him did a sentence sharp proclame 〈◊〉 he heavie to his house went hame 1 Kings 21 chap. AHab his avarice and Greed agrest And covetous desire that could noght rest Altho he could all Isrel then Command Without that Parcel of poore Naboths Land Heir is imprinted in a brook of Brass To b'evr a witness of his great disgrace But bloody Iezebel the fell and fex The cross the Curse and shame of all hir sex Both with deceat and crueltie at once The innocent Naboth bett and braind with stons But God repeyd their Tirany extreame With totall ruine death disgrace and shaâ—â— Yet Ahab by Eliah taxd he rents His Garments and his trespas he repents 1 Kings 22 Chap. IEhosophat and Ahab both as Brether To fight the Aramits agree together And faethless both into there foolishnes Consult there Prophets fals on there succes Who ansver frendly altho fals they find And the success to sort vnto there mynd Michayah yet that truely served God They ask'd that from th' impostors free abod Who well inspird and by the sprit made wyse Told the true ishue of their interprise Heirfore Zidkiiah a false Prophet than Madlyk commovde did smit the godly man The battell joynd Ahab defate they slew And things fortold of him foll forth all trew 1 Kings 22 Chap. AHaz'a nixt his Father killd and dead A Successor and his here raigne in his stead A godless wicked and a vrongous King Incongr'ous in his cariage course and reigne In all his doings he did evr debord And fell both from the Law and from the Lord His Fathers here into his worship vane As Ieroboam all wyse as Prophane No but Iehosophat evin from his youth As walk'd his Father still stood to the truth And never did from what was right decline But did obey the word and will divine Yet th' Idol-Altars in high places plac'd Into his dayes they wer not all defac'd His other worthie deeds they aâ— set doune In Iuda Annals vnto his renoune 1 Chapter â—Hen Ahaziah King of Israel Doune throw a Lattesse of a window fell â—â—d vnto Baal-zebub send to try â—he that time in that dise ase should dye â—â—e God of Ekron and the God of flyes â—â—om to th' vnfaithfull vsd to Sacrifice â—â—refore th' almighty by Eliah wraeth â—â—etold the messinger their Maisters daeth â—â—herefore the Prince the Prophet t' apprehend â—â—o Captains each with fifty Souldiars send â—â—ut the God of Isrel in his Ire â—â—se fifties from the hevens confounds with fire â—â—nd as declard the King concluds his dayes â—â—horam then his Sone his Scepter swayes 1 Kings 2 Chap. â—â—iahs dwelling dayes on earth o're drev'n â—he Lord resolv'd to take him hence to heven 〈◊〉 with Elisha he to Iordan gois 〈◊〉 by seprating it his povvar shois â—â—prit prophetick doubled then he gives 〈◊〉 Elisha that his Lord out lives 〈◊〉 than a firie Car with flamming horses â—â—e soone and suddan Separation forces 〈◊〉 in the Car caught with a whirling wind 〈◊〉 was and left his Cloka behind 〈◊〉 a then so in his faith confides 〈◊〉 there with he the waves strikes and devides 〈◊〉 walls and springs by him tart and amare â—â—wre made sweet of harmefull healthfull are 〈◊〉 curssd the Boyes that mock'd him and therefore â—â—er torne in Pieces by the Tusked Bore 1 Kings 3 Chap. Hil I'horam Iudg'd the Isralits amang â—â—ehosaphat o're Them of Iuda Raigne â—horam wicked was and did not right â—as sinceare in his Creators Sight â—â—ght so fouly as his Father fell 〈◊〉 his monstrous mother Iezabel â—â—et h' adheard and cleaved to the Sinne â—â—croboam Nebats Sone fell in Kinges with angre then gainst Mesha swell'd 〈◊〉 his Moabits that than rebelld â—â—y Elisha are stirrd vp to fight â—â—d o're match the Moabits by might Then Meâ—â—a with his Sone 〈…〉 And sacrifizd him to asvage his Gods Which monstrous fact when Isrel vnderstands For pitie thereof They reteird there Bands 2 Kings 4 Chap. ELisha by the heavnly help incressd Oyle to a vidovv for hir debtes distressd In such aboundant quantitie and store That all defrayd and yet ynough to fore And for the Shunamite he did implore By pray'r a Sone that had noght ane before And this child wax'd sickly and expird But he reviv'de him by his Dame desird The pottage likwise he made sweet of soure When meal among that vild vine he did povvre And with but tuenty loavs of Barly kind He fed a hunder and left store behind The Lord alone by him these vounders wrought And but his help Elisha he did nought 2 Kings 5 Chap. NAaman Captane of th' Assyrian host A Leper hopeless of his health almost Than by ane Hebrevv wench in warr supprisd To journay to Elisha is advisd Eliahs deer and double sprited Man A Prophet in Samaria spirand than Who by his word divine a voundrous change To wash him did this loathsum Leper clenge This Prophet yet no recompence wold have Nor for the Leprous cure no coyne receave But lo his groome Gehazi full of greed Gain and tuo garments got and for his deed That which Naaman did infect before Shall cleaue to him and his for ever more 2 Kings 6 Chap. YEt voundrous wounderfull are wronght be him Elisha made in water Iren swimme And all the King of Arams Counsel seald Vnto the King of Isrel he reveald And herefore Aram of his men almost The choyse and best he chused of his host And secreitly vnto Samaria send The holy Prophet for to apprehend But millious more with firie Charets stand To guard Elisha by the Lords command The Prophet prayd t' vnshut his servands eyes Who th' heavnly host â—end for to guard theâ—â— sies 〈◊〉 Samaâ—a and they knew him nought â—â—â—o God preserv'd him Isâ—â—l and there Prince â—â—om Arams injurie and violence 2 Kings 7 Chap. WHill that th' Assyrian Samaria sâ—â—gd Such furious famyn there in raigne and rag'd â—â—at inhumane and loathsome to Relate 〈◊〉 woman with consent hir Sone did eat 〈◊〉 herefore King Ihoram swore Elishas life â—â—ould pay the price of that stup pendious strife 〈◊〉 he pronounc'd and b' inspiration said 〈◊〉 morrow shall this brough abound with Bread 〈◊〉 th' infidull that wold not trust his word â—â—â—d see the same but in the throng was smord â—â—â—cause a pallid faint and Trembling feare â—â—â—atchd the Aramits intrenched There 〈◊〉 And th' only sound of Armes without the Sight Confounded fearfully put all to â—light 2 Kings 8 Chap. 〈◊〉 Lisha doth the Shunamite fore arme 〈◊〉 from futur famyn of th' ensweing harme â—â—â—telling derth and Barreness seven yeeres â—â—â—emptorly that approatch appeares â—â—â—d noght in sho but certanly itt shall â—â—â—sly afflict Iuda and Isrel all 〈◊〉 slew siclyke Benhadad sould noght die 〈◊〉 convalesh of his Infirmitie 〈◊〉 by fore knoledge then his fate he fand 〈◊〉 at he should dye and by Hazalels hand â—â—â—ich come to pas and shortly in his place â—â—â—e th' Aramits he manadged the mace â—â—â—oram in Iuda
that flie The Camel and the Colt drop'd donne and dye This mightie Moram in th' almighties wraeth All Bestiall Bands in Egypt dryves to death But Pharos hart is hardned yet the faster And still stays th' Ebrews to go serve there master Exodus 9. FOr Pharos stubborne and hard hartednesse With scab and Boatch the Lord will Egypt presse And heirfore he the Prophets both commands In th' Aer to throw some ashes from there hands Which shortly efter into dust did turne And Man and Beast with Boatch and Blisters burne 6. Plague That neither of these kindes therefrom was free But therewith all and each ore plastred be Then flew from heav'ne fire thunder haile and Raine 7. Plague That mightely plagues all vpon the plaine And yet where Isra'l is in Goshen Land The earth and aer but stormes vnstressed stand Now Pharo sies his Sinne and Egypts grief And pray's the Prophets pray for there relliefe And promises to let the people Go Yet hardens his hart and efter dois not so Exodus 10. INdured Pharo wilfull yet vvith standes And God sent Grashoppers in Egypt Landes â— Plague Of these innumerable numbers Than The earth o'recoverd from the sight of man And all the herbs that hail and thunder left Lyke hungrie Harpies they raye vp and reft So that nothing in Egypt grovving green Nor blade nor leafe theye vnconsum'd vvas sein Pharo againe doth for to grant begin Agains the Lord his vvickedness and Sin Imploring Moses to the Lord to pray That he his vvraeth vvold from that land alay Moses then prayd and to the Lord inclind Who sent a strong stiff gall and