A Declaration unto the Lords, of the jews desire these fifteen years for Hebrew explication of our Greek Gospel: hindered by a brace of wicked silly D.D.: whereof the God of jews & Gentiles hath paid the one: & will pay the other: when he hath detected who he is.  
1611.   

I heard, R. H. of a most honourable bent of the K. for clearing in Hebrew & Grek by the Apoc. all the Bible: & my desire that way is stirred by news from Graecia. One Edw. Crain a shipper of N. Castle: was long in Thrace: where Iewes daily rejoiced of our knowledge in the law, hoping to learn from us salvation. And one came with him to Venice, for Leyden, hearing (by the Post of Collen belike) that I meant stay there. He would be fully instructed of me: that he might return to save his nation. And I whole fourteen years craved allowance to show Christ through the Bible. But Satan hindered all hitherto. Now I hope the sting in the Dragon's tail shallbe pluck up: that no libelers crew sting more. They joy that I show jesus not joseph son to Ely: Luc. 3. jechonias, Matth. 1. only by King's phrase father to Salathiel, by all Rabbins upon jer. 22. & Parted Macedoniens the fourth Kingdom in Daniel: & daniel's 490. years seven times the captivity space, begun at the Angel's message & drawn exactly unto our lords death. Even by Aben Ezra their own Doctor: forced to overthrow their own Thalmudiques all: by clear ending of Moses. Also this was acceptable, that I showed Ps. 16. That▪ Christ said, that thou wilt not leave me to the Grave till the body see corruption. & so Act. 2. & Crede: crucified dead & buried: & went to God: where 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hath heaven for the Godly, & Gehenna for the wicked: both on high. They thought we in England held a going to Hell. As Chrysologus now 1200. years: & Rome confuted by Isaac Ben Arama. fol. 205. that so our Gospel could not be from God: if it taught that the Fathers could miss of Paradise hence or Messias. The very Devils & Porphyry their Angel in Euseb. Apod. evang. 3. say: our lords soul was the Godliest of all souls: & the soul of the godly goeth into the soil of heaven: where jesus & all just be. This much the very Devils confessed: But our translation Ps. 16. thou wilt not leave my soul in Hell, & the same Act. 2. is more shameless than any part of the Alkoran. And a sixth point cheered the text of the holy Grek: where Beza 60. years checked the text & milliones after him. Hence they thought God never gave it. For as in the course of nature God preserveth all his creatures & all the letters of the Law: so he would have kept every letter of the New Testament if he gave it. But before me none defended the general pureness & eloquence to be from God. So long they staggered: But now rejoiced uncredibly. Five Hebrew little works the most Eloquent Rabbin of all the world, as prage censured, Rabbi Reuben sent into England for me. Beside that which I printed to the delight of all Christendom: But the libelers crew that libeled I forged the first of six: bezelled them that poor Reuben died in unperfect hope. A copy of one a merchand hath in Ingland. And the Turkey merchants might find who had them. I would request the K. to try who were the Atheists that durst so deal to hinder the glory of Christendom: & salvation of Abraham's sons. I have lately complained to your Lordships a little: But I reserve this to mine own complaint to his sacred Majesty. To whom I have to show the original of Abraham Rubens Epistle printed: for a memorial against them that libeled I forged it. The one died horribly. Men may mark the others end. I hasten home to instruct the K. & Pr. if it please them in few hours in all the Bible: & grounds of Divinity study. And then I may detect the barbarous atheism & brainsick profaneness of the libelers, scoffing the scottish mist & brettish nation, as the mate would scoph: for these points: That he turneth Atheanly, for the Pope's use, our lords words in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to damn heathen Governors of tyranny. Where our L. Prov. 8. telleth that by him Princes decree right. But he would teach that our Lord taught against Caesar: to be gilti by human Laws. And for Grek in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he is to be accused of extreme blindness, twelve times the 70. have the word: but the Hebrew answerable never signifieth tyranny: & old Heathen never use it. So his raving is against the consent of Scripture, which God gave: I did but show: & his denying Messias to be Christ our Lord in M. Lively, upon Dan. 9 & time of his baptism or death: which endeth Moses, to be plain in prophecy: & his assertion that Sacrifice was Lawful in Emperor Vespasians dayesi: this crossing of all salvation worse than Machumedean shallbe objected: & his Lunatic scoffing of the conclusion of the most famous Syllogism of Archb. whit & B. Winton, concluding unvincibly that in the Crede to descend to Hell is to go up to heaven: this shallbe urged to disgrade him: or to send him to Bishop the wild in Virginia. And whereas he bestoweth: the term Ass on me: The K. may set him to dispute whether the libeler or I shall bear that name. If it please the K. to try my vein: if in 24. sermons I make not his court better in all the Bible, & rules of Divinity: then the libeler will ever be: I will be greved at no disgrace. I stay to hear of the jew sent from 15. years zeal of his folk: who give me such words, all, for hebrew eloquence, & the most, for perpetual orthodoxy, that would make Bar Lo to burst their paunches for envy. Yet if the wind serve I will hasten to salute his M. & will take order to have the jew sent to England after leave that he may come. being yet unbaptized. I wish him to hear before the King all the Bible in one Hebrew Sermon: & then Baptized.  
Your Lordship's most Humble H. BROUGHTON.