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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	abel_n	adam_n	enoch_n	52	3	11.5842	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07894	A briefe chronicle, of the successe of times, from the creation of the world, to this instant· Containing, the originall & liues of our ancient fore-fathers, before and after the Floude, as also, of all the monarchs, emperours, kinges, popes, kingdomes, common-weales, estates and gouernments, in most nations of this worlde: and how in alteration, or succession, they haue continued to this day.	Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1611 (1611)	STC 18263; ESTC S112963	308,814	636

Deuill But our good God being made all of mercy perceiuing the offence of Man did promise him that the séede of the Woman which is Iesus Christ should breake the head of the Serpent that is to say his kingdome and power deliuering vs from the captiuity of sinne death the Deuill In this promise we may note the sourse or spring-head of the Gospell which afterward was oftentimes repeated and diuersly signified by sundry figures for comfort of our holy Forefathers euen to the comming of Iesus Christ When Adam was throwne forth of Paradice he began to labour in the earth with great pain Afterward he knew Heuah his wife who brought him a sonne called Caine who was an husbandman and the first murtherer of his brother Abell the iust Shepheard In whom began the first persecution of the Saintes by the wicked for the true and sincere seruice of God In this man also began the Kingdom or citty of God and in the other the citty of the World and of the Diuell as shal be better manifested in Nimrod This murder being thus committed Caine was abhominable in the sight of God he withdrew himselfe from his father and builded a Citty after the name of his first son Enoch Adam had daughters also and at the age of 230. yeares he begat Seth. Seth at the age of 105. yeares begat Enos Enos aged 99. yeares begat Cainam Cainam aged 70. years begat Malaleel Malaleel aged 605. yeares begat Iared Iared aged 160. yeares begat Enoch Enoch who at the age of 65. yeares begate Methusalem walked with God declaring his iudgements to ensue vppon men degenerating from humaine and reasonable Nature into brutish and vnbrideled voluptuousnesse For the Sonnes of God that is to say the Sayntes by the generation of Seth beholding the Daughters of men that is to say the wicked by the generation of Caine to be fayre tooke them to Wife without any regarde and celebrated marriages with the people of abhomination of whome Gyants were borne men of might and great Renowne Methusalem at the age of 187. yeares begate Lamech Adam dyed aged 930. yeares Iust Enoch was carried aliue vp into heauen Lamech at the age of 182. yeares begat Noah the deliuerer of Iustice whom the Poets not vnderstanding the creation of the worlde called Heauens Chaos Seede of the world Father of the Gods Noah being 500. yeares of age with his wife Thitea that is to say Earth or according to the Poets Aretia Cybele Vesta and Mother of the Gods begat Sem Cham and Iaphet with whom by the commandement of God in the hundred yeare after he entered into the Arke which had béene built by him and was preserued from the Flood The Generall Deluge BY which invndation of waters God brought an horrible vengeance to punnish the wicked liues of men Sem who was Melchizedech two yeares after the flood begat Arphaxad beeing then aged 100. yeares Arphaxad aged 35. yeares begat Salê Salê at the age of thirty yeares begat Heber and builded the Citty of Salem though some say it was Sem that should be called Ierusalem the Citty of God seated in the midst of Iudea Heber of whom the Hebrewes were after named being aged 34. yeares begate P●aleg at which time the earth was diuided betwéene the sonnes of Noah Sem and his off-spring enioied the East part of Syria to wit Asia C ham Zoroastres had Iudea Egypt Arabia and all Affrica Iaphet who by the Poets is called Iapetus had with his people all Europe Phaleg at the age of thirty yeares begat Reu at which time Nimrod the Babylonian Saturn hindmost Nephew of Cham began his raigne builded the Tower of Babell where beganne the confusion of tongues into seauenty two the common language of the Hebrew remaining entyre Samothes or Dis King of the Gaules of whom the Gaules or Celts tearme themselues to be discended as Caesar declareth in his sixt Booke began also his raigne in short time after as Gomerus Gallus likewise did his in Italy and Tuball the Sonne of Iaphet his rule in Caltiberia now called Spaine Oceanus swayed in Egypt as Tuiscon or Ascenas did in Allemain or Germany Reu at the age of 32. yeares begat Saruch Saruch aged thirtie yeares begat Nahor or Nachor tearmed Fayre Iupiter the second King of the Assyrians Nachor at the age of 29. yeares begat Thares or Terah who is saide to be Ninus the third King of the Assyrians Hee erected Temples Altars and Statues to his dead father which were a great occasion the verie sourse of Idolatries Osyris and Isis first found out the means of Corn at this time in Egypt and nowe did Aegia●eus become first King of the Sicyonians or Peloponnesus now named Morea Thares a maker and seller of Idolles being 70 yeares of age begat Abraham Nahor and Aran the Father of Lot Semiramis the wife of Ninus in habit of a man raigned ouer the Assyrians in the name of her Sonne Noah died aged 905. yeare old 350. years after the flood Saturne Pluto Cybele Mother of the Gentiles Gods Sol Iupiter Pallas or Minerua Venus Cupid Vulcane Mercury and all the crew of these faigned Gods then began Abraham boing aged 75. yeares by the Commaundement of God departed from his owne Country and Kindred for God had promised vnto him the land of Canaan and blessing vppon all people by his wisedome which is Iesus Christ he begate Isaac Saron King of Gaule ordained publicke Schooles Druis his successor being a verie wise Prince of whom the Druides are saide to be deriued appointed Priests Phylosophers among the Gaules So do affirme Berosus in his fift Booke Caesar in his sixt Booke and Cornelius Tacitus in the Manners of the Allemaynes or Germaines Isaac aged 60. yeares begat on his Wife Rebecca Esau and Iacob twinnes Abraham Sem and Heber dyed Inachus was the auncient and first King of the Argiues At this time Bardus K. of the Gaules became the inventer of Verses and of Musicke and Hercules ruled in Lybia Iacob called Israel at the age of 84. years maried Lea and Rachel and of them together with their two Hand-maids had twelue sonnes Ruben Simeon Leui Father of the Leuites and Priestly lignage Iuda of whom the Iewes doo hold their name and the Royall lignage of Iesus Christ discended Issachar Zabulon Gad Aser Dan Nephtalin Ioseph and Beniamin all Patriarkes with Dina one only daughter who was the wife of Iob according as Philo the Iew recordeth Of these twelue Patriarkes the 12. Tribes or Linages descended Afterward Iacob being aged 130. yeares went downe into Egypt with all his family to his Sonne Ioseph the Deputie to Pharaoh who had bin sold by his Bretheren In that place he gaue vppe the ghost being aged then