vvestern vvind Which those Grashoppers to the Sea did post That none vvas sein on all th' Egyptian coast But God indur'd the hart of Phar'o So That yet he letts the Isralits to Go. Exodus 10. THe Lord to Moses his command hes geven For to streach out his hands vp tovvards heavn That darkness on the land vvithout all light For thrie dayes may vvrap Egypt in one night â— Plague Obedient Moses lifting vp his fist The Land is all oremantled vvith a mist And dreadfull darkness is o're Egypt spred And all vvith thick and pitchie clouds o'recled So palpablie and grosse the darkness shovvs That vvhat to doe or vvhair to go none knovvs All buried as in night and darkness lyes But light of day or sight of chearfull skyes Then Pharo seemd content that th'Ebrevvs thay Except there cattell should go all avvay In Goshen yet vvhair Isra'l livv'de vvas light Delightfull day and vndistemperd night To be a vvitness that the Lord vvas thair He keep'd vntroubled both the earth and aer But God the Lord ty is Pharos hart vp so That he the Hebrevvs hinders yet to go Exodus 12. WHen God had promisd Israel to inlarge He institute the Passovver and did charge With circumstances for to eat the Lamb As he apoynts and had ordaind the same Moses and Aaron he directs to tell Vnto his Congregation Israel How evvrie nouâ—â—â—old or the 〈…〉 To eat the â—asso're sould it self prepair With girded Loyns kint Shoes and staffe in hands And-when they kill their Lambs to stroak commands There liutels with the Blood that shall record The Passover of the Angel of the Lord Which Israls saifety did foreshovv aright And Egypts first borne slaughter the nixt night Exodus 12. AT midnight or the davvning of the Morne The Angel of the Lord killd the first Borne 10 Plague Of man and beast that then in Egypt Iwde Non then was spaird nor from that Plague repriv'd But those of that of the house of Isra'l be From all the Ten plagues they wer fenc'd and free No house there was in Egypt from the East But there in kill'd was ane vnto the vvest The mempheits moan there maest and mvrnfull crye Vpon the morne rose vp and reathch'd the skyes When they before them thair stark dead and cold There first borne man and beast streatch'd out beholâ— They vnto Pharo madlie roaring rin And tells vvhat God onthere first borne had done They pray him than that he vvill favour sho At last and lat the people of Isral Go. To adore and serve there God or certanly They for his Induration all should dye Exodus 12. PVnish'd vvith plagues and be the people pressd Pharo at last for there reliefe thought best To let the people pas then did the Brether call And thence commands them vvith there Ebrews all The Prophets then conveines them moir and less And altogether to depairt address Whill vvillingly th' Egyptians to them gave What of there welth and riches they wold have Jevvels gold and Garments then they borrovv Against there great Migration on the morrovv And then they plenishd vvith th' Egyptian spoyl Dislodge to leave and martch from memphit soil In numbred men six hundreth thovv sand Lives Besyds there strangers Childring and there vvives Exodus 13. TH' almightie God Jehoue the Hebrevv Bands To celebrat a publict feast commands In memorie and in rememberance Of that there vvounderfull deliverance 〈…〉 And that they should in efter tymes to come All the first borne that oppen shall the vvomb The mail of man and beast allenarlie To him their Lord as his still Sanctifie And on that day vvnto there Sones declair What he the Lord ten times did for them thair Vnto that Tyrannous hard harted King When he from Bondage did there Fathers bring Exodus 13. DEad Iosephs bones in Egypt long before Moses transports that Isra'l sometyme swore Wnto him when infirme himself he fand To burie Them into the promis'd Land God led them nought the vvayes that neerest ar Lest the Philistims in there martch make warr But th' Ebrevvs arm'd that vvise Conductor he Brought them about the shores of the red sea And in a Cloud before Them he be day Through defart wilderness directs there way And lest they strayd and throgh long travvell Tyre By night he lights them vvith a flame of fire The Cloud nor Colum never vvent away Alternatly but past before them ay Exadus 14. 15. WHen gone avvay vvas Isra'l God procur'd That Pharos hart vvas hardned and Indur'd So that he stirrs and Egypt armed all Perforce the Hebrevv Camp for to recall And heirfore with his people posts a pace As he wer of a flieing foe in chace The Hebrevvs fear when they see Pharo Budge And all agast againes there Guider grudge He prayes and God commands to Rod the Sea That shall give way and soone devided be Moses did so and th'Ebrevvs saife and sound Past trogh but all th' Egyptians there ar drovnd Israel then in praise with one accord A thankfull Song with Ioy song to the Lord. Exodus 15. HEre Miriam the matron Prophetess Vnto the Lord hir thankfull praise t' express Holds vp a sounding Timbrell in hir handes Back'd with the Beauties of the Hebrev Bandes And sweitly singing all there woyces raise A Psalme of
MEMORABLE HISTORICK Descriptiones draven From the Sacred Bookes insert in the subsequent page By ALEXANDER GARDEN NIL PENNA SED USUS Prented AT MIDDELBVRGH By GERRIT MOVLERT Anno 1637. Genesis Exodus Leviticus Deuteronomie Ioshua Iudges Ruth 1 Samuel 2 Samuel 1 Kinges 2 Kinges Esther Iob. Tobit Ezekiel Daniel Ionah 2 Maccabees TO The deservedly worshipfull and wisely wirtous SIR THOMAS BVRNETT of Leyes kinght Baronett Right Worshipfull SIR be yow pleads'd J pray To Read that with respective love I lay Your worships learn'd and linx-like eyes before A five month's work and noght a moment more Some Select'd dravghts suckd from the sacred Story Noght vpon hope of Honor Gain or Glory Nor on Conceat of skill or knoledge hye This Interprise at all attempted J No but that better with that blessed Booke I might acquented come this tast J Tooke Knowing the subject vits diviner merits Nor are poluted and Imperfect Sperits And of all mortall most vn-meet is mine For it so worthie weaighty and divine Yet my attempt once may prove profitable T' incourage one t' acqueat himselfs more able Yen Sir woutchafe to look vpon my Lines Suppose for such a proesence poor propine Your wor-in all affectonat duetye divoted AL. GARDEN To the READER THink nought these Verses vented are by me Which efter in these Sheets insert yow see For ony profite or aplause of fame Or Reputation that may rise be Thame No motion such by my immortall mynd Induc'd and me these to compond inclynd But in my curt prepond Epistle Thair My motiwes all and causes I declare Hope then for no high stile nor stately strame Or figur'd Phrases from a loftie Braine Nor for Hyperbolees that great Jngines Vse for to fraught with and to larde their Lines No nought a Sillab such shall Thow see heir But simply all is said and said Sincear 〈…〉 HEav'n Earth and seae round eirc'lare sphericall Of ane rude mixed Mass God made them all He stampt with starrs the heavne and with these lights The Sun and Moone devyded dayes from nights Beastes fishes foules he creat of all kinde And fitly each it 's Element assign'de The liquid waters from the earthly mass He â—â—parats and them a-part did place The thin hote moist and subtile Aer above The cold drie earth about h' assign'd to move And tuixt the earth and fire that all jmbraces The aer and water providentlie places And seeing all that he had done was Good He made man syne to his similitude Genesis Chap. 2. WHan God of Heav'ne and Earth had form'd the frame And made ane end of all the hoste of Thame Into the body that he builded hath H' jnfuis'd a soule and breath'd a living breath And when he thus perfectly fram'd the same From Rud reed earth he did him Adam name Man so created perfect pure and chaste God in his Garden Paradise him plac't And there with freedonie full before his fall To eat of ev'rie frute and to vse all Excepting that of knoledge he bestrait Command and charge prohibit was to eat And when he should that Tree of knowledge cun He then should dye that day and be vndone Genes 2. THe Lord God Adam sound a sleep he layd And Eva of one of his ribs hes made Then with divine inimitabill art Clos'd cleanly vp with flesh the emptie part And when he did