A Petition to Examine Religion and Carriage
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Logan West
(with David Jonescue and Alex Sarrouf)
www.puritansearch.org
A PETITION TO THE LORD'S, TO examine the religion and carriage of D. Ban. Archb.
By Hugh Broughton.
An o 1608.
I Wrote a reply (right honorable) upon a Jew in defense of all Christiandome: as many of your Lordships have seen the book. The Jew being subtle had caught D. Brancroft, as an allower of our works in Judaism with him. Wherein art could give no better answer then that our old notes were long ago revoked. The scholars of Geneva were also in Judaism: But the Senators gave me leave to confute them: & sware that they would bridle them forever. Then they went about to have me killed for denying that Q. E. ever meant to defeat K. I. In contradictiō Beza wrote to Basil to D. Polanus. I said all was but a dream: and I would hav printed an Hebrews Hebrew commendation of the Q. for her royal purpose in sending me word by Sir Julius Caesar that I should chose my ecclesiastical preferment for my commentaries upon Daniel. But Bancroft by 3000. well given to a courtier and a Lady, procured grief to Q. Elisabet and defeatance. This commendation allowed by the Senate: One Grinetus & Pinot now dead, and another now dead hindered with disturbance strange: that the Senate sent me word of danger by soldiers stirring. That I record. Bancroft seeing himself in Judaism: and as I heard in his allowed Libel equal scoffer as of a mist soon scattered, raved against me, for pearls to such, and holy things to such. Now seeing the Law of God which may not pass contemned biddeth reprove openly them that sin openly, I require from God that your Lordships hear with justice my articles against Richard Bancroft.
Rabbi Farar objected that our S. Luke set not down our Lord's kindred but Joseph's, and citeth our English translation: and our notes further, to prove extremity of dotage.
Bancroft railed against a right defense: and suffereth our Athean notes of treason against the Gospel.
Bancroft is equal in Athean vilanie with the Jew.
A weightier cause cannot be found then y t of our Lord's house after the flesh: & right distinction of ending Solomon's race in Jeconiah. The Jews universally denied that: & Bancroft in allowing our banned croft of notes, & raving against the defender of the right, helpeth him.
Bancroft is in equal Judaism:
If the Romans be the legs of Daniel's Image, or be the fourth beast, whom Daniel bringeth to perish before the redeemer cometh into the world, our Gospel hath missed of the true redeemer. For Christ our L. came into the world the first day that in Bethlehem tax over the world argued the Romans a full destruction of the double Macedonians (who in deed are the two legs and fourth beast).
The Romans in his allowed notes be the Images legs & fourth beast.
A croft of bane or poison is in Bancrofts banned Judaism.
The glory of all the old testament prophesied in Levite. 26. hath history Dan. 9. the covenant of God remembranced and expounded: that the holy Angel telled the most gracious Prophet how the 70. years captivity space seven times, 490 years, are frō Daniel's prayer to our Lord's death, ending Moses Ceremonies. And all the New testament is disturbed by the disturbance of this.
Lively is allowed by Bancroft to make 590. y.: so that Ezra whose Father was killed 2 King. 25. two and fifty before Babel fell, and saw the Persians end at Livelies 230. should live 280 years & ten Zorobabelidae should draw 557. years, that both testamēts should be nothing worth:
And Bancroft in the libel allowing Lively, as Bar-Lo, denieth sacrifice ended at our Lord's death, or time of his Birth
- Baptism
- Death
Bancroft is to be holden an assistant to the unbelieving Jews, & equal in Athean vilany, against our hope of salvation.
Rabbi Farar busily bestirreth himself to prove that by our grant our scripture is not pure in text: so it should not be a rule of salvation.
Bācroft as Bar-Lo allowing Lively damning the old testament in 848 readings of text as corrupted would persuade that we blaspheme the old testament justly: & accuse in notes and translation Act. 7. the N. T. to be corrupt,
Bancroft is a deadly enemy to both testaments, and vnallowable in this course to be a teacher: or to rule in Lerning.
