉
.
The
Translatours
of
Moses
were
very
eloquent
:
Cain
,
either
of
purpose
●●d
his
minde
,
or
was
very
simple
in
Ebrewe
.
They
who
●ealt
with
the
storie
,
were
likewise
eloquent
:
and
so
in
the
●rouerbes
and
the
Psalmes
.
The
Grecian
on
Iob
was
a
●●et
reader
:
and
cared
not
to
yeeld
euery
saying
strictlie
,
●ut
what
might
be
to
Greeks
familiar
:
The
Translator
of
●cclesiastes
,
was
yonger
in
Ebrew
then
Greek
:
he
of
Amoz
●ot
the
best
:
he
of
Ezekiel
very
learned
.
The
diuersitie
of
their
style
:
and
hitting
nowe
:
nowe
missing
farre
,
in
the
same
,
tels
that
all
did
not
al.
Oftentimes
they
rather
abridge
then
translate
:
as
on
Hester
,
&
infinitely
in
the
Prophetes
.
In
mysteries
and
hard
Phrases
often
they
deale
exceeding
wel
.
Ahraham
.
There
was
no
other
translation
but
theirs
in
the
Apostles
age
:
and
it
was
more
knowen
to
the
Iewes
then
the
Ebrewe
,
ended
from
daily
vse
fiue
hundreth
yeares
afore
.
Therefore
they
vse
it
exceeding
much
.
In
many
places
they
leaue
it
&
translate
most
oratoriouslie
.
Resh
,
be
:
D.
and
V.
Caph
&
Resh
:
where
the
foot
of
Caph
wanted
Inke
.
In
such
places
,
if
the
translatours
had
borowed
their
neighbours
copies
,
they
had
not
missed
.
But
they
saw
no
reason
of
exact
care
,
wher
their
labour
was
required
only
for
a
braue
Librarie
.
Syracides
that
was
a
childe
when
they
translated
,
excuseth
the
matter
,
how
hard
it
was
to
translate
Ebrew
into
Greeke
.
Hard
must
it
be
for
thos
poor
afflicted
Iewes
lothing
Heathen
,
to
affoord
seauenty
learned
through
all
the
Prophets
Emblemes
,
Ebrew
subtilties
,
and
Greeke
elegancy
:
where
the
Church
neuer
had
seauentie
,
or
I
trow
seauen
that
spent
their
life
in
Ebrew
&
Greeke
for
the
explaning
of
the
Bible
.
Leyden
.
And
I
thinke
the
BB.
We
must
giue
more
heede
to
that
which
hath
bene
●ard
,
least
we
flowe
:
our
common
translation
hath
:
Naskitu
:
WE
FALL
.
The
Syriaque
,
Naebed
WE
PE●●SH
.
Saint
Pauls
metaphore
was
taken
from
Ieremies
la●●ntations
,
4.
in
Teth.
They
are
in
better
case
whiche
died
〈◊〉
the
sword
,
then
which
died
by
hunger
:
which
flowed
,
〈◊〉
perced
by
wanting
the
fruite
of
the
fielde
.
This
trope
●●lled
into
the
Iewes
mynde
Sedekias
kingdomes
fall
:
Zemach
,
or
day-spring
,
Esa.
4.
to
cleare
all
the
Prophets
:
all
Paul
,
and
the
Chaldy
(
vpon
Esai
4
)
a
rare
place
of
old
Ionat.
a
Rab
(
of
old
Simeons
age
or
neare
)
speaking
clearly
of
Christ
.
Now
to
teach
vs
,
that
,
The
Syriaque
hath
Zimcha
,
Esaies
.
When
thousands
of
these
come
in
singular
great
matters
,
better
then
commentaries
to
lighten
eyes
:
all
togither
will
make
a
mountayne
of
golden
learning
,
and
haue
great
force
.
Here
a
translatour
should
haue
all
that
the
newe
testament
translated
,
noted
in
his
Ebrew
Bible
:
to
be
plentiful
in
the
vse
of
that
helpe
.
So
for
this
sentence
:
He
maketh
his
Angels
spirites
,
and
his
ministers
a
flame
of
fyre
:
not
onely
the
Septuagint
and
the
Apostles
,
but
also
the
Zoar
in
many
places
sawe
that
God
spake
of
the
Angels
made
like
windes
and
flames
.
Wherein
the
facilitie
of
the
matter
should
bee
warranted
for
better
satisfaction
of
all
:
by
all
of
indifferent
affections
.
In
this
all
translations
of
learned
tongues
olde
and
ancient
will
much
delite
and
strengthen
:
the
Arabique
and
the
Syriaque
:
the
Chaldy
paraphrastes
,
Onkelos
,
Meturgeman
,
Ierusalemy
:
Ionothan
,
Ioseph
the
Blind
,
Aquilas
:
the
Septuagint
.
Yea
&
the
fragmentes
of
Aquilas
Symmachus
,
Theodotion
.