awake the woman Than His flesh and bone God offred to the man Whom Adam when he finds so fitly fram'd Made out of Man he hes her woman nam'd And as his Wife he hes her jntertaind For God there first the Mar'age rites ordaind A straght conjunction and a sacred band In Paradise kint be the Lords command Injoyning Them therefore to joyne there handes And maried To multiplie commands Genesis 3. THe Serpent Eve induced with Deceat And Adam she inveits and he did eat O Lamentable for ev'r and fearfull fact That did there State so marr and murnfull mak The frute forbidd'n of knovledge Good and Euill And heirby both deluded by the Devill From puritie and there perfection fall And so suck'd in the Sinn Originall Ambitions both too greedily began To lay the Ground greef of the Greefes of Man There misbeleef and blindness yet both blind Into there fault and fall enforc'd they find And liable therefore to Death they be Themselfes and since all there posteritie Genesis 3. THe frute once eaten opned ar their eyes And they there ovvne poore nakedness espyes Wherefore they both vnto a figge Tree came And pulld some Leaves and sevved of the same For to be Brecches to them both to hold There Shame vnsene and clothe them from the cold Before they taste of that sequestrat Tree They knew noght that they bare and naked be No figg-tree leav's nor figge tree Trunks could beild-them Nor from th' All-seeing-eye could sheeld-them Nor could those figge tree leaves tho cloith there skins Preserve vnsene there Trespass nor there Sinns No no there Conscience for there Crime did call And God without within he Saw them all Genesis 3. THe voyce of God they in the Garden heard And faultie hid them for there falt a feard But heavne nor earth nor them the darksome deep From there Creator knowing all could keep Excuses put a part They must apeare And ansver to the poynts that he sould speare That dreadfull voyce that Thunder did resemble Made heav'ne and earth and Man muche more to tremble He calld they come h' accus'd and they confess'd And guiltie both Grant that they haue Trangsgressd The Woman He the Serpent She They say This foul defection drew on ws this day And Ws Invegled with it s wicked wit To â—at that balefull and forbidd'ne Bit. Genesis 3. A Curse to them a Time God hes denune'd And punishments to it for ev'r pronune'd And said because this deed slie Serpent Thow Thow did ay on thy Belly shall thovv bow And lick the Dust without saueguard or sheeld A boue all Beasts accursed of the fielde Also betnix the vomans seed and Thee Shall ev'r be discord and Ennimitie And be assur'd that for this Sin thy Seed May bruise Hers heele but hers shall brak thy head Then of Goat-skins to them he Garments gave And from his Paradise divine them drave Then set a Cherub with a flamming sword To watch it as is wretin in his word Genesis 3. VVIth Toil and Travell Adam griefe and Sweat His living earneth and his Bread did eat And vvas constraind to do to dig to delfe His Mothers Bosome to suport him self Because God for his Crime the earth accurss'd And made it bring forth Breers of vveeds the vvorst And since to sin he did obey his vvife With Great vexation shall he lead his life And Eva so vvith vnacquainted fitts In bringing out her Bairnes vvith sorrovv sits And surely subject shall be her desire And plainly prostrat to her Lords Impire Estrangd and far from that contentement great That they injoyed in There first
estate Genesis 4. THe Sones of Adam now be Time began To sacrifice as vvas the Custome than The Sheep-herd Abel his first Lambs he taks And of the fat of Them oblation makes And Cain of the frutage of the Ground He sacrifiede the first that He hes found The elder Cains did the Lord reiect And younger Abels fauour and respect Cain heirfoir in furie and Disdain His blessed Brother Abel here doth brain And out of vvoodness vvraethfull and Invy Committs this Murther Irreligiously The Lord then marks him to be knovvne herefore To be his Brothers Butcher ever more Genes 6. 7. HOw soone God sies the Sinns of men grow great All man kinde he to overthrow did Threat And did a hunder yeer before foreshow To N'oa by water all the worlds orethrow And he be preaching for mans Sinne declaird All earthly perish should and none be spaird The Lord commands him then to build the Arke And when perfected was and wroght that warke Himself his wife his Childring and there Wives All such as God decreed to save there Lives Of living Things at least takes to him Thair For ester plenishing the earth a pair Clean and vnclean they enter in and than To flow the vniversall flood began Genes 7. THe vindow's of the Heavens ar opned large And all the waters in the clouds discharge The Caverns of the earth cast vp there bryne That long into there Ludgings low hes lyn The floods and fontans from there heads and springs There watrie store into abundance brings Aboue and vnder all at once jshe ' out Each pore a spring each spring a speat did spout And with a wrackfull all orespreading speat Oretop'd the tallest Trees and montans great Five months and more the earth these floods oreflow That Land nor Sea nor mont nor medow show Than they decressd and rejncaled there store Vnto the bounds whair they had bein before Genesis 8. THe waters all consuming course decayd The Arke on the Armenians montanes stayd And no more on that world of Seas did flot But as God wold a Ground the Arke it got The twstes of Trees the Cronns of montans Grene And late dronnd Woods and Valeys dry ar sene The winds all blew and Arid earth did make And then the Dove and olive brauche broght bake But sent to try the drouth at once before She flew abroad and bake returnd no more And N'oa and his alive are lest alone When all the rest on earth were drownd eache one Then ore the vnivers they Rule and Ragne And as the mono-monarches sole Remain 〈…〉 NOvv N'oa himself and all vvith him vvithin The arcke j she out and to descend begin â—hair all saif Cham that ever did debord â—esolue to rander Thanks vnto the Lord. â—nd vnto him ane altear do vp raise â—o sacrifice thereon and offer praise â—nd vvith their humbled harts his povv're proclame â—hat by all others had preserved Thame â—he Lord thence smell'd ane sweet sav'ring smell â—nd said into his hart vnto him self â—o more for mans saik vvill I curse the ground â—or smit againe all living in this mund but vvhil the earth Remains there shall be ay Succeeding Seasons seed Time night and day Genes 9. GOd spake to Noa bless'd him and contramands The shedding humane blood with humane hands Then Reconfirmed wedlock with his word And there declard the povver of the sword With what authoritie to man is geven â—re Things created that be vnder heavne â—o him and his great blessings did he grant â—and vp with Them and knit his covenant â—nd gives for ev'r a signe to make it Good 〈◊〉 rising Raine-bovv in a watrie cloud â—nd when he sies that circling arch he shall His former covenant to minde Recall In witness that the waters shall no more Drown all the World as they had done before Genes 9. Ester the drovning deludge No'a began To plant his vines and play the house band man â—nd drank thereof and drunk thereon became â—nd then vncover'd he is seen be Cham. That mock'd and Jested at his aged father No no but cursed he contemnd him rather â—nd went and told it Japhet and Iust Sem. but he again re-clothed is by Them That step be step both backward to him go Lest that vnseemly They should see him so Heirfore he blessed both the one and other and Iustly cursed Cham there wicked brother The seed of these Three sones the earth ore spred and all thar borne be since of them are bred 〈…〉 THe poeple here intends to bouild a Toure In there proud thoughts to counterchek Gods powre With there Assisters that that Time one Tongve Spake all and vvere from Cham accursed sprong But God from heav'ne there hautie hartes beheld An hovv vvith pride and high contempt they svveld Heirfore he vvill in there attempt and aime Vn-do and disapoynt them in the same For they that but one languadge spoake before He chang'd and caus'd them mutter mony more And so confounded all that noght one Brother Did vnderstand a vvord spoak be ane other God then he dois divide them and constraine To quyte that vvorke