BROUGHTON. 217 Adam to Christ. The work was published in the year 1588; and, while it was printing, the famous Mr. John Speed superintended the press.. It was dedicated to Queen Elizabeth, to whom it was presented by himself the 17th of November, 1589. In this dedication he says, " The whole Book of God, most gracious sovereign, hath so great an harmony, that every part of it may be known to breathe from one Spirit. All soundeth the same point, that by Christ the Son eternal, we are made heirs of life : whom they that know not abide always in wrath. Prophecies in every age, (the first ages larger, the later narrower,) -a11 briefly told, all events fully recorded : these shew the con- stancy of this truth. The like revolutions are of Abraham, Jacob, and his children, together of Shem's house : and again to Japheth's sons, and all families : wherein the former be stampsof the latter : so that in one speech another thing also is spoken. These shew the eye of Jehovah, and his Spirit. The kindreds, places, and times (the lights of narrations) are registered so profitably, that it should be a blasphemy to affirm any one to be idle. Our Lord's fathers are recorded from Adam, by David andNathan, to his grandfather Ely : likewise they, after whom he is heir to the kingdom of David : Solomon's line so long as it con- tinued, and afterwards they who from Nathan were heirs to Solomon's house. So other families, who came all of one, as from them all come : they by Moses and the prophets be plentifully expressed. In like sort the places of their dwellings are clearly taught. The course of time is most certainly to be observed; even to the fulness, the year of salvation,wherein our Lord died. Of which time the very hour was foretold by an angel, not seven years before, but seventy times seven years, Dan. ix. 24. To this all other Hebrews, and profane Greeks, bear witness strongly against themselves. These helps be stars in the story. The frame Mr. Speed, who was brought up a tailor, was, by his acquaintance with Mr. Broughton, become particularly studious, and, by his directions, was deeply versed in a knowledge of the scriptures. Also, by the generosity of Sir Fulke Gravile, his patron, he wasset free from a manual employment, and enabled to pursue his studies, to which he was strongly inclined by the bent of his genius. The fruits of them were his " Theatre of Great Britain ; Genealogies of Scripture; and History of GreatBritain," works of immenselabour ; the last of which, in its kind, was incomparably more complete than all the histories of his predecessors put together. Mr. Broughton had a considerable share in the " Genealogies ;" but when the work came tobe published." because the bishops would not endure to have Mr. Broughton's name prefixed, Mr. Speed went away with all the credit and profit."-Clark's Lives, last vol. part i. p. 2.-Granger's Biog. Hist. vol. ii, p. Britan. vol. H. p. 67. Edit. 1778.
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