As
when
Iacob
sayth
,
Iudah
,
till
Shiloh
come
,
Aquilas
sayth
:
by
Scebet
(
in
Greke
Sceptron
)
he
meaneth
the
tribe
.
He
sayd
truely
:
Learnedly
and
to
infinite
good
vse
.
Ierusalemy
and
Barbinel
check
vs
rightly
:
for
Malachy
,
Thus
they
say
:
For
he
hateth
diuorcements
:
The
Eternall
is
the
speaker
.
Here
their
authoritie
is
the
strongest
of
all
humane
:
for
vs
,
against
them selues
.
The
Babylonian
Talmud
is
no
lesse
:
construing
Ezra
1.
Chron.
3.
That
Iechonias
Assyr
,
in
strait
prison
made
Salathiel
his
sonne
:
here
the
Talmud
for
this
one
poinct
is
much
worth
.
Most
pleasant
●re
the
Prophets
words
,
turned
by
the
Apostles
:
as
Sechi
&
Maos
,
in
Ierem.
and
Peripsema
and
Scybala
in
Saint
Paul
.
●n
this
sorte
all
the
Greeke
Testamentes
wordes
might
be
●rought
into
euery
Bibles
table
:
yea
and
the
Ebrew
two
,
with
one
leafe
of
Grammer
introduction
:
whereby
a
few
●oures
would
yeeld
a
methode
to
iudge
and
studie
as
oc●asion
and
leasure
serued
.
A
Linguist
would
as
easilie
per●orme
this
,
as
these
his
countrey
languages
.
And
this
must
be
●olden
,
that
Libanus
affoarded
not
more
timber
trees
to
●●lomons
house
,
then
the
Greeke
Septuaginta
doeth
to
the
●ewe
Testament
:
and
the
termes
called
into
question
for
●iuinitie
being
in
it
are
best
expounded
by
it
.
Examples
I
●eede
none
:
infinite
experience
of
daily
striuers
shewe
e●●ugh
.
And
nowe
comes
the
last
poinct
to
comment
by
●●ripture
:
so
all
Salomons
Prouerbes
may
be
set
on
the
fitt
●●ories
:
so
the
stories
with
their
Prophecies
▪
&
the
Psalmes
●on
the
lawe
:
the
Epistles
vpon
the
Ceremonies
much
:
●●ch
on
all
.
The
helpe
herein
would
make
the
newe
Te●●●ment
,
and
the
former
Prophetes
,
as
Daniel
,
Esaie
,
and
●h
,
easie
,
before
the
Reader
commeth
to
them
.
H.
Huntingdon
,
many
yeares
togither
,
Hunting
.
shold
be
honored
stil
of
his
true
affectioned
,
to
finish
his
beginnings
,
vrged
my
●●ll
this
way
:
whom
one
Earle
of
you
,
Nobles
,
of
neare
●initie
,
succeeded
in
willingnes
&
so
liberallie
towarde
●arges
,
that
vpon
that
(
according
to
these
eightfold
ob●●●uations
)
somewhat
,
if
God
will
,
shall
come
to
light
.
And
one
of
you
Lordes
requested
me
to
write
a
common
Epistle
to
you
all
:
that
you
might
so
better
knowe
howe
in
time
to
agree
for
execution
of
good
will
this
way
.
That
request
I
haue
(
as
ye
see
)
accomplished
.
And
I
hope
your
Noble
learning
will
not
expect
an
inflaming
peroration
.
The
dignitie
of
the
matter
is
greater
then
any
Oratour
can
match
.
And
for
personnages
,
none
be
so
fitt
as
your selfes
to
vrge
it
.
Professed
Scholers
,
who
studie
to
liue
:
and
not
liue
to
studie
,
are
commonly
,
being
advaunced
,
hinderers
of
all
that
passeth
the
common
base
course
.
And
as
my
furtherance
for
honorable
wordes
,
workes
,
charges
,
and
all
tendring
hath
bene
from
the
Nobilitie
(
from
what
side
the
contrarie
:
I
will
yet
see
,
and
nothing
say
)
so
I
am
free
to
chuse
whom
I
would
honour
in
this
motion
.
Vnder
the
terme
of
Nobilitie
,
as
we
here
towards
Germanie
do
,
I
conteyne
all
the
ancient
and
good
Gentry
of
the
land
:
whom
all
I
wish
to
haue
a
care
&
portion
about
the
book
of
life
.
The
deliberation
should
be
quick
.
The
King
of
our
language
hath
dealt
very
royally
for
his
part
:
with
a
willingnes
very
readie
.
Yet
my
great
desire
was
,
that
English
Nobilitie
might
be
moued
,
to
be
at
the
charges
of
this
trauell
.
And
so
I
leaue
the
matter
to
your
learned
Honorable
and
Worshipfull
consideration
.
From
MIDDELBVRGH
,
in
Sea-land
,
This
29.
of
May
,
1597.
Your
Honours
to
commaunde
,
H.
BROVGHTON
.