that they began in vaine Genesis 12. THe Lord calld Abram and Directions gave To queat his countrie and his kinred lave And to ane other land directly draw That in his Iourney thither he should shavv The Land that he had destinat to give To him and his for ever in to live Wherein he should be Great and Greatlie he Great as his name a Blessing great should be There should he bless that blessed him all Those And curse them all that curssd him as his foes His Wife his flocks and familie they go And Lot vvith him his Brother sone also Then come thereto ane Altar he hes Reard Wnto the Lord that vnto him apeard Genesis 13. ABraham past and vp from Egypt vvent And greatumly God did his Goods augment For in all Riches him encreass he vvold In cattell coyne in Silver and in Gold And lykvvise Lot he hes Incressd his store And daylie did augment it more and more But Abrams heard-men and Lots Sheep-heards Iarre And for a pasture move among them vvarr But vvhen there actions Abram vnderstands He meekly moves Lot to divide there bands And to the Right or to the left hand Go Lot then prepares and since desird-did so For such encress and store of Goods they had That hardly could they be together fed Genesis 13. THen Lot lift vp his eyes and vnderstood That all the plains and groudd about vvas Good â—nd dreading stay should dravv on more disdain â—herefore to th' east he Tendeth vvith his Traine 〈◊〉 Land vvell grass'd and vvatred vvell vvas it 〈◊〉 Land for heard-men and their flocks most fit â—eirfore therein he myndeth to Remaine â—nd pitch'd his palions into Sodoms plain â—or all the vvale is lovv neer Iourdans Shoir â—s vvatred vvell of pasture had lyke store â—nd plentifully stood and stuffd did stand â—s once vvas Eden
his Brother be disgvise And with Praevention and a mease of Meat The Blessing from his first-borne Brother get Genes 28. ALon whill Iacob Iourneys on his way To ease and rest him on some stons he lay Whair falne a sleep amids his rest he sies From earth a Ladder reaching to the skyes And thairon Angels they appeare and sho T' ascend descend and vp and dovvne it go O but behold the Lord apeard to Sit Aboue in Heavne vpon the Top of it And vnto Iacob from the same he said I am the God thy Fathers hes obayd Thairfoir this Land vvhereon Thow lyes here I Will giue to thee and Thy Posteritie And as the Dust I shall thy Seed increass And on the Earth all nations in Thee bless Genesis 29. Acob on journey to the East it fell He came where heard-men watred at a Well â—here Camels and there flocks then roll'd thereon â—nd coverd closs the fontane with a stone â—e then demands them if They Laban knew â—â—ey ansverd yea and to him Rachel shew â—â—at was his daughter and that there did keep â—nto hir fathers vse a flock of Sheep â—hom he saluts and kissd and hes hir Told 〈◊〉 was hir kins-man and the stone then roll'd â—â—m the fonts mouth that efter as She list 〈◊〉 flocks might thither come and quench there thrist Then to her fathers house he doth Repair And Lea first then Rachel maryed thair Genesis 30. Achel long Time hir Belly barrd remains And sies it shut She heirvpon complains â—â—d did hir sister Leah muche envy â—â—t She hes sein so ost in Child-bedly 〈◊〉 she hir selfe despisd as She suspos'd â—â—use hir Belly barran vvas and clos'd â—â—fore vnto her Lord She sayes by Thee 〈◊〉 I no Childring I shall surely dye â—ise and vvilfull wemen so debord 〈◊〉 vvill not byde the leasure of the Lord. â—â—st the Lord mynds her and heares hir moane vvant of Childring and he grants hir one â—nd vvhen hir Tyme of Travell to hir Came â—â—e boore a Boy and Ioseph calld his name Genesis 31. â—â—ban perceavves still Iacobs vvelth augment Therefore he murmurs and is mal-content Sonnes complain he frouns vpon him too 〈◊〉 doth noght vse him as he vvount to do â—â—e grudge againes him is because that Thay 〈◊〉 God is vvith him and assists him ay â—â—acob vvith his vvifes concludes herefore 〈◊〉 to Iz'ak and to serve no more 〈◊〉 vvith his families and flocks by day 〈◊〉 martch out and they move furth on there vvay Rachel stole hir Fathers Goods that be â—â—oushold Things that he did hold most hie 〈◊〉 father searchd Them and she sat on These â—â—novved vvith hir monethly disease Genesis 33. IAcob into his Iournay home did heare That than his Brother Esaw did draw neer He calld to mynd the wrong he did his Brother By the advise and CoÌ„unsall of his Mother Which brodds him some what and that bree him feare That made him panse and think vpon it there Wherefore his hands vp to the Lord he liftes And prayes for Peace and Esaw pleasd with Giftes Then with an Angel as a Man all night He wightlie wrestled hes whill neer day light And with that Angel great he parted not Whill he his Grace and Benediction got And for a witness of that wrestling ay Iacob he halted to his dying day Genes 34. THe wandring Dina ravish'd and defyld The godly Iacobs only faemel Chyld Weinen and wenches that a gadding go And worthely ar oft rewarded so The sight of Novelties in vncouth places Smits with disgrace and Shame the farest faces Which blot brought on there house when known hir Brother All wroth and discontent agree Together Tho Shechemits for to repait propone Most guilfullie to be revengd there on No thing but blood into a Bloody Thought Will expiat a wrong wnto it wrought And fearsly slew the Shechemits when Thay VVer circomcised and at leaching lay Genes 37. WHen Ioseph did attend his Fathers Sheep A Tyme when he awaked efter sleep His Aparitions visions and his Dreame Vnto his Brether he declared Them VVho spightfully disdaine him and envy For prating o're Them of Supremacy VVhat said They shall thow Boy aboue ws Raigne And we thy wassals and thy men Remaine Thus grudge they greatly and him highly hate VVhill he his visions and his dreames relate They muse among Them how they meetest may Put the divining Ioseph donne some day The fathers lowe likwise vnto the boy Tempâ—s them for to dispatch him and destroy 〈…〉 HIs Brether hearding into Dothan lands Iacob there Ioséph for to go commands To visit them and for to look hovv lucks Into the Leasurs of these fields there flocks He gois in search of them and at the last He heares they ar to Dothan pasturs past Whair vvhen he come Ioseph the dreamer Thay Or the most part conclood to kill and slay But Revv-ben ruled vvith a righter sp're it To kill or murther him he thought not meet But seem'd as pleas'd that in a Cistern dry He should be put to perish there hard by Yet vvith a mynd to saue his life and tak Him thence to gvve him to his father back Genesis 37. â—Uda his litle Brother pieties much Therefore his life he vvill noght they shall touch Nor vvith there hands so fearss and cruell prove And merciless to murther Iacobs love But they they vvill some other vvay devise To rub the Boy that eye sore from there eyes Altho they vvill not slay yet they vvill sterve him And vvith vnkyndlie kyndness so vvill serve him Then they some Mid'anitish merehants spy With spyceries going vnto Egypt by They go to counsall and concluds thereon That thay to Them vvill coopt him and dispone Which for some tuentie Peeces they haue done Selling there Brother and there Fathers Sone Genes 37. THe Brether then their they did kill a kid This to be-blood there Brothers coat they did They rent and than his party colourd-Coat With that same blood they sprinkle it and spot Which vvhen old Iacob sees berayd vvith blood He tinks gone vvrong and vandring through some vvood Their he is bucherd by some bloody Beast Too good a morsel for so gross a Guest His members peece-mail separat and shorne His flesh made food and vvith its teeth alltorne â—e toar his clothes then longryme dools and dwynes And sorrofull puts sackcloath on his loynes â—e much amaz'd for that male our doth mvrne And woved his gray haires to the Grave shall turne With griefe and sorrow for his deerest Chyld Consum'd with merciless and mensters wyld Genesis 3â— THamar by Onan frustrat Iudas Sone And vvhat vvas promised to hir vndone She knovving Iuda was in vse to keep At such a Season for to shear his sheep The rayments sable that in doole before And in hir widovv'ed she vs'd and vvore She pute a part and by a Subtilty To mend hir self thus doth attempt and try Hir father be the Lavv to circomvvein That had to frustrat hir the
