An Explication of our Lords Soul Going to Paradise, Afterword – Errata
TO ALL THE LEARNED nobility of England.
This contention (R. H.) vvhichwhich I hauehave with the Metropolitan toucheth all the realm: as the Creed is vſed in all houſes: wherin I labour to shew the right meaning of our Lords ſoule paſſing hence. As my paynes, all that I hauehave beſtovved in England hath bene recompenſed with extremity of badnes, by the Archb. his cauſing: ſo I looke that this paynes ſhall find no better interteynement. Only frō your honours & the plain harted I looke for approbation. I beleeue that I hauehave handled the matter more clearly then any who before me wrote of it. All may well here conſider a queſtion in Aggei, whether holy fleſh yf it touch vnclean ſanctifieth it, or polluteth it ſelf: & whether one hereſy in the Creed be tolerable for the goodnes of the reſt, or rather corrupteth the dignity of the whole: as one dead fly marreth an whole box of precious oinctment. How far the Metropolitans dealing hath bene from Learning, faith and comon humanity that will appear in my Epiſtle to him ſelf: & to what pas he hath brought the Q. honour▪ and how he began this coyle to defeat my recompenſe for comentations vponupon Daniel, that wilbe made knowen by ſome of your honours to the reſt, without my declaration. I ſeek no further revenge but this that I may have the Q. quiet Leaue to forſake her kingdom: to take a courſe among ſtrangers for paſſage of my yeares few & ſorowfull that are to come: which I hope ſhalbe more to myne own comfort, then thoſe which I hauehave ſpent vnderunder the Q. of whome I had great promiſes tvventy yeares together: to hinder me from vſing other kingdoms benefit: But the ſtrangeſt recompenſe (when I was bid be myne own chooſer, & referred the choiſe again to her highnes) that euer hath bene heard of. I will make no pleading: but refer all to him whom ſhe tooke to witnes as she Looked to be ſaued, that ſhe would beſtow all the commodityes of Diuinity to beſt deſert. She relied vponupon the Metropolitan: but regardeth not how God will regard ſuch a poſt. How I accuſe him you may read: & more for hindering the good of the Bible according to the tenour shevved to your Honours. Therin he may ſoon win a victory: Seing the matter is of ſo great difficulty that it requireth as great ſtudy as any hath vndertaken this 1000 yeres for the text of both teſtamēts, & beſides the help of all the Learned of a Kingdom: all being directed to grounds manifeſt; Here a Metropolitā may ſoon hinder: but I am affrayd while the nation beareth ſoules to be ſaued the like offer wil not be again. His G. wil not fīd many in the world that ſēſibly defēd foreign of the Ebrew text. VVhile ſome of his aduaunced teach that the text is corrupted, the Pope is ſure of the other part of the Dilemma: That the Church not the word muſt rule. A ſenſible reaſon of 848 Margent readings had bene worth thākes: how they note exactnes not corruptiōs. So the shewing how this: Adam Liued 230. & begot Seth: VVherin Moſes omitted 100. y. this note being admitted, diſanulleth all Moſes autority 36. ſeuerall hūdreths. And any one marreth all: this alſo had bene worth thanks. His G. neuer read two that yelded a plain reaſon whēce that difference frō the Ebrevv ſprang: VVhēce Graecia, Aethiopia, Arabia, Moſcouia vtterly de ſpiſe the Ebrew text: and ſome Papiſts too. Alſo our Bishops miſſing for 600000, yeres 215. make Moſes Mother 257. yeres old at the Leaſt when ſhe bare him: and infinitely corrupt all the Bible. This ſhould be amended and not concealed. Theſe amendements and other full rare poincts deſerued ſome thankes. But I cō mēd thē to your honours care. My poore good will was ready: to hauehave wrought ſo much that the Bibles in Engliſh ſhould hauehave ben the glory of all Diuinity of the weſt. Now I deem I ſhall neuer deal that way: but for ſome ſmall parcel: as time fleeth and cannot be reuoked. Your honours and the whole nation I commend to God: not minding euer to medle wher ſtrēgthening of the preſent religion is an haynous Crime, and ſaving from Gehenna, is perſecuted as an haereſy. As your honours vvil be ſory that this hath fallen out: ſo in the next Parlement ye may take order: that no Biſhop ſhall hauehave auctority but for receauing of his reuenues: vnles he can read and tranſlate both Teſtaments. How great hinderance his G. hath wrought it would make any hart ſick to bethink: & it is better to be buryed then to be told. Leaſt further harm proceed from ſuch: I wiſh preuētion for the nations good: though I look for Litle to my ſelf.
Your honours most willing to hauehave bene employed for the Churches good: HVGH BROVGHTON.
Errata, in ſome Copies.
In the preface.
Page 2. a. line 20 read. ſpeach. Ibidē line 23 read firſt. pag. 3. a line 2 read this. Ibid. line 4. read. vvhichwhich. ſo els where. page 4. a. line 13 read. a calling.
In the treatiſe,
Page 2. line 1. read haleth. page 4 line 1 read his. and kingdom. Ibid. line 25 read. then. page 5. line 23 and 29 read foreign Ibid. line 30. read foreign page 8 line 26. read foreign page 9 line 29 read. foreign. Ibid. L. 33 after (Clay) adde that is here, & from this earthly tabernacle, page 10. line 18 read a going. page 11 line 2 read Bear. Ibid. line 16 read shadovv of death? page 12. line 8 read 16. page 14 line 32 read foreign page 15 line 33. after (as) adde that Apoc. 20, the comon to all dead, page 17 line 11 read redemer. page 20 line 2 after (trueth) adde, to abā don your errors. Ibid. line 10 read propoſition. Ibid. line 19 after (Iew) adde and that anſvvere vvas returned. Ibid. line 21 after (meaning) adde or Daniels 490 yeres in M Livelies meaning. page 21 line 4 read. foreign page 24 line 10 read is ſeen. Ibid. line 18 read further. page 25 line 28 read philip. 1. page 26 line 1. read of Cim-▪ ibid. line 2 read foreign ibid. line 5 read ſpeach ibid. line 31 read contend. page 29 line 12 read later, shevveth Ibid. line 29 read foreign page 32 line 33 read foreign page 33 line 8 read his page 35 line 15 read to foreign ibid. line 31 read foreign Page 37 line 6 read foreign Ibid. line 11 read foreign Ibid. line 16 read having foreign page 38 line 11 read commentary page 39. line 2. read foreign page 40 line 7. read foreign page 43 line 22 read life.
End of the text · Hugh Broughton, An Explication of our Lords Soul Going to Paradise (1605)