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A02024	Little Timothe his lesson: or, A summary relation of the historicall part of holy scripture plainely and familiarly comprized in meeter, for the helpe of memory, and instruction of the ignorant in the writings of God. By E.G. Mr. in Arts, and practitioner in physicke for the Kings hospitall of St. Bartholomew, in the city of Glocester.	Graile, Edmond, b. ca. 1577.	1611 (1611)	STC 12171; ESTC S117271	36,912	121

you may be euer found such as the Lord requireth you should be men of courage fearing God dealing truely and hating couetousnesse next and generally for the whole people of this City that as they are politically one body so the Lord would giue them one heart for conscience sake to feare him and obey their Superiours and to serue one another thorow loue that so his blessings may be continued and increased vpon both Magistrates and people from generation to generation for euer Your worships in all duty E. G. TO THE RIGHT VVorshipfull Sir William Throckmorton Knight and to the Lady Cecilie his vertuous and beloued wife E G. wisheth continuance and increase of all heauenly and earthly happinesse to their perpetuall comfort TO none more rightly then to you I owe this Map for memory of holy writ The former part you quickned as you know by daining grace and liking vnto it When as in dust it lay a birth forlorne And durst not further ●●ye for feare of scorne And from that influence the later budde hath sprouted out to satisfie desire But all in priuate meant for walles of mudde fit countrey Cottages but mount not higher And that it comes with characters thus clad Authority gaue charge they should be had To presse vnto the Presse this world in Print where wit with wisdome vvarres and humors hold The raines on reason to prescribe the stint and measures that the best which seemes most bold In meaner vvits I doe it madnesse deeme Since worthier works doe misse of right esteeme But call you that oppression of the Presse when higher powers command and I obey I rather thinke I should be iudg'd no lesse then void of reason heerein to gaine-say The spreading theirs the springing is your owne And by the timely fruit let tree be known If masters would in Abrahams steps insist if Mothers Bathsh eha's or Hanna's vvere If Ladies like th'Elect from vvhat they list Would curbe their families to God his feare Then should this simple plant haue place inough Then should the fruits be seene to follow proofe If grand-dame Lois her Lesson were in vse vve should not see young children from the shell To sweare to curse to practise all abuse and by their parents patterne to rebell For from the faith that in her first did dwell young Timothy could talke and Scriptures tell And for impression in that tender mould and best those vessels nevv at first to season This paines was meant and by all meanes I could made fitte for their capacity and reason Story we know with pleasure spendeth time And what runnes readier on the tongue then ryme Blessed be God good Ioshua his minde doth plenteously your worships hearts possesse The comforts in his sacred worde you finde procure no doubt the fruits which shew no lesse And that you may with grace be euer blest I humbly pray and euermore I rest Your worships most bounden EDMVND GRAILE Vpon the Authors Worke. THey that haue pleas'd their knowledge to impart And to bequeath their skil to after-times Haue euer writ their chiefest grounds of Arte In some Perspicuous and compendious rymes Which being well obseru'd and con'd by heart Sticke faster by vs and do long remaine Firmely imprinted in the weakest braine So long discourses that whole volumes fill Containing Rules of life or true narrations Of mighty men that liued well or ill Or some good counsell or sound disputations In verse abridged and with heedfull skill Summ'd vp in briefe are by that means confin'd Within the narrow closet of mans mind This and such helpes hath humane skill prepard For humane frailty but vntill this day For other arts howeuer men haue car'd The Art of Arts wanted this locke and keye To shut her treasures vp no man hath spar'd Time for this taske vntill Grayle vndertook In this small cheste to locke vp Gods great booke T is not to please the nice he tooke this paine Their itching eares and curious eies delight In such a fluent stile that must containe More words then matter t' is his veine to write Much in fewe words and in their sense so plaine That the vnlearned in his shallowe hart May now contayne the great Soule sauing Art I. M. In Momum VVAs Mamus crow you whelp'd in butchers stall That he resembles so that greedie kinde For marke the worst that is of men let fall Lying in midst of better fare halfe pind He chambers as a baite pleasing his mind Fie on him fie that he so currishlie Should ioy in that which others do defie Or was he of that curres most spitefull broode Which sat in cribbe keeping the oxe from meat For he from others keepes that wholesome foode Which hungrie soules they seeke for with their svveat And yet himselfe disdaines thereof to eat O cursed enuie that