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A68694 An abridgeme[n]t of all the canonical books of the olde Testament written in Sternholds meter by VV. Samuel minister. The names of the books are in the next leaf following. Samuel, William, fl. 1551-1569. 1569 (1569) STC 21690; ESTC S110818 97,894 378

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be destroyd The iii. chapiter COnsumde was Elies sight away and as he lay and slept Samuel thrise the Lord did call who vnto Ely s●ept ● call thée not it is the Lord doo thou to him obay And so hée did and Ely knew on him what God did say The iiii chapiter DOughtely fought the Israelites yet were they put to flight The Philistian hoste twise bet thē down and took their Ark by might The sonnes of Ely they were kild whiche when their father hard He fel out of his seat for wo and burst his neck backward The v. chapiter EArly arose the Asdodits their Dagon for to sée ▪ The Ark of God twise thrue him down and bated his degrée Stricken they were with Emerodes the Ark made them ful wo From whence it came they did decrée thither to let it go The vj. chapiter FUlly and whole they did consent that home the Ark should wend With mise and arses made of golde so home they did it send Two kine new milche did cary it the right way home they went The Bethsanites they it receiude for whiche they were all shent The vii chapiter GOD willed Israel that they should their Idols quite destroy By Samuels mouth and they confest their sinnes to him on hie They willed Samuel for to pray the enemies they did fear They were destroyd fought no more the space of many a yéer The viii chapiter HOw Samuels sonnes did wickedly the people did it ming And not content of Samuel they did desire a king He them denide and axt the Lord who did to them consent And bad him tel what he would doo when he one to them sent The ix chapiter IT came to passe that Saule Cis sonne his Asses went to finde The Sear fondée he did inquire who tolde him all his minde Thy Asses they are found and thou the Israelites must guide He feasted him and on the morn he took him sole on side The x. chapiter KIsse did Samuel and anoint then Saul to be their King And told him things which came to passe as he afore did ming ●o Prophecy he did and tolde his vnckle halfe his hap The lot did fall to Saule as King And vnthriftꝭ grudgd therat The xi chapiter LAy siege to Iabes Nahas did whiche was an Ammonite They did submit he sent them woord their eyes to thrust out quite Then seuen dayes respite they did take then ayd lesse they would yéeld So Saule did win the peoples hartꝭ in winning of the féeld The xii chapiter MArk my woords said Samuel then your willes I haue obayed If I did wrong or taken bribe it shall again be paide How God had doon in time afore and would doo he them tolde With thunder and raine he feard all and sharply them controlde The xiii Chapiter NOw Saule being king he got him men against his foes to fight And when the hoste drue néer to Saule he did that was not right He offended God in dooing the thing that Samuel should haue doon A Smith to make them tooles to fight in Israel had they none The xiiii chapiter OUer with one then Ionathas went his signe was true they fled When Saule it knew with all his men he folowd vpon the dead If any did eat ere night were come then die he should said Saule Ionathas eat and should haue dide the hoste denide it all The xv chapiter POinted was Saule of Gods owne mouth the Amalakites to kil He disobayd the almightie Lord and folowd his foolishe wil. Then Samuel shewd him how that God was sory he made him king Obedience more he looks to haue then any burnt offering ¶ Halfe Samuels first book ye haue had some say the first of Kings VVherin is shewd the meruaylous woorks of God in his dooings Of Dauids calling to be King Samuel did him noint It shalbe shewd you afterward the Chapters shall it point The xvi Chapiter APoint did God that Samuel should chuse Dauid to be King For fear of Saule he went in close and faind an offering So Dauid being chosen king an euil sprite came on Saule When Dauid came and plaid on harp the sprite went out of Saule The xvij chapiter BOldly bragged Goliah then on his great might and strengthe None durst go out to cope with him til Dauid came at length Proffer he did to fight with him yet harnes had he none A sling he had and out he went and kild him with a stone The xviii chapiter COme out did women and did sing in ioy of enemies fall They sang ten thousand Dauid slue a thousand slain of Saule Then Saule deuised Dauids death yet scapte he with his life To haue his death Michol he gaue to be his spoused wife The xix chapiter DEuise did Saul stil Dauids death for all the othe he sware And when he plaid to void the sprite he thrue at him a spear Then in his house he had béen slain but Michol causd him flée And they him sought Saule and his men began to prophecy The xx chapiter EFtsoones Dauid and Ionathas compact their faiths in one If Saule him mist and were displeasd he should knowe how to gon Then Saule fel out with Ionathas that void was Dauids place Then by a signe he gaue him woord to flée in any cace The xxi chapiter Flée from Saule then Dauid did to Ahimelech he came The ●ewbread suttely he obtaind but by was Sauls herdman The Philistians swoord he got also to Achis king he went He was afraid he faind him mad the King was not content The xxii chapiter GO foorth dooth Dauid on his way th' opprest to him did come He left his kinred with a King and went away with some Doeg tolde of Abimelech for whom Saule sent and slue And all the house and Town also saue one that ●led the crue The xxiii Chapiter HElp did Dauid a Cittie besiegd Reylah it was calld And Saule wel hopte to kil him there it was a Cittie walld In a thicket he was betraid Saule thought him to haue spoild The streight was great Dauid was in but Saule then home recoild The xxiiij chapiter IN daunger great was Saule the king in caue so it did hap If Dauid would he had béen slain he cut but his cote lap Then Dauid cride to Saule and said sée what I might haue doon So Saule sware Dauid to be good to him in his kingdome The xxv chapiter KNowe ye may of Samuels death ▪ and Naball his shéep shearing Who angred Dauid very muche his churlishe part once hearing If Abigail had him not met they had then lost their life Immediatly the fool did die and Dauid had his wife The xxvi chapiter LIyng a sléep in Abners tent Saule lost his spear and cruse Whiche Dauid had and cride aloud and tolde it them as newes When Saule had heard all Dauids minde his fault he did confesse And knowledge Dauids reign as king and last he did him blesse The xxvii chapiter MUche a doo had Dauid with Saule
therfore he fled the land And went to Achis King of Geth in the Philistian land He slue of them in rouing wise and left not one a liue And tolde the king another tale who did his woords beléeue The xxviii chapiter NOw battaile begins betwéen them bothe and Saule to God did speak He had no woord of God again when he his minde did break A woman him raisd as he beléeued Samuel that then was dead Who tolde him plain he should be slain and Dauid set in his stede The xxix chapiter OUt went the heathen by their ranks the Lords did Dauid spie They art of Achis what he was who him extolde on hie But they were fumde and said plainly he would doo them some lack And Achis tolde to Dauid all who early sent him back The xxx chapiter PErished was the town with fire where Dauids wiues did dwel And men and women led away then Dauid axt councel Followe he did and them destroid and home returnd again The spoiles was delt and presentꝭ sent the riches of the slain The xxxi chapiter QUickly fled the Israelites and gaue their foes the féeld Saules sonnes were slain at the same time and Saule him self there kild His harnes and his body bothe they hung them vp on hie His body and his sonnes were burnt their bones layd at a trée ¶ This book the first is doon and past at Saules death it dooth end The second next while it dooth last ye shall haue we intend The second book of Samuel other wise the second of the Kings The first Chapiter A Yung man caried Dauid woord that Saule in féeld was slain For making of a lie to him death had hée for his pain Then Dauid wept and mourned sore for Saule and Ionathas death And sang a song all ful of wo that they had lost their breath The ii chapiter BEgin did Dauid then to reign in Hebron kingd he first And Isboseth by Abners meanes anoint him Israel durst Then twelue twelue so plaid in sporte that one eche other slue Twéen bothe the houses for that part the battail gan to brue The iii. chapiter COmpany with a Concubine made Abner to rebel From Isboseth he yéelded vp to Dauid Israel When he was gone in peace away by Ioab he returnd Who did him kil ful gilefully for whom the king sore mournd The iiii chapiter DAmpt was Israel with their king when Abners death they heard Two of the heads slue Isboseth and had a right reward To Dauid they did bring his head and hoped to haue thank As he that brought Saules death to him so had they for their prank The v. chapiter EChe sides were made now all in one Iuda and Israel And nointed Dauid once again who ruled them ful wel Hierusalem of Iebusites did Dauid win and take And battails twain he wan by might and made his foes to quake The vi chapiter FRom Abinadab thark was fetcht and Ozah God did strike Therfore with Obed it was left whiche made him wel to like When Dauid knew he fetcht it home afore it he did daunce Michol mockt him and for her fée no children was her chaunce The vii chapiter GOd vnto Dauid did deny a house for him to build I shrowded not