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.

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I denie the assumption; The fourth Kingdom is not the Romanes; But the parted Macedonianes; a parted Kingdome from the third; & called one in respect of clayming Iuda, to both sides; & by ioyning mariages still, Syria vvith Egypt; & the Romanes had bene vnfitly figured by tvvo legges being one Kingdome. Besides the mariages together had bene no distin∣ctiones. For all nationes mary vvithin them selues. But the mariages of Seleucidae & Lagidae pass al in all stories; continued nere 300 yeres handled in many vvriters, Strabo, Appiane, Pausanias, Livi Trogus, & moo full many. Besides the Ro∣manes had made the inages legges longer then the gyant Ty∣phoeas vvhom Iuppiter buryed in Tinacria vvhose head vvas vnter one mout; & his tvvo feet reached vnto the other. But Gods providence contriued all to a fit proportion of a mans body. The Chaldean of short time to haue a short part; 70 ye∣res. the Persianes in brest & shoulders to let dovvne the armes 130. nere double to the other Alexander & his captaines sone

destroyng one another 23 beside Seleucidae & Lagidas, to belly & as so many ribbes: & all sone cutt off to haue the shortnes of a belly: & the reason is plain, that Alexander vvas to be sone cut off; because he vvold be a God, proud by successe; And a Poet vvold say, he should be cut off least he vvold make vvar∣res for heauen. Novv the tvvo legges vvhich continued dou∣ble the Persian time; & in mariage; that Cybiosactes a supposed Seleucides maried the late Gleopatra these haue a fit proporti∣on; &, strong a vvhile, are thick thyghes: vveaker are the slen∣derer legges; And vvhen Antiochus Epiphanes ruled Egypt & Syria, Gyges Asia, & Egypt, & Phayt or Phaytons Lybia, as Ezekiel told. Ch. 38 & 39. & Polychronius the Greke vvhom I gaue you vvith porphyrie & other Grecianes, doth him & these matters rightly handle: vvhen Epiphanes ruled both; then the tvvo vvere one Kingdome; & for vvarning touching his altering of the lavv, the visiones vvere chiefly shevved; & Ch. 7. 8. 11, & 12. agree to the parted Macedonians to every vvord of Daniel; & your expounders confesse that the Greci∣an Epiphanes vvhole rage is of dayes 2300▪ & Rabbag sayeth that the legges conteine the same matter; & that the Kinges of the north & south Ch. XI are the tvvo legges; & for Ch. 12. Io∣sephus sayth as Daniel, that he held Ierusalem three yeres & an half; & your Machabees note that sone after (at a month) his army smarted; & sone he (after dayes 45) fell by Gods hand. And heathen stories agree to Euery svl••able; vvhich by chaunse could not fal out one vvord by chaunse may fal fit to a matter not purposed; But as an hog may dig the letter A, vvith the no¦se, yet cannot dig Andromachaes vvork of Ennius; so heathen could never fit Seleucidas & lagidas to every vvhit of Daniel vvhom they never savv, but that God closly ruled the Balami∣tes to teach Israel. Moreover it is most senseles to think that the Macedonians vexing your nation, vvith double campes in your nation; eating as vvith teeth of iron; for fiue Kinges of one side & fiue of an other, & treading all dovvne by campes

vvhich they coul not eate; it is most senseless in you to think•• that no prophecy should tell you of these poinctes, but 300 ye∣res should be passed over; & Turke, & Caesar, & south Kinges late in Aben ezra vpon Dan. should be meaned. Gehenna i••stly devoureth your natiō, as fevvell ready for it, that despise Gods goodnes, leading you so clearly by Daniel vnto Christ his birth, by the Image; & vnto his death by Aben ezraes vvordes Dan. 9. That seauenty seauens of yeres are from Daniels prayer to Seale the Messias the holynes of all holynesse. And doth not this speake as vve, that God vvas in Christ reconciling the vvorld vnto him self; vvho in death overcame him vvhich had the povver of death; & the vvorld vvas subiect to the son of Enos, a litle inferiour to Angels by suffring death, but Crovvned vvith glory, by resurrection & ascention. To vvhat sonne of Enos could the vvorld be subiect being a bare man? vvhat bare man durst the Angels vvorship at his coming into the vvorld: by ps. 97. & Kimchi confesseth that to be spoken of Messias coming into the vvorld. And Sadaias vpon Dan. 7. confesseth Messias the sonne of man coming into the vvorld; & sitting vpon the right hand of God by ps. 110 And vvher your Thalmud denyeth that vpon ps. 110 Iarky & Aben ezra cannot agree. But Iarki vvith Sadaias vpon Dan. 7. say Messias is ther meant; & the person ther sone returneth to the Euerlas∣ting: & thence ruleth all Kingdomes: coming into the vvorld as sone as the Romanes tribute shevved that the Macedonianes the fourth Kingdome had not one tovvne of governement vnder the cope of heauen. And hovv can you be saued despi∣sing so great salvation; vvhich telleth by so many stories in Daniel; yf this & this for 500 yeres fall out as vvas foretold lok for the redemer in the yere that Aben ezra told; & to be Mes∣••••as & the most holy by Aben ezra: & to sit on Gods right hand by Rabbi Sadaias. Thus ye may se that not the Romanes but the Macedonianes vvere to be the destroyed, before Christ came into the vvorld. And you might rede vvhat a gracious

commentarie the N. Testament maketh vpon this poinct; yf you haue any vvorde to gainsay speak on.