A Defense of A Consent of Scripture, Article 1 – Article 5
Article I. The Scripture ſaith, Adam lived …0. yeares and begat Seth.
Bancroftes croft of Bane in the notes fol. 6. Col. 2.
Adam at 230. begat Seth: where Moſes omitted 100. yeares, wherein Adam and Eue lamented their ſonne Abell ſo ſlaine.
The manifolde croft of Bane.
If Moſes omitted any yeare, he ſpared a trueth: none but giddie headed ſmithes would forge yeres to be moe or leſſe, for ioy or ſorrow: and the holy Angells that were created the firſt day: the Devills that fell preſently after Adam was proclaymed ruler of the worlde, they that kept their ioy, and they that fell into eternall ſorow, were not an houre diſtant in yeares, nor from Adam but five dayes and a night. Now it is Atheiſme to ſay that Moſes lyed.
Therefore Bancroft alloweth an Athean note, and muſt heare the blame.
Abell died as in Chriſtes place, & his parentes were both Prophetes, and were not comfortles as the prophane, and would teach their other children, whom they had many before Seth, to looke vntounto the redemption of Chriſt, and to reioyce in his dayes.
So D. Bancroft by his note ſhould be much deceaved, and a ſlender D.
The errour of 100. yeares difference came from miſtaking the … II. Tranſlatours: who dallying with skoffing heathen, altered the Ebrew. Gen. 5. and xi. to 1000. yeares difference and many hundred.
That alteration I handled in a Treatiſe of Melchiſedeke: which ſome about your Grace will ſhew your Highnes. Now the allowance of an Atheiſme after diſcoverie, ſhould tell Archb. Bancroft, that there is but a ſteppe betwixt him & eternall deſtruction: where the bare title of Grace will be no defence for him.
Of an Atheiſme allowed by Rich. Bancroft, buring Moſes 40. yeares before he receaved the Law.
Theſe wordes vnlearned Bancroft alloweth as well tranſlated from the Ebrew, Exodus 12.40.
The dwelling of the children of Iſraell while they dwelt in Egypt, was 430. yeares, Moſes Hebrew hath infinite wiſdome to dally with fooliſh Heathen, by equivocation, that they ſhould not ſcoffe how 215. in Chanaan, bred Abraham for Egypt but 70. ſoules, and 215. in Egypt bred to goe for Chanaan ſix hundred thouſand warriers, that heathen ſhould not mocke Moſes, vſed wordes that one vnlearned as Bancroft, might turne to dwelling of 430. yeares.
Thus ſtandeth the trueth.
The peregrination of the children of Iſraell: When they had ended their ſtaying in Egypt, was 430. yeares. ſo the LXXII. ſo Thalmud Ieruſalemy ſhew that ſince Abraham left his countrey, Gen. 1.2. and ſince he receaved the promiſe Gal. 3.17. Saint Paul ſheweth the tymes accompt: yet Bancroft a D. …, would croſſe Saint Paule, Ieruſalemy, and the Lxx. to burie Moſes before the Law. Proofe.
Cohath came with Iacob into Egypt, Gen. 46.
Lived 133. yeares, Exod. 6. all 133.390.
Amram. 137. Exod. 6. all 137.390.
Moſes 120. Deut. 33. all 120.390.
So by Bancroftes Grammer and Arithmetique two courtiers that would perſwade now twentie yeres agoe, that the Bible was a forged worke, had probabilitie, and wann many to Atheiſme. When my Concent came foorth, them ſelves yeelded: But the vnlearned and vngratefull D. had rather conſpire to the libell, mocking Archb. Wh. and L. Winton, then learne the trueth in whole 20. yeares.
Article II.
AN Atheiſme denying that Iehu ever conquered Chanaan, or that David ever was.
The ſpace ſince Iſraell left Egypt vntounto the building of Salomons Temple, is 480. 1 King. 6.1. againſt this by D. Bancroftes allowed divinitie, for his graces graceles skill in tranſlating, Saint Paules moſt wiſe Greek, is, God gaue Iudges about the ſpace of 450. yeares, Act. 13. Therefore about 30. of the wildernes, will make with the Iudges times, the 480. And about the laſt tenne of Moſes, and all Ioſuahs, and Davids not borne till tenne after Ellis death, ſhal hauehave no time in the world. Bancroft his Doctorſhip for learning, his grace, for divinitie, ſho…d be taken from him, for ſuch Athean divinitie.
Article III.
HEe denyeth the New Teſtament, in feigning that it ſhould diſagree with the Old.
Article IV.
SAint Paule ſpake with infinite admiration, to make all the worlde admire the new Teſtament, as I ſhewed in my advertiſement, and in a Diſputation in the Martialcie againſt the Rhemiſtes, who tranſlated the new Teſtament from the Latin, ſaying that the Greeke was corrupted.
Bancroftes vnthankefulnes.
Bar. Lo. in his Libell againſt the Scottiſh miſt and Brittiſh Nation, forged with a Giddie headed ſlaūder, a moſt ſenſeles lye, that I diſputed in defence of the Lxx. which none ever defended to bee well copied, yet Bancroft conſpired with the vnlearned, vngratefull, ſhameleſſe Libeller, to allow the traitorous Athean worke, of a moſt impudent ſlaunderer, foming out his owne ſhame, as the raging waves of the ſea, preparing him ſelfe a lodging in gloomie darknes.
Article V.
A fayning that Baaſa King of Iſraell fought againſt Aſa tenne yeares after he was dead.
IN the third yeare of Aſa, Baaſa began his reigne of 24. yeares, 1. King. 15.33. Now he muſt die in the 26. of Aſa, by this true ſcripture.
Bancroft his croft of bane by barbarous rudenes, that knew not Malc…th to meane there a kingdome not reigne, 1. Chron. 16.1.
Thus goeth Bancrofts allowed learning in the 36. yeare of Aſa, came Baaſa King of Iſraell againſt Iuda, 2. Chron. 10.1. It was the 36. ſince the kingdome of Aſa was devided from Iſraell: twentie yeares before Aſa reigned, as my Concent noted with an evident title, Iuda or Aſaes Kingdome D. Bancroft was rude that knew not the generall name.
Sequell.
So Baaſa came ten yeares dead to fight by Bancroftes allowed divinitie, by as good Machmad the foule ſpirit may be hoped to returne to his deceaved Knightes. It is ſtraunge that a D. and bearing G. in title, ſhould after warning, ſuffer ſuch ſtuffe to be ſolde vnderunder the name of the Bible.