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 Asa Iosaphat & the rest

Asa good, yet imprisoned the Prophet, a Pope father or Bi∣shop from God; as yf he had imprisoned Christ him self. Iosa∣phat a good King made bad affinity vvith Achabs house that Ioram should mary Achabs Daughter. Iezabels also she might vvell be. Athalia is the vvoman. Another Iezabel. Hence Io∣ram

killeth his brethren his ovvne bovvelles: & his Moth•••• Iezabel, as vvell she might be, killed the prophetes; & the lo•••• some muckhil, that her name soundeth, dreamed to kill the ho••¦ses and chariot of Israel: Elias the nevv Enoch. Then folovv exemples for Herode; to knovv matters to come, by former notoriours. Tvvo & forty yeres Omries house vvas a plage to Israel; & ochozias King of Iuda aged 22. vvhen his father died at forty, in the first yere of his regne, fell by partaking vvith Omries house against Iehu, fell to be Ben, in the giltines of the forty & tvvo yeres. Esra cunning in Ebrevv, vvhen he pen∣ned the Chronicles, littel thought that men vvold be so barba∣rous as to make him aged 42. & tvvo yeres Elder then his fa∣ther, vvhom the propre story of the Kinges vvritten by Iere∣my, made aged 22. for the same yere. Ezra a repeaters, pen∣nyng the story eloquētly, of one caught in the giltines of the fa¦milie so long vvicked & caught in theyr sin; in the tvvo & for∣tieth yere. The spirite vvhich beautified the heauens, vvold haue the story beautified vvith Eloquent Ebrevv, that they should be Barbarous that vvold not mark this to the bottom. Novv Herod might see in Athalia fit Motherhood for Anti∣paters sonne. Such a vvife vvas fit to be Herodes mother. & Herod might knovv by her end vvhat his ovvne vvold be. And any might see that a Kingdom geuen ouer by God to the svvord of Athalia, vvas not of that throne vvhich God pro∣mised to Dauid to stand for euer. Athalia Destroyed all the se∣de of Roboams mother the ammonitilh, that might be Kinge•• for her children by a former Husband; except Ioas vvhom his aunt saued, being an yere old Who is called of God six time•• at the lest for propriety sonne to ochozias; a miserable sō to a miserable father. Ioas the Cain killed the Prophet zacharie that prophecied of Christ his Kingdome: killed him, betvvi•••• the alter & the temple; vvher none but sacrificers might come; The vvight most vnthankfull, & Gods hated killed him vvho s•• father by his vvife saued his life. Herod might see & the Pha∣risees

might see them selues the sonnes of this Cain Ioas; vvhen they vvold shed blood speaking more forcible then Abels.

Touching a forged Table, pretending to reconcile S. Mat. and S. Luke, bringing Ioas & all after him to be holy-Fathers & our Lordes 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉; attributing folly vnto the Eternal wisdome of God, to bring the most holy, of the most wicked: I gave advertisement, & as I here, through Britany, it is wel taken. Other countreys also have it: I wold wish them also to marke these short speaches.

They, vvho vuold make the Apostles to teach all Thalmu¦distes, that they sinned, holding Ioas and all after him, to be of Salomon; and not to be holy men in S. Luke, termed by other names; passe Machmad infinitely in all extremity of impuden¦ty: and Lucian the Dog vvold say, the vvheston vvas vvonne from his true story; by them vvho vuold feigne tvvelue men together, to be Kinges of tvvo names; and the one kind neuer ••eard by the learned of that nation. I hope D. B. vvil hold this true at the last: and vvho could euer haue thought, that reason¦nable vvightes vvold euer print or buy such a Table. And the miserie of the familie, might teach Herod, that Christs his Kingdome vuas not like theyrs. Wher Ochosias, Ioas, Amasi as, vvere all three sent up to Haides by bloody death, to give a∣compt before Cods Throne, of theyr Sceptre; and the pleading ther at judgement vuold be as tolerable for the Kinges of Acab by father, as for them, thence by mother; and S. Mat. leaueth them out, as a shame to be named in Salomons hovvse; & un¦vvorthy of reckoning in the Nevv Testament. And here he tea¦cheth Herod and all, by silence, more then any by anie cries, that none heauenly mynded, vuold bring Christ the King ••rō such, or from such a Kingdome, since Dauid vvrote; Thy Thro∣ne, o God, is for ever & ever: the Sceptre of thy Kingdome, is a Sce¦ptre of righteousnes: thou lovest iustice, and hatest sin. Therfore it is

most evident, that God thy God hath annointed thee with ••yle of gladnes above thy felowes. Yet in the sixt generation from A∣cab the vvicked, King Azarias found mercy; aged 4 yeres vvhē his Father vvas kild; and vvas ruled by the Councell, about 12 yeres; and so somvvhat better brought up, then yf he had bene ruled by his Father. Yet he dyed in a Leprosie, for offring in the Sacrificers office, in Christ his Kingdome; in vvhich of∣fice Sem the great by the name of Melchisedek, vvas described a Sacrificer in phrase still abiding, as still alive. Azarias should have lerned that of his Father David; & that none of Iuda vver¦to come nere the altar. By Lavv death vvas the payment for the action: for endeuour a Leprosie brake out in his forehead: vnto his death shut up from comon companie. And by this punishment of Salomons hovvse, Thalmudiques should have lerned, that Christ should be a King in an higher person & of∣fice; as the Eternal, the brightness of glory; having all the na∣ture of God in him; vvho carieth about all thinges by his migh¦ty vvord▪ & by himself performing a clensing ransome of our sinnes, should sit on the right hand of God. Vnto such a King Herod & the Scribes might hav looked, & to an Eternal thro•• for thēselues. And in this age God shevved a shaking of Salo∣mōs house. In the yere that Vzias died, the glorie of Christ fil¦led the tēple, vvith a smoke of anger; & the posts of it trembled by the terrible earthquake, mentioned by Zacharie; at vvhich the people fled. Then Esay seeth Seraphin in the tēple; Angels representing the Chaldeans vvhic shall burne the temple; & i•• taught of ten calamities to come afor the last destructiō; vvhich I haue ordered in tables in my Concent. These terrours made Ioatham a good King: but Achaz vvold not beleue, as did Eue, that the Sonne of God vvold be a man of a virgin. He had be•• vvel plagued by Pekath; & his childrē vver kiled by the Arabi∣anes. Ezchias vvas a good King; but after deliuerance from Sa∣nacherib famous in Herodotus, he shevved the Chaldean his vvelth; as hauing some trust in it; & is told that his posteritie

(by daughters) shal serue in Babels court. Manasses that savved Esay, savv all sin & slauerie; Amon vvas sone killed; holy Iosi∣as, for vvicked subjectes vvas killed: Ioachas died in prison: Io¦akim vvas captiued▪ and cast avvaie unburied; Iechonias vvas kept. yeres 37 in closse prison. Sedekias eies vvere polled out. And his children vvere killed; & the state felt Ieremies Lamē∣••ations. And novv let us come to the third fovvertene.