in Ceder trées but dwelt alwaies in féeld Thy sonne a house shall rear for me and reign for euermore Then Dauid wholy praisd the Lord and thanked him therfore The viii chapiter HOw Dauid vsde his enemies and linde their liues and death The Assirians he did subdue and thousands lost their breath A forren King to him did yéeld and sent him giftꝭ ful great He gaue them all to God and dooth his rulers names repeat The ix ▪ chapiter IN memory came to Dauids minde his vow to Ionathas made Ask he did if any were left that promise might be paid Miphiboseth was found and brought to whom the king gaue land And set him at his bord alway all this he did commaund The x. chapiter KNow ye may of an heathen king towards Dauid euil behaued Iust by their tailes he cut their coats and halfe their beards he shaued With Dauids men this part he playd who did his déeds requite He did him foile with all his power and put his ayd to flight The xi chapiter LUst caused Dauid for to sin with Bethsabe in déed Shée was with childe and then he sent for Vrias with spéed And when he would not lie with her he sent him back again And suche woord sent that he was set in place where he was slain The xii chapiter MAruaylous angry was the Lord with Dauid for this part When he it wist he did repent the déed with all his hart God him forgaue but yet the childe did die for this il thing Then next shée bare him Salomon who afterward was King The xiii chapiter ▪ NOw Thamar was a fair yung maid and Ammon did her lust He faind him sick and had his wil and from him did her thrust Then Absalon her brother déer did stil her from her cry And two yéer after causd him kild and afterward did flée The xiiii chapiter OUer passid was Dauids ●um● and Ioab wrought a ●eat By a woman for Absalon that hame he might him get The king did graunt and home he came but would not yet him sée Procured Ioab spake for him then kist the king and he The xv chapiter PIck so away the peoples hartꝭ from Dauid did his sonne Rebel he did against the king this same was Absalon The King did flée for fear of 〈◊〉 bare footed and did wéep Yet had he spies that wrought for him whose councel they did kéep The xvi chapiter QUietly passed he the hil and Ziva brought him giftꝭ Whom Semei curst and he preferd God in his secreat driftꝭ Then Husai the rebel sarud but he was Dauids spie And Absalon in open sight with Dauids wiues did lie The xvii chapiter REfused was Ahithophel his councel took no place But Husay his woords were liked wel and Dauid knew the cace Then Dauid fled but Ahithophel him self did hang for wo And diuers men brought Dauid food their hunger mooued them so The xviii chapiter SO number Dauid did his men and set them out in ray And charge gaue Dauid for his sonne his life in him to stay But contrary the féeld once wun Ioab did thrust him thorowe When Dauid wist he took on so that ioy was turnd to sorowe The xix chapiter TO stay his sorow Ioab went and brought the king in sight Then did Israel ioy it muche and willed him his right Whole Iuda came as they were wild their king home for to bring And Israel was not wel content for dooing of that thing The xx chapiter UP then rose a rebel again and Seba was his name He mooued Israel to rebel to get him self a fame Besiegd he was in Abel town they had béen all as dead But that a woman found the meanes that cast out was his head The xxi chapiter
Barack shée did call They fought and wan but Sisara In Iaels hands did fall The v. chapiter EUen as the battaile ended was and Israel had the best They sang a song of melody wherin the Lord was blest But curst were some that cam not foorth to help them for to fight And blest was shée that with a naile slue Sisara outright The vi chapiter FAre foule did then the Madianites with Israel for their sin An Angel stird vp Gedeon their fréedome for to win The Idol Ball he did destroy and burst his aulter down ▪ His Father did his cause defend against the Cittie or town The vii Chapiter GEdeon foorth to battail went the Madianites to kil To mickle was his hoste said God for him to haue his wil. So many as feard were sent home back and those that stoupt to drink Thrée hundred slue the Madianites and made their kinges to shrink The viii chapiter HAlfe angry were the Ephraites but Gedeon did them stil Phanuel men and Sucoth bothe did Gedeon take and kil Two kings he slue and then they would haue him and his their heds He it denide but gaue them cause to doo ful wicked dedes The ix Chapiter IEroboas had thrée score sonnes and ten in number true Abimeleck he kild them all saue Ioathan the Iew. Who them rebukte they did him chuse and Gaal rose in vain So Sichem burnt and Thebez stroyd Abimeleck there was slain The x. chapiter KNowe wel ye may what guide they had as Gods that were forbod They were opprest and did repent and called vnto God Who bad them call vnto their Gods in trouble them to saue They did suppresse their Idols quite to God their mindes they gaue The xi chapiter LOok out did then the Galadites a captain and a guide Who willed Ammon not to fight but he his tale denide Then Iephthath vowd a foolishe vow the victory to obtain He had the féeld and home returnd then was his daughter slain The xii chapiter MUrmour so did the Ephraites at Iepthah had they spight Fortie thousand of them he slue and put the rest to flight A woord betrayd them many times when Iordane they would take Thrée Iudges there are then exprest and when their liues did slake The xiii chapiter NO longer did they fear the Lord then Iudges good did liue The vpper hand against them all the Lord their foes did giue A man that was hight Manoah had Samson to him plight His wife him bare as God had said with him dwelt God his sprite The xiiij chapiter OF Samsons mariage ye may hear he would néeds haue his wil As he went down his spouse to woo a Lion did he kil A ridle axt and thirtie men he slue to pay the hest His calfe had tilde the thirties land and went to his fellowes nest The xv chapiter PAstime to make then Samson went to banket with his wife Shée went not in so sprang a cause of hatred and great strife With Foxes fiery he brent their corn Philistians did he slay The iaw bone of an Asse he took and thousands kild one day The xvi chapiter QUarel they pickt to Samson stil and him they watche to slay But he that night burst vp their gates and caried them away He kept a whoore who béeing féed his strength of him shée wan Whē he was blinde they causd him play but he destroyd them than The xvii chapiter REherst is then of mony lost a woman did it misse Micha her sonne did it confesse and said lo héer it is Uowed shée had and would it kéep an Image did she make Leuite came and lodged there whom Micha his préest did make The xviii chapiter SPies were sent to serche the land the tribe of Dan it wrought At Michas house they lodgd all night where councel good they sought Return they did with ioyful newes and foorth they went to fight The préest and Image they did take and wan the land out right The xix chapiter TO mary against the law of God sée what dooth them betide A Leuites wife did play the whore and flipped from her guide He fetcht her home and as he went at Gabaah was shée slain Then sent he her in péeces twelue the déed for to complain The xx chapiter UP then rose Israel for to fight against the Beniamites For whoredome fact yet Israel was put vnto two great flightꝭ Then did they pray and God thē plight to haue the higher hand The Beniamites were killd on morn twentie and fiue thousand The xxj chapiter ANd thē they sware that none of them the Beniamites should wed The men that went not vp to fight they vowed them but dead They took their daughters and thē gaue the Beniamites to make Yet not suffisde the dauncing dames to wiues they did them take ¶ The book of Iudges is expirde an end therof is made The story of Ruthe ye shall haue next so following scriptures trade Ruthe The first Chapiter A Dearth then fel in Iudaes land Emeleck with his wife And his two sonnes to Moab went there for to lead their life The father died and his two sonnes in mariage dide also The mother then did home return and Ruthe with her did go The ii chapiter BEséech did Ruthe her mother in law That shée some corne might lease And foorth shée went to Booz his field whose sight shée did wel please He bothe inquierd and with her talkte and her intreated wel Sée tolde her mother at the night the story euery dele The iii. chapiter CAused shée was by Noemise woords to sleep at Booz his féet Who when he wakte and felt her there the truthe on her did wéet Shée tolde him all and who shée was then bad he her lie stil And on the morne he gaue her corne and tolde her all his wil. The iiij chapiter DOwn sat Booz then and in the gate his kinsman did he call He shewd to him afore the heads what land to him did fall He said he would not purchace it so Booz the land did buy And maried Ruthe who had a sonne when he with her did lie ¶ Ruthe dooth end at Chapters foure shewing whom she did wed A Gentile she was yet she bare the Graunsire to Dauid The first of Kings ye shall haue now whom Samuel some doo call The stories shall declare you how that Kings to them did fall ¶ The first book of Samuel otherwise called the first of the Kinges The first Chapiter A Man two wiues had wedded tho the one no children had She had suche wo she praid to God who sent to her a lad Elkanah was her husbands name and Hannah was shée hight And Samuel did shée call her sonne whom shée to God had plight The ii chapiter BEgin did Hannah for to sing and sang a goodly song The sonnes of Ely were vnthriftꝭ and did the people wrong Ely them did rebukte but small for whiche God did him chide He sent a man to tel him plain his house should