Than Iethro Ioyfull for so fair effects He humblie glad his holy hart erects And altars as the vse was he dois raise To worship God on and to offer praise Exodus 18. NOw when that Iethro Moses sitting Saw Discussing causes by the Course of Law Considring by the weghtie Charge his pains That in discharging thereof he sustains He with a Iudgement solid deep and wise His sone in law thus Moses doth advise Thovv cumbred ar discussing evrie cause Therefore shevv Them the ordinance and Laws And stand before and to the Lord velate The maner of each Mater and the State Then some among the people pick and chnise That t' ease yow in your Iudgments yovv may vse Men fearing God and men of cowrage all That with yovv justly Iudge in Isr'el shall Exodus 19. THe Israleits from Riphidim arose And martching fordward to Mount-Sinai gois And at the holy Sacred montane Thay Stent all there Tents incamp them thair and stay But Moses called be the Lord ascends And humblie there his will and pleasure tends Who charged him to Israel to say Giue they his woice will heare and wordes obay They shall be his by a renewed Birth Beyond all people spiring on the earth Th' Almighties mynd then Moses doth declare And bids the people purif ' and prepare There Sprits there persons clothing and aray And Sanctiffe them all for the thrid day Exodus 19. THe Prophet Moses as the Lord appoynts Commands the people for to clenge there Iointes And cloathings vvash that then they all may be Pure in the praesence of th' all pearsing eye For lo the Lord the thrid day efter shall Be sene on Sinai mont before them all And straitly charges Them charg'd be the Lord That none martch vp the mont nor tonche its Bord And if they do as lives the Lord said he That Soule shal be persd through and surely die The people then preparing all aright T'apeare more pure in the Almighties Sight They went not to there wives but did abstaine From all that could pollute Them or prophane Exodus 19. VPon the third day as the Lord foreshew Long Shrill and from aboue the Trumpet blew The people trimbling and with Terror stands By Sinais border holding vp there hands Deafned there eares with thunder from the skyes And with the lightning dazled ar there eyes For statlie Sinais sacred Top was all Cled with a crowne of fire and burning Ball But that shrill sounding Trump and thundring noise Is drownd and deafned with a stronger woice That from the Montane in the waley roares And throgh the Breastes of Isral brakes and Boares From Gods owne sacred month with dreadfull aw Whill he to Moses there dois gwe his Law Exodus 32. WHill holy Moses on the mone attended The Lords directions humblie bovv'd and bended The people murmured that Moses stayd And from the mont so lonh delayd Wherefore they ran to Aaron and implore him Yea cryd to give them Gods to go before-them Thus that they knevv not they did cry and call What of thai Moses was become at all He bids and they Obey and to him brings There golden Bracelets and there wivves ear-rings Thereof he casts a Calf and efter raisd Ane Altar to be put vpon and praisd Ingratefull all forgetting too too sone What God for there Deliverance had done But disobedient vnto that Calf or kow Nor it more brutish they do bend or bow Exodus 32. T'Idolatrize the people rudly rin And Aaron rashl ' assents vnto there Sin Whill Moses with the Lord on Sinai mont Sits Their bad blind-zeal Idolatrie commits For to that Idoll that vvas made before Out of there Yewels and there ear-rings store They raise ane Alter where vpon dois stand The Calf that Aaron fashoud with his hand And on the morne the people offrings bring And sacrifice vnto that sensles Thing Whill God aboue wroath vnto Moses sayes Thy people lo perverted haue there wayes Therefore be gon my wraeth wax'd hot doth fume And shall in it Them for his slip consume But Moses prayd and did Gods favour find That he from th' ill he ment them changd his mind Exodus 32. THere God foregottin and Religion trew The host debord to drink and dancing drew And most prophanly when there Phyfes did sound â—bout there Idoll they did trip a round â—o more remembring God that so much wrought When he from Egypt them and bondage brought â—hey sit affecting error and the Truth disgust â—â—d dalts in them there ovvne desirs and lust â—ovv they ar randon run with a lose rain â—nd at there pleafir they will prove prophane 〈◊〉 they will noght be bund nor longer live â—biect vnto the Law that God did give But they will worship Gods of there ovvne gold As vanely they conceit off vnconroll'd Exodus 32. WHen Moses prayer had Gods wraeth revoked That high and hotly gainst the people smoaked He from the Lord and montans top did draw With those two sacred Tables of the Law Which he did carie be the Lords command Wreit with the holy finger of his hand But when descended with his eares and eyes The people all prophand he heares and sies And in the Camp the Calf erected Hy His wraeth began to vvax and fiercely fry His hart could noght th' Abomnation bear But with a holy divine anger thear Which there trespass in him did move and make He threvv the Tabels dovne and both he brak Exodus 32. YEt did noght Moses wraeth and Ire heir end But forder yet it flew and did extend That golden Calf that for there God they chuisd He break it boldly and to pouder bruisd And pulverizd to apprehend the Sin The more he made the people drink it In His brother nixt rebuikes and much missaid-him And for th' abuse did to his face vp braid-him That he had suffred Isral to begin And slyde in such Idolatrous a Sin Then he this falt prophane to expiat The Sones of Levi he together gatt And armed vvith the sword they kill and slay And with thrie thovvsand Hebrevvs strav'd the way Exodus 32 and 33. THe morning come Moses to Israll sayes Foull is your fall erronions was your wayes And men of Israll ye Gods wrath do mass Agains your persons for your proud Trespass Yet I will once ascend t' assay and sie If his displeasure I can pacifie Vp moses vvent before the Lord and falls Dovne on the Ground and then for mercie callis Confessing there that Isrels Sins was great Yet for there pardon he doth humblie treat And wishes rather that his name shall be Rasd from the Books of Life ev'rlastingly Then Israls brak and Dissobedience Be noght forgevn them and there foul offence â—â—r Lo Almighty Lord thy mercies here 〈◊〉 to thy peoples Pardon shall apeare Yet God was grevd and angrie that they had The golden Calf and molten Image made Exodus 33. THe Prophet in the Tabernacle walkes And with the Lord familiarly Talkes â—ho
vnderstand Wherefore that wise Commander wills that they Thankfull therefore and grate to God be ay In Ebal mont they then ane Altar raise Noght hambred on with hands his name to praise And offers thereon offrings as they knaw Agried with his will and Moses Lavv The altar raisd and God there praisd the Grave Grand Captane then the Law on Stons did Ghrave And therein Blissings Cursins all and Threats He publictly to them reads and repeats Into the praesens of the people all The Stranger as the hebrew naturall Iosua 9. chap. AI thus sack'd some nightbour kings to those As open Enemies to Isrel rose But lo from Gibeon disgvysed some As messingers vnto the armie come Israell by deceat to Circemvein And perrill by that policie praeveen With Garments torne and but with Tags of Shooes That they are Straugers these disgvysed does Mak Isrel think that They be come to Crave A leagve of Love and frendship faine wold have The Suit deceavde the Guyd of Isr'el grantis The Gibonits deceitfull Supplicants But they detected efter for the same The duke to drudgrie Them and their Condamne Iosua 10. chap. FYve Kings together with vindictive Spreet Their warlike force and armies all vneit And out agains the tovne of Gibeon sped That Irues with Israls head contracted had But vnto him submissive Suits they send The he is foederats wold now defend Who for their Causes wer inclosd about With five Kings forces strong men stern and stout Then Isrels Captane with his Cohorts rose To free the Gibonits and fight there foes whom in his violent and wrakfull wraeth He vterly vndoes and drave to daeth And such as fled defeated with his force