THE HOLY BIBLE FAITHFVLLY TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH OVT OF the authentical Latin, diligently conferred with the Hebrew, Greek, & other Editions in diuers languages: With Arguments of the: Bookes and Chapters , Annotations, Tables, co other helps, for better-vnderflanding of the sexi: for difcouerie of Corruptions in fome late tranflation.: and for clearing Controuerfies in Religion, By the English Colledge of Dovvay. Hawrietis aquas in gaudio de fontibus Saluatoris, Unie. 12, You shal draw vraters in ioy out of the Saniours fountaines. Printed by Ioun CovstvrizR PERMISSV SVPERIORVM. M DC. X¥XXV.te tectstectetacterhctachetachetachutachetech PEPE SEES ESP EES SEE T APPROBATIO. No infrafcripti, inalma Duacenft vniuerfitate Sacra Theologse Doitores ¢) Profeffores,hanc Anglicanan, Veteris Teftamenti tranfla:ioncm, quam tres dinerfi eius na- tioniserudstifssmi Theologi , non folam fidelem , fed piopter diuer[a que ei {unt adiuntta , valde vtilem fidei Catholic. ropagande actuende , em bonis morshus promouendis , fom teats: quorum teftimonia ipforum [yngraphis mznita vidi lus; cuius item Tranftationis ¢ Annotationum auffores nobis de fides integra: ate, & eruditionis pre 2antia probe [un. moti : his rebsus adducts cx nixt, frustuo‘eenulgari poffe cen [uiraus, Duaci 8, Nouembris. 1609. Gvrrreruvs Es trys Sacrz Theologie Do€tor , & in! Academia Duacenfi Profeffor, BantHoLomarvs Pet Rvs Sacte Theologie Dodor, & in Vaiuerfitate Duacenfi Profeffor. Grorciys Corveneniys S.Theologic Dogor , & eiufdem in Academia Duacena Profeffor.TO THE RIGHT WELBELOVED ENGLISH READER GRACE AND GLORIE IN IESVS CHRIST EVERLASTING T tasy through Gods goodnes(moft dearely beloued) We fetid you here the greater part of & the Old Teftament ,as long fince you receiued y the New , faithfully rranilated into English o¢*@RS Therefidueisin hand to be finished : andyour Jiefire thereof shal nor now (God profpering our intention belong fruftrace. As for the impediments , which hithertc haue hindred this worke, they al proceeded (as many doc know) of one general caufe, our poore eftate in banishment. \Wherein expecting better meanes, greater difficulties rathe1 lenfued. Neuerthcies you wil hereby the more perceiue ou feruent good wil, euer to ferue you , inthat we haue brought forth this Tome in the bardeft times , of aboue fourty yeares, ince this College was moft happily begun. Wherelore we nothing doubr,but you ourdeareit ,forwhom We haue dedi- cated our lines, wil both pardon the long delay , which we could not preuent ,and accept now this fruit of out labonrs, with like good affection, as Weacknowledge them due, and loffer the fame vnto you. Ifany demand, Wh {Scriptures in vulgar t is now: allowed to-haue the holy g55 Which generally is not permittee Thecaufe of delay in fer- ting forth this English Bible, 'Why and how] itis allowed io hauchelic Az but!seriprares inTO THE ENGLISH READER, (but in the three facred only, tor further declaration of this and| other like points we remit youto the Preface before the New [Teftament. Only here, as by an Epitome,we shal repeat the| {famme of al thatis there more largely difcuffed. To this fii lqueftion therefore we anfwer, that both iuft reafon & higheft| authority of the. Church,iudgeit not abfolutely neceffary nor alwayes conuenient , that holy Scriptures should be in vulgar Scriptures |tongs.For being as they are,hard tobe vnderftood,euen by the| learned,téafon doth dictate to reafonable men,that they were ora, notwritté nor ordained to be read indifferétly of al men.Expe-| Manyeake |rigce alfo teacherh,tharthronghignorace,ioyned ofté with pri- Pr sett ide 8 prefamption , many reading Scriptures haue erred grofly jptures, by mifanderftanding Gods word. Which though it be moii!#. d pace i-felfyecobe fe bingadarrated a pevilew(faith Tereul) w/e, | the file corrupted. S«Amb. obterueth,that whererhe text is truethe Ari@sls.aed interpretation hath errours.S. Auguit. alfo teachethsthat berefies & per-|Oraii® were dodtrines,entagling foulcs,e7 shrowing the done headiag into the depth,doc| 7, nes orber wife (pring vp but when good (or true) Scriptures are not Tel (¢ t1uly)| vaderfoed,es whe that which 0 tbe is mor wel vnderftood, is alforasbly & boldly |auonsbed. For the fame caufe S.Hierome viterly dilatlowed,that| rif. al forts of men & womé, old & yong,prefamed to read & talke|°** ofthe Scriprures:wheras mo artrzen ,no trads-man dare prefume to teach] Reading of anit faculsie, which be hath not firft learned, Seeing therfore that dagers| pees land horts happen in manie the careful chiefPaftours in Gods * {Church haue alwaies moderated the reading of holy Script res,according toperfos,times, &other circiiltancessprohibiting fome, and permitting fome, to haue & read thé in their mother IScriprures. _|tong.So $.Chhrifo. tra(lated the Pfalmes & fome other parts of| franiiated into holy Scriptures for the Armenias,when he was therein banish-| éinerstongs. | onét. The Slauonias & Goths fay they haue the Bible in their 14- ai. jguages.[c was tra(lated into Italia by an Archbishop of Genua.| Into Frenchin the time of King Charlsthe Fift , efpecially be- caufe the waldenfian heretikes had corruptly tranilated it, to maintaine theirerrours. We had fomepartsin English traflated by VenerableBede, as Malmesburie witneffeth. And Thomas| zis, +, Arundel, Archbishop of Canturburie , in a Counce] holden at|#if-«. Oxford, ftri@ly ordained , that no heretical tranflation fer forth) Fywed by wicliffe & his cdplices,nor anie other vulgar Edition should)... be fuffered,til it wereapproned by the Ordinaric afthe Diocefe alledging2. Ti, tac, i, found to difagree. But the ancient beft learned Fathers & Do-h4ore pure cours ofthe Church , doe much complaine , and teftifie to vs,tiien the Ho- |that both the Hebrew and Greeke Editions are fouly corrup-| ;, laced out of them , whiles they were more pure and thar the So that the old Vulgate Latin Edition hath been prefer- TO FHE ENGLISH READER, lalledging S. Hicroms iudgement of the difficultie & danger in tranflating holie Scriptures out of one tong into an other. And herfore it muft needs be much more dangerous, when ignorat ipeople read alfocorrupred tranflations, Now fince Luther and) lhis folowers haue pretended, that the Catholike Romane faith’ 8 doétrine should be contrarieto Gods written word , & thaz| ithe Scriptures were not faffered in vulgar languages left the| |people should feethe truth, & withal thefe new Maifters cor-| ruptly turning the Scriptures into diuers tongs , as might beft ferue their owne opinions ; againft this falfe fuggeftion and} pradle,Cathoike Paftours haue,for one efpecial remedie , fet forth crue & fincere Traflations in moft languages of the Latin| (Church: But fo,that people muft read thé with licence of their |{piritual Superiour,as in former times they Were in like fort li ited. Such alfo of the Laitie , yeaand of the meaner learned! Clergie,as were permitted te read holy Scriptures, did not pre- {fame to interprete hard places,nor high Myileries , much leffe, more learned, {earched rather & notedthe godlie and imitable And thus holy Scriptures may be rightly vied in anie tong , 1 teach, to argue,tecorrect,toinfirutt iniuflice,that the mi of Ged may be per fell, ce (as S. Paul addeth jinfrudted t0 ewerie good worke, when men labour rather| to be deers of Gods wil & word, then readers or hearers only deceiving rhefelues. Proteftants preferre , as the fountaine tongs , wherin holie Scriptures were firft writen? To this we an{wer,that if indeed| thofe firlt pure Editions were now extant, or if fuchas beex-| rant Were more pure then the Latin, we would alfo preferre fach fountaines before the riuers, in whatfoeuer they should be ited by ewes, and Heretikes, fince the Latin was truly trant-| fame Latin hath been