A PETITION TO THE LORDS, TO examine the religion and carriage of D. Ban. Archb. By Hugh Broughton. Anᵒ 1608. I Wrote a reply (right honourable) upon a jew in defence of all Christendom: as many of your Lordships have seen the book. The jew being subtle had caught D. Brancroft, as an allower of our works in judaisme with him. Wherein art could give no better answer than that our old notes were long ago revoked. The scholars of Geneva were also in judaisme: But the Senators gave me leave to confute them: & swore that they would bridle them for ever. Then they went about to have me killed for denying that Q. E. ever meant to defeat K. I. In contradiction Beza wrote to Basil to D. Polanus. I said all was but a dream: and I would have printed an hebrews Hebrew commendation of the Q. for her royal purpose in sending me word by Sir julius Caesar that I should choose 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 judaisme: 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. judaisme. Article 1. 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's judaisme. Bancroft railed against a right defence: and suffereth our Athean notes of treason against the Gospel. Therefore Bancroft is equal in Athean villainy with the Iew. Article II. A weightier cause cannot be found then that of our Lord's house after the flesh: & right distinction of ending salomon's race in jechonias. The jews universally denied that: & Bancroft in allowing our banned croft of notes, & raving against the defender of the right, helpeth him. Therefore Bancroft is in equal judaisme: Article III. Rabbi Farar urged this true proposition, that by bancroft's assumption he might ban all the holy croft of our Gospel. 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 miss of the true redeemer. For Christ our L. came into the world the first day that in Bethleem tax over the world argued the Romans a full destruction of the double Macedonians (who in deed are the two legs and fourth beast). bancroft's treason to the Gospel. The Romans in his allowed notes be the Images legs & fourth beast. Therefore A croft of bane or poison is in Bancrofts banned judaisme. Article IV. The glory of all the old testament prophesied in Levit. 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 from daniel's prayer to our Lord's death, ending Moses Ceremonies. And all the New testament is disturbed by the disturbance of this. Rabbi Farar and Barbinel. 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, Math. 1. that both testaments 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 told in the law Therefore Bancroft is to be holden an assistant to the unbelieving jews, & equal in Athean villainy, against our hope of salvation. Article V. 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. Bancroft 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, Therefore Bancroft is a deadly enemy to both testaments, and unallowable in this course to be a teacher: or to rule in Learning. Article VI. Farar, or old Ben Arama. They who said Jesus their Saviour went to Hell cannot holding that, hold Salvation. Proof from Law & Gospel. Moses Levit. 26. and all Rabbins upon him, & in all their writings: and our Gospel and S. Paul & Luke Act. 7. show that all faithful go only to heaven. Therefore Bancroft is to be banned with all the croft of his Athean villainy 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 Lords 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. Conclusion. So Bancroft in the consent to the Libel hoping to see his country on flame raving against the BB. Syllogism showed all extremity of any judaisme to overthrow the main point of salvation. How the Creed should be translated: 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 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 Hell, 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 Haides are in Atheism: as deniers of soul's immortality. And this much for judaisme. The Machmadean absurdities sold as with the Bible, told to the K. for some part: if B. Ban not all the croft of them, I will give him in Greek Epistles quiet advertrisement: 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 al. Now Bar-Lo would not have scoffed the Bishop's 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 person 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 Thalmudiques and Greek: to honour Christendom in this sort for the gain with the Pain. And all the world must bear me record how friendly D. Bilson is honoured: 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 honour all the rest: and give good leave to each 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 Thalmud, that he little looked for any to be found ever in the world, that would show the Apostles to be the best Thalmudiques. Now none that know the greatness of this pains: & how hard it is to find translator from Hebrew into other tongues, that all nations; may see how the matter is carried: and what pain willbe to find ebrew written works: & Greeks to be translated into Hebrew: as all Polychronius upon Daniel none of skill will here show will with desire to prevent others. And it would be an honour to our nation, if an Archbishop or Bishop should pass Rabbins and match Greeks in their kind: as Crammer by Martyrdom and jewel by fathers are an eternal honour to our Island. And if the Bishops will not move the K. the P. and your honours will: and wish the Bishops far sager and quieter carriage. Your Lordship's most humble Hugh Broughton