Feld in the flight vvith Hail a fate fand worss 〈…〉 THe day whereon these armies where o'rethrovvne The Lord his great Love hes to Isr'el shovvne A vvoundrous day and admirable one Whose like before nor since was neuir none At Ioshua his prai'r and request The great Governour God Almightiest A whole day stayed theÌ„ Sunne in Gibeon And moone into the valey Aialon And not a poynt come dovne declynd nor chang'd Whil Isrell was on all there foes reveng'd The Kings they kill when all the slaughter ended And then the five vpon five Trees suspended Kings Cities Subiects of the Hils and all The plaines beside subdued before them fall Iosua 11. chap. A Croud of Kings by south east west and north Martch for to force the force of Isrel forth There numbers great neer out of number be As Dust on earth or Sand into the Sea But God bad Isrel be of Courage Good And feare no force nor men nor multitude For he before that tyme of day to morrovv â—laine and consumed to there shame and sorrâ—w Before the face of victor Isrell shall Deliver Them forc'd and defeated all Israell confident vpon his word â—As well they might assaults them with the Sword And horriblie maks havok of their host In killing from the meanest to the most Iosua 11. AS Ioshua from that Attempt reteard For such victorious Chances Inly Cheard The Toune of Hazor he took in his vvay And all th' Inhabitants non saife did slay Yea all from Halak montane vnto Gad That by Hostilitie he takin had Therein a living soule nor fighting man As God commanded him he left not than For heardned was from heavne there harts that thay â—ight from the earth in vvraeth be vvippd avvay â—f Anakims the Cities so he Sacks And vtterly them selfs with vvarrs he wracks The Conques then h' amongs the Tribs divyds â—nd then in peace sins warrs their th' Ebrevs byds 〈…〉 VIctoÌ„rious Isrel by the Lords assistance Agains there great and all there forc'd ressistance Of Cities Valaes Montans and the Plains But feare of force possessd in peace remains On Iordains eastren syde and on its west By South and North they peaceablie possest No pettie portion nor a litle Land Did Ioshua and Israel command The Lord their Battels and all subdevv'd And noght their forces well inough they knew it It is lands their Swords in their subiection brings The subiects arm'd of ane and threttie Kings The Hebrevs by his help there hosts orethrew And all their Kings consumed killd and slew Iosua 13. chap. THe Lord call'd Ioshua and to him told That he was weak with yeeres and waxed old And yet much land remaind and Lordships many Vnentred with and vnpossessd with any Therefore the Lord he hes enjoynd him thair And how he should devide them did declare To give nyne Tribs whole portions he commands And vnto thrie to give but half part lands Since Moses vnto Ruben and to Gad On this side Iorden gev'n a portion had Ilk Trib its martch there sevrally is showne That each of them might know what was their owne To Levi yet no foot of Ground he gave But ordaind Them the Sacrifice to have Iosua 14. Chap. THe Land of Canaan devided aff Among the former nyne Tribs and a half Caleb the constant Kenezeit the same That entred first the Land to Nuns sonne came And said to him now fourty yeeres and more His since vnto Moses dead before God spake our God most great and Glorious In Cadesh-bernea concernyng vs Then he that day swore by th' almighty God To give vs that whereon our feet should trod Wherefore my Captane godly grave and Sage I crave the same now for my heritage Which Iosua gladgly grants and Caleb blessd And him and his with Hebron hes possessd Iosua 20. Chap. THe Lord directed Ioshua as Iudge T'apoynt with Isrel Cities of Refudge He speake the people and protests and Thay Obtempre and the will divine Obey For such as do by accident or chance Vnwillingly or yet by Ignorance Kill and cut aff by force and blood a Brother An Israleit yea yet or any other Where they may faif and sure preserved be Whill th' high Priest livand then depairt and die From the Revenger of the slain and than He may returne vnto his house again So did the Lord Reliefe for these ordain That ony man as is foreshowne had slaine Iosua 22. Chap. TO Reuben and to Gad and to Manasses Heires Ioshua his Kins-man Patriots declares That as the Lord and Moses had commanded They faithfully had with there Bethren banded And nought forsook Them whill they wer possessd Of all the promeist Land in Peace and rest Therefore go with the blissing of the Lord To your possessions vpon Iordans Bord But care to live my Brether I befeech As do is our Law allow instruct and teach Bak they returne and built an Altar by The river brink and renders reasons why Howbeet the Tribs therewith took first offence Yet having heard them with the deed dispenss Iosua 23. Chap. NOw Ioshua waxd old by Age infirme Into the faith the Tribs for to confirme Exhorts them gravely all with one accord The serve sincearl ' obey and lovve the Lord He tells them there hovv oft for them he faught And
them know He was there Master by there overthrow And tvvo and fourtye Thovvsand at that time Perishd of Them for there presumptuous Crime And sevne yeeres efter that his Reigne began But once vnvvise departs this worthie man Iudges 12. Chap. IPhtah deceast Ibzan the Beth-lemit Sevn yeeres in Isrel fatt and Judged it And threttie Sones and threttie daughters he Begot a populous Posteritie Expird this Iudge in Bethlem buried lyes Nixt Elon judging ten yeeres did arise And efter daeth in Aialon interrd Then to his place nixt Abdon is preferrd And he had fourtie Sones and threttie Oyes When he to Rule and Iudge in Isrel gois That as it wer t' expresse there povvar passes And daylie rod vpon the Colts of Asses In Isrel then this Abdon Iudgd eight yeers And efter waxing weak and ag'd expires Iudges 13. Chap. YEt Isrel still did his old Bias sollovv And in the weels of his vaine worship vvallovv Wherefore the Lord of hostes deliverd him To fly and fall from the Philistim But o the vounderfull great Grace of God Tho they walk wickedly and by wayes Trod And hold as naught the honour of his name Yet lovve and kindness he did threap on thame And by his Angel vnto Man'aths barren Pheere With Promise of a Sone he doth appeare Who Izaks seed from Philistims shall free 〈◊〉 he a Nazarite vnrasd shal be The strongest then of men was Samson borne â—hose strength into his Tresses stood vnshovvne Iudges 14. Chap. THe Sone of Man'ath of the Trib of Dan Indevvd divinly ' bovve the Strength of man Whill he to Timnath went to woo he did A Lion teare all like a Tinder kid Into whose Boulk he some time efter sies With honny sweld a humming swarme of Bees Whereof he eats and to his mar'age Gon Ane emblem darke there Samson did propon But to resolve't solisted was his vvife Which efter grevv the ground and stirrd the strife That mony Soule and Philistim hes slaine And such as nev'r could be agreed againe Whill being blind a house full he orethrevv And with himself all the Philistims slevv Iudges 15. Chap. SAmson the Sone of Man'ath novv at length As he did grovv God blessd and gave him strength And stirr'd thereby to marye was inclynd And tooke to wife a Philistim be kind But in his absence to wrong him thay To his Companz'on gave his wife away VVerefore into the harvest time of wheat Three hundreth foxes by the Tails he knet And fyre brands fixed fast betuixt each tuo Than to the fields of the Philistims so He drave them to their wheat and standing corne That quickly knidled all and did them burne There Rickes there vyne yards and there olives all Before the fury of the fire they fall Iudges 15. THe Philistims inflamm'd with rage and Ire For setting of there vines and Cornes infire VVith resolutionn all in armes arose And for to be reveng'd on Samsom gois VVho tho his Brether band him vvith a Cord Yet strengthned vvith the povvar of the Lord From Etan Rock vvhen he descends his Bands Like flax he brak that wer about his hands And arm'd but with a Iavv-bone of ane ass Did to encounter all there armie pass A Thovvsand there a wounder to be told Dead dang he doune and fell'd before him fold But paind vvith thrist he prayes and God then braks A Tooth and of the Iavv a fontaine maks Iudges 〈◊〉 Chap. SAmson gone dovvne to Gazra was