fatrebetter conferued from corruptions, BG red A columnious Iuggettion of \Lutherans, to difpate andcontend,but leauing the difcuffion therof tothe Wb partof umoft conut lexamples of good lite,& fo learned more humilitie,obedience, nien for rule hatred of finne,feare of God, zeale of Religi6, & other vertues,|S* Taers But hereanother queftion may be propofed : Why we tran{- Why wetran- Hate the Latin text, rather then the Hebrew ; or Greeke, Which fate the old atin text, lbrew or Greek Inow extant,TO THE ENGLISH READER, fred for mott authentical aboue a thoufand amd| three hudrelycares. Forby this very verme S. Hierome cal-|, 4», | letl that Verlion te valgate-or common, vehichhe conferred-with\tyen, | the Hebre v ofthe old Teftament,and with the Greeke of the} | New s which healfo purged from faults committed by wri- cers,tather amending thenstanflating it. Though in regard of this amending , S. Gregoric calleth it the new verfion of .titerome:|, vho neuertheles in another place calleth the felf-famie,lasmr, the od Latin Edition, iudging it moft worthy to be followed. S.lEN#. | Auguftin, calleth it the italia, S, Ifidorus witneffeth that'siceom- Learned inno |S: Hievoms verfion Was teceiued and appreued-by al Chriflien Charebes./é- Greek,” |Sophronius alfo a moft learned man, feeing S.Hicroms Editid ¢}:9"" fo much efteeme |, notonly of the Latins, but alfo of the Gre- ah | cians, returned the Pfalter and Prophets out of the fame Larin!é into Greeke, Of latter tiraes what shal we need to recite other i: de moft learned men,S$.Bede,S. Anfelme,S. Bernard, S. Thomas, 2m. IS. Bonauenuure,& the reft? Who al vniformly alledge this only "** ie text asauthentical. Info much thatal other Latin Editions, : which S..Hierome faith were in his time almoft innumerable, |Prefar |S. Hicrom ex-iareasit were fallen out ofal Diuines hands, and growne out}! eclled a ether of creditand vfe. if moreouer We confider S. Hicromes lear- ng & (ning, pietie, diligence,and fincerity , together with the com fagorsaing | |modiues he had of belt copiesin al languages then extant ,and rete 54°" lof other learned men with whom he conferred ; and if we fo compare the fame with the beft meanes that hath been fince,| furely no man of indiffent iudgement wil match any othes| Edition vith §. Hieroms:: but eafily acknowvledge vvith the vvhole-Church Gods particular prouidence in thts great Do- ctour, as wvel for expounding,,as moft efpecially for the true| His Edition |text and Edition of Holy Scriptures. Neither doe vve fly yn-| [eefrom —— J,ocbis old Latin text for more aduantage : For, befides that itis patualiie, lee from partiality ,asbeing moft ancient of al Latin copies,! and Jong before the particular Controuerfies of thefe dayesbe-_ ican,the Hebrevvalfoand the Greek vvhen they are truly tran-’ ilated,yea and Erafinus his Latin, in fundry places prouemore plainly the Catholike Roman doérine ,then this vvhich wve| IPreferedbe- |rely vpon. Sothat Beza andhis followers take alfo exception ewe. va, jv.20. Prefat [Nowi, fercalotier | sgaindt che Greckevvhen Catholikesalledge it againft them, Beza, Yeathefame Beza preferreth the old Latin Verfion before a} letnne, 1156, ne other s\e. veocfore {erree"ic, Thofe chat tranflated itabour thirty yeares ince, were Wel TO THE ENGLISH READER. Jothers, and freely teftifieth, that the old Interpreter tranflated religioufly. Wharthen doe our countrimen , thatrefufe this| Latin,but depriue thennfelues of the beft,and yeral titis while, lhaue fer forth none;that isallovved by al Proveftants for good| or fufficient? \, How wel this is done the learned may iudge, when by ma- refact ure conference they shal haue maderrial thereof. Andi any thing be miftaken, We wil (as ftil we promife) gladly corre¢t knowento the world,to haue been excellentin the tongs, fin- touching the text, whereof we are efpecially ro giue notice: [That whereas heretofore in the beft Latin Editions there re-| jin long procelfe of time the vuriters erred in thei copies,novy lately by the care and diligence of the Church , thofe divers readings vvere maturely and iudicioufly examined and-con. ferred vvich fandry the bett veritten and printedbooks,and fo| refolued vpon,chat al vvhich before wvere left in the margent, lare cither reftored into the text, or els omitted fo rhat nowy] lnone fuch remainein the margent. For vvhich caufe we haue| lagaine conferred this English tranflation,and conformed ito ithe moft perfect Latin Edition. Where yet by the vvay wve Imuft giue the vulgar reader to vnderftand , that very fevv or none of the former varieties touched Contronerfies of this ext, and more eafeand fatisfaGion of {uch , as othervvife should haue remained more doubtful. Novy forthe ftriéines obferued in traflating fome words, or rather the nor tranflating of fome,vvhich is in more danger tol be difliked,vve doubt not but the difcrete learned reader,deep-| lly vveighing and confidering the importance of facred vvords, jand hovv eatily the tranflatour may miffe the fer-te of the Ho- ly Ghoft, vvil hold that vvhich is here done for reafonableand| neceffary. Wehauealfo the example of the Latin and Greek, vvhere (ome vvords are not tranflated , but left in Hebrevy , as they vvere firt fpoken and vvritten; vwhich feeing they could not, or were not conuenient tobe tranflaed into Latin 0; Greeke: cere men, and great Dinines. Only one thing we haue done! ‘mained many places differing in vvords, {ome alfo in fenfe as! time,So that thisrecognition isno wvay fapicious of partiality, but is meerly done for the more fecure conferuation ofthe true| None yet in England al lowed Fot-fuF- cient, |What is done jin this Editia, IDizers rea- Idings refolued] Irpon , & non lefe in the "They touched no: prefent Icontrouerfies, hy fome lwords are not tranfiated into} vulgar En- glk, Some Hebrew lords not itranflated into ‘Latin ner |Greeke,TO THE ENGLISH READER. Greeke, hovv much leffe could they, or wvasit reafon to turne!| More anthari-(them into English? S. Auguftinalfo yealdetha reafon , exem- tiein Gaered. |plifyingin the words Amen and Alleluia, for the more facred autheritu| jrongs. theraf, Which doubtless the caufe why fome names of folemuc Feafts,| sacrifices ,and other holie things arer{eredin acred tongs, Hebrew, somewords_|Greeke , or Latin, Againe for neceffitic , English not hauing a| canot be ttl name, ot fufficientterme, We either keep the word as we find glish, it, or only turne it to our English termination,becaufe it wouid| lotherwife requiremanie words in English,tofignifie one word| ofan other tongue, In which cafes ,we commonly put the ex-| Proretants — [plicationin the margent. Briefly, our Apologic is eafic againft eauefome {Pte si : Nards omgan- [English Proteftants ; becaufe they alfo referuc fome words in| fated, the original tongues , not tranflated into English ,as Sabboath, Epbed, Pentecoft, Projelyte, and {ome others. The fenfe wherofis in- Jdced as foone learned , as ifthey were turned fo neer asis poffi:| lbleinto English. And why then may We not fay Prepuce, Phafeor| Pufeh, aximes, Breads of Propofision, Holecau(t, and the like? rather then las Prote(tantstranflate them , Fere-skinne, Paffeoner, The feaft of fweet breads, Shew breads , Burnt offerings &c, By which termes , whether] they be truly tranflated into English orno , we wil paffe ouer, { ture it isan English man is ftilto fecke what they meane ,asif they remained in Hebrew or Greeke. It more importeth , that! Inothing be wittingly and falsly. wanslared for aduantage of! ldocirine in matter of faith. Wherinas we dare’boldly auonch! | ithe finceritie of this Translation,and that nothing is here either’ lvatruly or ob{curely done of purpofe, in fauour of Catholike Roman Religion , fo we can not bat complaine ,and chalenge Corprisns |English Proteftants , for corrupting