A require of agreement to the groundes of divinitie studie wherin great scholers falling, & being caught of Iewes disgrace the Gospel: & trap them to destruction. By H.B.

NOw because I wish your right worshipfull company, by this paynes to be Isachar & Zabulon, & grauen in blew Saphir, & Sardonyx, that will abide striking, in the brest of the high sacrificer in the heauens: I will briefly touch the sum of this booke. With three Iewes I had spech: At Amstel∣dem with Rabbi Farar a Physician: At Hanaw with the Sy∣nagoge Doctor Rabbi wolf: At Basil, with a Rabbin most desirous of christianity. The other do meane no good. Farar obiected in a great assembly: sayng your Principal scholers make Ioseph son to Ely, and Salathiel to Iechonias, proprely both: and the fourth Kingdome in Daniel to be the Ro∣mane: and that to this day yee cannot agree what Daniels seauens meane: nor to defend our Greke Testament: nor to tell what our Crede meaneth. Beza and Calvin misse in the first three deadly: Liuely & Barlo most athean impudently in the fourth. And for the fift Beza spent sixty yeres to prove the new Testamēt most corrupt, & for the sixt, Geneva layd a trayn to kill you: for denying Catelthein eis haidou in the Crede to meane suffring of hel torment: and for saying, that by all Grekes it meaneth a passage vnto Paradise. And at this last the Hanaw Iew fell back: that Hanaw builders hindered great Princes promises for Ebrew drawing of both testa∣mentes vnto Christ: because you despised Geneva: having

drawen all Churches vnto them: and for Daniels 〈…〉〈…〉▪ Genevit Scaliger checketh all former: ending them with Ie∣rusalem: as we Iewes doe: So for all six by Geneva your Gospel should be nothing worth: as by Oxon▪ wher D. R. was suffred to say, the Angel meant no certaine time: but if he had sayd: after 80 seauens Messias shalbe slain he had spo∣ken proprely. They forget God, that dare teach Angels how to deliuer their Message. I graunted that Geneva in all these taught poison to the Gospell: and by blindenes wold make Churches a Synagoge of Satan: and this I wold make good. That Iesus, Mary, Ely are Luc. 3. genealogied, not Ioseph: that Iechonias only, as a King a successor, begat Salathiel, that the Macedonianes were the fourth Kingdome in Da∣niel: that Beroaldus in Geneva rightly limited Daniels sea∣uens. That Beza hath altered no text: only disputed vpon them: that for Luc. 3. he referreth the matter to others, and Mat. 1. and Daniels fourth Kingdome is well handled by Genevean Iunius and Tremelius. And the senat for all, yel∣ded vnto me: and Hanaw little ioyeth in any victory, Beza with Calvin did much good, in their kind: But I wold not haue them my auctours. Thus I disputed with the Iewe. I also glaunse at the Iesuites: for Plantines Bible for fastening to the Bible of the old Testament 1696 vniust blames: and denying the vowels to haue Gods austority: and for stealing the word Romylus from the Chaldy Es. 11. where Ionathan namely condemneth Rome, as S. Paul 2. Thess. 2. saith. Thence the state wholy sinfull shall arise: which shalbe over∣throwen by lerning, and by the spirit of Christ. With the third Iew I speak of the Apocalyps Image and beast answea∣rable to Daniels Image and beastes: and Satan pictured from

the Romane armes, him shewed. So the seven Angels trum∣peters for Romes pluguing of the world, and seaven Angels revengers in the same tenour of Phrase. In my Latin Con. I haue shewd the comparison of both seauen Angels I wil now touch the Phrases. The Bridgemaker to restore Kome, to be a woman riding vpō the old Empire, not reviued with∣out blood, maketh the earth plagued that suffred him: So his goten earth is plagued with boyles of state: when monaste∣ries wickednes is spied. He a mountaine was cast into the sea of nationes: his nationes feal blood, which they shed, star wormewood turned the law waters into bitternes. His do∣ctors fountaines and riuers bitter to death, now cause him blood. He darkened sun of Iustice: sun of Iustice maketh his bite their tongues: that what they speake they vnpeake. He became a King of Locustes and a beast ch. 11. now the thone of the beast is daghkened. Euphrates was in startes loose: now still. Martyrs earthquake shakes much & without Martyrs Baraks victorie is at Armageddon: & Iosuahs haile: to the last victorie. These matters I hope and wish to be as the Pearle Mat. 13. in all your trafiques: and I referre the suc∣cesse and your selues to the tuition of him whose will the vnconstant windes do constantly performe.

Yours for all help to find the Pearle of heauen, Hugh Broughton.