Farar, or old Ben Arama.
They who said Jesus their Savior went to Hell cannot holding that, hold Salvation.
Moses Levite. 26. and all Rabbin's upon him, & in all their writings: and our Gospel and S. Paul & Luke Act. 7. show that all faithful go only to heaven.
Bancroft is to be banned with all the croft of his Athean vilanie of his heresy and railing against Archb. Whitgift & Doctor Bilson for this syllogism:
The place which received our Lord's soul gone from the body and this world is haides of the Crede: and the descending is the passage thither: Whitgift and all Grecians.
Paradise is the place unto which our Lord's soul, or all holy souls went hence. Doctor Bilson & both testaments all Jews for the just: and the best Christian Grecians & heathen then in their kind.
Therefore to descend to Hell in the Creed is to go up to Paradise.
So Bancroft in the consent to the Libel hoping to see his country on flame raving against the BB. Syllogism shown all extremity of any Judaism to overthrow the main point of salvation.
How the Creed should be translated:
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 meaneth, To go hence to God: & because God's throne is on high, and there the godly have heaven, & the wicked, Hell: in the holy it is: a going to Heaven: in the other, to Hell. The unlearned wight that seeing this matter so explained would maintain a daily Lie, that our Lord's soul, went down, where all ascend to God, and went to Hel, not (by the Gospel) to heaven, this unlearned wight should be removed from his place. And D. Whitgift well held that all who deny our Lord's soul to have removed to Hades ar in Atheism: as deniers of souls immortality. And this much for Judaism. The Machmadean absurdities sold as with the Bible, told to the K. for some part: if B. Ban not all the croft of thē, I will give him in Greek Epistles quiet advertrisemēt: Although his G. understandeth Greek as I do Persian: yet for the simple I would not openly show his errors & others may turn all to English for his Grek. Touching harm to me for the K. I blame none but four scholars of Geneva, Bancroft & Bar-Lo. Bancroft brent these words as treason: The K. of our Language. He can render no other reason, why he brent the book under Q. E. and K. I. your Lordships may ask him. For the doctrine the D. cannot blame one syllable. Therefore his first hatred to the K. bred the second. D. Vahan saw his danger: and went about to calm all. Now Bar-Lo would not have scoffed the Bishops syllogism and me, befooling himself, but to set his country as Nero on a flame. So for the K. the Bishops and I were scoffed. Further neither nation nor persō do I accuse for any harm, to any. My Petition for the Jews unto the K. is not for myself, but for the Bishops if they be able: and I could wish D. Bancr. all grace of sufficiency in Talmudics and Greek: to honor Christendom in this sort for the gayn with the Pain. And all the world must bear me record how friendly D. Bilson is honored: whose words I take to prove against Jews by scripture & Greeks that our Lord's soul ascended from the cross alone into heaven: as the second time in the body. So I would honor all the rest: and give good leave to ech one to step before me: to the gain and Pain. It is well known that the Jew meant to foil all Christendom: as that none should match him in elegancy of Talmudiques: and propounded such a scope to have the N. Test: compared with Moses 613 laws, as sufficient without the Talmud, that he little looked for any to be found ever in the world, that would show the Apostles to be the best Talmudics. Now none that know the greatness of this pains: & how hard it is to find translators from Hebrew into other tongues, that all nations; may see how the matter is carried: and what pain will be to find Hebrew written works: & Greeks to be translated into Hebrew: as all Polychronius upon Daniel none of skil will here show will with desire to prevēt others. And it would be an honor to our nation, if an Archbishop or Bishop should pass Rabbin's and match Greeks in their kind: as Crāmer by Martyrdom and Jewel by fathers are an eternal honor to our Island. And if the Bishops will not move the K. the P. and your honors will: and wish the Bishops far sager and quieter carriage.
Your Lordships most humble Hugh Broughton