the text ,contratic tothe in Presetants Hebrew and Grecke , which they profeffe ro translate , for the| erik Sent {more shew and mainteining of their peculiar opinions againft eures. of |Catholikes:As is proued in the Dicewerte of manifld corruptions, For perpofe’ 2 Jexample we shal put the reader in memorie of one or wwo. like dosrine. \Gen. 4.v.7.Whereas (God fpeaking to Cain ) the Hebrew, lords in Grammatical conftrudion may be translated either rs: nto thee alfo perteyneth tbeluft tx £RO F , @ thou shalt hane domi- utr 17 +0 thus .Alfo vatoshee 18 defire shal be fubie and thow shalt ule ver 41m: though the coherence of the text requireth the! former ,andin the Bibles printed 1552+and.1577. Proteftants| ldid fo translate it: yet in the yeare 157.9. and 1603. they tranf- Tate! aTO THE ENGLISH READE fate it the other way , rather faying , that Abel was fubiedt to | Cain,and that Cain by Gods ordinance had dominion oner his brother Abel , then that concupi(cence or luft of finneis fab- ieét to mans Wil, or that manhath power of feee Wil to refift ' (by Gods grace) tentation of inne. But as we heare,ina new | Hdition (which we haue not yet feen) they tranflate it almoft asia the firft. In like foreGen. 14. v.18. the Hebrew particle iv av,vvhich S.Hierd & al Antiquitie tranflated E x 1 x(For) | Proteitants vvil by no meanes admit it, becaute (belides other | arguméts)vve proue therby Melchifedechs Sacrifice. And yet | themfelues tranflate the fame, as S. Hierom doth , Gen. 23.7. 3. [faying:F o x she wamans wife. & une Gen. 31.719. the English | |Bioles 1552-and1577.tranfleie Tuerspiim, Luaces, Which the | j Edition oft 603. correcting, traflateth Ipozs.And the marginal | | Annotation vvel proueth.thar ivought to be fo rranfiated, With this then vve vvil conclude moft deare (vve fpeaketo youal, that vaderftand our tongue , whether you be of con- | trarie opinions in faith , ot of mundane feare participate with ‘an other Congregation, or profeffe vvith vs the fame Catho- \like Religion) to you al ve prefent this vvotke : daily be- feeching God Almightie > the Diuine Witedom , Eternal Goodnes,to create illuminate and replenish vour fpitits, vvith his Grace, that you may attaine eternal Glorie, euery one in _hismeafare jin thoi many Mansions prepared ‘and promifed | by our Sauiour in his Fathers houte. Notonly to thole vyhich | | firft receiued and followved his Diuine doctrine , but to al that Againtt free ve Againt Mel- chifecechs fa- cxifce, And againft “holy Images, This Edition dedicated to al thar vnder= Ran |should afteryvards beliene in him,and keep the famepreceps| |For there is one God , one alfo Mediatour of God and men, ! Man Chrift Iefis, who gaue himfelf a Redemption for a. | Whereby appeareth his wwil,that al should be faued, Why then | are not al {aued? The Apoftle addeth: that they muftfirft come to the knovvledge of the truth, Becaufe vvithout faith it is im- poffible to pleafe God. This ground-vvorke therfore of our |cteation in Chrift by true fawh, S. Paul laboured moft ferioufly by wwordand wvriting to eftablishin the harts of al men. In | this he confirmed the Romans by his Epiftle, commending theit faith,as already receined and renovwned in the vwhoie wworld.He preached the fame faith to manie Nations. Amogtt | others to the learned Athenians, Where it feemed to fome , as} B abiind, Chrift redee- meg al,butal arenor faved, Exit neceffasie, ee aTO THE ENGLISH READER, abfard ,as ftrange; in fo much that they fcornfully called him 4 word-fower,and Preacher of nevy Gods. But$. Augaftin al-| 42.17, lovveth the terme for good , which wvas reprochfally fpoken | ».18. Therwetue | of the ignorant. And fo diftinguishing bevvveen Reapersand | 754°) Apottie: were | Sowers in Gods Church, he teacheth,, that vvheras the other A- | Aeeeeeker” | poltles reaped in the lewves ,that vvhich their Patriarches and | were Savers. | Prophets had fovvne; S. Paul fovved the {eed of Chriftian Re- SPaulatfc® | ligion in the Gentiles. And fo in refpedt of the Iftaelites, to Seminary | Vvhom they vvere firft fent , calleth the other Apoftles Mejores, Apostle, Reapers, and S. Paul, being {pecially fent to the Gentiles, semine-| torem, « ower or Semizarie apyjtle: Which twvo forts of Gods vvork-| Paflral cures] men are ftil in the Church , vvith diftin offices of Paftoral anaeetel | cures and Apoftolical millions, the one for perpetual gouern- ment of Catholike countries, the other for conuertion of fach , as either haue not received Chriftian Religion , or are ; relapfed, As at this time in oar country , for the diuers forts of pretended religions, thefe diuers fpiritual vworkes are ne- ceffary to teach and feed al Brican people. Becaufe fome in errour of opinions preach an other Ghofpel , wwheras in ve-| New dodrine| ritie there is no other Ghofpel. They preach indeed nevy do-” s, tug theGhofpe | tines, vhich can not {aue, Others follovy them ,belieuing # =| Thefeduced, | falshood, But whew the blind lead the blind (not the one only “a, Sexcernally but ) both fal into the ditch, Others conforme themfelues in 35. srepunished | external shew, fearing them that can punish andkil the body. withtheau- | Bur oxr Lord wil bring fuch as decline into( vniult) obligations, wich them thar Pfam, thoursofini~ | werkiniguity. The Relikes and {mal flock of Catholiks in our ** country,haue great fadneffe and forrow of hart, not fo much| for our owneaifliction, for thatis comfortable, but for youour’ brethren and kinfemen in flesh and bloud. Wishing ¥ithour! owne temporal damage whatioeuer, your faluation, Now is 2: C#- theacceprable time,now arethe days of faluation , thetime of“ Graceinthe | Grace by Chrift, whofe dayes many Kings and Prophets de-| new teftament! Cred ro fee : they faw them(inpist) and reioyced. But we, Luo more abotn- " danvthenin | are made partakers of Chrift,and his Myfteriess(o that our fel- theold. ues negleé not his heauenly riches :if wereceiueand keep the beginning of his fub{tance,tirme vnto the end ; thatis, the true Catholike faith, building thereon good works by his graces, without which we cannot thinkea good thought ,by which we can doeal things neceffary to faluation. But if we hold we can doeal things neceflary ro Caluation. But if we hole not, ————TO THE ENGLISH READER, | fing to know God in words, we denie him in deeds, com- | oth wicked aa. mitting workes of darknes , or omitting workes of mercie, | porkerna + when Wwe may doe them to our diftreffed neighbours;briefly, | emifionof Cer, if wehrue not charitie, the forme and perfection of al vertues, | £004 works, Gal is lof, and nothing worth, But it we build vpon firme | ws ground, gold , filuer , and precious ftones , fuch building | shal abide , and make our vocation fare by good workes, apes, a8 5. Peter fpeaketh. Theis ( faith S. Paul ) are the heyzes | of God , coheyres of Chriit, Neither isthe number of Chrifts bieffed children counted, as of the fewes , an hun- | | dred fourtic foure thoufand , of euery tribe of iitael rwelue ! thonfand fignzd 5 but a moft great multitude of Catho- | like Chriftians , which no man can number , of al na- tions , and tribes , and peoples , and tongs , ftanding be- fore the throne of the lamb , clothed in white robes , and palmes (0/triwmph ) in their hands : having ouercome ten- tations in the vertuous race of good life, Much more thofe | they aremorel which alfo indure perfecation for the truths fake shal re- | happy thaefuf. ceine moft copious great rewards in heauen, For albeit the {£* Perfecusion | pallions of this time ( imthemfelus) are not™ condigne to ithe glorie to come ,thar shal be revealed in vs:yer our eribu-| come: | Jation, which prefently is momentanie and light ,worketh Gentry.) chrough grace} aboue meafure exceedingly an exernal weight of ¥eera| glorie, What shal wetherfore