A Plague then came of thrée déer yéeres Saules kindred was the cause When his seauen sonnes were hanged vp the death began to pause Of mightie men the chapter speakes Philistians that were slain Their speares as big as weauers beames yet serued they as vain The xxii chapiter BEgin did Dauid then to sing and sang a song of praise Extolling God for his great help shewed to him alwaies He hath me kept and béen my shéeld and made my foes to fall Therfore thou liue and blest be thou among the heathen all The xxiii chapiter CHriste by Dauid héer is tolde his kingdome and his might And valiant men are then exprest the whiche for him did fight Eight hundreth men are slain of one another withstood a féeld Thrée fetched water through an hoste the fourth made Lions yéeld The xxiiii chapiter DAuid did then his people tel and numbered then soon And when he wist he did repent the déed that he had doon Plagde he should be and did require Pestilence to reign Thréescore and ten thousands of men afore it feast were slain ¶ The second book of Kings is doon or Samuel as you wil The third shall come by God his grace and so foorth wil we stil. Twentie and foure it hathe conteind and twentie and two the next In all these chapters ye shall finde the order of the text ¶ The third book of the Kings after the Latines after the Hebrues the first of the Kings The first Chapiter AS Dauid waxed olde he had a maid to kéep him warm Adoniah did king him self he fearing then no harm By Nathans meanes was Salomon set and crownd in Dauids seat The noise once heard they fled for fear the head did him entreat The ii chapiter BEcause that Dauid saw by age that death approched néer His sonne he charged God to loue and him alone to fear As touching Ioab and Semei of them he tolde his wil Adoniah Abiathar these foure came vnto il The iii. chapiter COmmunication had the Lord with Salomon the King Aske what thou wilt said God to him for wisdome did he ming The Lord it likte and gaue it him and straight it was espied Two wemen straue about one childe and he the trothe out tried The iiii chapiter DEclard is then his rulers names and caters for his boord The number of his bread and béef that dayly he did foord Thrée thousand prouerbs he did write a thousand songs and fiue Of beastes and foules wormes fishe he wrote of them beliue The v. chapiter EUen at that time the king of Tire whiche Hiram hight by name He sent to Salomon when he heard of his great might and fame And then they two did ioyne in league the king of him had wood And Hiram did receiue again corne for his dayly food The vi chapiter FUlly preparde the king began Ierusalem to build Ful costly woork he made of it and richely he it st●ld Two Cherubs did he make ful gay and coured them with golde Galaries did he rear also and all things as he would The vij chapiter GO foorth did Salomon and did build him self a goodly place And made two pillers wunderful and cast they were of brasse A Sea also and Lauers great with mickle things yet more Of golde and siluer vessels gay he made therof good store The viii chapiter House did Salomon then the Ark and set it in his place And prayed to God ful meruailously for many a sundry cace He him besought for diuers things I would you red them all And offered great offerings as there perceiue ye shall The ix Chapiter IN talke was God with Salomon and these woords he him tolde If he and his would kéep his law be in his house be would To Hiram gaue he Citties great the heathen tribute paid And thrise a yéer burnt sacrifice afore the Lord was laid The x. chapiter KNowledge then had a forren Quéen of Salomons great fame And when shée had him proou'd and séen shée did confirm the same Golde was plentie in that time and also precious stones And Siluer was so plentie tho as in the stréet are stones· The xi chapiter LOue did Salomon concubines whiche caused him to sin He serued Gods beside the Lord therfore said God to him I warned thée but all in vain thy kingdome shalbe rent He stirred him vp diuers foes ere to his graue he went The xii chapiter MAny men then did flock in one Rehoboam to noint He answered them so churlishely they waid him not a point Ieroboam then did they chuse and him they made their King He made them calues and hil aulters and burnt thereon offring The xiii chapiter NOthing abasht a Prophet tolde the ruine of the aulter The King his hand was dryed vp and God did heal it after The Prophet then he did not kéep but brake the Lord his wil As he returnd for his reward a Lion did him kil The xiiii chapiter OLde was Ahiah when he tolde the Quéen the kingdoms fall And of her Lord and sonne also and truthe he tolde her all Ieroboam Rehoboam of Iuda and Israel kings They died bothe then and their sonnes began in their diyngs The xv chapiter PLaste was Abiam of Iuda King a wicked man in déed His sonne Asa destroyd the stues when he did him succéed Nadab euil in Israel reignd and Baasa him did kil Ieroboams séed he rooted out and ruled the realm at wil. The xvi Chapiter QUenched was Baasa and his house his stock of Zamri slain Amry was crownd and Zamri burnt him selfe besieged in pain When Amri of Thebni had his wil then ruled he but not wel And Ahab his sonne more wicked thē he who maried Iezabel The xvii chapiter RAuens fed Eliah in the drought vntil the riuer was dry The drought continued thrée yéer space as he did prophecy At Sareptha in a widdowes house he lay and increast her food And liued her sonne when he was dead so turn he did her mood The xviii chapiter SEarching for grasse Eliah met with him that prophets hide By him the King met Eliah so eche the other chide The préestꝭ of Ball for all their noise no fier could obtain But Eliah did and causd them kild and straight began the raine The xix chapiter UHen Iezabel him vowd to kil from whom he fled for fear Then fortie dayes with little food he went as dooth appéer At Oreb hil with God he spake two Kings he wild him noint Elizeus then in his roum a Prophet he did point The xx chapiter WArre sure did then King Bennadab against Samaria twise On hil or plain he was destroyd it was the Lords deuice But when that Israel peace did make with that vngracious king The king had woord to be destroid and his realm for that thing The xxi chapiter AHab then sought a vineyard of Naboth but in vain The wicked Quéen hight Iezabel that causd him to be slain Possession when he went to take his death was tolde him
were in faith Would suffer things to prooue them with as Moyses plainly saith The xiiij chapiter OMit they must the Gentiles trades and flée their dooings quite And onely serue almightie God with all their main and might Suche beastꝭ as they might not then 〈◊〉 are manifestly tolde And whiche were clean is there exprest that eat they might be bolde The xv chapiter PArdon their de●s then are they bod at euery seuenth yéers end When God his wil is serued and kept no scarsenes he wil send Those that wil lend to suche as néed the maner is tolde how Deformitie in sacrifice the Lord dooth not alow The xvi chapiter QUietly how to kéep their feastꝭ the times are tolde them plain When that they should be vsde and kept is written once again O that Iudges would mark and read and doo as God there bad To take no giftꝭ in any cace but iustice to be had The xvii chapiter REwarded must Idolaters with death by law to die And 〈◊〉 things must be reserd to those that be on hie Presumptuous men that doo rebel must die the law dooth minge The man and state that he must kéep that they would take to king ¶ Halfe this book is now tolde afore in seauenteen chapters iust And seauenteen more ye shall haue next in God put we our trust The xviij chapiter ALl the Leuites the whiche were préestꝭ might no possessions haue All sorcery they must auoid their liues to kéep and saue Moyses tolde then of Christe to come and bad them him to hear The Prophet false they must not way nor all his dooings fear The xix chapiter BEcause that murther might be doon against the dooers minde For refuge Citties were set out and there vnto assignd The false witnes must haue the stone return to his owne brow An eye for eye and tooth for tooth the law did them alow The xx chapiter CHuse out for warres what men they should this chapter dooth expresse The law of armes to them is tolde to vse in war or peace The Cananites the Pheresites the Iebusites also With Heuites eke they must destroy ▪ not letting one to go The xxj chapiter DEcrée did God a goodly law for him that was found dead And how the Iew should him behaue a gentile for to wed The first borne sonne he must possesse the heritage and land The childe that parentꝭ dooth not fear must die euen out of hand The xxii chapiter EChe man must help his neighbours Asse although he be vnknowne The man denied the womans tire shée to go in her owne Lin●●e wolūe might not be worn the adulterer must die And order taken for that man that with a maid did lie The xxiii chapiter FOrbidden was the gelded man in Christes churche to dwel The harlots bird dooth God commaund that they should quite expel There might no whore among thē bide the Lord did so decrée The loue of things is there denide to lend on vsury The xxiiii chapiter GIue leaue did Moyses to deuorce for causes that were light The newly spousd they might not force in battaile for to fight For money lent and seruantꝭ hire a goodly lesson tolde Some leysing left in féeld and town for poore folke yung and olde The xxv chapiter HOw many stripes the trespasser should haue for wicked life A man that died without a sonne his brother should wed his wife That weightꝭ mesures should be iu●● read ye the