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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11438	The abridgemente of goddes statutes in myter, set oute by Wylliam Samuel seruaunt to the Duke of Somerset hys grace	Samuel, William, fl. 1551-1569.	1551 (1551)	STC 21690.2; ESTC S110819	19,563	78

¶ The Abridgemente of goddes Statutes in myter set oute by Wylliam Samuel seruaunt to the Duke of Somerset hys grace Imprinted at London by Robert Crowley for Robert Soughton dwellynge at the signe of y e bishops miter wythin Ludgate Anno Domini M. DL I ¶ To the most honorable and verteous Lady Anne Duches of Somerset her Grace William Samuell her moste hūble and faithful seruant wisheth the fauoure of God encrease of honour long lyfe and prosperous healthe bothe of bodie and soule WHen I consyderid with my selfe the lobours paynes that haue bine taken of dyuers builders in Chrystes churche my gracyous Lady and mistris I thought my selfe not borne into the earth to be a loker on the bildinge or to iland gapyng at other menes dylygence but to put to my helpyng hand for feare lest y t I shulde be rewardyd emong the Idel persons or haue that smal talent taken from me that my master gaue me for not putting it to the chaunge bāke I haue now but begon as it were the squaring out of a greate stone do offer vp vnto your grace the begynnyng of my work and If I shal perceiue that my symple doyngs shall be well acceptid of your grace as the grosse doing of the same may be an occasion to y e contrary then shal I gladlye go on or procede in my doynge at the least wyse exersise shal I doubt not but make eueri part better thā y e other at their forth commyng ▪ My mynd is that I wold haue my contrey people able in a smale some to syng the hole contents of the byble where as in tymes past the musicians or mynstrells wer wont to syng fained myracles saints liues Robin hode in stede thereof to sing vndoutyd truthes canonycall scryptures and Gods doynges ● haue also begon the same order that I intend to kepe as where a boke hath thyrtye forty or fythtye chapters to deuyd it into fyttes or partes that it shall not be to tedyous to the reader synger or hearer to haue the boke in practys Also thys my doyngs I trust shall cause the scrypturs to be often read as the man y t hearyth a parte of a story in y e scryptures doth not knowe the hole thys may moue the hole to be red And to those that be well sene in the holye wrytyngs this shall kepe thē in remēbrāce of those good things that they haue lernid The abrygement of Gods acts or statutes I do call it because it is a sūme or short rehersal of thinges done at large in the Byble booke whych may be called the kyng of al kinges actes desyrynge your grace to take it in good worth and to accepte my good wyll as I truste your grace wyll Genesis In G. Ex. L.N. and D. the .v. bokes of Moses conteined be The first Chapter ALmyghty God dydde make the heauen the Lyght the firmament The sun the mone the stars the beasts wyth foules to fleeyng bent The erth the sea and al therein all thys hys word dyd make Wyth man made last and yet set fyrst hys wyll on them to take The .ii. Chap ¶ Begyn dyd then the lord to rest from makyng of suche thynges And poynted Adam to a place a garden full of spryngs One tre denied and man doth name the beasts after his wyll In slepe to hym hys make was made whych dyd hys mynd fullfyll The ·iii Chapt. Caused was man by Satans sleight goddes wyll to burste out ryght The he the she and the serpent are curste and dreuen out quite for fere lest man shuld then dyspayre Wyth hys wyffe and to hell the womans sead y ● wyche was christ Shall come and make al well The .iiii. Chap Downe fell Abell Cain hym slue in offeryng to the Lorde The iust was slayne of the vniust as scrypture doth recorde Thē is he curst and doth dyspayre after hys wycked deede The genealogy of Adams sonnes and their sonnes doth procede The .v. Chap Euery yere that Adam lyued is there ful plainly tolde Whose age was then .ix. hundred And Iust thyrty yere olde and so from hym vnto iust Noe The chapter doth exprese the names yeres how lōg thei lyude Wyth much of their successe The .vi. Chapt Ful wycked were the people tho a doude was threat of god Wyth a precept to make an ark Euen as the lord had bode And then dyd Noe prepare the shyp after the lordes deuyse And readye prest as he was wylld agaynst the floude shulde ryse The .vii. chap God spake these wordes to Noe his mā and we thereto must harke Go thou and all thy familie wyth speede into the arke Euen so dyd Noe as god hym bad and toke of eche kynde twaine Hys wyfe hys sonne al their wyues and then began the rayne The viii Chapt Honderyd dayes and ode fyfty the floude beganne to ende A rauen and eke a doue also Noe forth for newes dyd sende Then went Noe forth and did offer to God burnt sacrifice Whych lyked well the God on hye when the smell dyd aryse The .ix. Chapter In fauour then was Noe bleste and murder is denied A rainbowe sent and promise made wyth water not destroyd Then Noe fell dronke and lay vnhyld and Ham his sonne was glad The other hylde him and were bleste but Ham his curssyng had The x. Chapter Know ye may of Noe his sonnes as Sem Ham and Iapheth Chus Hams sonne begat Nemrod a hunter on the heath Of these thre sōnes their sōnes sōnes the earth was stord agayne In tōges kinds w t realmes lādes but most of them were vayne The .xi. Chapter Lewdlye wente this route to build Babel that great hye towre The lord came down chaūged their tonges in lesse space then an hour The kynd of Sem againe is tolde vnto iuste Abraham Whych went w t Lot his fathers sōne and dwelled at Haran The xii Chapter Much fauour God shewd to Abrā dwellinge in Canaan Which god him hight thē cam a derth to Egipt went he than Then wylled he Sarai his wyfe to call him brother tho The Kyng her toke and was plaged whose name hyght then Pharao The xiii Chapter Neighbourlyke yode Lot and he and toward the south they wente Then parted they their land good that God had to them lente The promise then to Abram is repeted once agayne That he and his seede after hym the blest land shuld obtaine The .xiiii Chapter Of foren kynges Lot taken was which ward and wan that land But then Abram dyd them destroye and toke hym from their hande Melchisedech with bread and wyne him met with mykel boste He gaue him tenth and paid the kyng of Sodom all he loste The .xv. Chapter Performe wold God the land he had to Abram promised A sonne to haue he doth beleue and so is iustified Howe that his seede in bondage shuld in Egipt there re name And be restord vnto their land and