meditate of the {pecial prero- | gatiue of English Catholikes arthis time? For to youitis giuen : English Ce- for Chrift, not only that you belieue in him , but alfo that you | thelikes mon faffer for him, A litle now , if you muft be made penfive in | Age | divers tentations, that the probation of your faith , much.more | | precious then gold , which is proued by the fire , may be | found ynto praife ,and glorie , and honour , in the retiela- tion of Tefas Chrift. Manie of you haue fufteyned-the fpoile | of your goods with ioy , knowing that you haue a berier and a permanent fubltance. Others haue been deprived | of your children , tathers , mothers , brothers , fifters , and | necreft freinds , in readic refuiution alfo , fome with fer-! tence of death , to iofe your owne lines. Orhets have had| i ; y a i trial of reproches , mockeries, and ftripes. Others of bands, j i i | Ties. Tnnumezable faued by A Crit. 1a. prifons , and banishments. The innumerable renown:ca Ba lore # '—— eeeeSeSFSFSFSSSSSSSSSSSSSSsSSs The due praite of Martyrs, and other glo. rious Sains | excecdeth | mortal rongs, Patience ne- cefiary tothe end of mans life, Perfecution profitable Confeffion of faith betore men neceffary to faluation, TO THE ENGLISH READER. fare English Martyrs,and Confeffours,vvhofe happie foulesfor confefling true faith before men , are novv mott glorious in heauen , vve paffe here vvith filence ; becanfe their due praife, requiring longer difcourfe , yea rather Angels then English | tongues , farre furpaffeth the reach of our conceits. And fo wve leane it to your deuout meditation. They novy fecure for them felues, & (olicitous for vs their deareft clients,inceffantly (vve are vvel affured) intercede before Chrifts Dinine Ma- ieftie for our happie confammation , vvith the connerfion of | our vvhole countrie. To you therfore (deareft freinds mortal) vve direét this {peach : admomshing our felues and you in the Apoftles vvords , that for fo muchas vve haue uot yer refifted tentations to (Jaft) bloud (and death ) it-felf,, patience is til neceffarie for vs , that doing the vvil of God , vve may receiuc | the promifé: So vve repine not in tribulatid,but ever loue them | tha hate vs, pittying their cafe , and reioycing in our ovvne. Forneithercan vve fee during this life, hovy much good they doe vs;nor know how manie of them shal be(as we hartily de- fire they al may be ) faued : our Lord and Saviour haning paid the fame price by his death for them and for vs. Loue al ther- fote , pray foral, Doenotlofe your confidence, which hatha great remuneration. For yeta little, anda very little while, he thatisto come , vvil come, and he wvil not ilacke, Novy the iuft liveth by faith, belieuing vvith hare to iuftice , and confef- fing vvith mouth to faluation. But he that vvithdravveth him- felt shal not pleafe Chrifts foule. Attend to your faluation,dea- reft contriemen. You that are farre off, dravv ner, put on Chrift, And you that are vvithin Chrifts fold , keep your ftan- ding , perfeuerin him tothe end, His grace dvvel and remaine in you, thar glorious crovynesmay begiuen you, Amen, From the Englif College in Doway , the Odtaues CE AL SAINTS. 1609. The God of patience and cemfort gine you e be of ene mind , one towards an ether in LE SV 8 Chrift ; that oj one mind , with one month you may gle rifle God, Rem, 10. Hebar0. THEPaulin de omni. | 5.Scip. libris, ° S.Am Prefesin Tpecal. Bade dot. crip. €4,9. li) tlicde catechif. rudib..) wherein appeareth aifference,the one (/aith the fame Doétour ) is called the pes an fare el. g pale || telling tho(e things, which the New declarcth (im great part) as cone and per- .| butthat inthe letter ofthe old Teftament , the New lay THE SVMME AND PARTITION OF THE With a brief note of the Canonical and Apoctyphal Books. Hy x the vniforme confent of al learned Dinines,the bo. ly Bible,or wrstien Word of God, containeth expref- jfedor implied al things shat man sso beiteue , to ob- SI ferue , and 10 avoid, for obtaining of eternal [lua tion, That , al matters of fasth and manners,by which we may know and ferwe God, and fo be fpini- B tuailyiopned witb him in this fe, ana sn exermty. For boththeold and new Tefiament propofe and te- Jifievnca vs one and she faime God, the fame Chri, the fame Church, and other My fries of ont beife, ves difering m fulflance, but in manners of vereringthe Old more obfiurely in figures and prophecies fore. formed, Whereupon faith 5. Augujtine: Inthe Old Tcftamene the New licth hidden ; and in the New the Old lieth open. amd touching their names, old Teftament, cither becaule ir propofeth promifes of temporal thi ( wherewith our old corruptneffe ts allured ) or in refpect of the New , by which itis fuliilied, and in fome part abolifhed, The other is calied the | New, becaufe by it man is renewed , and hath promife of cernalife which shal never waxe old nor decay. Likewife S.Gregory the Great tefifieth this conformityegnd corre {pondence between the Old ané New Tefament,ajpir- | ming that the fame is fignified by the Prepher Exechels vin of a wheel, which had foure faces,or appartce of foure wheeles.the sbape wher eo; was,as it were, awhecle in the middes of a whecle. VVhatis this faith be,Nili quod in | Tctamenti vereris litera Teftamentum nouum latuit per Allecoriam? hidden by an | Allegory? And | How the hol; Scripturescon taine al know. ledgenecefia- ryt faluarion,| The old and the new Tefta- ment shew the fame God, Chrift, Church and other My-| fieries of Re- Ligion. The old more obfeurely, & with leife helpes. Thenew more| exprefy ard yealdeth more| ‘grace. Hom, 6 in Exe’Tnboth Tefta- ments,are foure forts of Books, Legal. tikeica Sapicntial, Prophetical, Al thefe books reeited are Ca- nonical,and of infallible truth, Apecryphal of two forss, Not declared) canonical. 2. Reieéted as exronious, TheHoly- Ghoft éecla- rethby the Church which Béoks are Disine Scri- | PROEMIAL ANNOTATIONS. And as the fame isthe fume and fubsell of both Teflements foboth are dini- ded ( for the more principal parts chercof inte foure forts of Buoks:Legal , Hix Rorical,Sapiential,ée Prophetical. The Legal bok sof the old Teflament are thefiue Books of Meyfes , Genelis,Exodus , Leuiticus, Numetiand Deute~ ronomie ; hereto anfiver in the neve Teflament the foure Ghofpels of Saint Matthew, S, Marke, S. Luke,and S. lohn, Hiflorical books of the old Tefta- ment-are the Books oj Lofuc,ludges,Ruth, feure books of Kings, two of Pa- ralipomenon, Efdras, with Nehemias, Tobias , Tudith, Helter, lob, and ta of the Machabees ; vate whi im the new Teflament anfwer the Acts ofthe Apoftes. Sapicntial of the old Teflament ave the Prouerbs,Eccle. fiaftes, Canticles, Book of wifdome , and Ecclefiafticus ; and of like fort rein theners Teftament the Epifiles ofS, Pankand of ober apefties,Propheti- cal books are Dauids falter (which is af Sapiential, yea hkemife Legal and Hiflorical ) the Books of Ifaias, leremias, with Baruch,Ezechiel, Da~ nicl the ewelae lefe Prophets, Ofea,locl, Amos, Abdias,lonas;Micheas, ‘Nahum, Abacuc,Sophonias,Ageaus, Zzcharias , Malachias, andin the neve Teflament ,the Apocalyps oj S.dubn the Apeftle. Al thefe Books are vudoubredly Canonical, as the Authours citedin the inney margent ufific. and confequently al,and al the parts thereof, are of infallible Irate, For iberifesasS. Angulo teachetb, if any part were falfe or doubtful, al were yncertaine, Onceadmitting talfehood ( faith be Epift.8.ad Hieron din fach foueraigne authority,no parcel of thefe books should remaine, which any way fhould feem hard to manners, or incredible to belieue, bus it might by this moft pernicious rule becurned to an officious fi@ion ofthe authour. That 1s : Ifany erreur could be committed by the authours of Scriptures iter through ignorance oblivion, or any other’ bumane frailty, ther the authour bad erred or no. True itis, that fome of thefe books ( as we shal particubarly diffe in she places) were fomsctimes avukied of by jome Carbolsks,and caliea Apocryphalyin that fenfe asthe word property fignyieth bis) calleth diuers books Apocryphal , being not fo-ewident , whether they were Duane Scripture, becanfe they were-natmthe lewes Canon, nor at fiftin the Churches Canon,but were neuer veicCted as falfe or erronious.1n whi b jenfe the Prayers of Manaifes,the third book of Efdras,and shirdef Machabees areyctcalied Apocryphal, 4s for the fourth of Eféras, and fourth of sa- habees there is more doubt. But diners others, as the book aferibed to Enoch, the Ghofpelsef S. Andrew, 8, Thomas, S. Bartholmewend the like recic ted by 9. Gelafius ( Decreto de lsbris Ecclefiaftnis dift.15.Can Qantia Romana) S. Invacentius the ff! (Epif.3.) 