chapters end Who so dooth vse the contrary shall come to wicked end The xxvi chapiter IUstly must they now pay their frutes that first to them did fall The tithes they were commaunded to they should then pay them all Unto the préestꝭ the fatherles the straunger and widowe Such goods were then the poores of right how so they vse them now The xxvii Chapiter KNowledge was had the people the● an aulter vp to rear Afore that Iordane they did passe or came the land so néer The curses then that Leuy was commaunded for to speak Against all those that did delight Gods wil to burst or break The xxviii Chapiter LOuingly the Lord did blesse the kéepers of his wil To stablishe them in their good mindes to kéep them in it stil. And curse dooth hée the contrary with cursings very great Those that him looue he dooth them blesse his haters hée dooth threat The xxix chapiter MOyses then went and thus he spake vnto the people all Saying to suche as feareth God the Lord defends them all But they that not regard his wil suche plagues on them shall come As like hath not béen séen on earth from rising of the sonne The xxx chapiter NOt far from them that doo it séek is Gods almightie woord Those that it loue and it obay are saued from the swoord Within our mouthes and in our hartꝭ the woord is alway prest Those that it kéep are sure at length for it they shalbe blest The xxxi chapiter OLde was Moyses and so did chuse then Iosue in his stéed To whom he said sée thou be strong and haue no fear or dread This book he wrote and did it giue into the Leuites hand And chargde that they the same should read when they came to the land The xxxii chapiter PLesantly then did Moyses sing a goodly song of praise Unto the Lord for all the acts that he had wrought alwaies And vp he went vnto a hil to look on Canaan God bad him there to run the race that all his fathers ran The xxxiii chapiter QUietly Moyses did prepare to sléep his fathers sléep But this he said before he went that God his saints dooth kéep Also he blessed all the tribes afore his dying day And tolde how they should rule reign if they did God obay The xxxiiii chapiter REst from his woork did Moyses then and so gaue vp the ghoste At his departing they did wéep euen throughout all the hoste And Iosue did his roum possesse as Moyses had it wild And ruled all the Israelites in Cittie and in féeld ¶ Of Moyses books heer is the last as he did them all write Vnto the Lord giue ye the praise whiche is the God of might Iosue The j. Chapiter AS God afore had Moyses calld his people for to guide So Iosue to supply his roum the Lord set him on side For to be strong the Lord him bad and manly for to fight And from the lawes of God the Lord to turn to left nor right The ii chapiter BEfore were serchers sent to spie to Ierico they yede A harlots house they lodged in by whom then they were hid Shée made them promise her to saue when spoild should be the land And they agréed to knowe her house by purple cord or band The iii. chapiter CAre to Iosua did belong the people for to guide Remooue he did from Settim ground and came to Iordane side Then was the Lord disposde to shew the honour of his name He caused Iordain waters yéeld and part a sunder
the Cittie fought but yet at last they lost Zedechias sonnes were kild he saw the wicked did so rout The Town and Temple was destroid and then his eyes thrust out ¶ The last and fourth book of the Kings the second some it call Is gone and past with matters hard in meeter for to fall The Crownicles the douts shall mend God let vs liue therto And send vs grace to doo the thing that we intend to doo ¶ Finis The first book of the Chronicles ¶ The i. chapiter ADam his ligne is héer exprest to Iacob and Esau Then haue you tolde what kings did rule the Edomites by law Eight kings they had before the time that Israel had a King What Dukes they had ye may haue there if you inquire the thing The ii Chapiter BEgin the second Chapter dooth with Iacob and his sonnes And then of Iudahs progeny it next in order comes Seauen were the sonnes that Isay had whose father was Obed And Dauid yungest was of them yet was he made their hed The iii. chapiter COncubines diuers Dauid had of sonnes he had ninetéen ●n Hebron sixe Hierusalem there had he iust thirtéen These by his wiues to him were born in whiche was Salomon The Kings that ruled after him the chapter telleth on The iiii chapiter DRawn out is then the ligne and stock of Iudah and his kin In wanting food to féed their shéep good pasture they did win Of Simions sonnes somewhat is said how valiantly they went They béeing few yet sped they wel and had their whole intent The v. chapiter EUil fauoured lust to fathers wife lost Ruben his birthright And Iosephs stock came in his roum a people ful of might Yet is his stock héer tolde and what a noble fight they fought A land they wan but after fel from God who draue them out The vi Chapiter FOlowing on of Leuies ligne expressed is at large Of whom came Aaron and his sonnes that had the préestly charge Citties they had of other tribes for refuge and besides For them and their posterities as lots to them were guides The vii Chapiter GOing on foorth by Israel to tel who came of him Of Izacar and Beniamin Manasses and Ephraim Then Ephraims stock by men of Gath were slain whiche made him sad His fréends did comfort him right wel and then a sonne he had The viii chapiter HEar more is tolde of Beniamin his sonnes by right discent How they begat from childe to childe and lineally foorth went Out of which tribe came foorth king Saul and of his sonnes by rowe As tolde and eke of valiant men that shot wel in a bowe The ix chapiter ISrael is now numbred in certain tribes by name The Leuites and the chéefest préestꝭ that were of greatest fame The ouerséears of the woorks the porters in their charge The oyntment makers vessel kéepers are héer tolde out at large The x. chapiter KIng Saule is slain by Philistins and Ionathas his sonne His body stript his hed cut of after the féeld was wun The cause is tolde why he was slain by councelling with the Deuil And Dauid brought into his raign who rooted out muche euil The xi chapiter LIke as the Lord had promised by Samuel his man So Dauid now is chosen King Hierusalem he wan His noble men are tolde by name and eke their mightie actꝭ He that wil read the chapter out shall hear of woorthy factꝭ The xii chapiter MEn that of might were meruailous to Dauid now did flock And suche as knew the featꝭ of warres came out of euery stock Out of eche tribe good souldiers their captains with their number Are héer so tolde and with suche hartꝭ as might make Dauid wunder The xiii chapiter NOw Dauid héer dooth councel take the Ark first home to bring Whiche Saule did nothing care to doo as long as he was king And one was slain for touching it when as the Ark did shake So came it short to Sion hil it made the king to quake The xiiii chapiter OF woork men and of Ceder trées sent to him héer is tolde Wherby his kingdome stablished to say he durst be bolde His sonnes and wiues are then exprest the Philistines inuade With God he talkte whose wil obayd he flue them in a slade The xv chapiter PRepare did he a multitude for to fetche home the Ark The Leuites bare it on their backs plesantly sang eche clark With shouting noise and instruments and Dauid daunst his part The daintie damsel Michol then despisde him in her hart The xvi chapiter QUietly now the Ark is set the tabernacle vnder The préestꝭ appointed to giue thanks according to their number A Psalme he made in praise of God to laud his holy name In the hundred and the fift Psalme there shall ye finde the same The xvii chapiter REfuse did God that Dauid should an house vnto him build But as before so would he stil dwel vnder tent in féeld But that a sonne of his should make a house he was content Then landed he the Lord therfore sitting within his tent The xviii Chapiter SUche battailes then as Dauid fought this chapter dooth declare The Philistines the Moabites they all subdued are The Edomites with other Kings did Dauid ouerthrowe And those that were his rulers chéef their names héer may ye knowe The xix chapiter THen Dauid sent of right good wil a new King for to gréet The messengers were madly shauen their cotes cut ful vnméet Suche wrath their maister took therfore that battail gan to broile The Moabites the Aramites they fled and had the spoile The xx chapiter WHen Princes vse in battaile ray their armies to set out Then Ioab went and wan a town and took a King ful stout Whose crown was set on Dauids head whiche waid a waightie waight Suche Giants then were ouerthrowne as lackt no strength nor height The xxi chapiter According as the Deuil did tempt Dauid did tel his flock Of thrée hard stripes the Pestilence he chose to be his stroke Thrée score and ten thousands of men the Angel did deuour The plague is ceast ▪ an aulter built vpon a threshing floure The xxii chapiter BEing at rest now in his seat all things he dooth prouide Wherwith to build to God an house at the apointed tide Good councel to his sonne he giues for to erect the same His noble men he dooth exhorte to help the woork to frame The xxiii Chapiter CHosen king was Salomon then by Dauid for to reign The préesthood eke of Leuies kinde was numbered again Then Aarons stock and Moyses ligne are pointed bothe as one Their names and eke their offices for them to wait vpon The xxiiij chapiter DEuision of Aarons séed the king by lot did make And so eche man that had his roum by lot he did it take Yet was there left of Amrams house whose names by course are tolde And lots were cast for equalnes betwixt the yung and olde The xxv chapiter EChe man that