bevvrayd And by them thair to force him was for layd But he into ane Harlots house did sleep To midnight whill they watch and ward did keep Than vp he rose and by maigne strength extorts And from there hinges heissd there Citie ports And vnamated martched to the mount Which doth that holy hill of Hebron front And efter this his fancies doth him move One Dalila for to affect and Love VVha tho he had from God Giftes greater Gevne Nor all the heathen that liv'de vnder hev'ne Yet did his womans wicked witt supprise And Samson sold vnto his Enemies Iudges 16. THe Philistims with his so matchless might So oft vndone destroyd and forc'd in fight And dreading dangers and Events much worse VVill do be frand that they could not with force For Delila they doe intise to Try VVherein the virtue of his strength did ly Thrise vrg'd this vanton Samson to revveall And he so oft his Secrets did conceall But with hir flatrie farre ouercome declares The treasure of his Strength stood in his haires Which by hir Cunningly cutt off and shorne Blind by his foes a mockrie made and skorne Yet prayes and with himself by strength extreame O'rethrovves the house and thovvsands kill'd of Them Thus with the Philistims he fought and fell VVhen he had tvventie yeeres judg'd Israel Iudges 16. THis Man by God praepromisd er his Birth Incomparablie strongest on the earth That oft vnarm'd among his armed foes Men multituds and hudgest hostes o'rethrois Yea only with the Iavv bone of an asse Did Camps cut dovne as Syth-men shears the grass VVhill constant he to his Creator cleaves And noght his Lord to him so librall leaves No witt could vvn no no nor valour wrong Nor ony croft ore come this Champion strong But having blabd the Secrets of his heart This facil Samson did the Lord desert VVha to his foes and by a woman then A Prey become as other common men Iudges 17. Chap. ANe Ephramit the moneis that before H'abstracted from his mother did restore Wherefore she had all the surrepters first Whom novv she blessd bann'd bitterly and Curst And these praeordaind to ane vse prophane She gives them to that Idol-vse again The worship so prophand the Law she braks And with these moneis Idely Idols maks An Ephod Michah then maks in his house And consecrats his Sone Religious There was no King in Isrel in those dayes Wherefore they all praevaricat and strayes And but regrait for Sinne regard of Shame Did and Commits what best contented Them Iudges 18. Chap. THe Trib of Dan five men send out to Try The Territors that in Mont-Ephraim ly For fully noght wer thay as all the rest In Can'an off there Partages possessd And finding't for them with sex hunder men They martchd to Michahs Inne in Ephraim then And th'Idols fand and th'Ephod in his house There with a Levit Priest Idolatrous All which they tooke and as there prise and pray They there with vnto Laish went therd way Which they supprise and fird brint doune to dust And slew the men that no such ill mistrust The towne they built again and call'd it Dan And worship'd there Michahs stolne Idols than For in these dayes no King in Isrel raigne And they did all as what they wold tho wrang Iudges 19. Chap. NO King the sword that day in Isrel swayd Nor non the Lords command nor Lavv obayd As in a beastly bad abuse was sene Vpon a Levit wife or Concubene From Beth-lem Iuda vnto
Ephraim home The Levit with vvife to Geb'eah come Whair multitudâ— vvhere they werludg'd repair And monstrously yea in humanly Thair Avickedness beyond invention vs'd And vitiously all night the vife abusd Whill on the morrow so they did hir wrong Hir husband finds her dead layd all a long Who to the Tribs did send hir cut in parts To venge her vvrong to move there manly harts Iudges 20. Chap. THe Tribes the mangled martyr having sene They as one man at Mispeth doth convene Four hunder thovvsand men before the Lord Which valerous was for to wield the sword And did demand the men that wroght this same From Benjamin that they might punish thame But they maintaind the wrong and did one day Off Isrel two and twentie Thovvsand slay And on the nixt they them again o'rethrew And wer of Isrel aughtein Thowsand slew But humblie when they to the Lord did pray Then Benjamin they bet doune the thrid day And did th' abused Levits wrong revenge When from there Sinns they to the Lord did change Iudges 21. Chap. WHen vnder Isrels sword and almost all The Benjamits kild did succumb and fall Yet Totaly to raze and ruine more That Tribe to God solemnedly they swore Nev'r to converss nor live with them there lives Nor daigne to give their daughters to there vives Yet wer they sory that there furie fell Had thus lapp'd off a limne from Israel They therefore to these Benjamits prescrives â—y force a forme to furnish Them with vives â—our hunder maydes in Gelead vnslaine They save and only for their vse ordaine And into Shiloh will'd Them at there fest To ly in waite and ravish Them therest Ruth 2. CHilions Ruth the Moabitish mayd To Naomi her mother in Law she said â—et me vnto his field go glean I pray â—â—to whose eyes I favour find this day â—hen to the field of Boaz she is gone â—nd there behind the Reapers gleaned on â—hen Boaz there is come from Beth-lehem â—hom they do Bless and he rebresseth Them â—e asks who Ruth was then and one doth show â—â—at She Naomi's daughter was in Law â—â—om he did cherish much and bids her still 〈◊〉 his maids glean efter as she will â—nd so hir formes affects that syn he takes-her He was hir kins-man and his wife he makes-her 1 Samuel Chap. 1. TVo wives the Ephramit Elkanah had Ane bearing and ane barren in his Bed The frutefull vs'd Penninah with reproatch The barren Hannah to vp brayd and broatch Wherewith Shee inwardly affirmes the Text Of times tormented weried was and wext Herefore to God that all afflictions Souzes Makes sweet hir plaints in pray'r furth she povvrâ—s Who heard hir Groans tho Ely much mistook Hir gesture and as drunk did hir rebook And grants her Sute inconment requird A Sone calld Samvel so much desird Whom as before awowed be her vvord A Nazarite againe gives to the Lord 1 Samuel 2. chap. WHen Hannah had all finished and done The Temple Rites in offring there hir Sone This holy Hanna did hir heart strings tune That she might with hir woves hir voice conjune And into sweet and sacred sobir layes She sang hir makers mercies Pow're and praise His maiestie and mony mightie deeds That all in heav'ne and all on earth exceeds And with a delicat and daintie aer She quaverd clearly his great wounders thair The Lord a Prophet then to Eli sends Who bitterly the Priest remiss repr'ends That slovvly checkd or nev'r chastizd chyld VVho wicked vitious wanton wer and wild 1 Samuel 3 Chap. THe word was pretious than the Scripture sayes For there no vision was in Elis dayes And as he lay that time his eyes waxd dimme And Samuel serv'd before the Lord for him Then sleeping Samuel by the Lords call'd Thrise And he to Eli rinns when he did ryse For so did Samvel before the word Revealed was vnto him of the Lord Yet God againe came to him and foresho'es Eli his house and Childrens over throves For God was grievd with him that he wold noght Chastize his Childring as a father ought And what God spake noght in a point he spaird But it to Eli ev'rie joâ—e declord 1 Samuel 4. Chap. â—He Sones and Seed of Abra'm Ifrael Are spurrd and spokin to by Samuel â—â—n past they furth t' oppugne the Philistims 〈◊〉 they are forc'd and slaughted for there sinns â—â—d in that fight foure thowsand of them fels 〈◊〉 the iniquities of Israell â—â—en to the camp the Covenant they broght â—â—d once again with the Philistims foght â—â—ho they wer affrayd dreadfull and doubts â—â—en for the Arks approatch the people shouts 〈◊〉 with there pow'r the Ebrevs they Repell â—â—d threttie thovvsand of there foot men fell The Ark supprisd Hophin and Phineas fall And Eli brok his neck for losse of all 1 Samuel 5. chap. â—He Irreligious Philistims and Rash To Dagon did half fish and half of flesh â—â—e sacred Arke and Covenant transport â—â—in a Tryumph and a braving sort 〈◊〉 God agrees noght with the devill of hell 〈◊〉 Dagon on his face before it fell 〈◊〉 to try masterles they mont again 〈◊〉 by the holy Arke sets that prophane 〈◊〉 God can noght by Belial