8. Hierom , Fp. ad Latam, 3, Anguflin rs. cap.-3 decinit, Dei, Onrgen bumi, 2.in Cantica att in a werfe fenfe called Aporyphal ,and are reieéied as conteining manifefLeronrs , or fained by Herc- inks Nesike «an a Chriftian Catbolike be otberwife affured, which Books are Dinive and Canviacal Sivipuares , but by declaration of the Cathalik Church, prures whetfarner were produced cxseprion might be taken,and quiftion made, whee | hidden , or not apparent.so S, Hierom (1m his prologue befere the Latin Bie | vou ou: nec cuption fucceedeth the Apoftles,to whemour Sauiour pro-PROEMIAL ANNOTATIONS. . milled, and fent the Holy-Gholt , to teach al truth. For if any thing more then others, affiredly one chief and moft neceffary point is, te Know and declare | which Books are Gods holy werd being of moff fingular impertaice, THE SVMME OF THE OLD TESTAMENT, as itis diftinguished from the new. { Orwithflanding the fubic&, and general argument of both Teftsn or teri fe in fabjiance, as i elpeasy fe nati race tment differ in timc, in manner of vicering of Myfleries,in Variety of prée Tnreanne a cepts.and promifes, alfoin meanes to obferue the things exatked, ce : vttering. Tomo.3! ro attaine to the end propafed. in regard whereof 8, Hieroms (auth : Lex Moyfi | Varieti f ‘fuif., & omne vetus inftrumentum elementa mundi intelliguntur , quibus . Precepss. gefa. | Quali_elementis & Religionis exordiis Deum difeimus, The law of ome Moyfes and althe old Teftament are vnderftood the elements of tine world, by which, as by firft rudiments and beginnings, we icarne to | Know God. For thatinit we hanefinft the Lavo of nature, and afterwards a | Lavo written, with premifes of temporal rewards;as long life, Land flowing with mike and bony and the luke ; but it brought nothing to perfection , 4s5, | Hebr.y,, Paulfaith, when guifts and hoftes were offered , which could not accar- | 3:10. | ding to confcieuce make the obferuer perfeGt. For he belps of that time 4+ | apere but infirma & egena clementa : weake & poore elements, Like wife in general, touching the punishemente that fometimes bappencd 0 the peaple of | The old Te- eter, | tbe old Teftsrens,rehen they sranfgreffed,the fame Apofile affrmeth that al the | {amen com 12." | fame chanced to them in figure, and are written for ourcorreption, | off" {ers Gals, | Pon Whom the ends of the world are come. Se that the old Tejtament or | A continual ‘4+ | Law,was bur our pedagogue in Chrift. ree it ferterb forth to vs the whole | vifible Church| cour fe of Gods Church,for the [pace of foure thoufand yeares, thats, from the be- | fom the be- Binning ofthe world sntil Chri our Redeemer, which Dinines diuide int fx | §2UPESE Ages , wherein was variety and change of her fate three vnder the Lave of na- | to Crit, ture,and three others vnder the writien Lav*, The feuenth and laft Age being | The fame My-| this time of grace (wherein we nove are) from Chrif.te the day of general Indge- | ®ical bedie, | ment: as the world wasmadein fx days, and in te foment Gadis [aid ro baue | ®&*€iReremt | refted,and therefore andhedit,in other fort then the former fix The eight wil be | Biased into after the Refurreétion,during for al eternity. Ages av rhich fix agesof the ancient Church and old Teftament, are thusdifiribu. | Thefirh Age fed, Thefirft foom the Creation to Nuts fod conteined the fpace of 1656, | Continued Jeares, The fecond from the floud to sie gomgef Abrabamout of bis country, | Theiecord, 368.0r counting Caiman (Ger. 11.iuxta 72 and Luc,3 ) 398. yeares, The third | 368.or 298, Jrom Abrabam bis going forth of bis country, 10 she parting of the children of | The third Ifrael out Agype, VVbub fimecoum to bane continued 72, Jeares, others | POtt.az0~ (wham we folow) but 430,And teus fare in the lave of nature before therene, | Byers TewThe ffeh 430, Thefixth, nere 540. Althe time. from the crea~ tionto Chrift about 4000, yeares, Morse, Sgnifith,tae ken fromthe. wat Theexcellen- cy of Moyfes His fepulehre notknowen toany man, PROEMIAL ANNOTATIONS. fenlaw, The fourth age dured,4B0. yearts, from the delauery of the children of Ifract forth of Aegypt, to the fundation of the Temple in Hierufalem, The fifth Age was trons the joundation of the Temple, tothe captivity and tranfirgration of the Lewes into Babylon, about 420.yeares.And the fixtb age dured abeut 640. yeares,from the Captivity of Babylon to Chrift. In al which umes God was ac~ Vkpowledged and rightly ferued,by « continual vifible Church , with true reli agionsthe fame and no other, which now that Church holder , that is called and knowen by ke name of Catbolike, As we intend,by Gods afiftance , to she by briefe Annotations, concerning diners particular points now sm Cuntroucrfie , as she bly Text giweth occafion, ani efpecialy by way of recapitulation after emcry one of the fix ages, when we come o thofe peflages in the Hiftory, mbere she fame ave ended, OF MOYSES THE AVTHOVR OF THE fue firft Books, Oyfes ( fo called becaufe he was taken from the water , as the name fignifieth) was borne in Aegypt , the fonne of Am- ram , she fonne of Caath , the fonne of Leui the Patriarch, and fo oj Yacob, Ifaac, and Abraham, His maruelous de~ iwery from drovonsng,bis education, excellent forme, fingslar whole life moff admsirable,are gathered eut of holy Scriptures, by S. Gregory Bi= shop of Nyff, into a brie} Summe, moft worthy co be read,but to large for this long before al propbane veriters,yea before many of the Paymimes falfe Gods, asS. Auguftin declareth in diners places of has moji excellent bovk intituled of the Citty of God. He lived sn this world 120.yeares:0f which 40. were in Pharaos Court as the adopted fonne of Pharaos daughter the book of Esclefiafticus, Hedted in the difert , and was buried an the vale of Moab, fo fecretly that no mortal man knew kis fepulchre,le the lewes, who were ‘very prone to laelatry , should haue adered bus body with diuine benour , for the greatneffeand multitude ofbis miracles , and for she fingular eftimation they ‘bad of bum forthe fame. THE wifdome , beroval vertues , rare dexterity in al affaines ,and | Place. He was berne about the yeare of the world to theufand feure hundred, |* urty in banishmite frB Aegypt | 1m Madian : and jourty more be gouerned the people of ifrael. His fingular prayfes | arcalfo briefly touchediin the Lajt chapter of Deuteronomy, adéed by lofue , andin | 3.Reg 6, 3. Kegs 7 Lee drat.Mts. Heb. 11. \taceb,>, 1, Peta} a. Pea Gen, 10} .) by bis faithfut feruant and Prophet Moy{es, THE ARGVMENT OF THE BOOK OF GENESIS. His fit Book of bly Scripture called Geneiis, which grit | genetyerie A ire or beginning, was written by Mey(cs , when be Wasstfi-|een by Movfes, ‘gued by Gou £0 anfirudt and rule the children of \rael : Asalfo jAlwayes au- Yl the orber foure books fullowing. The Authur and authority of al thentical, rwbrch fine books were ener ack norleoged bythe faxtbyal, beth of 2° knowen by theold andnew Teftament : and fo accounted and sficemed