gaue a charge that there remaines for ay The xx chapiter WHen woord came of a mightie hoste whole Iuda to destroy He prayers made a Prophet said they should not them anoy ▪ The hoste was slain the spoile was great yet as before he fel Therof being tolde the lines doo lead and of his end doo tel The xxi chapiter AS this King had ended his reign Iehoram had his place His brethern slain he did mar all in going Ahabs race O look his end what blood him wan a Prophet did him chide Troubled w t warres sicknes straunge moste wretchedly he dide The xxii chapiter BEeing without a King they tooke Ahaziahu by name His mothers wil ●e so perfourmd as did bring to him blame Iehu him slue whiche beeing noisd Athalia it heard The kingly stock shée kild to reign but Ioas scaped hard The xxiii chapiter CUnningly is he crowned King Athalia shée is slain Ball is burst his préestꝭ are kild true seruice plaste again The officers set in comely wise the hie préest did this déed The King is séen and set in seat all things did wel procéed The xxiiii chapiter DEny did none but eche did giue the temple to repair The préestꝭ were slack it would not serue the King had godly care Iehoiada dead he fel from faith and Zachari he slue He foild in warres and sick is slain his seruantꝭ were vntrue The xxv chapiter EDom is put now to his flight the traytors eke are kild The King did trust in multitudes he turnd as he was wild He fel from God he was rebukte Amaziahu he hight He mended not his Cittie spoild and kild he was in flight The xxvi chapiter FAln a sléep his heire dooth reign Vsias was his name He reigned wel til pride him took then lost he all his fame To Churche he yed incence to make a Leaper home he went He dwelt alone his sonne did rule to buriall so he went The xxvij chapiter GOd set in place his sonne Iotham who reigned rightfully Saue that to churche he would not go his folke liu'de wickedly The Ammonites he ouercame Golde with wheat they him gaue In peace and rest to graue he went so writ of him ye haue The xxviii chapiter HEire to Iotham was Ahaz King the false way he did take The Assire and the Israel head they made his kingdome shake Yet captains were returnd again his realm was throughly vext The more he felt the woorse he delt a better ruled next The xxjx. chapiter IN royall state Hezekia obtayned now the crown The temple clensd he did erect that was before put down Oblations and sacrifice and offrings that were great So hée and his thus serued God thus setled he his seat The xxx chapiter KNowledge was giuē by letters sent the paske for to be kept Some laught some mockt some came vp thus were the people hept Together as one a fortnight space the paskal Lamb was eaten And if the King had not stept in some had of God béen beaten The xxxi chapiter LOok what became conuerted men was doon as men reuiude They burst their Gods found their préestꝭ who liued of things were tithd Such heaps were giuen that they might wait wholy vpon their charge Their wiues and sonnes were cared for they had all things at large The xxxii chapiter MUltitudes of souldiours came then out of Assur land An Angel did destroy the hoste God took the thing in hand Then Iuda King his hart was great but sicknes did him tame More yéeres he had he liued riche and died in great fame The xxxiii chapiter NOt wel but euil Manasses reignd vntil that he was bound Then prayers he made and did repent and fauour streight he found Restored home he made away the Idols that were vain His sonne rulde il his men him slue and for it were they slain The xxxiiii chapiter OF Iosias how wel he rulde héer now to you is tolde He sought for God and trimd his house his zeale was nothing colde The law was found and he it heard he rent his cote in sunder As he was wild he serued God so did likewise a number The xxxv chapiter PAsseouer was then held and kept Iosias so it bad From Samuels dayes before that time the like had not béen had He néeds would fight with Egipt King yet Necho him forbad So slain he was and buriall made his flock with mourning clad The xxxvi chapiter QUite quenched was the law of God King after King it foild Some were put down some captiue led their temple eke was spoild They warned mockt to Babilon so were they led as shéep At seuentie yéeres they did return so Cirus thought it méet ¶ Thus ended are the Chronicles two books they doo contain The Iewes in one compile them bothe to long we make them twain VVhen Esdras came from Babilon the kingly acts destroyd He pend these writs of breef rehearse no man hath them anoid ¶ The first book of Esdras The first Chapiter AS spoken was by Ieremy so Cirus Persia King Commaunded Iewes home to return all suche as were willing Their vessels eke he did them giue of golde and siluer numbred Fiue thousand were they in their tale and yet therto foure hundred The ii chapiter BEing so wild as thick as Bées the Iewes from thence depart In numbers great to Iuda land they go with all their hart Fiftie thousand not many lesse of soules to Iuda went Zorobabel he was the chéef whom Cirus thither sent The iii. chapiter COme home again into their land the temple ouerthrowne They doo begin to build again the trumpets they are blowne And sacrifice they dayly make the ground woork now is laid Some sing some shout some wéep for ioy eche one is wel apaid The iiii chapiter DIssembling men pretended help to build they were forbid Then letted they all Cirus time the building s●owely yed Darius reignd to whom they writ muche slaundering the Iewes Who writ again and did forbid suche building for to vse The v. chapiter EFtsoones they build so Prophets wild the cause was askt and why They answere made that they had leaue God let them to deny Then wrote their foes vnto the King the woork they did detest What Cirus wild that would they doo to hear they were ful prest The vi chapiter FOūd out for trouthe is Cirus graunt and he dooth it reuiue The hindrers of the woork he bids of life them to depriue His house should eke a dunghil be suche charge he writ again Then builded is the temple vp and offerings thick are slain The vii chapiter GOd made the King Artaxersis so wel Esdras to loue That he him sent to Iuda land to serue the Lord aboue Suche letters eke with him he gaue as woorthy are to read A forren prince a heathen man the God aboue did dread The viii chapiter HUndredꝭ now doo flock and come with Esdras home to go The Leuites lackt he sent for some their welth he did them showe
IN like as should the Iewes haue had so on their foes it fel For some were slain some hangd on trée the King did like it wel Then did they point that day to kéep holy from yéer to yéer With laudes praise w t déeds of almes as there it dooth appéer ¶ As Esthers book is finished so Iob ye shall haue next The patient man we wil you shew according to the text No Iew he was but gentile born yet did he walke aright He was before that Moyses was who did this book indight ¶ The book of Iob. The first Chapiter A Man there was that dwelt in Hus and Iob they did him call Of riches great who Sathan spoild and re●t it from him all His Children eke God gaue him leaue with fire to send them hence Yet for all this he could not breke Iob of his patience The ii Chapiter BIles and foule sores vpon his fleshe to vexe him woorse and woorse The Deuil got leaue to plague him with the mightie Lord to curse His wife also who should haue béen his stay and eke comfort Shée counseld him to curse the Lord his fréends did him exhort The iii. chapiter CUrsed now be the day said Iob wherein that I was born For nought is héer but wretchednes our labour is forlorn They are in blisse that graued be their sorrowes then are doon He wisht the pit his house had béen when life he first begoon The iiii chapiter DOost thou then said one Elephas waxe faint whiche héer tofore To suche as were in trouble like hast béen to them a lore The Lord wil doo what pleaseth him there is none iust but hée The Angels macht vnto their God vnpure are found to be The v. chapiter ELiphas stil procéedeth foorth with pacience him to arme He prooues the wicked in their welth haue soon come vnto harme And how the iust continually from God haue their defence He telleth Iob his happy state afore that he go hence The vi chapiter FUl sore in sores Iob dooth reply confessing he is weak And wishing death rebuking suche as to him would not speak And eke to suche as taunted him he liked not their talke He prooueth that in woord and déed he righteously did walke The vii chapiter ▪ GO on our dayes we doo on eart● as shadowes or as clouds And sudenly we leaue behinde our emptie framed shrouds ▪ Both night and day they haue their to● ▪ with woork and dreames itost Wherfore if God did not vs kéep so were we surely lost The viii chapiter HElp is there none said Bildad th● for thée in thy distresse But prayers to make in puritie and so thy sinnes confesse Then shalt thou haue thy good again and eke therto increace But Hipocrites that trust in déeds their glory soon shall ceace The ix chapiter IOb did consent and dooth affirm that God is muche of might And eke more iust then what he made none like him in his sight And that whoso with him dooth plead let him of this be sure He shalbe forced to confesse him self to be vnpure The x. chapiter KNow fain he would of God the cause why so he did him strike He was his woork and handy craft in fourm wel to be likte Séeing said he I knowe it not time giue me to repent He dooth describe the face of death that makes this life relent The xi chapiter LO said Sophar another fréend what woords this fellowe makes Uniustly he did Iob accuse that he was ful of crakes No measure can of God be had