to stroy the more Will euen himselfe leade way vnto deaths dore Or rather sprang he from that hellish hound That welcoms damned soules to Plutoes place He so doth triumph vvhen ought may be found In others that may turne to their disgrace O worthy progenie O noble race What ere he deemed vvas I am sure of this Were he a God yet now a Dogge he is What what a Dogge and should his snarling bay Scarre men from that the wise haue healthfull tried No worthy Jason held on in his way Though he might seeme by sea and land denied By Buls repeld by Dragons fell enuied Shall hope of treasures earthlie so inflame And shall not heauenlie much more do the same Io. Gr. The Author to the curious Reader I Leaue perfection of a Poets skill which doth with siluer raies poor rusticks daunt To Siluesters and to Du Bartas quill and such as harbour where the Muses haunt Bathing in crystall streames of rare conceits conceiting what they list of any subiect Subiecting whatsoeuer them delights vnto their witte and art their natures obiect To such leaue I the maiestie of Poetrie diuine more rife is their dexteritie their wittes more ripe then mine There needes no garland where the wine is good nor colours where the substance is most pure Sinceritie by Truth hath euer stood and shall so long as doth the Truth indure More truth then Sacred veritie no creature can require And who so likes simplicitie lo heere his full desire THE FIRST PART OF THE SVMME OF THE HOLIE HISTORY The first Section IN the beginning God the Lord did heauen earth create Of nought by his almighty word as Scriptures doe relate Out of a void and formelesse masse the matter of each creature He wrought them all in sixe daies space and gaue them shape and feature cap. 1 The first day he commanded light the darkenesse to preuent The second day hee reard in sight the stately Firmament The third the earth with fruits adorn'd the swelling sea debarres The fourth the Sunne and Moone were form'd with all the glorious Starres The fifth the Fish with scales and sinnes and then the

as he had done before cap. 19 At Ephesus he made some stay for their the word preuailed There was Appoll's shew'd the way and there Demetrius railed Philippi last he visited Cap. 20 and thence he sailed backe To Troas where he rais'd the dead and after did not slacke Vnto Ierusalem to come yet sailing thither-ward The planted Churches al and some to see he had regard For in his iourneies as he went he preach'd and Churches planted Returning too was diligent for to supply what wanted He them confirm'd ordain'd by choise cap. 14 Elders in euery place And lastly did with cheerefull voice commend them to Gods grace At Ptolemais one day they bide cap. 21 and to Caesaria walked Where Philips daughters prophesied and Agabus fore-talked Of Paul his bands and sufferings great but he was naught dismai'd To suffer death though they intreat he ready was he said So vp he went and being there made to them full relation With praise to God they gladly heare the Gentiles strange vocation To please the Iewes they did aduise to purifie him there But in the Temple stirres arise and like to cost him deere Had not the Captaine ceas'd the striefe and by his great friendship Account he rendred of his life cap. 22 and faith and scapt the whipe Then was he brought before the Priest and smitten but the fraie Twixt Saduces Scribes and the rest cap. 23 hindred the plea that day Then was he vnto Foelix sent his answere there to make Thither also the high Priest went Cap. 24 and did Tertullus take The Oratour to plead their case but nothing yet they gained Till Festus came in Felix place before him being ' raigned cap. 25 And King Agrippa he thinks well to yeelde him vp in bands Cap. 26 But Paul to Caesar did appeale and so escap'd their hands To Italie then was he bound Cap. 27 with a Centurions guard But perils great on sea they found the like haue scarce beene heard Tost vp and downe the ship at last cap. 27 stucke fast within the sand And there was all to peeces dasht yet all came safe to land At Malta where the Viper quick cap. 28 made the Barbarians quail Paul scap'd the danger heal'd their sicke and thence to Rome did saile Where he arriuing was by Iewes both mette and entertained Hee told the brethren ioifull newes and two yeeres there remained In his owne house and guarded by a souldier of the traine Vntill that Nero cruelly did cause him to be slaine Section 11. AS Paul in preaching got the prize so Iohn did mount most high Gods holy hidden mysteries and secrets to descrie In Patmos on the Lord his day cap. 1 he rauish'd was in spirit Blessed from heauen are all they that read and keepe his writ First to the seuen Churches he sends healthful saluation cap. 4 Then sets he out Gods maiesty cap. 5 with a booke of Reuelation But seuen seales this Booke did close and none could be found out Worthy the seales for to vnlose till came the Lion stout Of Iuda's Tribe the Lambe once slaine he euery seale did open And each seale drew as in a chaine some strange and speciall token The first produc'd a Horse milke-white the Gospels speed and power The second red and did delight cap. 6 by blood-shed to deuoure The third was blacke and notice had of plague and famine fell The fourth horse full pall and sad did Antichrist foretell The fifth Seale open'd did bewray Saints soules that had beene killed Which vnder heauens alter lay till were the number filled The sixth vnsealed their were seene most fearefull signes and wonders But God seal'd spite of Satans spleene Cap. 7 twelue times twelue thousand numbers Last opening the seuenth seale cap. 8 loe Angels seuen attend c. 11. 