by radstien, til Cor! \congemedby and bis Apofiles : who alfo confirmed them by their tefitmonts and allegations \Chrift, cllea- of the fame,as of boly Scriptures, From the creation yatix Moyfes werit ( which |gedalfo by the] was aboue S070 thoufand and foure hundred yearcs ) the Church cxercifed Reli- |RPotle Sion by resTtations made to certaine Patria cis and by Tradicions from man 10 tied ss ppecia) tan, without any Scriptures er Law weiter, But the peculiar people of Ged \perfons and (0 beang more vifibly separated from erber nations , and many ervours abounding in \cbferued by the wo ld,God would for correétion and confutatien sbereof bawe bis wil made |*2ditions, farther knowen to bis children , and fo remame amongfi shem in written record, | wh Je therefore declareth the Awe eS thour and beginning of al chings, thar ss, Hove al creatures were made by God, ‘ver and of bias usue thear being , and by lum only are conf:rued, He teaubeth ex- Wha: Mos fes profi that chere is one oniy God, agaist thoje that mazined and brought into Specially shew the phantefies oj men many Gods, That te whole or varuerfat fulfiance chin this book} sos and earth , woth their ermamsents and accidents,were made wn anus 5 again(t shoe that eheught the fit foundation therecf bad ener been, That Ged acth ge- erne the fame 5 againfithofe that fay, alt ruled by deftany or by the flaries, and ot by tbe centinua! prowidence of God. That God ts a rewaracr of the goud , and 4 punisber ofeuit, which finners feem cisher not co know , 1 grafly 10 forget. Aud that God created al fur mans vje and benefit, whic should make ¥s grate ful, Wherefore oly Moyfes more parts.ularly defaiberh the beginning of many icularsy oe what he was at frft bow be fel; how al mankind is come of one man : dsawcing. crives: the Genealogy of Adam, ¢fpecially 10 Noc,Then bow men being swore ard more ace ‘1 filed ypon the earth, wish waked, {pecially carnal finnes, were by Geassnft verath drowned with an vainer/alflowd. { Againe, how a-few referued perfons multiplied the world anee, Lut this off- spring alfo falling into many fines ,¢{pecially \aclutry and fpiritual fornicatuon, 4 thofe of thefirft Age did t0 carnal offences, God flil conferued fome faithful and i tome ferusrts, Of wish Mofes[pecilly pusfueto she lne ef Neeby Sem bn jn IThe principal | begotten fount, Then deferibeth the partuewlar vocations ,lmes, manners , nota |] atsiarclis Ue fayings, and noble facts with (incere religion of Abrabam,1f2ac,lacch,tofezh, |fom Nee to ad onber bely Patrianchs : who ued before the written Laie, Lohewise von [thG Senne. what accafion,andin what manner Laced , otberwefe called Lfracl, Twiro al bie “ Progeny ,de/cended from the Land of Cauaan into Acgypi,and were there enter tained, So this book container the biftery of two tieujand shnee bundred and |This bocke Man meft par-| dde yeares, And it may be dinided sno eight pares, The ffi contaimeth the 'iviies into SMe near ehe AN Hk may Be denne sre ght pats, The Fah centanett tes cevants, c Creae |THE ARGVMENT GF GENESIS Creation of Heauen and Earth , and other Creatures, and laftly of Man chap. %, sand 1. The fecond partis of the tranfgrefin and falef man, and bis cating out of Paradife,of multiplication of men,and of inne though til fume were taf, of the Seneralfioudsshat drovoed alexcept eight perfans, c> few osber living creatures af the earth, from the third chap.to the 8. The tird partis ofthe new increafe 4nd multiplication of the fame , fromthe 8, chap. to the 11. The fourth , ofthe confufion of tongs and the diuifion of nations , in the x1, chap. The fife relaterb Abrabams going forth of bis country , Gods promife , that inis feede al Nations Should be bleffed,and the commandment of Ctrcumcfion , from the 12, chap.to the axathe fath part recountetb the progeny, and othe Hefsings, efpcally the| Sreat vertues of Abrabam,\(aac,and Lacob, from the 2..chap. te 12 37» The fe | wenti part reperteth the feling of lofeph into Aegyptyand hit aduancement there, from the37.chap. tothe 46, The cigh: andiaft partis of Lacob and bs progenies Seinginto Aegypt, their intertainment there, and of \acobs, and finally of 10- eps death,in thefiueaft chapters. shihshahthsthabchshchchththahthah THE SIGNIFICATION OF THE MARKS heer vied, for direction of the reader, ‘Thenumbers inthe arguments of chapters point ofthe verte, where the matter mentioned beginneth, ‘The numbers in the text, shew the number of verfes in the | fame chapter, This mark" fgnifechtharthere followech an Annotation after the chapter, vpon the word, or words, whertoit is adioined, The number alfo of the fame verfe is prefixed to the Annotation, ‘The letters thus enclofed («) shew thatthere is an Annotation in the margent, ‘vponthat place. And whenmany accurre,thefirft anfwereth to the frft marke, the fecond to the fecond,and fo forth, In like manner the citations of places in the inner margent,are applied to the authours. alleadged This forme ofa ftarre(* jn the textor annotations pointeth to the explication ‘of fome word or words inthe margent, Sometimes we purthe Concordance of other Scriptures in the inner margent of the text, ‘Wehaue alfo noted inthe margent , when the books of holy Scripture ( ot parts thereof )are read in the Churches Seruice , for their fakes, that defire toread the fame inorder of the Ecclefiaftical Ofice, THEAB, 157 Creation, 1 BOOK OF GENESIS:> IN fe HEBREW BERESITH The Cherch book in her CHAP IL (ape il Gad createrl beauen and earth , and sl things thevins difinguisbing and beau. [Shaorcr a be- sijying the famie.26, Laft of al, the fxih day he greareth mavs:o wusa he fat~ |ginning of the| b al cor| ngs 10H 5 cond on Ea-| scdteth al corporal things of this injersour world jee on Ea [at - N "the beginning God created heauen and | ¢, The frmae| earth, 2. And the earth was void and vacant, {ment isl he and.darkenes was vpon the face of the depth #2650" {4 oy and” the Spirit of God moued ouer the a R Waters.j. And God faid : Be light made. And re thelowed] it \ ESS WD) X> light was made. 4.And God faw the light that [pert diuiedb fi) it was good :and he diuided the light from |Perwcen the Geely waters on the A f, the darkenes. s, And hecalied the light, Day, |exrrand the and the daakenes, Night: and there was eue- |waters in the ning & morning, that made one day. 6.God alfo faid : Be (a) a firmz- layer. Satug, ment made amidft the waters: and let it diuide between waters and |/. 1 a Gen. ad waters. 7, And God made a firmament, and divided the waters \"4."14) oy a that were vnder the firmament , from thofe that were aboue the ‘heavens sl thel firmament, And it was fo done. 8. And God called the firmament, ‘frace aboue (0) Heauen :and there was euening & morning that made the fecond ‘the earth; in day. 9. God alfo faid : Let the waters that are vuder the heaucn be ga- ‘hole lowett thered together into one place: and let the drie land appeare. Andie Pay ate birés was fo done, 10, And God called the dric land, Earth,atd the gathering ‘the higher pare of waters together , he called Seas. And God faw that it was good, ifiarres: the 11, And faid Let the earth tinoot forth green herbes ,and fuch a3 may |highef is the spe eS ZA mY | Empyrial he C2 feed, luen Ejasesee 2 GENESIS. Creation. feed, & fruit-trees yealding fruit after his kind, fuch as may haue feed init-felfe vponthe earth, And it wasfo done, 12. And the earth brought forth green hearb, firch as feedeth according to his kind , and tree that beareth fruit, hauing feed each one according to his kind. And God faw thatis was good, 13. And there was euening and morning that made (e) The lights; the third day. 14. Againe God {aid: Be there lights made in the firma le she ft | ment of heauen, to diuidethe day and thenight,and let them be (¢) for led thefonren | fignes & feafons, and dayes and yeares 515. to fhine in the firmament of day in theie | heauen,and.o giue light vpon the earth. And it was fodone, 16. And proper courfes) God made two (d) great lights ; a greater light to gouerne the day and Faymore di-_ | a leffer light to gouerne the night sand ftarres. 