he knoweth secrets hid He willeth Iob for to repent so comfort should procéed The xii chapiter MEn riche in worldly welth dispise bothe God and godlines Thus then said Iob to those that came to mock his holines The might of God he dooth describe to passe all other power And that no strength can him restst if he begin to lower The xiii chapiter NOne of you all hath knowledge more said he then that I haue Therfore with God now let me talke who shall me surely saue He prayeth God to pardon him and to absent his ire So shall he then escape the wrath of euerlasting fire The xiiii chapiter OF mens short state and misery and how their dayes be set Whiche none can passe nor cut therof his time prolong nor let And eke how that this world shall end and men shall blisse then haue So hope he prooues shall neuer die though men go down to graue The xv chapiter PUft vp with pride said Eliphas is Iob right wel I sée What knowest thou what canst thou tel but eke the same can wée Th'vngodly man he runneth foorth as stiffe as any stéel But God rebukes his sinful way whiche sharply he dooth féel The xvi chapiter QUenche yée your woords for shame ꝙ Iob what cōfort call you this My state and cace on euery side is far from ioy or blisse From witting sin by willing mood his hart and hands were clean Why he was stroke so gréeuously he musde what God did mean The xvii chapiter RIght rufully he shewth his cace to God that is on hie And stil rebukes the scornfulnes of those that stood him by But vertuous men he dooth commend for they in vertue growe He maketh count that he shall die and down to dust him bow The xviii Chapiter SUche tormentꝭ as the wicked shall abide for their misdéeds Forsooth Bildah dooth tel to Iob as iust deserued méeds Bothe darknes with and pit and snar● his house and fame shall die Suche fée saith hée shall sinners haue and telles the cause and why The xix chapiter TEn times said Iob ye haue me vext what mean yée so to doo Yée sée me spoild on euery side and ad yée this therto O fauour me and hear my woords and write them vp in lead ▪ My sauiour liues whom I shall sée when vp shall rise the dead The xx chapiter WHen Iob had doon then Suphar spake and telles the wickeds lot How that his gain shall home again whiche he vniustly got And hauing store yet raking more stil saying he is poore He shall not scape the wrath of God when he on him dooth loure The xxi chapiter AH now said Iob hear me a while and answer to me giue Why doo the wicked prosper so and welthy long doo liue Yet is their end in wretchednes their God they did blaspheme At graue the poore shall haue asmuche as he that rulde a realme The xxii chapiter BE sure of this said Eliphas God wil with thée contend Thy crueltie to pouertie hath brought thée to this end Therfore conuert and turn to God and lay away thy pride And make thy boon in humblenes and God shalbe thy guide The xxiii chapiter CAn God be hid no no said Iob I knowe his mercy great Before behinde and on eche side gainst him may no man pleat His law and eke his woorthy hests I haue and wil obay He dooth his wil I doo him fear and so shall doo
knowe The Canticles of Salomon The i. Chapiter A Frēdly talke the Churche dooth vse to Christe her loue so déer And he again so sets her out as now to bée her péer Though foes doo fume to sée their looue and faultꝭ in her there be Yet by his fauour and his grace they bothe doo wel agrée The ii Chapiter BEautifully as Lilly fair her song forthe on shée sings And shade shée took to rest her self euen vnderneath his wings Shée heares his voice as dooue ful milde and dooth thereto incline The Fory foes they are forbod from hurting of the vine The iii. Chapiter CAst care shée did her loue to finde and sought in euery ground Shée ceased not to séek and aske vntil shée had him found How shée did passe from wildernes with smoky pillers smelt How Prince like eke King Salomon within his Pallaice dwelt The iiii Chapiter DOutles ful fair thou art my loue and blemishe hast thou none Thy téeth thy lips thy neck and brestꝭ are comely euery one My sister déer hée dooth her call and looue on her he showes Commaunding windes to doo her good though contrary it blowes The v. Chapiter EChe thing that Christ hath of his own vnto his Churche he giues For to perfourm his tresures great to her it not him gréeues His voice shée heares and dooth confes her self to be but bare How beautiful her husband is shée dooth at large declare The vi Chapiter FUl sure shée is of Christes looue and he of hers ful sure Whose comely state is painted out to be ful fair and pure Shée is but one and vndefilde by Christe who made her cleane Where puritie of her is spoke none other dooth it mean The vii Chapiter GO on shée dooth in comely wise ful séemly to beholde Of all her parts so beautiful héer vnto you is tolde From top to toe shée is describde of Christe the onely spouse Who like a palme dooth growe ful trim with Christe vpon her bowes The viii Chapiter HIm dooth shée chuse her for to teache by him shée is vpholde The looue that hée to her dooth bear with tung can not be tolde Shée is again that plesant vine that foorth her frute dooth bring For Christe her looue forefigured by Salomon the King FINIS ¶ This song ful hard to vnderstand dooth end with Chapters eyght VVith iudgement great it woold be red it is of mickle weight Though fooles doo laugh and toy thereat yet be you sure of this The ioyfull'st song in Bible book assuredly it is Now shall ye hear what Esay saith he tolde of Christe to fore Ful Gospel like he telth his tale now harken to his lore ¶ Esay the Prophet The i. Chapiter ALl creatures he dooth wil to bear record what he shall say How god had béen vnto the Iewes ful merciful alway But séeing God they did not fear he threatneth them ful sore That God would ease him on his gréef yet sauing some in store The ii Chapiter BEfore he telth by Prophesie how that the Gentiles all Should be conuerted to the Lord and woorship him they shall Laying aside all variance and strife against the Lord But Israel should plagued be because he was vntoward The iii. Chapiter CAst out he would the heads and chéef of all among the Iewes And send them children for to rule he telleth them this newes And all because their pride was suche their rulers went astray Their women eke should baldnes haue whose tussocks had béen gay The iiii Chapiter DEstruction shall so light on them their men shall so decay That wemen seuen shall take one man to be to them a stay But after this the Lord shall turn his heauy wrathful hand And cause the remnant of the Iust in peace to haue the land The v. Chapiter ESay dooth now begin to sing a song for to describe The Churche how like a vine it is wel fenst on euery side But no good grape yet did it bear but braunches foorth it brought So curseth hée their gréedines excesse and things they wrought The vi Chapiter FUl power he hath to Prophesie God sitting in his throne Dooth send him foorth to tel the flock their sinnes him self alone Their eares they stopt they would not hear their hartꝭ they were so hard They had no awe vnto his woords they did him not regard The vii Chapiter GO tel the King God said to him the enemies shall not harm That Iuda haue conspired to hurt regard not thou the swarm A s●gne was giuen a virgin should conceiue and bear a childe So long before of Christe he tolde whose comming should be milde The viii Chapiter HOw Israel and Iuda bothe as captiues should be led Th' Assirians power he telth before who should of them be hed And how that Christe moste holy then should be a stumbling stone Exhort he dooth to godlines the faithful euery one The ix Chapiter IN darknes though the Gentiles sa● yet vnto light they shall Be calld by Christe who is the God that ruleth ouer all To the ten tribes he telth before that they should be cast out Because they did contemn the Lord and were so proud and stout The x. Chapiter KNowe wo and pain they shall that do● make lawes the poore to noy Th' Assirian prince should plague his churche and God would him destroy And yet to comfort his elect a remnant he dooth say For all the spoile should yet be sa●'de and kept vntil a day The xi Chapiter LIneally how Christe should come of Iesses stock he telth And of his vertues and his power whiche far alone excelth The mightie power shalbe ful milde at time when he shall reign His fréendꝭ shall floorish his foes shal fear their brags shalbe but vain The xii Chapiter MUche laud praise shal then be made and sing they shall with chéer Though God was angry with his flock yet mercies now appéer And saying we saluation may now hope to draw from him His name we wil set out and praise let Sion sing this himn ▪ The xiii Chapiter NOw dooth he tel how God should call the Medis in their might The Persians eke for to appéer his battail for to fight For to destroy the Babel power and bring their pride ful lowe And all their fame and progeny out right to ouerthrowe The xiiii Chapiter ONe cause he telth why Babilon should so destroyed be Because the Iewes there captiues were but so should be set frée And how he should derided be and come vnto his end The Philistins for all his death no ioy should apprehend The xv Chapiter PErfourm would God yet further more and Moab would he smite Their chéefest townes should taken be and spoild from them by might Their riuer great should stayned be with blood of their owne stock Their ruine should on them so light for hurting of his flock The xvj chapiter QUit him now God dooth ful intend of Moab for his pride Because his Churche they would not help when hurtꝭ
