A Consent of Scripture, Title page – To the reader

A Consent of Scripture · Title page – To the reader

Come, and ſee.

A CONCENT of Scripture, by H: BROVGHTON.

TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTIE PRINCE ELISABET, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, QVEENE OF Englande, France, and Irelande, defender of the fayth. &c.

THE whole Booke of GOD (moſt gratious Soueraigne) hath ſo great an harmony, that eueryevery part of it may be knowen to breath from one Spirite. Al ſoundeth the ſame poynt: that by CHRIST the ſonne eternall, we are made heyres of lyfe: whom they that knowe not, abide alwayes in wrath. Prophecyes in eueryevery age, the firſt larger, the later narrower, all briefly tolde, all for euent fully recorded: theſe ſhewe the conſtancy of this trueth. The lyke reuolutions are of Abraham, Iacob and his children togeather, of Sems houſe: & againe to Iapheths ſonnes, and all families: wherein the former be ſtampes of the later: ſo that in one ſpeach, an other thyng alſo is ſpoken. Theſe ſhew the eye of IEHOVAH, and his ſpirite. The kinredes, places, and tymes, the lyghtes of narrations, are regiſtred ſo profitably: that it ſhoulde be a blaſphemy to affirme any one to be idle. Our LORD his Fathers are recorded from Adam, by Dauid and Nathan, to his Grandfather Ely: likewiſe they, after whom he is heyre to the kingdome of Dauid, Salomons lyne ſo long as it continued: and afterwardes they who from Nathan were heyres to Salomons houſe. So other Families, who came all of one, as from them all come: they by Moſes and the Prophetes be plentifully expreſſed. In like ſort the places of their dwellinges are cleerely taught. The courſe of time is moſt certaynely obſerued: euen to the fulnes, the yeere of ſaluation, wherein our Lorde dyed. Of which time the very houre was foretolde by an Angell, not ſeauen yeeres before, but ſeauentie tymes ſeauen yeeres. Dan 9. 24. To this all, other Ebrewes and prophane Grekes, beare witneſſe ſtrongly agaynſt them ſelues. Theſe helpes be ſtarres in the Story. The frame of all this, with coupling of ioyntes and proportion of body, will much allure to ſtudy, when it is ſeene how about one worke all Families, Countries, and Ages, buylde or pull downe: and finde the kindnes or ſeueritie of GOD. For this worke I endeuored, to call auncient Ebrewes and Grekes, to further the buylding of iuſtice and peace, to come from Salem and Athens, to theſe endes of the earth, the poſſeſſion of Chriſte: to ſpeake in Englande the tongue of Eber and Iauan. This my paynes, I humbly preſent to your Maiestie.

Your Maieſties Subiect, HVGH BROVGHTON.

To the Reader.

FOR the better vnderſtanding of DANIEL, who mentioneth large Kingdoms, and pictureth them: this Table of the North part will giuegive ſome light: which ſheweth where NOE his ſonnes dwelt, by the notes which you ſee at them. Thoſe Families giuegive names to great Realmes, and are found in Greeke Heathen writers: placed of them as in this Table. The Kings which DANIEL ſpeaketh of are ioyned to their pictures. A ſhort Chronicle is added: but the breuitie will require diligence. A. B. C. D, printed in the Pictures, are expounded ouer the Beare, and placed in the Chronicle ouer the tree.

Iaphets ſonnes.

Gomers ſonnes.

Iauans ſonnes.

Sems ſonnes.

Arams ſonnes.

Ioktans ſonnes.

Chams ſonnes.

Cuſh his ſonnes.

Regmah his ſons

Mitzraims ſons.

foreign,

foreign.

foreign

foreign.