The Family of David for the Sons of the Kingdom

And now I will show you the two houses of David unto the captivity in the one table, and in the second, unto the redemption.

David.

Solomon.	Nathan,
Roboam.	Mattatha
Abia.	Mainan.
Asa.	Melea,
Jehoshaphat.	Eliakim
Joram.	Ionan.
Ochozias.	Joseph.
Joash.	Judah.
Amasias.	Simeon
Ozias.	Leuj.
Ioatham.	Matthat.
Achaz.	Iorim.
Hezekiah	Eliezer.
Manasseh.	Iose.
Amon.	Er.
Josiah.	Elmodad.
Joakim.	Cosam
Jeconiah.	Addj.
	Melchj.
	Nerj,
	Salathiel.

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Obseruationes upon the destruction of the Kingdom.

IN the beginning of the captivity before the death of Jehoiakim Nabucadnezar saw a great image resēblinge the kingdoms of the heathen: as Babel, and Paras, & Alexanders house, and the kingdoms of his princes which reigned in Egypt, and in the north Also Christ was seen as a stone cut out without hands, which smote the image upon the legs of iron and clay, and bruised them: and they became as chaff frō a barn flour, and the wind toke them away and no place was found for thē: and the stone which stroke the image became a great mountain and filled all the earth. Both true is the vision and the exposition is sure, And as the holy Ghost seven times expoundeth † these kings, the kings that persecuted, so he recordeth the family of Christ by Nathan his ancestor, from Salathiel and Zerubbabel (whom the kings of Babel robbed) in two houses of Zerobbabel whose name was in Babel, Glad-in-sorrow because he was glad in sorrow, and believed (Ier. 51.) till Zaru (they, fanned) Babel, as chaff frō Corn, and Bel-she-Azar. 1. Bel L. of store, became Bel a fire of sorrow: and fire ate him up: so his sons had two names: Mesullam was called Abihud; and Ananias, Rhesa; and these were persecuted by the kings of Elam, and Iauah, The house of Alexander, and the house, of Ptolemy in Egypt: also by the house of Seleucus in the northe: He reigned over 72. kingdoms. And the same yere that Christ Jehovah our righteousness was borne in Beth-Lechē now the Roman had bestript them from all kingdoms under heavē: and the kingdom of heave which cannot be corrupted, was known: and from the East Persian wisemen came to Jerusalem to worship Christ and to kiss the son, in whom all that trust are happy. And this is his family,

Zerubbabel, S. of Salathiel.

Abiud or Mesullam	Rhesa, or Ananias
Eliakim▪	Iohanna.
Azor	Judah.
Sadoc	Joseph.
Achim.	Semej
Elihud.	Mattathias▪
Eleazar.	Mahath.
Matthan.	Nagge.
Jacob.	Chesli.
Joseph: the husband of Mary, the mother of Christ: therefore he is called the son of Eli the father of Mary.	Nachum.
	Amos.
	Mattathias.
	Joseph.
	Ianna.
	Melcj,
	Leuj.
	Matthat.
	Eli.
	Mary.
	Jesus.

And this is the name whereby they shall call him: Jehovah our righteousness Ier 23. and 33.

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And now, remember the days of old consider the years of all generations.

FROM Adam unto Tharaes departure to paradise are 2083. years. And the Lord toke Thara to him before Abraham went forth unto the land of Canaan. This shineth clear by the plain nes of the text. And Philo of Alexandria is a witness, in peregrinat: fol 284, And Bresith Rabba upon gen. Also the holy ghost in the New Testament, in the acts of the Apostles. And Abraham was seventy five years old when his father died at 205. And he begat Abraham at 130. as Adam at that age begat Seth, & Jacob, at that age, went into Egypt. So god dealeth in wonderful sort, for ease to our remembrance in matters of like dignity. And all is settled, & the order goodly, & there is nothing crooked or writhen of all this: Behold it, we have searched it hear, it and know for thy good. And hitherto the years are fastened together. The number of the years is sealed sure: they touch one another, & no spirit can come betwixt them, they cleave one to another, they hold fast & will not be separated.

Also these be equally sure. Presently after • hara went to the Paradise of God, the Lord said unto Abraham, Go thou &c & all families of the earth shall be blessed in thee: meaning in Christ, the just King, & King of peace & sacrificer forever after the order of Melchizedek. Now then conceive the word & perceive that which the eye may see From the calling of Abraham, unto the Passover Kept in Egypt, are 430. years. So the Seuenty interpreters ex pound. Ex 12. 40. And the Talmud Yerushalmi in Megila. Also these times following are past all doubt:

In the 480. yere after the children of Israel left Egypt, Solomon built an house to the Lord. Now the days that Solomon reigned at Jerusalem over all Israel were 40. years. At their end the years of the world were 3029. The Silver chain will not be loosed: & the Golden revolution of time will not be brokē of: and the bucket of the holy spring will not be burst, nor the wheel duly turning the heavens will be rent at the cistern of the story house, for any whit of these times. Now come & see the years of the Kingdom of Judah. The sin of Israel was fastened to their head 390. years. For here many agree, Jews & Christians. And these words hath Don Isaac Barbinel upon Ezek. 4. It is well known that since the time that the Kingdoms were divided they reigned in Judah from Roboam unto the destruction of the temple 390. years exactly, according to the testimony of the scriptures. And unto the same effect it is said in cabala of David Ben▪ Abraham, the temple stood 427. years. Subduct thence the 37 of Solomon's kingdom, & there remain 390. for the kingdom of Asa. And many of us Christians have in tables set forth lernedly this just sum with all the particulars. So the years of the world before the destruction of the temple amount unto 3418. And then there had passed 18. of Babels 70. Add 52. & you shall come unto the end of the transmigration in 3470 And this place maketh an end of reckoning by the date of earthly kings. Now Israel would not beleaue that all was vanity under the sun, until they saw the kingdom of Solomon spent & rent up:

Also they saw the kings of Babel how they came to naught in a moment, ended, wasted with horronr. And now men of sagenes would consider, & pereccaue, and beleve, that the kingdom of Christ is a kingdom of the world to come.

And the Angel Gabriel is sent from heaven, to show the time of this kingodme unto Daniel full of Grace. He sone told Cyrus the sone of great Sem, & told Darius S. of Japheth when God would persuade Japheth to dwell in the house of Sē. Also all their king domes had heard of this mattter that a king should be manifested at Jerusalem which should rule from sea to sea, & from the river to the ends of the earth: & the time was prefixed, to be 490, years, from the decree of Cyrus to restore & build Jerusalem. And the beginning of this time had seen the fall of Babel, the house of Nemrod, likewise the mouth of lions was stopped, & a decree was published to worship Daniel's God, & this decree did Darius the son of Japheth publish. Cyrus also, his fellow in kingdom, published in letters patentes, the God of heaven, & his People, & their return to Jerusalem, & the building of the tem ple. In the same sort, Judah loved Jerusalem, & left the land of the north for mount Zion. All these Poinctes renowned the beginning of the time whence rekoning should be taken, for the kingdom shown by the Angel Gabriel. But the end was more honored fiō God by the death of Messias: when he poured out his soul a sacrfice for sin and darkened the Sun at none day: & the earth trembled & quaked: & they who slept in the dust of the earth awaked: & Christ arose the third day: who 40. days viewed the assemblies of the faithful: & was taken up into heaven: & at Pentecost, he sent down to his disciples a fiery law: whe reby the fishers of Galilie spake eloquently in all tongues. Their writings testify, thatin the tongue of Iauan they passed all the dwellers in the Isles of Elisa, & the word of God needeth not mortal man's testimony.

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