on them wo Because in welth they would not hear● their pride should come ful lowe The xxiii Chapiter CUrse he dooth héer frō God his mouth suche pastours as doo féed Them selues and let the flock alone God wil them pay in déed And pastours pure he wil prouide wherof one shall be chéef From Dauids house as King to guide by him to haue reléef The xxiiii Chapiter DEclare God dooth by baskets twaine with Figs bothe good and bad What should become vpon the flock as he decréed had Whiche was that some should haue return and liue in rest and peace The King should not with many mo whose hartꝭ he could not pearce The xxv Chapiter EXiled men in Babilon the Iewes for sin should bée Ful seuentie yéeres the Prophet saith in their captiuitie At which yéeres end that mightie power shalbe subuerted quite And in like wise he telth before all rule shall lose their might The xxvi Chapiter FUl earnestly he dooth them mooue their sinnes for to repent They brought him foorth he telth his tale the Iudges did relent But Vriah who fled for fear was fetcht from Egipt land Iehoyaku of Iudah King him slue with swoord in hand The xxvii Chapiter GOd willed him that he should send bothe yokes and bonds also To Princes for to testify in bondage they should go And who so would refuse to serue Nabuchodonozer Should plagued be therfore he wilth false Prophets not to hear The xxviii Chapiter HAnaniah the Prophet false did prophecy a lie And Ieremy did him reprooue afore great company Also a freshe he prophecied because his yoke was burst That bondage muche should come to them and that therto then trust The xxix Chapiter IN written woords he sent to them that then in Babel were That they should plant wed and pray for suche as ruled there For seuentie yéeres should passe and go ere they should turn again And in that space their land and power should wasted be and slain The xxx Chapiter KNowledge again frō Ieremies mouth was giuen to Israel That they should home again return within their land to dwel And how that God would him reuenge vpon their furious foes But comfort his afflicted Churche and saue her from her woes The xxxi Chapiter LArge blessing héer he telth to come when home they should return All ioy shall come and plesantnes to suche as once did mourn A couenant new within their hartꝭ also he plight to make That he would be their God in déed if they not him forsake The xxxii Chapiter MAny were the miseries that Ieremy did sustain For now he is in prison cast for speaking out so plain A féeld he bought and hid the book that did record the same His prayers he made and once again their turning home did name The xxxiii Chapiter NOw is the Prophet wild to pray for their return and rest Whiche ful and whole is graunted them as they had had it erst With pardon for their former sinnes without their owne desartꝭ And Christe to reign in Dauids throne for euer in their hartꝭ The xxxiiii Chapiter OF Zedechiah who was King of Iuda what should come How he should taken be and his when Cittie and all is wun Because the couenant they did break to bond folke that they made Their lot with pine or pestilence should be or els with blade The xxxv Chapiter PUt foorth he dooth as God him bade the Rechabites for lore Who would not break the olde preceptꝭ from fathers had tofore But Iewishe pride would not obey though often they were warnd Therfore to ruine they should go the Rechabites not harmd The xxxvi Chapiter QUenched lest y t his woords should be God bad to write them all So Baruch did and red the role before bothe great and small The King a little heard of it and burnt the book in fire Again with more it written was and God prouokte to ire The xxxvii Chapiter RIght soon as Zedechiah reignd to Ieremy he sent To pray for him By Egipt power the Caldeys away went As Ieremy was prest away in dungeon was he cast But when the King had talkt with him he begd a better taste The xxxviii Chapiter SO fairly spake the councellours the Princes eares vntil That Ieremy to dungeon went there thought they him to kil An Enuche black his life did saue and drue him vp with cordes The King and he did talke alone he might not tel the Lords The xxxix Chapiter THe Babel power the Cittie took and Zedechiah fled He was ouer caught his sonnes were slain his eyes put out of his hed The poore alone are left in land and Ieremy at large Who gaue them more that did him good a comfortable charge The xl Chapiter UNto two things the Prophet had a choise at wil to chuse Babel to sée or tary stil the first he did refuse Suche as for fear were fled away to Godoliah came Whom Babel King had left to rule all Iudah that he wan The xli Chapiter A Murder foule committed was of Ismael by name For Godoliah he did kil who did deserue no blame And diuers more that wicked man their liues did also end And fled to King of Moabites who therfore did him send The xlii Chapiter BOthe moste and least to Ieremy came his councel to haue And willed him to knowe of God whiche way them selues to saue Who willed them in any wise to Egipt not to wend For if they did that whiche they feard their God would it them send The xliii Chapiter COntrary to their former graunt to Egipt néeds they would The Prophet checkt and Baruch eke who néeds with them they should And there did God by Ieremy tel Egipt of her fall How Nebuchadnezer in place should rule their Gods and all The xliiii Chapiter DEclare he dooth vnto the Iewes for their Idolatrie In Egipt land the whiche they did that they should surely die But men and wiues with froward hartꝭ did tel what they did deem We neuer throue sins that we left to serue the heauenly Quéen The xlv Chapiter EUilly appaid was Baruch then he thought his life but lost His sorrowes did increace in him séeing the Iewes so tost But Ieremy him comfort gaue and set his hart at stay For God he said hath giuen to thée thy life to be a pray The xlvi Chapiter FRom God he speaks to Egipt land and telleth them ful plain How that the King of Babilon withall his mightie train Should them destroy and eke their King their God and mightie power But yet his chosen Iacobs séed he would not quite deuour The xlvii Chapiter GOd bad him tel the Philistins of their decay and end That parents to suche wo should come their Children not to tend How they of Tire and Zidon eke should wasted be also The wrath of God not ceasing til their pride were come ful lowe The xlviii Chapiter HE telleh to the Moabites their ruine and decay Who once like churles to Israel vngraciously did say He curseth
them that should them spare or stay his hand from blood And that because their pride was suche and hautie stubborn mood The xlix Chapiter IN like he saith the Ammonites whose valleyes were so fair And Esaus stock the Edomites that thought of no dispair Damascus and Kedar also whom nothing did anoy With Elam eke all these he said the Caldes should destroy The l. Chapiter KNoweledge tofore of Babels fall he gaue also to them How that the Persians and the Medes should quite destroy their steme ▪ And how that God vpon his flock would haue a new regard And them restore into their state and giue their foes reward The li. chapiter LArgely he writes and telth the cause of Babels fall and spoile In Israels blood they did reioyce when that they had the foile The power of God he dooth describe and Idols vain denies He saith the Caldeys should so fall as neuer more to rise The lii Chapiter MArk wel what rebels come vnto let Zedechiah preache He first rebeld and after fled his foes did him areche The temple burnt the Cittie stroyd and thousands captiue led But Iehoyakim fauour found the King lift vp his hed FINIS ¶ Thus Ieremy that liued so long and Kings so many saw That bode suche broyles for saying sooth to those that had no awe His tale is tolde his book is doon now shall you hear vs tel How wofully he did lament the fall of Israel The Lamentation of Ieremy ▪ The i. Chapiter ALl help is past Hierusalem is now subuerted quite Her fréends are now become her foes when fayled is her might Her stréetꝭ are void her préestꝭ are slain her foes they doo reioice Nothing but teares and heuines hath sin set for her choice The ii chapiter BEholde the holdes are now destroyd the Princes ouerthrowne The Saboths and the holy place they cannot now be knowne The Uirgins and the Seniours sit wéeping on the ground The enemies doo clap their hands no comfort can be found The iii. Chapiter COmplain he dooth of all the gréefs that many wayes he felt And yet in God he puts his trust that alwayes his hath helpt For sin the Lord dooth his correct whiche best is to confesse And then he wil his fauour send and things amisse redresse The iiii Chapiter DOutles the wise like to fine Golde are now like potters clay The Nazarites that were so fair their beautie is away With hunger wemen sore opprest their Children they doo eat The bloody préestꝭ and Prophets false did bring to them this meat The v. Chapiter ENd héer his Lamentations hée dooth with earnest prayer Beséeching God to look vpon how foes with them did fare Confessing yet that he dooth reign and shall for euermore Who turning vs then shall we turn and surely not before FINIS ¶ Ezechiel dooth now begin to fortifie and prooue That God would sure the Iewishe Churche as he had said remooue By visions straunge he dooth expresse the things to come to passe As he in Caldey land did dwel where he a captiue was Yet comfort dooth he giue again to the afflicted flock And telth the ruine of their foes and suche as did them mock But cheef of all the regiment of Christes kingdome pure He dooth see out an happy state for euer to indure The Prophecy of Ezechiel ▪ The i. Chapiter AS he in Caldey land did dwel by Chobar riuer side In the fift yéer that Iehoyakim ▪ the King did there abide Ezechiel a