15. Before the Lord and they reueale Cap. 8 things to the worlds full end These Angels seuen Trumpets had but each in order bloes And for the world would be so bad denounced nought but woes Section 12. cap. 10 THen mightely with glorious looke Christ Iesus is reuealed And in his hand a little booke but open and vnseled This Booke St. Iohn did take and ate and it th' estate contained Of Gods Church present and of that her glory which remained For present state she neuer wants the preaching of Gods spell Two Candlesticks two Oliue plants Cap. 11 two witnesses this tell And though she cloath'd be with the Sun and on the Moone doe tread Yet warres against her are begun by foes that make her dread And first the Dragon caus'd her fly Cap. 12 into Gods wildernesse But Michael from heauen high his fury doth represse Then did a Beast make warre on her cap. 13 seuen headed and ten horned And after him there did appeare another Beast adorned Like to the Lambe with hornes but two Yet Dragon-like he spake And did what the first beast could doe compelling all to take His marke vpon their fore-head yet the Lambe hath thousands still On earth that him with praises greet cap. 14 signed to doe his will Section 13. NOr doth he Babylon forget the Idolatrous drunken whore Three Angels he against her set and after seuen more cap. 14 The first by preaching to descry the next to shew her fall The third doth torments notifie bequeath'd her louers all Those seuen seuen vials had cap. 15 full of the wrath of God Which they powr'd out as they were bad on all the earth abroad cap. 16 Vnto the ruine of the Beast and of the whore of Rome Cap. 17 That golden-purple Antichrist for this her heauy dome Kings of the earth and Marchants proud Cap. 18 take vp a lamentation But holy Saints sing praises lowd Cap. 19 for Churches preseruation Vnto the Conquerour of fame that cloath'd is with the word And beares on thigh a mighty name and in his mouth a sword Who summoned triumphantly to his victorious feast The fowles that by mid-heauen fly As for his foe the Beast He with the Prophet false were cast into the brimstone lake The sword deuoured all the rest that part with him did take And then the Diuell that Dragon stout cap. 20 that Serpent old once chained A thousand yeeres and then let out he fiercely rag'd and raigned With Gog and Magogs armed strength whom God consum'd in ire cap. 20 9 The Diuell I say was cast at length in lake of brimstone fire And with him all the damned race for God comes on his throne A dreadfull Iudge before whose face both heauen and earth are gone And hell and graue and sea and land deliuer vp their dead Who all before the Iudge doe stand and bookes are opened As they haue done doom doth begin his worke eche one commendeth The wicked out the godly in and so the Session endeth Section 14. Now doth St. Iohn liuely describe the Church her glorious state Wife of the Lambe th'espoused bride Christ Iesus heauenly mate cap. 19 Who was found worthy to be clad in

pure and bright aray And was exhorted to be glad against her mariage day Ierusalem new holy great cap. 21 from heauen downe descending God and the Lambe there hold their seat it lightning and defending The forme is ech way fower square the matter gold and pearle The Citizens more noble are then earthly Lord or Earle Twelue gates there are for entrance wide the Porters Angels stout A wall most high on euery side doth compasse it about The weight of glory there reseru'd can no mans tongue impart Eie hath not seene eare hath not heard nor enter can mans heart There is no sorrow paine nor care no want of cloth or foode No filth no darkenesse curse nor feare no want of any good There is of life the tree and spring cap. 22 the store-house of all treasures There Saints triumph there Angels sing in paradise of pleasures There liu's our head let vs not slacke but euer watch and pray Our Sauiour will come quickly backe euen so come L●●d away Sine fine sit laus Deo Certaine briefe notes collected out of late and approued writers for the better vnderstan ding of the booke of REVELATION SAint Iohn receiued wrote this Apocalyps or Reuelation of the mysteries of God when hee was in Patmos Patmos is an Iland lying in the Aegaean or Grecian Sea which diuideth Asia from Europ whither he was banished by Domitian the persecuting Emperor of Rome about the yeere 96. The seuen Churches to which he wrote were seuen famous Cities of Asia the lesser and Greece where the Gospell was planted The seuen Seales THe first is referred to the times of the primitiue Church wherein Christ by his Apostles and Ministers subdued nations to the obedience of the Gospell Acts 2. 