17. And he fet them in inction of ti! the firmament of heauen , toshine vpon the earth, 18, and to gouerne samt the day & the night, and to diuidethe light andthe darkenes. And God faw that it was good, 19. And there was cuening and mornin3 that made | the fourth day. 20, God alfo faid : Let the waters bring forth creeping 785 22g | Creature hauing life, and fiving foule, ouer the earch Ynder the firma: Moora Su" 8} mentof heauen, a1, And God created huge whales , and al liuing and though. the | Mouing creature, that the waters brought forth accordingto ¢ach fort, Imoone be the | andal foule according to their kind. And God faw thatit was good. cat vifble | 22, Andhe’’ bleffed them faying :Increafe and multiply ,and replenifh Rarre excep? | the waters of the fea : and let the birds be multiplied vpon the earth, Mescuriesyet | 35. And there wascuening and motning that made the ith day, 2.4, ligheon the "| God faid moreouer: Let theearth bring’ forth liuing creature in his Jearth by reafol kind , cattle , and fuch as creep, and beafts of the earth according to i isneerer , &} their kinds : and it was fo done, 25. And God made the bealts of the fo Movtes | carth according to their kinds, and cattle , and al that erecpethon the fpeaketh ace | earth in his kind lvulgar‘capaci-| And God faw that it was good, 26. and he faid ” Let vs make Man |Cel. 3, tic and vfe of | to our image & likencs:and/et him haue dominion ouer the fifhes of |+- things.Sve4u the fea, and the foules ofthe ayre, and the beafts, and the whole earth , sé Gemadit.) and al creeping creature that moucth vponthe earth. 2 7.And God crea- Mes ted man to his owne image: to the image of God he created him, male | fat. and female he created them, 28, And God bleffed them, and faith :”” In- | "954. creafe and multitude, and replenith the earth , and fubdew it,and rule . ouer thefithes of the fea ,and foules of the ayre, & alliuing creatures (eEuerie erea-] that moue vpon the earth. 29. And God {aid : Behold I haue giuen you pe a fur ay| al manner of hearbthatfeedeth vponthe earth , and al trees that hauein confideced to-| themfelues feed of their owne kind,to be your meate:30. and to al beafts jeether make | ofthe earth, and toeuery foule of the ayre, and to al that moue vpon the the whole | earth, and whereinthere is life, thatthey may hauc to feed vpon, And world perfe&s) it was fodonc. 31. And God faw al things that he had made, and(e) they moft apt to ni ron a2r £5 | were very good. And there was euening and moming that made the fixe TT ERNOTA- | ——GENESIS. 3 ANNOTATIONS CHAP. L 1, Insbe beginning. ) Holic Moyifes eelleth what was done inthe beginning of the world’ eadoforward event his ovne time writing aboue ewe thoufand and foure hundreth yeares after the beginning. Al which being incomprehenfivle by humane wit or difcoarfe , he knew partly by reuclations from God, for he had the guift of Prophecie in moft excellent fortspartly by traditions frombhis elders, ‘eho learned of their fathers. For vntil that timethe Church had only traditions of fach things as were reucaled to fpecial men, whereby we fee the great autho- rity of traditions, before there were Scriptures. And fince Scriptures were writ- ten they are alfo neceMfary, for three Special reafons, Firf,, for that we are only alfured by tradition of the Church , thar thefe books are indeed holy Seriprures, which are fo accounted, and not by the Seripture it-felfe , for that were to prove the fame by the fame , vntil we be affured of fome pare, that proueth fome other pares. And this madeS.Auguftin to fay plainly, that be could net beliene sie Ghefpel, xcept she Church sald him which i the Ghepe. Secondly, holy Scriptures being once knowento be the word of God, & fo of mofteminent authoritie of al writings in the world, as S,Augultin,S Hierome,& al other Fathers agrce,yet forthe true vn- derftanding ofthe fame both the Scripture it-felfe, and the ancient Fathers remit vs to the Church namely to thofe in the Church that are appointed by Gods ordi- nance ,inshe high place shat hehath chofen, Whien were the High Prieftsin the old ‘Teftament as appeareth Deut. 17. Mat.13.1oan.11. And inthe new Teftament, S, Peter & his Succeffours,for whom Chrift prayed that his aith should not fale: & therfore commanded him to confirme his brethren Luc, 22, Thirdly, for things nor expreffed in particular in holy Seriprure,the Scripture (a) & Fathers doc li- kewife remit vs to traditions, and to the iudgement & teftimonie of the Church Chrift aying to his Apoltles: He that heart yeu esrah me, The Apoftles doubted Not to fay: I eemed gud the Holie Ghefland 19 vs. And S.Paul willed the Thelia- lonians to hald he sradiions , which they had learned , whether it were by word , or by his Epiftle, 1s tne beinning Ged made eanen end cath.) Al-eriter (b] ancient & later find fuch dificulties in thefe frft Chapters, that fome, otherwife very learned, haue thought it not poilibleto vnderftand the fame according to the proper and vfual fignification of the werds,as the lexcer nay feem to found, but expound al allego- ,,| #¢ally,as that by the waters abone the firmament should be vnderftood the belied | Angels, by the waters under the firmament wicked fpirits, and the like, So did Origen and diuers that follow him therein. Yea S.Auguftin in his books vpon Ge- nefis againft the Manichees , written shortly after his conuerfion , when he could not find as he defired a good and probable fenfe agrcable to the werds in their proper fignification , expounded them myftically , but afterwards in his other books de Genef ad literam ,he gratefully acknowledgeth that God had given him further fighe thetin , and tha: now he fappofed he could interprete al 2ceor. ding to the proper fignification of the words : yer fo that he durft not nor would notaddig himfelfe to one fenfe,butthat he was readie to imbrace another, left by flicking to his owne indgement he might faile.So likewife $.Bafil,S, Chrifottom, | 'S,Ambrofe, S.Hicrome,5, Bede,and other greateft Doétours found and confefled great difficulties in thefe fir cinapters, which they with much ftudie endeavoured to explicate, And ther‘ore it isa wonderto fee ourProtcftants and Puritans hold this Paradox,thar Scfiprures are ealieco be vnderftood,. Wheras both ‘The Church hhad only eradi- itions and no Scripture laboueagoo, Weares, [Traditions Ineceffarie for Ichree caufes, B Pa Scripture of mot eminent jauthoritie, Scriptures hard,4 GENESIS. Creation. hie of chofe that haue indeed ftudied & laboured in them,and by a litle due con- fidevation the contrarie is moft euident, For whofocuer wil looke into the holy iGep, ,| Seriptures shal ind that fometimes inshew one place feemeth contrarie to an ig. 5” gp other fomezimes the letter & phrafe are obfcure & ambiguous fomerimes the fen- | Why Serip- jrures are hard. tences vnperfect, Agnine manie {peaches are prophetical.manic parabolical, me- ‘sy 29, taploical, andsutved wnder exer tropes Rgures and hatin the literal fete, eng 744 Three fpicieual| Moreouer thereare chree fpiritual fenfes befides the literal, very frequent inholy |," fentes Befides | Scripture, Allegorical,pertayning to Chrift and the Church;Moral,pertayning to |{ yey y the Literal, | manners jand Anagogical,pertayning co the ncxt lite, As thisword , Terufaiem, \,¢°” * Allegoricai, | literally Gignitiech the head cisie of fewrie: Morally the foule of man +: Allegori- | Moral, cally che Church militant: and Anagogically the Church triumphans, Andfome |”°™ * JAnagogical, | times this ‘and