Our Lordes famile and many other poinctes depending upon it opened against a Iew, Rabbi David Farar: who disputed many houres, with hope to overthrow the gospel, opened in Ebrew explication of Christianitie; that instructed, Rabbi Abraham Ruben. With a Greke epistle to the Geneveans. By H. Broughton.

Of the Kinges that vvere not fathers to Christ.

Salomon & his brother Nathan vvere sonnes of Dauid, by Bathsheba; But knovvledge of the holy trinity, & of Christ his incarnation & resurrection made them the best soules. And

all vvho blame them for sodain in••••mities, & commend the•• not for their heauenly vertues, shall not be of Christ his bre¦thren. Salomō glorifyed God in his infirnite vvisdome; com∣pa••ing thinges visible to shevv the vnvisible of God; his eter∣nall povver & God head; & speketh of the Eternall sonne Prov▪ ••. hovv his delite is in the holy sonnes of Adam: as he gover∣neth his peoples state in a most pleasant frame: that the blin∣dest may see a clear provocation of all to salvation. His grea•• povver, & building of tovvnes▪ suffred not his hart to rest i•• the night; & his vvomen only overravvght him: to suffre, & by his charges to build, Idole places; vvher upon he savv that Gods threat vvold overthrovv his Kingdome; & before, he knevv from Moyses, Deut. 28. that the Kingdome should be overthrovven; & that in a strāge countrey Iuda vvold pray loo∣king tovvard the temple Leu. 16. 1 k. 8. & God vvold hea•••• them. And vvhen by his practise suffring Idolatry, he occasio∣ned the renting of his Kingdome; & foresavv destruction ••f temple, city, comon vveale he vvriteth his Gospell, That al•• vnder the sonne is vain, & the Kingdome of Christ is not of this vvorld; but the promesse of the Eternall throne to Dauid, vvas for the vvorld to come, that vve, should loke for the la•••• iudgement. Herod should most carefully haue lerned this much; vvhen he first lerned the story of Salomon. vvho vvas the first & last that had all this vvorld at vvill; to shevv that Christ his Kingdome is not of this vvorld. And yet this day the Ievves look for a pompous Kingdome; as I haue layd dovvne theyr vvordes, in Ebrevv & English, to Ecclesiastes▪ And Salomons case alone might haue taught Herod, Pilate, Cesars & concision that the Pompe of this vvorld is not fit to brede povertie in spirite; to brede morning, to brede mekenes, to brede hunger & thirst for iustice, to find the Kingdome of heauen vvhen the vvhole fovvertene pilgromes in this vvorld folovving heauen in a quiet priuate hope could not move He∣rod,

all being our Lordes fathers, & all best▪ in pri••a••e state, the first turning aside frō his liue noble in the vanity of this world, & leauing no hope for others to com nere, should haue vvar∣ned that 'the King eternall vnvisible blesseth men only to his vnvisible Kingdome that is not of this vvorlds. So Herod had not Killed the yong children; nor had come to such an horri∣ble death as Iosephus recorded, to haue shevved an entrance to his Eternal flames: because he vvold knovv vvhat the Angel & Daniel taught the Persian sages for the Kindome of Christ.