abyd â—â—r Sathan haue a consort by his syd 〈◊〉 it was fallen there found vpon the morn â—â—e head and hands from it cutt off and torne And whill to Gath and Ekron they haue sent it Of Ashdod They with th'Emrods wer tormented 1 Samuel 6. chap. â—Ev'ne monthes among the Philistims remaind The sacred Arke with heathen hands prophaind â—â—en with there Priests the people purposd take 〈◊〉 send the Covenant to Israel back 〈◊〉 that they plagved wer they all perceave it â—â—d sies they had noght helth whill that they have it 〈◊〉 emptie home they doe noght fittest hold â—â—d therefore doth there with send giftes of gold â—â—â—pt in the forme of Emerods and Myss 〈◊〉 with Idolaters God for a pryce 〈◊〉 giftes of gold wold pass o're and dispenss 〈◊〉 â—here vain vorship with the wild offence â—â—aine and vnvvise Idolaters think no 〈◊〉 can be gloz'd gull'd and beguyled so When feftie thovvsand of there lives he took 〈◊〉 cashly dared in the Ark to look 1. Samuel 7. chap. THe Ark of God that the Philistims fet The Israleits again in Kiriath set And twentie yeer a long time there abod In Kirath-searnn the Ark of God The Prophet Samuel the People prayes To leave there lewd shamefull and sinfull wayes And do no more as they had done debord Nor with there wickeduess provock the Lord Then th' Idols Ashtaroth they put away And efter wous the Lord alon t' obay Before there God grants and confessd there Sin And with the Philistims to fight begin But God disperssd them with affright and wounder By the rud rumbling of a roaring thunder Then are they smitt'n slanghtered and fell By the daeth dinting sword of Israell 1. Samuel 8. chap. SAmuel his Sones his place for to supplie O're Isre'l Iudges
to that ragne And into highest honor in all eyes Expired then did end his dayes and dyes That ragne there fourtie yeers by Dauids Tomb In Dauids citie they this Prince inhume 1 Kings 12 chap. THis man whom God gave greatest visdome too Defunct and Rehoboam regning novv The people and elders all salute him King And sit consulting on his Governing But he the Counsell of the ag'd and wise Did for th' imprudence of the young despise And hardly heirfore brooking this neglect Ten Tribes there Ieroboam King elect And so fell from the Sone of Salomon Th' incensed Tribs of Isrel all saife on The Seer then charg'd by the Lord by night Prohibits Rehoboams force to fight For that revolt by him than did begin For Salomons and Rehoboams Sinne And Ieroboam King elected thus God grosly greevs and grows Idolatrous 1 Kings 13. chap. WHil Ieroboam at the Altar stands Teither a Prophet God to go commands T'expostulat and it to threaten thus There whair yow offer incenss mirrhe and thus To Dauids house once shall be borne a Boy That therevpon the Prophets shall destroy And as yow spend vpon it now perfume The Bones of men he thereon shall consume 〈◊〉 in the rest he halted and he strayd â—nd did the vvill and went the wayes of man 〈◊〉 dissobeyd the Lords directious Than â—nd herefore whill the Prophet home did pass â—lon at leasour ryding on his asse The Lord a Lyon sent that did him slay Because he disobayd him on the way 1 Kings 14 Chap. THe Sone of Ieroboam falling sicke H'intends to try the Prophet with a Trick â—nd vnto him his wife send in disguise 〈◊〉 make a Gul of Him that God made wise 〈◊〉 he vnvaild hir by the Lords prevention â—nd told the vanitie of that intention â—nd that declaird that from the divine wraeth â—nto there chyld approachd a praesent daeth â—nd for hir Lords defection from his makar â—hat did his worship vnto Idols sacrar â—hat Croune that God from Dauids seed did sever â—â—om him and his he wold rent it for ever And all that vnto him attingent be The Lord from th' earth shall sweep ev'rlastinglie 1 Kings 15 Chap. THe aughten yeer of Ieroboams reigne Abiram then in Iuda reignod king 〈◊〉 all the vicked wayes he walcked in 〈◊〉 as his Father Rehoboam Sin'd did Sin 〈◊〉 yet for Dauids sake when he was dead 〈◊〉 with a Sonne his princely place suppleid 〈◊〉 ane and fourty vpright did stand 〈◊〉 as King Dauid did governe that land 〈◊〉 Asa dyed and with his Fathers layd â—â—osaphat his Sone the Scepter swayd 〈◊〉 Nadab Ieroboams sone began 〈◊〉 Asas reigne to rule in Isrel than 〈◊〉 Basha killd him and King eftor smot 〈◊〉 that of Ieroboams lyne he got And as the Lord fortold both great and sin all He slew and vterly destroyd them all 1 Kings 16 chap. â—Asha to regne vpraised be the Lord As Ieroboam sinn'd and did debord â—efore this Lord for his Iniquitie 〈◊〉 forfalted his Posteritie 〈◊〉 whill that Elach efter him did reigne 〈◊〉 Captane Zimri that did serve this King And by his death the Croune this rebell got But when to Isrel was the Treasone told The host cround Omri and him for King him hold That Irizak with his warriours did invest And it perforce he enterd hes and preâ—st Disloyall and disparing Zimbri than With his fals treason to be twichd began And to the strength as castell he returnes Himself and it and all within it burnes A recompence for such prophane apoynted That Durst be bold to kill the Lords anoynted 1 Kings 17 Chap. ELiah lo the Prophet did declare To Achab the aproaching famyn thair But God did feed and fosterd him with Ravens Penn'd Parendars that foars along the heavns That shortly should for want of dew and raine The people and Land to mony straits constrain For all the Abominations great and Sinne That Omri and himself had sliddin in Then famyn dearth and want was in the I and And God the Prophet then he did command Eastivard in Cherith-brook himself to hyda And there his pleasure to attend and byde Flesh then and Bread vpon that river bank The Ravens brought him and he waters drank For whom th' Almighty dois mantain and cherish Shall prosper when th' impious all shall perish 1 Kings 17 Chap. GOd by his word Eliah-bids again Go to Zareptah citie and remain Whair he before him at the gate shall find A vidow poore in povertie prove kynd He fand hir thair and did hir then intreat To bring him water and some bread to eat She ansverd as the Lord did live that all Hir store of meal was but a measure small Together with a litle oyle that dois Sustain hir and hir Sone into a Cruse Which Elie bids hir bring and than he blesses And they continevv'd so and nee'r decresses The blessings of the Lord to minds content They be abundance and sufficient The vidow for hir Sone departed grieved But Helie prayd twich'd him and he revived 1 Kings 18 Chap. EFter from Cherith Elie the thrid yeer Was gone again God did to him apear 〈◊〉 â—rait Command and Charge expres to go 〈◊〉 to the sacrilegious Achab so 〈◊〉 in that fearfull famyn drouth and dearth 〈◊〉 would send Raine t'irrignat the earth â—â—d Obadiah than hid in Tuo Caves â—â—m death a hunder holy Prophets saves â—â—e by miracle the people moves â—â—d him the Lords true Prophet he approves â—â—n he commands the people soone to slay 〈◊〉 Bralish all and Prophets fals that day â—â—nd as the Lord had heght he did obtain 〈◊〉 prayer in the peoples presence Rain 1 Kings 19 Chap. â—â—om Iezebell whill that Eliah fled â—hat solemly to slay him moved had â—â—y an Angel as he sleeping lay 〈◊〉 in the deserts he had went a day â—â—h'd and bidden ryse and take him meat â—here finds vivers by his head to eat â—â—d and water drank and on the ground â—ovne againe and fallis a sleeping sound â—â—â—ce more God awaks him and did say â—â—p and eat and dress Thee to thy way 〈◊〉 hes a woage fourtie dayes in length â—â—â—p he rose and stepped in the strength â—â—â—t he eaten had and drank and than â—â—â—eb hill went vp the holy man â—â—â—rd yet more he dois declare him too â—â—eturne what he will have him doo â—â—el and Iehu he doth him apoynt â—â—ges and Elish Priest in his place t'anoynt 1 Kings 20 Chap. â—â—adad King of Aram vp in armes â—â—d with steel Charrets men and horse in swarmes â—â—old Bravados and vnbryled Bralls â—â—ed strictly the Samarian walls â—hat fierce famyn sternly struk and stung 〈◊〉 peer and poor the aged and the young â—â—â—m the furie of that famine free 〈◊〉 destressd in danger wer to die â—â—od a Comfort by his Prophet sends â—â—rie promisd Achab with his frends 〈◊〉 th' event and ishevv of the fight 〈◊〉 wyse fell fortunat and Right 〈◊〉 â—â—hadad Achabs peace in end 〈◊〉 â—â—y did reprehend 〈◊〉