the like of others metaphorically inthe literal fenfe fignifeth the BIS" | Church milicant, & not the citie of lewrieyas inthe 12, chapter to the Hebrewes: and fomerimes the Chuch eriumphant,as inthe 21. of the Apoealyps. a. The pritof Ged.) Tn the Hedrew itis ignified, that the Spiric of God was on thewarers to make thé fertile for that shes & birds were o be procreated therof; the word ismerabephethsmcubab.s fat ypn,co produce fruit faith 8 Hicrom, fr the ‘warers,as ahen by her heate produccth life in the egges.And the fame S. Hicrom, A figure of | &be‘ore him Tertullian ceachychat this was a igure cf Baprifme, hich confit of water & the Holy Ghoft. For as water in the beginning of the world receiued a cerraine vital vereue of the HolyGhoftto produceltuing creatures;foalfo Baptitnwe | chet receiueth vertue of the fame Holy Ghoftto procreate new men, Wherupé Tertul- riftians cal- tian ealleh Chrifians Gshes,becaute they ate gorten{r& the w aters,Sethenee have | their firf fpiritual life. Ler nat sherforejeeme range ‘faith he jshas wm Baptifee Wasers sue life, Light being an 16.7 we great lights, eo flares, JHeer occurreth another example of the hardnes of ecidét remay- holy Scripture, For if the cwo great lights (to wit the Sune & the Moone ;& alfo ined without a the ftarres,were made the fourth day and not be‘ore,asit may feemeby the words fabiedt,by the inthis place, then w hat was that light,& in what fubie& was it, that was made the jiudgement of frit day? S. Bafil,S.Gregorie Nazianzen, Theodoret.& fome cthers writing vpon fomelearned | thisplace,doethinke thatthe light which was made tie frft day remained (though fathers, | an accident without his fubie&t til the fourth day.And albeit moft other Dodtours rather thinke thar the fubtance of the Sunne & Moone, of other planets & ftatres The accidents were created the firft day , & the fourth day fetin that order & courfe which now lof bread and ; they keep , with moredittinction far jgnes amd eafons and dayes and yeares ; Ct itis ‘inecanre- j cleere that the Forefaid ancient DoStours iudged it polible, that accidents may ine by | feniine wichou thee fubieS-which a Sacrameorariewil be joathto grat left it \ IGods power | might be proued potlible, as both thefe & al other Catholike Dodonrs belicued & lwithout their | taught, that the accidents of bread and v incremainc in the bleffed Sacratnent of bie fs, the Eucharift withour their fubieéts , which Proteftants deni. Ten preroga- | 46. Ler vs make men tour Image, ) For better confideration of Gods bountie cues of man in! towards vs,& Mtirring our felnes to gratitude towards him, we may here nore ten lhiscreation. | prerogatiues beftowed on vsby our Lord & Maker in our creation aboue al other 1. Made like | earthlie creatures.Firft, wheras Godby an imperial word of commandement made to God, other creatures, Fiat lux, Fiat frmamentsan:Betherelight,Beshere « frmemers,intending to make man,he procecdeth familiarly by way,as& were,of confolration, &asto his owne vfe &feruice tomake man,faying: Latusmake mano wr imegs and ikenes, that isto fay, a reafonable éreature with vnderftanding and free wil,w hich beafts js. The Myfic-| hauc not. Secondly , in this worke God firft infinuateth the high Myfteric of the rie of the B, | B.Trinitie,or pluralitie of Perfis in one God becaufe man isto belieue the fame) ITrinitie infi- | fignifying the pluralitie of Perfons by the words Les usmak,& to omr:and the wnitic Inuated inhis | in fubftance,by the words tmages and likenes, the fitt in the plural number,the later reation. | in the ingular. Thirdly other creatures were produced by the waters & earth, Let s-Produced by| the waners bring forth (Fish & foule) Lerthe earth bring forth ( peaWe, & caxtle, & other |God hinufelfe. 4 beatts but God brought forth man , not by the earth, though of the earth , nor by beafts sbut God brought forth man » worby the sarth,though of the earth , wor b water neOO | to reafon,his bodie to his fpirit,&e al other liuing creatures obedient to him: cuen ‘tures, | Scauenthly,God brought them al to man,as todoc him homage,andto taketheir 7. excellent Creation. GENESIS. 5 water ,nor by heauen , nor by Angels, butby himfelic, giuing him a reafonable foule, not fenfual only as to beafts, & the fame not produced of anie creature, but created immediately of nothing. Fourthly God gaue man Paradife, xmoft plea- 4. placed in fantplace,to dwel in, Fiftly, God gaue man dominion & imperial authoritic ouer Patadiie, alliuing creatures vader heauen, Sixtly, manwas created in that innocencic of |5. Lord of al life, and integritie of al vertues,that his mind was wholy fubie& to God,his fenfe ‘¢erthlic crea-| theterrible Lions ,the cruel Tygres , che huge Elephants , and the wilde? birds, '6. innocencie, names of him, Which by hisexcellent knowledge he gaue them conformable to knowledge. their natures. Eightly , God gaue man in fome fort an immortal bodie, that ifhe '8. powero had kept Gods comnandement, he had liued long and pleafantly in this world, & live eucr. fo should haue been rranflated to eternal life witoout dying. Ninthly ,God did 9. guift of pro-| not only adorne man with al natural knowledge and’fupernatural vertues,bur Phecic, alfo with the guift of prophecie, Winerby he new that Eue was @ bone of his bones, ‘and fesh of bis fash, though being afleep he knew not when she was made,Tenthly, '10. God con (which was the chiefe benefit of al) God conserfed familiarly with man,and that werfed fami- in shape of man, which wasa token of his meruclous great louc to man, and afin. liarly with gular incitement of hi nto loae God. Read more, if you pleate,of the dignitic of ax, man,and the benefits of Gad towards him in his creation, in S. Bernard vpon the 99.Ptaloe , and vpon the 61.chapter of Efaie. ‘28. Lnereafe and madsiplie,) Whether this be a commandement or no, at leaft itis Gods blefting a bleffing,for fo the words before conuince, Ged bieffid soem and xid:Imirea/e and mui. alWayes effe= ‘ipie He faid the fame alfo to brute creatures, which are not capable of a precept, ual. but by this were made fertile. Wherby we fee that Gods bleffing alwayes worketh Efpecially in fome real effed : asof fertilitie in this and other places , of multiplication of the :the holy Eu Joaues & fishes , Loan 6. And fome real effeét Chrils ble(sing mult needes worke (charit, alfo in the Bleffed Sacrament Mat.26. Which cin be no other ‘but changing bread saul win inco hs bode rbloudfeeinghimfele expel faych: This iemy bdr is my blond, ‘And though Gods being inthis placebe alfo a precept yetit isnot to al men for euer,butfor the propagation of mankind,which being long fince aboundantly |Not al men & Propagated,the obligation of tie precept ceafeth the caufeceafing.So $.Cyprian, |Pomen comatel S Hierome,S, Auguffin,and other Fathers expound this place. And confirme the |ded to marie, fame by the text , for immediately God fgnifying towhat enti he fpoke, faith : ‘end replanish the earth, Which being replenished, Gods wil is therin ful6lled. eee CHAP. IL The worke of fix dayes being finished, God refted the feuenth day, c blefedit, 8. Then placng man in Paraife(plansed with beautiful feet tees, 6 |: Goa ‘Watered with eure ruers) 16. commander bum net ta eate of the tree af pone ae knowledge of good cs twil. 18, and formed a woman of aribbe of Adam, — |des of creatu- res, yer ft ote To, SY HE heanens therfore & the earth were fully finithed,and |17- conferuing| ie al the furniture of them. 2. And the feuenth day God ended |& £¥ernin aN his worke which he had made ; and * refted” the feuenth erenebeane SY day , from al worke thathe had done. 3. And he bleffed |grace,a lone the feuenth day & fanctified it:becaufeinit he had ceafed lof the fsmne from al his worke which God created to make, kind. 5c 4og ae Sen, 4: acThele | “ie