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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14802	A true Christians daily delight being the summe of euery chapter of the Old and New Testaments, set downe alphabetically, in English verse, that the Scriptures we reade may more happily be remembred, and the things forgotten more easily recalled. By Simon Wastel, sometimes of Queenes Colledge in Oxford, now schoole-master of the Free-schoole in Northampton.	Wastell, Simon, d. 1632.; Shaw, John, 1559-1625. Biblii summula.	1623 (1623)	STC 25103; ESTC S119487	85,989	215

A TRVE CHRISTIANS DAILY DELIGHT BEING The Summe of euery Chapter of the Old and New Testaments set downe Alphabetically in English Verse that the Scriptures we reade may more happily be remembred and the things forgotten more easily recalled By Simon Wastel sometimes of Queenes Colledge in Oxford now Schoole-Master of the Free-Schoole in Northampton Bonus Textualis bonus Theologus A good Diuine hee 's counted still In Scripture text that hath good skill Si Christum nescis nihil est si caetera discis Si Christum bene scis satis est si caetera nescis If that thou know'st not Christ thy King No good will humane knowledge bring If him thou rightly dost adore It is enough thou needst no more Blessed is he that delighteth and meditateth in the Law of God day and night PSAL. 1.2 LONDON Printed by G. Eld and M. Flesher for Robert Mylbourne and are to be sold at his shop at the great South doore of Paules 1623. TO THE RIGHT Honourable his singular good Lord Sir Robert Spencer Knight Baron Spencer of Wormeleighton S. W. Wisheth all happinesse temporall and eternall Right Honourable THE manifold fauours receiued from your Lordship euer since my first placing in the Free-Schoole of Northampton as also your Honours late promised assistance to helpe the said Schoole to that right whereof it hath been these many yeeres vnconscionably defrauded hath caused me many times to wish that some good occasion might be offered vnto me whereby I might witnesse not onely vnto your Honour but also to posterity how much I confesse my selfe obliged vnto you for the same And therefore hauing taken some paines to turne the contents of the Bible briefly into English meeter for the helpe of weake memories being incouraged thereunto by the perswasions of diuers of my godly learned friends when they saw some entrance made thereinto Your Honor being in the very Frontispice of my dearest and worthily most honoured friends I determined to dedicate the same together with my humble and best seruice vnto your Honor beseeching you that both my selfe and it as also our poore wrōged Schoole may still bee patronized and shrowded vnder the shadow of your Honourable protection so will I not feare what my backe friends can say to my Booke nor what they can deuise or doe against my selfe so also shall your Honor in respect of the Schoole haue the praise of the Prophet to be called A builder of that wast place and a raiser vp of the foundation thereof a repairer of that breach and a restorer of those paths to dwell in And so be honoured and esteemed of me and all my Successors as the second Founder thereof and be paralleld and equalized with Thomas Chipsey who was the first For Non minor est virtus quam quaerere parta tueri T is no lesse pious things lost to regaine Then for first Founders to giue to maintaine Vouchsafe I beseech you my most honoured Lord as cheerefully to accept of this my poore present and widowes mite being a pawne and pledge of my euer dutifull thankfull minde as Artaxerxes is said to haue receiued an handfull of water from the poore Countryman whose ability would afford no better a gift So will I euer powre forth my prayers vnto the Almighty Preseruer of mankinde the giuer of euery good gift that hee would bee pleased to vouchsafe vnto your Honor and to all your Honourable Progeny health of body length of dayes with increase of grace and honor in this life and the fruition of eternall blessednesse in the World to come Your Honours euer to command SIMON WASTELL The Preface to the READER NOT long agoe Christian Reader there was published a little Book in Latin verse called Bibliorum Summula set forth by Master Iohn Shaw a man whom both for his learning and grauity as also for our old and ancient acquaintance being Schoole-fellowes in Westmerland 50 yeeres agoe and both of Queenes Colledge in Oxford I did and doe much esteeme and respect This Booke I perceiued to bee much applauded of the godly learned Ministers and of many other Schollers that had seene and read the same And therefore after hee had sent me one as a token of his loue I began to study how I might teach it to speake English being as desirous to benefit the vnlearned as he was the learned and hauing translated the Bookes of Moses and offered them to his and to other learned and graue Ministers view and censures they did by their perswasions so pricke spurre me forward that I could not giue ouer vntill through Gods assistance I had gone through both the old and new Testaments I confesse I haue not precisely tyed my selfe to his method manner because the English tongue is farre more copious then the Latine but haue taken liberty according as the contents of each Chapter were longer or briefer to conclude them sometimes in two sometimes in foure sometimes in more Disticks with as much breuity obseruing perspicuity as I could I haue purposely laboured to speake plainly to the capacity and vnderstanding of the simple and ignorant rather then by poeticall straines to please the eare and the eye of the curious learned Readers Thou hast also not onely the contents of euery Chapter set downe in order Alphabetically with figures to direct thee vnto them but also figures in euery line to direct thee to the verse where thou shalt find that presently which thou desirest to know without reading ouer the whole Chapter Thou hast also a Chronologicall obseruation of times from Adam to Christ and from Christ to Antichrist Thou hast also the names of all the Bookes of the Bible as they follow in order Lastly thou hast comforts and encouragements against the feare of death called the old mans A. B. C. If it shall please thee gentle Reader when thou hast read or heard a Chapter to read ouer the Contents in meeter once or twice thou maiest be able to rehearse and say the said Contents by heart and so in short time bee acquainted with the History of the whole Bible If any be so zealously affected with the knowledge of the Scriptures as the Lord Cromwell was who as Master Fox recordeth in the Booke of Martyrs of the fift Edition page 1075. got by heart all the new Testament of Erasmus his translation in his iourney to Rome hee might in shorter time get by heart these briefe contents of the whole Bible If therefore the Law of God be thy delight as it was Dauids this little Book will be a comfortable companion whether thou walkest abroad or stayest at home And finally if thou reapest any increase of sauing knowledge iustifying faith or holinesse of life by these my poore labours to the edification and saluation of thy soule I haue all that I desire sauing that I would entreat thee to ascribe the praise and glory of all to God and to afford mee thy charitable censure well-wishings and prayers Thine