41. The second is referred to the time of the cruell persecutions vnder the bloody Emperours Caligula Nero Domitian and the rest vntill the time of Constantine who comforted the Church The third shewing the plagues of Famine Pestilence and Warres that followed the contempt of the Gospell is referred chiefely to the times of the Gothes Hunnes and Vandals And these plagues come on Horsebacke noting the generality or dispersion of them into many countries The fourth some make to signifie a part of the plagues fore-mentioned but more probably it signifieth Antichrist as King Iames is of opinion See more in the description of Antichrist following and more at large in that Christian learned and magnanimous premonition of his Excellent Maiestie prefixed to his Apology for the oath of Alleagiance The fifth sheweth the safe estate of them that haue suffered for the truth being vnder the altar of Gods protection The sixth sheweth great alterations and commotions of states and kingdoms the Diuell stopping the course of the Gospell and Christ preseruing his in all corners of the earth Cap. 7. 2. The seuenth sheweth the effect of the Diuells rage namely the springing vp of heresies the fall of ministers and teachers the height of corruption and abomination in the Pope and Turke The 7. Trumpets BY these God proclaimeth open warre with the world but his elect are still in safe estate Cap. 8. 3. The foure first trumpets shew the hatching of heresies and errors and the increase of them after the first 300. yeares The three last shew the full growth and diuellish power of them in the Pope and Turke to the affliction of the Church and the finall iudgement and torment of Atheists and Papists denounced by three woes Cap. 8. 13. A Description of the Church SHe is called a woman Cap. 12. First because without Christ her husband she is weake and can do nothing 2. By coniunction with Christ she bringeth forth children vnto God 3. Because her loue affection is alwaies set on Christ her husband She is cloathed with the Sun of righteousnes Christ Iesus She treadeth on the Moon that is contemneth the world and earthly things She hath a crowne of twelue starres that is the doctrine of the Gospell garnished with the Ministry of the twelue Apostles She laboureth of child namely and first of all Christ Iesus the heire of all and then of his members in all ages the destruction of whom the Dragon did and doth stil watch Cap. 12. 4. A Description of the Diuell HE is called a Dragon Cap. 12. 3. for his cruelty and malice and a red Dragon for his thirst and greedy desire after blood His 7. heads shew his manifold sleights and subtilties His ten horns shew his great and dreadfull power His seuen Crowns signifie the victories he hath gotten His taile of ambition lust and couetousnesse reacheth to Heauen and brusheth downe the third part of the stars that is many of the ministers from their glorious firmament to the earth of shame and obscurity verse 4. This Dragon was chained a thousand yeares Cap. 20. 2. These yeares the learned do account frō the 36. yeere after the birth of Christ for then the Diuell began to bee madde because the Iewes being cast off the Church of the Gentiles began to increase by the power of the Gospell preached vntill the time of Pope Hildebrand or Gregory the seuenth who was a wretched coniurer familiar of the Diuell and therefore a fitte instrument at hand for the Dragons diuellish and persecuting purposes which with rage and eagernesse hee executed during the time of the seuen Vials the last seuen plagues A description of the first Beast HE is called a Beast Cap. 13. 1. and signifieth in scripture a monarchy somtimes Dan. 7. 17. The reason is for the tyranny of it He is said to rise out of the Sea that is out of the boyling and broyling of heathē nations did the great citie the Queene of the nations or Roman Monarchy arise to tyrannize ouer the Church of God Cap. 12 15. His seuen heads signifie the seuen gouernments of Rome namely Kings Consuls Decemviri Dictators Tribuni militum Emperors and Bishops Which last was not then come when Saint Iohn wrote Cap. 17. 10. His ten heads signifie tenne Kings that is great power large dominion and command His ten crowns signifie many victories but in that they are on his hornes and not on his heads it sheweth he preuailed more by his power then by subtilty contrarily the Dragon whose heads are said to bee crowned Or as petty Kings vse to weare their crownes on their hats in token of homage they ow so this beast on his horns in token of subiection to the dragon of whom he receiued his throne and authoritie Cap. 13. 2. The Description of Antichrist obserued by the learned to be foure times fully and definitelie set downe in this Booke Cap. 6. 8. FIrst by a pale horse hauing death for his rider hell for his conuoy and power ouer the fourth part of the earth or Europe to kill with the sword and with hunger or the famine of the word as the black horse did by corporall famine and by beasts as Locusts and frogs Cap.