vision of foules and whéeles did sée And one vpon a bowe did sit on hie in maiestie The ii chapiter BIdden he was for to stand vp and speak against the Iewes Their sinnes rebuke how they should his preaching quite refuse Rebelling stil as auncetours of them had doon before A hand he saw that helde a book that sorrowes threat therfore The iii. chapiter CAused he was to eat the book and boldenes God him gaue With strength power w t woord sprite him self for to behaue His charge is giuen his office set whiche if he should neglect The folke in sin should perishe all and he for blood be checkt The iiii Chapiter DEclare he dooth Hierusalem besieged for to bée And many yéeres the Israelites to féel captiuitie And hunger suche on them to fall as like hath not béen heard Their excrementꝭ of force to eat good food should be so bard The v. chapiter EFtsoones a signe to him was giuen by shauing of his hear By burning some by wherling some and little some to spare That so 〈◊〉 with the Pestilence with swoord and famine great Should be disperst and eke so plagued as Childe the Fathers meat The vi chapiter FOr woorshipping of Images and Idols that are vain On tops on hils and eke in vales he saith they shalbe slain A remnant yet there shalbe left that in their woful gréef Shall them repent and turn to God and haue of him reléef The vii Chapiter GOd dooth by him tel plainly out the ruine of the land From Est to west from north to south no part of it to stand But all should be subuerted quite he wil not chaunge his minde In préest or els in auncient man no councel should they finde The viii Chapiter HE sitting in his house among the auncients in exile Hierusalem he went vnto in vision for a while And there suche euils in secret place he saw them to commit And eke abrode whiche caused iust them to be plagde for it The ix Chapiter IErusalem that did commit suche euils as were to bad Hath now suche measure méett to them as once they mesured had But one yclad in linnen white did mark the mourning sort ▪ And they did scape when ruine fel the marker made report The x. chapiter KNowe moore he dooth of things tofore The man arayd in white Did fier fetche from Cherubins appearing to his sight And then the beastꝭ and eke the whéeles that he had séen tofore He saw again in vision wise with sundry faces foure The xi Chapiter LEd now he was for to beholde the chéef that ruled il And wild to say that they should pay for blood that they did spil A ruler died then out he cride to God to holde his hand His bown is heard and Cherubs gone and he in Caldey land The xii Chapiter MOre plainly by a fardle born and packing in the day Their thraldome and captiuitie thereby perceiue they may A remnant yet should saued be to tel of all their gilt And spéedely the wrath should come though otherwaies they built The xiii Chapiter NOw dooth he tel the Prophets false what should of them betide Their daubed wall that they had made it shoul● not long abide Their women eke that pillowes made and kercheues for to charme Should perishe to for promising the wicked safe from harm The xiiii Chapiter OF suche as Idols in their hartꝭ did kéep and yet pretends ▪ The contrary and Prophets false he telth of bothe their ends Yet stil a
iust The dogꝭ should lick vp bothe their bloodꝭ to teache them haue suche lust The xxii chapiter BOldely so bad the Prophets false Rameth besiegd to be But Micha did from them discent therfore to iayle went he As he had said Hahab was slain But Iudahs King was saued In Crownacles their actꝭ are tolde how they them selues behaued ¶ The third of Kings after this text in order ye haue had And now the fourth with meeeter like to you it shalbe clad iiii of Kings The first Chapiter AHab his sonne Ohoziah out of a windowe fel If he should scape to Belsebub he sent he should him tel Eliah sent them back straight way to tel him he should die Two fifties burnt the third him brought but he nought did denie The ii chapiter BEfore Eliah was taken vp he parted Iordane brook Elizeus had double spirite and vp his mantel took The brook with it he did deuide and made the waters swéet The b●yes with beares they were destroyd for mocking it was féet The iii. chapiter CUstome then a King denide of paying his Lambes and shéep To Iehoram who with two Kings against him went to fight Elizeus water helpt them to and made their iourney good The Edomites were far deceiued the water lookt like blood The iiii chapiter DEtted was a widdowe sore her oyl was muche increast A woman a childe had and it died the prophet her pain releast Colloquintida in the potage was put he made them swéet with meale He multiplyed the loues at ful and left an ouerdeal The v. chapiter EUilly plagued was Naaman with leprosy in déed By aduice to Iury he went for help as he had néed Although the King did fear him muche the Prophet him did heal The Prophets man for taking fée the sore had euery deal The vj. chapiter FUl lightly swam the Iron aboue Elizeus made it so The Sirian king sent him to catche but wrongly they did go Samaria then was so besiegd that eat they did a childe The King was bent the prophet to kil but yet he was begilde The vii Chapiter GOod cheap of things the prophet tolde the next day for to haue A certain Lord denied the same for whiche his life he gaue The Sirians fled with noyes they heard God made them so afraid The cheap was had and he did die of whom afore was said The viii chapiter HOw vij yéeres dearth should come fall a woman had it tolde And Benhadab dead then Hazael to King he durst be bolde Iehosaphat Iehorams sonne of Iuda he was king Ohoziah did him sucséed bothe these were euil raigning The ix chapiter IEhu is then annointed King on Israel to reign The Kings of Iuda and Israel by him they were bothe slain Then Iezabel in best aray out of windowe was throwne The Dogs her eat then was Gods 〈◊〉 ful iustly on her knowne The x. chapiter KIll did Iehue Ahab his sonnes whiche were thrée score and ten ▪ And all his stock and frutes also were killed quite vp then And all Balls préestꝭ into Balls house by sleight he did them get They were all kild and Ball destroyd this was his holy feat The xj chapiter LIke wise the sonnes of Ohoziah Athalia made them slain But one was kept that cut her short ouer Iuda to reign Then Iehoas by the bishops mean was set in fathers seat His grandame shée was killed then suche measure did he meat The xii Chapiter MUche prouision then was made the temple to repair For costꝭ and charges they not stuck so it were mended fair And Hazael his hoste was stayed for comming to giue féeld Iehoas men with treason great their king they took and kild The xiii chapiter NOw the next king of Israel whiche was Iehu his sonne The Sirian king did so him vexe that he was ouercome At Elizeus the King had hope while he was yet aliue He being dead the dead him toucht and straight he did reuiue The xiiii chapiter OF diuers kings this chapter telles that wickedly did reign The king whose father two did kil he causd them to be slain Their names their yéeres noble déeds the Crownacles doo tel That Iuda ruled and bare the strok● also of Israel The xv chapiter PAid was then a certain King with Leprosie for sin And then to kil their kings apace the traytours did begin Nine kings small while in Israel raignd so spirde they to the crown But as they reignd with bloody hands with blood so went they down The xvi chapiter QUite against the law of God king Ahaz burnt his sonne The king of Israel battail great against him then begun For ayd he sent to Assiria and it he did obtain An aulter straunge he causd to make Vriah took the pain The xvij chapiter REhearst is the captiuitie that Israel came vntoo The Assirian king them led away to teache them euil to doo O read the chapter I you pray and mark what sin dooth bring It is theffect of muche afore giue it therfore reading The xviii chapiter SO then the King Hezekiah in Iuda ruled wel The brasen Serpent he burst down his foes found him ful fel. Then Rabsakeh the Sirian Lord the Iewes he did defie In their knowen tung he spake aloud against the Lord on hie The xix chapiter TO Ezay sent the king to knowe if God would defend He had good comfort at his hand good tidings did he send The king did pray his prayer was heard Senacheribs hoste was slain An Angel kild them in the night so was his brags in vain The xx chapiter UNto the King he béeing sick woord came that he should die He wept and prayd and fiftéen yéer he had to liue perdie For shewing of his treasures great to straungers God him tolde To Babilon his ●éed should go with thraldoms many folde The xxi chapiter ANd then Manasses in his reign the Idols did restore And wrought suche euil and wickednes as none did him before Dreadful threats the Prophetꝭ tolde and Amon had his place His seruantꝭ kild him and were kild the people quit his cace The xxij chapiter BEgin to reign did Iosiah when he was eight yéer olde At eyghtéen yéer the book was found whiche made his hart ful colde To a woman wise he sent to know the Lord almighties wil Shée sent him woord that he should se no point of Iudahs il The xxiii chapiter CAll vp whole Iuda did the King and read to them the law The smoky préestꝭ and Idols all he burnt them vp like straw Their graues their aulters and their groue● not one of them he left When he was kild his sonne did reign to Idols he h●m feft The xxiiii chapiter DEpart Iehoakim did and dide his sonne did him sucséed Hierusalem besieged was ouercome it was in déed To Babilon then were they led all of them saue the poor And Zedechiah rose against the Babilonishe power The xxv chapiter Egerly then frome Babilon the king came with an hoste A yéer and more